PRESS NEWS – SEPT. 1st,

Serial Waves, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2 September 1940, Page 3

PRESS NEWS - SEPT. Ist,

Pour air raids were made on London on Friday, R* A* F o airdromes were bombed but not seriously damaged, and a number of persons killed in widespread raids* Up to 10 O’Clock Friday night British time 53 German planes had been shot down with the loss of 10 British* British bombers again raided Krupps and other Military targets in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France on Thursday night® Convoys and shipping were also attacked* Three British planes failed to return® Rumania surrendered half of Transylvania to Hungary on Friday under pressure from Italy and Germany, Receiving in return (according to a German report) a frontier guarantee from Germany and Italy* The Governor General of the Sudan announced on Friday that two American Missionaries were killed and two wounded by deliberate Italian machine gunning of an isolated Missionary Post® The Admiralty has announced that 55 •’./ere presumed lost in the sinking of the submarine Orpheus whose loss was announced on August IB® The R*A*F* has destroyed several hundred machines in a large motor transport concentration at Mogadiscio, Italian Somaliland* In the Sudan British troops fought a successful action, killing 10 of the enemy and 'wounding 15* No British lives were lost® Netherlanders gathered in Queen’s Hall London on Saturday to celebrate the 60th birthday of Queen Wilhelmina - the first in the 42 years of her reign spent on Foreign Soil* Goodwill messages poured in from, all parts of the world. &$ * £ s',.- Gs& ** * :■> » « SEPT* 2nd, ' The French Government admits that rebellions have broken out in French IndoChina and French West Africa following the action of French Equatorial Africa in going over to the British cause* General Catrcux is said to be leading the revolt in Indo-China® General de Larminat , Governor General of French Equatorial Africa has advised that the Governor of Gaboon has placed himself and all civil and military authorities of the colony under the flag of Free France® M® Amadoo Diop, Chief of the Senegalese in French West Africa has also announced the adhesian to the cause of all Senegalese v who do not want to be slaves" * Gaboon, with its 4 million inhabitants, makes available to the Allies 2 more ports on the African Atlantic Coast - Libreville and Point Noir*

.«;< #£ # £ * ••;■ ❖ $ V £ « :;■: V £ •:■• V * * £ - f V Air Score for week ending Aug* 25th to 51st - German losses 293 planes, 700 aimer® British 128 planes, 110 airmen* The Admiralty has announced the loss of the armed merchant cruiser Dunvcgan Castle® 250 members of her crew are said, to have been saved, It is reported, that Rumania has been forced to agree to the establishment on Rumanian soil of German air bases and. headquarters for Tank Corps and Motorized Units® British planes bombed the centre of Berlin on Saturday, damaging the Siemens Factory* Four million of Berlin’s residents huddled in shelters for 1 hour 37 mins as our planes swooped overhead, Mary fires were started. Forty six Ceman planes were shot down on Saturday and 21 of ours® New air attacks on Haifa are reported® Little damage was done* The Prime Minister, Mr Churchill has sent the following message to the Commander in Chief of the Bomber - Command: (Message unavoidably condensed) "The War Cabinet have asked me to congratulate the bomber squadrons who have bee: engaged in the recent long distance attacks on military objectives in Germany and Italy, The fact that on the occasion of the first operations in the Berlin area last Sunday week a great majority of our pilots brought their bombs home rather than loose them under weather conditions which made it difficult to hit the precise military objectives shows a high standard of poise and self another sign that the command of the air is being wrested from the Nazi criminals*