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GENERAL

WINSTON CHURCHILL REVIEWS WAR NAZI RAIDER CRÀSHES IN

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS "Unquenchable Conviction Of Our Final Victory"

LONDON, Aug. 21 (Reuter)-Continuing his review of the war 'situation in the House of Commons, yesterday, the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, said:" There is another aspect. Many of the most valuable foods are essential to the manufac- ture of vital War materials. Fats are used to make explosives and potatoes to make alcohol for motor spirit. Plastic materials now so largely used in the construction of aircraft are made from milk.

"If the Germans used these commodities to help them bomb our women, and children rather than feed the population who produced them, we may, be sure that any imported food would Eo the same way directly or indirectly, or be employed to relleve the enemy of the responsibilities that he has so wantonly as- sumed,

"Let Hitler bear his responsibi- *Meanwhile, we have not only lities to the full and let the peo- fortified our hearts but our is ple of Europe, who groań beneath land. We have rearmed and re- This yoke, ald in the coming of the bullt our ürmies in a degree which day when that yoke will be broken, would have been deemed imposal- "Meanwhile we can quite well arble a few months ago. We have range in advance for a speedy en-ferrted across the Atlantic, thanks try of food into any part of an to bar friends over there, an 'im-

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

PLANS IN U.S. NEW-YORK, August 21 (Reuter) The Washington, correspondent

EIRE BATHERS STRAFED

LONDON," August 21 (Router). -Wave after WAYO of machines approached the south east coast yesterday and for two hours there was the noise of terrifle battles in the sky, the result of which is at present not known.

At one point a formation of 20

bombers were forced to change

JAPANESE REQUEST

TO GERMANY

of the Wall Street Journal states that it is reliably reported that course by the terrific barrage of the British Government has decided anti-aircraft shells. A second | tá implement plans for the conformation was also driven away TOKYO. August 21 (Reuter)-It struction of a chain of aircraft and escorting fighters, after an is understood that the Government factories in the United States. successfully attacking a balloon is requesting, the German Govern- These factories are designed to barrage, were, chased out to sea ment for safe passage for four Ja- produce 13,000 planes a month it by British. fighters.

panese liners in evacuating Japan- the latter part of 1941,

Dive bombers attacked a south-ese subjects from England. The report added that the Brief at aerodrome, but they Three liners are already en route tish Purchasing Commission se áre believed to have caused only to Lisbon, and if possible to Liver- cently obtained from the Ameri-slight damage before being driven pool to assist in the evacuation can Defence Commission the cost away.

while a fourth arrived in Liverpool of such a plan.

yesterday to embark 40 Japanese.

THIRD GIFT OF several injured when

SQUADRON

Lord Beaverbrook

LONE RAIDER LONDON, August 21 (Reuter) — A few people were killed and

£1 south. west town was bombed last night.

At another south-west town al plane swooped down on a beach and machine-gunned the men who were bathing there,, Climbing higher the machine fired a burst at the Home Guards, who

enslaved area when this part has mense mass of mutiltions of all Thanks Hyderabad on duty on the top of the cli

peace." (Cheers).

་

ARMY, OF 2.000.000 The output of our own f1c- corles. working

as they

have

and

LONDON, August 21 (Reater)

at "B

the which

on

were

NAVAL BASE

BOMBED

4

Air Force Raid 30 Nazi Aerodromes

been wholly cleared of German kinds. cannons, rifles, machine-,

LONDON, August-21-(Reuter)- The machine "then" disappeared An Air forces and has regained its free- guns, cartridges and shells, all

Ministry communique into the clouds with # Spitare states: "Yesterday our dom (Cheers).

bombers The gratitude of the people of safely landed without the loss of shall do our best to en- a gun or a round (Cheers). "We

Britain for a gift of £100,000 for managed to escape among the sances over Holland and the North Its tail but apparently it carried out daylight reconnais- courage the building up of re-

a third squadron of Hurricanes clouds.

Sea serves-of-food-all over the world

has been expressed by Lord-Ben-

Anti-aircraft positions near CREW INTERNED

Amsterdam and an. so that there will always be held.

verbrook, Minister of Aircraft

serodrome at out before the eyes of the peoples

DUBLIN, August 21 (Reuter) Flushing were Production. In 2

bombed. One of letter to the The of Europe. Including--I say it de-never worked before, has poured Resident of Hyderabad and

Government Information our aircraft failed to return.. liberately the German and Aus- forth. The whole British

Army Nizam Executive Council,

yesterday issued the following! "During the night 30 enemy statement:

KA trian peoples, that certain know is at home. More than 2.000.000 sponsored the fund.

German plane aerodromes in Germany and in ledge that the settling of Nazi determined men have rifles

This magnificent gift touches Fahd Mountain, near

crashed early this afternoon at enemy-occupied territory were at- power will bring to them all. im-bayonets in their hands tonight the heart of the entire British County Kerry.

Cloghane, tacked "Other aircraft bombed mediately food, freedom and ana

three-quarters of them are nation

the naval base at Kiel, an oil re in-regular-military-formations, faces the onslaught of the enemy and the crew of six, two of which tion at Zschornewitz, north of

moment when it} "The plane is a total wreck finery--ät Hanover-a-power--sta-, "Rather more than a quarter of "We have ever had arles his letter said, a year. has passed since the new like this in our island in time of

were seriously injured, have been Leipzig and a number of key This moving demonstration' or government came into power in war. The whole island bristles

interned." comradeship Inspires

points on the enemy's lines of them tc this country. What a cataract of against invaders from the sea or battle.

INCREASED CONFIDENCE communication in the Ruhr and disaster has poured out upon us from the air.

OTTAWA, Aug, 21 (Reuter) northwest Germany. since then.

SWIFT RETRIBUTION Reports of Britain's Aghter force "O tanks At Ambes near Bor- the middle of June; the stronger Where It wages most fiercely repulsing the German air attacka déaux were also successfully at our army at home the larger must there will be that Hyderabad Squad has inspired sad sharply in-tacked. Two of our aircraft were an invading expedition be and theron of Hurricanes to deal swift creased confidence here. whelmed, their beloved and res- pected sovereign driven into exile, the less difficult will be the task

larger the invading expedition and terrible death to the enemy. The offer of certain Western Another gift of £1,500 trom Hemisphere site as bases is regard- and the city of Rotterdam was the of the Navy in depicting its as the Southern Rhodesia branch of ed with great satisfaction since scene of a massacre as brutal assembly, intercepting it and des- the Britian Red Cross has been Canadians believe that it would anything in the Thirty Years War troying it on passage, and the sent to the headquarters in Lon bring Americans into closer con

"Belgium was invaded and beaten greater will be the difficulty in don. down.

Ane

tact and increase material ald Expeditionary feeding and supplying the inva- The Colonial Force, which King Léopold called

Secretary has from America. to his rescue, was cut

ders, if ever landed, in the teeth gratefully acknowledged a of and of a almost captured, escaping as it attack or their communications

continuous naval and air gift of £7.500 from the Uganda

War Fund Committee; seemed only by a miracle and the loss of all its equipment.

BRUTAL MASSACRETM

"The trustful Dutch were over

Our

"Our ally, France, is out, Italy

"As I explained to the House In

POTENT AID

"As in Ne'son's day, the first is against us. All France is in the line of defence is

the enemy's power of the enemy, and all its ports.. Air reconnaissance and arsenals and vast masses of mill-photography have brought to old tary equipment converted or are principles a new and potent aid. convertible to the enemy's use.

"A puppet government is set up at Vichy which may, at any mo ment may default, and become our foe. The whole western seaboard of Europe from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier is in German hands. All ports and all airfields 100 this immense front are "em- ployed against us as potential springboards of invasion

CONVICTION OF VICTORY

"Our Navy is far stronger than at the beginning of the war (Cheers). The great flow of naval construction set on foot at the outbreak of war has come in. We hope that our friends across the oceans will send us timely reinforce ments to bridge the gap be tween the peace flotillas of 1939 and the war flotillas of 1941, **

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second

made by the enemy than any he has so far put forth. Hos- tile airfields are still being developed in France and the Low Countries, and the 'move -ment of squadron and mäte- rials for attacking us are still proceeding.

ITALIAN DROME

BOMBED

CAIRO Au 21 (Reuter)-A communique Issued yesterday states that during the night of August 18-18, our bombers, attack- ed Derna.

A salvo of bombs was seen to fall near the harbour jetty and shipping.

"It is quite plain that Hitler Bombs were dropped on a camp could not admit defeat in his air and a petroleum dump at Bir el attack on Britain without sus-Gobbt. Un Libya),

(el of

taining a most serious injury. If At el Gobbi a satellite aero after all these boastings, blood drome WAS also attacked curdling threats and lurid ac-Gobbl 13 the aerodrome counts, trumpeted round the Tobruk). world, of the frightful damage "Merchant tonnage under the he has inflicted, of the vast num.

"Moreover, German airpower, British flag, after a year of ubers of our air force he has shot chines and also the most pravi- numerically so far out stripping limited. U-bout war and after down-so he says-with ours, has been brought so close to eight months of Intensive mining loss to himself, after tales of parts and materials. At the same so little dent and speedy use of all spare our island that what we used to attack, is larger than when we panic-stricken dread has come to pass and hos began, (Cheers) We have in in their holes, cursing the bureau- ing. Increase m the output and British, creached time the splendid nas. astound- tile bombers not only reach our addition under our control at cratic government which led them repair of British aircraft and en- shores in a few minutes and from least 4,000,000 tons of shipping to auch a many directions, but can be es- from captive countries which have his whole onslaught were forced has achieved by his genius lor plight Laughter)-1f gines, which Lord Beaverbrook corted by their fighters.

taken refuge here or in the har- tamely to peter out, the Fuehrer's organisation "If we were confronted at bours of the Empire.

and a drive which reputation forveracity of state- looks like magic (Cheers), has the beginning of May with

ment might be seriously Inpugned given us overflowing reserves or such

& prospect. it would

(Loud Laughter). have seemed incredible

type of aircraft and an ever-mounting stream in produc- tion in hoth quantity and dua- litv.

at the end of a period

FOOD STOCKS "Our stocks of food of all kinds that are far more abundant than in

of the days of peace and there is a

that there

PREDICTION TRUE

be sure, therefore,

whereas in

overy

INCREASING AIR STRENGTH :· "The enemy of course is far

horror and disaster or at this point larger growing programme of food that he will continue, as long as

"We may in the period of disaster, we production on foot. I do not say no has the strength to do so, ana should stand erect, sure of our this to boast. The dangers that as long as any preoccupation he selves (cheers), masters of our fate face us are still enormous but to may have in respect of the Rus-more numerous than we are, but and with the conviction of anal

jare our advantages and resources. sian air force will allow victory burning unquenchable in "I recount them to the people do -80.

him to our new production already, I am our hearts (loud cheers),

advised, exceeds his largely, and Few could believe that we could to know

because the people have the right! "On the other hand, the condi-American production is only just survive, none would have believed grounds for confidence. We feel have so far been favourable to us. I are from my dally returns. are solid tions on the course of the fight beginning to flow in. It is a fact. that we should today not only feel and we have good reason to feel I told the" House two months ago stronger but should actually be ourselves capable, as I said on a that

that our bomber and fighter stronger than we have ever been very dark mood two months 180ghter aircraft were wont to in-

France are larger than they have strength now, after all this light- before. (Cheers),

[of continuing the war, if neces-flict a loss of two or three to one

ever been (Cheers. EMPIRE UNDISMAYED sary alone and if necessary for upon the Germans and in the "We hope and believe that we "Let us see what happened on years. the other side of the scales. The New I say it also because the kind of No Man's Land, about struggle, indefinitely and as long fighting at Dunkirk, which was aj shall be able to continue the air British nation and the British En fact that Britain stands invinci- three or tour to one, we expected as the enemy pleases, and the pire Anding themselves alone, stood ble and that Nazidom is still that in an attack on this island longer it continues the more rapi undismayed against the disaster. being resisted will kindle again awe would achieve a larger ratio, will be our approach, first to No one flinched or wavered; hay spark of hope in the breasts of rhat bas certainly come wards parity, then towards su-

who formerly thought of hundreds of millions downtrodden (Cheers).

riority in the air on which, in a peace now only think of war or, despairing men and

It must also be remembered large measure, the decision, of the (Cheers. Our people are united throughout Europe and and resolved as they have never yond its bounds. and from this pilots which were shot down over

far be that all enemy machines and war depends."

The Prime Minister spoke of spark there will presently come a our island or the seas which gur R.AF fighter pilots sus asked his

Bome

been before.

Women

"Death and ruln become smal cleansing and devouring farne,

things compared with the shame

It

of defeat or failure in duty. We cannot tell what lies ahead. maybe that even greater ordeals te before us. We will face what ever is coming to us. We are sure of ourselves and "our" cause,” and, Here is the supreme': fact," which has emerged in these, month; of; trial.

AIR BATTLE The great air battle which has been in progress over this Island for the last few weeks recently attained a high tensity. It is too soon to at- tempt to assign Inits either to its scale or to its duration. We must certa'nly expect that greater efforts will be

trur

"

audierice not to forget the work

round it, are either destroyed or captured, whereas a. considerable of the bomber squadrons, which proportion of our machines, and might after night and month after. also our pilots, are safe and will month, bombed enemy objectives. soon be ready again to come inte added: "We are able to verify action again

the results of the bombing of The vaat and admirable systern military targets in Germany, not of salvage directed by the Minis-only by reports which reach us try of Aircraft Production en-through many sources, but also sures the speediest return to the by photography. fighting line of damaged m

Cont'd Page 1. Cols.

lost."

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940.

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