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HONGKONG,
TURNING POINT OF THE
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1940.
NAVAL PRESS WARNS US.
BATTLE OFF NORWAY: GERMANY
LOSES QUARTER OF TOTAL
NUMBER OF DESTROYERS
Two Big Attacks On Western Front
NAZIS LAUNCH ONSLAUGHT
PARIS, Apr. 14 (Reuter) The Western Front saw two big attacks yesterday
At dawn the Germans launched a well-prepared cnslaught with a whole company. It was preceded by heavy artillery preparation, in- cluding large calibre mortars, and extended for nearly a mile of the front.
The attackers reached the barb- ed-wire cntanglements near the French lines where they were beaten off with heavy losses by French artillery and infantry fire.
NAZI POST CAPTURED West of the Vosges, a French flying squad delivered a hig, attack and captured wa "Germim post. Details of this feat are not yet
avollable.
"There was also an engagement yesterday between French and Germán détachments who met in an abandoned village on the Nied front.
HITLER THE
Allies Are Masters
Of Narvik Waters
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Naval authorities in London, "says a Havas message, deem the sinking of seven German destroyers in "Narvik Fjord as a remarkable feat and the turning point of the naval battle off Norway,
THE LOSS REPRESENTS OVER ONE-QUARTER OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GERMAN DESTROYERS.
According to Jane's Fighting Ships, Germany possessed 30 destroyers last year, most of them recently built. Since. the commencement of the battle off Norway, Germany lost ten destroyers.
Admiralty Pleased
Naval Action Off Narvik
LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter) The following is the full text of the made Admiralty announcement yesterday:-
The general opinion is that the Allles are now masters of the waters around Narvik which will facilitate the land- ing of Allied troops on the Norwegian coast."
GERMAN CLAIMS
BERLIN, Apr. 14"(Reuter)— A High Command communique refers to the operations in Narvik as a “serious engagement” and says the British forces, in yesterday's at-
MUST FACE
POSSIBILITY OF ENTERING WAR
TO PROTECT ITS OWN INTERESTS
"Watchful Waiting" Is
A French Bght 'tank going over one of the bridges built by the Engineering Corps, whose job it is to prepare the way for any big
military movement.
tacks included two battleships, alf-70,000 German Troops Pass
craft carriers, cruisers and a large number of destroyers,
Nevertheless German destrofers attacked the superior British force. Since the attack upon German: It claims that the destroyer HMS. destroyers in Narvik Fjord on Cossack was set ablaze and ran Wednesday by the Second "Des- aground and that the destroyer troyer Flotilla. this Flotilla, with HMS. Eskimo; and another were reinforcements, has been blockad-seriously damaged, or destroyed. ing the enemy in Narvik Fjord No German losses were specified, Yesterday morning. at- about In operations elsewhere, the noon, H.M.S. Warspite, accompani- communique claims, a U-beat tor- ed by a strong force of destroyers pedoed a craiser of the Glasgow LONDON, April 14 (Beater) using minesweeping, and other ap-class, north of the Shetlands and The allegation that the RAF.pilances, advanced up"the Fjord submarine chasers destroyed three bombed the railway station at to attack German destroyers, some enemy submarines in the Skag- Schleswig-Holstein WIS repeated of them already damaged, which gerak over the German Radio yesterday were sheltering in Narvik and al afternoon,
HERO
This allegation has to engage shore batteries which aiready been denied by the British might have been erected. Air Ministry.
The Germa announcer $110: There is a passage in Herr Hit- ler's speech to the Reichstag in which he said 'I do not want to
wake War
and against women children and the Fuehrer's pledge has been kept.
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Vice-
According to reports which have been received from the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Whitworth, hoisting his flag in the Warspite, com- manded the attack which was extremely successful. Enemy opposition was not found to be remarkably severe.
MINES LAID. IN BALTIC
LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter). The Admiralty announces that mines have been laid in the Bal- tle and its approaches,
No mines will be lald in Swedish territorial waters.
The mine-laying
in the Baltic
was completed early today. It is
A field, howitzer, which had been described in London as "a singt- mounted ashore, was put out of larly audacious exploit by the action by fire from "H.M.S. Cos- Navy." sack. Four German destroyers were shattered and sunk in Nar vik Bay and three others fled and were pursued and engaged and destroyed.
SMALL BRITISH LOSSES British loss of life is believed to have been very small and no es- timate can be made at present of
Shanghai Law Student Murdered
Through Copenhagen
Now More Intense
NEW YORK, Apr. 14 (Reuter)-The successful British Naval coup at Narvik is blazoned in the press.
THE GENERAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE LATEST DE- VELOPMENTS IN EUROPE ARE THE TOPIC OF LEADING ARTICLES.
Emphasis is laid on the extreme improbability of the United States Government departing from the most scru- pulous policy of non-intervention in any form particularly in view of the coming elections.
The Washington correspon-
dent of the New York Times
declares, however, that there Man Arrested though the American policy is With Three
| is a growing feeling that al-
unchanged by the spread of the war "watchful waiting be- comes a little more intense.”
The New York Herald-Tribune
Mills Bombs
sttes. The fate of Greenland SEARCH MADE IN
brugs the war to our very doors,
Ir Holland is invaded the fate of OPIUM DIVAN
Curacao and the Dutch West In- dies would bring the war to within a stone's throw of our key defences ---Panama.
"Today, as in 1917, people dread
The police had a dangerous task in arresting a man who was alleged to be armed with three Mills bombe, The detained
person, it
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the thought of going to war but alleged, went to a shop in Water the United States must face the Street. on Saturday morning. possibility that it may be forced placing a bomb on the counter. to join in the fray as the only way He is further alleged to have de-. to protect its own interests," manded money, falling which, said, bez would “1% nil the 20
The master of the shop gave
FIGHTING IN him $8 and he left with the bomb.
THE SNOW
Meanwhile one of the fokis had left the shop and made a report at No. 7 Police Station. PARIS, Apr. 14 (Reuter)—It is
MAN CAUGHT learned here that snow storms are A squad of police were sent out raging in Norway where the winter and later arrested the man in an thickly. opium divan. When searched, be
his
BRITISH MINISTER AND STAFF
LOCKED UP IN FORTRESS
snow and Ice still lie PÄRIS, Apr. 14 (Reuter) German troops, estimated Fighting operations are con- at 70,000, have been passing through Copenhagen in the sequently assuming the character was found to have three Chinese-
made bombs strung round last two days, according to members of the British, French of the war
in Finland, merely waist and a short bayonet tucked and Polish diplomatic party, numbering 180, who arrived guerilla warfare between
in bis back,
It is learned that the man will at The Hague from Copenhagen bringing the first eye-wit- German columns trying to extend the movement round the occupied
before ness accounts of the occupation of Copenhagen.
zones and Nowegian detachments appear
Majlstrate The party included the which are growing as mobilisation charged with robbery and posses- British Minister in Copen- proceeds.
"HOLD ON" hagen, Mr. C. Howard Smith,
ALLIED HELP IS COMING
* LONDON, Apr. 14. (Reuter) —"Allied. Help is coming, and coming quickly. Hold out," declared a British General, who was once Military At- tache in Oslo, broadcasting from London, advice to the Norwegian people on the best method of checking the Ger- man advance.
commanders:
"COMMUNICATIONS CUT
small
sion of arms.
A
The Norwegian are effectively 7,000 OUNCES
OF OPIUM SOLD
C.M.G., who was arrested and locked up for several hours on cutting the communications and Apr. 9,
their skiers are harassing the Ger- A girl, who had been working in¦ mañ, columns in the rear as they
the British Legation, told Reuter, labour through the mountains. IN S'HAI DAILY "It all came as a fantastic sur- 要 is believed that German prise. At 5 am. Germans trickled columns north of Oslo have not CHUNGKING, Apr. 14 (Central),
succeeded
into the city and occupied it with
-A Shanghai message states that Eidsvolo- in passing only about a battalion of men at bakke, some distance south about 7,000 ounces of opiumi bombers Hammer and Elverum which the worth approximately $320,000, aré which dropped leaflets telling the Germans claim to, have captured. sold daily in Shanghai by an population what had happened,
Arst. They brought 50
"I hurried to the Legation and rang the bell. The door was opened and I was con fronted by two German soldiers armed to the teeth.
East of, Oslo, the Germans do not oplum concern which has safes appear to have crossed the deep ofices in Hongkew, Tsaokiatu and gorge of the Clommen River.
Nantaas
GERMANS TRAPPED
A so-called oplum suppression "bureau was recently formed by
"If, however, the enemy, wish it otherwise they may have it."..
HARD-FOUGHT BATTLES LONDON, April 1 Ceuter, The Air Ministry described air operations near Norway as a series of hard-fought fghts
He urge them. first to bring de- Four Messerschmidts are known
tailed information to the nearest
In the other points like Bergen the puppet government and the to have been brought down and
Norwegian or British Headquar- "Later, the Germans comman- Stavanger, Trondjeg and Narvik, Japanese naval "and military two others believed to have been
ters about the movements of the deered a brewer's lorry and took the Germans appear to be trapped headquarters in Shanghai.. destroyed and yet cthers damag-
German troops, ships and air- the Legation staff, who had ar- between the British ships and
Passing as an opium suppres....... ed: Eight British planes have been
craft; second, to cut telephone rived one by one and fell into the Norwegian detachinents which are slon organ, the bureau actually lost and two forced down at sen
lines under instructions from the same trap as I had done, to the gathering strength in the moun- gives protection to oplum sales. on the way home.
tains. CHUNGKING, Apr. 14 (Central)' | Allied
third. to fortress where they locked us up. The RAF is rendering valuable German losses in personnel but Chen Chin-piao, a student of the blockade roads from German oc- assistance in scouring the North the seven destroyers must have shanghai College of Law, was cupled districts by felling" trees "Mr. Howard Smith was spared} troops, therefore, appears here to Sea and helping round up defeat contained over 1,000 men.
fired upon by a gunman in Carter and destroying bridges: four. to that indignity and went by car. be precarious. hed German naval units.
The Admiralty have signalled Road in the International Settle- remove carts, lorries. buses, cars They let us out during the after- After the first shock of the in- NEW, TYPE BOMBER their congratulations to the Comment on Friday afternoon, accord-and horses from the invaders noon and we were more or less vaston the population has recover- WASHINGTON, Apr. 14 (Reuter)mander-in-Chief, Admiral Siz Ing to a Shangha! report. He was reach; and fifth to co-operate in free."
ed and are responding to the mo- Council of Ministers have decided -Britain and France have re- Charles Forbes, to Vice-Admiral wounded in the head, and died in the destruction of railways from
Another member of the Legation bilisation order and helping the to submit a Bill providing for ceived the War Department's whitworth and officers and men hospital.
the few bases the enemy occupied. staff said that luckily they had had national cause in every way £1,500,000 supplementary national permission to place orders for a engaged in this vigorous, daring
time to burn all the ciphers before possible.
defence credits. new model twine-engined Douglas and skilfully. conducted action
the Germans came. It is believed that the murder attack bomber,
which may well tend to clarify the situation on this part of the Nor-was of a political nature as Chen was a patriotic youth, and bittar-. weglan coat.
Operations are stiil proceeding. condemned the puppets.
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The machine is believed to be capable of 400 mp.h, and is the fastest of its type in the world.
Remarkable Successes Claimed By Chinese
CHUNGKING. Apr. 14 (Reuter) The Chinese claim "remark- able successes" in their counter-attack In Klangsi province.
The military spokesman said: "The Chinese, after breaking the Japanese attack on April 4, launched a counter-drive against the provincial capital, Nanchang, and captured over 20 strategie points.
"The routed Japanese falling back on Nanchang were hotly pursued. The Chinese severed Japanese land communications be- sides emptying Poyang Lake which is the only possible: supply line for the Japanese.”,
The gunman escaped.
WOMAN TIED UP
Acar, with four Japanese and a Chinese woman with her hands and legs tied up passing through Brennan Road in the Inter- national · Settlemen; In Shanghai, was stopped by British sentries yesterday morning and taken to the police station, saya a Shangbal despatch.
An investigation is proceeding.
BERLIN, Apr. 14 (Renter)The German news agency states Bri- tish planes attacked the port town of Narit! yesterday after- noon and that "all the bombe missed their mark.”
-On Other- Pages
PAGE 2-Lal Wah Cup final; Lawn bowls; League football: Tournament hockey. PAGE 3—Radio programmes:
Coming events. PAGE -Early cable; China War news: Crossword puzzle. PAGE 5-Presentation at S. and Home; Amendments to Ordinances. PAGE 6-Leading article. PAGE 8-Training gallops In- ternational Softball finals: Yachting.
PAGE 9-Finance and com-
merce.
SPARED INDIGNITY.
Eye-witnesses say that the Danes seem dazed by the events. They
are calm but have no idea of what, the future holds...
The Legation party crossed Ger- many in a sealed train...
RUMANIA OIL
MEASURES
A Havas message from Buchar est states that the authorities have decided to strengthen the police watch over all Danubian harbours and oilfield, ta
"As a defence measure the
· Ramanian Of Bureau has re- quested companies to put "asidė reserve stocks of fuel equivalent to 15 days production,
The situation of the German
EGYPT DEFENCE CREDITS:
Special to H. K. Daily Press CAIRO, Apr. 14. (Havas)—The
British Monarch Sends King Haakon Message
LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter)-His Majesty the King, in "In this a message to King Haakon of Norway, said: critical hour when Germany has, by ruthless and pre- meditated act, carried war into your country, I desire, to express my profound admiration, and that of the whole British Commonwealth, for the dignity, courage and ten- scity shown by Your Majesty and people.
"I assure you that the British and French Govern- ments are bringing all help in their power to Norway so that the Allies, fighting side by side with the Norwegians,, may prove that this last outrage by Germany has been as rash as it was wicked.”