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FOUNDED 1881 No. 10020
二拜體 號九十月二十英港香 TUESDAY. DECEMBER 19,
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1939. 10.00 PER ANNUM
Hongkong Submarine Commander Achieves War's
DESTROYS U-BOAT.
Full of Smart Notione
WHITEAWAY'S
Display of
Xmas Gifts
for Ladies & Children
Most Daring Exploit
U-BOAT, THE LEIPZIG,
9
AND CRIPPLES THIRD
KONIGSBERG SUNK IN RIVER ELBE BY H.M.S. URSULA: NAZI BLACK DAY
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”
LONDON, DEC. · 19 · (UP).--THE REMARKABLE COURAGE OF A NAVAL COMMANDER WHO WAS FORMERLY ATTACHED TO H.M.S. ODIN ON CHINA STATION IN HONGKONG IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST NAVAL EPICS OF THE WAR.
THE OFFICER IS LIEUT. COMMANDER E. O. B. BICKFORD, COM- MANDER OF H. M. SUBMARINE SALMON, TO WHICH HE WAS TRANS- FERRED FROM H.M.S. ODIN IN 1937.
By his daring and seamanship, the 6,000-ton Nazi cruiser Leipzig lies
WARSHIP
THE 6,000-TON NAZI
CRUISER
LEIPZIG
Soviet Soldiers Mutiny: Officers
at the bottom of the North Sea and another 6,000-ton cruiser was last seen in Shot As Battalion Joins Finns
a sinking condition..
R.A.F. Stages War's Biggest Air Raids.
65 Planes Attack Nazi Naval Bases
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP).—Britain launched the biggest air raids of the war over German naval bases yesterday.
Sixty-five Royal Air Force planes participated in the big- scale attacks, which were launched on constal bases—inc Heligoland Bay throughout the day, presumably in retaliation for the Nazi bombing attacks on Brlish merchant shipping.
Conflicting claims are made regard-1 Ing the outenine of the Britis raids.
An oeit Berlin communique, in { admitting that British planes pene- trated to the Nazi naval bases, claim! that thirty-four of the H.A.F. planes were shot down.
An
offeint British communiqu admits that strong concentrations of Nazi fighter planes were met in the course of the raids.
#2 Nazis Shot Down Twelve Messerschmidt pursult planes were shot down by the British bombers, seven of which are ulically
admitted to have been lost.
The Brush planes Concentrated their activities in the neighbourhood of Heligoland. Several sharp aerial
Hellgoland Dight.
GERMAN RAIDS
Merchant Ships Are Sunk
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
German naval bases in Heligoland
out continuous alr altacks on British
Air
(1)
WEEK OF BRILLIANT SUCCESS
The feat climaxes a brilliant week of success for the Royal Navy. It began with the flight and subsequent scuttling of the 'pocket Battleship' Admiral Graf Spee after an engagement with three British warships of in- ferior size and armaments.
H.M.S. SALMON
It continued with the sinking, at the mouth of the River Elbe, of an unidentified 6,000-ton Nazi cruiser, be- lieved to be the Konigsberg. This feat was performed by H. M. submarine Ursula, the name of whose commander, is not divulged,
GRAND FLEET ATTACKED
It ends with the successful attack by Lieut. mander Bickford and his crew of 40 men on the Grand Fleet.
Lieut. Commander Bickford
LONDON, DEC. 18 (REUTER). REPORTS OF DISSENSION AND EVEN REVOLT AMONG SOVIET SOLDIERS AND ́CIVILIANS ARE RELAYED FROM STOCKHOLM VIA ESTONIA.
Argentine
To Intern battalion
Graf Spee Captain, Crew
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18 (UP)—Argentine has |to intern about 700 officers and men of the Admiral Graf von Spee, followed their arrival on two tugs, a barge and a launch.
On Sunday night, it is re ported, the men of a Soviet north of Lake Ladoga mutinied, shot their commissar and went over to the Finns.
Finns Gaining Ground To-day there were reports of disturbances among the civilian populations, of Leningrad and
Moscow.
•
Extraordinary security mcasures are sald have been taken and the more important institutions ure being
-It-is-understood that the crew-will-be--interned-at-Trouses are being raided-by- the- Martin Garcia Immigration Island where the officers will police and radio receivers are beltg be accorded special treat- ment.
Oficials quoted Captain GRAF SPEE
Langsdorf as saying: "I am satisfied. I saved all my men."
Three thousand people along the Waterfront saw Captain Langsdorf and his officers land at 2.43 p.m. The first load of 250 members of the crew
Com-anded at 3.25 p.m.
Nazi Sightseers Viow Burning Warship
VICTIMS
Nazi Raider Sank Only 48,000 Tons
Foreign circles are studying the LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reater). legal aspects of the sinking in its-At least two British ship3| reports that there is relation to the flague Convention, to scuttled themselves when the
seized.
It must be emphasised, however, that these reports have not yet been confirmed.
Finns Gaining Ground LONDON, Dec. 13 (Reuter)--The Aghting in Finland appears to be at its heaviest in the Karelian Isthmus, PLEASE Turn To Pago 7.
LATEST
FIGHT FOR AIR
determine whether or not the crew
shipwrecked Graf Spee tried to capture them, SUPREMACY ON
as
classified
it will be
was learned to-day when sailors or combatants.
Reports from Montevideo say that fuller detalls of the raider's! fat 4 p.m., the Graf von Spee was still
career became available. burning after 20 hours. It is sur rounded by excursion boats loaded with sightseers.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 18 (UP)-1 is be- On October 7, the Graf Spec's lieved that the great air battle over first victim, the 5,000
ton Heligoland Bight is the first of a steamer Clement was encounter-series of attacks about to be launched fed.
LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP). There is every indication that the warfare in the air is becom-
levery indication that "at least one of the German ships ing increasingly intensified,
Prior to the mans British raids on (the Leipzig) might well have failed to reach port." battles occurred over the Inner Bight, the German air force carried Two torpedoes damaged another 6,000-ton cruiser.
The official Berlin announcement merchant shipping in the North Sen.
The story of the exploits of the two British submarines is one states that the crews of two of the A joint communique by the Ad- of the most dramatic of the war.
by the Royal. Air Force in an effort British bombers bailed out by means miralty and
Nazi Pratost To Uruguay Ministry states: In order to enter the River Elbe, the submarine Ursula, which is
to establish British air supremacy. of their parachutes and were rescued, "This afternoon number of attacks only a small coastal type vessel of 540 tons and carrying but 27 men,
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 18 (Reuter).
Air Ministry clrcles point out that Berlin Admissions
As the German ship oprned fire on -A protest has been sent to the enemy aircraft were made by
the British bombers were attacked by had to proceed through the Nazi minefields and set a course below
Uruganyan Government by the Nazi the Clement, her captain ordered the Messerschmidt and were undefended Berlin officially admits that several British and neutral merchant and RA.. planes succeeded in reaching fishing vessels In the North Sea.
Government alleging that the Uru destruction of the ship's wireless by fighter planes; the Britons relying six destroyera which were protecting units of the German fleet in
guayan Government folled to give engines and stores. PLEASE Turn To Page 7. "As a result, the small, motor ver- the Elbe basin.
The seacocks were opened and the bombers themselves 7,
exclusively upon their gunnera in the sel Serenity (244 tons) and the Ask-
Fired Six Torpedoes imminent destruction, the Comman- the Graf Spee the necessary time to
Ursula was able to make her seaworthy, thus committing crow took to their boats. ing trawler New Choice have been
After passing the destroyers the der of the
It is, pointed out in this connection Later they were placed aboard a that not one British fighter plane has sunk by bombs. The trawler Ben-Ursuls crept up to a cruiser and re manoeuvre his submarine into the "grass breach of international law
and usage."
Greck steamer, the master of which been downed by a Nazi. Bghter in a clair escaped a similar attack."
leased all six torpedoes from her open sea again, and so escaped.
The Nust note takes the same line was threatened with sinking when he dog-night since the commencement of His name is not given in the Ad-
eas the letter sent by Capt. Langsdorf refused to take them on board with the warned out that not all the The cruisers, which is of the Konig-miralty reports. According to
three to the German Minister at Monte out payment, ANASTA It pointed sberg type, sank within few: July, 1939 Naval List, the
oMeers aboard the Ursula would be video before he took his ship out and Crew Machine-Cunned minutes. "Enemy planes also attacked the The Nazi destroyers Immediately Lieut. Cmdr. G. C. Phillips, and scuttled her in obedience to Hitler'a steamer Craigie Les with machine-dropped depth charges all around the Lieutenants R. L. Alexander and, R. orders.
PLEASE Turn To Page 7.'. aun fire, and two of the crew were sinking ship but, despite peril, of: wounded,
"Lifeboat containing ten men from! CHUNGKING, Dec. 18 (Reuter)the Now Choice was later sighted by For the first time in nearly one month, aircraft of the Constat Cominandi. the air raid alarm was sounded here which later directed a drifier to the this morning when 62 Japanese als spot. The crews of both the New: craft
headed
Up the river from Choice and the Serenity were rescued. Ilankow Dying in two.groups.
The Japanese bombers were pre- Six Other Ships Bombed ceded by a lone scouting aeroplane
"Further attacks were made dur- which crossed the Szechuten bordering the afternoon on the motor vessel cruising in the viehity of Wanhsien Toscan Star, the trawlers Dervish, before returning down the river.
Sheldon, Arnold Bennett and Druoui and the Italian steamer Valentino
Mass Raids By Japanese
62 Aircraft Bomb Yangtse Cities
"On the approach of British air bows. eraft the enemy planes made off before contact could be established.
BICKFORD AND CREW
GET GREAT WELCOME
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Br. Wireless)-II.ALB. Salmon, the 670-ton British submarine which sauk the Naxl cruiser Leipzig, torpedoed another erukser of the Blucher class, mank an ocean-going U-Boal and permitted Le Bremen lo esespo destruction, returned to her home port to-day.
Lieut. Cmdr. Bickford and his crew of 40 men had an enthusiastic A number of bombs were dropped welcome when their small craft entered port. 1.
As the Salmon entered the harbour, sirena shuleked on every vessel present among them two destroyers of the Polish Navy which
Laifeng, Liangshan Attacked Coda.
Are #t
The first group of Japanese bombers, parsed Yuyang and bombed Laitens, and the second wireless operator of near the upch-Hunnan border, ac-The Tuscan Slar was killed by a cording to Chinese reports.
The second group of 20 Japanese fragment of a bomb which burst very present co-operating with the British Navy.
The patrol from which IALS. Salmon returned is described, b planes entered Szechuen and, it in close to the ship. reported, bombed Liangaban, north-†
The enemy also attacked the naval circles as the most eventful which has fallen to any submarine in east of Chungking and west of Tuscan Star, with machine-guns, this or the last war. Wanhalen,
without causing any casualties. It earned that 30 Japanese "Iloyal Air Force aircraft engaged WAS IN HONGKONG bombers also attempted to come up the the enemy in falling light, firing n
The man who sank the Nazi cruiser Leipzig was Lieut. river yesterday morning but turned number of rounds at them and in- back at Shani in vlow of the bad, Buoy demon hefern, they dimp Commander E. O. Bickford, who was in Hongkong until late in 1937
PLEASE Turn To Page 7. weather conditions.
peared into the clouds,"
Ships Sunk By Bombs que t65 RA.1 planes, participated, in the Other ships, including the Ashley Heligoland combat. Berlin gives the In this letter, Capt. Langsdorf said and Huntsman, were sunk by bombs total 4418 (1077 BERNARD that although the fighting powers of during October when the Graf:9bco the ship were not diminislied she was crept up on them unawares by flying not seaworthy as her kitchens and the French flag. bakeries were damaged.
He could not put to. sea with a crew of 1,000 men when she, was in
that condition.
The Captain's note uileges that the Uruguayan Government, by refusing to extend the Grat Spec's Umo limit, falled to live up to the Hague Con- vention.
Captain's Admission
PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. WINSTON CHURCHill Resume
Sea Back Page For Further Late Nows
NAZIS FUNKED BATTLE WITH SMALLER SHIPS
The Caplan also aimlia, having
**LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reuter)-Referring to the Graf Spee fred at a British warship while in Uruguayan territorial waters.
battle in the course of a broadcast speech to-night, Mr. Winston The Uruguayan authorities are now Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that despite her far investigating the way in which the heavier armament and commariding range, the Gruf Spéo was Grut Spen was Bunk.
They questioned the Chief Engineer driven to take refuge In a neutral harbor, and then lind the and three members of the crow who alternative of submitting to internment of going down in battle were among the last to leave the ship like the Rawalpindi which would have been honourable for horrby
All members of the Graf Specia. A crew aboard the Tucoma will be in She found a third alternative, and succour as prescribed by kundea
There is considerable resentment emerging.not.lo fight but to sink her nationof law
farwar of a neutral State ships, Renown and Ark Twy --She know that the Brilli at the Graf-Bpeels-choice- of-final- self-in the fairway of o
PLEASE Tuin To Pago 7. from which she had received shelter! PLEASE Turn To Page
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