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177 ITALIAN AIRCRAFT DESTROYED BY R.A.F.
IN THREE MONTHS
LONDON, Sept. 11 (BW8)—An R. A. F. communique issued in Cairo today states: "In three months since Italy entered the war, 177 Italian aircraft have been definitely destroyed by the R. A. F., South African Air Force, Rhodes lan Squadron and French, units, co-operating with the B, A. F. and the Rhodeslan Squadron, in the area of the Middle East Command.
"A further 90 have probably been destroyed,
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no one should blind themselves.. to the fact that a heavy and large-scale attack on this island is being prepared and that it may be launched at any time."
"It may be launched on either Scotland, Ireland or on Britain, or on all three. But if this invasion is going to be tried, it cannot be recon-long delayed. The weather may break at any time and besides this it will be difficult for the enemy
"Bomber, fighter and naissance aircraft of the R. A. F: in three months have down over |2,500,000 miles,
POLICY OF JAPAN TOWARD SOVIET UNION
Change In Atmosphere May Result, Says
Suma
TOKYO, SEPT. 11 (REUTER)--THE CHANGE OF AMBASSA- DOR AND HIS STAFF MAY RESULT IN A CHANGE IN ATMOS PHERE but it does not mean a new orientation in Japan's policy toward the Soviet Union, the spokesman of the Foreign Office, Mr. Suma, told foreign correspondents at a Press conference today.
to keep this gathering of ships and men waiting indefinitely while they are being attacked by our bombers and warships.
"The next week or so will be im- Press comment is portant for us in our history. It reminds us of the time we waited for the coming of the Spanish Armada across the Channel, while Drake played his game of bowls.
"I do not think that any change in our polley toward the Soviet Union is involved, though the Interesting.".
stated Mr. Suma when asked whe- ther the selection of Lieut-Gen. Tatekawa (retired) as Ambassador
R.A.F. RAIDS ON BERLIN Continued from Page 1
in Moscow indicates a change in up with courage that makes the Japan's polley towards the Soviet eyes of" neutral" observers smart at Union as reported by the Press. times, It is no wonder the people GREATER SCALE "What is happening now, how. "Lieut.-Gen. Tatekawa as Am-are growing more insistent for a Is on a fer greater scale.bassador is a good choice," the stronger retaliation in kind against Every man and woman will, there- spokesman added. fore, prepare themselves to do
That does not mean a defeatist The spokesman said that some attitude is growing Far from it their duty however--hard it may!
more successors to the diplomatic be,"
ever
"Last month, one squadron dew 12,000 miles in a single day's raiding. "During the three months 600 tons of bombs were dropped on objectives in enemy territory." LONDON, Sept. 11 (3WS)- Catro commuñïíque states: CAIRO, Sept. 11. (Reuter)--Al-
"EGYPT: On Monday, Mėrsa though the tailans are endea-Matruh was raided by enemy vouring tu produce a spirited aireraft, causing slight damage comeback to the RAF. raids on and no casualties. Abyssinia and Libya, where they "KENYA: One of our patrols being sorely tested. their had a successful encounter with present material is definitely in- ja party of Bunda at El "Katulo ferior in construction to the Bri-in the north frontler district. tish, which are all metal and more "PALESTINE: On Monday after- suitable for desert use.
noon enemy aircraft raided Tel-fate the strength of the Royal Alr a-Viv and the adjoining area. Force in its superiority in men and Furthermore, the British Navy, Bombs
dropped. indis- shows a disconcerting determina-criminately far from any possible out-numbered. The British shores machines, even though they were tion to carry out periodical sweeps miltary objectives. In Tel-A-Vlv, were well and strongly guarded in the Eastern Mediterranean, in-a number of houses were destroyed and ready to attack the invaders. terspersed with attacks on Libys and some fires were started which The Army was and the harrying and sinking of were quickly got under control.
better equipped than it had ever been before. Italian ships.
are
TENSION IN INDO-CHINA Continued froin Page 1
The passage of, 60,000 troops to China and the sites of sero- dromes to be unspecified.
Adm. Decoux is stated to be holding out although pressure is being exerted by Vichy.
The traveller stated that it is) felt in Indo-China that the Jap anese, in asking for the passage of troops desire also to cut off the Burma-Yunnan Road,
The traveller added that
sirung forces of Chinese troops
arc along the frontier and that the Chinese-would- take- action, should even A sma!)
force of Japanese troops" be granted passage through Indo- China,
He stated there was a report that the cornered Japanese troops tried to break through, via Indo- China, but they were fired on by French troops with nearly 100 casualties.
The traveller denied the arrival
in Indo-China of American bom-
were
"Over 50 civilians were killed, including five Arab children.
Germany.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1940. -PAGE 7
HEAVY LOSS
OF LIFE Continued from Page 1
Lord Woolton Impressed By
comparatively slight, the victims East Enders
seeing their houses demolished un emerging from shelters.
BABIES FOUND ALIVE The bombed school rescue squads found two babies, one nine months and the other six months
COMMUNAL FEEDING
ORGANISED
LONDON, „Sept. 11 (Reuter). jold, alive and it is thought that The Ministry of Food has or
they may recover. When theganised communal feeding in the school was wrecked, plans had alEast End of London. People are [ready existed to transfer these re-being cared for...
fugees to the country and the Those with homes to go to are transfer would have taken place returning to them while others the next day.
are taken to districts where ac- Another hospital was hit in the commodation has been found for central district and there were
them.
some casualties. One block Way
Stocks of food were laid up
badly damaged and demolition in London some time ago by the workers are still digging in the debris.
authorities. The wisdom of this foresight is now being proved. The system is working admir- ably...
"LUMP IN THROAT" LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) Lord Woolton. the Minister of Food, visited the East End yes- terday
Mr. Churchill went on to reiter. Pasts, vacated by the recent recall these people are growing madder Roman Catholic Church in the they are perfectly marvellous. I
abroad, will be announced in a of diplomatic representatives from
week's time.
HEARSE WITH
After using the words quoted at ELECTRIC ORGAN
the beginning of this article, the Premier referred to Herr Hitler as the embodiment of evil and States hatred, who was trying to break
"SUDAN: Qulet in all sectors," Reuter reports that 150 persons, including some United citizens, were killed on Monday's up the British Isles by indis- rald in Tel-a-Viv in Palestine.
PALESTINE MOURNS TEL-A-VIV, Sept. 11 (Reuter)- Palestine is in mourning for the victimas
of the Italian bombing from Jerusalem and all parts of raid on Tel-a-Viv on Monday and the country have come expressions of deep sympathy and condolence.
-104 JEWS KILLED
CAIRO, Sept. 11. (Reuter) official agures of casualties show that 104 Jews and seven Arabs were killed.
CHINESE
criminate slaughter and destruc- tion.
DE LUXE VEHICLE IN MANILA
BUY-
Valuable music manuscripts and antique. furniture
were destroyed when the home of ■ well-known piznist was: dam- aged by incendiary "Bomba;
was burned to the ground and x A church in the central area
On his return he said: "I think every minute.
same area was partially destroyed, came away from the East End BRUNT OF ATTACK
including an altar 300 years old BERLIN, Sept. 11 (Reuter)--The Periods of half-an-hour passed
with a lump in my throat" official News Agency states that during the night when there was putting out announcements
The German radio has been the British again bombed "non-not a single detonation, writes the effect that London will suffer to military targets in North France. Reuters Air correspondent sug- just as Warsaw and Ostend did. Belgium and Germany last night gesting that the attacks were not the brunt of the attack falling on followed up in force. Belgium and Berlin
ve persons were killed and a However, searchlights were it
number injured. Bombs hit the
action and
The London reply to this "We can take it."
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All over the city there is no anti-aircraft guns fear or panie, but steadily grow- Reichstag and Brandenburger Tor spoke whenever # raider was ing anger.
Marble Arch). Two caught in their beam, enemy planes were shot down.
15-MINUTE WARNING
(Berlin's
in
some hospitals, hotels, State for 15 minutes.
News of big raids on Germany
is what the ordinary people of
IGNORE
FURTHER BOMBING on display at the buildings, business and residential
The Air Ministry and the Minis- PUPPET ORDER
(Reuter)
• Numerous fires were started in The air raid warning was sound-London are wanting to hear. Berlin and damage was caused by ed in London this morning at 11.55 La Funeraria Paz, Manila's oldest high explosive bombs, "especially a.m. B.8.T. and was in operation FRENCH COURT "What he has done has kindled funeral establishment, has
desire to create a fire in British hearts with the quired a new de luze "funeral
a better world hearse. Now long after all the results of the parlour's display room, the new
quarters."
LONDON. Sept. 11 London have been removed, conflagration he has caused in acquisition has an automatic ex-
STREETS EVACUATED tension easket table, electrically
Whole streets in the centre of try of Home Security communique the city had to be evacuated. reports the "Manila
states: The Agency alleges
LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) that the "During last night, enemy air-The Nanking regime presented an British airmen "carefully avoided craft delivered a further succes order to the second and third CONCEALED ORGAN all military objectives" and says sion of bombing attacks on Lon- branches of the Kiangsu High Another innovation is a con- the rald was made in bright moon-don. Bombs were also dropped in Court in the French Concession This is the time for everyone cealed electric orgau with a radio by flares which were drop many places in the suburbs and a few days ago, demanding al- to stand together," declared Mr. amplifier: Automatically control- Church: "and to hold firm as led, the organ plays-recordings-of- they are doing. I express my ad- carlion chimes, hymns miration for the manner in which funeral songs---- the units of the ARP. and the Fire Brigade have carried out their
"The British people will not be controlled, stopped in their effort to rebuild Bulletin. the temple of man's freedom upon foundations that can never again be easily broken.
ped.
and
Immediately upon receipt of the
surrounding districts.
legiance, it was learned from com 500 KILLED
"In London fires were caused in peten: French Concession autho BUCHAREST, Sept. 11 (Reuter warehouses and factories on the rities, by the Bhanpao. -Five-hundred people have been riverside and in the city. Some killed as a result of the British air damage was also done La Funeraria Paz boasts the raids on Berlin and the people other parts of London, but pre-Municipal Police was detailed to in many report, a squad of the French- work during the recent raids. largest mortuary in the Orient. have been short of sleep for liminary reports indicate that this the court premises, the spirit with which the citizens establishment with the aid of his made to Reuter by a reliable tra- are considerably lighter than on have ignored the order and are of London are facing the ordeal sons who are all licensed embalm-veller who has just returned. the preceding nights.
continuing their duties as usual, "A full statement will be made the paper states. in due course.
"All the world is today admiring Petronila del Rosario Br, runs the weeks, according to a statement is less severe and that casualties SHORTHAND
SYSTEM
INVENTOR GETS. PATENT
bers and added that 95 per cent It was learned that Mr. George of the people in the country were 8. C. Chao, of the recording office pro-de Gaulle but they were un-of the legal department of the
able to act on their own owing to Shanghai Municipal Connell, has
the situation with Japan.
• SITUATION UNALTERED
TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-
taken out patent with the
題
Changking Government for Chao's
Chinese shorthand system, reports
The situation in French Indo-the North Chine Daily News.
China remains unaltered since.
"
THREE YEARS'
Munday with the Japanese au- Mr. Chao took three years to thorities in Indo-China still nego-evolve his Chinese shorthand
they are being subjected to...
ers. Fermin Petronilo dėl Rosario
Associate "We are fighting not only for J..
director: and ourselves and not only for our own Mariano del Rosario, assistant time, but for long and better days director. P. L. Guzman is manager that are to come,” concluded Mr. and Florentina Torres, associate Churchill.
director.
It
26-Year-Old Attractive English Brunette Now In Kweiyang After A Hazardous Journey
tiating with the local French ausystem which is now in use in the thorities for an arrangement," recording office of the Council's
CHUNGKING, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-After a hazardous said Mr. Suma, the Foreign Office legal department and which has journey by road and river, during which she was robbed spokesman, today.
been halled as the first Chinese by bandits and stopped by Japanese-organised Chinese.
"I can say something concern-shorthand system. Today ing that some time later he con- are half a tinued, adding that he was not in
a position to say anything for the time being.
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extant,
the
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The traveller added that the.. officials whom he met "In one of the larger Wilhelmstrasse Ministries who were formerly extremely cocksure and arro gant, but they now appear in- xious and uncertain. ·
Another traveller from Brussels stated that German officers there seemed extremely depressed.
The Court authorities, it is said,
London were, frequently shaken by the detonations.
"Bombs were also dropped. dur-1, ing the night in South Wales, the Bristol Channel area and in West and East England. Only slight the auxillary and regular fremen Again heroes of the night were damage and a very small number who wrested heroically with the of casualties were reported from outbreaks of fire, under the con- these areas. Our Aghters" shot down another enemy bomber yes-
stant threat of bombs being drop SMOKE FROM REICHSTAG
terday, making two for the day"ped, to guide the raiders by
spreading the flames: STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11 (Reuter)
LESS EXTENSIVE -smoke could still be seen early
It is reported that a flaming Although German planes were "breadbasket" fell in one London this morning from the Reichstag. over the London area more or less district and the burning oll ran says the AFTONBLADET'S Berlin continuously during the night, along the gutter. correspondent, dealing with the faids appear to have been gen- London shelters continue RAF. raid and adds that the raid erally less extensive and damag-stand up to the raids Well. Only was believed to be the most des-ing than the previous nights, a treator was felt in one street tructive Berlin had so far expert-writes Reuter's Air correspondent shelter when a bomb fell ten. enced.
The bombs were mostly of heavy yards away and killed a man out Hermann, Goering Stasse was calibre and buildings in central side. one of the number of streets where
last night's raid on Berlin, accord- ing to the Berlin correspondent of the TIDNIGEN,
FRAUD AT NIGHT CLUB IN MANILA
there troops, MISS JOAN STANNIFORTH, a 26-year old Eng-fres were 'started as the result of·· dozen other systems ish-woman arrived at Kweiyang from Hongkong to be
come secretary to Dr. Robert Lim, head of the Chinese Elimination of position writing Red Cross. He mentioned that official in- is one of the main features of formation failed to confirm the Chao's shorthand system and also Despite a slight limp, Miss said, using good English, "Please Press report of a clash on the
discarding of the lineal Stanniforth, an attractive excuse all this, but I must, do it."
They border of French Indo-China be system. Certain English
short- brunette, undertook the
were eventually released with bribes. tween French and Chinese troops, band systems were incorporated
strenuous trek overland SOME MODIFICATIONS jby Mr. Chao to perfect his own
When using small canals and through fighting areas. streams they could journey in the SHANGHAI, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-system. His task was
eligy
She left Hongkong on June 6 daytime, but larger waterways Chinese reports received in Kun- one, owing to the complicity of
after working three years as secre- were mined and patrolled by Jap- ming state that Adm Decoux has Chinese characters. accepted the Japanese demands Mr. Chao is a
tary to Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, wife of anese mosquito-boats, necessita- fixture at the
the Director of Medical Services. ting night travel with some modifications, says the recording office, having served
Travelling with a small party of Leaving the with the Counell as a court re-foreigners she went Arst to Macao. village on the West River delta, sampan at "the Tawanpao.
corder for eight years. He is de- In the group were Mr. G. Feck the group walked 60 miles to the voting his leisure hours to the Young, a young American writer, West River where they were- con-
Police in Mantis were-looking- latudy of law.
whose book entitled "China's Wall" veyed by junks, towed by steam for Wong Foo, 35-year-old Can- recently appeared in bookstalls, launches, up-river to Lluchow in tonese cashier at Tom's Oriental two Red Cross doctors travelling Kwangai.
Grill, who, reportedly left on Sept. with Spanish passports, returning Then a bus Journey was follow: 4' with P2,368 of the firm's cash, LONDON... Bept. 11. (BW8)- Chinese reports reaching London American Baptist Missionary, go-
from vacation in Hongkong at the ed to Kwelyang
reporta tha Manila Bulletin... Miss Starniforth is a native of from Hongkong that 12.000 Japing to Wuchow, and six Chinese Surrey, England, and a graduate scheduled to sall either last night Ships along the waterfront, anese troops have entered French missionary girls whose knowledge of the University of London. Adm. Decoux is said to have re- Indo-China are regarded with of English was limited to hymns. Jected the Japanese demand for reserve in authoritative circles
These demands include:
Permission for 12,000 Jap- anese troops to land in Indo- China:
Use of Indo-China railways for military transportation;
Permission for the Japanese troops to camp within 20 kilos on either side of the railways, the paper says
China, however.
The party travelled in a small
POLICE LOOKING FOR CANTONESE CASHIER
#
or today were searched for the missing cashler as⠀ reports were the use of serodromes. In indo-pereotiations have undoubtedly sampan, to a village on the West BOMBS DROPPED IN folved that he was intending to
Negotiations have undoubtedly River delto. The boat was stop- KENT AND SUSSEX METAL BOX
leave the Islands, but to no avail. A company of foreign military broken down between the local ped six times by bandits during advisers to the Chinese Govern-French Indo-China authorities the first night out. The robbers LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-It
Peter The loss was discovered several ment has left Kunming by air and the Japanese authorities on demanded sums with General Yang Chieh, ex- the spot and this was followed $15 to $500 under threat of detain times during the afternoon a few]
varying from is, officially stated that at various hours after Wong Foo left Tom's.
The money was contained in “ Chinese Ambassador in Moscow by violation of territory by bodies ing all the passengers for ransom enemy planes, making use of cland metal box to which Wong Foo, the and now attached to Military of Japanese at Dingodog. ALL VALUABLES Affairs Commission, and Director] A tactful French officer per In addition they robbed the don area,
cover, penetrated Into the Lon-night office cashier, and Pedro Paguibitan, office cashier on the of military preparations along the suaded the first body to retire group of all valuables that were They were apparently on recon- day shift, had the keys. Running Yunnan border, states another The second body was disarmed and not hidden. That night cost the naissance and no bombs are ra- short of cash, Pagalbitan went to message from the same paper sent back over the frontier, travellers $1,500 The following ported to have been dropped, in open the box but remembered
Strict vigilance is being kept by There is no knowledge here of night, the party was held up by this area.
his key was borrowed the night the Chinese authorities along the further violations, and no rellable Japanese-trained Chinese troops Bombs, however, were seen before by the Cantonese "^ who Yunnan-Indo-China border against information regarding the pro- for six hours. The leader of the dropped at a few points in Kent claimed to have lost key. the infiltration of spies, it is greas of the Vichy-Tokyo negotia- troops waved a pistol in the faces and Bussex, and a small number of Pagulbitan had to saw the box
Honk
of the travellers belligerently and fersons were injured,
He found it empty.
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