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R.A.F. BOMBS

Raids On Scapa And Sylt Are Only The Beginning, Nation Warned: Great Aerial Blitzkrieg Now Thought To Be Imminent: More Raids Reported

N. SEA

SKIES ALIVE

WITH AEROPLANES

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

LONDON, MAR. 20 (UP).—THE SKIES OVER THE NORTH SEA

ARE ALIVE. TO-DAY WITH AIRCRAFT.

WHILE BRITISH PLANES WERE CARRYING OUT FURTHER EXPEDITIONS OVER SYLT, NAZI MACHINES STAGED A RAID OVER THE SHETLAND ISLANDS.

The air raid warning was sounded for half-an-hour

British fighters went up and drove off the raiders.

No bombs were dropped.

It is reported that similar reconnaissance flights were made on

Air "Blitzkrieg

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Said Imminent

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP),—Government officials and military experts believe that the much-published aerial "Blitzkrieg" is imminent.

In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that German raids like those over Scapa Flow are likely to be a regular feature of the war in the coming months.

"But we will do our best to return them," he added amid cheers from all parts of the House.

He also revealed that 30 R.A.F. bombers carried out reconnaissance flights over Sylt to-day taking photo-

ERSATZ OIL FOR BRITAIN

graphs of the damage caused by the Expert Survey Reveals

earlier raida,

Mr. Churchill said that the naval authorities were continually inspect-

ing the defences at Scapa Flow and

other bases.

Big Possibilities

LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter),

Scapa Flow.

New Raid Starts COPENHAGEN, MAR. 20 (REU- TER).-LIVELY ACTIVITY BE- GAN AT SYLT AGAIN AT 3 P.M. WHEN PLANES WERE SIGHTED. APPROACHING THE ISLAND.

THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS WENT INTO ACTION: NO DE- TAILS OF THE RAID ARE YET AVAILABLE.

Svit In Smoke

COPENHAGEN, Mar. 20 (REUTER)-Smoke, apparent- ly from burning buildings, was still rising from Sylt Island this afternoon.

According to a despatch from the Danish island of Roemoe, which is Just north of Sylt Island, the railway line along the Hindenburg Dam believed to be damaged.

Is

Normally four trains cross the Dam) daily but no trains have been running to-day.

Flios Low Over Town

(Reuter).- LONDON, Mar. 20 Belleved by onlookers to be German,

a plane visited Shetland Islands to- day and was driven off.

No bombs were dropped.

The machine, which was a Heinkel, was apparently on reconnaissance and flew low over the town and harbour. It swooped towards the anchored shipping, then rose rapidly and dis

In the House of Commons to- appeared behind a low cloud with day, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, the British fighters in hot pursuit,

He also accused the Germans of Secretary for Mines, said that over-emphasising the importance of the effective use of homo- the Scapa Flow raid.

This he regarded na "significant and encouraging."

produced substitutes for import

ed oil was of such importance that ho had asked a number of leading representatives of |industry, finance and science, under the presidency of Sir

JAPANESE William Bragg (President of the

OVERTURES Buvay

Mediation Request

Denied

Royal Society) to make a rapid Aurvey.

The body had completed this survey within a month, and six specific ques- tions were now being "investigated simultaneously,

Communists On Trial

French Law Demands Death Penalty

PARIS, Mar. 20 (Reuter).—The trial opened here to-day of 44 former Communist deputies.

Nine of the accused are in dight| and if found guilty they will be Hlable to the death penalty owing to their absence.

32,000,000 Calls. Obtained LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter) had resulted in obtaining 32,800,000 bunni decided that the trial would be Action token on the interim report After five hours, the session tri- -In the House of Commons to-gallons of substitute for imported held in camera "because the publicity day, Mr. M. P. Price asked for a fuels.

might constitute a danger to public | statement on the recent con- The report on crude benzole in-order and dignity.""

Enriler in the proceedings the de- versations held between Mr. dicated that this was being recovered

at the rate of a million gallons a year, putles Counsel demanded that M. Shigemitau, Japanese Ambassa- and extension of the voluntary report Daladier should be called to give dor to London, and Lord Halifax. should secure a further 12,000,000 evidened, After the retirement, the

gallons a year.

Tribunal ruled against this. Mr. Prico.. asked particularly whether Japan had attempted to obtain the good offices of Britain in effecting a contact between Chinese Clovernment in. Chungking| and Wang Ching-wel.

tho

Routine Conversations Mr. R. A. Butler, in reply, stated that the Japanese Ambassador had called on Lord Halifax in accordance

with the established practice of call- ing on the Foreign Office from time to time to discuse matters of common interest to the two countries,

OFFICIAL ESTIMATE OF SYLT DAMAGE

+

BRITISH BOMBS BLASTED THIS AREA

It

HERE, published in Hongkong for the first time, is a picture everyone is anxious to see. shows the Naxi scaplano bare at List, on the Island of Sylt, which was one of the principal objectives in the R.A.F. raids on the island on Tuesday and yesterday. The photograph is in- formative to the layman but much more so to the R.A.F. pilots who raided the area this week. Here is the key to the details:-A, wireless station; B, hangar; C, seaplanes; D, crane for lifting aircraft from the water; E, aircraft; F, cranes, G, harbour; H, repair hangar; 1, motor vehicles; --J.-barracks;-K;- mon;—L,_motor_transport_shod; M, building under construction.

£1,500,000 Daladier's Government Resigns

PER DAY REYNAUD ASKED TO

Ministry Of Supply Absorbs £508,000,000

LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minis- ter of Supply, told a conference to-day that since the beginning of the war, the Ministry of Sup ply had placed orders for materials, munitions and stores to the total value of £608,000,- 000..

The Ministry was spending £1,500,000 a day.

At the beginning of the war, there were nine Royal Ordnance factories in the country. Now there were 16, and 37 more were planned.

The majority of the latter would be in producllon next year, employing a labour force of more than 250,000.-

WESTERN FRONT

British Patrol Successful

Nazi Losses After Sharp Fight

was

FORM CABINET

PARIS, Mar. `20 · (Reuter).-M. Paul Reynaud, Minister of Finance in the Daladier Cabinet, has been entrusted with the formation of a new Cabinet.

This was announced this afternoon after M. Daladier had fold the meeting of radical and socialist senators and deputies that he had declined the task.

Voto Of Confidence

The meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, passed a vote of confidence in M. Daladier.

It is understood he demanded tha a full report of the secret session of the Chamber should be published.

LOGICAL REPLY

British Note Rejects

Italian Protest LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). As M. Reynaud left the Elysee he sald, "I hope to give the President The British reply to the a definite reply to-morrow morning." Italian Note of March 3 protest-

The National Union will mean big ing against the working of the changes in the existing Cabinet and British Contraband Control was It is difficult to see how it can be handed to count Ciano, the reconciled with the demand for Italian Foreign Minister, in smaller and more energetic Cabinet.

Rome to-day.

No Sign Of Weakening The reply points out that in con- sidering the application of principles There is still a bellef in political in international Jaw in the present circles that M. Daladier may yet form circumstances, account must be taken

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a cabinet on a radical basis. ...of the fact that they were fighting an had repeatedly and The Government crisis is not an enemy Indication of any weakening of the flagrantly disregarded those prinel iation's will for victory. It is rather ples, and even the common

the common precepts * sign of a general demand for a of humanity. more energetic conduct of war.

The Italian Government would ap preciate that if the enemy word to be free

pursue with Impunity prac- tices in total disregard of Inter- national law and moral principles, while Britain was expected at all times: scrupulously to observe them, Britain would be placed at a marked disadvantage in its conduct of

NAZĪS MINE A DUTCH SHIP

THE HAGUE, Mar. 20 (Reuter) war.

the

LONDON, Mar. 20 (Router), -An official communique issued from British Headquatrers in LONDON, Mar. 20° (Router).—In replying to a question in France states: "Last night a the House of Commons to-day regarding the Sylt raids, Sir very successful encounter with Kingsley Wood, Minister for Alt, said: "The squadrons of the the onemy patrol and a sharp R.A.F. last night delivered a continuous series of attacks for six fight ensued. Five of the enomy hours on Hornum on the island of Sylt. It is from this island were killed and tone that the German aeroplanes have been engaged in minelaying captured. Our troops suffered

Won't Imitato Nazis and attacks on shipping."

Britain had no intention of imifat- day in the Orkney raid took part in no casualties."

British Scola,

She is the 7,000 'ton Phobus which "The raid was carried out in last night's raid.

sank yesterday after hitting a mine Ing the barbarous methods of their Wang Givon Carte Blanche

PARIS. Mar 20 (Reuter)An off the south-east coast of England. opponents, from which Italian ahlos NANKING, Mar, 20 (UP)-The answer to a raid by German

official French communique issued wore Central Political Conference to-day planes on the Orkney Islands.

oll from the West Indies to Rotterdam. of other neutral powers. copowered Wang Ching-wel to read- "A force involving more than clear, There was moonlight during last night states: "On the British She was carrying a cargo of crude and nationals had suffered along those They therefore, had always sought Thirty of her crew were rescued Just Sino-Japanese relations on his double the number of German air the early part of the raid but it front there have been encounters be

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tween the patrols which ended to the by ifeboats from the shore but it is to ensure that their action conformed own responsibility.

entire advantage of our lifes.". feared that aix others are missing. *PLEASE Turn To Pago

No such question as described by

Mr. Price had been made.

craft which were engaged on Satur- |

Objectives Bombed The weather conditions

Another dutch ship has fallen victim

to Nazi se warfare.

Rain Of Bombs On German Base

R.A.F. Dropped More Than Was Dropped On London In 1914-18 War

BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Mar. 20 (UP). -Over 1,000 bombs were dropped on Sylt during the night-long raids by the Royal Air Force on Tuesday and Wednesday, declared Lord Strabolgi in the House of Lords to-day.

This is more than was dropped on London during the whole of the World War, he added.

The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, referring 'to the raids in the House of Commons, said that despite intense German anti-aircraft fire, the British raiders succeeded in setting fire

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There will be no issue of the "Telegraph" to-morrow

(Good Friday).

-Saturday's bumper issue, in addition to giving two days' news, will include throo pages of now Magazine features oxclusive to the "Tofograph," and the popular pictorial supplo- ment.

to German hangarą, oil tanks and a jetty.

The ralds were a reprisal for the Nazi attack on Scapa Flow,

Funked A Combat

Sir Kingsley Wood also declared that the German defending planes оп the Bylt island deliberately avoided making contact with the

raiders.

All of the British planes, the total number of which were double the

number of German machines involved in the Orkneys rald, returned safely to their bases

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