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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 7, 1940

By Ernie Bushmiller

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Chinese Chamber Of Commerce Proposal

View-Clairman.

Mr. C. W. NE presided at the monitly meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday. A resolution that the Chamber organise a bazaar In aid of the British War Organisation Fund was adopted,

This bazaar it is proposed will be

13

THE GLORY OF ZEEBRUGGE Air Raid

(Continued from Page 6.)

she bumped into a bank. edged ofT. and found herself in the channel again, still some hun- dreds of yards from the mouth of the sonal, in a practically

AR sinking condition.

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invaluable she signalled directions to the others, and here Commander R. S. Snerd. D.S.O.. accordingly blew the charges and sank her. A motor launch, under Lieutenant H. Littleton, R.N.V.R., raced along- alde and took bff her crew. Her losses were five killed and five won nded.

A

like Intrepid. smoking 'rolenno and with all her gun

blazing, followed: her motor kunch had failed to get along- side outside the harbour, and. she had men enough for any- thing. Straight into the ennal

she toured, her smoke blowing back from her into Iphigenia's eyes, so that the latter, blinded and goinga Bile wild, rammed a dredger with a barge mapred beside It. which lay at the

western arm of the canal. She got clear though, and entered the end pushing the barge be fore her. It was then that a shell hit the steam congeetions, of her whistle, and the escape of steam which followed drove of some of the smoke and det her see what she was doing.

Lieutenant Stuart Bonham. Carter, commanding the Intre- plz. placed the nose of his ship neatly on the mud of the western bank, ordered his erew hway, and blew up his ship by the switches ls the chart-room. Four doll bumps was all that could be heard; and immediately afterwards there arrived on deck The engineer, who had been in the engine-room during the explosion and reported that all was as it should be.

Lieutenant E. W. Billyard- Leake, commanding Iphigenia, benched her according to dr rangement on the eastern side, blow her up, saw her drop nicely across the canal, and left her -with-her-engine-still-going-to- hold her in position till she An R. A. F. plane crashed into the should have bedded well down balloon barrage on

on the bottom. the north-east const to-lay. The crew and elvillans were killed.-Ruter,

·R:A.F:--PLANE-DOWN-

London, June 1).

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held jointly by the Chamber, the Tung Wah Hospital, Pa Leung Kolt and the Manufacturers Association. The consent of the other three Association hus not yet been ob- tained, and they will be approached on the subject.

Repulse Bay Hotel

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According to

latest reports from air obser vation, the two old ships with their holds full of concrete are lying across the ennal in a V position; and it is probable that the work they set out to do has been accomplished and that the canal is effectively blocked.

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Lieutenant B. T. Deanc. R.N.V.R., had followed them in to bring away the crewa, nud waited further up the canal towards the mouth against the vestern bank. Lieutenant Bonham-Carter, having away his bonts, was reduced to a Cirley float, an apparatus file an exaggerated lifebuoy with à floor of rating. Upon contact with the water it ignited a calcium flare, and he was adrift İ31 the uncanny

illumination with a German machine-gun a few hundred yards away giving

lo traffic. him its undivided attention.

except for ARP, and Essential Services. The exercise will What saved him was possibly

not be spectacular, and is being the

the defunct staged in order tu fact that.

ascertala ny Intrepid was still emitting huge defects which exist in the A.R.P. elouds of smoke, which it had organization. been worth nobody's' while to Lurn off. He managed to catch the motor launch n rope as

was towed for s started, and while till he was observed and taken on board. Another officer jumped ashore and ran along the bank to the launch. A the ballet from

machine-gun atung him as he ran, and when he arrived, charging down the bank out of the dark, he was re- ceived by R member of the launch's crew who attacked him with hammer,

The Director of Air Bald Precau- tions announces that the air rold warning syren on the Gloucester Hotel, will sound at 8.30 am. on Sunday to indicate the

commence- ment of an ARP, exercise in Cen- nenttral Police District B. Hongkong. It

will sound ago at 9.30 am, to In- dicate the termination of the exercise.

It should be noted, however, that the duration of the signal has been limited to a minute, and the syren will not be sounded over the regula- tion period of three minutes.

During the period of the exercise, certain minor streets will be closed

The whole harbour was alivo with small craft. As the motor launch cleared the canal, and came forth to the incessant geysers thrown up by the shells, rescuers and rescued had a view of yet another phase of the attack. The shore end of the Mole consists of a jetty, and here an old submarine, com- manded by Lieutenant R. D. Sandford, R.N., loaded with ex- plosives, was run 2 to the piles. and touched off, her crow gel- ting away in a boat to where the usual laanch awaited 'thers.

the

The Director asks the general public to remala away from streets and from the scenes of the incidents, In order that A.R.P. and Essential Services can proceed with their work without being impeded by sightseers, and asks residents of the district for their whole-hearted co- who

operation, especially those possess telephones, and to permit the use of their telephones by any Air Raid Warden who muy desire to do'

50.

the crew could be saved by them, is in this detail of an unusual accuracy, for the Phoebe (Lieut-Commander H. E. Gore-Langton, R.N.), came up under a heavy fire in time. to rescue nearly all. Through- out the operations monitors and the siege gunk in Flanders, manned by the Royal Marine Artillery, heavily bombarded the enemy's batteries,

The wind that blew back the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge serv- cd us even worse off Ostend, where that and nothing else prevented the success of tim

directed by operation bly ever

Commodore Hubert Lynes, C.M.G. The coastal motor boats had lit the approaches and the ends of the pilers with calcium. flares_and_made_a_ smoke-cloud which effectually hid the fact from the enemy. Sirius and Brilliant were alreatly past the Stream Bank buoy when the ewind changed, revealing the arrangements to the enemy, who extinguished the flares with gunfire.

Officers describe the explosion AM the greatest they witnessed a huge roaring spout of flame that tore the jetty in half and left a gap of over too feet. The claims of another Jannel-to-have-sunk a torpedo. boat alongside the jetty la sup ported by many observers, in- cluding officers of the Vindictive, who had seen her mast and funnel cross the Mole and noticed them disappear.

were

Where every moment had its deed and every deed its hero, a recital of acts of valour becomes a mere catalogue. "The mess

magnificent,"

Buy the officers; the men's opinion of their lenders expresses itself in the manner in which they followed them, in their cheers, in their demeanour to-day while they tidy up their battered ships, setting aside the inevit- able souvenirs, from the bullet- torn engines, to screat chunks of Zedbrugge Mole, dragged down and still hanging in the fenders of the Vindictive. The motor Bunch from the eanal cleared the end of the Mole and there beheld. trim and ready, the shape of the Warwick, with the great sikk flag presente: la the Admiral by the officers of his old ship," the Centurion. They stood up on the crowded decks of the little craft and cheered it gain and again.

While the Warwick took them on board, they stay Vindictive, towed loose from the Mele by Daffodil, turn and make for -home-a great black shape, aith funnels gapped and lean- ing out of the true, flying a vast streamer of fame as her stokera worked her upher. the almost wreek-to, Anal display of seventeen knots, lor forward funnel wasa, alevoj her decks were a dazzle of aparks; but she brought back. intret the horseshoe nailed to it, which Sir Roger Keyes bad, presented to her commander.

Meantinie the destrovera North Star, Phoebe, and War- wiek, which guarded the Vindle- tive from action by enemy destroyers while she lay beside" the Mole, had their share in the attle. North Star (Lieute Commandor K. C. Ielyar, R.N.), losing her way in the smoke, omerged to the light of the star- shells, and was Bunk. The Ger- man communique, which states that only a few memberg of

The Sirius was alrendy in a sinking condition when it length the two ships, having failed to find the onlitance. grounded, and were forced therefore to sink themselves at FL point about four hundred yards east of the piers, and their crows were taken off by motor launches under Lieut- enant K. R. Hare, R.N.V.R.. and Lieutenant R. Bourke, R.N.V.R.

The

motor launches here

command were under the

of Commander Hamilton Benn, R.N.V.R., D.S.O., M.P., while those at Zeebrugge manded by Captain R. Collins, R.N. (the Vice-Admiral's Fing- Captain).

were

com-

All the coastal motor boats were commanded av Lieutenant A. P. Wellman, D.S.O., R.N. The torpedo-bout destroyer flotilla was commanded by Captain WRfred Tomkinson, R.N.

The diЛculty of the operation In to be gauged from the fact that from Zeebrugge to Ostend the enomy batteries number not less than 120 'heavy guns, which din concentrate on re- tiring ships, during daylight, n to a distance of about six- teen miles. This imposes us a condition of access that the overation "maal be carried out ut night, and dot late in the night, It must take place at high water, with the wind from the right quarter, and with o calm ses for lie small craft. The operation cannot be re- hearsed boforehand, since the Canence of it a secrecy. and though one might have to wait a long time to realise all the «si!ntal conditions. of. wind and weather secrecy wears badly when large numbers, of men are brought tovether in readiness for the attick.

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