RAIDS IN AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 281, 22 August 1940, Page 10

RAIDS IN AFRICA

R.A.F. Over Abyssinia And

Somaliland

LONDON, August 22.

It is announced from Cairo that the Royal Air Force lias carried out further widespread raids on Italian aerodromes in Abyssinia and on Italian troop concentrations in British Somaliland. One R.A.F. plane failed to return.

DEATH SENTENCES IN EIRE

(Received August 21, 7 p.m.) DUBLIN, August 21.

A military Court today sentenced to death Patrick McGrath and Thomas Green for the murder of a. detective on Saturday. If the Government refuses to review the sentences the prisoners will be shot within 48 hours. [lt was reported on Saturday that five special branch detectives who were raiding what was apparently an emptyshop in Dublin encountered machinegun and revolver fire which killed one and critically injured two more. A search of the shop revealed a large radio transmitting station and supplies of revolver ammunition.]

REPORTED WARNING TO JAPANESE SHIPS NEW YORK, August 20. The National Broadcasting Company picked up a German radio broadcast asserting that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha had advised its vessels at sea not to proceed to British ports or enter British territorial waters “under any circumstances.”

CHILDREN RETURNING TO LONDON LONDON, August 20. Tlie “Daily Mall” says that though it is too early to forecast the result of the raids on London, many evacuated children have been streaming back to London. Only 1(10,000 of the 312,000 evacuated still remain away. The Leicestershire district has lost 050 of 1000 evacuees despite the absence of raids on the district.

NIGHTBEAM NARROWLY 7 DEFEATED (Received August 22, 12.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 21. The New Zealand colt Nightbeam, carrying 9.0, was defeated narrowly today at Ascot in the Kurnell Quality Handicap, of seven furlongs. Two lightweights, St. Elmo (7.0). and Celebrity . (0.7) dead-heated in first place after a desperate struggle in the straight witli tlie New Zealander, who finished a long neck away third. Tlie time was 1.283. Nightbeam, in addition to the disadvantage in weights, was also checked when Insignia fell soon after the start.