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R.A.F. STRAFE

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BOMBS A MINUTE

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Swarms of R.A.F. straf- fers dropped 100 bombs a minute last night on Ger- man positions on the French coast, particular- ly the Big Berthas which earlier in the day had waged with British shore guns the biggest artillery battle of the war.'

The R.A.F. assault was easily the heaviest yet launched against Germany's...invasion springboards.. 1 The unbroken rumble of the torrent of British bomba hour éfter hour as the night wore ön mingled with constant Ger- man anti-aircraft fire to send veritable thunderbolts crashing across the Channel.

Other British bombers sprend inland.

German radio stations, went off the air at 7.45 p.m., two hours after all stations. in Nazi-held parts of. France had become su- ent, according to the BBC. Infernational News Service.

RUSSO- TURKISH PARLEYS

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REPLY TO BRITISH BOMBARDMENT

Windows were shat- tered over a wide area · but. on the whole damage was remark- ably light in relation to the ferocity of the; German reply to a Bri- tish. bombardment · across the Straits of Dover yesterday.

An early estimate puts casualties at only one killed and two wounded.

The duet lasted two hours. Reuter.

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ITALIAN MANOEUVRES ON FRONTIER

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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT IN LONDON [HAVE ASKED THE UNITED STATES TO CO- OPERATE IN DEFENCE OF THE NETHER LANDS EAST INDIES AS A CONDITION FOR AN EMBARGO ON OIL SHIPMENTS FROM THE INDIES TO JAPAN.

A usually reliable source fold Interna- tional News in Washington yesterday that Britain has offered the United States the use of the Singapore base for the conduct of any naval operations the protection of the Indies may require.

NEW NAZI HEIGHTS OF FANTASY

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This source said the request | fo American aid and the offer of Singapore-were conveyed-to- Secretary of State Cordell Hull by "Lord" Lothian, the British Ambassador.

Conversations on the subject, were surpended last week when Lord Lothian wen to London. It was added that the United States Government's reluctance to give the precise

LAST NIGHT

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planes, -criss-crossing London at the rate of one a minute, last night hammered the the capital anew with demolition, time and fire bombs:

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The raids climaxed the busiest Sunday air battles England has experienced in six. weeks of siege.--In- ternational News Ser- vice 10000090:

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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Wide precautions to guard the Rumanian oil fields are being taken by the Germans.

assurances The whole oil region, as well as sought by the British caused Lord Bucharest itself, is now being Lothian's summons home and the continuously flown over by. Ger- simultaneous recall of Mr. Joseph man fighters and bombers. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador in Meanwhile it is reported that propaganda London, for consultations to dis- the German minorities will be elaims reached new cover whether a compromise can repatriated to the Reich, in the be reached.—International News hear future. They number 30,000

German heights of fantasy yester-Service.

day when Berlin asserted (SPECIAL TO""CHINA"MAIL" that Nazi raiders had MUSSOLINI YESTERDAY emptied a million pounds WITNESSED REALISTIC FIELD of bombs on England in

MANOEUVRES BY THE ITA.

LIAN 8TH. "ARMY ON THE the past 24 hours while YUGOSLAV FRONTIER, AS THE FASCIST PRESS WARNED guns shelled Dover and The French newspaper "Le ITALY.

TO BE READY TO suburbs and "destroyed Temps" yesterday commented on MAKE THE FIRST MILITARY the considerable diplomatic act- MOVE "IF BRITAIN BRINGS two British shipping con- ivity now going on in south-east WAR TO THE BALKANS.” Europe; where Russo-Turkish

voys." Mussolini piloted his private parleys are continuing and - Bri- bomber across

The German version of . yes. northern Italy tish diplomats in the Balkan from Forli to. Ronchi where, as terday's air raids has it States are meeting in Istanbul.a wounded soldier, he spent fresh squadrons have been thrown

"These events are of the great weeks in hospital in the Great into the Battle of Britain, est importance," the paper says, War, and then entrained to Sap- the Nazis are now depicting Lon- though at present their interna- plane whence he motored to Rup- don and other centres in Britain tional bearing cannot yet be clear-pa, at the frontier. International as undergoing a methodically ly, defined. Nevertheless this News Service, diplomatic activity is likely to have capital importance if some of those participating take up new positions."

Le Temps" thinks...Russian policy is exclusively based on neutrality úrid Moscow will not give up this stand except for the most serious reasons. → Havas.

ENORMOUS FLOOD: DAMAGE IN SPAIN

JERUSALEM GETS' RAID ALARM

mounting punishment.

In the Dobrudja and 35,000 in south Bukovina, -Havas.

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Germany's U-boată are still merchant sending the British fleet to the bottöm—in the German : Imagination. :.

The High Command claims that (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")" : In two days U-boats Bank. 320,000TM| The German radio stated yes gross registered tons of British: terday that an air raid alarm shipping" in "obliterating": "-two was sounded for the first time in big convoys, in one of which ||17 Jerusalem on the night of Satur-British merchantmen were de- day/Sunday. Hitherto Haifa has stroyed!" * International News been the only town in Palestine | Service. (SPECIAL TO:"CHINA_MAIL") | to be bombed. --- Havas,

Over a billion francs worth of damage has been done in the foods which are ravaging French territory on the Spanish border. 3xty houses, and, five hotels, one of them a thermal establishment, have been, swept away by the loods. Hava

WEATHER FORECAST Moder- date southerly or variable

winda, freshening later, from north-east; fale at first, cloudy with rain later, temperature falling."

SHARK CAUGHT.

A 115-pound shark was caught yesterday near the Hong Kong Brewery by a party of foreign and Chinese flshermen.

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