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CHARLIE CHAN in
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
March 5, 1940.
Sphinx Survivor Tells
Her
How Ship Went Down ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Peril
Own Oil Was -To Swimming Men
WITH bombs raining on them and machine-gun bullets spreading death, the crew of the minesweeper Sphinx went to their posts and about their duties as though on peace-time manoeuvres.
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The story of their heroism, not only during the attack, but also when they were struggling in the sea after the Sphinx had capsized, was told by an able-seaman survivor.
He lives at Lound, (Suffolk). Ile cald:
Two bombers attacked us from out of the clouds, but there was not the least sign of pante. Everyone went about his job.
JAPANESE SUB. SALVAGED
63
"One bomb must have killed Com- mander J, R. N. Taylor and four of the men.
Deck Curled Over
"The whole of the foredeck was thrown into the air by a bomb and it curled right backwards in one great plece over the middle of the ship.
"When the planes left us after 20 minutes, another vessel began to tow us, but early next inorning tlie tow- rope broke,
The se
seas were heavy, and We tossed about, unable to use our en Įgines except for reversing.
"We tried to keep her head into the wind, but had only our steering gear to rely on, and then-it hop- pened in a minute-a wave from the side capsized us.
"I just flung off my shoes and was in the sea. I saw men going down with the ship. Others were clinging to cars in the ley water.
He Nover Made It "Heads were bobbing all around
À FINE FEAT of salvage was successfully concluded by the Japanese Navy which recently raised Submarine 63, lost with all hands in a collision with a destroyer. The conning tower of theme in the darkness. It was terrible, vessel is shown in photograph above.-Domei,
PRINCE MICHAEL IS
READY TO
TO MARRY
NOW that Prince Michael of Rumania has come of age-it's eighteen, not twenty-one, for royalty - his countrymen are wondering who will be chosen as his wife and their future queen.
Nothing has been disclosed by the royal family, but people close to the Court believe that King Carol is seriously considering the twin daughters of his cousin, Prince Frederick Victor, head of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Some of the more romantically (and began to teach him the art of Inclined In Bukarest say Carol has kingship according to his own ideas. suggested that Michael should
choose, one of the twins and that the Prince is studying their photo- graphs, unable to make un mind.
Bla
"To try and save the ship by calm Ing the seas, we had let out our fuel oll. This now began to get into our.
mouths.
"Your only chance
WAS to hold your breath when one wave came jand take your chance of breathing in the trough. Even so, the all made us cough.
"One man near me left an oar to swim to a plank, He never made it. "Some of the crew were calling out about their people left at home. "Then a great light shone, and I realised it was a scorchlight. I swam into the beam until a line came into my hands.
The Lost Watch
and was hauled into a ship, where I "1 pulled it around my shoulders collapsed.
"They told me that 44 men had been pulled out of the water.
"I I do not think I should have come Then anti-Carol Iron Guardists through if I had not kept telling my- are said to have tried to control the self how good it would be to get young Prince Uhrough one of his basic to safety." lutors with a view to assassinatlog| The sailor jidded that he lost a Carol and placing the boy again on watch given him by his mother on the throne as their puppet. Carol his nineteenth birthday, just before dismissed the tutor and smashed the ship sailed.
conspiracy. Michnet hos bad a stern education.
the
They are the Princess Marie An- toinette and the Princess Marie Alde-i gonde, just turned nineteen and eight | months older than Michael. Marie was Michael's grandmother's name. He rises early, lives simply und spends
Michael,, a healthy, handsome. long hours in study. dimpled Prince, was made a Senator, member of
of the Rumanian Academy and a lieutenant in the Army on his eighteenth birthday.
His stately bearing as he attended the funeral of the assassinated Pre- mier Armand Calinescu, clad in a white cape, impressed Rumanians deeply, says Associated Press.
When he assumes the Crown, Michael will be the only King in! history to have preceded and suc- cketed his father on the throne.
Youthful Escapade
He has mastered Rumanian, French, Gorman and English.
Michael Ibyes sports, especially ski-ing, tennis and riding. One of ils sports companions
been Mille. Lulu Malazs, young daughter of Rumania's biggest industrialist Despite his father's watchful cyb
the and
discipline Imposed on strlet Michael, it is reported in Bukarest that at a Boy Scout camp last sum-{
he got into a youthful scrape, which had to be paid for by State On the death of his grandfather.funds. King Ferdinand, in 1927, Michael De- King Carol, aroused by the escup- came King under a Rezency, Carol ade, is said to have punished his son was in exile in France, having re-with two weeks' imprisonment in one] nounced his rights to the succession of the royal castles. when he left Rumonia rather than Rive up his friend Mme. Magda Lupescu.
Iron Guard Plot
In 1930 Carol returned, gained the] throne and Michael became Crown Prince
In his days as Boy King Michael; was supposed to be under the influ- ence of his grandmother, the late Queen Maric.. Carol is credited with breaking that influence when he re- turned. He gave Michael new tutors,
STAR
wer
Michael is his father's heir, but not lúa eldest pors. Carol has a twenty-year-old son, legitimate but morganatic, living in France. Ilo Alexander, the son of Zizi Lam- brinu, with whom Carol eloped during the last war and whom he married in Odessa,
The twin Princesses of Hohenzol- lern-Sigmaringen live at the Chateau: of Sigmaringen, In Germany.
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beneath his fect as the ship broke The Captain did not give up, but jumped to the stern half, hoping that the tanker's engines were intact.
Used School Atlas After a number of adventures, not the feast of which was the picking up of 13 men who had got away from the bow half. Thexo men were rescued, in a gale,
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