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三拜禮 號七廿月正英港香 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

27,

1932. ATZAZ† SINGLE OUT 10 GENTA

IN FER ATKUM

"South China Morning Posi Bidg.“ Tal. 24354.

NEW BRITISH SUBMARINE DISASTER FEARED.

CRACK VESSEL DIVES AND

FAILS TO RE-APPEAR.

SIX OFFICERS

AND 48 CREW IN

GRAVEST PERIL

POSSIBILITY

THAT ALL ARE STILL ALIVE.

HELPLESS CRAFT LOCATED IN SEVENTEEN FATHOMS.

LONDON, JAN. 27.

Two pictures of the M.2, which is lying helpless off Portland Bill, the gravest Feara being folt regarding the safaty of her six officers and 48 men, Photo

un right shows her maroplane baing moved out of the hangar, and left.nooting off the catapult.

SHANGHAI'S FATE IN THE BALANCE.

ANOTHER TRAGI € NAVAL DISASTER is feared to be implied! in an announcement issued by the Admiralty late last night,! stating that no news has been received of the super-submarine M.2 The Real

since she dived off Portland at half past ten o'clock yesterday morning.

The whole of the minesweeper flotilla is engaged in a frantic

Peril

search for signs of the craft, which is a sister-ship of the M.1 lost In North.

in 1925 with 68 lives.

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It is obvious that the M.2 has met with some serious mishap, preventing her AMERICAN WAR from rising to the surface, and grave anxiety is felt for the safety of her crew, though it is possible that all the members are still alive, confined in an M.2 which is lying helpless on the bottom somewhere off Portland.

Later.

A dramatic message has reached the Admiralty, reporting that an object has been located on the sea-bed about three miles to the west of Portland Bill, which is believed to be the missing submarine.

FRANTIC ALL-NIGHT SEARCH.

WITH JAPAN?

London, Jan. 26.

A grave warning is con- tained in a four-column wide leader page article in the News-Chronicle entitled "Shanghai Peril" by Mr. O. M. Green, former editor of the N. C. Daily News. Mr. Green

the

In the glare of powertat sarchlights, sprejad salvage WIZARD SMITH'S that the Japanese land-

crews and divers from a burst of submarines and minesweeper;) were feverishly working at two o'clock this mornings on the spot, west of Portland Bill, where the object believed to be the M.2, has been lovated.

The submaring, and then is little doubt that the helpless,

TRIUMPH.

craft has her discovered, was found in seventeen fathoms SETS NEW SPEED

of water (102 feet) after a frantic all-night search.

The fate of her six officers and the forty-eight men under- stood to be inside the hulk, is at present unknown, but it is pointed out by naval experts that the submarine could remain safely under water in a emergency for forty-eight hours.

Her normal complement is € officers and 51 other ratings, Her officers were:

Lieut. Commdr. J. D. de M. Leathes (Commander). Lieut. H. C. Toppin (pilot).

Lieut. C. R. Townsend (observer).

Lieut. S. MacDonald.

Wt. Engineer E. P. Birkett,

PROSPECTS OF RESCUE.

upon

The prospect of rescue depends paramount{y whether or not the submarine was holed in diving to the bottom, or whether her inability to rise is due to a mechanical defect which has left her hull intact.

Every effort is being made to establish communication, but up to the present, these have been without result.

The first inkling that anything was amiss occurred when the M.2 failed to respond to messages from the wireless operator aboard her parent ship.

Dramatic scenes were witnessed at Portland einemus, the screens were flashed across when Admiralty orders summoning all naval men to return to their posts immediately in order to man the rescue ships., POSEIDON SURVIVORS ABOARD.

It is believed that some of the members of crew of the M.2 were survivors of the Poseidon disaster.

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RECORD.

(Reuter's Special Service).

ing at Shanghai brings all the Powers into direct concern with the Sino-Japanese quarrel and may lead to the collapse of the Chinese Government, a wave off apanese-| communism cont

American War.

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Describing Shanghai "tutaler-box" Mr. Grecu pols that although most 1 the

Chinese

milli ternational Settlement peaceful and orderly tra tiers, they include Sonic the worst and most violent ele jments in China, whose temper is at present at boiling point wing it the quarrel with Japan.

London, Jan. 26. Another world land speed record was smashed to-day when Mr. N. ("Wizard") Smith, the famous Austra- lian racing motorist, broke the ten-miles speed record The serious danger is that the on the ninety-miles beach at Nanking Government is almost Kataia, New Zealand.

bankrupt. If their troops are "Wizard" Smith was driving not paid, they will fall an easy

Communists, who! the "F. H. Stewart Enterprise,rey to the

have lately been growing like a car specially built for the at- weeds. tempt and with the additional Expressing the opinion that it feet of attacking Sir Malcolm would be easy for Jupit Campbell's 245 miles an hour occupy the municipal offices of for the measured mile.

the Chinese Government in Shang-

In his first run at Kataia to-hai, the arsenal, the barracks day according to a special report and the aerodrome, Mr. Green from Wellington, the "Wizard" asks: Would the Powers sit by accomplished the ten-mile burst unmoval?-Reuter, in under four minutes giving on

Approximate speed of 150 miles a NEW WATERLOO

hour.

BRIDGE.

GOVT. OFFER TO L.C.C.

His second run he completed in much better time, the official flme being 3 mintes 18.858 seconds, equailing approximately 178 miles) an hour.

The two runs taken together a speed for Ur re- give Smith cord of 164.681 miles

London, Jun. 26. An hour,

The London County Council Although no really definite trace of the submarine hud

$12,000 Car.

have been informed that if they been found at 3.30 am. hope is still entertained that the The record was created in a ear decide to replace the Waterloo trapped men ure alive. It is just possible for them to live which cost over £42,000 to build. Bridge across the Thames with a for 80 hours if there is no extensive leukuge.-Reuter. and which resembles, in

one carrying six lines of features. the Inte Sir Henry traffe, the Government will make The M.2 is one of the most re- with collapsible wings and is hous Segrave's Golden Arrow which did a grant of sixty per cunt. of the markable of modern warships, ed in the hangar just in front off a mile at over 203 miles an hour coat.--British Wireless. She is alster-ship of the M. 1, the conning tower.

at Daytona a fow yours ago.

which

The M.2 is a vessel of the douise.

and

dis. a

W28 lost off Start Point, Devonshire, on November hulled type with a surface 12, 1025, with a losa a sixty-eight pincement of 1,450 tons Ilves, following a collision with a submerged displacement of 1,950 steamer when currying out sub-tons. merged.exercise.

Unlike the. M.1, however. 110

Nearly 300 Feet Long

M.2 has had her 12-inch gun res

She is 296 feet overall by 24% feet

moved and she has been converled

into the world's first aeroplane- by 10 feet, is capable of is sur carrying submarine, being equip face speed of 15.5 knots, and an pod with a watertight hangar and under-water speed of 9.5 knots, crane for hoisting a returning and carries four 18-inch torpedo | seaplane aboard.

tubes in thu bow.

The plane is projected from the which has been converted na submarine by the catapult ayatom.minolayer, but is now in reserve The machine used is a small one at Portsmouth..

Catapult Aboard.

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There is only one other sub- marine of the same class, the M3

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The £42,000.car in which..."Winerd"-Smith yesterday broke the world's land speed, record for tom salles..

ULTIMATUM REPLY COMING TO-DAY.

CHINESE COMPLIANCE NOW BELIEVED LIKELY.

JAPANESE SUSPICIOUS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT),

SHANGHAI, Jan. 27.

BANDIT ATTACK ON TRAIN.

SKIRMISH ON P.M.R. LINE.

TWO JAPANESE

KILLED.

Mukden, Jan. 27.

A brief but exciting encoun- ter between Japanese troops and a party of bandits who had surrounded Talingho Station, on the Peking-Mukden Railway is reported to-day,

Reuter's Mukden rorrespondent leterns from a reliable source that

morning,

A STATE OF EMERGENCY may be declared the incident occurred on Monday

by the Shanghai Municipal Council at any time.

The situation is, indeed, so critical and fraught with such dangerous possibilities that the action would pro- bably have been taken already but for the fact that the control of the International Settlement would automati- cally pass to the Senior Naval Officer present, who is Admiral Shiosawa, whose ultimatum has led to the development of the crisis.

and

A train from Chinchow, gunri- ed by Japanese troops, steamed into the station The bandits immediately opened stopped. of them was hurt. fire on the passengers, but none

two Japanese soldiers were kill In the Aghting which followed, ed and two wounded.

reinforcements, including artil- After the arrival of Japanese lery, the bandits fled. The train

It is obvious that Admiral Shiosawa would be in an returned to Chinchow and pro exceedingly embarrassing position, and it is believed that ceeded day to Mukden.-Renter. Brigadier-General Fleming would take charge of the defence of the Settlement, pending the possible early SERIOUS THREAT arrival of Admiral Taylor from Manila, or Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, from Singapore,

TO HARBIN.

MAYOR NOW LIKELY TO GIVE WAY.

HOSTILE ARMY NEAR CITY.

Disaster may, however, be avoided. I learn that Mr. Wu Tieh-chen, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, is ready to meet Mr. Murai's demands to-day. There is reason to hope that a satisfactory reply to the

Harbin, Jan. 20. ultimatum will be forthcoming, counsels of moderation are marching on Harbin from the

Troops under General Hsi-Hsia-: having prevailed at conferences last night between south-east, attacking from leading officials and Chinese banking and commercial personages.

Mr. Murai, the Japanese Consul-General, is calling on Mr. Wu Tieh-chen this morning,

directions.

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The hostile forces are now re- ported to be within thirty kilo- metres of the Kirin capital and It is stated that their strength Is approximaely 10,000 men, assist The Japanese, however, are exceedingly auspicious. ed by four bombing planes. The belief that the Chinese have no intention of com.

Fuchintien has been captured by plying with the demands, but are only stalling to gain and the city has been isolated, no troops advancing from Pinhalen time to prepare resistance, was the subject of a cable communication of any kind being sent to the Tokyo Government by leading Japanese organisations last night.

s rumoured thunt the troops are pursuing a campaign and are committing other terrible excesses.

permitted.

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Japanese residents in outlying towns have been instructed of looting, to proceed to Shanghai by the Consul.

FOREIGNERS MOLESTED.

(Special to the "Telegraph").

Shanghai, Jan. 27.

The situation in Greater Shanghai is becoming daily more critical. Several foreigners have been held up at the point of the bayonet on the outside roads.

The Japanese military mission st Harbin is now in session. It in the opinion that there will be fighting to-morrow, between the troops of the old and new Kirin Governments. Colonel Dolhara arrived this morning having been Military Mission-Reuter, appointed chief of the Japanese

Inspector Andrew, showing an iron bar

The opinion is now expressed that it is unwise for any ack somebody about stated Det. foreigner to proceed outside the Settlement limits.

"They were obviously waiting to Sandbag barricades have now been erected by Chinese to the Magistrate when charging two at all strategic points and every motor-car passing is subjected men with loitering and the possession to the closest search.

If the Sino-Japanese clash materialises, as is still rogarded trouble with the market coolles w

of the weapon at 8 o'clock in the morning in Jubilee Street. Some probable, it is thought that foreignore living in the exposed suspected, it being thought that the districts to the west of the Railway will find it better to leave two men were walling outside the their houses and reside in the Settlement for the time being.market.fox, others to come-out. Both --Router.

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