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Plymouth Target Of Violent Attack: High Explosives And Incendiaries Rained On Town

LONDON, Mar. 23 (Reuter) The German air force on Friday night revisited Plymouth and showered thousands of incendiary and tons of high explosive bombs on the town for the second night In succession on "a fairly heavy scale."

Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Anstralian Premier who is visiting Eng- land, arrived in Plymouth and witnessed this second violent attack, He arrived just after it began but is safe.

Mr. Menzies left his shelter dur- ing the raid and toured the town

S'HAI MUNICIPAL regardless of danger.

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He insisted on lending his car to take women and children whose homes had been destroyed to shelter,

APPLICATION MADE FOR POSTPONEMENT testerday morning to

SHANGHAI, Mar. 23 (Reuter)

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YUGOSLAV GOVT. GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE STAND SOUGHT BLASTED BY THE R.A.F. MINISTERS CONFER

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LONDON March 23 (Reuter)-The RAF. replied to the Ger- män air offensive against British ports and London with heavy raids during the week ending dawn on March 21 by raids on naval basen of xipreme importance to Hitler in his co-related sea campaign against British shipping, besides several towns in the heavily industrialised Ruhr. Operations were restricted on same nights owing to the weather

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IN BELGRADE BERNE, Mar. 23 (Reuter)-The British and United States Minis- ters in Belgrade had an Interview Friday with the Yugbalay

The docks at Emden and Wil-clouds at various points in Prime Minister, M. Tsetkovich, beinahavep were both raided harbour news agency, states a despatch to the Vichy twice, big fires were caused to the dockyards and Industrial centre

WARSHIPS BOMBED It is stated they sought Informaat Klet, and buildings were gutted

Enemy warships and supply tion regarding the present policy and explosions caused among the ships off the Frisian Islands and of the Yugoslav Government. shipbuilding, yards and Industrial in Heligoland Bight were attacked

The Soviet Minister; ou return- i centre at Bremen.

and a tanker of the Belgian coast ing to Belgrade from Moscow had

was bombed.

The submarine base at Lorient,

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an interview with the Yugoslav in occupied France, was raided bombed, as well as a jetty, while Rescue workers. were still

A supply ship of Norway was toll-Foreign Minister, says Ankara thrice, and several attacks were other aircraft swooped on Ing amid the wreckage of houses radio,

extricate M. Milan Stojadinovich, former the enemy coastline.

made on shipping and E-boats of aerodrome building in Norway and Yugoslav Premler and supporter

plastered in with machine-gun suffered of the Axis, is said to have been

The Ruhr objective included bullets

victims.

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All yesterday morning's newspapers .Business premises- reported that an application has heavily Some public buildings, turned over to British custody, synthetic oil plants at Gelsenkir- been made by the Shanghai Muni-Churches, chapels and cinemas with the aim of preventing any chen, set well alght by large fires. fully from these Coastal Command All our planes returned success- cipal Council to the Consular were damaged or destroyed and pro-German movement during the the industrial area at Dusseldorf raids. Body for postponement for one a wing of one of the city's hospitals negotiations. week of the annual Municipal was set on fre Elections, from April 2 and 3 to April 9 and 10.

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HEAVY CALIBRE

One eye-witness sald some high If granted, it is believed that, in explosives were of a particularly the interim, an adjustment be-heavy calibre.

tween various nationals in Shang- A hotel was gutted and a short hal will be reached regarding distance away shops became a councillors for the ensuing year "blazing Inferno."" while stores. which may obviate the necessity drapers, jewellers, cafes and

other premises were damaged.

for an election.

was raided twice, and rallways, Meanwhile, according to a Vichy store at Cologne were bombed.

goodsyards, factories and an of news agency report, the Regent, Prince Paul, received the British

ROTTERDAM BAIDS and United States Ministers in Oll storage tanks at Rotterdam Belgrade (Sir Ronald Campbell were slashed four times and great and Mr. Arthur B. Lane) on Fri-tires were day afternoon.

seen by the pilots 100 miles away..

A large number of enemy aero- dromes fighters and bombers, it is learned, were attacked by night

TURKISH DEFENCE

EXPENDITURE was

It is indicated in responsible A member of the Voluntary quarters that

any agreement Mobile Police said the rald would result in the nomination a "terrifying ordeal" but every- only of sufficient candidates for one worked splendidly and fires the available seats, thereby ob-were speedily under control. viating the necessity for an elec- tion.

Bad Day For Italians

GREEK ARTILLERY TAKE HEAVY TOLL

ATHENS, Mar. 23 (Reuter) Friday was yet another bad day for the Italians in Albania, Greek artillery causing losses in men and material.

CASUALTIES HIGH

A number of Bremen and police were injured, while the total casualties are feared to have been heavy, as the raid was even, hea- vier than that of Thursday night.

Large

high explosive

and aircraft on the ground dam aged and set on pr

Royal Navy Promotions

ADML. J. DORLING FOR -SINGAPORE LONDON, Mar. 23 (Reuter)—A naval officer who was in command Turkish Parliament yesterday au- during the week but our bombers ers for seven hours in the Mediter- of the aircraft-carrier Illustrious Five RAF aircraft were lost when she repulsed Nazi dive-bomb- thorised the expenditure of a fur-destroyed three German fightersranean last January, has been ap- to cover additional defence costs ther thirty million Turkish pounds in combat and severely damaged pointed to command the Aircraft-

at least two more.

·ANKARA, Mar. 23 (Reuter)-The

total defence votes this year

The appropriation brings the to over T£174,000,000 or one hundred millions higher than the original estimate.

INTENSIVE ATTACK

It is understood that some of

super-

Britain's latest bombs

were first dropped, followed by thousands of incendiaries, and then more high explosives which fell as firemen were fighting the dames,

Many were rendered homeless in the raid, which was Nazi effort for the night as there the main was little enemy air activity else where,

UNIVERSITY DAMAGED

It was announced yesterday that well-known buildings

Petrol and ammunition dumps were blown up and transport co-among lumns and war material damaged damaged in the German blitz on while the Italians suffered heavy Eritish ports are Liverpool Uni- losses.

versity and Stadium and Kelvin

the have also

An Italian tank attack was re-Hall, Glasgow. pulsed, one tank being destroyed. Leeds City Museum and

The official spokesman In Athens, General Infirmary said the Greeks were continually been damaged. recelving confirmation of the over- whelming losses sustained by the Italians during the abortive offen- sive last week.

Meanwhile General Sir John Dili, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, and General Sir Archibald Waveil have sent con- gratulations to General Papagos, the Greek Commander-in-Chief. on the successful repulse of the big Italian counter-offensive ac- tions.

General Papagos, in reply, men- tions the parallel successes lately

of Greece's British allies.

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He is Acting Rear-Admiral Denis) Boyd. He received promotion for the part he played in the Illustrious action and in the Taranto raid.

Other appointments announced

bombers were among the aircraft which participated in Friday's raid on Lorient, the Nazi submarine include Rear-Admiral James Dor- President Roosevelt sailed WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (Reuter) base in occupied France, which was ling to be Rear-Admiral, Malaya,

on on an intensive scale. board the yacht Potomac yester-

and in charge of naval establish- day morning on a holiday cruise. and the raid was a very successful

Very heavy bombs were dropped ments at Singapore.

Duke of Windsor at Nassau during sky. President Roosevelt may visit the one, in spite of a dark and clouds his trip, according to a Miami re- Large high explosive bombs were for port to the New York Daily Mirror.dropped through gaps

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