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for Ladies &

Children

Hongkong Submarine Commander Achieves War's Most Daring Exploit

DESTROYS U-BOAT,

U-BOAT, THE LEIPZIG,

AND CRIPPLES

WARSHIP

THIRD

SC

Orschlag

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. 0. 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 at the bottom of the North Sea and another 6,000-ton cruiser was last seen in a sinking condition.

Disguised Ship As H.M.S. Renown To Elude Allies

Graphic Story By Graf Spee Captain

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18 (Domei).—“I'sank the Admiral Graf Spee because I, as a naval mariner, could not tolerate the internment-of-my-ship-in-a-neutral port. or the only other alternative, its sinking by the shells of hostile ships."

The amazing confession was 1,000 MEN

INTERNED

Langsdorf, the commander of the scuttled Nazi warship.

Langsdorf Captain

landed in

Buenos Aires to-day with other No More War For Crew

Of Graf Spee

members of his crew. All will be interned, although the captoln and officers will be paroled.

Captain Langsdorf gave a vivid account of the 'pocket battleship's" career as a predatory raider.

The cruiser, he said, operated in the north Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the south Allantle.

Frequently Disguisad

raids on British commerce.

vessels,

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WEEK OF BRILLIANT SUCCESS

Oldenburg

Bastek

Bremerhaven

Geestemünde

Kiel

Bay

Neuminster HOLSTEIN

Brehm

Oldestor

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*Selsingen, Buchholz,

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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 R.A.F. Stages War's Biggest Air Raids.

after an engagement with three British warships of in- ferior size and armaments.

H.M.S. SALMON

It continued with sinking, at the mouth

River Elbe, of an anidentified 6,000-ton Nazi uuni of the H. M. submarine Ursula, the name of whose commander is

lieved to be the Konigsberg. This feat was performed by

not divulged.

GRAND FLEET ATTACKED

It ends with the successful attack by Lieut. Com- BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18mander Bickford and his crew of 40 men on the Nazi (UP)-It is reliably reported

of the Admiral Grand Fleet. that the crew

on the small island of Marrin

"On one occasion we hoisted dum- it is assumed that the officera my funnels and made other changes will be allowed to live in Buenos to the superstructure in order to Aires on parole.

disguise ourselves battleship Renown.

the British

Fired Six Torpedoos

Luneburg

65 Planes Attack

Nazi Naval Bases

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

BATTLES RAGE IN FINLAND

Defenders Claim Big Victory

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ·

~STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18 (UP). — The "Dagens Nyheter" correspondent at Soumussalmi quotes General Vallenius as stating that the Finns have scored the greatest victory of the Soviet-Finnish war in the mid-Finlan'd campaign, when one Finnish regiment defeated three Russian regi- ments comprising 7,000

men.

The Finns scored a second victory when they threw off a heavy Russian attack north of Komijnervi.

The Finns attacked the Rus- sians on both flanks, after per......... mitting them to penetrate near the border town of Antajarvi, to the north-west of Suomussalmi. General Vallenius would not reveal the number killed, wounded or taken

LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP).-Britain launched the prisoner, but sold the Russian regi- biggest air raids of the war over German naval basesments had been completely destroyed. yesterday.

Sixty-five Royal Air Force planes participated in the big- scale attacks, which were launched on coastal bases fn Heligoland Bay throughout the day, presumably in retallation for the Nazi bombing attacks: on Brtish merchant shipping..

GERMAN RAIDS

Merchant Ships: Are Sunk

SPECIAL. TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Prior to the mass British raids on German naval bases in Heligoland Bight, the German air force carried

off

Conflicting claims are made regurd- ing the outcome of the Brits braids. An official Derlla communique, in admitting that British planes pene- trated to the Nazi naval bases,,claims that thirty-four of the R.A.F. planes | were shot down.

An official British communique admits that strong concentrations of Nazi fighter planes were met in the course of the raids,

The Finns, after breaking the Rus- sian-Banks.at. Kiantmarvi, launched a frontal attack, completely routrig the Soviet troops.

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LATEST

DISQUIET IN LUXEMBOURG

PURGE BY O.G.P. U.

BRUSSELS; Dec. 19 (Reuter). 12 Naxis Shot Down

New measures which are being taken in the Duchy of Luxembourg are Graf Spec will be finally interned Lieut. Commander Bickford reports that there is

Twelve Messerschmidts pursuit

somewhat disquieting effect imving a Įplanes were shot down by the British on the population, according to re-. LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP) — | bombers, seven of which nen officially | ports received In Belgium. of war, the Admiral Graf Spee was tical prisoners are kept and (the Leipzig) might well have failed to reach port." There is every indication that admited to have been lost.

"Immediately after the outbreak Garcia, where Argentine poli- every indication that "at least one of the German ships

The pollee are nova guarding ally assigned to the duty of engaging in where General Irigoyen was Two torpedoes damaged another 6,000-ton cruiser.

the warfare in the air is becom- their, activities in the neighbourhood tersections for undisclosed reasons.

The British planes concentrated public places and main street in ing increasingly intensified. of Helgoland Several, sharp aerial Late on Sunday night, the GovernTM, "The Graf Spee was frequently interned after the revolution of

The story of the exploits of the two British submarines is one

battles occurred oven. the inner ment has a long meeting. The sub- disguised in order to evade Allled 1930.

of the most dramatic of the war.

Heligoland Wight.

Jeet of the conference has not been, In order to enter the River Elbe, the submarine Ursula, which is

out continuous air attacks on Drilish The official Berlin, announcement disclosed: only a small coastal type vessel of 540 tons and carrying but 27 men, had to proceed through the Nazi minefields and set a course below merchant shipping in the North Bea states that the crews of two of the A joint communique by the Ad- British bombers balled out by means miralty and Air Ministry states: of their. parachutes and were rescuer. The Foreign Office said the intern-six destroyers which were protecting units of the German fleet in

"This afternoon a number of attacks "The British would not believe ment would be in accordance with the Elbe basin.

Berlin Admissions... emy aircraft on that I would sink my ship in the Article 15 of the Hague Conventian,

to be the 20,000-ton German battle-were made by

British and neutral merchant and

Berlin officially admits that several shallow waters off Montevideo and At present, 750 members of the

LONDON, Dec. 19 (Router):-In- R.A.E planca sugceeded, in, reaching After passing the destroyers the slips Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, the ashing vessels in the North Sea. they were fully prepared for an erow of the Admiral Gral Spee are

biggest ships in the German Navy (It

"As a result, the small motor ves-Wilhelmshaven, where borbs were formation from Moscow states that will be recalled that the Gneisenau engagement when I weighed anchor detained in a hotel for immigrants; Ursula crept up to a cruiser and re-

the new Red Army leaders have pros, was reported sunk or seriously damsel Serenity (244 tons) and the fish-dropped "without result." "I believe that I was right in sink- and 250, including Captain Langsdorf, leased all six torpedoes from her

The Nazi communique, adds: The mised the Kremlin that Finland will ing in shallow instead of deep water, are in the arsenal alongside the hotel, bows.

With the four members of the crew "I am convinced that no-one will

The cruisers, which is of the Konig-aged in the first RAF. rald ang trawler New Cholce have been

wule within a feWilhelmshaven), a 10,000-ton pocket sunk in bombs. The trawler Ben-wrecks of several British planes have be "cleaned out" by February.

already been washed ashore on the As a result of the unexpectedly. ever be able to learn the secrets of of the Tacoma who have also been sberg. type,

battleship which is almost certain to clair escaped a similar attack."

"On the approach of British air beaches of the Frisian Islands. strong Finnish realstanec, it is stated be the Admiral Scheer (the Admiral the pocket battleships from the arrested by the Uruguayan, all are minutes.

"The claim of 34 British planes shot that the O.G.P.U. has started:n purge wreckage of the Admiral Grat Spec: thus accounted for.

The Nazi destroyers immediately

Graf Spee was a alster-ship and the craft the enemy planes made

down does not include other possible of Soviet cfficers serving in Finland, The ship has been completely

dropped depth chara all around the only other one, the Deutschland, is before contact could be established.

losses." Apparently the Uruguayans contend sinking ship but, despite peril of believed to be in the north Atlantic), Crew Machino-Canned wrecked."

that although the explosion was out- imminent destruction, the Comman- and three cruisers.

Dog-Fight Watched Blamos Uruguay

Two of these cruisers were the "Enemy planes also attacked the axpressed elde territorial waters, it was set off der of the Ursula was

Inhabitants of the outlying Jutland and steamer Craigle Len with machine-islands, which are close to the Ger- Captain Langsdorf

new 8-inch gun ships Hipper great bitterness at the action of from a launch which was within the manoeuvre his submarine into the

Blucher, completed and commission-gun are, and two of the crew were the Uruguayan Government in Jurisdiction of Uruguay and they are open sea again, and so escaped.

His name is not given in the Ad-ed this year. The third was re-wounded.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 9. fering him to depart within 22 therefore conducting an Inquiry.

miralty reports. According to the

cognised as the 6,000-ton cruiser "Lifeboat containing ten men from the New Chalce was later sighted by July, 1939 Naval List, the three Leipzig. oflcers aboard the Ursula would be

Leipzig la Hit

nircraft of the Constal Command, The crew men reached Buenos Lieut. Cmdr. G. C. Phillips, and

Lient Candr. Bickford waited, which later directed n drifter to the Aires after a 24 hour trip from the Lieutenanta R. L. Alexander ond, R.

until the Nazi armada came withila spot. The crews of both the New Even after fighting the British mouth of the Rio Plata, where then, Latin, Lieut. Lakin is believed

range of his torpedoes and then Chalco and the Serenity were rescued. warships for 14 hours I still hadAdmiral Graf Spee exploded. The to have been stationed in Hongkong

ordered all alx, tubes to be fired al- Six Other Ships Bombad sufficient fuel in the Admiral, Graf Foreign Minister, Senor Jose Cantilo, at one time.

most simultaneously on, slightly Spee to sail across to Spain." Cap and other experts are studying

different courts. The first torpedo "Further attacks were made. Jur- tain Langsdorf admitted, in giving legal aspects of the Graf von Spec's

HR the Leipzig.

ing the afternoon on the motor vessel the lle to the Berlin suggestion that case with relation to the Hague

Then there were two more violent Torean Star, the trawlers Dervish, Valentino explosions, telling that the recond Sheldon, Arnold Bennett and Druoui and third torpedoes had found their and the Italian steamer

the; Coda. mark-almost certainly upon

A number of bombs were dropped second heavy cruiser of the Blucher

and the second wireless operator of The other three forpedoes falled The Tuscan Star was killed by a to find their mark.

fragment of a bomb which burst very The Salmon immediately dived, close to the ship.

·wlihout walling to see anything] "The enemy also attacked the

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hours.

"My ship required at least fifteen lays to completo repairs," ho de- clared,

the

24-Hour Voyago

the

Remarkable Daring

nble to

The exploit by Lieut. Commander he had put into Montevideo for fuel. Convention in an effort to determine Bickford and the crew of forty in his Captain Kangadort added that he the status of Captain Langdorf, his 070-ton submarine Salmon reveals parterred to bo Intermed in offleora and crew.

even more remarkable daring. Argentine to Uruguay in view of;

Captain Langsdorf was visibly tired It was Lieut. Cmdr, Bickford who the unfriendly, stiitude

and weary when he landed but he sighted and permitted to escape the Uruguayan Government."

personally supervised the landing of German crack liner Bremen.

the Twenty-four hours his crew and barked out orders no Berlin Flags Half-Mastod

7,000 spectators jammed the small Bremen passed within torpedo range SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18 (Reuter). dock space and cheered the German of the Salmon Lleut. Cmdr. Blck-

op ford sighted encray warships, were, half-masted at the sailors, the majority of whom

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FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY IN AIR BEGINNING?

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP)—It is believed that the great air battle over Hellroland Bight in the first of a series of attacks about to be launched by the Royal Air Force in an effort to establish. British air supremacy,

Air Minitry circles point out that the British bombers were attacked by Messerschmidt and were undefended by fighter planes the Britops relying exclusively upon their gunners in the bombers themselves.

It is pointed out in this connection that not one British`fighter has been downed by a Nazi fighter in a dog-fight also the eveni "of the war.

plane

It is pointed out that not all the 65 RAF. planes participated in the Heligoland combat. Bertin gives the total se 44.

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