1940-10-11 — Page 64

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1940.

Only Ramsgate Now Shows Real Scars Of Blitzkrieg

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the British front line)

OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS OF SOUTH-EAST. ENGLAND · THE WAVES OF THE CHANNEL ARE NOW BECOMING GREY GREEN AND THE NAZI-CONTROLLED FRENCH COASTLINE IS A DIM SHAPE ON THE HORIZON.

THE WAILING OF SIRENS excepted, the DOUBLE quietness of the British front line makes it dif-

ficult not to believe that the Battle of Britain, TENTH IN air raids apart, is dying.

Should this be so this stubborn chin of England holds the secret. Over the past four months it has taken some hard knocks but damage is surprisingly small in Dover despite the hectic few weeks' fight with. Nazi dive bombers before they were withdrawn from battle.

QUEST FOR CURE OF NIGHT BOMBER

CHUNGKING

Free China yesterday

celebrated National Inde- pendence Day, with mass meetings in all key cities including those in far- flung Shensi, Sian, Hing- tsi and Yulin.

In Chungking, the Central Kuo- mintang Headquarters and the at-National Government held a joint celebration meeting, Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Govern- ment, presided and delivered the principal speech in which he ex- horted the Chinese to continue their efforts in the revolutionary spirit of 1911. -

Last time German aircraft tacked the port in force they shot up the balloon barrage but they got such a hot reception that it was not till a few days ago, weeks later, that they dared pot at the balloons again.

Ramsgate is the one big ex. ception on this coastline. Here bomb squads are still grubbing away in the rubble of a lane of property mown down by Nazi bombers in August,

But Ramsgate is in the main just a pleasant watering place.

Child's Play

The R.A.F. continue to smash enemy ports on a scale that makes the Lufwaffe's blitzkrieg on this coastline look child's play.

The urgent task was not only to struggle for territorial integrity but also to establish China as a stabilising force in the Far East, to uphold world justice and preserve lasting peace.

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Referring to the three odd yearş of war, the Chief Executive as- serted that China's firm determin- ation to resist to the end would never be shaken and she would never be conquered,

China's declaration, at the out- break of the hostilities, that she The shelling of the coastline was fighting against aggression as may be regarded as an expen-a vanguard for the world demo- sive stunt which Germany be- |cracies, nów, he said, entirely gan for its purely political concurs with the facts. value.

Had it not been for China's Here for the time being the three years' staunch resistance,

British citizens, from Peers and Cabinet Minis- ters to working men, are sending weekly to the Germans have the advantage of Japan would have already achiev-

more available fire power, thanksed gigantic territorial aggrandise- Scientific Research Direc-her stock of Austrian, Czech and ment in the first stage of

the

French guns, but a gunner I European War under the pretext torate of the Ministry of spoke to could not recall one Bri- of the establishment of the "new

tish ship having been hit by shell order in Greater East Asia.". Supply more than 400 in-fire and he remembered a morn He predicted that China's resis

ing when the Germans fired tance would inevitably be linked

with that of the democracies. Central News,

Grip On Channel

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vention suggestions to-rounds. wards winning the war.

While many suggestions are I was told that for the last three impossible in practice and some weeks no Nazi convoy has dared fantastic, others, professor E. N. to come within range of our guns. Andrade, scientific adviser to the They take good care to hug the Directorate, said yesterday, are adopted and may prove of in- dustrial value after the war.

Proposals from which positive results were obtained relate to. searchlights, anti-aircraft gunnery

coast.

Evidently. It will take more than guns, E-boats, mines and 'planes to loosen the British.grip on the Channel.

Nazi airmen shot out of the

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SHOT IN THE LEG

Shot in the leg by a Chinese detective in Mongkok. District on October 1, Chan Lam, 26, was to-

by prediction, reinforced con- skies are the only prisoners tak-day sentenced to one year's hand

plate en in this part of the Battle

crete, welding of armour and comforts for troops.

Britain.

of labour for stealing and returning

from banishment.

· An officer who has question- Accused, with two others, who ed sole-survivors of enemy air-¦escaped, entered the ground floor craft between the middle of of No. 91, Prince Edward Road at August and the end of Septem: |3. a.m..on; October 1.

he has noticed

that

ber says

Chinese detective, No. PCC-214, most of the recent prisoners saw two men run into the back. don't seem so sure about the outcome of the war as the first

he saw.

Work was still proceeding, on. varlous lines in the hope of finding effective means of de- feating the night bomber. There could be no general, cure but It might be possible to produca devicos by which enemy casual-

yard. Accused' was about to. claim over the wall when the de- -tids were ED heavy that It would not be worth while, to

fective caught hold of a jacket, continue: this form of terrorism.

The sergeant pilot of a yellow which he carried. "Accused strug- nose Messerschmidt, brought gled with the police officer, kick- Particular attention was being down on Sept. 27, refused to be ed him on the chest, and threw. paid to improving methods

lieve Berlin had been bombed. him to the ground. of location and obtaining greater the staff captain of a fighter group that he was a policeman and that His Ignorance was not shared by accuracy from A. A. shelling.

Nothing has come in

who admitted being very worried he would fire if accused attempted: of a.. revolutionary nature," the Pro- by R.A.F. raids.-Reuter.

to escape. Accused ignored the fessor said, "but we are glad tö

warning and the dectective: fired, 'get these ideas and investigate,

one shot. them"

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SNATCHER FOILED

The threatened invasion had brought a big crop of rather wild, ideas," the Professor. said.

They included a bayonet at- tachment to soldiers' boots for Tong Sun 26, was charged kicking purposes, nets stretched before Mr. G.T. Lowry this presumably in the air against para-morning, with attempting to steal chutists with pockets into which | NC$5,384 from a bar boy of the

The detective warned accused

FLAG SALE ARRESTS

Leung Kim-hung, 27, car

cleaner, was charged before Mr.

they would drop, causing a bell London Cafe, in Des Voeux Road to ring, the dropping of snakes, Central yesterday.

G. T. Lowry this morning, with scorpions and wild animals over At about 2.45 p.m. yesterday organising a sale of flags with- Germany, as well, as hungry ruts, the bar boy went to a money-out a written permilt. jumping tanks, and finally a changer's shop. and changed A Chinese woman, Kwan Chi- compound which could be fired HK$1,400, into Chinese currency, miing, was charged with selling into the air to: solidify into a He then went to the Central the flags in Hilller Street. kind of gelatine substance to set Market to purchase some veget- Detective Sub-Inspector Byron round enemy troop concentra- ables. Coning down the stairs said the woman was seen selling tions like shell:

leading from the market into | flags in Hillier Street, yesterday. "We welcome suggestions from Des Voeux Road Central, defen-Asked for her permit, she failed the public and wish to do no dont attempted to snatch the to produce one. ** thing to discourage them. We money from his hand.

Leung Inter, came to the Police

are only too happy, if rewarded There was, a struggle and Tong and admitted he asked the wo- by finding from time to time some» ↓ was arrested. thing which can be utilised, for He was sentenced the war effort"-British Wireless, month's hard labour.

to ona

man. to sell the flogs for him.

Leung was fined $50 and the "Wompr