THE CHINA: MAIL, OCTOBER 17, 1939
ADMIRALTY'S NEAT DISPOSAL OF "REPULSE" YARN
London, To-day.
IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY stated that the British Admiralty has no intention of denying all the mendacious reports of British naval losses circu- lated in the German press and wireless. The loss of the aircraft-carrier, Courageous, and the battleship, Royal Oak, have duly been made public. Not content with this, the Germans have repeatedly announced the loss of the Ark Royal, and have now "definite proof" that she had been replaced by "Furious.”
Not so long ago she was stated to have been replaced by "Glorious."
These tales are entirely without foundation as are the stories that the battlecruiser, Hood, was recently dam- aged and will take six to eight months to repair, that a heavy cruiser Vas damaged by aircraft off May Island and that ten hits from aircraft bombs were registered upon British naval units in the engagement last week off the coast of Norway.
one ship, that was all.
NEW NAZI VERSION
OF "REPULSE"
London, To-day.
The German claim in respect to the Repulse was later amended to the following: "The High Com- mand of the German navy an- nounces that the U-boat which sank the Royal Oak attacked and torpedoed the battleship Repulse."
No mention is made in the amended version of having "bad- ly damaged and disabled" the Repulse, which, Incidently, is a battle-cruiser not-a-battleship "Reuter.
GERMANY'S WORKERS
FEELING THE PINCH
ARE
London, Yesterday
It is the German workers, and not the rich in Germany, who are feeling the pinch of food rationing.
On this last occasion, German air-
There are people in Berlin who craft dropped more than 100 bombs are living comfortably, but they are in a series of attacks lasting nearly a spending a lot of money in the pro- hours, and did not obtain a single hit.cess. Choice cuts of meat and other A few spent splinters fell on board supplies can be got if one has the price. Although nobody can get REPULSE INVENTION
more than the ration cards provide, The latest report is that the battle-these cards say nothing about dif- cruiser, Repulse, is damaged and unfit ferences in quality of the food they for action.
represent.
Important hotels and certain res- Unless it is for the purpose of mis-taurants in Berlin continue to sup- The rub is leading neutrals, or heartening theirply imposing menus. own peonle by exaggerating the S'IC-
that it costs about twelve shillings cess of German arms, it is difficult to to get a meal one would get in Lon- see the reason for these lying state- don for less than four shillings. ments as to British "losses" which have not taken place.
This also is untrue,
!
One has to try to buy a 3s. lunch to appreciate how bad and meagre Of course, Hitler himself has said German food has become. On séver- in "Mein Kampf" that provided one al occasions, says a British United lies hard enough and often enough, Press correspondent, who had arrived some may eventually believe the wild-in Holland from Berlin, I found or- est misstatement.
dinary restaurants in Berlin where left at In any case,
the Admiralty, it is only a few vegetables were
Meat and made clear, has no intention of deny-the normal meal times. ing every rumour or every lie circulat-fish and what was left of the
eaten by ed in the German press or by wireless, dinary menu had been which assist the enemy to discover early arrivals. facts which might be useful to them. -British Wireless.
TREND OF U.S. PUBLIC OPINION
NEW YORK, TO-DAY.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION, FOLLOWING. CONTINUOUS SURVEYS OF PUB-
or-
The 3s. lunch is expensive for the average German. The food in the really cheap restaurants is something that is not forgotten in a hurry.
I could not eat it.
It consisted, as a rule, pf potatoes that must have been in storage two years, decked out with strange gravies that tasted like plaster.
This might be accompanied by fish, cabbage or possibly spinach in small quantities and in the same state of obvious antiquity.
NO ZEST FOR WAR But I did not hear criticism of the
LIC OPINION ON THE ARMS EM- obvious advangtages the Nazi Party BARGO QUESTION, REVEALS THAT officials and the rich are enjoying.
THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS OF EVERY NATIONAL ORIGIN, EX- CEPT GERMAN, FAVOUR RE- PEAL.
From first and second generation German-Americans, 45 per cent. fa- vour repeal.
Citizens of British, Canadian and Russian origin favour repeal, the res- pective percentages being 68, 60 and
Reuter..
67.
CHINESE .... GIRL BEATEN UP BY GANG
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A. CHINESE GIRL WAS VICIOUS- LY BEATEN BY A “GANGʻOF RUE,
- FIANS AT 11.30.P.M. LAST NIGHT
* AT THE "JUNCTION OF HOLLY.
** ** .WOOD KOAD. AND SHING WONG
STREET.
BRITISH AIR MISSION
› Ottawa, To-day. The British Air ́Mission has arrived. A communique-states that ibis con- fidently hoped to devise plans for building up a combined empire air force which will play a decisive role in the war.
The New Zealand (and 'Australia missions are expected to arrive short- ly. Reuter,
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BEER FOR THE ARMY!
London," "To-day,
An indication of how firmly at home
****** She was hacked unconscious" and | the British Expeditionary Forceris“ in ulance:f be thhmoned to France may be learned from the news
rbital that last week 50,000,000"piht-bottien,
take her, to th
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working achieve
In fact, the Germans, ever-increasing hours to maximum production, are getting
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GERMANY PLAYS AT BEING SUBTLE!
Paris, To-day.
The Paris edition of the "New York Herald Tribune" carries a report from The Hague that recently the Netherlands General Staff received an unexpected gift from Berlin of 1,500 complete sets of military maps of Ger- many.
Two days later, Berlin requested · the Netherlands General Staff to re- turn the courtesy by presenting the German General Staff with Dutch military maps.
The Netherlanders replied that they were sorry, but they had
no extra maps to spare! — Reuter.
LINDBERGH
BROADCAST
too tired to do much rebelling, REACTION
Germany started this war tired. "Hitler's. War," as it is already called in Germany, is by no means popular with the masses under the Fuehrer's sway
London, To-day.
The reaction in Canada
to Col. Charles Lindbergh's anti-British radio broadcast has taken the form of a' new recruiting drive, with the object of contributing 15,000 airmen to the
Germans living on the Swiss side of the German-Swiss frontier at points where there is still free move-Empire training scheme. ment, say that travellers tell them that even news of the victories Poland caused no enthusiasm Germany.
:
More than half this number-have in already been enrolled.
in The first contingent öf -Austrillian pilots have arrived in London and Ren-
There are too many people who joined the RAF. on Friday. remember what happened in 1914-ter.
18, when German troops occupied Belgium and a large part of France --and yet lost, the war.
ARMISTICE DAY IN UNITED STATES
It is asserted · that but for the never-ceasing Nazi terror — the de-
Washington, To-day. nunciations: the stringent laws President Roosevelt has issued ; a punishing even minor offences with | proclamation declaring that Novem- severe penalties nobody would | ber 11 will be observed as usual-in- fight in Germany. Our Own | the United States as Armistice: Day. Correspondent.
-Reuter.
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Bv Ed Read
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when you come back!”
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