THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1940
Netherlands Anger At Sinkings By The U-Boats
SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN OF LATEST OUTRAGE
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT WILL SHORTLY PROTEST. IN BERLIN AT THE TORPEDOING OF THE DUTCH FREIGHTER ARENDSKERK.
A most serious view Is taken in official quarters re- garding reports of the torpedoing of the Bugerdijk hitherto received, and It is considered that if the reports are verified, the sinking of the Bugerdijk
MONEY FOR U.S. DEFENCE
Washington, To-day.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the
for national
Bill appropriating
$252,000,000 (about 263,000,000)
defence and
GOEBBELS DEFENDS SEA MURDERS
en.
In
forcement of the United States
neutrality policy.
imme-
Tha
money becomes diately available for expenditure before the end of June next.- Reuter.
was a most flagrant violation of the rights of SWEDISH
neutral shipping yet committed.
A very strong protest is to be ex- pected.
Neutral inquirers were told in Ber- lin yesterday that the Burgerdijk was presumably sunk because she had con- traband on board.
So far apparently no report has been received from the German sub- marine captain but Nuzi circles de- clare that contraband would be the only reason that could make him tor- pedo a neutral vessel.
RUMANIAN
CONTROL BOARDS
UP BY THE RU.
LONDON, TO-DAY. ACCORDING TO THE RUMANIAN LEGATION IN LONDON A CON- DISGUST AND INDIGNATION
correspondent TROL BOARD TO The parliamentary
COVER PRO- HOME CONSUMP. of the "Telegraaf" writes: "Our peo-|DUCTION AND ple feel nothing but disgust and in-TION OF EXPORTS OF ALL KINDS dignation at such a piracy and the 18 TO BE SET Government knows in advance that it | MANIAN GOVERNMENT. has the whole nation behind it if it makes clear at the proper time and place and with the proper emphasis that Holland does not wish to be threatened with want and hunger through the illegal and unreasonable action of one of the parties in the
Reuter. war."
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Norwegian Motorship
Blown Up
Oslo, To-day.
The Norwegian motorship Snestad (4,000 tons) sank on Sunday follow- ing an explosion caused either by a mine or torpedo.
The vessel was bound for America in ballast. All the crew were saved. -Reuter.
ALLIED COHESION
PARIS, TO-DAY.
CONTACT BETWEEN FRENCH AND BRITISH INDUSTRIALISTS IS ABOUT TO BE EFFECTED SO THAT THE INDUSTRIES OF THE TWO COUNTRIES MAY BE COMPLE- COMPETI- MENTARY AND NOT TIVE IN WARTIME.
First meeting has been provisionally Axed for March 3 in London, and is intended for preliminary investigation of the possibilities of co-ordinating Franco-British production, first, dur-
ing the war, and, secondly, after the
war.
French industry will be represented by a delegation of the Confederation of Employers-Reuter.
BUDDHIST RAILWAY DISASTER CEREMONY
MAIL'S SPECIAL T
To-day.
uary 1.
General Catroux, Governor
Institution of the board will form part of the general scheme to control all Rumania's natural resources, with a view to conserving supplies neces- sary to the country.
Control boards will be set up later to deal with foodstuffs, timber and other materials.
Reuter."
312 M.P.H. BOMBER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.
A GIANT NEW AMERICAN BOM- BER HAS COMPLETED TRIALS AT BAN DIEGO REACHING A SPEED OF OVER 312 MILES PER HOUR,
OVER WITH A RANGE OF
3,100 MILES CARRYING FOUR TONS OF BOMBS,
STEAMER SUNK
London, To-day. The Swedish steamer Dalaro (3,927 tons) sank in the Atlantic The crew of early on Monday,
# Belgian 26 were rescued by trawler, which made for an Irish port.
The captain died
rescue.
soon after
It is not known whether the Dalaro was mined or torpedoed.~ --Router.
MR. KENNEDY NOW IN WASHINGTON
Berlin, To-day.
last broadcast a night, Dr. Goebbels de- fended the unrestricted.. warfare on shipping using British ports.
to
"Any ship, whatever its national- ity, touching at an Allied port is au- tomatically rendering itself liable be sunk without warning," said German Propaganda Minister.
the
to
He issued a further warning neutrals concerning the maintenance of neutrality, sccording to the Ger- man interpretation, and said that press attacks on Germany or German lead- ers would be considered an un-neu- tral act.
The statement is deemed signficant In view of the high feeling roused in Holland by the latest German outrage against Dutch shipping-Reuter.
U.S. AIR DEFENCES IN ALASKA
Washington, To-day. Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to London, arrived here yesterday by aeroplane from Florida
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. for important conferences with Gov-
TWO NEW, LARGE AERODROMES ernment officials on the international
IN ARE TO BE BUILT ALASKA, situation.
will
DE- also STRENTHENING AMERICA'S It is reported that he confer with Mr. Sumner Welles and FENCES THERE. THEY WILL HELP Mr. William Bullitt, U.S. Ambassador | TO MAKE IT MORE IMPREGNABLE
to Paris.
Reuter.
BRITISH PURCHASES
IN TURKEY
TO FOREIGN ATTACK, BESIDES PROVIDING IMPORTANT DATA ON MILITARY AVIATION IN SUB- ARCTIC CLIMATES.
The first base, north of the anchor- age, will be 1,000 acres in area and will include hangars, sheds, hospitals, so on. Money for
this has already been set aside.
Istanbul, To-day. British representatives of the Minis-work-shops and try of Supply are now in Ankara and have concluded a contract for the pur- chase of nearly 6,000 tons of dried rai- sins and figs.
The other air base will be south of the anchorage and will be 1,400 acres in area. No appropriation for this has yet been made.-Reuter.
THE CRAFT WAS BUILT BY CON- SOLIDATED AIRCRAFT CORPORA. Other British delegates have con- for the purchase of nearly TION AND 18 POWERED BY FOUR | tracted PRATT WHITNEY 18-CYLINDER £1,000,000 of tobacco annually. These ENGINES OF 1,200 HORSE-POWER amounts may be substantially increas- NEW YORK SENSATION
EACH-HAVAS.
ed. Reuter,
NEUTRALS AS WHOLE VERY BITTER
London, To-day.
NEUTRAL COMMENT IS increasingly bitter about the
Nazi campaign against shipping.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
New York, To-day.
As the result of an investigation by. the head of the New York police, it has been discovered that at least 1,000 of New York's 18,000 police officers are or were members of the so-called Christian Front, the anti- Semitic. semi-Fascist organisation.
Havas,
There is bitter comment in Scandinavia and the Swedish TO FOLLOW FATHER'S
FOOTSTEPS ? papers emphasize Mr. Chamberlain's statement that
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") not one neutral ship has been sunk by the Allies.
London, To-day. The Netherlands press is also bitter, that she was proceeding to any balli-
The Duke of Devonshire, the Under- and Dutch indignation has been in-gerent port..
Norway, which has lost more ship-Secretary of State for Dominions Creased by the torpedoing of the 6,-
any Affairs, is mentioned as the probable 850-ton Holland-America liner Bur-ping thanks to the Nazis than
other neutral, has lost one more. She next Governor-General of Canada. gerdijk:
His father, who died in 1938, was is the "4,100 ton m.v. Snestad, which Yesterday, Holland learned from was sunk by a mine or torpedo on Govenor-General of Canada from 1016 Berlin that the torpedoing of the ship Sunday bila on her way from Nor- to 1921. Havas. was a legal act," "Actually, however, way to
*Tark in ballast. All her
Reuter. engines, the Sneatad and 378 feet long. Almo, she was own- A/S Snestad (A.. T. \/S,_managers)
of Indo-China, and M. Bodin, mana- ger of the Indo-China-Yunnan Hall÷jert way, attended. Havas.
essages
that the crew!! for New York to Hol- cargo nine-tenths of the Netherlands' Gov-
# remainder för, Dutch
Importers. There is nothing to show
Arrested after matching a handbag in Nga Tain Wal Road yesterd Cheung Lük-Iwai,5-31; “ native Shanghai, was 'this morning sentenced to three months"-hard-lübour- E. Himsworth