CLOUD-HOPPING RAIDERS

Evening Star, Issue 24330, 20 October 1942, Page 3

CLOUD-HOPPING RAIDERS

EAST ANGLIAN TOWNS ATTACKED (Rec. 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Oct, 19. Cloud-hopping raiders were active all day over coastal areas of England. They bombed and machine-gunned about a score of districts, but little damage and few casualties are reported. London, for the'first time since January, 1941, had three daylight alerts, due to single raiders over the outskirts of the city. At least two raiders were brought down. Six o% the towns attacked were in East Anglia. . One town was attacked three times. The ground, defences brought down a Junkers 88 in flames over an East Anglian town. The Junkers blew up, killing the crew. Bombs on a Thames Estuary town hit offices and shops, resulting in a number of casualties, some fatal. The rescuers are still digging for those trapped. A Dornier flew so low over one East Anglian town that the residents saw the bomb doors open. The Dornier also machine-gunned the town. Another raider machine-gunned a train entering a station, and damaged several coaches. No one was injured. Another raider machine-gunned a train at an inland village. Two persons were seriously injured. FETTERING OF PRISONERS , GERMANS’ ULTERIOR MOTIVES LONDON, October 18. “ The Germans have not yet replied to the British offer not to fetter German prisoners of war if the Germans do not fetter British prisoners,” says ‘ The Times ’ diplomatic correspondent. “It is • understood that the Government is disregarding the German High Command document, which reveals more clearly than hitherto the ulterior German motives. The document has two main purposes—hatred against Britain and the use of the allegations for a wider threat against Allied prisoners of war. I The Turkish newspaper * Aksam Yenisabah ’ suggests that Turkey should mediate between' Britain and Germany on the chaining of prisoners. TYPHUS EPIDEMIC REPORTED ■ (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 19. A Stockholm German report states that a violent epidemic of typhus •is raging among the French North African natives, particularly in Algeria. French doctors are unable to check the epidemic because of the lack of rum, which is a powerful anti-typhus medicine. PETROL FIRE IN VIRGINIA NEW YORK, October 18. Four storage tanks caught fire in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and ignited several hundred thousand gallons of petrol, endangering large sections of the historic city, whose water supply was cut off by river floods; BOMBING OF TOKIO CAPTURED U.S. AIRMEN PUNISHED ; “ PRINCIPLES OF HUMANITY NOT OBSERVED' (Rec. 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. American airmen captured on April 18 in the United bombing raid on Tokio have been punished, says the Tokio radio. The punishment has been imposed in accordance with military law for their failure to observe the principles of humanity. The radio added that Japan wil lexecute or severely, punish airmen taken prisoner who are found to have committed cruel or inhuman acts in attacks on Japanese or Japanese-held territory. “ During the investigation the American airmen who had been captured said that it was proper for them deliberately to _ bomb Japanese’ hospitals,- schools, and civilian homes. The army, therefore, has severely dealt with these Americans,” declared the Tokio radio.

Official Washington reports of the raid on April 18 stated that all the raiding planes returned, and only military objectives were hit. Tokio claimed that nine of the raiders were shot down, and that bombs landed on a school and a hospital.

RETRIAL FOR RUSSIANS ECHO OF ATTACK ON VON PAPEN (Rec. 12.10 p m.) ANKARA, Oct. 19. A retrial has been ordered for two Russians, Leonid Kornilov and Yorgi Pavlov, who were sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment after the bomb attempt last July against the German Ambassador, von Pa pen. The Turkish court cancelled the previous judgn*ent. DUTCH COASTAL ZONE DECLARED A FORTIFIED AREA (Rec. 12.10 p.ra.) ,LONDON, Oct. 19. Additional Dutch hostages have been shot for acts of sabotage committed at the week-end, says a message from Zurich. The entire coastal zone of South Holland, North Holland, and Zeeland has been declared a_ fortified area from which the population must be prepared for evacuation.

NATIONAL SAVINGS CAMPAIGN (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 19. Lord Kindersley, president of the National Savings Committee, and Lord Mattistone, chairman, represented to' Sir Kingsley Wood (Chancellor of the Exchequer} that the continuous increase in the national savings movement would necessitate further appointments for the direction of the war savings campaign. Lord Mattistone accepted the office of vice-president, and Colonel 0. Stanley, chairman. Lord Kindersley will continue to act as president, and Sir I. Chambers and Sir H. Macintosh will continue to give their whole time to executive direction of the campaign.

AMERICANS IN NORWAY ARRESTED LONDON, October 19. All United’ States citizens in Norway have been arrested “ in reprisal for the arrest of German citizens in the United States,” says the Stockholm correspondent of ‘ The Times.’ It is reported from Oslo that all male Jews over the age of eight years in Trondheim have been taken into custody Slid placed in concentration camps.