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五拜禮 號三廿月八英港香 FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1940.

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GERMAN GUNS IN FRENCH PORTS

ARE SHELLING COAST OF BRITAIN

BRITISH GUNNERS REPLY ACROSS THE CHANNEL

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ENGLAND HAS BEEN BOMBARDED BY LAND ARTILLERY.

Following yesterday's bombardment of a convoy passing through the English Channel, German long- range guns at Calais and other French ports opened a bombardment against the British south-east coast ports

ļat 9 p.m. (1 a.m. H.K.T.).

SPECIAL

STORY OF ATTACK Eye-Witness's Description

The shells exploded on land with terrific explosions, shaking buildings in the vicinity.

The gun ashes were easily visible across the Channel as they stabbed the sky in France.

British coastal batteries took up the challenge and began bombarding the German gun positions shortly after the German bombardment be gan.

Explosions Heard In London

A DORNIER FLYING PENCIL," which cashed in a field in southern England after

bullet halen.

The German bombardment was being shot down by fighters of the RA.F. The fuselage of the Dornier was riddled with sil in progress at 11 p.m. tom. |H,K.T.). Arthur Mennen,

Press" correspondent at a south-east

By HARRY HICKINGBOTHAM port, reported by telephone,

UNITED PRESS STAFF

CORRESPONDENT

United

As he spoke to the London office of "United Preas" the explosions were carly audible over the telephone. The initial report from "Reuters' stated that over a dozen shells fell DOVER,, Aug. 22 (UP),-Ger-on the south-east coast,

BY

THE STRAITS

OF

man long-range guns 00 the Watchers on the coast saw the gun French coast shelled a convoy of ashes and heard the shells shrieking 18 vessels in the English Chan-through the air towards their ob nel for 80 minutes 10-day,

Jectives.

The subsequent explosions were described as "great."

I saw the convoy enter the

"United Press" quotes German Straits of Dover proceeding sources In Berlin as stating that the eastward. It included some bombardment was not aimed at warships, while British fighters specife targets but was merely for

Britain Promises Immediate

Aid For Greece If Attacked

Statement By WOMEN FIGHT INCENDIARY BOMBS

Envoy

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH**

flew over the convoy and others and giving the gunners target prac-If Greece decides to resist any the purpose of "spatting objectives" ATHENS, Aug. 22 (Domei),. patrolled between the ships nadice. the French coast.

attempted attack Britain is Further reports continue to be re-determined to go to that coun-

Convoy Bombarded

Suddenly I saw four huge spouts reived regarding the earlier bom-try's nid with all her naval and of water thrown up some distance

bardment of A from the ships on the French side.;

ecnvoy passing air forces available. These were followed by terrific ex-through the Channel. plosions which shook the town where I am staying.

A few minutes later I saw a flash from the French cliffs and there fol- lowed three other explosions. Then, after a short interval, four splashes appeared in the water around zhips.

the

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JAPAN'S CHANGE IN POLICY

WASHINGTON, ̈ Aug. 22 (UP)-Official circles here have declined to comment on Japan's diplomatic shakeup which is said to be the most extensive in Japanese history and is believed to presage a sharp change in the Japanese foreign policy under the Matsuoka-Chashi combina- flon.

*

The Japanese Foreign Minister has ordered home forty diplomate Includ- `ing five ambassadors, nineteen minis- ters, five counsellors and eleven consuls-general. The ambassadors Include those at Washington, Ankara, France and Brazil.

The fire from the German batteries

Thus declared Sir Michael

was at the rate of ten rounds Palairet the British Minister to minute. Between 80 and 100 heils were fired at the convoy, but no ship

was hill or damaged,

Athens in an official statement to-day following un important shelling, jointly issued by the Ad- Premier and Foreign Minister, The official communique on the conversation with the Greek miralty and the Air Ministry, states General J, Metaxas.

Smoke Screens Laid

"Shortly before noon to-day, one

The statement has caused a sensa“

of our convors in the vicinity of the tion here, coming na it does at B Straits of Dover came under fire from moment when tension is mounting in heavy guns mounted on the French Italy and Greece over the Albanian the Eastern Mediterranean between

"Warships escorting the convoy at minority issue. once laid smoke screens to conceal the conveal from the enemy.

coast.

Crate Uproar. "Although some shells fell fairly) SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" close to the ships, no ship of the LONDON, Aug. 23 (UP)—The convoy or escort was hit or received}Athens correspondent of the "Daily damage

Mail" reports that an infuriated "The same convoy was later at crowd has wrecked the Italian Con- tacked by enemy aircraft. No dam-sulate at Crete. age was caused by this attack, and the enemy was driven off by our

fire and fighter aircraft. "Our fighters shot down one enemy aircraft during this action."

("Reuter" and "United Press")

The crowd gathered in front of the consulate when the findings of the Greek Board of Naval Experts dis- closed that an Italian submarine had torpedoed the Greek cruiser Helle.

Britain To Weed Out Her Interned Aliens

·

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons to-day, Sir John Andersen, Home Secretary, replied for the perplexed by the move but some Government in the adjournment debate on the internment of

Political circles here profess to be

informed quarters believe it is intend- Į aliens.

∙ed as'a sensational gesture mainly to

· impress the Japanese public.

* Changea. Wero Expacted

SPORADIC RAIDS ON ENGLAND DO LITTLE DAMAGE

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

ALTHOUGH HITLER HAS TEMPORARILY ABANDONED HIS AERIAL BLITZKRIEG AGAINST ENGLAND, OWING, IT IS BE- LIEVED, TO HIS ENORMOUS LOSSES, ENEMY BOMBERS CONTINUE RAIDS ACROSS THE CHANNEL IN SPORADIC FASHION.

It is officially announced that foür German · planes were shot down by the R.A.F. yesterday.

Desert Raids

ITALIAN

BASES ATTACKED

This, says "United Press,” brings the total German lossen around the British coast since June 18 to 1,002.

Did Not Get Inland

The German aircraft in yesterday's ralda operated singly.

None of the enemy planes suoceedË- jed in penetrating, more than a few miles beyong the coast and no bombe were dropped on land

Two RAF. fighters were lost, the plot of one parachuting to safety.

The crew of a 1.110-ton steamer

of

an unsuccessful-attack

CAIRO, Aug. 22 (Reuter), which arrived at an irish port yester -To-day's commu ni qu'e day told states that during the night some miles off the coast by a Nazi torpedo-bomber. The plane dropped of August 19-20, R.A.F. both its torpdoes, but missed their bombers raided Tobruk Har-mark.

Naval oil tanks on the foreshore, which were the main targets, received direct hits.

-Other-bombers attacked with success the landing grounds, at Tobruk and el Adem,

Meanwhile, the RA.F. attacks on Germany continue with undiminish- ed fury.

R.A.F. Bomb Oil Plant The Air Ministry announces them

thus:

"Further attacks on enemy all re- Oneries were carried out last night although the weather conditions were unfavourable. The chief largets were j the important Brabag refineries Magdeburg and the Dourag installa- Three Italian bombers were tions at Hanover. serlously damaged during a raid onj “At Cown and Abbeville our air- Sidi el Mini yesterday. One was craft bombed the aerodromes causing cet on fire and exploded. A second explosions on the runways and land- burned out. The third had its wings ing grounds and setting the hangars blown off.

adro. Searchlight batteries There were Д number of

ne gun dre. misars, which probably caused

were also made on damage to other aircraft,

Juledromes at Quakenbruck flianover and the Island of Texel,

"Railway centers were bombed in the Ruhr and Rhineland., Bomba were dropped on a tunnel between Our aircraft also raided Bomba on Nleburg and Verden, Hanover, as a the Libyan coast, A direct hit was supply train entered.

Planos Return Safely

All our bombers returned safely,

freglitered on a seaplane jelty.

werd

the

near

"Only one of our aircraft failed to

Aircraft of the Southern Rhodesian return, and South African squadrons carried numerous offensive recon-

out

ances in Italian Somaliland.

naissances

At Mogadiscio, direct hits were registered on the jetty of one hangar, while at Merka one Caproni aircraft jon the ground was damaged.

Direct hils were also registered on buildings.

Raid On Dessin

The RA.F, also carried out heavy! bombing of the Italian air baso at Dessin

were scored on the

Direct hits

aerodrome and buildings.

"

Greeks Face New Charge

--by Albanians

Special to the "Telegraph" TIRANA, Aug. 22 (UP) — The Albanlan newspapers renew- ed their charges of Greek [maltreatment of Albanians, in Heavy bombing attacks were also Clamuria and Janina regions to carried out on hangars and railway station at Diredawn. Direct

All our aircraft returned.

vere observed.

itwere

hiis day.

The latest example, says the Opposition from fighter planes was "Tomori," is the kidnapping of encountered and one of our aircraft Sellm Skiaku, an outstanding

was khot down.

A French crew carried out Im-Albanian intellectual who is portant reconnaissance flights into supposed to have been trans- enemy territory.

ported to Greece by Greek gendarmes.

HOW housewives can help to protect their homes in the event of ON GUARD

enemy air raiders using, incendiary bombs was shown si ́s demonstration.

He stated: "The policy of hot enough is known of his history of fire-fighting in London recently. The photograph shows housewives general internment has inevit-speeches or political or official activi

to show that by his writings or practising getting from a first floor windowe, without hurting themselves. Some Umportant changes in the ably resulted in the internment ties he has consistently, over a period Japanese diplomatic corps were ex-Lof some of the most bitter and for years, taken A public and pected as soon as Mr. Matsuoka took most active chemies of the Nazi prominent part in opposition to the of his energetle methods and inten-regime.

office as Foreign Minister in view

tion to promote "Great East' Asia" doctrine.ee

But

these

New Category..

Nazi regime and is actively friendly towards us or the Allied calzes.'"

He proposed to appoint a suitable legal experience, nasisted by two or

wholesale changes were “Our difculty has been to invent Tribunal consisting of a Chaleman of

Nazis Have Lost 1,000 Planes Over England

IN

The "Tomor" adds that Greek prisons in Janina and along the | Albanian-Greek frontler are full of and that Albanians of Clamurla

by the Greeks inside Albonla,;

CANAL ZONE numerous others have been kidnapped Special to the "Telegraph" *** BALBOA, Aug. 22'. (Domei).

The acting Governor of the BULGARIA GETS Glen Edgerton, was issued an POUND OF FLESH

Panama Canal Zone, Lt. Col.

order requiring all vessels enter. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHS, ing the ports of Balboa and BUCHAREST, Aug 22 (UP) Cristobal to halt near the naval Despite the oficial denial that an

Brand Rumania, vi Bulgaria

official

not expected since nearly the some test to decide the genuineness three people with knowledge of the LONDON; Aug. 22. (British Wireless) --Tñe. total of Ger- vessels stationed outside the/greement had been reached between Japanese diplomats were already re- of alleged hostility or opposition to politics of Germany and Austria man planes destroyed around the British coasts since the large entrances to the Panama Canal, circles "whatever policy✪ Tokyo diétates. of the Advisory Committee, I decided The Tribunal will be assisted, as scale raids began on June 18 reached: 1,000 with the aeroplane. The announcement states that it is haa ceded

Tals Impression has long caused to adopt a new category in the follow when it thinks Ai, by rellable repré-

garded as ardent proponents of the regime. On the recommendation

to-day that Rumania Cadilater to Bul-

the diplomatie, personal made little the Tribunal appointed by the Secret- of German political groups tortive the four, morg shot down, during the ralds over the British

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