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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.
VICIOUS ALEXANDRIA BLITZ
Another Savage German All-Night Air Raid
The men of the Barrage Balloons 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 condi- 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. coolies are a P.W.D. truck. Several agita- still on strike against the dis-tors were arrested. missal immediate demanded.
SUICIDALLY BRITISH
LOW NAZI BOMBING
WHILE THE BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH FORCES "ENTERED SYRIA, THE GERMANS LAUNCHED A SECOND SAVAGE AIR ATTACK |ON ALEXANDRIA, SUBJECTING THE CITY TO
YET ANOTHER VICIOUS ALL-NIGHT BLITZ.
FLEET AT SEA
THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT- CARRIERS ARK ROYAL AND FURIOUS, THE BATTLE-GRUI-
SER RENOWN, AND THE CRUISER SHEFFIELD, WITH FLOTILLAS OF TORPEDO- BOATS AND SUBMARINES,
MEDITERRANEAN AT DAWN
This is according to a dispatch from La Linea to Vichy yester- 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 Cat several points in the city. · Considerable damage was done in the European and Arab residential quarters alike and it is feared that hundreds ing from the Mediterranean an- 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 veril- 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 u warship or any military objective.
The roaring of A.A. guns died Away towards dawn when Alexandria's' heaviest and most ustained raid came to an end. From Malta, too, comes official account of a raid by,
It was also reported from La Linea that 10 merchantships com-
chored at Gibraltar yesterday morning. -Reuter.
HEAVY DEATH ROLL
IN "ALEX" RAID
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the
· 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 one which, however, caused slight aircraft was shot down yesterday afternoon In fact there was neither Service and a large scale bombing extending even to
suburbs.
day night when 'planes attacking |
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. fghters and Although no official figures are avail- probably did not reach its baseable, enquiries at various hospitals indicate
Yesterday morning, enemy air-
that very many were killed while the injured craft approached the coast but a are still
raid did not materialise. Reu- News
Iwere very numerous. ter.
'of ધ્ર forernan whose Meanwhile fitters of the
reinstatement is Shanghai Waterworks
strike-International
I on
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, LUNGS 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 HAVE PROVED THAT HORLICKS- AT BEDTIME IS
WHAT YOU NEED
ASSISTANT LOSES HIS GRIP...
YET ONLY JUST BACK FROM LEAVE!
INOTICE 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 RESPONSAK "BILITY TOO MUCH ¿FOR YOU 7
YOUNG JACKSON'S A DIFFERENT
·MAN THESE DAYS. HÉS GETING ON WELL WITH THE DEALERS AND IVE DECIDED TO SEND HIM :
TO IPOH AS
BRANCH MANAGER,
EXCELLENT!
I'M GLAD TO:
HEAR IT:
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED ?
'IT'S NOT THAT SIR-THE CLIMATE MUST BE - GETTING ME DOWN. | 1 BEEM TO LACK ALL. ENERGY =| EVEN WAKE TIRED -
THINK I'LL SEE A. DOCTOR
DOUTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS R HOSPITAL TESTS REC
DECENTLY testa were made in a great
Hospital on men and women who com plained of always feeling tired.
It was found that these people had an excess of acid waste products in their blood during sleep.
This acid waste kept the brain and nerves. 'oh "edge" all night even though the rest of -the-body was wound asleep.
But when. Horlicks was given to there oplo:hafything at night, this exémis "Weld mte waa completely neutralised." "Thidy, woke ind; with increased energy and vita
Take HORLICKS
N YOU WILL EEP SOUNDLY AKE REFRES
ID HAVES ENERGY
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 "gramo- phones, while the less fortunate slowly plod along the roads lead- ing from the city with bedding and their other bundies 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 taxis people crowded into which were almost unobtainable in the town for any other...pur- pose.
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Bomb Havoc
The railway station through- out the day has been an indes. cribable spectacle being crowded with literally 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 ruth. lessness-Reuter,
FIGHTER SUPPORT IN SYRIA
FIGHTER BUPPORT FOR THE ALLIED TROOPE IN SYRIALUIS PREVEALED SIN WA BURECIAL RAF. MIDDLE" EASTBOOM« MUNIQUE LAST NIGHT.
It says R.AF. alreral support to the Britis and Allled troops v
| intɑ Syria at dawn.
|_ Fighter aircraft
the Lover me
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