THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 23, 1939
ANOTHER ITALIAN VICTIM OF MINES: TUGS TRYING TO TOW HER TO SAFETY
London, To-day. PASSENGERS THE ITALIAN S.S. FIANONA, of some 6,000 tons, IN THE
struck a mine off the Kentish Coast on Tuesday night. She is still afloat, however, and tugs are trying to tow her to port.
TERUKUNI
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Tokyo, To-day.
People on the shore heard a violent explosion and the lifeboat was launched immediately. It found the ship still afloat, despite a large hole forward and a split all down the hull on the star- (of Hong Kong) and Mr. J. P. B. board side. She was making water rapidly.
She carried little cargo, however, and was thus more buoyant than usual. The lifeboat stood by all night.
This is the second Italian. ship to be sunk in the past four days, the other being the 6,000-ton Grazia, al- ready reported. Reuter.
JAPANESE
OFFICIALS PRESERVE
CAUTION
(SPECIAL TO "CHÍNA MAIL")
Tokyo, To-day.
It is now learned that three Far Eastern passengers were on board the Terukuni Maru when she was sunk.
In addition to Mrs. Helen S. Swailes
Jones (of Shanghai), a Briton from Japan, Mr. W. Ferguson, a resident of Yokohama, was on board. - Havas.
FANCIFUL GERMAN STORIES OF NAVY CASUALTIES
JAPANESE LIEUT-GEN. KILLED
Peiping, To-day. The Japanese spokesman yes- terday confirmed Chungking's claim to have killed the Japanese divisional commander, Lt. Gen. Abe, who was ambushed with 10 men near Paotingfu a few days ago. All were killed.
Lt. Gen. Abe was the first of his rank to be killed in the Sino- Japanese hostilities—-Reuter.
NGAI
KWONG-YIM MURDERED
Mr. Ngai Kwong-yim, Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok, was murder- ed on Tuesday, according to a mes- sage received by the "Ta Kung Pao” from Bangkok.
The message did not state the motive, but said that Mr. Ngai's pa-
London, To-day. triotic activities had aroused ill- feelings among certain subversive ele-
A REPORT WAS RECENTLY published in Ameri- can newspapers that British warships had been sighted in the Atlantic and that Canada was preparing to build ships.
Thereupon the Germans falsely represented the "New York Times" as saying that H.M.S. Hood, Repulse and Renown had been taken for repair to Canada, where they would be safe from enemy attack.
In fact, the Nazi air raids on our war ports have been totally ineffec-
The Japanese Embassy in London has officially inform-tive. ed the Foreign Office here that it was an anchored mine that sank the Terukuni Maru.
Officials here carefully avoid plac- ing the blame on any country, while the Japanese press has been asked to refrain from any undue excitement, with the idea of not letting the public take sides in the war, from which Ja- pan wants to keep out at all costs.
Only the semi-official "Japan Times," quoting neutral Informa- tion from London, says in a head- line "German mine held respon- sible."
FACTS ACCEPTED
In spite of all this caution the Ja-
panese public widely believes the ship
struck a German mine.
It is noted, inter alia, that the ship was piloted by a British pilot, and also that the Hamburg radio announ-
ced on Nov. 21 Germany's intention to
place mines within British waters and declining to take responsibility for the consequences for neutrals.-Havas.
S.S. TAKES OVER
Warsaw, To-day. The last regular German army re- giments left Polish territory over the week-end -and are now moving into Germany.
They have been replaced in Poland by the 8.8. troopers, Reuter. -
FRENCH ENVOY
CHU NG
Chungking, To-day. M.. Hekel dosme, French Amb sador to China arrived here: day afternoon by air from The French envoy was mat by sentatives from the Foreign Mi -Our Own Correspondent.
Only the antiquated H.M.S. Iron Duke suffered superficial damage, compared with the destruction of 17 raiding planes.
- The fabrication of neutral evidence to support imaginary news is an at- morale on the home front. tempt by the Nazis to bolster
up
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OFFICIAL STORY OF AIR VISITS
Reuter.
London, To-day.
ments.
Mr. Ngai was a rich
A native of Tenghai, near Swatow,
merchant in Thailand, dealing in rice, wine and oil. He was recently made a mem-
ber of the People's Political Council of Kwangtung Province.
A fervent
$300,000 to
patriot, he contributed China out of his own pocket and collected over $5,000,000 in patriotic donations.
JAPANESE INDIGNANT AT SINKING OF TERUKUNI
MARU
London, To-day.
THE MASTER OF THE N.Y.K. Terukuni Maru states positively that his ship was not struck by a floating mine which had broken adrift.
Ministry announce: "The
The Admiralty and Air The ship was steaming at 15 knots and was draw- Germans on Tuesday claim- ed that reconnaissance air- craft which raided England It on Monday fulfilled their tasks according to plan.
ing 27 feet in the shipping channel south-west of the Sunk Lightship when she was mined. was broad daylight and visibility was good. There
were five look outs.
One German aircraft, a Heinkel The explosion was not at the side of 111, succeeded in reaching the out-the ship but underneath, and the ship skirts of London.
lifted and threw men off their feet.
The nearest British mined area is 35 miles away from the scene, and in any case British mines are rendered automatically safe if they break away
The pilots of R.A.F. fighters who chased this raider from the Thames Estuary out to sea and engaged it, reported that they saw part of the enemy plane fall off as it dived steeply towards the clouds below.
It was not known how badly. the Heinkel was damaged, and therefore no claim was made that it had been brought down.
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There was no loss of life because
it was daylight, the son was calm and, the lifeboats were lowered in good time before the ship--listed. Several auxillary craft in the-vicin- ity rescued most of the passengers and crew.
The ship had cleared the contraband
Confirmation of the success of the attack was received when a British destroyer picked up two German fly-control in five Ing officers and one rating from a rubber boat in the North sea.
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SLOVAKIAN
GERMANS
GET SHOCK
Zurich, To-day. Great surprise, is felt among the German minorities in Slovakia at the Nazi decision to include their terri- tory in the repulciation scheine, says the Berlin correspondent, of a ̈ Zurich newspaper:
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