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Hongkong Daily. Press”----June 5, 1939.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1939

Chinese Government Thank Thank

DRAMATIC STORY

Bishop Of Hongkong

CAPTAIN

LIFE

TO GET

HELP FOR

UNCONEIRMED

REPORT

SHANGHAI, June 4' '(Reuter) unconfirmed wireless

report received from, the Jar- dine river steamer LƐwn, ai present in the Lower-Yangtze, says "Fired on by Japanese." No detalls were given.

The Liwo was due to arrive in 'Shanghai on Sunday after-

noon.

NOT TARGET "SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuter)

The Liwo arrived here this evening. She was alleged to have been caught in cross fire between Japanese troops" and Chinese guerillas in the Lower Yangtze. Machine-run bullets were splashed around her but It was evidently accidental, the Liwo herself not being the target.

Wang Asked To Proceed To Hankow

CHUNGKING, June 4 (Central) -It is learned from foreign sources that the Japanese have invited Wang Ching-wet, expelled Kuomin tang leader, to proceed to Hankow

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Despite the heavy responsibilities which the Chinese Government Is bearing at this time of war, it has not forgotten the help It has received in connection with the problems attendant on the conflict. The above is a reproduction of the certificate which the Executive Yasa recently presented to the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall," Bishop of Hongkong, expressing the gratitude of the Gorem- ment and the people for his untiring work in connection with the relief of war refugees.

to organize a new bogus govern- WHERE 5,000 Refugees livE

ment in the Wuhan cities which

will be on the same footing as the bogus governments in Nanking and *Pelping

Visit To Kowloon Village

assume leadership Described: No Electricity,

After Wang assume leadership in the Wuhan cities, a *federal Government" will then be created Jointly by the Nanking, Pelping, -Canton and Wuhan puppet regimes.

Wang is said to be in a dilemna. Living In Shanghai SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuter)- Wang Ching-wel is to-day a re- sident of Shangha!, according to the "China Press" claiming to obtain information from an un- impeachable source, states that although a vell of secrecy shrouds his whereabouta there is no doubt he is in Shanghai.

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The "China Press" adds that Wang Ching-wel returned · from Wapan on June 2 and is shortly

taking another trip to Tokyo.

Under the caption "Wang's Fort-

Te Here?" the "China Press" gives prominence to photographs of his house in the French Con- cession, which is reported to be strengthened against possible terrorist attack, and is at present heavily guarded by plainclothes and uniformed policemen.

The paper states; however, that Wang is not living there and is not believed to be residing "south of the Creek"

TO FORM "GOVERNMENT" CHUNGKING, June 4 (Central) -Wang Ching-wel is planning the establishment of a "central govern- ment" in Napking, says a Tientsin message

In connection with the 'World Peace Movement" It is reported that Wang is drafting a declara. tion. It will be issued after it is approved by the Japanese authori.

ties.

DRAMATIC STORY OF ILL-FATED THETIS:

RISKED HIS LIFE

HIS COMRADES

Worst Tragedy

Tragedy To

To Submarine

Flotilla In Peace

Time

LONDON, JUNE 4 (REUTER) ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC STORIES OF THE ILL-FATED THETIS IS TOLD BY A SEAMAN OBSERVER, WHO SAYS THAT CAPE: ORAM RISKED HIS LIFE TO DISCOVER WHETHER HELP IS NEAR. His escape was just a hazard, because the submarine's crew did not know whether they have been located or whether rescue vessels are in the vicinity.

DEATH ROLL NOW 99

SEVERAL EXPERTS

AMONG DEAD - LONDON, June 4 (Reuter) -The death roll in the Thetis disaster is now believed to be 99. A Cheshire man states that he was informed by a representative of Vickers- Armstrong that his brother was in the sunken submarine.

An official of the Liverpool and Glasgow. Salvager Company, fan- nouncing that it would not be

the

Drainage Or Running Water portblete False submarine

(Special in the "Hongkong Daily Press") '..... Within a ten-minute motor car drive from the Peninsula Hotel, going down Nathan Road, you come to a Chinese village called Kep Shek Mei. The en- trance to the village, composed mainly of approximate- ly five thousand Chinese refugees, is between two large flat and shop buildings."

A narrow dirty footpath, very muddy from lást week's rains, follows the banks of an open nullah (sewer) and winds to the base of the foothills where hundreds of Chinese graves are located.

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Winding along this footpath, with These give access to the footpath the stench of the nullah at the and the row of houses on the other side, you come to a few green side not ten feet away. Jubis vegetable patahes, then a rice shop nullah, though washed by recent and semi-money shop.

raits presented a sight revolting

Side stepping a thin diseased to the layman and extremely dan- chicken and a chow puppy, yougerous from a sanitary or bacterio arrive in the residential proper. logical point of view

Small one and two story stacks of Children were playing in this foul one room, not more than two feet smelling stream, Fruit rinds, egg apart are, crowded with human shells, matting, tin cans, broken beings of all ages, and chickens, China, garbage of various descrip- pigs and doga.

tion and human sewerage were These shacks are varied in build-seen in the mullah at various

bamboo, cement and matting are ing material; tin cans, brick, 'wood, points,

used, and.

in

Continuing further into the con- 3 few. several gested village, men were noticed materials are combined.

shifting earth from the bottom of There is no electricity, no run- the nullah with wooden boxes. ning water, no sewerage, no drain- age, no central garbage or refúse dumptag.

Water Stagnation

before Tuesday added, that she would be towed to the nearest shallow water probably of the Anglesey Coast."

Figuratively speaking pages are devoted to the disaster and the Sunday papers read like a huge question mark and are eloquently expressive of the nation's natural desire for the fullest Information about a tragedy of such magnitude in circumstances so bewildering to the layman.

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Some papers print lists of questions-spread over two pages in one case-to which naval and other experts con- tribute answers, the chief of which sock to reassure the readers that all measures pos- sible were taken to save the lives of the men who are now said to include some of the best submarina designing cand building experts in the coun- try.

the Admiralty

The result of Court of Inquiry--whether public, or the usual Naval Court, which hitherto is not made known-will be awaited with intense eagerness by the public as will any prelimin ary statement in Parliament which is reassembling to-morrow...

The Third Sea Lord, Rear-Ad- miral B. A. Fraser, is now in Liver- late last night.. pool where he arrived from London

were other houses of the same des

In the rear of this main street On one şide of the

main cription However, the tenants thoroughfare a long row of houses do not have the "advantage of

Out it sea, not many miles away, have bridges across the sewer. the nullah, consequently, water, an regulation wreck marks give the

inch ar sa deep, was stagnating place where the Thetis sank, between the houses which are separated by no more than three

CHINA WAR NEWS: CHINESE BEAT BACK JAPANESE SHANSI DRIVE: SUCCESSFUL ENCIRCLEMENT

SIAN, June 4 (Central)-About 10,000 Japanese troups have been massed in Chungking, Liahib and Fenyang in west Shand, presaging a ́westward drive to the Yellow River bank.

Small Japanese units have already started test attacks. On May 28, about 1,000 Japanese drove westward from Chungyang, -but were beaten back by Chinese unile lying in ambush.

Tumen, northwest of Linfen, is have suffered further reverses at still in Chinese hands. A Japanese Jenchtach wang, near. Yunglocheng. drive from Hellungkwan, north-The Chinese are now engaged in a west of Tumen, to the Chinese "mopping up" operation there. positions nearby on May 29, was In Central Shantung repelled by, the Chinese..

CHENGCHOW. Jane 4 (Central)

The Japanese driving north--More than 200 casualties were wards from Fowshan, east of Lin- inflicted upon a Japanese column fen, on May 30, were also beaten driving southward from Laiwu in back...

centralShantung by the Lalws-

The Japanese pushing towards Hintal highway on May 20 Tunglochen from Fenglinta in The Japanese were met by the southwest Shanst, who were de Chinese at Yenchwang southeast feated by the Chinese on May 28,

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PAGE 6-Wedding Newsettes. PAGES/7-Local News, PAGE 8Leader; The Thetis Disaster. Hello and Goodbye. New Feature, Coming Events. PAGE 10--Baseball and tennis, PAGES 12 and 13-Finance and

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directory dat PAGE 16-Lawn Bowls Open

Rinks tourney.

OVERPOWERING DEMONSTRATION

OF LOYALTY TO KING AND QUEEN

MELVILLE, SASKATCHEWAN, June4 (Retter)-After making. several stops at small stations, where Their Majesties were greeted. by large crowds, the Royal train arrived here from Baskatoon..

Melville's population of 4,000 swelled to 50,000, including Ger- mans Poles and Ukrainian, who, with other foreign residents in one of Canada's most mixed regions, gave an overpowering demonstra- tion of loyally when the King and Queen mounted the floodlit plat- form for the oficial reception.

When the time came for Their Majesties to depart, the handful of police avaliable had the utmost dimenity in keeping the rathway track clear of cheering crowds,

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Signals From Rescue Ship

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The rescue ship Brazen was about to give the signal, by a series of underwater explosions, to the submarine crew to abandon ship when Capt. Oram appeared on the surface. The signal was eventually given and three more came up.

All wondered why the escapes were suspended. It seemed clear after the last, escape that one of the doors of the escape chamber must have jammed.

ACUTE UNIVERSAL

The observer said: "The befallen the submarine flotilla tragedy is the worst that has

in time of peace and the investigation will of course be a matter of acute universal concern.

The diving belt apparatus, by which more than half of those Imprisoned in the American submarine Squalus were rescued the other day,” would not appear to have had any "chance of success in the plight by which the Thetis” was overtaken, but there is strong demand that the best official and scientific energies shall be. freshly, applied in aid of men whose lives are dedicated to the nation's safety and whose dauntlessness is part of ns- tional honour."

A Question

CONCERN

WILL BE HELD SOON -FULL INQUIRY

LONDON, June 4 (Ren- ter) The Admiralty, an nounces that salvage work on the submarine Thetis is proceeding but

It will be some time be-

fore the vessel can be brought to the surface.

The Admiralty adds that

full inquiry will be held as soon as it is practicable.

the last hours of those in the submarine Thetis were a mix- ture of cool heroism and stark horror, has been revealed by one of the survivors. The crew preserved excellent The "Sunday Express" writes. discipline and passed away the "Apart from horror at the fate of long hours discussing sport. the dead, another emotion stirs However, one of the men was the citizena-determination to unable to stand the dreadful know the reason why rescuers, suspense and

Went mad. The

WHAT WENT WRONG?

NAVAL WRITER.

ON ESCAPE LONDON, June 4 (Reuter) What went wrong in the H.M. submarine Thetis after the four men escaped? asks Lieut.-Comdr. Kenneth Ed- wards, B.N., the "Sunday Times Naval Correspondent in the course of an article ön the disaster. Unless the ves- sel is raised it is Improbable we shall ever know.

It seems clear, however, ther the man about to escape was drowned or escap- ed in the chamber but his body was jammed in the hatch or it was decided by those inside the submarine to abandon this form of escape (by Davis apparatus).

continues, work perfectly well it

The escape chambers, the writer

the 'submarine is on anything ap proaching an even keel although each escape means that two toas of water enter the submarine. „It the submarine is at an angle of 30 degrees, as was the Thetis, it might be impossible to comine the water to the bilgea

A situation might have arisen in which the ingress of more water would have fooded the electric batteries. This was to be avoided. at all costs. since sea water, if it comes In contact with electric batteries. produces chlorine gas.

Dealing with the difficulties of salvage attempts. Lleut.-Comdr.. Edwards says that it was only for about 45 minutes every six hours. that the tidal stream was suff-

clently slack to allow of divers working.

DIFFICULT TASK-

aeparated from the trapped me survivor commented briefly: "He divers was to get air into the sub- The first consideration of the only by a thin steel wall," which | dled in a few minutes."

marine. This would be a difficult” they "could see and clamber over The other men were drowned task at the best of times but with." and explore, failed to get them out when they tiled by means of the the submarine standing on its own

in time.

"Perhaps all these questions can be answered by the Ad- miralty to the complete satis- faction of the "public" The sooner this Is done the better.” Mr. Reynolds asks: "How did it happen? Could it have avoided? These questions cry for answer though the nation's 21-

been

Davis escape apparatus.

The" Air Was Foul

nose and swinging in the tide the difficulties were magnifled enor-

Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Cammellmonsly.

I had been suggested that since Laird engineer-fitter, Mr. F. Shaw, who was the last man rescued | the stern of the submarine was yesterday, told Reuter that her at one period above the surface a husband seemed in fairly good hole might have been cut in this health

to release the imprisoned men. That part of the stem, above water was, however, a mass of tanka.

He had been told, she said, not gulch and they must be answered to discuss his awful experience, fully and publicly. That is a debt and had said practically nothing of honour to the deed and a about what he had gone through burden on the consciences of the except that the air was foul and living."

Cool Heroism Earlier message from Renter and Trans-Ocean-stated tast

It a hole had been cut, there would still have been a number of bulkheads and stiffening frames was getting dreadful when he left. between the men and their would..

All the men

be rescuers. behaving were wonderfully, Mr. Shaw revealed.

"866 AND PIje 9

the collision At Wanda-

-ESCAPE HOLE

The best brains of the country and the most up-to-date salvage equipment would have to be an Hated in an attempt to raise the submarine far enough for an escape hole to be cut,"

The battle of man against the ses is never so grim ss in the cases of salvage-particularly when the salvage is being attempted against time.

Lieut.-Comdr. Edwards here re- calls the months that were taken to raise the sunken submarine 142 and the fact that on each of two Occasions the submarine was raised. so that parts, were above water when something falled to with- stand the strak and she sank back again to the depths.

the

The National Glove issued a mandate eulogizing

Deritorious service of the late Mr. Huang Wen-chly member of the National Relief Commission, who passed away recently. An appro priation of $3,000 was granted as his funeral expenses.