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HONGKONG; TELEGRAPH

April 11, 1940,

LATE NEWS

MORE DANISH SHIPS HELD

Property Dispute Judgment

AALESUND

S.O.S.

LONDON, Apr. 11 (Router)The radio station at Tromice has broad- cast an appeal to the British fleet to send maalilance because two German

cle-sund.

There are now 11 Norwegian and Judgment for the defendant WOR Danish ships being held in Hongkong lvon this afternoon by Sir Athol ax several more entered port to-day. MacGregor at the Supreme Court in In spite of Norway's entry into tie the property dispute case in which war with the Allles Norwegian vessels two sisters used the same naine. are still being refused clearance.

The plaintiff asked for Court warships are landing troops at Aslo. The cargo of the large Danish claration that she was the owner of freighter Peter Mnersk, which was 13, Nga Trin Long Road, and an orter discharged at Kowloon

has

plaintiff's naine, return the Crown been seized and everything on board at her sister, alleged to be using olher Danish vessels is being seized case and other documents with the The

wharf

Troopship Sinks

STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter).—

German

troopship Antares as enemy property. A Police guard property

(2,093 tons) sank last night off the was sent to go on board the Peter Defendant counter-claimed for a west coast of Sweden. There Maerak, which has now gone to Kow-declaration that the property belong-only 34 survivors, who have been

Cher. loon Dock.

Innded at Lysekil. The survivors

ed to

Kirc

OSLO'S FALL

11 is reported that the British naval Judgment was given for the de- said the ship struck a mine. units in the For Enst will round up fendant on the claim and counter- Norwegian und Danish shipping ply-claim, and an order made that the ing on and to the China Coast. There ducuments in dispute are the pro- re about 40 to 50 Norweglan and perty of defendant. An order was Danish ships, many of them under also made that phulatif execute charter, calling regularly at Hong-signment of the property to de- kong

fendant. Defendunt Wild further Shipping eireles, however, point out awarded costs. that difficulties will arise if many of the seized ships are brought to Hỏng, kong as the port is already congested with shipping.

In the meantime staffs ut Danish firms in the Colony are worried at the altuation. Many of them with; families to support here have their money in Denmark.

S'hai Elections.

Transports Flee

DESCRIBED

Eye-witness Account By Escaped Briton

LONDON, Apf, 10 (Router). LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter)-It is The first authentic account by learned that the Enden was sunk an eye-witness of the Germans' off Ilorten-the port of Osto-by the entry into Oslo has been tele- Norwegian cruiser mine-layer Olay Trygvason..

phoned by Reuter's Oslo corres- According to unconarmed reports, pondent.

Shanghal, hundreds of Japanese have of Skogerman transports filled with day.

the

four German cruisers and two or As a British subject he narrowly In order to swell the number of three large German transports were escaped from the Germans and cross- votes for the Municipal election in sunk by the British navy in the battle ed the frontier Into Sweden yester-

Two been pouring into Shanghai by liners

With crowds on pavements, he from Japan especially for the occa-soldiers ore stated to have been watched a column of German troops, sion, passengers who arrived here to escorted to

the Swedish port of 1,000 strong, march into the centre day by Canadian liner told the Teld-Marstrand by a Swedish cruiser. of the city at 3 p.m. Every man was

One

was badly damaged and the armed with a rifle or machine-gun. Kraph

"About 300 Japanese came on other had entered Swedish territorial They were carrying uncovered ban- board at Nagasaki and disembarked waters..

dollers bulging with ammunition.

Inhabitants Bewildered

at Shanghal." They travelled in the third class, while hundreds of others poured into Shanghai In Japanese) (and other ships," they said.

"In order to be eligible to vote the Japanese were taking over huge apartment houses and sling them with the new arrivals," they added,

Voting in the elections ended at 3 [p.m. to-day, "

MARINES LAND

AT NARVIK

The inhabitants were

bewildered

by the swift sequence of incredible events,

The city had capitulated an hour or NEW YORK, APRL 11 (REUTER).so earlier after a night and morning

PRESS -ACCORDING TO

AND of terror during which German planes. RADIO REPORTS A BRITISH bombed all military objectives in the NAVAL FLOTILLA HAS FORCED neighbourhood and machine-gunned AN ENTRANCE INTO NARVIK the districts round the harbour de- FJORD. THE WARSHIPS ARE fences.

NORWAY TO FIGHT NOW LANDING MARINES.

WITH ALLIES

STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter).— King Haakon has refused the German demand that he should recognise the puppet Quisling, government, says a Norwegian

on press agency despatch from Elverum.

Before he left the German troops had taken control of all military acro- dromes Including Fornebo, which is there Just outside the elty. It was that Afty Nazi planes Janded.

With these they threatened to blow the Inhabitants out of the city

By noon the main station paelted with fleeing evacuees includ- ing women and children carrying all the possessions they could muster.

House Blown Up

SPURIOUS MONEY if any resistance was shown

FOR NORWAY

Was

The Committee of Three, which has LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter)-The been specially appointed by the economie measures adopted by Ger- Norwegian Government to deal with many against Denmark are being They all seemed dazed. The air the present situation, announced repeated in German-occupied Nor- above was filed with the ceaseless that it agreed with the King and way. Credit notes at an arbitrary ron of neroplane engines apparently

that the German demand rate of exchange are being given in designed to terrify the inhabitants.

exchange for goods.

Wag

24tional and that no,

gotiationed

for

basis

M. Hambro

In Norway notes are still at the eld that rate of exchange nominally, but King Haakon will issue a proclama- actually they are worth nothing. tion to-day stressing the intention of Norwegians are forced to accept Norway to fight side by side with them in exchange for whatever the the Allies and not to capitulate to Germans want. Germany.

Archives Safe

LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter).The Norwegian Government and General Staff were able to take all archives when they evacuated Oslo.

During the afternoon the corres- pondent" watched three bombers from a great height blow up a house

a few hundred yards away.

More bombs followed quickly. watcher realised the unter- action had begun.

The

The uppermost feeling in the

Australian Sugar minds of the inhabitants seemed to

For Britain

LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter),

The Bank of Norway was evacuat-Britain will buy half a million tons

ed with all its gold and banknotes.

America Releases Secret Planes

WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 (Reuter),} The U.S. War Department has re- lensed, for export to the Allies, three of the latest tyne pursuit plumes. They are the Lockheed P-30, the Curtiss P-40 and the Curtis D-40.

It will probably be a year before the machines can be delivered in sub- stantial numbers.

British Minister

Escapes

LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuler),——The} British Minister and all the staffs of} the French and Polish, legaflon have crossed into Sweden.

of raw sugar of the 1940 crop-from Queensland, Australla.

be incomprehension at the turn of events and the question asked every- where was "Why have the Allies allowed the Germuns to do this?"

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