Sherbrooke daily record, 12 août 1940, lundi 12 août 1940

[" WEATHER Fair and warm g>forhmik?iatly Irani) TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, M; minimum, 57.Same day last year: Max., 85; min., 50« Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1940.Forty-Fourth Year.GERMAN MASS ATTACKS ON BRITAIN CONTINUING Coast Defences Prove Effective Against Raiders Only Fifty-Five Planes of First Wave of Two Hundred Manage to Break Through to Reach Coast Objective- EMPIRE TROOPS STRENGTHENING AFRICAN ARMÏ British Vessels Develop Dual Defence Against Dive Bombers By ROBERT E.BRUNNELLE (Associated Press Staff Writer) On England\u2019s Southeast Coast.Reinforcements Arrive at Gulf Aug.12.\u2014The men who man of Aden Ports to Assist in:the.ships which guard and feed' Defence Points.of c li! j Britain believe Britain has found or b 0 III a 111 a H U i5 finding an answer to the dive- whip over the English Channel and the North Sea.Talking of the speed and apparent calm with which replaeemem bal-were sent up under fire for (those shot down yesterday, one barrage operator said: \u201cYes, we get them from the thrup- Thirteen, Possibly Sixteen, German Craft Shot Down Today in Addition to Sixty Yesterday.London, Aug.12.\u2014\u2014Germany sent two hundred airplanes at a port in Southern England today but only fifty-five of them live.bomber - I These men see the Britisn repiy : (ivc and ten) just Cairo, Aug.19.\u2014'(/P)\u2014Reinforce- to the German Stukas as two-fold: |out a requisition \u2014 balloon.Ailments nfwly arrived f rom far-flu-gj The barrage balloons being tried I Force, for use of.one\u2014and there pence and sixpence stores (British sh reply ifjvc am( (t.M) just like that.Write ItalyTakes Threatening AttitudeAgainstGreece \u201e T\u201eJ\" Slayjng Of Albanian aMdpwnnrt Cr ^nim1 inn Haiian Government-Controlled News and Propaganda Agency Fxmnsinn.' l.aunches Attacks on Greece for Part in Alleged Murder '\tand for Support to Great Britain Through Provisioning of Warships.NAVY PLANNING HUGE DISPLAY FOR ROOSEVELT you arc.Yesterday\u2019s attacks began as a surprise assault on the balloons.But soon it developed into wave By DOUGLAS B.CORN ELI,, (Associated Press Staff Wi iter) Newport.R.I.Aug.12.(/lb The Uniled States Navy arranged to show to President Roosevelt today parts of the British Empire were rc-iout by the shipping convoys to keep ported today digging in around the;the bombers high enough to prevent important seaport of Berbera on the laccurate aim; Gulf of Aden for a stand against! A new multi-barrelled anti-air- Italian columns advancing across;craft gun which nails the bombers jafter wave of bombers and fighters burning Somaliland wastes under if they come in low.\t|aiming at the town where 1 was, .harassing aerial attacks.\t\\ This new gun is a pom-pom which'until the sky was thick with planes uito deadly weapons, : ,\t!\tArrival of the reinforcements\tway fires shells an inch or more in\teali-; darting in and\tout of puffs of anti-\t°f a new 825,000,000 a broke through tue coastal defences to reach the undisclosed Objec*\tj disciosed by British officials in deny-;bre, constructed so delicately\tthey\tI aircraft\tshells\tin bitter dogfights\twill guard New England s\tindus- ing Italian claims that Somaliland (explode at the slightest contact.( that ranged all up and down the trios.virtually had been cut off from over-;Britons who have seen the guns in coast.\tMr, Roosevelt was cruising logeas help.\t(action praise them highly.\ti With\tother\tonlookers, 1 rushed\tward this swank resort town, after Convoys laden with troops\tand' The barrage balloons, among- the\t(into the\tstreet\tto gather shell frag-\tspending a leisurely Sunday\tat sea munitions are steaming regularly ( targets of yesterday\u2019s heavy Nazi Iments as souvenirs.\ton his yacht, Potomac, to round out uul the site i base that Japanese Urge All Foreign Armed Forces Quit Shanghai through the Red Sea, the Biitisiqatrial attacks, are said to be a big said, unchallenged by Italian naval help in warding- off the bombers, but forces.\t(they have their drawbacks.Continued on page 2, col.7.\t| They are vulnerable to the can- \u2014-; non-fire of the German Messer- schmitts, are a drag on the ships ; which tow them and thus slow down jthe convoys, require a certain 'amount of \u201cbabying\u201d and expert handling, and are hard to manoeuvre :in the stiff winds which frequently away burst into action and we duck-1 ed for shelter as an Air Raid Warden cried :\u2014 \"Better take cover, they\u2019re machine-gunning the streets.Don\u2019t say you weren\u2019t warned.\u2019\u2019 Later we found machine-gun bullets imbedded in the concrete a few feet from out shelters.The others were met over the Channel by Royal Air Force fighters who sent four Messerschmitts spinning into the sea, broke up the Nazi formation and turned the others back to their liases.By early afternoon at least thirteen possibly sixteen\u2014German planes had been shot down, with the raiders still roaring along the coast in apparently growing num-&- bers.The fifty-five planes which reached their objectives remained fifteen minutes, dropping incendiary bombs, which set fire to some buildings.A number of shop windows were blown out and it was understood there were a few casualties.viest\" so°far etherel°wn was the h\u20aca\" Spokesman f_or Foreign Office Hints thaf Other N on-Oriental | MANY CANADIAN i GH EAT BRITAIN Two Nazi waves\u2014one of twenty-one bombers and the other of fifteen, protected by fighters\u2014wheeled out of the sun from the cover of clouds.\u2018T saw about twenty Junkers 88\u2019s roaring down,\u201d one eye-witness said.\"Five of them were destroyed.\"Anti-aircraft guns put up a terrific fire and one bomber had its taiL ,\t,,\t, shot off.It dived straight behind 1 ^.oukl consider withdrawing then some houses.\t'\t( military forces from Cmna.\"About twelve Germans bailed out ! (A Brltlsh decision, announced ,a-t of this and other planes.\u201d All twelve Nazi fliers who leaped from their falling planes were quickly captured by police and townspeople.But we didn\u2019t stay long.\t; an inspection of rapidly expanding An anti-aircraft battery 100 yards defences in the Norihrastern states.The torpedo station, on Goat Continued on page 2.col.0 Nations Should Follow Example of Great Britain\u2014Claim Two Changes in International Situation Make Such Move1 Possible.Tokyo, Aug.12.\u2014t/P)\u2014Yakichiro Suma, Foreign Office spokesman, hinted today that other nations MEXICAN OIL LABOR FIGHTS NEW OFFICER OFFICERS ARE GIVEN ADVANCE Tampico, Mexico, Aug.12.\u2014(/P)\u2014 Thousands of Mexican petroleum workers, resentful of President Lazaro Cardenas\u2019 economy reor- Officers of First Friday, to withdraw troops from Shanghai and North China will leave United States marines the only in»-j ganization plan for the industiy, portant non-Oriental elements of the Ujirew a picket line around the local upie\tShanghai defence forces.There is a'Government refinery today to pre- At first the raids were a repetition ! French garrison in the French con-vent a nephew of 'the industry\u2019s of the fierce German assaults yester-l cefTon anfl a sma11 Itallan marme i General Manager from taking a day on the Channel Coast, but they j uni,t-T.1\t! new post as Technical Director of spread as far as Northeast England i