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1,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON BREMEN

Grim Figures On Weight Of British Raids

OVER 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS WERE: DROPPED IN THE RUHR AREA BETWEEN JUNE 16 AND JULY 10.

Further examples showing the weight of British night attacks, are the dropping of 1,000 tons of bombs on Cologne and over 500 tons on Bremen during the same period.

Photographs proving that Muenster, the German town re- cently bombed CIFE successive nights, contained military ob- jectives, have been brought back by RAF reconnaissance planes.

German propaganda described Muenster as a "Cathedral town with no industry except breweries."

Photographs showing the effect of the Brst night RA.F. rand were shown to the press in London yes- terday.

They prove that the bombing

buildings have been burnt out and an adjoining barracks very badly knocked about,

BRITISH RAID AT TOBRUK

The raid made by Bri- was entirely concentrated on thetish forces from Tobruk, nerodrome and all the aerodrome which the enemy mis- took for a major attempt to break out of the town, took place on July 12, it was disclosed in London yesterday.

Accurate And Effective

The Dortmund-Ems Canal, sur-

rounding part of the aerodrome and a big railway junction, also suffered.

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"The photographs show clear. ly to an expert that there was practically no damage

on the residential district," tald an ficial of the Ministry Economic Warfare. "On military targets the bomb- ing was pretty accurate and ef- fective. Reuter.

TRIBUTE TO MR. CHURCHILL

BRITISH

CASUALTIES

IN AIR RAIDS

It was officially an- nounced in London yesterday that British civilian air raid casualties from Janu- ary I last year to the end of June were ap- proximately 41,900

killed and 52,600 in- jured and detained in hospitals-Reuter.

LEAGUE STILL

KICKING

that

A reminder League of Nations is carrying on

the

SUPPLY CONVOY BOMBED ON WAY TO LIBYA

WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY by the R.A.F. was reported in yesterday's Middle East com- munique which says that early yesterday morning Bomber Command aircraft success- fully attacked" a convoy of“ enemy shipping off the coast of Tripolitania.

Two heavy bombs struck an 8,000-ton vessel amidships and completely destroyed it, and another was damaged in the bows by a direct hit.

Enemy aircraft which attempt-, Tuesday night, one came down in ed to drop bonibs on British mer- the Great Bitter Lake and another chant vessel on the Libyan coast | crashed south of Port Said. Ion Tuesday

by were engaged

From the above operations two R.A.F. fighters, and six Junkers ¦ of our aircraft are missing. 87's and one Messerschmitt 109 Reuter. were shot down.

still our

During the night of July 14/15 heavy bombers attacked aerodromes at is given by Eleusis and Hassani (Greece) and enemy-occupied Mr. Sean Lester, the Heraklion (Crete). Secretary-General, in the Report for 1941, issued in Geneva yesterday.

scale.

At Elousie direct hits were madoon hangars and runwaya and dispersal points, causing a number of large fires and ex- plosions.

Similar results

were reported from the other objectives.

Messina Raid

out a

DEEPLY IMPRESSED

THE ANGLO RUSSIAN AGREEMENT IS WIDELY AP- PROVED BY TRIBESMEN THE NORTH-WEST ALONG FRONTIER OF INDIA.

The raid was curried out astrido the road from Tobruk to El Gobi,

Mr. Lester states that both the about 30 miles south of Tobruk.

personnel of the League and the

Although they have no sym- The operation was the work of budget were considerably reduced a patrul of 40 men and a tank-but

pathy for Bolshevik doctrines and the International Labour hunting platoon, who

principles they realise that in this were sup- ofice, of which part bas been of ported by artillery and machine- transferred to Canada, is stift During the same night R.A.F.war anyone who kills the Nazis is

called gun fire from the

a true friend of the British. British post-working in Geneva on a reduced heavy bombers tons on the Tobruk perimeter.

The heavy German losses and highly successful attack on docks OBJECT OF THE RAID WAS

and other military objectives at reassuring news from other fronts TO

ΤΟ CAUSE CASUALTIES

Messina.

have deeply impressed tribesmen THE ENEMY AND SECURE

Several tons of high

ex and confidence in the final defent IDENTIFICATIONS.

plosives and incendiary bombs of Hitlerism and Fascism has been were dropped and groat fires further strengthened. were started at the ferry rail. Tribal chiefs received with satis- head, engine sheds, a transform-faction news of the Syrian armis- er plant bullding, warehouses.tice and are glad that the task un- and four lines of trucks were set dertaken by the British of thwart- Mr. Lester expressed the view

ablaze and the fires were visible ing Nazi designs in Syria and. that after the war responsible 65 miles distant.

through Syria, on other Muslim statesmen will have to restore the

A number of enemy aircraft countries, has been accomplished. deter-mechanism of international life flew over the Suez Canal area on -Reuter. «

A tribute to the inspir- ing leadership of the Bri- tish Premier and the fore- sight and resourcefulness of President Roosevelt, was paid by Sir Shanmu Khan Chetty, head of the Indian Purchasing Mis- sion to America, speaking at a luncheon in Madras yesterday.

The British inflicted over 50 casualties and brought back five prisoners, which gave the noces. rary Identifications cought. No tanks were encountered. British casualties were 10 men wounded and three missing.

The enemy's description of this small operation wus "&

The Secretariat of the League continues to furnish Gavern- ments with "useful Information on hygiene, nutrition, housing. coolal assistance, protection of youth, help to refugees and the fight against the abusc of drugs."

mined sortie to break out of in order to avoid a return to the Tobruk."-Reuter,

Itragedy of wars.--Reuter.

MALAYA'S WAR TAX YIELD: M-P. QUESTIONS

ESTIMATED TOTAL YIELD from war tax

He said he would do all in in the Straits Settlements and the Federated

his power to make the best use

of the opportunity to help the Malay States for the current year, respec-

war efforts in which two hemis-

pheres were united to-day with tively, is $10,000,000 and $4,000,000,

the object of destroying the

forces of evil abroad in the world. This was announced in the House of Com-

He expressed firm belief

that

ultimately virtue must, triumph

and evil be destroyed.

Referring to the Lease

and

to

Lend Act he cleared misappre

honglone that he was going

mons yesterday by Mr. G. Hall, Parliamen- táry Under-Secretary

answering a question.

lease out to America anything Mr. Hall added the yield from belonging, to, Indla.

war taxation on rubber exports He asserted he would have in 1941 was estimated to be, re- Straits Settlements nothing to lease on his part. It spectively,

was for America to lease and lend $510,000, and F.M.S., $3,000,000. and he was hoping he would... succeed in Invoking the aid that Act and in gotting, materials for India-Reuter

S'HAI STRIKE SETTLED

of

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"I

The labour, situation in Shang, hai has been. slightly eased with the settlement of the two-week Long China Electric Company dispute and the Ribbon Blue Dairy strike. Several other dead- locks are..continuing Interna- tional News. Service.

Sinca--those-estimates". were made, however, the rates of duty had been doubled in both territories.

to the Colonies,

FAR EAST AFFECTS STOCK MARKET

The London Stock Exchange. A question was asked on the ruled quietly, steady yesterday approximate number of Malayan apart from South African and residents earning incomes re- West-African gold minings, as spectively of between £576 and well as tin and rubber shares £720,720 and £3,400, and which tended higher in response over £3,400,

to a fair enquiry. Gilt-edged and Mr. Hall replied no informa-oils were about unchanged and tion at present was available, industriala were qulet, apart from Reuter

some demand for aircrafts and motors. Chinese, and Japanese bonds were easier and Hong Kong Hanlt shares tended. lower on the Japanese uncertainties, but several European loans were marked up about a point. Wall Street was quietly firm-Router.

NOTHING TO REPORT

Yesterday's Middle East com- munique said there is no change In the situation on all fronts, says Reuter from Catro,

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