GROSS-CHANNEL SHELLING.
BRITISH LONG-RANGE GUNS IN ACTION GERMANS RETALIATE ON DOVER LONDON, September 30, (Received October 1, at 10.45 a.m.) British long-range guns again shelled France shortly before dawn. A direct hit is believed to have been scored on the quayside at, Calais, where a big fire blazed for some time. The German guns replied, firing four salvoes at twenty-minute intervals. One man was killed, several people seriously injured and premises damaged when Dover was shelled. An earlier message stated that British long-range guns, in addition to the R.A.F., have furiously battered ports in northern France during the last 4S hours. The guns fired a salvo every minute. At Calais and other ports warehouses were destroyed and docks were put out of action, while channels are blocked by sunken ships. WEEK-END REST LONDONERS LEAVE CAPITAL NO THOUGHT OF NOT RETURNING LONDON, September 29. A neutral observer commented on the fact that the famous week-end habit of the British was now turned to a new purpose. He had noticed that a large number of Londoners of every class had travelled out of London to a quieter area to get at least one good night’s rest in place of repose broken by the noise of every British and German explosive. What impressed the neutral most was the cheerful spirit with which Londoners packed trains to the metropolis on Sunday’ night, ready to face an ordeal of senseless air bombing for another week. He said: “Far from running away from London, these people seemed to be running back to it. No wonder the British are so hard to understand. SIGNIFICANT GESTURE NO CONFIDENCE IN NAZISM GERMAN AIRMAN SHEDS DECORATION LONDON, September 30. (Received October 1, at 11.40 a.m.) %The Vicar of Mapledurham (the Rev. E. L. Macassey) reveals in his parish magazine that the son of one of Hitler's most eminent air advisers has been taken prisoner in Britain. The vicar adds that the young man, when captured, ripped off a special Nazi decoration, and) said: “ I’ll not want this ever again.” UNREST IN HDNGKEW VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW SHANGHAI, September 30. Virtual martial Jaw has been proclaimed at Hongkew and the Japaneseoccupied portion of the International Settlement following an attempt by a Chinese gunman to assassinate a Japanese military officer who, it is reported, was seriously injured when he was shot. The Japanese increased the military street patrols in Hongkew, and have intensified the searching of all ingoing and outgoing persons. ANOTHER OFFICER SHOT AMERICAN SEAMAN MAN-HANDLED SHANGHAI, September 30.' (Received October 1. at 8 a.m.) The Japanese have blocked all exits in the Japanese-controlled area north of Soochow Creek leading to the International Settlement, and would not permit any Chinese to cross the bridges after a Japanese, believed to be an army officer, was shot on the North Szechwan road, the main thoroughfare of Hongkew suburb. Troops put a cordon round a huge area, conducting house-to-house searches and creating panic among the Chinese, due to a fear of possible reprisals. It is learned that the American naval authorities have issued orders forbidding American naval ijien and their families to proceed to the Orient from the United States, although they are not yet evacuating the families now here. It is authoritatively stated that Major-general Hart protested to ViceAdmiral Hantaro Shimada against the action of the Japanese gendarmes on September 29, who seized an American sailor who was allegedly intoxicated, and dragged him to a gendarme office, where he was beaten before being released. It is reliably stated that the gendarmes man-handled him in an effort to obtain the location of certain United States warships. It is reliably reported that another Japanese, believed to be a navy commander, was fatally shot in another section of Japanese-controlled Hongkew. FAMOUS BENEFACTOR LORD HUFFIELD’S GENEROSITY LONDON, September 30. A cheque for £IO,OOO to help newlyblinded persons has been received from Lord Nuffield by the National Institute for the Blind, which has prepared a plan for assisting civilians blinded in air raids.
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Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 5
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