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NAZI DIVE-BOMBERS ATTACK

BALLOON BARRAGE

Raided: Many Towns

Building Strafed

LONDON. Aug. 10 (Reuter)-GERMAN AIR RAIDS on Bri- tain continued throughout Friday night and yesterday morning, bombs being dropped in many parts of the British Isles though. officially, the casualty list is small.

com-

For the first time,, Nazi dive-bombers have made a certed attack on the British balloon barrage system somewhere in south-east England; the attack is stated to have failed.

CHANNEL AIR

BATTLE

The Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security announce that on Friday night enemy aircraft made bombing attacks spread over many districts.

"In a town in north-west Eng- land bombs destroyed several

DEFEAT OF MAJOR houses, causing casualties, some of

IMPORTANCE

them fatal

WINDOWS SHATTERED

600 DEAD IN MUNITIONS WORKS

EXPLOSION

LONDON," Aug. 11 (Reuter "-Messages received in Swit

zerland yesterday from Milan „revealed that the casualties in the Italian munitions works explosion at Plicenza now total 600 killed and severely injured. The factory was completely wrecked.

Jansenville Thanked

LORD WOOLTON'S BROADCAST

(Beater)

GENERAL

AERICAN OPERATIONS:

ITALIAN FLOATING

FLOATING DOCK

HIT IN R.A.F. RAIDS

CAIRO, Aur. 10 (Reuter)-An R.A.F. Communique issued in Cairo yesterday stated that our bombers attacked shipping - in Tobruk harbouï. A ship alongside the jetty was hit by a salvo of #bombers and set on fire; the vessel was still, blaxing when the

aircraft were 20 miles away,

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In East Africs positions on the Hargeisa-Turgaran road were at- tacked by British bombers. Bombs were dropped among anti-aircraft positions and on troops in the Karrim Pass area.

SYRIA CLOSES FRONTIERS

NO

EXIT PERMITS FOR BRITONS

In attacks on Massawa "bombs", were seen to fall close to a jetty. A direct bit was.scored on a clear- ed "circle belleved to be an A.A. battery and two direct hits were registered on" buildings vicinity of the air force barracks. | Byrla has now closed her fron. tiers to British and other subjects of military are

in the

BOMBERS ATTACKED

Heavy A.A. fire was experienced and our bombers were attacked by returned Our aircraft 9ghters. undamaged.

LONDON, Aug. 11 Lord Woolton. Minister of Food, LONDON, August 10 (Reuse)-

replied personally over the air In another attack a bomb' fell Full reports of the air battle over At a number of places in the from Daventry last night when he near a Boating dock One Italian the Channel show that the Ger- south-east and at a few in the thanked the people of the little bomber was shot down; all our mans suffered a defeat of mayor north-east, south-west and Wales,

South African town of Jansen-aircraft returned but one of our importance.

the London bombs damaged houses: casual-ville for B writca

gift of £200 for the observers was wounded. Dally Telegraph.

ties in these areas were few, only

The South African Air Force parchase of food The German communique facen one being killed.

As Minister of Food, he said, disagreeable tacts with the usual Hundreds of windows of nouses the people of Jansenville could courage, reducing German losses and shops were shattered in rely on him to see that they got Insignificance and trebling south-east coast town by the blast every penny of value out of this

of four explosions,

kind contribution. The roots of

buldings were stripped. the last carrying huge quantities of debris into the rondway

to

ours...

The fullure of this muss attack,

some

confirming all earlier experience, amounts to a demonstration that German air war on convoys can not succeed.

Several people were slightly in The Times writes that the Bri-Jured by flying glass and a num- tish success in Cestroying 60 Gerber of house were rendered teri man aircraft is heartering indeed porarily "uningabitable.

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for it must be realised," there is nothing speculative, about the Air "Ministry's figures.

CAUSE FOR PRIDE

LONE RAIDER

"I am thanking you not only as Minister of Food but as an Eng- lshman," he went on. This money means more to us than the things it can buy.

VIEWS ON FREEDOM "It is a witness to the fact that' others happily far from the area of daily battle and nightly bomb- same views on

make sacrifices.

A lone raider dropped 12 nighings have the explosive bombs near a town in freedom as we have ourselves, and the south of England yesterday

to are ready morning. and also machine-

too." gunned a building where men were of, working

he success over the Channe has been matched the same day in Libya where a formation Gladiators-

obsolescent pat- tern of biplane-shot down enemy planes for the loss of of our own number.

Once again it is proved that it ..is the man that counts rather than the machine and that the country and the Empire have abundant cause to be proud of their fighting men.

Japan's Fair Bequests

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He wanted to make one thing clear.

thank

ANKARA, Aug. 10 (Reuter)—

Hitherto, despite the French capitulation, British subjects had still been able to pass through Syria in transit

Now, on orders from the Vichy Government, French consulates have been instructed to refuse visas to all combatant subjects of military age

bombed Negbell aerodrome. Two The authorities in Syria are Capronis on the ground were de-understood also to have been m stroyed, one being set on fire and structed to refuse an exit permit the other blown to pleces. Two to any sucli Britons already. In other Capronis were damaged,

·BUILDINGS DAMAGED

"

Syria

This decision means the shut- Lorries were also set on fire and ting of Syria as a link between direct hits registered on build-Turkey and, Palestine, and a ings, one being further damaged the exclusion of British subjects by an explosion after it had been from the Taurus Express between hit...

Istanbul "and Baghdad, as

A machine-gun post was des-line twice enters ar troyed by a direct hit.

Our casualties comprised one air gunner wounded. „

FANTASTIC FIGURES

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American Comment

On India

LONDON, August 11 (Reuter- Two American newspapers yester- day commented on the latest de- velopments in India.

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Some bonibs fell in open coul-

"I am sure you do not 1ry, other neat buildings where that because I accept this gift that two windows were blown. in and some we are starving here! That it

material damage was done." Some

The St. Louis Post-Despatch casualties resulted.

We are neither starving LONDON DISCOUNT not so.

says India must realise her future nor depressed." RAF. fighters chased the raider.

NAZI CLAIM · will be more secure Britain The Nazis were hoping to stárve: away.

them out by torpedoing and bomb- BERLIN, Aug. 10 (Reuter)-The wins: ctherwise there will be an Four were killed and

anampering their food ships and by at-loss by sinking or damage of archy in the country. injured in a rald on a north-west tacking their ports. It is because almost a million tons of British The Oakland (Tribune declares coastal town),

of these attacks that Britain is shipping in the last three weeks Britain must not lose India now. 406 M.P.B. ATTACK

unable to bring in many of the was claimed by the official Ger- India can't break off her rela- Several incendiary nombs were pleasant things grown in other man news agency yesterday,

tionship with Britam if the hopes dropped to another north-west countrie

statement to keep even her present degree town, causing little damage; no "But we are meeting their at-made in London says: How fan- of Independence. casualties were reported.

tacks and beating them off" hetastic is the German claim may be judged from the following facts:

The south-east coast yesterday went on.

CO-OPERATION WITH witnessed the first Nazi endeavour to destroy *1 balloon barrage

FOREIGN POWERS system

TOKYO, Aug, 1] (Reuter)—The German dive-bombers attacked international situation is compli at over 400 miles an hour but were cated and fraught with the possi} defeated by intense anti-aircraft bility of unforeseen developments, fire. declared Mr. Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, to the Takvo

press yesterday,

This situation had to be met, Mr. Matsuoka added, by" establish- ing a new political structure in

BOMBER FUND

NEW SPIRI

An authoritativé

Exact figures of British losses "Our young men in the air are grand: Some of your boys are in the first week of August are among them. They so up to fight not yet available but the Admir- for sinkings in the and wins, and the whole Empire. alty figures thrills with a new spirit because last two weeks of July amounted

to 103,000 tona.

of it

But some of them get hurt.

There are pilots in British hospi- tals, and soldiers, too, men who IN EGYPT

fought so magnificently on the sandy beaches of Dunkirk, and LONDON, August 11. (Reuter-sailors of the Navy which is keep- Japan, by strengthening the na-A message from Cairo says that ing the seas open. tional detences and by going Egyptians, as a mark of gratitude ahend with the construction for the British purchase of the an. "Asiatic aphero 0: common entire cotton crop, are contribut prosperity," in which Japan woulding to the Bomber Fund started "co-operate with as many foreign by British residents. So for near.

powers possible which shared |ly £9,000 has been donated Japan's views.

WISHFUL THINKING Declaring that the Chungking regime had reached the last stage of its resistance, Mr. Matsuoka implied that Chungking had been able to maintam resistance be cause of supplies received through Indo-China and the Burma road-us supplies which were now cut off.

Mr. Matsuoka added: "France is gradually adopting an attitude. of compliance towards Japan'a fair and just bequestă”

BRITAIN'S WAR ORDERS IN US.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (Reater) Despite Intensified German “air and sea attacks on Britain's sup pb lines Britain still has plenty of ships to transport war pur- chases from the United States declared the spokesman of the British Purchasing Commission In New York yesterday.

Over 1,000 vessels are carrying supplies from North America tu the United Kingdom he said,

The spokesman and it was estimated that British war" orders

ANALYST

"I think I will please you best by spending this gift on 'food and comforts for the men of our fight mng forces in hospital

"No one deserves it more than they do. No one would appre-

PICTURES

ROLE IF EUROPE IS RULED BY HITLER-

THE WAR IN EUROPE IS APPROACHING ITS DECISIVE STAGE Violent German attacks on Britain indicate a German determination to carry the blitzkrieg to a successful conclusion by the end of summer, writes Louis F. Kemple, United Press Analyst in the Manila Bulletin.

If Germany wins, Adolf Hitler will have all Europe under his dimination. It is hard to belleve that Italy will be 'more than a satellite. An equal division of power does not fit in with the pattern of any conqueror, no more in Hitler's case than in that... ́ of Caesar or Napoleon,

temporary custody of the Adriatic

Italy undoubtedly will be given THROWN OUT OF BALANCE

That is to say, the bounteous

and part of the western Balkang natural products of the new world

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If the German claims were truë, It would be necessary to sink early 200,000 tons of Britisn shipping in a single week. hardly necessary to emphasise the absurdity of this claim.

It is

clate it more, and that is what I think you generous peopic of Jansenville would like ime to do with your gift.

"1 thank you all for it"

“AMERICA'S

hands with Japan and taking over our Latin-American- DLF- kets. This would be an easter and more effective ・・ weapon · „than physicaj invasion.

The Pan American conference In Havana is an effort by the United States to ward of that possibility, No secret has been made of late about Germany's commercial "bor- ing from within" in Central and South America, to undermine and underbid United States' Interests and destroy that balance of trade which existed in the last normal year, 1938,

-ALL BASED ON “IP”

In that year we furnished 35.8

and the Mediterranean, including must be sold and exchanged for per cent of Latin America's total northern and north-eastern Africa, money or goods of the old world, imports and Germany famished But probably only as custodian. or trade will be thrown out of 17.1 per cent. Great Britain was

RUSSIA'S PART

Russia, according to Indications, will control the Black Sea and the Straits giving access to the Medi- terrinean, leaving helpless Turkey almost a vassal state.

France already, has been sub- in the United States, together Jected and Spain is considered with contracts taken over from within the German orbit. Portu- the French, now total between gal should prove an easy prey... 22.000 million and $2,500 mon with aircraft purchases account- Ung for half this sum

Of some 11,000 planes ordered In the United States aböhát: 2.900 have now been delivered for ship- ment to Britain, canchided the spnkerman.

Hitler thus would dominate. politically and economically, the entire old world. Trade necessities probably, would force at least a part of the new world to dent with him, to a certain extent on his

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balance and neither will prosper.

third with 12.2 per cent.

Hitler may hold a strong hand, but the biokpect is not

If Britain were "out of the one of utter loom." Europe

picture, and Hliler had control needs what the Americas hayo

of all Europe's business, it is to offer, and ultimately, it

easy to see: bow that balanco would be a base of give-and-

could be turned topsy-turvy, take. "America would have.to All of this is predicated on the bargain to its best advantage. possibility of British defeaf". If SPECIAL US: PROBLEM the British navy, air force and To the United States indivi- strong" home defensive "army can dually, a special problem arises. hold out unt winter, the whole We are almost the last strong bul- picture may change. Germany wark-17 Britain falls of demo- and her, subjugated nations in cracy against the spread of totall-Europe may orer better terms to tartan rule throughout the world. Betam and the whole world if it, Hitler, conceivably could try is a winter of hunger and exhana”, to “starve us öbt” by Jolning tion of resources.

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