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AFTER THE ROYAL OAK New Zealand SANK: SURVIVORS GIVE & The Common
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Experiences
LONDON, Oct, 19 (By Mall)- Three of the crew of the Royal Qak. Vincent Marchant (18), of Maltby, Doncaster, Robert Martin (18), of Brighton, and Robert
ABORTIVE AFGHAN CONSPIRACY (18)
Cause
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STRONG POSITION OF COMMONWEALTH
LUNDON, Nov. 9 (Reuter)—A re-affirmation that New Zealand
Hashoc (20), of Bedford, describ-will bring the utmost of her re-
ed in an interview how they were saved after the sinking of the bat
RENG - LEADERS OF tleship." ATTEMPTED RISING
SURRENDER
NEW DELHI. Nov. 9 (Reuter) All the ring-leaders of the abortive conspiracy formed ear- ly in September to start a ris- ing in Afghanistan simultane- ously on the outbreak of the European war have now sur- rendered to the Government. The ring-leaders, who are Afghan supporters of ex-King Amanullah, had previously fled from Kabul. The collapse, of their attempt t foment anti-Afghan rlots from
Tirah, near the Khyber. Pass. is regarded as greatly improving the situation in this area."
Nazi - Soviet Agreement Not Perfect
ITALIAN PRESS ATTACKS RUSSIA
says
Ve
OIL ON SURFACE Marchant said: "Searchlights were playing over the water, and I could see hundreds of heads bob bing around. Great volumes of oli came up to the surface..
My eyes started to smart, and the faces of all the men swimming in the water turned a greasy black, I was caught in a searchlight for several minutes, and saw that two of my pals were swimming along- side me. Later, however, they had cramp and disappeared. ·
VAGUE RECOLLECTION
"I must have swum about a mile and a half when I felt a rock un- der me. I have just a vague re- collection of climbing up the sheer face of a cliff about twenty to thirty feet high. Another gure was climbing behind me, but he slipped and crashed among the rocks".
Martin also swam to these rocks As he lay there, he said, a whaler came in sight shouting for sur- vivors through a megaphone and he was taken on board.
TURNED TURTLE
Hayhoe said: "With a number
ROME, Nov. 9 (Reuter)-The of other men I shinned down a Italian press continues to attack rope to a pinnace and we got clear. the statements from Moscow,
When the Royal Oak sank the pin- Count Clano's
Fortunately the nace turned turtle. paper, Telegrafo,
that Moscow's I was thrown clear and succeeded denunciation of what it called the in swimming back and holding on imperialistle alms
Britain, to the upturned keel. All the France and
Germany indicated others in the pinnace, I think, were that there was no perfect agree. lost. ment between the Soviet and thei "The pinnace somehow righted itsef. I got into it again. Once
Reich...
of
MOSCOW WILS not working for more it heeled over. I was caught peace, but for war, as shown by underneath, but managed to swim her intervention. in China and tree and reach shore." Spain.
DUTCH FIRE ON UNIDENTIFIED PLANE
ÄMSTERDAM, Nov. 9 (Reuter --Anti-aircraft guns here opened fire yesterday on an unidentified plane,
A message from. London states that the German Wireless announ
ces that German anti-aircraft guns
TURKEY RATIFIES
NEW PACT
sources to the common cause was made by Mr. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, now in London, in a broadcast in the course of which ho | Expressed the hope that the re- pr:sentatives of the Common- wealth would examine the possibi- lity of formulating terms on which, at some stage, peace could be firmly secured and honomadly based,
ANKARA, Nov. 9 (Reuter)The Turkish National Assembly ratified unanimously, am' acclamations; the Anglo-Franco Turkisk Pact:
COLONY HEALTH
BULLETIN
Twenty-one cases of tuberculosis.
have brought down German twelve cases of dysentery. nve cases plane, which flew into a torbidden of diphther`a and one case of enteric 2.rea. The crew escaped safely by fever were notified to the Health parachute
Department on Nov. 8.
H
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NO. 458
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The Commonwealth was in such a strong position that even the wilfully blind could not interpret them as a sign of weakness,
Mr. Fraser so expressed the sincere wish that that the present difficulties in India would be speedily and satisfactorily adjust- ed so that the Indian people as a whole wou'd feel that the present struggle is for the establishment! and preservation of Democracy. In their own land,
in as well as Europe and the word generally.
RELATIONS
WITH JAPAN
UNIFIED BRITISH
POLICY
LONDON. Nov. 9 (Reuter)- At question time in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. R. A. Butler. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that Lord Halifax was not prepared to lay as a White Paper the text of the interview recently given to the Japanese newspaper Asahl by Mr. Chamberlain con cerning Anglo-Japanese rela- tions....
Mr. Butler said he would con- sider the request for the text of Mr. Joseph Grews recent speech in Tokyo to be placed in the Com- mons library.
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