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wing are the U.S. Official registrations for the first three months of this year:

Chevrolet 2nd. Truck

3rd. 4th

47,343

39,409

13,143

12,701

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HITLER would like to anasinate Our King. Hu planes now bomb Buckingham Palace daily. The King is supreme C. in C. of Britain's forces; technically, the Navy is his personal property.

TWO OPINIONS ON THE MOST DEBATED QUESTION OF TO-DAY

Zero

Hour

Hitler

Loses

To-day? Gamble

"Now Or Never"

No Invasion This

For Hitler

A

By SAIJI HASAGAWA

"DOMEI" STAFY CORRESPONDENT

LONDON,

Winter

Special to the "Telegraph"

Hitler has lost his gamble.

Sept. 16 He has now given up all

(Domei)-Britain is ready idea of invading Britain for Hitler's zero hour.

this year, "but will launch a

As Against France

WE HAVE THE GUNS & SHIPS

Illustrative of the might of an

GREAT RAID

3).

R.A.F. LAUNCHES TERRIFIC ONSLAUGHT AGAINST NAZI BASES FOR INVASION

By HOMER JENKS

"United Press" Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP).—Antwerp, the great Belgian port which Hitler has been turning into a naval and U-Boat base and a point for the jump-off of the contemplated invasion of England, is in smoke and flames Empire which Hit-}|to-night. ler must overcome before he can act fool ол English #oil, these two photos have just been received by air mail.

OFFENSIVE IN

EGYPT

Italians Advance. Report.

Special to the "Telegraph"

To-night's full moon and final attack on England in ROME, SEPT. 15 (DOMEI).—ADMITTING - equinoxal tide are believed the coming spring."

FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT MARSHAL to present the German dic-l This is the contention ad- GRAZIANI HAS LAUNCHED AN OFFENSIVE

Signor Roberto tator with his best chance vanced by of attempting an invasion. Farinacei, Secretary to the Ita- EASTWARD FROM LIBYA, AN ITALIAN lian Fascist Party, in his Creme- OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ANNOUNCED After to-night the moon will wane. Tides and weather will cist," says "United Press,"

na newspaper, "Regimo Fas-

THAT FASCIST LEGIONS HAVE, CROSSED become increasingly adverse. Farinacci says that Hitler will THE EGYPTIAN FRONTIER.

Belief that Hitler may attempt to spend the coming winter in preparing invade England is heightened by the for a spring Invasion of Britain.

The offensive has been under way since reports of further concentration of

Friday. It is unofficially reported that a number German barges along the coast of Europe.

But Britain's aerial and other de-lowed a similar plan in her

He emphasises that Germany fol- of positions having been occupied. fences have vastly improved in the against. France, and adds that the The Italians are using a past three months.

Nazis will attack the British Isles Zone of Fire

only when she is sure of obtaining large number of tanks and The curtain of are which the new victory with the least amount of armoured cars and an im anti-aircraft barrages send over bloodshed, Lotion has érented "a" zone in which "In the war against France," he pressive air force. Nazi planes can fly only at extreme declares, "Germany let the winter Italian bombers and fighters posk for the purpose of preparing along the coast, the British de- herself for a winning attock in the are attacking in waves, assisting fences are at their greatest pitch of spring. This will be repeated in the frequently executing dive-bomb- the mechanized, formations and

10 a depth of several miles inland "Germany will unleash a decisive ing attacks patterned after the strongly fortified. *

attack when it is opportune, and, Nazi "Stuka" tactics in the above, all, when she will be able to win with the least possible sacrifice Battle of France.

peril..

All

efficiency, with every menaced point war against England.

Fully F Prepared

Britain, too, is thoroughly prepared of human lives."

for the menace of parachute landings, be myers

war

.'

The oporations are apparently aimed, at far-reaching objectives.

Italians Penetraten,

Altogether, the wealth of equipe we release an age bag, ment now at the disposal of the die Miss VE Remedios of 24.HU- fonders is of a standard deemed im- wood Road, has reported the loss of CAIRO, Sept. 15 (Reuter) ----Pene- possible to attain three months ago. 970 which she had left in the unlock tration of Itallon forces into the de- "The "people"everywhere, show: ex- ed drawer of a wardrobe in her bed-seri area evacuated by the British

Column Sixromat

continues..

Camps are being constructed in the neighbourhood of Birnub, seven

miles south of Sollum;! Van

The enemy has already exposed himself to severo handling by nir--

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COLOSSAL EXPLOSIONS

+

Its great docks and wharves, rebuilt after the German occupation of 1914-18, are masses of fiery wreckage.

Colossal explosions have torn the waterfront apart, leaving a shambles.

All along the Channel coast and deep into the Reich, too, the Royal Air Force has spewed forth death and destruction up the Germans and their works.

But it is upon Antwerp that the full fury of an aerial armada from Britain's hundreds of aerodromes has been vented.

Over forty tons of high ex-j plosives bombs were dropped on the harbour, warehouses, power station and other military ob- Ljectives...

A thousand incendiary bomba started scores of fires, which wer visible across the Channel.

The eastern and western basins of | the harbour were blasted from all directions.

Barges Become Matchwood

Warehouses in which the Noals were storing munitions In prepent- tion for the invasion of Britain con- pletely disappeared in explosions

which rocked a tremendously wide

area.

175 NAZIS DOWN

IN BIGGEST DOG

FIGHTS OF WAR

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE

UNITED PALSS STAFF CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Sept. 16 (UP).—Britain's out- numbered Royal Air Force to-day claimed the biggest victory of the siege of London in raging air battles that knocked out at least 175 enemy raiders from the skies and sent the Nazi planes' Braving what the Air Ministry des-pilots plunging into streets in the heart of the

Barge concentrations were turned

Into matchwood, Oli slores blazed flercely.

cribed as "appalling weather," the Royal Air Force attacks have con- tinued day and night since the be ginning of the week-end.

At midnight, Berlin flash report

ed new raids. with RAF machines

coming closer and closer to Berti:

itself. Anti-aircraft fire was then audible in the German capital.

At dawn this morning the French of coat was obscured by a haze smcke, the like of which has neverj been witnessed before.

BLUM HELD

Metropolis.

Wounded German pilots, pleading "Kamerad" fell in London's bomb-torn strects while others were rescued by police and soldiers when angry Londoners tried to seize

them.

TERRIFIC AERIAL BATTLES

Vivid Report

Second Biggest "Bag"

To-day's bag of, German raiders is the second biggest of the war-181 were shot down on August 15. The RAF's bag compared with loss of only 30 British planes-odds six to one on Britain's favour-and twenty pilots.

Petain Detains Former French Premier SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

While German planes again bomb- VICHY, Sept. 15 (Domel).

ed Buckingham Palace, damaging the M. Leon Blum, former French

Special to the "Telegraph” Queen's private apartments and caus-

Some of the fiercest air battlesing fires in Premier and leader of the

Palace grounds, Nazi were fought planes fell around Victoria Station Popular Front, has been arrest of the entire war

over London and the British within sight of the Palace, in Ken- ed.

ningten across the Thames, and at southeast coast yesterday, ac- Streatham. He was taken into custody at aj chateau at Chazeron, near Riom. cording to special descriptive M. Reynaud, the pre-Armistice messages from" "United Press" Premier, General Gemella, former correspondents in England.

The air battles which gave the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied

Ond report, telephoning from R.A.F. this heartening victory extend- Armies and M. Mundel, former

southeast coastal town declared: "The ed with almost unbroken fury from Minister for the Colonies, are aircody fiercest air batile ever fought in this TURN to Page 2; Column Five being detained for trial at Chazeron district began five minutes after the

French Warships

At Dakar

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" GENEVA, Sept. 15 (Domel)--Con- Midcrubio

haz been speculation

the

first sirens were founded in the morning.

"A strong formation of at least 100 German bombers came within range of a terrifle barrage from anti-aircraft batteries. The shells burst in the 'middle of their close formation, Formation Scattered

aroused by the reported safe arrival "The raiders flew relentlessly on at Dakar of the French naval squa-and then the second line of defence dron which slipped through

went into action, while British Aghters comed to the attack and scattered the formation out of the cloud layers.

Siraits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic

last week,

Observers are mystified regarding the British Navy's reason for per- mitting the French warships to pass through the Straits unmolested.

2,113 German

Planes

Destroyed So Far

"Hell's Corner"

LATEST

LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter), Sometimes the planes appeared screaming through the clouds. and

Thirty British planes were lost yes. then wildly zoomed up again with terday. Ten of the pilots are known machine guns roaring.

Two German planes spun, shriek-to be safe,

ing to earth.

"All the raiders wer

were so busily engaged in warding off the British | Oghters that they had no time to drop

their bermati i innded by

**One*

plot

parachute and was unhurt. Another German bomber was seen to crash. It was half an hour before the noise

LONDON, Sept. 15 (Domel)-British official cir.of the battle subsided,

cles announce that the Royal Air Force since the begin- ing of the war has shot down a total of 2,113 German

planes

Bombs On London

Another Up" message from Lon- don says that in a second daylight TURN to Paga. 2, Column FIV.