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SINKING OF SIMON BOLIVAR
CABLE
BIGGEST
NON-NAVAL DISASTER OF PRESENT WAR
Survivors Describe Scenes On Board
LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-The sinking of the Simon Bolivar is' clearly a breach of international law," said Mr. I. Jennings in the course of a broadcast on the legal aspects of the disaster, speaking over daventry, yesterday. The Dutch Government, he said, would be entitled to make the very strongest of protests to Berlin.
The laying of mines was covered by the Eighth Hague Convention, which was signed by Britain, France, Ger- many and other Powers in 1907. This convention makes a distinction between anchored and unanchored mines. Un- chored mines must be so made as to render themselves harmless one hour after being laid. Anchored mines must not be laid unless they are of the type which renders it- self. harmless on breaking loose...
Seven Ships Sunk Off East Coast
mines in
LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-The number of ships now sunk hy the North Sea totals seven, the latest addition being the British collier Torchbearer.
Four of the crew of 13 landed on the East Coast were badly injured while nine were missing.
It is not known what type sank the Simon Bolivar. If it was an unanchored mine, it was clearly a breach of the Treaty. If it was an anchored mine, which broke loose, there was again a breach of the Treaty.
DEATH OF SIR
WM. PROUT
Tropical Diseases Expert Served In Egypt
Revolution In Germany
Due Soon?
PREDICTION BY HITLER'S "WORST ENEMY"
LONDON, NOV, 20 (Banter)—The death has occurred of Sir William Thomas Prout K.C.M.G, OBE, ALB, CM, (Edjn.), the tropicalį diseases expert, Iste Honorary PARIS, NOV. 20 (REUTER)
SOON WILL Physician. Hospital for Tropical GERMANY Diseases, London.
READY FOR "AN ANTI-HITLER
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BE
Herr Strasser said he was given
Sr Willam, who was Lieut-Col. REVOLUTION, DECLARED HERR in the Royal Army Medical Corps, OTTO STRASSER, KNOWN AS and a Fellow of the Society of "HITLER'S WORST ENEMY," IN Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PARIS of Edinburgh, retired in 1895 he and of the Royal Medical Society SOIR was Principal Medical Omcer in four hours to leave Switzerland Sierra Leone.
after the Munich explosion, be- Educated at private schools and exused the Germans were demand- at the University of Edinburgh, Siring his extradition. describing him William graduated in 1884 and as the instigator of the crime. subsequently he'd the following Herr Strasser, who is the leader appointments:-Assistant Pourlaw of the anti-Nazi Black Front since Medical Officer, Mauritius; Assisthe Nazis murdered his brother, tant Colonial Surgeon, Gold Coast; declared that he thought at first District Commissioner, Gold Coast; that his friends had organised the Colonial Surgeon, Gambia; Acting Munich attempt, but now he con- Chief Magistrate (1893); Medical sidered that I could only have
been caused by the Gestapo.
INTERNATIONAL LAW If it was an anchored mine, the Hague Convention does not apply. Of course, Germany might argue that the convention does not apply officer in charge of the base hos in any case, since it was not sign-pital during the campaign against ed by Poland. But here the cus-Foday 81la (1894); J. P. and Off- tomary international law applies.cial Member of the Legislative Neutral passenger or cargo ships Council; Member of City Council, may not be sunk by any means Freetown; Medical Ofiicer In addition to the Simon Bolivar, whatever. The British Admiralty Health, Freetown, etc. according to an official announte-Informs neutrals of the presence ment, the following ships have of minefields and only lays those been sunk by German mines off which become harmless on break-in 1924 and created KCMG. four consider these conditions will
the East Coast:-
The Italian liner GRACIA. in which Ave were killed and 16 are missing as the result of am ex- plosion:
The Swedish steamer BORJES- SEN, in which it is believed six lives were lost and eight persons were injured;
ing loose,
The indiscriminate laying of mines in the open sea is direct- ly contrary to international law, concluded Mr. Jennings. but in 1914. the German ship Konigen Louise was sunk while laying mines in the open
sea:
The British ship BLACKHILL.
FRENCH COMMENT from which 22 survivors have been PARIS, NOV, 20 (Reuter) The landed; and
sinking of the Simon Bolivar has The Yugoslav vessel CARICA | Caused a deep impression here. MILICA, the fate of the crew of L'Intransigeant says It which is not known.
The press in the Netherlands, owing to the delicate position of Holland's neutrality, has still not commented on the sinking of the Shmon Bolivar but pays tribute to the British rescue work.
The ex-Kaiser sent a message of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina.
gives sinister confirmation of the report that the Germans, despairing, of the efficacy of their torpedoes, were going to use submarties as mine- layers: This abominable weapon
Off
THREE CONDITIONS Before a revolution in Germany. were necessary, namely: Germans who still believe three conditions
in Herr Hitler must feel the hor- rors of war: the Reich must suf- fer a military check; and priva- Sir Wiliam, who was knighted tions must become more biting.
EGYPT SERVICE
years later, served in Egypt and be fulfilled by the spring of 1940." was mentioned twice Jn des-
be declared, patclus
WAR SECRETARY IN FRANCE
PARIS. Nov.
20
(Reuter)—Mr.
Sr William's publications in- ouded Elementary Hygiene and Sanitation in the Tropics and many papers in medical journals. The late Sir William Prout was Hor. Lecturer, School of Tropical Leste Hore-Belista, Secretary for Medicine, University of Liverpool. War, who spent two days with the late Senior Consulting Physician British Expeditionary Force in the to the Colonial Office, and a mem-front lines, is meeting M. Dala- ber of the Colonial Advisory Medidler, French Prime Minister, and cal and Sanitary Committee, Co- Gen. Gamelin, C-in-C. of the Al-
∙nial Office.
liled Armies, today.
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BETTER ARMY
FOR CHINA
Big Response To Govt's. Call
SHANGHAI, Nov. 20 (Reuter)- The Chinese Government's effort to build up a new and better army to carry
on the war of resistance against Japan is said to be meet- ing
considerable success, especially in Free China.
with
Having beer persuaded to dis- card their traditional indifference to soldiery, the better class Chi- including oficials and nese, students, are reported to be flock- ing to the colours in many areas In the interior, notably in Sze- chuen, in answer to the Govern- ment's call for me..
SONS GIVEN UP What is said to be more amazing
ARRESTS & MURDERS HAVE is that parents, giving up all ideas
is forbidden by international lar, GIVEN
but the Germans could not be ex- pected to neglect this form of murder.
NO COMMENT FROM HOLLAND
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuter)-
CZECHS A
CAUSE THEY WILL NEVER FORGET
SACRED
ITALY CAN KEEP OUT OF WAR ROME, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-Signor Gayda, writing in Voce d'Italia, said that the progress of Italy's NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-economic self-sufficiency was such
NAZI EFFORTS BERLIN, Nov. 20 (Reuter) -- Newspapers here are maring elaborate efforts to disprove of Germany's guilt in the sinking of the Simon Bolivar, asserting that The Simon Bolivar left Amsterdam the disaster was caused by a Bri- for the West Indies on Friday Commenting on Germany's mass that it was possible for her to keep
night. About 60 to 70 survivors had arrests of Czechs, the New York out of the war..
Italy still has under arms the recovered sufficiently to be dis-Times says that now that the Ger- charged from one London hospital
mans have shown their dragon's four classes called up last August teeth, they have given the Czechs and now has approximately "one yesterday afternoon
cause which they will and a half million men ready. a sacred message from Amsterdam
forget. When never
the time states that the sinking is detalled lengthily in the press but without comes, the Czechs will rise and
tish mine.
קי
Nine Killed, 20 Injured
A
comment, for Holana la deter-strike and the young men who CZECH PEOPLE mined to maintain ner neutranry. have fast died will march at the
Information available indicated head of their battalions.
FLAGS LOWERED
Continued from Page 1
that the majority us une passen- TRAIN CRASH IN
not worth living. The Czechs gers were British who were tra-1 k BERLIN SUBURB velling to Barbados and Trinidad.
The Czech Legation in Washing- stand now as they have stood be- the Czech Consulates fore in history for national and There was also a number of Dutch tou and AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20 (Reuter)
the United States moral values against a race of passengers -Nine persons were killed and
including employees throughout of the Batawan Petroleum Com-lowered their flags to half-mast bullies who have tried to expel the twenty injured yesterday afternoon when the Hamburg express crash-pany who were going to Surinam when they received the sad news spiritual life even from their own ed into the rear of a local train and Curaco, while the other pas of the murder of the Czech youths national system,
standing in the station of a Berlin suburb. No explanation of the mishap is forthcoming.
Another mishap occurred as the Simplon Orient express was near- ing Belgrade when a fre broke out in one of the coaches and spread rapidly before the express was saved after it had taken fire.
COMMUNAL RIOT
IN BOMBAY
1
sengers included Jewish refugees by the Nazis, travelling to Chile,
Vladivostok
Rumours Unconfirmed
.
TOKYO, Νον. 20 (Renter)} "Such rumours are not confirmed." BOMBAY, Nov. 20 (Beater) said a Foreign Office spokesman Six Hindus and five Moslems were today when questioned about the killed in a serious communal riot dispatch from Rome published in In the Bombay Presidency rester- the Nichi Nicht reporting, that a secret agreement has been con- The disturbance beran
cluded between Germany and the Hindu shops were set on fire by tok at the disposal of
Soviet Union for placing Vladivos- Moslems. Curfew has been im-
German
posed in the district.
day,
when
commercial raidera.
The report also alleges that the agreement inclüded plans to stil Soviet" submarines to Germany.
Such an action for ordinary citizens has not been carried out for many years,
ไ
"They stand and they suffer for freedom of speech and free- dom of "combination and for the right of a small country to live in security and Indepen- 50,000 ARRESTS
dence. These are the liberties which Britain and France and PARIS. Nov, 20, (Reuter)—Fifty- all nations of the British Com- thousand arrests were made fra monwealth are determined to Bohemia and Moravia since FT- see re-established in Europe day, according to a despatch from and which lend to their cam-
character paign the
of the Austrian frontier, which reg
crusade." ported that "the arrests included "certain political personages."
a
Under the heading, "Threats and realities," the Daily Telegraph views the Czech altuation in the pattern of Nazi promises and per- formances and states that it is the
Posthumous Honours fear of an enchained people which
For Commander
had driven Herr Hitler" to new convulsions of fury,"
GERMAN POLICY
of ancestor worship and the neces- sity of protecting the line, are placing their only sons at the dis- posal of the authorities.
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Peasants Maintain Strict Boycott Against Invaders: Work Of Chinese Women
As a result, numerous homes
"CHUNGKING, NOV. 20 (CENTRAL)- STRIKING
SKET. throughout Free nila to-day
CHES OF LIFE BEYOND THE JAPANESE LINES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BACK BY THE FORMER NANKING display honourable proudly
MAYOR, MR. family plates, awarded by the MA CHAO-CHUN, WHO LED A "COMFORT" CORPS TOURING · Government to all familles which TEN PROVINCESS IN SOUTH-EASTERN CHINA. have men volunteering for service in the army.
In order to make volunteering attractive. free schools and chil- dren protection bureaus have been established to cate for the families of the new soldiers.
NAZIS LEAVING TURKEY
ANKARA, Nov. 20 (Beater)→
Military and The German Naval Mission has left Turkey for home. It is reported that ah order for their return was made personally by Herr Hit- ler hlinself
have
Many Germans, both officials and private individuals, already left Turkey.
EX - KAISER'S
ESCAPE
Despite the nominal Japanese occupation of a part of the province, Chekiang on the eastern seaboard has collected $34,- 000,000 of revenue in the past fiscal year, an all-time high for that province. Administrative efficiency and progress in agri- culture and industry were responsible for the remarkable' finan-w cial accomplishment.
civilians have ample oppor- tunity for their training, en account of their constant can» tact with the Army.
He disclosed that two-thirds ef the men in Cheriang have, com- „ pleted their military training are mädy to answer the nationa call..
Farm products in most dis- triots in the South-east have doubled in the past three years, according to Mr. Ma. In addition to the usual south- ern crops, the farmers found great proits in planting under the supervision of
govern- ment experts, wheat, kaoliang. peanuts, potatoes and cotton
Un his 8,000-mile journey Bar, ...on semi-arid and hilly Land:
Ma saw the emergence of "a Famed products such as Silk
trained, Chinese Army, better from Boochow and Wasth, tea better equipped, and as hardy and, from Anhwel also registered pre-puritania as before. valling increase.
BOYCOTT BY PEASANTS
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ner
A spontaneous boycott, Mr. Ma CLAY STATUES OF said, is maintained by the pea-
sants against the invaders. In- WANG & HIS WIFE stead of selling their product for
$70 per pical, as offered by the
AS "WARNING”
F
DOORN, Nov. 29° (Reuter)—It is Japanese, ally producers in 800-
KWEILIN, NOV." 20° (Central)....... revealed that the ex-Katser nar- chow and Wush accepted a con-Clay statues 1 Wang Ching-wal.. rowly escaped death, while walk-siderably lower price of $50 from ousted Euomintang leader, and ing in the park on Sunday mom-¡ their own ̈people.
his wife will be erected at the ing. when three glant trees. up-
STOLE MILITARY
Wartime industrial projects are park in Waheran, on the Lin rooted in a storm, crashed eight so enthusiastically supported by River in Eastern Kwangst, to servi feet from him.......
the people that they offer to as a "warning" to traitors. · work 12 hours a day. Their handi- The slogan":"Funish, the Trad- are warding ... off tors!” will be inscribed on a tablet craft producte Japanese dumpings.”»
beside the statutes, Next to general prosperity, 'Mr. In passing sentence of ten weeks Ma was impressed with the results hard labour at the Central Court of the various phases of training. yesterday on Ho Sal-cheong, 25.: for stealing 18 catties of cables,
WOMEN WORKERS "American, English and French
CABLES
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL
BHIUKWAN, Nov. 20 (Central)--- Reviewing the German policy More than 400 senior military off-during the war, the editorial says, the property of the Military au-
ASSEMBLY cers. headed by Generats Chang "Every week of the war has seen thorities, Mr. T. J. Houston said: women who volunteered for wer CHUNGKING, Nov. 20 (Int'l) - Fa-kwel and Ya Han-mou. attend-Germany going through the moThere are many countries, in-service in the last World War, Among the important agenda m NAZI PLANE CRASHES
ed a public sacrificial service for tions of frightfulness in a different cluding your own, where people are Mr. Ma said, would blush if they the present session of the Kno..... IN NORTHERN ITALY
the late Kwangtung army com- direction." If threats were facts shot for interfering with civil, let should see what their Chinese mintang Central Executive Comm Questioned by a correspondent mander. General Tam Jul, at
an Europe would now be at Ger-
sisters are doing in Kwangtung.mittee and Central Bupervisory LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter) whether Japanese vessels are not undisclosed place yesterday.
many's feet. Although the oft alone military communications."
Tse Ping was sentenced to six Kwangst, Hunan, and other places Committee is the fixing of a dále. "German military plane crashed ilable to attacks by German rald-
threatened mass attack has pot General Chang Fa-kwel, ofcla- yet happened Britain stands pre-months hard labour for receiving Chinese women do not hesitate to for the convocation of the People's yesterday in Northern Italy. Noers, the spokesman sald that
the stolen goods.
take up such masculine tasks as National Assembly: explanation of its presence in the should some trouble occur Japan ting at the ceremony, delivered pared to meet Ribbentrop's "truly.
The cables were laid by the Mill-defence construction and high- would seek settlement in accord an address in which he extolled horrible war."
tary authorities in Aberdeen.
way destruction." Two of the four members of the ance with International neutrality the virtues of the late commander The Daily Heraid, halling the and enjoined his officers to con Czechs as allies, says, "All other Crew were arrested by the Italian law. authorities, but the other two He emphasised that Japan's Unue their efforts to resist the peoples as they look on will be monstrous apparatus of terror, now escaped and are the object of a policy towards the European war invaders in the spirit of the de- strengthened even further in their tormenting Central Europe, to sur-, watch on the border.
was one of non-intervention. ceased general,
determination not to allow the * viva 'one day longer than it must”
area is forthcoming.
די
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He remarked that the tráfn- ing process is simplicity' itself: officers trafn soldiers, who in turn train the people. The
A tentative date is set for: no) vember 12 next year, and zivotë will be taken today when the bes sion will come to a close. The As sembly is to usher in constitutionsi government