THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 194Ï
FIRE PREVENTION EXECUTIVE FORMED
EIRE BOMBED FOR SECOND NIGHT
Eire WOS bombed last night for the se- cond successive night when three bombs fell near Enni- corthy, County Wex- ford.
No
damage was done and nobody was injured.--Reuter.
ANOTHER GOEBBELS' BLUNDER
Yet another
German
BRITAIN IS TO take immediate steps to deal with the danger from incendiary bombs following the big fire raid on London on Sun- day night.
The Prime Minister has approved the im- mediate establishment of a special organisa- tion, to be called the Fire Prevention Execu- tive, to secure prompt and vigorous action by various Government. departments and au- thorities concerned in applying effective mea- sures of fire prevention in target areas.
GREECE'S 1941 RESOLUTION
The new organisation, which will include responsible repre- sentatives of all Government «de- par ments concerned with the of many aspects of the problem fire prevention, will work in close association with the Mints- ter of Home Security.
There will be the fullest pos- sible delegation responsible to regions and to smaller areas within regions, and appropriate arrangements will be made for the supervision of work in Scot. land.
Postmaster-General. Mr. W. S. Morrison, will preside over meetings of the new Executive.
WE BEGIN 1941 WITH THE RESOLVE TO FIGHT TO THE LAST BREATH UNTIL THE FNEMY HAS BEEN EXTER- MINATED, DECLARED GEN-
The ERAL METAXAS, THE GREEK PRIME MINISTER, IN HIS NEW YEAR MESSAGE ΤΟ THE GREEK PEOPLE.
General Metaxas added: "We begin 1941 in the knowledge that Cur struggle will be long and shall suffer, ard and that but we are determined we will
struggle
We
propaganda-blunder was indure all in order to bring our revealed in London yes-
to a conclusion worthy terday.
lu a recent communique, the Nazes clamed that during a ragl on Britain a gas-holder exploded.
Unfortunately for the Nazis, the type of gas-holder used in Britain does not explode. The worst that could happen is for the escaping gas to ignite, but the flames would not spread and local residents need have по fears.
our Greece."
Reuter.
the
Geman gos-holders are of waterless type in which pressure is mamtained by a piston inside th-helder.
Damage to the easing or piston of a German gas-holder' might lead to air mixing with the gas, with the possibility of a real dis-
On the other hand, many of the | aster. -- Reuter,
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Apportioning Tasks
ap-
The new Committee will portion the task of fire-wa'ching. The Ministry of Aircraft Pro- duction, the Ministry of Supply and the Admiralty are among those whose special responsibility will be for their own factories.
The Ministry of Honie Security will assume special responsibility for all buildings, public private and industrial, which do not come within the scope of other depart- ments, and the homes of the whole civilian population will come under its wing-Reuter.
BRITAIN HITS BACK HARD
(Continued from Page 1) R.A.F. pilots reported formidable anti-aircraft fire.-Reuter.
Over Before Midnight
The raid began about an hour after nightfall and although over- whelming in effect was over be- fore midnight,
Firemen fighting fires off Chancery Lane, one of the centres
of the legal profession, during a recent raid.
STOP PRESS
TOKYO'S ENVOY FOR AUSTRALIA
Minister
to
Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, who is now semi-officially confirmed to be the first Japanese Cloud and weather conditions Australia, told reporters in Tokyo learn on the way out were bad but over to-day: "I have much to
about Australia. However I will Bremen the cloud were driven 80 quickly by the wind that no tar- do whatever. I can within my get was hidden for long and, for power to tighten the bonds of all practical purposes it was clear. friendship and increase trade be- It was the rice and starch tween Japan and Australia." mills which some pilots found Reuter,
burning soʻ fiercely throughout the whole structure that they judged it unnecessary to ravage
what was already ruin.
Pilots who attacked these mills reported eight large fires broke
out and eventually came together
POLISH PREMIER'S MESSAGE
in one great conflagration which Generál Sikorski, the Polish could still be seen when the crews Premier, has received the follow- had crossed the Dutch frontier oning wire from the King in reply the way home.
Shipyards Ablaze
to a cable with New Year's wishes: "Deeply touched by your kind The prefix "special" to telegrama' i8 the Sunday' Herald"? and; wire. Please accept my very best used by
"China Mäll" to Indidate news which wishes for yourself and your gal-is strictly copyright under the provl
rangement,
At several shipbuilding yards lant forces whose valuable con- sions of the Telecommunications." Or- both docks and buildings weretribution and determination in dinance, 1936, and may not be reprint. repeatedly hit by heavy high ex- our mutual struggle I always fol-ed under any circumstances, either plosive bombs and when a thou- low with the keenest interest.' wholly or in part, without prior "ar. sand incendiaries fell on two of British Wireless. these yards nothing could be seen but a sheet of fire so brilliant and of such uniform intensity that bursts of high explosive bombs could not be distinguished" amongst the flames.
The Atlas shipbuilding yards were also ablaze and a whole line. of warehouses besides number two harbour was alight.
The Focke-Wulf airframe.
·factory was", or "fire" when one plfot arrived over it. His bomba splashed into the bikes and- soon afterwards tḥira wers explosions which could no possibly be mistaken, for so bursta -of, bombs..."
The Deutsche vacuum o finery was badly damaged railways of Bremen W again, and again...
Factories beside one line. were gutted and could" be seen" very:
One or two enemy seen wandering Ineffect
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