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The
SECOND EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1831 五拜禮 號五十月二十英港香
.No. 16017
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939.
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British Warships Take Up "Death Watch” U.S. LABOUR
GRAF SPEE DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION?
"Heavy Reinforcements
Arrive
Lost
in
at Montevideo
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 15(UP).—It is reliably learned that H.M.S. Cumberland, a temporary pre-war flagship of Convoy the China Station, has arrived in Uruguayan waters to reinforce the death watch on the Nazi cruiser Admiral Mishap
ILMS. DUCHESS, formerly of China Station, has been lost with all but eighteen of her crew in a collision with another ship, presumably whilst on convoy duty. The only surviving officer is Probationary Lieut. J. R. Pritchard, R.N./V.R. Photographi is of one of the ships of the Duchess class.
Luxembourg Goes To Work While Her Neighbours Go To Fight Remarkable War Zone Scenes Described
By Ralph Heinzen
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Dec. 14 (UP).--The busiest corner in Europe is the tight wide no-man's land spot where Luxembourg lies in a between the French and German armies.
Ore In Abundanco
Graf Spee.
The Cumberland
cruiser 10,000-ton
is Д armed
with eight 8-inch guns.
It is also reliably learned that a German Note to the Urugua yan Foreign Office has requested permission for the landing of an armed force from the Graf Spec to bury the thirty people killed
VICTORY HAILED
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Reuter), -Newspapers here describe the Gral Spee fight in streamer headlines as the first big naval battle of the war and proclaim Ita British victory,
It is belleved here that the Graf Spee will be interned in Uruguay for the duration of the
war.
It is reported in messages from Montevideo that the cap. tain of the German ship has asked the German minister In Uruguay to negotiato with the Uruguayan Government for the battleship's immediate Intern- ment for the duration, on the grounds that it will be impos- sible for her to make the neces- nary repairs within the 24 hours that she is allowed to rematu in harbour, and that even if the repairs are possible, the vessel could not go to sca again with- out encountering British war- slipa.
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THE DUNLOP FORT TYRE
REDS
BACKS THE ALLIES ENTER
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Reuter),--Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labour, anfd to-day that the people of the United States wish to resort to all possible means, short of war, to prevent the triumph of Nazism and aggression in Finland, Poland, Austria and the BalkanM. He expressed sympathy for the Allies and sold that the British Navy Is now making effective economic war against Germany.
"May God help them and make it completely successful," said Mr. Green, who was addressing an anti-Nazi rally in Mudison Square Garden.
Other speakers included Governor Lehman and former President Herbert Hoover.
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IN
KILLED RUMANIAN OIL EXPLOSION
BUCHAREST, Dec. 14 (Reuter).-Heavy loss of life is reported as the result of an ex
VITAL CITY
"Scorched Earth" In Finland
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
KIRKENAESS, Dec. 14 (UP). The Russians have Salmi- begun entry into jaervi.
The Finns have retreated to within 12 miles of the |Norwegian border.
It is reported that Salmijaervi is entirely in flames. The re- treating Finns set fire to the villages of Toollevi, Kivolatta and Kolvisjoki, the flames being plainly visible from the border.
Explosions Jave been audible throughout the day from heavy artillery and Russian bombers. As yet, there are no reports of Finnish
border, despite the fierce Soviet drive. The Finns pre falling back on their muin
defence positions east of the village of Skogfoss on the Norweglun border, where they have new -pre- pared lines.
plosion in a chlorine factory in Transylvania. soldiers crossing the Norweging
Tanks of chlorine gas blow up during the night.
So far the bodies of 81 factory workers have been recovered.
Others were injured or gassed. Escaped
has chlorine gas badly hampered the rescue work.
in the naval action with the FURTHER DETAILS OF FIGHT British warships.
Sources close, to Lic German Legation express the opinion that the f raider will leave the River Plate
within a week."
The ship was not
hit below the water-line and her machinery is undamaged (Under International Law she cannot remain
in part over 24 hours without intern- ment unless she is so far damaged that she cannot put to sea with safety).
Waiting To Deal Death Blow
LONDON, Dec. 15 (UF). The
Retreat
That Became Flight
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14 (Reuter).Further details Admiralty officially announces that which have now become available regarding the South two cruisern and reinforcement Atlantic-naval battle show that the Exeter was patrolling. are now awalting the Admiral Spee at the mouth of the River Plate.the South Atlantic early yesterday when she contacted
It understood that Britain is formally presenting 1 Note Uruguay, arguing that the German ship should not be permitted to re- main in Uruguayan waters for more than 24 hours without internment. The Nole points out that the raider entered harbour at full speed, thereby proving her seaworthiness.
to the German warship in a latitude south of Brazil.
British Cruisers Out of Sight SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14 (Domel). -The German pocket-battleship is expected to leave port within 24
hours.
The British cruisers, Achilles and
A running fight ensued, during which the Achilles and the Ajax
NAZI HAD arrived.
WEIGHT
-
"Taffrail" Sums Up The Battle LONDON, Dec. 14 (iteuter). Coal reaches the Alzette Valley Ajax, which approached the port in-A talk on the battle between On both sides and in between mills from the Saar, and there is still pursuit of the German ship yesterday, the three British cruisers and a century's supply of are within a few could not be sighted outside the har-the Admiral Graf Spee was given the lines, smoke pours from hundred yards of the blast furnaces. bour early this morning.
It
believed thni the from Daventry to-day by Com- factory stacks as the Lorraine, It is to be had for the work of British warships are waiting to way mander Taprell-Doring, better Ruhr and Luxembourg iron and scooping it up.
lay the German pocket-battleship as
known to his many readers as clears Uruguayan steel mills work night and day, On the French side of the border she
territorial
"Taffrail." despite the massed presence of lles the famous Briey iron basin and waters.
WOR The cruiser Exeter which rival armies."
the Longwy steel zone where Lor-
The Exeter, he said, was a raine ore and Belgian coal produce damaged during yesterday's engage- Since the start of the war, not one 50 per cent. of France's total steal ment, appeared within 15 miles of the vessel of 8,400 tons, carrying six port of Montevideo soon after day-eight-inch guns, while the Ajax hour of work has been lost in the production. small region where more than half of
At the start of the world war in break to-day. It is believed that the and the Achilles were sister- Europe's steel is made. Here in the 1014, more than half the Brley iron ship will enter port for repairs,
The captain of the Graf Spee up to ships of about 7,000 tons each, chief source of munitions, muns and mines- lar Inaldo the German
8 o'clock this morning has not ap-land carried eight six-inch guns. tanks with which the rival armies are
plied for permission to prolong its
All three had a speed of about 32 siecking,
stay in the port.
Under International Law. the knots. raider will be obliged to clear port
The Achilles actually was one of within 24 hours of its arrival, that is, the two cruisers in the New Zealand by midnight to-night.
(the other being the Squadron Death Watch Starts
Leander, the flagship), and "Täffrall" SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" sald that as she was chiefly manned, MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14. (UP).-by New Zealanders, congratulations H.M.S. Achilles has started a death were due to New Zealand for the part watch the damaged German she had played in the first real növal battleship Admiral Graf Spec. engagement of this war..
The British Navy la determined not to permit the Nazi ralder to LONDON, Dec. 14 (Router). Jesenpo to resume her raids on Allied The British crew are silli closed up
PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
Wading through deep red mud under. the downpours of rain doy after day, I covered the entire France-Luxembourg border during an inspection of the French frontier defences,
No Luxembourg Dofences Nowhere did I see a single Luxem- bourg defence position or a soldier across the frontler, nor were there any indications that the citizens of the tiny Duchy will try to defend themselves and the integrity of their
PLEASE Turn To Page 4.
R.A.F. OVER NORTH SEA
Big Battle Over Heligoland
on
State if the German armies should! The Air: Ministry announces commerce on the high sea.
repeat the 1914 invasion,
But everywhere I am signs of that throughout the last 24 at their battle stations with gun intense activity on both sides of the hours considerable forces of the frontier, where iron and steel produc-R.A.F. have been operating over tion has been kept up to the maximum schedule.
the North Sea.
The largest of the mills are within Their operations have Included a rifle shot of the French frontier de- wide search for enemy stilice craft, fences outalde Luxembourg-and, the submarines and a close reconnals- steel town of Esch, which out-sance of the estuaries and fortified Pittsburgh's even Pittsburgh for lalands in north-west Germany,
BRITISH WAR
· LOSSES
+
Not So One-Sided Unlike the Rawalpindl Deutschland battle, this was not so one-sided.
Although the Graf Spee' was six knot slower than the Bellah ships, she carried six 11-inch guns, Aring shells of 710 pounds each with a range limited only by visibility and distance,
-
BRITAIN
AND THE
BREMEN
Activity slowed down as the Aralic night blacked out the region, which was lighted only by the flames of the burning villages,
At Svanvik the villagers are calm- ly watching the battle In front their doorstep.
of
strengthened.
Norwegian border troops have been
LONDON, Dec. 14' (Reuter). The Yorkshire Post" points fout in an editorial that there is
The rapidity of the Russian ad- the clearest answer both to the vance was largely due to their light. neers of the enemy and the sur-Whippet tanks which are able to
armoured cross-country
cara and prised protests of friends regard-skim over the surface of the snow, ing the forbearance of the British and, which encircled the Finns in submarine which-refrained from small pockets, threatening to cut off.
their flanks. torpedoing the Bremen.
Salla Regained From Stockholm, the "Afton Bladet's" correspondent at Torncan
PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
If the example of Nazi commerce raiders were followed, Britain would have lost something much more im- portant than a valuable naval priae; she would have betrayed the very cause for which we were fighting.
__"We_shall.not_defeat Nazilsm_by. descending to Nazi method of war. fure," says this journal.
Nazis Thunderstruck
The Bremen is too valuable and vulnerable to be used as an armed ralder or a supply ship.
the
In Its summary, the "Yorkshire The two latter vessels gradual-Post" ends by saying that the Ger- ly forced the Graf Spec south-mans are so taken aback by ward and westward.
British observation of international | law that they are unable to give con- sistent accounts of the circumstances.
Retreat Becomes Rout The British cruisers used rmoke- serecus and made lightning thrusts with such skill and daring that the Graf Spee was eventually forced to retreat to neutral waters.
When 12 miles off Funta de Leste and in full view of the shore, the Graf Spee converted her retreat into open flight..
The battleship, with her main con- trol searchlights darnaged, evidently feared a night attack by the British cruisers and made direct for Mon- tevideo where she anchored Inside the harbour at 11.15 p.m.
It
is thought here that the Graf Spee will hardly dare to leave Man- video, and consequently she will be
out of action for the duration of the
wer.
Brilliant Action
In view of the fact that the British guns cruisers had only six 8-inch against the 11.2-inch weapons. of the
this
15-hour German battleship, action is regarded here as one of the most daring and brilliant in the hix- tory of the British Navy,
LATEST
EXETER'S LOSSES
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH**
Thus "Trans-ocean" reports that the submarine disappeared without at- tempting to attack, while a Zeesen PUERTO BELGRÁNO, Argentina, broadcast to France asserts: "The Dec. 14 (UP)-ILMS. Exeter, which truth is that the British submarine was crippled in the Oght with the did fire a torpedo, but as it was noi | Admiral Grat Spec yesterday, is a German torpedo, If missed the arriving here to-morrow with her target."
dead and wounded. German Admission
The authorities have been request- BERLIN, Dec. 14(Router)-Aed to provide one hundred beds for German communique admits that the wounded, British submarine attacked a German The number of dead is not stated. cruiser in the North Sea but conceals Because of the time involved, some the loss of the U-bost.
may have to be buried at sea.
made by A dramatic effort was Exeter to save the ilves of three me who were seriously wounded,
2
Death For Two Murderers
LONDON, Doc. 14 (Reuler). James Richards (29) and Peter of Barnes (32) were found guilty Durder to-day on the Coventry ex- plosives charge and were sentenced to death.
Joseph Hewitt (31) and the two women, Mary Hewitt (22) and Officers Dispirited
Brigid, O'Harti (49), were found not gulliy, but are remaining in custody BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 14 (Reuter), pending further charges.
It was alleged that they murdered ---Without food, confusion aboard and.
who were her decics a shambles of dead and four men and a woman
bomb explosion in wounded, the Graf Spee crept into killed if Montevideo Harbour last night like Coventry on August 25.
wounded animal
a
terriers.
worried by
Uruguayan officials stated that her officers were thoroughly dispirited: when they reached port,
Members of the British Legation returning from a visit to the British cruisers, - which are also anchored in Montevideo, assert that their crews are intact and that they have suffered no casualties.
One of the Exeter's two seaplanes jarrived hero this afternoon with three erllically wounded men as passengers. They were immediately rushed to hospital for operations.
Two of the men have since died. The Exeter will go fato dry-dock as soon as she arrives.
Sam Back Page For Further Late News
CHINA RE-ELECTED TO
COUNCIL OF LEAGUE
ALANT
* SPECIAL: TO: THE "TELEGRAPH", GENEVA, Dec. 14 (UP),—The League Council to-day_nn- animously voted for the expulsion of Soviet Russia from the League of Nations..
Nelson's Signal Used Press reports stalo that Com- modore Harwood, before the action,
Assembly terminated the Council members voting for ex- made Nelson's famous stralentire session at 4 pm, following the pulsion Included Britain, Franco, "England Expects Every Man to
The
The Exeter's shells, although of the same range, were only 250 pounds euchi, while the man-hundled six- inch shells of the Ajax and Achilles ‚ ́ ́ SPECIAL" TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
had a weight of only 100 pounds One formation of our aircraft en- LONDON, Dec. 14 (Domel)-Re-each.
dral. Spee, The drizaling rain holds sunt and gazed a strong enemy formation at plying to a question in the House of A broadside from the smoka in a thick for over the whole
Commons this afternoon, Prime therefore, would weigh about 4,708 Alzette Valley as the Blossomor plants Mellroland.
Do His Daly," from the cruiser election of Egypt and China as non-album, South Africa, Bolivia, Iran, In the course of intmen falling, Minister Mr. Chamberlain announced pounds, while a broadside from the
permanent members of the Counell, the Dominican Republic, and Egypti four Messerschlät fighters and three that during the first three months of combined British ships would only Ajax steel from ore, which at this point AF, alecraft were shot down. Force bave lost about 100 Kuu None of the four ships was heavily launch trip around the Graf Spee Russia from the League of Nations, sald he abstained from voll
MARGAREN NÅ PICKS representatives who made a In the voting for the expulsion of The Finnish delegate M. Holstiet the war, the British Army, Navy and weigh 3,136 pounds. R is merely scraped from the surfnih or Da great circular open pit by 烏 All our other formations returned as compared with 12,500 dead in the armoured and a single shell from the reported the vessel's state is "shock-the
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