1940-10-23 — Page 3

New German WarshipsInDock At Hamburg Heavily Bombed

A Thousand Incendiaries Dropped

ENEMY WARSHIPS UNDER CONSTRUC- TION IN THE BLOHM AND VOSS SHIP-BUILD. ING YARDS AT HAMBURG WERE HEAVILY ATTACKED AGAIN ON MONDAY NIGHT BY R.A.F. BOMBERS, SAYS THE AIR MINISTRY |NEWS SERVICE.

High explosive and over 1,000 fire bombs were dropped on the shipyard and docks in the immediate vicinity in a raid which began soon after 8 p.m. and continued for more than an hour.

SMALL SCALE AIR RAIDS

Enemy air attacks on Britain yesterday were on a very small scale, says an Air Ministry communique issued in London last evening.

A few sporadic ruids were made in the morning by single onemy aircraft on several towns on the south-east coast, and some damage was done.

In two towns houses

were

demolished and a few people were killed or; injured..

A heavy ground haze, great searchlight activity and intense anti-aircraft fire made conditions difficult for the raiding crews but by making individual attacks from different directions and heights they were able to evade the ground, defences and home their attacks.

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Many fires broke out in the shipyard and surrounding docks and in one place a chain of fires became one great flaming

mass.

Oil Refinery Ablaze

6.30 p.m.

Furniture and belongings to residents in a bombed London area assembled in the roadway next morning. (Copyright, Fox).

CANADA'S NAVAL BUILDING

HUNTING DOWN THE LORD LOTHIAN SEES

"COMMUNISTS"

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

THE KING

Lord Lothian, British Ambas-

Widespread searches of the sador to the United States, who by residences of Communists in the is in London, was received SIX MORE LARGE STEAM-south of France continue to be the King yesterday. DRIVEN MINE-SWEEPERS AT carried out: Another 65 Com-

His Majesty also received Mr.

A COST OF ABOUT £120,000 munists have been arrested of Winston Churchill' who remained EACH HAVE BEEN ORDERED whom 13 were women: The police to lunch.-Reuter. FOR THE ROYAL CANADIAN discovered thousands of leaflets,

NAVY, ACCORDING TO AN AN- many duplicating machines, type- edited Communist newspaper Heavy bombers made a light-NOUNCEMENT BY THE CAN-writers and issues of the secretly "Humanite." —- Havas. ning raid on an oil refinery Reisholz, near

at ADIAN MUNITIONS MINISTER, Duesseldorf, at MR, C. D. HOWE, YESTERDAY. This brings the number of ves- For ten minutes high ex- sels in Canada's major shipbuild- plosive and incendiary bombs ing programme to 98, involving a were rained on the plant and cost of more than £12,000,000 14 separate firès were: counted and consisting of 34 mine-sweep- In the target area: """

erg for the Canadian Navy, ten corvettes for the Royal Navy and 54 corvettes for the Canadian Navy.

Many explosions and fires were started in railway yards at Dues- seldorf and Derendorf and bombs were also dropped on the main line south-west of Duesseldorf and an aerodrome at Stade.

A force of enemy aircraft cross-Reuter, cd the coast in the afternoon near Dungeness. They were prompt- ly intercepted by strong forces of our fighters and were unable to penetrate to the London area. Reporta eo far received show.that In this attack very little damage was done though a few bombs were dropped on a south-east

own-Reuter.

THEFT OF

FANS

Admitting the theft of two elec-

trit fans from No. 125, Temple

Streat, Ng Chuen, 23, and

Ng

A very substantial proportion of these 98 ships will have been launched: before the end of this year.-Reuter,

WIDESPREAD R.A.F. OPERATIONS IN MIDDLE EAST

AN ITALIAN DESTROYER: IN: THE RED

Hing, 25, were bound over by Mr. SEA WAS ATTACKED ON MONDAY BY R.A.F.

1

SEL'S STERN WAS SCORED.

2. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon BOMBERS AND A DIRECT HIT ON THE VES- his morning.

Accused were seen each carry- Ing. a fan in Reclamation Street A dis- ht 6.30 am. on Sunday.

rict watchman quescored thein and was frankly, told that they had stolen them!

Accused were previously em- ployed at the place. They were batd, off a week ago but allowed

o sleep on the premises

This was only part of widespread opera- tions by the R.A.F. in the Middle East on Moŋ-

day, says the Air Ministry.

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Near Sollum low level attacks (craft was chased for: 30 milea, WOB- last on enemy, working parties and The Italian bomber

ATHLONE'S VISIT motor transport were carried out seen losing height. rapidly and

TO ROOSEVELT

Mr.

The Canadian Premier; Mackenzie King, and. the Gov- rnor-General). the Earl of Athlone, were engaged in animat- di conversation: as they walkted lown the platform.

the

from rain on which the Governor Soneral returned from his week. nd visit to the Roosevelts yde Park NY, yesterday. *It is not the custom that any Fice-Regal statement should be hade but it is understood Visit was most satisfactory und

the

A number of military vehicles emitting thick black, smoke from was destroyed by fire and others its fuselage. severely damaged.

Several RIA:Fs bombing, raide

1- were, carried out; on: (Asmara -and. Gura, in Eritrea, when tankers- near workshops; were hit-and-buildingo-set-on-fires. Two raids-wore made on

Bohurdar (Lake Tana). in: Italian East Africa,, on the aerodrom?, causing three explosions.

In a recent engagement: over" the· Kenyar Abyssinia, frontier, a fighter: "plans; of the South. African Air Force shot down Amitation Caproni bomber, the _crewof which was: taken pris.

soner.

A number of, enemy. 'planes! Chased 30 Miles Lover Malta on Monday fled, with- out attempting to attack when Italian 'plane intercepted intercepted by British. fghters. Jeasant in every way--Reuter, lover, the Red Sea by RAF; air hkeutor..

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