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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940
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ADMIRAL MARAUDING
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IT IS TIME FOR JAPẦN AND RUSSIA ΤΟ "CO-ORDINATE THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS TO THE GREATER CAUSE OF
• THE NEW ORDER IN THE WORLD," SAYS THE "MIYAKO
·SHIMBUN" TO-DAY, COM. MENTING ON THE VISIT TO BERLIN OF M. MOLOTOV,
The paper expects that his visit will result in Soviet-German re- lations being "cemented" on solid ground, and thus exert a bene- ficial psychological effect on "speedy materialisation of rap- prochement between Moscow and Tokyo."--Reuter.
SWEDISH STEAMER TORPEDOED
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Survivors of the 1,583 - ton Swedish freighter Neggie, which was torpedoed by an Italian sub- marine in the Atlantic on October 27, have arrived in Libson.
Other survivors have landed in the Azores. -Havas.
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ATLANTIC
Epic Fight By H.M.S. Jervis Bay Against Hopeless Odds
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DRAMATIC STORIES OF THE EPIC ACTION IN THE ATLANTIC IN WHICH THE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER, H.M.S. JERVIS BAY, WENT BOLDLY INTO ACTION AGAINST A GERMAN POCKET - BAT- TLESHIP IN ORDER TO SAVE THE CONVOY SHE WAS GUARDING, ARE RELATED BY THE CAPTAINS OF FREIGHTERS NOW SAFE IN PORT.
Their stories suggest that the raider smarauding in the North Atlantic, roaming ALGIERS
ACTIVITY
ITALIANS RUSH UP TROOPS TO KORITZA SECTOR
across the sea lanes in search of British con- voys, is the "Admiral Scheer" repaired after the damage inflicted on her in the Norwegian campaign.
The full story of the epic battle between H.M.S.-Jervis Bay and the "Admiral Scheer will only be available when survivors of the "Jervis Bay" are permitted to tell their stories.
Cfficers of the ships in convoy attacked, however,
the
escape.
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Considerable official ac- tivity was to be seen in Algiers when Admiral Platon, Vichy State Se- cretary for Colonies, who was accompanied by a The Jervis Bay continued to large staff, arrived by engage the enemy after she had 'plane from Vichy. tell been severely hit and was burn- (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
how while scattering in all direc-ing fiercely. Nearly two hours Admiral Esteva, Resident-Gen- tions, under instructions, they after the beginning of the engage-eral of Tunisin, arrived with him GREAT MASSES OF Italian troops were rush-. saw the "Jervis Bay sailing inment an explosion was seen to and all joined General Weygand
to engage the pocket-battleship occur on board the Jervis ed last night to the Koritza sector for a counter-of-
with all guns blazing.--
and she must be considered lost. 'Similar activity was displayer fensive intended to stem the rapid Greek advance. She fought for more than two Sixty-five survivors. of the in French Morocco when General which, according to Greek circles, is speeding for gunned by the Geman warsmp. chant ship.
though hopelessly out- Jervis Bay are on board a mer-Berget, State Secretary for Air, Twenty-,out|ch.ps|reviewed the air forces stationed word on all fronts.
of this convoy have now arrived at Marrakesh, Agadir and Casa- in port-Reuter.
blanca. Havas.
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The Athens correspondent of the London "Daily Express' reports that a tremendous battle is raging around Koritza. The Italian High Command threw crack reserves and dive-bombers into the field in a desperate effort to crack the Greek positions.
NAZIS COUNTING CHICKENS
hours
-International News Service.
Goes Down In Flames
Sailing out alone to attack a big German warship in the At- lantic, the armed British mer- chant cruiser Jervis Bay, 14,000 tons, went down in flames, with her guns still roaring. But she saved most of the convoy, which scattered in the dusk,
All day long, says an Athens report, heavy artillery pounded the Greek positions in prepara- tion for a gigantic Fascist push, This convoy, which the Ger- which is expected to begin in a man High Command claimed to day or two,
have destroyed, has now ́arrived" Despite incessant hammering in a Scottish port. by artillery and repeated Ita- lian air attacks, the Initiative remains completely with the Greeks, with the aid of the Royal Air Force.
British
It is announced that bembershgain ralded, 'Italian'
:
This glorious epic of the sea is related in an Admiralty com- munique stating that all except nine ships in a convoy consist ing of 38 ships attacked by an enemy surface. falder on the night of November 5 are safe. It is possible some of the ships Turning their own guns on the still missing may be safe. High Nazi circles in Italians, the Greeks used cap- That nearly three-quarters of Berlin claimed last night tured Fascist light artillery and this large convoy escaped destruc- | Bachine-guns as they pursued tion at the hands of a powerful that Germany and Italy the Italians through the wild raider was due to the high degree have received a clear "govines of the central. Pindus of efficiency shown by the cap-
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-ahead" signal for an ex- panded war against Bri- tain by the visit to Berlin of M. Molotov, Soviet For- eign Commissar..
bases on Tuesday.
Service.
mountains-International Newstains of merchant, vessels in scat- tering and making use of smoke, and to the very gallant action of monstration of Moscow's soll-the Jervis Bay (acting Captain darity with the Axis, an agree-E. S. F. Fugan), which was es- ment of a more tangiblena corting the convoy. ture will be forthcoming.
It Is reiterated in Berlin that Steered For Enemy this demonstration is to show
M Molotoy met Hitler for the America and the non-Axis na- Full details of this action are Arat fime yesterday evening and tons of Europe the futility of not yet available, but it is known talked with him for two and accntinued opposition to the "New that the Jervis Bay steered for half hours:
|World_Order" dominated by the the enemy, and engaged her with Nazi authorities predlot that Rome/Berlin/Tokyo/Moscow "co- greatly inferior armament, thus While the vialt, Itself ls of the fulltion."- International: News entbling the majority of the ships {highêst“. Importance as ʼn de Servize,
in the convoy: to make good their
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Bay later.
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