Hongkong, June 17.
General Li Han-wan, chairman of the Kwangtung provincial government, General Chang Fah-kwei, acting commander-in-chief of the 4th war area, and General Vu Han-mou, deputy commander-in-chief, have issued a joint manifesto addressed to the Chinese on Hainan Island urging them to fight to the bitter end.
The manifesto points out that their activities will contribute considerably to the nation-wide resistance campaign and warns against yielding to any coercion or temptation by the enemy to turn traitor.—Trans-Ocean. a report on the naval week gave a short account of the submarine catastrophe.
"Lo Matin" says that the Phenix. which belonged to the Mediterranean Fleet of the French Navy, had left her home port, Toulon, in November last year for a special mission in the Far East. The cause of the disaster is still not clear. According to "Lo Matin," the Phenix was a "submarine of the first class" The standard type of that class is the 1,500-ton submarine Redoutable built on the basis of the naval budget of 1924. The Phenix was laid on stocks in 1927 and put into commission in 1930. She had a displacement of 1379 tons while on the surface and of 2,000 tons while submerged. She had two diesel-and electro-motors with 6,000 h.p. on the surface and 00 lip while submerged.—Trans-Oce:
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