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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1939
LORD CHATFIELD ON
HIS
"MYSTERY" MINISTRY
London, To-day.
LORD CHATFIELD, MINISTER for the Co-Ordination of Defence, spoke about the work of his department at a luncheon yesterday.
He admitted that he was not well known to the general public and that the Ministry "is almost equally an enigma." Only a day or so ago, he had received a letter addressed to the "Ministry for the Succour of Great Britain." He passed it on to-well, he passed it on!
The Ministry, he said, was concern- ed with the collaboration of strategy and politics. There was now such collaboration through the War Cabl~ net, which sits almost daily. This col- laboration is also just as effective with their Allies.
Before the war, they were in close touch with France, so that when war started they
War had a Supreme Council ready to operate-instead of taking the three years needed during the Great War. There were Anglo- French staffs working in Whitehall.
WAR AT SEA
He had heard it said that "the war has not started yet." This, he said, was not the view of the sailors. Germany
is trusting in an illegal war at sea but "it will fail."
This was thanks to the refusal of the merchant sailors to be cowed by
brutality and to the endurance of the Royal Navy.
A man swimming in a shark. infested sea is in no greater dan. ger than a submarine which tries to approach the British lales, he said. Another great advantage the Allies had over Nazi Germany was their
faith that in the end they were going to reach a better world for everyone.
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BRITISH
CONVOY SUCCESS
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London, To-day. Authoritative circles in London emphasise the effi- ciency of the widely extend- ed British convoy system which gives the protection of powerful units of the Royal Navy to neutral merchant vessels trading with Britain.
The safe arrival of hundreds of convoyed vessels does not constitute news precisely because it is not sen- sational evidence of the strength of the Royal Navy and is the normal process of International trade.
Recent sinkings of British and neutral vessels, on the other hand, are of sensational news value and were used by German pro- paganda in an attempt to prove that the convoy system la ungafe for neutrals.
Actually, neutral shipowners, whose ships arrive safely week after week, know this assertion to be absurd.
Neutrals charter ships to the British Government and travel in convoy be- cause it is easier for German submar- ines to torpedo unaccompanied ships than to attack a convoy, risking depth charges from the escorting vessels.
The Royal Air Force last night kept close watch on the bases of Ger- man mine-laying planes in Heligo- | Reuter. land Bay.
It is from these bases that Nazi planes have been visiting the British coasts to drop small magnetic mines which have created so much havoc among Allied and neutral shipping- Havas.
LONDON STEAMER TORPEDOED
The
London, To-day. London steamer Deptford (4,000 tons) has been torpedoed off Stad and sank immediately.
Seven of her crew of 30 were picked up by Norwegian vessels. Two Norwegian pilots the dead. Reuter,
CAUSE OF EMPIRE
London, To-day. Contributions in money and kind to the cause of the Empire in the war still continue to arrive from sub- jects of His Majesty in every quar- ter of the British Commonwealth of Nations and from dependencies and also from British communities in many foreign lands.
Notable among the latter is the Patriotic Fund raised by the British community in the Argentine, which now amounts to approximately £10,- 000, either paid already or promised are among before October
31, Wireless.
1940.-British
ROSIE'S BEAU-
BY
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ARCHIE-IWANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS BUSINESS-
FIRST-HAVE A CĪGAR-
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THE BOSS WANTS TO SEE YOU-WHY- I DON'T KNOW-
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