ANOTHER RAID

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23955, 3 May 1941, Page 10

ANOTHER RAID

MERSEYSIDE DISTRICT ATTACK NOT HEAVY PLYMOUTH EVACUATI ON (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, May '. Enemy aircraft attacked Merseyside last night,. The raid was not heavy or of long duration. Sonic damage was done, but reports dc not indicate that casualties were large. One raider was destroyed. "Enemy activity over Britain in day light yesterday was on a very snial scale." says a British official wireless message. Bombs were dropped at one point, °n the south coast, causing nc damage and a very small number ol casualties. Buses and other vehicles, erammec with women, children, men, beddinp ami household goods, poured out ol Plymouth on Wednesday, after tin city's iii'th air raid in nine days. Large crowds thronged the bus stations where extra vehicles woro provided. Bti: loads of passengers, in some instances were put oft at villages, while the buses returned for others. Viscountess Astor, M.P., the Lad.\ Mayoress, described Plymouth as the "worst blitzed town in England." AID FOR STRICKEN PORT AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN'S PART LONDON, May 1 "If I were handing out George Medals L would give one to every member of the Australian Air Force 10th Squadron," declared a Royal Air Force squadron-leader who has just returned from a much-raided British port where Australian Air Force members are stationed. The daily task of these men is to make wide sweeps of the Atlantic sea routes. Dozens of them, officers and men. are also voluntarily szi'inp the greatest help to the town's strained welfare services, assisting to extinguish blazing buildings and digging out dead and wounded from the, wrecked city. Others, organised in special services. attend to casualties, feed the homeless and take prompt measures for their evacuation. CHINA'S DETERMINATION PACIFIC FRONT DEFENCE (Becd. 5.35 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 1 China was determined to defend the Pacific front until the final democratic victory, said the retiring Chinese Foreign .Minister, Mr. Want; Chunghui. to Captain James Roosevelt, eldest son of President Roosevelt, guest of honour at a Government dinner. Captain Roosevelt in reply said his visit confirmed his belief in China's greatness. The new Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, at a dinner in his honour in New York called for the pooling of all economic and natural resources of America, Britain and China in a threefold combination to defeat the totalitarian Powers. NEW JAPANESE LANDING 1,000.000 TROOPS IN CHINA (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) SHANGHAI, May 2 The Japanese announced that army forces landed and occupied Kiarze harbour in the south-east of Kwantung Province. Japan now has over 1,000,000 men fighting in China, it is estimated in Chungking. NEW SHANGHAI COUNCIL KIDNAPPING OF CHINESE SHANGHAI, May 1 The new Provisional Council to govern the Shanghai International Settlement, held its first meeting this afternoon and unanimously elected Mr. J. H Lidded, a China-born Briton, chairman, and a Japanese, Air. I. Okamoto, vice-chairman. A last-minute sensation was caused svhen it was learned that one of the two pro-Chungking Chinese who were given seats on the council had been kidnapped by supporters of Wang Ching-wei, head of the puppet National Government, and then released just in time to attend the meeting. He was Mr. L. T. Yuan, 65-year-old veteran of the Shanghai Settlement Government. Tim fact that he was released and attended the meeting has given rise to rumours that he was forced over to the Wang Ching-wei side. Tho only other pro-Chungking Chinese on the council failed to attend the meeting. Mr. Liddell is the managing-director )f Lidded Brothers and Company. Limited, general merchants and proluce brokers. They are an old-estab-ished firm in Shanghai.