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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BURGLAR Official Communiques

August 26, 1940.

ALARMS “Considerable Casualties' QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

Hitler's Bombs Set

Them Going.

LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter). -The bursting bombs caused in London some spectacular freak] effects. For instance, parts of a motor car were seen this morn-

ing hanging festooned in the

trees,

Risking the danger of falling in- conillary banbe four mro dashed from shelter to tackle a fire in a works, They climbed a ten foot wall and fought the flames with sand unit the Are brigade arrived!,

Alsout 600 ridents in two blocks fats went to the shelters and shortly afterwards a number of in- cendiary buenis fell outside the Bats anch

at the entrance In the und shelters, A-Ukia frature of the rald was tart that there was only one vasily in this thickly populated di trict Be way worden who suffered a burnt bond wide helping to deal with mcendiary buinte

Thus setting burgla alarmes, worge congng all over the attacked detrijela

explosiones hul starte

H. K. Stock Market

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Omeinl communiques, issued yesterday, describe R.A.F. oftacks on the German gun emplacements, and on German-occupied territory, BRITAIN: Nazi Air

attacks continued considerable numbers of enemy aircraft dropped bombs various parts of England in- cluding the London area and South Wales.

At G o'clock yesterday evening Exchange At

A Glance

on

Anti-aircraft batteries WeLe action and British Aighting: plane Intercepted the maiders

Reports from all parts indicate that the ensualties were email.

A considerable number of casualties were caused by the Nazi nir raid ori

Termouth on Saturday afternoon. ulting in fatality to some The majority Werr L 22 einuma which

directly In Saturday night's rand en pl of the Lendon area, there were some casualites but the number of killed was small, the communique said,

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Naz. planes made radic attack. eve a wide area in England Shebt damage and some casualties as pes ported to three towns in North Eng.

na ten the Midlands Later reports чени that Rame damage was done in industrial per Rise the northeast coast, that no further crequalties are rejetted

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Bombs were also dropped in south ( Wales. No damage T reported bot. one person was repiously injured.

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WIDESPREAD RAIDS

FROM PAGE ONE

by oor fghters in this stra

Later in the afternoon the enemy | went cant this afternoon

tore an attempt in koter

the Dorset angst but was diyen mit

Abri Taliel 10-rest An artis

Cross Channel Bombardment Coastal Command aireract carried potting for 100 Brillery. NE against enemy praiticas Tween Berdogne and Calais toeány

Na bomber were dropped and it already krona that 24 enemy Air fut Craft were destroyed in this engage ment, nord that bout of our arybe lunes: are miring though, dure of the pilots)!

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R.A.F.: Widespread

raids on Germany Objectives in towns in south.

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German long-rangs gun positions wtre alua attacked by R.A.F. bombers for the third accendve sight.

Making thi

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Two British aircraft are missing Military objectives in Italy meluded | minted that a large petrol sture in targets af Milnod and Seste Calendo ; the woorde was hit The the spread

From the Halina operations all our rapidly and floodia the alteraft returnert safely.

aerodrome

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over

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Ton the following Benchelins

the Femler Bene plans at Stuttgart cross the frontier and when the lust raider departed methodical Between 11 pm on Saturday and 2m on Sunday four planes, proteoling, hruxy, explosions had brep ably Brit, again few

Swint caurent and the main groups of build. wrritory

was blazing

Hospital Struck LONDON. Auc ZA harbour mineddy and high explouve bombs

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The German air force to-day fell in the Feind in area today strik- hospital, * factory and other continued the planned destruc-

tion of military and important goals of the enemy with great

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At least one person was killed and our others injured

The statoy was up force from 11:30 Saturday until 120 pm 4757

Sunday

Damage In London LONDON Ang 25 (Reuler!

done in the Landon

An pers ously reported they bombe ied and partially destroyed attacks.

hangars, fac bag tes and camps on air- felds at North Weald, Herneburet, Manston, Canterbury and Ramsgate

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Hitler Reported On Way To Front Line

nd

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and then cly in the week-end raids i was very mall indeed

11! The wor wital an offeral of the

1 Feat Dove were abo elimistry if Betrie Security telel

"Reuter" after a tour of inspection

In the course of the night attack", In the city vertain areas may be siderable part of the harbour | respect off to narrow becaure works at Bristol were destroyed and widespread breaking of glass which lanks m Thameshaven were ex has left the contents of many hops giler.

lying ogen.

An airplane factory in Derby was set fee while factories at 151ring - ham, Kingston and Rochester were partially destroyed, The malting st British harbours continues,“

Villas Demolished LONDON, Aug. 25 (Router).—At Ramsgate whole rows of seaside villas were demolished and

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H.M.S. Sea Lion Reaches Home Port

Submarine's amazing

escape from ramming

LONDON, Aug. 25 (Reuter).—Travelling blind through the loss of both periscopes which were damaged people rendered homeless, but by a German ship, the British submarine Sea Lion has returned to her base after a patrol in which she sank onc

The German air force last night bombed and destroyed a great part casualties were comparatively few.

of the Rolls Royce factory in Eng- After bombing, the ratders return

Innd where the Merlin motors for the ed to machine-gun Bremen dealing

manufactured.

British Spitfire fighting planes re with an outbreak of fire at a gas

werks.

enemy store-carrying ship, chased a U-boat, attacked a convoy and finally was forced to lie low for two days Italy: Mussolini's

London Areas Roped Off LONDON, Aug. 25 (Router)The near a German base. Version Of Raids public were strictly excluded from

Shortly after starting on her Four out of 10 British pursuit the area damaged in last night's patrol, she torpedoed a 3,000-ton planes which engaged the Italians London raid.

the shore.} were shot down when Italian air A large square was roped off to-store-carrier near

CHINESE

units attacked Maltz. Hallan fighter day, buses were diverted and even The crew of the carrier reached WARNING TO planes escuted bombers and fought the tenants of business premises in land in boats. plane was shot down.

the British pursuit units. One Italian the vicinity had to secure pollee per-

Two British destroyers which open- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” ed fire on Bardin Port in North Africa

were put to fight.

or.d

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (Domel).— Broadcasts from Berlin-Radlo

Italian air units also attacked Bri- Reme-Radio announce that Hitler has tish motorized columns between Sid left Berlin for his "front line head-Barrant and the Cyrenaica frontier quarters somewhere in France." The announcements add "large-scale military operations are In preparation for the invasion of

· Britain."

Belgian Cabinet Crisis Denied

that

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" VICHY, Aug. 23 (UP).-M. Paul Spaak, the Belgian Foreign Minister,

denies that a Cabinet crisis has oc-

curred.

He issued the following statement to-day: "The Belgian Government officially denies there is any question of the Belgian Cabinet resigning. either now or in the near future."

MOSCOW DENIAL

No Demands On Turkey

when three tanks were destroyed.

Slight damage was caused and five civilians were wounded when British planes raided Tobruk. British air- craft also bombed Piedmont and Lombardy, coming from Switzerland.

NAZI WARNING

Unneutral Act to Submit Ships to Navicert

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Ang. 25 (Domel) Authorized, Nari quarters - disclose that Germany again has warned non- beilgerent shippers that it would be

mits to visit them.

Later she sighted a U-boat and Air Fight Over Dorset

engaged her with gunfire, but the LONDON, Aug, 25 (Reuter)-A enemy dived. terrife air battle over the Dorset

The Sea Lion afterwards, spotted a coast area this afternoon resulted in the rout of over 10 German bombers German convoy strongly protected by and fighters, three of which were un anti-submarine escort. brought down on land.

People on the cliffs report seeing three others crush into the sea.

Four Germans who baled out over the land were taken prisoner.

President Roosevelt Goes Yachting

The Sea Lion moved into a favour-| convoy and was preparing to re able position in the middle of the a torpedo when one of the German ships happened to change course. taking her right over the submarine,

Crashing Shock

There was a crashing shock and

PETAIN CABINET

Special to the "Telegraph” CHUNGKING, Aug. 25 (UP).—The official "Central Daily News," in an editorial to-day warns France against the surrender of Indo-China a issues to Japan,

few moments later depth charges were dropped but all went wide.

The Sea Lion was forced to remain

fcil.

She

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH

"If France surrenders to WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP) ~

Japan, then France should Freskient Roosevelt cruised down the submerged until darkness Potomac River to-day in the pre-

then came to the surface and found shoulder all the responsibi- sidential yacht Potomac.

both periscopes badly damaged and

lities for all the other superficial damage done.

a fairly heavy sea, the crew sequences," it says. despite great dificulties and the risk

"China will decidedly not being swept overboard, managed

He was accompanied by Mr. Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of Commerce, an unneutral act to submit their ships and other high onlelals. to the British naval system...

"Britain is no longer in a position

In, A

of The President is expected to return

to exercise an air-tight sea control," to Washington to-night. He will spend two days at the White House before proceeding to Hyde Park..

a Nazi spokesman declares.

ment Tllowing the passage of Soviet

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION ships through Dardanelles in The SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" event of a war in the Balkans, were Mr. Yeh Kung-cho will present the MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (Domel).--- denied by Tass, official News Agency prizes to successful students of the Reports appearing in the foreign of the Soviet. Government. The | Chun-Shing - Institute of Commerce Press that the Soviet Government Agency said the reports. Were a this afternoon at 4.30 pm, at the has demanded from Turkey on agree- fabrication.

Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.

-con-

to the afrortness of the night, were tolerate a Japanese invasion Therefore unable to finish the work. The Sea of Indo-China. Lion had to lie submerged through-

out the next day near an enemy base even if France surrenders while anti-submarine vessels hunted Indo-China

cannot escape She returned home, sailing blind. the disasters of war."

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