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Arrivals from Shanghai by a Dutch vessel yesterday were Dr. B. Bern Batiz, Consul for Mexico, Mr. J. D. Bermann, Mr. P. F. Le Fevre, Mr. J. Fistere, Mr. H. W. Livingston, Mr. K. R. Quick, Mr. K. K. Rounds and Mr. P. H. Tolani. Passengers from Amoy were Mr. and Mrs H. J. Goshy.
Through passengers by the same, vessel were Mr. F. J, Cultèl, Mr. B. J. M. Kerkhoff and Mr. W. G. Scott, for, Batavia, Mr. and Mrs. Z. Kros- nowaki, Mr. and Mrs. T. 8. Powell and Miss E M. Rodrigues for Manila.
First-Hand Story Of British Sea Victory
A sick mat, on big way back to Australia for special medical attention, Abl««Seaman Lennard Aloy gave me an eye-witness's account of the naval fight in which H.MA.5. Sydney sank one of Mussolini'u best, cruisers and so badly damaged another like It that it probably never reached port, writes, a Malaya Tribune Staff reporter.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940-PAGE 1.
Able-Seaman Aley was aboard *****After a little while..we
SDE H the Sydney, manning a machine message from the destroyer to re- gun and uncomfortably, close to turn. Some Itàlian bombers nad an Ralian shell that exploded over appeared and were bombing them, the Sydney and blew a hole in its. They were picking up ↑ Burvivors
from the sunken Italian at this, funnel
"Most of the time." said A-B time
"The bombers stayed only a few Aley; "I was flat on my stomach.
anti-aircraft minutes and somewhere near 20,000 My job
was the machine-gun. I think it took the feet high. There were 847 surv). Bydney half an hour to sink the vors picked up. Bartolomen Colltoni
ཕྱྭ?
Arrivals by another Dutch vessel
"This seemed to suggest tast from Singapore were Mr. L. D. New
the many more on house, Mr. D. L Prophet, Mr. J, K. "One of the British destroyers there were
nsual num- Bousfield, Mr. H. G. Muir, Mr. A. V patrolling the area told us that Bartolomeo than its
chaps from Vanscolina. Mr. "A. M. Vanscolina, enemy warships were among the ber, probabry some
Islands. We crept the other cruiser. We had seen Mr. Mungo Park, Mr. G. E. Devon Dodecanese shire, Mr. E. F. G. Zuderson, Mr. 'within gun-range before the Ita- some fellows Jump off while wr
we were anywhere were shooting."
around
C. E. Phipps, Mr. R. M. Phipps and lians knew Mr. G J. F. Staverman.
Twenty-one Sikh constables also arrived by the same vessel.
Victors met the captured TAL- "We got to two cruisers and at. quished later in port. Said Mr.
three miles'
little range took Alcy: "A tew could talk u about them on firing first on one and English, but we had a Croatian in then on the other. The Bartolo- the mess-room who talked Italiar
him we learned that
Japan Lifts Cholera meo went out of action first The Through
Restriction
A Colonial Secretariat notifica tion issued yesterday states that the quarantine restrictions imposed by the Government of Japan against arrivals from Hongkong on account of cholera have been re- moved.
other fellow last most of one most of the younger sailors who funnel and his forward gums, and. had been rescued were actually while one of the destroyers that men of merchant ships who nao were behind us finished off the been practically press-ganged into Bartolomeo, and stopped to pick the Italian navy shortly before."
Mr. Aley, who, later, had to up survivors we went chasing the other Italan. He had about three enter hospital in Alexandria. salt the time Italy declared miles start of us and had increas that at
War on Greece, the Greeks in ed it before we started
Alexandrta actually made a festi- ral of the occasion
-T—canidbear them-banging- drums and cheering in the streets. When last I was in Alexandr....... they were starting a Greek corps to night in ureeem."*.
Twenty-three-year-old Mr. Lan. nara Aley Joined the Navy six ago. In Geraldton years
tura waits for him, his wife who mar-
EARTH WARMING
UP
The weather has been generally warmer since the turn of the century. The evidence is to be found in a report which was ̧· 15sued for 1939 by the American Geophysical Union's Committee on Glaciers and which shows that claciers have been melting rapidly in a century.
led him about a year ava
LONG-RANGE GUNS SHELL DOVER LONDON, NOT. 26 (Reuter)-- German long-range. guns
on the
Diver ares yesterday morning.
iike
There was intermittent firing for
about three hours.
This long-time climatic trend a The size of glaciers have seen
in ooriously of economic significance measured from year to year America since 1931 and in Eurone to agriculture. Kincer. finds that since 1894 Taken in connexion a ten-year average of the length with long-time climatle swings of crop-owing season, represent- extending over decades, centuries led by the average number of days and even millenia the fluctua-between the last killing frost and when more the first in Bail for Boutheastern Mens are dimifleant.
made over the Iowa in the early (Thirties was French coast opened fire on the measurements are years it may be possible to plot twenty days longer than a the weather back into the remote average for the early Ning
of Washington, past, just as with the aid of tree in the vicinity of
C. there has been an even rings.
FIRING RESUMED The French. meteorologist Char- greater lengthening of the grow-
28 (Reuter)-- 1. LONDON, - Nov. season. This explains why les. Rabot has ransacked the re-ing
The cross-Channel artillery duel cords of the town of Chamonix, teldents of the District of Colum-
Mont Blanc bis during the last ten years have was resumed this morning."
British and German long-range at the foot of the
1530 and shown required no more artificial heat chain. back to
Winter than south-Central guns began operations soon after that the glaciers of the French
forty years
The Germans sent over a single '| Alps have been melting markedly Virginia did some
shell into the Dover area and Bri- only since the middle of the nine-, ago.
tish guns, mounted on the Kent teenth century.
the coast, replied bombarding eremy's battery positions on the mist-wreathed French coast.
Intermittent shelling was still proceeding after an hour.
the glaciers had WEATHER Before that been increasing in size for 250
Hongkong Royal years, which led some physicists to think that the world was growing colder.
As a matter of fact the glaciers are now, merely receding to what they were toward the end of the sixteenth century.
ICELAND GLACIERS
REPORT Observatory 10. ... Nov. 26, Barometer (at sea level) 3015 ins. Temperature, 67 F. Humidity, 73 per cent. Wind Direction, "N.N.E. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Temperature; maximum yesterday
70 F. Temperature; Minimum last night
63 F.
Sigurdur 'norainsson has simi- larly searched the older records of 875, when the Iceland back to Norsemen established their first colonies. He
Rabot's confirms
Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10th
today nil
conclusion. The glaciers of Ice- Total rainfall since January ist; land, too, began to shrink after:
117.59 ins,
the middle of the last century. Against an average of, 83.88 ins.
There is reason to believe that Sunset tonight, 5.38 p.m. glaciers of British--Columbia have sunrise tomorrow, 6.44_a.m.- had a similar history, Again the
4 pm, Nov. 28. middle of the nineteenth century Barometer (at sea level), 30.05 ins. Is the crucial date.
Temperature, 65 F.
J. B Kincer
In commenting on these studies Humidity, 71 per cent.
of the New York Wind Direction, NADA. Weather Bureau points out that Wina Force (Beaufort); 3; there has been a rising tempera- Maximum temperature, 70. F. ture trend ever since the middle Minimum temperature, 65 F.
of the last century.
Rainfall, nll.".
! a.m.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 27. Nov, to 3 Dec. 1940.
HIGH WATEE.
Days of
Month
Date of
Standard
Height.
Haight.
Low Warr
Hong
Hong
Kong
Kong
Standard
Time.
Time
b D
Wad. 27
jei, in h. m. 074460
01 40 12
1939 7 4 18 10
j3.1
Thur 28
·08· 48 · · ·₺ 6} ~02-28-
18
20.17 7.01 13.49
31
Fri. 29
09.45
50
03 14
1:3
$0.58
8 1
14 25
3 3
Sat. 30
10 40
03 68 10 9
21 36
8.31
13:00
18 b
Sun
1
1134
59
04:41
22 18
88 16 35
3 6
Mon.
2.
18 23
22 50
{B·1]. Ob 25 17916 19
Tres 2
13 17
5 0.
06 10
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