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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 29, 1940.

POMPEY CINEMA SUFFERS DIRECT BOMB HIT

Portsmouth was raided late in one afternoon, but only about twenty machines were able to pierce an intensive A.A, barrage. Many others were driven back by British fighters.

Bombs were dropped in several parts of the city. A cinema. was hit while a performance was in progress and the gallery collapsed. Some members of the audience were trapped in the building.

Another cinema narrowly escaped, the bomb dropping in a car park close by. A furniture factory was damaged and a number of houses in working class and residential districts were wrecked. There were a number of casualties, but they are believed to be relatively few in view of the number of bombs dropped.

At Ramsgate, waves of bom- bers and fighters were met by a terrific A.A. barrage ag they crossed the coast. They scatter-

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few incendiaries in all parts of the town, causing damage to

relation to the damage done.

Most of the damage was done in the third of a succession of at breakfast time and continued throughout the day. When one building was hit people sheltering in the base- ment escaped unhurt although covered in dust.

raids that began

An assembly hall was wrecked. A man who was cleaning it for a brotherhood meeting was scued unhurt from the ruins by a warden...

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Outside the building a placard still proclaimed: "Brother 'man, don't stay outside and hope for the best. Come Inside and get it."

A few yards away a house received a direct hit which re- duced it to a mass of rubble, but the occupier, Mr..N.. Stroud, and his wife emerged unscathed.

One of those killed was a po- lice constable who was sleeping after being on night duty. His home was wrecked.

GERMANS

CENTURIES

TOO LATE

An ingenious theory has been put forward to explain why: Ger- man raiders frequent- ly drop bombs on isolated and desolate 'districts.

A number of bombs have fallen near spots .which are marked with the word "camp" on ordnance maps, and it is suggested that these įmarkings refer to present day military camps. Ac- tually they refer to old

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OF FOREIGN British fortresses

POLICY

FROM VICHY COMES NEWS THAT M. BAUDOUIN HAS RE- SIGNED FROM THE POST OF FOREIGN MINISTER, AND HE 1S NOW TO BE MINISTER OF STATE ATTACHED TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL.

The post of Foreign Minister is being taken over by M. Laval, the Vice-Premier, who is also to con- .trol_radio services.

M. Laval has now left for Paris for further discussions, with the Germans, and will be joined there by General Huntzinger, Vichy. Minister of War.

Yesterday morning, following meetings of the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers, a decree was issued forbidding. French men to listen to British broad- casts in public places.

mainly earth works dating back to 1000 B.C.

JAPANESE PAY UP INDEMNITY

JAPANESE

AUTHORITIES. HAVE PAID, A TOTAL OF AP- PROXIMATELY US$1,080 AS INDEMNITY TO THE FAMILIES OF THE 18 ANNAMITES WHO WERE KILLED WHEN NIPPON WARPLANES BOMBED HAI- PHONG DURING THE JAPAN- The Governor of Tunisia was ESE LANDING OPERATIONS informed that no change in the THERE ON SEPTEMBER, 26. Aged Couple Rescued status of his Colony is contem- The Japanese payment, at the plated. Amongst other things, rate of approximately: US$71 per In a road where several small | Tunisia has the important Medi-life, followed a vigorous French houses were damaged, a man of terranean naval base of Bizerta. protest to Tokyo. eighty-five and રા woman of Reuter. eighty-three were among those rescued. "I had not time to go to the nearest shelter," said the woman. "I was trying to reach the cellar when everything seem- ed to fall on top of me, but I stood close against a wall and escaped with a bump

on

my head. What worries mé most

GERMAN AIR LOSS

It was stated authoritatively.in

is that I lost my top teeth." London yesterday that German In the town's shopping centre, losses in aircraft over Britain dur- the largest grocery store was ing the week ending midnight on ruined. An employee of a firm Oct. 28, totalled. 39, of which at of house furnishers was killed least eight. were shot down while crossing the road to shel-night. ter..!

Several public houses in differ- ent parts of the town were 'de- molished. At one, where all the windows were broken, the land- lord carried beer in buckets to rescue workers as soon as the raid was over.

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British losses were 18. aircraft and nine pilots.-Reuter.:

LIMITED AIR

RAIDS ON BRITAIN

Enemy air activity over Britain has been un

a very

Meanwhile members of a Ja- panese economic mission; reached - Hanoi. They will commence talks with French colonial officials later. Informed quarters expect that the conversations will cover a. wide range of financial and trade ques- tions.

INDO-CHINA

PURGE

TO

VICE-ADMIRAL DE COUX, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDO-CHINA, HAS DECIDED TO PURGE ALL ANTI-PETAIN ELEMENTS ACCORDING EVERY AVAILABLE INDICA- ...Two people, one a van driver,

TION, STATES A SEMI-OFFI- were killed outside a temperance

CIAL JAPANESE REPORT hotel and several people running yesterday to a shelter were blown down limited scale, a few bombs being lieved to be eliminating Jewish

FROM HANOI:

Vice-Admiral- De Coux is be- the steps. when a bomb explod-dropped at scattered points in East ed.

The Mayor, Town Clerk, and Casualtics appear to

Anglia and south-east England. and. Anglo-American influences. members of the municipal staff few. states an Air Ministry com- be very took shelter in the basement of munique, and very little damage the council offices and were sha- has been done-Reuter." ken by bombs which fell a few feet in front of the building.

One bomb struck the gasworks, causing a fire. This was speedily extinguished, however, by fire brigade, the AF.S., and bri-The Bishop of London stated at gades from neighboning towns. the Diocesan Conference yesterday Two men employed in the that 32 London churches had been mains department were killed destroyed or rendered unusable by a bomb which exploded three by air raids, 47 seriously damaged feet from them as they were and very many more less serious- running for shelter....

ly damaged. Reuter

the

In another. part of the town a boy had a foot blown off and was pinned beneath the wreckage of a house. In another street a civilian had a leg blown off.

A woman who had sheltered In a cupboard under hör stale case emerged, "after the raid

CHURCH MAGNETS FOR NAZI BOMBS

FIVE NAZI AIRMEN

RESCUED

Five German airmer : came ashore in a rubber boat on Sun- day night, betweán two East An to find that her kitchen had glia coast villages Reuter. vanlahad

France capitulated to Germany, Anti-Petain elements. which

are estimated to comprise only 30 had considerable influence when

per cent of the French colony, in Army which are opposed to Vice- addition to some sections of the

Admiral De Coux, — Reuter.

PRICE OF GOLD SLUMPS IN PEIPING BPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

A drop of 820 an ounce was registered in, the price of gold on the local market yesterday, ac- cording to an announcement made by the, Peiping Gold Dealers' Guild. The selling rate in the afternoon was $420 an ounce, and. the buying rate $413. Havas,

JAPANESE SET AT

LIBERTY

A reporter who was watching car, which was full of stones and the raid, beard the shriek of a shrapnel. While the debris was bomb and ran into a building. As being cleared away, and search It was learned this morning that he reached the head of the was being made for casualties Mr. G. Yamaguchi, of No. 25, Ken- stairs there was a terrific ex-another raid alarm occurred and nedy Road, who was internied by plosion, and he was blown from more bombs were dropped in a the Hong Kong Government on top to bottom without touching neighbouring district. The work August 3, was released and ul- the stairs. He later found that of rescue continued without in-lowed to return to his home at 5. the roof had been blown off his terruption,

sopa) yesterday.