1939-12-30 — Page 16

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LORETTA YOUNG DAVID NIVEN

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

LATE

R.A. Colonel Is Gravely Hurt

NEWS

New Attacks On Trawlers

December 30, 1939.

Small Sloop Sinks U-Boat

R.A.F. Plane' Found "Crafty Looking Shark" PARIS, Dec. 29 (Router).-w How a British coastal plane co- operated in the sinking of LONDON, Dec. 29 (British Wire-German U-bout by a 630-ton to French sloop. Commandant less)-Returning to Fleetwood day, the slipper of the unarmed Duboc, was described in a journal trawler, Adam, reported that the here to-day. vessel was bombed and machine- gunned by Nazi seaplanes while on The Commandant Duber, which has her way toter with a crew of twelve, ed in fly official French communique to the fishing grounds. flamehed two years ago, was mention- The trawler

Licut-Col. F. D. Field, MC., RA, was gravely injured in a motor car cellent last night. His condition this morning was stated to be serious. Licut-Col. Field was driving near the R.A.O.C. depot in Queen's Road East at about 11.38 pm. when his car hit lamp standari.

The car was extensively damaged. was steaming along when the sea-en Wednesclay together with the Lleut-Col. Field was seriously "In- Į planes appeared,

French destroyers Sirocco jured.

The skipper saki: "We saw two Lorailleuse,

whic between them

and

He was taken to the Milltary Hos-planes coming towards us. At first sank another Germon submarine," pital. Poilce were unable this morn- we thought they were British. They The Commandant Duboc was at the ing to obtain any indication of how landed on the son a short distance the escorting a merchant convoy in the accident occurred as the injured from us, and then one took off and a calm sea and with: a slight breeze man was too ill to make any state- after circling round dropped blowing.

ment.

JAPANESE AIR VICTORY CLAIMS

tion."

bomby and swept us with machine- Sumdenly the listening post picked gun fire, But the firing was not ac- curate and none of the bombs found high in the sky the sound of

seaplane which appeared to be sign- Its mark. "Our ship was

not eiling, seriously damaged and no one was "Dark And Crafty Looking Form"

inter fe off in an easterly direc hurt. After about ten minutes,' the

The men on watch, however, ex- perienced difficulty in understanding the signals owing to the plane's height, Then they saw the plane

Quickly getting up, sicam, the gloop reached the zone where the plane LONDON. Dec. 30 (Reuter))-bellered it had discovered a "daric is officially announced that the Briand crafty looking form of some ish battleship torpedoed by a Ger-steel-like shark lylag in wait for the mai U-Boat on Thursday has now

Denvoy." readed port under her own steam.

She was not seriously damaged, but

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Dec. 30 (Domel)-Sinec the beginning of the current Sino-: Japanese dispute up to December 29, Japanese Army aircraft have des- troyed 400 Chinese planes. During the Nomonban Incident Japanese Army aircraft destroyed 1,370 Soviet plance, the Army Department of the Imperial Headquarters announces.

During

period under review. one additional rating is reported which sent up spouts of water, the 188 Japanese planes have been lost. missing, believed to be dead, and one sloop did not have long to wait for

Of the Chinese losses, 330 planes is seriously injured. This brings the the result. were shot down and 100 were total casualties to four missing, be- demolishesi on the ground, while loved dead, and one seriously in-

Battleship Arrives drop smokeshells on the water.

The

out of the Soviet losses in the recent jured, hostilitles near, Nomoniam, 1,340

planes were shot down and 30 were demolished on the ground,

on the

The total losses indicted enemies by Japanese Army aircraft thus amount to 1,860 planes, the |communique clalins.

Ban On Cable Codes Lifted

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH TOKYO, Dec. 30 (Domel)-Japan- ese business circles express satisfac-

tion at the lifting of the ban on code

telegrams after January by the British Government. The code books

permitted are limited to Bentley

A.B.C. and Peterson's.

The British Post Office still refuses to accept nomanized Japanese tele- grama for transmission.

Japanese Proof -

After dropping depth

charges.

A submarine came to the sur-

laco completely up its side and the crew saw the vessel for several moments before It disappeared in an enormous whirlpool,

Second Submarine Sunk The exploit of the Sirocco and Lailleuse has a number of points

in common to that of the Commandant

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PEPING, Dec. 29 (UP)-in order Duboc.

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as the British seaplane, Saturday. However, 011 Japonese staff officer from Paotout, reconnaissance plane, which for the first time has admitted that ying ahead of the convoy, dropped the Chinese actually entered the town1

11 smoice-shell.

for a brief period kaylag 3,000 dead

FINLAND SEEKS

US. MATERIALS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (Reuter) Colonel Zilliacus, Finland's military

The commander of the Sirocco at. once gave an order. to the merchant- men to steer a zig-zag course, white

he sent his ship speeding at 25 knots fallen. At the same time he began

[towards the spot where the shell hat

te drop depth charges,

The hull of a submarine appeared on the surface about a quarter of a mile away, and then disappeared.

The Sirocco continued to drop depth

Negotiations for lung the ban on attache, revealed that Finland charges as it sped on. Oll was seen code telegramms have been going on negotiating for war-planes. Bastion the Burface of the sea. between the Japanese and British masks, marine motors and high-speed; The La Railleuse also raced to the and French post offices. France al-torpedo boats. ready permits their use.

zone, also dropping depth charges.

Suddenly a tremendous explosión was heard and through the mist, the Jurewa of the destroyers saw, about ten leet of the forepart of the sub- marine shoot verlically out of the water. Finally it sank bacle into the

waves.

Battleship Damaged

Berlin, Dec. 20.

A German High Command com- munique states that a submarine torpedoed a battleship of the Queen Ellmbeth class, west of Scotland. Unlted Press.

British Admission

London, Dec. 29. The Admiralty announces that a 1-boat made a torpedo attack on n Brish battleship.

Some dainage was caused and three men were killed.

The name of the warship is not divulged.United Press.

Not Seriously Damaged

London, Dec. 20. Authoritative Naval quarters stated lost night that the torpedoed battle- ship is "safe" and is proceeding on her course.-United Press.

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LONDON, Dec. 29 (Router)—A striking example of 11- acceleration of armaments in Britain was given by«Mr, Lesilä Burgin, the Minister of Supply, to-day,

Since the war began, he said, the output of shells has bee. doubled and is now ton times as great as in the same porfo during the last war. Gun production to eight times greater adme cases, and next year will exceed the peak reached at, th end of the Great War."

It is impossible to exaggerate th Twenty, rigw

new ordnance factories importance of the closerélation exif- have been built and 300 others have ing betwten · Britain and Fruity, been extended, Sixty por dent. of the matters of supply, "Mr. Burgin Enf tatní coal of ordnance factories goes The French Minister of Munitio in:wagda

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