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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 24, 1939

R.A.F. SINKS U-BOATS

ONE CAUGHT IN NORTH SEA AND ONE IN ATLANTIC: SALVOES OF BIG BOMBS

London, To-day.

GREISER'S

NEW POST

THE AIR MINISTRY announces "two attacks on U-boats recently made by R.A.F. aircraft both of which are believed to have been successful.” One occurred in the North Sea and the other in the

Atlantic, many miles from aircraft bases. After both attacks the pilots remained circling above the places where the submarines disappeared and nothing more was seen of the U-boats. 'ficial news agency-Reuter,

The following is the pilot's report of the North Sea attack: "Reconnais- sance aircraft sighted and attacked a submarine in position-a salvo of anti-submarine bombs was dropped ahead of the periscope. The sub- marine dived steeply. The air gun- ner said definitely that he noticed a second under water explosion after the explosion of bombs.

about

"The aircraft then turned and flew over the submarine a second time and dropped a second salvo.

"Patches of oil were observed after the first salvo and more ex. tensively after the second attack. "Nothing more was seen of U-boat."

ATLANTIC ATTACK

the

The pilot of the Atlantic patrol air- craft says: "Enemy submarine sighted some distance away. It dived and several heavy bombs were drop- ped: It was at first thought that there had been a direct hit. Dark patches appeared on the water after the at- tack and air bubbles rose to the sur- face.

Berlin, To-day. Hitler has appointed Herr Greiser,.

ate, to the post of Gauleiter of

the

former President of the Danzig Sen- Warta district in German-occupied

Poland, according to the German of-

BLOCKADE ISSUES AND GERMANY'S CANARDS

London, To-day.

SWEDISH STEAMER ATTACKED

London, To-day.

A Swedish steamer of 1,241 `tona has bean attacked by a Ger

man sübmarina.

Norway in her turn¿snya k message from Oslo, has now re ceived a warning from Germany not to accept convoy by British · or French warships-Router.

AMERICAN PROTEST AGAINST GOEBBELS BLETHER

New York, To-day. The extraordinary out- burst by Dr. Joseph Goeb- bels, the Nazi Propaganda

THE GERMAN STATEMENT that British ships are

only allowed to enter Dutch waters after the sur-Minister, against Mr. Win- render of their armaments is untrue.

was The wording of the Dutch proclamation of neutra- lity permits entry into Dutch ports of merchant ships genuinely armed in self-protection against German submarines which sink British and neu- tral ships, leaving their crews to drown, etc.

"A second bombing attack was made as near the same position as pos- We circled over the area for sible. some time but nothing further was

· observed."”---Reuter.

48 THRILLING HOURS!

To solve a murder mystery......... To trace a $100 ransom note... To save a girl from a murder ring.

To change a beauty's "No" to "Yea!!!

The German claim that arming in self-defence converts a merchantman with international law, under which into a warship is not in accordance

such arming is the normal recognised procedure.

President Roosevelt's decree pro- hibiting the entry of submarines into

KING VISITS MILITIA

territorial waters, effectively prevents CAMP

German submarines from using Amer- ican ports-as-in-the-last war, when the

British. Navy were obliged to maintain a patrol.

TELL NO TALES

Melvyn DOUGLAS

LOUISE PLA

Mesa

NEUTRALS MUST LEARN TO CO-OPERATE

Complaints continue to be received

on the part of neutrals with regard to

London, To-day.

ston Churchill, led to a de- finite reaction in the United States.

Following Dr. Goebbels' broadcast,

which was relayed to America, hun-

dreds of listeners telephoned the

offices of the various radio networks protesting against what some of them, “ called "the spreading of futile rub- bish."

The "New York Herald- Tribune" stated: "One would hardly have Imagined that even a propaganda minister would be so- grotesque as to drag up again such an amazing theory that Mr. Churchill sank the Athonia.

NAZI MIND

"But one under-estimates the pecu- llar and profound --inability-of the- Nazi mind to understand that the

posed of Nazis.

The King yesterday paid rest of the world is not wholly com- his first visit to a militia camp in the South of England.

delays owing to Contraband Control, Wearing the khaki service uniform but it is pointed out that if neutrals of a Field-Marshal, His Majesty visit- would realise the 'British point of view and co-operate, much delay are undergoing all stages of their 16-

week training.

would be avoided.

ed three barracks where militiamen

It is believed that the German au- The King particularly commented thorities are planning to make it on one class of recruits which had only more difficult to distinguish between | been training for five weeks.

genuine Reuter.

and false consignees.

SWEDISH STEAMER'S LOSS

Stockholm, To-day.

'The owners of the Swedish steam-

er, Albania have announced that two

He asked many questions and B&W recruits being trained in, wireless telegraphy and signall. ing, and others working on motor engines before joining the Trans- port,

His Majesty showed much interest in a class which was being trained in of the anti-tank rifle against a dummy tank. Reuter.

use

FACILITIES

members of the crew were drowned FOR ITALIAN

when the steamer sank..

It is believed that she was the vic- tim of a German submarine attack.-- Reuter

****The Albania, a vessel of 1,241 tons gross and 541 tons net, was own

the Rederiaktieb Svenska Gothenburg, she Schomer and

TRADE

"In the United States, which, as Goebbels said, has not lost its senses, chief interest in the repetition of this yarn lies in its being a rather grimly amusing revelation of Nazism." Reuter.

THETIS RAISED TO SURFACE

The

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London, To-day. submarine Thetis, which sank on her accept- ance trials more than 20 weeks ago, was raised to the surface yesterday afternoon....... She is now lying a mile from the shore off the coast of Anglesey.

Her bridge can be seen from shore, with the remaining periscope at a sharp angle.

the

Thetis will be towed further, inshore' and beached.--Reuter.

· Paris, To-day;

The "Thetis” was successfully |floated after Intensive w

France is to give special facilities She was later taken

to Italian and Allied trade passing she will be drained pre

aby

through France to neutral countries: ing towed to drydock.--British Wir

TO-MORROW QUEEN'S

sorts and imports pass-less.

France are not liable to

Long imposed on other

are removed for

carried abrOBE neutrals, and

́and

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