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Simon On

Atlantic

Charter

LONDON, Sept. 19 (Reutor),--- Speaking of the annual conference of the Liberal National Counell in London, Lord Simon sold it was im- possible to exaggerate the significance of the joint signing of the_Atinntle. Charter.

In reference to Mr Winston Churchill, Lord Simon Fald that there had never been a more striking example of wise statesmanship than when the Prime Minister, after Hitler's treacherous attack on Russia, went to the microphone the same evening and told the world that Russia was from that moment Bri- tain's close ally.

Nazi-Vichy

Chambers Of

Commerce

LONDON, Sept. 19 (Reuter)—A Kession of the French and German Chambers of Commerce began to day in Paris and will last until September 21, states a Paris dispatch to the official German news agency.

The purpose of the session, stated, is to discuss Franco-German collaboration in the organisation of commerce,

Delegates taking part will be given an opportunity to visit Paris and make a trip to Nantes where the har- hour works will be inspected.

Free France

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

AIDING WOUNDED-A Russian doctor and a nurse give aid to s.wounded German flior, Ernest Rectz. At left, another prisoner taken by the Beds has his head bandaged, but

Gallant Fight

smilos.

Against Heavy

Odds By British Motorship

September 19, 1941.

Chungking Digs For Dud Bombs

CHUNGKING (UP)-While the heroism of London suicide

squads which dig up unexploded The bombs has been praised through.

out the world, in Chungking for #1 three years the clean-up 'squads have been taking the task of unearthing duds more or less as a matter of course.

With a fairly high percentage of duds falling after every raid. there are numerous unexplained holes which must be probed and explored to ascertain if they were caused by a bomb. Forti- fled by the knowledge that so far no delayed action bombs have been dropped by the Japanese, the clean-up squnds immediately begin digging.

Sometlines they and high ung! fragments of rocks caused the holes, but more often the workers discover bombs. The largest bomb exenvated to date fell at the down-town cross- roads last year and penetrated 30 feet of soft earth before it came

to rest. When finally hoisted out, the bomb proved to weigh 1,800 pounds. Ordnance officers withdraw the charges from the bombs, which pre sold either to chemical firms or re-used by Chinese munitions firms. The cases are used for scrap iron.

Citizens Joke

Thrifty Chungking residents joke about the delivery of badly needed

The gallant fight against heavy odds put up by the Australian and English crow of the motorship Rabaul with a German raider has been told chemiens by Japanese air express.

to the "Sydney Sun" by a survivor who hails from Sydney.

And N. E. I.Rabaul fought on until the ship was on fire and sinking. Some of them Against eight six-inch guns, fired point-blank, the gunners of the

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De Gaulle's Message died at their post.

BATAVIA, Sept. 18 (Reuter}.

In the battle two Australians tons, docs 18 mots and is wonder- prisoners that night that they would On his return to London, and seven Englishmen were kill fully equipped with eight six-inch have equal chances with the German General de Gaulle, leader of the ed and three Australians were guns and many anti-aircraft guns, crow.. Free French, cabled Major-wounded.

She has also smull seaplane which "The Alstertor raced for Spaln and General Terpoorten, Chief of

employed from daylight to dusk, the Germans evidently feared the The narrator, 19-year-old Irving seeking vletims." Staff of the Netherlands East King, of Vaucluse, Sydney,

game was up because, they prepared states Kingsald

Temesls rafts. said that the Indies army, as follows:

that markings on the bunks of the possessed special, spacious air-con-The emptain superintended the raider, the Temesis, prove that she ditioned holds for prisoners, and bringing up of a stretcher, with Red was converted and armed in Japan, good food. The hospital had two Cross markings, for two wounded

The Rabaul, a motership of 5,618

men. tons, and owned by W. R. Carpenterie by X-ray equipment.

prisoners

were allowed to be und Co., was sunk in the South on deck for four hours a Atlantic, but the survivors of the Kimy

day. engagement were rescued near the ferred won on "We were trans-

the Temesis to From coast of Spain.

the Irving King told "The Sun" that Brazil. She had no prepared accom

Japara

a 3,000-ton supply ship from te Rabaul was in the South Atiun-modation for prisoners, but her crew tle, bound for the Middle East. was a cloudy night when the jook-

did

their utmost to make us corn- fortable. out sighted the raider Temesis, which poured in six-inch shells when the mutinying, sent four guards with a

The Teinosis, to prevent skipper

refused to scuttle the Rabaul machine-gun and hand grenades to In all," said King.

21 shells the struck the Raboul, causing fires and

Japaru

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"I hear you have accepted__mem- bership in the. Commilliee of Friends. of Free France in agreement with the Government. I wish to thank you profoundly for this proof of your friendship towards Free France, the guardian of France's honour. know your determination to guard the NEL against all aggression and I am certain our common, enemies will never succeed in compromising the work of civilisation carried on by your country and mine in lie. Far East. (Signed) General de Gaulle."

Japanese Leaving India And Malaya

SINGAPORE, Sept. 18 (Reuter)- Mrs Ken Tsumuri, wife of the Japanese Consul-General in Singa- pore, is among about 100 Japanese (mainly residents affected by the

thing up a horrifying scene. We pyjamas and thinking that death was

Us

tatsing the prisoners' names and the abouts.

"We threw overboard'a bottle con-

lay down in an alleyway,-clad in prizon ship's identity and her where- near. The flames forced us up on; deck.

Shelling Ceased

shelling ceased, Burning oil covered "After what seemed an eternity the

harder) going to Japan the deck and the Rabaul was listing!

life-boat

in the

"The Germons heard the splash und mustered us on the fore deck. They threatened that we would be petition. battened down in the event of a re-

"The days passed uneventfully, and we all grew beards because there was only one razor among 78 pri- Transferred Again

soners.

"We sighted British warships at 2 p.m. and the skipper told us to Jump for our lives as the ship was being scuttled. nearly made prisoner because I was "We rowed to a warship and I was

wearing a souvenired German Cap.”

Shanghai

Merchant

Shot Dead

CHUNGKING, Sept. 18. (Central Newa)-Chen Cheng-kun, assistant manager of a thermos bottle manu-

factory in Shanghai, was shot a

Since none of the duds ever has exploded during the excavation operations, the areas are not roped off and anyone can watch the process. raid, bomb fell

During the centre of the main

squarely r

road between the city and a suburb, but traffle continued around the edge of the hole as the clean-up squed worked throughout the night.

The

use of Rasoline

The or all incen- diaries first was noticed during orie of the recent Chungking raids, when a bomb penetrated the roof and two floors of the National Library and burled itself in loose damp earth below, after leaving a blotch which appeared and smelled like gasoline,

Axis Ship For

Britain

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Reuter). -The 8,000-ton Italian liner Leme, which was among Axis ships requisi... tioned by the United States, will, it

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reported, shortly be transferred to Britain under the Lense-Lend pro cedure.

The damage inflicted by her crew before she was requisitioned is now being repaired.

The United States thus far has re- quisitioned about 60: foreign ships. The Leme would be the first of these to be transferred to Britain.

Library Was Once Nassau Prison

(UP)--The

An odd octagonal

kliled by an unknown-gunman in the N.Y.K, steamer Hakone badly that I slithered Into the

Shanghai this Maru, which arrived bringing 77 scuppers where I was badly burnt

a Shanghai diamong according to Japanese evacuees from Bombay and by acid from burst containers,

The shooting occurred when Chen Public Library,

NASSAU, Bahamas "We lowered a Colombo.

was passing Yates Road in his rick-building not far blinding

glare searchlight The Temesis began to time to the Alstertor, which was ahead and killed him instantly. The Prison. move, causing us to fear we were converted banana ship with first- gunman escaped. goners, because the-life-boat was cings prisoners accommodation. Sho leaking and the water-casks had had a crew of 17-year-old cadets. been holed; but the Germans were We were permitted to be on deck all manoeuvring to shelter us while they day."

of the Temesis's "We were transferred again, this sho, Several bullets penetrated his Square, originally was

from Rawson's

Japanese dreles maintained that Mrs Tsumuri's trip was planned long ago and was accelerated owing to her son'e-Ulness-at-home and not due to the political tension.

It is expected that 800 Japanese evacuees from Malaya will sail on the oMelal evacuation ship Fuzo Maru, which is expected at Singapore on September 21.

helped us aboard. They also lower- Describing the rescue, King said ed a launch to search for survivors, that a Catalina flying-boat appeared "The Temesls is a ship of 8,000 and the Alstertor's captain told the

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Draftees' Mothers Organise

WILKES-BARRE, Po. (UP). Local mothers whose sons have been drafted have banded together in an effort to stretch the maternal apron string from the home kitchen to the army camp.

The organisation, known us the "Mothers of Selecters," is headed by Mrs Alan Kistler, whose three sons have been called to the colours.

the Nassau

The old building, set in the midst of a park bright with bougainvillen and hibiscus and shaded by royal palms, was built in 1797, during the reign of George III, and served as a jail until 1847, in Queen Victoria's reign, when it was made a public library and museum.

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Rival To Golden Gate Bridge

SAN FRANCISCO," (UP),—Son Francisco has a third bridge with as impressive, record as the more famous Golden Gate and San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridges the Third and Channel aqueduct city engineers ro- yealed

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Since its dedication in 1933 more than 77,000,000 cars have passed over Its span and its gates have been rais ed aver 177,000 times to allow ships

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