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Hongkong Telegraph.
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三拜禮 號四月五英港香 WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939,
日六初月四
No. 15035
British Destroyers, On Patrol, Informed of Incident
JAPANESE
DESTROYER
HALTS P. & 0.
O. LINER
60 TRAPPED IN U.S. SHIP
SUBMARINE LOST IN 40 FATHOMS
WASHINGTON, May 23.
A DRAMATIC signal from the Navy Department to-night announced that the U.S. Submarine Squalus had
met with disaster in 240 feet of water.
The crew is believed to number more than 60 officers
and men.
PALESTINE POLICY Commons Reject
Divers are rushing to the scone from Portsmouth Navy
from Washington.
STOPPED NEAR HONGKONG
THE 16,688-ton P. & O. liner Ran- pura, en route from Singapore to Hongkong, was held up by a Japanese destroyer four miles south of Waglan Island at 8 o'clock this morning.
Details of the incident are meagre.
It is understood, however, that the Ranpura Yard while eight Navy Depart- ment divers are being down was approaching Waglan Island, preparatory to passing the customary signals with the lighthouse when she was approached by the Japanese vessel. The Japanese hoisted flags calling upon the British liner to stop.
The Squalus is commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Oliver Naquin of Alexandra, Louisiana and is reported to have sunk 12 miles south-east of Portsmouth shortly Labour Amendment before noon to-day.
The cause of the disaster is un-
LONDON, May 23. known, but it is believed that the RESUMING the debate on vessel is at present trapped in sand. A sister ship, the Sculpin, is at
The order was complied with.
At the same time, however, the Captain of the Palestine in the House of present on the scene. The submarine Ranpura informed the Hongkong naval authorities of the
Commons to-day, Mr. Herbert rescue ship Falcon is being rushed Morrison, Opposition Labour, from her base at New London.
Other officers aboard are believed declared that the Government was breaking promises and act-w. T. Doyle from Baltimore and to be the executive officer Lieutenant ing dishonourably. The polley Engineer Officer R. N. Robertson of the White Paper directly from Quanahie, Louisiana. conflicted with the declarations of the Government.
The Jews were not to be made a permanent minority in a country that had been promised to them as a Jewish national home, and Mr. MacDonald was utterly unwilling, or unable to give any indication of how protection could be afforded to them
Jaws Sacrificed
The Jews were to be sacrificed to the Government's inability to govern, and its apparent fear of (if not indeed
Has Safety "Lungs” The Squalus is equipped with
"lungs" with which new type of trapped submarine crews are able to rise safely from great depths. She
position.
WARSHIPS NEAR
Fortunately, two British destroyers were in the immediate vicinity, on patrol duty.
The "Telegraph" understands, in fact, that one of the British warships was within sight of the 'Ranpura when the incident occurred.
Whether the Ranpura was boarded is not yet known, was of new construction, being com- although the "Telegraph" was informed by one source that her Pleted only on May 1 since which time she has been making daily papers were examined. training trips. She left Portsmouth
The decks of the liner were crowded with curious passengers, Navy Yard at 8 am this morning many of whom, for the first time, were coming in actual and was expected to return at 9.40 contact with the war in China. a.m.
Located By Radiophono
sympathy with) violence and methods Her sister ship, the Sculpin, finally
murder and assassination.
of
The Ranpura was detained for half-an-hour, and was expected
to enter the harbour at 9.30 o'clock.. She will probably berth
He urged that the
opinion of the located her and established radio Hague Court should be obtained be-Phone communications at 12.30 between 10 and 11 am.
fore
The Squalus was also known
05
KWEIUNK inci
WUCHOW!
He
ALL
"We saw nothing of the incident here.
the House and the Government submarine 192.
The "Telegraph" spoke by sub- were finally committed to a policy
Later messages reveal that the marine telephone to an official at the regard to which grave doubts existed as to its consistency with the total number of people aboard include lighthouse on Waglan Island.
ers. 51 ratings, 4 dockyard sald: nix officers. Balfour Declaration and mandate.
kers and one workers
contractor's re- Mr. Morrison expressed the belief that most of the trouble in Palestine presentative.
Telephonic communication with "The Ranpura passed Waglan, en was created by certain minority classes of Arabs, probably through the sunken submarine has confirmed route to Hongkong, at 8.30 am.
"There were two British destroyers agents of Herr Hitler and Signor that Lieutenant-Commander Naquin Mussolini, and he suggested font the is on board, as well as Lieutenant nearby, but we have seen nothing of Government might in part solve the Doyle and Ensign J. H. Patterson. problem on the lines of active co- operation with the Jews and a large proportion of the Arabs to maintain order in Palestine.
the
Inconsistent
ly declared that the White Paper was Sir Archibald Sinclair emphatical inconsistent with the mandate, and said it was vital that the Govern ment consult the. Mandates Commis- sion.
Mr. Maxton strongly opposed the White Paper, while Mr. Winston Churchill announced that he would vote against the Government's pro posals. As ona intimately responsibly connected with the car- Her stages of the Palestine polley,
and
Ship Flooded
the Japanese vessel."
KWA NG TU
SHIVNING
Triple Entente Revived
Bonnet Gives New Details Of Pact
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PARIS, May 23.
A STATEMENT regard- ing the Anglo-Russian agreement was made by M. Foreign Minister, to the Georges Bonnet, French Geneva Correspondent of the "Paris Soir" to-day.
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QUEEN MOTHER'S CAR CAPSIZES
LONDON, May 23.
QUEEN MARY, who celebrates her seventy- second birthday on Friday, miraculously escaped with a slightly bruised back when the Royal car result of the long conversations collided with a truck in Wimbledon to-day, which I had on Monday with
The Royal car overturned Ambassador Maisky and Lord Halifax, I am firmly convinced after the collision and rolled that negotiations going on bedown a slope. tween England, the Soviet Union and France are on the point of being brought to a conclusion.
►
CONSOLIDATION
ex-
was Her Majesty tricated by
some house
painters who were working near the scene of the acci-
KULANGSU PARLEYS
Admirals Meet In
"For France, who is already bound dent. She emerged very H.M.S. Birmingham
by the Franco-Soviet pact, this new
the consolidation of her system of accurity, and will be a valuable
peace."
KULANGSU, May 24," THE FOUR-POWER_naval
and propitious agreement will signify much shaken but walked to £ nearby doctor's house instrument for the maintenance of where she was examined. conversations regarding the Ku- After a brief reat she again langsu situation, which started The newspaper correspondent says
Monday, were continued that England has been convinced of appeared, smiled at a cheering on the necessity of a tri-partite assist-crowd which had gathered out yesterday aboard H. MS.. ance pact on the basis formulated by side the doctor's house and went Birmingham, flagship of Vice- the French Government and which is home in a second Royal car Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Com- mander-in-Chief of the British acceptable to Russia. French obliga- tions will not be extended by such which had been sent for.
China Squadron, pact, but will serve to have them
Queen Mary was accompanied The supreme commanders of the shared by Britain,
by Lady Constance Milne-British, American, French and Japan- Gaskell who sustained a cut arm, the morning and remained in confer- ese naval forces met at 10 o'clock in Claude Hamilton,ence for two hours.
New Polish Pact
It is also stated by the "Parls Soir" and Lord that, an agreement will be concluded whose hand was cut,-United this week with Poland, deining the Press. reciprocal obligations of Poland und France within the framework of the
Ocean.
BADLY SHAKEN
No official communique regarding the outcome of the conversations was available yet.
Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondo,
new tri-partite pact. In this case LONDON, May 23.-Her Majesty Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese England and Poland would assume was not hurt, according to a state- naval forces in South China, received similar mutual obligations.—Trans-ment made at Marlborough House. nboard his flagship Captain Mido, chief of the Amoy Liaison Office of The motor car in which Queen the China Affairs Board, and Mr. Britain's Obligations
Mary was travelling overturned, and Goro Uchida, the Japanese Consul- although Her Majesty was badly General at Amoy, at 4.30. p.m. GENEVA, May 23.-Viscount Hall-shaken, she was not hurt, and after Domel.. Where The Incident Occurred tax, in a statement to-day on the resting for some time in a local obligations which Britain had under-doctor's surgery, she drove away in When the British destroyer arrived taken, declared that they "almed at another royal car.
Japanese boarding party
was resistance to the imposition of The lighthouse official said that the actually on the Ranpura, examining methods of forco which, if continued, When the accident occurred, a incident probably would not be the ship's papers.“
ypainter working nearby hurried to visible from Waglan if it occurred at
The Japaness were, it is under-would lead civilisation Into anarchy.
Viscount Halifax did not lift the the overturned car and placed his a.m.
stood, andered to leave the British vell hanging over the Anglo-Soviet ladder against assisted o LATER. finer immediately,
consultations, but he made it clear means the Queen was assisted out of that while it had been impossible in the car. The Ranpura reinalsed under their the circumstances to carry out the When Queen Mary drove away half-an-Government's relion in the League, from the doctor's house Inter, a large all that had been done was in strict crowd outside recognised her and
PLEASE Turn To Page 4 gave her a cheer.
The Commander expressed the opinion by telephone that a valve in direct connection with the sea was
Immediately the information was improperly closed and that the engine-room and crews quarters in flashed to the naval authorities in
ed.
Admiral Aboard
the after part of the vessel are food- Hongkos by raden the vicinity, control for approximately
which was exercising in the He said he thought divers could was ordered to proceed with all hasto hour.
the outside to the scene, repair the valve from which opinion was confirmed by Navy Yard experts who said the re-
pairs could be effected before the air supply was exhausted inside the submarine.
"Reuter" Version Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May
he could not stand by and see the 23.-The United States subinaring solemn engagements of Britain set Squalus with 62 men aboard, is
be "submerged aside for reasons of administrative reported to convenience, or in the vain hope of a trouble" off White Island.
aks
Hfc.
and
.. Balfour Declaration The mandate were both violated by the
Mr.
in
The Squalus went on a routine dive at 2,40 p.m. B.S.T. and failed to come up after an hour-the usual limit for a dive in such circumstances. The Squalus is in 240 feet of
The submarine Sculpin was order-
Government's proposals, uld bol water. Churchill declared that it only prudent and decent for
tho
Government to ascertain the viewed to the scene and was able to
of the Mandates Commission of the League before taking a parilament ary decision in their favour...
Amandment Lost
establish telephone communicatioa with the Squalus, when it was learn- ed that during the steep dive, the Induction valve was not closed, and the water entered tho-erow's quarters. Water is also reported to have enter- The Opposition amendment oned the after engine room. Palestine was defeated by 281 votes to 181; and the Government's motion was.carried by 288 against 170- Reuter, WA,
Dobate In Lords LEES ARE
May 23 The House of LONDON, Lords also debated the Palestine White Paper 10-day on a motion approving the Government's policy, to whichLord Snell, moved an PLEASE Turn To Page 4,
Rescue Ships
The naval tug Wandank, the sub- marine rescue ship Faloon, a coast- guard plane and two patrol boats are going to the rescue.
The Faloon is berthed many miles away at London, Connecticut.
Naval Officials say - the Squalus, should be able to hold out for abou PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
THE POO NER RANPURA
.
this
Queen Mary, who appeared to be badly shaken, raised a smile and acknowledged the crowd's salutation. According to an eye-witness, the royal car was involved in a collision: with a lorry. D
Ordered Complete Rest
A lady-in-waiting who was travell- ing with Queen Mary also appeared to be badly shaken.
It is stated in Court circles that! there is no cause whatever for anxiety, but the doctors wish Queen Mary to have a complete rest for 12 hours before making a further state- ment.
"All the Queen's 'Immediate engage- ments have been cancelled, and she will not drive to Epsom for the Derby with other members of the rdyal family as she intended.
Afier Queen Mary had rested in a nearby, doctor's house following the accident, she said; 7 "I am going to have a cup of teh, and that is allal want"
Royal Train Stopped
The news of the goldent was flashed to Canada and the royal train was stopped off the King and Queen being informed of the "accident and of Queen Mart's condition, #2) 4Thoiry Majoit{or":received news of the peeldent to Queen Mary through REPLEASE Tum To Page:48p
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