THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1940.
SUBMARINE SAFE IN BASE FROM NIGHTMARE VIGIL
TRAVELLING BLIND through the loss of
both periscopes, which were damaged by a ANOTHER
German ship, the British 670-ton submarine Sealion returned to her base yesterday after a patrol in which she sank an enemy store-
NAZI TRICK
carrying ship, chased a U-boat, attacked a EXPOSED
convoy and finally was forced to lie low for two days near a German base.
·Shortly after starting the patrol, Sealion torpedoed a 3,000-ton store-carrier near the shore. The German crew reached land in boats.
Later Sealion sighted a U-boat and engaged her with gunfire but the enemy dived.
Sealion afterwards spotted a German convoy strongly protect- ed by an anti-submarine escort.
Sealion moved into a favour- able position in the middle of the convoy and was preparing to fire a torpedo when one of the German ships happened to change course, taking her right over the submarine,
Crash Shock
{
There was a crashing shock and a few moments later depth charges were dropped but`all} went wide.
Scalion was forced to remain- submerged until darkness fell. She then surfaced and found that both periscopes were badly dam- aged and other superficial damage
done.
NEUTRALS
GIVE LIE
TO GERMAN FANTASIES
American correspond- ents in Britain continue to give the lie to exagger- ated German reports of what the Luftwaffe is
in a fairly heavy sea the crew, in spite of great difficul- supposed to be doing.
ties and the rlak of being-swept overboard, managed to the damaged gear.
According to
that
Dutch
LORD NORTH KILLED IN EXPLOSION
Lord North and his sister, Lady Cynthia Williams, were killed cs the result of an ex- plosion on the south- east coast yesterday. Lady North was critic- ally injured.
The explosion was heard and felt several miles away and is un-
·derstood to have been caused by a land mine. Reuter.
SHIELDED CHILDREN
MURDER TRIALAT SESSIONS
YUI FAI, AN EX-SOLDIER, WAS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF WONG KAI-YUN, AT THE ARGYLE STREET IN- TERNMENT ~ CAMP, BEFORE
THE CHIEF JUSTICE, ... SIR ATHOLL MACGREGOR AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS THIS MORNING.
Mr. J. Reynolds, Crown Coun- sel, assisted by Det. Inspector A. E. Carey, was for the prosecu- tion and Mr. George She, In- structed by Mr. S. Ng Quinn, was for accused.
Mr. Reynolds said, that on the morning of May 30, at about 5.45 [am.. an internee. Lo Yee,' was awakened by shouts of "Save Life." He saw accused near deceased's bed and later saw the victim arise and run away, chased by accused, who was hold- ing a knife. Deceased was hold- ing his side and bleeding.
Lo joined in the chase and caught accused and there
was
accus-
a struggle for the knife. Ac- circles in London, Sus- FROM GUNS
cused asked to be let go, and picion is increasing in the
said: "He dies first, then I die" "TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER Netherlands
A few minutes later the
I SAW BIG, STURDY SOLDIERS ea was disarmed and taken Germans are causing ex- WITH TEARS RUNNING DOWN back to the hut where a report
THEIR CHEEKS, TRYING TO was made. plosions in Dutch towns SHIELD HELPLESS KIDDIES to make the population FROM MACHINE-GUNNING! In the meantime deceased had FROM THE AIR," A YOUNG collapsed and, was taken to hos- believe the R.A.F. is car-SCOTS MEMBER OF THE B.E.F., pital after he had been attended rying out wanton bomb- WHO RETURNED TO HIS HOME, by a dresser.
ing attacks.
IN GLASGOW, TOLD PORTER.
·
A RE- A blanket, which had been folded on deceased's bed contain-
This statement is steadily be- "It was the work of madmen ed ten holes and four of these ing repeated by German con-who enjoyed causing suffering corresponded with the position trolled wireless stations with to innocent women and children, of the body wounds on deceased. When arrested, accused said he
ROOF COLLAPSES
much moral indignation on be-jeven :to babies in arms. half of the defenceless popula- "There was one afternoon I can was ill and asked to be taken tions who, incidentally, are un-[never forget. It was a hot day to hospital or be shot at orice. der her so-called protection. and a never-ending stream of ex- In the lower court, he said Instances given by the Germans hausted refugees trudged along that deceased wounded him first have been carefully checked the dusty roadside.
and he retaliated. against official reports of R.A.F. "A medium tank, travelling Case is proceeding. activities and the conclusion has fast, came round a bend, all its been reached that the damage guns blazing. The tank's only! could not possibly have been targets were the refugees, because done by British aircraft.
we were hidden,
Two workmen were injured In some cases damage men. "On it came, shooting down yesterday when the roof of the tioned by the Germans was and crushing old men, women Shing, Cheung Safe Manufactory, caused in places so far, distant and children.'
No. 10, Haitans Street; Kowloon, from objectives bombed by the "I looked for a moment and caved in. They have been ad- R.A.F. that it Impossible then was sick."
'mitted to the Kowloon Hospital. the British pilots could have made a mistake.
.Is
In other cases, bombs were said! to have struck named places on nights "when"the_R:A.F."made no |raids-at-all- on an occupied-area. clear Arthur Mann, one American
On one night, for instance, the observer, who visited a place the Germans asserted that bombs Owing to the shortness of the Germans said they had com- had fallen in the residential quar- night, however, they were unable pletely destroyed, said this place ter of The Hague and in villages | to finish the work, and Sealion was, according to a Nazi com-like Puttershoek and Vieuwen- had to lie submerged throughout munique, "blown off the map!" boorn which lie in the centre of the next day near an enemy base
Holland. There had been no while anti-submarine vessels "I was not there during the RAF, activity in that part of hunted her.
raid," he comments, "but if this the Netherlands that night.-Bri- She returned home sailing was so it bounced back again tish Wireless. blind. Reuter.
THREE MINES ADRIFT
Three mines have drifted from their moorings and shipping is warned that the mines were last! observed within two miles north-!
pretty quickly!"
The London observer of the Columbia Broadcasting system[ told his American, listeners that,
although it is a serious allegation| BRITAIN'S
.o make that the Germans are bombing indiscriminately villages, farms and homes, after several days travelling about the country he is "convinced that it is true."
LOSSES IN
Other American correspondents SEA WAR
o whom he had talked, he add-
ed, feel the same way.
Meanwhile, the Berlin corres- Mr. Ronald Cross, pondent of the "New York Times," Minister of Shipping, in commenting on the Nazi High Command's
broadcast yesterday complete silence a
east of the Cheung Chau Island about successful British raids on said that up to the middle
Police Station.
Up to the time of going to
Germany, says:-
of August we had lost press, the mines had yet not been "This does not mean that the 1,900,000 gross tons of
located.
German people think that British
their country."
The first mine was seen drift-bombs never hit military objec- Shipping.
tives, but they realise this should This did not include damaged, ing at 7.40 a.m. on Saturday some be concealed in the interests of ships which had been repaired. 600 yards north-east of the Cheung Chau Island Police Sta- tion, and the other two were sighted two hours later the same day about one, and a half miles. north-east.
CARGO JETTISONED
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY PACKAGES OF WHITE 'CLOTH
"We should frankly welcome
·our] vall means of increasing No impartial news from the shipping by the aid of the ship- United States reaches the Ger- - yards, of, tha Dominions or aleaz ...man public, he continuce. ---| ---where,” said Mr.,Gross,
“During July, when we were What they do get is only the feeling the consequences of the doings of Isolationists and events French collapse, we imported in the United States which might about: 4,500,000 tons of essential be "construed as unfriendly to commodities and 25 per cent BritainRautër:
OMDURMAN BOMBED
A British war communique
WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF, issued from G. H. Q. in Cairo MIRS BAY LAST TUESDAY.
states: "Enemy aircraft carried
more British shipping-left British ports with cargoes for American [porta," than : during any · month rom January to April, which were more, peaceful"-Reuter.
CAUSEWAY BAY TRAGEDY
A report to this effect was out indiscriminate bombing of the made to the Police last night town of · Omdurman, In the A sudden rush of flood water when the master of a cargo junk Sudan. Three Sudanese children from thoTM Tai Hang nullah into arrived and related how his junk were killed and six other per- Causeway. Bay: caused a tragedy was caught in the severe gales sona. wourided.
... and the cárgo”of cloth. had to "On other fronts
· be dumped overboard to save nothing to report." the boat and its occupants.
Wireless.
there
Is
at about 7 a.m. to-day.
The avalanche of water capsized British and swamped a sampan and two
of the occupants were drowned.
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