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BRITISH NAVAL EXPERT GIVES EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY Confirms Descriptions Of Submarine By Junkpeople

MORALLY CERTAIN

CRAFT WAS JAPANESE

NATIONAL CREDIT LOAN IN FRANCE

Paris, To-d

A decree issued yesterday thorises the Credit National to

in 1,000 franc bonds.

Issued at 915 franes and bear ing an amual interest of 55 franes, the loan will be redeemable over a period of 40 years by annual drawings, with the option

for the Credit: National to redeem the loan as from October 28, 1940.

GERMAN CZECH CRISIS BEING STUDIED

London, To-day.

The British newspapers give iderable prominence to the between the German minority in Czecho-Slovakia and the Czech Government

The Daily Herald cites a war

the Berlin paper "Nachtaus- with Arabic numbers painted on gabe" that the demand for complete

My first immens

-Renter.

Most important evidence called before the Commission of Inquiry into the submarine junk sue a loan of 1,000,000,000, francs massacre this morning was that of Laeat-Comman- der R. R. Herbert, who told the Commission that on the description given by the various Chinese wit- nesses of the appearance of the craft which made the attack and the men on board her, he was moral- ly certain that the submarine was a Japanese sub- marine and the sailors Japanese.

Sir Atholl MacGregor is sitting as chairman, the hall, what would you say that autonomy voiced by Sudetic Ger- by Herr with Hon Commander J. B. Newill and Mr. J. A. submarine

Japanese, but I would require some to the Czech President, Dr. Edouard Fraser as Members and Mr. J. C. McDouall as Se-pression would be that it was a Konrad Henlein, in an open letter Benes, is supported not only by more information.” cretary.

"Is it the practice in the navy to three and a half million German- paint white and black bands on speaking citizens in Czecho-Slovakia naval craft?” "In the British but also by 68,000,000 Germans Navy, destroyers are painted with the Reich

DEVELOPMENTS - LIKELY numbers to designate the flotilla” JAPANESE PRACTICE

The Daily Express publ fishing in junk No. 1822, of Chi- "Is this practise used exter

report from its Prague lang Lighthouse. In the distance hely in the Japanese

ng atte

to the fact Mr. saw a pair of junks hit by shells on cruisers and destroyers, but I dent dra

definite about Witness went into the hold of his

Kaying

tember 27 from the s With the permission of the Com- missioners Mr. Whyatt recalled stating "seas smooth.”

MACAO WITNESS witness, Lam Chi, to explain what] he meant when he said the sailors Fung Tsun-ho, of Macau, stated on the submarine wore a suspender that on September 22 last he was from the shoulders to the waist.

ensive

Fe-

sula

SUSPENDERS Addressing the witness

cannot Whyatt asked:

You remember telling me in junk with all on board. His junk marines your evidence that you recognised was struck and began to sink He "Assume you are cruising in the saw a submarine the sailors to be Japanese because managed with the help of the crew, China Sea

which with bands painted round the con- would you take it they wore a suspender from their to unlash the mainsail on shoulders to the trousers" "Yes." they floated until they were picked ning tower

"I would feel inclined to in Witness then demonstrated with up by another junk and taken to for?":

believe it to be a Japanese sub-tention two belts the manner in which the Aberdeen.

marine** suspenders were worn, placing a One man, Leung Hong, was man--wounded. He was taken to the belt on each shoulder in the ner in which a pair of

Germ

a

re will draw the British and French Governments to the provocative at- "Why?"--"Because it is used titude of the Czech authorities to

"Did you see anythaces is Queen Mary Hospital immediate extensively in the Japanese Navy" wards the German minority. Trans-

usually worn.

they arrived in Aberdeen. attached Yesterday, witness went to the hospital and identified the body of Leung Hong.

to the straps?—No, but the ends were attached to the trousers.”

"What was the width of the sus: penders?”—“About one and quar- ter inches."

TWO GUNS

CZECH PROTEST

"Do submarines: carry any other Ocean: armaments besides torpedos?” "Guns of 3 to 4 inch calibre, portable machine-guns and rifles."

-Berlin, To-day. "Can you tell where the guns are NAVAL SUBMARINE EXPERT

"Normally The Czecho Slovakian Minister, usually carried?” Lieutenant-Commander R P Herbert stated that he was attach one, before the conning tower on M. Mastny, called on the German Foreign Minister, Baron von ed to the Commodore Staff, Hong

deck." LONG TIME IN WATER

Neurath, yesterday, and lodged a Yu Man-hol, assistant compra-Kong, and has served in the Boyal

Asked what he meant by saying protest against the tone and lan- dore of the s.s. Kaying testified that Navy for 21 years. For 10 years,

normally, witness explained that guage used by German newspapers from Shanghai to Hong Kong two witness was commander of sutar men were picked up from a raft. It ines...

Should I be right to describe two guns are only found on larger in connection with the German was between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Baron von Neurath, in his reply, was very exceptional for a sub- The men appeared to be very you as a specialist in various types and more modern submarines. It minority question.

pointed out that a protest was hardly justified in view of the fact fatigued and their hands and feet of submarines?" "Yes."

that German public indignation were white suggesting that they "I take it that you have been marine to carry two guns. had been in the water for a long commander of submarines in var- It was unusual to see a submar- ine with two guns. If witness saw time. The names of the two men ious parts of the world?”- were Ho Pak-kan and Ho Pak-shing. "You are very familiar with na-submarine with two guns, he was natural and justified.

Sergeant Mackay, Police Photo-val craft in the China Seas, parti- would be inclined to take it for a

Japanese. grapher, produced photos of junks cularly submarines ?” — “Yes."""

that Japanese from shoulder to waist, Nos. 28 and 447, and photos of the "Could you tell as, from your ex- Witness further stated in reply guns which were on board the two perience, what is usually the co-to Mr. Whyatt

flour of submarines? Usually sailors of a landing party usually from your experie juaks,

any degree of certainty, any opin- grey, dark grey to light grey, and carry water-bottles suspended with WEATHER CONDITIONS

ion of the identity marine?! Mr. G. S. P. Heywood, Assistant silvery-grey, depending on the oper straps from their shoulders. Director of the Royal Observatory, ations in which the submarine is straps run either downwards to the

waist or stated that weather maps were com engaged

chest to piled twice daily from reports

It wa ceived from ports on land and from

far as the mericana lam

Is it the pr

NUMBER

tise to paint num-

ships by wireless. The maps were bers on subma accurate and subsequent informs I know the British and tion received invariably corrobor- Navy do not ated the reports received earlier

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Can you tell me

Witness produced weather maps adopta this compiled during the period of Sep- tember 21 to September 27 last, and

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an invariable

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airman adjourned the