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FRENCH ADMIRALTY TELLS STORY COASTAL COMMAND ATTACKS ON

INCIDENTS WHICH LED TO

THE

ORAN BATTLE

BRITISH OPEN FIRE AFTER WARNING

MARSEILLES, JULY 5 (REUTER)—THE FRENCH ADMIRALTY ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENTS LEADING UP TO THE ANGLO-FRENCH ACTION IN THE MEDI- TERRANEAN AS DESCRIBED BY MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL YESTERDAY, WAS ISSUED FROM VICHY AND PUBLISHED BY THE HAVAS NEWS AGENCY.

The communique states that "on July 3, a British squadron, composed of three ships of a line of which H.M.S. Hood was one, one anti-aircraft carrier and certain number of cruisers and destroyers arrived at Meselkebir, where the French force was lying.

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This comprised two ships of the Dunkerque type and the Strasbourg was also present, as were the Province and Bretagne, three second class cruisers and a certain number of light vessels and submarines which were not in condition to go to sea at once.

"The British Admiral sent Admiral Gensoul the follow- ing ultimatum: Join the British fleet or destroy your ships within six hours so that they shall not fall into German or Italian hands.'"

The communique does not mention the other alter native which Mr. Winston Churchill mentioned yesterday. but the communique adds that "in case this was refused the British said they would not hesitate to destroy the ships themselves.

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"PLAINFUL FEELING "

The French. Admiralty had, the painful feeling that France's als fortunes had left Britain indiffer- ent and that the latter were only thinking of becoming masters of the French Fleet.

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RUMOURS"

LONDON July 5 (Rea- ter)-The German News Agency Ingra despatch from. Geneva, claims that the Pelain Government had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain as the result of the British naval action at Oran.

Nothing to this effect had been heard in London and the French Embassy staff is still carrying on the work as usual.

Washington Approval

ENEMY U-BOATS: FIVE MADE

IN COURSE OF FIVE DAYS

Italy Had To Claim Something!

LONDON, July 5 (Reuter) The Air Ministry announces that British aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked five U-boats within five days last month.

The first U-boat was sighted in the North Sea early one morning. The bombs dropped struck it on the star- board side while the vessel was submerging and two large oll patches appeared on the water. The aircraft circled overhead for three hours but nothing more was seen of the U-boat.

LONDON, July 6 (Reuter)-Re- cent Italian and German broad-

On another occasion an Austra- tacked a military camp at Bir el casts describe Sollum, a village in crew, patrolling in a Bunder- Gobbi last evening causing much two miles away from the Egyland nying boat, said they saw a damage. It is learned that enemy tlan-Libyan frontier as "an im-u-boat-about a mile off. The aircraft flying over Wales in the portant naval base and frontier U-boat began to submerge but morning, dropped four bombs Junction" whose bombardment by while it was still at periscope depth which fell in the open country. the Italians is a grave menace to the flying boat dropped sfr bombs | There were no casualties and no Britain.

near the port bow. A mass of oll damage,

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PERISCOPE SEEN

The facts

that Sollum and bubbles appeared and increas- A German bomber was shot down houses only a normal peace-time ed as the flying boat circled over-off the south-east coast in the morning. It carried a crew of five garrison of one Egyptian battalion head.

of which only two survived. NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuter) and one battery which contains a The Washington correspondent of dismantled Turkish fort used as a the New YorTimes says that store. It relles for drinking water while American naval experts on the weekly boat from Alexan- would not go so far as Senator dria.

The third U-boat was attacked while the conning tower was out of the water and the bombs fell di- rectly ahead of the canning tower The fourth submarine was at

LIST OF AIR CASUALTTES LONDON, “^July ; 5 (Reuter)- Features of the Air Ministry casualty list No. 37 are that 102 members of the RAF are listed.

was scored just as it began to sub- killed. Also four previously re-.. merge while in the Bfth case the ported missing and killed are now bombs began to fall a few seconds reported to be safe and 32 pre- after a U-boat bad submerged, but viously reparted missing are now when the periscope could still be prisoners of war.

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EAST INDIA FLIGHT

Pittman in giring outright state- The exaggerations were presum- The French Flect was going to ments on the British action against ably designed to provide the Ita-tacked two days later. A direct hit ng missing, or missing and believed remain French of perish. In any the French Fleet, naval men have flans with the much-needed flip case it does not deserve to be been privately ready to point out to their prestige. **Admiral Gensoul refused and Į "It may be recalled that Ger- struck in the back on Mr. Chur- that Britain has taken a step vit- declared that he would meet force many and Italy had not demanded chill's orders.

ally necessary from her point of

NO EXCHANGE. with force and that the first shell the surrender of the French "Fleet; | Even before the ultimatum had, view, and of the tremendous im-

RESTRICTIONS. fired would see the whole of the only its demobilisation, and recall expired the British Admiral had portance stufe Germany, with the French Fleet ined up against to French ports... France would not magnetic mines dropped from the French Navy, could face Britain MANILA, July 5. (Reuter) the submarine altered fts course CALCUTTA, July. 5 (Rauter).........A Britain-a result the very opposite: consent to surrender. her Fleet. M. air in the Channel leading to on the season almost equal terms. Denying that any restrictions had in an effort to dodge but the pilot total of £55,000 has been cabled to of what he desired,

Petain, Admiral Darlan, M. Bau-Merselkebir and on the expiration Some went as to admit been placed on the exchange any the manoeuvre in time and his the Air Ministry towards the cost NO DEMAND MADE -The Government and Admiralty dom repeated this to Mr. Chur- the British ships opened are on the the United States might also feel approved this and the Armistice chill First-Lord Alexander and French ship's which were still at safer in the knowledge that most of Reuter has been authorised to salve of bombs hit the U-boat's of an "East India Fight of Spit Commissions were notified... Ambassador Sir Ronald Campbell." anchor, but returned fire assisted the larger units of the French state that the Hongkong Bank and bow a few yards ahead of the con- fire Fighters brought by the East

by the Coast Batteries.

Fleet were sunk or otherwise ren-Chartered Bank will buy sterling ning tower. It appears that the Bretagne dered hors de combat. As instruc-or Hongkong dollar to any un-

limited extent. had been blown while the Dunker-tions of Hitler's ambitions.

One bank states that it is ad- que and Mogadar 'had fires aboard. As naval, officers, however, they

Other ships were able to get expressed regret at the hard fate vising evacuees not to change too under way and make contact with that obliged the British and French much of their sterling owing to the French warships sent to meet sailors, so lattly comrade in arms, the probability of re-evacuating

to Australia. to turn their guns-on' each other.

DISCUSSING ACTION TAKEN

EVACUEES LEAVE HONGKONG

HUSBANDS COMPLAIN OF POOR ACCOMMODATION

THOUGH TAIPAN'S" WIFE GIVEN CABIN WITH BATH!""

Telephoning from on board the Empress üner berthed at No. 1 Kowloon wharf yesterday a Hongkong lady, in great emotion, told her husband that she and their two children, one aged four years and the other 15 months, had been allotted ac- commodation in the steerage section of the voyage to Manila.

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This was but one of many instances of the consternation that has been aroused among local" husbands following poor arrangements that "ai

appear to have been made for the

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The husband of the lady who telephoned told a Dally Press reporter yesterday that he was, to say the least, disappointed and annoyed."

"I am in a financial position to pay for the passage of my "wife and children to Manila and for their sustenance there and.. 1 I had known the conditions under which they are being sent -up I would have made other provisions."

A calm and confident spirit was noticed among the women evacuees concentrated in the lobby of the Hongkong Hotel yesterday. Most of them were, quietly sitting within a roped off area:, while their husbands and men friends chatted with them

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AGAINST FRENCH FLEET, STEEÐ SAYS NO HARDER DECISION, YET THERE IS NO DOUBT MOVE

JUSTIFIED WAS FULLY

"Today there is only one world affair the action the British Navy was com pelled to take against the French Navy, and particularly the French ships in Oran where the French Admiral commanding refused to comply with the British Govern- ment's request conveyed to him from Admiral Somerville through Capt. Holland," said Mr. Wickham Steed, in the opening sentence of his broadcast, from Daventry "yester- day, in the weekly World Affair" series.

"No harder decision was taken by any British Govern- ment, yet there was not a shadow of doubt that the ac- tion was justified," the speaker added.::

Mr. Wickham Steed went on to say that the feelings! of the British were pronounced on the matter, but he added that the feelings of the free French peoples in various parts of the world were more poignant.”;

On the contrary the wife of a local taipan, it is learned, will travel to the south in a single cabin with bath attached!

to all but those directly concerned

"We bow our heads to them in Continuing, the speaker referred with evacuation "work.

Similar scenes of concentrated painful sympathy." Mr. Wickham to the secret order given by Ad- calm were, witnessed in the Glon-Steed went on. He then proceed-miral Darlan to his commanders, cester Hotel ground noor, where ed to deplore the fact that Marshal just after he had joined the Bar- Petain's Government had released deanz government to the effect refugees aat at tables and quietly 400,000 German pilots, who bad that as he was no longer a free discussed the situation.Sitting been shot down by the Royal Air agent all further orders, even busily at his desk, and constantly Force, and who were prisoners of though they might be signed by conferring with his assistants, war in France, to fight once more him, should be disregarded. was seen the Rev. Dean Wilson of against the British. St. John's Cathedral, with type written lists of evacuees names in his hands.

"MACS" CLOSED

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Mac's Cafeteria was closed to all but the evacuees, who sat round the tables and were served drinks and tea by the hotel boys as well

Eere the speaker reiterated that This, the speaker said, despite the action taken by, the British the fact that M. Reynaud had pro- Government was a painful one but mised to hand over the prisoners he felt sure that the Allies and to Britain.

thely "well-wisher, would realisé

FOLTET MORE ADEQUATE that the step was acted upon in Mr. Wickham Steed said that a order to keep unsullied the honour fortnight ago he said that in of France,

FULLY PREPARED summing up the present situation poetry was more adequate than

"As I said just now there is

OFFICIAL REFUGKE When the baggage had been at- as nurses in uniform. Relations tended to, and all the refugees erowded the piste glass doors had received their identification bung with "Closed" signs, while a tags, they were transported by magis enterprising wife managed buses in orderly groups of 25 to prose, and in this connexion he today only one World Affair, There to talk to her husband on the side the Star Ferry, Before that they quoted a verse written by Er may be another in the pear walk through the mills in the had their passports inspected and Robert Vinsittart which opened future the invasion of Great window facing Queen's Road, stamped "Hongkong Official Eva-with the lines,

Britain, but the speaker said the Police officers patrolled the pre-cuee in the showrooms of the "Did you have faith with me country was fully prepared for Taisen, a well as the street to keep Hongkong Electric Company. When all was well, yes... such an eventuality and in in- it tree of traffic.

Mothers who were occupied had and went on to add that the ficting the first reverse on Herr A pretty girl in a nurse's und-their children taken care of by closing lines would perhaps des- Hitler It would be to prove to the form stopped A. Daily Press re- volunteer nurses, while all passed cribe the situation better If they world that the German Fuchrer porter, as he was entering the through the emergency medical were altered to read Obucester Hotel Arcade from the once, for examination

eat aide and politely but, armly. At the Star Terry one falde of asked him to enter by another en- the entrance was roped in where

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On Other

Pages

PAGE 2 Baseball Notes by R.O.T. Hospital Meeting:

Puzzle Crossword

Golf Times.

PAGE 3-Diary of Coming Events; Cinema Notes; School Children Evacuate: Malaria Article.

PAGE 4-British Attack on

French Fleet; Germans" Bomb Holiday Resort; Chi- nese Troops Assaulting Jap-.

FACE 5-Round The Police

Courts Marticulation mination Results: Shum- chun Work Nam Claims Denied

PAGE 8 Leading Article,

Three Years of War China's Collision Sequel; Volunteer Orders; Newset-

tes

PAGE 1-Cable News From

the World PAGE 18 Church Notices

Fighters Fron PAGES Ind 10

and Commercia

ITALIANS LOSE SEVEN PLANES

India Fund for British war service.

AMERICA AND EUROPE

A communique Issued by the Royal Air Force in London yester- day, states Reuter, is, to the effect LONDON, July 5 (Reuter)--The that six British fighters encounter Stockholm Dagnyhet, in a leader ed nine Italian aircraft fighters on "America and Europe" traces and shot down seven on Thursday the disappearance of isolationism Bfternoon.

In the United States of America

One British fighter is missing and demonstrates how the "In- but it is believed that it had made stinct of self-preservation express- a forced landing on our side of the ed itself in the accelarated sup- port to the Allies which in the event

frontier.

British fighters also met and at-o a long war can be of far-reach- tacked other enemy aircraft, the ing importance, and also the in- encounter resulting in one enemy crease in America's defence forces machine crashing in-names and on such a scale that it can be another making a forced landing, compared with the German re-..

BOMBER" DOWNED

armament scheme under the Nazi

A formation of Blenhetis at- 'regime."

THE GENERALISSIMO.