"Hongkong Daily Press"-Feb. 20, 1940.
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Independent ADMIRALTY ACTION IN ALTMARK H.M.S. DARING TORPEDOED
Policy Of CASE JUSTIFIED-PRESS COMMENT:
Italy
Special to the H.K. Daily Press
ROME, Feb. 19 (Havas)-Italy's
determination to pursue an inde- pendent policy and to make sure "nothing is decided against or without her" is asserted in the newspaper Telegrafo commenting on the laconic tone of the official communique Issued "on the recent meetings of the Supreme Defence Council, namely. "Italy must be careful in the midst of an impor-
pires."
New Life Movement Party
NAZI PROTEST "TYPICAL EFFRONTERY" AND SUNK: NINE OFFICERS,
HOW R.A.F. American Authorities On International Law Page Criticise
FOUND ALTMARK
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)—A
raphic account of the finding of the Altmark was given today by the leader of a formation of three
Command.alnoted for the task
they set off for the coast of Nor-
Norway
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Renter)-That the action of the Admiralty in the Altmark affair was justified is the theme of this morning's newspaper comment.
Norway's ommission to enforce international law at
by
148 RATINGS FEARED LOST HYPOCRISY Destroyer Saw Service
OF NAZI APPEAL
LONDON,, Feb. 19 (BWS)-
Apart in the question of in any way constitute a breach hypocrisy of the Nazi appeal to legal principles is adequate
whether the British action'did
of international law,
the
ly demonstrated in the News- the Chronicle editorial.'
The paper says: Ever since the
tant clash of ideologies and em- aircraft of the RAF Coastal Bergen and Germany's frequent violations of the law and He said that after being given a neutrality are emphasised while the German protest is des- verbal picture of the abip cribed as a "typical effrontery.”
The Times says that in satus of the Allmark is valced way, visible 30 miles away, and order to perform his duty, three American authorities Од proceeded to comb thoroughly the Capt. Vian, of HMS, Cossack, international law, area from the extreme south point had to take the belligerent Mr. Frederic Coudert, who was
ship into neutral waters as formerly Legal Adviser to
that Britain was entirely justiñed later & ship but she was not the "The difference is that because Norway was guilty of any and deliberately disregarded Altmark, Fifteen seconds later the German ship entered in altogether unneutral set in permit-neutral rights. She laid mines in spotted another ship which I re-order to break the law the ting the Altmark to harbour Bri-notined mineñelds in internation- that intention," says the Mr. James Gerard, Americantral ships and drowned the crews.
GENERALISSIMO
AS HOST
CHUNGKING Feb. 19 (Central) -Gene, alissimo Chlang Kai-shek
of Norway to the north...
Fifteen miles abend I saw
On The China Station
attached to the China Station, has been H.M.S. Daring, a destroyer formerly torpedoed and sunk, according to an an nouncement by the Admiralty made in London yesterday, states a Reuter message. One officer and four ratings have been
smudge of smoke and a minute the Germans had done before Brush Embassy, is of the opinion war started Germany has flagrant- picked up.
cognised as the Altmark."
SAW HER NAMP All three aircraft dived down
paper.
neutral trade channels and un- British in order to thwart ish prisoners in her waters.
al fairways. She torpedoed net- Ambassador in Germany before the The Daily Telegraph writes: "If 1814-18 war, said that the Nor-waters almost as though they were
She treated neutral territori
of the New Life Movement in
Altmark's captain to succeed they inspected the Teasel and taken mit her submarines have preyed "I caught sight of my men out would have been condoning a vio- the prisoners.The Germans had upon neutral, as well as belligerent Chungking on the eve ni the
of the corner of my eve They Movemen's sixth anniversary at a were not holding one thumb up action is vindicated by law and did through Norwegian wacera than
lation of international law. Their no more right to take the prisoners shipping. dinner party held at the Chialing(staal of auccess).
Bach man Justice. Hostelry last evening.
had both thumbs up.
to take them by train from New York or San Francisco,
was host to more than 100 worker and the crews saw her name in the Admiralty had permitted the wegian Government should have her own. Within the three miles/
letters & foot high.
The News-Chronicle" that force is the only argument the Nazis understand and force had been properly applied. The Daily Herald says: “There can be no honest doubt anywhere
J
DUTY OF NORWAY
Personally addressing the gather-
"For a few moments they went ing, the Generalissimo reviewed wild as we swept across the Alt the past achievements of the New mark's decks at funnel height. I Life Movement which he started could see only one man on deck. six years ago, and exhored all He was hanging over the rail as workers to continue their efforts if seasick or looking for mines In the world that the Admiralty's cana' property foreign coun-
in bringing the spiritual rejuve- na ion of the Chinese nation to a glorious success.
Colonel Huang Jen-lin, Director
of the Offices Moral Endeavour Association, pres'ded.
7/
Dr. H. B. Kung, Vice-Pre- aldent of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, paid tribute to the progress made in the Friends of Wounded Sol- diers campaign
under the auspices of the New Life Movement Association.
fi
Early this morning, meeting were held by various groups in Chungking in celebration of the sixth anniversary of the Movement. At ten o'clock, a mass wedding ceremony was held, uniting scores of couples in wedlock.
In the evening at 7 o'clock, Dr. Kung will give a broadcast speer on the New Life Movement and the Friends of Wounded Soldiers
Movement.
Netherlands
A
Vast Fortress
attacker.
HIDDEN GUNS
A three aircraft returned safe- ly after an eight-hour fight
No enemy aircraft was seen.
Mr. James Ryan, Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on acting Amer
Nazi Cargo
Ship Caught By French
|
ing and are feared to have been lost, the Nine officers and 148 ratings are .miss-
announcement adds.
·· HMS, DARING, COMMANDED BY COMMANDER S. A. COOPER, WAS THE SISTERSHIP OF H.M.S. DUCHESS WHICH WAS LOST AS THE RESULT OF A COLLISION WITH ANOTHER NAVAL VESSEL IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR:
With the Duchess, the Dar- ing had seen service on the Ching Station and last June both destroyers were blockad- ed by the Japanese Navy at Foochow, the Reuter message ladds
She was of the Defender " class and was completed in 1932.
H.M.S. Daring was a vessel of
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter) 1,375 tons.
Tanker Cut Into Two By Torpedo
LONDON, Feb, 19 (Reuter)
action was not justified and the tries and on the high seas, de- "There were no other signs of Nazis appeal to international law,clared that it was the day of life on board and there was not which they brazenly violated, must Norway to determine the true te left to the ridicule it deserves." stats of the Altmark before the slightest evidence
alarm and no shots were fired of any
TYPICAL COMMENT
allowing her to proceed in her The German cargo steamer While she was on the China-With his ship almost cut The provincial press strongly waters He thought that there Rostock was captured by the Station in April last year, her into two by a torpedo and from the Altmark's hidden guns. endorses the Admiralty's action was considerable justification for French Navy while trying to meers included Commander F. half-submerged,
"We took note of her position and a typical comment is that of the British action.
a British and headed for home:"
get home from a Spanish port W. H. Clarke, Lleut, A. A Caven-captain salled her for four the Birmingham Post which says The Washington correspondent in company with the Morea dish, Lieut. (E) W. J. K. Shaxby days in the North Sea. until that Norway was assisting the of the New York Times says that which had been captured by Sub-Lieut. M. J. de C. Carey, and found by a warship... across the North Sea and back. Warship to take to a German pri- persons in Washington, familiar a British warship.
Gunner (T) W. H. Easton, son British captives illegally held. with the Hague Convention, ex-
The skipper and 41 sur- Norway cannot complain if in such pressed the opinion privately that thus accounted for two of the Cher- The British and French navies
CONVOYS ATTACKED vivors of the crew of 44 land- an emergency the British Govern-Britain had tenable grounds man vessels which made a bold day's German High Command day.
BERLIN, Feb, 19 (Reuter)-Toed at a Scottish port on Sun- ment used a destroyer Instead of international law to support her. attempt, under cover of darkness. communique claims that
State Deparment circles feel to escape from Spain.
four, The vessel--a 10,000-ton tanker comment is inadvisable but un-
enemy convoys were successfully was torpedoed on Feb. 11 and A German submarine is report-attacked by U-boats. official observers have expressed the led to have been sunk by the French The communique states that When the day dawned they saw the crew took to two lifeboats. outcome of the controversy. with Navy. Norway might hinge upon whether
steamers and tankers were sunk in that the after part of the tanker the Altmark could be classed as tawler was in touch with the sub- destroyer, belonging to the protec-her.
It is understood that an armed three of the convoys and that a was still afloat and put back to a warship or a naval auxiliary.
marine and the French warship tive force of the fourth convoy. ADMIRALTY THANKED
waited for the two ships which, was sunt. LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-- when they approached, was fired the Merchant Navy by the French naval vessel Federation thanked the Admiralty
which sunk both. for the rescue of the Altmark pri soners, "NA
Swedish Iron Exports
To Germany
Special to the HK. Dally Press
PARIS, Feb. 19 (Havas)—It is High Naval comands are at pre- reliably learned that the Allied
sent studying. means to arrest the continuous inflow of Swedish iron.j to the Reich which formed 40 per cent. of the Reich's total iron im- porta in peace time.
in diplomatic note.
SEVERE CRITICISM"
NEW YORK, Feb, 19 Reuter) The New York Times says that severe criticism of Norway for having failed to determine the true
REQUISITIONING O
OF DOLLAR SECURITIES LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter) The
Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord, of the Admiralty, replied:
"Your tribute to the oicers and
The Swedish iron comes mainly Stock Exchange received the news men who rescued the prisoners
from mines in Lapland and is ex- of Treasury's requisitioning of cer- will strengthen the tiles between
to
:
With the wireless broken, no call for help was possible, but the en- NO NEWS IN LONDON
gines were in order and the cap- tain salled towards Scotland." **: LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-No
They sailed in that manner from news is yet available in official Monday to Thursday when a war- quarters in London regarding the ship sighted them arid summoned a
tig!
GENUINENESS OF -boat attacks on convoys.
REINCARNATION
OF DALAI LAMA
ported via the Norwegian seaport taln dollar securities calmly with the Royal Navy and their com- Special to the HK, Dally Press of Narvik which is free the year no section showing any particular rades of the Merchant Navy."
'LONDON, Feb. 19 (Router) ---- AMSTERDAM, Feb. 19. (Havas) round.
reaction.
Fresh evidence of the genminentes ----Neutral correspondenta
RULES VIOLATED are The Allied Fleets are able
The fact that the list of requial-
of the reincarnation of the Dalsi amazed at the transformation of exercise complete contraband con- tioned securities omits recognised national rules, says M. Charles
FARIS, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-Inter-Lama is disclosed. the whole of the Netherlands into trol in the North Sea and, there- market leaders, such as United Morice in the Petit Parisien, had British Mission to Lhasa was pre- It is reported that when the a vast fortress while the Dutch fore. will intercept exports of States Steel Chrysler and General unquestimably been violated by sented to him on the auspicious. Army, they state, is able to oppose Swedish iron. via Narvik, These Motors; is believed, in well-in-the Altmark's captain, who deli-afth day of the Tibetan New the efficacious resistance of any exports represent at least one-half informed Stock Exchange quarters,berately misled the Norwegians by Year, according to the Delhi "car- of the German iron imports. to be due to the Treasury's desire conceeling his cargo of prisoners respondent of the Times, the boy
to deal only with established in and his guna vestment counters rther than with
Dalai Lama laid both hands on Petit Journal says: "It appears the forehead of Mr. B. J. Gould speculative and semi-speculative that the Norwegian control he (who represents the British Gov- shares.
came the accomplice of the Ger-ernment and the Government of Though it is still early to discuss man Government. If this la mov- India) full implications of the "move, ed to have
and, Dr. Etaunton and been the case, the blessed two silk scarves which the stock brokers and bankers report situation might become extremely ecclesiastical officer placed round that they are mainly concerned at Continued on Page 7 present with the problem of re-
their necks. investment of clients funds re- leased by the requisitioning,
INTERESTING PROBLEM This presents an intéresdag problem on which many different Some quarters
Further Fireworks Are Expected In Tokyo Diet
TOKYO, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-Newspapers today prophesy further fireworks in the Diet as soon as the Budget, tax reform and other important Government bills, which will be passed probably about Feb. 26, when the Salto case will come up for final decision.
MR. H. SAITO, VETERAN will not hesitate to take up views are held MEMBER OF THE MINESITO a positive attitude and de- suggest immediate reinvestment in "PARTY, IT WILL BE RE-jmand Mr. Salto's expulsion Government securities which are
CALLED, CAUSED A GREAT from the Diet.
expected to rise further before the STIR BY ASKING'A DEFINI-
issue of the long-term war loan. Meanwhile, the imbroglio is un-Other say that leading British TION OF THE "NEW ORDER dermining the prestige or the industrials are preferable but all IN EAST ASIA," AND BY Minselto Party to the Lower House agres that the British security CHALLENGING THE KONO-¦and" splitting other parties into "YE STATEMENT.
pro-Balto and anti-Balto groups.
markets muss eventually benent substantially!!
According to the KokuminIt is also leading to rumours of Shimbun, immediately the the possibility of the establishment blem is mos, acute for investment
Brokers suggest that the" pró vital budget and other legis of a new political party which has companies in view of the rapidly lation have been passed by long been advocated by certain declining yields causing difcuity the Army, the Government Rightist quarters."
for covering prior charges.
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Pago
: - WONDERFULLY COMPOSED
The five-year-old Dalai Lama was described £18 wonderfully composed during the presentation. of the British officials and his manner completely dominated the assembly of monks, oficials and Jay visitors attending the cere- mony.
The boy is already noted for his fixed and unwavering, gaze and his | ability "to" recognise associates of the late Dalai Lama, a fact which wan, spalised by Mr. Gould who accompanied the late Dalai Lama on several stages of his journey towards Laks from India In 1912 The enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama will take place in Lhasa on Thursday.
FINAL
SELECTIONS FOR THIRD DAY OF ANNUAL RACE MEETING AT VALLEY
(BY LAST QUARTER"}
RACE 1 (12 NOON)
Eve of Harvest,
King's Warden Bear Claw
RACE 2 (12.30 P.M.) Spicylight
Possible Dupont Bay
RACE 3 (1 P.M.)
A Roaring Time Snowy River Rising Star.
RACE 4 (130 P.M.) Celtic Star; Strathbánnock Guinness Time
RACE 5 (3 P.M.)
Sea Jay Me Flying Dutchman Many Thanks
RACE 6 (3.30 P.M.) Annabella Sydney Lad Derby Day
RACE 7 (4 P.M.). Piet Hein The Leopard Golden Cow
RACE 8 (4.30 PM)
Far View Sapper Contact
RACE 9 (5 P.M.) Phoenix
Lancashire Chan
Matador
RACE 10 (5.30 P.M.) Burford:
Mount Hope Bay Craigavad
RACE 11 (6 P.M.) Melody Star Catterick Bridge Spring Shine
DAILY: DOUBLE
PIET HEIN and PHOENIX