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EYE-WITNESS STORY · OF

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1941.

R.A.F. BOMBING ATTACKS ON COLOGNE IMPORTANT

THIS IS AN EYE-WITNESS story of the effect

of R.A.F. bombing raids on German cities. It is told by a German who lived in Cologne until four weeks ago and who has reached New York after travelling in a sealed train from Berlin to Paris and thence to Lisbon.

His story of what happened in Cologne is the story of what is happening in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Mannheim, and other cities of the Reich visited by the R.A.F.

were we

When the British raids first began

careless and βυ down the shelters in the basements of our

I didn't trouble to

| houses

(each

basement

being

Joined to the next by a door which we were obliged by law to make).] Then, months ago, the raids began to Increase and grew more terrible until, on March 10 or 12, there was a raid which lasted from about ten in the evening until three or four in the morning and caused great havoc.

Japan

Feeling

Misled

Sir Frederick Stewart,

Since then people have been Australian Minister for very depressed. We were not per-

ROOSEVELT

MESSAGE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") President Roosevelt is

preparing a special mes- sage to Congress asking that draftees, National Guardsmen and reservists be retained in the Army.

fire from The proposal drew Senator General Nye, the non- who dis- Interventionist leader. puted the President's assertion That the Army would disintegrate if the legislation were not enacted. Mr. Alf Landon, speaking at Topeka, Kansas, yesterday, charg~ ed President Roosevelt with using the pretext of the emergency for obtaining the grant of "limitless" power.

Mr. Landon declared the cam- paign to extend draftees' service

mitted to speak of the raids, but External Affairs, yester- with the Army is a "revelation.” sometimes, in shops, when there day described the recom were no secret police near, you] would hear women talking in low

volees about the damage done.

Though the soldiers are cheer. ful and believe Germany Is winning the war, the people do not know and do not believe the things they are told.

Great Fire

struction of the Japanese Cabinet as "exceptionally significant."

He said the strong representa- tion of Navy and Army interesis indicated the Cabinet would con- form closely to the requirements of the armed services.

Of Paramount Importance

Reuter quotes a White House announcement that the message Is of "such paramount impor- tance" that it is to be recorded for broadcast,

The message is expected to be sent to Congress at about midday THERE WAS NOTHING TO to-day, and Mr. Stephen Early, SUGGEST ANY CHANGE IN the President's private secretary, One night after a raid there THE MORE PERMANENT AS-stated last night that it would be heard throughout the country 35 was a great fire at the works of PECTS OF FOREIGN POLICY.

Referring to the dropping which we

of if the President was in fact broad- I. G. Farben Bayer, were able to see across the Rhine. Mr. Matsuoka, Sir Frederick said casting.-International News Ser- But the next day we heard that there was good reason to believe vice and Reuter. all the children of the officials and that the German invasion of Rus- employees of the company who sia had left the Japanese with a live at Wiesdorf Leverkusen were, feeling they had been misled by pesembled and told by their tea- their Axis partners. - Reuter. chers that there had been no fire, and they were not to say there had been a fire.

We hear little of damage done! to factories because the work-1 people know well what will hap- pen to them and their families ifi they say a word to anyone.

FAILED TO APPEAR

ITALIANS LOSE A SUBMARINE

SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

mand

Yesterday's Italian High Com- communique admitted the loss of a submarine in the Atlan- tic.

The communique claims Italian 'planes bombed Malta and Tobruk. International News Sevice.

BISHOP MOSHER

Miss Phyllis Harrop, Lady Assistant to the Secretary for Sometimes we see the damage] Chinese Affairs, conducted a raid second floor of No. 54, that happened when the West on the

on Friday

DEAD railway bridge

hit, and Jaffe Road, Wanchai, was when the suspension bridge was night and detained a 20-year-old closed for some days, and when Chinese girl who was later re- (8PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Services will be held in New a time bomb fell in front of the leased on $20 bail.

This

Rev. the morning,

for tomorrow Central railway station.

young York

Episcopal woman failed to appear at the Frank Mosher, retired

to answer a Bishop of the Philippines, who One day I tried to go on the Central Magistracy electric railway to Godesburg, charge of keeping a brothel, and died at the age of 69 in a mid- but the trains were cancelled as a result, the bait was estreated town hospitla-International News

Service. because bombs had fallen on the by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C.

Hermann Goering steelworks be-

tween Wesseling and Godesburg, and because there was so much

damage that they could not get the trains past the place.

Saboteurs At

Work

In old Cologne, the centre of the city, I myself saw ten build- ings in a row blown away by a British bomb. It was in the Rohrergusse. A whole row, from the Burgergesellschaft, to the Appellhofplatz, was down.

I saw

it by leaning over the rope and looking round a wall. I saw nine bodies brought out from premises on the Teuton-burgerstrasse, and

the

SCORCHED EARTH

LEAVES EMPTY

SHELL FOR NAZIS

THE THOROUGHNESS of the Russian

afterwards it was said officially scorched earth policy is detailed by the cor-

that there were only three killed.

. I have seen or heard of con- siderable damage, in the suburbs) of Bayenthal, Klettenberg. Sulz, newspaper “Tribuna.“ Braunsfeld. Ehrenfeld, Nippes, Smolensk suffered

respondent on the eastern front of the Zurich

Kalk, and Deutz.

We also heard that saboteurs, or an enemy spy, had partly

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some arms and textile partially damaged.

destroyed a big anti-aircraft en-

have campment in a field at Wahn, In Karelia the Russians hear! Deutz.

literally razed towns to the ground.""

Treatment OF Catholics

Cologne is a Catholic city, and there is great anger bover the treatment of Catholics, though no one speaks his thoughts. Priests can no longer walk through the streets because they are insulted by children whom the Nazi Party officials and police encourage and

otect from punishment?

Nothing remains of the celebrat ed Siemens-Martin steel works st Vaertsilae which had an annual production of 20,000 tons,"

particularly, though factories were only

in districts which easily become marshy. Reuter

ESCORT GIRL ASSAULT CASE

The case, in which. Chu Hung- The correspondent mentions bun, 25, was accused of demand- the advent of rain on the casting $2 from un escort girl' and -ern front. Anssaulting her. In a Chinese hotel For the first time since the belast Wednesday, was concluded. ginning of the offensive violent before Mr HC. Macnamara at rainstorms have occurred in Rus-Kowloon this morning, accused bee sia and if these continue, the ing-seritenced to four months' mechanised columns will have the hard labour and recommended for greatest difficulty in progressing banishment.