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October 30, 1939.

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Walt Disney

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Power-Dive Bombing on Forth Bridge: Thrill For Thousands MANCHURIA RADIO

FULL AIR MAIL

NAZI

AIR

RAID

STORY

ON

VERMANY'S FIRST AIR ATTACK ON BRITAIN, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON OCTOBER 16, WAS DIRECTED AGAINST WAR- SHIPS IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH. FOUR, AT LEAST, OUT OF THE 12 OR 14 BOMBERS WERE SHOT DOWN. THERE WERE NO R.A.F. LOSSES.

Slight damage was done to two cruisers and a destroyer, with 35 casualtie, chiefly from splinters. Dive-bombing at Forth bridge failed. Shrapnet fell in the Thousands watched the dog-fights in the air. streets of Edinburgh; no civilian casualties. The official report, is as follows:

Edinburgh.

the

"To-day, October 16. be-miles along the East Coast from was dodging about, and I could seei

spurts of flame coming from tween 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

The fishing vessel was the Day machine-guas. several German aircraft re-Spring, which had been fishing near

"Suddenly the bomber turned the May Island and was returning to round and swung like a drunken: connoitred Rosyth...

Port Seton with her catch.

Mr. John Dickson, Junior, Inver» could, Port Selon, whose father is "There was a cloud of smoke, and

"This afternoon, about half-past two, a series of bombing raids began.

"These were directed at the ships lying in the Forth, and were conducted by about a dozen machines.

"All the batteries opened fire upon the raiders, and the Royal Air Force fighter squadrons ascended to en- gage them.

"No serious damage was done to any of his Majesty's ships.

"One bomb glanced off the cruiser Southampton, cousing slight damage near her bow, and sank the admiral's barge and pinnace which were moored empty alongside,

the skipper of the vessel, sad:

man.

OF FORTH

BURGOMASTER

MAX WIRES LORD MAYOR

QURGOMASTER MAX of Brus-

sels, who defied the German throughout the time they occupied his city in the last war, has tele graphed to the Lord Mayor of London:

Then Great Britain, faithful to its promise, courageously facen the trials of war, I express to you. to the members of the Carporn- tion of your Cily. and to the population of London my feelings of the most enthusiastic comrade- ship--Adolphe Max."

The Lord Mayor has replied: "IL is with heartfelt gratitude that I reply to your telegram. The citizens of London never forget the great ties uniting our City and your, and will ever dis-

ber your generous sentiments at

it plunged into the sea about a mile

"About three o'clock we were return from the shore. ing home when we saw a large black aeroplane travelling at a high speed.

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"A few moments later appeared altogether from the surface of the water.

"I was being pursued by twn British fighters and they made rings found it. They dived under-neath male off in the direction of the Firth "One of the fighters immediately

and then circled 151

again. They of Forth, and the other hovered both started Dring into the tail of

LILIE overhead

the German.

waler

the arrival of a

the Gerakan

where neur

"The German plane swept round destroyer, which began to patrol the in a circle and then suddenly heeled machine had disappeared as if search- over and Hopped into the sea.

"One wing struck the water first,ing for survivors."

and the machine floated for a short During the whole of the raid trains time.

came up three of continued to cross the Forth Bridge. When we the crew were clinging like krim death to an air-compressed lifebuoy, and each of the men alse had a life belt of similar construction round his chest.

Passengers on the 2.30 pm. Edin- burgh to Dunfermline train had un exciting experience when the train was about finlf-way across.

They Saw one of the German planes

down towards swoop

THREW OUT ROPES "Just before the plane sunk an-bridge,

Black machine—a other

German Mr. David Archibald, of Dunferm- which was smaller than the other line, a passenger on the train, said: sune__down, swept_low_over_it_and"At Dalmeny we were informed that "on"air" raid was in biogress and It was then made olf.

"This was the first hit which German aircraft have made durfter it. We threw ropes to the crew would continue the

"I saw some of our fighters go left to our own discretion whether we Journey across ing the war upon a British ship, of the sinking plane and when we the Forth Bridge.

Bombs Burst On The Water hauled them aboard

"Most of us decided to continue, discovered

and as the train. travelled slowly "There were three casualties on Phat they were all three wounded, buard the Southampton and seven on "They told us that another incmber across the bridge we were able to board the cruiser Edinburgh from of the crew had gone down with the watch the progress of the raid.

Two planes, one near the south splinters.

plane.

WC

the

"Another bomb fell near the des-They were all young chaps. The shore and one to the north shore of troyer Mohawk, which was returning man who appeared to be the senior the Forth, appeared to dive over the to harbour from convoy escurt.

had a bad eye injury.

bridge and bombs were dropped a "This bomb burst on the water and "Another had been shot in the ribs short distance to the east its splinters caused 25 ensumities to and we stretched him out 1>1 the bridge. the men on the deck of the destroyer, deck. The third man had been shot

"Only superficial dainage wasn the arm and 11 was broken. caused to the vessel, which, like the "The three men were very grateful for being rescued, and the leader, wha others, is ready for sea.

"On the other hand four bombers poke English fairly well took a gold at least out of the 12 or 14 were signet ring from his Anger and gave brought down, three of them by it to my father for saving his life, fighters of the R.A.F.

This is a ring for saving me, ho

A

Woman

"Great, columns of water shot up,"

DOWN TO CELLAR North Queensferry resident said: "Many people did not seek shelter, but stood and watched the planes being driven off.

"Apparently some of them were not at first aware that this was the: real thing.

"On hearing the anti-aircraft gun- Are I and other women sought shelter

children we could find."

remem-

AND REICH Rumours Of Big Trade Agreement

BERLIN, Oct. 28 (UP).—Ger- man informants cinim that they have been informed from Darien that Russia had agreed to trans- port one million tons of veget. ables and meat from Manchukuo to Germany, via the Russian Railways.

If true, this would mean that Germany has solved an import ant part of her acute food prob- lem.

SIEGFRIED: CAN IT HOLD OUT?

(Continued from Page 4.) ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and cent reports that it is precisely here 3149 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) that the French are making their Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray

H. K. T.

greatest offorts at the moment.

IMPORTANT APPROACH Cutting through the very heart of Ardennes region, the Mosella

the

From the Studio Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 843 k.es. Kurge, notwithstanding its mennder- and on Short Wave from 1-2,15 pang course, has from time im- m.c's. perenorial been recognised as ann'of and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52

the most important avenues of ap- [proach through the mountain barrièr second.

19.15 pin. Short Service of Inter-not surprising that in 1914 it served into France from the north.” So it is cession.

13.30 Harry Roy and His Orches-as the inain line of communication of one of the Invading German tra.

10 Local Time Signal and Weathermica, nor should it be cause for Report.

wonderment that to-day the French. 1.03 Selections from the Films. are attacking along that axis. The 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, French moved rapidly up to the line Weather Forecast and Announce of the Suur River, a tributary of the Moselle that flows northwest past

A German news broadcast states that the Russo-German exchange of menta goods will reach an annual figure of two billion marks.

1.43 Chopin-Concerto No. 1 In Saarbrucken to Join the Moselle just E Minor, Op. 11.-Arthur Rubinstein south of Trier. East of Sarrbrucken, Russia will, it adds, supply Ger- (Piano) and The London Symphony they succeeded in getting a foothold many with thousands and even Orchestra conducted by John Bar-north of the stream. Successful ex- ploitation of a crossing at Sant- malition of tons of oil, cotton, ores, hirel!!.

0,0 "For The Children."Teddybrucken will force the Germans to wood and fox In exchange for Ger← man machinery, chemicals and In-Bears' Pienie (Kennedy and Bratton), evacuate positions on the north barik dustrini plonts.

B.B.C. Dance Orchestra with Vacit of the Saar west of that town, and Chorus: Singing Games, Jolly Miller, leave no important natural east-west Chalmers Wood's Or-barrier in front of the Frenrh. This Lubin Loo, chestra with Vocal Refrain. Studioline must be carried before any deep Story by Aunt Susan; Uncle Peter's advance con be made down the Nursery Sing Song:

Lullaby Moselle,

It can therefore be safely assumed (Brahms), Elizabeth Schumann (Sɔ-

that the south bank of the Saar. prano) with Oreliestra.

Counteracting

Nazi Lies

this time-Frank Bowater, Lord Novel Organisation In

Mayor,"

The British Socialtat Party, Dhrough their acting leader, Mr. Arthur Greenwood, M.P., recently hroadcast to the Czecho-Slovakian people in their language and by secret means the following:

“Now is the time to put an end to the brutal violence endanger- Ing all Europe. We are calling from London to Prague and Bratislava-14°C Bro calling ali

South Africa

6.30 Closing local Stock Quota-, River is included in Uic Siegfried Line, organised as an outpost and tions.

6.32 Terence Casey at the Or-designed for use in defensive opera- tions to delay the advance of the can,

6.45 Dance Musle and Variety French up to the Snar River, The wilh Michael MOORE, Sydney main positions here can likewise be Gustard, Dinah Miller and Others.

the

assumed as lying north of the river. CAPE TOWN, Oct. 20 (Reuter),

8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather! This uppears borne out by the recent The Union Unity Fund (organised to

actions, the French encountering counteract Naz! propaganda) is Report and Announcements.

heavier resistance and counter-at- South-westi forming branches in

8.03 Saxophone Befos.

to that line. 8.20 Studio-Hal Lorenza (Piano)] tacks on coming up Africs, thodesia, Nyasaland, Kenyn! and Tanganyika.

and Toby Gray (Plano-Accordeoni Meanwhile the Germans are reported It is also intended to form a truth-in a Jazz Recital. Blue Medlay to have lost no time in launching

al30 against ful service bureau which will give Blue Skles, My Blue Heaven, Blue counter-attacks

French mado by the effect to the fund's aims by means of Room, Bye-bye Blues. Plano Med-penetration pamphlets (photographs, maps and Icy-Poor Butterfly, Sweet Little down the Moselio between neutral My Luxemburg and the Saar, from Ang which will be moved from place) Headache, Rose-Room. When

Dream Bont Comics In. Cowboy which it can properly be deduced. to place.

A special lie detection department Medley-Einpty Saddles, Boots and that the Germans consider it of great of the Saddles. I'm an old cowhand. He- importance. The Junction is also to be organised. of

This will consist of economists, quest Medley-Deep Purple, Tea for Moselle and Saar Rivers, south of historians and students of inter- Two, Smoke gets in your eyes. Star Trier, will almost certainly be found nutional affairs who will answer the Medley saw Stars, Stor duzt, very heavily fortified, as will the untruths in Nazi broadcasts.

You're my lucky Stur.

workers of Czecho-Slovakia.

"Remain Arm. Keep your hearts strong in the

new wave violence. Remain irve to

deeds and principles of the great Thomas Masaryk,

------*Do - not.... desert-the-flag, taken. over in our free country by President Benes and his col- Jaborators,

"The hour of your liberation is near. Your tragedy has opened the eyes of the world. The cruel infurtice now imposed upon you musi be righted,

"The British Labour Party de- clare Unt Creclis and Storaks now under the Iron beci of Illler will soon again be free."

ARMCHAIR STRATEGISTS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

ridges between the numerous loops 8.50 Victor-Silvester-and-s.Or-of the meandering Moselle that chestra.

command the stream and the valley.

9.05 Studio-Comments on Lecent Evenia.

9.30

war

WAR OF TRENCHES Assuming continuance of the neu- 9.15 London Relay-The Newe tral status quo in Belgium and

A Request Classical

Pro-Luxemburg, is it too much to sup- gramme. Tales From The Vienna puse a renewal of the last wer's Woods Waltz (Johann Strauss) experiences an end to the

(Johnnn Danube Waltz BALTIMORE, Oct. 27 (UP), Blue Mr. Harry Woodring, the Strauss) Philadelphia Symphony Or movement for four years, and the If the Siegfried Line can prevent chestra cond. by Leopold Stokowski; war of the trenches instead? Secretary of State for War, han Vesti La Glubba ('I Paglincel a rupture into Germany, if Belgium [denounced the "dangerously Leoncavallo) Enrico Caruso (Tenor) and Luzeinburg remain uninvolved, prevalent" assumptions by "arm- with Symphony Orchestra; Spanish and Germany does not collapse chair strategists" that entry of Dance (Granados, arr. Casals), Vito internally, the Allies may find them- per), Pablo Casals (Cello) with the open as a belligerent to enable Newthe United States into the war (Spanish Dance) Op. 51, No. 5 (Pop selves compelled to force Italy into Plano accomp. by Nicolni Medalicoff; them to strike through northern is inevitable.

Dance-Rondo Italy into Germany's new province He stressed the importance of naval, Invitation To The army and industrial economie pre- Brillant (Weber, Op. 05), Ignaz of Austria an operation performed paration as the best deterrent to Friedman (Piano); Damnation Of on more than one occasion by French aggressive designs on the United Faust-Rakoczy March (Berlioz, Op armies with some success in Napo- States and scoffed at the suggestions 21), Philadelphia Symphony Or- leon's time: and with which that the United States would permit chestra cond. by Izopold Stolcowsic; French office is intimately familiar the export of defensive arms or bon Elsa's Dream (Loghengrin Wat by study. the export of offensive arms.

ner), Elisabeth Rethberg (Soprano) Recent developments, said

Mr. Greenwood also sent mica- go to the Socialist Parties of Poland, France, Australia, Zealand, and Canada.

The first contact between R.A.F. Į sair),"

Gestapo Men At aircraft and the enemy raiders look Mr. John Dickson Senior, skipper place off May Island at the entrance of the Day Spring, said they recognis

Home Of Kaiser to the Firth of Forth at 2.35 p.m., ed the machine as n German right when two chemy aircraft were Inter-away because it was big and black In cellars after assembling all the cepted.

"It fell into the sea with n terrine

TWO Gestapo apies were They were driven' down by our sinsh. alteraf from 4,000ft, to within a few

SAW THE BATTLE

one of the German planes swooped as; arrested recently by the Woodring, demand the improvement chestra; Traumerel (Schumann, arr. feet of the water and chased out to

"We raced to the spot, and when low as the topmost span of the Forth Dutch secret police in the we got there the machine had almost Bridge, but failed to hit it with a

grounds of the ex-Kaiser disappeared. The nirmen were cling- bomb.

NO RAID WARNING

Wilhelm's estate at Doorn. ing on to the fonts."

sci.

Two Raiders Down In The Sca

One eye-witness here declared that

"Another enemy aircraft was en- Mr. Dickson proudly displayed the An extraordinary feature of the The Dutch police are taking

gaged ten minutes later over Dal-gold ring he had received from the attack in that no ale raid warning was strong action against the Nazi krille. It fell in Tumes into the sea.erman alaman.

sounded in Edinburgh.

element in Holland, and the "Within a quarter of an hour

A policeman with a strelcher met

Edinburgh A.R.P. headquarters Dutch radio is publishing newa sharp combat took place off Crail, the bent at the little harbour, and all officials described the whole affale de

of the police moves simultane- and the second raider crashed Into

three nimen recelved treatment at a

"mystery." the sea.

doctor's surgery before being removed It was stated by a military official ously. to hospital.

later that a practice had been The radio insists that the Germun- The man with the injured ribs wastranged to test the East Coast de- Dutch frontier is now "hermetically 24 years old and said that he was to fences, and it is believed that it was sealed" against foreign penetration. be married in January. Another of not at first realised that a real attack

"A third German aircraft destroyed in pursuit.

was

Two German aviators had been rescued by one of our destroyers, of whom one has since died.

"No civilian casualties have been reported and none occurred in the Royal Air Force."

the crew was 30 years of age.

was in progress.

An Edinburgh commercial traveller The Ministry for Civil Defence was after 20 minuter the nil-clear signal who spoke to the pilot when he last night unable to say why the was given. landed fold a reporter that the Ger- warning was not given.

"We were man had said to him.

streets.

Almost

immediately afterwards The communique was jointly issued

The firing of anti-aircraft guns anti-aircraft batteries reopened fire. by the Admirally, the Air Ministry much too slow to get away from the brought people docking

into the

FOURTH ATTACK the writes

Naval Yesterday's, and the Ministry for Home Security, first British fighters."

Correspondent, is the fourth abortive British warships since the war began. attack made, by enemy aircraft on In view of the fact that the two HIS SOUVENIR

erizers appear to have been at One man, Mr H. Bartlett, had a anchor, the bombing does not appear to have been very accurate, and was He was standing at the door of his certainly inferior to that of the RAF. shop watching the bursts of shell-fire machines which attacked German in the sky when he saw a small object warships off Wilhelmshaven and Cux-

New

Early to-day the Cologne wireless Collers making their shots on D The weather was beautiful and the station broadcast the following ver-penceful golf course at Crall saw the

clearly visible. sion of the German bombers attack: battle in which these Germans and shell bursts high up in the sky were

"On Monday afternoon between been shot down. 2.30 and 3.30 German bombers_nt- Mr. J. McNaughton, greenkeeper. lacked British warships. Two Brl-described the battle to tinh cruisers were hit by bombs of Chronicle representative. heavy calibre in spite of intense fre " was busy working on n green at by anti-aircraft artillery. Two Bri- the farthest point of the course over tish pursuit planes were shot down looking the beach," he and two German planes are missing" heard the nulse of acroplanes over- falling a few yards away in the haven on September 4.

Fisharmon Saved Wounded

hend.

said, "and

narrow escape.

middle of the street.

As on two of the previotis occa-

"It was a glorious sunny afternoon He went forward and picked it up alone, the aircraft suffered A thrilling story of the shooting and I didn't pay any attention to them and discovered it to be a piece of casualties. down of the bomber which fell in the until I heard the nolee of machine-shrapnel, all warm. „sea off Crail was given by the crew

guns.

дізо Shrapnel fell

several

The Forth Bridge was completed

in Roryth, towards the end of 1880 and opened

of a thing bont which rescued three They were not very high, and 1 Inverkeithing, Dunfermline and by King Edward the Seventh, then of the crew of four of the German could see one big black bomber, which South Queensferry, machine.

apparently was a German, being nt- tacked by two Aghting machines.

The fourth member of, the crew

of the bomber was drowned and the

other three were all wounded.

LIKE DRUNKEN MAN' These three were landed at Port "The big black plane, which was Seton, a little fishing village a few bigger than any I have seen before,

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Prince of Wales, on March 4, 1090, At South Queensferry, when the The bridge is one of the largest j Gemann planes appeared, people the world a mile and half in raced for thelter.

length and 450ft. high' from the base The air-raid warning was given of the deepest plers to the top of the only when bombs began to fall and cantilevern

of the Army's speed of movement..

every

Mr. and the Berlin State Opera Or- LECTURE BY EUGENE CHEN Mr. Eugene Chen will speak on Sardy Macpherson China and the European War" at 10 Woodhouse), (Organ); Sonata' In C Minor, Op. 43.m. on Wednesday at the South China (Grieg). Sergei Rachmanino College, Lion Rock Road, Kowloon. (Piano) and Fritz Krelaler (Violin) In view of the fact that Mr. Chen's Serenade (Moszkowsky), The thesis on China's participation in the Maldens of Cadiz (Delibes), Miliza Alles cause Has aroused wide. dis- Korjus (Soprano) with Orchestra; Belero (Raval) The Lamoureux Or cussions here and abroad, the College. chestra of Paris cond. by. Maurice authorities have decided to let his lecture bo open to non-members of Ravel.

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