The Customs jetty last night was thronged with Shanghailanders who witnessed the reunion of parents and their children comprising a second batch of juvenile evacuees, about ten in number who arrived here by the Empress of Asia Mom Vancouver, after making the trip across the Atlantic from England to Canada.
Many of the children sported their school uniforms and appeared hale and hearty, glad to be back in Shanghai with their parents again. The trip across the Pacific had been made without incident it was learned.
The Empress boat also brought to Shanghai from Vancouver Capt. and Mrs. Stanley Cottrill of the Salvation Army who will be stationed in Mukden, and Miss C. Paul. adjutant of the Salvation Army who is proceeding to Peiping. The trio are new arrivals in China and left England for Canada before making the trip across the Pacific.
British Resistance Against Nazi Aerial Attacks Proves Far Greater Than Germans Thought Possible Geneva, Aug. 25. Gods of the weather hold the final word on the Battle of England, observers here confidently predict.
"Weather conditicas within the next week or so will be the deciding factor as to whether the German war machine can launch the imminent blitzkrieg against England, and even opinion in Berlin military circles are setting store on how the weather turns out.
Stubborn British resistance against Nazi air attacks have made the German High Command wary and alert to the magnitude of their task, it was reported here from the German capital, British fighter resistance against Nazi aerial attacks, it was believed here, proved far more than the Nazi war leaders expected possible. Hence it was concluded here by observers of the situation that the Battle bf England will not be fought in the immediate future.
Unfavourable weather conditions have already had some effect on the German military plans, which have been necessarily modified.
According to a Berlin despatch to the "Tribune de Geneve," Nazi circles admit that unexpected strength of British resistance combined with the unexpected weather conditions now prevailing, if they remain un changed, may well cause a change in the German plans for the attack on England.
In Britain, it was believed, the it British military and civilian authorities have welcomed the bad weather conditions with relief for the Hitler blitzkrieg attempt may well be held up by unfavourable atmospheric conditions.
Exceptional storms off the coast of England, it will be recalled, destroyed the Spanish Armada in its attempt io invade England in Good Queen Bess' time, while Napoleon's fatal hesitation at Boulogne saved the day again for the island kingdom.
Therefore, observers here predict, the blitzkrieg in England will rest in the lap of the gods of weather. Domei
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