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S WHICH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939. A SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

Goering May Send Out His Bomb Armada

BERLIN BELIEVES AERIAL WAR ON IN

Another Major Clash, Claim

STOCKHOLM, DEC. 19 (REUTER)-THE RECENT INCREASE IN AIR ACTIVITIES HAS PROMPTED BERLIN TO BELIEVE THAT AN AIR WAR IS BEGINNING IN EARNEST.

Attempts will now be made by the German air force to show their capabilities in carrying -out large-scale attacks, says the Berlin corres-

pondent of the. "Dag-

bladet."

Air force officials claim that German reconnaissance plancs have obtained comprehensive aerial photo- graphs both of Britain and France.

THRILLING DETAILS

Pilots Tell Of Big Air Battle

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' LONDON, Dec. 19 (Reuter). More details of yesterday's air, battle at Heligoland indicate the Probability that British bombers shot down more than 12 Messer-

Attack On Nazi Base

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 19 (UP),—Reports: frum Copenhagen state that encher big air battle occurred to-day aver a German naval base on the north-west schmidts, "Reuter" learns.

•German coust.

The German claim that 36)

Apparently the Royal Air Force British aircraft were brought were-again-attempting-to-launch an down is-effectively disproved by attack on the island of Sylt.

the fact that the total number of British nircraft engaged was! nothing like that figure.

However, neither Britain nor Ger- many has announced any important action although a Heinkel bomber the North Shet- was reported over lands.

EARNEST

One British Lomber stone necuunt-Third Biggest Nazi Liner Intercepted

led for five German fighters.

The Germans of the British forma-At Sea, Destroyed By Her Crow

lotion said:

An R.A.F. pursuit plane took the air in search of the raider, op-

parently without success.

No air raid alarm was sounded.

Planes Over Shetlands

LONDON, Dec. 19 (Reuter)

"I could see them waiting like flies)

to attack us."

25 Messerschmidts Attack Between Heligoland and Wilhelm- slaven, 25 Messerschmidts were seen. Even when the battle had begun,

German planes were reported off the British crews continued on their the Shetland Islands this after-course, determined to collect all the

посп.

R.A.F. fighters went up to give battle.

Nazis Admit Attack

LONDON, Dec. 19 (Reuter).—A

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NAZI APOLOGIA

HIT BY SHELL Fooled'

LUXEMBOURG, Dec. 19 (Reuter). — The Custonus House town of Remich on the south-east frontier was hit by a shell early to-day.

It did not explode but passed through a building, penetrated the roofs of two houses and fell in the market place.

An official enquiry is being held.

Goering Orders High Seas Murder

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Dec. 21 (UP).—General Goering, Chief

of the Nazi Air Force, is obeying his master's voice, as Admiral Raeder did before him.

Unrestricted warfare against British and neutral

U-Boat Victims Back, In England

prison "so nie where In the Home Counties is now used as Govt råment offices. In its cells tel graphic

cen-

Bors keep fag on the

the cables thah Idavo fil country, A secretary is wallding along of the raised

gank- ways outside a row of cells to her office.

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COLUMBUS AFIRE IN ATLANTIC

NEW YORK, Dec. 19. (Reuter).-The 32,600-ton They also met heavy anti-aircraf: N.D.L. liner Columbus, third largest ship in the German British bombers when the latter were mercantile marine—she is exceeded in size only by the One British machine became de- 51,700-ton Bremen and the 49,000-ton Europa-has

Some Germans hung on to the

returning.

German communique in Berlin cisims tached from the others and seemed shared the fate of the Ad-|| that the RA.F. made a rald on the to be an easy prey. northwest const of Germany on Messerschmidis attacked it in miral Graf Spee. Monday, trying to reach the Frisian force. Islands between 5.40 p.m. and 9.40)

p.ru.

The pilot dived and sklimmed the The Columbus, intercepted by sea surface with the enemy on in British destroyer, was set afire In connection with the earlier rald | tail,

in mid-Atlantic this morning by Two Messerschmidts venturing too her crew. in which the Air Ministry announced that 12 Messerschmidta were shot close were immediately shot downl down and seven RAF. bombers had by the rear gunner, but the ammuni- She is still afloat, a mass of not been accounted for, a full account tlon was spent. cannot be made unill the reports of A moment later the front gunner the British pilols participating in the raid have been collated.

One of our bomber formations went

to attack enemy worships.

Fantastic Naxi Claims

blazing flames.

American warships are at hand,

was wounded, whereupon the re-ready to sink her by gunfire it sho serve pilot scrambled from the rear becomes a danger-to navigation. turret to the front gun, where he found plenty of ammunition and| made full use of it.

The bombers found no warships but off almost immediately were attacked by wave on wave of enemy planes.

400 Of Crow Rescued--

The British aircraft finally shook Four hundred of the crew have its pursuers and reached home. been rescued by the US.S. Tuscaloosa, which, in a radio report to the U.S.S. Claimed Five Nazis

Texas, says she is proceeding to New The Germans are still making ex-

From diving to escaping, it had York with the survivors.

An unidentifled British destroyer is aggerated claims and, giving the accounted for five Germans.

gures of their own "amazing suc❤

standing by the blazing liner, Another British aircraft, returning, cesses," they claim to have brought was forced to descend to the sca clown more British planes than took within 90 miles of the English const. part in the raid.

Four Airmen Rescued

The following aircraft prepared to drop a rubber boat but saw that the crew of the Arst bomber had been able to launch its own boat which was rescued by а

At II o'clock E.S.T., the Columbus was stul burning fiercely her huge tho cargo of petroleum sending flames and a cloud of black amoka hundreds of, yards into the sky, There are no indications, says the radio report from the US.S. Tusca Another aircraft, whose rudder loosa, of any un-neutral net on the rald battle, have been picked up at was damaged, made a safe forced part of the British warship.

LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter)-Four subsequently British airmen, who are believed to trawler, have taken part in Monday's big ale

ses in a collapsible bout.

A Neval trawler landed them at an East Coast port.

French Loan To China Report- Unconfirmed

| landing a fow miles from home,

SILVER IMPORT CONTROL

NEW DELHI. Dec. 10 (Reuter)

It is announced in the "Gazelle” that

ja new rule under the Defenen.

India Act empowers the Government to impose on those authorised

The Columbus was set aire, ellher by bomb or torch, just inside the 200- mila Neutral Zone set by the Declara

ton of Panama,

But at no time did the British war ship use her guns or attempt to halt |the big Nazi finer,

Rolcnticas Pursuit

It appears that the destroyer inter cepted the Columbus in the Gulf of

SOVIETS SHELL NAZI SHIP

Berlin Admits Two Others Sunk LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reu- ter). A report from Stock- holm states that a Soviet submarine shelled the Ger man steamer, Pinnau, which was carrying coal to a Swedish port.

The submarine, says the report, suddenly emerged and fired 35 shells at the ship.

There were no hits.

The sinking of two other German skips by Soviet warships. is now admitted in Berlin.

Discussions arc HOW going on in Riga between the Russians and a Nazi Com- mission.

to attempt to shuke off his pursuer The set fire to his ship.

The Columbus sailed from Vera Cruz on Thursday, will a full darge Hor clearance ot petroleum ofl. papers indlented that she was on route to Oslo,

1,000

| shipping, which has already been carried out in defiance of Inter- national Law by the Nazi U-Boats, will in future be applied by Goering's bombers.

Hitler has decreed merei- less war on civilians at sea and, as applied by Goering's air force. it includes the machine-gunning of helpless 'people in lifeboats as they

leave their sinking vessels.

Latest casualties to this form ¡of mass murder are two British; a Norwegian, a Danish and an Italian steamer. well as several small British fishing trawlers.

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The 4.373-lon British steamer City of Kobe was mercilessly bombed and strafed by Nazi warplanes to sea,

New Phase Of Torrorism

The sinking of the Norwegian steamer Glitrefjell (1,568 tons) and the British stoomer City of Kobe д леку (4,373 tons) to-day indicated phase of U-boat activity, both ships Survivors of the being torpedoed.

City of Kobe said two days before

they were sunk they had been bomb- ed and straffed by German planes. Danish steamer Jytte (1,577 tons)

A third ship sunk to-day was the

believedly by a mine, the Nuzls ap- parently mixing mining and torpedo- ing tactles depending on the success of the Allled counter-measures.

Air Bombing Intansified Intensification of the latest Nazi weapon of air bombing and strong small surface craft is seen in the announcement that several fishing trawlers in the Fortrose urea have been attacked, at least one being sunk and two others damaged.

From the Glitrefjell, thirteen sur- vivors have been landed, seven of whom are injured. Five of the crew were drowned.

From the Jytle-two only have been landed and ten gre missing.

From the City of Kobe eighteen survivors have been landed.

From the fishing trawler Etruria three were killed and one injured, while from the other trawler Active one is missing and the remainder of the crew have been rescued,

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Ship Machine-Gunned LONDON, Dec. (Reuter) German planes are again attacking defenceless British fishing craft, and |to-day sank one, and injured three

of the crew of a second.

Both were Grimsby trawlers.

British

Navy

.

Dec. 19

Latest Claim Over Graf Spee Sinking STOCKHOLM, (Reuter).The fate of the Graf Spee is a severe blow for Germany, says the Berlin correspondent of the “Dagbladet,” who declares that official quarters of the capital are very bitter garding the refusal of the Uruguayun Government to allow the battleship an ex- tension of time in order to enable the necessary repairs to be made.

re-

They accuse Uruguay of a breach of international law and declare that the matter will not be forgotten by Germany.

They allege that Uruguay sub- mitted to English pressure. There- GENOA, Dec. 10 (Reuter)-The fore their action in sending the Gruf captain of the Italian cargo steamer, Spee out of Montevideo "in a state of Caterina Gerolimich, reported on disrepair" was not in conformity with arrival here that he had landed at strict neutrality. Dover 11 British sailors taken froin

British

Nazis Consolation

a subinarine in the English Channel. The suilors, four of whom were wounded. were from

The correspondent adds, however, steamer, Daring, which was torpedoed that there is consolation in Germany by n U-boat. The submarine later that the Deutschland and the Admiral Caterina Scheer can still harass English ship-

put

them nboard the Gerollmich.

ping, and that English warships will be obliged to operate far away from Norwegians Rescued

their home bases.

The Berlin representative of the LONDON, Dec. 10 (Reuter)"Tidningen" says that mourning for Thirteen survivors of the Norwegian the Grat Spee is combined with sleamer, Glitrofejell, 1,508 tons, gratification that the battleship dla were landed at a Scottish port.

not fall into English hands.. The captain and four seamen last! their lives.

It is believed that the vessel was torpedoed.

U-Boat Sunk

19

(Reuter).-M.

Cheap Victory" Provented The British had counted on a cheap victory, says the German Press, but Hitler fooled them by the order to blow up the vessel.

PARIS, Dec.

The newspapers unite in declaring Campinchi, the French Minister to that the end of the Grat Spee was an the Navy, announced that two honourable one and in conformity U-boats were recently sunk by the with the traditions of the German Allied navies, onc

erulner Sirocco.

by the French Navy.

This is the third U-boat sunk by the Sirocco.

Soviets Lose Battleship

Brilliant Work By Finnish Artillery HELSINGFORS, Dec. 19 (Reuter). A renort of the sink- ing of a Soviet battleship asserts that the Russians know that the range of the biggest guns in the Finnish batteries was only about three miles.

Accordingly they kept their war- 'ships just out of range.

The Finns, however, brought up bigger and better artillery, and when ja battleship was cruising within four miles, the shore fired a terrific salvo which hit and, It is believed, sonic) the battleship.

Roosevelt's Slip

Of The Tongue

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (Reliter)- The White House now reports, that President Roosevelt has not tightd the restoration of the Cuban Sugar Quotas, but the document restoring the former sugar import duties.

No detalls are given.

The President's Secretary slated that President Roosevelt made a slip of the tongue when he made the earlier stalement at a Press Confer-

A member of the crow of the first vessel salil that bomba wire frst enco dropped on them and then the Ger man aircraft machine-gunned the ship.

Three men in the forecastle were killed by a bomb and another was | injured.

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NAZIS DISILLUSIONED BY SOVIET FAILURE

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 19 (Router)—The opinion is growing

In Berlin that the Russo-Finnish war will shortly cause signi ficant changes in the political position In Eutopo, says tho "Nyheter" Berlin representativa:

Aerial Torpedo Uned The cook in missing from the other trawler which was only a to Asxico, but made no attempt to hall With Ave decks and capable of quarter of a mile away at the time. PARIS, Dec. 19 (Reuter)Resorts import silver Inte Belteltet orch merely following in her trail with carrying from the Far East of a 180.000 000 conditions as it may con the evident intention of balling the Columbus was a smaller edition of bomba were dropped. All of them. This correspondent adds that instand even the economic subort, thal

pilserizers, theThe akipper. reports that seven francs to China for the construe regarding its use and dier" ship as soon as it left the 300-m the Bremen, upon which she was missed. tion of a railway linking: the pro- ent

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