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ALEXANDER'S DISCLOSURES OF DESTROYER DAMAGE

THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, MR. A. V. ALEXANDER, SPEAKING TO THE ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY YESTERDAY, RE- VEALED THAT AFTER THE DEFECTION OF THE FRENCH FLEET AND OPERATIONS BY THE

NAVY IN CONNECTION WITH THE EVACUATION OF NORWAY, HOLLAND AND BELGIUM AND FRANCE, THERE WERE MORE THAN 70 DESTROYERS UNDERGO- ING REPAIR IN DOCKYARDS DUE TO ENE- MY DAMAGE.

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loss of merchant shipping tonnage which was not surprising.

First requirement was to place damaged ships in service again. This was done in spite of the ship- building and repairing industry which had been allowed to drop to too low a level in peace time, which meant the organisation of additional workers and the train- ing of workers, in itself a large task.

WAR ON

SHANGHAI

TERRORISTS

Nevertheless the ships came 18PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

out and though we did not bulld

to the extent we desired, it was amazing how much we had done

The murder of Mr.

to stiffen the strength of the Chikayuki Akagi, Japan-

Fleet in succeeding months.

French Defection

In addition to new

ese Deputy Commissioner in the Shanghai Settle- ment Police, is expected

destroyers to result in the shattering

and cruisers there had been added of the large terrorist gang

ELECTRIC

SHOCK FROM TELEPHONE

Using a telephone in the Argyle Street Chinese Soldiers' In- ternment Camp dur- ing the height of а thunderstorm yester- day, an Indian Con- stable (B366), Me- han Khan, received an electric shock and has been admitted to

the Kowloon Hospital. His condition this

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morning was stated to have improved.

CONDUIT

ROAD

CRASH

The Conduit Road resi-

to the Fleet tremendously impor- responsible for many kill-dence of Mr. K. Kuizumi,

tant ships known as corvettes, "which we have now in very large ings. numbers and I hope to get in in-

creasing numbers."

One of the pair of

has been handed over

Mr. Alexander added that the Japanese gendarmerie,

a member of the staff of assassins the Japanese Consulate-

to

the together General, was hastily eva- defection of the French fleet re- with three suspects arrested in cuated this morning at quired the drafting of ships en- police raids, and it is

when gaged in escort duty in the Atlan-they will give information lead-about 9.20 a.m.,

expected

tic to the Mediterranean, to take ing to the discovery and appre- several tons of rock, the the place of casualties, which made hension of the entire ring.

"tail-end" of a serious the task of other escorting ships more difficult.

Mr. Jack Liddell, Chairman

written of the 8.M.C., has

a landslide higher up the

letter of condolence to the hill, came crashing JapanqBo consul-general and ordered. Municipal flags to be through the roof. flown at half-mast, of

Attacked in his car while tak

"I will say, despite any criti- cisms, that the work was being done with such a measure success as to enable all of us not

Although the building, a two- storey house, No. Al, was badly damaged, there were no casual- Deputy ties.

to know anything of the pangs ing his sick wife to hospital, Mr. of hunger."

second.

Akagi was the Commissioner. to be 'shot recent- Higher up the hill, some hun- Dealing with the Battle of the ly. Deputy Commissioner Yao dreds of tons of earth and rock

was said it Tseng-moo

assassinated were brought down by the tor-

Atlantic, Mr.

Alexander

was quite certain that in the last several months ago-International four months improved organisation News Service,

in the north-west approaches had! resulted in a weight of attack on

submarines

which had

enemy meant that the enemy could not stop there and take it but had to

go to other areas.

Air Menace

Regarding the menace from air attack, he pointed out that in the whole of the last war, when the huge tonnage of 12 millions were sunk by enemy action, only 8,000 tons succumbed to air attack.

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To-day we had to face air at- tack on our shipping not only in our own coastal waters but in the Mediterranean' as well..

AIR TRAINING CORPS SUCCESS

rential rains of the last few days, sweeping down the sharp slope crossing the path above the and house, and pouring rocks rubble into the garden and on to the roof, Windows were smash- ed and the ground-floor living rooms were covered with earth and stones.

The damaged house is one of a, group in close proximity to the Replying to a Commons ques- Japanese Consul General's re- tion the Air Secretary said the sidence. progress of the Air Training Corps Careful watch is now being kept continues to give cause for satis-as there appears to be danger of faction.

further falls from the precipi The number of units formed is tous slopes above the houses. now 1340 with a total strength of about 190,000 cadets.

Woman Killed By Saiwanho 'Slide

Over 5,000 candidates for com- missions have been accepted for service with the Corps and some 740 units: have been affiliated to R.A.F. stations.-British less.

Wire-

...

One woman lost her life and a second sustained serious injury when a landslide occurred.

kat 13mm Salwanho shortly after to-day. The hut, in which the women were staying, was buried;

What the Royal Navy rojolc- ed to, sea was the extent to which our Ale Force, in the last few weeks, was beginning, to take toll of enemy, shipping: FOUR SHOT DOWN The side took place in the

of which we had already Bunk or captured 3,200,000 tons since wan. started.

Perfectly Grand

Gun Club Hill Crash"

Tal Ming Street district of Sal- It is now known that a fourth wanho, near the Market. The enemy aircraft was shot down over Britain on Monday night body of the dead woman has been says a British Wireless message. recovered. The injured Woman The Air Ministry and Ministry was rushed to Queen Mary of Home Security stated Inst night Hospital where her condition In a tribute to the work of the "Up to 7.30 nothing to report was described as serious: Merchant Navy, Mr. Alexander-British Wirelessi concluded: "It is perfectly grand merchant when one bears of a ship putting down a submarine or of a little ship off the north-

earths and rocks crashed from the dast coast of Scotland coming into port with the remains of two Approximately 11,700 French billside on to the rond. P.WADZ aeroplanes on its decks, or hear troops were sent to Norway at coolies started work almost im ing of the shooting down of the time of the Nazi 'invasion, it mediately and the thoroughfare great and powerful long-range was stated in the Commons yes opened for traffic before noon to-

day. Nazr; bomberBritish Wireless terday-British Wireless.

NORWAY QUESTION:

A landslide occurred in Austin Road near Gun Club Fill, at 9:25 mot night when about six tons of