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捌拾肆佰叁仟伍萬弍第
HITLER
ORDERS INTENSIFICATION
HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1939.
ALLEGED
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Per Month: $3.00.
OF UNRESTRICTED MINE WARFARE
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German Yards Turning
Out Mobile Submarines
Increased Quantities Of Latest Type Of Mines
AMSTERDAM, NOV. 26 (REUTER)"
AFTER STUDY-
ING THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST WEEK OF UNRES- TRICTED MINE WARFARE, HERR HITLER HAS ORDER- ED ITS INTENSIFICATION, ACCORDING TO INFORMA- TION FROM BERLIN.
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THE FUEHRER FLATTERS HIMSELF THAT HE HAS PUT BRITAIN ON THE DEFENSIVE BY MINES, WHICH HE REGARDS AS HIS MOST POTENT WEAPON AT THE MOMENT.
In the meantime, the German naval yards are work- ing three shifts dally, turning out small mobile submarines, as well as the larger 1,200-ton type, which Germany has hitherto neglected, and munition factories have been in- structed to produce increased quantities of the latest type of mines.
JAPAN TO CLAIM COMPENSATION? TOKYO, Nov. 25 (Reuter) — There is talk in Tokyo of a In claim for compensation connection with the sinking of the N.Y.K. liner Terukuni Maru,
It is indicated that if the nation responsible refuges to pay, that country's ships may be seized in Japan.
Research Department Not Idle
Reuter reports from Rome that the conversation Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, had with the British
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Troops passing sentry at Buckingham Palace, with "Eyes left."
as they proceed along Constitution" Hill. -
AIR ACTIVITY REDUCED
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CENSORSHIP TO LOW LEVEL: BADLY
HANDLED GERMAN NIGHT
EVASION
IN BRITAIN
NEWS OF DAMAGE
TO CRUISER LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter)It is officially announced that the Press and Censorship. Bureau is соп- ducting an enquiry into the alleged case of evasion of censorship."
CENSORSHIP BAN
RAID EAST OF MOSELLE
PARIS, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-After a brief spell, which sent fighters and reconnaissance planes hurrying into the air like bees in spring sunshine, conditions have again become bad and air activity has been reduced to a low level.
In reply to the German statements about their air losses, Gen. Vuillemin issued a communique giving the most precise detalls about every German plane shot down.
The main military event Reuter learns that the enquiry during the past day has been relates to the damage to the cru-the badly handled German} ser Belfast mentioned yesterday, night raid, ten miles east of
Moselle.
Two sections started simultane-
news of which was known to agen- cles of newspapers in London on November 21, but submitted to the censorship ban when they were as-ously, separated by nearly a mile. sured by the censors that publica-The first section ran into a ma- tion of the news would give valu-chine-gun barrage and was stopped dead. The second got into French able information to the enemy.
artillery Are, were scattered and bewildered and sought blindly to regain their own lines.
The news was published in the New York press yesterday morning, however, and broad- cast in America later in the day after which the Germans promptly announced that they torpedoed the Belfast.
BRUTAL
and French envoys is featured THREE GERMAN CARGO MEASURES
in big headlines, though the newspaper Tribuna refrains from comment.
The manner of presentation, in company with the despatches re- garding the Belgian demarche to London and the polemics on the responsibility for the sinking of the Terukuni Maru, show that the Allies' decision is regarded decided- ly unfavourably.
The Tribuna declares that, even if reprisals are permissibe from either party in the war, any mea- sures damaging or drawing into the conflict the interests of those out- side it are illogical,
The paper concludes by declaring that Italy, as a great power, must defend her moral and material in- terests and cannot, therefore, re- main indifferent.
SWEDISH PROTEST STOCKHOLM. Nov, 28. (Reuters:
LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter)-Most of the British press expresses con- fidence that countermeasures to the Nazi parachute - mine- laying from aeroplanes will soon be in Special War Service)-The Gov operation.
ernment has protested to Berlin The "Manchester Guardian" says against the enlargement of the that the British Government ex- German minefield in the Straits perimented with magnetic mines of Falsterbo
some years ago and although It!
The Swedish
Admiralty states
STEAMERS CAPTURED
BY NAZIS
A small French patrol sent out land brought back four prisoners.
BOMBING RAIDS ON BRITISH WARSHIPS
LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reater) -- German aircraft carried out two bombing raids on British warships... In the North Sea yesterday after- noon. Many bombs were dropped FLIGHTS OVER GERMANY but no hits were registered. Ac- LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-The cording to an Admiralty communi- Air Ministry announces that a que, there were no casualties. British aircraft made successful
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GERMAN CLAIMS
fights over north-west Germany on BERLIN, Nov. 28. (Reuter)—The |Friday night and on Saturday.
Official German News Agency claims that British warships re- NAZIS ADMIT LOSSES
ceived direct hits when German BERLIN, NOV. 26 (Reuter)-The bombers attacked a naval squadron loss of seven planes on reconnais-about 560 miles from the German sance in Western France on Friday North Sea coast. was admitted by the Official Ger-
BY ALLIED WARSHIPS MASS EXECUTIONS man News Agency.
IN POLAND-
in
Four planes seem to have been shot down in French territory, the LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-Rome radio states that ac- PARIS, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-The Agency says, while two made land cording to unconfirmed reports, Allied warships have cap-Polish Government is daily receivings and a further plane is missing tured three German cargo boats.
ing reports of mass executions in Reuter's Special War Service reports from Helsinki, that the public squares of towns the Finnish ship Britannic, 3,100-ton, was seized by Germany German-occupied Poland. in the Baltic near the Swedish coast. She was bound for Posters have been stuck up in Gothenberg with a cargo of cellulose.
the town halls accusing those who The German steamer Fritzen, 6,000 tons, ran aground have been executed of high treason near the Dutch island of Schaermonnikoog, according to to Germany "because between the an Amsterdam message to the semi-official Italian News years 1919 and 1939 they were the
spiritual' leaders of Poland.” Agency, says Reutet from Rome..
Property Of Nazi Steel Magnate
DUTCH SHIP DESTROYED ON STOCKS
او
WORK OF U.S. IN I.L.O.
The announcement states: "Un- impeachable observation shows that four British "ships received direct hits and all German planes returned to their base in good condition despite heavy anti- aircraft fire."
NAZI SECURITIES IN U.S.A. PEPING, Nov. 23 (Reuter)-It
GENEVA, Nov, 26 (Reuter)--The strong, hope of the United States is most reliably learned that a Ger... Government that the work of the man authority in China is apply- International Labour Office would ing pressure on Germans to trans- BRUTAL MEASURES
not be relaxed in the present world fer to the German Government all- These brutal measures by the crisis, was expressed in a message gold dollars and securities in the Naals show that Folish resistance from President Roosevelt on the United States for the purpose of ts very much alive.
occasion of the labour confer-purchasing American products
It is also reported that the Ger- ence of American States at Ha-! vana, President Roosevelt pro-mans would be reimbursed, here mised his Government's continued with local currency or foreign cur- full collaboration.
rency if available.
are
That Polish gueri}ļas still active is confirmed by the local German commander who has threatened severe reprisals against any taking up arms against the German army.
In another district all Jews have
abandoned the "idea, "the Research that the minefield was enlarged RIBBENTROP MADE motorship Slugerdyk, of the been ordered to wear the Jewish WAR IN EUROPE DOES NOT
Department has not peen idle.”
SHIPS OF WOOD
particularly in the north. German mines, therefore. are now within four sea miles of
ADMINISTRATOR
A Reuter message from Otems (Denmark) states that the 10,000-
Holland-America Line, was "des-
arm band and are forbidden to troyed on the stocks by fire, follow-
homes between the Ing a mysterious explosion, within hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
leave their
one month of its completion.
One workman is dead and sever-
the Swedish; LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter) - The Daily Herald says that ships coast, a distance which Sweden al-Baron Schroeder. the Cologne bullt of wood might prove to be ways regarded as marking her banker and 2 friend of Herr
al injured. An inquiry has already an elective answer. They would territorial waters.
Joachim von Ribbentrop. the Nazi
been,opened owing to the possi trail behind them ultra-magnetic
Foreign Minister, has been ability of sabotage. NAZI GUARDSHIP. SUNK devices which would explode the
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26 (Reuter) pointed administrator of the pro- mines harmlessly and without
-A German guardship struck a perty of Fritz Thyssen, the steel damage.
mine in the vicinity of Langeland magnate who fled to Switzerland Island near a German minefield recently.
The News Chronicle says that a new weapon is now being investi- gated.
SOME SUCCESS
COPENHAGEN, Nov 25 (Reuter). The Danish Government, is con- structing a bag barricade round
and sank within three minutes. It was only yesterday, that the the southern coast as protection Thirty-three of the crew were Germans claimed that there was against Nazi mines, many of which rescued and scie 12 are presumed no quarrel between the German have drifted ashore, causing some
Government and Herr Thyssen damage. FRENCH TRAWLER
The Daily Telegraph says that to have perished. British research workers already
have had some measure of success, BAYONNE, Nov. 26 (Reuter)—-
The Times says that the new That a French trawler was torpe CHINESE STRATEGY IN
German measure aims at hamper-doed by a U-boat some days ago ing British commerce, and at the was revealed today when the sur- same time bringing pressure to vivors reached here from Spain, bear on Belgium and Holland to
REACHES PORT
Busser
resist the new British economic LONDON. Nov. 24 (Reuter's Spe- measures and thus give Germany cial War Service)-The P. and O. 11.086 an opportunity to declare the two refrigerator ship
tons, reached a British port es- countries "under her protection.
corted by tugs after having struck a mina
STEPS TAKEN
FARIS, Nov. 25 (Reuter)-With- oui betraying secrets, says Charles Morice, the military correspondent
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ANOTHER SEIZURE HELSINKI, Nov, 26 (Reuter)- of "Petit Parisien." It is possible to The Germans seized another Fin- state that the British Admiralty nish steamer, the Antonh, 1,438 has taken steps, which will soon tons, in the Baltic. The vessel was be effective, to check the German! proceeding to, Amsterdam with a mines war.
Mines, magnetic or otherwise, will be located and brought to the sur- face and destroyed.
DUTCH CONVOY
cargo of paper.
LONDON; SHIP SUNK ...
(Reuter)- LONDON, Nov. 26
It is learned today that the Lon- don steamer Hookwood, 926 tons! was sunk by a German mine on! November 23. Two members of The first Dutch convoy is now at the crew are missing. Those who
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 25 (Reuter)
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It consists of four big Dutch merchant-ships, preceded by a tug, sald to be the world's most power ful, equipped with paravanes to deal with mines.
were landed at a north-east coast! port stated that the ship sank four minutes after the explosion which wrecked, the lifeboats. The crew held on to the wreckage un- til they were rescued.
KWANGSI OPERATIONS
KWEILIN, NOV. 26 (Central)--Competent" military observers, commenting on the War situation on the Kwangsi front, declare that the Chinese strategy is based on two principles: first, avol- dance of point or Hnear "wartade salong the coastal regions, second, utilization of favourable time and space factors to crush the main enemy strength.
These observers point out that is border, the Chinese evacuation along the coast and on the Kwang has been carried out to a degree
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of success never before equalled on other fronts, forcing the Japanese
Raid Sirens In Orkney Islands
LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-The
OBSCURE FAR EAST DRAMA: CHINA STILL DETERMINED
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LONDON, Nov. 25 (Reuter) Even the grave predica- ment of Europe cannot altogether obscure the drama be- ing played out in the Far East, says The Times this morn ing.
The Japanese armies remain embedded in the Chinese morass, and their great autumn offensive has obviously miscarried.
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The Chinese
Meanwhile, the Japanese, if they regular air raid sirens were sounded in the Orkney Islands. area on Saturday armles are still very much in have hooked the fish. have not when a large concentration of alt-being, and it does not appear caught him yet..
His demands for a degree of au- craft was detected in the vicinity. that operations such as the
Fishermen reported, on their ar-seizure of Pakhoi have much thority and independence, which his captors are loth to give, may rival at an East Coast, port, that effect.
signify that he now regrets his first another German aeroplane has
There is no doubt that the ruth at the bait and will do his been destroyed.
morale of the Japanese troops best to avoid the landing-net. has declined through guerilla warfare, the tedium of the long drawn-out campaign and the inconclusive nature of the operations.
A member of the crew said: "A German plane few within six feet of the top of the mast yesterday, I saw
the plane, like a ball of fisme, dive into the sea."
CENTRÁLIZATION OF POWERS
same
There is no doubt that the and Government Japanese army chiefs realise the improb- ability of a decisive military success, and consequently are endeavouring to obtain by poll- tical manoeuvres what they "have falled to do by force.
WANG'S CHANCES
SOVIET-JAPANESE TALKS With reference to the opening of Russo-Japanese negotiations for a trade agreement The Times says it: is hard to see what compensation Japari can possibly offer to Russia for the abandonment of her poll- tical and commercial interests in China, but even in that event there are other Powers which are not. disposed to efface themselves in the Far East.
The American Government has made clear that their abrogation of the, treaty of commerce with
It is doubtful to say the least Japan is a reply both to the Tap
to abandon their heavy weapons CHUNGKING. Nov, 28 (Central) and to rely entirely on their own-Though relieved of his post of supplies for their men.
President of the Executive Yuan, Although the "Japanese forces Dr. H. H. Kung has been appoint- have penetrated as far as the ed Vice-President of the Yangshan and the Shihwanteshan Yuar, succeeding General Chang mountain ranges, actually their Chun," who resigned, difficulties have only just begun. It is now revealed that the sixth whether Wang Ching-wel has the anese breach of the Nine-Powert Even now the Japanese flying Flenary Session of the Kuomintang personality or ability to full the Treaty and the numerous violations":
of American rights in China, 3 columns are relying, largely on Central Executive Committes ap- hopes of his backers.
It is obvious that an economía, At present no puppet regime aeroplanes for their supplies and pointed Generalissimo Chiang Kai- provisions, as throughout their shek concurrently President of the seems capable of surviving the conflict between Japan and Amerl forced march into the interior they Executive Yuan upon a recom-departure of the Japanese forces 'ca will have a disastrous effect on have not been able to commandeer|mendation of Dr. Kung, who "ad-for more than a few weeks, and Japanese Anances, and if Japan any man or animal power to carry vocated a centralization of the a Chinese National movement, with desires to safeguard her trade, their supplies, repair the damaged nation's political and military the support of the Japanese army, lations with America, time is run-
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