CANADIAN PRESS NEWS SEPT 3rd

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

CANADIAN PRESS NEWS SEPT 3rd

L0ND0N..... London had three air raid alarms by late Sunday as the Royal Air Force striking hard at Nazi invaders on the wars anniversary downed 22 of them and drove others from Britain’s skies. A check of Saturday’s air fighting over England showed 85 German planes downed. We lost 37 planes but pilots of 25 of them are safe. Authorities announced that one thousand workers homes and seaside boarding houses were wrecked August 24 at Ramsgate when JOO German bombs were dropped. Casualties were reported few. L0ND0N..... Royal Air Force extending its operations near and in Berlin bombed an airplane engine factory, an airdrome and lighting installations at the German capital. Oil tanks,industrial targets and various military objectives including airdromes were bombed in other parts of Germany and the Netherlands . It is announced in an Admiralty communique that a sloop,H M S Penzance has been torpedoed by a U-Boat and sank . Rondon .. . ..British ship taking 320 children and an unannounced number $f passengers to Canada was torpedoed by a submarine the Ministry of Information announced, but the only casualty was the ship's purser who died from a fall into a lifeboat. The children sang as they took to the boats. Lifeboat drill which they had received aboard was credited with cheating Hitler’s underwater warfare of a new list of innocent victims. BUCHAREST..... Disorders developed extensively as thousands of Rumanians shouting ” fight the Hungarians joined in violent demonstrations against the German Italian award handing over Northern Transylvania to Hungary. Guards with machine Guns prevented crowds assaulting King Carol’s palace. British war communique issued at G H Q Cairo today states that on all fronts there is nothing of importance to report.