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February 27, 1940.
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The “Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 27, 1EDO,
FIRST FULL AND OFFICIAL A Look Through STORY OF ALTMARK Thrilling ActionWESTERN FRONT
Described
LONDON, Feb. 26 (British Wireless).—A description of the release by II.M.S. Cossack of prisoners from the Altmark was given this evening in a broadcast by "Naval Eye-witness," who related how, but for a description of the Altmark given by the Graf Spee's prisoners who were released at Montevideo, that ship would have passed from knowledge until she and the 299 prisoners had reached Germany.
But that description was known to the three R.A.F. reeun- naissance machines which on February 16 sighted a ship answering to the Altmark's description. Diving low over the stern they were able to read her name and reported her position, On the afternoon of that day, the force of destroyers sent to intercept her sighted. the Altmark, She was then steaming south, hugging the Norwegian coast and was escorted by two Norwegian gunboats..
At a point where the southern end of Norway curves a little east, there is a little flord called Josing Flord. The entrance is only 200 yards wide and the inlet extends luland a little over a mile.
NAZI CONCESSION TO RED CROSS
NAZIS READY FOR ATTACKS?
LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 26 (Reuter)-Great German acti- vity on the right bank of the Moselle is reported by the cor
Zeftung" from Remich. respondent of the "Obermosel
He declares that trains were
Columns of lorries, Infantry and never so numerous and long.
munition valry are visible, white
supply columns are reported to be moving day and night.
and
at
The Echternach correspondent of the same paper reports with all re- serve that Marshal Goering and four Generals halted on Saturday Echternach bridge, which lends across the Sauer- River from Germany into Luxembourg,
Busy Day For The King
Presents Awards, Tours Naval Yard
THREE TIMES ATTACKED
LONDON, Feb, 20 (Neuter). -The British trawler, Persian Empire, which came back to port yesterday morning, suffer- ed no less than three attacks from Nazi planes.
The first attack took place as far back as January 12 when Nazi planes tried to bomb and machine-gun the ship.
Last Thursday, it was attack- ed once more and again on Saturday.
On this last occaslon, three R.A.F. fighters came up and the Nazi plane disappeared so quick- ly that the trawler was unable to bring into action its. new minchine-gun.
Japan And The Dutch E. I.
New Treaty Reported Contemplated
In an interview with M. Pasteur, he was naked whether he considered "a grippo" (influenza) was ocensioned by bacteria. The Professor smiled sar- donically and shrugged his shoulders, but said nothing. On being asked what la considered the best remedy for the "Let men and mandy, he remarked: women both quit smoking tobacco anil smoke camphor instead, and they will probably escape the pest.
25 YEARS AGO
event
Feb. 27, 1915, Writing In tilo "Public Ledger" (I'hiladelphia), John S. Steele says.
Will England be able eventually to BLarve Germany out? Probably the re- nult of the war depends on the answer to this question as much and more than on the leadership and the of the opposed qualities Aghting armice, it in quite conceivable that from a military point of view the war might end in a deadlock, and that both Germany and the Allies might be forced to an inconclusivo peace because neither could defeat the other, K. however, England, with her command of the sen, can deprive Germany of her supplies of food and raw material, Germany will hu forced to accept the Allies' terms of face economic ruin.
The London steamer Deptford was blown up of Scarborough yesterday and Bank in twenty minutes. (By n carloan coincidence the new Deptford, which was launched for the same owners in 1031 and was named after the 1515 vie
Inst ilm, was sunk by a Nuzi minu month.-Ed.)
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 27. 1030. The Hongkong Derby was won by the favourite, Diann Bay, in record time.: The race was one of the most thrilling pony SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
In recent years, Mr. Dunbar's TOKYO, Feb. 26 (Domel)--Con- dashing past the post three lengths in siderable interest is being displayed front of Mr. Chan, Tin-sion's Wisdom BERLIN, Feb. 20 (Router).~It is
in an article in the London "Sunday Stag with Peppermint third, two and The Altmark turned into this Flord, announced that the Gennan Govern-
Times", claiming that Japan is nego- a half lengths away.
The time recorded was 3 minutes 7 accompanied by her Norwegian esment has given the American Red
LONDON, Feb. 26 (Reuter).tiating with the Netherlands for a curt. It seemed Incredible to the Cross permission to carry out relief
for the distanco by two-fifths of a senior officer of the Consuck that the work in the "territory of the GovernTheir Majesties the King and new and comprehensive treaty which seconds, which beat the previous best
Queen stood on the quayside at will not only define relations between orth
the two countries but will also cm-
(A new record was established this Altmark should be ceremoniously ment General" of Poland. conducted on a voyage to Germany Representatives of the American
organisation will be allowed to enter an East Coast port to-day and body a clear-cut Japanese denuncia-year by Mr. Meller's Satinlight which by Norwegian men-of-war, if she is icrritory to distribute supplies talked with five men who were tion of territorial ambitions in the wan the race in 2.50.4-Ed.) really had 300 prisoners on board,
Netherlands East Indies. The Cossick accordingly followed from America in conjunction with rescued from Altmark,
A spokesman of the Foreign Office the, German Red Cross.
Looking little worse for their ex- the Norwegian gunboats into Josing Flord to ask for enlightenment. The duty free and at reduced transport about their imprisonment,
Theat supplies will be adnutted perience, the men laughed and joked stated to-day that negotiations have not yet commenced, but admitted Altmark proceeded some distance up
** | charges. Flord and the two
His Majesty the King also visited that there was a possibility that they gunboats turned to meet the Cossack. The Pomerania, Posen and Upper Silest, und decorated eight more naval heroes
The territory indicated excludes a dockyard in the east of Scotland would open within a few weeks. Norwegian officer stated I emphatically which were annexed to the Reich including Commander L. A. K. that the Altmarks had been examined after the September "Blitzkrieg," on the previous day,-that-she--was
the
nuthorised to travel through terri-
forial waters with a Norwegian pilot
on board, that she carried no arma-ed at them.
Boswell who received the D.S.O, and Licut Commander D. L. Sommerez who was given the Distinguished Ser- For Gallantry Details of the deeds done by the recipients of these honours were no: announced but each award was given
Realising the futility.jvice Cross. ment and that he was ignorant of of it, he shrugged his shoulders and the presence of any British prisonera, threw it on deck.
Admiralty's Curt Roply
How Altmark Ground
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficiul Summary report issued yesterday says;
Business on a most extensive sculo
British surrender of the lease of Wol. hatwel and the rendition of the island to the Chinese Government is not yet definitely settled, but Dr. C. T. Wang'a
recent announcement on the subject seems accurate and thero can he little doubt that a final agreement will short- ly be reached.
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IL is revealed today that the horse- power-of the Rails Royce engine in the Supermarine So, which won the Schnot- der Trophy. and also the world speed That record at September, is 1,000.
for so small a
power is enormous imachine.
5 YEARS AGO
Feb. 27, 1935. Accepting the statement without The Captain and officers were for gallantry.
A communique has been issued by the question the Cossack Immediately found on the bridge working the Wearing the uniform of Admiral of has been reported to-day and is easily Italian Government and addressed to withdrew outside territorial waters engine telegraphs, and they sullenly the Fleet, His Majesty the King after the record for a long period. At the Adils Abeba, capital of Abyssinio, which has so far boen indifferent to the and asked for Admiralty Instructions.ndmitted that they had British pri-wards boarded a warship and inspect-eloso enquiries are still well in
threat of war from the direction of They were curt and perfectly clear. soners on board, The telegraphed an eatablishment where 500 ap- evidence, though in some instances a Rome, explaining that na a result of
tire being trained If the British prisoners were not were promptly stopped, but by this prentices
as alight casing off is noticeable. This the new Faxclat laws in Italy the coun- Не also visited an latter feature, however, can probably try a capable of placing 8,000,000, men on board the Allmark, where were time the Altmark had so much stern artiflcers which the training be attributed to some profit taking, in the field. they? Only one person could answer
way that she grounded, stern aerodrome the question and that was the Cap-first, on the rocks on the opposite station for the Fleet Air Arm where having regard to the fact that gener-
side of the Flord.
le Inspected a parade of Air Force ally there lins been a substanial rise The Cossack again entered Josing The Cossack cast off and slipped officers and men, naval oflcers and in prices during the past few days. Fiord to solve the mystery. A beam cicar of the Altmark avold shating the Women's Hoyal Naval Service.
tain of the Altmark.
of the Cossack's searchlight imroe- her fate an the rocks. While the
diately located the Altmark in a pack
First Lieutenant was getting control
of the bridge, a Ideutenant and a
of lee at the far end of the Flord. The Altmark also switched on gunner were roundling up the Ger- searchlight and directed it on the Cossack's bridge, trying
lo impede
man crew between decks.
Suddenly a shot rang out in one her navigation and began signalling of the alloy-ways and the gunner fell
He was takeni with a Morse lump the rather redun-seriously wounded.
doctor attended him. Little melees
D
NAZI CANARD DENIED IN H.K.
An official denial of the statement munde by the German radio
on
kint Information that she was in to the sick bay, where as February 21 that 27 Chinese had their Norway.
One Norwegian gunbont went near were going on all over the ship as savings talten from them by the to the Cossack and the latter asked the Germans, were overpowered and French authorities when they left permission to aend Joint British placed under guard. A boat, fall of Marseilles for China, has been re- and ceived by the French Consulate- and Norwegian search party on board Germans, had been lowered, the Allmark in the Norwegian gun- dropped through the fee, smashing General In Hongkong from Paris.
It was pointed out that no such boot. The Norwegian Captain re-t
These
men stayed where they
to the life lines. incident occurred and since the start piled that his ship was not able to were, clinging rench the Altmark through the Ice, Another party escaped with riffes of the war as many as 27 Chinese Theyve never left Marseilles logether in but he finally consented to go in the ncross the ice to the shore.
one party. Chinese who have left Cossack and accompany the boarding were presumably the armed guard have done so in small numbers at
from the Grat Spee put on board to different times. party.
guard the prisoners. They kept up Daring Manoeuvra The Altmark was now manoeuvr- an intermittent fire from land but
.
ing stern first out of the ice towards hit nobody,
Once the officers were under guard, the First Lieutenant
the Cossack in an endeavour to rain took the Captain down to show him her. By most dexterous handling
the Cossack laid her where the prisoners were. The sen the Captain of bows alongside the stern of the Alt- tries and fled with the keys,
First Lieutenant jump- British boarders amasited the locks
mark,
The
AVIATRIX TO AID CHINA
ed to the Altmark's poop, caught a with rifle butts and prised off the Le Ya-ching, the Chinese
and secured the heavy batches to the hold,
and the First rope flung to two ships 1000
of 30 men and A boarding party two officers was in readiness. The omeera were armed with revolvers and the men with rifles and bayo hots. As a precaution against Im puisive shooting, the cutouts of the rifles were closed, and only the magazines were landed..
there
"The Navy's Here" "The Navy's here," they shouted Come up out of It,"
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"! NEW YORK, Feb, 25 .(UP)—Miss aviatrix to-day announced that she will leave New York on March 15, for a tour of sixteen South American countries, covering a total of 25,000 miles, on behalf of the Society for Medical ¿Aid to China.
290 men came out and mustered on the forecastle, cheering wildly.
The Cossack then come alongalde She is attending a luncheon given the bow and the prisoners trans- by the representatives of the Latin ferred with their belongings. She American consulates at Roosevelt was delayed by the rescue from the Field on Tuesday,
ITALO FRENCH TRADE
Immediately the ships were secur- water of a German seaman who had What his mo ed, the boarding. party leaped on jumped overboard. board. The upper deck of the Altuves were in, doing so are unknown. mark was brightly illuminated and because he died on the passage to
was not a soul; visible. Follow England.
Meers and cre closes
The German officers crow. Wero by the party of men tho First Lieutenant Fan forward along a plank brought on to the Altmark's fore bridge apafning the after well-deck castle and the boarding patly carried and came to a steel door leading to the wounded officers with them, re- officially announced that a mixed the bridge and superstructure, Burst embarking the Cossack. One more, Commercial Mission is meeting In ing themagh, they were ounfronted by the Cossack turned her bows towards Parla to-morrow to discuss trade a German oficer with a pistol' lovell-i the entrance and started for home, relations between Italy and Franco,
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME, Feb. 20 (UP).—It has been
Buyers
HI.K. Bank $1,453
Canton Ins $225 Union Ins. $480 Fires Ins. $IBO Wharves $102 le $23.60 Docks Providents $4.95 Hotels $54.
Lands $303
Humphreys $734:
Realties 544 Tramways $18.30 Yaumall Ferries $27% Yaum
(Old) $84
China
China hits (New) $5.80° Electrics $68 Macao $21
Sandakan Lights $11 Telephones (New) $11.00 Cements $10.00
Dairy Farms (Old) $234. Dairy Farms (New) 422% Watsons $0.00.
Gellers
H.K. Bank $1,400 Hotels $5.95 Tramways $18 China Lights (Old) $9 Electrics $70 Telephones (Old) $32.10
Sales Union Ins. $485 Docks $234/24-* Providents $5- Hotels. $3.80/6/5.00 Lands $39/39/40
Realtics $5 in Tramways $10.30/.30/.40 Star Ferries $68 Yourmati Ferrica $20 Chian Lights (Old) $8.00 Electrics $00%/00 Macab $214 Telephones (Old) $314/33/31.80 Telephones (New) $11/114 Comonis $19/20/20.20 Dairy Farms (Old): $231⁄44/231⁄2 Watsons, 39.60,00 27 ILK. Govt.. 47% Loan $100%
Abyssinia, denying any mobilisation on her part, relies upon the League of Nations to keep the peace in Africa, and insists that the border dispute should be settled by arbitration,
.
A spokesman of the Foreign Office, commenting on criticisms from abroad concorning Japan's attempt to bettor. her relations with China, categorically denied that Japan was attempting for cibly to persuade China to resign from Nations, expel her tha Lengye of foreign advisers and join a movement | to form an East Asia blur.
"When we hear reports of proposals abroad to mobilise the signatories of the Ning Power Pact on the grounds that Japan in violating the treaty and aled hampering the Open Door ngrae- ! arnt we cannot but suspect that the erities are actually desirous of disturb. the of ing the peaco East Asia,' spokesman declared,
Ho sald Enat Azia was tranquil and Japan's relations with China gradually and steadily improving.
ware
Finns Back-Stage War Effort
STOCKHOLM, Feb, 20 (Reuter) —–—–—– The Swedish Trade Union Congress help has appealed to workers to Finland by civilian work behind the lines, and several thousand workers have Already volunteered while several hundred thousand people have decided to give Finland a day's wages overy month; ngay tan bana-
The Government has asked Parlin- ment to vote. 1,000,000 kroner to en- ablo Swedish hospitals to care for some thousand woundori, shortly arriving from Finland.
What Nazis Call Warfare
LONDON, Fob: 20 (British Wire less)In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. A. Butler stated that since the outbreak of war to Feburary 22, there had boen 120 enses of un armed British merchant ships "and fishing vessels being attacked by enemy aircraft, Pales
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