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"Crisis Week-End" Passes, But Britain's Defenders Still

NEUTRALS

BELIEVE

on Alert

THREAT OF

DAILY

INVASION DECREASING

HEAVY FOG OVER CHANNEL | FAVOURS NAZIS BUT R.A.F. BLASTS BARGE ASSEMBLY

Special to the "Telegraph"

THE BRITISH CABINET still reckons strongly with the threat of immediate invasion, an influential member of the Government told “United Press” last night.

But the failure of "crisis week-end" to produce anything extra- ordinary has strengthened the feeling of neutral experts that the threat of invasion is decreasing each day.

Whether the delay is due to conflict within the German High Com mand, or conflict between Hitler and the High Command, or the Luft- waffe's inability to break the Royal Air Force and the latter's own murderous pounding of invasion bases is not clear

FULLY PREPARED

If the invasion does come, Britain is fully prepared.

A Cabinet member said last night: "We continue to heligve it might come

at any hour.

"But never have we been more confident in our ability to crush it."

All along Britain's shores, hundreds of thousands of look-outs are on the qui vive, ready to raise the alarm the moment anything untoward happens.

FOG OVER CHANNEL

Every available unit of the Royal Navy is patrolling the invasion area. Late yester day afternoon a very dense fog descended on the Channel area, reducing visi- bility to about 100 feet, and the aerial ceiling to zero.

The wind is abating.

Meanwhile the Germans have ordered the entire southern and western coast of Norway closed, presumably to conceal invasion preparations.

Shattering Attacks By Our Bombers

Berlin Airport Hit & Damaged By R.A.F.

All persons over the age of 15 years are required to carry passes before leaving or enter- Ling the area,

German guns on the Pietili ch te-commenced stellung The Lover! asen at 11 am

The bombardment opened salvors as the city's mam streets were crowded with surning shoppers, who rusted to the shelters,

Four

Within

fred satvoes were len minutes. Eleven persone were injured.

Concentrations Blasted

GOERING FEARS THEM

Here is the gun-and the mon behind it--feared by German airmen. This type of R.A.F. pilot sent 186 planca, over a thousand Nazi airmen, crashing to their doom in yesterday's great air battles.

INTENSE RAIDS ON LONDON

Hundreds of Bombs on Metropolis

By BYRON TAVES

"United Press" Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Sept. 17 (UP).-German raiders staged The Royal Air Force, despite poor intense air raids over London again last night. visibilty and advaras flying condi- tions, continued to blast the Nuzi ; Bombs fell by the hundreds while anti-aircraft

batteries roared continuously with salvo after salvo.

bange concentrations over

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wide

LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter)—Describing the attack on Berlin in the early hours of this morning, the Air Ministry news service states that the German capital was visited by a harassing force which bombed military

Heavy attacks were made yesterday objectives to the north-west of the city, the Templohfon concentrations of wor supplies, Airport and power stations which had been damaged in para Homburg. When ven Communiques previous raids.

The raiders were met with anti-aircraft fire but none of the| aircraft was hit.

Thunderstorms over the clly caused the engine of one bomber attacking the Templohť Airport to cut out us the crew were approaching the target. Unloaded Bomba

bases Dn the Dutch,

CONVOYS RAIDED

German Shipping Gets Bad Time

area.

at Hainburg, Wilhelmshaven, Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Culats and Boulogne.

Direct hits were scored on a Ger- man warship at Terschelling and (military tanker and supply ship in the Elbe Estuary were severely damaged,

Aircraft of the Coastal Command also sunk an enemy ship off Ijmuden. German convoys off the Nether-

R.A.F. IN ACTION

Intensive Raids Oficial communiques issued lunds coast were also attacked, two last night included the following:

supply ships being sunk.

Attacks were also made on the

Continuing his run, the pilot un- loaded his bombs on the aerodrome.

LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter). alongside the quaya and the quays

shipping and docks at Le Havre, ships LONDON: British and flying at 5,000 feet succeeded in

Bombers Active maintaining this height on only one-Fuller details of Air Force themselves being repeatedly hit, engine for 45 minutes until the second attacks are given by the Air (United Press and Domel messages.)

The R.A.F. luat night bombed engine picked up,

|Air Ministry news service.

military objectives in Berlin. Invasion Belgian and French coast were again The statement says that the

Further nations stacks were pes, on concentrations of war supplies, the chief objectives on Sunday night's German supply ship sunk at!

barges, and shipping at dockyards anchor at Umuiden was a 5,000¦

and the ports of Hamburg, Wilhelm- ton vessel.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Reuter), shaven, Antwerp, Flushing. Ostend, As regards the attacks on German-President Roosevelt at a brief Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne.

Other forces of RAF. bombers convoys and shipping concentrations Ceremony at the White House signed

distribution centres at the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription attacked

raids.

Antwerp Again During the night the heaviest attacks were directed against the

Roosevelt Signs Conscript Bill

́TURN to› Pago 2, Column Three on the Channel const, the staternent Bill whereby some 16,500,000 men be-Hamm, Osnabruck, Soost and Kreftål, says the first convoy was attacked off tween the ages of 21 and 35 become good yards at Hamburg and rallway TURN to Page 2, Column Two liable to military service.

Junctions at Rheine were also bomb- led.

6 LOST ABOARD

"EXPRESS"

LONDON, Sept. 16 (UP),—The Admiralty announced that the follow- ing casualties occurred in the des troyer, Express, which was damaged recently either by mine or torpedo:

Killed,--Lieut. Commdr. D. w.

SNOBBERY MADE TRIP TO AUSTRALIA “UNPLEASANT"

-Sydney Report

Deane, Temporary Sub-Lieutenant; Snobbery aboard one of the evacuee ships en route to Aus R. P. Lawrence

tralia from Hongkong made life unpleasant for passengers Died of Wounds-Capt. J. G. Bick-aboard, according to the Sydney "Daily Telegraph.”

de by a section sections,

ford.

Missing, Temporary Surgeon

Eforts were me Lieut. A. C. Shelford.

of the passengers to obtain con- cand Lieut. D. H. Maitland-MacGill cessions which they did not wish

Crichton,

to have granted to the other

Wounded Kleut. C. M. K. Bruton

Warship Hit

Incendiary bombs rained on the northern, eastern, south- western and western districts at about 11 p.m.

The raiders arc again apparently operating singly or in small groups but they are coming in ilke clock- work from all directions and are ty- ing for lower than in recent nights. The shopping district took a big share of the pounding.

Raiders were also reported over south-west England and Wales last night. A town in the Midlands was

also bombed German planes were also active in northeast and southeast

FRENCH DOWN R.A.F. PLANE

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VICHY, Sept. 16 (UP). -It is officially announced that French fighting plane, patrolling near Casablanca, shot down a British seaplane in flames when the latter fired a volley of shots at the French craft.

The British crew of three were saved by French naval launch.

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British planos recently flew over Morocco drop- ping tracts inviting the French to join the De Gaulle movement,

ITALIAN CLAIMS

Bugbug Reached

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Cholera

New Year Advanced Kowloon City Wards Off Evil Spirits

For the purpose of driving away the evil spirits which they believed have descended upon them, the villagers of Kowloon City, which so far has suffered the greatest number of cholera cases, celebrated Chinese New Year yesterday-about four months in advance of the actual . date.

The advancement was decided conference upon following a between the village elders and temple priests and after a con- sultation by the latter with the gods and goddesses who decreed that the year was a bad one...... hence the necessity of beginning a new year.

ROME, Sept. 16 (UP). It has England while there are reports of been reliably reported that bombs dropped on the northeast Italian forces have reached the This is the second occasion that coast.

outskirts of Bugbug, thirty miles the Chinese New Year has been Incendiary bombs and high plasives were dropped on othe. beyond Sollum and half way celebrated in advance, the occasion TURN. to Page 2, Column Four between Sollum and Sidi Bar- tants of Salluns, or set the inhabi-

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NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (Reuter) German troop carriers, it is reported. here, are still stealing along the French coast, possibly in preparation A direct hit was made on an enemy for an invasion of Britain. A sudden warship off Terschelling, while an old deterioration in the weather and the tanker and a supply ship in the Elbe unsubdued performances of the estuary were severely damaged. RA.F. however, aroused, renewed Coastal Command aircraft sank an speculation whether Hitler is hesitant enemy supply ship off Ijmuiden.

Convoys off the Dutch const were and inclined to wait until the spring.

attacked. Two supply ships

sunk and others severely | damaged. # lakton CAP

also

were

Attacks werd also made on ship- ping and docks at Le Havre, where

The officers of the Uner Uefused to ships alongside quays and the quays' grant the concession. andrygg themselves were repeatedly hit,

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Further - Late News

The latest dispatches from Benghahi to-night said that Italian planes to-day intensified their attacks on Sidi Barrani and Marsamatruh.

Possible

on September 2. A Parable The following parable; reflecting the Chinese reaction to the cholera epidemic has been submitted byna reader to the "Telegraph." The TURN to Page 2. Column Two

Australian-

U.S. Defence Pact

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Router) —Mr. Cordell Húll, the Secretary of State, had a lengthy conference to-day "with"- Lord: Lothian, the British Ambassador, and Mr. I. G. Casey, the Australian Minister, on matters which were stated later to be particularly concerned with Australia.

The conference is believed to have! There has been speculation, toat dealt largely with Japan's moves in the United States and Australla might French Indo-China inad: the possible form a defence agreement similar to implications į for Australia; vgle that recently concluded with Canada,