1940-08-15 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BRITISH BOMBERS BLOW UP AMMUNITION DUMP "PARACHUTISTS"

17 Air Bases Raided: Gotha Works Bombed

LONDON, Aug. 14 (Beuter)-An Air Ministry communique" states that the targets attacked by R.A.F. bombers on Monday night included the Gotha Air Frame Factory and other objectives territory in in North-west Germany and enemy - controlled France and Holland. The attacks were pressed home despite

cloud and ice.

Raids were also made on 17 aerodromes and the seaplane base at Borkum. From these operations four of qur aircraft did

not return

Three Nazi Bombers Destroyed By A.A. Fire

LONDON, Bur. 14 (Reuser)-At least three of the 12 twin-engined bombers which made a dive attack over South-East England today were destroyed by A. A. fire...

A fourth is believed to have come down before reaching the sea arain.

The harbour of Helder on the Dutch

coast was bombed in cc- aircraft operation with

Fleet Air Arm.

HAVE NOT ARRIVED YET

15

Although German parachutes have been found in Britain during the last few day authoritative quarters state there is no confirma- tion of suggestions made in some

CABLE

LOCKED IN JUNK HOLD

FOR DAY

JUNK PIRACY IN BRITISH WATERS

THURSDAY. AUGUST 15

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TREMENDOUS GERMAN LOSSES IN

AERIAL BLITZKRIEG Relentless Fighting Since Dawn: Fierce Dog-fights

According to a communique issued by the Air Ministry and the After being locked in the bold

hatch Ministry of Home Security, says Reuter, no less han 57 German of their vessel under a cover for nearly 20 hours, four planes were brought down during Tuesday's raids, localities that "parachutists," using Chinese seamen made their way Further enemy attacks were made in the evening and bombs that word to mean enemies drop-back to Hongkong yesterday to were dropped on Southampton, where several fires broke out but ped as in Holland, have arrived, report a piracy two miles from these were soon extinguished. Indeed. it 13 pointed out, para-Fa Tau Mao in British waters on chutes found are not of the type Tuesday morning.

used by that kind of "parachu- tist." reports British Wireless.

PROPAGANDA

at

the

IN TURKEY

Medium bombers carried out day-light operations today over an

area extending from Jutland to LITTLE PROGRESS the Bay of Biscay.

Including the objectives attack- ed were enemy-occupied асто- dromes at Wathaven, Hingene. Caen, Cherbourg, Morlaix and the seaplane base of Brest.

They were bound for Wing Hol in a Class IV boat, No. 3782W, re- The pl- gistered in Hongkong. rates were sighted about 8 á.m. on Tuesday. They were seven in rifles and all, armed with two

་!

TRANSFER OF GOLD

three choppers, their vessel being REPRESENTATIONS

a Hakka boat.

on

Five of the pirates came board, and. after sending the crew

"BY SOVIET

4

FIRST VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

IN BRITISH

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (Reuter)~~ "The refusal of Chem 3. Metaxis, the Prime Minister of Greece, to renounce.. the British guarantee to Greece is the first vote of con- Adence in the British, which she has had for a long time," de.. clares the New York Times.

The paper added: "This unex- pected defiance "by the weakest of the Balkan States, signifies two

Very few casualties are reported, adds the communique, though there were some fatalities.

Bombs were also dropped again things: an the Isle of Wight and in the "The weight of the British sea- country districts of Berkshire and power in the Eastern Mediter Wiltshire. No casualties are re-ranean and the intention of Bri- ported from either of these areas tain to maintain her position in,

DAWN ATTACK

that area, which may turn out to LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter)The bea major battlefield of the Alr Ministry news service says that war." LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter)--Mr. air battles started soon after dawn BY GERMANS down into the hold, proceeded to

(Reuter)-remove a cargo valued at $304. R. A Butler, Foreign Under-Secre-with mass attacks on aerodromes ANKARA, Aug. 14 The Nazis appear to be making Before leaving, they slid the hatch tary, told the House of Commons and shipping,

A relentless war raged hour after" little progress with cover firmly in place and it re-that the Government were consi- singularly their propaganda in Turkey and quired the four men imprisoned dering the representations from hour.

Reports from British pilots, are there has been no sign of any in the hold the best part of a day the Soviet Government, in which thung, resulting from those "fresh and night to get out of the trap they raised objections to the pro- pouring in minute by minute tell- hibition imposed by the Ordering briefly the dramatic story of HELDER RAID

instructions." which German cir- thus formed.

to the transfer of their adventures, von Papen.

About daybreak yesterday, Hung in-Council,

TOTAL LOSSES The Air Ministry news service cles said that Herr

the German Ambassador to Tur- Ting, steersman of the junk, and gold lying in the Bank of England

LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter)-The tremendous explo-key. states that a

brought back from the other three men managed to to the account of Lithuania. Lat-

toll of enemy aircraft destroyed force open the hatch cover and via and Estonia. sion at the quayside during a bombing attack or Helder was

The Soviet point of view was over Great Britain and the Chan- The German Ambassador can sailed their vessel back to the probably an ammunition dump

being considered in the Hght of nel are 28 so far, yesterday. It was hit, as there was a series of from the suspension of the news.

have derived little encouragement Colony.

Tegal, political and financial con- is estimated that the total num-

556 since the war SPECIAL DANCE TO twenty smaller explosions while

alderations and he did not see ber is now paper, Cumhuriyes, which was the

RAISE FUNDS only newspaper in. Turkey

rived at.

Twelve aircraft did not return.

Later messages say that at least ten German aircraft were shot down in the dive attack. A the pilot circied over-head, while gunners accounted for four, and in one case a shell burst between two bombers and sent both shooting to earth,

there were still more when the aeroplane was far out at sea

A Hudson bomber got a stick of bombs across a dozen ships in the Helder harbour.

It is reported that 300 planes engaged in violent air battles An aerodrome on Texa island

which raged over the south-east was also attacked and buildings coast.

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were set afire.

Hitler.

had

in

which German propaganda, had JAPAN CABINETS why, settlement should not be ar- began, and 462 since June

the faintest success.

INFORMATION BUREAU

BRITISH SUBJECTS

18.

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Hongkong Observance Of War Anniversary

when the first mass air raid of

The third anniversary of the German planes was made, LATEST FIGURES

outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostill- IN LITHUANIA

LONDON, Aug. 14 (Hanter)~The des in Shanghai was commemora?=" CASUALTIES TO

TOKYO, Aug. 14 (Reuter)

LONDON. Aug. 14 (Reuter)-Mr. Air Ministry announced that fur-ed by the Chinese in Hongkong Referring to the new Cabinet's R. A. Butler, Foreign Under-Secre- ther reports now established that quietly yet fittingly on Tuesday. PERSONNEL

·The observance was featured by Information Board, which the tary, mentioned in the House of the total number of enemy air.

in yesterday's a fund-raising campaign in which Government yesterday decided to Commons that there were 403 Bri- craft destroyed

students. Continued from Page 1

hawkers, bootblacks, set up by expanding the presenttish subjects in Lithuania, Latvia actions is. 69. much the same lines as previous Cabinet's Information Bureau and and Estonia and plans for their

Eleven of our fighters are missing song girls, taxi-dancers and Damage to the Gotha air fuc- campaigns beginntag with the at-

amalgamating the Information repatriation in case of need, were ing, but the pilots of five are others participated. An

From early morning on, large unoflelal agency report tory was confirmed by a late ar-

tack upon Poland. If the project Bureau of the Foreign Office, the in hand. the objective whose states that Germans ralded the rival over

of the Invasion is still seriously en-Information Bureau of the War

crowds of Chinese

were this morning. crew reported that their bomba south-east coast

making all this

contributions to 15. obviously led in an increase in intensity in necessary preparation for a land-

Office, the Publicity Bureau of the

"donation CHASED TO CHANNEL

boxes" placed Navy Office, and the Censorship Fourteen

es-the one already burning. enemy bombers,

On that assumption the air

Hongkong's corted" by 20 fighters flew over the

A Dornier was shot down near the shore and a Messerschmitt 109 crashed inland

into

was explosions

CWAY.

MANY FIRES

were

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"Come On Mates, There Will Always Be An

England, Let's Swim To It"

Hits were reported registered on attack must be expected to in/Section of the Home Office, a ares, dropping bombs. Splitting the wharves at Amsterdam and crease still further in severity and Japanese Foreign Office spokes-

two formations. ̈ ̈one

In the the climax may well be close man said that the Information chased by our fighters into the docks. The blaze could be seen hand, for the season is far ad.Bureau of the Foreign Office will!

function the same as before, Channel, while the other met a when the raiders were 30 miles

pending the organisation of the heavy screen of A. A. fire.

REDOUBLE VIGILANCE "Other targets, included munition The agency added that all nine:

While the R.A.F, still bears the new Board. brought factories at Lipstadt. Herringen brunt of the conflict, winning its

Incidentally, Mr. Nobulum, Itoh, enemy aircraft were

LONDON, Aug. 14 (Rexter)-When the troopship Mohamed AH down. two falling into, the sea.

and a blast furnace at Witten, inspiring successes under a never who recently visited Europe and

America twice as Minister-at-el Kebir was torpedoed some days ago all the troops on board were Early this morning, a single where a fire broke out,

ceasing strain which only its own Fires also raider dropped small high explo-

blazed at Lastrup members can fully appreciate, it large, has been formally appoint- fallen in, ander the officers on the boat deck, within a few minutes aive bombs on a vilage in South. Borkum, Dinard aerodromnes, the behoves all other branches of na-ed Director of the Cabinet's In of the ship being struck. East England without doing any Schipol airport and several other tional defence, including the civil formation Bureau.

smaller aerodromes were also arm and hosts of war production. bombed.

to redouble their vigilance and their industry."

serious damage.

The

Heavy Blow To Hitler's Dream

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TRAWLER SUNK LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter)--It

GENERAL KOISO AND N.E.I.

They awaited the order to take to the boats and marned the boats, as if carrying out peace- time drill, it was learned in Lon- OFFICER MISSING

don yesterday, LONDON, Aug. 34 (Reuter)-

Naval ratings assisted in the Flying Officer Lord Shuttleworth |

(Reutermanning of the boats. A heavy LONDON, AVE.

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TOKYO, Aug. 14 (Reuters missing following operations on

is officially announced that His Asked whether General Koiso, swell made boat lowering difficult Atlanta (Georgia) Journal August 8.

Lord Shuttleworth succeeded to Majesty's mine-sweeping trawler, former Overseas Minister, will be and dangerous and one boat cap yesterday declared that the great-

Life-saving rafts were also est air battles of the war leave the title last year on the death of Elizabeth Angela has been sunk. sent to the Netherlands East In-sized.

while the troops "the English defences unshaken and his grandfather. His father was there was only one fatal casualty. dies as a Special Envoy, a Foreign launched and

killed in the last war,

See also Page 11, Col. 5.

Fress stood fast, joking was a powerful Office spokesman, at the the Nazis nursing deep wounds..

conference today. replied that moral factor. Detached observers regard the

prevailing indications point that

... LAST RAFT nét resu.ts, as a heavy blow to Hitler's dreain

way, but he pointed out that UI crushing the

The ship's officers have stated General Kalso had not yet, ac- British Isles by invasion.

cepted the offer and, therefore, that the loss of Mfa would have nothing definite had been de- been much higher, bad it not been for the naval ratings. When the cided.

last raft was overboard and the last boat was clear of the ship, there were still some 30 officers and men on board. Boats which they should have used had been wreck- ed by the torpedo explosion.

CHINESE AIR FORCE

Continued from Page 1 youths su 35 to make them qualify to be airmen.

R.A.F. Successes Impress Foreign Governments

LONDON, AUG. 14 (REUTER)—ACTIVITIES, BOTH IN THE OFFENEVE AND DEFENSIVE OF THE R. A. F. IN RECENT WEEKS have made a profound impression on a number of foreign Govern- ments, states the Political correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, ·

The correspondent adds: "Representatives of neutral Powers in Exploitation of national

Te London have had reliable first hand reports from Berlin of the sources should be expedited in damage done to inllitary and industrial objectives in Germany and order to facilitate plane man-German-occupied territory. facture.

These show how effective the "Each day's news tells of our Close co-operation should be effected between scientists and raids have been in penetrating the pilots triumphs over the changing tactics and readapted industrialists in the development air defences and reaching the enemy of the aviation industry.

targets. O plants have suffered machines. Cultural and educational cir-especially severely,

"Similarly, neutral cles should tighten their efforts

in

the promotion education.

OBSERVATION IN

"

COLONY

of

Continued from Page 1 minimum, Agures In view China's huge mian-power and vast territory," the paper remarked.

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Anrong those left was a naval petty officer, who, as he dived into the sea, shouted "come on mates, there will al Ways be 11 England, let's. swim to it."

The KUNG SHEUNG DAILY

They did not have to swim far. NEWS said that in building up! The start in quality is ours,

New China special emphasis British warships soon picked them diplomats and we shall not be overtaken.

"We owe that and we should should be laid on aviation. The up. of aviation have formed opinions and have

importance of Air Force, the paper reported to their Governments on remember the debt-to the men Rich citizens should make their favourable impressions of who planned and guided the ex-pointed out, has been proven in generous donations toward the the big air battles in the Channel, pansion of our Air Force in the: sinking fund for aviation deve- lopment.

- DUAL SUCCESS "The dual success of the Eri- GREAT JUBILATION

tish bombers over Germany and Chinese Air Force Day was the fighters at home have had marked with great jubilation) a reassuring efect among somme, throughout Free China yesterday. of those who took a pessimistic The National Soldiers' Relief view of the cause after the with- Association sponsored mass meet-drawal of the B. E. F. and the ings in Chungking, Chengtu, Kwel collapse of France,

lin, Kunming and Lanchow simul-. "Demonstrations of superiority *taneously..

of both British pilots and British

The Chian Branch of the International Peace Campaign presented fifteen beautifully the embroidered banners to Chinese Air Force and offered $5,000 for the purchase of a glider to be christened "Anti- Aggression."

Telegrams from various parts of the country",congratulating the Chinese Air Force on its gallant defence against enemy air raids poured into Chungking

A campaign was launched for collecting $20,000 as a "comfort fund for the Chinese Air Force.

years gone by,"

New Radio Station For Singapore

the current war in Europe.

To make the Chinese air-minia- ed the paper suggested the emula- tion of the example of Germany and the Soviet Union which pro- vide plane model, in kindergardens as toys, include glider-fiying in the curricula in middle schools and promote aviation and aero- nautical engineering among adults.

Last Batch

Of 400 H.K. Evacuees For Australia

About 400 British women and children evacuees from Hongkong

machines, coupled with the know- SINGAPORE, Aug. B-A London FOREIGN PLANES boarded a British passenger liner

ledge of the country's expanding production, have had a effect." "

tonie

100-kilowatt SEEN OVER

at Pier 3, in Manila on Aug. 10, as on this ship they will travel to Australia on the last lap of their evacuation trip from Hongkong. The ship was scheduled to leave Aug 14 (Reuter) in the evening instead of in the Some 20 foreign planes Dew over morning. A staff will come to Bingapore Switzerland last night,

dispatch to the Straits Times to- day said that * broadcasting station will be erect-

ed here capable of being heard in SWITZERLAND

Australia, the Philippines, India, China, Japan,, Dutch East Indies and Thailand,

BERNE.

The Daily Telegraph, in a leader on the mask German air raids, says, "The skill and courage and.. dashing enter prise of the British pilots have proved greater than our high-from London to organize almost Geneva and Berne, towards the and last of the evacuee ships to

est hopes. Their individual ascendancy over the German airmen is, in part, due to the confidence in the buperiority of their mechinės.

between This British ship is the sixth

of Northern leave. Manila and other evacuees continual programmes, including industrial centres news in many languages. The Italy and returning about an hour who are left will have to either remain there or go to Australia new station with serve as an im-later, aying northwards, -

their own (ex- portant link in the British world- No reports were received of any or elsewhere at wide radio network

bombs dropped in Bwiss territory. pense.

اوند

Been

the

at

four

leading Chinese department stores, name 15, the Sincere, Wing On, the Bun Companies, and the China Ein- porium and also at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Bathing' Club,

SALE OF FLOWERS The Flower Day eponsored by the Chinese Women's Soldiers Fe- Hef Association collected a size- able fund.

A special dance was held at the China Emperium Cabaret yester-

ARMED TRAWLER day to help raise funds. Altogether

AND U-BOAT

SUNK

|250 taxi-dancers of the China Em- porium, Cathay and Majestle Ca- barets turned out and contributed all the proceeds from the dance tickets they get, amounting to over LONDON, Aug. 14 (Reuter)----It | $2,000

COMMEMORATIVE MEETING is officially announced that two British destroyers made contact A commemorative' meeting was with enemy light forces early yes-held by over 1,500 people repre- terday morning.

senting over 60 public organisa

Po Hing Theatre, The enemy tried to escape be- tions at the hind smoke screens, but three of Kowloon, in the morning. the vessels were seen to be hit and other meeting was held by student armed representatives under the leader- It is thought "that one trawler and one U-boat were sunk, ship of the Hongkong Committee There was no damage or casual-for Student Relief at the Univer

sity of Hongkong in the afternoon. ties on either of our destroyers.

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