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PASSENGER TRAIN MACHINE-GUNNED IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND Enemy Aircraft Over South Kent

FIFTH COLUMN STEPHEN MAHER

LONDON, AUG. 28 (REUTER)-RAIDERS IN THE NORTH-EAST OF, ENGLAND MACHINE-GUNNED A PAS- SENGER TRAIN, the bullets striking the roofs of the car- riages. There were no casualties,

Many Incendiary bombs were dropped in South-East England most of which were extinguished but the flames of one, which rose hundreds of feet, were controlled within an hour.

A town in the Midlands had the longest raid hitherto. An elderly woman was killed in North-East Scotland and firemen were constantly attacked by German dive-bombers while fighting the fire at a large country house in a south- eastern area during the night. Shortly after the firemen arrived, four bombs were dropped and the firemen were removed to a safe spot.

U.S. PILOTS

OFFER SERVICES

After they resumed the task of fighting the fire the Ger- man aircraft, returned and flew overhead dropping more bombs on and around the burning, house. The firemen escapes but

had numerous

there were no casualties.

BUNGALOWS WRECKED

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 (Reu- ter)-Twelve American pilots left The residential area of another San Francisco in a special char-south-east town suffered consider. tered plane for New York to offer able damage this afternoon when their services to the British Air a bomb went through a block o Force.

flats, causing casualties.

Hitherto 60 pliots have "offered Bombs also fell among bunga- their services and recruitment are In the hands of Pangborn, the world famous" American aviator:

French Diplomatic Changes

·83 OFFICIALS TO BE RETIRED LONDON, August 28 Reuter) Important diplomatic changes "are to be announced in the French official gazette today, according to the Lyons radio.

Eighty-three officials are to be retired, including 15 Ministers, three Counsellors of Embassy, 18 Consuls General and 23 Counsel. tora.

...

struck gas mains.

A formation of

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IN P.I.: PROBE

ORDERED

APROPOS THE STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT QUEZON his press conference recently that he is keeping a vigilant eye as a result of charges made by a United States Army off- cer that educational institu- tlons are being used as an in- strument by Afth columnists, the cabinet has asked the de- partment of Public Instruction to conduct an inquiry, reports the Manila Bulletin.

Dr.

Gabriel Manalac, der-secretary of public instrac- tion, is understood to have been assigned to make the in- quiry. Private institutions will be asked by the department; it was gathered to submit a re- port of Afth column activities In their respective schools and those who may be involved "in"

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un-

BOUND OVER

AT MAGISTRACY

MAY BE TRIED BY COURT MARTIAL

Saying that the things he had stolen ware not of great value but It was the way in which he dis graced himself, Mr. G. T. Lowry, at the Central Magistracy yester-. day, bound Thomal Stephen Maher, 21, apprentice engineer, of No. 74, Johnston Road, in the sum of $200 for six months,"

of

Maher was charged with lar ceny by ballee On August 19 of a quantity of rations, to wit, four- packets of tea and one tin milk, which were to be delivered to No. 4 Coy, H. K. V. D. C. He Was also charged with, alter- natively, receiving stolen property. On Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, who represented Maher, pleading-guilty to the Arst charge, the alternative charge of receiving was with drawn by Det.-Sgt. Cullinan, who

SHANGHAI prosecuted.

DEFENCE SITUATION

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ADJUTANT IN COURT

Capt. EH, Thursby, Adjutant of HK, V. D. C., was present in Court.

Sgt. Cullinan said that defen- dant was employed by the «Bong- TOKYO, Aug. 28 (Reuter) The kong Electric Company and, in Shanghal defence situation is his spare time, was a member of highly-a-local-one and therefore the A. S. C. Coy, of the Volunteer

while ✡

at a

arrangements

It was Maher's job to deliver Press rations to the various units. On

August 19 No. 4 Coy was stationed i

in

lows, many of which were wreck.it will be tackled locally." declared Corps, ed. Water mains were also hit Mr. Takichiro Suina, the Foreign

Office and fres caused

spokesman. when bombs.

conference today.

"Policing German

at Cape Collinson When the bombers with a large number of Shanghat are remaining the same ration forry arrived Captain R. K. nghters approached the south-east for the present." he continued. Valentine Instructed Corp. Lo to coast this morning.

local solution will be take delivery. sought regarding the question of On the day in question the re-allotment of defence sectors of rations were laid out for check- the International Settlement." ing. Corp Lo saw a parcel in a basket and found in it Your packets of tea and a tin of milk. He did not take much notice of these as tea had already been made in camp.

There was a heavy burst of AA fire on the enemy" crossing the coast and shells were seen bursting among the formation as it went inland, Later the sound of heavy explosions were fieard. Two nir- men were seen to bale out, one drifting out to sea and the other came down Inland

.. A PHENOMENON

Churchillian Speech Of

Mr. J.

Cudahy

RAF fighters intercepted the bombers. After seven planes had

LONDON, August 28 (Reuter)--- crossed the coast at a tremendous In an almost Churchillian speech height, batches of whitish trans-Mr. J. Cudahy, former U.S. Am- parent haze appeared in the:bassador

to Belgium, said Ст

wake, drifting across the blue sky Monday that whether we like at right angles to the direction of it or not, we must make sacritices! the wind. It is stated that this and prepare to annihilate our phenomenon had never appeared selves, but we The Secretary for Foreign

must play our Affairs told the Press that these before when British fighters" went

part changes were inspired by the new up to intercept them and, after a

He added his voice to the de- sharp clash, spirit of France.

one Messerschmitt

mand for strengthening of the

Among those affected were good turned to the sea rapidly losing vs. Army and Navy and express-

servants of the state and he ̈ap- pealed to them to accept the sacr-

a spirit necesitated by the present.

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« circumstances

height."

fore escaping, «

ed his confidence that the United Two other Messerschmitts were States would meet the challenge fices and asked them to accept in destroyed by a balloon barrage be- despite the existence of 63 pact- fist organisations whose prayers It is authoritatively stated that a force of enemy aircraft came are insufficient to meet the case.

"An adequate defence is the over south Kent this morning, and

Ece fox permanent peace." said....

JAPAN RECALLS DIPLOMATISTS

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shortly after another large force only remedy and the only guaran-

crossed the north coast of Kent. They were engaged by our fight- ers, the engagement Tanged from middle Kent to the Thames es- tuary. Enemy forces were split up and driven back and, the Ger-

Twenty-four. German bombers town LONDON, August 28 (Reuter)-raided a south-east coast

afternoon and dropped a Reuter's diplomatic correspondent this writes that the recall of 40 Japan-number of bombs. damaging nine we diplomatists to Tokyo, has been public houses, several restaurants. variously interpreted in both the a-number-of-shops and private foreign and Japanes, prGER,

houses, but only one casualty was The following statement by the reported, namely, a man with an! Japanese Ambassador in Londen, injured arm.

Many Interpretations

To Tokyo Decision mans sustained losses.

| Mr Mamoru" Shigemitsu, may be

he

ALLEGIANCE TO

ALLIED CAUSE LONDON August 28 (Reuter)

at Fort

the

After taking his tea, which was apparently very weak. Corp. Lo suddenly thought of the tea and milk he had seen. He went back found that the tea and milk had to look at the basket again but

gone.

to

He made a report to C. S. M. Baskett, Defendant was asked open his haversack by C. S. M. Baskett and the packets of tea and milk were found in it. It was theń 7.30 p.m. Defendant said that he intended to return the things to the compradore.

Msher had made a report that the rallons were correct.

DEFENDANT ARRESTED

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Tokyo; Aug. 28 (Reuter)—Mr. Toshio Shiratori and Mr. Yoshie Saito, former South Manchurian

IN NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE Railway executive, have been sp-

pointed Counsellors to the Foreign

Singapore is providing refugé to, a petite, youthful married Office today, say woman, British by birth, but a Belgian-national-since her mar-quarters here. riage, who arrived in Singapore after a series of horrifying ex-

periences which resulted in her escape from German-occupied France, says a Malaya Tribune reporter.

semi-official

She must remain nameless be- and furs--but it meant nothing pore. I had two light cotton cause of her fear of any statement, to me. I lost all regard for things frocks, one set of underwear-the

make she may

rebounding on like that in face of the suffering one I was wearing, and

a few friends still living in Belgium and all round me.

toilet articles with me—everything France.

else went out the window of the train, and that was all I had when I arrived here."

On August 20 the Police, visited "Singapore is so peaceful and Volunteer headquarters and took untouched by the war" she told defendant into custody,

me. "It gave me a shock when I Mr. Botelho, pleading in mitl-arrived to find everyone apparent- gation, said defendant Was emly so unconcerned. I still cannot ployed as a tester by the Hong get used to the atmosphere"and" kong Electric Company where his feel that if people only knew what

father was also employed. The is going on as I do they would manager of the company, Mr. v. make twice and three times the Sorby, had written a letter that

the company would still take de tendant back into their employ if he was not sent to prison. A Proclamation issued Chad Lamy on August 26 by

Mr. Botelho submitted that it Governor and the Military Com- was more "in the nature of a schoolboy's offerice than anything ander declared that the French

else Mr Botelho said he under African colony of Chad will con tinue to support the Allied cause. stood that there may be a

martial. adding that the restoration of French greatness and indepen dence requires that

overseas

regarded. however, as authoria BELGIAN CONGO France continue to fight beside

tive comment on this striking de-

cision of the Japanese Foreign Minister.

Mr. Shigemitsu said: "I think

GIFT

BY-ELECTION

court

“One woman refused to part with her bag and when the railway officials opened it they found inside the body of her two-year-old. child who had died on the pitiful...journey from Belgium. That was the most horrifying sight I have ever witnessed.

In spite of her experiences this plucky young woman is anxious to return to England to-do-war-work:- she applied to go there when she mada up her mind to leave France but was told that it would be best "On arriving at Toulon I caught for her to come to Singapore to

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effort that they are making now the last Japanese boat for Sings- join her mother

to help win the war.?

"My self-appointed duty here will be to try and make people realise just what horrors are being perpetrated in Europe."

This refugee from war-striken Europe was living in the South of France when war broke out. She was anxious to join the French women's air organisation and had Just taken her licenses when the news of France's imminent down- LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuter)-Mr. fall was released. Britain,

John Henry Wootton Davies, who All her efforts to be. accepted General De Gaulle, broadcast is a Liverpool businessman, was for service were rejected so she ing from London, declared the returned unopposed as Conserva- finally decided to leave the coun- It can be said that the recall of Ambulance Unit And decision of the people of Chad tive Member of Parliament for the try and come to Singapore to join

territory was a signal for the Heywood and Redcliffe Division of her mother, who lives here. these heads of missions in no Also Maintenance rising of the whole French people. Lancashire

MARSEILLES SCENE," way implies a change in Japanese"

"I have reason to believe that

The vacancy was caused by the foreign policy, as recently laid LONDON, August 28 (Reuter)~ | down both by Prince Konore and The Officer Commanding the East their example will be followed death in action of Captain R. W she found the station so crowded

he said. the Foreign Minister.

African forces has received an "It might also be as well to add offer of a complete ambulance unit that my mission here in London for the use of the base hospital to bring about true Anglo-Japan- from the Governor-General ‚ese uncerstanding has the "full | Belgian Congo. All expenses, salar- approval and support of my Gov-les and medicines for the ambu ernment, who are. as I am. most lance will be met by Belgian Congo. anxious to see relations between our two countries firmly secured on a solid basis."

BRITISH SUB.

LOST

THE WEATHER

of

The maximum temperature yes- terday was 85 and minimum 78.

The Royal Observatory report states:-

Forritt.

Eventful Flight Of Short Flying-Boat

NAZI SEAPLANES.

BOMBED, SUNK LONDON, August 28 (Reuter) —

Two sank and another was set on fire and the other five were severely damaged and may be re- garded as unserviceable.

The flying-boat next attacked five German supply ships in juromsoe, Bound, raking their decks

with machine-guna.

FUEL DUMPS ATTACKED

When she arrived at Marsellies |

with refugees that it was impos- sible to enter it.""They had dropped from sheer weariness and were sleeping with their heads pillowed on pitiful bundles of clothes and household goods," she told me when I saw her.

"They came in cars that were, riddled with bullet holes,:. spattered with mud and par-¡ tially wrecked by bursting shells."

"There must have been at least ave thousand refugees packed to gether like sardines on the plat

Way

A weak anti-cyclone covers Ja Details of a recent exploit by a Next three fuel dumps were form at Marseilles, pan and the Pacific to the east-Short Sunderland flying-boat off spotted. The plane dived down "When we finally boarded the LONDON, Aug. 28 (Reuterward, and a trough of low pres- Tromsoe, Norway, were released and the front gunner got in train after an interminable wait Another British submarine with a sure extends from Indo-Chine to

on Monday.

several sustained Burats into and started for Toulon It was record of -resource and daring is the Mariana Islands.

The crew saw 'eight Heinkel 116them.

packed with people. Half reported missing.

The typhoon is centred about

They The firing boat then resumed, through the journey the guards An

Admiralty communique 250 miles ESE" of the Balintang seaplanes in the water.

dropped three heavy bombs from its patrol. The distance covered came," seized all the luggage and Issued last night states: The sub-Channel moving WNW.

one make a on this particular flight was threw it through the windows, to marine, Spearfish (Lt. Commander The total rainfall this year is 800 feet, and saw

on more refugees. I lost J. H. Forbes) is considerably over-109.10 inches, 66.13 inches above direct hit and two others register Jonger than the flight to Rome take

near misses.

and back normal

everything-my clothes, jewellery due and must be presumed lost.

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