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CHINA MAIL
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 31,913
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940
Price: 10 Cts.
LATE FINAL
NIGHT
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
DEMPSTER LINER SUNK BY U-BOAT
Drama In Atlantic Three Days Out Of England
Passengers Queue Up As For A Cinema
THE ELDER DEMPSTER LINER, ACCRA, HAS BEEN SUNK OFF THE WEST COAST OF EIRE.
Over 450 survivors have been landed at a North-West English port.
First reports on the disaster suggested: that there were 25 persons missing, but latest official figures show that only eight members of the crew and eleven passengers are miss- ing, presumed drowned.
The Admiralty states that there the Accra was sunk when three were no children in the ship.-days out of a British port.-Reu- Reuter.
ter.
The Accra was a motorship of
9,337 tons and she was sunk by Courage And Coolness
a submarine during an attack
upon a convoy on July 26.
Captain John Joseph Smith, the
She sank in about half an master of the Accra, told an in- hour, going down stern
and first terviewer that the officers with her colours flying, one of crew displayed great courage and
. the crow having holsted the Coolness after the explosion and
British ensign.
The lives were lost when motorboat overturned in choppy sca.
in the rescue
operations they
a might have been queueing up
A remarkable picture after yesterday's heavy tiffin-time downpour, showing urchins paddling in the middle. of Queen's Road East.
the people for a cinema show so quiet-****************
ly and coolly did they go about the Some of the survivors were in work of marshalling those aboard. lifeboats for hours.
A New York report states that
MUNITIONS TRAINS EXPLODE
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"An explosion of se- veral munitions trains
Captain Smith added that the passengers were at luncheon when the torpedo exploded, and they filed out of the dining- rooms in orderly fashion. There was an abundance ot room in the lifeboats and most of the loss of life was due to the Joverturning of the motorboat and
direct hits on the liner,`
The men in the lifeboats sang There'll always be an England" when on their way to the rescuing ships.
Steward's Story
A steward who has been torpe- doed four times, including
the
at Miramas railway Lusitania and the Yorkshire, said
station on August 5 caused important ma- terial damage but sur- prisingly low casual- ties, a Marseille `re- port states.
Only 25 people were injured; there were, no. killed.
trains
Ambulance which rushed to the scene were not need-
and ed
returned empty_Havas.
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the torpedo hit them amidships and shook the ship from stem to stern.
the
There was not a trace of panic among the passengers and crew behaved marvellously.. None of them saw the submarine, but they understood that at least one was sunk a few hours later. Reuter.
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NO BRITISH OIL FOR JAPAN
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Britain is not sup- plying oil to Japan, Mr. Hugh Dalton, Minister for Economic Warfare, told the House of Commons yesterday..
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WATCH ON
GREENLAND
of
The United States Coast Guard has intensified its patrol the Greenland coast in case of attempts by Germany to establish air bases there, states the New York correspondent A vigorous campaign against of the "Daily Mail.” foreign propaganda agents, sabo- The coast guard cutter Camp- tours and Fifth Columnist activities bell, newly equipped with heavy is being, started in America.. guns, and anti-aircraft guns,
· Department of Justice officials already off the Greenland const ore urging the provisional cur and supplied with enough food tallment of immunity privileges and fuel to last a year: Two to foreign consular agents in the more cutters are on their way, he second official casualty list United States.
Many German "exploratory Green- of the East Africa Force issued at German and other consular missions" have been in
yesterday contains seven staffs in America have been ro- Innd, according to the Danish teen flames, all of them Africans cently increased with no sign of Governor, Hr. Brun, who is now cept two British sergeants, who legitimate increase in work, in the United States conferring
killed in action, Reuter. HAVES.
with ncials-Router,
BRITISH N.C.O.S. KILLED
is
H.K. NEARS CENTURY
that
re-
Another inch and al gust 9 is the heaviest during any similar period in the Colony's half of rain and the records. Colony will have reached the end of August will be reach-
It is extremely unlikely its century for the first ed without 100 inches being time since 1927.
gistered. On no previous occa- sion on record has the Colony had In the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. 100 inches of rain before the end to-day, 1.12 inches of rain were of Augusta registered at the Royal Observa-
Fair to showery is the Observa- 24 the tory's forecast for the next tory bringing the total for year to date to 98.58 inches.
hours, with fresh to moderate cast Actually, the rainfall to Au-jand south-east winds.
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