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DECEMBER 29, 五拜禮 號九廿月二十英港香 FRIDAY,
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GERMANY, BRITAIN ENGAGED IN WORLD'S GREATEST NAVAL RACE
BUT HITLER CAN'T BUILD
15 MILLION HAVE DIED
WARSHIPS QUICK ENOUGH IN THE LAST four centuries,
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, DEC. 28 (REUTER) —SHROUDED IN THE DEEPEST SECRECY, THE NAVAL YARDS OF THE ALLIES AND GERMANY ARE WORKING UNDER FULL PRESSURE FOR 24 HOURS A DAY AND SEVEN DAYS A WEEK IN THE MOST DRAMATIC NAVAL RACE FOR CENTURIES.
Germany is known to be producing at least four 35,000 tons battle- ships, two of which were launched in 1939, namely the Bismarck and the Von Tirpitz. At least one more have probably been laid down.
They are carrying eight 15-inch guns with supplementary armament and
four aeroplanes with launching catapults.
They will have a speed of 30 knots.
Peace Now WON'T BE READY FOR YEAR Would Be Suicide For Allies
Despite the desperate efforts of the naval staffs, it is not believed that the Bismarck and the Von Tirpitz will | be completed before the end of 1940.
Germany is also constructing two aircraft carriers, at least five 10,000 cruisers and is turning out U-boats as fast as possible to replace the losses.
She is directing so much energy to turning out -Says American U-boats that she has possibly slowed down the rate of production of the larger
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Reuter). The "Times"" Washington correspondent says that at the annual meeting of the American
NAZI SHIP ships. SCUTTLED
Political Science Associa- Another Big Loss For
tion, Mr. Clifton Utley, of
Mercantile Marine the Chicago Council of
LONDON, Dec. 29 (Reuter) Foreign Relations, declared
Paris-Radlo unnounced last night that the Allied Powers that the 7,000 ton Hamburg would take a "major step motor-ship Duisburg, which left toward imperial suicide" if a Spanish port in a desperate a European peace was made attempt to steal through the blockade, has been scuttled by
now.
Britain hos live 35,000 tons battleships nearing completion, namely-King George V,-Prince! of Wales, Duke of York, Jellicoe
15.000,000 people have perished in earthquakes,
Wednesday's disaster in Asia Minor is the worst record- ed since the Tokyo earthquake on September 1, 1923, when 156,000 died,
The two greatest carth- quakes recorded in history have occurred in Kansu pro- vince in China, in the present century, In 1920 more than 350,000 people were wiped out while, on May 23, 1927. the province suffered another tall of over 100,000.
Other big earthquakes this century have been;"
May 8, 1908
Martiniqu
December 3, 1903
Killed
30,000
77,283
-Messing January 13, 1915.........
Abruzzi (Italy) 24,000 September 1, 1023
Tokyo
150,000
1,475
2,000
July 23, 1930
Naples
March 3, 1933
Japan... April 28, 1835
Formoss
3,185
May 31, 1935
Quella
38,000
World Again Rocked By Subterranean Collapses
40,000 DEAD IN TURKISH EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ·
OF
AN UNPARALLELED SERIES
EARTHQUAKES IN WIDELY SEPARATED PARTS OF THE WORLD. INDICATES THAT THE SUBTERRANEAN "AREA OF WEAKNESS" BELOW THE EARTH'S CRUST IS COLLAPSING TO AN UNPRECEDENTED
DEGREE.
Further earthquakes are reported to-day from the Rand in South Africa, from the Bolsena mountains in Italy, from Salinas, Monterey and the Pacific grove in California and from Santa Cruz in South America.
Earthquakes have already occurred during the past week in South America, California, the Banda Sea-the latter was one of the heaviest shocks recorded for many years but was attended by no loss of life because it occurred in an uninhabited area-from Tangiers, and from Soviet Russia..
80 CITIES RAZED
In Asia Minor, where eighty cities and villages have been razed to the ground, the death roll has now risen to the highest number recorded since the Tokyo disaster
1 in 1923..
Imperial Headquarters Keep Own Losses Quiet
and Beatty, mounting 10 14-inch JAPANESE CLAIM CHINA'S
1
guns entirely of new model with effective range greater than the old 15-inchers,
Special attention is dirceted agðinst
attacks, and to meet the ash- water line is 10 inches, thick."
The speed of these warships is 30 knots.
marine menace. the armour at the
Also planned are four larger bottle-
WAR DEAD
1,218,462
An area of a quarter of
4 million square miles of Asia Minor has become the tomb of 40,000 people.
The
eity of Erzincan, with a population of 100,000, has been partly sealed by the military authorities.
Thousands of survivors were thrown into uncontrollable panic
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TOKYO, DEC. 29 (DOMEI).—A TOTAL OF 1,218,462 DEAD HAVE BEEN yesterday when further shocks ABANDONED BY CHINESE ARMIES IN THE BATTLEFIELDS BETWEEN were recorded.
Dend bodies are littering the" THE BEGINNING OF THE SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT IN JULY, 1937, AND THE END OF NOVEMBER, THIS YEAR, ACCORDING TO A COMMUNIQUE streets and the ravaged towns, He predicted that the conflict the crew.
ISSUED BY THE ARMY DEPARTMENT OF THE IMPERIAL HEADQUAR- The vessel, belonging to the ships carrylig, 16-inchers, These could continue through 1940
battleships are in possession of vary| TERS. Line, was high speed. with losses for all, including Hamburg-Amerika
Pyesterday antlered to heave to by neutrals, and peace for none.
Mr. Utley pat bluntly what others British patrol ship, according are now saying us to the unlikelihood that any early peace initiative fromTA
to the Parls report.
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The Dulbur endeavoured a neutral source could succeed. escape, but finding that the Brillsh vessel was overtaking her, she
The general effect is to lend force
to the reminder from President abandoned the attempt. Roosevelt that a "specifle plan" is
Her seacocks were opened and the
The Lion and Temeraire are already ald downs, and also a vast number of antaller warships are being turned out to meet the. U-boat menace.
They are being produced in such numbers that the Navy regards with equanimity Germany's vaunted sub-
not in sight and from the Pope that was in a sinking condition when her į marine programme. the "opportune moment" must be crew were taken off,
awolted.
War Must Continuc
What is implicit in the President's Economic Warfare
letter of December 23 and the Pope's address to the College of Cardinals, says Walter Lippminn, the
well known columnist, Is that "the war will continue since Hiller and Stalin are as yet not prepared to meet the indispensable condition of peace reparation of the wrongs done to Poland, Finland and Czecho Slovakia."
Continues
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
AID FROM ITALIANS
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the or surrendered to Adding to the figures those who have been wounded, deserted Japanese or have otherwise been last, the total losses sustained by Chinese forces are estimated at 3,000,000, the communique claims.
New York Clogged With Allied War Materials
·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
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Reviewing the activities of the Japanese army in the past year, the communique makes the (ambigues claim that following the fail of the Wuhan cities, the Chinese G.H.Q. have been com- polled "by circumstances continue resistence."
to
DURING the offensive on Hainan Island, about 1,000 Chinese troops have been repulsed with 230 dead! abandoned and 30 taken prisoner. engaged by Japanese forces during
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UP).-Sixty Lockheed bombers, 1,500 Studebaker trucks, 1,000 White trucks,
About 10 Chinese divisions were thousands of trench diggers and tons of food supplies
now clogging Hupch.
the tactical operation nour Anlu In 1,750 Chinese abandoned are among the war cargoes which are
fifteen acres of ground on dead and 85 prisoners were taken. Staten Island.
Encountering about 7 divisions of They are awaiting shipment to Chinese troops, the Japanese troops. killed 0,117 Chinese In the tactical; Britain and Franco,
operation on Hatchow, in Klangsu
LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-The Volunteers Reported To Ministry of Economic Warfare on-
Have Arrived ncunces that on December 28 there were 40 neutral ships in the three Contraband Control bases, including
HELSINGFORS, Dec. Post-War Order
27 Dutch.
During last week, the cargoes of (Reuter).It is freely reported President Roosevelt spoke of the liberation of those. countries as the 123 ships were examined together that at least 2,000 Italian volun- USHERING IN 1940
teers have arrived to light day that would "loosa the captives with 20 outstanding cargoes. and consume their conquerors in a
tion
In no core WOJ
the entire ergo against the Soviets, but this is CARNIVALS
French Seizures LONDON, Dec. 28 (British Wire-
fire of their own kindling but Lipp-seized while in 80 cases the entire not confirmed as yet in official
circles. man is at one with the Pope in the carpocs were released. bellet that the extent of the repain. come should not be deter-
At the same time, three mined by the conquerors alone.. Idas)According to a Paris message, Swedish volunteer contingents "Unless the rest of the world the Contraband Control of the have arrived, and a large Danish participates in founding a post-war French Navy held up 10 ships and ambulance unit is on the way. order, there will be no
enduring Intercepted 10,000 tons of goods des- settlement in a world which will tined for Germany during the week need, a programme of relief, recon- ended December 24, struction and spiritual succour be- Franco has so far intercepted 402,- yond anything that was ever under-000 tons of German-bound me taken in history," he says.
chandise since the beginning of war.
the
# Roosevelt in sending Mr. Taylor to Romo te prepare
ground and he is enlisting the East Africa's War
influence of American churches to the same ond,
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· Ho will also have to see to it that Congress, which will meet next month, can rise above party politics to the same: high ultimate purpose.
Expenditure
GALORE
Record Bookings At The Hotels active as well as moral support have The appeals from Finland for
HONGKONG'S FIRST WAR NEW received a reply in the broadcast by the Norwegian Foreign Minister He YEAR'S EVE WILL ALSO BE ITS
hid that Norway must pursue MERRIEST AND MADDEST,~- course of non-participation because This is indicated by the fact her whole delence system is, based on
that bookings at the over- that iden
Nevertheles Norway joins whole-popular Gripps (Hongkong heartedly in all appeals for moral Hotel) are so heavy for New Year's Eve that the Management
and humanitarian ald.
NAIROBI, Dec. 28 (Reuter)---An
has been forced to announce that offéisi stálement reveals. that, with certain exceptions, the "war-tim ax- penditure of East African territories the Governments of the Bratt accepted after 7 p.m. to-night.
**Quarantino restrictions imposed by no further reservations can bo MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29 (Router), will be met from Imperial funds. Settlements and Federated Malay MyakkaGANAGARA -All Ichools In Mexico alving The Governments will be asked to states against arrivals from Tang Owing to the extremely heavy religious. Instruction have been pay only 28 per cent. annually above kong on recount of cholers have been pressure on space in the Grill Rest banned by an oficial decree,
their peace-line military expenditure, removed
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The war materials 80 far Province. awaiting shipment are valued at About 20 divisions of Chinese US$18,500,000. Millions of dol. troops were engaged by Japanese forces during the ofensive on Nun- lars more have been ordered.
chong. Chinese dead totalled, 12,300, An additional 60,000 trucks whild 2,870 Chinese prisoners ware are expected at Staten Island in taken. : January.ONE
About 20 divisions of Chinese troops fought. In the Japanese In addition to the large supeftensive neet Siangyang in northern plies for the Allies, twenty Hupeh. Chinese abandoned: 17,500 Sikorsky bombers were loaded dead and 1,007 Chinese troops
Werb aboard the freighter Eros to-day. In the Swatow bienalve, Japanese
taken prisoner. They are destined for Finland. defeated about 2,000 Chinese troops, of whom 600 were killed and, 107 taken prisoner.
PILGRIMAGE TO
MECCA STARTS sive near Luion in Shansi, Chinche
1000.
About – 130,000 Chinese troops fought in
"the Japanese -- offen-
abandoned '12,700 dead and CARIO, Dec. 28 (Reuter) The Chinese prisoners were taken. meccs was marked today by the * stort, of the -annual: pilgrimage sto
ceremony of the Holy Carpet, which will be laid over the Kaaba, the most holy relle of Mostemdom, in the der, fourt yard of the Mosque at Mecca.
Hongkong
During the operation near the bora. of Hongkong about 1,000 Chin-i PLEASE Tum To Pard 2.
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