1939-09-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939.

SOVIET'S THINLY-VEILED THREATS TO ESTHONIA: MANUFACTURED INCIDENTS

NORWAY PURCHASES BRITISH 'PLANES

Following the success achieved by British Gloster Gladiator fighters in the Swedish Air Force, a batch of these machines has been purchased by the Nor- wegian Government.

The Gladiator, which has been superseded in the R.A.F. by the Hurricane and Spitfire, is a sin. gle-seater fighter armed with four machine-guns. It is power- ed with a Bristol Mercury IX. radial engine.

TAXI USED

IN ESCAPE OF INTERNEE

Stockholm, To-day.

THE POPULATION of Tallinn was alarmed by the flight of Soviet planes over the capital and other coastal towns throughout the day, according to a Riga report.

The planes are reported to be based on a Soviet

warship off Tallinn.

Esthonian anti-aircraft batteries have not fired,

ARK ROYAL QUITE SAFE AND SOUND

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London, To-day.

Fleuter has been informed that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal is safe and sound at her allotted station.

The

German auggestion that she is damaged is untrue.—Reu- ter..

SECOND

according to the newspaper correspondent. RED VESSEL The report adds that the opinion in Tallinn is that ATTACKED,

Soviet machines are 'seeking' to provoke firing

and some people even suggest that the reported SAYS TASS sinking of a Russian ship was an act of provoca- tion engineered by the Soviet.-Reuter.

Moscow, To-day. A second Russian steamer,

un-

Helsinki, To-day. Meanwhile, the Soviet radio has the Pioner (1,040 tons) has The opinion that Esthonia is not been accusing Esthonia, not only

of been attacked by an convinced by the report that the Me-aiding in the escape of the interned known submarine, says a So- tallist was torpedoed, is according to Polish submarine, but of harbouring viet announcement. a despatch from Tallinn published in other foreign submarines. a "Svenska Pressen" despatch.

It is pointed out that the only known vessel of that name is of 968 tons, not 4,000 as stated.

Reports that two periscopes were seen in Luga Bay are also considered The "China Mail" now doubtful as the maximum depth of the learns that a taxi was used bay is only about 32 feet.-Reuter. by Karl Jocheim, 39-

year-old German internee, in TEN-YEAR

making his escape from the Kowloon Hospital in the ear- ly hours of yesterday morn- ing.

At the time of going to press the escapee was still at large.

It is learned that a taxi was direct- ed to a spot near: the Kowloon Hos- pital shortly after midnight by а Chinese àmah.'

the

Jocheim and a woman, believed to be his wife, got into the taxi, driver of which was ordered to drive to Fanling.

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Jochelm was clad in but changed Into, civilian clothes in the taxi. These clothes were contained in a suitcase which the woman carried.

The three passengers left the taxi in the neighbourhood of Fanling, and

have not since been seen.

AGREEMENT REPORTED

Riga, To-day.

According to an unofficial

report, a ten-year agreement

has been reached between

The sinking of the Russian steame. on Wednesday by an unknown sub- marine has not been confirmed, but Russian warship yesterday were "quartering" Esthonian waters as they were looking for a submarine.- Reuter.

THE WAY THAT THE SOVIET PUTS IT

Moscow, To-day. The official Tass news agency announces that Bovlet Russia and Eathonla have signed a pact of mutual asalstance and a new trade agreement.-Reuter.

POLISH AIR PILOTS

Russia and. Esthonia. FOR FRANCE

Under the agreement, the Soviet will be granted naval and air bases at Osedl and Dago.-Reuter.

Dr. Karl Solter, the Esthonlan Foreign Minister, saw M. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, before the latter received Herr von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister.

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London, To-day. Nine

Polish airmen; former civil pilots, have arrived here by passenger plane.

They will go to France to join the Polish forces being raised there. Reuter.

WANTED TO SEE MOTHER

"I had not seen my mother for over a year," was the excuse given by Chan Kam-cheung, 19, when charged with breach of the Deportation Ordin- ance before Mr. E. Himsworth this morning.

Chan was banished in February last and arrested yesterday.

Sentence of nine months hard la- bour was imposed.

The vessel is stated to have been attacked in the Narun Bay, the same area as the earlier sinking of a Rus- sian ship, off the Esthonian coast

The Pioner was beached near Vigrund Bank, and Russian warships took off the crew-Reuter.

COOL, DRY WEATHER

Yesterday's maximum temperature was again 80 degrees, falling to 72 reaching 75 during the night and degrees by 10 am. to-day.

The cool spell has been -- accom- panied by a dry atmosphere, humidity to-day being only 56 per cent.

The Royal Observatory reports that a weak anti-cyclone covers China and pressure is high to the east of the Bonins. A depression is moving east- ward over the Southern part of the Sea of Japan.

A depression is situated to about 60 miles to the S.S.W. of the Paracels, moving westward.

KIMBERLEY RD. CASE

An 18-year-old youth, Wu Kai, Taced a robbery charge this morning before Mr. Himsworth.

He was alleged to have · stolen a handbag from Mrs. C. Fraser in Kim- herley Road on Wednesday night.

Inspector A. S. Johnson said that it was a committal case, and asked for a three days' remand, which Was granted.

His Excellency and Lady Northcote are spending the week-end at Fanling.

Photo taken during the fire at Tal Ku Ling, Kowloon City, fast Sunday when ten houses were burned down.. The firemen were un- able to get appliances near the outbreak and employed buckets to ex-