1941-06-09 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.

VICIOUS ALEXANDRIA BLITZ

Another Savage German All-Night Air Raid

SUICIDALLY BRITISH

LOW NAZI BOMBING

The men of the Barrage B. lloons who have done great work In defence against attack from the air, carry out their jobs in all kinds of weather and to keep them in the peak of condł. tion, P.T. instructors put them through, their paces.... Here is a fine close-up study of Instruction with the dummy-bayonet- part of the training of these men, (Copyright, Fox).

P.W.D. MEN-STILL ON STRIKE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} tacked non-strikers and damaged Shanghai P.W.D. cootles are a P.W.D. truck, Several agita- still on strike against the dis- tors were arrested.

missal of a foreman whose Meanwhile Atters of the immediate reinstatement is Shanghai Waterworks are still demanded.

! on strike.—International News Pickets armed with stones at- Service.

THINKS:

7 O'CLOCK AND

ANOTHER

BEASTLY

DAY

AHEAD

AT THE DOCTOR'S

"YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT |STARVATION.YOU SEE,WHILE

YOU SLEEP YOUR HEART, LUNGST AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY, IN' | YOUR CASE ALSO THIS HAS LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE

PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD

RECENT TESTS

I HAVE PROVED.

THAT HORLICKS

AT BEDTIME IS

WHAT YOU NEED,

FLEET AT SEA

WHILE THE BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH® THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT- FORCES. ENTERED SYRIA, THE GERMANS" | CARRIERS ARK ROYAL AND LAUNCHED A SECOND SAVAGE AIR ATTACK FURIOUS, THE BATTLE-CRUI ON ALEXANDRIA, SUBJECTING THE CITY TO YET ANOTHER VICIOUS ALL-NIGHT BLITZ.

BER: RENOWN, AND THE CRUISER SHEFFIELD, WITH FLOTILLAS OF TORPEDO-

BOATS - AND SUBMARINES,

MEDITERRANEAN AT DAWN

This is according to a dispatch

day.

Nazi squadrons, swooping to almost LEFT GIBRALTAR FOR THE suicidally low altitudes, showered high explo-YESTERDAY. sive and incendiary bombs wide and far, causing death and destruction at several from La Linea to Vichy yester- points in the city. Considerable damage was done in the European and Arab. residential quarters alike and it is feared that hundreds were killed and injured.

Fires were started but were promptly controlled.

The main attack developed in the port area where a number of 'planes zoomed through a verit- able hell of fire put up by British and Greek warships.

Amidst the inferno of screaming and exploding shells the enemy seemed determined to press home! the attack but failed to hit a warship or any military objective.

Linea that 10 merchantships com- ing from the Mediterranean an- chored at Gibraltar yesterday morning. Reuter.

It was also reported from La

HEAVY DEATH ROLL IN "ALEX"

RAID

The roaring of A.A. guns died (By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the

away towards dawn when Alexandria's heaviest and most sustained raid came to an end. From Malta, too, comes ab official account of A raid by

day night when 'planes attacking

British Mediterranean Fleet)

THE NAZI BLITZING of Alexandria now

+

several enemy aircraft on Satur- appears to be starting in earnest with fre- the island singly dropped bombs quent reconnaissance flights from which`onë which, however, caused slight aircraft was shot down yesterday afternoon-- In fact there was neither Service and a large scale bombing extending even to-

civilian damage and no casualties.

damage nor casualties.

One Italian light · bomber was another so badly damaged that it shot down by R.A.F. fighters and

probably did not reach its base.

Yesterday morning, enemy air-

craft approached the coast but

-

raid did not materialise. Reu- ter.

ASSISTANT LOSES HIS GRIP...

suburbs.

Although no official figures are avail- able, enquiries at various hospitals indicate that very many were killed while the injured were very numerous.

YET ONLY JUST BACK FROM LEAVE!

NOTICE THE.. TURNOVER FROM JACKSON'S DEPT.₤

} IS DROPPING OFF CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY?

AND SO EVERY NIGHT HORLICKS

HE DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE TOO FIT THESE DAYS ALTHOUGH HE IS ONLY. BACK- FROM LEAVE FIVE MONTHS. I'LL TACKLE

HIM

TWO MONTHS LATER

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU JACKSON?} IS THE RESPONSI- BILITY TOO MUCH

·FOR YOU?.

YOUNG JACKSONS A DIFFERENT MAN THESE DAYS. HES GETITING": ON WELL WITH THE DEALERS AND I'VE DECIDED TO SEND HIM

"TO IPOH AST

BRANCH MANAGER,

EXCELLEN I'M GLAD TO GHEAR IT

A3JAHAM

IT'S NOT THAT SIR-THE CLIMATE MUST BEʼ GETTING ME DOWN. I SEEM TO LACK ALL ENERGY ~{ EVEN~ WAKE TIRED -

THINK I'LL SEE A DOCTOR

DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USEHORLICKS

IN HOSPITAL TESTS

RECENTLY testa were made in a-great-

~'hospital'on men' and women who- com- plained of always feeling tired,:

It, was found that these people haḍ'an excess of acid waste, products in their blood during almen

This achi waste kept the brain and nerves "Sorc-edge" "alk night even thêugh the rest

the body was sound salotja-

But when Horlicks was people last thing at night, thim, waste was completely neutralinoði refreshed; with incremind enérgi

to” the

#ORUCKSE

DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED **

Take HORLICKS

THEN SLEEP SC MAKE RE "AND. HAVI ENERGY, ALL

The city to-day presents a re- markable sight with miles of long caravans of evacuating Egyptian families who commandeered every! available: vehicle; piling them high with their bedding, scant furni- ture and ancient horned grumo- phones, while the less fortunate slowly plod. along the roads lead- ing from the city with bedding and¬

their other bundles perched on heads and carrying children. At the same time they drive a few miserable goats ahead of them."

Whole families of from eight to 10 people crowded into taxis which were almost unobtainable in the town for any other pur pose.

Bomb Havoc

The railway station through- out the day has been an indes- cribable spectacle being crowded with iiterally thousands of Arabs boarding special and ordinary trains on which it was Impossible to make normal, re- servations.

Owing to the structure of the native houses, which are mostly mud, the bombs caused great havoc especially as the poorer quarter is extremely congested...

Despite this exodus there are no signs of panic or disorder, only. resentment at the German lessness.-Reuter.

FIGHTER SUPPORT

IN SYRIA

SFIGHTER SUPPORT FORUSHE ALLIED TROORS IN SYRIAN IS · REVEALEDDING AN BPECIAL-

| RAF MIDDLE® SÁST\&COMPLE

MUNIQUE LAST NIGHT

It says R.A.F. aircraft: support to the British;

and Allied troops, into Syria at dawn <! Fighter aire

the sky