1940-02-09 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1940.

Crack Irish

Irish Channel Ship Sunk Nearing Liverpool TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS KING'S AND CREW SAFE: COLLIER RESCUE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

ALL THE PASSENGERS AND CREW OF THE PAS- SENGER AND CARGO STEAMER MUNSTER (4,300 TONS), WHICH WAS SUNK BY ENEMY ACTION ON WEDNESDAY, ARE SAFE. Most of those on board the Munster were brought ashore by a tramp steamer. It is believed the passengers and crew number approximately 200.

An official of the shipping company states: "No-one from the Munster was lost. One or two may have been injured but everybody is safe. Four or five members of the crew are in hospital.”

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS

Chungking, To-day.

Sir Stafford Cripps, the well-known British Left Wing politician, was among the passengers of a plane which left here for Hami, in Sin- kiang, on the first stage of a journey to Moscow.

Twenty people from the ship were rushed to hospital when they landed, suffering from minor injuries and shock; only a few were detained.

A member of the crew stated: "An explosion occurred in the morning. There was a blue flash and then boil- Ing water and pieces of the galley furniture were flung everywhere.

"Another vessel, eight miles away, saw our distress flares and steamed up. She took many on board.

"Although there were many women

BOMB

EXPLOSION AT LAUSANNE

Berne, To-day.

A police official was killed and two other persons serious injured. by a bomb explosion in the Lau- sanne police laboratory yester- day.

A German national named Zuschnig had bean receiving anonymous letters charging him with being a spy, and when he received by the morning's post a suspicious package he took it to the police. When it was oponed there was a violent explosion.- Router.

BRITISH AID TO FINLAND

and children among the passen- Asked in the House of Commons to perfectly consider behaved

gers everyone

MESSAGE TO N.Z.

Wellington, To-day.

The King has sent a mes- sage of congratulation to New Zealand on the occasion of the Centenary celebra- tions.

After referring to His Majesty's deep satisfaction .in New Zealand's continued progress, the message says: "The generous and valuable contri- bution the Dominion is making to the war effort of the Empire will mark a the glorious page in her history, and spirit of my peoples in New Zealand and elsewhere is a sure guarantee that the difficulties which unquestionably lle before us will be successfully over- come."

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The Governor-General, Galway, in a message of thanks to the King, said the message was read to large crowds assembled at Waitangi to celebrate the Centenary and received with the deepest appreciation and pleasure.

PRECIOUS IDEALS

was

The ship sank in an hour and a half." bombers and fighters with crews to aid and justice which throughout the cen-

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the

It added: "Coming at a time when the security of the Commonwealth is threatened by aggression, the Centen- ary celebrations serve to strengthen London, To-day.

the people of New Zealand in the re- solve to uphold and defend to the ut- the possibility of sending

most the precious ideals of freedom

cretary for Foreign Affairs, said that Finland, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Se- turies have guided and inspired

British peoples."--Reuter. as already stated measures had been taken to assist the Finnish Govern- ment with war material from Britain.

that He understood the

crews were available in Finland who were compe- tent to fly any machine obtained by Finland.

The Munster was the crack ship of the Irish Sea crossings and was the

largest cross-Channel motor vessel in

Sir Stafford, who arrived in Chung-the world.

The captain had an arm broken in king last month on a private tour of

remained on Free China, thus enjoyed the distinc-two places but tion of being the only British nation-bridge to the last. al permitted to enter Sinkiang since the start of the Sino-Japanese hostili- ties.

The plane in which he travelled was a tri-motor air liner, the ̈ "Chenglu," which was making its fourth flight since the inauguration of the Chung- king-Moscow air route in December.

at air

When Sir Stafford returns from Sinklang he will not stop over In Chungking but will transfer the city airport to another liner and proceed to Hong Kong. During his visits to Chungking, Yunnanfu and Chengtu, Sir Stafford has addressed a number of public bo- dies and universities.-Reuter.

RELATIONS SURVIVE BY 3 VOTES

One of the crow stated he was thrown out of his bunk by the force of the explosion. When he arrived on deck the lifeboats were ...being lowered...and..boats... were

drifting away from the ship.

GERMANY AND FINLAND

Berlin, To-day.

An official statement declares: "Rus- Replying to supplementaries, Mr. sia has never asked Germany for sup Butler declared that the urgency of port of any kind against Finland and Finland's need for assistance was.real-Germany has never given any kind of ised by the British Government. military support to Russia in the Rus-

so-Finnish conflict."-Reuter.

A motor lifeboat went to the assis-Reuter. tance of the other lifeboats and tow- ed then to the collier.

The Munster, which had 180 pas- sengers on board, operated between Liverpool and Northern Ireland. She left Belfast on her last voyage on Tuesday evening.-Reuter.

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ACTIVITY

London, To-day. Business was only moder-

BY ate on the Stock Exchange

on Wednesday, but several good spots were noticeable.

Japanese stocks were supported while several Industrials registered higher levels.

Among oils, Royal Dutch was pro- minent.

Washington, To-day. The first of several propo- sals designed to terminate After official hours, home raids, fol- American diplomatic rela-lowing the announcement of details of tions with Moscow was de- the compensation agreement, register-

ed advances. feated in the House of Repre- - Great Western Ordinary were quot- sentatives by the narrowed at 44, Southern Railway Deferred margin of 108 votes against land and Scottish Ordinary at 17, com- and Ordinary. at 15, and London, Mid-

pared with the previous day's close

105.

Wall Street was firm-Reuter.

By this vote the House rejected an of 42, 141⁄2 and 15%, respectively. amendment by Mr. John McCormack to strike from the State Department Appropriation Bill the sum of $17,- 500 for the salary of the U.S. Ambas |

sador to the Soviet Union.

The House, by 95 votes to 38, de- feated Mr. McCormack's second

amendment which would have pre- vented the State Department from maintaining a diplomatic establish ment. in Russia ---Réuter.

PLANES DESTROYED - IN

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London, To-day. Eight aeroplanes and five aeroplane engines were destroyed in a fire which broke out in a large hängar at a civil aerodrome in Essex. Reuter.

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