THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1939.
WARSAW'S AGONY
Copenhagen, To-day.
Neutrals evacuated from War. Baw give graphic accounts conditions in the Polish capital.
of
The dead, they state, are being buried in the public aquarés, while the population is suffering from typhold and there is shortage of food.-Reuter.
ENTIRE CREW OF BRITISH STEAMER
FEARED LOST
a
GERMAN FREEDOM RADIO KEEPS IT UP
"GOEBBELS TRYING TO
MAKE DREADNOUGHT OUT OF EVERY FISHING BOAT SUNK"
London, To-day. MERCHANT
THE GERMAN FREEDOM Party broadcast an ad-
dress to the German people stating that Ger- MARINE AND many's unrestricted submarine war could never succeed though the Goebbels propaganda ma-
THE U-BOATS chine tried to make a dreadnought out of every fishing boat sunk.
The Nazi Government are bluffing the people
pretending that they can starve Britain.
Addressing the soldiers in the. trenches, the announcer said: "Fight with us against the Gestapo. Talk to your comrades in the trenches. They will fight with us against the Gov- ernment. Tell your comrades how their families live at home. Set against Hitler's war aims. The Ger- man peoples aim at peace.
"Down with Hitler!"-Reuter.
LICENCE
London, To-day. SYSTEM
A Ministry of Information bulletin says that on September 7 it was an- nounced that the s.s. Royal Sceptre (4,853 tons) had been sunk by a U- boat.. The S.O.S. message received from the Royal Sceptre, then about 300 miles to westward of Ushant, in- dicated that she was being gunned by the U-Boat and later that the crew had been ordered to leave the ship as she was sinking.
Later, signals were received Danish and Norwegian ships searched the locality and found traces of the boats.
that had
no
Nor have H.M. ships been able to find any survivors.
It was hoped that possibly the crew had been picked up by some fishing boats or ship without a radio.
But since nothing more has been heard for nearly 3 weeks, it ia feared that hope must be aban- doned and that the officers and crew of the Royal Sceptre are lost, victims of the U-Boat warfare which is being waged in contra. vention of the Protocol signed by Germany in November 1936-Part Four of the London Naval Trea- ty of 1930.
This treaty makes it clear that no
FOR EXPORTS
Simla, To-day.
In order to preserve sup- plies and prevent essential commodities from reaching the enemy through neutral countries, the Government is shortly instituting a licence system, for exports to non- British destinations.
It is understood that the licences will be given freely for all goods to all ⚫countries in America and almost the whole of Asia, including China, Japan and also Egypt.
neu-
Licences for exports to trals will be issued to the limit of normal exports to those coun- tries.
The list of key commodities con- trolled under this system includes raw and manufactured cotton, wool, hides, skins, mica, raw rubber, man- ganese ore, castor oil, coconut oil, all oilseeds and oil cakes.-Reuter.
NEUTRALITY
wärship, 'submarine or otherwise, Is BATTLE MAY
justified in sinking a merchant ship unless the crew has been placed in safety and that open boats cannot be considered a place of safety unless in calm weather and close to land or a rescuing ship.-British Wireless,
REUTER MESSAGE
London, To-day.
BE LONG
Washington, To-day. The latest poll of opinion among American Senators on the Neutrality Act reveals that the fight is not yet set- Germany's use of submar-tled one way or the other, ines in flagrant contraven-though Roosevelt has the tion of her treaty undertak-best prospect of success for ings has resulted in further his policy. losses of British merchant seamen.
Information The Ministry of states that it is feared that hope must now be abandoned for the officers and, crew of the steamer Royal Sceptre which on September 7 wirelessed that she was being. fired at by a U-boat.
The crew abandoned the ship, which was sinking,
It had been hoped that the crew might have been picked up by fish ing boats but this hope must now
be given up.-Reuter,
The polls show that approximately 35 Senators are definitely opposed to the repeal of the arms embargo.
The majority of the remaining sixty-one are, propared to support President Roosevelt, but between ten and fifteen are not definitely 'commit- ted one way or the other.
Their votes may be the importan
ones.
MONTHS OF DEBATE) President Roosevelt's supporters, nevertheless, remain confident of ultimate success, though they foresee a month * or even six months! of stormy debating and Parliamentary manoeuvring before the Isolationists are defeated-Reuter.
BRITISH INDUSTRIES. FAIR CANCELLED
in
London, To-day. The British Industries Fair, which was to have been held simultaneously in London and Birmingham in February, has been cancelled.--Reu-
ter.
London, To-day.
The fine spirit of British seamen in the face of the Nazi submarine warfare, is described in a letter from a chaplain in a Seamen's In-
stitute.
far The padre writes: "So
from deterring the men from going to sea, the U-boats' activities have had the opposite effect.
"After having been torpedoed once, the men's one desire is to get an- other ship.
"Their spirit is the same as in 1914."-Reuter.
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