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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1940.
MACHINE-GUN ATTACK
ON
EUSTON
EXPRESS
Widespread Nazi Raids On Murky Autumn Day
"Night" Bombing SHANGHAI
In The Gloom
AN EXPRESS TRAIN FROM: EUSTON TO NORTH OF ENGLAND WAS HEAVILY MACHINE-GUNNED BY GERMAN AIRMEN AND SEVERAL PASSENGERS WOUNDED WHEN PASSING THROUGH A SMALL MIDLAND TOWN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
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BLUE STOCKING HITS HSINKING
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The special muni- cipality police in Hsin- king have instructed all dance hall owners
close to
their March premises on 15 next year: Owners and taxi dan- cers have been given six months to adopt another profession. The measure is one of a series imposed against cabarets, bars, tea houses and so forth in Hsinking. -Havas.
The train, which left Euston shortly after mid-day, was stopped a few miles after the at- tack had ceased, but as none of the wounded were in a serious condition, they were taken on to the next large-town to receive hospital treatment.
FEAR OF PACIFIC CONFLICT
(SPECIAL TO "China mail")
The new Axis-Japan pact has deepened the fear in Shanghai of a war in the Far East and has brought Shanghai's im- THE DINING CAR OF THE. EXPRESS WAS ports of foreign cotton al- DAMAGED, BUT THE ATTEMPT OF THE GER-most to a complete stand- the "China MANS TO BOMB THE TRAIN IN ADDITION still, says WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, THOUGH SOME HIGH Press" this morning, quot-
ing informed circles. EXPLOSIVES WENT QUITE CLOSE.
This was the most ex-out random bombing in
some London boroughs suffered citing incident in a day superficial damage, during which the German Air Force went "night" raiding over England
in
which
Present cotton stocks will last Shanghai mills for the next three months. However, a Japanese re- port that Japanese, British and be Chinese mills will probably Air Ministry Report
forced to close down at the begin- Anti-aircraft batteries were ac-ning of next year, owing to the tive and in the East London dis-new pact, is considered grossly
exaggerated...
the first gloom of Bri-trict where planes were reported The present situation in the
tain's autumn.
It was one of those cloudy murky days when artificial light is needed in large offices, and It produced a variety of me. thods by the Nazi airmen. which did not include raiding In mase formation. Single aircraft kept the de- fences of South-East England the and the Home Counties on- qui vive most of the day, but, or the most part, they kept bove. murky clouds and carried
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overhead, for a short time every few minutes the barrage was as heavy as night gunfire.
cotton market is extremely un- caay.
No-one can foreste future con- An Air Ministry communique,
ditions as no-one knows who reviewing the attacks on the
ther the pact, means the inevit- basis of reports received up to
able declaration of war. 4 p.m., says that several houses.
Imports of Chinese cotton are were demolished in London
very erratic, and even if a regular boroughs, but it is not expected supply was assured it would not that the casualties will be heavy alone supply the need of Shang-
"Elsewhere, bombs werd hai cotton mills. - Havas. dropped at various points in. the Thames Valley, Essex, Kent and Cornwall, but no serious damage and no fatal casualties are reported from any of these districts.,
"A number of casualties, in-
RIOM TRIAL
ARRAY OF
cluding a few who were fatallyTNESS
injured, were caused in a city
in the Midlands and another WITNESSES
small Midlands town where A
aumber of houses were demolish- Fifty-three witnesses in the French war guilt trial
cd, but little other damage is reported...
shot down in an attack on a
"A single enemy 'plane was have been heard by the town in the Home Counties Supreme Court at Riom where a number of persons in the last few days, ac-
were killed and seriously In-
jured by bombs and mach e-cording to Lyons radio
aun bullets.”
There were three alert warn- ings in the London area during the day, of which the last, in the afternoon, was the longest. Reuter.
EIGHT INJURED
Eight Chinese, including a policeman, were injured last night when a grenade was thrown into the offices of the "Sing Pao," pro-Wang
yesterday.
Witnesses included General Weygand, General Colson, Gen- eral George, General Vuillemin, General Blanchard and General Mittelhauser, as well as
M. Georges Bonnet, former Foreign. Minister and supporter of the Munich Agreement.
M. Guy La Chambre, former Air Minister, M, Edouard Dala- dier and General Gamelin were also questioned-Reuter.
THE NEW
wel newspaper, in the Shang-❘ CATECHIST
hai International Settlement. Slight damage was done. The Iron netting protecting the first floor, occupied by the composing department, broke in the explosion. Police cor- doned of the block and searched houses in the area.
Reuter.
SHANGHAI EMERGES: FROM THE FLOOD
(Continued from Page 1) Department regarding the possible effect of the floods on health, the day. Issued a statement de- S.M.C. In Shanghai yester- claring that prolonged inundations might result in various contamin-, ations being brought into the household, but it is thought the period from which Shanghai will suffer will be too short to pro- duce any lasting untoward ef-
fects
It is expected that with the ex- coption of chills and colds, little effect on health will bo felt in Shanghal
Vegetables may have been in-|- fected by material brought from far distant arcus. Havas.
STOP PRESS
Chinese hopes of the ear- ly re-opening of the Burma road are increasing. The Sino- British Cultural Relations Association, the Sino-Bur- mese Cultural Relations As- sociation, the Chinese People's Foreign Relations Associa- tion, the China Peace Cam- paign Committee and the Central University in Chung- king have jointly cabled the China Campaign Committee in London wishing it success in urging Britain to re-open the Burma road.--Reuter,
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Bishop urges the people to accept A rations catechism, telling all hardships they may have to people why and how they should face. "Don't waste time in re- accept the present food restric- criminations; look forward and tions, was issued in Clermont-remain in peace. The Heavenly; Ferrand yesterday by Monsignor Father will-bless us," the Bishop Chasseigne, Bishop, of Tulle. The declared-Havas
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