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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1940. 日十初月七

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Ferocious Each Day," Says Berlin Report

GERMANS CONTINUE MASS

RAIDS

ON BRITAIN: ANOTHER 39 DOWN

U.S. Pilot MOST INTENSE Burns To RAIDS OF THE

Death

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

was

WILDWOOD N.J., Aug. 12 (UP)-Licut C. E. Rieben, U.S.N.R., burned to death, and his companion, W. C. Sayers, a Leading Seaman, is miss- ing, believed drowned, as the result of their naval plane catching fire in mid- air off Cape May to-day.

Lieut. Rieben landed the plane in the sea four miles off Cape May when it caught fire, Hi body was recovered from the burnt out muchine.

WAR TO DATE

By EDWARD BEATTIE

(UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)` LONDON, AUG. 13, (UP).—MONDAY'S RAIDS ON BRITAIN HAVE PROVED EVEN MORE INTENSE THAN THE MASS ATTACKS CARRIED OUT ON SUNDAY.

Reports received from many sources indicate that the number of civilians killed and injured is the biggest of any day in the war.

From these scattered reports, it appears that at least 400 German planes participated in the attacks.

The bombing was the heaviest yet experienced by England ..................................................................**** and the area the most widespread ever attacked.

ebjectives were attacked for the first time,

DECISIVE BATTLE RAGING? ·

Britain's Defence. Of Somaliland

Official reports issued in Lon- don disclose that the Isle of Wight was attacked for the first time.

Thirty German planes were shot down along the south and south-cost consts alone.

Kent Areas Bombed Enemy planes crossed into Kent early in the morning and bombed several points near the coast. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Thirty Junkers participated in one ROME, Aug, 12 (UP).—A de-raid on the south-east. Five were cisive battle for possession of brought down; one by archies,

Another seventy bumbers, escorted. British Somaliland is reported to by Messerschmilis, attacked a town be in full swing south of Ber-on the south-east coast shortly after bera

dusk.

Eight of these bombers headed for Britain, according to Italian reports, has massed tens of an objective four miles behind the town, and dropped sixteen bombs. thousands of crack native troops The whole district shook with almost and a newly arrived Indian con-simultaneous explosions. tingent behind the desert ram- parts.

Italian Claims

Despatches from Addis Ababa claim that Italian regulars and native camel corps, together with motorised unite, have succceded in reaching the lowlands 40 miles from Berbera.

Italian planes are actively partici-| pating in invasion,

Royal Air Force planes have arrived from Aden, whilst other planes are being landed from an alre craft carrier and other British war- concentrated ships which have been along the coast.

the

Different British Report

CAIRO, Aug. 12 (Reuter).A communique issued to-day states that there is nothing to report from the western desert.

In the Sudan and Palestine, there

is also no neilvity to report.

In Somaliland, no operations are reported and the enemy have made

no advance.

Steadiness On the Stock Exchange

though trading was quiet.

A few minutes later another squadron of bombers swooped over the town and rained bombs in practically straight line, blasting large cratere in the ground but in- flicting only slight darnage. Eighteen bombs were dropped on the sea front, some of them into the

Seu.

11 Is estimated that in these ralda Turn to Page 5, Fifth Column

CYCLONE KILLS 25 Extensive Damage To Atlantic Coast

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Aug.

Many inland

N-W Frontier "SEVERAL HUNDRED" NAZI Fight: Heavy PLANES IN LATEST

Casualties

SIMLA, Aug. 12 (Reu- ter).It is officially an. nounced that Captain H.L.V. Russell and one Indian other rank were hilled, 14 Indian other ranks were wounded and one is missing în a recent engagement with hostile tribes on the Вапли- Miranshah Road on the North-west Frontier.

The engagement took place last Wednesday in the village of Tappi.

The enemy are believed to have lost five killed and seven wounded.

ATTACK OVER WIDE AREA

SPECIAL

TO THE "TELEGRAPH"'

GERMAN ATTACKS ON BRITAIN CONTINUED THROUGHOUT YESTERDAY. THE FIRST WAVE OF GERMAN RAIDS CAME OVER AT 3 A.M., AND SUCCES- SIVE WAVES WERE REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE

DAY.

IN SPITHEAD, PORTSMOUTH, AERODROMES KENT AND SUSSEX AND SHIPPINNG IN THE CHANNEL WERE THE MAIN OBJECTIVES YESTERDAY.

APPROXIMATELY 39 GERMAN MACHINES HAD BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY 4 P.M. NINE BRITIsh machines are MISSING. THE GERMANS ADMIT THE LOSS OF SIX MACHINES, CLAIMING THAT 23 BRITISH MACHINES WERE DOWNED.

Anti-aircraft gunfire accounted for five of the German machines;

NAVY BRING DOWN the rest were shot down in aerial combat.

FIVE NAZI PLANES

LONDON, Aug, 12 (Reuter),—Five German planes were brought down by the Navy yesterday.

This news was contained in an Admiralty communique issued to-night, stating:

"With reference to the communique issued earlier to-day, information is now received that five enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire during un action between His Majesty's ships and enemy aircraft yesterday.

"The first enemy aircraft was shot down by H.M.S. Windsor. H.M. trawler Edwardian shot down the second.

Accurate A.A, Fire

"Anti-aircraft fire from the ships was so intense and so accurate that was impossible to state with car- winty which vessels shot down the other three. It is most probable that the Edwardian and the trawler Peter

Windsor or the Peter Carey."

German Aerodromes Plastered With Bombs-

The R.A.F.

Keep Up Fine Work

ATTACK ON PORTSMOUTH

The attacks on Portsmouth were launched by large fleets of German bombers but it is officially announced that the invaders achieved very little success in their attacks on the great naval dockyard.

Some damage was caused to R.A.F. 'dromes in Kent and Sussex.

An eye-witness, describing raids by two waves of bombers which appeared over a south-east coast town shortly after the luncheon hour, said:

"I saw about-thirty Junkers come roaring down.......

"Five of them were destroyed. Our A.A. guns put up a terrific barrage and one of the bombers had its tail completely shot off, dived straight down behind some houses.

"About twelve Germans bailed out of their machines." In the raids along the south-eastern coastal areas, the German raiders dropped

heavy calibre bombs and

considerable

was

Kent, Sussex,

Sussex, Hants

Happily, casualties And Dorset Raided

Carey each accounted for. at least) LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter). done. one of them.

"There was no loss of life in theAn Air Force communique

states that high-level bombing were light. of enemy

aerodromes was One bomb fell in a railway carried out on Sunday.

Enemy-occupied airflelds at Dinard box and injuring the signal-man. and Caen were attacked and a sea other bombs fell in a school plane alipway at Brest was damaged.

SPAIN DENIES A REPORT

Rumours in the foreign press to the

lon.

LONDON, Aug. 12, (Router).-The Atlantic coast. Several villages have Stock Exchange to-day was steady been isolated but there have been NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-A very few casualties on the mainland. British liner arrived here to-day with Egyptian bonds were notably firm) The storm is now rapidly fiting in, 162 Bellish children aboard. ... despite international uncertainties.

Gilt-edged holdings failed fully to maintain their initial gains while Industrials moved narrowly.

station yard, damaging à signal But Damage And Casualties

The Guernsey airport was again playground, bombed.

A Coastal Command_aircraft, while

Imund. were

aircraft were lost..

Four bombs were dropped

In

Are Comparatively Slight

LATEST

The attack on His Majesty's dockyard met with little success.. Some bombs were dropped on the outskirts of the dockyard area, setting fire to a store and Causing minor damage to n jetty..

Two small harbour service craft were damaged and subsequently saak. In other parts of Portsmouth," a railway station was hit and a number of buildings, including a brewery, were set aäre. ·

Casualties were caused, Including some deaths, but these were not numerous having regard to the large number of bombs dropped,

LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).The Admiralty, Air Ministry LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).----A Moscow report appearing in the on reconnaissance of the French another part of the same ares, One and Ministry of Home Security have lesued a joint com- Foreign Press has brought the fol- coast, shot down an enemy fighter ploughed up a tennis court, another munique saying that enemy bombing attacks, which began over lowing denial from the Spanish Gov- into the sen.

burst a water main; the third dropped ernment through its cribassy in Lon-

into the garden of a collage and the the Kent coast this morning, were later extended to the Isle of 12 don.

Oil The Main Objectiva · fourth ripped off the side of a house. Wight and Portsmouth, where large forces were employed. Oil was again the main objective (UP)-The great cyclone which

Over Wide Area has isolated Georgetown and effect that Spanish ships at present in of the bomber aircraft last night. A In Kenya, reports of reconnaissance Charleston in South Carolina has foreign ports have received instruc synthetic oil plant at Dortmund blew

As reports of the raids con- units indicate that the enemy ите

tinue to pour in from widely claimed at least 25 lives on the lens not to sail ure false and fantas-up with a violent explosion and a holding Dobel.

separated points, it becomes evident tiny island of St. Helena, which tie and are entirely devoid of founda- plant at Castrop Rauxel was fired on. Plants at Gelsenkirchen and Wanne

that the Germans are again em- lies off Beaufort.

Such an order, says the embassy, Elckel were also heavily bombed.

Other aircraft attacked an oil depot ́ploying several hundred planes. The settlement on the island has not been issued. Spanish ships at Cherbourg, where tanks were sot has been completely wiped out.

Relays of British fighters are con- will continue to carry on with their

on fee. The cyclone did extensive damage normal trade.

-Military objectives at Dusseldorf, tinually taking off to give battle. to a hundred miles stretch of the

Wonne Elckel, Hattingen and Dort-Berun's version of Monday's raids. state that the intense attacks on also attacked, and Hamme and Spest received their Britain which began on Sunday are being continued. with equal ferocity. usual visit,

This is only the beginning," Nazi In all these operations, three of our circles boast, and add that the attacks will become more ferocious cach day. Crow's Report

DNB reiterates the claim that the LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).The attacks mark the "Brst step in Ger- crew of one of the Air Force air-man air superiority."-

Porta- craft which bombed the synthetic oil Reporting on the raid on plant at Dortmund last night report-mouth, DNB states that the naval ed on their return that they had base was attacked by three groups of witnessed an exceptionally violent planes, which bombed munitions and | SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”.

explosion, states the Air Ministry mine depots, wharves and 'oll tanks. news service. SHANGHAI, Aug. 13 (Domel).The commandants of the

An early

39 Naxis Dostroyed raider at midnight ⠀⠀⠀ foreign garrisons in Shanghai will meet on Thursday to discuss dropped four bomba on the oil plant

LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-An and a big blue dash followed. There the situation arising from the pending withdrawal of British

was a violent explosion and even, Air Ministry communique states that A Volunteer motor-cyclist was ad- troops.

The Japanese authorities intend to though they were flying at several in to-day's alt engagements round mitted to Kowloon Hospital yester-It is understood that the Japanese undertake the control of the evacuat. thousand feet, the crew of the bomber our coasts, the total number of enemy could hear it above the roar of the aircraft so for known to have been day, suffering from abrasions and authorities will flatly oppose any ed areas themselves. other injuries. received when his transfer of the British defence sector

Romo Opinion

engines which usually drowns the destroyed is 39.

Nine of our fighters are missing. cycle collided with a car.

noise of explosions, po SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH", The collision occurred at

The Japanese authorities stress. that

ROME, Aug 12 (Domei) -The Burning Briskly R The Pallippine Climber has been function of Nathan and Prince Ed- the Shanghal atea is under. Japanese ward Roads

occupation and Japanese, milliary Telegrato" 'declares that the with The cyclist was Mr. G. Kaight forces will assume full responsibility drawal of British troops from Shang- A half-hour attack by several delayed and will now arrive in Both car and motor cycle were for the maintenance of peace and hal means the end of "British im- bombers Just before midnight left the Hongkong on Thursday, leaving for

perialism in' China,”.

Tum to Page 5, Fourth Column Manila on Friday, damaged.

order in the aren

Kaffles hardened on the lost session

on favourable reaction to a record output of gold in July”.

Wall Street was quietly steady,

Volunteer Hurt In Car Crash

MILITARY CHIEFS TO PARLEY IN S'HAI

to the U.S. Marines.

A large fire followed the explosion.

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Further Lato Naws

Church Damaged-

In the Isle of Wight, a church and some houses were damaged and a few people were injured.

Later reports have also been re- ceived on attacks on the coasts of Kent and Sussex. Bombs were dropped at a number of points and slight damage was caused to several R.A.F. aero- dromes.

Some houses and other civilian property were also hit.

Casualties in this area' were very light although several cases of fatal injuries, have been reported.

The enemy has been heavily engaged at all points by our defences which have again Infilcted sovere 'Turn to Page 5, Fourth Colamn