THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1939
Destroyers out on patrol-hunting U-Boats-maintain their ceaseless watch. Crown Copyright Reserved. By Air Mall).
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THREE MORE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK IN ATLANTIC: BRITISH SERVICE VICTIMS
London, To-day.
THE NAMES OF A NUMBER of women and children STERLING
appear among the list of those missing from the Bibby liner Yorkshire issued to-day by the FIRM
owners.
The missing comprise mostly service men and their families and includes Col. W. L. E. Reynolds, R.A.M.C., Col. H. Cornford, R.A.O.C., Capt. F. W. Beer, Lancashire Regiment, and Sqdn.-Idr. P. Thripp, R.A.F.
The missing also includes a number of non-commis- sioned officers and men of various British units.
BERLIN DENIES WAR COUNCIL
BERLIN TO-DAY.
D.N.B., THE OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY, DECLARES THAT POLI- TICAL CIRCLES DENY REPORTS THAT A DISCUSSION OF DECI- SIVE IMPORTANCE CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION HAS TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN THE FUEHRER AND VON RIBBEN-
Two more British ships, have been lost in the Atlantic, the 2,474-ton Menin Ridge and the 9,528-ton Ledbury.
The American ship Crown City has picked up 36 of the crews of the two ships. She wirelesses that she has rescued all the crew of the Ledbury but that 22 men from the other ship are missing. -Reuter.
*** Like the City of Flint, the Crown City is owned by the United States Shipping Board. She is an oll-engined vessel of 5,428 tons.
London, Later.
A third British steamer has been sunk. She is believed to be the
She was built years ago Reuter.
GLASGOW REPORT
two
TROP IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. Clan Chisholm, of 7,256 tons, owned
The agency says that the statement by the Clan Line. that special reports
were called for and received from the Ambassador in Moscow, does not correspond with the facts.
The same applies to news abroad. concerning the alleged War Council and adds: "The German attitude in consequence of Mr. Chamberlain's rejection of the German peace-offer is well-known.
"Germany sees no reason for mak- ing a new peace moye." Kauter.
·
KING RECEIVES THE
PRIME MINISTER.
London, To-day. His Majesty the King received Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in audience last night. Reuter.
“REPATRIATION!!
OF GERMANS
The British steamer, Clan Chisholm, has been sunk, according to a report reaching Glasgow.
The British steamer, Menin Ridge; is officially reported to have been sunid --Reuter.
KING'S POPPY DAY DONATION
London, To-day.
The King has sent a special dona- tion of £100 to the 1989 Poppy Day Appeal Fund for the British ·Legion.
It is likely that" troops in France will be wearing poppies on November 11;
An enquiry has been made / by „Danzig, To-day. General Headquarters of the British So far, about 4,000 “repatriated" - Expeditionary Fórce - as to the pos Baltic Germans have arrived in Dan-sibilities of arranging sales of poppler: zig. Most of them are from Esthonia,
mcers and other ranks, British
New York, To-day. Sterling advanced strongly in a thin market yesterday in which offerings
were hard to obtain, while the French frane was also firm.
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GREEK STEAMER
London, To-day.
A Greek steamer of 6,000 tons is the latest victim of the German campaign against- neutral shipping. She was sunk in the North Sea by a U-boat. yesterday.
Fifteen of her crew were landed at an English port and taken by ain- bulance to a Sailors' Home. Eight others have been picked up by an- other ship, but three of the crew and the English pilot are still missing. The victim was the Konstantino Hadji Pateras.
An ambulance was waiting when the life-boat arrived with 15 men after they had been transferred to her by a British ship.
Been
The captain said that the ship sank early yesterday morning. A few men got Into the lifeboat and others dived overboard. The miss- Ing men are among those swimming in the water: The men were taken to the sai lors' home which had just been vacated by the crew of the Norwegian oll-tanker Deodate which was sunk in the North Sea on Saturday.--Reu-
ter.
GERMANY MAKES ANOTHER MISTAKE
Washington, To-day. Senator T. C. Hennings, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee has expressed the belief that the seizure of the City of Flint would lose a few votes for arms embargo In the House. Reuter.
GEN. SIKORSKY
LEAVES PARIS A
Paris, To-day. General Sikorski, the Polish Prime The new dollar basis of the Yen did Minister, left Paris yesterday with a not affect the market since the new French military mission to Inspect rate 18 approximately the present the Polish Legion in the provinces.-- level-Reuter.
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