THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1940 ·
Graphic Stories Of Rescues Of "Domala" Victims CADET FROZEN TO RAFT
SIX OTHER EUROPEANS DROWN WHEN WASHED OFF
LONDON, TO-DAY.
GRAPHIC STORIES OF THE ATTACK ON THE B.I. LINER "DOMALA” AND OF THE RESCUE OF VICTIMS OF THE BOMBED VESSEL, WERE RELATED WHEN THE SURVIVORS WERE LAND- ED IN ENGLAND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. An aeroplane, which assisted à warship in the search for survivors, spotted a raft on which Cadet Duval, aged 17, who had been in the sea for two hours, was still clinging.
Duval was badly frozen and sailors made a living chain
over the warship to rescue him.
Six other Europeans had been overcome and washed off
the raft.
The
junior engineer, Dunn, of Kelty, Fife, who was in the engine- room when the first bomb exploded, received a broken leg and severe burns, but crawled along a terrace and then along the length of the ship and then up a forty-feet ladder to the
poop.
He was lowered overboard on the chance of being picked up but died after being rescued.
CHIEF OFFICER'S STORY.
The chief officer of the "Domala," named Brawn, described to reporters the scenes after the liner had been bombed and had taught fire.
The fire and fumes, he said, added to heavy seas, made rescue work ex- tremely difficult,
The last he saw of Captain W. Litt was as he stood on the bridge.
He went to report to the Captain that the vessel was on fire amidships and the Captain then gave the order to abandon ship.
They managed to get all the boats off, but one was damaged by a bomb explosion.
As the bomber finally departed, the tail gunner fired at the ship's anti-aircraft gun crew but did not hit them.
NO PANIC
The Indian passengers, who were all seamen who had been employed in German ships, were naturally! frightened, but their throughout was good and no panic.
behaviour
there was
Chief Officer Brawn 'said that the last to leave the ship were the but- cher and himself.
He lashed the butcher to the same rope as himself and together they jumped for it. They were in the water for five or ten minutes before being pulled across to the warship which came to the rescue. The Third Officer, J. A. Taylor, said that after being blown out of his bunk, he dashed to his action station at the anti-aircraft gun, but they fired only one round before the Heinkel had finished her bombing and had flown away after a final burst of machine-gun fire. Reuter.
Terrible Experience
According to survivors' stories, the raider made two attacks, the second of which caused the fire.
reach boats
Some of the crew, who was unable to Domala's
were rescued from the which came close enough to take thém poop deck by a warship
on board, while about fifty were pick- ed up by the Dutch steamer, Jonge Willem, which had already been bombed and machinegunned earlier the same morning by a Nazi raider.
About half an hour after the Nazi'
DOMALA CASUALTY TOLL
London, To-day.
It is officially stated that of 295 persona aboard the "Doma- la" one hundred ara missing. made up of nineteen European officers, thirty-six native and forty-five native passengers. There were 143. native passen. gers altogether.
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Among the missing are the only two women aboard, both stewardesses, who are belloved to have been killed Instantly by the bomb explosions-Router.
LEAFLET RAIDS IN
DARING KIDNAPPING
Shanghai, To-day.
Three Chinese armed with Mauser pistols staged a daring kidnapping last night at the height of the evening rush hour, when they calmly. walked into a crowded cafe in Bubbling Well Road and forced Wang Tse-chuan, compra- dore of the Export Department of the Arnhold Trading Company and a shareholder in the cafe, to accompany them.
The kidnappers whisked their vic- tim away without any of the
200 guests in the cafe or the employees attempting to raise the alarm.
The motive of the kidnapping unknown, but Wang is believed to be a wealthy man.-Reuter, /
SERVANT'S
WRONG LANGUAGE THEFT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}
Stockholm, To-day, Although the Swedish volunteers are now at the front and have given a good account of themselves, the Russians are apparently unaware that they are fighting Swedes, for they are dropping propaganda leaflets in the Finnish language over the Swedish positions.
Havas.
FRENCH AMBULANCE UNIT ARRIVES
(8PECIAL TO "CHINA · MAIL") Helsinki, To-day.
A French ambulance unit,
which
aeroplane had made off, the crew of can care for 100 men, has arrived in the Jonge Willem saw flames on the Finland, with a staff of 30 people and horizon and making in their direction with supplies of serum and other picked up a lifeboat with 48 men and equipment from the Pasteur Institute. a raft with three more which the The doctors include two French steamer then took on board. — Bri-surgeons and an X-Ray specialist. tish Wireless.
Havas.
TANKER CUT IN TWO REACHES PORT IN SCOTLAND
London, To-day.
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Hau Chung, 22, servant, was before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morn- ing, charged with larceny of $20 from Mrs. D. Davies, of No. 6, Leighton Hill.
Detective-Sergeant J. Bentley said that Mrs. Davies yesterday discover- ed $20 to be missing from a sum of $120 which was inside a cupboard. The numbers of the notes were mark- ed, because of previous thefts in the house. The Police
informed, and two marked $10 notes were found in defendant's possession.
were
Sentence of two months' hard la- bour. was imposed, and defendant was ordered to pay $20 to Mrs. Davies. SOUTH AFRICAN AID
TO FINLAND VARA
Cape Town, To-day. The Union Government, in response to an appeal by the League of Na- tions, decided to make available £50,000 for the purchase of commo- dities to be given to the Finnish Gov- ernment. Reuter.
SWISS AMBULANCE UNITS ON ITS WAY (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Amsterdam, To-day. The Swiss Ambulance Unit,.com- prised of 10 surgeons, and nine nurses, arrived here yesterday en route to
HALF OF THE BRITISH TANKER Imperial Trans-Finland., They are leaving by air to-
port is now safe in Scotland after having been day from Helsinki. Havas.
cut in two by a U-boat. Captain Smailes, a York- shireman, was on the bridge when the U-boat fired its torpedo.
He said that there was a terrific explosion and a mountain of water covered the ship from stem to stern. Part of the bridge disappeared beneath his feet as the ship broke in two.
THE FIRST 100,000,000
London, To-day.
The captain did not give up, but jumped to the stern half, hoping that the tanker's engines were intact.
After a number of adventures-not the least of which was the picking up of 13 men who got away from the bow and were rescued in a gale-Captain Smailes managed to navigate his ship with the aid of a school atlas and no wireless for 110 miles
Three days later, a warship came alongside, but the captain would not give up and tried steering his ship
MINOR INJURIES.
Accidents occur almost daily with children, resulting in cuts, scratches, burns, scalds, bruises. For the curative treatment of all such minor injuries there is nothing better than
SHE-KO.
The following message has been sent by the King to the President of the National: Savings Committee: “As Patron of the National Savings Move- ment, I have followed with great in- terest the progress of the war savings stern first. She did not respond and London, -To-day. Amongst accounts given by surwards the end of last November.
campaign since its commencement to- went around în cifcles!
Applied immediately after. *the vivors of the Domala which was
The next morning, -another war-wound has been thoroughly cleansed, bombed by a Nazi aeroplane is one "On being informed yesterday that ship and a tug arrived and with
junrevent in
ckly given by Cadet Duval who was mak-the amount invested in National Sav-little help the captain managed ing his first sea trip.
ings Certificates and Defence Bonds bring his ship into port --Reuter, He was clinging to a raft for six has reached the total of £100,000,000, hours before being picked up and I desire to thank all who have assist- had the terrible experience of seeing ed whether as organisers or contri- his nine campanions, one by one, re-butora in the achievement of this re- lease their hold in ropes and dis-markable result.
appear.
mination of my people to dedi their energies, and resource winning of victory, and “It is a fine example of the deter | British Wireless,
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