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HEAVY EXPLOSIVES IGNITE NAZI OIL PLANT: FOLLOWING RAIDERS GUIDED TO TARGET BY INFERNO

Great Fokker Factory Badly Damaged By Explosions And Fires

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuter)—Fires followed by explosions visible from aircraft 60 miles away marked a heavy attack op an oil refinery and a storage plant at Magdeburg carried out on Sunday night by British bombers, says the Air Ministry news service

The plant, known as the Braunkohlen Nezin Company. situated 200 miles Inland from. Germany's western frontier, was subjected to a series of raids which began, shortly after 10 pm » and continued for nearly three pours

Many fires started by incendiary docks at Flushing' in the early bombs. lainated the targal and hours of yesterday morning--- guided the following a rerait directly to the objectiv

Attacking in shallow a ves and often from a low level; n raider straddled the of plant with high- explosive bombs leaving a trial of multi-coloured fires and spasmodic explosiona.

In an attack on long-range zun positions at Cap Gris Nez salvoes of high explosive bombs were seen to explode close to the

placements.

gun em.

WIDESPREAD RAIDS

Sunday night's attacks on rah Hallways at Ehrang. Mann-

Later arrivals, adding their communication centres in Ger. quela of bombs to the fires already many were spread over a wide raging saw them blaze up still area,

more fiercely and spread rapidly helm, Scest and Coblenz across the target area.

RAILWAY BOMBED

were

bombed and fites were started in

goods Junctions in Cologne. Osna-

The raiders participating in bruck and Hamm where sticks of this attack also bombed a rall-heavy calibre bombs fell along one way at the southern exit or the side of the goods yard causing two elty and started fires close to the separate fires, mainline junction.

An of plant at Hanover was at Other forces of heavy bombers tacked shortly before 11 p.m. A attacked a large conl gas plant at large fire in the target area was Stuttgart and a Bosch factory still burning 20 minutes after the which produces electrical equip last aircraft had left the outskirts ment. for the German services.

of the city.

causing

-A stick of heavy calibre bombs feit across the gasworks, ten separate explosions.

The Bosch works were bom. barded for 15 minutes. They are belleved to have been hea- vily hit as a large tire was seen blazing in the area as the "bombing ceased.

An aluminium factory: at Bitter. field and rail communication centres in Germany. were also successfully attacked during the night.

pressure

ANTWERP RAIN

invasion

Explosions which continued for some time market the attack on a factory near Hanover.

At Kamen, near Dortmund, an- other factory was set on fire..

HEAVILY BOMBED

Raiders operating over Hol- land attacked the great Fokker aircraft factory near Amster- · dam. The factory, which is commandeered by the German invaders. is situated in the dock area.

now

UNIQUE AIR

MISHAP IN® AUSTRALIA

PILOT BRINGS DOWN

TWO PLANES!

LONDON, Oct. 1 (Renter)-An amazing accident, unique in the annals of air history occurred on Sunday in Australia over one the air training fields.

Two training machines became interlocked one above the other at

a height of 1,000 feet.

The pilot and observer of the flower plane and the observër of the other machine baled out and landed safely by parachute.

The pilot of the upper machine, however, elected to remain in his plane and in -62me, miraculous fashion man- aged to land both planes still interlocked safely on the fly- ing Held.

The machines were only slightly damaged and both will be in the alr in a day or two.

NAZI PLANE ON WAY TO INDIA

To Be Exhibited. To Raise Funds

LONDON, Oct. 1Reuter)

A German plane is now on its way to India for exhibition,

It has been bought by the or- ganisers of a War Planes Fund, who paid £1,000, for the plane and will also pay freight charges.

They have promised to send all proceeds from the exhibition of the plane to buy more aircraft for the E.AF.

GENERAL

King George tries out a Bren gun during a Sunday tour of a small arms factory. Twice he poured a stream of bullets into

a target more than 200 yards away.

R.A.F. SHOT DOWN OVER 1,000 ENEMY AIRCRAFT IN WHAT WAS REGARDED

AS CRITICAL MONTH

LONDON, Oct. 1 (British Wireless) - During Sep'ember, which ended yesterday and which had been regarded by hizb officials as a crilical month, the R. A. F. have destroyed over 1,000 German aircraft with the loss of only 286 of their own fighters.

BRITISH PILOT INTERNED

The past month's fighting has farther demonstrated the inability of enemy bombers even with huge escorts to overcome the defence of the R. A. F. planes in daylight raids and is re- garded by experts as establishing ineffectiveness of night bomb- ing owing to the fact that many raiding pilots lose their way An examination of the list oft places upon which bombs were dropped in the raids of the past The sum of £5,000 has been few nights, suggests that at least received from the Mysore War half of

were dropped by Relief Fund for the purchase of pilots who were completely Department of Defence announced DUBLIN, Oct. 1 (Reuter)-The- planes and a further £1000 for aware of the localities over which that a British plane made a forced the relle of air raid victims in they were flying places remote London,

landing near Enniscorthy. from any objective which the The United Provinces war fund Germans could claim as having

Sunday, has sent nearly £160,000 to pro-any military or semi-military vide two squadrons of Spitrires.

character

them

"In these cases," says the Daily

was obviously not the question of

Correspondent Asked Telegraph Air correspondent, it

Amster-try.

Either the

UNUSUAL DISPAPITIES

A power station near Antwerp

I was heavily bombed and fires:

To Leave Rumania missing a legitimate target by was bombed while other night and explosions were seen to break raiding forces, maintaining their out among factory buildings and BUCHAREST, Oct. 1 (Reuter)- half a mile or so through inaccu-

bombplacing. in docks lying to the south; on possible

Ciaire Hollingsworth, correspon-rate bases, attacked shipping concen- Particularly heavy damage was dent of the London Daily Express, enemy had mistaken the route. trations and harbour works at done in the harbour area of Am-was visited by the Rumanian Fo-assigned to him or knowing that Ostend, Flushing and Calais.

*terdam during an R.A.F. raid lice and asked to leave the egun

be had lost his way, was humbing Aerodromes at Gifhorn. Dessau, early yesterday, says an

promiscuously." Evere. Aschersleben and Schipol dam despatch to the official Ger- The British Legation has lodged were also subjected to night at man news agency. tacks by heavy "bombers.

At Schipol main airport of Amsterdam, sticks of bombs burst across the illum'nated flare patch and at Aschersleben low-lying clouds were lit up by the glow of a great the started on the hero. drome.

BAD VISBILITY

2 protest

Premier's Stirring Message

To Czechoslovakian People

Some unusual disparities as be- tween one day and another in the proportion of our own losses to those of the enemy during last week's air war are discussed by the Dally Telegraph, that whereas Friday we destroyed 133 of the enemy's machines at the cost of only 84 of our own, Saturday's communique announced the loss

The bombardment of potentia FREEDOM CANNOT, WILL NOT PERISH of seven British, fighters against

invasion bases on the Belgian. Dutch and French coasts include:

a third attack on the naval base

at Lorient where heavy damage was caused in large-scale raids last week.

LONDON, Sept. Oct. 1 Reuter)-"The soul of freedom is death- less: It cannot and will not perish," said Mr. Winston Churchili

in a special message which was read in a broadcast last, night to the Czechoslovakian prople.

...

The message recailed that yesterday was the second. anniversary of the Munich agreement, "a date which the world will always re- member for the tragic sacrifice made by the Czechoslovak people in the interest of European peace."

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only six of the enemy.

A few days earlier, lusses un both sides were equal at 11.

It will be regarded as further the testimony of the veracity of Air Ministry's communiques that

On Sunday night had vist-

they do not hesitate to admit re-

bility hampered the attack

tatively the unfavourable figures | in contrast with the Naza prac- but heavy calibre bombs were

tice of reversing the figures on 19 seen to straddle the target.

The message added: "The hopes choosing. It reprseents man's in.

days out or 20 when they At Calais hits were scored in which this agreement stirred in stinctive defiance or tyranny.

heavily adverse to themselves. many parts of the dock area in the heart of civilised mankind Throughout history no Euro-

NO CAUSE FOR DISQUIET the face of intense opposition have been frustrated. Within six pean nation has shown a greater

from harbour gun batteries.

There is no cause for disquiet months the solemn pledges given will to survive than yours, andį. Other bamber forces raided the by the unscrupulous men. who today again your people have

over the rare occasions when the of Germany given countless proofs of their four times as many of the enemy's R. A. E. falls to destroy three of harbour at Ostend where bombs control the destiny fell across the outer harbour and were broker and the agreement courage in adversity. on the new tidal harbour, and destroyed

1. ruthlessness "Bere in Britain we have wel-machines as they lose themselves. the docks at Boulogne where hits, which urimasked the true nature comed with pride and gratitude The reason for the two bad days were registered on several main of their reckless ambititions to your soldiers and

was that the. airmen who during last week shipping basins.

the whole world.

have come by daring escapes to enemy had sent over only fighters, "The protection when Hitler take part with ever increasing unaccompanied by bombers, hop- Bombs were also dropped ororced upon you has been a sham success in that battle for. Britaining, no doubt, to lure our fighters and a cloak for the incorporation, which is also the battle for into combat with local numerical of your once-flourishing country Czechoslovakia, and no less in superiority of his. own and W in the so-called Greater Relch cere is our admiration for those destroy and disproportionate, the Instead protection, he has Czechs and Blovaks who, on the numbers.

U.S. Warships

To Visit Australia?

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brought you nothing but moral home front. are risking death or Results show our airmen were and material devastation and to worse than death to foster resis ready to take up the challenge and day followers of that great and tance against the cruel and heart-inflict as good as they got even tolerant humanitarian, the late less oppressor.

against greatly superior forees, - President Masaryk, are being per- FUNDAMENTAL DECENCIES Attacks by fighters, unaccom secuted with a deliberate cruelty "It is because we are both fight-panied by bombers, do us no harm WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (Reuter which has few parallels in modern ing for the fundamental decencies and the fact that the enemy nes -Mr. Cordell Hull asked yester- history.

of human life that we are deter- had to resort to such unprofitable day about, reports circulating here HOUR OF MARTYRDOM mined that neither our struggle tactics affords one more prol of that the United States contem- "In this hour of your martyrdom, nor your struggle shall be in vain, his discomfiture: plates sending warships on i I

send you this message. The bat It is for this reason that we! "goodwill visit to Australla and the which we in Britain are fight have refused to recognise any of pal war aims with firmness New Zealand, replied that no de-ing today is not our battle; it is the brutal conquests of Germany resolution two qualities which finite proposals yet have been also your battle and indeed the in Central Europe or elsewhere our nations share in equal mea- made in connexion with the battle of all nations who prefer that we have welcomed a Czechó sure. N general discussions and exchange liberty to soulless serfdom

slovak provisional government in These aims will be achieved.

and

of views now in progress with "It is the struggle of civilised this country and, that we have Be of good carer. The hour of Britain on the Far Eastern situa. nations for the right to live their made the restoration of Czecho- your deliverance will come. The tion..

own life in a manner of their own aloyak liberties one of our prinel- soul of freedom is deathless” it

cannot and will not perish." -

on

The pilot who was uninjured was interned.

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