1940-06-04 — Page 24

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Goering Sends Six Waves of Bombers Over NAZIS UNLEASH RAIN OF

June 4, 1940.

Capital BOMBS

ON PARIS, KILL 48, INJURE 149

By PERCY NOEL

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"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT PARIS, June 3 (UP).—Six waves of German planes swept over Paris for a full hour to-day.

They unleashed a rain of incendiary and explosive bombs on the city.

Official reports reveal that, 48 persons have been killed and 149 wounded.

AMBASSADOR'S ESCAPE

-The windows of five schools were shattered and Mr. William Bullitt, United States Ambassador, had a narrow escape from a high explosive bomb.

Authorised sources claim that "plenty" of German planes were brought down. Reports have been delayed because most of the defensive action took place outside

the city.

An official announcement states that 83 bombs fell on Paria and 97 in the suburbs.

61 Firos Started

Thirteen fres were alarled in the' city and 18 in the suburbs.

SEND NAZIS

HOME

Might people were killed and 5 New U.S. Champion

wounded in Paris

itself, while

37

were led and 15 wounded on IHE: outskirts.

Ten Children Die

The Ministry of Education states that lon children were killed and 18 wounded in a suburban school.

Six buildings in the city and 911 on the outskirts were destroyed or severely damaged.

The United States Ambassador, in his report to the State Department confirms that a bomb struck a build- ing in the centre of Parls.

American Citizen Dies

Of Allied Cause

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UP),----| The United States should give the Allies full assistance declared Senator Wallace White of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the press to-day.

"After that we should close the German Embassy and send the Ger mans home, and if the Italians come into the war, we ought to send 'them home too.

"They are not serving uny useful except for their own purpose here

L'ARIS. June 3 (Reuter).The governments," Senator White de-

oficial communique says that there cared. were 200 casualties in the air raids!

this afternoon. killed.

Forty-tive were

Mrs. D. Holc, wife of the Harbour

Three hundred planes participated Master, Condr. G. F. Hole, will speak

in the raid bombing the elty in re-on "Present conditions in Canton" at lays of 40. A thousand bombs were the tiffin meeting of the Hongkong Y'a dropped.

Three German planes were Men's Club at the St. Francis Hotel brought down.

on Thursday.Ladies will be welcome

It is reliably learned that among at the meeting. the buildings lit by the bombs were

n secondary school, a girls' secondary

school,

two high elementary schools fire from the French fighters who

and four suburban schouls.

were engaging the enemy.

GERMAN AIRMAN'S VIEW OF PARIS WHICH WAS BOMBED YESTERDAY FOR THE

FIRST TIME IN THE WAR.

RADIO Beauty Takes

ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)

One school, which was converted A long plume of black smoke in-A B.B.C. Recording of The

dicated that one plane lind been bit. Kentucky Minstrels

into a hospital, was hit by 15 bombs

and two orderlies were killed.

The dead include one American. Incendiary Bombs Used

The all-clear siren was sounded

Sat 2 pm.

Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Fre

A number of houses were set on quency of 845 kc's, and on Short live by the German bombs and the Wave from 1-2.15 pm, and 8-11 p.m. Bombs dropped inside the city, fire-fighting service was quickly on on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

H. K. T.

some falling on private houses,

High explosive and incendiary bonba were dropped on the city.

the scene.

Ambassador's Escape

12.15

WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuter). cessio P.m. Short Service of Inter-

Streets had to be roped out to keep-Mr. William C. Bullitt, the United _back_hundreds of in, cars to see the bit Who came states-Ambassador to France, had a

holes in the

a

12.30 Compositions of Debussy. 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report:~-~~-

Arthur narrow escape in the Paris uir ruid. roads and the ruins of apartment)

1.03 Gracle Fields and Telephoning to President Roose- houses in the fashionable quarter.

Askey in Variety.

Rugby Press, Paris streets over wide areas on velt after the raid, he told how

1.30 Reuter and six feet while he bomb fell within

and Azinounce- --both-the-left-and-right-hunks-of-the-j Seine were littered with debris and was, Trening and talled-to-explode Weather Forecast

The bomb cume through the cell-ments. Mars.

ing. There were countle-s-bomb craters

Mr. Bullitt told President Roose- varying from a few feet deep to five Yards across and deep enough to cut velt, "God was with me." Berlin Roport

gas, electricity and water pipes.

shuller.

Most of the victims were apparent BERLIN, June 3 (Reuter)"Ger- ly caught owing to their own temerity on bombers this afternoon attack- or Carelessness in not taking toed the Paris Aerodrome at Issy Les Moulines and other aerodromes and Details Still Unknown

institutions of the French Air Force PARIS, June 3 (Reuter),Details in the vicinity of Paris," states an of the casualties during the bombing oflelat German news agency in re- of Paris to-day are not yet known,porting the Paris air rald.

16 Naxi Planos Lost In Raids

Two houses that were directly affected, however, had no casualties.

Parisians were lunching when the LONDON, June 3 (Router). Sirens began wailing at 1.15 p.m.

According to the Parls radio, 16 Ger- The people quietly took to shelter man planes are so far officially known brought down by the

and in

1.45 Latest Dance Numbers, 2.15 Close Down. .6.00 Compositions of Dvorak.

6.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

6.32 Selections from Gubert and

Sullivan's "The Mikado."

7.00 Roy Fox and His Orchestra in Dance Music,

Beauty Takes Her Place In Kowloon Court

..

While The Reporters Breath

Is Taken Away

Officials and reporters in other courts sighed enviously when they heard that the case was to come before Himsworth's court.

They looked over their lists-

a couple of old women up for hawking, a few tree-chopping cases, a handbag-snatcher and one or two petty larcenius.

Soma Have All The Luck Some-people have all the luck. It's not often that a demure, honey- haired American girl looks up at n Hongkong magistrate from the dock. And pleads guilty in the delicious drawling volee of an Arizonian.

As a matter of fact, 22-year-old Miss Paula Richards is as delectable an cyciul as ever graced the dock of a Hongkong Court.

The cleric was almost apologetic as 1.30 London Relay-The News 0.00 Local Time Signal, Weather he read out the charge.

She had stowed-away on an Ameri- Report and Announcements.

from Manila to 8.03 Varlely with The Westera can liner bound Brothers, Jack Warner, Florence Hongkong,

She had entered the Colony with- Desmond, Billy Mayerl and Others.

a passport, 8.38 Sea Shanties by John Goss out a

And the clerk almost whispered it (Barltone) and the Cathedral Male

-she was charged with being u Voice Quartet

8.45 Studio The "Toast" Series vagrant.

the Magistrale:------ Reservists,

very short time the streets. to trave been during to-day's rnida. Į on Naval Occasions No. 2: "The Naval Miss Richards twinkled her eyes at

were deserted.

Paris defences Suddenly, the anti-aircraft

"God Must Be With Me" guns began a barrage and the sky become SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

8.57 More Variety. 9.15 Loudon Relay-News Sum- dotted with puffs of white smoke. PARIS, June 3 (UP)-It is now

The air vibrated with the explo- revealed that the United States Am-mary sions of anti-aircraft shells

9.30 London Relay "Cards on the which bassador to Paris, Mr. William Bullitt

Table." drowned the noise of the aeroplane) and members of his staff, were 9.45

B. B. C. Recording — Tho engines.

showered with glass when every win-Kentucky Minstrels. Then came a series of heavier ex-dow in the Embassy was broken by a plosions

Devised and produced by Harry 10.13 Selected Plano Solos. 10.27 Boolhoven-Symphony No 4 in D Flat Major, Op. 19.

The B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

11.00 Close Down.

ed to earth.

The anti-aircraft guns continued to fire for 20 minutes.

the German bombs crash-bomb explosion during to-day's. Pepper.

German raids on Paris.,

Upun learning

Bullitt'ai of Mr. President Roosevelt narrow escape, Long after they had ceased, Perl-Immediately telephoned him. Am- alans heard bursts of machine-gun tassador Bullitt, replying to the President's congratulations upon his

"God must be with! cscape declared:

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mne."

It is reported that 500,000 school- children were entering their schools at the exact moment of the arrival of the fret wave of German bombers.

The children werd

BREAD PRICES UNCHANGED

Mr. Himsworth coughed. "You know, you can't do this sori of thing." he said.

"I Had No Choice"

**I had no choice," sold Miss Richards.

"I intended to work my way back to Hongkong. I like Hongkong.

*50 got myself a job as a torch

Then I got singer In Manila. and I lost my job.

I decided, anyway, to come on

friend." up here with a

She smiled at the Magistrate]

egalo a dazzling smile. Mr. Himsworth coughed. "I'm afraid I'll have to make out an order for your expulsion," he said.

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"Oke-dole," sald Miss RichardsWhile, escaping from one of BLANCA), etc. LONDON,, June 3 (British Wire immediately

|the hospital ships, the nurses in Shanghai, Japan, HONOLULU, a life-boat were machine-gunned. SAN FRANCISCO, LOS AN- herded into the underground shelters. 1c)The Minister of Food stated and stepped down from the dock.

this afternoon that the price of af Premier Aids Rescue Work

A ship's officer said: "As the GELES: SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY

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two-pound loaf of bread would re- What'a sho looks like," the sub women Jumped into the life-boat, PARIS, June 3 (UP)The Pre-moin as at present for the next three asked the reporter who telephoned in raider swooped down and machine- SYDNEY, MELBOURNE,

the story.

gunned; the helpless wonien. One This statement in mier, 51. Paul Reynaud, the Minister months.

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following upon yesterday's announce- "Honey-coloured hair, dressed in 4 Minister of Armaments, Dautry

VANCOUVER and SEATTLE. visited the scenes of to-day's bomb-ment by the Minister of Agriculture smart summer frock and wedge-heel were bleeding from the face."

that agricultural prices will have to shoes. Could run circles around rise in future in order to allow for some of our Hongkong girls" The latest reliable estimate is that the payment of higher agriculturai between 230 and 240 Nazi planes participated in the rak

roids.

ings, and directed the rescue work.

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Chilean Home anAPH SPECIAL TO THE “TEL PARIS, June

3 (UP) Three Ger- man bombs hit the residence of the Counsellor of the Chilean Legation,

and energy pour into the veins with Senor del Campo. every cupful of Horlicks,

The building was partially destroy. Forlicks is a ・ complets ́ balanced ‹ | cd and two gardeners wore killed. food in Avery: palatable, form. It

17 Brought Down "with "rezzintkakių [has``` been ̈ ̈ ̈givan

strocoas in the most severS-CROSS DE gastrilia. · ́Get' Horlicki” to-day-from- youth. turunt, store,

IT: SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH”

PARIS, Juno 3 (UP) --It is offcial- ly announced that 17 German raidera were shot down in the raids on Paris,

wages.

World Exposition Postponed

POSTSCRIPT: Reporter tele- phones later to say that he'd omitted to report that Miss Richards" won't alone in the dock.

There were also two men.

But he dismissed them, with the ROME, June 3 (Reuter)-The following prosine report: Government has acceded to the re

of Los Angeles and Joseph charged

quest received from the participated Williams, 32, unemployed!

Listen, 22, Filipino were With arranged to be held in Rome in 1941 before Mr. Eria.

be postponed sine die in order that stowing away is an American ship, all may have on equal chance of entering the Colony without a pass- laking party web temagasinet porn port and vagrancy....♥ Williams was Work on the permanent, bulidingi cautioned and Iasion was committed: will be continued.

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