Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
An artist's impression of the battleship Bismarck, pride of the German navy, which has been sunk by acrial torpedoes and British gun fire.
SEARCH FOR PRINCE EUGENE GOES ON, SAYS CHURCHILL
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).—In the House of Commons to-day Mr Winston Churchill stated in connection with the sink. ing of the Bismarck that there were many arrangements to intercept German vessels should they attempt, as seemed pro- bable, to break out into the Atlantic with a view to striking at our convoys from the United States.
ssing SEVERE BLOW
During Friday night, cruisers got into visual contact with them as they were through the Denmark Straits, į between Iceland and Greenland, and at dawn on Saturday the battleships Prince of Wales and the Hood intercepted them.
"I have no detalled account of the action because events have been : moving so rapidly, but the Rood was struck at 23.000 yards by a shelt which penetrated into one of the magazines and blew up with only very few survivors.
TO GERMAN
PUBLIC
Admiral Believed Lost SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
U.S. Told France Will Not Surrender Fleet'
Special to the "Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, May 27 (UP), The French Ambassador, PM. Henry-Ilaye, to-day delivered to the State Department a note from the Vichy Government renewing their pledge that France will not surrender the fleet nor her colonial empire to Germany.
The note is intended to assure
the United States that collabora
May 28, 1941.
BISMARCK
SPIT HELL AT SHADOWER
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter)The pilot of n Catalina which was holed by the Bismarck's fire, described how. they dodged 'anti-aircraft fire every time they showed themselves out of the cloud. The pilot said: "It was the hottest fire I have 'ever been under. There were lots of cloud and the weather was misty and hazy, We had ducked into the clouds and were trying to edge around the Bis- marck.
"Suddenly we came to the ond, of a particular cloud and I found my- bone over the shit which was only about 400 yards awny. I thought that they had us. She put up the worst barrage 1 have ever
Sho
seemed to be one big bryo i stern and must have been turning loose on Us everything she had.
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Right Angled Turn
"The Bismarck apparently thought that we were going to bomb because she turned at a fuli. 90. degrees off her course when we run out of the cloud and opened fire as she was turning.
"rently don't know how we managed to dodge all the stuff that. she throw up It was Д ticklish inoment and we were lucky to get back into the cloud, but the Catalina went on flying throughout the opera- tion despite holes in the hull.
"I had several members of the crew busy stopping the holes so that we would not sink when we lanted on the water at our base."
More Rats Than Scots
Scotland has declared war against an ancient enemy-the
rat.
Estimates of the destruction caused by rats show that they arc at least as dangerous a threat to food supplies аз
TRIUMPH FOR bombs. The rat population is
the DORSETSHIRE
tion with Germany has not exceeded the terms of BERLIN, May 27 (UP).-armistice. fteich has lost half of the Asked whether or not the note This splendid vessel, although spearhead of its battle fleet with pledged that France would not take designed 23 years ago, is a serious the sinking of the Bismarck an active part in the war against
Britain, M. loss to the Navy; even more so are while Admiral Luetjens is also that had been Vichy's stand for the Henry-Haye declared the men and officers.
assumed to be lost.
past 11 months and it was unchang- Escape In Darkness
The blow to the German public is ed. "Throughout Saturday, our ships
France intends o protest against remained in touch with the Bismarck all the greater in view of the fact and her consort and arrangen ents that the press, since the announce the British seizure of the oil tanker were made for effecting battle at ment of the sinking of the Hood has Sheherazada, which was proceeding dawn yesterday morning, but during been proclaiming that the Bismarck to Moscow from Texas with a cargo the night the weather deteriorated was the most superior battleship in or delivered through we purely and visibility decreased, and the the world, simultaneously describing be delivered through the American
the loss of the Hood as a blow to State Department,
Bismarck, by
by making a sharp turn, British domination of the seas, and a
shook off the pursuit.
the
"I don't know what happened to
Prince Eugene, but mensures are being taken le respect of her.
loss of prestige from which, Britain
would never, recover,
The first intimation to the German public that there had been
sea
of the afternoon
the papers, announcing that
Bis-
"Yesterday, shortly after mid-day, battle in which the Bismarck had a Catalina aircraft, one of the con-been engaged was a brief and some- siderable number those far-reach-what cryptic communique in the ing scouting planes which had been sent to
us by the United States early editions (Cheers), picked up the Bismarck and further rapid dispositions were forces. made by the Admiralty; and of course the moment that she was known to be at sea, the whole apparatus of our ocean control come into the plan.
Ark Royal Attack
Evacuation Questions
Before the Legistative Council to- rek marck was battling superior enemy morrow, the Hon. Mr J. J. Paterson
will ask the following questions: In view of the ligh Command's Will the Government give statistles well known reluctance to announce of the incidence of evacuation of the military operations before they are wives of senior Government Omcers, concluded, this was regarded by namely foreign observers as preparation of (a) wives not in the Colony when the public for bad news.
the evacuation was ordered, Greater
Loss
To Nazis
(b) wives departed since that BY "AKUTER'S NAVAL.
CORRESPONDENTI
LONDON, May 27The loss of
Infinitely the Bismarck is
more
"Very far-reaching combinations -began to worlt and last evening, from yesterday afternoon, Fleet Air Ann torpedo-bombers and seaplanes from the Ark Royal (Laughter) attacked and made a succession of attacks damaging to Germany than that of the Bismarck, which now ap the food to Britain. The Hood was upon
be alone without her peared to
શ comparatively old ship while the consort.
Bismarck, only launched in 1939, "Abaut midnight, we learned that
made her first service appearance in the Bismarck was struck by two 1040. torpedoes amidships and astern. The
The role of the Bismarck, like that second torpedo apparently affected
ceted of every other German capital ship,
date.
(e) wives recommended for cx-
Fired Torpedo Which
Sank Bismarck
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" It was the Dorsetshire, the
attached 10,000-ton cruiser which spent a to the commission
,
China Squadron, and was in consequence well known in the Colony, which finally sent the battleship Bismarck to her doom.
*
This is reveiled in a, "United Press" message from London
probably greater than the human population of Scotland, and the damage that rats cause to stored cereals and foodstuffs of every kind runs into millions of pounds a year.
In the past the holding of annual Rat Weeks has proved insuMelent is awaken publle attention to the seri- ous character of the rat menace, and the Scottish Department of Agricul- ture has
has now initiated an intensive and continuous campaign for the
vermic. destruction of the
With the co-operation of the Local Authorities and of the individual farmer, miller, store owner, shop- keeper, and householder, it is hopen to wage perpetual warfare against the rat until it has been exterminated.
which says that after the George Man Who Fed
V had raced up and poured broadsides into the stricken Nazi vessel, and torpedo planes came in for yet another attack, the Dorsetshire slipped in and dis- charged torpedoes which ended the brief but bloody career of the German flagship.
The Dorsetshire normally carries eight-21-in-torpedo-lubes.
The "United Press" message adds
emption by the Evacuation that the sinking of the Bismarckt hus Advisory Committee,
bern a crippling blow to the small (d) cases still pending when fur-German fleet, and has left the Nazis
ther compulsory
evacuation stupified. was suspended?
Libya Army
•
Maj-Gen. Hutchison The man who throughout the swift-moving Middle East cam- paign, the swiftest in the his- tory of wars, kept the mobile British forces supplied with food, petrol and all else thev wanted, was Major-Gen. Balfour- Oliphant Hutchison.
His name
Was
revealed in the
House of Lords recently by Lord Croft, Joint Under-Secretary for
Wor
Es
In how many cases was the re- The Royal Navy exacted a swift
Major-Gen. Hutchison, who is commendation of the Advisory Committee over-ruled by over the Hood by sending the proud 52, a brother of Lord Hutchison of
Evacuation and terrible vengeance on the victor Deputy Quartermaster - General,
higher authority?
the steering of the ship, for she was was not to seek but to expital forces. Winant To Report
reduced to very slow speed and conment with the British capital tinued making uncontrollable circles
Had she succeeded in evading the in which condition she was attacked
kedunks which were trailing her, it by one of our flotillas with two more impossible to exaggerate the damage torpedoes which brought her virtually that she might have been able to to a standstiil, for from help, and far outside the range within which enemy bombers und aircraft from the French coast could come upon the scene.
Battleships Catch Up
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
LONDON, May 27 (UP) ~[{
| was learned to-day that the Amerlean among the convoys on Britain's life- Ambarsader, Mr John Winant, is fly- line from America., She failed and
ng to the United Stater forthwithi was brought to battle.
to discuss the war situation with President Roosevelt.
The achievement of the British forces In shadowing and bolding or to the Bismarck grimly for four days
ព the
Dekle North Atlantic weather "This morning at duylight thesefore the final coup de grace was Bismarck was attacked by pursuing
in itself no mean feat, battleships and I don't know what
the Again, Germans had bopsted were the results of the bombardment, hat the Biomarck was unsinkable
victual
is in
He will be accompanied by Mr 3en Cohen, but Mrs Wirani iş atay- ng on in London.
Long Talk With Churchill
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“
Bismarck and the German Comman- der-in-Chief, Admiral Guenther Luetjens to their death 72 hours after the Hood had vanished, and after a chase covering 2,000 miles.
Gaol For British
Seamen
Generally Discontented Reginald Bernard Pltts, able sea- man of a British ship in harbour. was sent to guol for 14 days by Cmdr
Montrose, and one of those little- known figures in the Army
who
do great work behind the scenes. He commanded the 10th Hussars and would have handed the command over (o the Duke of Gloucester had not the abdication thrown greater responsibilities on the Duke.
Major-Gen. Hutchison was during the last war with the 3rd Army Corps in Mesopotamia, and was men- tioned in despatches four times.
Four-Pronged Nazi
J. Jolly at the Marine Court this Thrust In Ñ. Africa
of the Ger- in frequent contact with Dr James Defendant: I have reasons for it.
British
ferred it to the Bismarck Buggests Clemet, Lord. Beaverbrook, Mr. Defendant replied that he had had from a point on the Libyan frontier]
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he had pleaded guilty morning after LONDON. May 27 (UP)-It is It appears, however, that the Bis- owing to her tremendous number of American Ambassador to London, is duty on the ship yesterday, and to to a charge of wilfully disobeying # ssumed that Mr John Winnnt, command of the master to return to
FROM PAGE ONE marck was not sunk by gunfire.
water-tight compartments, The uns "Great as is our loss in the Hood, inkable has been sunk. That may anxious to be in Washington after three other charges of being absent the Bismarck must be regarded as the most powerful enemy battleshiprove a heavy debit to Germany on President Roosevelt's speech in order without leave, and one of continued Capuzzo to cover the right flank of
psychological side.
to discuss future policy with the neglect of duty.
this main advance simultaneously, as she is the newest battleship and
President. He will be able to give Fine Commander Lost
These
opposed by were Mr W. A. Mackintay appeared for moblie forces and throughout the the striking of her from the German
Another item on the debit side of the President a complete picture of Complainant, Captain W. A. Murray, night the battle swayed back and Navy is n very definite simplification | of the task of maintaining an effective, Germany's necourt is the fact that the British war effort and the help the ship's master.
forth across miles of open country Admiral Luetiens was flying his itag required from the United States,
admitted mastery of the northern seas and
After Defendant
tho n the Bismarck. Admiral Luetjens
Mr Winnnt had a long talk with the charges,
Cmdr Jolly remarked that at the top of the escarpment. the maintenance of the northern anked very high in the estimation of British Prime Minister, Mr Winston he seemed to have been making a known
Details of the fighting are not blockade.
known, but this morning the British "In a few days it should be possible German nuval circles and was the Churchill on Monday and has been nuisance of himself on the ship, to give a much more detailed account,
High Commander of
forces were reported to be holding When the Conant, President of but the essentials are before the nigh Sens Fleet.
of Harvard Uni-
Cmur Jolly: How can you have the Germans south of Sollum.
A fourth column, whose role ap- House and although there is shade Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were versity who is in England on a reasons for neglecting your duties in
large, the flew his fag In the scientiße mission for President dimcult times like these?
support the other pears to be to three, is advancing slowly due cast Scharnhorst. The fact that he trans
Attlee, Mr Ernest Bevin, arguments with the Captain, and no south of Capuzzo. This column has that after the repeated hammerings other members of the Cabinet, the had also asked to be signed off the by the R.A.F., the Scharnhorst and Chief of the General Staff, General ship. He was generally discontented not yet tried to join the battle.. the Gnelsenau are by no means in John Dill; other generals, high on board.
A NEW moneyed class has sprung up in Free China as an LONDON, May 27 (Reuter)--In good shape.
officials of the R.A.F. and the Navy Mr Mackinlay said that the offences The German push does not appear connection with the lost of H.M.S:
and Trade Union leaders.
were by no means the first. Defen- to hernid a general effort to pene outgrowth of the Sino-Japanese war. Its members are ricksha Hood, the Conservative Member, Sir; Alfred Knox, asked whether
dant had absented himself at Durban trate further into Egpyt: the ob- men, chauffeurs, carters, burden carriers and day labourers en two occasions, and was an hour jective seems to be to secure post- engaged in transporting goods from the seacoast to West China, Hood had got special equipment to
inte at Singapore, Defendant had ions which will protect, their right guard her magazines in view of whati
also threatened to murder the Chief flank
communications from They are earning the unpre- sively, the salaried and professional happened at the Battle of Jutland in
Oncer, and had been exerting a bad Capuzzo and Bardia from harassing cedented-for China-wages of classes are having difficult tunes, lafuence on the rest of the crew. by our fast-moving columna which Ch. $8, and $10 daily. Before since their incomes have not in-
creased. Tlier dollars are last month caused havoc in the Ger- the war, they averaged about only one-fourth of their pre-war "I am therefore Instructed to press an envero penalty," concluded Mr
man rear by sudden dashes across that much monthly. Mackinlay.
those communications.
Chauffeurs are the plutocrats. In especially those who drive the heavy trucks which bring supplies from the China- Burma border to Chungking over the hazardous Burma Road
as well as light in this picture, we have every reason to be satisfled with | 30 the outcome of this flerce And memorable naval encounter."..
Question On Hood
the last war.
the
Mr Winston Churchill replied that the Hood was refitted about ten years ngo and during the war she had been several times in hand for short
AMERICAN'S MAIDEN VOYAGE
+
U. S. Army & Navy Appropriations
(Reu-
A sum of $2,700,000,000 will be
No General Effort
and
New Moneyed Class
Horse The Germans this how society,
Could Not Kill
WASHINGTON, May 27 tor), President Roosevelt has asiced Condress for appropriations totalling The motorship Cope Alava, first of 83, 310, 000, 000 for new aircraft för periods to get her turbine blades at the new C-1 type tonnage built by the Army and Navy. ionded to, but no such major recon-thp Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding struction of the ship, which was Corporation for the American Mail spent on the Army, and $092,000,000 2,500 Americans known to be thinly armoured, was Line, arrived in Hongkong this mom on Navy planes. possible during the war,"
Sho is on her maiden voyage to The request is being sent to Con- Proposed To Her
A famous veteran of the first Grent Applause From House the For
East.
greas, maid Mr Stephen Early, in a
Wer, Lord Mottistono's horse "War- LONDON, May 27 (Reuter),Tho
Commanded by Contain John Telfer to the Speaker of the House No fewer than 2,000 American men elor," has been destroyed because of House of Commons to-day had Smith, veteran of trans-Pacific trade, of Representatives.
want to help Vera Hruba, Czechb- failing health, it was disclosed in settled down to ordinary business the ship carries a crew of 30. Sho
slovak skating star, avoid deporta- London recently "Warrior" had a when Mr Churchill roso and "intor-is 418 feet long, and has a capacity It is learned that the first prosecution by marrying her, says a Cham The 32-year-old vened with great respect", to an- of 0,802 gross tons and 4,100 net tons,] tion' under the anti-spliting Inw,paign (Illinois) message, and many escapes from death that the nounce that the Bismarck had been She has four staterooms with new passed some time ago but not hitherto The prolly 10-year-old skater was men of the Canadien cavalty Lord commodation" for" eight passengers on enforced, will be brought to-day be threatened, with deportation, because Stilistone commanded in: France The Intervention was greated with the boat deck aft of the combined for the Magistrate at Central Magis- her passport as 'an, entertainer) ex-called him "the horse the Germana thunderous applauso,, »
loungo and dining room,
tracy.
Apired.
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sunk.
values.
worth
Delysia To Sing For Boys Abroad
For one such trip they realise from Alico Dalysia, the actress, has Ch.3800 to $1,000, a fortune to the learned that her 85-year-old mother average Chinein. A well, paid has died in France.
hauffeur in Shanghul earns Chi#00 Laat June, when the French quitted a month, the equivalent of U.S.$4.
Paris,
Madame Dolyala. flow to The growing wealth
of the tran France to try to rescue her. She iportation: workers is one phase of failed. ***
a **** social rosdjustment which is The geiros Intimates that she is vidint everywhere. In Free China planning a trip abroad to, sing "for to-day. With prices rising: mcens» {he boys!!