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The SECOND EDITION
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FOUNDED 1841 No. 10072
四拜禮 號五十月二英港香
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940.
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WHITEAWAY'S
on Sight" Submarine Warfare on Ships of Neutral Countries
Sink on
GERMANY CLAIMS "THEORETICAL'
RIGHT TO SINK
U.S.
VESSELS
Dutch Liner First Victim MUSSOLINI CALLS UP 200,000 MEN Of Latest U-Boat Campaign AS TENSION CONTINUES IN BALKANS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, FEB. 14 (UP).—HITLER'S ORDERS TO ADMIRAL RAEDER TO. COMMENCE UNRESTRICTED WARFARE ON ALL NEUTRAL VESSELS Submitting TO THE BRITISH CONTRABAND CONTROL WILL APPLY, THEORETICALLY, TO SHIPS OF ALL NATIONS, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.
Under U.S. neutrality legislation, American ships are not permitted
to touch at any European ports except those in the Mediterranean.
But even if they submit to contraband control at Gibraltar whilst en route to
or from Mediterranean ports, German submarines will have the theoretical right, under the new "sink on sight" decision, to torpedo them.
In effect, Germany has
decided that all ships submitting to Allied contraband control will be treated as having
More Ships Torpedoed
In U-Boat Campaign
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
lost neutral status.
Whether U-Boat commandera will actually torpedo American or Japanese ships will, the same quarters state, "depend on circumstances."
Washington Silent
LONDON, Feb. 14 (UP).—British and neutral ship-right to sink. American liners. ping alike
suffered to-day from Germany's latest campaign of frightfulness on the High Seas.
The largest victim was the 12,300-ton Blue Star Line's steamer Sultan Star, which has been torpedoed 200 miles south of the Irish coast.
AN S.O.S. signal from the
Sultan Star, one of the largest MORE NAZI
merchant ships thus far sunk in the war. states that she was torpedoed shortly after 11 o'clock this morning.
The last wireless message was transmitted at 11.42 am,
It announced simply: "Crew now! leaving ship."
Tho Sultan Star, which Was launched at the Cummell Laird yards in 1930, was the largest freighter in the Blue Star deel.
SHIPS OUT
State Department oficials In Washington decline to comment on the German claim that she has the
Diplomatic quarters in the U.S. capital believe that the statement has been issued in an attempt to minimise the Importance of the torpedolog of the Netherlands Hiner Bergerdijk, which WOR sunk in the English Channel.
Britain Blamad
A later message from Berlin states) at Germany charges that Brillah warships, without any rights or justification whatsoever, are compeli-: wg neutral ships. to enter British harbour and are searching them on the High Sea thereby creating a now Brilish right to themselves,"
"Britain alone is solely responsible
suffer as a result of German attacks while en route to British harbour," the statement adds.
Attempts To Run for any druge neutral ships miny.
The Blockade
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 14
U.S. Not Concarned (Reuter)With 60 tons of WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Reuter). coffee, lard, cotion and grain-Government. quarters state that U- aboard, the German freighter, as could legally sink an American Tankers Destroyed
ship forced into a British Control port Almost simultaneously with the Uruguay, 5,846 tons of the only after it had been ascertained that sinking of the Sultan Star cane news Hamburg-South America Line, the vessel's cargo exceeded 50 per of the loss of the British tanker slipped out of Pernambuco tocent. of contraband destined for Cretafleld, of 10,101-tons, which was day. alther mined or torpedoed off the north-east coast of Scotland.
Only 23 of the crew of 41 were saved, Eighteen of the survivors have been sent to hospital with minor Injuries.
She was the last of ten German vessels lying there to sail.
At the same time, the Koenigsberg 6,460 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd freighter, sailed from the Amazon The tanker British Triumph (6.800-delta, but is reported to have stopped ions) Bank after bitting a mino, Five later at Gaivota Island some 75 miles of her crew of 42 are missing.
Germany's enemies.
Little concern is shown by the authorities at the statement by the Berlin spokesman defending the sink- Ing of the Dutch vessel, and saying] that Amerlenn ships holding the same. status would be fair vicilms.
Hitlor's New Orders AMSTERDAM, Feb. 14 (Reuter).
warfare on virtually all neutral The whereabouts of the La Coruna, vessels have been Bent to German
Among the neutral victims is the down the estuary, presumably await--New instructions that mean pitiless 2,300-ton Danish motor-vessel Kiring instructions from Germany.
ston Marak, well-known on the Far Eastern run. She was torpedo-
ed by German U-Boat in the North Ben
The crow of thirty men were re- scued.
Twice Torpadood
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LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter),--Five
a' Hamburg-South Amerlen Line submarine commandera, according to
east of 7,000 tons, an oil-burning news reaching here from Berila. passenger ship, are still unknown,
Harwood At Rio
Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, ein-
The Dutch
vessel, Bergerdijk, |- which was sunk on February 12, is believed to be the first victim of these new measures,
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JUGOSLAVIA
LIBYA
RUMANIA
BULGARIA
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TURKEY
EGYPT
BUEZ
SYRIA
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME, Feb. 14 (UP).—Italy has called up the 1919 and 1920 classes for regular military service.
Service is obligatory for all able-bodied men five feet or over ini height.
Diplomatic quarters acquaint- ed with Italo-Hungarian tions consider that the reported presence of a Hungarian military mission in Italy indicates an im-: pending Italo-Hungarian union with King Victor Emanuel as Emperor of Hungary, in similar fashion to the Italo-Albanian union.
It is understood that the Hungarian mission consists of General Staff technicians and its presence repro- sents the Drst step towards a union.
Well-informed circles in Budapest fare frankly amused by these reports, rela-and point out that the rumours of an anschluss have been circulating In Hungary for over a week.
Relations Worton Such a union is regarded
In Budapest as being extremely im probable at the present moment, especially in view of the fact that Italo-Hungarian relations, far from improving, have worsened as D result of Hungary's hostlie attitude towards Rumania.
Superhuman Defence By Finns As Reds Dent Lines
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men are believed to be missing from! Pasked that H.M'S. Hawkins was not ident, reporting what he was told of note sent to all belligerents us
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By 'RALPH FORTE
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
Indications of continued tension between Hungury and Rumania ap- peared
ared with publication of an inspired attack on Rumania in the Hungarian Government's official organ, the. "Pesterlloyd", In this morning's
The
Issue article accused the Rumanlatt police of arresting and torturing 30 Hungarian youths resident in the Temiscara district of Transylvania. The article was published under large headlines, undi alleges that Rumunian police raided a Hungar residence on the pretext that on ac- tive illegal organisation existed. All
the
they found, states the article, were some harmless Hungarian books,
200,000 MEN CALLED UP "SPECIAL"TO"THE""TELEGRAPH" ROME, Feb. 14 (Domel)-Mark- ing the first tangible result of meet-
WITH THE FINNISH FORCES ON THE KARE- LIAN ISTHMUS, Feb. 14 (UP.)—The Russians, after 13 days of intense battering which had no~~precedent: since 1918, have succeeded in denting the Finnish lines east of Summa, where they have captured several ings during the past days of the Ladoga since their disastrous defeat! Supreme National Defence Council, the Italian Government to-day called fortified positions.
last week. Finnish G.I.Q. claims, how- Finnish batteries on Koivisto Island to the colours 200,000 additional men
The mobilization is jever, that the strategical situn-shelled Russian troops who were at the 1010 and 1020 classes,
is believed tempting to advance along the ice on
have been made በዛ tion is
by these the Gulf of Finland. not affected
a precaution advances.
Air raids on the entire countryside against the increasing tension The actual Mannerheim Line is not continue and several hundred planes ported from the Balkans.
Count Csaky the Hungarian For- endangered, and its big guns are not visited various districts throughout |
eign Minister. is shortly visiting Rome heavily shelling the positions gained to-day. Eighteen were shot down. to again confer with Count Clano, by the Russlasts in an effort to pre-
Moro Mon Called Up their vent them from consolidating gains.
Elsewhere, ali Russian attacks have been repulsed,
of
No Man's · Land.is a desolate, shell-pocked waste
Russian corpses and lanks. Thousands of dead bodies lie between the Finnish and Russian trenches.
"As You Were"
to
re-
the Italian Foreign Minister,
Informed political circles state that
As a result of the admittedly Hungarian-Rumanian relations have heavy pressure on the Summa not yet taken a turn for the better front, Finland has decided to call and the forthcoming conversations up the 1897 class on February 20 between the Foreign Ministers of Posters announcing mobilisation Italy and Hungary will have Import-
were posted up to-day.
Religious Farvaur STOCKHOLM, Feb. 14 (Reuter),—
At the opening of the third week of Apart from the 13% inlles of front the Russian offensive against the before Summa, where the Russian Mannerheim Line, the Finns are offensive has been most intense, the Bituation elsewhere in Fininnd is "as you were"
The Russians have made no further attempts to advance north of Lake
Neutral Ships
Control Bases
At
fighting with something like religious fervour, which seems to be lending them strength beyond the ordinary powers of endurance.
A Finnish officer who has returned from the front says that the army has undergone a striking change of spirit since the beginning of the war, The heavier the fighting the greater
the unity.
The l wear old wireless operator when a British warship was eighted.(sank the Bergerdijk could not have sent an amendment of internations 10. the Contraband Commitice con- ja front, they are still faced with
ant effects on the Balkan situation.
LATEST
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Hitler Rejects Pan- American Note BERLIN, Feb. 14 (Reuter) The Telegraal's" Berlin correspon-Germany..replied to-day to the
Attempts by the Russians to ad- vance over ice towards the flanks Wilhelmstrasse, formulates the regards the establishment of a
of the Mannerheim Line have ap- the British Triumph, a London taniser man ships, thus ruling out the possi- German standpoint as follows:
with disaster. The of 8,601 tons, which capsized after bility that the cruiser could have bound or bound for a neutral county, the Americas.
a neutral ship is homeward 300-mile security zone around LONDON, Feb. 14 (British Wire-parently met
less)-On February 13, there were Finns put in shells which threw men an explosion in the North Sco.
been concerned in the scuttling of the
It will be torpedoed if it has can- Twenty-one members of the crew Wolfsburg which, like the Wakama, traband aboard."
The reply, welconies the desire of 20 neutral ships in United Kingdom and tanks through the lee Into the were landed at an East Coast port is reported to have opened her sea-
contraband control bases, of which water. tho republies to malataln The correspondent believes that the neutrality and says that
Although the Russians have now strict 14 had been there five days or less. and 21 at unother port:
cocks off the north coast of Brazil
commander of the submarine which teroplated regulation would repre
During the week ended February Inatolied advanced posts on the Sum- told how twice in two months he had It is learned unofficially that H.M.Sneted on his own responsibilty since w
sidered the cargoes of 123 ships about ten miles of continuous block- been rescued from all tankers sunk Hawkins will remain at Rio for 4 the action was opposed to all tradi- by explosions. This had been his hours instead of 24 as at first report tons of the German Navy. Hence he
which had arrived since February 3 houses, tank traps and other formid- German warships, have observed und 32 outstanding from the previous ubio defences. second voyage on a British boat and ed. The need for slight repairs to her must have been acting on instructions International regulations. They there week. on each occasion he had been ship-machinery is given na the reason.
[amounting to a sort of a "blank che-ore cannot be considered as different
que" for destruction.
from other belligerents, for Britain In 97 cases, the entire cargoes were "HITLER" IN ENGLAND The Germans say that the British and Feance have possessions on the released on first consideration or
continent must hold up ships to search them at American
and have after enquiries. Altogether 74 conCR Important bases there, Isca lustead of taking them to a con- establ|sliedereforo, suggests that advance copy of manifesta, and in 60 i
were dealt with under the system of FOR A SPOT OF LEAVE trol point in the Downą,
Germany Britain
and France, under guarantee, such eases the vessels were released Merciless Revenge
of the United States, should accept an subject to formal checking of the LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter).-Hitler is now on shore leave Dutch ships are thus faced with the obligation not to use these possessions original, manifesta.
In England. No, it is not Der Fuehrer but a cat from II.M.S. LONDON, Feb. 14. (Router)-Hus prospect of being mercilessly, torpe- and Islands as starting points or basch
two cala, born on her last trip Repulse.
to Valva of Navicorts by enemy aircraft at Great Yarmouth Majesty the King yesterday presented doed without explanation if they for military action.
Tho, Repulse, which has been sunk Ho la called Hitler, roadstead only a fortnight ego. new colours to a battalion of the Irish cater Britain's sphere of sea.control
A reporter who went on board Quards on the parade ground of which, practically speaking, extends
LONDON, Feb. 14 (British Wire-time and time again by Goebbels but Jover the whole world, LONDON, Feb; 14 (Neuter) j="Wo
ESBJERG, Feb. 14 (UP)The less).The First U.S.A. ship with is otherwise unharmed, is now in H.M.S. Repulse reports that she "is The King then went to the Tower Theoretically, American
ships Danish Navy announces that a Danish her cargo completely covered by dock so that she can get a reff and quite safe and sound" despite Goeb of London where he presented colours touching at Gibraltar are liable to be inspection boat is bringing four Ger- navicerts arrived at an Allied con- her men can got shore love bel
torpedoed under the new rule.
Half of the crew returned, from An officer told him that although mau pilots who were forced to land trabant control base with Feeling in Holland is particularly in Ure Faero island. The men wil cargo destined for Italy and Turkey shore leave to-day and the other half the ship had no herole sagas to sing...
she had put in 130 days' steaming be biller that Germany Bersistently be interned at Hald where there is and was held up only two and a half are now enjoying their holiday.
with them went one of the ship's fore returning to the base. PLEASE Turn To Page 5. big Internment camp.
wrecked.
On December 2, 1930, he was an baletnnt wireless operator on the tanker San Calisto, which struck a mine and cank. He received internal ) injuries necessitating an operation.
He had only just rocovered when ;
he joined the British Triumph.
The British Triumpli was" atjaciced.
Naval 'Defenco Plini
are ceaselesly engaged with plans for putting into execution defensive measures and counter-measures. These can only be judged by PLEASE Tum To Page 5.
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