THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 7, 1940.
BIGGER OFFENSIVE NOW BEING PLANNED
THE RESULTS OF THE ROYAL AIR - FORCE'S “MASTER PLAN". OF SCIENTIFIC BOMBING OF GERMANY SINCE THE START OF THE WAR WERE OUTLINED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DETAIL IN LON- DON LAST NIGHT.
The full story of formidable blows struck at over 200 military targets is of particular interest with the appointment of the man whɔ was responsible for their delivery to the posi-
tion where he will direct the bigger R.A.F. OF BRUTALLY
fensive now planned.
of-
That man is the new Chief of Air Staff, TREATED
Sir Charles Portal, relentless late chief of the Bomber Command.
Maps and facts prepared by the Ministry of Information are supported by a full list of"mä- jor bombing, attacks over Ger- many between September 3, 1939 and the night of September 19/20, 1940, as reported in Air! Ministry communiqués.
Minor bombing attacks, Ica- flet and reconnaissance flights are not included in this list,
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST
Sir Reginald Hoare, the British Minister in Bucharest, went to: Ploes- ti on Saturday night to see Mr. Percy Clark, who is still confired to his
FRENCH JEWS bed, hardly able to move
Little fresh light (writes Ralph
The military adminis Walling, Reuter's Air Correspon-tration in occupied France dent) is thrown "on the RAF has just published an ly directed against objectives in Ordinance with regard to German-occupied territory, but Jews who "will no longer the Ministry of Information points
"anti-invasion".. campaign, main-
ports not only removes the threat
out that the bombing of barge constitute the privileged concentrations at the invasion minority," says a Paris of a Nazi landing in Britain but despatch to the news- also inflicts a severe handicap paper “A.B.C.” in Madrid.
on Germany's use of an important form of her Internal transport system-the inland waterways.
For barges have been brought from the Rhine and other Ger man rivers, which normally carry huge loads of her goods.
Telling Proof
The Ministry makes this im- portant observation in regard to the success of the "Master Plan" of bombing Germany proper:---
"Telling proof of the damage
as the result of brutal treatment during his ab- duction.
Apparently he was subjected to violent limb-twisting by his captors and is suffering from shock. He is over 60 years age.
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It is learned that his captors offered to release him for ten thousand let (about £12,000) and that Clark paid the money- and, was allowed to go..
.
When he was a short distance It stated that all Jews must from his captors, more young register with the Police and post-men fired at him with revolvers, ers must be affixed to their busi- but without hitting him.-Reuter. ness premises declaring in French and German the identity of their proprietors.
The Ordinance applies to all persons of the Jewish faith 'or whose ancestry includes two Jewish grand-parents.
The correspondent remarks that it is a curious coincidence that at the same time as the Ordinance was published in the occupied zone, Marshal Petain called his Cabinet to draft a law regulating
occupied France.
AIRCRAFT FACTORY
FOR INDIA
A full-sized factory for which British bombers have in- the position of the Jews in un- the manufacture of all
Alicted on Nazi soil is contained in the German press.
in
"Caged as it is, it is now having to make cautious admissions view of public opinion."
The German public has evi- dently been stirred into a clam- our for news as a result of 700 R.A.F. raids from the Baltic Sea to Switzerland and from the North Sea a hundred miles inland to Berlin and beyond.
R.A.F. in weaving
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Reuter.
AIR-BATTLE OVER BRITAIN
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started immediately Bangalore, Mysore, India, Telephone 28031 according to a message from London.
This decision was reached fol-
DURING. THE WEEK ENDED towing discussions between the The chief objective of the AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY, British Resident. Sir Mirza Ismall. CONFIRMED GERMAN PLANE Prime Minister of Mysore, and the the web of destruction. which
LOSSES IN BATTLES
military authorities. OVER is dogging Hitler's great industrial and war TO 104, NOT INCLUDING, MA- GREAT BRITAIN AMOUNTED machine has been oil depots and CHINES DAMAGED OR PROB- refineries, arrnament works, aero-" dromes, docks and naval
ABLY LOST. bases, goods-yards and railway junc- tions, barges and shipping.
No Variation
losses alone, German pilot losses On the basis of confirmed 'plane
are estimated to exceed 250.
In the same period, the Royal Air Force lost 40 machines in and There has been no variation of or more than half the pilots were around Britain but from these 21 the plan.
saved. Reuter.
on:
As the Ministry points out:- "While Nazi-flyers-e-dropping their bombs indiscriminately British beauty spots, lonely vil- lages and residential areas, our raids are based on carefully con- ceived, long prepared plans of attack on targets of economic well as of immediate military im- portance."
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Although Germany has plen ty of aluminium, we still homb her aluminium-plants in order to prevent Hitler froin using the metal as a substitute for copper he badly needs, Germany's synthetic oil indus- try, of extreme importance to her in war, is being systematically smashed.
In the last two months her oil plants in western Germany, which normally produce 40 per. cent: of her total of 2,500,000 tons of oil yearly, have been continu- ously and heavily attacked.
Now the R:A.F. Is beginning to turn its attention to Contral Germany, whère" more than 80 per cent of her total oll produo- tion is carried ons
The mighty, Leuna' works, have been visited more than once- Router.
·A·Bron gun-carrior halted
The choice of Bangalore has been prompted by the avall ability In the neighbourhood of cheap electricity and high-grade steel.
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the wayside during
oles in the Bouthern Counties. Note the new top cover now pro- vided, against aorial machine-guining, :(C& #right; Fox);
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(SPECÍAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The feat of a French Examining the predict- battleship's crew is re-ed eventuality of the eli vealed in an official Vichy mination of free Sterling announcement in connec- from the Shanghai mar- tion with the French bat-ket, the well-known eco- tleship "Jean Bart.' nomics commentator John Ahlers writes in the "Sunday Mercury":-
The battleship, which is a ves- sel of 35,000 tons, was being com- naval pleted in the St. Nazaire docks, but was still in dry-dock June 17 when the German troops arrived to within 20 miles of the city.
on
Captain Ronarch; nephew of the Admiral Ronarch who com manded the famous 'French Marines Corps at Dixmude" in 1914, put every : longshoreman and sailor to work and during 'the night the ship was floated
and set ́salli,
"The chief source of Shanghai's sterling supply is Hong Kong.
It is in the interest of Shanghal and China in general that Hong Kong remain outside the Sterling
loc and that the local influx of.. Hong Kong funds not be stopped.
Hong Kong equally standa to gain little but to lose much by a change in this respectt: P "Funds leaving the British Em pire via · Hong Kong, although substantial for Slianghai, in the At dawn, three Nazi bombers circumstances' amount to nothing attacked the ship, which was be-much compared with the Empire's ing hastily put into sailing con- vast financial resources, dition: The ship's 'guns answered]: "London might even have some and the vessel escaped undamug-| Interest in maintaining the pecu
lar position of Hong Kong and
cd.
- Despite enemy submarine” ac- Shanghai- as a sort of safety tivity, Jean Bart arrived in Ca- | valve for the whole Sterling blod", sablanca five days later,
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