1941-01-03 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 1941

BRITAIN HITS BACK HARD

STOP PRESS

Seaport At Bremen Turned Into Raging Furnace Twenty Thousand Incendiary Bombs Dropped By R.A.F.

N.E.I. DEFENCE MEASURES

TWENTY THOUSAND INCENDIARIES

AND A LOAD OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES WERE DROPPED ON BREMEN DURING THE FIRST HOUR OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S FIERCE BOMBING RAID BY THE R.A.F., WHICH TURNED THE GREATEST GERMANY AFTER HAMBURG INTO A RAG- ING FURNACE.

SEAPORT IN

A message from Balik-

As a long procession of aircraft of the papan published in the "Evening Standard" last Bomber Command reached the Zuyder Zee, night indicated that on their way to follow up the first attacks, strategists believe that, in they could see a red glow in the sky over Bre- the event of a Japanesc men, although still 120 miles from their tar-

attack on the Netherlands)

East Indies, the first cb-get.

Smoke from tires reached as

jective will not be Java! Thigh as the clouds and mingled |

to

but the oil wells at Balik-with them, and some pilots found

targets they had been detailed papan.

attack so thoroughly ablaze that The Netherlands East Hybes rather than waste bombs on build- auberities are ceaselessly burd invs already gutted, they sought ing defeners, heavily mining the other factories and dockyards in

out gunboats, the city port and sending mune-layers and planes to patrol the Macassar Strait.

Scores of Japanese found poach- ing in torbidden wa erg have been arrested

*

It was an intensely cold and clear night, says an Air Minis

Recently

Japanese tanker, sea. with a crew of 500 cadets a rived at Balikpapan clalnėnųg to be

It is elieved that the docks, refineries, pipe-lines and oil wells a iraining cruise. But Hone of will be destroyed before they are the crew was allowed to land and allowed to fall into Japanese the vessel was escorted back tande. Central News.

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try news bulletin, and a young moon clearly lit up the targets, chief of which were the great shipbuilding yards in which warships of all kinds, and pecially submarines, are construction;

es-

under

The Deutsche vacuum oil reftir- eries. railway communications, į warehouses, rice and starch mills. and the Focke-Wolfe air frume

factory.

Ger-

de- and

To defend Bremen the mans used all the ground fences they could muster |R.A.F. pilots reported formidable

anti-aircraft fre-Reuter.

Over Before Midnight

The raid began about an hour after nightfall and although over- whelming in effect was over be- fore midnight.

Cloud and weather conditions on the way out were bad but over Bremen the cloud were driven so quickly by the wind that no lar- get was hidden for long and for

the--

The correspondent of London "Daily Telegraph" who has returned to Shang- hai after a fortnight's visit in Tokyo claims to have learned from authoritative Tokyo sources that while effusively assuring the Japan- cse Ambassador, Tatekawa, of the Soviet desire to im- prove Russo-Japanese rela- t'ons, the Kremlin simul- taneously offered terms shat- tering Japan's illusion of a quick and easy settlement of outstanding issues.

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Responsible Japanese in- formed the correspondeat that the basic Soviet terms are as follows: firstly, transfer to Soviet Russia of the Ashing concession along the East Siberian coast held by Japan, and secondly, return to Soviet Russia of the oil concessions on Saghalien Island-Central News.

U.S. MEASURES PURELY

PASSPORT

ROUTINE

Reports reaching Hong Kong that all Ameri-

all practical purposes it was clear, can passports are being cancelled, partly to prevent

It was the rice and starch

mills which some pilots found Americans from coming out to the Far East and burning so fiercely throughcut partly as an anti-Fifth Column measure, were dis-

the whole structure that they

what was already ruin, Pilots who attacked these mills

Judged it unnecessary to ravage Counted by Mr. Addison E. Southard, U.S. Cônsul- General, in an interview with a “China Mail” repre- sentative to-day.

reported eight large fires broke

in one great conflagration which could still be seen when the crews had crossed the Dutch frontier on the way home.

re-

all

said,

out and eventually came together Mr. Southard pointed out that, travel to the Philippines.

the report probably arose from the No information has been fact that American passports are ceived officially in Hong Kong being invalidated for travel in that Washington is recalling certain areas in the Far East. This passports, Mr. Southard

have is now a routine measure, to pre-although unofficial reports vent American citizens-especially indicated that this might be done women and children and others in the near future. At several shipbuilding yards with no special reasons for tra- He emphasised, however, that both docks and buildings were velling-from proceeding to areas this, too, would be a routine mea- repeatedly hit by heavy high ex- where they might get into trou-sure.

Shipyards Ablaze

plosive bombs and when a thou-ble and require" Government as- It is primarily intended to com- sand incendiaries fell on two of sistance.

bat the work of counterfeiters.

these yards nothing could be seen Mr. Southard recalied that sim-Every ten years or so, most Gov-, but a sheet of fire so brilliant ilar measures were adopted in the ernments. call in their old pass- and of such uniform intensity that case of Spain during the civil ports and issue a new type. bursts of high explosive bombs war, when passports were mark- But people with passports do could not be distinguished ed "Not valid for Spain." In not have them "cancelled." amongst the flames.

view of the uncertainty in the They retain the full privileges

The Atlas shipbuilding yards Far East, an uncertainty emphas-of their passport, merely exchang- were also ablaze and a whole line|ised by the evacuation of Ameri-|ing an old one for a newer, of warehouses. besides number can subjects, similar measures Mr., Southard recalled that this two harbour was alight.

have been adopted.

had occurred two or three times

The Focke-Wulf airframe So far as he was aware, how-during his career in the Ameri factory was on fire when one ever, passports are still valid for can consular service. pilot arrived over it. His bomba splashed into the blaze and véry scon afterwards · there were six explosions which could not possibly be mistaken for actual bursts of bombá.

The Deutsche vacuum oil re- finery was badly damaged and the railways of Bremen were hit again and again.

Factories beside one railway line were gutted and wreckage could be seen very plainly,

One or two enemy aircraft were seen wandering ineffectively over the town.British Wireless.

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