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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1940
COASTAL COMMAND'S 8,000,000 MILES SINCE SEPTEMBER
London, To-day.
SINCE THE INVASION OF NORWAY, the Coastal Com- mand has flown over 30,000 miles over Norway on re- connaissance, taking photographs and surveying fjords and enemy positions.
Now that at last the German Navy has put to sea, the Coastal Command has been doing excellent naval co-operation working, spotting and accurately reporting a variety of craft from minesweepers to pocket-battleships.
These successes have tended to over- shadow the achievements of the Coast- al Command 'planes during the early months, but the figures speak for themselves.
CHINA'S CLAIM TO
LEADERSHIP
Since the war began, the Coastal Command 'planes have flown some [8,000,000 miles on patrol. Even in the worst weather of the winter months,
LONDON, TO-DAY: the 'planes did not fly less than 250,-
Most of the THE LEADERSHIP OF THE FAR 000 miles each week.
FALLS TO Coastal Command pilots have flown EAST INEVITABLY
AND the equivalent of at least once round CHINA BY REASON OF HER VAST
AREA AND POPULATION
BY the world since the war began.
HER CUL- Each week, 4,000 ships are guarded EVEN MORE
AND NATIONAL GENIUS DECLARED by the 'planes .of the Coastal Com- TURE mand, and to date no British or naval FOR DEVELOPMENT,
THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR, MR. SPEAKING YES- ship has been lost while under air convoy. No less than 600 tours of the QUO TAI-CHI, fishing fleets were made to protect TERDAY AT THE BRITISH AS- them against enemy 'planes and U-SOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING.
boats.
re-
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"I can entertain no facile optimism as regards the redemption of the Ja- practicable domina- panese people within a measure of time from the made
tion of the military caste and their
Over 20,000 photographs and ports of ships believed to be Germans masquerading as neutrals have been made, 80 attacks have been against U-boats and literally hundreds
of mines have been located and des- troyed.
The record, incidentally, is getting better every day!-Reuter.
2,000,000 IN EMPIRE IN ARMY
London, To-day.
hegemony programme of Asia and mastery over the Pacific areas."
in East Western
Mr. Quò added China had an im- portant part to play in Anglo-Ameri- the stratégic can relations because and commercial interests of Britain and the United States were parallel in the Far East.-Reuter.
INDUSTRIALS HESITANT ON STOCK MARKET
`London, To-day. Gilt-edged securities and Kaffirs were strong on the Stock Exchange
that they stand to benefit from the
bond issues during wartime. Penin-
It is authoritatively learn-yesterday owing to the market's view ed that the British Empire Budget. Industrials were hesitant ow- now has 2,000,000 men under ing to difficulties in readjusting values arms, exclusive of the Royal following the limitation of dividends, Navy, Marines, Mercantile together with the prohibition of scrip Marine, R.A.F., police, civil sula and Oriental are maintaining an defence services, all civil interim dividend of 2 per cent. on de- Wall Street was narrowly irregular. transport personnel, workers in war industries and áll-Reuter. other public services.
The armies in France and the Mid- dle East are being steadily augmented. "The average age of the British soldier is now 26.
A large number of volunteers from the older age groups are still being accepted for the army, and for every three men so far called up two such
enlisted. volunteers
been have Reuter.
DANES ANXIOUS TO AID ALLIES
London, To-day.
ferred stock.
SELENGA SEIZURE ACHIEVES PURPOSE
London, To-day. Detention of the Soviet ships Selenga and Vladimir Mayakowsky, first in Hong Kong, and then in Saigon, is stated in London to have produced the result desired.
Since the detention no further Soviet ships have sailed from the United States with cargoes likely to constitute contraband.--Reuter,
PICTURES OF WORK OF THE NAVY
„London, To-day.
We are to have more photographs showing the work of the Royal Navy! It was announced in the House of arrange- Commons yesterday that ments have been made for number Danes in Great Britain of newsreel cameramen to be attach- will not be treated as enemyed to units of the Fleet. Already, a number of naval photographs have aliens.
been taken by some of the seamen This announcement by the Home and some of these have recently ap- Office received a warm welcome in
peared in the press-Reuter, the House of Commons yesterday. afternoon.
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Many Danes in Britainga,elek
xious to help the Allies in Ba
an-
the
the
struggle against the aggressiv tyranny of which Denmark latest vlotimi
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TRIAL OF UDHAM SINGH POSTPONED
London, To-day.
The trial of Udham Singh, in con- Every precaution will be taken nection with the murder of Sir Michael otherwise, O'Dwyer last month, was "postponed suspected of Nazi sympathies.-Reuat Old Bailey yesterday until the next
session. Reuter.
ter.