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The SECOND EDITION

*****Hongkong Telegraph.

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.

日八初月八

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people

CHILDREN AND BABIES

BABIES IN ARMS

DIE IN NAZI RAIDS ON

ON LONDON

INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING BY ATTACKERS ON SLUM DISTRICT IN EAST END

LONDON, SEPT. 8 (REUTER)—CHILDREN SLEEPING IN PERAMBULATORS AND MOTHERS WITH BABIES IN THEIR ARMS WERE KILLED WHEN BOMBS EXPLODED IN A CROWDED SHELTER IN THE EAST LONDON DIS- TRICT IN LAST NIGHT'S RAID, WRITES A PRESS ASSOCIATION REPORTER WHO VISITED THE SHELTER AFTERWARDS.

A bomb fell directly on the ventilator shaft, measuring only about three feet by one. This was the only vulnerable place in a powerfully- protected underground shelter accommodating over 1,000 people.

The bomb fell just as families from scores of nearby streets were settling down

in the shelter to sleep there for the night.

Three of four roof support pillars were torn down. About 50 people lay

[stunned in heaps.

COURAGE MIDST

Post-Raid

TRAGEDY

Scenes Described

LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter),--The battering London's dockland received in yesterday's raids has left the inhabitants of the crowded East End districts undaunted.

A "Router" reporter who tour- Į*********

ed the area writes: "I saw rescue

parties remove battered bodies KING'S BROTHER

from a wrecked hospital ward.

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"I saw a woman, pale and ban. daged, sitting in an air-raid shelter where her Iwo children had bern killed the night before. Friends were walling for a sultable moment break the news of her low to her.

"I saw working class homes re duced to piles of rubble, but saw nothing in this tragic scene to show that Hitler's stroke had daunted the spirit of the East End,

Sunday Meals As Usual "Women went on preparing Sun- day dinnera even though they had no water or gan. They borrowed water; from luckter neighbours and it fires to cook food.

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"One of then, who had spent the night in a shelter which rocked with every concussion, was preparing meal in a house where the dividing wall between the kitchen and parlour lay in chunks

The ACTORS Die

her furniture was ruined bui she was not going to disappoint the family who had looked practically forward all week to the Sunday dinner.

"In a dockland public house, where every window was blown out, busl- nese was brisk and while workmen

IN AIR RAID

Narrow Escape

LONDON, Sept, 8 (Reuter). Four minutes after the Duke of Kent had inspreted an aerodrome during an extenalve tour of the Kent area to-day, bombs were dropped near the aerodrome.

The Duke went to shelter and lunched there. marty fort below the clialk cliffs.

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During the morning, the Duke had inspected an aeroplane fac- tory and later saw a lively air battle over the Channel.

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Frightful

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It is thought that the same enemy plane unloaded severul! bombs over their area.

The roof was slashed of a church, Another bomb glanced of the top of a block of flats, leaving tīto walls-hungligt över "into" the street, and some business preinites were wrecked.

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West End Also Damaged The West London district had good share of the German night bombing.

Some damage was done to property but there were few casualties.

men.

Three blocks of luxury Anta two containing 800 elderly women and children, and the other about 300, were practically unhurt although in the heart of the bomb-

rd areas.

The unner Bora of one house were demolished

A woman, who War having her hath, escaped with a few scratches.

Immediately the crash.

came, she rushed downstairs and asked "How is my maid?

The maid received faclul injuries

"MUMMY! IT'S

IT'S REALLY ALIVE!".

A YOUNG EVACUEE meets a real live teddy-bear! This photograph, takan in famous Koala Park in Sydney, shows a young visitor to Australia introducing herself to one of

the koala bears that abound in the sanctuary. She is feading it with gum-leaves, the only food koalas eat.

H.K. SNOBBERY

IN SYDNEY

Civic Reception Cancelled

THE AMAZING allegation that a civic reception for from splintered glass and was taken the Hongkong evacuees had to be cancelled because of was made in

to hospital.

Nazi Lose 99 on Saturday LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter).-Final reports show that 11

The Lord

snobbery among a section of the women Sydney recently by an Australian official. mure enemy aircraft were destroyed by anti- The civic reception was arranged by the Lord Mayor of aircraft guna during yesterday's engagements, bringing the total shot Sydney, and was to have been held at Town Hall.

Mayor was informed, however, that the longkong evacuees were in three sections which dhi not CAIRO, Sept. B (Reuter).-The mix socially.

bridge at Awash, 90 miles east of (Evacuces voluntarily chose their Addis Ababa, on the Djibuti-Addis I categories from the point of view of Ababa Railway, been badly

damaged by Air Force bombers.

down by fighters and anti-aircraft TURN to Pago 8, Column Three

Blitzkrieg

Air Raids on London

Special to the "Telegraph”

Over 1,500 German bombers and fighter planes participated were busy shuttering every window in the mass raids on London on Saturday night and early Sun- and sweeping glass at the customers day morning.

feet, habitues were collecting for the Spitare 'Fund.

It is now believed that the casualties will exceed 2,000

"The neighbourliness which is 1-men, women and children. ways a feature of London's East End

excelled itself after the .rald. Those

Campaign

Intensified Claimed By The Axis

Special to the "Telegraph"

recorded--in the course of the

accommodation

arranged by Hongkong Government, Ed.)

the

They Do Not Mix Socially "The Hongkong evacuees are made up of army and navy officers' wives, other army and navy wives, dock- yard employees' wives, the wives of civil servants, and the wives of civilians," a spokesman sald In Sydney,

"Some of these people do not mix socially in Hongkong.

"We have had to arrange three separate committers to look after their social welfare. In Sydney.

"Thus, one dommlitee will look sfter a certain extegory, and so on. By this

-we hope to get over

has

THE SPEARFISH CASUALTIES

LONDON, Sept. 8 (UP). -The Admiralty

an-

nounces the loss of the following personnel in H.M.S. Spearfish, which was reported overdue last week:

Licut. Cmdr. J. H. Forbes;

Warant Engineer H. E. Archer;

Sub.-Lieut. J. P. Best; Lieut. A. R. Gimblett and D. A. Pirie.

Lieut. Cmdr. Forbes was a nephew of Wing Com- mander A. H. S. Steele Perkins, Director of A.R.P. in Hongkong.

Chungking Denies Troops In Action

Indo-China Situation Remains Very Obscure

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

BRITISH

PLANES

SHATTER

CHANNEL PORTS

LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter).—Determined, at- tacks on enemy shipping in Joccupied channel ports were pressed home by our bomber squadrons last night despite poor visibility and vigorous defences, says ип Air Ministry communique.

At Calals, bombs burst between the basing and the entrance to the harbour.

At Boulogne fires were started and bombs fell on the Loubet Basin.

Tremendous Damage

Direct hits were made on barges In the harbour" of Ostend and more bargo concentrations were heavily attacked, as were the Krupps Works at Esachi, war factories at Emden and Zweibruenken✨and; an old-plans at Gelsenkirchen buyout pena

Fires and explosións followed the bombing attacks on rall depots at Mannheim, Ehrang and Hamm

In the Rinck Forest, further attacks were made on war materials stored In the woods and great fres were started.

Many 'Dromes Attacked

Gun emplacements and searchlight batteries near Calots were bombed and in an attack on Colmar aero- drome, bombs fell through the roof of a hangar and flames burst through the doors and set fire to the aircraft outside,

Other nerodromes attacked were Gilzerijen, Wesel and Krefeld in Germany, Brussels in Belgium, Querqueville in France and Soester- burg and Einhaven in Holland.

From these widespread operations all our aircraft returned.

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·Further Late News

Cereal Foming paraan de U. S. Far East Policy

Resented in Japan

Special to the "Telegraph"

The Germans claim that they raids, whose houses were not damaged dumped 1,000 tons of high explo- TURN to Pago 8. Column Fourfsives-the biggest mass ever shambles ng Goering, who is reported the diff

Parts of London were still a blating

HANOI, Sept. 8 (UP)-Hanoi remains calm, despite the alarming reports from other parts of the country. French re to be in personal command.of the The official said that 97 per cent.sidents are displaying sang froid..and the sidewalk cafes are new “blitzkrieg,” resumed' the attack of the Hongkong evacuees had settled yesterday.

down, and were quite contented.

thronged with people. The fires served as beacons for the

Great interest, is being at- German pilots, says "United Press." Three Per cent Grousers

tached to the departure of Rescuers Work Through Raid "The remainder are grousers who General Tominaga, the Japanese Rescuers were digging dead and cannot adjust themselves lo the military leader, for Tokyo. He Injured from the ruins as the Ger- change," he said. mans came over again. They con Wives ende "children" "of naval left Hanol on Saturday. tinued their. rescue operations as officers and the Hongkong Naval The Indo-China press reports that bombs fell around them with a con- Volunteer Force are living at Garden air rald precautions are being carried stantly swelling ROME, Sept. 8 (UP)The German bombardment of the high to the roar and dames leapt Island, the Sydney naval base. They out in the Tongking province.

are being cared for by the Australian út is also revealed that saml- London area during the week-end la regarded in Rome not only

blackouts being practised at as a reprisal for the British raids on Berlin, but as marking the the ally thred stoke bang over naval. authorifles.

Attempts were made by some of Hanol and Halpheng where hospital start of a new and intensified phase of the Axis push on the toll of dead and dying is mounting Hongkong Indles to form a patients are carried to air rald

hundreds.

Hongkong Ofub ̈la Sydney, another shelters during the British Empire along all fronts.

Britain knows it is to be "ath out" report declares. But these" at- Native city criers It is claimed that the Italian Reports that Italian planes may be from now onwarda. But although Sempts are so meeting with con- and exhorting the populace to learn one of the leading Tokyo newspapers. air force is already participating participating in the raids on London hundreds are morning wives, and warm aan of tile ovLoudes 10: authorities are still preparing for his changed the status quo along the security Britain, and the United siderable inculty owing to the the air reld precautions, and the The United States says the paper,, purpose of maintaining her own have been neither dealed nor con- children and great numbers have in this new phase, pleas

een rendered homeless, England hos

any eventuality, although the general eastern and westem seaboard of States should recognise the same right According to Rome reports there. According to these reports Italian accepted the challenge. have been increased: Italian bombard aviation is sucking to avenge the re-

"No money? Complainte Vengeance Demanded war

is no immediate danger of invasion, Britain and, Costa Rica,

from for Japan at least in East Asia, where ments during last work of objectives cent bombardments of northern Italy

Complaints by some of the Chinese Invade Indo-China?

Japan holds the actual power in Africa and the Red Sea which are by British planes which are described This morning, as newspapers in evacupes that no money has yet ar

She is now attempting to extend "Why are Britain and the United believed to be a preliminary to the inofficial Italian communiques" as London published stories of, the mass, rived for them were referred to by CHUNGKING, Sept 9 (Reuter) Won this policy; to the Far East, further speeding up of the military "coming, as usual, from over Switzer-murder of the city's civilians, swift Mr. B. E. Maughan, the Elengkong According to a Hanoi dispatch to lie Power in the Western Hemisphere, natural demands are denied in Zant States free to take action in the If the United States us the pivotal Western Hemisphere while Japan's activity of Mussolini's war machine; | land."

TURN to Page B, Column Five TURN to Page 8, Column Five|TURN to Page 8, Column Three can change the status quo for the Asis? the paper asks.

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TOKYO, Sept. 9 (Domel) Charges that Britain and the United States are attempting to obstruct Japan's policy in the Far East were made this morning by the "Yomiuri Shimbun,"

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impression appears to be that there America by leasin