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HONGKONG, SATURDAY MARCH 29, 1941.

COUP D'ETAT UNITES YUGOSLAVIA

AS NEVER BEFORE: KING PETER II ASCENDS THRONE: GOOD WISHES FROM BRITISH MONARCH Cologne And

Deposed Regent In Athens:

Normal Business

In Country

2.

THE COUP D'ETAT IN BELGRADE, ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT BLOODSHED OR INCIDENTS ON THURSDAY MORNING, HAS UNITED YUGOSLAVIA AS NEVER BEFORE, STATES. A LONDON MESSAGE.

KING GEORGE VI HAS SENT A MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD WISHES TO KING PETER II WHO YESTERDAY ASCENDED. THE THRONE OF YUGOSLAVIA AND TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PATRIARCH OF THE SERBIAN CHURCH AND CABINET MINISTERS. -

King Peter said: "I swear by God that I will keep for ever the unity of the nation and the independence and integrity of the country." Meanwhile, the deposed Senior Regent, Prince Paul, who left the country at his own request, with his wife and family, is reported to have arrived in Athens but It is not stated whether he is en route to some other destination.

HAS SHOWN THE GREATEST INTEREST IN COUNTRY

*When King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated in 1934, his son, Peter, the present young King, was in school in Earland Bald MR. ROBIN DUFF, B.B.C, commentator, in London yesterday. "He was a very shy boy but he enjoyed his time here.

Retreating Italians Pursued

CAIRO, March 28 (Reuter-In

Dusseldorf

Attacked

British bombers were over Ger- many On Thursday night and. COLOGNE and DUSSELDORF were attacked, states à London message. Heavy explosions wore clearly seen through the fround haze.

Five German atrisen, who were rescued from their rubber dinghy

after their plane had been shot down, were landed at port.

a Eritish

A Heinkel was shot down by H. M. S. Leith in the Bristol. Chantel

FIRE FIGHTTRE Admiral Sir Edward Evans, Chier Regional Director, has re- The London message added cent single raid, there were 1,125 vealed in a report that in a re-

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More Success For Ex-H.K. Submarine

H.M.S. Parthian, formerly on the China Station, has successfully. attacked Italian ships in a convoy in the Mediterranean south of Italy, states a London message quoting an Admiralty communique.

It is stated that a supply ship or troopship, of 6,000 tons and a large tanker, of about 10,000 tons, were hit by torpedoes.

They were not seen to sink but the sound of the engines of both. ships ceased promptly.

OTTAWA, Mar, 28 (Reuter)The Canadian Navy assisted in the re- cent capture of two Danlah ships, aggregating 18,000 tons, in West Indian waters, according to a statement by the Navy Minister, Mr. Macdonald..

YUGOSLAVIA RUNS TRUE TO FORM: MARCH 27, 1941, WILL STAND

that the Japanese Foreign ares dealt with while on another suoka, who is due to leave Agres were excrected during the Berlin on Monday for Rome, London had a gaten Dictators Given Something

To Think About Steed

OUT AS GREAT DAY IN THE WAR

Minister, Mr. Yosuke Mat-night there were 1780. These

raid on Landor last Wednesday. was able to witness Herr day morning, the the buss in & bater alert yester Hitler's loss of face at this eight y dramatic turn in the Balkans The Ministry of Home Becurity situation.

has reported that 28,000 people According to a

have been killed and 40.000.-in- slavia he was King in name only, Sydney, the former Prime Minis-jured in air raids over Britain.. as the country was ruled by a Re-ter

and Foreign Minister of

"When he returned to Yugo-

"

message from

gency of three led by his cousin, Yugoslavia, who signed the Arts DAWN JAPANESE

Prince Paul”

Mr. Duff said that the new King to have been arrested have now Pact and who were reported would be very popular with the been released, and have returned people because of his personal 'n- terest, in them.

to their homes.

ENGLISH TUTOR

Eritrea, British forces are now back to Yugoslavia with him and He had taken his English tutor pursuing the retreating Italians to- wards Asmara as a sequel to the capture of Keren, y`s British

communique...

they have become good friends. He had got to know his people and Serbian and Slovene boys have been chosen to work with him.

from

Another message Sydney stated that the Prime Minister of Hungary has call- ed an emergency, meeting of the Cabinet.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

"When the history of this war comes to be written, March 27, 1941. will stand out as one of its great days. On soul. On that day too, shattering blows were dealt to the that day, as the Prime Minister said, Yugoslavia found her remnants of Signor Mussolini's African Empire," said MR. H. WICKHAM STEED, the well-known journalist and au- thority on international affairs, when he broadcast from

LANDING AT PIRATES LAIR London yesterday.

many

H.K. MAILS LOST

According to aÐ, SONORICO-

•ment by, the Pozlazier Gen- eral, broadest by ZHW; H night, surface mail to the United States posted in Hong- kong between Oct. 4 and 15, 1940, and letters superscribed "by air to U.S.A. and thenes by ses between Jan. 17 and 23, 1941, have been lost by enemy ..action.

Italians Seek Armistice To Bury Dead

SHANGHAL, Mar. 28 (Reuter)~ |

"In the course of the day," word. It is officially announced that;

Even today wit be folly Japanese forces effected a landing

went on

Mr. Steed, "Mr. to try to say what will happen on the shores of Kitchioh Bay, Churchill expressed firmly his now, about 150 kilometres north-west" of belief that before

FELT IN JAPAN Hongkong at dawn, and are now months are gone he will be running true to form and that they "Keren in Eritrea has fallen to

After a day of rejoicing on advancing towards an undisclosed able to declare that the Battle are likely to give Herr Hitler and sage that last Sunday the Italians

"But I do feel that Yugoslavia. is the Imperial troops under the com- sented as a weakling but this was slavia returned to

King Peter was always repre- Thursday, the capital of Yugo-objective.

It was reported in a London mes- mand of General Wavell and so not true. He has shown now that usual, says Reuter.

business AS No resistance was met from the

of the Atlantic will be deci-Signor Mussolini something has Harrar in Abyssinia." said Mr.he has the greatest interest in his

Chinese, it is added,

sively won. These words were think about.

to asked the Greeks for an armistice Phillip Jones, B.B.C. news corres-country and

The population were back to

Kitchich Bay, it is reported, has a great event on a great day. felt throughout the Near and Mid-

It will, indeed, be to bury their dead. This is proof pondent, in a broadcast from Lon-there was no doubt that he would is still a holiday air with flags

whatever happens work this morning, though there good

of the enormous losses suffered by waterway communications "The whole world, except the dle East and even to Japan. don yesterday.

the Italians in with the hinterland

their and

recent make a good king. He was in-flying from windows and pictures known as a pirates lair.

also countries of the Axis, greeted with

"Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese

offensives. tensely interested in everything of King Peter displayed in shop

joy the tidings. from Yugoslavia, Foreign Minister, is now in Berlin

The latest victory scared by the which he believed to be his job.

When I heard that at 2 o'clock in where he was received with much The Japanese forces in South the morning or thereabouts, young Pomp and ceremony last Wednes the Greeks that Germans, Bul- windows.

Greeks is one of words

Italian loud-speakers had told China are reported to contain a King Peter had assumed power and day evening. On Tuesday. the LONDON, Mar. 28 (Reuter)-The Premier, in a statement, urged, all number of young officers who have that the Regency Council and its former Yugoslav Prime Minister Labout to unite to attack Greece.

garians. and Rumanians were studied in German army schools, unworthy Ministers had been got and Foreign Minister had, also states a message from Bydney,

rid of, I thought of the words of amidst pomp and ceremony, made

The Greek loud-speakers pat on the poem which say that at their submission to Herr Hitler. coup d'etat in Tugoslavia after a counter-broadcast about the o'clock in the morning if you open This pact signing was meant to which the Italian loud-speakers your windows and listen, you w

"Cont'd Page 7, Col. 3 were silent, hear the wind in the trees and In the shadow the trees in the moon- light glisten, and through its dark- ness you will find that the right is gone...

VERY SIGNIFICANT · ' Mr. Jones said that in the light of the move in Yugoslavia, this ae- hievement was very significant.

-SERIOUS SETBACK ̈

dramatie and sudden transforma- FITTER HURT

tion in the situation of Yugoslavia Alleged to have jumped out as one

was regarded by the British press

•from the second floor of No, 220, events of the war and generally of the most significant Hollywood Road, Pang Po; 33, interpreted as a serious setback of described as a fitter of the Hong-the German plans in the Balkans. kong Telephone Company, was ad- mitted to Queen Mary Hospital that Herr. Von Ribbentrop has, on THE TIMES says, "The truth is about 7.45 sm. yesterday, suffer- this occasion, badly overplayed his ing from a broken arm and in-hand.” ternal injuries.

SHANGHAI, Mar. 28 (Reuter)~~

In view of the critical rice situa

DRIFTING MINE

tion, the Municipal Council decided a drifting mine was sighted by to endeavour to charter ships suf-the Water Police in the Adamaster Actent to bring from 15,000 to 20, Channel'about 8 pm. on Wednes- 000 tons of cheaper grades of rice dy, between Cheung Chau and from Rangoon to Shanghal month- Lantao Island and was reported ly until the situation improves, (to the Harbour Department,

Today's News Summary

KING PETER II has ascended the Throne of Yugoslavia and the deposed Senior Regent, Prince Paul, is reported to have arrived in Athens. His Majesty the King has sent a message of congratulations and good wishes to the boy King.

THE JAPANESE Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, is due in Rome on Monday evening. On Thursday he was the guest of honour at a dinner given by Herr von Ribbentrop and at the function speeches were made by both Foreign Ministers but neither referred to the dey velopments in Yugoslavia,

FOLLOWING THE capture of Keren and Harrar, Imperial troops are pursuing the retreating Italians

COLOGNE AND Dusseldorf were bombed on Thursday night by

the Royal Air Force. Explosions were seen.

HMS PARTHIAN, former Hongkong submarine,has been operating again with success in the k

General Simovitch

the

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Matsuoka Due In Rome On Monday: Has Discussion With Reichsbank President

RIBBENTROP'S CLAIM

"There is & final verse to that poem, but I will keep it until what

It means comes true." continued "Last week I sald

Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, is due in Bome on Mr. Steed. Monday evening, states a London "message. Yesterday he had lunch that even the signing of this pact with Herr Hitler.

by Yugoslavia would not be the last

While in Rome, Mr. Matsuoka will be guest at a luncheon given by the King of Italy and also at a reception by Signor Mussolini and Count Clano, Italian Foreign Minister."

the

Mr. Matsuoka yesterday visited developments in Yugoslavia,

Relchsbank President, Dr. The German Foreign Minister Funk, with whom he discussed the claimed that Britain was isolated strengthening of German and Jap- today and added that Germany anese economic relations, says the and Italy were befriended by a omcial German News Agency, ac- large part of the world. We cording to Reuter,

know today that Germany and her ciples for the organisation of and by the end of 1941 we think They also discussed the prin- allies have already won the war. Anancial and commercial trattic the world will know it," he added. between the European and East

he PEACE FACT Aslan spheres after the victorious conclusion of the war.

THREE DAYS

to Berlin on Monday when he will Mr. Matsuoka is to end his visit

proceed to Rome for three daya, adds a London message.

The Japanese Foreign Minister was the guest of nour at a din neran AT Kerr von

Forefer

which

Replying, Mr. Matsuoka said that the Axia Fact was # peace pact in every aspect and prevented the spreading of the war

In London it is believed that Japan will become more enmeshed. Germany wil no doubt give any guarantees that Japan may ask but it is asserted that there is no reater value to these guarantees han to any other that have been sign Ministers on their

Pare.

-On Other- Pages

2 Programme for Third Extra meet; Sunday softball; Fan- ling golf; Tennis.

3 Radio programmes; Coming

eventa.

New Yugoslav Cabinet: Keren and Farrar captured; Anglo-American agreement. on Atlantic bases" signed. 5 Telephone Ca meeting;

Round the Police Courts,

The Axis

6 Leading article:

Deded

8 Catholic news and notes:

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