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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 19, 1940.

BRILLIANT DAYLIGHT ATTACKS ON NAZI CONCENTRATIONS.

R.A.F. PILOTS WHOSE HOMES HAVE

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BEEN BOMBED TAKE SWEET REVENGE SHOES

LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-British bombers yesterday carried out daylight attacks on the port of Ostend, on shipping

at Zeebrugge, a convoy and barges off the Dutch coast and on aerodromes at Ymulden.

Last night Bomber Command

BROOKE HAS PICKED EXPERIENCED SOLDIERS

aircraft made heavy sustained LONDON RAIDS HOME ARMY GENERALS

of

ports attacks

on. the Hamburg, Antwerp, "Terneuzen, Flushing, Zeebrugge, Dunkirk,

Calais and Boulogne.

Gun

Much damage was done to shipping emplace- and military stores. ments in the vicinity of Cape Gris Nez were also attacked.

Other forces of RAF. bombed distribution centrex Krefeld, Hamm, Ehrang, Osnabruck, Soest, Brussels And goodsyards Stockum, near Cologne,

aircraft

at

at

two mony

Coastal Command aircraft attacked Cherbourg Harbour. At

supply ships were

sunk hnd

fires started.

Two of our aircraft hove not ported to their bases.

Ships Blown Up

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athers as well, says "Reuter's" alr correspondent.

Flying at a great height, the frozen trails of their exhaust gases weaved

the frequency of London's air raid

ARENT RED TAPE MEN

THERE are few old men among our generals to-day.

General Sir

pattern in the blue sky, but despite Alan Brooke, the new Commander of the Home Force, is fifty-seven. His alarms, no serious attack developed forces are divided into six commands, and their generals, like him, are still on the capital or any other objective, though some bombs were dropped in in their fifties.

Kent and in the Thames Estuary re- glon.

The oldest, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, D.S.O., of the Western Command, is Formations varied in size but rare- fifty-nine. The youngest, Sir Ronald Adam, of the Northern, is fifty-four. All are All are old enough to have had fighters than bombers, conforming young enough to believe in modern methods of war,

ly exceeded 30.

re- with

Two large ships, one of which is believed be destroyed, were blown up in Cherbourg Hartour during the Air FLA.F. night attack, states the

amplifying Ministry news nervice, the communique. Much other dam- age was caused in the raid and when fended there was a ring of flames around the harbour from the burning buildings and vessels.

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There were more)

the enemy's desire to wear down" R.AF. resistance.

Like yesterday, no major battle was fought but the enemy suffered more severely.

hard experience in the fleld. Sir Alan's promotion left the Southern Command vacant and the job was

Lieut- given to general Auckinleck, who has spent most of his milltary ser- vice in India.

Seven Daylight Alarms Following on the record ten-hour night raid, the seven daylight alarma

lo this war he has already shown London experienced seemed to sug- his worth. General Auchinleck ocm- gest that the enemy was building up moted that grim struggle for Narvik

"all round the maximum to the

and then the evacuation. clock" effort against the metropolis, The absence of any attempt to re peat Sunday's serious thrust against

He is 58.

The Last V.C. One of the pilota who attacked

Major-general D £ Osterxd said: "We got hardly any OP-London suggests that more expert-

Johnson, of few position at all. There were

Inenting a being done by the enemy the Aldershot Command, is the same Fearchlights but there was nothing to

to And a BSWOT to the costlinese joge. Jt

just like about.

he was LET Before the WOTTY

Last war of mass dny-raiding bombing on practice rajda,"

More 12515 F unec to-day, enemy Chine They told him "Chinese WAS formations god mu Thi and then went hard to lenris. So he learned it.

German hard to

[tuome

The

found

So he took it one he brought back ve men under Are

troublesome

It wa

Then

US. Woman Tells The World—

What I Think About Conqueror Hitler

-Dorothy Thompson

DOROTHY THOMPSON, widely read United States columnist and wife of Sinclair Lewis, the novelist, said in a broadcast from Montreal; "This war is really a struggle

Revenge la Sweet

no furthes but thispersed and went At the outbreak of the Great War between Hitler and Churchill. This pilot believes that he bit an Ammunition train for explosions At Uroes the whole south-east area fiochbie-gun pʊxt. which broke out were all ports of

was completely clea of enemy air-lake cujours." Two of hin crew

erall bomb-almer and the rear gunner

Both live in th London homes have been destrayed by enemy bombers. "You

that Imagine cati

their i

Goering's Dilemma

"On the one side is the furious one by unhappy, frustrated, and fanatic wounded figure who has climbed to un

got, precedented power on the piled- General Johnson might

Jie hnd to be up bodies of millions of men... Goertog's present conftimati

the V.C. for that.

1st! studa of his this chance was to come

It was November 1918.

th

they are feeling pretty happy about the best way of Folding Betain by jeontent with

this show of qura

The town of Ostend self, apart frown a few houses on the edge of a railway yard, appeared to be touched. "At any rate there were

No res

11 having been bombed. The

£211-

day A clear fromTI

thetics since Sunday, but he may be expreled to tackle the problem with customary German thuroughtyeL

Meanwhile he will endeavour to do

bove

"recommend "

The cross-

og of the Sumbre Canal was going badly until Johnson came up and. indifferent to heavy Are, led his men aeruss This me they gave him the

Stick Against Sniper

or any other indicathm or by night what he has hitherto failed V.Cthe last one of the war.

firest der by day, namely, destruction of London and other large cities with greater intensity as the chances at fade before the brilliant

The the R.A.F. and stow

were all on the docks."

The flight commander confirmed invasion

"On my work that opposition was slight.

of

last trip the Germans filled the sky march of time.

This they had. with

everything

time a few enemy fighters were about but they were all well off our truck

Chelres A sergeant-pilot, whose home was demolished during Ger- { many's many indiscriminate attacks

sure.

"Mighty" Chang

At Queen's

"He looked across of Britain, and was satisfied, Britain was ruled by They business men and bureaucrats. were cautious men..

they were decoruus and they were old,

"So they closed their brief case

CK shooting and went fishing week-ends. War was unthinkable.

on

She Married

Her Boss- The Baronet

CARMARTHEN.-It became known in Carmarthen that Sir John Philip Ferdinand Mansel, twelfth baronet, of Maesycru- giau Manor, was married at the He showed superb courge ögain "But in England there was a man local register office recently,

walking Winston when, armed only with

Churchill was no longer stick, he chased a German sniper.

young; he was in his sixties yet there to Miss Hannah Rees, one of his Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson's was something perennially youthful maids. Western Command includes Northern about him. Ireland.

The bride is a daughter of a farmer.

Eight times Sir Robert Wos men- "His father was the son of the Duke She is twenty years of age, good look- itioned Ir despatches. Spella in of Marlborough: his ancestors had ing and attractive,

Northern Russia, at the War Offee, sald England," and fought her wars, Her sister Mattle acted as brides- ut the Staff College, in India and in and led her peace, for as far back as

maid. The best man was Mr. Samuel Egypt followed. He came back from any one could remember.

of the Rees,

Hotel. Market House commanding the British troops "Mighty" Chang had another large Egypt to be Adjutant-general to the

the Forces, and appreciative

Apples And Lione He kept

Good Entertainment

audience

on Landon, was so keen to see bis!

Boulogne bombs hit the target that he dived to 200 feet to make The rear-gunner of this air- craft was equally anxious to see the Queen's Theatre last night. sume result for his mother had been them in good humour throughout the tricks, wounded in the leg by bullets fred evening with his patter and from a Junkers atreruft subsequently helped by the singing and dancing of brought down in a back garden.

Conduct Praised London In Wartime

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his troupe.

Chung's wa the dominant per- sonality in the show, but he equal to his task, many of his tricks, being new to the local stage

Chang's show will run for six mure jevenings at the Queen's Theatre

in

1973-

While he spoke-mostly to heeding ears the shadow was long-Carmarthen. thening and finally loomed so tall and menacing that all the world could

see.

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Miss Rees used to work at the Beehive Inn... Pencader, which is kept by Sir John's brother-in-law

and sister, Mr. and Mrs D. E. Jones. It was there the baronet first met his bride.

Sir John and Lady Mansel have

His lastes are varied. He grown

Not Plutocrated with the touch of an apple trees expert, and likes to fish the quiet "And thin when i was over them Scottish lochs. He loves the hazards with the full darkness of its horror

big game hunting and has faced the people of England-the common gone to Cardigan for the honeymoon. wounded rhinoceros and attack by people of England-lifted Churchill Sir John will soon be joining the on their bonds, crying 'Speak, und forces. He is twenty-nine, and owns la llon and loness.

One of his sons is in the Arilllery; fight for us.

considerable property in Swansea, the other is in the R.A.F.

Sir Ronald Adom in п brainy tactician who served in France, Flanders and Italy in the last war.

London's mornis in war-time are praised by the Commissioner Pulice for the Metropolls, Sir Philip GENERAL WINKELMAN le has had a great deal to do with

Game, in his report for 1939.

of

The impression of London in war- ume, produced by certain

reports,

was that it had become completely demoralised, he says,

the shaping of the modern Army. DUTCH COMMANDER-IN- Mr. Hore-Belisha made him deputy chief of the Imperial General Staff. CHIEF DIES IN BERLIN

He has an untidy desk, but a tidy mind. He is very well read and has Batavia, Sept. 18.

Hi frienda that the remarkable memory. It is reliably reported former Commander-in-Chief of the call him Bili, and he has many of

Vice was said to be flourishing-Netherlands Army. General Winket-them, the number at night clubs, drinking man, has died in Berlin-Reuter, dens and "gambling hells" to be in-

Was

He has the physique and the red checks of the sportsman, still plays General Winkelman, who creusing beyond all bounds, gang: taken prisoner after the German in cricket when he can, and as a gunner sterism and racketeering were said to be rampant, a large number of vasion of Holland, is the father of Mr. offleer, in pescetime has bunted the

Java-China fux over every sort of country. J. Winkelman, of the

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PEDIGREED RACEHORSES

AT £1 EACH

"And who to-day is the plutocrat? Sir Courtenay Mansel, his father, Britain, in whose great houses live was Liberal M.P. for Penrith and to-day the children of the London | Falmouth. alume, and whose people pay 45 per cent. of their, incomes in taxes? Or Nazi Germany. the great nouveau-riche, kidnapper of pro- vinces, collector of ransoms, stuffed with the delicatessen of the Danes and the Czechs and the Dutch? The plutocratic England attack, Hitler, is to-day a Socialist State Socialist State created SCORES of pedigree racehorsea worth anything between £30-£200 without class war, created out

before the wor arc being love, and led by an aristocrat for each whom England builds no eagler slaughtered day by day because their nests or palaces out of the taxes of jowners cannot afford their keep. her people a man who cares no- thing for money, nor ever has, but only for Britain and for the coming Sir Guy Williams, of the Eastern

world that a True and Socialist Bri- Command, is silent and retiring. He

tish society will surely help Nothing could be further from the

build it ever it is bulit, is 68 years old, Royal Enginçer truth. There was no noticeable Im

who has had wide military experi-

"The master of the dyke against crease in uny of the activities men-

Mexico City, Sept. 18. President Cardenas stated to-day ence beyond the normal scope of the world chaos is you, Churchill. tioned and, in some respects, the

"Around you, Winston Churchill, is position was unusually good.

that the Government had been in-sapper.

gallant

of In the last war he was mentioned a

ghosts, Eliza- company add directly approached to resume diplo- These exaggerated reports

Such seven times in despatches, won the beth is there, and sweetest Shakes- needlessly to the anxiety and appre-matic relations with Britain. hension inseparable from war condi-a step would not be inconvenient D.S.O., and commanded an infantry peare. Drake is there, and Raleigh,

on the brigade. Born in India he has served and Wellington. was spiritually tions, and abroad they provide wel-ins Mexico

"And when you speak, Churchill, Staff College at Quetta knows him well. So does the Imperial Defence out to you. College, where he was instructor for "There are no neutral hearts-ex-Zealand, who paid all transport costs.

the worst kind of criminals were re-Trading Co.. Hongkong. presented as taking advantage of the binck-out.

MEXICO AND BRITAIN

Silent General

to

come food for hostile propagandists, side of the democracles in the Euro- there in many capacities, and the brave men's hearts everywhere rush

says the Commissioner.

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At the Scottish Command, is a typical Scot, Lieut-general Robert H. Currington, Tall and florid, with La clipped grey moustache, he began his army career by fighting with the Royal Field Artillery in the South African War. He went through the Great War unscathed and was men- tioned four times in despatches and won the DS.0.

He was hurt in an accident with a bus at Hyde Park Corner last year.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE NEW ZEALAND ARMY CHIEF ON VISIT TO MELBOURNE

cept those that have stopped beating. There are no neutral players."

PRAISE FOR CROWN

AMERICAN COLUMNIST'S VIEW OF ROYAL FAMILY.

New York, Sept. 10. A striking tribute to the meaning of the Crown in Britain is paid by the American columnist, E. Jones, writ- Ing in the Louisville Courier-Journal on the King's visits to the raided arcas.

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Now they are worth about £1 each to the owners-the price paid by the slaughterhouse for the skin.

market left open The only

for pedigree racing stock is Amerien, but American buyers will now only pay the high insurance and freightage for

"top-notchers." Coronach,

the

seventeen-year-old Derby winner of 1928, is one of the luckler old timers.

Ills owner, Lord Woolavington, stipulated in his will that Coronach should never be sold.

So the veteran was given to Mr. John Donald, of Westmere, New

Quoting the comment of a London woman who pointed out. that the | King walked unguarded, the wilter

say's.---"In Melbourne, Sept. 18.

一口 land

the where The New Zealand Chiet

does of Staff monarch

not need arrived to-day lo confer with the armoured. cor and. сап take Australian authorities on mutual de-a laxi if he chooses, freedom is fence and on ensuring the security of real and democracy is something the south-western Paciße, including more than a word for politicians to the co-ordination of

of naval move=| trade with,

ments and the provision in the British

Pacile possessions of bases for sup but a vital part of what is cherish- The Royal Family is not a sham plies and refuelling

A number of Australian yachtsmen ed. Its traditions are part of the and fishermen are going to Britain to greatness of a story that does not assist in guarding the coastal waters, propose to take its last, chapter from

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Hiner."--Reuter!

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