THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1941.
KENT TOWN MACHINE-GUNNED German Raids Along The Coastal Region Alert In YUGOSLAVS London Last 1,200,000
Night
THERE
WAS SLIGHT ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN BY ENEMY AIRCRAFT DURING DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY.
On the Kent coast yesterday morning machine-gun fire was directed at the streets of a town and bombs were dropped at two points, says the latest Air Ministry com- munique.
a's dive.
the
It carried away Houses were damaged did small number of casualties De muzzelmast of the "Young Mun ̈ curred, some of which were fatal, and disintegrated alongside
! Bombs were also dropped in a slup South roast district but damage
was small.
The alert London
arca
sounded
the In jast night and heavy gunfire soon heralded the ap- of raiders who
from
approach peared to be coming in the Thames Estuary. Enemy planes were also lieved to be in the vicinity of the south-west and East Anglia.
be
Dive Bomber Destroyed
Meanwhile the Admiralty re- cords that a German dive-bom-
ber was destroyed in the unby
Reuter.
the
MOBILISE
A
MESSAGE RECEIVED
IN
PAUL
RE-
NEW YORK FROM BELGRADE SAYS THAT PRINCE AND THE COUNCIL OF GENCY MET SPECIALLY LAST NIGHT TO DRAFT THE FINAL TERMS OF YUGOSLAVIA'S AGREEMENT WITH THE AXIS.
REGARD- A DECLARATION
TERMS OF THE ING THE AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED LATER.
of
Yugoslavia now has 1,200,- 000 en mobil: ed, most vin at massed on the Bul- Karian hontier, according to the Swiss radio quoted Reuter.
by
SHORT, SHARP BLITZ RAID ON COLOGNE
WEDNESDAY night's attack on Cologne aircraft of the Bomber Command was noon by the drifter "Young Mun" short but very sharp and in an hour's time, be- tween about nine and ten p.m., as much dam- age was done as in many longer raids.
(Skipper G. B. Buchan, RN.R.)
and the yacht "Chico" (Lt. J.
Mason, D.S.C., R.N.V.R.).
The German bomber made a
dive attack оп gunner of
The the ships.
Mun" the "Young
continued to fire his weis gun
dive-
into the enemy until the bomber was within 50 feet. The dive bonlser. hit and of control, was unable to
Operations by other formations of our air- craft, states the Air Ministry new service, were
STOP PRESS
cancelled because thick ground fog made fly- SHADOWS
check ing impossible from many British aerodromes.
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BEFORE
CLEAR INDICATION OF THE PRESENT STATE OF GERMAN.I
RELATIONS AMERICAN
15:
IN
Main weight of the attack fell on railways and the industrial Ovarter of the east bank of the Rhine, Although there was some ground haze there was no cloud CONSIDERED IN WASHINGTON BY THE FACT, THAT and the weather was good enough, TO BE GIVEN to let our crews see exactly what LEARNED YESTERDAY,
THE GERMAN EMBASSY the bombing had done.
WASHINGTON RECENTLY ALL A CIRCULAR TO SENT CONSULS AND OTHER OFFI
THE CIALS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY ASKING FOR IN- FORMATION THAT WILL BE NEEDED IN THE EVENT OF DIPLOMATIC SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS WITH THE UNIT- ED STATES.
They could see great factories; ablaze from end to end, flames lighting up other buildings and making them an easy mark for heavier high explosive bombs.
Many of these hurtled down among dockside buildings and one stick exploded across an import- ant goods yards.
Other bombs fell beside a rail- way junction and very near the Hohenzollern Bridge.
Lines Of Fire
ran
bridge
It is believed that the circular emphasised there was no present intention of breaking off relations. but the information was required so that shipping space and other formalities could be arranged should a break occur.
Reuter.
Two long lines of fire
An "If" Circular across a wide area of the indus- 10 trial quarter and continued
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] blaze with unabated fury. Opposite a suspension
It was revealed in Washington' sent near the Hohenzollern Bridge yesterday that the circular
by the German Embassay to Nazi there was an enormous fire.
Elsewhere a big L-shaped fac- consuls enquired whether the lat- tory was ablaze and columns of ter wish to be transported back to be a if there should smoke beside the railway showed Germany
break in relations with the Unit- that a great store of oil was now
ed States. lost to Germany.
As the firea
It is emphasised that the Ger- does not con- spread they man Government reached explosive material. template taking the initiative in Flaches were of terrific violence such a drastic move as the sever- and as one went off the crews ance
of relations.-Internationa!
of several aircraft saw a very News Service. large building collapse in flying fragments.
The glare of another explosion Was so intense that inside the cockpit of an aircraft flying at over 10,000 feet it was for a moment as bright as day.
Aerodromes in the Low Coun tries, where German aircraft were seen taking off and landing, were also attacked,
At one aerodrome in Holland there were two shattering explo sions after the bombing and a succession of smaller explosions lasted some time, British Wire- less..
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The Naval Authorities is- sued the following statement this afternoon: "The funeral of Able Seaman D. T. Thor- burn, who was, on March 20, H.M.S. found dead aboard
at place
the Cleala, took Naval Cemetery this morn- The circumstances con-
the nected with
death of this rating are being investi- gated."
ing.
Forty-three confirmed new cuses of Cholera--30 from Victoria, six each from Kow- loon and Aberdeen and rural Hong Kong and one from the Harbour-have been regis- Au- tered with the Health thorities bringing the total from the beginning of the year to 366 cases.
that
Swabue reports allege roughly 100 Japanese war- ships and transports, are off the China coast between Bius Bay and Amoy.
A reply has been received from the Ministry of Shipping in London revealing that the chances of even a single Bri- tish ship being released from to war duties to take coal Shanghai are "extremely re- Press" the "China mote,
learns.
This, according to the paper, was cabled by the British Government in answer to the Shanghai Power Company's appeal for ships to solve the electricity crisis by bringing regular supplies of coal from India,
The Ministry is reported to have assured that it will help Shanghai "all it possibly can."
Reuter.
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