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BY FIRST LORD
Exeter Bears Scars Of Fight With Graf Spee
LONDON, FEB. 15 (REUTER)—H.M.S; EXETER, FLAG- SHIP OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR HENRY HARWOOD, K.G.B, BEARING SCARS OF THE BATTLE WITH THE GERMAN- POCKET-BATTLESHIP GRAF SPEE IN THE PLÅTE RIVER IN DECEMBER, SLOWLY AND TRIUMPHANT- Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord" LY SAILED INTO PLYMOUTH WATERS THIS MORNING
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JAPANESE RETREATING TO Magnificent
NANNING AFTER DEFEAT IN Gifts From
PINYANG & WUMING AREAS
LIUCHOW, Feb, 15 (Central)-After their defeat in the Pinyang and Wuming areas, the Japanese troops are re- treating toward Nanning.
On the Nanning-Wuming highway, the Chinese are pursuing the enemy and have reached Kaofengngau, 14 miles north of Nanning. To the west of the Nanning- Pinyang highway the Chinese are following closely on the heels of the fleeing Japanese.
WEST SUIYUAN ·
a
India For
War Effort
LONDON, Feb, 15 (BWS) — War contributions in money and kind continue to reach the Viceroy from all classes of Indian society, The zingni- tude of their generosity la Illustrated by the following contributions which appear in the fatest list received from India.
Intermittent gunfire is au-River in North Honan, has been dible in the hilly regions to crushed with serious losses. the north of Nanning, in- Chinese forces have staged dicating Chinese vanguard serious of raids on Taikang..south action.
of the Langhai Rallway in east Hanan. Japaness AIR CASUALTIES
reinforcements from Tunghau, northwest of: Tal-". KUNMING, Feb. 15 (Central-kang, were beaten back.
From the Maharaja of Bhavna- In addition to one plane shot
gar two lakhs (200,000) of rupees down, two other machines of a
and the work shops of Bhavnager Japanese air squadron ralding the TUNGSHENG, SUIYUAN, Feb. State Fallway for the manufac- Yunnan Railway, on Feb. 13, are 15 (Central)-In a counter-stroke ture of munitions and other arti believed to have been damaged.
Chinese forces, in West Sutyuan. cles useful in the prosecution of The wreckage of the plane shot succeeded in piercing into Linho, the war-t down has been located in the south-west of Wuyuan, on Monday southern suburbs of Wenshan, 30 night,
From the Maharaja of Rewa miles east of the railroad, with
The Japanese were defeated and valued at one lakh, for the de- food and agricultural produce, all its occupants killed, It will fled in the direction of Wuyuan. fence of India, service or for ex- be transported to Kunming for abandoning over 600 bodies, 198 port.
motor lorries, and a quantity of SYDNEY, Feb. 15 Reuter)-A} « JAPAN ATTACKED
war supplies, The Chinese
From the Maharaja of Dewas broadcast states that the Aus
LOYANG, Feb. 15 (Central)anese around the town.
"mopping up" the remnant Jap- ambulance unit, with 32 stretcher bearers, an Indian cul- tralian Cabinet is meeting to discuss meastires for a big in- The Japanese at Lifens, west of A Chinese force is threatening
cer and sub-assistant surgeon, crease in the production of arms, the Taskou-Chinghus
Talaotso, the coal mining town on the Japanese bases of operations
FTOM the Nawab of Kurwal The Exeter was no longer Danbar-Nasmith, V.C., beside him, ammunition and aeroplanes for
Railway at Pastow and Kweisu!. tall-masted as the Exeter, piloted by a tuz. Great Britam
in North Honan," were enticed on
2,500 rupees for aid of British graceful,
wounded. the morning of February 6 by the STOCKHOLM, Feb. 15 (Reuter) cruiser that set forth before rounded the headland. Hand-to-hand fighting in which the war. Evidence of her
ROUSING CHEERS
secure Chinese to a neighbouring place the Finns are using their pakkas battle with the Graf Spee was the salute and HMS. Exeter res- materials would be discussed at the nerce attack. They lost over 100 A bugler on Mount Wise sounded the purchase of the necessary raw where they were subjected to a -long knives--as well as bayonets in her shortened masts and ponded with three rousing cheers same time
men and a quantity of arms and continued today on the Karelian
newly-painted gun turrets and Mr. Churchill whipped of his Big reserves of gold and dellars ammunition, Isthmus,
have been chadlished abroad. AN ASSANG Although the Finns are not dis Mr. Winston Churchill, First hat.
JAPANESE THRUST With the Exeter's band playing a result of these efforts, Ausgulla.
LONDON. Feb 15 (Reuter)mer 5,000 rupees for the War De guising the seriousness of the Lord of the Admiralty, took the
CHINGCHOW, Feb. 15 (Central The Bulgarian Cabinet has repartment and 1,000 rupecs, each situation, they are not showing salute from Mount Wise, with the "Rule Britannia," in which the with Canada, would be in a position
shore joined in to produce more than half the -Another Japanese thrust at the signed. King Boris has instruct- to the Indian Red Cross and St. undue alarm. They point out that First Sea Lord, "Admiral of the thousands' "on after two-and-a-half months of Fleet Bir Dudley Pound, G.G.B., sirens and houters an every craft all in the plant warded by Bri- Chinees positions near Tabziyang, ed. the Minister for Education to Dunstan's Hostel
ain present war,
Hand-To-Hand Fighting On Karelian Isthmus
SOON AFTER DAYBREAK THE EXETER DROPPED ANCHOR IN THE SOUND AND SOON THE NEWS SPREAD AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WENT TO THE FAMOUS PLYMOUTH HOE AND ASSEMBLED BY THE STATUE OF SIR FRANCIS, DRAKE AND BEGAN THEIR LONG, TUMULTUOUS AND HEARTY WELCOME TO BRITAIN'S MOST MODERN SEA HEROES.
the
'
agthing, and a loss of about 250, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the vicinity added to the terri- 000 men, all the Russians have to Sir John Simon, and the Com-fic volume of the welcome. show is a preliminary foothold on mander-in-Chief of the Western
Mr. Churchill later boarded
the outside edge of the Manner-Approaches, Admiral Bir Martin HMS. Exeter. helm Line and a few of wild Fin-
nish territory in the north,
Four regiments of tanks, it la
stated, are being used by the Rus- sians on the Isthmus, 150 at Muola and 250 at Suma.
OUT OF ACTION
Bitter Nazi Attack On
The Finnish General Staff dlani Mr. Churchill
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EFFECTIVE REPLY TO GERMANY
BERLIN, Feb. 15 (Reuter)-A LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)—The
that half the total number of Russian tanks so far used have already been put put of action.
on Mr. Winston sinking of four U-boats in six days The remainder of the tanks, how bitter attack ever, are able to advance without Churchill, First Lord of the Ad- was an effective reply to Ger- any land obstacles in the Suma miralty, was made by the Berlinermany's declaration that she would sector where there is a certain Boersen Zeltung, commenting on sink any neutral ships which calls amount of open ground covered the announcement that all Briat a. British port.
One of the submarines was sünk
Economic measures to
-
exhibition,
RESIGNATION OF BULGARIAN CABINET
the North bank of the Yellow form a new Government
are
$191,100 Expenses For H.K.V.D.C.
To Be Paid Tax: Police
Burgerdijk
Sinking Revelation
Out Of New War-time Launch Replacement
From the Maharaja of Cochin one lakh of rupees and 1,000 ra Dees each to the Indian Red Cross and St. Dunstan's Hostel.
FOR WAR DEPARTMENT
From the Maharaja of Birkaner, in addition to previous donations, 1,000 maunds (80.000 lb.) of babul tree bark for munitions.
From the Mir of Hunza 2,000 rupees.
A Bith, living in Teheran, has given 8,666 rupees, Mohammed, Elias Khan, living in the Nether- lands, 42 rupees, and Mr. P. Chac- ko, a Pothan, a second consign- ment of 500. 1b, of tea for the troops.
recurring contributions from one There are a large number of rupee monthly upwards while several suma from humble donors are earmarked for the aid of Bri-
The approximate tatals now stand at 50 lakhs of rupees non- recurring and 34 lakhs of rupees recurring
IT WAS ANNOUNCED AT A MEETING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL yesterday that three sums of $74,000, $85,100 and $32,000, totalling $191,100, in the 1940-41 estimates for the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps will be paid out of the new war-time taxation to be introduced in the Council shortly.
Estimates for 1940-41, that he would look into the mattish wounded amounting to $515,733, werejter: sanctioned in addition to It was pointed out by Sir AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15. (Reutersupplementary expenditure of The Captain of the Dutch liner $41,932 for 1938.
Henry Pollock in connexion Burgerdijk revealed in
with a vote for $36,600, for a * press
new replacement Police launch, interview that the U-Boat In-
The Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith;
that if the contract was made structed the wireless, operator to
Colonial Secretary, presided and
earlier it would not be neces
The Chairman of the British ANTHONY EDEN. IN send out an 808 that the ship the following members were pre-
sary to vote this extra ex-
Community Commeil in the Argen- PALESTINE
was sinking after a collision. The Sent:-Hon, Sir Henry Pollock,
penditure.
tine tras despatched to England a U-Boat ordered the captain and Hon, Mr. H. R. Butters, Hen. Dr.
Provision had been made in the cribed by the British commianity
sum of £20,000 from funds su LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)Mr.
torpedoed her.
B. Purves, Hon. Mr. 8. H. Dod of $35,000 on a new launch to this sum, halt has been sent to well, Hop, Mr. M. K, Lo. Hon. Mr. place Police launch No. 10 A can- the Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund The Berita correspondent of the E. Pearce, Hon. Mr. A. Ltract for the construction, at a Basler Nachrichten reports that shields, Hon. Dr. Ld Shu-fan, Hon. Germany le now blaming Holland Mr. W. N, Thomas Tam and Hon.
Continued on Back Pare
and half to Lord Baldwin's Fund for the sinking of the Burgerdijk. Mr. Lea D'Almada, fnr.
for the Merchant Service,
with snow which has been trampled tish merchantmen would be armed after it had torpedoed the British down and frozen hard. *
The paper states that armed steamer Sultan Star, while another Bombs, as well as shells, are still merchantmen are Mr. Churchill's was trapped and sent to the bot being showered on the Isthmus and invention and was devised in the tom after it had torpedoed the on one Finnish coastal port on Great Wir,
British tanker, British Triumph. Lake Ladoga the Russians have "His former secret order, in
-Soo Pato 7· --dropped 500 bombs without gaining which he ordered merchan men not
a single hit
only to defend themselves against U-boats but also to attack them.. is well-known.
PRAYING FOR SNOW The Finns are now praying for a heavy fall of mow which would
cripple Russian activity on land and air and give the Finnish sol- diers a breathing spell.
Russia is now using men from a wide area for Russian soldiers, re- cently taken prisoner, come from the Turkish border.
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BURMA'S
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FROM ARGENTINE
"Furthermore, long before the Anthony Eden, Dominions, Secre crew to take to the boats then P. S." Belwyn-Clarke, Hon. Mr. A1939 estimates for, the expenditure the British Patriotic Fund. Or
outbreak of the present war, Britory, is visiting Palestine and will tish merchantmen have been contour the camp where the Austro- stracted, or adapted in such a way, lian forces which recently arrived that guns could immediately be in- in the Middle East are under stalled, '
going training.
"Nobody in Great Britain made any "secret of the paper con- 'cludes,
SECURITY
AS
A MEMBER OF BRITISH
*
He states that in authoritative German circles it is claimed that I discussing an item for 14,000 any neutral ship submitting to
for a Beckwith fog bell for Lam
Snowstorms
In Balkans
An additional £1,000 was given to Rear-Adiniral Sir Henry Har wood for the dependente at wounded in his three ships.
A PERSONAL MESSAGE LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter) Reuter's correspondent learns that Mr. Anthony Eden has taken the enemy control or zigzagging on Tong Taland to replace the bell occasion of his being in Egypt to her course may legitimately be amk which was found missing on Dec.
Up to date donations from the convey & personal message of a whether she is carrying contra 28 last during the course of a rou-
British community in the Argen- cordial nature from King George band or not, says a Reuter mestine visit, Sir Henry Pollock asked
tine have totalled £60,000 whit to King Farouk
sage from Zurich.
how often these routine visits Snowstorms of unprecedented vio promises of further subscriptions were made and it was revealed lence are now raging in the Bal will crease this total to £123- that the previous visit was made ans, secording to the German alle by the end of October this on Oct, 27 when the bell was wireless, which states that all year
REGRETS EXPRESSED CAIRO, Feb 15 (Reuter)—The newspaper Alahram quotes the
EMPIRE IS EMPHASISED Egyptian Prime Minister as saying
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RANGOON, Feb. 15 (Reuter) "Dominion status was not in the nature of a gift or reward, conferred on a par ticular part of the Empire, but a recognition of the fact of the maintenance of good Government brought about by development of the constitution leading to wider powers, until a full and responsible self-Government is achieved within the Commonwealth.”
that, in his message to King George expressed his regrets that the outbreak of war prevented King Farouk and Queen Farida from accepting His Majesty's and Queen Elizabeth's invitation to visit England.
On Other-
Pages
The report adds that His Ma-Race meeting prospects jesty also expressed appreciation Fanling races
Softball protest Radio programmes Coming even
of the co-operation and help given Record tennis entries and is still being given by Egypt
Thus declared the Governor national life, from acts of ruth of Burma, Sir Archibald less and more powerful neighbours, to her ally and of his complete Douglas Cochrane, KCS.I., in we are fortunate that it is in confidence in an aitimate and de- safety derived from willing coclive victory for the Allies Just operation from all parts of the cause. British Empire for mutual protec-
a speech from the Throne, in which he emphasised Barma's security as a member of the British Empire:
tion, that we are able to carry on PARIS Feb. 15 the process of establishing, in the French
War com eyes of the Empire and the world, today His Excellency
added: "When so the ability of Burmans to operate nightf many small countries have suffer- Parliamentary system, of Govern-
of the -ed temporary extinction of their ment."
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ASSURANCE ASKED
LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)-
Rumenian traffe has stopped as most parts of the country are covered with thick now
Sir Henry then enquired what
Central Europe is still experi- steps were being taken to prevent
enchig Arotic weather and a bliz- the bell from being stolen
and asked for an assurance from the zand has stopped all Hungarian Government that adequate steps railway tramo Snow L now fall- will be taken to see that this is ng in Budapest
done.
The Colonial Secretary said
acting
ELDEST SON OF MR ROOSEVELT PLANS DIVORCE NEW YORK Teb 16 (Reuter
4 SULTANS OFFER £1,000,000
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 (Rea ter) The Sultans of fou Federated Malay States have ex- pressed their unanimous
offer the sum of £1,000,000 2342 gift to the Britian Government to
morning by According to the New York Times ald in the prosecution of
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similarly donated £500,00