LATEST WAR NEWS

Serial Waves, Volume 1, Issue 6, 9 September 1940, Page 3

LATEST WAR NEWS

LONDON - Royal Air Force attacks on the Fiat Airplane, Engine Works at Turin Italy, on the Goman held French harbo?»s of Boulogne and Calais and on merman long -range gun ejrplacer.ien.ts were announced Friday night • LONDON - Observers along the South East Coast, declared Friday thau tac Germans had evacuated all French civilians from a 50 mile deep zone of the Trench coast opposite England » The Daily Mail said it had learned tills action was taken to prevent sabotage and spying on military preparations c BUCHAREST - King Carol surrendered Friday to the demands of Rumania’s new military dictatorship,abdicated in favour of his 13 year old son, Michael, and was reported 'to have left Bucharest to join Magda Luposcu on a royal yacht bound for exio.e • Prince Michael was proclaimed King but only to be a figurehead ruler under General lon Antonescu * LONDON - It was reported in a nows dispatch from Chungking that well informed quarters in the Chinese Coital said French Indo China had agreed to the landing of 12000 Japanese troops at 3 Indo China ports . The Japanese had asked that troops be allowed to* proceed tlirough Indo China into China for the war against General Chiang Kai Shek . WASHINGTON - ‘.lie U 3 .Senate completed Congressional action Friday on the five billion dollar defence appropiation to aid in equipping an army of 2 million men and building a 2 ocean navy «The measure now goes to the vZhito House for the President s signature* SOlffifiEßE IN ENGLAND - To the accompaniment of the piercing wail of air raid sirens the latest contingent of the Canadian 2nd Division marched into camp Friday heads high and singing® LONDON - German war planes launched their biggest daylight attack on the London Zone today showering bombs over a wide area amid tne crash of anti aircraft barrages and counter-attacking .British fighter planes. About -50 German planes were involved in the main attack » Beaten back in preliminary attacks the German crafts reformed and returned to the attack • Anti-Aircraft shells exploded around them in one of the heaviest bar-rages of the war * Dog fights developed overhead till the roar- of planes • was deafening * Several German planes were seen to plunge towards the earth • AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT - Rear Admiral Stewart Bonham-Carter, Chief of the British naval operations in the North Atlantic disclosed today that the destroyers obtained in a trade with the United States will be used in an intense- drive against German Submarines « HONOLULU - Deponents of immediate conscription are guilty of political sabotage in attempting to force a seven day triad period for voluntary enlistment, secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said here today, following his arrival m a Navy plane from San Francisco* Col Knox declared his belief Great Britain now had better than a fifty fifty chance of victory CWr Germany . I wouldn't have said that 30 days ago, but I believe it is true now, he added, VICHY . She Government of Marshall Betain, under terns of the Armistice has turned over Herschel Gcynszpan, assassin of a German diplomat, to the German Military authorities it was disclosed today * LONDON - An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states ; since fawn this morning enemy activity was neglible until shortly be fore whcn ri a tlif W large force of encry aircraft approached the coast north of Dover* They were pronptly engaged by our fighters and anti-aircraft guns and only small formations were able to penetrate inland * CAIRO - Saturday evening enemy aircraft raided Port Sudan causing little damage and r only one casualty * Nothing to report from other fronts * AN AHFRALTY COMMUNIQUE ANNOUNCES - Aircraft of the fleet air arm have again been operating over the coast of Norway * Skuas and Swordfish Aircraft sighted two enemy supply slips * A hit was obtained on one of them and the ship was last seen abandon- . ed ana -inking * Hie other was seriously damaged by near misses and was last seen • st6pN , sj3-»wdth a heavy list, and abandoned by her crew 0 These were the only two ships seen e All our aircraft returned safely *