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FIRST
FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
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FOUNDED 1881
No, 16310
#Q WATA-1 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1940. 日九十月十
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DRAMATIC STORY
LONDON, NOV. 17 (REUTER)—FURTHER STORIES OF BRITISH HEROISM WHEN A GERMAN RAIDER ATTACKED THE JERVIS BAY CONVOY WERE TOLD WHEN THE 17,000-TON STEAMER RANGITIKI, THE BIGGEST SHIP OF THE CONVOY AND ONE OF THE RAIDER'S MAIN TARGETS, DOCKED AT A WEST COAST PORT TO-DAY WITH- OUT A CASUALTY AND WITH HARDLY A SCRATCH.
Nazi Air Losses Yesterday
Nine Downed In
Abortive Raids
SPECIAL TO. THE, "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Nov. 17 (UP)-At least nine German planes were destroyed over England.
The Captain of this ship said that the raider, which may have been the Deutschland, was first sighted some 120 miles away well down on the port bow at about 4 p.m. She was not identified until 4.45 when she was seen to be a heavy warship,
The convoy continued at a speed of nine knots, which was the most some of the ships could do, but turned away. The enemy also turned, on a course parallel to the convoy, and opened fire on the Jervis Bay which steamed towards her and opened fire, her salvoes apparently falling short.
The enemy's second salvo hit the Jervis Bay amidships and evidently put her engines out of action for she lost way im-
FRANCO-
her just before the bridge and a mediately. A third salve struck GERMAN fourth hit aft, setting her afre.
The enemy then concentrated, her This morning several waves fell on her starboard quarter,
Are on the Rangitiki, The first salvo the crossed the coast of Kent and second straddled her amidchips and headed towards London. How the third straddled her forward of over, anti-aircraft batteries and the bridge. One shell fell within 50
fighting planes broke up the formations and sent the Ger mans scurrying out to sea again, with one or two units missing.
bridge with spray and chell fragments yards of the bridge smothering the but doing no appreciable damage.
Star Shells Used Meanwhile the convoy ships made Nine falders dropped 18 high ex-n smokescreen which, coupled with plosive banks on an East Anglian the gallant action of the Jervis Bay. town and dive bombed on Aldeburgh, enabled so many ships. to escape Four of the crew of a stricken raider despite the enemy's use of star shells bailed out with parachutes and were in attempts to locale them and the coptured.
BARGAIN
Currency Exchange For Trade Fixed
SPECIAL TO THE" "Telegraph"
соп-
VICHY, Nov. 17 · ·(UP) After M. Laval's return here from Páris it was officially an- nounced that an agreement on compensations had been cluded in Paris. The terms will become effective immediately. fact that two or three ships were They provide for the establish- apparently on fire.
ment of clearing centres in Paris G4 Lost In A Week
The Captain pald tribute to the and Berlin for trade between LONDON, Nov.
coolness of the passengers, both men 17 (Reuter),- Sixty-four German and 13 Italion and women, who Gang Scottish songs Germany, France and the French planes were shot down over Britain in the alleyways during the firing and colonies on the basis of 20 francs during the week ending midnight on later enjoyed a meal while they were to the mark.
belts. wearing
• November 10.
The agreement also extends to The chief radio officer said he was Bohemio, Moravia, Syria and Lebanon In the same period, tx-Brush playing-deck-tennis-when-the-rulder- fighters were lost but the pliots of Lineked. He dashed to the wireless and applies to both the occupied and abla and rent out the message which unoccupied zones in France. The Gartled the world that they were new agreement gives the normal
Relschmark a value of 20 francs. being shelled by a ralder.
three are sale.
November 19-German, nil; British,
Detailed figures were:
nil,
11. German,
November
Italians, 13; British,' 2,
12;
November 12-German, one; Bri-|
tish, nil.
November 13~~~German, six; Brl-
fish, nu.
November 14-~-~Germân, 21; British,|
two (both pilots safe),
Nazi Ships Fooled By Neutrals
November 15 German, 23; British, Rendezvous With Admiral
two (one pilot safe),
November 10-German, one; Bri-i tish, nil.
enemy bitcraft were shot down in ruka on Britain to-day.
the pilots of three are unte.
Reports To Petain
M. Laval arrived from Paris by automobile at 11.40 am, and im- mediately went into conference with Marshal Petain, reporting on his conversations in Paris with the Ger- man authorities and also with the Spanish Foreign Minister when the latter was in 2002
in Paris on Friday.
Suner concerned general French and
Recently the Fleet Air Arm" hapo" carried out offensive reconnaissances over the Norwegian coast, where oil tanks, a German military camp, supply ships, and transports have bean successfully bombed. In this official photograph we see a direct hit on a German supply ship of about 2,500 tona in Haugesund.
IN CHANNEL DUEL ON SUNDAY
Army Co-operational Command In R. A. F.
Changes and Appointments
'portions.
By Ned Russell
UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT,
LONDON, Nov. 17 (UP).—The flashes of exploding" bombs dumped by the R.A.F. lit up the French coast from Bolougne to Calais to-day and touched off an in- tensive retaliatory shelling of the Dover area by the German long range guns.
The_British"attack on the “invasion' const" had scarcely subsided when the Big Berthas around Cap Gris Nez and Calais, ncross the narrowest point on the Channel, belched, the shells screaming across the water,
Flashes of the German guns were visible from the southeast coast of England which trembled under the thunder of the cannon.
Challenge Accepted
British guns on "Hell's Corner," on the cliffs around Dover took upi the challenge and for nearly three hours the ortillery kept up the duel across the brightly moonlit'
channel.
At intervals of three minutes, great explosions rocked towns on the English coast and hundreds of per- zons hurtled to
led to vantage points on the cliffs to watch the spectacle.
R.A.F. airmen encountered Intense counter-fro while' secking their tar crts, the crathes of exploding bombs being followed by bursts as shella und searchlight beams raked the
Hamburg Blasted
Deny War On Thai Border
Vichy And Hanoi Statements
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEORAPHY. HANOI, Nov, 17 (UP)— Authorised quarters here have
The Air Ministry reported that the denied the reports that war has largest force of British bombers yet broken out on the Thailand to attack Hamburg blasted a great border. number of industrial land communica-
No Knowledge
tion centres on Saturday night and
long "great
great billowing red dames" VICHY, Nov. 17 (UP)—The were reported to be surging over the French Foreign Office to-day targets of Germany's etcond largest said they have "absolutely no major port and industrial centre knowledge" In the reports that upon which the R.A.F. have con- centrated some of their longest and war has broken out between.
Thailand and Indo-China. most intense attacks.
city
12-Hour Raid
The Ministry for the Colonies said "We have received absolutely nothing to Indicate that there has been any
Relay, or even incidents on the
"It is known, however, that That
The first of the R.A.F. pilots arrived lover Hamburg at nightfall and the
last one was there at 6 am. after relay batfered the military ob- Jectives with scarcely an interruptmahilised and moved troops to tion.
the frontier of Cambodia, and has Tons of bombs are reported to have a concentrated 100 now fighting been dropped on the targets, including planes recently delivered from the railway yards and oil refineries at nited States in the realan between Allon and the electrical objectives in Korat and the Mekong River,"
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the Millwarder and Moorfleth dir
tricts. One whole force of aircraft were said to have concentrated on the Blohm and Voss shipyards, which are
among the most important in
Germany.
Other raiders are credited with night attacks on the aerodzemes and ports at widely scattered points in LONDON, Nov. 17 (Reuter)-Announcing the establish German territory. Daylight attacks ¡ment of a new Command In the R.A.F., the Air Ministry says are reported to have been made on The conversations with Senor that the Air Ministry and War Office have considered how best
the all refinery plants at Cologne, Bremen and
and along the Dortmund- Scheer
Spanish problems, and their mutual to secure the most effective basis of co-oneration between the Ems canal. Interests in North Africu, including Army and the Air Force and a detailed scheme is now being The Air Ministry said the R.A.F. LONDON, Nov. 17 (Reuter). Tangler and Morocco. 11 Down Yesterday
drawn up covering all aspects of Army and air requiremonts and made "effective destructive attacks"! Latest American news agency
Throughout the unoccupied zones, associated training units. London, Nov. 17 (Reuter). Eleven reports suggest that the German millions of pletures of Marshal Petain
Commander-in-Chief, and a senior on Saturday on the aerodromes at The principal feature of the Army Omeer is being appointed as Rouen, Abbeville and Cambrai, all in captain of the Phrygia mistook in uniform have been sold, and are
expected to realise at least 25,000,000 new arrangements is the decision of the Command and its subordinate
head of his Air Staff. The Air Staf north France. Four British Oghters were lost but signals which he had intercepted tranes which will be devoted to the to set up a Command, of the formations will consist of Army and
A Nazi Denial BERLIN, Nov. 17. (UP)-It is between three warships and arellet of prisoners of war, refugees R.A.F. to be called the Army RAF. officers in roughly equal pro- denied here that the R.A.F. carried British merchantman, and pre- and unemployed.
Fout daylight, ralds Saturday Co-operation Command; it will suming that the warships were British vessels he scuttled his
The formation of this Command, Cologne, Bremen and the Dortmund. comprise all squadrons allotted | Italian Armed
says the Air Ministry, is the outcome Ema canal, the London reports being. to Army formations in the of a system of co-operation which has termed as "sheer Invention," Column Smashed associated training welts.
United Kingdom together with been steadily built between the two services over long period and the It is now believed that the war- CHUNGKING, Nov. 17 (Reuter), ~ships were not British ships but
The primary function, or this new organisation is designed to accord The remains of General Chang Tse- neutrals.
ATHENS, Nov. 17 (Reuter)-An Command will be to organise, experi- with the lessons of recent operational SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Italian armed column has been ment and train in all forms of co-
experience.
LONDON, Nov. 17 chung, who was killed in action on!
(UP)-The The Captain of the Phrygin is re-
The Army Co-operation Command. Admiralty had announced that officers the east bank of the Han River dur-ported to have said that he was inter-smashed up by Greek troops operating operation between the two services.
the eastern sector of the front, The
will work ing the Ichang battle, were laid to cepted well within the safety zone.
operational employment of with its joint staff,
In missing from the submarine #48 are squadrons will rest as hitherto with constant association with the Army as follows: rest yesterday afternoon at Peipat, Another message states that it is according to reports received here. famous hot springs resort north of officially said in German circles that a large number of tanks which to which they are allotted.
It is reported but not confirmed, the Commanders of Army Formations It will ensure rapid development of Sub-Lieut. A Carew-Hunt, Proba
and Air Force Commands concerned,
Lieutenant-in-Command R. Coltart, thungking.
Tampico that the ships had a rendez-
army co-operation technique and vous 300 or 400 miles out with the were dispersed, have crossed the Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shek pocket, battleship Admiral Scheer, frontier into Yugo-Slavia to avoid
foster a common understanding of all tonary Sub-Lleut. L. H. L. Dearden, went to Pelpat from Chungking to which was to have escorted them to capture.
The Army Co-operation Command aspects of inter-service co-operation. and Lieut. C. H. Peterkin. will be under an Air Officer TURN to Back Page. Column 5 attend the burial.
Spain.
General Chang
Buried
ship. The other three German ships fled.
Whole of Gabon Part Of Free French Empire
LONDON, Nov. 17 (Router). The whole of Gabon, a province, nd loining the coast in French Equatorial Afrien, is now part of the Free French Empire, states a communique from the London H.Q. of Free France. French forces on Libreville, have The communique says that now asked permission to Join the
the town of the port of Gentil, either ride wore fow.
Free French. The wounded on
"the second port of Gabon, sur-
Generally db;; Gaulle visited renderad without fighting two Libreville ca Friday and received days after the surrender of the civil and military authorities. Libroville, the capital of the Libreville were killed or wounded He verified that he inhabitants of Colony
A large omportion of the troops resulted in Gabon rallying to the who opposed the advance of the Free Fren French Empire?
- during the "police operations which
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Little Likelihood Of Return Of
Evacuates' Return At
It has been officially In- dicated that there is little fikelihood of It being possible to allow the return of the Hongkong 'evacuates': In the near future.
This is revealed inn letter from the Colonial Secretariat acknowledging the petition of the 147 women in Sydney to be permitted to return to Hongkong. The petition kong Te was received by the "H
petitioners to the Govern- ment.."
Present
ment to inform you that the matter: dealt with in this Acknowledging receipt of petition: are. at⠀⠀⠀present the petition Mr. C. Bramall under consideration and Burgess, on behalf of the that, while there is little.. Colony Secretary_writes:- Hkelihood of 11 being Sir_With_reference to -- possible to allow the return your letter of the 2nd of "övacuates® In the near's November with which you'. future, a further reply will forwarded a petition from...***be sent as soon as possible certain ladies who weren after the matter has been. evacuated; from this Colony o fully examineda? E qual “and are at present In Aus~1 am, Sir, your obedient:
I am directed by His
servant, 10
(algned) C. Bramall Burgess....
the Officers Ad-
the Governan
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Turmoil In Shanghai: Shot Japanese Dies
Special to the "Telegraph"
- SHANGHAI, Nov. 17 (UP)—The Japaneso army officer who was shot in the Hongkow sector on Saturday has died.ge
The Japanicae-controlled Hong The Japanese were included in the kew sector and the International round-up-because of the reports that
the gunman or his accomplices shout...! Settlement were in a turmoil lasted words in Japanese language, night and to-day, as the Japanese Japanese authorities Havs dented, Naval Landing Party cordoned although they are not willing to issue Hongkew and herded approx)-n formal dental, the unconfirmed Chinese reports which alleged (hát a Thately 2.000 Chinese and Japan-Chinese mob, stoned, Japanese mantrie cse into the Guisan Gardens (an in, "Chodos Toady while LIY open parke), and then liberated escape from the waliongeze thom singly after they had been anginoon kiindu interrogated