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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 23, 1941.

"V" LIGHTS SEEN JAPANESE NAPOSE

BY BRITISH NIGHT RAIDERS

LIGHTS IN THE SHAPE of "V's" were soen by R.A.F. pilots while over France, Hol- land and Belgium on Monday night, stated

the Air Ministry News Service in London yes

terday.

CENSORSHIP

In Washington yes- terday President Roosevelt announced that the Japanese hod imposed censorship of radio and cable com- munication, says Reu-

ter.

HEAVY

Reports to this effect by one of the Bri-RAID ON first received with a sceptical smile by their NAPLES

tish crews on their return from France was at

Large fires and explo-

interrogation officer. But other crews had also seen this and other "V's" both in Francesions

and the Low Countries.

The crews said that they were not anything like the lights of an Herodrome. One "V" was made by white lights enclosed in circles i of red lights and another by Ave yellow lights in each arın. They varied from between 12 and 50

T feet in length but a "V" in Bel gium seemed about 100 yards long and made continuous lines of light. "like

AN neon sign as the pilot said who reported it,

Describing Monday night's raids. on Germany, the Air Ministry News Service stated that a strong

SABOTAGE IN U.S.

NAVY YARDS

force of aircraft did great execu- 1 Declaring that sabo-

were caused in Naples harbour during an attack by the R.A.F. on Sunday night.

L

Yesterday's R.A.F. Middle East communique announcing this fact states that heavy bombers attack- ed Naples harbour and railway sidings in the vicinity on the night ol July 20/21,

The first bombs dropped on the

target caused large fires and these were subsequently en- larged by bombs from later air. craft.

The fires were accompanied by explosions.

night heavy

During the same

Item atting industrial buildings tage had caused a num- bombers again attacked the docks in Frankfurt-on-Main and Mann-ber of fires and "acci- and installations at heim. An important railway yard;

Benghazi, causing Ares and explosions un was the focus of the attack a dents" in naval establish- moles. Frankfurt which is one of

the ments during the last 12 All our aircraft returned safely. chiet commercial centres of Ger- j

14142N and a strategic point on months, Senator Walsh, trade routes between the chairman of the Naval

Kreat neth and the south.

Heavy Fires

The crew of one aircraft said

Committee told the House

-Reuter.

of Senate, whose galleries HEAVY NEW

were crowded, that he was that they saw an explosion which quoting confidential naval destroyed a large building. Many

The own

I

STRAIN

ON NAZIS

tires in the railway yard were reports. icported as well. Elsewhere in '

He asserted that San Francisco and especially in the

was the headquarters of the Nazis neighbourhood of the main rail- way station there were large and naval authorities

In the United States and that the well established

estimate there fires burning were 400 Nazis in the West Coast. among clouds of smoke.

At Mannheim, glimpses of the lish a rivilian

Advocating measures to estab- protective guard Fiver led the first few

The recent heavy des- of the

for naval depots, British crews to attack and

Senator Walsh said it would be disastrous if one

truction by the German there were a good

many fires

of America's burning to guide their successors. blown up through sabotage.

battleships were coastwise shipping is the Industrial areas buth at Mann- heim and in its suburb of Lud-

By 41 votes to 14, the U.S. subject of discussion from Senate later passed the measure a new angle by naval cir- wigshaven across the Rhine were for civilian guards at U.S. naval cles in London. vigorously bombed. A flash from establishments. one of the most powerful British bombs lit up an aircraft flying at well over 12,000 feet, Reuter.

Camp Caught Napping

An Air Ministry communique states: "Last night, the R.A.F. offensive against Western Ger- many centred on Frankfurt and Mannheim. Industrial targets and communications in both cities

were heavily bombed. Smaller

Reuter,

CHINESE

ON MURDER CHARGE

"I struck him with an

forces of aircraft of the Bomber axe. I don't know whe Command attacked the docks at ther he is alive or dead. Cherbourg and Ostend.

The Fighter Command, on night The earthen pillow on offensive patrol, attacked aero- which he was resting his head is in pieces. He has been very unfair to me."

Coastal

dromes in Northern France.

Early the morning, Command aircraft bombed a Ger- man military comp and other objectives on the west coast of Denmark,

German Danish

have been uttered by Chan Muk These words were alleged to

after he, it was further alleged, cavagely attacked a fellow-work-

military

const is

This morning

Increasing shortage of cargo space, it is pointed out, may well have the effect of forcing the Ger- mans to embark on a large mer- chant shipbuilding programme.

To such a programme, many industries must contribute. Skilled workers of many types are need- ed, much steel, engine and boiler construction and electrical machinery.

In a country organised as Ger- many entirely for the war effort, material to shipbuilding would Ja further diversion of labour and

undoubtedly lessen the output of possibly U-boats. [other war material-including

Thus the strategic value of the co-ordinated British pressure is well shown.

R.A.F. on

Steady hammering by the vital land transport routes and junctions, has forced the Germans to employ coastwise

From all these operations, one aircraft of the Bomber Commander with an axe on April 25 in the traffic to an ever increasing extent. is missing."

A fuller description of the at- Yazd, Shaukiwan.

Tung Yee Hing Boat Building Regarding the Battle of the At- tack

on the

lantic, while there is at the mo- camp on the

nothing of importance to at the Criminal ment

naval observer · ex- Hiven by the Air Ministry News Hensions before the Chiet Jus-report, one Service.

tico, Sir Atholl MacGregor, Chan, pressed. the situation as follows: The camp, it states, was en-resented by Mr. T. F. "Progress is not unsatisfactor and

Lo, veloped in smolce and flames after barriator-at-law, pleaded not

taking all the factors into con- it had been bombed before break-guilty to the murder of Kong fast by Beaufort aircraft of the Wong, Coastal Command,

Peach Of Target

sideration, it is not wishful think ing to regard the future with

RAID ON THE SUEZ CANAL

Mr. J. P. Murphy, Assistant saber confidence, provided every Crown Solicitor, stated that the body in the country does the ut only evidence of enmity between most in his or her power. But. of "The countryside over which accused and the deceased course we must always be pre- we wore patrolling," said a sor-

was an incident in which deceas-pared for ups and downs."--Bri- geant pilot, "seemed perfectly cd, instead of equally dividing tish Wireless.A Innocent but in growing light 1 $120 between himself, accused, Baw what scomed to be the out- and another man,......... kopt : 00. line of a building. I went down cents for himself and gave accus- low to investigate and saw. I had ed and the other man 30 cents The $1.20 was given as come across a aktifully concealed each. camp. It was a peach of a tar-cumshaw to be divided between the Suez Canal aren carly yester

An air raid was carried out on get in the rays of the rising sun, the three mont I lot go a atlale of bombsTM and It was alleged that accused day morning, the Egyptian Minis- saw them burat. Debris shot up mentioned the incident several try of Interior announces. A few alt over place. Then flames up times before the attack. On bombs were dropped, causing, no poared and spread until there was each occasion he accused deccas-casualties and only slight dam- A largo firo blazing. When weed of not treating him fairly. age. The alarm was also sounded wore several miles on the way On the night of April 25, accus-in other parts of the Nile Delta.---- homa I looked back and saw the ed, it was alleged, took an axe

Reuter fire still burning brightly."

from, the tool box and struck Other aircraft successfully deceased, who was sleeping, ment. bombed the arilway and a pler on several blows on the head. The police later found accused the Danish const, British Wire-Accusod then visited an opium hiding in a pigsty, less.

divan and made the above state- The case is continuing.