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PEIPING, Dec. 18 (Reuter). -A Durham Light Infantry detachment, which has hitherto

duty been

out

ns carrying British Embassy guard, left by train to-night en route to Hung kong, leaving one platoon of the East Surrey, roughly 35 men under two officers, to take over their duties.

Their destination, after Hongkong,

is not disclosed.

Cheory Send-Off The Durhams, who are being with- trawn in accordance with the British Government's decision to reduce the North China garrison, marched in full kit, wearing fur caps and heavy cold, Kreuteents on account of the through the streets of the Legation -quarter to the station, which is out- side the quarter.

They were seen off by a turge number of foreign diplomatic officials and military officers.

OBITUARY

Famed U.S. Columnist

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”*

Tuesday,

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UP)Mr. Heywood Broun, the well-known columnist, died at 0.50 m., to-day after a brief finess.

His wife, on and brother were at his bedside..

Mr. Broun was unconscious for 24 hours preceding his death,

He received the Inst rites of the Catholle Church on Friday,

Slap In The Eye For Goebbels

India Laughs At Crude Propaganda

LONDON, Dee. 18 (Rules) special commentary states that the

Bombay Chronicle" says:

HONGKONG

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SUBMARINE OFFICER

SINKS NAZI CRUISER LEIPZIG

(Continued from Page 1.)

have destroyed one as they did atcording to the ship's crew.

50,

First Sighted Bramon LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter)

recent Admiralty Amplifying the

Bremen. statement" regarding the

that when the submarine came to another statement to-day discloses periscope depth to investigate,

Bremen steaming' past found the fairly.fast, but it was at once obvious torpedo range. that the liner would pass well within

WESTERN FRONT

Bitter Winter Weather

December 19, 1939.

Cricket Comments

20. and there were other useful con- tributions, G. 5. Lovell 14, and Hamilton put on 20 for the last wicket to send up the 200,

WEAK BOWLING

rr SOON became evident that although the Hongkong side's batting was very much stronger than that of Kowloon, their bowling was much weaker, and was a section

very

Military Activity Dios hardly been able to play at all tsis of which would cruck worst. Jox, who

Down

PARIS, Dec. 18 (Reuter).— on the Western Front with low Bitter winter weather prevails temperature, snow and strong winds."

Milltary activity has been less than on the previous day except in a fairly In fact, it would be impossible for large area between the Saar and keen now and run a side of their thought he had in his bag. He and

Veages, where numerous patrols have been constantly patrolling,

the captain of the submarine to have missed at such great target had he decided to fire at it.

But the captain had definile orders from the Admiralty that the war at sea was to be conducted in strict accordance with international law.

The Brilish submarine, therefore, set about currying out the procedure required of it under international law.

Signalled Bremen To Stop In spite of the fact that enemy aircraft were known to be in the vielnily, it came to the surface and made a special signal hy a daylight signalling lamp, "Stop Immediately.”

The Bremen took no notice.

The commander of the submarine at once gave orders for his gun to be loaded in order that a shot could be fred neross the bows of the Brèmen. Not until this had been done could the British submarine legally offensive action."

take

The Germans made another rald in this area, but were driven off by French fire, and the ralds, as a result, were completely negative

Tommies Versus Naris

18 (Reuter)-A com- PARIS munique issued to-day states that to- wards mid-day a sharp engagement occurred in the Vosges area balween one of our reconnoitring parties and Germun units.

We took some prisoners, Including officers.

Ships' Wireless Sets Ban

(Reuter).- LONDON, Dec. 18 Foreign ships in the territorial waters Even then, responsibility for mak-around the United Kingdom are now ing provision for the safety of the forbidden to use their wireless sets Bremen's crew would have devolved except when upon the submarine matter of im-specific receiving stations in Britain. Such communications mist be possibility under the circumstances.

carried out in English, French or in- ternational code.

Forced To Divc

A warning shot was never fred- a German nireraft appeared overhead and forced the submarine to dive.

In spite of being forced to dive by. the aircraft, the submarine could easily have fired six torpedoes into the Brement is she dived, for she was ulready on the attacking course, but the dictates of international law could not be complied with, and so the Bremen was allowed to proceed un her way unharmed.

Distress signals are, of course, exempt from this urder.

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(By "R. Abbit") (Continued from Page 8.) the Middlesex scored 03 for 8 wickets. They were without Man, who has

was season, though, I am glad to say, I was expecting to make runs,

boll of am told he will be able to turn out taken firat slip off the first

went more in the future, I doubt however the innings. Three wickets If he will be preferred to Grose in down fairly soon, and then R.E. the Army Telangular Tournament, Lindsell came in and played an are down to play the Club on Decem-

And that reminds me, The Navy extraordinary good innings.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES ber 30 and January 1, 1940 in the early on, and he was dropped twice He was very nearly bowled twice

Registered and Parcel Mails are Triangular Tournament. I sincerely

losed 15 minutes earlier than the hope that they will endeavour to field in the deep, but he played a great

Ime given below unless otherwise a side. Would it not be possible to many very fine shots on the oft-

itated, and where malls are advcrlis- shots which, quite frankly, I never work in with the R.F.8. who are very

ed to close at or before 9 am, regis- Captain Parsons dead-heated for the tered and parcel mails are closed at When awn? It would be a pity to let one cetiring score. It was decided that pm, on the previous day. of our few two-day games fado out if they cannot do it, then I would as it was his "benefit" he should play mails are advertised to close after 5 suggest that a game Island versus

the second period out!

Registered arid Parcel malli are closed at 5 p.m. He made such good use of it that Mainland to subsiitnical. This should produced 50mc very lateresting he took his score la 50 before he

n mustle, slightly sprained decided to call it a day. C.G, Green R. A. F. Crash

was the only man to do anything else. Dropped early on, he took his THE AIR FORCE batting was acore to 24 not out, The others, by no means up to their previous however, did very little. standard, and only C. M. King

Redmond, who had a tremendous (18) reached double figures in a lot of work to do in the deep field and miserable total of 47. Y. T. Barma's came at least two croppers trying to Bave fours, was suddenly discovered 4 for 8 was the best bowling record. to be an ex-bowler. He sent down Nor did the IRC. do very much two overs which were probably as better, though at the end A. R. Suffad bad as anyone else's, but managed to ran up 21 not out. Weddington's bowl Stokes and get Ezra Abraham figures of 10.5-3-24-6 were excel-

caught at the wicket. The next boll, lent, and included a hat trick. They rebounding from McLeod's pads Into were all out for 72 runs.

the wicket, stumped F.E. Nash, I see, by the way, that the thought he was bowled.

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Dec. 23, Japan and Shanghal Sandakan Japan...

Straits

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lightful day on Sunday last when communicating with

AS I HAVE STATED, all the two teams of over the age of bowling was sadly lacking in length, forty-five met at the Kowloon that is, speaking of Hongkong. Cricket Club for a most excellent Parsons and W. Nash bowled very well for Kowloon though the former lunch and a very pleasant after-did not manage to get a wicket. noon's cricket. It was intended They were both up against quite use- to be a sort of farewell to R. E. ful batting, and, indeed, su for as the Lindsell, who is, I understand, batting went, I rather thought that

the side could hold a own against Japan retiring at the end of the season. any second division team, if not a

There were several people who had first division tenmi been quite well known as cricketers) It was a most enjoyable day and some years ago, but who have not very pleasant it was lu see some of played for a long time. Blaker, the earlier cricketers turning out 4. Redmond, J. D. Humphreys and again. II. E. the Governor had intend- C. C. Starke have not played, I think, ed to play but stood down at the last for at least four or five years-much moment and umpired. J. P. Robin Shanghai longer in some cases while since son was at the other end. He must Calcutta and Straits 1930 E. W. Hamilton has only turn-have been umpiring now for about Straits ed out in the Oxford and Cambridge twenty years, and for how many Japan and Shanghat match. On the other side Jex has years before that he was playing for Japan, Shanghal and not played for several years, and his Kowloon I can't remember, I know excellent wickel keeping--the three he captained them somewhere about Manila Manila were wides indicated that 1915 or so. extras his retirement was premature,

I cannot help thinking however, Straits The Hongkong side batted first, that there will be a certain number and the understanding was that the of people walking about extremely score of 25 called for retirement with stifly for the next forly-eight hours- the concession that the batman could definitely know one who fs. The carry an to the end of the over. That unaccustomed effort of holding a bat Sandakan some batsmen availed themselves of (and getting runs with it), has so Shanghal

hands Japan and Shanghai this is signifled by the fact that both cramped the muscles of his

glass to Shanghai Gillespie and Eric Mitchell got to 32 that he can hardly raise while T. E. Pearce was bowleri at his lips, without spilling it. But of 30 trying to hit a 6 instead of a 4 to' what account is that compared with square leg. McLeod also retired forsuch an excellent game?

ARGENTINE TO INTERN GRAF SPEE CAPTAIN, CREW

(Continued from Page 1) anchorage right in the middle of the main fairway in only 25 feet of water, where she may become a danger to navigation.

Entire Crow Return BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18 (Reuter) been substantiated by a single fact."The Commander of the Graf Spec and the whole crew, except those Sights German Flect

wounded in battle, have arrived aboard trawlers..

2

The Admiralty statement adds, "That is the true story of the sighting of the Bremen by British submarine, "It contrasts strongly with the re- ports which have been circulated by the German radio, which have not

"The Berlin broadcasts are dully Rather less than 24 hours after trying to present the rulers of Ger-the Bremen had passed, the British

submarine It is in many as the friends of India.

sighted Iwo German

pany.

com-

11

The crew will be interned.

Hitler Forgot His History keeping with their tradition of perfidy | battle-cruisers, the Scharnhorst and

the Gneisenau-and one pocket bot cording to

LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reuter)Ac- and hypocrisy that the Nazis, who

special commentary only a few weeks ago were slander leship with three cruisers in

Issued to-day, the scuttling of the ing Mabatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru as 'gents of World Jewry,'

Two of these new cruisers were departure

Craf Spee constitutes an ignominious from the honourable are new praking them for their stond

new eight-inch gun ships, the tradition of all navies, exemplified by en the war issue.

Hipper and Blucher, The other the following: was, recognised as the Leipzig. At first it appeared that the Bris dish submarine would be unable to do more than report the fact that the enemy was at sea, for the enemy ships were steering So that they would pass a long way from the sub- marine.

"They are sadly mistaken, of course, if they imagine that either by vilifica- tion or Battery that they can shake Nationalist Indiu's firm Anti-Nazi position."

CHINESE CHOIRS Musical Evening At St. Paul's Church

Over 300 members of the Union of Chinese Choirs, the majorly women, entertained a large gathering with u recital of Christmas Carois at St. Paul's Church, Glenealy, last night. The Rev. Lau Yuet-sing. Chairman of the Chinese Churches Union, pre- sided. At the meeting, held under the auspices of

the Y.W.C.A... and! Y.M.C.A.

Items were also given by the True Light Girls School, who rendered

•

"When Jesus was a Gentle Babe,

(Tchaikowsky); the Methodist Church Choir, "Rejoice in the Lord;" St. Paul's Girls' School, "Far Away In David's City:" The Hongkong Choral

Society,

The

SOBE

of

the Mirlam, (ranz Schubert); and Christ Church and Hop Yat Church choirs singing the "Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)

and a selection from "Creation" (Haydn)

A solo was also given by Mr. Koo Ki-kui. of Christ Church.

Dr. Yung Kal-tung was conductor for the Recital, with Misa Yung Mo- want and Mr. Au Wai-man accom- panists.

The evening concluded with the whole congregallon singing "Joy to the World, The Lord Is Come," fol- lowed by a blessing by the Rev. Lau Yuet-sing

Others who took part were the choirs of Basel Mission, Baptist Church, St Paul's. St. Stephen's, Chiuchow Christian Association, St. Mary's, Holy Trinity, Church of Christ, Wanchai Church, and Sum Ol Church.

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"Just "as the submarine "commanTM der was giving up all hope of being able to aliack, the enemy cruisers altered course 30 as to pass within torpedo range of the suhmarine.

Six Torpedoos Fired

A few minutes later, the sights or the unseen and unsuspected sub-

mudine came un

She fired six torpedoes on slightly difference courses.

It would have been in casy mal- fer for her to have fred al lor-

Pedocs at one cruiser and thus make certain of sinking one ship, but she fred them at different angles, hoping thereby to disable more than one ship and thus do more towards provoking

a feel action, for which the British

Navy is forever hoping,

The first torpedo hit the Leipzig. There was a pause of only n minute.

The famous Arht of Richard Grenville to the Revenge, which fought 53 ships single- handed in 1591;

2-Admiral Craddock, ..xvlin faced almost certain destruction at the hands of a vastly superior fleet at Ceronel in 1914:

The Spanish~~~ Republican destroyer, "Lals Diaz," which after undergoing repalts at Gibraltar In the Civil War, came out and faced a powerful force of the Nationalist Navy.

The scuttling indicates not only a lack of will to fight, but the absence of confidence of final victory when the vessel, if interned, would have been restored.

GRAF SPEE VICTIMS

(Continued from Pape 1) upon the Grat Spec shelled and torpedoed her.

A few days later, she saw the Tairoa, which tried to get away and did not stop until the fc- boats, steering wheel and officers' quarters had been shot away. She, too, was sunk by bombarom the Graf Spee's aeroplanes.

With

Emden Comparison The Graf Spee

then

returned to found their mark-almost certainly upon the second heavy cruiser the her supply ship and transferred to her all the crews on board, with the The other three torpedoes obvious.exception of the officers.

Two Others Find Mark Then two other terrific explosions told that two other torpedoes had

Blucher class,

ly passed between the enemy ships.

Finally on December 7, she sank The statement adds that the fact by bombs the Tremshath, her last

victim that there was no feel action result- ing in the annihilation of the Ger-; man fleet was the fault of bad visibility and not of the submarine,

Huge Air Battle

In two and a half months, she ne- counted for nine ships totalling 48,- 000 tons, which is less than half the damage done by the Emden, which was only one-third the Graf Spee's size, in the last war.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOENDER, Jutland, Dec. 18, (UP)

American's Comment Inhabitants of the outlying Islands

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (Reuter)- close to the German border reported Commenting on the sinking of the that the biggest air baltio of the war | Admiral Graf Spee, Major, Flelding took place over the German air base Ellloit, the noted American military on the island of Sylt between 10 a.m., commentator, says that a forlorn and 3 p.m. to-day.

hope has time and agnin produced They said it was best visible from magnificent results, "but forlorn the island of Roem and that 14 bombs hopes urc Bol

German In the were dropped with, unknown results. tradition."

A few minutes after 10 a.m., the The Graf Spee will raid no more

to

travel to

porta

| anti-aircraft guns on Sylt began a and Argentine beef and wheat will

heavy fire. A "swarm" of Messer- continue schmitts went aloft but due to the Britain. misty weather no one was able to distinguish between German or Bri- tlal planes or see many of the details of the fight.

was Ink down at Wilhelmsbäven (la the yards in which the Admiral Graf Apparently, the southern German Spee was built) on April 18, 1928 and island of Hoernum was also bombed and was completed in 1931. during the course of the fuld,

Carried 615 Mon

"Very Handy Craft" H.MS. Salmon, the British sul- The Nazis cruiser Leipzig, n 6,000-marine which sunk the Leipzig, was ton vessel, is a modifled Konigsberg a small type vessel of only 870 tons, type. She carried a complement of and enrries only forty men. She is torpedo 015 men and was armed with nine-equipped with alx 27-Inch 5.9-in guns, six 3.5-in A.A. guns and lubes.

12 other guns. She carried twelve 21- Or the Swordfish type. Salmon is In torpedo tubes and was equipped, reputed to be a "very, Jundy craft" with two aircraft ca

and is capable of "erushi-diving" in

The cruller was powered with thirty seconds. She cost £330.000 to Diesel engines of a total of 12,000 h.p., build, was begun, or mars 13 500 1833- ána raula "steam; at "33 knots. She inüinched on April 30, 1984 and placed linda eruising radius of approxi-Into service on Mediterranosti Siation mately 7,000 miles. The Lelpzig on March 8, 1938.

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