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FOUNDED, 1981 一拜禮 晚六廿月二英港香 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1940. 日九十月正
No, 10001.
Unnamed Heroes of Royal Air Force In Great Battle
LONE
FIVE
BOMBER FIGHTS
MESSERSCHMIDTS
LONDON, FEB. 25 (REUTER).—THE R.A.F.
THE MOST MOVING PICTURE OF THE WAR CARRIED OUT ANOTHER EXTENSIVE FLIGHT
THE aircraft carrier Courageous, struck by a torpedo when on patrol on September 17, sinking in the sunset.
She has heeled over, her crew are scrambling down the ship's site and into the boats. Many have leaped into the sea and are swimming towards the escorting destroyer from which this picture was taken.
the bridge. He did not The captain, Captain W. T. Makeig-Jones, can be seen on leave, and went down with his ship, saluting the V hite Ensign. A few minutes later the Courageous turned turtle and sank, carrying 515 officers and men with her. Six hundred and eighty-seven others were saved. This picture was only recently released,
OVER HELIGOLAND BIGHT AND NORTH-WEST GERMANY YESTERDAY.
This time they met with some opposition but six separate attacks were beaten off and all the British planes got home safely after completing their task.
One Bristol Blenheim bomber was attacked by five Messerschmidt 109 fighters while it was returning from Heligoland Bight and the Ger- man Friesian Islands with some of the most valuable photographs yet taken over enemy territory.
.
Despite the superior speed of the enemy fighters and the fact that one machine-gun was practically out of action, the British plane got away.
The enemy was first sighted by the R.A.F. plane when it was flying in a clear patch of sky 2,000 feet up.
FANTASTIC CLAIMS
Nazis Sink British Merchant Fleet !
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Feb. 26 (UP).-- Germany has "sunk" so
many British steamers that she will have to start sinking the British merchant marine all over again! soon--if her fantastic claims are to continue at the present rate.
She has just issued official claims tor, the first five months of Warfare..
During that time, she claims, 1.800.- 000 tons of British and neutral ton- mage has been sent to the bottom.
The pilot immediately dived
his plane towards sea level to
| prevent an attack from below and to restrict the movements of the Germans.
On the way down une plane attack- cd it from above and the others followed, three on the port side and another at the stern.
After this attack they gained height again and dived down again from both sides.
The R.A.F. plane, wheeling to Jeft and right, fought them off by turning its prose towards each attacking plane as it came down.
Escaped In Cloud Bank started, the British pilot saw a bank Three minutes after the ballle
of clouds 3,000 feet above him.
He decided to take cover in them and roared up towards the clouds-in series of steep right-handed turns. One Messerschmidt promptly at- tacked him from above and another attacked him from below. Yes, Yes. Of Course
Beating
them
PIT the R.A.F. machine continued up and entered "The sorrows of the Britishi Ad-the cloud bank. miralty for the future of navigation Here the Nazis lost contact and had are fully Justified," the communique to abandon the chase. reports.
The R.A.F. machine returned home
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THIS IS A RELIC OF 1918
THIS HUGE SHELL dug up on a farm in the penceful Somme valley Jooks like one from the Allies" own giant rall guns in the present war. But it is a relic, just discovered, of a war that is 25 years old. If explosive is found to be still good, it will go into a new shell,
ALLIED-SOVIET WAR BELIEVED INEVITABLE
SPECIAL TO
THE "TELEGRAPH"
ISTANBUL, Feb. 25 (Domei).-Turkish
newspapers now believe that clashes between It is remarkable that the losses of with six bursts of bullets in it but no Allied forces and the Soviet Union are inevitable. ships have regularly, increased, es- jone was injured. The photographs It is believed certain that the Allies will not hesitate to start military action against Baku, the Soviet port in
FINNS ADMIT NEW SILENT SERVICE tally of late.
WITHDRAWAL
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
HELSINGFORS, Feb. 26 (Domei).—Finnish G.H.Q. admitted carly this morning that increasing Red pressure has necessitated withdrawal to new lines of defence at several points along the Karelian Isthmus.
The communique states that the retreat has been made in accordance with tactical necessity.
Unofficial circles believe that the Mannerheim Line defences are becoming increasingly compromised.
Now Soviot Offensive
HELSINGFORS, Feb. 20 (UP).--
Last night's offeinl Finnish
com-
munique claims that local attacks on the Karellan Isthmus were repulsed
with heavy Red losses.
Soviet aerial activity was confined to northern Finland,-where damage was slight.
The Russians have launched a new offensive across the border at Pun- nosjaervi. The communique claims, however, that they have been hurled back in this sector by the arrival of
fresh Finnish reinforcements..
Soviet Advance Hold By Finns
"The losses inflicted on British ships
BECOMES GAGGED by the German Air Force are not in-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
LONDON, Feb. 26 (UP), --Coinciding with a poster campaign warning the ser- vices against dangerous gossip, the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Dudley Pound, yesterday paid a visit to a naval base on the cast coast of Britain,
He asked a bearded sea- man what his duties were.
"I'm not allowed to say, Sir. We are doing Admiralty work," the sailor replied.
Is Reich Mediating
Finnish War?
In
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26
of
(UP).-Rumours possible German attempts to mediate in the war in Fin- land have been becoming more strong during the past few days.
Such "ince-saver" would, per- hops, be the capture of Viborg, after Some circles believe that which Hitler would step in and call HELSINGFORS, Feb. 25 (Router). Sweden's categorical refusal to a halt. -The Finnish Fositions on the eastern aid Finland is connected with Nazis Prepared To Use Force sector of the Mannerheim Line are these rumours, as it is thought In the western sector, where the that Sweden's decision was "too Russians broke through in thei
pat" to be explained without now prepared to mediate in the Vicinity of Summa, the Finns appear;
atiit intact.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 25 (UP)--Hitler is
Russo-Finnish War, according to the
to have held up any further advances some assurance having been re-well-informed Diplomatic Corres-
and the Reda are not yet in touch with ceived from Hitler.
pondent of the "Sunday Despatch." the main Finnish defences in front of It is believed in these circles that
The Correspondent reports that Viborg
Hitler has told Sweden that Germany Stalin is prepared to accept German The Soviet lines in front of will not let Russia press on to the mediation, provided it attains a Viborg form a salient with Koivisto Arctic harbours.
""face-saving" victory for the Red Army. as the apex.
Although the Reds have again saving" victory, even though it may The "Sunday Despatch" states that reilerated their claim to the capture of be on a smaller sente than her original Hitler is attempting to hasten the end
PLEASE Turn To Page 7. demands Indicaled.
PLEASE Turn To Page 7.
But Russia must have
" "face-
cluded in the 1,800,000 tons sunk,"
were intact,
Five Against One
the communique adds as an after-authoritative description of the air are shipped, in the event of Russian supplies to Germany LONDON, Feb. 25 (Reuter). An the Black Sea from whence the rich Baku oilfield supplies
thought.
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battle states that the British bomber
way attacked from above, the left and assuming greater propor- astern by five Messerschmidt fighters tions.
of the 109 type.
Despite the enemy's superior speed,
In the meantime,
the
2 INDIANS
the fact that it was hit six times by Turkish military authorities machine-gun
un Are and that one of the
British machine-guns was virtusily are strengthening the de- SHOT DEAD
out of action, the bomber succeeded fences of the Dardanelles
in evading its pursuers and returned
buse
Its safely. ta
with valuable and Bosphorus Strait as photographs which it had previously well as in Istanbul itself. obtained over enemy territory.
All members of the crew escaped Officers of the Turkish High Injury.
Sweden's Exchange Precautions
to
Sensational Wanchai Shooting Affray
Command, accompanied by Bri- Two Indians are dead and a military third in hospital suffering from
tish
and French
engineers, arrived here to-day to gunshot wounds as the result of
re-organise local defences.
Altmark Protest Presented
that the
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 25 (Reuter).— The Riksdag to-day approved the Swedish Government's measures safeguard the country's exchange to LONDON, Feb. 25 (Reuler).The ensure the imporlation of vital com-Foreign Office announces modities and to provide for pur-Norwegian Minister to London called! chases abroad for the nation's de-on Lord Halifax on Saturday and Тепес.
presented him with a note from the Only authorised dealers may buy Norwegian Government on the Alt- and sell foreign exchange and then mark case. only for special purposes.
ja sensational shooting affray in Jaffe Street, Wanchai last night.
Murder and suletto are indicated in the police report.
The victims are:
DEAD
Santa Singh, Watchman No. 331; Lall Singh, Watchman No. 316;
WOUNDED
Inder Singh, Walchman No. 389.
According to the police report, Lall The Norwegian Minister also re-Singh ran amok shortly after three The measures re be enforced plied to certain enquiries which were o'clock this morning. immediately.
made at an interview held inst week.
He shot Santa Singh through the chest and then turned his 28 revolver on Inder Singh, who received bullet wound in the thigh.
SO THE NAZIS GAVE
A SILVER LOVING CUP!
The shooting occurred on the third |floor of 93. Jufte Road.
After theshooting La Singh apparently ran up to the roof, still Larmed with his revolver, and then fed across the interyming-roofs to the top of 77, Jaffe Road.
li body was discovered there later this morning. In die right hand was his revndvar and de bin wound through the head.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” COPENHAGEN, Feb. 25 (UP).~The German Air Ministry, through the German Legation in Copenhagen, has forwarded a silver loving cup to Captain Méyer of the Danish steamer Feddy which | rescued two German pilots in the North Sea on October &
In the meantime, however, German airmen on February 9 killed
- Lall Singh 'wan'atiti adlane seksom Aule several of the Feddy's crew when the ship was en route to England. They strafed the ship with their machine-guns and the ship narrowly body was discovered and the war immediately taken to Quenya – Muty escaped destruction. She was rescued by British Vassals and brought 11ospital, 319 diet in hospitvi os
# tò a British port,