The Archive · 1938

In Hongkong

Truck Collision Ends in Fourteen Casualties

Hongkong, Nov. 12.

Three Royal Artillery gunners, Benton, Sutton and Ross, were killed today and eleven injured, when the military truck in which they were travelling, and which was towing a gun assembly, collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction.

The military truck, which, at the time of the accident, was proceeding along the Customs pass which leads to new gun emplacements on the east coast of Kowloon, fell off the edge of the road into a deep nullah.

Another gunner, named Paul, who is among the injured, is not expected to live—Reuter.

New York, Nov. 12.

Protests against the treatment of Jews in Germany were made today in a broadcast by Mr. Thomas Dewey, recently defeated Republican candidate for the governorship of the State of New York, and Mr. Alfred Smith, a former Governor of New York State. Mr. Smith said that Herr Hitler's challenge is not against the Jewish people alone, but against Catholics, Protestants" and everyone else.

In Washington, D. C. a zi demonstrators carrying banners and "Boycott Fascist aggre paraded near the German y yesterday. Police prevented them from approaching the building too closely, News of the anti-Jewish outrages in Germany are given prominence in all Washington newspapers here.—Reuter, Jewish Property in

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