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No. 15950 -# +A-TRE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.

"Abominable Weapon" Claims 140 Lives In Sinking Of Royal Netherlands Mail Liner: Children Among Victims

SHIPPING WAR

BIGGEST DISASTER OF

LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter) - Mrs. Sandiford,

wife of a Trinidad banker, and a survivor of the Simon Bolivar, gave an interview in

London to-day

when she paid a high tribute to the men of the Navy

which dashed to the rescue and other ships

of

the sinking Royal Netherlands Mail Liner Simon Bolivar.

It's A War Of Words

All Talk, But No Action

Some Left Jabs By

The British Navy

LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter).The war seems to be going on in every Chancellery, legation and council room, but with little incident on land, sea or in the air, said the B.B.C, mili- tary observer from Daven- try to-day.

There is talk on both sides and threats from one--but little apparent-action:

One bas the impression that itler and Ribbentrop are questing in every direction in working out plan after plan, only to be tok by their soldlers! and airmen that the plan will not work.

Winning At Sca

Neutrals are less alarmed than they were, while the Allies are covering!

and unleashing a left poke

to the body every now and again.

Needless to say this "left" Is the

which is ghting the enemy

Looking Back

In History

TRAGEDY OF 1889 RECALLED

TOKYO, Nov. 19 (Domci). anniversary -The fiftieth memorial services for 581 crow members of the Turkish warship lost when their vessel grounded and sank near Kos- himozaki Lighthouse; in Wa- kayama Prefecture, took place last week.

The ship was on a goodwill cruise to Japan when tho tragedy occurred on November 16, 1889.

The memorial services, held near the site of the sinking, wore attended by representa- tives of the Turkish Embassy in Tokyo and by Mr. Mori, -President-of-the-Japan Near East Trade Society of Osaka...

3 MORE SHIPS ARE SUNK

Nadily and remorselessly und with Two Neutrals And

no wearing oft.

al

the

The really vital sphere moment is the Ben and it is here that

the enemy is loalnit most decisively.

One British

Describing the

scene

aboard, she said that she had just gone down to the cabin to get some things for her daughter Jean.

She was unable to get the cases open, so she sent Jean for her father.

Soon afterwards there was a terrific explosion.

Be staggered out through the darkness. The passaTE was filed with steam, She got to the top deck and found her husband injured.

She was told that he was twice thrown up into the air by the ex- plosion.

A. swift search revealed Jenn, who was dazed and the three clambered Into the same lifebont,

The sun deck was awash whent

Chief Ofeer Smit left it.

Heroic Scottish Nurse

In the lifeboat was a Scottish nurse

who, despite the fact that her own; back WAN Injured,

began In business-like manner to attend to injuries of the others and to make them comfortable.

Mr. Sandiford believed that a number of people forward and below must have been trapped,

"In the passage I saw several crawling out of their cabins. Some of them must have been stewards, I don't know how they could have escaped because there was nobody down there to pull them out,

日十初月十

Nazi Air Raid On Scotland No Bombs Dropped

LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reu- ter). There was an air-raid warning in the North-East coast of Scotland this morn- Ing:

Gorman planes were visible very high.

No bombs were dropped. The all-clear signál was sounded 20 minutes Inter.

An interesting feature of the Bolgian "Maginot Line": steel railings strengthened by supports as a barrier to tank attacks.

BELGIUM RELEASES MEN FROM FRONT

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 (UP)-The relaxation of last week's tension was: reflected to-day when thousands of Belgian soldiers entrained for their homes on account of the re-establishment of the usual three days furlough

every month.

REVOLT IN

6 MONTHS

Hitler's Arch Enemy Predicts Downfall

Thousands of people thronged

Christmas shopping and crowd- ing the cafes, restaurants and cinemas.

the streets to-day, doing their

Official quarters fake_a_calm_view of the possibility of German in vasion of Holland or Belgium.

to

The Belgo-Dutch peace mediation offer is now officially admitted

falled.

hen An Air Raid Warning Then

PARIS, Nov. 19. (Reuter).-have "After we landed, we were in a walling room when Ab air-rald "Germany will soon be ready for warning was elven.

"Everybody was taken down into an anti-Hitler revolution," de- shelters and some were carried in clared Otto Sirasser, known as

Hitler's worst - enginy;" in an. "Among the passengers who jump-interview with the "Parly Soir" ed into the sea was a girl returning to-day.

stretchers.

home after finishing school on the Continent. a lifeboat

Court Shot into locat

In boat she decided to jump for it."! Saturated With Oil

S'hai Briton Arrested Policeman Held By Japanese

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

TOKYO, Nov. 19 (Domel).-The recent successful' landing of the Japanese forces near Pakhoi and Yamchow Bay, despite stubborn Chinese resistance, is attributed by the "Asahi Shimbun" correspondent to the efforts of the Japanese Navy during the past year and a half in surveying and sounding sub-marine conditions in Yam- chow Bay.

The Bay is well known as Eden And Belisha Report China's strongest natural fortress, being studded with numberless reefs and islets, as well as with shoals,

The "Asabi war correspondent

vividly describes the strategy used by the Japanese military forces fts effecting the landing near Pakhol and at various places at the south- western tip of Kwangtung Province,

The Japanese Army forces are con- tinuing their advance northward pati have already entered as far as over) 20 kilometres into Kwangst Province, The Chinese military authorities have destroyed the roads in order to check the Japanese advance.

L

On.Western Front

We Are Winning Comfortably

Troops Fixity Of Purpose Noted

LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)." Threatened by the prospect of -Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary Japanese invasion since February, for the Dominions, broadcasting when the Japanese occupied Hainan in French to-day, referred to the tsland, the Chinese military au-recent visit he made to the Front. thorities recently ordered the in-

habitants of south-western Kwangs on November 16. to withdraw from their native places.)

In addition to stubborn Chinese

Is

"No one doubts final victory, and

must be turned." he said.

He, suid that the dominant note wherever he went was the quiet de- Chinese Hold Out

termination of the males and females, young and old, civilians and soldier KWEILIN, Nov. 20 (Central) everywhere, and their xily of pur- Week-end reports received at the pose and determination this time to military headquarters declare that make an end of the recurrent wors the war situation on the Yamchow-of aggression. Fangshing sector has been "stabilised." Final Victory Assured resistance, fog and drizzling rain deterring the Japanese northward ad-nt wils It a new page in history vance. The total Japanese landing As regards the Maginot Line and forces at Yamchow, Fongshing, and

the putlence and. thoroughness with nearby points are estimated at 4,500. which France completed her defences Severe fighting is raging at several and trained her armies, Mr. Eden small villages immediately north of declared; "Thus not for the first time Yamchow and Fongshing, including in history, France has placed all Tatschu, Wongwutun. Pingngantu civilisation in her debt." and Yeniseping, where the defenders

Cheerful B.E.F. against flerde holding out ure

LONDON, Nov. 10 (Router) Japanese onslaughts.

To the west of Yarchow, Japanese "The men of the British Expedition

health is good, and I am confident forces lost heavily in the vicinity of ary Force are all cheerful, their Fongshing in a bitter struggle that we are winning the wor com- November 17. In the duct the Chinese coastal positions at Lalloutsal were pulverised by severe Japanese naval bombardments.

Shumchun Attack

J

YINGTAK, Nov. 20 (Central).—A force of about 1,000 Japanese troops

fortably," said Mr. Lesila Hore Bellsba, the British War Minister, before he left the British Front to day.

Visit To Front Lino SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDI

at Shumchun launched a Berce attack TIONARY FORCE, SOMEWHERE on the Chinese positions at Pingwu, IN FRANCE, Nov. 18 (UR). Last Cheungmuklu and Tintongwel on the Saturday, Mr. L. Hore-Boltsha, the Canton-Kowloon Railway on Saur-Minister of War, visited Tommy up in by the line and concluded that the Army day. They were repulsed

forces

considerable in the field was of excellent moralo Chinese

with

and magnificently equipped and losses.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 2. policeman Japanese Bomb Nanning Ing him as the instigator of the crime.patrolling near the Japanese

Strasser, who has been leader of

CHUNGKING, Nov. 20 (Cen-

British

Named As Instigator Strasser said that he was given four hours to leave. Swit One of the problems of the nurses Zerland after the Munich explo- LONDON, Nov, 19 (Reuter) and doctors was the vast and tena-sion because the Germans were There is also rather more aerial-Just before midnight news cisus quantiles of oil with which the demanding his extradition, describ-tral).---A

The Shetlands Raid

was received in London that survivors, were covered.

The hospital authorities had to three more ships had been sunk The most interesting event,

off the East Coast of the Britishake na emergency appileation for

an issue of petrol for cleaning. course, has been the ruid en the Shetland Islands by four aircraft Isics in circumstances similar which dropped bombs, doing only to the Simon Bolivar outrage. trifle damage, on November 13,

Two of them

activity.

were

This was the first raid in which ships and one was British, bombs were actually dropped on British soil.

neutral

of

and

incendiaries

were

KWEILIN, Nov. 20 (Central)- the Anti-Nazi Binck Front since the Naigai Wata Cotton Mills in Nazis murdered his brother, declared Robinson Road, Shanghai, was Nonning, the capital of Kwangs, was twice bombed by thirteen Japanese that he thought at first that his arrested by the Japanese au- planes yesterday afternoon. Many 120 Lives Lost

friends had organised the Munich thorities yesterday, according to explosives LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter) attempt, but he now considered that

dumped on the city, causing un- a Shanghai report. About 400, inestly Dutch, but includit could only have been caused by

He was not released late last night ascertained damaged. Ing 70 Britons, were on board the the Gestapo.

despite the protest of the Shanghai

Advance Continues Netherlands Jiner Simon Bolivar Italy's First Loss

when she was hit by two German Three Conditions For Revolution Municipal Poilee.

YAMCHOW, It was probably an experiment to

Nov. 20 (Domel)- Before there could be a revolution mines in the North Sea on Saturday. Gracia. The Italian steamer By the bombers carried their

Chiulungkan, important Chinese posl- see how

It is feared that 140 have lost their in Germany, three conditions were loads over that long distance and how 5,800 tons, was Xinly's first shipping

Ilves.

necessary, namely: the Germans who

tlon ten miles northeast of Yomehow, loss of the war. they fared.

Of the survivors, 30 were badly still believe In Hitler must feel the

and Thengmen, a strategically im As they got away,

portant town 10 miles north of Yam- the German Another victim was the Swedish injured and received first aid alten horrors of war; the Reich must suffer propaganda machine has made much freighter, Borgholm, of 1,500

tortion from doctors and nurses on the a military check; and privations must

chow, were both captured by Japanuse of the fight and has circulated a quite while the British

forces on Saturday, the press section Chinese.. quayside before being removed to become more biting.

of the Japanese expeditionary forco British unfounded tale that

A Japanese Naval party placed n "I consider these conditions will hospital.

be fulfilled by the spring of 1940, cordon around the area and searched to South Kwangtung announced.

Japanese forces

continuing he said.

all Chinese passers-by, There were no witnesses to the shooting, there- northward advance, the military com fore details cannot be obtalued. The munique Anys. Japanese Consular police and the Municipal police are co-operating in the investigation.

buats were destroyed, and a cruiser

"probably damaged.

craft

was

2,500

flying tons.

Full details of the sinkings are not; Thai word "probably" is an un-yet known, and there is no informa- usually neat touch as it almost tlon yet regarding the loss of life.

of but not quite-elves an air

reality to the cock-and-bull story.

Boware Next Full Moon

Simon Bolivar Casualties

In the meantine it is revealed that

only 100 persons are now thought to There may be some air raids at the have lost their lives in the Simon next full moon.

The RAF has carried out a series Bolivar disaster, about 40 less than of daylight raids over Germany, not originally feared. without loss it is true, but bringing back over 100 detalled photographs of objectives, including nerodromes, ne trophies.

On land, nothing much has happen ed, save In one case when a German battalion broke into a French outpost line only to come under costly fire from the heavy artillery of the Maginot Line.

ITALY DENIES INTERFERENCE

It is, however, revealed that no

Six Babies Rescued Survivora also included 15 children and six babes in arms, most of them being accommodated at St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital in London.

According to the survivors, ex- plosion of the first mine killed many outright and flung others into the sea.

The angle of the ship held up the

The second explosion, shattered a

DARDANUS

MAIL HELD

launching of her port side lifebouts. No Explanation Of

fewer than 44 of the missing pan- | lifeboat as it was nearing the water sengers are British.

and killed several people.

The victims in hospital in London were visited by the Netherlands Minister: to-day..

ITALY CAN KEEP OUT OF WAR

The sinking of the Simon Bolivar is the greatest merchant-shipping disaster of the war.

Missing Bags

Japanese Killed SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, Nov. 19 (UP)—Mr. Kunijiro Asahina, 30-year-old Japan- the Japanese esc, was shot dead defence sector last night, allegedly by

Returns To Be Interned

Voluntary Gesture By British Pilot

Although they have offered no explanation, the Japanese have Nazi Planes Sighted not yet returned approximately AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19 (Reuter). 220 iba, of mall which was on LONDON, Nov., 19 (Reuter)--A Amsterdam Telegraaf says that liner Dardanus when It was feeland to be interned for the dura- The London correspondent of the board the Imperial Airways British airman, accompanied by his wife, has voluntarily returned to

survivor told him that two German!

ROME, Nov. 19 (Reuter)--Signoring. Virginia Gaydo, wailing in the "Vace

were

Chinese troops of the 35th and 57th Divisions which attempted to defen

with Chiulungkan, were repulsed heavy losses. Over 500 dead were abandoned by the Chinese, while 410 Chinese prisoners

taken by: Japanese troops near Chlulungken, the communique further claims.

were

were

Over 1,000 Chinese troops dislodged from their prepared hilly positions near Tafengmen, north of were reduced by five Japanese raiding forces after hours of heavy fighting. The Chinese were armed with trench-moriary."

Yamchow, which

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heroplanes flew over the Simon forced down on Welchow Island. tion of the war, Bolivar at 9 am, on Saturday morn- The rest of the mall was delivered It will be recalled that he brought in Hongkong last week when the two down his dying boat in Icelandic Survivors Recover

pilots of the plane returned by waters in September, and subsequent

ly took off and returned to. England LONDON, Nov. 19 (Router)The steamer from Canton, d'Itallo" said that the progress of

It is understood that the Japanese under the impression that he had

LONDON, Nov. 20 (UP).The war has produced a new dance. Italy's economic self-sufficiency was Dutch steamer Simon Bolivar, which ROME, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-Reports such, that it was possible for her... to struck a mine and sank, left Amster- have promised to return the mail by given no pledge to remain,

dem for the West Indies on Friday one of their milltary transport When he heard of the misunder. It is called the "Blackout Stroll," that Italy has informed the German keep out of war..

Douglas DC-3 planes which was ex-standing, he immediately volunteered It starts like the "Lambeth Walk." Then, the lights "black Government that she is interested in Kaly still han under arms four ught,

to return, About: 00 or 70 survivors had re- press to oppive on Baturday.

out" and everybody changes partner. The idén is to give the rela preserving, the neutrality of Belgium classes called up last August, and

The plane, however did not arriva He, will be interned in a former chance to get acquainted with the handsome men in uniform. and. Holland Are authoritatively now has approximately 1,000,000 men covered sufficiently, to be discharged

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