jounces
New
Award
for
Honor
Open
to
Civilians,
Coming
Second
to
Victoria
Cross
Sympathy
for
Bereaved
Parents
LONDON,
Sept.
23
---''After
the
present
trials
will
csuredly
come
victory,
King
George
said
today
in
a
"roadcast
to
the
Empire.
He
said
"There
is
much
to
en-murage
us."
.
.
.His
Majesty
spokef
in
an
underground
shelter
at
iuckingham
Palace
during
an
air
raid.
The
King
announced
the
creation
of
a
"new
mark
of
l0nor
for
men
and
women
in
all
walks
of
civilian
life
"
le
was
giving
his
i
own
name
to
the
award
and
it
would
L
known
as
the
George
Cross.
It
would
rank
next
to
e
Victoria
Cross,
the
greatest
award
for
valor
to
the
7DUUK
.
ii
i
.i
il.i
i
.
.
ine
aiiik
uiduubcu
turtt
nau
instituted
the
cuifc
.
.
yibOCU
tl
luiQ
worn
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ior
mo
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Ill
II
I
V
His
Majesty
paid
tribute
to
the
British
people
for
Mifnrra
on1
honttnl
.fnifti
.
4u!u
i.
.
C1I
WMhv
M.
AMkvit
Alt
LUUIILrv.
inp
use
and
final
victory.
The
walls
of
London
might
be
battered
but
the
spirit
London
and
its
people
would
stand
undismayed
There
would
always
be
an
England,
"the
symbol
of
(in
"iu
in-vuujn
uim
uui
uwn
uear
nome.
The
King
expressed
sympathy
for
the
parents
of
chil-
suiusim
...v
viciiiiau
lurpeuo
auacK
oi
the
TOsn
miiu
in
uic
i-iiiaiuic
last
luesciav.
"hpco
u.q.
rther
Droof
than
in
that
foul
tIppH
nL
n
nun
tic
iiLUL.
News
'MAR
IS
ATTACKED
im-Officials
here
claimed
tthit
British
warships
had
i
firlnf
on
Dakar,
French
i
DeGiulle,
leader
of
the
Irtnrh
fnrrr
firhtlnr
urith
h,
tve
the
order
from
a
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1
SPAIN
DENIES
IT
rlhe
Spanish
government
fxilt
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the
side
of
Germany,
admitted,
however,
that
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two
princlDal
nnlllnr
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Kiver
and
Ocean
"tounted
for,
21
out
of
46
to
the
Mackenile
provincial
c
on
shows
Manfred
Mc-
Liberal.
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Boston
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Big
Missouri.
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9.85.
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Oentonla,
.01
(ask),
rairvlew,
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.45
bid
Mlnto,
.01.
Noble
Five.
.00
ii.
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Pacific
Nickel,
.08.
Pend
Oreille.
1.55.
Pioneer,
2.05.
Premier,
.96.
Privateer,
.42.
Reeves
McDonald,
.25
(ask).
Reno,
.19
(ask).
Relief
Arlington,
.02
Vi.
Salmon
Gold,
.02.
Sheep
Creek,
.95.
Cariboo
Hudson,
.02
(ask).
Oils
A.
P.
Con,
.15.
Calmont,
.25
(ask).
C.
tt
E.,
1.48.
Home,
1.90.
Pacalta,
.05
(ask).
Royal
Canadian,
.10
(bid).
Okalta,
.90.
Mercury,
.04.
Prairie
Royalties,
.11
(ask).
Toronto
Aldermac,
.20.
Beattie,
.95.
Central
Pat.,
1.85
(bid).
Cons.
Smelters,
Zb.3.
East
Malartlc,
3.30.
Fernland,
.03
(ask).
Francoeur,
.38.
Gods
Lake,
M.
Hardrock,
.95.
Int
Nickel,
378.
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Addison.
2.67.
,
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Long
Lac,
2.10.
McLeod
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2.45.
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Red
Lake,
.44.
,
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Red
Lake,
.96.
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.61,
Noranda,
57
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Crow,
2.75.
Preston
East
Dome,
1.96.
San
Antonio,
2.00.
Sherrltt
Gordon,
.75.
Uchl.
.40.
Bouse
adillac,
.02.
Mosher,
.06.
Oklend,
.06.
Smelters
Gold,
.00Vi.
Dominion
Bridge,
28.00.
ABDUCTED
CHILD
HOME
HILLSBOROUGH,
CaL
Three-year-old
Marc
de
Tristan
jr.
Is
safe
and
unharmed
at
his
home
here
after
being
kidnapped
and
Wilhelm
Neuhlenbruk,
an
unnaturalized
German
who
entered
this
country
In
1935
from
Vancouver,
is
under
arrest
after
confessing
the
kidnapping.
Loggers
In
the
Sierra
Nevada
mountains
became
suspicious
of
the
movements
of
an
automobile
and
Intercepted
the
abductor
who
was
heading
for
a
hide-out
with
the
child.
Vol.
XXIX.,
No.
224.
NEAR
EAST
WAR
TEMPO
QUICKENING
Air
Attacks
Presage
Pitched
Battle
New
Egyptian
Government
Is
Formed
CAIRO,
Sept.
23:
(CPJ
The
Mediterranean
war
for
Africa
and
the
Near
East
quickened
In
tempo
loaay
as
the
Royal
Navy
and
the
toyai
Air
Force
raided
Italian
positions
and
the
Egyptian
gov
ernment
Invoked
martial
law
as
a
defence
measure.
A
naval
communique
said
that
the
warship
fleet
had
attacked
Italian
positions
about
SIdl
Barrani
"with
good
results"
early
Sundav.
Renewed
air
raids
on
both
sides'
indicat;
that
the
first
pitched
battle
between
British
and
Italian
forces
may
be
at
hand
near
Marsa
Matru.
The
British
are
reported
to
be
moving
up
from
Alexandria
and
the
Italians
from
Sldl
Barrani.
A
new
government,
headed
by
the
same
Premier
as
before:
has
been
formed
for
Egypt.
It
Is
pledged
to
full
co-operation
with
Great
Britain
without
immediate
declaration
of
war
until
such
time
as
the
iuuiui
mvas:uu
tnreaiens
ine
m-
tn.
.
These
were
grim
days
and
there
,.
mirrht
be
rrrimmn-
dependent
of
Etvnt
whirh
ntn.
1
"
O-""
.
-
-
-
-
a
jSjeu
ito
the
slight
Importance
of
the
Hnwpvpr.
His
Mniootu
urnvwi
oil
1
...
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......,
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.
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up
tneir
con
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uot
hi
viiiii
h
ill
l
r
ni
muuuciauic
auiiiL
hi
Liu
rnnan
tnr.it
"
territory
not
do.
so
far
occupied,
it
does
RIBBEXTROP
HOME
ROME
German
Foreign
Mln-
j
ister
Joachim
von
Ribbentrop
left
for
Berlin
today
following
his
discussions
with
Tremier
Mussolini
in
regard
to
future
action
in
the
Mediterranean.
The
attitude
of
Russia,
United
States,
Egypt,
Spain,
Greece
and
Turkey
came
In
for
discussion.
BLAST
IN
ARSENAL
DOVER,
New
Jersey.
Sept.
23:
(CP)
Two
persons
were
killed
and
six
Injured
today
In
an
explosion
at
the
United
States
Army's
Plca-
tlnny
arsenal
near
here.
It
was
the
second
fatal
munitions
plant
blast
in
the
Dover
area
in
a
fortnight,
the
first
having
been
an
explosion
at
the
Kenvllle
plant
of
the
Hercules
Powder
Co.
on
septemoer
12
which
took
a
toll
of
fifty
lives.
NAVAL
SHIP
TORPEDOED
LONDON.
The
sloop
IUI.S.
Dundee
has
been
torpedoed
and
sunk.
The
crew
numbered
100.
There
were
some
casualties.
A
Spanish
trawler
has
been
torpedoed
and
sunk,
almost
certainly
by
an
Italian
submarine,
off
the
coast
of
Spain.
CALOARY,
Sept.
23:
(CP)-Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police,
assisted
by
the
militia
and
a
trained
police
dog,
are
searching
the
Foothills
country
west
of
Calgary
today
for
two
prisoners
who
escaped
from
a
prarle
internment
camp
Sunday.
PROVINCIAL
1
1
LIBRARY
I
LjOng
Speaks--
!
TdmorroW
sT
ides
IT
J
4
Victory
Come,
i5
v-cnam
io
Declares
King
HANOI,
French
Indo-China,
j
Sept.
23:
(CP)
Official
French
quarters
said
today
that
Japanese
troops
attacked
Dong
Dang
1
on
the
Chinese
border,
120
miles
j
north
of
this
capital,
last
night,
but
ceased
fighting
in
the
face
of
strong
French
resistance.
A
Reuters
News
Ag
ncy
dispatch
from
Shanghai
sa
9
that
fighting
had
ceased
aft
r
a
Japanese-French
agreemen
:
had
been-signed
over
the
Int
o-China
question.
On
Sunday
an
authoritative
dl
patch
from
Hanoi
to
Hong
Kong
said
that
French-Japanese
negotiations
had
brLen
off
again
on
Japan's
demand;
for
military
privileges
and
all
Uie
Japanese
mission
planned
to
leave.
Over
the
week-end
negotiations
between
Japan
and
Trench
Indo-China
were
reported
at
the
point
of
breakdown
over
the
demands
of
Japan
which
were
said
to
be
for
the
establishment
of
military
and
naval
bases
asf
well
as
the
,
right
to
send
trolps
through
Indo-China
for
anjattack
from
that
direction
upon
China.
Later,
however,
it
was
reported
that
the
Japanese
had
moderated
their
demands
and
that
the
tension
had
eased.
I
WELL
OVER
TOP
OTTAWA.
The
Second
Canadian
war
loan
was
well
oversubscribed
with
applications
totalling
$312,000,000.
Orders
of
some
of
the
large
investors
have
been
cut
down
in
order
to
take
care
of
smaller
applications.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
C0LUMbJA8
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER,
23,
1940.
206
Adults
Lose
High
Low
SITUATION
j&shty-Seven
Children
And
UN
UiMLIN
1
Japanese
Make
Attack
on
Indochina
But
Reported
Agreement
Brings
Cessation
Cruel
Attack
o
Arrests
At
Singapore
Protested
x
TOKYO.
Sept.
23:
(CP)
announces
that
the
consul-
general
in
Cinraore
has
been
directed
to
protest
a?ains:
r
the
arrest
:her
of
six
Jaun-
pfs'and
d:iand
th?ir
imcwUi-
ate
release.
The
Fpreiyn
Of-
flee
said
that
one
of
the
arrested
wat
a
raembsr
of
th
3s
panes?
consulate
and
that
the
consulate
safe
had
been
sealed.
CANBERRA,
Sept.
23
Early
returns
from
the
Australian
general
election
indicated
the
return
of
Premier
R.
G.
Menzies
United
Australia-Country
party
coalition
government.
The
Labor
Apposition
appears
to
have
gained
three
feats
Premier
Menzies
was
reelected
in
hU
own
seat
but
the
Labor
leader,
John
Curtin,
suffered"
personal
defeat
in
Spectacular
Diazes
AH
Along
Shore
for
Many
Miles
After
Koyal
Air
Force
Hits
All
Manner
of
3Iilitary
Objectives
LONDON,
Sept.
23.
The
Royal
Air
Force
has
disnstrnus
blows
almost
continuously
sinrp
Satur-
!day
morning
not
only
on
German
channel
bases
but
also'
i
Tn
,.v.
t?,.i.
i
...:n.
!
Uii
tUllVUyi.il
SWllJlliy
tllUliy
tllC
l'ICIli;H
VUilSl
Willi
i
tellinp;
effect.
Using
wave'
after
wave
of
planes,
the
;
LONDON
IS
I
CENTRE
OF
!
AIR
RAIDS
Enemy
Concentrates
on
British
Capital
in
Diffuse
Activity
Defensive
Services
Function
Admirably
Lives
British
are
now
hammering
both
night
and
day
at
enemy!
anti-aircraft
batteries
going
into
I
saw.
.
..
.
.....
Mil.
-1
1
m
n
nm
!
imuiary
oDjeciives
iis
lar
removed
as
ironaneim
lnivi
A
action,
ine
enemy
naa
mue
military
objectives
as
far
removed
as
Trondhelm
In
Norway.
J
'-'Con-
drive
to
break
up
the
projected
capital.
invasion
at
its
bases
continued
n.HWtA..
1
t-
..M
All
Tl
!
.
1
.1.
1
1
spicuous
success"
is
reported
t0
"
have
attended
the
bombing
by
the
?
y"
nv,
.i-tv,,...,,
Rotterdam,
one
of
the
main
terday
one
containing
fifteen
ships
and
another
twelve.
There
were
direct
hits
on
transport
and
convoy
vessels.
j
From
the
British
side,
the
entire
.
Nazi-controlled
shore
of
France
j
from
punkerque
to
Boulogne
appeared
aglow
with
fierce
red
flames
throughout
Saturday
night'
as
widespread
fires
blazed
following
the
heaviest
bombing
attack
so
far
in
the
war
by
the
Royal
Air
Force.
The
nocturnal
blaze,
visible
for
fifty
miles,
was
described
as
the
"biggest
spectacle
of
the
war."
Tons
of
bombs
were
dropped
by
the
British
with
telling
effect
on
naval
vessels,
barges,
merth-and
ships,
docks,
oil
tanks,
supply
depots,
railway
yards
and
shore
facilities.
Rotterdam,
Amsterdam,
Flush-
targets,
oil
tanks
and
tank
barges
were
blown
up.
IN
NORWAY
TOO
The
Stockholm
newspaper
Da-
gens
Nyhetcr
reports
that
British
planes
bombed
Trondhelm
and
northward
along
the
Norwegian
coast
to
Namsos
last
night.
One
British
plane
is
reported
to
have
been
shot
down
and
two
others
made
forced
'
landings
In
Sweden
where
their
crews
were
interned.
Even
Berlin
admits
"a
system
of
nightly
attacks
by
the
enemy
(the
British)
on
ports
pf
western
Germany
and
Nazi-occupied
ports
of
the
Channel
"striking
with
the
TWENTY
NAZIS
DOWN
LONDON,
Sept.
23.
At
least
6:27
ajii.
18:20
p.m.
0:03
a.m.
12:00
pan.
In
153
ft.
17.1
ft.
6.6
ft.
8.5
ft.
PRICE:
i
CENTS
t
r
i
.
r
ouomarine
Dastardly
Torpedo
Attack
Occurred
Last
Tuesday
Night
in
Stormy
Atlantic
600
Miles
at
Sea
in
Dead
of
Nighf
LONDON,
Sept.
23.
Announcement
was
made
Sunday
night
of
the
sinking
by
a
German
submarine
torpedo
attack
in
an
Atlantic
Ocean
storm
last
Tuesday
night
of
a
refugee
ship
bound
from
Britain
to
Canada.
Eighty-
eeven
children
and
206
adults
lost
their
lives.
Six
hun-
,
dred
miles
offshore
in
heavy
seas,
the
attack
was
made
,
without
warning
in
the
pitch
dark
u
i
ii
1
of
night.
The
vessel
sank
twenty
"'"'"7"
;u
.
Z
.
V
1
minutes
after
the
attack.
It
goes
down
as
one
of
the
worst
marir?
disasters
of
the
war.
Seven
of
the
adult
victim
were
men
and
women
es;orts
of
the
children.
Survivors
totalled
113
persons
and
included
thirteen
children,
18
women
and
82
men.
There
were
406
persons
on
board
Including
passengers
and
crew.
j
Many
of
the
children
were
killed
InstanUy
by
explosion
when
the
I
torpedo
struck
and
tore
out
part
of
the
ship's
ide.
Others
died
in
lifeboats.
The
survivors
of
Ihe
Montreal-bound
ship
were
picked
up
hours
later
from
rafts
and
life-boats
by
nearby
warships
and
were
landed
on
west
coast
of
England
and
Scotland
ports.
The
disaster
was
the
greatest'
throughput
the
night
in
giant
seas
from
10
p.m.
until
after
dawn,
some
persons,
including
children,
died
In
the
lifeboats
before
the
rescue
could
be
effected.
There
were
scenes
of
horror
as
children
struggled
in
the
water.
Other
children
behaved
magnificently,
singing
"Roll
Out
the
Barrel"
and
other
songs.
The
vessel
had
been
convoyed
well
beyond
the
point
in
the
ocean
where
U-boats
usually
venture.
Of
the
87
children
who
perished
43
were
boys
and
44
girls.
Tliey
ranged
In
age
from
five
to
fifteen
years.
Whole
families
were
lost
Including
one
of
three
boys
and
another
of
three
daughters.
Five
children
'of
a
London
family,
of
ten
which
had
lost
its
home
by
bombing
were
lost
The
most
of
the
children
were
being
sent
to
Canada
I
since
the
torpedo
sinking
early
iniunder
the
government
evacuation
I
July
of
the
Arandora
Star
wlth
-,scheme-
.
German
prisoners
of
war
on
board.
The
captain
went
down
gallantly
1
Chilled
by
icy
wind
and
hail
andl-lth
shlP
He
last
seen
-
.w--w--.
from
the-stem
giving
ordersas
tos-
Week-End
Raids
Widespread
Bunks
In
Shelters
LONDON,
Sept.
23:
(CP)
The
construction
of
a
million
bunks
In
London's
air
raid
shelters
and
the
distribution
of
ear
nlues
to
all
Deoole
In
the
metropolitan
area
Is
an-
.
nounced
by
the
government.
Shelters
will
be
kept
ODen
twenty-four
hours
a
day
and
seven
days
a
week.
The
bunks
will
be
double
or
treble-
banked.
Sanitary
appliances
and
first-aid
posts
will
also
be
placed
In
the
shelters.
jStaggering
Blows
Are
Dealt
To
Enemy
Bases
On
Coast
of
Channel
the
use
of
lifeboats.
:
Another
who
lost
his
life
was
Col.
i
Baldwin
Webb,
a
Birmingham
steel
manufacturer
and
member
of
Parliament,
who
was
on
his
way
to
Canada
in
connection
with
Red
Cross
work.
Announcement
of
the
disaster
was
withheld
until
after
the
safe
arrival
of
other
evacuee
children
who
were
on
the
ocean
at
the
same
time
and
In
order
to
save
anxiety
unnecessarily.
Geofrey
Shakespeare,
Under
Secretary
of
Home
Security,
on
behalf
of
the
government,
today
expressed
"horror
and
Indignation"
at
the
act
.
In
which
pussengers,
.especially
women
and
children,
,were
given
little
chance
of
survival.
It
was
an
act
of
barbarism
comparable
with
the
bombing
oi
(London,
Shakespeare
said.
me
umisn
press
today
generally
twenty
German
.bombers
were
;agreed
that
the
"revolting
traedv"
shot
down
in
a
series
of
vicious
dog-fights
as
the
Royal
Air
Force
today
broke
up
an
invading
force
of
enemy
aircraft
apparently
heading
for
London.
London
had
Its
113th
air
raid
alarm
of
the
early
this
afternoon
with
success
on
this
occasion
in
penetrating
the
London
defences.
.enrauea
Dy
tne
sinking
of
the
evacuee
ship
"must
not
be
allowed
to
slow
up
the
speed
of
overseas
'evacuation.'
There
were
many
bitter
words
a.t
Washington,
D.
C,
over
the
at
rocity,
dispatches
received
here
greatly
lntenslve
or
damaging
The)
bombs
'
"
nine.
ft
attack
ft
n
fnnn
nna
I
is
namrf
mass
technique
being
changed
to
sending
over
raiders
singly
or
in
small
numbers.
Ah
f
f
I
t
r.
1
AAmM..nlM...
......
n
regularity
of
clockwork."
The
i
w
w
,TuT
.fu
J
day
a
tternoon
said
that,
although
Germans
complain
that
civilians
have
been
killed
and
houses
and,Some
lsolatfd
enemy
.aircraft
Jiad
churches
struck.
Germany
said,
come
over
tne
east
and
southeast
however,
that
the
Royal
Air
Force
coast-
dPPm5
some
bombs
in
the
ine.
Antewero.
Dunkeraue.
Ostend.'had
been
unable
to
eet
throush
to
country,
mere
was
relatively
mile
Calais,
Le
Havre
and
Boulogne
alliHacburg
or
Berlin
Saturday.
The
activity.
In
the
southeast
part
of
experienced
the
dropping
of
bombs
People
of
Berlin
were
driven
to
London
gas
and
water
mains
have
,
uV...
mo.
,u
'their
shelters
for
two
hours
andib(n
hit.
Four
enemy
planes
had
1-.11
U.l
two
near
London,
one
In
the
moun-,
a...uuUu.
we
u.u.K
-Cl
cuu-
R
j
A,
r
F
Force
-niae-Hi
made
Its
first
first'
tlnuously
afire
as
the
great
British
;ra(j
in
a
wee
on
the
German
I
tains
of
Wales
and
another
to
the
I
'west.
Four
churches
were
bombed
on
Sunday.
One
was
a
fifteenth
cen-
LONDON,
Sept.
23.
The
assault
,
tury
church
in
the
southeast,
which,
being
one
of
the
heaviest
of
the
after
sustaining
a
direct
bomb
hit,
war,
London
had
Its
sixteenth
con-
was
nothing
but
a
mass
of
rubble,
secutive
night
of
Nazi
air
raiding,
A
hospital
chapel
was
also
struck,
starting
before
dusk
Sunday
e've-l
nlng
after
a
comparatively
quiet
j
Ji8ht
day.
The
all-clear
came
midway
During
last
night
there
were
a
between
midnight
and
dawn,
nu-1
number
of
fatal
casualties
In
Lon-merous
bombs
were
dropped
In
'don
as
enemy
aircraft,
coming
in
various
parts
of
the
city
during
a
;
relays
or
single
or
small
numbers
of
number
of
hours
and
there
was
fur-'
planes,
engaged
In
scattered
bomb-ther
damage
and
fairly
heavy
cas-
lngs
over
rather
widespread
areas,
ualties.
There
were
widespread
Ger!
Houses
and
Industrial
premises,
man
air
thrusts
at
other
parts
or
were
hit.
There
were
also
some
at-the
country
but
they
were
not
tacks
on
southeast
Eneland.
Two
museum,
It
was
announced
today,
but
the
extent
of
damage
done
was
not
disclosed.
Three
different
areas
of
the
capital
bore
the
jrunt
Of
last
night's
attack.
One
hospital
was
hit.
There
were
three
alarms
on
Sunday.
Some
optimism
Is
expressed
that
the
worst
of
the
day
attacks
on
London
may
be
over
owing
to
I.
.
...
....
.
v.w
a.H'J
.wwrv
VI.
22
minutes
during
the
night
as
peen
brought
down
during
the
day.
i...
..,,.
,M.
0:1
is,
nowever,
sua
xeic
m
regard
to
the
night
raids,
Ml
1
hi
H
t
5'
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