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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRGAPH

October 18, 1939.

Raid On Scapa Flow: Enemy Repulsed Over Yorkshire FINE WORK BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

REPELS GERMAN AIR

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, OCT. 18 (UP). FOLLOWING QUICKLY ON THE HEELS OF THE RAID ON THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ROSYTH, GERMAN PLANES YESTERDAY RAIDED THE GREAT NAVAL BASE AT SCAPA FLOW, IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS NORTH OF SCOTLAND.

Nazi warplanes also reconnoitred along the east coast of Scotland and England throughout the day. They were repulsed by Royal Air Force pursuit planos and anti-aircraft fire and no bombs were dropped.

In the raid on the naval base at Scapa Flow, two bombs exploded near H.M.S. Iron Duke, the Great War veteran which was demili- tarised under the Washington Naval Treaty and has since been used as a training and depot ship.

The Iron Duke sustained "cer- tain damage" hat there were no casualties aboard.

AN R.A.F. PURSUIT PLANE IN ACTION

INVADERS

EX-KAISER GETS HIS DUTCH RATION CARD

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

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DOORN, Oct 17 (Reuler).—The former Kaleer has received his ration card for sugar which cannot be procured without it.

Lue proceeds normally in Doorn-House, but a large shelter has been constructed in the garden capable of sheltering the whole staff.

The ex-Kalver reads English and German papers and listens to broadcasts, but keeps his private views of the German chances to himself.

: Twenty-two of his grandsons are fighting with the German forces.

OBITUARY

Man Who Made Gas War Real

Only four raiders participated| Premier Tells House Nazis Uncertain

in the air attack on Scapa Flow.

One was brought down in flames and another

probably damaged.

WAR

ENEMY AIRCRAFT ALSO SUC- CEEDED IN PENETRATING INTO YORKSHIRE, BUT WERE INTER- CEPTED BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE

PLANES AND WERE PURSUED OUT TO SEA.

Of Enemy Air

Raids

LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).—First intimation of the

AND R.A.F. PURSUIT German air raid on Scapa Flow this morning was made by Mr. Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons, after he bad given an account of yesterday's Firth of

Forth raid.

The initial Air Ministry an- nouncement on the raid on Yorkshire does not state ut

The latter raid, suid Mr.

which part of the county the Relentless Chamberlain, was carried out by

German raiders were intercepted,

or whether bombs were dropped.

ATHENIA SEQUEL

CARRYING GUNS, SAYS

Naval Hunt

12, or possibly more aircraft in waves of two or three at a time. Two civilians were slightly lujured by shelt fragments, but dinnage to the civilian population Wes neg

Naval casualties were caused on H.M.S. Southampton, H.M.S. Edin- burgh and H.M.S. Mohawk.

Sweeping U-Boats be

From The Sea

LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).- Continuing his statement in the

Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, said:

16 Killed, 44 Wounded

Allogether three officers and

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PASSENGER House of Commons to-day. Mr. ratings were killed or died from

Declares Ship Was Fitted As Raider

"Something from a third to a quar-

al-1-but-feet-of-Ge

many is destroyed, and the gaps made. In skilled officers and crews cannot be speedily replaced.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (UP), IT has been learner! from authoritative quarters that Mr. Gustav A. Anderson, a tra-"On the other hand, the British Mercantile Murine of 21,000,000 tons

-Comparative Losses

Been

wounds, two officers were slightly

injured, 11 ratings were seriously Injured and 31 slightly injured.

Damage to the Southampton and

LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).—

[The death is reported of Sir William Jackson Pope, K.B.E., F.R.S., F.L.C., F.C.S., M.R.I., F.C.G.L., M.A., M.Sc., LL.D., Professor of Chemis- try at Cambridge.

Of The Soviet

KAUNAS, Oct. 17 (Beuter) — According to a Berlin despatch. a divergence of opinion arose at the last conference in Hitler's room between tho Nazi leaders and army chiefs concerning collaboration with the Soviet.

"Unlied Press” adds that Hli« ler expects an early answer which

will affect Germany's next step in the war.

There is no indication that he' is planning the long expected air offensive against the Allies,

Countess Haig Dies At Home

Wife Of Britain's Great War C. In C.

LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).— The death is announced of

the Edinburgh was slight. Both Countess Haig, widow of the vessels are ready for sea.

famous British Commander-in- Chief in the Great War,

the

Mohawk

was

to Damage superficial.

The enemy were at once engaged by the fighter squadrons and anti-

aircraft Bre.

Dorothy Maud Countess Haig, was i born in July, 1870. She was a twin daughter of the 3rd Lord Vivian. Her mother was a daughter of Robert George Duff of Ryde, Isle of Wight.

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Brought up in contact with the Court, she was Maid of Honour Queen Victoria from 1839 until thall monarch's death in Jan. 1001. and then until 1000 to Queen Alexandra.

Four Planes Brought Down. vel bureau operator who was a has expericneed the loss of 150,000

Continuing. Mr. Chamberlain passenger aboard the Athenia¦tons by U-boat nelion, to which may said: "Four enemy bombers were when she was sunk by a German be added 18,000 tons through mines

brought down, of which one was

hot down by gun-Brc. submarine, has filed an affidavit for accidente-a total of 171,000 tons.

"In addition, a number of other in the State Department assert- "During the same period we inve

Royalty Sponsors Daughters ing that the Chief Officer of the Captured from the enemy 29,000 ton cuemy aircraft were heavily engaged,

and have

refreshed by thefind some of these may not be able

In 1805 she married Major- Athenin told him there were arrival of new ships amounting to to reach home.

General Haly, Inspector-General "As the attack was local and a-102

Cavalry In "plenty of guns" in the Athenia's 104,000 tons.

Indin, who peared to be developing only on 1 hold.

soon afterwards got a home appoint- "It will be seen, therefore, that small scale and as our deferices were ment. They had a son andi three He sold no guns were mounted, while our Mercantile Marine remains fully ready, it was not considered daughters. Queer. Alexandra in 1907 this particular instance was sponsor for the Brst daughter. hut that the vessel had been rein- practically unaffected by U-boat war appropriate forced for gun mountings and fare, losses have been leted upon to issue in air-raid warning which and Princess Victoria in 1906 for the was planned to use the vessel as the enemy, which, if continued, conld would have caused dislocation and second, ralder on her return trip from the certainly not be endured.” United States,

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The ofidavit sald Representatives Franels Case, Overton Brooks Wallace Pierce had Anderson on the question of the Athena carrying guns.

interrogated

Anderson said he personally knew the offleers and men of the Alhenta's crew.

To Be Fitted Out As Raider The Chlet Ofteer, he suid, told him the Athenia would be fitted out as a ratder on her return trip to England. A swoman also told him that the ship carried cargo of guns, he asserted.

Grasshopper Plague

Traffic Suspended In Japan

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NAGOYA, Oct. 18 (Domei),

The Secretary of Sinte, Mr. Cordell Millions of grasshoppers swarm-

Inconvenience over a wide area.

Scapa Flow Air Raid "Al 10.30 this morning, an air raid took place at Scapa Flow.

"The attack was made by about four machines,

For the next three years their home was in Indio, her husband being mufe Chief of Staff there.

During the world-war when Holg was Commander-in-Chiet of the "Two bombs fell very near His British forces in France and Flanders, she look a leading part in many Majesty's ship Iron Duke, and the movements for the benefit of the ship sustained certain damage. No soldiers and their families. casualties occurred,”

Bemerayde House on the Tweed, The Iron Duke is an old boilleship given to Haig by his fellow-country- which was deinllitarised under the men in the Empire in recognition of London Naval Treaty of 1939 and his services in the war, afterwards had all her armour removed. She became their home. Halg ulso re- has since been used for depot and

gelved an earldom and many ather training stip purposes.

-honours.

the

Admiralty Communique LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).—An

.

Haig Diary Dispute On his death in Jan. 1928, he left Hull said Anderson's afdavli wasing neross the countryside in Admiralty communique states that that that intimation he had received Gifu Prefecture have completely second uir rald was carried out over his war diaries in the charge of 3 that the Athenia carried guns, and he

Orkneys from approximately trustees, one being the Countess. In

she proposed to pubilsh added that full details of the State halted railway traffic between 12.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. 1o-day by two 1920 Department's inquiry into the sinking Minota and Kitano, it was re-formations of six and four aircraft biography of Haig with extracts from of the Athenia would be made publie vealed to-day, when they were complete.

"Inside Job"

Traffle was suspended at 8.20am Jon Monday when the swarms of inseels completely covered the rail- way tracks.

respectively.

the inries, but afterwards thought No damage

and nojit better for the diaries to be issued was done casualties were sustained.

as a whole. This, however, was op- Two One German aircraft is reported to posed by the other trustees.

coples of the diaries existed, of which be destroyed.

she had one, os during the war Halg Two Attackers Shot Down

sent her a few sheets every day or LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter). two and kept a carbon copy. Subsequent to reports of enemy ac- Hearing that arrangements were Trains were unable to plough livity on the East Coast this utter-being made for Duff-Cooper to write through the plague of insects which, neon, two enemy aircraft were life of Halg, the Countess wrote crushed between wheels und rails, observed off the North East Coast one herself with the title "The Man reased the tracks such an extent and were attacked by R.AF, lighters, I Knew." In Sept. 1935, just before Feature of a robbery case heard that the wheels merely revolved. Both were shot down and fell into it was to be published, legal proceed-

Thieves' Novel Method

Of Entering House

by Mr. Jusco Lindself at tho

Trains Hold Up-

A "punitive expedition" of railway | the sea. Criminal Sessions to-day was the employees has been sent out to deal novel method in which the robbers with the altuation.

gained entrance into a house.

Defendant was Lam Yau and he

pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery

The crew of one were rescued.

Our aircraft returned safely.

. During the last war he was member of Admiral Fishier's In- ventions Board, and he Invented a cheap method of producing mustard M35,

Gold

Sir William Pope was 69 years of age, and had bern Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge since 1908.

He had

brilliant น

scholastle career, several times being a Medallist, and his first appointment was Professor of Chemistry pt Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, from where he went to the Manchester University and later to Combridge.

the

*He was President of several pro- minent organisations and societies connected with science, and was A lecturer at a number of universities and technical colleges.

Among his more notable contribu- tions to chemistry was the discovery of the optical nctivity due 10 asymmetry of the nitrogen sulphur, selenium and in atoms.

He was recognised as one of the most brifliant research xelentists in the world.

Big Increases In Shipping Freight Rates

761⁄2 Per Cent. Above August Figures

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH LONDON, Oct. 17, (UP).- Shipping freight rates during the first month of the war rose 76% per cent. above those obtaining during August, accord- ing to the index of full cargo rates compiled by Lloyds.

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However, it has been pointed out that the rates in August were around the lowest for the past three years, and were barely enough to cover de- preelation charges.

Government chartering is now bas ed on rates about 60 per cent, above the August rates, but these are still largely unattrnetive to neutral ship- owners, who contend that the rates

gover Insufficient to

higher operating costs such as coal, labour and insurance,

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in 5 minutes a teaspoonful of "Bisur- at a house in Wanchai on August 31. THE prefix "Special to the Tele-

ated Magnesia in a little water produced The complainant was a woman, Chan graph is used by the "Hongkong Royal Mail steamer Stola, plying be-Haig had arisen. In 1920 A. F. Hor

complete belief in cases where number Telegraph to indicate news which tween Scapa and Thurso, was at- diman, Sol-ying.

the sculptor," submitted 'a

ether remedier had falled (entirely. *laurated' Magnesia

compista Mr. T. J. Gould, for the Crown, Is strictly copyright under the pro-tacked by German planes his morn-model, but the Countess and others

trastment for the rallet of stomachi said a gang of robbers sent + con- visions of the Telecommunications|ing."

objected to.it on the ground that the

troubles it zelairalizer the harmful acids Bomba fell round the Stola, which, horse was of a type which no feld federale to the house. He stayed the Ordinance, 1936. Such nows as bears

that cause the traublo and. H. spreads a ecothing, protective dim over the stomach. night there, and the next morning the Indication "U" is received in however, was not hit..

marshal would rido, The Counters

lining. opened up the house to four other Hongkong on the date of publication.

Search For Plano

also criticised cecond model which men." The inmates were threatened by the United Press Assoolations, who

Hardiman Bubmitted and a third, 17 (Reuter), which was accepted. It was not un- with kalves, gaggod and bound, reserve all rights and forbid re- LONDON, Oct.

Lam was sentenced to three years publication, either wholly or in part, Search parties were out to-day look-11 1930 that the statue, was 'com

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