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SIR ARTHUR BARRATT TO HEAD NEW R.A.F. COMMAND

Inter-Service Co-operation Primary Object Of Scheme

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LONDON, Nov. 18 (Reuter)' --- Announcing the establishment of a new Command in thẹ RAF, the Air Ministry says that the Air Ministry and' War Office “bave considered how best to securé the most effective basis of co-operation between the Army and the Air Force and a detalled scheme is now being drawn up cover- tug all aspects of Army and air pequirëmerits and associated train- Ing unit.

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The principal feature of the new arrangements is the decisión to set up a Command of the RA, F to be called the Army Co- operation Command; it will comprise all squadrons allotted Army formations in the United Kingdom together with associated training units.

GENERAL

Rangitiki Safe In Port: Further Tales Of Heroism

REPORT ON NAZI FIFTH COLUMNISTS The IN AMERICA

LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuter)-Further stories of British bero- ism when a German ralder attacked the Jervis Bay convoy "were told when the 17,000-ton ateamer Ranglik), the biggest ship of the convoy, docked at a west coast port yesterday with ant a casualty and with hardly a scratch.

Captain of this ship said that' the raider, which may have been the Deutsch- land, was first sighted some LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuter A 20 miles away well down on 500-page report on subversive Ger- the port bow at about 4 pm. She fan det vites in the titted states was pot identified until 445 when La about to be published. Mr. she was seen to be a heavy 'war- Martin Dies, Chairman "bi the ship. ** 70 House of Representatives. Com The convey continued at mittee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities. Bald yes terday. rok T

The report, he said, will deal with Fifth Column activities by The primary function

changes German Consuls and agents, and Command will be to organise, ex-are announced in the RAF. High-he promised that a simbar report periment and train in all forms er Command

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of co-operation between the twe Air Vice-Marshal W. S. Douglas Will low very shortly.

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Is appointed Air Oficer Com:

The operational employment of manding-in-Chier of the Fighter BLOODLESS

squadrons will rest

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hitherto Command in place of Air Chief

with the Commanders of Army Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding from

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SURRENDER

HAMBURG INDUSTRIES BATTERED

speed of nine knots, which was DIRECT HIT SCORED the most some of the ships could ON AIRCRAFT do put turned away. The enemy also turned, on a course parallel

RLANT to the convoy, and opened fire on the Jervis Bay which steamed to- wards her and opened fire, her salvoes apparently Yalling short

HIT AMIDSHIPS

LONDON, NOT. 18 (Renter) The RAF. battering of Hamburg, on Saturday night lasted for several hours and a "Concentrated'atfack' was,, mada on all its grent ^"and"""váridus industries.

OF GENTIL her just before the bridge and a The success

The Army Co-operation Com⚫ mand will be under an Air Officer

Dowding, at the special request of Gabon Now Memberst salve fell on her starboard were perfect Commander-in-Chief, and * senior Army Omcer is being ap- the Minister for Aircraft Produc- pointed us head of his Air Station, is being seconded The Ar Staffs of the Command latter's department for special and ita subordinate formations duty. In the United States. will consist of Army and R.A.F. officers in roughly equal propos tions.

DEPUTY CHIEF

Of Free French Empire

The enemy's second salvo hit the Jervis Bay amidships and evidently put her engines out of At intervals throughout the action for she

·lost way tm - night powerful forces or bombers mediately. A third salvo struck dew over the city and suburbs.

varied with the fourth hit aft. setting her afire. changing weather but many pilots The enemy then concentrated found periods when in the words her fire on the... Rangitikt.” The of one; conditions for bombing

quarter, the second straddled her "The squadrons attacking the amidships and the third straddled Blohm and Voss shipbuilding het forward of the bridge. One yards saw bursts in many parts shell fell within 50 yards of the of the area and explosions follow. LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuter) bridge smothering the bridge with accompanied by great billow. The whole of Gabon (French Air Vice-Marshal A. T. Harris Equatorial Africa) is now part of and shell fragments buting red fames.

doing no appreciable damage.

A direct hit was scored on the is appointed Deputy" "Chier of the Free French Empire, states Alr Staff in place of Air Vice-a communique issued last night

STAR SHELLS

neighbouring aircraft factory. Marshal Douglas.

from the London Headquarters of Meanwhile the convoy ships

YARDS BOMBED Air Vice-Marshal O. T. Boyd the Free French Forcés..

minde av smökescreen which,

In addition to many explosive promoted Air Marshal (Acting) The communique states that coupled with the gallant action of bombs another force of bombers and appointed Deputy to the Air the town of Port Gentil, second the Jervis Bay enabled so many dropped over 1,000. incendiary the Middle East Command. Officer Commanding-in-Chiet of port of Gabon. has surrendered; ships to escape despite the enemy's bonis on the great riverside rail

without aghting two days after use or star shells in attempts to was goods yards In Billwarder Al Marshal E, L, Gossage Is the surrender of Libreville, capital locate them and the fact that two

district. The Army Co-operation

appointed Air Officer Command of the Colony.

or three ships were apparently on The gaps in the clouds closed as .mara, with 168 Joint staff. will) Ing the Balloon Command fn

A large proportion of the troops are."

the attacks ended, says the Alf work in constant association with place of Air Vice-Marshal Boyd,

of Libreville who opposed the The Captain paid tribute to the Ministry, and made it possible Air Vice-Marshal P Badington advance of "Free French Fortes coolmeny of the passengers, both to observe the full results but en is promoted Air Marshal (Acting, have now asked to join them, men and women, who sang Scot ough was seen to make and becomes Air Member of Per-adds the communique Wounded tian songs in the alleyways during tain thansiderable sonnel in place of

BALLE Air Marshal on both sides were few, 13

the firing and later enjoyed a meal was done, Gossage.

Gen. De Gaulle, who visited Lawhile they were wearing life belts. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Sheri- breville on Friday. received the co-opera-

The chief radio officer said he dan Barratt first came into the civil and military authorities who was playing deck tennis when the news in the present war when verified' that no habitants of raider attacked dashed to the he was appointed Commander-- Libreville were killed or wounded wireless cabin and sent out the Chief of the Pritish Air Force in during the "police

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The formation of this Com- mand, says 'the' Air Ministry, is the outcome of a system of operation which has been steadily balit between the two services over a long period and the new organisation is designed to accord with the lessons of recent opera- tional experience.

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the Army und Air Force. Com- mands concerned. It will ensure rapid development of Army operation technique and foster common understanding of all as- pects of inter-service tion.

The new Command will be es tablished on December 1, 1940.

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have thrown further light on the, attempt of the four German mer- chant ships to slip out of Tampico, Mexico, apparently in an at- tempt to get through tổ Spain.

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CHUNGKING, Nov. 18 (Reuter) British Commander-in-Chier for the Ear East, the Soviet denial of an jagreement with Japan, und Colonel Knox's speech promising greater assistance to Ching. are batled by | the official Central Daily News in

Beading-article yesterday morni=" It will be recalled that one

nga guaranteeing a Chinese of reported to have said that he was

HEAVY SNOWSTORM S.W. JOINT UNIV. victory. the ships was set on fire. It is intercepted well within the safety J

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ments are taken to indicate the determination of Britain, tha other three raced back to Tamman circles in Tampico that the United States and Russia to resist A heavy snowstorm in north--The Southwest Joint University. CHUNGKING, Nov. 18 (Reuter) CHUNGKING, Nov. 17 (Reuter) When the Master of the Phrygia miles out with the pocket-battle-fer aggression on the part of west China, with a snow drift comprising the Tsinghus and Pel- four feet deep in places has ping universities. is definitely and his crew got ashore they ship Admiral Scheer which was an in the Paci told the porf "uthorities that to have escorted them to Spainha Chinese paper concludes: caused hayoc to highway com- moving from Kunming to Sulyung they were signalled to by a war-

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R.A.F. Bomb Brindisi

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CAIRO, Nov. 18 (Reuter) — It. attacked A F bombers, again Brindisi on the night of Nov. 15, saya an RAF. communique; and the railway station,... aerodromes and of tanks 'near the city were bombarded and several res caused in the target, arcs.

The full extent of the damage ATHENG, Nov 18 (Reuter)-A4 could not be observed owing Italian armed column hea been low clouds.

ITALIAN COLUMN

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sotashed up by Greek troops | Ben Ghazi, was raided success- operating on the eastern sector of fully and shipping" in the har the front, according to reports rebour damaged. The foreshore of ceived here.

Tobruk was bombed, "but it was

It is reported but not confirmed not possible to see the extent of that a large number of tanks the damage. which were dispersed, have cross-

ed the frontier into Zago-Hidría to

-capture."

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BUILDING DEMOLISHED The fuel depot Malina Pas, AIFICATWES

a direct hit on the large ing in the target ares causing much damage,

On the night of Nov. 15, Zma was raided and buildings bombed and set on fire

ONE PLANE MISSING The Djibouti-Addis Ababa Rafl way Line, Bouth Adagalla, was bombed and direct hits ate belley- ed to have been made. MassaWS was raided, the main quey and destroyer base being the principal objectives.

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