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GENERAL

"Decisive Victory For

Britain": U.S. Press On

Graf Spee Battle

NEW YORK. Dec. 16 (Renter)-"A decisive victory for Bri- "tain," and "Weakness of the pocket-battleship revealed,? sums up the verdict of the United States press on the South Atlantic naval battle.

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David Boone, columnist of the New York Sun, says the Graf Spee is now what might be called a patch-packet battleship. It looks as if she is out of the line-up permanently but Hitler is making a strong effort to talk her back into the war.

The Nazis raise the usual ory that she was fouled. The Grai Spee bad hardly cooled off before Berin was chiming that mustard gas was used.

MOST DRAMATIC "The New York Post says the running battle was the most dramatic encounter of the war. The New York Sun in editorial

Bays Germany's new tactics have been worsted by the British variant of General For- rest's celebrated old rule.

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Neither the German claim to a victory nor the allegation that the British cruisers fred gas shells can be accepted.

BRITISH SEAMANSHIP The British seamanship against superior gun-power is praised by the New York Times.

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The journal says: "The German Government lost another battle when it died about the Graf Spee.

statements from Berlin has always "The discount rate on official

been high. A few more, breaks

PREMIER AT THE FRONT

LUNCHES WITH BRITISH C. - IN - C.

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuter)--- Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Premier, after spending the night at Viscount Gort's chateau, this moming visited the front lines where he saw the improvements which "had been made since the King's visit

FLOWN OVER LONDON, Dec. 14 (Reuter)-Mr. Chamberlain flew over to France. With an escort of Royal Air Force fighters. He had lunch with Lord Gort, the British Commander-in- Chief. and the Duke of Gloucester,

SINO - BRITISH

"Britain got there fastest with like this and it will be close on CULTURAL ASSN.

the most ships.".

IDEAS EXPLODED

The Detroit Free Press declares that two ideas have been explod-!

100 per cent!"

MAJOR VICTORY

The New York Times says that'

Social Gathering

In Chungking

ed, one that the British Fleet con-, by forcing the Graf von Spee into tained only three or four vessels port the British Can count capable of running down and cop- major victory: The paper pays

CHUNGKING, Dec. 15. Int'l)- ing with the Graf Spee type, and tribute "to those qualities for The Sino-British Cultural Associa- the other that vessels with 6-inch which the Silent Service has long tion held a social gathering..yester: or 8-inch guns would be helpless been famous-skilful seamanship day afternoon in the International In combat with line ships.

and dogged courage."

Club in honour of Mr. R. H. Scott,

The newspaper adds that the The New York Herald Tribune Far Eastern representative of the elimination of one-third of the says that the German pocket- Ministry of Information, who gave strongest surface arm of the Ger- battleship. though of ingenious a talk of British publicity in war man navy can only be regarded as construction, is plainly not the time and his Impressions of Nort a decisive victory.

final answer to everything.

China and Japan as judged from his recent tour.

R.A.F. Attack On German

Naval Units

CLASH DESCRIBED AS A RUNNING

Many high Chinese officials and British returned students present in this gathering.

were

VICE - PRESIDENT AS AIR FLIGHTS OVER

CANDIDATE FOR

UVALDES

INDIA

U.S. PRESIDENCY

NEW DELHI, Dec. 16 (Reuter)- Only aircraft operating on re- (TEXAS), Dec. 17 gular routes will be allowed to fly (Reuter-Vice-President Gamer to, or over. India in the future. LONDON, Dec. 16 (Renter)--The announced that he proposed to No other civil aircraft may y

FIGHT

Air Ministry has issued further accept nomination as a candidate to India without special permission details of the R.A.F. attack on a for the Presidency in the New from the Indian Director of Civil German battleship, several destro-Year's election.

yers and a submarine.

One of the pilots engaged brought home with him a diary, in which the clash is described as a ning fight.

THREE TO ONE

run-

No sooner had the bombers swooped to the attack on the sur- face craft when they were engaged by a least two squadrons of Messerschmidt fighters. They themselves were twelve in number, and the Nazis attacked with.be- tween two and three to one.

Five of the Messerschmidts, it is now established, were shot down Three RAF planes failed to re- turn.

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GERMAN CLAIMS

BERLIN, Dec, 18 (Reuter)The German clalms in the North Sea i dog-fight had risen to a round dozen by late last night. They started off with six and worked their way up by two's figure

to this

Nazi Planes Burned Like Beacons

-FURTHER DETAILS

OF BATTLE OVER HELIGOLAND

Aviation

CROSSWORD

NO.

CLUES ACROSS

1. A sign and a portent

appears in a short time 7. Waylays

13. * An old saying which will

apparently put years on you

14. is carried out in theatre and

gives in to opera

15. Little streams which end in

misfortunes

17. Tin gleam" (anagram) 18. A change

20. Lively

22: Looking back one sees

mother

LONDON,, Dec. 16 (Reuter)-In 23. Thursday's air battle over Heligo- land between R.A.F. bombers and 24. German fighters, the leader of the 25. British squadron noted four Nazi planes crashing into the sea in flames,

DIVED VERTICALLY

27.

29.

In short it's only half

anonymous

The other half

Such men are more than mere politician: Makes law

An outstanding building feature is to alm-high

32. Better than never

"It was getting dark," he writes. 33. "and they burned for some time, for all the world like four enormous 35. beacons."

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One of the five Nazi planes 38. brought down dived vertically Into the sea, after being hit by the 39. guns of several of our planes.

The squadron leader concludes 41. briefly that the fight strengthened 42. rather than shook the morale ofį his men.

Dean feels at home here' An old measure of length Not half perhaps Gobbled up perhaps, but

not quite beaten

Would contralto really be cut up to sing this? Checky

In which one's behind schedule

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6. Whist, it sounds like music!

7. Flead earnestly

8. Historical periods seen in

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9. Look in this eastern boat

for an MP.

10. Goes on for ever

11. The end of mutiny is bo ̈

great matter

12 A baker

15. Now one is a standard or

cleanness.

19. Bury

21. Rested a bit mixed up

follow's on

24. A cad beheaded is lively enough in the river

25, Floops

28. Natural ones are used for

tattoos

28. These anties may be cut

by the animal in them

30. Tar is used to...

31. Favourite leads off in mixed

plate

34. A stick for a ruler, or a

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43.

Ali the British planes were bombers..

Life's not all these, for the arist's model

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THE CREWS

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34. Learning

SOLUTION TOMORROW

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40. A field in leaf

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