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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1940.
NEW ATLANTIC AIR MENACE
Combined With Intensified U-Boat Campaign
Why Mr. Churchill
2000000000 Pi BULGARIAN
NO FORMAL
Urged Eire To Make PROTEST TO PROTEST Bases Available
MR. DE VALERA'S REFUSAL
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There are two main comments in London about the declaration by Mr. De Valera that Eire will not in any circum- stances give or lease air or submarine bases to Bri- tain.
THE
A NEW RESPONSIBILITY HAS FALLEN ON THE R.A.F. COASTAL COMMAND AS WELL AS THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE PRO- TECTION OF
ATLANTIC TRADE ROUTES, WHICH ARE NOW INCREASINGLY THREATENED BY ENEMY AIR ATTACKS, SAYS REUTER'S AIR CORRESPONDENT.
Together with the intensification of U- boat warfare there has been a noticeable in- crease in enemy attempts to impose an aerial blockade on these routes.
The German High Command has claimed several successes against Allied shipping in the past two weeks and while most of the claims are exag- gerated it is clear that the menace of the German combined offensive is growing.
It is noted that he, was silent It threatens to assume larger about the pertinent point made proportions than in the Channel
by Mr. Churchill that much of the or North Sea where a high de- CIVIL
food on which Eire is living is, grec of safety has been assured being brought at the cost of Bri-to shipping by constant British tish lives and ships - a cost which air and naval protection. could be much reduced if British warships and planes could refuel at bases in southern and western Ireland.
It is also noted that Mr. De Valera said: "It is a lie to say
Gorman Junkers 88 bombers are believed to have emerged from their recent obscurity to launch air attacks in the Atlan- tic.
The bombers are believed, to
DEFENCE
PRIVILEGES
I'm portant
im-
that German submarines are full-operate from bases in Brittany ed or provisioned on our coast and and to steer a course dúe north- that is known to be a falsehood west to their new war ground, provements in the condi- by the British Government it-, passing 80 miles west of the Scil- tions of service in the salf."
ly Islands and probably taking This statement is somewhat bearings from the south-west Civil Defence Services, "of puzzling, as the British Govern corner of Eire and then striking which the whole country ment has never made such ajou over the Atlantic. charge. It was made
is proud," were announc- M.P. from Northern Ireland. Mr. De Valera apparently ignor-
ed yesterday by Mr. Her- ed the fact that last, month
bert Morrison, Minister of Home Security.
by an
the
Minister of Information said that,
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West Of Ireland Several attacks are claimed to have been made about 300 miles
west of Ireland.
Mr. Morrison praised the brav- 88ery, resource, and technical skill of
the civilian army.
so far as he was aware, there is no foundation for the allegation This region would just be and that any publicity in Britain within range of the Junkers tending to impair relations be- which can fly 1,300 miles fully tween Britain and Eire "is to be loaded. . strongly deprecated.". Reuter.
HOSPITALS IN
SOUTH AFRICA
casualties
The German Dornier 215 Is able to make the trip more com- fortably and occasionally at- tacks more, distant, targets. The R.A.F. Coastal Command is closely watching the situation but the Atlantic air space is vast for the R.A.F. to watch.
The problem of detection and successful interception. his in- finitely greater than on the Channel or even the North Sea,
Improvements, he said, included full pay for 13 weeks for wound- ed volunteers, funeral grants and the use of the Union Jack
as a
uneral pall, the provision of ade- quate clothing and equipment and rest periods, and improved shelter protection in heavily raided areas.
-Reuter.
N.E.I. PUTS SHIPS
where. British aircraft are oper- AT BRITISH DISPOSAL
ating at closer quarters with the enemy.
RUMANIA
Allegations that Bulgarian refugees fromi northern Dobrudja have been roughly handled and their property seized at frontier posts con- trolled solely by Ru- manians, were made
in
irepresentations which the Bulgarian Government yesterday addressed to the Ru- manian Government about the activities of
authorities. Reuter. the Rumanian frontier
TO HUNGARY
No formal protest has been made by the British Government to Hungary for allowing the passage of German troops to Ru- mania, Reuter's diploma- tic correspondent learned in London yesterday.
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The Hungarian Government, however, has been left in doubt that while the British Gov- crnment appreciates the difficul- ties of the Hungarian position, it regards the action of a so-called neutral country in permitting the Dissage of German troops as he- ing not in accordance with the usual rules of neutrality, especial- ly as there is every possibility that such troops would be' used 00000 1:ainst Britain.-Reuter.
TREND IN MIDDLE EAST NOW IN REVERSE?
MOST STRIKING PIECE OF NEWS DUR- ING THE PAST 24 HOURS HAS BEEN THE BRITISH CAPTURE OF GALABAT; ON THE SUDAN-ABYSSINIA FRONTIER, WRITES REU- TER'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT IN A DESPATCH FROM LONDON THIS MORNING.
In itself Galabat has no special import- ance either strategic or military. It might be compared with Moyale, a similar post cap- tured by the Italians on the Kenya frontier some months ago.
But the news has a very im- portant significance because it marks the turning of the tide. in the most squthern theatre of the
war.
Hitherto the British policy of elastic defcnce has led to a series of withdrawals which, although
Two hospitals for and invalds back from the Bri- tish forces in the Middle East are being established in South Africa by the Union Government at the request of the British Govern- ment, it was announced in Johan-
Chances of detection and suc- The Netherlands East Indies strategically unimportant, have nesburg yesterday.
be Government has placed 49 mer-been unpleasant morally. cessful counter-action would
at the disposal of One will be near Johannesburg immeasurably increased if the chant vessels and the other at Port Elizabeth R.A.F.-like the Navy were in a, the British Government,
it was Sixteen hundred invalids are ex-position to operate from, bases stated in a Batavia radio talk yes- pected to arrive. from the Middle nearer to the enemy field of agterday on N.E.I. cooperation
the west of the war effort. Reuter, East this month.
BREN GUN DESTROYS DORNIER
tion than Ulster or England coast.-Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE RAIDS
Shipping on the Juha River was bombed and machine-gunned
in
In addition 18 German and two Danish ships, which they seized, were hunded to Britain against indemnity costs only.-Reuter.
LORD LOTHIAN MADE
KNIGHT OF THISTLE
POOR NAZI RETURN
GERMANY IS GETTING A The possession of British VERY POOR RETURN FOR THE Somaliland, Moyale and Galabatį BOMBS AND FLYING HOURS Is a matter of comparative In- SHE HAS SPENT IN ATTEMPTS significance compared to the im- TO CRIPPLE OUR VITAL FAC- mense isques Involved but TORIES, MR. HERBERT MORRI-
MINISTER hitherto movemont has always! SON.
OF HOME been. In one direction.
SECURITY, SAID YESTERDAY. The superior strength of the Figures collected by a firm sup-' caemy at all points of contact has plying material for industrial enabled him to score these suc-, huild'ngs, he said, shawed that cesses, which have naturally been orders for material to, replace that
the Italian press.
magnifed out of all proportion by damaged by, bombs is only one-
Reversal Of Process
quarter of one per cent of the ma- terial originally supplied.
This is a fair sample of the ex- tent. of the damage to. British, pro- The recapture of Galabat is the duction. Reuter, beginning of a reversal of the
The British forces have been and made him a Knight of the sufficiently strong to hit back, and
hit back hard.
A CORPORAL ARMED WITH from a low level by aircraft of The King yesterday received in "A BREN: GUN. YESTERDAY the South African Air Force,audionca Lord Lothian, British BROUGHT DOWN A DORNIER-stated a communique issued in Ambassador to the United States, 17 THE. LARGE BOMBER Nairobi yesterday.. NICKNAMED, THE "FLYING The communique, added: that an Thistle. PENCIL" AND WHICH CARRIES enemy aircraft was deslipyed on 'The Thistle is
ancient A CREW OF SIX — OUTSIDE Gobiven aerodrome. All the chivalric Order consisting of the AN EAST ANGLIAN VILLAGE South Africon aircraft, returned Sovereign and 16 Knights. NEAR COLCHESTER.
Reuter-
The plane was badly damaged. and the crew has been taken pri-
Reuter.
REFUGEE SHIR
PLAN ABANDONED.
The refusal by the Nazi Govern-. ment to grant "sate conduct" to
safely.
BUTTER RATIONED IN DENMARK
BUTTER RATIONING WENT an American ship to proceed to INTO EFTECT IN DENMARK Truland: to evacuate, 1.200 Ameri- | YESTERDAY,
cans he caused the U.S. Govern The ration is just over 1 lb ment to abandon the plan, says a- which must, last for 20 days.. — Washington report. Reuter. Reuter.
Reuter,
GANDHI NOMINEE SENTENCED AR
Brahma Dutt Ralnirmal, who is resumed to be Mr. Gandhi's third nominee for his Umited, campaign
process.
Galabat was held by a com paratively strong force of As- karls, with Italiän : officers, who
NEW NAZI WARSHIPS
did not make a strategie with- WHAT. ARE ́SAID TO BE THE drawal.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF A BATTLESHIP OF They were caught napping by n 35,000-TON well organised, British and Indian THE TURPITZ - BISMARCK force, backed by the R A.F. and CLASS, HAVE BEEN PUBLISH- armoured units, and were sound- ED IN THE GERMAN ILLUS-. ly beaten.
TRATED, NEWSPAPERS, THE *Their attenipts to counter-BERLIN CORRESPONDENT OF attack were also beaten off with THE "BASLE NATIONAL ZEI- SUCCESS. AN
TUNG" SAID YESTERDAY, 2-
THIS IS THE FIRST. NEWS OF THE PROGRESS OF THESE BATTLESHIPS, THREE OF WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY LAID DOWN.-REUTER,
It is the beginning of a move ili
of civil disobedience," "was at the right direction and it must be Wardha yesterday sentenced to borne In mind; that the Italians three months rigorous imprison- have no means of reinforcing their ment. —— Reuter..
troops in this region. Rcutor.
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