1940-08-27 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

EXTENSIVE CONTINENTAL

BY THE AIR FORCE

Long-Range Gun Positions Bombed: Oil Store Afire

LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter) Coastal Command aircraft carried out spotting for British artillery, firing against enemy positions between Boulogne and Calais yesterday when German long-range gun positions were attacked by R.A.F. bombers for the third successive night. ...

Making this announcement, the Air Ministry News Ser vice states that the Daimler Benz plant at Stuttgart was one of the objectives attacked last night. A nitrogen plant was hit and a synthetic oil plant at Frankfurt was attacked.

The first bomber which at- were in progress enemy planes tacked Dinard aerodrome set again raided the town but were fire to the woods. The fury of chased off before they could drop

the flames indicated that a large petrol store in the woods

any bombs.

EARLIER LEPORT LONDON, Aug. 26

(Reuter on a small

RAIDS

BRITISH MAJOR

ON TRIAL

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CABLE

Dutch Ship Shoots Down Nazi Plane

LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter) News that a Netherlands mer-. chantman shot down an enemy' Crown-he named one or two-bomber in the North Sea was re- ought to be shot, and that all celved in London today. officers of the R. A. F. above the rank of Group Captain and most senior officers should be shot.

The bomber dropped a bomb which missed the ship and then flew low machine-gunning the

One sailor was wounded.

Wintle eventually way induced vessel. to leave quietly but,dri the subnuis- A Lewis-gun manned by a Bri- sion of the prosecution, "in an Im-tish seaman opened fire on the possible situation if ofcere, who bomber and, after many rounds of believed they had special qualifica-fire, the enemy aircraft was seen tions, adopted such methods.". to fly away with a heavy black

To the charge of assault on Armoke trailing from its end. Commodore Boyle Wintle pleaded The alroraft attempted to rise Not Guilty, as he did also to the but falled to do so and crashed charge of pretending he

was into the sea, three-quarters-of-a- suffering from a defective vision of mile from the ship. eyesight, when he knew that he was not suffering.

JOIN FRENCH ARMY

was hit. The fires spread Enemy activity was rapidly and floodlit the aero-scale yesterday but bombs are re- drome for the following Blenported to have been dropped in stated time he had consciousty helms.

̧-HEAVY EXPLOSIONS.

:

HOT RECEPTION It was alleged that Wintle had

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Municipal, industrial and res!- dical examination. because he dential properties were damaged. wanted to get out of the British All the fires were either, extin- Army and join the French Army.guished or controlled by morning The prosecution made it clear and good work was done by the

the afternoon on the Scilly Isles where one person was killed."

Bambs were dropped" on South A heavy attack was reserved for the Dalmier. Benz plant at Stutt Wales. No damage was reported gart and when the last raider der

But one person was seriously in jured.. An enemy bomber was parted after over, an hour Of methodical-bombing heavy explo-shot down by our fighters in the that the courage of the accused A.E.P. and auxiliary fire services.

sions had been caused and, the main group of buildings was blaz- Ing.

farea.

"

Later in the afternoon the enemy made an attempt in force

to cross the Dorset coast but was

"was not in question.

Objectives la towns in South driven of. No bombs are report- people in the streets heard the

ed to have been dropped and it is sound of gunare. already known that 24 enemy air- craft were destroyed in this en- gagement,..

West Germany included Frankfurt,: Lugwigshaven and Stuttgart. Many aerodromes in France, Belgium Germany and Holland were at- tacked.

Two British aircraft are missing. Military objectives in Italy: In- cluded targets at Milan and Seste Calendo.

From the Italian operations all our aircraft returned safely.

NAZI TRICKERY

LONDON, Aug. 26 (BWS)------ According to Dutch circles in London, suspicion is increas- ing in the Netherlands that the Germans are causing ex- piosions In Dutch towns to make the population belleve the RAF is carrying out wanton bombing attacks,

This statement is steadily be- ing repeated by "German, controll- ed-wireless

HUM OF PLANES

In

German

Further Information - confirms that in the rest of the country casualties were few and damage. was not serious,

CHURCH HIT.

The church in the City of Lon- don-which was hit on Saturday night's air raid "was St. Giles in

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ALLSOPP'S

Beer

BENEFICIAL TREATY

BRITISH

PILSENER BEER

CRASHED IN FLAMES Spitres engaged Traider above a south-east coast Cripplegate.

town, and within a few minutes a The statue of. Milton, outside the It is now officially revealed that Messerschmitt fames came church, was also hit.

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St. Giles which survived the Fire LONDON, Aug. 26 (BWS)-The yesterday's air battles over Eng- The pilot was picked up dead. of London, was the church in fourth anniversary of the Anglo- land while seven of our planes A minute later another raider which Oliver Cromwell was mar-Egyptian Treaty is made the oc- are missing though three pilots crashed about 13 miles aw‡Y.- rled and John Milton was buried, casion by The Times for a review are known to be safe.

Three, German Aghters were London had its fourth air raid brought down and others are be- warning in two days when sirens leved to have crashed into the walled again last night. The hum sea during an air battle over the of planes could be heard in the south-east coast yesterday after- outskirts.

noon, Later another raider crash. Searchlights swept the skies and ed in flames.

CLIMAX APPROACHING IN

less stations with much AIR WAR. R.A.F. NEVER

moral indignation on behalf of

the defenceless. populations who, IN BETTER SPIRIT

incidentally: are under her so- called protection.

Instances given by the Germans have been carefully checked: against official reports of RA.F. activities and the conclusion has been reached that the damage

"A climax is approaching in the air war," said Mr. Oliver Stewart, the well-known commentator on acrial warfare, when he broadcast from Daventry last night.

Mr. Stewart declared that this was a reasonable inter- could not possibly have been done Pretation of the events that had taken place between Aug. 8 and now, which divided the progress of the air war into three distinct phases.

by "British aircraft.

FALSE REPORTS

In some

AUTOMATIC AIR RAID "WARDEN":

of the relationship existing today between the two Governments,» a relationship which the newspaper describes as closer than at any time since the outbreak of war.

"Hesitation that seemed to 'mark Egyptian policy during the weeks immediately succeeding the entry of Italy," writes The Times, "has disappeared. The Egyptian_M/-13-.. One of the most remarkable inter for Defence recently stued struments designed to proteci Bri- Egyptian mobile troops had taken tish homes and businesses-from-up their positions beside their Bri air raid dangers is the automatic tish allies and that Egyptian forces "watchman," which not only in in the Budan would resist an stantly reports the presence of an Italian attack, Incendiary bomb "but records, the part of the premises in which it has fallen..

LIGHT-RAY DETECTOR

INSPIRIT AND LETTER

"The

TRENE

-BE-BRITISH-

BUY, BRITISH

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO. LTD.

ANNOUNCEMENT

In commemoration of Confucius Birthday, Store is closing to business to-day.

Business will be resumed nor- mally to-morrow.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

FASCINATING MEMOIRS OF LORD TWEEDSMUIR

The Chamber of Deputies passed a unanimous resolution at its secret sitting of last Wednesday to the effect that Egypt would de- This instrument, designed by a fend herself with all means at well-known British firm, is the her command. If her territories light-ray detector, and is so in-were attacked and the resolution stalled that, should an incendiary was not qualified, as All Maher

LONDON, Aug, 26 (Reutér)—“It was a war won, not Pasha's declaration of June 12 bomb penetrate the roof of a

duse, it will immediately be elec- had been, by any quibble as to by the genius of a few, but by the faithfulness of many," cases damage men- THE FIRST of these involved morale of the German air force trically recorded on an indicator whether the Italian attack right the late Lord Tweedsmuir's comment on the last. German tioned by the Germans, was caus- mass air raids which were intend- This wild bombing and machine- board and the fire-fighters can get not be provoked by British action. war, gives the key to the character as unconsciously re- ed in places so far distant from ed to lead to a landing of troops. gunning of villages and people is to work without delay. objectives bombed by the RAF. As a matter of fact, they led to evidence that some sort of change Incendiary bombs do not, ex-

new Frime Minister, vealed in his fascinating memoirs, "Memory Hold the Door" that it is impossible the British the first big German air defeat. is coming over the German. air plode, and the sound made by one Hassan Sabry Pasha, has made it published today and widely reviewed. pilots could have made a mistake, THE SECOND phase was the en-force since its first defcat..

that has cut through into an at- clear his country will full its en-

Always loved by the humble "First .of all It In other cases bombs were sald forced full which" followed, when

foretic may be completely lost in the Gagements under the Treaty in far to have struck named places on the Germans found that their pro- shadows greater

Intensi-noise of an air-raid, Hence the spirit and letter and had entirely fold of Scottish shepherds and cation. If the nights when the R.AP made no gramme was not working.

Germans adopt virtue of the light-ray detector.

satisfied the British High Com- ghillies, Oxfordshire peasants, raids at all on an occupied area. THE THIRD phase was a renew-blind and semi-blind bomb-

mand in the Middle East that Labour Members of Parlia- ...MANY APPLICATIONS On one night, for instance, the of mass attacks, which were ing, they will not have the pro-

Egypt will co-operate activity in ment, Boer farmers and Cana- more desperate blem of identifying their targets This, although the firm's latest the defence of the Nile Valley.. Germans asserted that bombs had more wild, and

dian ploneers, yet a few "had Their bombers will be able to es- use for light-ray apparatua, is "On the economic side, our pur- fallen in the residential quarter than anything before them.

"These three phases tell us more cape our fighters and evasion will only one of the many applications chase of the entire Egyptian cot- so wide an acquaintance of

which are in operation. Puttershoek and Vieuwenboorn of how the air war is going than be eater than when they were

For ton crop has rendered our ally a such a great people. There had been no R.A.F.. activity Mr. Stewart "It has only one It is the ervilians, however, who courts articles of various sizes warmly appreciates. On the poll-stand-offish, he ultimately became in that part of the Netherlands Interpretation and that is that the have greater trials thrust upon and shapes, up to 600 a minute tical side, the aims of the new the member of the most exclusive that night..

R.A.F. has been winning the war them

passing on a conveyor, stops wire Roman imperialism in Africa, are set and the intimate friend of lead- in the air, and that must be con- "Although these "wild boating. being wound on a spool when the understood and detested. Italian ing scholars.

attacks will be worse for the civi-required length has been obtained, propaganda, after causing some Lord Tweedsmuir was essentially Premises of the American Baptist indicates variations in turbidity temporary mental confusion in fastidious, but only in recolling Mission Hospital in Kwellin, capi- Hans and private property. they "On the other hand, the Ger-will do less military damage and arising in water hardness treat-restricted quarters, has proved an from whatever was offensive both tal of Kwangsi, were almost com

ment, guards sleep walkers from expensive failure and the Arab in art and life. Profoundly book-bletely destroyed by three Japan- er was seen and no warning given perate efforts in the coming days toy those things which are essen- theft It is believed that the raider was They cannot hold back and I cantal for our war effort." brought down..

of The Hague and in villages like

AMERICAN HOSPITAL HIT IN RAID

which lie in the centre of Holland, columns of communiques," said seeking specific military objectives, example, this automatic light-ray service which the Egyptian Press Going to Oxford rather poor and DAMAGE ESTIMATED

SCREAMING BOMBS LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter)--- Three screaming bombs were

sidered good.

CANNOT HOLD BACK

OVER $100,000/

SHANGHAL, Aug. 26-(Renter)--

dropped in London but no raid-mans must now make more des- the less likely they will be to des-harm and precious jewels from world, of which"Egypt is the cul-learned, he was always learning ese bombs which made direct hits

not see how they can switch their An important area in north air operations off to another thea- East England experienced an in- tensive air raid which lasted until the early hours of the morning

At times there was terrific anti- aircraft gunfire and many violent explosion's mostly on the outskirts of the town.

trc.

⚫ NEW BOMBER

Mr. Stewart referred to a state- have got to get some return for clair. Secretary for Air, in which They must feel that they ment made by Sir Archibald Sin- their huge expenditure of men and reference was made to a "new" heavy bomber which was being

machines."

Compulsory Service In Burma

tural centre, is too well acquaint- from life itself, particularly in the during an air raid over the city on August 24, states the Sinwan- ed with Italian methods of pact- South African service under I

Dao. fication in Libys to be even amus- Milner which taught him it

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ex-

were injured but no other casual- ties are reported.

ed by the Duce's claim to be like "Britain had at least as much to One patient and one workman the ex-Kaiser, protector of Islam. learn from the Dominions as they

"The defensive alliance between had to learn from Britain.”

- SPARTAN-LIFE. Great Britain and Egypt stands

"Losses through damage" to The book begins with án firm.!!

medical supplies and buildings Mr. Stewart went on to state brought into use. These bombers

·NĀZI. LIES BARED

quisite description of Spartan, are estimated at over $100,006, © that Germans were putting their will have a bigger striking power

LONDON, Aug. (Router)The family life in the parental manse Authorities of the Hospital are faith in enormous masses of men and they will be able to answer -FLARES DROPPED

German Wireless propaganda and in Scotland and abounds with making a report to the American and machines and the RAF. had whatever heavy attacks the Ger- "LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter) to stand ready on every part of mans might launch.

lies were today confounded, when penetrating descriptions of many Consulate here with the request it stated that the British authori-world famous folks, long rambles that a strong protest be lodged During last night's rald-over Lon- the British coast,

Japanese authorities, don a German bomber dropped

The Germans, said Mr. Stewart, speech from the throne that com- ties had forbidden the celebra- on the English countryside, scenes with the flares in one district which it up surely run true to form. We have preparation but since

he Germans," he said, "will may also have new machines in pulsory service will be instituted tons of the 13th anniversary of of deer-stalking and fishing, all in says the paper. a wide area for a few minutes.to expect mass attacks pouring in their faith in numbers, it was rea for all European British subject, the death of the Egyptian Nation easy and vivid. English for which

,!:

RANGOON. Aug. 28 (Reuter) The Government announced in a

they "but

in Burma,

have to sacrifice, the technical

alist lender.

SEAL

Three bombs dropped yesterday herto the Germans bad really been) "It is, however, better not to be: The magnitude of the British celebrations many hours ago and 1934 until recently when he dien ordeal of repeated Japaness air at

CHUNGKING NORMALCY" he was renowned.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 26 (Central) The late Lord Tweedsmuir

-Life in Chungking is fast re- Buchan) (formerly John Governor-General of Canada from turning to normalcy after the tacks in the last few days, CAS as the result of a fall,

* Shattered. walls and houses He was succeeded by the Earl of

have been pulled down. The Athlone who was Governor-Gener-

streets have been cleaned up.. al of South Africa from 1923 to

Shops which were bombed "afd. destroyed have put up temporary booths to carry on business,

-Large quantities of foodstuffs

In another district a plane drop- on our Air Force and they ate sonable to assume that they would

At the time the broadcast was ped parachute flares and then a bound to be more haphazard.”

made, Arabs in "British territories number of bombs.

Mr. Stewart declared that hit quality of their machines."

and Egypt had already started evening in a thickly populated trying to hit, military objectives.too optimistic" he said. "It is bet- Empire Air Training Flan is effec the Arab Press were already print, district in south-west England de-On Saturday last, however, they ter to look rather on the dark side tively Illustrated in the require ing reports of the celebrations. molished - two houses and several

Indulged in' blind destruction, than on the light. We must ex-ments of planes for each training people were trapped in the wreck-

BEST. SIGN

pect a further intensification of unit. Totalling 3,516 aeroplanes. The marriage took place Un "That may sound rather pecul- the air war and the forms the at- they are divided an follows: June 22, at St. John's Church, 1930 Ambularices and demolition | squads worked feverishly in the lar," said Mr. Stewart, "but I look tack may take may be worse than for each of 16 Flying Training Hildenborough, Kent. of Lieut darkness to extricate them and upon it as the best sign we have anything we have experienced. Schools; 27 for each of 20 elemen-William H. C. Fees, RN son of M. MICHELIN DEAD after an hour rescued two of had. It is, of course, terrible for The RAF, however, has never tary training schools; 24 for each the late Dr. and Mra. Carey Rees, CLERMONT-FERRAND, Aug. 28 have been put on the market," to them still alive. Three others, the civilian and to think of towns been in better spirit than it is to of 10 observer schools 75 for to Miss Kate Arnold Pleres, (Reuter)-The death is announc relieve the shortage. still alive, were still trapped three and villages being laid waste. But day. It is a spirit that will break each of 10 bombing and gunnery daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bed of M. Edouard Michelin, foun- All" government offices, banks hours after the raid..

the exect is to show that a deter up the coming offensive even more schools; and 48 for each of two Fiarcy, of Shanghal and Hildender of the well-known firm of and other organisations are fine- While these rescue operations loriation is beginning to set in the decisively."

air návigation schools.

borough.

French tyre-manufacturers.

tioning as usual

age.