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FIRST EDITION
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FOUNDED 1881 No. 1:202
1939.日三十月十 WAR VETA-TEE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23,
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Gale Promised For Later To-day: Local School-Children Germans Admit New Sent Home As Precaution: Air Mail Service Disorganised
FREAK TYPHOON THREATENS COLONY
HONGKONG IS LIKELY TO GET ITS FIRST CYCLONIC BLOW OF THE YEAR DURING THE NEXT TWELVE HOURS, ACCORDING TO THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, WHICH HOISTED THE NO. 8 SIGNAL AT FIVE MINUTES PAST NINE THIS MORNING FOLLOWING INFORMATION THAT A DEPRESSION OR TYPHOON WAS SITUATED ABOUT 200 MILES SOUTH-WEST OF HONGKONG, BETWEEN HERE AND KWONG- CHOWWAN.
The typhoon is reported to be moving NNW and if it continues on its present course will not directly hit the Colony.
Nevertheless, we are promised a gale late on to-day, and any change in the typhoon's present track will immediately imperil Hongkong.
FREAKISH
For Hongkong to be visited by a typhoon during November is decidedly freakish. There have been only
AINAN
THE
INTON
HINY
two such visitations during the past 55 years.
The last November typhoon was in 1915, which lasted for two hours. The first occurred in 1900 and lasted eleven hours.
The gale is at present threaten- Ing Pakhol. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Japanese fieet concentrated there.
Immediately the No. 8 signut was hoisted this morning preparations were made 10 feguard against a possible typhoon.
Schools Closed
Government schools were closed for the day, and the harbour began rapidly to clear itself of junks, sam- pans and other small craft.
The Pan-American Airways Clip-
AFFECTED AREA.-The typhoon is situated between Hainan per which was due to set off with Island and Hongkong.
NAZIS ARE FURIOUS
Reactions To British Naval Reprisals
mails for Son Francisco this morning has been delayed for 24 hours.
The Imperial Airways air mail services may not be affected by the typhoon as the outgoing and inward planes are not due until Sunday.
First Warning
A.A. CREW
TOUGH
JOB
Allied Advance
BERLIN, Nov. 22 (Reuter).---The official German news agency says: "On the cast bank of the Moselle south of Peel, enemy artillery of all calibres have started activity.
"The enemy has advanced to the edge of the wood south of the Kiteling- Mandern Road."
Allied Fighters Win Big Battle On West Front
Seven German Planes Downed In Dogfight
Anti-aircraft units in training have to be their own removal men. This lot is seen heaving its searchight on board an army lorry for transportation to a defence post.
War Minister's Statement
FREE NATIONS' DEBT
TO MAGINOT LINE
air-
LONDON, Nov. 22 (Reuter's Correspon- dent with the R.A.F.),
-Seven German craft are reported to be shot down by Allied fighters and another by French anti-aircraft fire during one of the live- liest days in the air since the war started.
Operations extended over a 100 mile front,
Results received at Head- quarters show that in the
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BRITISH DESTROYER
A VICTIM
LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter)The Admiralty announces that the destroyer Gipsy struck a mine off the east coast yesterday and was subsequently beached.
Twenty-one officers and men are reported to be injured, and about 40-
|ratings are missing.
NAZI RADIO
LIES
LONDON, Nov. 22 (Reuter). -An authoritative rejoinder is Issued to the assertions of the Hamburg wireless news in Eng- lizh on November 21 and in Deutschlansender on Noveraber 22, claiming that Getman re 'conhaissance flights over Eng- land continue without opposi tion and specifically stating that British planes which took off were unable to intercept them.
It is pointed out here that British Aghters brought down raiders on November 20 and November 21.
The wireless niso staled that the Allies' reconnalwañce air- craft displayed no activity on November 20, whereus British aircraft flew over Bremen and Hamburg that day and over Dusseldorf, Stullgart and Frankfurt on November 21.
All machines returned safely.
DESOLATE WARSAW
northern zone, n Heinkel-3 re- Once Proud City
connaissance bomber was shot down by a British Hurricane fighter plane, and crashed on the Belgian side of the frontier.
Heap Of Ruins
Just over 100 survivors were. landed at an east coast town by various vessels last night.
One vessel, anchored close to the scene, picked up 30 survivors who were swimming strongly against an ebb tide, led by a powerful swimmer. who continually encouraged them with shouts of "Come on, boys! Here.
we are!"
Remarkable Escapo
A rating, Interviewed, said that he was in the engine room when the ex- plosion occurred and the next minute he found himself in the water.
Ho did not know how he had got there. He escaped will merely a superficial wound in the forehead.
.A hundred people on the sea front watched the rescue by the beurs of the searchlights.
The crowd were attracted on the shore by the violent explosions. They saw vessels hurrying to the stricken ship which was already partly submerged,
Singing Survivors The spirit of the survivors was amazing. An onlooker told *: "Itouter" that they came more singing and were wonderfully cheerful.
..
The survivors wore all kinds of clothing, including dressing-gowns, and bathing-gowns.
Another onlooker sald. that the vessel appeared to have been struck - ordships and to have broken in half,;
Ironical
The Irony of the diraster is that during the day, the Gipsy had rescued three German almen found adrift in a rubber boat.
A few days previously the Gipsy. carried out another rescue,
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" One enemy aircraft, of a type not
TOKYO, Nov. 23 (Domei).- specified, was brought down, pre-Although reconstruction work had sumably by British fighters.
serschmitt fighters were shut down
fis proceeding under the direction bringing in the crew of a ship which In the southern zone, three Mes of German authorities, the city was sunk in the North Sea.
the same area.
aircraft
Italian Ship Hits Mino
were
by French Bighters near Strasbourg, of Warsaw still remains in a The pilots-landed by parachute and state of desolation according to LONDON Nov 22 (Router) were taken prisoner.
to a report submitted the When the Italian liner Fianona struck Another enemy
was Foreign Offee by Mr. Suko, a mine off the Kent coast, people on brought down by a French fighter in Japanese Ambassador to Poland,te-boats
shore heard, a violent explosion and Launched im- A fourth Messerschmitt was shot who recently visited the con- medlately. down by French anti-aircraft north quered capital of Poland with; They found the ship still afloat of Sedan. The pilot was killed and the the machine badly damaged.
permission of German despite a large hole for'ord and a spilt
down the hull on the storboard side. Government authorities,
She was making water rapidly. She carried little cargo, however, and was thus more buoyant than usual.
A Dornier reconnaissance plane was shot down near Nancy. The Elfot was uninjured and was taken prisoner.
The fate of the rest of the crew is unknown.
The French lost two machines af the Strasbourg dogfights, but there were no British losses,
First Indication of
possible LONDON, Nov. 22 (Reuter).—Mr. Leslie Hore- typhoon threat was given at 8.35 am. this morning when the No. 1 signal Belisha, the British War Minister, making his periodical was hoisted and the following warn- ing issued by the Royal Observatory statement in the House of Commons, opened with a jan hour before:
"A depression or typhoon is within reference to the value of the operations in Poland which LONDON, Nov. 22 (Reuter). 30 miles of Lat, 21 N. and Long, 112 had facilitated preparations on the Western Front. --The Nazi Government has re-E. moving NNW."
Since then the typhoon has moved. Their cause was attracting like would be imported, and a permanent been officially announced that Royal acted to the British decision to steadily nearer the Colony, and the magnet their countrymen from way a apply the "Naviçert System" Royal Observatory confidently predict all parts of the world. with fury disguised as righteous; indignation, calling it "piracy and robbery."
The devastation in the former Jewish quarter, with a normal population of 400,000, is particular-
ly severe. Scarcely a single build- ing survivedl undamaged throughoul being able to keep alloat. the city.
This might have accounted for her
Illustrating the scope of the damage inflicted by German bombers and artillery, the Ambassador pointed out Flights Over Germany
that even in the legation quarter, the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Japanese and Turkish Embassies are
Installations LONDON, Nov. 22 (UP)-It has the only foreign
that have escaped serious damages, Air Force planes "mude successful
The root of the Japanese Embassy But stiif it would be a question of) flights on Monday and Tuesday over
was struck twico, while its porch and severe blow before the day is out.
vehicles, vehicles and more vehicles: Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg and garage were niso hit. Indicative of Thousands of British troops were Mr. Hore-Belichs Hlustrated the Bremen.
the force of bombs, a.typewriter wos Heading Straight Horo
France, and by size of the organisation by the fact
knocked off Its desk and hurled about East Coast 'Roid Al 10 o'clock this morning it was going weekly
Force had Improvised an
15 feet across the room. Utensils and. The Royal spring they will have been reinforced that the officially reported by Observatory that the typhoon had by no inconsiderable armament.
LONDON, Nov. 22 (UP). The windows in the Embassy houses were organisation dealing with 270,000) changed ils course and was then "We could not have completed our letters and 17,000 parcels dully, aerial activity over the North of also broken.
of the Colony formations in France without the double the quantity in 1918.-- ** England and Scotland this afternoon 50 miles WSW
Following occupation of the city moving NNE, which would bring whose units reached France at a very was able to give an encouraging ac- twelve rounds at a twin-engined space and the doomed capital is be
assistance of the Territorial Army. As a result of his recent visit, he spread to the East Coast of England; by German forces, reconstruction work where anti-uircraft artillery fired is being pushed, forward at a rapid the gals directly to Hongkong.
much earller stage and in greater count of tho, fortitude and good tem- Ships to the southwest of the numbers than in 1914," said Mr. Hore-per of the troops, whose health was black bombing plane flying at a high ginning to emerge from its shambles. Colony will probably experienceBelisha.
The Ambassador further reported.. aimculties.
extremely upod, sickness being lase Toyal Air Force puraults took to Million Men Train
than in peace time at home.
Meanwhile, we were despatching sounded no air raid warnings were BUTLER REVIEWS AM arms and equipment to other parts of boasted of, their mine successce in the crossed the Sisayns Islands, south of/however, that Britain can within an the world, preparing for all eventuall- that anti-aircraft Bre drove off Ger-
The Nazi Government has also changed its attitude with regard to its illegal mine-laying.
Its first reaction to the loss of the Simon Bolivar was to blame British mincs.
This did not go down.
On Tuesday, the Nazis actually
North Sen.
The history of the typhoon was traced by an official of the Observas tory this morning when he said that It
the Philippines on November 20. was then moving W.N.W. and con- tinued in this direction until the To-day, they went back to the afternoon of November 21, when it original lines, but as the American was altuated off the Pacels. It was newspaper. "New York Times," points) out, this will not affect the opinion often of small intensity, but on the American officers, who had a first-afternoon of the 21st it started moving hand knowledge of German mine on a N.N.W. course and the follow- operations in the last war.
Ing day was north of the Paracels.
At 6 o'clock this morning the typhoon was 120 miles southwest of Hongkong moving north.
"Don't let the country pretend, approximate time furnish an army of continental dimensions.
"Nearly a million men are inten- alvely training in Britain.
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LATEST
TYPHOON IMMINENT
-NUMBER NINE · TYPHOON [SIGNAL · (“GALE EXPECTED TO' „INCREASE”). HOISTED AT 10.15
C.B.S. Closed
C.B.S. Students were ordered home shortly before 10a.m.
· Ferries To Stop
The Exchange Telegraph" reports
THE FAR EAST man attackers on the Shetland Islands | .......* The report said bombs were dropped
DIFFICULTIES which caused no damage to shipping, while an official report stated that "The Maginot Line is in some
one R.A.F. seaplane was set afire.
Shipping Obstacles measure a debt which free nations
The seaplane was moored at the time ows to the caution of France, which
Nazi Bomber Crashes = [ and there were no British casualties. LONDON, Nov. 22, (Reuter)--In even when beset with financial
the House of Commons to-day, Mr. troubles, had diveried an unsilated Near Ostend
Two Raiders Brought Down n. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary for The red flag, indicating that forrica rc- proportion of its economie
The British Admiralty and Air Foreign Affairs, said that wharfage would stop running at any moment, the construction of th SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Ministry have both confirmed that facilities made available to Third was holsted at the Star Ferry at 10.20 Will Huer Ņaxi Exports
"Whereas Germany has to defend LONDON, Nov. 22 (UP)—The the British bagged two German rald-Power shipping at Taingiao continuei a.m. BRUSSELS, Nov. 22 (Reuter), --
a 200 miles frontier, France must "Exchange Telegraph's" Brussels ers on Tuesday. A British destroyer to be inadequate,
At Cheloo, pressure has been The newspaper, "Libre Belge," be- After 6 o'clock a rise in pressure in envisage the possibility of aggression correspondent reports that a German rescued three German alers, two of Hleves hint German exports to North the Kwangchowan district imposed a by Germany along 800 miles from the bomber crashed near Ostond after whom were seriously wounded, from brought to bear on Chinese merchants and South America will be chiefly N.NL. or northeast direction, bring North Sea to the Alps."
French Aghlers had driven it away; a rubber boat in the North Sea. to ship by other than Britlah vessels,. 10.30 a.m.--Typhoon approximately. -affected, and that "shipments for the typhoon closer to Hongkong, and Having referred to the more recent from Calafs, and riddled it. with For hours this morning the Royal but the situation, according to reliable 30 -milas.southwest of Colony at
Belgian and Netherlands colonies its intensity made a sudden increase. extension of the Maginot Line, Mr,bullets.
Air Force and anti-aircraft guns unofficial reports, la now stated to be 1030 am.m sector now It tried to esclpe Into Belgian played hilde and seek with a German "It will blow until late this after Hore-Belisha sald: the
somewhat may be given reasonable tolerance,
noon," added the Royal Observatory allotted to the British Army Was territory but began to disintegrate, raider along the Thames Estuary. official, "and will then probably clear fortunately provided in advance with The pilot parachuted to safety, but
fleld works, and the tank which fell three of the crew were killed, "The greatest force of the gale will to our soldiers on arrival was to add
Natherlands Concerned AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22 (Router).
up.
Calo Expected At Noon
The Netherlands Government is be felt about noon." concerned at the, Allles' decision to stop Gorman exporta
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An organisation of almost ceivable dimensions
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www.vant casier.
Tientsin Rostrictions De Roof-Tops Chase
At Tientsin, British shipping has been subjected to certain delaya Crowds in the streets of towns owing to the examination imposed by along the estuary saw the raider skim the Japanese military authorities as had been C.C.C. LOAN RATE the rooftops with R.A.F. chasers in part of the blockade of the conces-
hot pursuit and bursts of shrapnel plous. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH": dotting the sky. Later guns boomed In South Chino, certala ports, such WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UP)—in south Essex but no planes were as Foochow and Wenchow, have been fear that it will damago Dutch trade,
In the initial stages, the British The Commodity Credit Corporation | ssen.
blocked by mines, whilst at others, The "Telegrosť” wonders whether the LONDON, Nov, 22 (Reuter)The Expeditionary Force had consumed has estabilahed a loan rate of 57 cents An official communique also an- including Canton and Swatow, which decision will also include goods Maharajah of Indore has sent a gift 500 tons of petrol dally.
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