FEW RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 5

FEW RAIDS

IN BRITAIN ON MONDAY . FIVE GERMAN PLANES ’ DESTROYED. EXTENDED BOMBING AT NIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. It is officially stated that five German planes were destroyed yesterday. Three of ours were lost, but two of the pilots are safe. Raiders dropped high explosives on Working class districts in a Midland town. Two houses were demolished and several persons were killed or injured. Enemy planes last night operated for the most part singly, but over widespread areas of England and South Wales also in a few districts of Scotland. Houses and other property were damaged. The night raiders dropped high explosives in a residential area of a north-east coastal town, wrecking several houses and killing a 60-year-old man, also on a south-east coastal district and near a north-western industrial area. Incendiary bombs were dropped on a south-west coastal town, causing fires, also during an extensive. Midlands raid, but they mostly fell in open country.

AIR OF MYSTERY

OVER “SOUTHWARD PLANS.” (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) TOKIQ. August 20. After Cabinet talks, Ministers indicated that the Japanese Government was near an important decision regarding the southward policy, particularly regarding the Netherlands East Indies.

After the regular meeting, the Foreign Minister, Mr Yosuke Matsuoka, Lieut-General Tojo and Vice-Admiral Z. Yoshida discussed the problem, after which Mr Matusoka reported thereon to Prince Konoye and then proceeded to the foot of the Throne.

NAVAL ATTACHES

EXCHANGE WITH U.S.A. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 20. Mr MacDonald has announced the appointment of Captain Victor Brodeur, now Commodore Commanding the Pacific Coast, as the Canadian naval attache to Washington . Canada has never previously sent either naval or military attaches to the United States.

Mr MacDonald also announced that the United States was sending Captain Oliver Read as United States naval attache to Ottawa.

NAZI LIES

RIDICULED IN BRITAIN. CONDITIONS IN LONDON. LONDON, August 20. The “Daily Mail." under the heading, “A Lie that Eight Million can Refute,” quotes the German-controlled Paris radio as stating: "The population of London now comprises a long exodus of exiles even more lamentable than France’s. The whole of the south and south-west of London arc now smouldering ruins, and hospitals in London are full of the injured, shivering with fear.”