The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-07

ply base Of Haifa, IN Palestine, re-
porting that q Shell company re-
finery had been destroyed and large
fires started.
On the European front, the war
continued In the air out with no
change in regard to the threatened
offensive against the British Isles.
Britain Makes Claims
Arthur Greenwood, minister with
out portfolio. told the House Of
Commons today that British bomb
ing raids had heavily damaged Ger
man industrial areas and seriously
interfered" with production for the
Nazi war machine.
Greenwood said that the govern
ment was acting to make certain
that the German would not draw
sustenance from foreign sources.
mot only Germany but the Ger
man-controlled territory will be un-
able to carry on trade on any scale
with the outside world" he said.
adolf Hitler rules over sullen
people who may prove to be liabili-
ties rather than assets. He makes
them serfs. His gestapo (secret po-
lice) may browbeat and imprison
them. But he will not get out of
them the willing service which the
people of this country are so fully
giving to a national cause"
In regard to Royal Air Force at
tacks on German bases, Greenwood
said that British bombs had blasted
some of the chief German indus
trial regions.
"Hitler's output has undoubtedly
been most seriously interfered WITH"
he said. "It will be difficult if not
impossible to repair the damages to
productive enterprises, lines of COM
munication and so on for con-
siderable time"
Military detectives continue to be
the targets of the British pilots, he
said.
Our deadly bombing planes are
in action night after night and
week after week, more heavily. as
our bombing strength increases"
Nazis Planes Still Bombing
German planes were reported by
the Nazi high command to have
bombed British airfields in Wales,
the great Vickers Armstrong air
plane factory at Chester and a
munitions factory at Swansea, while
a single German naval vessel is
said to have sunk 10000 tons Of
British shipping.
British raids on military objec-
tives in Holland and the Reich con-
tinued. German planes dropped in
cendiary bombs on Scotland this
morning but the last "a hours has
been unusually quiet as far as air
attacks on Britain are concerned.
First Lord of the Admiralty A. v.
Alexander said in speech at Lon
don that Britain was we'll prepared
to meet attack by any method or
from any direction and that meas
ures had been adopted to defeat the
German attempt to blockade the
British Isles by air and U-boat.
Britain is beating the German
blockade by "unremitting effort and
new methods" he saio.
In the Far East, travellers at
Hong Kong reported that Japanese
warships and about 10 transports
were moving southwark from the
Formosa Island area, but there was
no indication of their destination.
Speculation was aroused as to
whether they might be headed for
French o-China, where the To-
cal French officials were said to
have taken "stiffer" attitude
against opssible Japanese demands
for naval bases.
Japan was reported planning
drastic government control of all
foreign schoolS-in which about 300
Americans are instructors-as part
of the nationalistic campaign and
on the grounds that some for .gn
schools were hostile to the gov
ernment's policies.