1941-06-20 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1941

PRESSURE ON

EIGHTH SUCCESSIVE ENORMOUS

NIGHT RAID ON GERMANY

STRONG FORCES of British bombers on Wednesday night attacked ports in north- west Germany and the naval base at Brest, where the battleships Scharnhorst and Gnei- senau and a Hipper class cruiser are still berthed.

Despite variable and often cloudy wea- ther, the British aircraft reached their objec- tives, says the Air Ministry news service.

Heavy bombs were seen to burst across the docks at Brest, and at Bremen large fres were started.

One pilot stated: "The wea. ther was strange. The North Sea was hidden by haze

and we could only just detect the German coaɛt. It was queer to 500 A.A. shella bursting above it as If coming from nowhere.

LINK WITH

FORCES AT SOLLUM

The three-days:

at - Sollum

battle

made enormous de- mands on the fight- ing forces, says the official German- news

agency.

"The

temperature

ot noon averaged 139 degrees. The crews of tanks had to endure on

even

higher temperature."

-Reuter.

WITH POLISH

VICHY

OF

THERE ARE THE BEST REASONS FOR CONTINUING TO RECOGNISE THE VICHY REPRESENTATIVE IN OTTA- WA, SAID MR. MACKENZIE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER, ON HIS RETURN FROM THE UNITED STATES YESTERDAY.

"Despite all this obscurity there] were oceational

through KING, gaps which we could check our ap- proach to the river and docks at Bremen.

"One of our bombers was attacked four tim ca by an enemy fighter before а long burst drove it off. Tracer bul. lets were seen to enter the fighter which fell away obvious. ly in trouble.

The British bomber returned home without further interfer- ence."-Reuter.

IMPORTANT LINK RESTORED

CABINET

MEETING

Yesterday, the

first

He noted that South Africa anniversary of General

still retained its Vichy relation- ship.

summer.

Reuter.

Sikorski's memorable Mr. Mackenzie King said Pre-flight to London, a Polish sident

Roosevelt hoped to visit Canada in July or la'er in the Cabinet met in London under his presidency and the General gave his col- |leagues an outline of the present international situation, particularly with reference to the posi- tion between Germany and Soviet Russia.

RESTORATION OF THE COMMONS

re-

Replying to a Commons ques- tion relating to the future building of the debating chamber and other parts of the Palace of Westminster damaged by enemy NORMAL COMMUNICATIONS action, the Prime Minister said HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY amidst cheers: RESTORED

conceive cannot IRAQ BETWEEN

anyone AND PALESTINE VIA TRANS- would wish to make the slightest JORDAN, SAYS A DESPATCH | structural alteration in the House FROM JERUSALEM TO THE of Commons other than perhaps and brought General Sikorski INDEPENDENT FRENCH NEWS some improvement in the system for a 24-hour visit to London

AGENCY.

"[

of ventilation or some

minor Caravans of motor lorries are readjustments in accommodation in

not affecting now running from Basra via the galleries Baghdad to Palestine,

the

The Polish Prime Minister had

an interview had

with Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambas- sador to Moscow.

A year ago a British bomber aircraft was sent to Bordeaux

Next day the General conferred with Mr. Winston Churchill, other members of the British

where size, shape and character of the Cabinet and Service chiefs.

they are transporting consider- building." able quantities of goods which had been held up at the port of Basra during Raschid Ali's re- volt. Reuter.

THAILAND RATIFIES PEACE TREATY

British Wireless.

BUSINESS AS USUAL IN MALTA

These talks laid the foundation for the evacuation of the Polish armed forces from France to Bri- tain and the future collaboration of the Polish and British Gov- ernments in pursuing the war Lo a victorious end.

That night the Polish forces started

armed

Notwithstanding repeated enemy

the evacuation attacks upon Malta, the British Institute there is still functioning from the long coastal sector of satisfactorily and membership is France to Britain.

June 19. therefore, remains The Thailand Assembly yester-well maintained.

no colleges an historic date for Poland. day unanimously ratifled

The Institute has the Thailand-Indo-China Peace Con- attached to it but St. Edward's British Wireless. vention.

College and Flores College, which The

the British Premier. thanking the' are supported by House, expressed appreciation of Council, are also the Japanese mediation in the, their work as usual.

This statement was made frontier conflict, and stressed that Thailand would follow the time- the Colonial Under-Secretary honoured policy of friendship for reply to a Commons question.- all powers.-Reuter.

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GRAB THEFT

On Lai-wan. 18, spinster, and Leung Pak-cheung, 57, were hard sentenced to one month's. labour by Mr. H. C. Macnamara, at Kowloon this morning, for stealing a sewing machine head, valued at $65, from No. 218. Nathan Road on Wednesday.

another

The accused, with man, not arrested, went to the shop at 3.30 p.m. While they were being shown around by Mr. V. Gutierrez, the man picked up a machine head and ran out of the shop followed by accused,

Mr. Gutierrez chased and ar- rested the young woman and the elderly man but the other man discarded the article and escaped.

KING AND QUEEN AT MIDDLESBROUGH

"The King and Queen yesterday saw further evidence of the tre- mendous war effort which north east Britain is making when they toured shipyards and armament factories in Durham,

At a shipyard their Majesties saw several cargo ships on the stocks in various stages of com- pletion and went aboard two other ships which were only re- cently launched:"

Later in the day they visited Middlesbrough, where they ins pected a big ARP. parude. British Wireless.

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