The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-17
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less war in the air and on the
seas.
Britain-still keeping an APP
prehensive eye on suspected
trouble In the Far East-re-
ported she had sent Raj bomb
ers on a 2,O00-mile roundtrip
flight to western Poland to drop
pamphlets and others, with
bombs, to attack the Nazi-held
Dutch and Belgian coasts.
Even as a hurricane was
slashing a trail of disaster
through Spain and storms were
ravaging the breadth OF the
continent, the daily report OF
the German high command un-
derscored new, smashing blows
on Britain's merchant shipping.
It said they were contributed
both by submarines and bomb
ing planes.
Gales over the Dover strait
enforced a lull last night, but
Nazi raiders were reported back
in the vicinity of several English
towns today and air raid alarm
sirens sounded in the London
area.
German air attacks yesterday
were said to have sunk one g.
O00-ton merchantmen off Scot
land and another vessel west Of
Ireland and to have damaged
q third north of the English port
of Great Yarmouth. Packed
Planes" on an airport were re-
ported destroyed.
One submarine was reported
to have sent II, 900 tons of ship
ping to the bottom and another
TO have raised its score from
10000 to $4,000 tons.
Combined italian German air
raids on Malta, Britain's mid
Mediterranean air and naval
bastion, were reported by the
Italian high command. 1t said
Nazi fliers shot down three Bril-
fish hurricanes and Fascist filters
bombed the Mikabba airport.
The Fascist communique Gre
dited German filters alone with
having bombed British air bas-
es and communication lines in
North Africa violently" and
Italian filters with low-altitude
scatter bomb and machine-gun
attacks on defense works, troops
and supply columns in Albania.
1t said Italian planes also bomb
ed the British island of Crete.
Britain's show of uneasiness
in the Far East by announcing
she was extending the belt of
minefields guarding the sea ap-
proaches to her great naval base
at Singapore produced several
sequels.
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An Australian radio broad
cast heard in New York said the
City of Sydney would start to-
day on construction of IS public
air raid shelters.
In Tokyo, however, q hope
full note was ascribed by Chui-
chi Ohashi, Japan's vice foreign
minister. Domei, official Jap
anese newspaper quoted him as
saying, "Other Pacific powers
are becoming too nervous T.. :.
and are applying unwarranted
pressure against Japan"
1t said he declared Japan
hoped to settle South Seas ques-
tons without resorting to
force" and called intimations
that Japanese action was immi-
nent "misreports."
Britons in Japanese-occupied
portions of China again were
urged to leave and the British
consul asked women and child
rem living in Thailand (Siam) to
depart.
The Tokyo newspaper Asahi
published a report that Japan
csc were leaving the Neither
lands East Indies, but most Jap.
anese newspapers treated Far
Eastern events in milder tones.
One accused British propa-
gandists of engineering what is
called the "so-called Far East
ern crisis in order to speed pas
sage of the aid-to- Britain bill in
the United States.
The Chinese Central News
Agency in Chungking claimed
authoritative information that
six Japanese divisions-approx-
imately 10000 soldiers now
are based in Canton, China, Hal
nan Island, French Indo- China
and the Spratly Islands. 1t said
four divisions also are based in
Formosa.
British planes carried out a
heavy series of attacks on Ger
man held channel ports and the
industrial Ruhr district in Ger
many during the week END. The
British acknowledged that five
planes were missing. the Ger
man high command said ten
were shot down. Bad weather
brought a lull Sunday which