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BLITZKRIEG

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

BY

NAZI BOMBERS

NAZI WARPLANES ATTEMPTED RAIDs over a WIDESPREAD AREA' YESTERDAY INCLUDING FOLKESTONE, THE SOUTHEAST COAST, LONDON, THE SCILLY ISLES AND IRELAND, SAYS "UNITED PRESS" MESSAGE RECEIVED IN HONGKONG THIS MORNING. Late yesterday afternoon two large forces of Gorman bombers flying at about 20,000 foot attempted to roach London, but were met by a strong force of British fighters over a southeast coast town.

A terrific air battle lasting for ten minutes followed, the planes fighting above the clouds.

At 5.20 yesterday after-

A Story in Five Photos on people in the streets of

HERE IS, in photographs, the graphic story of a : German airman who failed in his attack on a trawler, The trawler shot down his plane with ita A.A. guna; the Nazi bailed out. By an irony of fate, he was rescued by the man he tried to kill.

London the drone of enemy planes and at 9.30 last night the air raid alarm in London was sounded.

However, no bombs were

| apparently dropped, British anti- aircraft guns and fightera going into action Immediately.

Taken Unawares Thickingbatham a "Ualted Press“)

Folkestone 01

dr-

Korrespondent

Feribes how at least 30 dive bombers. | flying from the sun, tombed the coast

lawn yesterday afternoon 13 they

new over the cliffs.

The suddennes of the raki caught| people in the streets, including my self", he writes,

"Returning home I found all the windows of my house shattered and the roof blown off, but the telephone was still working, and I

I am telephon- ing this story over it"

3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, says mother "United Press" message

strong

Nazi air forces were nifacking southeast const town which was

the scene of one of the biggest batiles last Saturday.

British fighters went up to attack

the rolders above the clouds, and it

only wak

possible to catch perasional glimpse of the battle

Saw Three Shot Down

בזת

RAID ON IRELAND:

THREE KILLED

DUBLIN, Aug. 26 (Reuter). It is officially announced that a German bomber flew over the area of Campile, Ballynitty, Dannow and Duncormick County Wexford between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to-day.

In

Bombs were dropped at ench of these points.

A Co-operative creamery was wrecked.

Injured by tatting masonry,

Three girls were killed and one The Irish Charge d'Affaires in Berlin has been instructed to make Astroni protest to the German Government and to claim full res

paration.

Children Machino-Cunned LONDON, Aug. 28 (Reuter) ----In the German altack on the Sellly Isles, oft the Cornish coast, on Sun-

H. C. Flowerdew, another "Uniteit I day and to-day, children on

the

| Prers" special correspondent, writing (bench urtp machine-gunned. A

from

southeast coast town which baby was blown out of its mother's was bring raided declared: "I saw gnns. Three German planes that down Into the sea after a a dece battle off the southeast coast this morning.

The German crews were pecued from pinnaces. One German bomberi dropped about a dozen bombs negr

Eiro Protests

DUBLIN, Aug. 26 (Domel)---Nazi Wexford County, killing three per- planes bombed three localities In

sons, Lie Elre Government an- nounced.

a ship, but none hit the target Two It is understood that the Govern- more bombs were on a railway track TURN to Page 8. Column Five inum but no damage was done.

Attack On Folkestone LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter).A inge mamber of bombs, including in- cendiaries, were dropped during told on Folkestone this afternoon.

Geraan raiders dived low and the bombs could be seen leaving their

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Danage was done to property and a number of casualties were enused but no fires were started.

One Dornier bomber crashed On the beach, a second crashed a mile or two Inland and a third dived into the sea.

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THE GERMAN AIR FORCE SUFFERED CASUALTIES in their fierce attacks on Britain. In yesterday's raids 55 German fighters and bombers were brought down and other enemy machines were severely damaged. Successful Royal Air Force raids were directed against towns and industrial centres in western Germany.

U.S. Admiral Believes War With

Japan In Pacific Is Inevitable

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, U.S.N., formerly Chief of Staff of the United States Fleet and now Naval Critic for the United Press fears that war in the Pacific

Other raiders were chased away is inevitable and here discusses the reasons for his conclusion.

by British fighters.

By REAR ADMIRAL YATES STIRLING

U. 8. N. (ATD.)

Reports from another south-! eastern district state that Spitfires shot down two Messerschmitts, which were escorting German dive-bombera across the Straits of Dover,

Altogether the crews of three TURN to Page 8, Column Four phesied by strategists and economists, is inevitable.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (UP),—It seems evident that unless the United States and Japan can compose their mounting differences, war in the Pacific, long pro-

50 Casualties in Raid

On South Coast Town

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

Diplomatic tension between area and Kodiak Island and Sitka In the United States and Japan, Phoenix group, just south of the Alaska. Canton Island of the existing for years, is the reason equator, and Pagopago in Samoa are for the great preponderance of also to be fitted as ale bases. our naval strength being main- tained in the Pacific.

Far East Squadron

Closely tied to the feet at Hawall is a small feet now in the Far East Breaking-Point Reached Since Germany overran the Low sisting of one cruiser, one squadron -actually only a detachment-con- Countries and defeated France, that of overage destroyers, one fotilla of tension has reached breaking point. overage submarines and one overage

Reason: the rich Dutch East Indies

aircraft-carsier.

and French Cochin-China, both coveled by Japan,

Should war come hetween America and Japan it would be a naval war fought mostly in the Orient. This country would be at an initial dis- advantage but not necessarily a fatal

one.

In the event of war this weak detachment would be called upon to perform a herolo task-light a delaying action against the enemy sttempting to occupy the Philip plaes until our mala fleet could arrive.

LONDON, Aug. 26 (UP).-It is reported that about 50 people were killed and injured In a southeastern town when cight bombs, some of which were "screamers,” were dropped last night after parachute flares had illuminated the district.

Oficials estimate that in the| Searchlights picked up a plane course of to-day's raids the firing west to east after which fight Nazis used 500 planes and losting planes were, heard taking to the

At present, so far as is known, due ckles. about 15..

to Japanese naval secrecy, our navy At 8.50 p.m. the Air Ministry an

has numerical In addition, says a "Dome!" report nounced 'that at least 37.

This is a picture of opposing fleets to Japan's nine in battleships. We superiority of 13 quoting an official communique, the planes had been destroyed over and bases: the United States fleet of have only equality, If not less, in Folders lost 43 planes in their Sunday) Britain to-day, while 15 British under-age fighting ships in commis- night raida.

planes had been lost, although six of sion consists of 15 battleships, 37 TURN to Page 5, Column Four the pilots were reported sale. Damage In Midlands

gate areas.

German

Fleets Analysed

cruisers, 5 aircraft corriers, 47.des- troyers and 31 submarines. We have

numerous over-age warships in lighter Gone With Wind'

categories.

..

Star Divorced

To-day's ralds on Folkestone were apparently a continuation of effort to terrorise "civilians-an effort which was inaugurated on Saturday when The Ministry of Home Security has

Our main feet at present is in Indiscriminate bombing was carried issued a communique stating that

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" out over the Portsmouth and Runs municipal, industrial and residential Hawallan waters where the first class

val base

at Pearl Harbour is property was damaged in a Midlands

available to support it. In addition decree nist has been granted agminst LONDON, Aug. 28 (UP), A At 9.30 to-night the drone of planes town during to-night's raids.

a new base is being built at Dutch Miss Viviene Leigh, star of "Gone was heard in the Landon area, while The communique added: "There Harbour, on the Alaskan Island of With The Wind, who plays the part through the low clouds, searchlights were some camsities and a few Unalaska. Both these bases will be of Scarlett O'Hare, played in the southern districts. people were killed. In the rest of able to support the feel" *

Zba. decree was granted on the United Press correspondents don-the country the casualties were few Air bases have been bullt or are grounds of misconduct with Laurence ned steel helmets as a precaution and the property damage not seri- being built midway between Wake Olivier, another prominent British while working at their decks,

and Johnson islands in the Hawaiian fim star.

MINE SINKS A DESTROYER

British Loss

LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter).—The Admiralty announces that the des troyer Hostile (Lien- Commdr. A. F. Burnell- Nagent) has been sunk by an enemy mine.

The next-of-kin of the casualties have been in- formed.

The Hostile was one of the vessels of the 2nd- Destroyer Flotilla which participated in the memor able attack on Narvik last April when Captain War- burton-Lee, of the des troyer Hardy, was fatally wounded and awarded, posthumously, the first. Victoria Cross of the pre- sent war.

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