1940-11-28 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1940.".

ENEMY RAIDER ACTIVE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

Merchantman

ITALIANS HAVE ALL

Sunk: Second Also THE TROPHIES!

Probably Trapped

The "Goeteborg Pos- ten" of Stockholm, in a leader entitled "New. Adowa, yesterday wrote that no army

A BRITISH MERCHANTMAN, THE PORT BRISBANE, WAS of a great power

SUNK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN FIVE DAYS AGO BY A GERMAN RAIDER, ANNOUNCED MR. W. M. HUGHES, AUSTRALIAN NAVY MINISTER, IN CANBERRA YES-

LARGE ITALIAN

REINFORCEMENT OF.NO AVAIL

(Continued from Page 1)

the

TERDAY.

An Australian warship has arrived at an Australian port with 27 survivors, Mr. Hughes added. The Port Brisbane was a vessel of 8,700 tons and was registered in London.

second line of defence, Only near the coast are Italians putting up any determined raider. opposition. The Greeks are still

The remainder of the ship's company, including a woman passenger, are prisoners on board the

the salvo wrecked The third wireless room and the fourth hit disabled the the bridge and steering gear.

The attack took place at night. feeling their way cautiously to- The raider lit up the Port Bris- wards Argyrolcastron and the Ital-bane with searchlights and open- ians are trying to make a stand ined fire at a range of over a mile, the mountains just south of the city.

Here, the R.A.F. has been most active, bombing and machine- gunning transport and infantry.

Casualties have been heavy among the Italian infantry and whole columns have been scatter-

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aeroplanes.

reinforcements.

Large Italian have been sent, but the failure of these troops to achieve anything is taken as a sign that the morale of these troops is also not very great.

Advance Resumed

The. Port Brisbane was sub- sequently abandoned, the ship's company taking to the lifeboats. of two of the The occupants bonts were taken prisoner but those in the third succeeded in escaping detection.

Bombs And Torpedo

-board- This harassing from the air,

The raider then sent `together with the advance of the

Ing party which placed time Greeks, their. skilful placing of GREEK TROOPS RESUMED. bombs on board the Port Bris- artillery and their accurate fire,' THEIR ADVANCE YESTERDAY bane. A number of these Are giving the Italians no chanco MORNING, ACCORDING TO heard to explode and the raider to set up a line of defence, and LATEST REPORTS FROM THE later fired, a torpedo into the ship as they fall back they leave all ALBANIAN FRONT QUOTED and made off sorts of things behind even, BY ATHENS RADIO-REUTER.

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During a search made by the rescuing - Australian ~ warship, according to Mr. Hughes' and nouncement, an empty lifeboat belonging to the British mar. chantman Maimo. (8,000 tons) was eighted,

Maimo are also prisoners on board the raider. — Reuter,"

ITALIANS SURRENDER ON BORDER

A total of 1,300 Italians and Albanians have sur- rendered to the Yugoslav authorities on the frontier in the Debar sector dur- ing the last few days, ac- cording to unconfirmed reports received

don last night.

in

Lon-

In Athens it was annouriced that Greek aircraft successfully bombed Italian concentrations, columns of troops and batteries in action...

The Italians are stated to have bombed villages in Epirus, Corfu, Cephalonia and Crete and have also bombed Patras, as

The Greek ... communique, adds that Greek troops are conținuing successfully their action on Al- banian soll. Reuter.

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BRITAIN'S WAR SAVINGS

"DURING THE FIRST

YEAR

OF WAR SAVINGS, THE PEO- PLEA OF BRITAIN SAVED

£478,500,000.

This is £600,000, more than the figure almed at by the National Savings Committee when the cam- paign was launched a year ago.

been exposed to

BUT NOT FOR MALAYA

Another contingent of British volunteers for war service has sailed.

It consists of ten young men from, Shanghai and eight from „Tientsin.:

The group brings the total of volunteers from Shanghai since the war began to 132.

Although their destination is not known, it is understood that they will not go to Malaya for train

a defeat at the hands ⠀ of a weaker adversary since the Italians at Adowa were surround- ed and annihilated bying. Reuter. Emperor Menelik's spear-bearing "Abyssi- nian hordes.Reuter.

WEATHER FORECAST:-North-

cast

all Winds, fresh; fair, gener

STOP PRESS

How Hitler's peace terms for France were rejected after a Vichy Cabinet meeting at which Pierre Laval and Gen- eral Huntziger, the leading armistice delegate, nearly came to blows, is described by the special correspondent of the Free French agency to-day "from an abso- lutely sure" Vichy source.· ́

news

The terms brought back from Paris by M. Laval were' the céssion of Alsace-Lorraine the liberation of 100,000 French prisoners per month, which meant that the final -batch would be released... in. two years, and no territory for. Italy except Djibouti but the use of all French home and colonial ports for har- bouring and provisioning Ger- man ships,

General Huntziger, who is an Alsation, was particularly opposed to the last condition which, he declared, was trap to drag, France into war against Britain.

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-This, says the Free French correspondent, was M. Laval's hidden alm. -

Germany's real objective proves she is less strong than

she pretends, exclaimed Gen-

eral Huntziger.

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M. Laval, supported by Ad- miral Darlan, the Navy Minis- ter, violently disputed General Huntziger's viewpoint and physical struggle between, 'the' two almost resulted, but after three dramátic Cabinet meet- ings. General Huntziger pre-. yalled and Marshal Petain made his collaboration-with- Germany broadcast at the end of October but ignored the peace..terms.

It was then that Hifler' re- sorted to force by expelling Frenchmen from Lorraine, says the correspondent, who also believes that the prema- ture. Italian attack against Greece was due to Mussolini · learning that Hitler was-pré pared to sacrifice, Italian claims in order to obtain the use of French ports. Reu ter.

In our announcement yes- . terday of the institution of a system of broadcast warnings from ZBW to shipping it was, due to a misprint, incorrectly. stated that any such warnings would be given after the wea- ther bulletins at 1 pm. and -8 p.m., and at 7:30 pm. The last time mentioned should have been 10.30 p.m. pot 7.30 p.m.

Assurances that the Immi- gration Bill will be adminis- tered, sympathetically, that fees will be reduced and that certificates of residence are not required by persons rest- dent in the Colony who do not leave it were given by the Attorney General in Legisla- tive Councill this afternoon; }

Mr. Li Tse-fong,' who sup- ported Mr. Lo, hoped that the issuing of entry permits and residential certificates would not be so drastically. restricted as to lead to bribery and wholesale-smuggling, thus "defeating the object of the

Bill

Mr. Thomas Tam hoped that Government would agree to a reduction in fees and ask- ed for an assurance that if, in future, Income exceeds cost of administration, fees will be further reduced.

The Attorney-General said: that when “the Bill'. came to be read in Committtee, he was authorised by His Excellency to state that the fees for cer- tificates: of, four years' resi-- dence valid for five years, would be reduced from $10. to, $6 end the 10-year residence certificates from $5 to $2.

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