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Hongkong Telegraph.
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No. 16226
一拜禮 號二十月八英港香
MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1940.
日九初 月七
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Germany Launches Blitzkrieg Air
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GILMAN'S the car
people
Attacks: Britain Responds With
Bomb For Bomb In Continuous Raids On German Bases
GREAT BATTLE FOR SUPREMACY
OF AIR
J
BEGINS
OVER
ENGLAND
GERMAN BID FOR TWO DAYS OF AIR WAR NAZIS CLAIM BLITZKRIEG
QUICK VICTORY AGAINST EMPIRE
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHTM
BERLIN, Aug. 12 (Domei).—The terrific air battle which started over Portland and Wey-. mouth and which has since spread over the entire Channel area between Portland and Dover, will determine who is to retain supremacy in the air.
The statement was made early this morning by the official DNB news agency.
BATTLE CONTINUES
DETERMINED TO SECURE THIS SUPREMACY, MARSHAL
BRITAIN HAS RAIDED
Guernsey. Schipol, Val- kenburg, Le Havre, Ham- burg. Hamm, Soest, Cologne, Brest, Flushing, Lumwig- shaven Rubrorthafen, Eind. hoven, Trier, Glize, Werl- munsler, Venlo, Schipol, Waalhaven Cherbourg, Din- ard, Caen, Wilhelmshaven, Homburg, Frankfurt, Dues- berg.
BRITAIN CLAIMS
German Air Losses 133 planes RAF. Losses ... 41 planes Two British warships slightly damaged.
Hamburg devastated, big fires in Cologne, Wilhelmshaven, Homborg, Frankfurt, Duesberg. Aerodromes in German-oë- cupled territory smashed.
GERMANY HAS RAIDED
Liverpool, Bristol, Roches- ter,. Fayersham, Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham, Wey- mouth, Portland, Dover, Southampton, Canterbury and two big convoys. GERMANY CLAIMS
British Air Losses 236 planes German Lassos.. 40 planes Six British warships dam- aged, sunk, 21. merchantmen dam- aged.
ten
LAUNCHED: GOERING SENDS HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
AIR RAIDS ON BOTH ENGLAND AND GERMANY YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT HAVE ALL THE AP- merchantmen PEARANCE OF THE LONG THREATENED "BLITZKRIEG.” At least four hundred dive bombers and fighting planes have participated in the attacks, which were still continuing on both sides late last night (early this morning. Hongkong Time).
Convoys dispersed, Port- land naval base wrecked and afire.
GOERING HAS ORDERED THE DESPATCH OF HEAVY REIN HEAVY EXPLOSIONS
FORCEMENTS OF FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS TO AID THE GERMAN MACHINES ALREADY BATTLING WITH, THE R.A.F., THE GERMAN MESSAGE STATES.
ON IRISH COAST
THE LATEST BRITISH AIR MINISTRY RECORDS DISCLOSE THAT AT LEAST SIXTY GERMAN MACHINES WERE BROUGHT DOWN. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LOSSES TWENTY-SIX Fighter MA- CHINES ARE THE HIGHEST YET RECORDED IN A SINGLE DAY.
The eighty-six British and German machines fell all along the and towns, a large force of German bombers have attacked (UP).-The Press Association reports that heavy ex-its fiercest.
LONDON, Aug, 12, 3.30 a.m. (10.30 a.m. H.K.T.) southern coast between Dover and Portland, where the fighting was at a convoy of 70 freighters and 14 warships proceeding in plosions were heard over a large area in Northern Ireland
The air battle still continues without intermission,
In addition to the widespread attacks on British ports
a south-westerly direction
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
through the English Channel. a short while ago.
The convoy was attacked at a point 15 miles east-north-east of northern Ireland coast.
The explosions are apparently occurring along the
No.details are available..
NAZIS SAY the Thames Estuary.
RAID IS
A "BLITZ”
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Aug. 11 (UP)...---
The German reports claim that direct hills were scored and that two of the freighters were sunk.
Full Proportions SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Aug. 12, (Domel).-Ger- man military authorities claim that, with to-day's great raids on Portland, Germany to-day unleased a mas-land, the period of reconnalesance Weymouth and other elties In Eng- sive nerial blitzkrieg against and harassing operations has ended, Britain and, according to Nazi and the German air offensive has n reports, brought down nearly sumed 'full proportions. 100 machines in blazing battles which are still continuing.
The Germans claim to have vir tually destroyed the naval base
at
German air raids, they state, will
be intensified from now onwards.
French Indo China
JAPANESE
RETIRE
An additional six German machines were brought down elsewhere in England.
The Germans make fantastic claims regarding British losses and, in addi- tion to claiming the sinking of British warships and the wrecking of British ports,
-claim-that-73-R.A.F. machines were brought-down. MOST SEVERE OF WAR
•
British raids on Germany were the most severe of the war and hundreds of R.A.F. bombers have launched constant attacks throughout Sunday on districts as widely apart as the German interior and the Channel Islands, the latter now occupied by the Germans.
AS FLOODS MOUNT operations, power-diving into the balloon barrages in order to reach their targets.
SPECIAL ΤΟ THE "TELEGRAPHTM*
Many of the German pilots displayed reckless courage in their bombing
The 86 planes brought down do not include those lost by both sides in opera. tions further north in England or in the British attacks on Germany.
MANY CENTRES ATTACKED REPORTS FROM FRENCH INDO CHINA THIS Portland and to have blasted war- simultaneous invasion of England, MORNING DISCLOSE THAT THE SITUATION RE- ahips and ammunition plants.
-To-day's raids were by far the biggest and most destructive ever launched.
Informed quarters believe that Hitler as shelved his plans for a
presumably owing to the insuperable) dimculties such a plan presents.
Effect On Morale They believe that the German High They were given grim significance Command will check up, for the by a radio speech on Saturday by time being, the effect of the intensi- Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Fuchrer, fied air raids on Britain's defences who asserted that Germany had de-and the morale of the British people. cided that "the moment has come to If Germany find it impossible to wipe the slate clean,"
bring to aerial
Hors Gives Hint
{MAINS QUIET.
But Japanese warships and transports at Walchow and off
Hainan have not dispersed..
The major German attacks were launched on Portland and Weymouth. But other attacks were launched on Southampton, Dover, Canterbury, Norwich, Newport, Swansea, Pembroke and St. Ives.
The major British attacks were launched on Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg, Japanese forces facing the Homburg, Cologne, the Dutch and French coasts and Germany. EVACUEES Indo China frontier in Kwangsi It is impossible to compute the total number of planes participating in raids have been forced to retire and defences on either side of the Channel. But undoubtedly more planes were in certain sectors owing to heavy the air than at any other time since the war began.
The huge swastika-marked aerial Turn to Page 2, Sekond by era IN SYDNEY
armada struck with a fury that alled the skies along 500 miles of Britain's coast with hundreds of bombing and machine-gunning planes..
Stukka torpedo-bambera concen- trated their attention on Portinnd, where the air battle continued into
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LATEST
BOMB FOR BOMB
R.A.F. Reply With Raids On Reich
By EDWARD BEATTIE "UNITED PRESS" CORRESPONDENT
BPECIAL: TO THE "TELEGRAPHU
And Are Awod By
"Our 'Arbour Bridge"
BY THE TELEGRAPH REPORTER WITH THE EVAGUEEB
SYDNEY, Aug. 12-Amid 症 festive atmosphere
on
the lantern-festooned decks of
the big Dutch liner which had brought them to Australia, 571 |Hongkong evacuees, 250 of whom are disembarking in
LONDON, Aug 11 (UP) ~~ Sydney, partook of their last Britain is replying bomb for meal together aboard the ship a.m. H.K.T. disclose that 60 German bomb to the Nazi air raids on on Friday night.
Interim reports received up 10
floods.
"Damel reports that the heaviest BATTLES CONTINUING rains in 25 years have been recorded
In south-western Kwangsi since August 3.
Yamhslen, in southern Kwangtung,
The
In under three feet of water. Japanese who occupied this town! have retired.
Apparently the great battles were still continuing at 3.30 a.m. G.M.T. to- day (10.30 am. H.K.T.), because an urgent "United Presi” message from London stated that wave after wave of German planes were still attacking then,
The message stated that heavy anti-aircraft fire forced the Nazis in their The outskirts of Nanning are In-latest attacks to stay at too high an altitude for precision bombing and owing, too, to undated and the Yamhsen-Nanning the darkness, the bombs fell into the sea. road has been closed to ali trame.
Japanese against an outbreak of
Precautions are being taken by the The Air Ministry officially confirms that the R.A.F. attacks on Germany and discase.
German-occupied territory were the most extensive attacks yet launched by British planes.
CYCLONE HITS
S. CAROLINA
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" planes have been shot down in the
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) At dawn on Saturday, the stately The American Red Cross headquar great battles raging over England England.
Waves of Royal Air Force bombers vessel which had borne them speedily ters have been advised by telephone since. Sunday morning, says "Domel" from London.
have maintained a constant series of and safely to Australia entered
from Georgetown, South Carolinia, Four hundred German machines raids on Germany during the past famous Sydney Heads and berthed that a hurricane sweeping in fren participated in the talds. Of this twenty-four hours, hundreds of in the harbour above which towers the Atlantie has struck Charleston. number, 200 attacked Portland.) machines parucipating in the attacks. the equally famous Sydney
Harbour Forty German machines were shot helmshaven, fret aerial target of the
The German naval base at Wil-Bridge. -down in and around Portland..
Twentyalx British pinnes are miss-war on September 3 last year, was
ing. Only two of their pilots
known to be sale,
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Jolly Lost Meal The last meal aboard was a jollym.ph..
heaviest raids, hundreds of high ex-affair the objecílve in' one of to-day's
plosive and incendiary bombs being dropped by the British machines.:
There were songs of: Empire and →
The full fores of the cyclone struck Charleston at 8 pm, with wind velocities ranging from 70 to 100
The hurrleone is expected to reach Georgetown at 11pm.
In other, :ruids direct; hits wenpeeches of thanks to the genial Dutch): CASA Ros" of Prince Edward
scored on the great chemical factories captain and the ship's crow.
at Cologne. Fakuva #kab
Mr.
Almost all the mothers and many Road reported to the Police yesterday
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"United Press" Mesangen
AIR DUELS IN OF THE WORLD
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Following the attacks on convoys in the Straits of Dover the Germans have concentrated their attention on Weymouth and Portland.
At least fifty German machines were brought down during the raids
of the children eagerly crowded the that at 2.45 d., some one attempted Big S@Hamburg Ruins →
Hamburg, already lying partly in decks in order to catch their first to enter his house by removing a ruins, was attacked by wave, after glimpse of Sydney harbour and the pane of glass from a window. The on these centres.
intruder was apparently disturbod Turn to Pazo 2, Second Column Turn to Paga 2, Second Columns he left with nothing stolens
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