First Japanese Minister To Australia

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1941, Page 6

First Japanese Minister To Australia

TOKIO, January 1

A former Foreign Office spokesman (Mr Natsuo Kawai) has been appointed Japan’s first Minister to Australia. He recently toured the world as Minister at large. He is expected to leave late in Feb-, ruary, visiting Indo-China, Thailand, the East Indies and the Philippines en route.

such uniform intensity that bursts of high explosives could not be distinguished among the flames. Yards, Air Factory

The Atlas shipbuilding yards were also ablaze and a whole line of warehouses beside No. 2 harbour were alight. The Fockenwulf air frame factory was on fire when one pilot arrived over it.

His bombs splashed into the blaze and very soon afterwards there were six explosions which could not possibly be mistaken for the actual burst of the bomb.

The Deutsihe Vacuum Oil Refinery was badly damaged and railways at Bremen were hit again and again. Factories beside one railway line were gutted and the wreckage could be seen very plainly.

Ground Defences Active

To defend Bremen the Germans used all their ground defences which they could muster and pilots reported a formidable barrage of anti-aircraft fire, frequently concentrated at points where searchlights converged in a cone.

One or two enemy aircraft were seen wandering ineffectively over the town. A message from Berlin says: “British planes last night flew over northwest Germany and dropped explosive and incendiary bombs in several places. They caused no military damage, but three factories and several dwellings were damaged. “Five people were killed and several others injured. “One British plane was shot down by a night fighter.

“Small German bomber formations aided by improved weather, most successfully bombed military objectives in London, Liverpool, Sheffield, Yarmouth and Harwich.”