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Authorised Capital
Reserve Funds:- Issued and Fully Paid-up
Sterling
Hong Kong Currency Re-
Bervc
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
.$50,000,000 .$20,000,000
.£ 6,500,000
$10,000,000
.$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman,
W. H. Lock, Esq.. Deputy Chairman,
0. Miskire, Esq¬
11. Comptem, Esq., J. K. Bousfield. Eng.
K. S. Morrison, Esq.. Davors. Fed. Hon, Mr. T. E. Pearce Hon. Mr. 8, H. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. I.. Shieldą, Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn Chief Manager.
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third wave of any attack and mopped up retreating formations belonging to earlier waves. The success of these tactics may be gauged by the number of casual- lies Inflicted on the Germans, Be- tween the 11th September and 5th Fighter Command alone destroyed October, No. 11 Group of the Banking 442 enemy
Calcutta aircraft for certain, thefoo This was accomplished with a loss alebo of 58 pilots, giving a ratio of 7% enemy to one British pilot lost,
Dairen
Foochow
Haiphong Hankow Harbin
by the end of the first week of oile
September came and went and, October, our aerodromes had re- covered from the damage inflicted
Kowloon
Itangoon Saigon
San Francisco Shanghai
Kuala Lumpur Stugapore Landon
Hurabaya
Bonger Patnai
Malacca Mandin
Swator
Tientsio
Muur (Jabore) Tokyo
Mulde
New York
Tingloo Yokohama
Polping Penang
will
on
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened 11 on them at the end of Aŭgust and Local Currency and FIXED DEPO the beginning of September. The SITS received for One Year or shorter percentage of raids intercepted in- periods in Local and Other Currencies creused as did the casualties
which of on terms
be quoted
decreased. the enemy, while our own steadily application.
Thus, September. No. 11 Group destroy-
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various the 27th
sizes To Let.
on
ed 99 German aircraft out of a
total for the day of 133 for the loss of 15 pilots a proportion of 81⁄2 to 1. Three
and this put the fighting efficiency Edenbridge-Tunbridge Wells area, persevered with great tenacity and days later, when 32 enemy air- derable stram, they failed entirely but sometimes nearer the sea, the courage, delivering heavy attacks craft were destroyed, the propor-
of
of
occasion.
bom-
i
on the 9th September. using on that occasion a Dumber of four engined bombers, on the 1: th when about thirty aircraft pene- trated Central London, on
the
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken,
Hong Kong, 26th February, 1941.
HONG KONG savingS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank 18 conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application. FOR THE HONG KONG AND sHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937
tion ruse to 16 to 1 and, on the 5th October, only one pilot was lost though 22 enemy were shot down. Many times. une aggres- 13th and again on the 15th Those
sively-led squadron was able to who got through on the 11th were break up enemy bomber forma- sa savagely handled by our fighter
tions. On three occasions, a lone Hurricane. defence, that losse, minong their
Bown by Sector Commander,
in crews were estimated
was successful to be nea fewer than 250, On the next day. bombs wide
causing the enemy to drop his, THE CHARTERED BANK a single German
of the target. The aiteraft pene-brunt of all this trated the defence by the clover
fighting tell to OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA No. 11 Group. This group was
AND CHINA. reinforced. when necessary, by elements of numbers 10 and 12 Groups which were especially useful during the period of the heavy attacks on London.
use of cloud cover and bombed Buckingham Palace in the morn- ing. On the 15th September
the climax 500 1710
German
aircraft, 250 in the morning and
250 in the
alternoon, fought a
How hard fought was the battle. running tight with our Hurricanes
can be seen from the fact that and Spitfires from Hammersmith to Dungeness, from
from the 8th September to the 5th Bow to the
October inclusive, coast of France. This engagement patrols of varying strengths were 3201 day will be described in greater de- tail later. It cost the enemy 185
Gorman squadrons were met by to put them out of action. The staff and ground services worked aghters. Spitfires tackled thi day and night and the operations high flying fighter screen cover- of our fighting squadrons were ing the German attack,
The Hurricanes which had taken not, in fact interrupted. By the 6th September, the Germans either off first engaged the fighter escort believed they had achieved suc- followed by other squadrons whn ess and it only remuned for them went for the bombers. There to bomb defenceles; London until | were dog fights all over Kent. The it surrendered or, following their r
for WHIN
some mmates pre-arranged plan, they aitoma- Enever for very long vibrant Beally switched there attack with machine-gun fire People on against the Capital because the the ground have described it as moment had come to do so.
like the sound made by a small Those days saw the climax
boy in the next street when he the drst half of the battle. As runs a stick along a stretch of they drew to a close.
As a iron-railings. Goering's
background position became not unlike that of
there was a faint roar of hundreds Marshal Ney at Waterloo when at of engines which, on 4.30 in the afternoon he flung 37 swelled to a fierce note as some squadrons of Kellermanns Curais-Tippled enemy tighter or siers, backed by the heavy cavalry ber fell to the ground or made for the guard against the hard its base, dropping lower and lower pressed British squares. Napoleon with Spitfires or Hurricanes div- was unable to find the necessary
ing upon it, Sometimes watchers, support and Ney's efforts
like those
the keep upon made in vain. Goering may per-
Hever Castle, would see a blue fleld of haps have been in the same posi-
sky blossom sudden'y tion, though the attacks of
with the
parachutes, as with white Luftwaffe continued to be pressed flowers. The warm sun of those
detail the rest of the hard throughout September, May-superb September days shone on
which endured to the 31st Octo- be Goering had made up his mind an ever-increasing number of the to attack targets
ber. wrecked carcases of aircraft, bear- easily
Enough has been suid to reached than
ing on their wings the black cross show the nature fighter were our
of the German defence. aerodromes. Maybe he was merely of Prussia or the crooked symbol effort and Our
There working to a time table. May of Nazi power.
were, however, three more major he thought our fighter defence was So numerous were these for a assaults delivered on the 27th sufficiently weakened. What pro-
period over a fortnight, that more | September. 30th September and bably happened can be conveyed than two battalions of British 15th October.
in by a simple analogy.
fantry from troops stationed Imagine a
marchies were re- involves game which
knocking our Southern
quired to guard them. down a number of objects such as Ninepins or Skittles, in so many turns. The player has worked out a detailed scheme for attacking these by stages. The first two or three shots. however, result in
more
were
of
The Last Throw
The attack on London and its environs was the crux of the bat-
flown and from the 6th October to the last day of that month 2786,
6077.
R
arcraft known to have been des- making the total for these 55 days troyed. Altogether between the 6th September and 5th October he had lost 883 aircraft,
PART III WILL
It is not necessary to record in APPEAR TO-MORROW
fighting
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Paid-up Capital
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Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
£3,000,000
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Thus, between the 11th Sep- tember and 5th
Octobey the enemy delivered some 32/major attacks by day. In all these, bombers were used and their escort fighters steadily increased | Hon.
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG 10. Des Voeux Road, Central,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:—
Str Shou-son Chow, Chairman in fumbers till the ratio rose to Li Koon Chun. Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq..
Wonk Yun four fighters to one bomber.
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scheme
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The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee busi- ness, and claims recovery of Britain Income Tax overpart, on terms which
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the Agencies and Branches
W. H. EVANS THOMAS,
Manager.
pause to reconsider his policy at from the 7th September until the
on the area of Greater London, Esq. this point. Can he
5th October and was a last des- pursue tus
to win
ten against Kent and the Thames victory. scheme and still win or must heperate attempt abandon it and try another? But This could no longer be achieved Estuary, six on Southampton and one on Rending. While these last for the Luftwaffe had this player. Goering, is so certain cheaply
executed and of winning that he goes on with already suffered terrible losses, attacks were well
those on London out stopping to think whether or
But it might still be possible to pressed home not the preliminary shots
have destroy London and thus win the were less determined than in the been successful,
Despite the hard fighting opening stages of the battle. Suddenly he war,
occasions the enemy Caletta realises that, with only one or two of the previous month, the fighter many turns left, he cannot possibly win defences of the R.A.F. were still jettisoned his bombs before reach-tinipling They had ing his apparent objective, as soon Honolulu on the lines of his prearranged fighting hard as ever,
contact Kobe before London as he and makes a desperate to be overcome effort to knock down the whole would be placed at Hitler's mercy. with our fighters. Throughout this Kowloon set in the last few shots. This Goering still believed in superior period the bombing attacks were a high level. may be no more than speculation. I numbers. These would win the mostly made from The facts are
him To enable their bombers to reach They had brought On the 7th trick. September. Goering switched his swift victory in Poland, Norway, their targets, the Germans sought granted on approved securities, attack away from the fighter aero-
the Low Countries, Belgium and to draw off our fighter patrols by Current Accounts opened in Local Authorised Capital dromes on to industrial and other France; they might still bring high altitude rather than by geo-Currency and Fixed Deposits received Subscribed Capital targets and began by making Lon-victory in Britain. He put forth graphical diversions. High bomb-tor one year or shorter periods in Local Paid-up Capital
all his strength in a final endea- ers, closely escorted by more and vour to knock down the ninepins lighters, tried to get through some which will be quoted on application. at any cost. The Luftwaffe deli- 6,000 to 10,000 ft. below, vered 38 major attacks by duy between the 8th September and the 5th October.
that,
don his main objective.
London Versus
Goering
Success Of British
Fighter Interception
The attacks on London on the After battering away, morning, 7th September were made in two noon and night, throughout the As Autumn came
on and the or three distinct waves at intervals September, against our inland
sky grew cloudier, the enemy be- of about twenty minutes, the fighter aerodromes, the. German gan to make Increasing use of whole attack lasting for an hour. Air Force made a tremendous fighters flying very high above the Waves were composed of forma- effort on the 7th to reach clouds. His most usual 'practice tions
of from twenty to forty London and destroy the docks. was to put a very high screen of bombers with an equal number of 350 bombers and lighters flew in these fighters above Kent from fighters in close escort, additional two waves east of Croydon up to fifteen minutes to three quarters protection being given by large the Thames Estuary, some pene of an hour before his bombers formations of other fighters flying trating nearly as far as Cambridge, appeared. His object was evid at a much higher altitude. Most They were met above the Capital,ently to draw off our fighters, ex- of the German aircraft came over itself. For the first time. at heights above 15,000 ft. in that September day 1666, when it impossible for them to engage since haust their petrol and thus make sunny skies which made the task Mr. Samuel Pepys Informed. the his bombers. Sometimes, however, of the Observer Corps very diff-King at Whitehall that the City the highflying enemy fighters ap- cult,
was on fire, Londor ers saw flames peared only a few minutes before
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