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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH January 31, 1940.

Survivor Tells How A U-Boat-

SANK SHIP KNOWING ALHAMBRA

SHE WAS NEUTRAL

Eight Days Adrift In BIRTHDAY BALL

Open Boat: Little Water

IN MANILA

MANILA, Jan. 30 (UP)The first city under the American flag to celo- brate President Roosevelt's birthday, Manila to-night staged a ball attend

"WE told the U-boat commander we were a neutral ed by 1,800 people which was the ship bound for a neutral port.

biggest in history,

The attendance was stimulated

fontlle paralysis.

"But it made no difference. He said he would still have owing to the recept outburst of in- to sink us." --- ·

In these words Peter Brons, a sur- vivor of the Dutch sleamer Sliedrecht | (5,139 tonu) described the elreuin- stances in which the ship was susile.

After being adrift in an open bont In Atlantic stormo for alght dayn. without food and very little water, Ave Dutch members of the crew were picked up and brought into a Scottish port Inte on Thursday night by a British trawler.

Twenty-seven members erew are still missing.

Given Half-Hour

of

the

Russian

Defeats Not

Decisive

Mr. Francis B. Sayre and President Queron headed the guests.

Spends Day Quietly WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Reuter). -President Rooarvelt, 58 to-day,' is jerlebrating his birthday quietly,

Itis doctor says that the President is in a perfect.in condition [man of his age could be.

any

Many birthday dinners and dances are being held throughout the United States to raise funds to the Infantile the Paralysis Campalgo la which President is most interested.

THE Fluns have given the Russians M.M. Awarded To

their third thrashlar weeks.

three

Brons, of Vlaardinge, Holland, interviewed in hospital, vaid that on November 14 the Sliedrecht was stopped in the Atlanile by a sub-The Russian 44th Division, march- ing on Suomussalmi in the "sraist" marine, which ordered the captain lo

of Finland to retrieve the disaster ship's papers in a tha

of their 166th Division last week, small boat for examination.

have been annihilated. They launched the small boat, and Brons and four members of the crew rowed over to the submarine.

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After examining the ship's papers the submarine commander informed them that he would have to sink their ship and gave them half an hour to abandon her.

Brons then made the statement that the U-boat commander was told bound the ship was a neutral one

for

a neutral part, but repiled he would still have to sink her.

"We then asked them if he would take us on board and transfer us to another ship, but he refused, saying, that he had no room.

A Warning

"Before we returned to our ship he warned us that if we gave any distress signals hc would ink us without any further notice.

"It took us nearly half an hour to return to the Sliedrecht. As we ap- proached we yelled to those on board that the ship was going to be sunk and to man the lifeboat,

"The other members of the crow immediately lowered the boat and scrambled in. Shortly afterwards the submarine fired and there was a terrifle explosion.

"In the darkness we lost sight of. the other boat.

"For days the weather was terrible and we were continually balling water out of the beat.

"On Wednesday, November 22, the weather improved slightly, and wo macie a sail out of two overcoats. That evening we saw the dash of a lighthouse and knew that at last we were near land.

"Then we sighted trawler and yelled until her crew heard us and came to our rescue."

The ownerg of the Sliedrecht | stated that she was carrying petrol to Norway.

RANGOON RIOTS CONTINUE

RANGOON, Jan. 30 (Reuter), Despite speeches made by responsible leaders, the Hindu-Moslem. disturb- ances are continuing.

Up to the present, 12 lives have been lost and 000 arrests have been made.

NEW YEAR BARGAINS

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IN THE YEAR‍! .......

WEAREVER" DI-LUXE

This defeat limposes a firm check for

the moment on the Russian drive, to cut Flaland in half. But it can not be regarded as a decisive tum

[13 the general campaign. The Suomussalmi

Imi Front is only one of half a dozen.

ndeed, it would be more accurate to say that, apart from the two "Alan nerheim Hines" on the shores of Lake Ladoga, there are no real formed. front in Finland. The other areas being contested by

B.E.F. Captain.

LONDON, Jan. 30 (British Wire- Iers)-According to Press reports, the first immediate award in the field to an officer serving with the B.E.F. has been made to Captain J. A; Mac- frenzie, of the Gloucester Regiment. Capt. Mackenzie has been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous daring and resource.

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