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"Abominable Weapon" Claims 140 Lives In Sinking Of Roval Netherlands Mail Liner: Children Among Victims
BIGGEST
SHIPPING
DISASTER OF WAR
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter) – Mrs. Sandiford,
wife of a Trinidad banker, and a survivor of the London to-day Simon Bolivar, gave an interview in when she paid a high tribute to the men of the Navy to the rescue of and other ships which dashed
the sinking Royal Netherlands Mail Liner Simon Bolivar.
It's A War Of Words
All Talk, But No Action
Some Left Jabs By
The British Navy LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter). The war seems to be going on in every Chancellery,legation and council room, but with little incident on land, sea or in the air, said the B.B.C. mili-}| tary observer from Daven- try to-day.
There is talk on both sides and threats from one-but little apparent action.
One hus the impression that Hitler) and Ribbentrop are questing in every direction in working out plan after plan, only to be told by their soldiers und airmen that the plan will not work.
Winning At Sca
Neutrals are less alarmed than they : were, while be Allles are covering Sup and unleashing o left pokoj to the body every now and uguin.
Needless to say this "left" is the Navy, which is Oghting the enemy
Looking Back
In History
TRAGEDY OF 1889 RECALLED
TOKYO, Nov. 19 (Domoi). The fiftieth anniversary 581 memorial services for crew members of the Turkish warship lost when their vessel. grounded and sank near Kas- himozaki Lighthouse, in Wa- kayama Profecture, took place last week,
The ship was on a goodwill cruise to Japan when the tragedy occurred on November 16, 1889.
The memorial servicos, held near the site of the sinking. were attended by representa- tives of the Turkish Embassy in Tokyo and by Mr. Mori, President of the Japan Near East Trade Society of Osaka...
3 MORE SHIPS ARE SUNK
Medly and remorselessly and wi Two Neutrals And
no wearing off.
The really vital sphere at the moment is the sen and it is here that
the enemy is losing most decisively.
activity.
One British
seene
Describing the aboard, she said that she had just gone down to the cabin to get some things for her daughter Jean.
She was unable to get the eases open, so she sent Jean for her father.
Soon afterwards there was a terrific explosion.
through the She staggered opt darkness. The passage was filled with steam. She got to the top deck and found her husband injured.
She was told that he was twier thrown up into the air by the ex- plosion.
A swift search revealed Jean, who was dazed and the three.clambered into the same lifeboat,
The sun deck was awash' when! Chief Omeer Smit left it.
Heroic Scottish Nursa
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Nazi Air Raid
On Scotland
No Bombs Dropped
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reu- ter)There was no air-raid warning in the North-East coast of Scotland this morn-
ing.
German planes were visible very high.
No bombs were dropped. The all-clear signal was sounded 20 minutes later.
An interesting feature of the Belgian "Maginot Line"; stock railings strengthened by supports as a barrier to tank attacks.
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Yamchow China's Greatest
Natural
"Fort"
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",
TOKYO, Nov. 19 (Domei).-The recent successful landing of the Japanese forces near Pakhoi and Yamchow Bay, despite stubborn Chinese resistance, is attributed by the "Asahi Shimbun” correspondent to the efforts of the Japanese Navy during the past year and a half in surveying and sounding sub-murine conditions in Yam- chow Bay.
The Bay is well known a Eden And Belisha Report
On Western Front
China's strongest natural fortress, being studded with numberless reefs and islets, as
well as with shoals.
The "Asah!" war correspondent vividly describes the strategy used by the Japanese military forces in effecting the landing near Pukhol and at various places at the south- western tip of Kwanglung Provinco.
The Japanese Army forces are con- tinuing their advance northward and have already entered as far as over 20 kilometres into Kwangsi Province.
We Are Winning Comfortably
Troops Fixity Of Purpose Noted
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter). Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for the Dominions, broadcasting. in French to-day, referred to the recent visit he made to the Front on November 16.
The Chinese military authorities have destroyed the roads in order to check the Japanese advance.
Threatened by the prospect of Japanese Invasion since February, when the Japanese, occupied Hainan island, the Chinese milltary au thorities recently ordered the in- habitants of south-western Kwangs to withdraw from their native places.wherever he went was the quiet de:
He said that the dominant note
termination of the males and females. young and old, civilians and soldiers KWEILIN. Nov. 20 (Central) everywhere, and their fikity of pur- Week-end reports received at the pose and determination this time to military headquarters declare that make an end of the recurront wars the war situation on the Yamchow- of aggression. Fengshing sector has been "stabilised." Final Victory Assured:
Chinese. Hold Out
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH” BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 (UP).~The relaxation of last week's tension was reflected to-day when thousands of In the lifebost was a Scottish nurse Belgian soldiers entrained for their homes on account of resistance, fog and drizzling rain that with it, how page in history
who, despite the fact that her own back was injured, began
business-like manner to attend to Injuries of the others and to make them comfortable.
A
Mr. Sandiford belleved that number of people forward and below must have been trapped.
"In the passage I saw several crawling out of their cabins. Some of them must have been-stewards. I don't know how they could have escaped because there was nobody down there to pull them out,
the re-establishment of the usual three days furlough
REVOLT IN
6 MONTHS
Hitler's Arch Enemy Predicts Downfall
Then An Air Raid Warning "After we landed, we were in a PARIS, Nov. 19 (Reuter).- afr-rald "Germany will soon be ready for
shelters and some were rtreteliers.
carried
waiting room when an {warning was given,
"Everybody was taken down into an anti-Hitler revolution," de- inclared Otto Strasser, known as Hitler's worst enemy," in an interview with the "Paris Soir" to-day,
"Among the passengers who jump-|
ed inin the sea was a girl returning home after finishing school on the
Continent. She got into
told me that at nobody lovebred
u boat she decided to jump for it." Saturated With Oil
In addition to stubborn Chinese "No one doubts. Final' victory, and deterring the Japanese northward ad- must be turned." he said. vance. The total Japanese landing.
As regards the Maginot Line, and every month.
forces ut Yamchow, Fongshing, and
which France completed her defences Thousands of people thronged nearby points are estimated at 4,500. the pullence and thoroughness with Severe fighting in raging at several and trained her armies, Mr. Eden the streets to-day, doing their small villages immediately north of declared: "Thus not for the first time Christmas shopping and crowd-Yamchow and Fongshing, including in history, France has placed all ing the cafes, restaurants and Tatschu, Wongwutun, Plagngan civilisation la her debt."
cinemns.
and Yeatseping, where the defenders Omelal quarters take a calma view holding out against ferceChoorful B.E.F
LONDON, Nov, 1V (Reuter).— Japanese onslaughts. German in- of the possibility of a
To the west of Yamchow, JapaneseThe men of the British Expedition- vasion of Holland or Belgium,
forces lost heavily in the vicinity of ary Force are all cheerful, their on health is good, and I am confident Fongshing in a bitter struggle November 17. In the duct
the that we are winning the war com- Chinese coastal positions at Luftoutsui fortably." said Mr, Leslie Horo- were pulverised by severe Japanese Belisha, the British War Minister,
before he left the British Front to day.
The Belgo-Dutch pence mediation offer is now officially dmitted to have falled.
S'hai Briton Arrested
Policeman Held By Japanese
naval bombardments,
Shumchun Attack
Visit To Front Line YINGTAK, Nov. 20 (Central)—A | SPECIAL. TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDI- force of about 1,000 Japanese troops | at Shumchun launched a fierce attack TIONARY FORCE, SOMEWHERE on the Chinese positions at Plugwe, IN FRANCE, Nov. 18 (UP), Last Cheungmuktu and Tintongwel on the Saturday, Mr. L. Hore-Bolisha, the Canton-Kowloon Hallway on Sour-Minister of War, visited Tommy up in day. They were repulsed by the line and concluded that the Army Chinese forces with considerable in the field was of excellent morato losses.
and magnificently equipped and PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.
Named As Instigator Strasser said that he was given four hours to leave Swit- One of the problems of the nurses zerland after the Munich explo- LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter).and doctors was the vast and tena-
CHUNGKING, Nov. 20 (Cen- There is also rather mure aerial-Just before midnight news clous quantiles of all with which the sion: because the Germans were tral)-A British policeman
demanding his extradition, describ-patrolling near
Japanese. Bomb Nanning The Shotlands Raid
was received. in London that survivors were covered,
The hospital authorities had to ing him as the instigator of the crime. Naigal Wata Cotton Mills in Nanning, the capital of Kwangst, was
the Japanese
KWEILIN, Nov. 20 (Central) — three more ships had been sunk
Strasser, who has been leader of The most interesting event, of off the East Coast of the British make an emergency application for
an issue of petrol for cleaning. the Anil-Nazi Binck Front since the Robinson Road, Shanghai, was twice bombed by thirteen Japanese rourse, has been the raid on the Isles in circumstances similar
Nazis murdered his brother, declared arrested by the Japanese au- planes yesterday afternoon. Many Shetland Islands by four aircraft:
that he thought at Arat that his thorities yesterday, according to explosives and incendiaries which dropped bombs, doing only to the Simon Bolivar outrage. trino damage, on November 13.. Two of them were neutral
a Shanghai report.
- dumped on the "elty, causing un- This was the first raid in which ships and one was British.
ascertained damaged. bombs were actually dropped on
KARMAdvance Continuos
British soll.
It was probably an experiment to sco how the bombers carried
their
loads over that long distance and how
they fared.
the German
Italy's First Loss
The Italian steamer Gracia, of 5,800 tons, was Italy's first shipping Ioss of the war. Another victim was the
He was not released late last night despite the protest of the Shanghol Municipal Police.
were
YAMCHOW, Noy, 20. (Domel).--- Chiuluo glean, important Chinese por- and Tafengmen, a strategically portant town 10 miles north of Yam- ellow, were both captured by Japanese forces on Saturday, the, press section
FRENCH NAVY'S on ten miles northmut of Yamchow.
120 Lives Lost About 400, mostly Dutch, but includ-attempt, but he now considered that LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter) friends had organised the Munich
ing 30 Britons, were on board the it could only have been caused by Netherlands: liner Simon Bolivar the Gestapo, -: 3. when she was hit by two Cerman mines in the North Sea on Saturday. Three Conditions For Revolution It is feared that 140 have lost their Before there could be a revolution lives.
Of the survivors, 30 were badly necessary, namely: the Germans who in Germany, three conditions were Swedish Injured and received Arst aid atten-still bellove in Hitler must feel the tonstlan from doctors and nurses on the horrors of war; the Reich must suffer 2,500
quayside before being removed military check; and privations must PARIS, Nov. 10° (Router)-—--A | oz. the Japanese expeditionary force hospital..
become more blling." maj || French communiqua states that dur- to South Kwangtung announced.
"I consider these conditions willing the last four weeks of the wor, Japanese forcer, wéro continuing the tonnage of German merchantmen | northward advance, the military com- fullled by the spring of 1940,
captured on the high seas by French munique says." The 'sald;
patrols exceeded by saveral thousand tons the tonnage of French merchant men fost through enemy action. -
As they got away, propaganda machine has made much freighter, Borgholm, of 1,580 of the Bight and has circulated a quite while the British craft was unfounded tale that British flying tons. boats were destroyed, and a cruiser "probably" damagod,
Full details of the sinkings are not
That word "probably" is an un-yet known, and there is no informa usually neat touch as It almost tion yet regarding the loss of life.. but not quite gives дл
reality to the cock-and-bull story.
Bewato Next Full Moon
Simon Bolivar Casualtics
In the meantime it is revealed that There may be some air raids at the only 100 persons are now thought to have lost their lives in the Simon
next full moon.
Six Babies Rescued Survivors also included 16 children and six bobes in arms, most of them being accommodated. at St Barthélo- mew's: Hospital in London.
According to the survivors, ex- plosion of the first ming killed mANT outright and flung others into the
The RAF, has carried out a series) Bolivar dianaler, about 40 less than scale of the ship held up the}
of daylight raids over Germany, not without lose it is true, but bringing back over 100 detailed photographs of objectives, including aerodromes, as trophies.
originally feared.
It is, however, revealed that no fewer than 44 of the missing pas -vengers are' Brilish,
The victims in hospital In London?
On land, nothing much has hoppen- were visited by the Netherlands ed, save in one case when a German Minister to-day. battalion broke into a French outpost
line only to come under costly fire from the heavy artillery of the Maginot Line,
The
aunching of her port side lifeboats.
The Bocond explosion shattered a lifebont as it was nearing the water and killed several people.
The sinking of the Simon Bolivar is the greatest merchant shipping
disaster of the war
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Returns To Be Interned
ITALY CAN KEEP Amsterday "Tolerant says that ton of the war
OUT OF WAR
SUCCESSES
50,000 CZECHS. ARRESTED
.
Chinese troops of the 85th and 57th Divisions which attempted to defend were repulsed with Chiulungkan, heavy losses. Over 500 dead were abandoned by the Chinese, while 410 Chinese prisoners were taken by Japanese troops near Chiulungkan, the communique further claims.
were
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Over 1,000 Chinese troops dialodged from their prepared hilly Voluntary Gesture By
positions near Tafengmen, north of British Pilot
PARIS, Nov. 10 (Router)Fifty Yamchow, which were reduced by thousand arrests have been made in Japanese raiding forces after LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)A Bohemia and Moravia since Friday, hours of heavy fighting. The Chinese Naxi:Planes Sighted AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19 (Reuter). British airman, accompanied by his according to a despatch from the Aus were armed with french-mortars.
wife has voluntarily returned to trian frontier. The London correspondent, of the Iceland, to be interned for the dura-
It is reported that the arrests in- |cluded" "certain political porwońnges" survivor told him that two German
It will be recalled that he brought acroplanes: Bew::over the "Simon Bolivar at 9.aum, on Saturday morn-down his flying boat in Icelandic waters in September, and subsequente ROME, Nov. 10 (Router) ignored Survivors Recover ·ly took off and returned to England Virginlo, Gayda, writing in the "Voce d'Italia" said that the..progress: "of LONDON, Nov 19 (Reutor).The under the impression that he had Italy's sconosaic self-sufficiency was Dutch steamer Simon Bolivar, which given no pledge to remain ROME, Nov, 19 (Router)Reports such that it was possible for her to struck a mine and sank, left Amster-
dam for the West Indies on Friday standing, he lupodiately. Volunteered When he heard of the minunder. That Italy has informed the German keep but of war-like su Government that she is interested in Italy, will has under arms four night. preserving the neutrality of Belgium classes called up last August, and About ad or 70 survivors had re- and Holland are authoritatively now has approximately 1,500,000 men covered sufficiently to be discharged
randy. denied here.
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ITALY DENIES
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He will be interned in a former palace which is now a modern farm.
QUIET DAY AT |“PUKKA POONA SAHIB”?
...... THE FRONT
LONDON, Nov. 29 (UP), the war com It is called the Blackout Stroll
It starta like the “Lambeth Walk bul" and everybody changer chance to get acquainted with:
muniquet lasted to-day states that
PARIS, Nov. 18. (Reuter)
was d'quiet day at the front,!!
There was local artillery action, however,
v.produced
dance:
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