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一拜禮 號七廿月-十英港香 "MONDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1939. 日七十月十

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Biggest Merchant Marine Victim of War

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In East

P. & O. LINER RAWALPINDI SUNK

BY NAZIS: 270 FEARED

IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BY THE ADMIRALTY THAT THE P. AND ́O. LINER RAWALPINDI, WHICH FOR MANY YEARS HAS BEEN ON THE LONDON-FAR EAST RUN, HAS BEEN SUNK, SAYS A “REUTER" WIRELESS. MESSAGE RECEIVED IN HONGKONG THIS. MORNING.

ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND FIFTEEN INJURED.

The Admiralty has not as yet released any other details, and it is not known whether the 16,697-ton liner was sunk by a torpedo or a mine.

In an official statement, the Admiralty requested the press to treat the affair with cir- cumspection and to avoid speculation as to the

cause.

Familiar To Hongkong

The liner, which for years has been a familiar visitor to Hongkong, was built in 1925 by Harland and Wolff. Ltd., at Greenock.

The Rawalpindi, sister ship of the Ranchi, Ranpura and Rajputana, was 548 feet long, and her capacity passenger list was 600.

Her last visit to Hongkong was in July, and when war broke out, it is believed she was taken over by the Admiralty.

Two Others Attacked

This is the third attack to be made on P. and O. ships since the outbreak of war.

"A few weeks ago the-huge-21,000-ton-Mooltan--was-at-- tacked by a submarine, but managed to escape.

Yesterday, the 11,000-ton Sussex was slightly damaged by

a mine.

Lucky Escape for Sussex

"Reuter," reporting on this, says the P. and O. Sussex was escorted by tugs into a British port yesterday, with a for'ard part slightly damaged.

The Sussex was built in 1937 by John Brown and Co., Ltd., at Clydebank, and she is one of the newest of the P. and 0. flect,

Was Armed Cruiser

....

BRITAIN'S REPLY TO THE U-BOATS

U-Boats Completely Defeated: Mines Seen As Nazi Confession Of Weakness

WE CAN DEFEAT NEW TERRORISM

LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter).-Reviewing the war at sen, the B.B.C. naval observer said that all German mines had been laid along the shipping routes around the British coast.

The sinking of British and neutral shipping by this illegal method is going to have a great effect on the war as a whole and not quite in the way. the Germans had

intended:

NAZIS INDICTED

LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter). It is officially stated by the U.S. Comment

Admiralty that the P. and O. liner Rawalpindi, formerly on the Far Eastern run, and latterly converted into an armed cruiser, has been sunk.

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Complete mystery surrounds the sinking, and the news- papers are requested to refrain from speculation on the incident.

It la officially stated that the casualties are one dead and. 15 missing.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.

THE P. & O. LINER RAWALPINDI

Direct Hits On Four

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British Ships Claimed

LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter).--Official German communiques claim that German planes made four direct hits on

naval units in the North Sea. British It le claimed that in an attack It is further claimed by the by German planes one large Nazis, though not confirmed in London, that a British ship, of crufter was badly damaged as a the Arethusa cruiser class has

· result of a direct hit:

been sunk by a mine,

On Mine Laying

War at sea was a complicated business. It was not only con fined to straight naval battles, but was a contest to strangle. sea-borne trade.

Britain's Poply This method of laying mines was 3gainst International Law, not to of considerations mention.ali bumanity, but we were pretty used to the Nazis breaking International Law, and we would take reprizais by the

Sweden Indignant stopping of German exports

No German ship would dare to sail NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (Reu-except to ports in the Baltic, and ter).—Mr. Edwin James, Manag- that meant that her exports were ing Director of the "New York carried in neutral ships. Times," in a long article to-day, declares that German publicity on the subject of mine warfare

is not handled with Dr. Goebbels' usual skill.

Repricals' would affect. neutral shipping, bat du adopted the sanie reprimals in 1915 and would make every effort to respect. genuine neutral trade?

Confession Of Weakness For four days, he denied responsession of weakness. The

Tha laying of mines was a con- U-boat bility, and then forward a defence of campaign had not been as effective the new mines. Thus he presumably as was hoped and U-boats had been accepted the responsibility,

frightened far out into the Atlantic, where they could only attack a.Iow

neutral.

The German defence is below par, and not much better than the feebla attempt to justify poison gas in 1915.

LOST

Premier, In Brilliant Radio Speech, Tells Listeners-

BRITONS NEED HAVE NO FEAR

LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter).— Mr. Neville Chamberlain, broadcast- ing at 9.15 p.m. to-night, referred to his broadcast of September 3, and said that after twelve weeks of war, he was speaking again happily with health and strength unimpaired and with full confidence in our ultimate victory.

being

HE British attack upon the U-boats" is being delivered THE

with the utmost vigour and intensity," said Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the House of Commons in his review of naval activities since the war began. Our merchant vessels and fast liners, are armed for defence against the U-boat and the aeroplane.' These two pictures show (above) warships on submarine patrolTM" somėnihere in the North Sea" and (below) the Aquitania, homeward bound from America, with her guns ready for action.

GUNS MOUNTED

IIN STĚRN

Tokyo Premier Admits

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Cannot Defeat China

He assured his hearers that Britain would not follow Ger- many's example in concealing

her own losses and inventing non-existent enemy losses.

He added: "We shall tell you; frankly what is happening, even when the truth is unpleasant, and we shall never refrain from publishing news.except when it will be helpful to the enemy.

This "Difforant" War "Hitherto the war is carried on in a way very different from what we had expected.

"We need not attribute the reluct- cance of the Germans to begin a great land offensive, or attempt a series of erial mass attacks on Britain to their humanity.

"We have had plenty of evidence that no considerations of humanity hove deterred them from any form of warfare that they have thought ad- vantageous.

They

must, therefore, have come

to the conclusion that at present they

would lose more than they would gain by such attacks, and have pre- ferred to use methods which they thought could be employed without terious loss to themselves."

PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.

LATEST

ONLY 17 SURVIVORS

A BRITISH WIRELESS' MESS. AGE SAYS THAT „JE. IS NOW FEARED THAT: ALL OFFICERS AND SHIP'S COMPANY HAVE BEEN LOST EXCEPT FOR 17 MEN, WHOSE NAMES HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED. THERE WERE 300 OFFICERS AND, MEN ABOARD.

BIGGEST POLISH LINER MINED

TOKYO, Nov. 26 (Router).—“There are some who Jone *unconvoyed ships, mostly believe that by the disposal of the China Affair is meant And so the Nazis had turned to the establishment of a new Central Government...in There is little doubt, says Mr. magnetic mines, which were not now China, the collapse of the General Chiang Kai-shek

and which, in fact, were used in tho Jomes, that the laying of loose mines last war.

regime and the withdrawal of Japanese forces from is a violation of the letter of The The term "nanello mines" did} Hague treatles.

LONDON, Nov. 27 (Doniel)-The not mean that the mines would China. Such an idea is a take into consideration economie pro- blems, the altitude of third Powers, move towards ships like chickens great mistake."

and how to dispose of these forces 14,400-ton Polish steamer Pilsudsky. Swedish Indignation

which was in United States waters when you came out with a bandful) This declared the Prime under Chiang Kai-shek,

"It is inevitable that we must when war broke out and consequent- STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20. (Router),¦ Tho Swedish

"Dugena They were the same as any other Minister, General Nobuyuki Abe, strengthen economic control in orderly escaped capture in the Baltic, has Nyheter, expresses the general in mines except that they were mag-in a speech delivered at a din- to cope with the various difficulties fallen victim to a Nazi magnetic mine. The Plisudaky sank off the north- China Affair. dignation felt in the country at Ger-netically exploded.

England on Sunday Steel ships formed magnets which per party held in his honour at arising from many's Illegal mine-laying.

General Abe concluded: "Fapan western coast. would set these mines off,·

doxires to shake hands with foreign morning, powers who will open their aries

Beven of the 236 passengers and for similar purposes, but Japan members of the crow

• should not rely upon them tes The rest were saved. much."

paper,

This form of operation, the paper; warns, will not pass without affecting the economic relations of the two countries.

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An Initial. Success The now departure, had been tho laying of mines from aircraft which could swoop 'down' and drop their Indignation is also expressed at the mines and be of almost before one fact that a total of 38 Swedish ships realised what was happening have been captured and are being held in German parts.

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That was an initial success for the

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The disposal of the China Affair, he went on, was not so simple. Generalisimo Chlang Kaf-lick_ut present has at hand 240 divisions in addition · to approximately -- more than a million guerillas Infesting remote pláčes¦

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PATROLS ACTIVE

PARIS, NOV. 18 (Reuter)-A com

·minique »Issued...to-day states that

The Japanese Premier urged the | Nazis but an effective anUdole would nation to be prepared to meet the Many of these ships were on their soon be working. way to the United States and sight British ships were plying the seas were in ballast.

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