1940-04-14 — Page 1

ANNOUNCEMENT

Owing to the lato `strival,... ....

of the 1940 CHEVROLET ¦

Display will now be held.

on the

15th. April, 1940.

Vanlil

Manager

Dollar T.T—is Zatikong Telegraph" TT Px Kathy China Morning Post: Lu

Low Water:

Them Street, Hongk

20.50.

The

EXTRA

Co!

Hongkong Telegraph.

FAR EAST MOTORS

FOUNDED 1001 No. 18121

16日拜四十月四英港香

APRIL SUNDAY,

14, 1940. 日七初月三

BINGLE COPY 18 CENTE $30.00 PER ANNUM

Tel. 59101

CHIFFON SQUARES

Latest range from France Lovely colourings & dadgns

$2.50 ca

Use them as

a hoad - dress

or neckerchief

WHITEAWAY'S

British Navy Still Mopping Up German Fleet: Brilliant Victory In Narvik Fjord Announced By The Admiralty SEVEN NAZI DESTROYERS SUNK IN ANOTHER BIG NAVAL ENGAGEMENT

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, APR. 13 (UP).—ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY HAS BEEN | Nazis Come To Grips With Revitalised Troops SCORED BY THE BRITISH NAVY.

IN THE COURSE OF A BIG BATTLE AT NARVÍK FJORD TÓ-DAY, BRITISH WARSHIPS SANK SEVEN GERMAN DESTROYERS.

BRITISH LOSSES WERE THREE DESTROYERS SLIGHTLY DAM-

THIS SHIP HELPED TO SINK 7 DESTROYERS

HERE 18 a mogniflcent study of the battleship Warspite which led British naval units

to a smashing victory in the Narvik Fjord yesterday. The Warspite was originally the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet.

British Warplanes Wreck

Stavanger Aerodrome

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH"

AGED AND A SMALL LOSS OF LIFE. :

According to an Admiral- ty announcement regarding

VIOLENT

FIGHTING

IN NORWAY

STOCKHOLM, Apr. 13 (UP).—The "Afton Bladet" to-night reported violent clashes between Norwegian and German troops from Kongsvinger, northeast of Oslo, the battle, a strong force of and that the German air force is attacking the Norwegian forces north of Oslo. destroyers led by H.M.S.

There is heavy fighting at. Warspite made the attack Vormsund near Kongsvinger and on Nazi naval concentra- fighting is also ruging at Aarnes

ions in the fjord.

Groups of men, thought to be

German soldiers, were seen_es- ...caping over the surrounding

hills.

The enemy offered particularly *** severe opposition,

Additional details are being ed, states the Admiralty.

Naxi Report

the

in the Oslo area. It said brunt of the German air attacks centred on Eidsvold.

Landing Not Confirmed · There is no confirmation of the eurller reports that Norwegian troops at, Narvik are attacking the Germun await-forces, while British troops, landed from the men-of-war in the face. of German land and air bombardment The spokesman at the Norwegian Legation

commander of snid the

of the Norwegian destroyer Draug reported that the Draug sank a German trans- the German garrison, aided by acro-rescued 07 members of the crew and

port by fire

Run near Haugesund, and planes, drove them off,

where the The Nazis claim that their aero-took them to England, planes sunk one British destroyer and the Germans were Interned.

British naval forces Draug joined the Bri with serial bomb,

He said that at the time of the en-

According to the German wireless, British forces attempted to

dis embark at Narvik this afternoon, but

The Germans also claim that they shot down two British planes.

Admiralty Statement

"LONDON," Apr, 13′′ (Reuter).—The following is the full text of the Admiralty announcement:

"Since the attack upon the Ger- man destroyers in Narvik, Fjord on Wednesday by the Second Destroyer Flotillo, this flotilla, with reinforce- menis, haw boon blockuding the enemy in Narvik Fjord.

gagement German planes were pro- tecting the transport and attempted to bomb the Draug

Meanwhile, it is reported that Norwegian volunteer soldiers are holding Halden on Oste Fjord de- spite reports that German troops were landing. The Norwegian og st fortress at Frederickssten nearby.

strong Norwegian

Alles

over

the

Nazis Scizo Ships BERLIN, Apr. 13 (Reuter).-It is German Navy announced that the This morning at about noon, H.M.S. has taken over units of the Nor Warspite, accompanied by a strong

harbours.

force of destroyers using minesweep-wegian Navy found in the occupled Ing and other appliances; advanced up the Flord to attack the German destroyers, some of them alrendy In-

Germans Advancing.

BERLIN, Apr. 13 (Reuter}-The

H.M.S. GURKHA CASUALTIES

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Apr. 13 (UP), -The Admirally announced. that the casualties aboard the destroyer Gurkha in- cluded the following;

Lieut. Commander I. C. Howden,

Lieutenant M. F. J. Ferguson,

Sub Lieutenant N. C. J. Hutchings,

Surgeon Lieutenant D. N. B. Mordan,

Lieutenant D. 0. Smith, -Acting Ordnance_Arti-

ficer G. B. Ward.

The above officers are missing and are believed to have been killed.

STATE OF SIEGE

WESTERN FRONT

NAZIS TRY TO CROSS RHINE

First Real Attack

Of The War

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, Apr. 13 (UP),— For the first time since the outbreak of war the Ger- mans to-day attempted to attack on the lower Rhine the Western

section of th

Front which, till now, has been limited to machine gun fire between' casemates and different manifestations of peace propaganda by both the German and French.

A German detachment at- tempted a surprise crossing of the river at 2.15 a.m. with orders to capture the French casemate Jon an island between Huningue' and Kembs where is situated an

PLEASE Turn To Pago 3.

jured and sheltering at Narvik, and Germans are advancing from. Chris More Precautions important hydro-electrical plant

PLEASE Turn To Page 3.

Wednesday's Sea Fight Described

tiansand up the river Otterna and have reached Hacgeland, 20 miles away, according to a news agency report.

Big Clash Imminent

ON THE NORWEGIAN FRON- TIER, Apr. 13 (UP). The latest re-

By Holland

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

THE HAGUE, Apr. 13, (UP),}

been

ports from Norway indicato that, aA Royal Decree has elash may be imminent in the Trond-issued extending the State of heim sector.

Stenkjner,

and

The Allesund radio announced that Siege, which was declared No 22 Germen bombers are en route to vember 1, last year to the Pro- STOCKHOLM, Apr. 13 (Reu-Trondheim from the south and are vince of North Brabant and also ter) Eye-witness accounts of believed to be intended as reinforce to parts of the Northern

ments for the German forces in that the naval battle at Narvik on sector. At the same time Norwegian (Castern Provinces, Wednesday by the crow of the troops are concentrating at Swedish steamer, Boden, con- firm that the British destroyers sank three German destroyers.

The crew state that 15 cargo boats belonging to Britain, Sweden, Norway and Germany were also sunk during the battle, including their own steam er. Boden, of 4,205 tons.

The crew state that the Germans seized the Boden's boats to rescue the crews of the sinking German de- stroyers.

Chaos In Harbour

The Swedish

AMSTERDAM, Apr. 13, (UP),— British authorities have circularized Snowstorms Raging

ali British residents of Holland ad- PARIS, Apr. 13 (Reuter). It is vising them as a precautionary mea learned here that snowstorms arc sure," that they should be ready to raging in Norway, where winter snow leave, if necessary, in the shortest and ice still lie thickly.

possible notice. They should proceed Fighting operations consequently with their hand luggage to the British are assuming the character of the Consulates at Amsterdam or Rotter-

PLEASE Turn To Pago 3.

NORWEGIAN

dam.

Brussels Tension

BRUSSELS, Apr. 13 (Reuter).—- The atmosphere is known to be tenser in the last three days. The Govern- ment's neutrality polley remains un-

to the teeth,

seamen Informed the "Darabladet": "Wo wero in the Narvik roads when the Ger- mans took the town completely by

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“

Guards are now placed at the surprise. torpeiloing two Nor- LONDON, Apr. 13, (UP)—The Ministries, public Gulldinga wegian armoured cruisers. Chaos Norwegian steamer Tosci (5,120 radio stations, re-establishing the relined in the harbour. Not tons) was torpedoed and sunk with position enforced during January's wegian sailors were struggling for out warning by n German U-boat on tension. their lives in the water. Corpses

SHIP SUNK changed, but the country is armed

Friday while she was racing to the. asalstance of another vessel.

were everywhere. "Violent gunfire awakened us on

A British patrol boat picked up the jdamaged' the hangars and

Previously, the Admiralty nn-Wednesday morning. We rushed on LONDON, Apr. 13 (UP). planes.

nounced that the fleet air arm raided deck and found the British attacking, Tosen's survivors and Innded them

at a Scottish port. Bergen on Friday and three Jarge three · German destroyers sinking. Two of the crew of 32 were drown -The Air Ministry has One British plane brought bombed, a munition Warchouse

transports or supply ships wore One of them was cut in half and an- fed..

was other went down stern first. announced that R.A.F. down a German fighter plane in blown up and a motor torpedo boat

"We saw 13 cargo bonis lying planes heavily bombed the flames despite the fact that the strated.

to around in a sinking condition. One RAF plone was forced

of own was also malding water and Stavanger airdrome this runner of the British plane land in the sea near the Island

พะย wounded. The morning and it is believed said: "Salvoes of heavy bombs The remainder of the I.A.F. planes The scament made their way over-

report Symn and the crew of two escaped. sinking," that they extensively were dropped."

PLEASE Turn To Pago 3.

tond to Sweden.

Dutch Ship Mined FLUSHING, Netherlands, Apr. 13 107 tous, was mined and sunk off the (Reuter)The motor-ship Velocitas,

British coast.

Three members of the crew were landed and three are feared lost..

Precautions Extended

and

THE HAGUE, Apr. 13 (Reuter).— The state of slego proclaimed in a number of districts In Central, West and South-east Holland last Novem ber, was to-day extended to additional regions in the South, East and North. The official announcement says that

neutrals made in the British

certain foreign newspaper, Impress Jed by the pronouncements regarding and French Parliaments suggest that PLEASE Turn To Page 3.

a

LATEST

Soo Back Pago · For Further Lato. Nows ·