THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1939,
TWO MEMBERS OF CREW OF NEW MATHILDE DROWNED
IT WAS THIS MORNING learned that two Chinese NORWAY'S
were drowned when the ship sank off the Kwong ORDERS FOR
AIRCRAFT
members of the crew of the s.s. New Mathilde
chowwan coast on Saturday morning. Forty-six members of the crew, including Captain R. Werry, Chief Officer M. Jenkins, Chief Eri- gineer P. B. Allan and Second Engineer A. E. van Langenberg arrived in Hong Kong yesterday by the s.s. Tai Poo Sek, owned by the same com- pany, the Shun Cheong Steamship Company.
The other members of the crew are still in Kwongchowwan where they were conveyed after being rescued by the s.s. Soochow
A full report has been made by the Captain to the owners and also to the Harbour Master, and it is under- stood that an inquiry will be institut- ed.
BAD WEATHER
It is said that the ship encountered
very -bad weather- after leaving Kwang Chow Wan, and was pitching heavily when it was discovered that she was making water rapidly.
but it has been suggested
that the
ship may have struck an uncharted submerged obtacle.
:
Oslo, To-day. Norway has doubled her order, placed last August, for 12 American
fighter planes.
Six on order from Great Britain are
has promised to deliver them within the time stipu- lated in the contract.-Reuter.
expected to arrive in Norway shortly. The British firm
R.A.F. OBSERVERS SAVE CREWS OF BRITISH SHIPS
London, To-day.
The cause of the leak is not known MEMBERS OF THE R.A.F. Observer Corps, who watch for enemy craft night and day, have also proved able to perform other feats besides, in- cluding the saving of the crews of two British ships.
GERMANS IN
PANIC
IN HUNGARY
•
BUDAPEST, TO-DAY,
GERMANS LIVING IN SOUTH-
In
one case, as a result of a collision off the East Coast at night, the captain's "S.O.S." signals on the ship's siren were picked up by Observers, who sent an urgent message to the Coast Guard.
At the same time, another Observer. distress EAST HUNGARY - HAVE BEEN | unit reported having seen. THROWN INTO A PANIC BY rockets from the same ship. RUMOURS THAT THEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO BOHEMIA.
re-
Although they were very pro-Nazi before, they have now expelled their Nazi Party Organizers and are fusing to send their children to Ger- man schools because they want them to grow up to be "true Hungarians." The Germans in south-east Hung- ary have been there since the 18th Century. Reuter.
Thanks to the prompt warnings, the crew of 12 men were rescued by lifeboats.
In another case, the Admiralty have sent a message of thanks for
West help rendered on the
Coast, when the Observers got the message through to the Admiralty so quickly that, although the ship was sinking, tugs were able to get out to her in time and to beach her. Reuter.
U.B.BEER
LIGHT & DARK
TECHNIQUE OF NAZI IMPUTATION
London, To-day.
The German Fraihelt ("Free. dom") radio station, which has been operating_secretlý In Ger. many for some years and has been the bane of the Nazia, broadcasts that Goebbels has Im- puted to the British what the Nazis would have done in their place.
They have imputed to Mr. Winston Churchill what the Na- zis themselves have In fact done.
The station recalls that they used a similar technique in their struggle for power, when they set the Reichstag on fire and accua- ad others of the crime.—Reuter.
DOMINION STATUS
Bombay, To-day.
In a statement yesterday, Mr." Gandhi sald that although the Viceroy's recent declaration con⚫ cerning the future of India's con. stitution is "undoubtedly deplor able," It is not irrevobable.
The Congress Working Com- mittee's resolution dalling on all Ministries to resign leaves the door open, he said, for satisfying'
for the nation's demand
Do- minion status.-Reuter,
"LE TEMPS" SCOFFS AT RIBBENTROP
Paris, To-day.
French reaction to Nazi attempts, including von Rib. bentrop's latest try, to divide. the British and French is ty- pified by the newspaper "Le Temps.
The paper says that in trying to
divide France and Britain, in con- fining himself to defensive actions on
the Franco-German frontier while he intesifies his U-boat and aerial cam-
palgns against Britain, Hitler is wast-
ing his time.
The declarations made by Mr. Hore-Belisha, the British · Secra- tary of State for War, confirm that for the two Western Nations. the end of the war will only be Justified by a definite guarantes of a new order without the threat of aggression.
Only then, the paper says, can there be a just and lasting peace. Until then. the Reich will be compelled to carry on with the war they wished and that they unleashed.-Reuter.
RAIDED CHICKEN RUN
Arrested at 2 a.m. to-day with six pigeons and nine chickens in his pos- session, Cheung Kwok-on, 33, was at Kowloon Magistracy charged with stealing the poultry from the yard of the residence of Mrs. R. Richardson, No. 105, Waterloo Road.
Accused was accompanied by an- other Chinese who managed to escape in the course of a chase by a police sergeant.
Accused was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E. Himsworth.
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