1940-09-05 — Page 13

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Hitler Is Feeling Effects Of Britain's Powerful Blockade

Special to the "Telegraph"

LONDON, Sept. 4 (UP).—Britain's tighten- ing blockade of Germany is strikingly revealed in official figures released to-day by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, which reviews the first

year of the war.

Many Dead

of

The Contraband Control ordered the seizure 763,344 tons of enemy cargo past twelve

In German during the Troop Ship

Special to the "Telegraph"

GOTHENBURG, Sept. 4 (UP). Confirmation of the torpedoing of a Nazi troop- ship off the Skaggerak has been received from Swedish fisherman.

DISHONOUR DIVIDES AN EMPIRE

JALGERIA

AFRICA

[SOMALIS

AMERICA

SOUTH

ANTICI

[MANDATE

ĮPRASAGASCAR

OCEAN

months and considered the Second in importance only to the British Commonwealth, France's colonial empire comprises territorics in all the quarters of the position of 3,979 ships.

world. The most important, together with metropolitan France, It is emphasised that the are marked black in this map. The Empiro's area is 4,617,579 tonnages mentioned "represent square miles and its peoples, white, black, yellow and brown, only a small fraction of what

number more than 65,000,000. Germany has lost owing to the contraband control because most of her normal imports never sulled."

The Ministry also announced that| the number ut my.eeri applentions

It is believed that thence the system was introduerd at casualties among the Ger- the beginning of

man troops aboard are high.

So far only 100 of the entire! complement aboard the ship have been anved.

1940 and up to

1 September 3 was 63.523

3,979 Ships Held

LONDON, Sepf

+

(Reuter

Bettams yra of reonomic warfare |

The vessel was of about 12,000, is having deflate offert or Germany's tons.

It was torpedoed by H Deval unit aan t

Bath

TVAL northern tip of Denmark.

According Swedish rye-wal- nemes, the vessel zank rapidly

the

Communiques

U.S. WARSHIPS

Air LEAVE HAWAII

Royal Force Raids Continued

todustrial machine, arvording to an ofelul statement mode in Landon The following Official Com- Since war began, the Contraband muniques (received through Committer her held 3,079 shps and UP, Reuter and Damei) were ordered the seizure of 783,000 tons of

of 230,000 released yesterday. cargo, consisting mainly

The hundred survivors were farded tons of base metal, 182,000 ton of R.A.F.: New Targets

at Skagen, in Denmark

War Factories

Intact

Nazi Raids Fail

Bombed in Raids

petrodrum and allied products, 84,000 touts of food and beverages, 74,000 tons of oil areds, 30,000 tons of feed-

New largets were bombed last : truc stuffs, 37,000

Luns

of textile and night by Royal Air Force bom- 34,000 tuns af non-metalle minerais

bers in Germany and Italy. This represents only a very small

British fraction of what Germany Josi owing

bombers attacked to the British Contraband Control tiyamite works at Schlebuch north- There burve beert nver 03.000 rust of Cologne, St Pierre, Darena applien lans

at Genom,

LANDON, Sept. 4 (Heuter). The system. Mallands area of Britain bas been

umfer the

the

For the second suveessful night, British planes bombed objectives near

heavily attached in recent Nazi an, When the systems became compus-Culogue, the Dortmunidres cummi near

applications raida but only slight damage has born mory in August,

done by these night raiders seeking, nearly three times those of July

to cripple war production. any's An

Americon correspondent in stain

After a survey of Birmingham and,

ita environs, he says he toured only two factories so badly danged that production has to be stopped ure mall plants,

His estimates of the damage based on personal observation survey was

They

Japanese Representation

on Navicert System

SPECIAL TO THE

were the French port Laetent and the gao

~TELEGRAPHY

LONDON, Sept R (Domel) Japanese Emlingy bis presented

| emplacements at Gris Nez

GERMAN: Claims

Further Sinkings, Raids

British destroyed on

The

Sixty-two

were

are rejaesentation to the British Foreign when Nazi planes

aircraft

|

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HONOLULU, Sept 4 the (Domei),-Units of United States Fleet, in- cluding nine batteships, sailed out of Pearl Har bour

оп

manoeuvres.

Tuesday for

The warships are sche- duled to return on Septem- ber 13 when the main body of the Fleet is due to arrive for a normal fort- night's upkeep.

September 5, 1940,

services

SAIGON BLACK-OUT

Special to the "Telegraph”

SINGAPORE, Sept. 4 (UP). Passengers from Saigon by airplane to-day describe the French Japanese delegates in Hanoi as entering an "increased huddle."

and

of

After the announcement the Japanese ukimatum, Saigon was partially blacked out yester- day evening.

The passengers added that residents of Indo-China are very uncertain regarding the future of the colony.

Chungking Denial

SPECIAL TO THE **TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Sept. 4 (UP)—A Government spokesman to-day denied the Hongkong "China Mail" report that an agreement has been reached between Chungking and the Indo- China government concerning defence mensure to be adopted in the event of a Japanese Invasion of Indo-China. | The spokesman termed the report. a Japanese rumour and said Chung- king has received no such informa- tion from Admiral Decouя.

NUFFIELD'S GIFT

£250,000 TO THE AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND

LONDON, Sept. 4 (Router)-Lord Nuffield hins handed cheque for £250,000 to Lord Wakefield, Chair- mut the Council of the R.A.F.

which Benevolent Fund, with

to

found a fund to be known as the "Nufeld Endowment,”

will be

Interest from this sum applied to relief of all forms of dis- tress among the dependents of I.A.F. personnel killed or incapacitated by, wounds or injuries received in action.

Panama Defences To

Be Strengthened

SPECIAL TO

THE "TELEGRAPH"

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4 (UP).—Colonel Frank Knox. Secretary of the Navy, disclosed to-day that the United States is negotiating for the use of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands strengthen the defences in the Western Hemisphere.

Colonel Knox and that

make the

#t

Hu

WDs, plating the nequisition at further Panama bases. He said that the President

told him, "any more hases are the window."

out

Tuesday romanud te

Canal impregnable. conducted

No Further Bases WASHINGTON, Sept. 4

conferring with Roosevelt, Senator John Bankheadment charging that it violated the law said the United States not coniem- when Congress was not consulted,

Theffer in the form of a letter regard- fresh stabbing assaults on the mude without official ng the treatment of Japanese stea- British aerodromes, ports and After knowledge. He simply hired Cau mers under the Navier system in and told the driver where to ga Empire porta

Firemen Quell Blaze In

N.Y.K. Passenger Liner

Special to the "Telegraph"

KOBE, Sept. 5 (Domei).—A fire broke out in No. Hold of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Haruna Maru 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning while 4,500 tons Bombay cotton were being unloaded.

The fire was believed to have been caused by an ignition of.

steel bale straps.

The

fre

Was completely

industrial centres.

Forty-six

Was

planes were duwned during dog fights, one shut down by anti-mireraft Bre and 15 were bombed on the ground, the etabrotanique claimed Ten Nazi plates were said to be missing

(UP). Meanwhile, the Republiem niem. Presidentbers of Congress attacked the agree

'Cobber's' Mother Meets King

LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter).—Mrs. Kain, mother of Flying During the night raid, our war Officer "Cobber" Kain, the New Zealand ace who was killed pinies bombed Liverpool, Briston, Avontnouth Poole Rochester Mid some months ago, to-day received from His Majesty the King

esborough, causing huge conflagra- at Buckingham Palace the D.F.C. medal won by her son.

Mrs. Kain and her daughter, accompanied by the High atf First Lieutenant Endrass which Commissioner for New Zealand, were received in private by

has returned from a lengthy cruise, the King.

A Nuzi U-boat under the command

2

1:13:17

of

sank six armed British merchantmen

The ship which originally was totalling 37,500 tons. scheduled to sail for Yokohama thin

morning, will stay here until Sunday CAIRO: Ten Words

to undergo repairs.

Part of the passengers aboard the

their liner continued

the ex-Yokohama aboard

others

Journey

Kamakura

to

Tokyo by train.

tinguished at 6 o'clock in the after-Maru while.

noon.

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Sum Up Situation

On all fronts there is nothing of importance to report. LONDON: Widespread Raids on Germany

German objectives attacked by the R.A.F. yesterday were oil storage tanks Magdeburg, goodsyards at Hamm and Schwertz, a blast furnace at Merzig and several Dutch German aerodromes.

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