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ROYAL AIR FORCE BERLIN IN MIDST OF THUNDERSTORMS Direct Hit On Enemy Warship: Barge Fleets Again Target Of Raid

LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter)-Describing the attack on Ber- lin in the early hours of yesterday morning, the Air Ministry news service states that the German capital was visited by a harassing force which bombed military objectives to the north- west of the city, the Templohf Airport and power stations which had been damaged in previous raids.

CABLE

AIRCRAFT ATTACK LONDON DEFENCES PUT

UP INTENSE BARRAGE: BOMBS FALL IN CITY

LONDON, Sept 17 (Beater)--The London barrage last night was was practically more intense than in any previous night. Gunfire continuous for the first hour of the rald and plants appeared to be coming over quickly one after the other.

Quick-Aring guns were particularly lively, their double thwack and sharp echoes sending stragglers scurrying through the streets with frequent cautious glances upward."

Reports hitherto received showed, of bombs fell on the fringe of a

GOEBBELS, EVER

THE OPTIMIST MADRID, Sept. 17 (Renter) -According to a report the newspaper ABC, Dr. Joseph Goebbels is reported to have told Belgian correspondents that the British campaign will be settled in a very few weeks and that the offensive against, the Island will last only three weeks or a month!

The paper, said that. his words had no official or semi- official echo because they were uttered privately.

that the number of casualties Central London district last night. BRITISH TROOPS

on

during last night's attacks London was a little greater than On recent nights but much less than in the first" attacks on the capital.

Outside London, casualties were very few but some were fatal. It is now known that two" enemy] bombers were shot down by our others fighters during the night.

The raiders were met with anti-aircraft' fire but none of the aircraft was, hit. Thunderstorms over the city caused the engine of one bomber attacking the Temploht Airport to cut out as the crew were approaching the target

and sunk his run. the pilot ships were Continuing unloaded his bombs on the aero-severely damaged.

also made Attacks: were. drome_and_flying_at 5,000 feet! succeeded in maintaining this shipping and docks at Le Havre, height on only one engine for 45 where ships alongside quays and minutes until the second engine the quays themselves picked up.

peatedly hit. Dutch, From these extensive and suc- were cessful operations. all uur aircraft

an returned safely.

SUPPLY SHIP SUNK

were Te-

Invasion basea on the Belgian and French coast again the chief objectives Sunday night's raida

During the night the heaviest LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter) attacks were directed against the Fulier details of Air Force attacks docks at Antwerp (as on the night are given by the Air Ministry before). where great fleets of news service. barges and many ships had been accumulated during recent weeks.

The raid began at 10.30 p.m ‚G.MIT, and was kept up for nearly

three hours:

BRIGHT MOONLIGHT Favoured by bright moon- light in the early stages of the attack, the bombers despitë fierce opposition from the ground defences got through to their objectives and played havoc.

Burges were struck," set ablaze. and exploded in flashes of flame which it up the whole docks

The statement says that the German supply ship sunk at an- chor at Ijmuiden was a 5,000 ton vessel.

As regards the attack un Ger- man convoys and shipping con- centrations on the Channel coast. the statement says the first con- voy was attacked off the Dutch coast by a Budson aircraft which dived on the nearest large ship

trawler and

Kn

and sank it with bombs.

Then the Hudson pilot machine- gunned an armed thoroughly machine-gunned B-boat which WES escorting the convoy."

"Door hopping" as a method of gradual progress through the streets became very neces sary in order to escape the remnants of shells falling in the streets. Some casualties were reported.

Many families bombed out of their homes are not living in the capital-they are merely shifting around. The latest proposal is LITTLE ACTIVITY

that they should find accommoda- There has been little enemy action in empty housed in the city. tivity during the day, About B a.m. Unoccupied houses and properties a force of enemy aircraft crossed there are already ear-marked' for the coast of Kent in cloudy con this purpose. ditions but was turned back by A.A. fre without encountering our

ghters.

Some families are staying with friends or relatives while their houses are being repaired or time- them dealt

Later in the day enemy aircraft bombs threatening singly or in small numbers crossed with. the coast at several points, A few bombs were dropped on various parts of the country but damage is reported to be slight and the num- ber of casualties small.

BOMBS DROPPED LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter)~~ Bombs were dropped in the Lon- don area during the last of four warnings which were sounded in the city yesterday.

"CUT TO RAGS AND TATTERS”

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DISAPPOINTED

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Damage was done to houses and a number of commercial buildings. Once again a hospital was struck but there were no casualties.

In the Home .countles, bombs were dropped mostly in rural areas and did no damage.

Towns-in-the-Midlands and the north-west were also attacked and some damage was done and there was a number of casualties.

SLIGHT DAMAGE.

To South Wales, bombs were dropped in a few country districts and one town had slight damage. In the north-east, bombs were dropped in several districts just before dark, but the general dam- age in the area was small

On the whole, casualties do not appear to have been heavy.

Shortly before midnight. an enemy bomber was destroyed after fouling the cable of a barrage balloon

FIGHTER PILOTS LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter)-

During the night of Sunday- The exploits of the Fighter Com- Three brief alarms followed each mand are praised by Mr. Winston Monday, four enemy bombers were other rapidly yesterday morning Churchill in the following message shot down by anti-aircraft guris while enemy planes were also re-to the Command's Air Minister making a total of six destroyed

ported in the south-east, north- east and north-west England,

Very heavy. anti-aircraft fire and machine-gunning was heard-during the fourth warn- ing and in one area a Woman By 12.30 am, one of the main

was killed, her three ehl'dren HUDSON PEPPERED wharves was a mass of flanies.

injured and a policeman burl- The second-Germal ship wax ́"Other" krówing fires could be seen

ed beneath the debris. stationary off the Dutch coast

Several formations of enemy In all parts of the docks.

Still the attack went on, the! when it was attacked by another aircraft were turned back over later aircraft straddling the duck patrolling Hudson at

dawn yes the south-east coast by RAF terday. The pilot dived. on one fighter patrols. basins, jetties and shipping.

An hour later when the last ship in semi-darkness and let go. No Incidents were reported dur. Taider left the blazing dock, the glow of fires could be seen many

miles out to see,

Ел Ostend, shipping and docks were subjected to series of intermittent raids by heavy and medium bombers over a period of four hours, during which what appeared to be a large transport vessel was struck and immediately caught fire.

INVASION RETARDED?

three bombs, one of which ating the morning alarms,

A fifth air raid warning was least struck home, for the Hudson was peppered with splinters from sounded in the London area at 8.10 the ship which is belleved to have last night. Junk

"DOOR HOPPING".

*The attacks on concentrations LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter) of German "vessels

"Sunday eclipsed all previous that night, records of the Fighter Command:

FIREMEN KILLED.

Aided by a squadron of their During the night raids on the Czech and Polish comrades, using central London district. several only a small proportion of their firemen were killed by bombs; as total strength and under cloud they were leaving to answer the conditions of some difficulty. they fire call.

cut to rags and tatters three Ward "A" of a London hospital demolished by bombs, but separate waves of murderous" "49= | was

the civil population there were no casualties. ·· saults upon

A popular shopping centre of a residential quarter also suffered.

The "all clear of the first raid was sounded at 4.25 am.

of their native land, inflicting an ascertained loss of 123 bombers and 63 fighters upon the enemy, not to say anything of probables and damaged, while they them- selves sustained only the loss of 12 plots and 25 machines. These results exceed expectations and give just and sober confidence I

at Channel Loud explosións echoed as a salvo the approaching struggle."

ports were made by waves of Blenheims. Two ships were dam- aged when the Blenheims attack- ed a Convoy off Sanratte near Calais but the main attack was

| reserved" for Le Havre where the pilots of the first wave of Blen-

LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter-helms saw four large ships moor- Intensified RAF attacks on ed alongside the deep-water quay.. German invasion bases and feed-

Ing lines are considered to have

QUAYS BOMBED Kepeated salvoes of bombs

U.S. Gasoline Embargo

Discriminatory-Japan

Protest Filed: Relations Is Still Unsettled

discrimina-

seriously retarded the completion struck squarely on the quay and of preparations for an invasion, there were fires when the Bien- writes a Press Association air corners flew away. Tespondent.

Pilots in the second wave made TOKYO, Sept. 17 (Beuter)-AJapanese protest against the Amer- Should an invasion be attempt the attack

In bright moonlight lean gasoline embargo, which alleged anti-Japanese ed, it is recognised that Britain which clearly cutlined the quays tion and unfairness, was lodged in Washington four or five weeks must expect an attack on inland beside which were dark shadows.

ago, and Mr. Sumner Welles, U, S. Under-Secretary of State, replied centres and towns on a more for-

Amid intense anti-aircraft fire. to Mr. Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, about a week: midable scale than so far made.

the Blenheims dived over the harbour and "bombed systemati cally. The bombs, burst among the ships and direct hits were seen on the pier and quays,

Damaged ships, shattered ma-

Not only has material des- traction. been wrought at the Invasion porte and elsewhere by Britain's bombers but some. confusion is caused in the

later.

ས་.

The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Suma, pointed this out at a press conference in Tokyo yesterday when he dented a press report that Mr. Horinouchi on September 13 had filed a pro- test with Mr. Sumner Welles against the American gasoline em-

necessarily complex adminissonry and store-houses were the bargo and that Mr. Welles had rejected the request.

trative arrangemente. Loading and marshalling men, the embarkation of the right men and materials in the right boats and barges have been disorganis- ed. All this, however, has not prevented altogether an

In German concentrations.

Increase

HEAVY ATTACKS LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter) The RAF last night bombed military objectives in Berlin.

Further heavy attacks were made on concentrations of supplies, barges, and shipping at

war

results of the bombing.

WAVE OF 400 MACHINES

A raider, believed to be a Junk- ers 37, was blown to pieces over a Midlands town

TERRIFIC CRASH

Just before the third warring, passengers in a stationary train heard the drone of an aeroplane. An anti-aircraft gun fred one round and the drone stopped.

Then there was a terrific crash over the hillside. accompanied by fan explosion, suggesting that the

machine had crashed.

Immediately afterwards, siren was sounded.

the

Swooping down from the clouds this morning, à lone raider drop- ped a number of bombs on a south-east coast town.

Considerable damage was "done and there were a number of casu- alties as the bombs landed in the principal shopping centre among private houses.

Invasion Of Britain Speculation

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (Renter)

Free trade and racial equality The spokesman declined to divulge the nature or contents of had been two big principles for the American reply:

which Japan had been fighting Some important questions had since the Versailles Peace Con- been discussed between Mr, ference, the spokesman declared,German troops carriers, it is re- Horinouchi and Mr. Welles in an adding. "We are still fighting for ported here, are still stealing along the French coast possibly prepara- interview on September 13, which, them."

the

spokesman revealed, had Asked by a German correspond- lory to an Invasion.

The sudden deterioration of the HURRICANES ROUT touched on almost all pending ent whether Japan's protest had

questions between the two coun iso been based on the possibility weather and the unsubdued per MESSERSCHMITTS

tries but none of the questions of American gasoline anding its formances of the RAF however, LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter) had been brought to a settlement way to Britain, the spokesman has aroused renewed speculation During the second attack on Lon-

The spokesman went even fur- expressed the "personal opinion on whether Hitler is healtant and don on Sunday at about 2 punther to say that "no big progress that many transactions between inclined to wait until the spring.

the United States and Britain, in-

CHANNEL FOG formation of Hurricanes saw 400 had been made." German machines coming from

UNFAIR TO JAPAN

cluding the sales of arms and am-

burg, Wilhelmshaven, Antwer. They were flying in groups of ground Japan's protest was bas- the legal question of infringement The English Channel was blanket- dockyards and the ports of Ham-the south-east towards the capital. Replying to a question on what munition to Britain, might involve LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter)—-

Flushing Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais nine, three by three like a sered, Mr. Suma stated the Amer of neutrality. and Boulogne,

ican action constituted dis- Other forces of R.A.F. bombers geant's stripes,

The Hurricanes, which raced to crimination against Japan, for attacked distribution centres, at the attack, also saw Messersch Hamm, Osnabruck, Soest and mitt fighters flying overhead at while permitting gasoline to be exported to countries in the West-

Krefeld, good yards at Hamburg 35,000 feet. and railway junctions at Rheine were also bombed.

A direct hit was made "on an ⚫enemy warship off Terschei- ling, while an off tanker and a supply ship in the Elbe estuary were severely damaged

Coastal Command arcraft sink an enemy supply ship.ff Umut

Suner Sees

ed with fog early this morning. There is a strong breeze and the sea is very chappy.

Hitler ORDER FOR 6,000

ROME, Sept 17 (Reuter-Senoi

AERO ENGINES NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (Reuter)

They shot down 10 Germans ern Hemisphere it was unfair to while other squadrons did the ban gasoline exports to Japan, same thing and in a short time especially sa Ameries possessed the tight German formation was ample supplies of gasoline and Suner, the Spanish Minister of the broken up and scattered all over was in a position to produce it to Interior, arrived in Berlin last-It is learned authoritatively, says battle bit night and saw Hitler this morn- the Detrol correspondent of the the sky.

any amount.

Associated Press, that the British the spokesman inge Much of the flying was in clear Furthermore, sunshine 4,000 feet above thick pointed out, the American action He was accompanied by a party Government is shortly placing an clouds, and the German planes violated free trade, which Mr. of military and economic experts order with the Packard Motor were being brought down in ones, Cordell Hull. U. S Secretary of and the German Ambassador to Company for 6,000 Rolls Royce Merlin aero engines with the op Bee Pare 1. COLOJ

|tion for 10,000 more""

Convoys off the Dutch coast twos and threes, some of them be- State, had been so zealoudly ad Spain

vocaling for so many years. were also attacked. Two supplying chased down Into the sea,

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