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KIEL
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.
DEVASTATED
BY HUNDREDS OF BRITISH BOMBERS
SEVERAL HUNDRED BOMBERS ENGAG= | ED ON EACH SIDE IN MONDAY NIGHT'S RAIDS BY THE BRITISH R.A.F. AND THE GERMAN LUFTWAFFE.
BULGARIA
The weather over Germany was EXPRESSES
un-
SURPRISE!
doubtedly exceptionally good but the fact remains that on this occasion - as the Ger- mans have themselves admitted – their effort was widely dispersed by the British defences "All Bulgaria follows whereas almost the whole of the R.A.F. bom-with bated breath the war ber force engaged in the operations success operations in Macedonia." fully attacked the primary targets.
said the Bulgarian Prim Minister, M. Filov, ad- In the attack on Kiel - at once the Ports-dressing the Sobranje mouth and the Clydeside of Germany air- (Parliament) yesterday, craft of the Bomber Command carried the according to a Sofia mes- heaviest load of bombs ever dropped on Ger-sage to the official Ger-
man news agency. many in a single night.
M. FILOY COMPLAINED D2
A pilot who had a good view of it was not easy to find among the THE DROPPING OF BOMBS ON the state in which our aircraft left fires a vacant black spot on which | BULGARIAN TERRITORY, AL the port said: "Only way to put to drop another bomb.
THOUGH NO BULGARIAN out the fires would have been to
It was a bright moonlight night¦ FORCES WERE TAKING PART push the whole place into the sen"
Hundreds of tons of high exbombing only the smoke of Bres |
and with the weather perfect for IN THE OPERATIONS.
He also referred to the signing plosive and over 30,000 incen·
occasionally obstructed the view of the Vienna Pact by the for diaries by that time had done
from the bomb sight, their work. Smoke was drifting hindered the defences as well foreign
but this mer Yugoslav Premier and For -
Minister, M. Tvetskovite not only over the whole town several crews noticed the search-and M. Cinear Markovitch, on
hights were ineffective when dim- 1 March 25. saying the Docks and shipbuilding yardsmed by layers of smoke through |tablished a valuable link between were completely outlined in red which they had to pass.
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, between One mile square in the centre of of the town was a single sheet of fire and every moment exulsions shook the level wastes of flames.
but out to sea.
Bright Moonlight
In several of the areas allarked, as many of our crews discutered,
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A strong wind fanned the flames which countries a pact of eternal and by the end of the raid it was friendship had been concluded! – considered that no fire brigade | Reuter. could hope to control all the fires
and many must have been left to and out to sea as far as Heligoland. burn themselves out.
As the next waves approached the crews watched the glare split up into a multitude of individual more detailed signs of destruction, tires and were able to observe yet
Wave After Wave For five hours hambers went in over Kiel in wave after wave.
Throughout the first hours of the raid they had to pierce curtain of A.A. fire from one of lined the waterfront, huge burd
Glowing shells of warehouse. the most heavily defended areasings wholly enveloped in
#am
a
Widespread Ruin
in Germany but in the end the stood out annidst the general con- very weight and resolution of the attack seemed to bear down
Bugration,
The submarine building yard.
the defences and there were had evidently suffered greally significant luils in the gunfire. The first wave of bombers soon
huge building in the Deutscin Int
werke shipyards was seen to cut- the way for their successors. | lapse and in the town itself rur and Kiel shortly shone like bracon across Schleswig Holstein docks.-British Wireless.
was almost as widespread as.
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STRANDED BRITISHERS in Ichang, British shipping on the Yangtse and the alleged rounding up of dissident Chinese seamen in Britain, were the subject of questions in the House of Commons yes- terday.
Sir Alexander Russell asked what Government were doing about the subsistence of Britishers in Ichang who were in great difficulty of obtaining supplies owing to boycott
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M. R. A. Butler. Under-Secre- Mr. Oswald Peak, Under-Se lary for Foreign Affairs, replied cretary for Home Affairs, replie that a complaint in this connec- he had tion was made last
no knowledge of Stic July after search parties but which the situation
recently was eased. number of Chinese seamen One further complaint was made were convicted for absence with- whe this February and the matter was out leave or refusing taken up with the Japanese, who orders were repatriated.-Reuter, obes had offered to facilitate the hir
ing of trucks to carry supplies.
Sir Alexander Russell, In another question about the Yangtse, suggested Japanese shipping be refused facilities in British ports, including the Dominions and Colonies. Mr Butler said the
to
KUNMING'S
HEAVY RAID.
Yangtse Twenty-seven Japanese boni-
DECORATED SHEETS, SOIL & R. W. PIPES, PRESSURE question was inseparable from the bers carried out a devastating raid
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general policy of Japan towards over Kunming shortly after noon Britain and other foreign interests yesterday.
Search Parties
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In China, on which he made a: Numerous light and heavy statement on April 2,
bombs and incendiary bombs were showered over various parts the city causing three big fires, Mr. David Adams (Labour), ask- as a result of which many houses ed whether the Home Secretary were demolished and burned was aware that search partles down. were recently instituted in the The British Consulate, the East End of London and elsewhere office of the National Red Cross for the purpose of collecting Chin- Society of China and several othe ese scamen protesting against institutions were damaged. the non-payment of bonus, and, Yesterday's raid was the first that these men were taken to since February 20,--Central I ports for shipment to China
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