Oshawa Daily Times, 13 Sep 1940, p. 7

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PAGE SEVEN Portugal Offers Haven o reside in this country on condi~ on he abstalns from any political If Carol Behaves Celf ; ivity, 1t was disclosed yesterday. caro ho left Switzerland Tuesday Mme. Magda Lupescu, ected to arrive some time THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 A.R.P. Workers Dig Seven Hours To Save Bomb Survivors avy's Small Ships Wreck Nazi Coast Preparations | In Fierce Channel Fighting. Lisbon government ha King Carol of Ruman Sept ital Port Eaipmontl Smashed in Sea Attacks London, Sept. 13.--The Admiralty s announced that "strong and re- bated offensive actions are being ken by our light naval forces" ainst German sea preparations an attempted invasion of Bri- in, "These operations have inflicted sses upon the enemy as well as age to port facilities which ould be vital to him in the event an attempt to invade England." German dive bombers and long- ge guns united in a heavy night bmbardment of the English coast protect Nazi ships in the channel. The Dover area trembled under war's greatest shelling and | bmbing. British land guns made powerti tort; they centred their fire upon | German convoy in the channel hile swarms of British planes. om both the Royal Air Force and e Naval Air Arm, leaped up into | engagement. Guns Silenced They roared in force across the | German | ns fell silent after hours of in- | brmittent shelling from the French | annel and shortly the past. Columns of black smoke rose from he sea between Calais and Dunkirk otting out visibility from the Eng- | © | af side. The R.AF. struck mighty blows at | y points of Europe's coastline here the Nazi concentrations were ported. Just as Prime Minister Churchill | ve his warning to the nation that vasion may come within a week, Air Ministry announced that AF. and naval planes had blasted | rges and merchant ship all along | e coast. Mr. Churchill told the nation that | dreds of self-propelled German rges were moving to Nazi-held brts in coastal France; that an merchant ships in "tens and | pzens' were moving in convoy hrough the Straits of Dover; that early a "heavy, full-scale invasion | this island is being prepared." Whole Coast Pouaded British planes bombed | as well | the firs {lans RED CROSS GIVES LONDON VICTIMS CANADIAN HELP London, Sept. 13 -- The Canadian { Red Cross is bringing succor to the | homeless in London's bombed areas A total of 3.300 warm padded quilts | made by workers in Canada have | been distributed at shelters and to those without homes. Two hours after receipt of a re quest for help on Wednesday, Canadian Red Cross sent 5,800 piece: of new clothing and two ton: canner fruits and goods and blankets were given last EMPIRE SCHOO! TRAINS 12000 FOR AIR WORK | First C:nadians From Com- monwealth Venture Soon to Leave for Overseas four Empire governments agreed on the giant co-ope venture. Men from oversea coming to the Dominion for training s to serve as instructors Canadians w hortly be moving overseas to action statior British in nsid numbers through and | along soon Ger. | B70 with the tenance e staff a ge concentrations all along the | Kingdom recen rman-held coasts, poured ex- osives on the nests of Nazi artil- ry across the Channel: smashed | r three hours at the Calais docks; ished Ostend harbor for eight | nsecutive hours; heavily bombed vant and Boulogne. It was also announced that two boats--Nazi motor torpedo boats | the sort that would be used in | y attempt to cross the Channel ith soldiers--were believed sunk an attack on the ports of Calais d Dieppe. The Air Ministry's news service bparting from the formal language the official bulletin, told a amatic story of the series of raids n the concentrations of barges | d other ships lurking in harbors | d docks." | Calais Docks Blown Up "The Calais docks bore the brunt | one of the heaviest attacks," ich were pressed home in bad | pather, it stated. For three hours nstantly after dusk the dock, sins and shipping of Calais were eavily pounded." One pilot "spent an hour over his jective, dodging shells and weav- his way in and out of the puds." | with Far As plan period « po of which cked British Empir demanded all the constr ned for 1941 1940 Ei Ahead of Schedule SPC ¢ air obse¢ gunnery and The f | ing st more are 3 regi 12,000 in Progress of ¢ up by operat total t Training "Biding his time, the bomb-aimer | go his bombs and the sticks were | id accurately across the docks." Heavy fires and explosions oc- | red at the Carnot basin, igh explosives poured into the cked vessels which lined the | where |° ole east side of the basin and |" tended three-quarters of the way ross it. Chunks of debris. were ng into the air." he Fleet Air Arm had a part in e Calais attack, where, in the brds of the official statement: | uns were silenced and search- | hts extinguished around the har- r. Merchant vessels and E-boats Dieppe also were attacked despite avy ground fire and a protec- g patrol of Messerschmitt | phters." | isregard Broadcasts Of Nazis, Canada Told Ottawa, Sept. 13 -- Persons whe hve relatives fighting in the army, hvy or air torce overseas should ace no reliance on announcements | lists of prisoners of war broadcast | German wireiess stations. accord- g to a memorandum from the War fice at London and made known | st night by the National Defense Ppartment. Such lists are broadcast merely to duce people to listen to German ws, the announcement said, and incomplete and often inaccur- Relatives may rest assured that, thout any application on their rt, every endeavor is being made th abroad and at nome to trace fissing personnel," the memoran- m stated. i p 4 | wer Commercial Failures | Ottawa, Sept. 13 -- Commercial ilures in Canada curing the first months of 1940 dropped to 651 bm 717 in the corresponding per- fl of 1039, the. Dominion Bureau of atistics reported on Wednesday. faulted liabilities amounted to 559,057, compared. with $7,781,- 8, and assets $4,318,057 compared th $5,402,471. { Earl injured wher into the Wood died fractu: ) tured skull in Coroner nounced ther | No charges McLAUGHLIN COAL AND SUPPLIES LTD. bombed "Retaliation" tions raid precautions workers are shown carrying survivors from building in London after hours of ceaseless digging in the I'he rescued had been entombed in the wreckage for seven hours © Will Battle Armed Forces Not Defenseless Berliners 1 no ¢#ubt stands in and an ulterior object of London may well ly by disorgan- of cour s use of zanda in ord 126 Our strategy ets for Roya mid continue t is factories of materials, Ham. tories and otnrl Denounces: Sugges- Marshal relief rdment nopa and war nd fa Y targets to - we are loathe to ives in France 1 continue to anywhere alr raid targets winter there han - 40 or i days naxe. bombing impossible Fog is rare except 1d early Northern Scholarship It Won T spring and | By Bowmanville Girl' lle, Sept. 13 -- Ottawa dian holarship Kay O'Neill i] Mrs. J. 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