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BOMBED SANDPIPER VISITED
Commander Says Attack Was Not A Mistake
Changsha, October 26.
A Central News representative, risiting the British gunboat HMS. Sandpiper, which was bombed by Japanese warplanes. on Monday, found that several parts of her superstructure, the funnel and a life- boat were holed by bomb splinters and two front cablus were wrecked. In an interview which took place in one of the damaged cabins. the Captain of the vessel, Lieut.-Cradr. W. E. J. Eames, told the re- presentative that the Japanese attack could not have been carried out by mistake as the British ensign was painted distinctly on the. superstructure.
The Japanese machines attack-1 that her exact position should have ing the gunboat were dying at an been unknown to the Japanese.
The commander added that the altitude of about 4,000 feet and the
ob-attack was all the more unjustified airmen should have clearly served the ensign at this height, he as there were no Chinese military establishments nearby, but only said.
junks carrying Chinese refugees:
Furthermore, he continued, the Sandpiper has been in Changsha for 18 months and her movements
- OFFICER'S ESCAPE He said that altogether 16 bombs were communicated to the Japan-were released by the Japanese air- [sc. It seerrs incredible, therefore, men around the Sandpiper. The nearest landed only 15 yards from the bow and the second nearest 20 Between 18 yards from the stern. and 20 other misstles were dropped within 100 yards.
NAZI ACTIVITY IN S.W. AFRICA
Population Highly Concerned
Pretoria, Oct. 26
A proposal to enable the authorities to deal more
Nazi effectively with
propa- ganda is believed to have been during alscussed yesterday
between interview a." long General Hertzog, Prime Minis- ter, and Mr. Conradle, the South West Africa
trator.
After leaving General
adminis-
One British officer on board the vessel had a narrow escapę as a bomb splinter, piercing through his cabin, struck the tin helmet on his head. Touring the Changsha bund, the representative found that over 10 bombs landed to the vicinity of German firm. One of the missiles nearby made a direct hit on a Large Red Cross nag at the court- yard of the firm. Most of the window-panes of the building were shattered. A French woman sec- retary was cut in the arm by shrapnel-Central News.
Hertzog. of South West
W
Africa's defences
Mr. Conradie told Reuter that way also discussed.-Reuter.
the Union section in South West Africa was seriously perturbed by
PIROW IN LISBON
London. Oct. 26
the confident tone of the German The South African Minister of population there, which had be-Derence. Mr. Oswald Pirow, will
the
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY
Italo-German Jury To Hear Dispute
Prague, Oct 24. After deliberating for eight hours yesterday, the Caecho- slovak Government decided to submit the Czech-Hungarian dispute to an Italo-German- Committee.
Should Hungary demand that Poland be present at the meeting, Czechoslovakia will insist upon Rumania's participation.
It is rumoured that the Czecho- slovak Government would be will- ing to cede the Berehovo district to Hungary but not the Ruthenian districts of Seljush. Munkacs and Uhzored.
Prague. Oct. 26.
It is alleged Hère that a Czech military plane was attacked and brought down in flames this after- noen by two Hungarian pursuit planes.
The pilot was wounded, and the' plane fell seven and a half miles within the Czech frontier.
The attack. state reports, oc- curred over the Czech town of Velkemeder.--Reuter.
HENLEIN MADE MAJOR
Berlin, Oct. 26. Konrad Henlein has been made
major in the Reserve Corps of the German Army-Transocean,
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HITLER IN VIENNA
Vienna, Oct. 28 Herr Hitler arrived here un- expectedly yesterday from En- gerau,
He in Sudetenland, spent the afternoon visiting the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Hofburg. Large crowds cheered hion during his drive through the streets
Several Customs dicers have presumably heading for Canton, of the city,-----Transocean.
RIBBENTROP FOR ROME evacuated from Konginoon with were sighted passing Macao" in the
Berlin, Oct. 28. their families as a precautionary distance yesterday morning.
stream of refugees into- Baron Joachim von Ribbentrop, measure.
having reached "The German Foreign Minister, Will Macao on Sunday. Among those Macao continues, and it is estimat- have been arriving in the Portu- Mr. C. Y. Lee and Mr. K. P. Cheng Commissioner Williams, Tide Surgese Colony during the past four days. Semi-oficial quarters "es- veyor Berkler and Launch Officer
timate that Macao's population Jones, are still remaining at the has been increased by nearly 20,000 Kongmoon Station.
during this period. Hundreds al- Fears that the Japanese may ready have arrived here by attempt an early capture of Chung- motor buses. which
al- shan Island were heightened by ways crowded, while others have the fact that 40 Japanese vessels, made their way in on foot.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Macho, October 25. Rumours that the Japanese had effected a landing at Tongkawan.. in Chungshan district, were characterised as unfounded by a Chinese- Maritime Customs officer who arrived here from Kongmoon yester- day. The officer stated that he passed through the town on his way-* to the Portuguese colony and there were no Japanese soldiers in the vicinity.
some
come increasingly loud since the be received by Portuguese leave for Rome to-day-Trans- who arrived here were Mr. G. Yeh, ed that daily some 8,000 persons
WILS
Munich Agreement
signed President, Senhor Carmona in Lis- ocean. The Union" section, however, was bon, to-day. That the colonial still uncompromisingly hostile question will be discussed is in- to deal with Germany.
timated in informed circles.
LORD MAYOR'S FUND
London, Oct 28 Sir Ronald MacLeay, for many It is belleved that General Mr. Pirow will be the guest ofyears British Minister in Prague, is Hertzog assured the Administra-honour at a luncheon to-morrow, going to the Czech capital to Government members of the Portuguese Cabinet administer the Lord Mayor's Find of relinquish and the South Africa legation also for reller of Czech refugees, which
The question being present-Transocean.
now totals £255,000-Reuter,
tor that the Union
had no intention
ing the mandate,
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