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Reported Encounter With Nazi Pocket Battleship
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN PACIFIC RUMOURED
N. Zealand Flagship In Big Battle?
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",
SOMEWHERE IN THE VAST EXPANSE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THE FIRST NAVAL ENGAGEMENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN TWO WARSHIPS IS RUMOURED TO HAVE BEEN FOUGHT YESTERDAY.
An urgent “United Pross" message from Honolulu, received at 8.50 a.m., states that it is reported there that H.M.S. Achilles, Flagship of the New Zealand Station, has engaged the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
The "United Press" message adds that con- firmation of the report is at present lacking. Honolulu is a major U.S. naval base.
BRAWN VERSUS BRAINS.?
Such an encounter, if it has taken place, would be one of speed versus power.
The Achilles, a 7,030-ton cruiser of the Leander type, can oulspeed the Admiral Scheer by over six knots.
But the Nazi pocket battleship has vastly superior armaments. As compared with the Leander's eight 6-inch and 22 smaller guns, the Admiral Scheer has six 11-inch, eight 5.9-inch and 19 other guns.
Achilles, together with her sister-ship, the Leander, was lent to the New Zealand Government to form a N.Z. Squadron.
She is the flagship of the New Zealand Squadron and, since the outbreak of war, has been actively engaged, in hunting for the German raider. persistent reports of whose presence in Paci- fic waters have been made for the past four weeks.
£1,500,000 CRUISER
The Admiral
The complement of the Achilles is 550 men. Scheer, which is a 10,000-ton cruiser of battleship design, carries over 1,000 men and has a cruising range of almost 20,000 miles. The Achillea was built at a cost of £1,500,000 at the Cam-
She was com mell Laird yards and was launched in 1932.
missioned on October 10, 1933. Her speed is 32.6 knots.
The Admiral Scheer was launched at Wilhelmshaven in 1932 and was commissioned on November 12, 1934. Her speed is 20 knots.
the There are no indications in the Honolulu reports of position of the rumoured engagement, but it would presumably route between the be somewhere on the trans-Pacific trade United States and New Zealand and Australia.
COMMUNAL Navy
RIOTS
When the war began the com- biner strength of the Royal and Royal Australian Navy in cruisers was 68 ships.
A considerable proportion of this strength has since been ongaged in the search for the elusive Admiral Scheer,
One Dead And 115 Deutschland and the still more
Injured
All the evidence has gone to show that the latter has entered Pacife Ocean waters, presumably to menace
THE SHIPS COMPARED
ADMIRAL SCHEER", 10,000-ion super cruiser Six 11-in. UNIN
Eight 5.0-in. guns Speed....29 knots.
R.M.S. ACHILLES 7,030-ton cruiser Eight G-in, guns Speed.
H.M.S.
.32.5 knots.`
ACHILLES,
League Resolution Condemns the Soviet
TREATIES
SCRAPS OF
THE POCKET BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL SCHEER.
Common Allied 'Empire' To Fight
Menace Of Nazi Domination
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter). The new mone-
BLOOD BYtary and economic agree-
PLANE
LONDON, Dcc. 13 (Reu- tor). A fleet of planes has beon specially fitted out to transport blood for transfusion purposes to Army hospitals in France and to any city in the United Kingdom which may suffor casualties during air- raids.
NEW DELHI, Dec. 13 (Reu- Antipodean shipping. The Deutsch- NEUTRALS AND
ter)-One life has been lost as land is believed to be sull in Arctic a result of Monday's communal waters, where she sank the Hawal-
rioting al Jubbulpore, in central pind
Earlier reports this week stated
Indin One hundred and fifteen that British battleships were station- ed off Murmansk, attempting to persons were injured.
prevent the Deutschland from enter-
A German news agency put out ing that port. the list of dead as "over one hun- dred!"
Mr.Jinnah's Statomant
THE BLOCKADE
ment between Great Britain, and France, which in effect pools the resources of the Allies for the duration of the war and until six months afterwards, is welcomed by the British Press as a step that welds the last link in Allied unity.
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The Times": "This agree ment, together with other agree- ments, shows that there is now more than an alliance between
the two countries. Measures
such as this are the right way
to reply to the boastings of Walther Funk, the Nazi Minister of 'Finance.".
Benefit From “Go
The "Dilly Telegraphi": There Easy" Slogan could hardly be stronger proof of the community of performance by Great LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter)The Britain and France.
The British Prest also expresses concessions which are offered to Among other wild statements eman- NEW DELHI, Dec. 13 (Reuter)-
House of Commons yesterday by the nsang from Zesson (the Berlin short- Mr. Jinnah, lender of the All-India neutrals under the Order-in-Council rat satisfaction at the report in the Have broadcasting station) are Moslem Party, who is involved in dn providing for the seizure of German Minister for Air Sir Kingsley Wood. The “Newa-Chronicle!,, however, flegations regarding working con- acute issue with Gandhi at the itions for women, etc.
moment, to-day issued a long state-experta mean that since the Export points out that we have a long way work twelve hours a day in coal Royal Commission should examine cargoes have been definitely classed Nazi air force which is euential for Women Rald Zeeson last nightment la which he demended that the Control began on December 0 few to go before we can establish that, overwhelming superiority over the mines. In actual fact, women are the treatment of minorities in India not-permitted to work underground. by the Congress Ministle, Cazare ai solrures.
Your safety and victory?
ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE
Four Italians Held In Brussels 'BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (Reuter). -Four Italians have been ar- zested at Liege on charger of explonage,
Three of them are of German ortsin.
They are said to have spread Nait propaganda and to have naked soldiers, who visited the cafe owned by one of them, for Information.
́A ́ ́ raid on the premises brought to light a map and a pistol
The paper hopes that Sir Kingsley Wood will be able to give the public more information about Britain's air' activity.
"Manchester Guardian" leader points out that in the Anglo-French from the comprehensive economic agreement of November 17 gives the frontal agreement one thing missing fle to the German legend that the interests of the Allies are separate and to the propaganda seeking to It is worth emphasising Porngraph
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divide them.
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WERE PAPER?
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter).—The resolution which will be submitted to the League to-morrow condemns the action of the Soviet in invading Finland, on the ground that "by its act of aggres- sion against Finland, the Soviet Union has not only failed in its special political agreement with Finland, but has also violated the Pact of Paris and Article XII of the Covenant of the League."
Russia, the resolution adds, has also denounced without justification the Treaty of Non-Aggression concluded in 1932 and which was to have remained in force until the end of 1945.
...
Referring to the refusal of the Soviet of the League's invitation to come before the Council and Assembly, the resolution says that the Soviet "thereby failed in one of the most essential responsibilities it accepted under the League of Nations for the guarantee of the peace and security of nations, and acted as though the Council and Assembly did not exist as far as Russia is concerned."
The resolution adds: "Soviet Russia has attempted to justify her refusal to come before the Council and Assembly of the League by alleging that relations have been established with a fictitious Finnish Government that is, neither in law nor in fact, not the Government recognised by the population of Fin- land in the free exercise of their rights."
The resolution will be sub-. mitted to the League Assembly to-morrow,
It will most likely be the occasion for an animaled discussion, but it is expected that the resolution will be and will approved without a vote
then be referred to the League Counell.
LATEST
The Council will meet immediately ACHILLES
to take the decision called for. The result of the Council proceedings is a foregone conclusion, but it remains to be seen whether there will be any abstentions when the vote is taken.
By leaving the election of China to the Council to d Jater meeting, the League has absolved China from the delicate responsibility of taking a stand in the matter.
SUNK?
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 14 (Iouter). -Reports of a naval battle off the *rc carried in Uruguayan coast Argentian newspapers, who quate their Monte Videen correspondents. At a meeting of the Committee of The battle is reported to have be- Fourteen to-day, the Norwegian and tween the Nazl pocket battleship Ad- Swedish delegates stated that they miral Scheer and four approved the resolution, subject to the cruisers. confrmation of their respective government.
British
-II.M.8. Achilles is reported to have". been sunk in the encounter. There is ny, yet no confirmation from official Will Stay In League SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
The presence of. the "Admiral GENEVA, Dec. 13. (UP).Dr.Scheer in Pacific waters has been de- Wellington Kao, China's delegate tantiely established, by the arrival in the League of Nations, hos sent a Buenos Aires of the 0.9.K. letter to the Secretary General, M. Buenos Aires Maru, whose captain ro- the Nazi pocket, Avonol, urging the re-election of ported passing China to the League Council,
battleship. Just before entering the The letter read, in part; "I have Rio de la Plata estuary.
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the honour to request that if none of It will be recalled that the Ad- the ordinary non-permanent seats miralty recently hinted that are available to China or a member cruisers of the East Indies Blation. State in the Far-Eastern group, the the Ajax. Exeter and the Achilles. provisionat sent which China occupies were in the south Atlantio searching at the present time be renewed for for the Admiral Scheer. another period of three years.
of
the
naval
In London the Admiralty say they The circumstances in the Far-East have no knowledge have remained unchanged, since the encounter, bus no full denial of the creation of the seat."
reports tiks yet been fasued.
Assembly To Voto GENEVA, Dec. 13 (Reuter)-The Assembly will vote on the expulsion of Russlo, from the League this even- Ing.
When the Assembly met to-day, the Argentine delegate proposed the expulsion and this proposal was re- rerred to the Finnish Appeal Coin-
mittoe.
Soo Back Page For Further Late Nows
The Committee Jud. before it not only the expulsion proposal but also necessary before a member State con the Rusalan reply, which arrived the be expeilind. previous night.
Expulsion Expected ...The proposal, it goes befores the
Council,Here a unanimous vote
The Rumian, spokesman adulte that Rumia will probably be purta: edifrom, the bear