The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-02

dropping all OF his bombs, machine
glsnned German aircraft Of the
ground.
~Just before the bombers re-
formed for the return journey one
Of them dived to so feet and put
bursts Of machine gun fire into the
German ground defenses. Only one
German fighter appeared and only
q few shots were exchanged. Anti
aircraft fire was intense through
out the action"
The ministry said that the attack
was pressed home" in the face Of
extremely heavy anti-aircraft fire
Intensity Of the attack was indicat-
ed in the air ministry's admission
that three British bombers which
participated in the raid were mis-
sing.
Dropping OF Leaflets
German planes which flew over
Britain dropped leaflets containing
extracts from Adolf Hitler's peace
or humiliation" speech over wide
areas, especially in south and south
western England.
Rejecting British expectation that
the tempo Of war was about to be
increased, authoritative quarters
said that large forces of Italians
were concentrating on the northern
Libyan frontier and, carefully pro-
tected by tanks and artillery, were
moving slowly toward the Egyptian
border.
(Rome reported that Corriere Pa
dano, newspaper OF the late Mar
shall Italo Balbo said that the
Zero hour" for a concerted Axis
attack against Britain was about to
Strike.)
The first German leaflet raid on
England conceded with reports that
German troops were moving up the
French coast from the Spanish Dor
der toward the narrow English
Channel where 1t was known that
troop-carrying barges had been con-
centrated.
British military quarters con-
firrned q claim made in the official
Italian communique today that
small italian forces had occupied
Debel, In Kenya, 80 miles south OF
Moyale on the Kenya- Ethiopia
frontier.
Contain Hitler's Speech
The leaflets were about eight
inches by twelve. They contained
merely part of the text of Hitler's
Reichstag speech Of July 10, with
the head "Last Appeal to Reason by
Adolf Hitler"
For hours during the night the
planes flew over England dropping
the leaflets. One plane, flying I'M
usually high apparently to escape
a balloon barrage, raced back and
forth across southeastern town,
eluding searchlights, as residents
ran to shelter amid the wall of air
raid sirens.
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Townspeople returned to their
homes to find the leaflets scattered
through the streets, one bundle OF
leaflets failed to open and fell on
the roof of house but did no
damage. One worker, collecting a
big bunch of the leaflets, announced
that he would sell them at shill-
ing GO cents) each to his fellow
workers and give the money to the
Red Cross
mention Of the balloon barrage
might mean, but not necessarily
that the German plane approached
the London area, which is heavily
guarded by captive balloons from
which cables depend.
Fall In Other Places
Leaflets fell in Southampton
and in part of the new forest.
Though police and air raid wardenS
collected as many as they could, APP
parently no serious effort was made
to prevent them from reaching the
public. Householders found leaflets
scattered IN their gardens but late
souvenir hunters found it difficult to
obtain them and there was warm
competition for the last ones, found
in treetops.
The leaflets resembled a small
four page newspaper. They were
well printed on fair quality paper
but their contents weer already well
known to any British newspaper
reader. 1t appeared that they had
been packed in brown paper par
GELS, designed to open as or soon
after they left the planes.
The leaflet raid served chiefly to
remind people sharply of the ever
present danger of German inva-
sion attempt. In an editorial written
before the raid the Times had said
that the invasion threat had been
by no mean dissipated and that
while Balkan developments might
have caused Germany to postpone
an attack, final settlement of the
Balkan problem was not necessary
preliminary to one.
Ship TorpedOed
New York, Aug. 2 - UP) - An
unidentified ship reported in
message picked up by Mackay radio
that she had been torpedoed off the
southwest coast of Ireland last
night several hours after the rit-
iSh steamer TheSus, believed en-
route to Canada with British refu-
gee children, radioed that she was
being attacked by a submarine in
the same area.
The unidentified ship wirelessed:
"Odxa torpedoed $500 north long
itude, 17.13 west latitude at 1926 p.
m. GMT End (QPCEY P. M. EDIT.
Thursday"
The call letters beginning with
20" usually are ascribed to ships
Of Norwegian registry, according to
radiomarine corporation. The S. s.
Algic, q. S. maritime commission
vessel, relayed the message to Mac
Kay.
No further word had been heard
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