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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
9,
148 Lives Claimed
RUTHLESS
WAR
By Submarines
U-BOAT
CONTINUES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
NEW YORK, Sept 9 (UP).—Germany's ruthless submarine
campaign is in full swing.
In addition to
the vessels already reported victims of the
U-Boats, the following British ships have been sent to the bottom of
Blockade
Of Reich
Britain Invokes Belligerent Rights
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Sept. 8 (UP).— The Ministry of Information has
willi announced that Britain fully use her belligerent rights to prevent war materials from reaching Germany.
If there is any suspicion of contra-
the sea by torpedo or shell-fire:
British oil tanker Regent Tiger,
British cargo steamer Goolistan;
British cargo steamer Winkleigh. Forty-four members of the crew of the
Fighting
On The Western Front
Regent Tiger have been saved. There is no Fierce Battle Rages
indication of the fate of the balance of the crew.
It is believed that the crews of both the Goolistan and the Winkleigh are safe. TWELVE SHIPS LOST
As a result of the new sinkings, the number of ships lost through the U-Boat campaign now totals twelve.
Along Border
PARIS, Sept. 8 (Reuter). -A Serce battle is still raging in the wooded hills between the Maginotand Siegfried lines.
Unofficial reports state that Forty-four members of the crew of the Regent Tiger, the French offensive, which was which was launched only twelve months ago at New- generally successful, consists in
band being carried, the Ministry of castle and which was owned by C. T. Bowring & Co.,
were saved by the Belgian steamer Jean Jadot. 148 LIVES CLAIMED
Economic Warfare would authorise the unloading of eargo.
Vessel will not be allowed proceed with contraband cargo for an enemy destination.
The statement Ed not refer directly to the baiting of neutral ships and
destined for Cargoca German ports, but it is assumed that
it is what is meant.
advance guard actions,
Of immense significance is the re- port that six German divisions have been withdrawn from the Polish front and despatched to the Western Front. Meanwhile the main Nazi thrust south-
submarine on Warsaw is coming from the rout
west, north freighter Poland the Nazis claim to have ad- members sunced beyond Tarnov and thrust the 200 miles violent mountain battle,
The number of lives lost as a result of the warfare was reduced to 148 when the Italian Castel Blanco reached Lisbon with further of the crew of the Manaar, which was sunk off the Portuguese coast whilst en route to Calcutta.
The exercise of belligerent rights would enable Britain to halt any
At least three British steamers neutral ships carrying war materials.
atineked by submarines managed "Although the name 'blockade is often used to describe economie war to escape, while at least one
fare based on the exterelse of
bel-submarine has been destroyed.
urrent rights at sea, there is no blockade of Gemmy in the formal sence of the term." e Ministry of Information's statement said,
The Ministry also declared
.Crews Saved
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Renter).--Two that mory British ships fell victims to the
the effects of the German submarine the Nazi submarine warfare
campaign will decline rapidly as soon
as fuil convoy system for merchant shipping has been introduced.
Bona Fide Neutral Trade
LONDON, Sept.
# (Reuler).-
yesterday.
They were the Goolistan (5.851 tous) and the Winkleigh (5,055 tons). It is believed that the crews of both ships are safe.
Goolistan The
is
Newcastle
The Ministry of Information states, steamer owned by the Hindustan that the British Government will use Steamship Company, and was built in belligerent rights to the full to pre-1929.
An official of the compuny vent contraband from reaching the stated yesterday evening that "so far enemy,
as we can gather the 35 members of On suspicion of a venel carrying he contraband, the Ministry of Eronunile the crew are safe. The only inferna- ran order the vessel to betion we received was a three-word Warfore
cable from the master, Captain J. S. unloaded, detained or released.
Lord Finlay has been appointedmson saying 'Sunk. All's well. We believe that the crew wete
NEWS FLASHES
Duke Of Kent Not For Aust.
Polish forces to the Vistula in o
Official Communique PARIS, Sept. 8 (Reuter)---Com- munique No. 10 states that our local advances continue.
"Where the enemy is retreating he is destroying historie structures
"We are coming upon minefields. "Our air force is carrying out reconnaissance.~
"On sea our patrol forces have been Very active.
the British "Co-operation with naval forers has ensured the defence of our sea communications."
Saar Evacuations
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reu
PARIS, Sept. 8, (Reuter) The newspaper "Intransigeant", declares ter). It is officially announce that the population at Saarbrucken ed that in consequence of the has been completely evacuated. Duke of Kent assuming his Evacuation of other Saar towns naval appointment for the was progressing, the refugees being duration of the war, Lord moved to Coblenz and Cologne,
"Le Temps," referring to the West- Gowrie will continue in the ern Front says: "Hitherto the Ger- office of Governor-General of man troops appear to have refused combat and to have allowed small Australia,
French advances. When more im- portant operations are undertaken, it London, Sept. 8 (Router).The is evident they will have the appear- International Rubber Committee an-ance of siege warfare, necessitating ounces that in view of the request the bringing into action of powerful from His Majesty's Government for armaments. the release of additional rubber to enable the Government to En Route To Jamaica
Heavy Cannonading the terms of the agreement
LONDON, Sept. 8, (Reuter).—-Re- The Winkleigh was punk on her them and the United States Govern LONDON, Sept. 0 (Reuter) way from London to Jamaica. Her ment for the exchange of cotton and ports from Brussels this evening Three contraband control points have crew at 37 were picked up by the rubber, the quota for the fourth stated that on the French, German been set up in Britain, as well as at 20,511-ton Dutch liner Statendam, quarter of 1039 has been revised to and Luxemburg frontier the distant Gibraltar and Huifa.
which has wired to the lolland-70 per cent.
Tour of a heavy artillery duel could be heard.
consider
chairman of a special contraband rescued by the Dulch steamur committee which will
the derdijk." merits of each case.
The Government will do all in Most of the crew of the Goolistan power to facilitate, bona fide neutral are from the Cardiff district. .trade.
Contraband Control
All ships proceeding to enemy America Line that all the crew are territory, or to neutral territory from safe. where goods might be shipped to the The Winkleigh was built in 1927 enemy, ure naked to call at one of land is owned by the Tatem Steam these poris.
Navigation Company of London.
If they have no contraband they
will be allowed to proceed.
The British Government's attitude
Is that no vessel can be allowed to
U.S. Report On Athenia WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Reutar)
take cuntraband to the enemy or a-The report of the United States
•
метель
(Router)—AI- London, Sept. though stock exchange business was quiet, there were several good fea- tures, notably, shipping shares being especially in demand at rising prices. Wall Street was strong.
事
SHANGHAI, Sept. 8 (UP)-Wang
Rationing In Britain
1939. BATA SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
German Steamer
Chased
Singapore R.A.F. Go Into Action
Special to the "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, Sept. 9 (UP).— Royal Air Force planes, pre- sumably operating from Singa- pore, have gone into action over the Indian Ocean for the first time, according to a report issued by the D.N.B. (German official news agency).
The report states that Bri- tish planes attacked the 7,789-
INDIAN OCEAN
Na CHINA
INDO
EISINA
"JAPAN
FACILE
kng Keng
Fort Darwin. 1000
Gaam
AUSTRAIA ton N.D.L. steamer Franken as it was attempting to make port at Padang, in Dutch Sumatra.
Padang, which is an import- ant port on the southern coast of Sumatra; is only 320 miles from Singapore,
The German report claims that the Franken was in Dutch waters when it was attacked by the British planes.
The report adds that the ship was able to make port without sustaining damago.
The Franken was last in Hongkong about four months before the outbreak of war. It was apparently on its way to sanctuary in a Dutch East In- dics port when it was inter- cepted by the Royal Air Force patrol.
The ship, which was launch- ed at the Vulcan Shipyards in Bremer thirteen years ago, was engaged in the Hamburg-Far Eastern passenger and cargo trado.
EMPIRE'S LOYALTY
Indian Princes Rally To King-Emperor SIMLA, Sept. 8 (Reuter),— Eighty-nine Indian princes have now declared their loyalty to the King-Emperor.
The Maharajah of Indore ins £38,000 to Britain's
The Maharajah of Kashmir has told the Viceroy he is willing to supply
and two infantry battalions mountain battery, and is willing to provide three more battalions of in-. fantry if necessary,
given chest,
war.
one
Basutoland Loyalty LONDON, Sept. B (Reuter)—The paramount chief of Basutoland to-.
British resident day called on, the commissioner and expressed un-
neutral country which might trans-Naval Attache in London on the tink- Chung-yuan and Llu Yung, alleged Not Necessary Yet, swerving loyalty to the Empire.
port it to the enemy,
NO DISORDERS
IN S.W. AFRICA Germans Rounded Up
In Colonias
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter). -Germans in Africa still show
ing of the Athenia was published
yesterday..
The report says that after taking
shot dead by gunmen when they were to have been Chungking agents, were
in mid-town, after Wang Chung- walking out of a Chinese restaurant
the evidence of the officers and crew, yuan gave a banquet to some ten I was established that the Athenia was sunk by a torpedo which hit her'
the 11 port side.
The
a
persons.
•
Says Minister
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter).-
Two gunmen did the fring. Both Rationing will not begin for three or four weeks, declared submarino's conning tower escaped," broke the surface at 800 yards from
Mr. W. S. Morrison, the Food ROME, Sept. 8 (UP) The Japan Minister. the liner and gun or exposive signal was fired from the conning so Mission left for Florence at D a.m.. en route to Leghorn, Spedia and tower platform.
Only one missile was fired and no Genoa where they will visit the ship-for the slightest apprehension witness could be found who had yards.
ither heard the whine of a shell or
no inclination to givò Hitler any saw it hit the vessel. long-distance help in this war.
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Router)
It-
He added that there was no cauze garding the food situation, however long the war lasta, odgovor!
Evacuation of the populailon had The commander of the Athenis ex-Polish mission headed by General affected the normal channels of dis- made to destroy the liner's wireless, London. Rhodesia, so in Kenya the Germans but there was no evidence to prove quietly submitted to internment. -
this. The Governor of the Colony tele- gruple that all enemy allens have been rounded up "without incident."
As in Tanganyika and Northern/Pressed the theory that an effort was Norvid Neugebauer. has arrived.bution" temporarily, ·bul measures
C.P.R. Liners To Take Athënia Survivärs
LONDON, Sept. 8 (Heuter). Canadian High Commissioner in
It is officially notified that the London has arranged that mumcat
hant «ërminal sessions has been accommodation: ordered to open at 10 o'clock was next hodeonbe
Friday, September 15.
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had been taken to prevent profiteer. BRUSSELS, 6pt. 8 (Reuter)The ing and dislocation. Belgian Chamber of Depuiles has un-Food committees to administer the animously conferred on King Leopold scheme had been appointed and at the special powers. The Chamber Also Opropriate moment rationing would voled: £14,000,000 in extra credits.be introduced, not from scarcity, but as an element of planned food diar tribution. The only two
wo commodities, bacon, and Chummander-in-chief butter, may be available in quantities Cochrane less than those required for the
| normal constiption of a family,-*
Jamaican Solidarity
(neuter) LONDON, Sept: 8 Jamaica is solidly behind the Empire, saya the Ministry of Information.
All classes in Jamaico realise this is no time for internal strife, and the Jabour unions have placed their ser- vices unreservedly at the disposal of the Government.
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Warsaw Prepares for Siege of Cit GERMANS REACH CITY OUTSKIRTS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Sept. 9 (UP).—The German Arr High Command claims that German armour cars and troops entered Warsaw at 5.15 p.m. la night (12.15 a.m. to-day, H.K.T.).
The rumour is completely denied in Paris, whe Polish sources claim to have picked up the Warsaw offic radio station, still broadcasting hours after the Germa claimed they had entered the city.
Paris reports state that the, Warsaw station is still broad- casting on short wave, and listoners in the French capital clearly heard the air raid sirens! in Warsaw, warning of another German raid.
Not Yot In City
BERLIN, Sept. 0 (Reuter).—The German news agency says that the High Command of the army reports that German mechanised troops en- tered Warsaw at 5.15 p.m.
A London message says that this report is at present unconarmed.
"We Can Hear Cuns"
LATEST
SAARBRUCKEN SURROUNDED
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH PARIS, Sept. 9 (UP)—THE M RELIABLE REPORTS RECEI TO DAY STATE TH HERE FRENCH TROOPS HAVE ROUNDED THE GERMAN C
LONDON, Sept. 0 (Reuter).-Li-OF SAARBRÜCKEN, CAPITAL teners to the radio from Warsaw SAAR PROVINCE. yesterday evening heard the 11-
nouncer say: "We can hear the noise
of the
We are ready to fight and suburbs are being barricaded with trams and other vehicles.
"One
thousand
hundred and twenty civilians are digging
Cinemas Re-oper
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH LONDON, Sept. 8 (Router),~- Home Ofice bas
Informed
Exhibitors
Asso
trenches. We know the fight will be Cinematograph dimcult, but we have behind us notion that cinemas con re-open only the army, but every citizen able to-morrow, closing at 10 p.m., ex in certain areas where they will lo corry a gun."
The German advance on the capital is mally coming from the south-
west.
"Enemy Must Be Stopped"
ringed.
The list of the closed areas incl
and co many parts of London big provincial and industrial tres.
Besides cinemas, theatres, foot In Warsaw the milliary coin. mandant issued the following order: grounds and other places of er tainment in neutral and recep "Soldiers! The Commander-in-Chicf:
areas are to be permitted to re entrusts to us the duty of defending up to 10 p.m.. as from Lo-mon Warsaw. I can report to him that but places ut entertainment In this will be done. Here the enemy
must be stopped. If Warsaw fully evacuation areas must remain clo
The Chief of Police, however, none of us will be alive for we will in special cases prohibit the ope fight to the last man. The menace of of any premises, or if the aud a bombardment is near, and it the be exposed to exceptional risk in radio station is destroyed, my orders event of an air raid. will be issued by proclamation in the streets,"
Rumours Discounted SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Sept. 0 (UP)-The War- saw radio station, in a broadcast at 0.30 p.m. to-day, belled rumours that the city has already been captured.
Planes Over Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9 (UB Foreign planes of unknown nation over soul! were heard to-night
flying
The announcement said that life Jutland, apparently in the beleagured elly is proceeding Danish territory seventy miles ↑ normally, despite two heavy air raids the frontier. The planes are sal German bombers heavily bom- have been heard over the cl barded the city before nightfall,
fall, Bramminge at am. (10 am). apparently seeking to destroy the T.). bridges spanning the River Vistula.
Their attempts were reported to be unsuccessful.
N. Z. Volunteer
Pamphlets, printed in Gort
dropped on Danish terri werp They contained the following Two German pilots landed in A warning: "Don't forget that En public park by parachutes and were when forced to fight, will:
England's nerves arrested. The general public has triumphant. been asked to dig trenches through- good, hot resources: many cli out the city. All roads Werkow is not giving up this fight"RE are blocked by barrage works.
The radio announcement also do clared that all preparations in the elty are completed for a long slege, but entertainment establishments" are still open and aireet cars, aro running normally, Canadian Co-oporation
During yesterday's bombings, theThe New Zealand Governmen Poles claimed to have shot down nine decided to raise a special for OTTAWA, Sept. 8 (Reuter)--Mr.
German chasers and one bombing vice within and beyond New Mackenzie King the Canadian Prime
land plane. In the Canadian
entirely Minister stated
Enlistment is on Vistula Reached
and is confined to men. betw Parliament that there would be no
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armed forces in
BERLIN, Sept. 8 (UP)-It is an- medically at for activa-sorý with Britain and France.nounced that German troops have, where in the world,
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Fighting Tyrauny OTTAWA;}Sept. 8. (Reuter) Premier Mackenzie King said in the
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