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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 5, 1940.
Sphinx Survivor Tells
How Ship Went Down
Her
Peril
Own Oil Was To Swimming Men
WITH bombs raining on them and machine-gun bullets spreading death, the crew of the minesweeper Sphinx went to their posts and about their duties as though on peace-time manoeuvres.
The story of their heroism, not only during the attack, but also when they were struggling in the sea after the Sphinx had capsized, was told by an able-seaman
survivor.
JAPANESE SUB. SALVAGED
63
He lives at Lound, (Suffolk). He Bald:
"Two bombers attacked Us from out of the clouds, but there was not the least algu of panic. Everyone went about his job.
"One bomb must have killed Com- mander J. R. N. Taylor and four of the men.
Deck Curled Over
"The whole of the foredeck was thrown into the air by a bomb and it curled right backwards in one great plete over the middle of the ship.
When the planes left us after 20 minutes, another vessel began to tow us, but early next morning the tow- rope broke.
The reas were heavy, and we tossed about, unable to use our en- gines except for reversing.
"We tried to keep her head into the wind, but had only our steering gear to rely on, and then-it hup- pened in a minute--a wave from the
alde capsized us.
"I just flung off my shoes and was in the sea, I saw men going down with the ship. Others were clinging to oars in the ley water.
Ho Never Mado It "Heads were bobbing all around theme in the darkness. It was terrible.
A FINE FEAT of salvage was successfully concluded by the Japanese Navy which recently raised Submarine 63, lost with all hands in a collision with a destroyer. The conning tower of vessel is shown in photograph abo ve.-Domci.
PRINCE MICHAEL IS
READY TO MARRY
To try and save the ship by calm- ing the seas, we hud let out our fuel oll. This now began to get into our mouths.
"Your only chance was to hold your breath when one WAVC come and take your chance of breathing in the trough. Even so, the oil made us cough.
"One man near me left an oar to swim
to a plank. He never made it. "Some of the crew were calling out about their people left at home. "Then a great light shone, and
NOW that Prince Michael of Rumania has come of age-it's eighteen, not twenty-one, for royalty his countrymen are wondering who will be chosen as his realised it was a searchlight. I swam wife and their future queen.
Nothing has been disclosed by the royal family, but people close to the Court believe that King Carol is seriously considering the twin daughters of his cousin, Prince Frederick Victor, head of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Some of the more romantically and began to teach him the art of inclined in Bukarest say, Carol has kingship according to his own ideas. suggested that Michael should
choose one of the twins and that the Prince is studying their photo- his graph. unable to make up mind,
They are the Princess Marie An- toinette and the Princess Marie Alde- gonde, just turned nineteen and eight months older than Michael.
Murle was M
Michael's grandmother's name. Michael #
healthy, handsome. dimpled Prince, was made a Senator. member of the Rumanian Academy and a lieutenant in the Army on his eighteenth birthday.
His stately bearing as he attended the funeral of the assassinated Pre- mier Armand Calinescu, clad in a white cope. Impressed Rumaninna deeply, says Associated Press.
the Crown. When he assumes Michael will be the only King in
Into the beam until a line came into my hands.
The Lost Watch "I pulled it around my shoulders jand was hauled into a ship, where I
collapsed.
"They told me that 44 men had been pulled out of the water.
"I do not think I should have compe Then anti-Carol Iron Guardists through If I had not kept telling my- are said to have tried to control the self how good it would be to get young Prince through one of his back to safety.”
tutors with a view to assassinating: The sallor added that he lost a Carol and placing the boy again on watch given him by his mother on the throne as their puppet. Carol his nineteenth birthday, just before dismissed the tutor and smashed the ship sailed. the conspiracy.
Michael bas had a stern education, He rises early, lives simply and spends long hours in study.
Youthful Escapado
He has mastered Rumanian, French, German and English.
Michael loves sporta, especially ski-ing, tennis and riding. One of his sports companions has been
of Rumaula's biggest industrialiai.
Six Months Of War
Review By London Newspapers
Press
Most gave
Mlle. Lulu Malaxe, young daughter LONDON. Mar. 4 (Reuter)
Ja of
Britls!! to-day's Despite his father's watchful eye editorial space to the review of the history to have preceded and suc-and the strict discipline imposed on past six months of war.
Michael, it is reported in Bukarest The "Times" stresses Germany's ceeded his father on the throne.
that at a Boy Scout camp inst sum-need for peace and how her Nazl mer He got into a youthful scrape, lenders had hoped hold
to
of the which had to be paid for by State western
powers while they con- On the death of his grandfather.funds.
solidated their eastern conquests. King!
King Carol, aroused by the escap- Such a peace was unthinkable. Ferdinand, in 1927, Michael be- came King under a Regency, Carolade, is said to have punished his son Delay has favoured the less well-
in exile in France, having re- with two weeks' imprisonment in one nounced his rights to the succession of the royal castles.
Iron Guard Plot
was when he left Rumania rather than Hive up his friend Mme. Magda Lupescu.
In 1930 Carol returned, gained the throne and Michael became Crown Prince.
prepared party to the conflet. The Allies have made more ground just
Michael is his father's heir, but not his eldest son Carol has a twenty-year-old son, legitimate but morganatic, living in France. He is Alexander, the son of Zizi Lam- brian, with whom Carol eloped during the last war and whom he loin's remark on the opening day of married in Odessa,
the war that we were Oghting against
as they had more ground to make up. Value Of Long Respite The
"Daily Telegraph" too stresses the value of the long respite, enabling the Allies to marshol their resources.
Tuking as
as its theme Mr. Chamber-
umber
In his days as Boy King Michael was supposed to be under the influ- ence of his grandmother, the late Queen Marie. Carol is credited with The twin Princesses of Hohenzol-evil things, the "Dady Mail" breaking that influence when he re-lern-Sigmaringen live at the Chateau that we knew then how evil those turned. He gave Michadi new tutors, of Bigmaringen, in Germany,
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The "Yorkshire Post," dealing with Mr. Sumner Welles' visit to Berlin, says that he has undergone an ex- perience which will earn him' the sympathy of many European states- men and diplomats. He has sat closeted with Hitler, listening to one of Der Fuehrer's interminable haran- ques.
Listened Patiently
..
Only Nazi accounts of what happen- ed are available, but it is clear that be must have listened very patiently, for he is considered to have made an excellent Impression on Der Fuehrer.
The "Daily Express" also em phasises that the only reports about Sumner Welles-Hitler talk have come from Nazi clrcles. The paper says that these show that the German leaders are more anxious than any- one else,
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