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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.

A BRITISH WIRELESS MESSAGE SAYS THAT IT IS NOW FEARED THAT ALL OFFICERS AND SHIP'S COMPANY HAVE BEEN LOST EX- CEPT FOR 17 MEN, WHOSE NAMES HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED. THERE WERE 300 OFFI- CERS AND MEN ABOARD.

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.

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

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 tuga 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 O. flect.

THE LINER PILSUDSKİ

Poland's

Crack Liner

.

Sunk by Mystery Mine

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

BRITAIN'S REPLY TO THE U-BOATS

Withdrawal of Troops From Frontier Demanded As Result of Shooting

SOVIET'S SHARP NOTE TO FINNS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH❞ HELSINGFORS, Nov. 27 (Domei).-Demands tantamount to an ultimatum have been delivered by Soviet Russia to Finland.

It is officially stated that Russia has demanded the" a distance 15 miles! withdrawal of Finnish troops to

| inland from the border.

The Foreign Office officially

TO REJECT confirms receipt of a Soviet pro-

PROTESTS

Britain Stands Firm

On Decision

SPECIAL TO: THE "TELEGRAPH LONDON, Nov, 27 (Domel). -Great Britain has decided to reject the Italian, Swedish, Bel. gian and Dutch protests againėt the decision to seize all German exports on the High Seas,

Japan has decided to join in the protests, and instructions to

test regarding the border in- cident, in which seven. Soviet soldiers were killed...

Political circles evince grave cun- cem at the prospect of a deteriora- tion of Soviet-Finnish relations.

Apprehensions have been decoener by a virulent, leading article in "Pravda" the official Soviet-organ.

A report from Higs xiates that

a de. Germany has forwarded marcho to· Flaland. . advising thic flatter to adopt a conciliatory, al-

Uitude towards the Søvlett.

Formal Noto Sant

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH MOSCOW, Nov 27 (UP)-Soviet Russia has sent a formal Note fo Flu-

this effect have been forwardod land, demanding the withdrawal of

to the Ambassador, Mr. M. Finnish troops 15 miles from the

Shigemitsu.

Neutral Bittornais;

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" COPENHAGEN, Nov. 27 (UP) Neutral newspapers still continue the Britain's bitter campaign against decision to impose a full blockade on

Germany.

frontier:

The demand was made after :

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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.

said. Mr.

THE British attack upon the U-boats ** is being delivered

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

GUNS MOUNTED ON STERN

Tokyo Premier Admits

was alreally encounted that 66 Cannot Defeat China"

officially Finnlah | artillery, firing from Finnish territory, killed four and wounded nine Soviet soldiers.

in compliance with strict orders, the Red Army did not answer the fire," says the Soviet Note.

The Soviet Union, however, con-

TOKYO, Nov. 26 (Reuter).—“There are some who believe that by the disposal of the China Affair is meant the establishment of a new. Central Government in A Copenhagen newspaper clumsiters it necessary to emphasise that China, the collapse of the General Chiang Kai-shek that the new British campaign on the danger of large concentrations of stitutes the breaking of Britain's troops on the Finland-Soviet border regime and the withdrawal of Japanese. forces from pledge, given at the beginning of the has already been emphasised to Fin-China. Such an idea is a take into consideration economic pro-

"There are no signs that Britain is

prove af

land.

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blems, the attitude of third Powers, great mistake.”

and how to dispose of these forces LONDON, Nov, 27 (Domei)~Poland's crack ocean war."

·Halsingfors Denial

Thus declared the Primounder Chiang Kai-shek.

"It is inevitable that we must greyhound, the 14,400-ton trans-Atlantic luxury liner relenting." the newspaper comments.

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" HELSINGFORS, Nov. 27 (UP) Minister, General Nobuyuki Abe, strengthen economic control in order Pilsudski, has been sunk by a Nazi mystery mine. "But her blockade may

boomerang.

The Finnish Government has calc-in a speech delivered at a dinto cope with the various difficulties America passenger "England has no practical interest gorically denied radio reports of bor-[ner party held in his honour at arising from the China Affair. The Pilaudaki, which has con- Gdynia-South

When Germany invaded

in destroying all neutral States. But der incidents., tinued in the trans-Atlantic ser- service.

Poland, the tlner was in New York

The Finnish General Staff denies Osaka, vice under the Polish flag despite Harbour, and transferred, after the she must be interested in the danger the German conquest of Poland, conquest of Foland, to the Liverpool that she will force Holland and Bel- any knowledge of artillery fire on the struck a mine off the north-South America Bervice. She was glum, who are hardest hit by the frontlar.

Despite the Soviet, “ultimatum”. western coast of England on presumably en route to Rio de Janiero new measures, closer to Germany,

when she was destroyed.

"Denmark is not affected as much Finnish troops continue to concentrate Sunday morning,

However, schools; have been ro Of the 250 passengers, aboard,

The Pilsudski was built in Italy in as Holland and Belglum but on prin- on the border and in strategic areas. ciple she must resist a belligerent

opened. in Helsingfors and other cen only seven are missing, the rest 1993, under a barter agreement be playing with a neutral as if it were tres removed from the danger area. The Japanese Premier urged the most urgent question facing Japan la being saved by British warships tween Italy and Poland. She was

a football."

Some volunteer evacuees have res nation to be prepared to meet the how to adjust relation with the and other, voel".

paid for with Polish coal.

turned, to their homes, but those situation, evacuated from the danger areas by

The Filrudski was owned by the Gdynia-America Line, and was.cm- ployed on the Gdynia-New, York and

Aalator ship, the ss. Datory, was

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Much will depend, adds ibs paper, on the thoroughness and effective

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The disposal of the China Affair, ho went on, Wis not so simple. Generalissimo. Oblang Kai-abek at present has at hand 240 divisions in addition to approximately than a million suerillas, infestius zumeta plagras, ZE AA

more

General Abe concluded: "Japan desires to shake hands with foreign powers who will open their / arms for similar purposes, but Japan too should not rely upon them much."

America's Bluff".. TOKYO. Nov, 20 (Hauter) "The

“It will require years in setting vlets Union and how to make the PLEASE Turn To Page S.--- the China-Affair completely if we

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

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

"We have had plenty of evidence that nu considerations of humanity have deterred them from any form of warfare that. they have thought ad- vantageous.

They must, therefore, have come to the conclusion Brat 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 zerious loss to themselves,"

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