1940-11-20 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1940

R.A.F. CAUSES CHAOS AT KRUPPS

Essen Production Reduced By Fifty Per Cent.

Bombs Wreck Underground Workshops

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PRODUCTION AT KRUPPS, THE BIG GERMAN MUNITIONS WORKS AT ESSEN, HAS BEEN REDUCED 50 PER CENT, AS THE RESULT OF R.A.F. RAIDS, IT WAS STATED IN LONDON YESTERDAY.

Some departments have been closed and others have had to be moved. The works are now having great difficulties in obtaining re- gular supplies of raw materials because of transport troubles caused by wrecked railway junctions.

These sections of the factory have been hit and put out of commission and one parti- cularly heavy bomb penetrated to the under- ground workshops before exploding and wrecking the place.

BEEN HIT AMID- SHIPS WHILE IN DOCK THERE. Damage to the power house of the Fokker works at Amsterdam stopped production there for some weeks.

These examples of the accuracy TO HAVE of R.A.F. bombers were given by service the Air Ministry news which stated that news now reach- ing Britain indicated the growing --disruption of industry in cities in western Germany as the result of R.A.F. raids.

the Four large buildings of Union Chemical factory on an

the the junction of island at Oder and. Molle Rivers at Stet- tin have been wrecked:-

At Hanover the biggest oil re- finery is completely destroyed and the Deutsche Vacuum Oil-Com- pany's factory at Bremen is out of production.

“Europa"! Hit

FIRE ABOARD NEW AMERICAN BATTLESHIP

on

Fire broke out board the United States battleship

South Dakota, under construction in the yards of the New York Shipbuilding .Com-

pany at Camden, New Jersey, yesterday, but was soon got under control.

Three workmen are reported. missing in the smoke filled hold and at least seven others were overcome by smoke-Reuter. *****0*60*0000004 1

in time for next year's planting. Refugees On Move · Throughout Germany refugees the are finding means to avoid

and are evacuating! official ban

of the themselves out of reach long arm of the R.A.F.

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Many of them are making for Austria and particularly Vienna, where the food situation is re- ported to be becoming acute and where they are not welcomed by the Viennese.

It is stated that despite Nazi efforts at secrecy, harvests in many parts of the country are rotting where they lie ungather- ed in the fielda, disorganisation of transport being so acute that Il-feeling appears to be grow- sufficient workers cannot be taking and demonstrations against en to the fields nor crops moved German refugees are frequently

reported.-Reuter.

to store.

For example, at Magdeburg, the NOTHING TO REPORT gathering of wheat and potato

com- says

crops in Saxony has been brought "On all fronts nothing to re- to a standstill. This, it is stated, port” yesterday's. G.H.Q. THE EUROPA. GERMANY'S is causing concern to farmers who muniqué in Cairo stated, BIGGEST LINER, IS-REPORTED will be unable to clear the ground Reuter.

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