Railway yards at Charlottenburg and elsewhere were seen to be hit. The B.M.W. aero-engine works at Spandau was bombed as well as Tempelhof aerodrome. A Siemens works received a direct hit One pilot who attacked a large gus works in the north-east area of Ber! reported on his return that it w plain sailing all the way there and back—a journey of some 1,200 miles Following aircraft, however, met strong opposition and pilots described how "things started to hum just as we got near Beni Another pilot said: "There were hundreds of flares over Berlin, The sky Was like a Chinese garden party and there' was a fire at Spandau where other raiders had directly the B.M.W. aero-engine works. low flashes could be seen and n ous explosions were observed."
Kiel Canal Bombed The Blohm and Voss shipbuilding yards at Hamburg received a salvo of heavy bombs and in an attack on the Kiel Canal at Brunsbuettel a stick of bombs burst across the entrance to the canal.
At Boulogne, the inner harbour, wet-docks and the main basin were bombed and a fire was started in the harbour, where 20 or 30 ships were assembled. A direct hit was obtained on one ship and fires and explosions resulted.
Bombs were also dropped on barges and shipping at Calais, where one pilot saw his bombs exploding in several basins.
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Officials here declined to comment immediately on the Japanese-German alliance reports. These reports reached Washington several hours after President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, met at the White House to study latest official despatches on the Japanese invasion of French Indo-China Received with Reserve Government quarters received with e the reports of the agreement.
did not doubt the existence of diplomatic collaboration between Germany and Japan, but regarded the agreement reports as a trial balloon to test the - opinion of the rest of the world. particularly the Unied States.
Such a pact. it was generally believed he would throw Japan openly into a war with Britain and certainly would aggravate her strained relations with the United States, Authorized quarters believed that the alliance reports were precipitated by speculation both here and London that the United States and Britain were considering a programme of mutual defence in the Pacific, especially in regard to the United States using the British naval base at Singapore.
Indicating the seriousness with which the Government is regarding Japan's actions in the Far East, Mr. Hull called at the White House after dinner last night for a lengthy discussion of the Far Eastern situation with the President.
Germany as Mediator There were no hints last night as iv the American Government's possible moves, but Washington officials privately made no secret of the fact that they were greatly disturbed over Japan's actions in the Far East.
Mhe Japanese-German agreement in principle was reported to have been approved by an Imperial Conference in Tokyo on September 19. The alliance will be announced in Tokyo as soon has been formally ratified the Japanese Privy Council, it was understood.
Germany, it was reported, has undertaken to serve as mediator in a Russo-Japanese rapprochement which may amount to a non-aggression pact giving Japan freedom of ion in southern Asia as far as Russia is concerned.
The presence in Tokyo of an important mission from Thailand at the present time led some quartery here to believe that the Japanese-German alliance might'lead to military cooperation between Japan and Thailand in southern Asia.
Such action, it was pointed out, would be facilitated by the Japanese invasion of Indo-China; and it would prove a serious menace to Singapore, thereby aiding Germany's policy of attempting to dismember the British Empire.
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