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NAZIS LOSE FAITH IN NEW ALLY: SWEDEN'S FEARS
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was scarcely a glimmer of light In the town which has been two-thirds evacuated. It was 'blacker cven than London, which so far has held the "blackout championship." When I started to use my unhlight) which I had used at the western front, an alert air warden immediately stopped me and restured that the flash must be dimmed with Ashing paper like his own.
Sweden's Apprehension
In Sweden 1 found great apprehen- nion that the Soviets may attempt to drive through upper Finland and across Norway to secure ports on the Atlantic.
Besides the Finna who are flocking back from all over Europe to join the army, volunteers are coming in from all Scandinavian and Baltic States. On my plane were men from Estonia who had hidden in the engine-room of Estonian ships bound for Sweden, The Estonian captain had consented to hide them and keep their namen off the passenger list in case of search by Soviet warships.
Kirov Out Of Action
They said they had seen in Tallinn the 20,000 ton Kirov. Russia's most modern and powerful cruiser, which had been damaged by Finnish const ariery at Hangoe
The Kirov's engine had been put out of commission by Finnish shells and it was reported that repairs might take many weeks.
Large numbers of volunteers were flocking in from Sweden. On my plane, one brought his own rifle wrapper! In paper. Another brought his revolver.
Lunching at Asbo, I learned that the men nt the next table were Swedes who had just arrived to volunteer for military service.
Middlesex Draw With Machine Gunners
In a friendly cricket match at the Craigengower Cricket Club yester day, No. 3 Machine-Gun Company (IIungkong Volunteer Defence Corps) drew with the Middlesex Regiment, The Volunteers basted first and hit up 182, towards which Fiz. Hung contributed 41 and L/Cpl. Mackay 39. Both hil seven fours.
The Middlesex at one stage had nix wickets down for 66. After the fall of the seventh wicket at 74. af stand was made by Cordery and Williams.Their partnership--added 62 runs before Williams was caught. Williams, who scored 29, made 20 of his runs from boundary hits.
No. 1 M.G. Company F. C. Fincher.
e Jones, b
person
L/Cpl. D. Hung, b Young Sgt. E. Zimmern, Pearson..... L/Cpl. N. A. E. Mackay, and b Seton Pie, F. R. Zimmern, i L. D. J. N. Anderson, e Weedon, b
Young
b Young..............
Pte. A. Zimnem, b Itstfield
Pte. W L. Rapley, b Hintßeld
Pte. A. Madar, retired
Sgt.
5. Winen, Blatfeld
Extran
.K. Way, not out
Total
Howling Analysis
M.
Hatfield
Pearson
Willems
Young
Seton
rea!
Middlesex Legt.
Pte. Joner run out
Pic. Cutler, e E. Zimmern b′′ 7. Zim•
mer....---...
Pte. Pearson, e and b F. Zimmern
Lt. Weedon, e lung
I/Cpl. Young, b Winch
Anderson
Ple. Hatfield, E. Zimmern b Ander
son
Pte. Cordery, not ou
L/Cpl. Selon, e and h Winch
Cpl. Willams,
e E. Zimmer,
Anderson..............................
Pie. Aldridge, not out
Lt. Peal did not bat.
Extras
For wkt.)
Bowling Analysis
F. R. Zimmern
Winch ... Anderson
Way
Mackay
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SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS
SOCIETY
NOTICE is høreby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- non & Co., Ltd.. (by kind permis- 19th alon) - on Tucaday, the December, 1939, at 5.15 p.m.
J. T. BAGRAM,
Hon. Secretnry. Hongkong, 6th December, 1939.
GRAF SPEE SCUTTLED
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re-fuelling. She was scheduled depart at dawn on Monday.
The Only Casualty
10
It is believed thất Captain Langderf the only Admiral Grat Spee camtalty.
is
He is thought to have refused to have left his ship, an die have been blown up with it.
Crederice is given to this suggestion by a statement issued by the German Embassy after the explosions,
"We do not know where Captain Langdorf is, but German commanders stay with their ships," the Embassy announced.
that
his ihe
Latest reports Indicate Captain Langdorf ordered entire crew to transfer to freighter Tacoma, and remained aboard himself to set at the charges that blew up the Admiral Graf Spec.
Thousands of people witnessed the dynamiting and scuttling of the war- ship.
Huge Crowds Watch Drama Huge crowds rushed to points af vantage to watch the fire envelop the cruiser as she went down.
Fabulous prices were paid for motor boats and other small craft which rushed to the scene,
The Admiral Grat Spec Histed to port, her superstructure wrecked and her hull forn by the explosions, and sank within a few seconds. Her extret position is 61⁄2 kilometres outside the Montevideon harbour limits.
Germans refused to accept
Diplomatic quarters reveal that the cither internment or an ultimatum to leave Uruguayan Foreign Minister. port during the negotiations with the
Nazi Admissions
BERLIN, Dec. 17 (Reuter).—For the first time Germany admits that 36 were killed aboard tho Graf Spee. The German news agency states that according to the reports reaching the High Command of the GermIASI Army 36 of the crew of the Grai Spec died in action.
Monday,
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HER FATHER WAS WAS
Heiress Bride Vanishes
20 Years After Brother
TWENTY-FOUR hours after, her wedding a car containing ously wounded and 53 lightly wound-
Six members of the crew are serl- an heiress and her bridegroom plunged over a bridge in Canada.
cd.
Ready To Run Gauntlet LONDON, Dec. 17 (Reuter). The German pocket battleship, Admira); Grut Spee, now iles sunk off the Uruguayan coast some five miles from the entrance to Montevideo Harbour in about 25 feet of water.
This is disclosed in an official Ad-
miralty communique issued late to- night..
B.E.F. is "Family Business
December 18, 1939.
HELD BY GERMAN
HELD
OCEAN RAIDER
BRIDE an the left was Miss Jars M. Itneris. of Mossley- hitt. Liverpool. Bridegroom, also in picture, is Mr. Peter McKen- zic, of Castle Bromwich, Birming- ham.
Mrs. McKenzle is a daughter of Captain F. C. P. Harris (right), commander of the British steamer Clement, sunk by the Nazi raider Admiral Graf öpte sevenly miles eff Brazil, The crew reached land, but Captain Ilarris and his chief engineer were taken prison. ers aboard the raider. They were among the 01 Urlions released in Monicvideo on Friday.
The bridegroom is also a ship's leer. He was in the Mahratia, whicht was stranded early this mait! on the Goodwin Sands, eff Deal. Bates of jute in the cargo, swollen by the Inrush of water burzi the deck and sides of the steamer.
Act Like A Sailor,
Said
Patrick U-boat
Το Captain
PATRICK O'NEIL, taken with fifteen other scamen
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The U-boat chief replied: "It is better for us to do it at night time." Reproachfully came Patrick's retort: be better for you, but it isn't sailor-like, you know!"
Said the commander: "How many were there in the ship's crew?"
Sald Bo'sun Kearon:
seven."
"Twenty-f
The submarine's captain counted the survivors. "I'm sorry, but this is he said. "Better luck next
war, time. Patrick and his mates lost every-, thing they possessed when their ship! went down. Eleven of their fellows, it is feared, lost their lives.
The Darino, 1.439 tons, was on her way from Oporto, with general cargo, when the U-boat attacked her. She sank in six minutes,
a
Nearly all her crew were sleeping in their bunks. Patrick was one of the few on duty in the wheel-house. Though the body of the hus-He was trapped by debris, had to band has been discovered (he fight his way out, and he cut his was floating in the stream) right wrist badly in the struggle.
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CROWN WAS OFFERED TO CRICKETER An Adventure In Albania
BY PETER LAWLESS
0 year.
than happens to the majority of "I was a great deal nearer a crown
there is no sign of his bride.
people," writes C. B. Fry in his en- flung themselves into the sea.
tertaining book ("Life Worth Living". They Twenty years ago the disappear-grabbed pieces of wreckage-four Eyre and Spottiswoode. 12s (d).
her millionaire brother men were hanging on to one bit of
The crown was that of Albania. provided one of the mysteries of the wood-and drifted about, calling for view is that at the end of the last war the Albanians had de- help.
ielded that the best they could do for The scene of the tragedy was a bridge.over...the Nottawasaga.River. After half an hour-the-U-boat king was in an Engilsh county. Two Terrific Explosions
Wasagabeach.
£10,000 came to the surface and took them
gentlernan with The communique adds that the
on board. Its crew rubbed down the Among its duties at Genevn the Al- Thus another chapter has opened shivering men, gave them blankets,banian deputation seeking admittance Nazi warship was blown up by
in the history of the Small family. The commander ordered rations of to the League of Nations was charged two terrifle explosions after she had
for the bride was Mrs. Warren Bell.rum and coffee all round. been abandoned by her crew.
with the task of finding somebody sister of Ambrose Small, the Cana- The act of self-destruction was or-
They watched the submarine's with these qualifications, dian theatre magnate, who vanished dered by her commander,
C. B, Fry was questioned by Prince Captain 2 Langdorf.
THREE fathers, with their cut his interests and placed the
crew at work. They one night in 1019 after he had sold
saw ratings scrawling
Ranjlisinhjl—for whom he claims to the
Churchill and Domes the Grat Spee had sailed out of sons, are among a large group money In a safe deposit.
Chamberinin with their fingers on have written the speech which turned 21 Montevideo, apparently ready to run of men carrying out one of the Two
the petroleum jelly coatings of Signor Mussolint out of Corfu to pressing whether he would care to be King of torpedoes before them into the tubes, laughing an Albania. He accepted; he was will- they did so.
ing to be king of any willing nation. He describes, in his own Inimitable manner, his interview with a Christi-
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some three hours after
From PAUL BEWSHER
France.
years ago Mrs. Bell, then the gauntlet, although Montevideo strangest and most difficult Miss Gertrude Small, contested the wireless messages had announced tasks of the B.E.F.
will of her sister-in-law.
on the that it was the intention of Capt.
ground, she alleged, that Small had Langdorf to scuttle his ship.
Day after day they are burying been murdered with the connivance After leaving Montevideo harbour, decp" underground thousands off of his wife, the Grof Spee walted at the entrance pounds worth of telephone cable to for some time as though uncertain connect up the different units of the of what action to take.
She then proceeded slowly up the Plotn Estuary in the direction of Buenos Aires.
Flag
Flies Gallantly Then unexpectedly she
turned
forces.
This father-and-son position seems to run in the Royal Corps of Signals, according to what one father told nic.
He was a cheerful captain who was 18 completely about and coming down!
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cable across a flooded stream and lantly from the main mast, haltedį about five miles from the nearest sald with a laugh. "Ile's apparently "My son has got a worse job," he
shore.
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The Darino's men
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they were transferred to an Italian which was adorned with all the best which brought them to furniture in the hotel, Fry received said to have admitted that she was England. While they were in the the bishop, whom he describes as the reaponsible for his murder.
U-boat the "crash-dive" alarm was nearest replica of W. G. Grace he sounded and she submerged 100ft.
had ever seen. The officers put their fingers to
Ranjitsinhfl entered the room and
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But the police who were charge of the investigations were of the firm oplaton that, tired of their lips as a warning to the sur-Fry retired. How long he remained alphong (Parcels only) the cares of a raililonaire, Small vivors not to make any noise. An first candidate for the crown of Helphong had started a new life as a poor warship was passing overhead. man under another name
Albania he does not know. But he Amoy and Shanghai Fireman William Locke brought to concludes: "If I had really pressed Straits ..... where outside Canada.
London with him u souvenir of the Ranji to promote me, it is quite on Air Mail for Indo-Chink, Iran, and U-boat's activities-a
packet
of the cards that I should have been France (Parts and Northern Pro- cigarettes given him by one of the King of Albania yesterday, if not to-
vinces only) by the “Air France- Airways Direct erew penellled with the names of day." the three ships it had sunk.
The book reveals the author as a
Parks 28th December. The second was the Cresswell, a more versatile personality than even Fleetwood trawler, in which six men his most fervent admirers, might have died, the third the Arne Kjode, guessed. OTTAWA, Dec. 17 (Router)---The Norweglon vessel. Empire Training Agreement was
The crew told the Darino's men signed to-day by the Premier, Mr. they had been at sea ever since war Nazis Won't Admit Dofoat This cheery captain, splashing in Mackenzie King, and Lord Riverdale, broke out, but hoped to be home for PARIS, Dec. 17 (Reuter)-Not-of cable which were being; burled Empire Air Training Conference.
the mud, explained that the miles bead of the British delegation to the Christmas. withstanding the opinion of neutral would never be taken up. They
Lord Riverdale has also fnitialled naval Powers, particularly that of were so far underground that the the agreement in behalf of Australia United States and Italy, that the sea-task would be too difficult. The und New Zealand, Aght off Uruguay was a triumph for object was to prevent damage by
Details will be announced Inter. Britain, the German press persists shells.
carried out and with the men stand- Acre out here who have cons serv Ing off some hundreds of yards saluting in the same corps. None in the
20 Ing, two terrific explosions occurredame unit. Perhaps it's just.
141 and the battleship sank within a few well!"
seconds.
up as a brilliant success:
Collar "Exchango"
B
BRITISH SHIP MINED
FINNS STUBBORNLY
HOLDING OUT
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Appeal For World Holp. In holding
Down in a valley I saw one of the
HELSINGFORS, Dec, 17 (Reuter). for Germany and is claiming it to junctions, or "nerve" centres, of this have "incalculable" consequences.
LONDON, Dec. 17 (Router).—The Another appeal to the world for The Italian Press, which devotes on things of this invisible army, it gives vaat telephone system. Like most
Sanyo Maru was released from the help was made by President Kyosti extraordinary amount of space to no sign of Its importance. All that
Contraband Control base after a stay Kallo in a broadcast talk to the of 24 hours.
Finnish Army. the ovent, describes the battle an a clear strategical victory for the Bri-farmhouse surrounded by busy hens. a passer-by would see is a rambling
According to the Ministry of Econo- After greeting "the defenders of tish warships.
BERLIN, Dec. 17 (Reuter)-The verify her cargo, which did not in that they see more active help than mie Warfare, it was only necessary to our independence," the President said But down in the cellar it might be British steamer, Amble, 1,102 tons, clude any other goods of Germen they had hitherto obtained. change. Only the crowing of a cock struck a mine and sank, according to origin not covered by Japanese
Ar their cause is the cause of the nn Amsterdam despatel to the Ger-guarantees.
whole civilised world, they believed {man news agency.
that civilised nations could not leave Haiphong. The crew were rescued.
them to fight alone on this front, Shanghai
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ture and our whole social system, in which we have become rooted and which is now threatened with de- struction,
In recognition of the very gallont and successful fight against the. Ad- miral. Graf Spee, Commodore Har-
NEW DELHI, Dec. 17 (Reuter)- "But It is through these values that wood hos' been made. Knight Com-
Only aircraft operating on regular we have been able to contribute our mander of the Bath and promoted Zionist leader, Professor Zelig Bordet-over India in future.
LONDON, Dec. 17 (Reuter).The routes will be allowed to fly to or service to the world's culture. There Rear-Admiral,
fore we dare to hope that these com- sky, was elected President of the No other civil aircraft may By to mon principles of Justice will also bo Tho, Captains of the two other Board of Deputies of British Jows in Indio
without special permission commonly defended." cmshere have been made Companions succession to Mr. Neville Load, who from the Indian Director of Civil Madame, Kallio also addressed the of the Bath--Reuter Bulletin,
(retired recently,
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