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Bombs

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER. 1940.

Falling On

Le Havre "Like Manna"

Pulverising R.A.F. Raids On Vital Nazi Targets

A STATEMENT FROM LE HAVRE DESCRIBING ATTACKS ON DOCKS AND SHIPPING SPEAKS OF BRITISH BOMBERS HAVING BEEN CONSTANTLY OVER FOR A FORTNIGHT, AND. SAYS IT WAS FAR WORSE THAN THE BOMBING BY THE GER- MANS IN JUNE. ONE NIGHT PARTICULARLY IT WAS TER- RIFIC AND THE INHABITANTS SPENT EIGHT HOURS SHEL TERING FROM THE INCESSANT BOMBING.

500 FIGHTERS A DAY

A

PROPOSAL

recent proposal by the Committee of Industrial Organisa- tion that the entire facilities of the American motor-car industry be pooled, in order to permit the production of 500 all- metal fighter 'planes daily within six

months, is being seri- ously considered by the Administration, stat- ed President Roosevelt ot his press confer- ence yesterday.-Reu-

ter.

FRENCH DELEGATES IN TOKYO

"Bombs were falling like manna. Fires spread to the hangars at Heroult and there was a gigantic conflagration lasting five hours. Now, as soon as night falls, the people all go to ground. Everyone goes, even Ger- man soldiers," the message declared.

Incidentally the French newspaper "Petit Journal" was suppressed for stating that 70,000 German troops had been withdrawn from Le Havre, that the Kleber Barracks were badly damaged and petrol dumps and an am- munition train destroyed.

The newspaper "Berliner Boer- sen Zeitung" recently stated that nearly 1,000,000 children have evacuated from bombed areas in Germany.

Another report says nearly Everyone in Germany is astonish- ed by the accuracy of British bombing.

In Berlin, the Moabit railway station, Hahlet station and rail-

So great was the destruction when a factory at Hamm which produces a large proportion of Germany's welding electrodes was hit that production is sald to have ceased entirely. Enormous damage was caused to docks and warehouses at Hamburg, where it is reported there is virtually no movement of goods.

Entry into the area is said to way lines and a funnel at Stettiner be strictly forbidden.-Reuter. station have been hit.

SHOPPING BY ROPE AND PULLEY — A colony of Kent people who live in a huge underground tunnel which cung ba- neath the town, have their domestic suppiles towered 30 fost down the precipitous face of a disused quarry by an Ingeniog rope and pulley rigged up by an enterprising tradesman. it would take them at least half an hour to walk from their now home to the shops, so life is thus simplified for these families by this new method. The enterprising tradesman who rigged up the contraption is Mr. Robinson, much better known as “Ös- £10,"

Photo shows "Osa'a” lowering the provisions to the cava- dwellers belaw. (Copyright, Fox).

Coal Shortage In Berlin NEW YEAR DUCE'S DAUGHTER EDDA

One witness saw two big fires, one at a brewery and grain-store which lasted five hours, the other at a warehouse which lasted eight hours.

Two main streets were clos- ed for several days. The Siemens Sthuckert works were badly damaged and there is now a marked shortage of coal in Berlin owing to railway dis- THE FIRST FÓRMAL MEET-location in the Ruhr,

Considerable damage has un- ING BETWEEN THE FRENCH | AND JAPANESE TRADE DELE- doubtedly been done to refineries GATES WILL TAKE PLACE IN and factories at Gelsenkirchen, TOKYO TO-DAY AS THE FOR- EIGN MINISTER, MR. MAT- SUOKA, HAS INVITED THE DELEGATES TO LUNCHEON AT At the great Politz oil refinery, HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE, SO near Stekin, a 3,000-horse power The French delegation is head- dynamo, petrol tanks, gasometer ed by the Ambassador, M. Char- and pipeline to the harbour were les Arsene Henri. Reuter damaged.

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Hamburg Dead

HOLIDAY

On Wednesday, January 1, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Sheung- wan Branch Post Office will open from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.

be

collection

There will be one from the pillar boxes as on Sun- days and one delivery of register, ed and ordinary 'correspondence at

10 am.

There will also be one delivery. of ordinary correspondence at 11 am, from the Branch Post Office at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.

FIGHTS FOR PEACE

MUSSOLINI'S DAUGHTER Edda is causing a split in Fascist councils which may in the end affect the whole course of the war. Ribbentrop and Ciano, according to an Italian source in London, forced Mussolini into war against Britain in opposition to the advice of Edda, who has broken with her hus- band, Ciano, because of this.

A.A. GUNS GET A CHANCE

of

The fast-mounting "score" our anti-aircraft gunners --- they have now shot down over 200 German raiders-s putting fresh heart and enthusiasm into the men of A.A. batteries who have not hào a.chance to prove their mettle-or metal.

Edda, like her mother and un- like her father, who is an avowed atheist, is a devout Catholic, and fully accepts the Pope's ruling that Bolshevism is the Anti-Christ at large.

When Hitler allied himself with Stalin she turned violently anti- German, and that is why, since Italy entered the war, she has withdrawn entirely from public life.

Donna Rachel, the Duce's da- cile, wife, is siding with Edda, and they are trying to persuade the Duce that he should be on the side of Britain and religioni

Tug-Of-War

There are still large tracks of country which the German bomb-

In this family tug-of-war the ers have not yet penetrated in influence of the Vatican is on the force. To the anti-aircraft bat-side of the two women. teries in those areas the war, until

quite recently, was very much a Edda and her mother hold in- bore" war. At one Fighter. Com-high place in the affection of the mand air station in Scofland, for Italian people....... Tháir opposition instance, the gunners have been to the war, coupled with the suc "standing By" for nearly twelve cesser of the British Navy and the montha witheat evan being offered RAF, may result in Mussolini a target. They had to spend their asking the Vatican to mediate | time rebuilding and reinforcing separate peace

their gun-pits, and waiting.

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