London, May 31.
In the action against the idg Sol one of His Majesty's ships I saw away, with hêr guns Bismarck, British: warships apart fron the-battl"ce-nisser Hood. sustained casualties cf-95- killed and 13 wounded, the d to fall just fire broke out with d 15-inch (next wes a strang: the whole' vast of feet into the air'and one oan the sea.
"The Hood's long, fine bows tilted (Continued from page 1) vertically-into: the air.' Three or four!
s after she was hit-all that rë] another Chinese to the office to ask apart from pieces of wreck= someone to'6ome down. The Japanesecthen proceeded into the stron' on' the surface of the sea. room from where the money was bè- Suryivors Picked Up img taken out and, together with his accomplice, transferred" the parcels into-his own car.
A destroyer was diverted to rescue Before, the stupefed witnesses work and' managed to pick up three of the pam dig med seamen Kpew what Was happening, the Jap-soso and his Chinese accomplice got AW tuis te à the Prince of Wales into the car and ürove away." then that thatthe supervisor and l'to pour shells at the His marck. More than once spurts of cobbes. as well as the three who had been detailed to watch "over water' showed' she" was straddled?
Again the Bismarck's shells crashed the money, realized that they had been robbed and raised. an alarm fear the Prince of Wales, but! no The car the robbers had by then "damáge hed been done.
C: "Wales never lost her disappeared.
Ball. Set Rolling The case was immediately reporíed io the Settlement police and Japan-Se authOrities-and the ball was set rolling." With" the number of the vehicle known to them; the detectives from the Hoi police sta-1 carried out attacks, ieee dntermitttentiy for: three days tion traced the car to Sung Dal gar-these attacks were de again Hongkew. The detectives pro ceeded there and found the chautand four nights. feur'ot the vehi¢le on the premises He Was taken back:'to the station From the "Dorsetshire that" she "hen came "the final dramatic signal had ang questioned as t6 what he knew torpedoed the: "Bismarck.
Last Half Hour Cf'thé'robbery. "He answered that the two men'had hired him at the garage' and ordered "him: to take "The last half hour of the Bismarck, fHemwito the Post 'Office: After a blasted by. gunfire and torpedoes front minutes thee; durlhg which he Dno of ships which followed the ritish warships. was described by'
chase to the final stage. assent; intó the'taxi and tole saw. them take" yo pede the
"In the words of one eye-witness: [rare io drive them^to "The enemy fought with great Sit radios in Scott Road: There bravery, but he had a hopeless pro* Row but" the detectives: discovered him: off and disappeared Was'takel to" Scot"
among entire ships company "The officer spoke of the enthusiasm that-the-address give ti was a house Occupied by the Japanese military aboard his vessel when the words authorities. The police, having no "enemy iti sight" were passed to all right -to enter the premises were quarters after the long chase, which forced to stop their investigations taminatad, at-dawn on The entire case Was given over te the Japsnese "gendarmerie for investigations, since" the detectives are notin possession of full description"
lo Bismarck was reported of'the: tWo'robbers, apart from the "at a range of 13 miles. fact that they "both wore foreign shortly' "atterwerds," con-clothes. The chauffeur, it was betinued this officer, "Wwe opened fire and two minutës later ber George V lieved; was also handed over to the Japanese for further questioning did (he same. - Almost simultaneously about the crime. returned the fire. Our güVe the impression Well "informed sources believed under control-and yesterday that the robbery could not steering very She "appeared have: been committed without some-sen boat ana vas "yawing from "soi about Ye lao or^so on one inside the Post Office tipping off the robbers ofthe transfer of Blue ride ho bones the huge sum from the strong room about tt but came straight towards us. of the. General Post Office to the "Her first salvo fell about 1000 Postal Savings and Remittance Bank Yards'Short;'her second straddled us, if" Klángse. Róad; tspecially so since rds. and her: third; owing to measures we the money had only been received thought. necessary to take; fell over." here on Friday.
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