LATEST OVERSEAS NETS

Serial Waves, Volume 1, Issue 9, 12 September 1940, Page 3

LATEST OVERSEAS NETS

LONDON Reports up to 7* 50 P M show 73 enemy planes destroyed by RAF,I7 of our planes being lost* Bombs have damaged property near St Paul's, but the Cathedral itself is safe* Shattering blasts rocked big buildings in the heart of the city as bombers heaped destruction * Raids' on Saturday & Sunday arc estimated to have killed 600 and wounded nearly 5000* TOKYO Jap Press declares that Jap Govt is determined to pursue its policy in Indo-China regardless of opposition from Britain &US A* Another Jap paper fears that American concern will lead to an embargo on petrol & scrap iron* LONDON Mr* CHURCHILL; broadcasting to the Nation, warns of determination with which Nazis are pursuing their plans for the invasion of Britain, The Germans ’ effort to secure daylight mastery of the air was the crux of the war - and so far had conspicuously failed, at a cost in German losses which they could not afford to continue* Nevertheless, all preparations for the invasion of Britain were steadily going forward* Several hundred self-propelled barges are being moved to French ports, while convoys of merchant ships dodge from port to port under the protection, of German guns* Large bodies of German troops stand ready* ‘The next week or two is the critical period* This period will rank with the day when Drake was finishing his game of bowls, with the time when Nelson stood on guard over the Channel, Every man will do his duty, with special pride and care* Our fighting forces on the seas, in the air, in our waiting armies and our civilian population, in all their posts and stations, concluded Mr* CHURCHILL, are a people who will not flinch or weary of the struggle, hard and protracted though it will be, and we shall draw from the heart of suffering itself a victory, not only for ourselves, but a security the length and breadth of which, as yet, cannot be foreseen*