THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 26, 19391
GNEISENAU DESTROYED?
Oslo, To-day.
An eye-witness of the R.A.F. raid on Wilhelmshaven on the second day of the war declares that the 26,000-ton battleship Gneisenau was destroyed, according to the Norwegian newspaper "Arbeider Bladet."
He states that a bomb went down the funnel and exploded in the engine- room, breaking the ship in two.
Several men were drowned.
Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAR
NOT EXCHANGING SUBSTANCE
FOR THE SHADOWS
JUNK FIGHTS TRAWLER
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A running battle between Hong Kong Junk and Japanese trawler was reported to the police yesterday afternoon.
The incident occurred off Lau Shan, in the. Deep Bay area, just outside British waters.
As the trawler chugged its way towards the junk, the master put on full sail and ran for British waters, members of his crew, in the meantime, replying to the Ja- panese machine-gun fire with rifles. A cannonshot was also fired, but missed. Pang Wo, sis- ter of the junk's master, wounded in the buttock.
London, To-day. COLONEL REITZ, South African Minister for Na- tive Affairs, in an Empire broadcast from London yesterday, referred to the forthcoming presence in London of Dominion Ministers. This, he said, would do a great service to the com- mon cause and be proof not only of Imperial sol- darity but also of realisation of the fate await- ing smaller nations in the event of Nazi victory. South Africa especially was under no delusion. Her PIONEER
strategic position, her small white population,
and the fact that she produced three-quarters of CORPS
was
the world's gold supply, made it sure that she RECRUITING would be "the first to go under” should German succeed.
Colonel Reitz, after dealing with said: "Many African-speaking peoples fundamental distinctions between favoured, at first. neutrality, but the South Africa and other Dominions position is rapidly improving because in race and language, said: "In the it is realised that a neutral South past, we fought two bitter wars Africa would be a disgraced South against the British. I myself who Africa at the mercy of Germany who am speaking to you this afternoon would strip from her South-West served three years under arms Africa which South African troops. against the British Empire and I
captured in 1915. went into exile in a strange land rather than serve under the British flag. I mention these things to show you the difference between our own part and that of other Dominions.
But a generosity unknown in his- tory conferred on us an even greater measure, of liberty than we enjoyed under our own former Republics.
To-day, as a voluntary partner in the British Commonwealth, we are not only free, but far safer than we could hope to be if we were on our cwn, with the smash-and-grab policy which now trying to dominate the world.
SOUTH AFRICA'S POSITION Passing to events in South Africa on the out break of war, the Minister
WALKING TO WORK WAS AGONY
Crippled and Tortured by
Rheumatic Feet
Hobbling to work was a slow and agonizing business for this poor wo- man. She thought her shoes were at fault, but the trouble was more deep- seated than that. But deep-seated as it was. Kruschen Salts removed it, as she tells here:---
"I was advised to take. Kruschen Salts for a violent aftack of rheuma tlam. I used to go to work with tears.
· ́`running down my cheeks, owing to the pain in my feet. It was only after buying five different pairs of shoes, and getting no comfort, that I decided the fault must be in my feet. A fel low-worker told me to take Kruschen regularly. After three bottles I was i so free from pain, that they discovered me running Across the work-ro have taken the daily slowayat Im ever since and have lost the ri tism."--(Mrs.) MAVAS,
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"We have achieved liberty, pro- gress, security within the four corn- ers of the Empire, and we are not going to exchange the substance of what
possess for
the shadows that British would await us without." Wireless.
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AIR VISIT
London, To-day. Recruiting starts to-day. for the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps.
maintenance of all kinds of supplies The Corps will ensure the proper
to our armies at home and abroad.
Men between 35 and 50 are eligible, and the War Office hopes that volun- teers will offer their services for-a work of such vita, importance. ·-·
Duties will include handling stores at docks, bases and depots and the maintenance of roads and railways.* The pay will be the same as that of the British infantry.--Reuter..
By Ed Reed
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twanty minutes ago!”.
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LONDON, TO-DAY:32+
A COPENHAGEN. MESSAGE RE- PORTS THAT THE HAMBURG RADIO CLOSED DOWN AT O'CLOCK ON TUESDAY NIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A BROADCAST OF HERR VON RIBBENTROP'S SPEECH,
It is thought in Copenhagen that the interruption was due to an air raid warning.
Presumably R.A.F.. planes were, in- volved, as the Air Ministry statement in London, yesterday stated that our planes made reconnaissance flights over Hamburg, Berlin and Magdeburg (75 miles west of Berlin). Reuter. PLANES RETURN BAFELY
London, To-day.
It is understood that all R.A.F. ma- chines which took part in the recon-- naissance over Germany on Tuesday night, returned safely.-Reuter.
AN APT RIPOST-TO RIBBENTROP'S SPEECH
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London, To-day. Referring to the Royal Air Force reconnaissance flights on Tuesday*** night over Berlin; Magdeburg and Hamburg, the newspapers find food for reflection in the fact that at the very hour when Ribbentrop at Dari- zig was boasting, of Nazi might, as exemplified in the overthrow of Po- land, Britain's air power was again being demonstrated to the German people, unmistakably, but mercifully. -British Wireless.
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