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NAZI SUBMARINE TORPEDOES ITALIANS EMPLOY GERMAN
EVACUEE SHIP 600 MILES FROM
80
FROM LAND
CHILDREN BELIEVED DROWNED: HEAVY SEAS SWAMP MANY BOATS
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LONDON, Sept: 23 (Reuter)-A ship conveying 90 English chll- dren and nine adult éscorts to Canada under the Overseas Re- ception Board evacuation scheme has been torpedoed and sunk, It is feared 83 children and 'seven adult escorts have been lost; ----a warship has brought seven children to a northern English port. Altogether 294 lves are feared to have been lost. The child ren embarked at a west coast port during the second week in Sept. and were well on their way to their new wartime home when the ship was struck at 10 p.m. on
As with the evacuee ship which was torpedoed late in August on a similar voyage, "when the whole company of 320
children was
saved unharmed, the precautions! taken by the Board were on the
scale which has made it "possible to transport overseas nearly 3,000 children without hitherto a single casualty.
For every 15 children there) was a skilled and experienced escort in addition to a doctor and nurse.
The complement of the ship was one adult passenger on board. Tragic circumstances defeated all
A number of ch dren are believed to have been
September 17.
struck the ship we were told to go to the bow and get into lifeboat
CLIMBED DOWN ROPE My sister Barbara. got down
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ARRESTED
TACTICS IN EGYPT
MARC DE TRISTAN Egyptian front are
SAFE, REPORT
GOVT. TO STAY IN LONDON
MINED VILLAGE BLOWN SKY-HIGH
CAIRO, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-As the enemy's lines of: com- munication lengthen, difficnity of maintaining large forces on the forward line is increasing enormously. British troops operating on the not under- rating the fighting qualities of the enemy, who has shown signs of HILSBOROUGH (California), German tactics of advancing in Bapt. 23 (Reuter-Marc De Tris-waves, irrespective of casualties. tan, three-year-old son of Com- They offer a solid target, show tesse Marc De Tristan, who was considerable courage and no signs kidnapped by two men on Satur or turning tall. They suffered, for day while out walking with his instance. very severe casualties nurse, is reported to have been when they entered the village of recovered unharmed by two deer sidi Barran which had been hunters.
heavily mined with controlled mines.
The report further stated that the men overpowered one of the kidnapper who has been arrested.
ANXIETY IN SYRIA
the ladder and Deres was follow-ITALIANS WORKING
CAUTIOUSLY
When they had invested tha village, the British pulled the control switch. According to an eye-witness, the entire vil- lage, full of enemy troops, ap- peared to be blown into the air by the explosion.
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attention with which British troops are in excellent
positions.
Meanwhile the advancing Ita-
EXCELLENT MORALE British artillery and equipment Dig down a rope slung from the **********
and accuracy of British gunners By ship's side.
the time he
are proving definitely superior to reached the water the lifeboat ISTANBUL, Sept. 23 ever-that of the enemy. had pulled away and Derek had The close to climb up again.
the constant reinforcement of the spirits, looking forward to the real --We-were-then told to go to Italian Mission in Syria is being combat At the same time they the stern but as we were running followed here has been
are showing great patience as the further atong the deck we were told the increased by the arrival of atalans are allowed to push on. back to the bows and climbed route to join the Armistice Com- ship was going down. We rushed other group of nine Italians en slowly to our outlying defence- down a rope, where we found a mission at Beyrouth raft and all scrambled onto it.
Their passage has aroused inore by our armoured units which are "We tried to sit up and were interest in view of reports here making good use of their know- wind. We were picked up by an- Syria. thrown down again by the terrific of Italy's covetous designs on
¡ledge of every inch of the terrain warship
which the enemy has to cover. other boat and then a
Passengers arriving from Iraq appeared and we, all stood up and via Syria state that the Italians cheered for the good old British are working very cautiously owing Navy.
"Thank God we found Barbara the Syrians and even by all Arabs to their fear of an uprising by sale on board the warship. The whose animosity towards Italy is in an interview: "We had no sallors gave us rum to drink. It reported to be increasing steadily. warning before the attack.
was horrible stuff but I suppose
precautions.
killed by the explosion.
There was a terribly neavy sea which swamped many of the boats and defeated gallant efforts at
rescue.
NO WARNING
W. B. Forsyth, a London pas- senger on board the liner, said
BRUTAL WARFARE
"The ship was so badly holed it did us good." that she listed heavily and almost Immediately began to sink, We had only 20 minutes to .get the lifeboats lowered and away.
"Casualties occurred" practically at the start. Darkness added to the difficulties, but the passengers behaved-magnificently, particular ly the women and children, The little mites obeyed every instrua
tion.
"We had an awful tossing, and heavy waves nearly swamped us. Hail and ral followed and how our boat remained anoat I don't know.
"The children died on the re- cuing warship."
TERRIFIC CRASH Mrs. Margaret Hudson, of Brad. ford, said: "I was sitting with my husband and another woman when there was a terrific crash and the whole ship shuddered. The passengers were told to mus- ter in the lounge until the evacuee children had been put aboard life-boats.
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"The children had been happy on board and were looking forward to their new homes in Canada, and when the alarm came they behaved wonderfully.
"My husband helped me over the side and I got down a rope think- ing I was going into a life-boat, but the boat was some distance away and another girl and swam towards dt.
for
met
Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Un- der-Secretary
Dominion Affairs, who
the warship ringing the survivors issued the following statement: "I am full of horror and Indignation that any German submarine captain could be found to torpedo. a" ship over 600 miles from land in a tem- pestuous 'sea.
BREAKING THE NEWS
NEW SCHEME ANNOUNCED
LONDON. Sept. 23 (Reuter) The Admiralty. War Office and Air Ministry have announced a scheme whereby sallors, soldiers, airmen and marines will be specially noti- fed in the event of a near relative of becoming a casualty as the result
of air raids.
"Conditions were such that there was little chance for the passengers. whether adult children, to survive,
"This deed will shock the world. It is another example of the barbarous method of warfare associated with Nazi Germany and it is only com- parable with their present brutal and indiscriminate bombing of women and chil dren In London.”
The children, who practically all came from State-alded schools, were drawn almost entirely from vulnerable areas in and around London.
ALEXANDRIA BOMBED
I 32. KILLED IN
HAIFA
They include officers. all ranks and the women's services.
Parents, wives, children or close relatives will carry a slip of paper eiving the name and other details of any sailor, soldier or alrman who is to be informed.
PEOPLE CALM LONDON, Sept. 23 (BWS)- The Japanese newspaper Nichl Nich: Shimbun published a de- patch from its Berlin correspon- dent giving an account of a tele- phone conversation he had with' Mr. Okamoto, who had been & Counsellor at the Japanese Em- bassy in London.
The latter was speaking from Madrid and said that Japanese re- sidents in London were well and cheerful,
move
He reported that there were no signs of any intention on the part of the Government to away from London, London people were calm and trains and buses were running as usual.
ANHWEI BORDER
FIGHTING
lans have to face a barrying fire 700 Japanese Corpses
Sent To Yangchow
BIRKAO BOMBED CAIRO, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-In
Forte East Africa the South African Air attacked Birkao where buildings were bombed and several fires started. A small factory was also damaged and 70 per cent, of the buildings were gutted.
R.A.F. bombers raided Tessenel aerodrome and one enemy alrcraft was badly damaged.
Enemy bombers attempting to rald Aden yesterday were driven off and no damage was done.
DOVER. SHELLED
AGAIN
from
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter) ses calm, fresh southerly breeze, slight mist, rain threatens that was the weather report Dover yesterday but the only sign of life, during this spell of "in- vasion weather was some long range shelling by the German guns on the French coast.
The shells landed in the Dover afea just before noon yesterday.
PRISONER OF
IN LAST
GERMANY WAR
One of the most popular Government officials in Malaya tö- day...and one who has taken a leading part in the social life of the country, Dr. Victor. W. W. S. Purcell, who for the past 20 years has served in various branches of the Service, will" shortly be relinquishing the post of Protector of Chinese, Selangor, to. take up a position in the Far Eastern Bureau of the Ministry of Information, Singapore.
Born in 1695, Mr. Purcell re-bered for the leading part he took ceived his early education at Ban in the settlement of the strikes at croft's School, later going to Batu Arang, and at Surgel Best Trinity College, Cambridge. He re- Mines, in December last year, ceived a Commission in the Green In a recent broadcast talk from "I did not see my husband again
CAIRO, Sept. 23 (Reuter-Yes- Howards at the outbreak of the Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Purcell urged but I still hope he may have trday morning Alexandria was last war in 1914. been picked up by a warship.
HUSBAND MISSING..
bombed by enemy aircraft, causing! He went to France in 1915 "I don't know how many died 'negilgible damage. There were in our boats but I was surprised very few casualties,
how quickly young out.
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men
Dassed
on
cemetery,
SPANISH SHIP TORPEDOED
and was wounded thrice, even- tually becoming, a prisoner of war in Germany, where he re- mained till after the Armistice, when he was repatriated through Denmark.
Dr. Purcell first came to Malaya
the people of Malaya to remain confident in the ultimate issue of the war against Germany, and to take a greater share in the mate- Palestine: Enemy aircraft again-
rial and financial burden by fur- raided Halla yesterday afternoon.
ther contributions to the Malaya *T was just about through quarters of the town, causing a Bombs were dropped on various
Patriotic Fund and the War Fund. when I saw a warship circling certain amount of damage includ-
ISSUES AT STAKE round looking for boats, Foring a mosque and the Moslem as a cadet in the Malayan Civil the more experienced among us He also urged the necessity for time I thought it had not seen! us and then someone put up a
Service in 1021 He was selected to bring home to those less: for- Thirty-two persons were killed to learn Chinese, and later went tunately placed, who did not real- piece of cloth оп an oar and and 63 injured. All were Arabs. naval men came and took us
to Canton for two years. It is believed that at least two
Ise the issues at stake, the con- Since then he has held various adence we had of the ultimate board."
enemy planes were hit by A.A fire. posts, including those of Assistant outcome of the war between the MISSED EARLIER SHI? Other Fronts: Nothing to report. Director of Education (Chinese), forces of hatred and barbarism, Miss Doris Walter said she was
District Officer. Christmas Island, and the chance of a quiet free ex- on board because she had missed
Official Assignee, Penang, Magis-panding life under a democratic an earlier ship. She got away
trate, Seremban, First Magistrate, system. from the liner with another wo-
Ipoh. Immigration. Offcor (S.S. Dr." "Purcell man, the latter's two children
and FMS) and Protector of Chi-number of books including "Early has published &
and a young seaman.
nese in Kedah, Penang, Selangor Penang." "The Spirit of Chiness They had to lie,
and Pahang. оп B raft,
GIBRALTAR, Sept. 23 (Reuter)
Poetry," "A. Index to the Chinese gripping the "planks with theirThe torpedoing of a Spanish
Language," "The Further Side of hands," and were without any trawler Almirante Carranza, s grant from the Carnegie Corpora- the Dove, (verse). "Basic English In 1937, he was awarded a No-Man's Land," The Dog and supplies for some hour before announced by the naval authort-tion Funds by the Secretary of for Malaya," and "Problems of being picked up by a boat from ties here. another vessel,
State for the Colonies for a year's Chinese Education." (Malaya Tri- The statement says that "it is study. J Sonia Reach, 11, of Bogner Regis, almost certain" that an Italian
bune)." and her nine-year-old brother submarine was responsible.
He went to China. and after- Derek were among the rescued
wards to America, where he visit- The attack occurred in the early led the universities of California, children. They showed little trace hours of last Thursday off Cape Columbia,.. of their terrible ordeal' when. in- Vilano, in north-west Spain..
Yale, Harvard and
terviewed in a hotel in the port. The statement adds: "The crew, While in the States, he took part A small number of fighters and where they were landed.
except one, were lost. The sur-in an educational conference at bombers flew over the island on Bonla said: "We were among vivor, when he landed, said that Princeton at the invitation of the Sunday morning, states a com- the Jast to get away and the they probably mistook the Al-Rockefeller Foundation, arat to be rescued. When we got mirante Carranza for a British
munique. Bombs were dropped His stay in Selangor at the Pro- and several houses were destroy- on deck after the torpedo had patrol vessel."
tectorate will always be remem-ed. One civilian was killed;
A
AWARDED GRANT.
Princeton.
MALTA RAID
MALTA, Sept. 23 (Reuter)
the
CHUNGKING, Sept. 23 (Central) -Repeated Japanese attacks at Tienchang and Lafan on Anhwel border adjoining Klangsu launched since early this month are reported to have been repulsed. The aim of the attacks was to "mop up" the Chinese troops there In order to remove their threat of a push to the Nanking area...
Indicative of the heavy casualties suffered by the enemy, more than 700 Japan- ese corpses were sent back to Yangchow on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Kiangsu opposite Chinklang, on September 19.
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A Japanese warship steaming up the Yangtze River was Ared upon and heavily damaged by Chinese shore batteries near Tungliu en
the south bank of the Yangtze River in Anhwel on September 18.
LAHORE, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-- inwall, a district in Punjab. has raised £10,000 for the of fighting aircraft.
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