ENEMY COAST RAIDED

Southland Times, Issue 24164, 28 June 1940, Page 5

ENEMY COAST RAIDED

Landings ‘Made At Several Points INFORMATION IS OBTAINED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received June 27, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. A communique states that British naval and military forces co-operated in a raid on the enemy coastline. Landings were effected at a number of points and contact made with German troops. Casualties were inflicted

and some of the enemy dead fell *nto British hands. Much useful information was obtained. There were no British casualties.

The German Official News Agency stated that the British landings occurred at two points on the French Channel coast. It adds that the raids were completely unsuccessful. The German casualties were two wounded

GUN CREWS FIGHT IN FANCY DRESS AND AMA’S GUN CREWS SINK SUBMARINE (Received June 27, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. Gun crews aboard the Andania, the armed merchant liner which was sunk, in fancy dress with grease paint running down their faces fought a duel with a U-boat for two hours and a-half and sank it shortly before the Andania foundered.

The torpedo struck the Andania during a concert for the men off duty.

FORD’S INTERESTS IN

CANADA ACTION BY GOVERNMENT DEMANDED (Received June 27, 6.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 26.

Mr Coldwell, in the House of Commons, and Senator Black, in the Senate, demanded that the Government should take in custody Mr Henry Ford’s industrial interests in Canada. Senator Black added that the Government should cancel the purchases of cars and other equipment and forbid the sale of the Ford product throughout Canada. Mr C. D. Howe, Minister of Transport, replied that the Canadian company was co-operating beyond critcism. The Government had ample powers of compulsion against industry producing war materials which was not functioning as energetically as possible.

GERMANS DESTROY LOUVAIN LIBRARY SECOND ACT OF VANDALISM (Received June 27, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 26. Reports current after the Nazi invasion of Belgium that the German forces had wantonly destroyed the great collection of books presented to the University of Louvain after the last war by an American committee to replace the famous library burned by the Germans in 1914 are unfortunately confirmed today by the Berlin radio, which broadcast an elaborate story purporting to show that this stupid vandalism was committed by soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force.