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三拜禮、辦四廿月五英港香

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939.

日六月四

"Heave To Or I Fire," Japanese Cruiser Warned Ranpura

TWO SHOTS FIRED TO

HALT

60 TRAPPED IN U.S. SHIP

P. & O C. LINER

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

ADMIRAL SEES INCIDENT

"HEAVE TO or I Fire.”

Triple Entente Revived

Bonnet Gives New Details Of Pact

This was the dramatic signal run up at the masthead of a Japanese cruiser this morning, when the 16,688-ton P. & 0. liner Ranpura was held up for half-ing Divers are rushing to the an-hour four miles south of Waglan Yard while eight Navy Depart- Island and less than a mile outside ment divers are being flown Hongkong territorial waters.

scene from Portsmouth Navy

from Washington.

Lieutenant-Commander

Oliver F

Naquin of Alexandra, Louisiana and

The Squintus is commanded by When still half-a-mile from the is reported to have sunk 12 miles British liner, which had aboard over 200 passengers bound for Hongkong, Shang- The cause of the disaster is un- hai and Japanese ports, the Japanese

south-east of Portsmouth shortly

Labour Amendment before noon to-day.

two shots across the

known, but it is believed that the LONDON, May 23.

vessel is at present trapped in sand.

the Sculpin, is at cruiser fired RESUMING the debate on

A sister ship, the House Palestine in

of present on the scene. The submarine!

Ranpura's bows. Commons to-day, Mr. Herbert rescue ship Falcon is being rushed'

New London. at buse Morrison, Opposition Labour, from her

Other officera aboard are believed declared that the Government to be the executive officer Lieutenant

Baltimore was breaking promises and act-w. T. Dayle from

The policy Engineer Officer R. N. Robertson ing dishonourably.

of the White Paper directly from Quanahte, Louisiana, conflicted with the declarations'

of the Government.

The Jews were not to be made a

permanent minority in a country that

Has Safety "Lungs"

Not until the shots were fired did the Com- and mander of the Ranpura, Captain L. Parfitt, obey

the Japanese command.

The Squalus is equipped with

"lungs with which new type of

hyped submarine crews are able to

Immediately the incident occurred, the wireless operator of the British liner was instructed to send an urgent radio message to the naval authorities in Hong had been promised to them as a rise safely from great depths. She kong, informing them of the occurrence........ Jewish national home. and Mr. MacDonald was utterly unwilling, or pleted only on May 1 since which H.M.S. Duchess and another British destroyer were unable to give any indication of how me she ins been making daily protection could be afforded to themtraining trips. She left Portsmouth exercising in the vicinity.

Navy Yard at 6 a.m. this morning and was expected to return at 9.40 a.m.

Jews Sacrificed

The Jews were to be sacrificed to the Government's inability to govern, and its apparent fear of (if not indeed sympathy with) violence and methods of murder and assassination,

He urged that the opinion of the Hague Court should be obtained be- fore the House and the Government were finally committed to a policy with regard t

to which grave double existed 8 10 15

and mandate.

305 new construction, being com

radio-

Located By Radiophone Her sister ship, the Sculpin, finally located her and established phone communications at 12.30 pm

The Squalus was also known submarine 192.

Duchess was immediately informed by radio to go to the assistance of the Ranpura.

a boarding party, When she arrived on the scene, consisting of three Japanese officers and one sailor, were already aboard the Ranpura, examining the ship's log.

The "Telegraph" understands Later messages, reveal that the that Captain Parfitt protested

29

KWEILIN

pix officers. 51 ratings, 4 dockyard tion of the Ranpura's log. workers and

Balfour Declaratistency with the total number of people aboard include vigorously against the examina- † PinGID

Mr. Morrison expressed the belle! that most of the trouble in Palestine presentative.

was created by certain

one

contractor's

Telephonic communication

re-

with minority classes of Arabs, probably through the sunken submarine has confirmed that Eleutenant-Commander Naquin Hitler and Signor the agents of Herr Mussolini, and he suggested that the is on board, as well as Lieutenant 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.

- Inconsistent

Ship Flooded

The Commander expressed the! opinion by telephone that a valve in direct connection with the Bea was ນ້ໍາຕາ the and closed improperly engine-room and crews quarters in Sir Archibald Sinclair emphatical- the after part of the vessel are flood- ly declared that the White Paper was! inconsistent with the mandate, and

He said he thought divers could said it was vilul that the Govern- ment consult the Mandates Commis- repair the valve from the outside which opinion was confirmed by Navy Yard experts who said the re-

sion.

cd.

Mr. Maxton strongly opposed the pairs could be effected before the White Paper, while Mr. Winston air supply was exhausted inside the Churchill announced that he would submarine-United Press. vote against the Government's pro- Intimately and one posals. As responsibly connected with the car-1

iler stages of the Palestine policy,

"Reuter" Version

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May

in

he could not, stand by and see the 23-The United States submarine

be "submerged solemn engagements of Britain set Squalus, with 02 men aboard, is aside for reasons of administrative reported to convenience, or in the vain hope of a trouble" off White Island. quiet life.

The

Declaration Balfour

mandate were both violated by the

The Squalus went on a routine dive at 2.40 p.m. B.S.T. and failed to and come up after an hour-the usual limit for a dive in such circumstances. Government's proposals, and Mr. The Squalus is in 240 feet of Churchlil declared that it would be water. only prudent and decent

for the

The submarine Sculpin was order- Government to ascertain the viewed to the scene and was able to of the Mandates Commission of the establish League before taking a parilament ary decision in their favour.

Amendment Last

on

The Opposition amendment Palestine was defeated by 231 votes to 181, and the Government's motion was carried by 208 against 170- Reuters

Debate in Lords LONDON, May 23.The House of the Palestine Lords also debated White Paper to-day on a motion approving the Government's polley,

telephone communicallot with the Squalus, when it was lentn- ed that during the steep dive, the induction valve was not closed, and the water entered the crow's quartera, Water is also reported' to have enter- ed the utter engine-room.

Roscue Ship

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-ls berthed many mites away at London, Connecticut.

Naval, omcials say the Squalus

10 which Lord Snell moved on stiould be able to hold out for about

PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

Soon after the Duchess arrived on the scene, and protested to the Japanese cruiser by means of flags, flags were broken aboard the

ordering vessel, Japanese

to their boarding party to return

warship.

£10

The Japanese were aboard the Ranpura for approximately twenty minutes,

WUCHOW

N

SHUNING

KWA

WASTAN

PARIS, May 23.

A STATEMENT regard- the Anglo-Russian

French

agreement was made by M. Foreign Minister, to the Geneva Correspondent of the "Paris Soir" to-day.

Georges Bonnet,

The statement reads: "Aв &

which I had on Monday with

result of the tong conversations

Ambassador Maisky and Lord that negotiations going on be

Halifax, I am firmly convinced

tween England, the Soviet Union and France are on the point of being brought to a conclusion.

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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 collided with a truck in Wimbledon to-day.

The Royal car overturned

after the collision and rolled down a slope.

Was ex- some house painters who were working near the scene of the acci-

Her Majesty tricated by

KULANGSU PARLEYS:

Admirals Meet In

She emerged very H.M.S. Birmingham by the Franco-Soviet pact, this new much shaken but walked to

security, and will be

The newspaper correspondent says appeared, smiled at a cheering on that England has been convinced of crowd which had gathered out yesterday

"For France, who is already bound dent.

KULANGSU, May 24. and propitious agreement will signify

nearby doctor's house THE FOUR-POWER naval the consolidation of her system of a

a valuable where she was examined. conversations regarding the Ku- instrument for the maintenance of

After a brief rest she again langsu situation, which started peace."

Monday, wero continued aboard H. M. S. the necessity of a tri-parilte assist-side the doctor's house and went Birmingham, flagship of Vice- mander-in-Chief of the British the French Government and which is home in a second Royal car Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Com-. acceptable to Russla. French obliga- which had been sent for.

Queen Mary was accompanied China Squadron. tions will not be extended by such

Lady Constance Milne-

The supreme commanders of the Gaskell who sustained a cut arm, British, American, French and Japan- and Lord Claude Hamilton, ese naval forces met at 10 o'clock in the morning and remained in confer- whose hand was cut.-Unitedence for two hours.

ance pact on the basis formulated-by

pact, but will serve to have them by

shared by Britain.

Now Polish Pact

It is also stated by the "Parls Scir" that an agreement will be concluded

Preas,

No official communique regarding the outcome of the conversations was BADLY SHAKEN

available yet. this week with Poland, defining the

Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondo, recíprocal obligations of Poland and

LONDON, May 23-Her Majesty France within the framework of the new tri-partite pact. In this case was not hurt, according to a state-Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese naval forces in South China, received. England and Poland would assume ment made at Marlborough House.

The motor car in which Queen aboard his flagship Captain Mido, similar mutual obligations. Trans-

Mary

was travelling overturned, and chief of the Amoy Liaison Office of Оседі.

although Her Majesty was badly the China Affairs Board, and Mr. shaken, she was not hurt, and after Goro Uchida, the Japanese Consul- Britain's Obligations

local General at Amoy, at 4.30 p.m resting for some time in GENEVA, Muy 23.Viscount Hali-doctor's surgery, she drove away in Domel. fax, in a statement to-day on the another royal car.

When the accident occurred, n obligations which Britain had under-

working nearby hurried to resistance 10 the Imposition

door. By methods of force which, if continued, Indder against the would lead civilisation into anarchy."

1

taken, declared that they "almed at pa verturned car and placed his

of

the car.

this

Where The Incident Occurred Viscount Halifax did not lift the means the Queen was assisted out of

vell hanging over

the Anglo-Soviet

When Queen Mary drove away several consultations, but he made it clear In addition to the two Brillah the Ranpura, circling it

from the doctor's house later, a large that while it had been impossible in crowd outside recognised her

and destroyers, a British seaplane hap times.

gave her a cheer. pened to be carrying out a practice Alight in the vicinity of Lyemoon at the time of the incident.

As soon as the Japanese boarding] the circumstances to carry out the party departed the Ranpura went Government's action in the League,

PLEASE Turri To Page 4. The seaplane saw what was hapfuli speed ahead and, travelling at all that had been done was in strict PLEASE Turn To Pago 4. pening and immediately flew towards

RANPURA

Queen Mary, who appeared to be! badly shalten, 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.

Ordered Completo Rest

A lady-in-walting 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 completa rest for 12 hours before making a further state- ment.

All the Queen's immediate engage-. ments have been cancelled, and sho will not drive to Epsom for the Derby with other members of the royul family as she intended.

After Queen Mary had rested in à nearby doctor's house following the accident, she said: "I am going to. have a cup of tea and that is all 1 want"

Royal Train Stoppad

་་་

The news of the accident

LATEST

Soo Back Pago. For "Forthor":Late Nows

the injury to was he was glad to say t

Queen Mary was quite slight and flashed to Canada and the royal train was stopped on the King and nothing at all to be worried about," Queen bolig informed of the accident has telephoned to London; and of Queen Mary's condition is not know whether the King

Their Mojesties received news: of has telephoned to Landan.

Their, Majesties were en route to the accident to. Queen Mary-througla

a press bulletin delivered to them the Great Lake cliy of Fort Aftur when the royal train reached the where they Wore due at 11 p.m. I.S.T town of Jackfish, a short journey from res at White River, Ontario, after

They encountered, freezing tempera Schreiber, Ontario

The King told a member of the their first night of sleeping in a train. Schreibers reception committee that-Reuter.

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