· THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1940
BATTLE FOR AIR
AIR MASTERY Expected To Increase In Intensity Over Britain
Night Attacks SHANGHAI
On Larger Scale Predicted
¿ GERMANY, HAVING SUFFERED A VERY SHARP REVERSE, MAY BE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE WEIGHT OF HER AIR OFFEN- SIVE AGAINST BRITAIN, PARTICULARLY AT NIGHT; THIS AUTHORITATIVE VIEW, WRITES - REUTER'S AIR CORRESPONDENT, WAS EXPRESSED IN LONDON YESTERDAY.
IT IS BELIEVED Hitler's primary objec- tive will still be to defeat the R.A.F. which has so upset his plans since the fall of France.
SHIPPING
FIGURES
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
Total tonnage of ship- ping traffic în Shanghai during July amounted to 1,687,000 tons showing a decrease of 40,000 tons.
The decrease was due almost
inland ports entirely to reduced traffic with
as a result of the tightened econo- mic control within Japanese oc- cupied territory and the exten- sion of the Japanese blockade. On the other hand movement of vessels for and from abroad in- creased by 76,000 tons to 1,186,-
and coastal traffic
800 tons.
This is remarkable in that dur- ing July. French tonnage declined by 52,000 tons, with a single French vessel of 5,077 tons enter- ing and clearing.
Italian vessels completely ceas-
to
Thus Nazi bombs will be aimed mainly ated while the tonnage of U.S. ves- aerodromes, aircraft factories and auxiliary ses dropped by 27,000 tons industrial plants.
84,000 tons. Japanese tonnage! Jamounted to 526,000 tons, an in-
crease of 87,000,
Japanese, shipping
represented
accounted for almost three- quarters of Shanghai's foreign shipping.
Thereby Hitler hopes chiefly, to R.A.F. On the outbreak of war destroy the means which contri-the R.A.F. further increased its 44 per cent of the total while Bri- bute to the whittling down of the lead in this respect by experience tish accounted for a little less offensive power of the Luftwaffe gained on leaflet raids.
than 30 per cent. and to a less extent, diminish the It now appears that in this These two figures together scale of R.A.F. bombing of Ger-immediate phase the enemy is many and occupied territories. turning towards night attack. Invasion has not been aban-His meagre successes seem to doned although it may have to reflect tardy adoption of be postponed until the Spring flying technique. since, time is certainly getting short for the essential prelim. inary to be achieved before Winter "knocking out" the R.A.F.
No Signs
Recent reconnaissance has not
were taken by
U.S. CONSCRIPTION CHINA GOES BILL REACHES
BACK TO FURTHER STAGE
The U.S. Senate yesterday adopted, without a division, an amendment to the Compulsory Service
Bill limiting to 900,- 000 the number of conscripts who could be under training at any one time.
During the debate, Senator Sheppard,
chairman of the Sen- ate military commit- tee, said it was the War Department's in- tention to give 3,400,- 000 conscripts one year's training over the next five years. Reuter.
MASTERY
OF
THE AIR
THE PAST !
TO RE-INSTITUTE THE AN- CIENT CHINESE COURIER TRANSPORTATION ' SYSTEM, THE ICHAN SERVICE, "AS A |SEQUEL TO THE CLOSURE OF THE FRENCH INDO-CHINA AND BURMA ROUTES, THE MINIS- TRY OF COMMUNICATIONS HAS APPOINTED WANG KUO- HWA AND WANG PING-NAN, COMMUNICATION EXPERTS, AS DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE I CHAN SERVICE ADMINISTRATION TO BE ESTABLISHED SHORTLY.
The Ministry is drawing up comprehensive plans for the ser-.
vice.
In an interview, Mr. Wang Kuo- hwa said that the re-introduction of this 3,000-year old transporta- tion system is of special signifi- cance during the present war of resistance.
With scientific modifications, the
system will be able to solve trans- portation difficulties in China, with
an efficiency greatly surpassing that of older days.
For the time being, the service will be operated in the south- western and north-western "pro-' vinces. Later it will be extended to all other districts in the rear as well as in the "occupied areas".
Central News.
happen then and by what we have observed so far 'his' statement that British, air raids will attain un- imaginable proportions is in no way an exaggeration.
The Premier tells us also that the weapon which will over- throw Germany "is hot only the air arm but the · morë terrible one "af" blockåde,« j For months Germany
night Norwegian vessels with 96,000 fons were in third place, follow- Now the enemy, is attackingled by U.S. vessels and Nether-] by night he appears to have lands, British
first vessels took selected targets Involving air place in Shanghai coastal shipping. potential for attack. But he though experiencing a decrease of does not seem to have located 31,000 to 144,000 tons. targets exactly and his bomb- Japanese vessels with a total of ing has been surprisingly in-126,000 tons, decreased by 24,000 Already, despite numeri- accurate,
tons and took second place. The cal inferiority, the R.A.F. When German night raiders following place revealed any sign of preparation over Britain cannot find their Norwegian (38,000 tons), Nether has acquired the mastery for an imminent attempt at inva- targets they seem content
to lands (34,000), German (18,000). of the air, states the news-bousted she has blockaded Bri- sion.
drop their bombs anywhere, -Havas. Germany spent the month's in-hoping to create panic. terval between the end of the Battle of France and the first mass air attacks on Britain on August 8 in moving forward chiefly into
northern France. concentrations...of fighters and short range bombers from behind. the Rhine.
crescendo, in
BROKE INTO KNITTING FACTORY
1
It would not cause surprise in London, given the relative. failure of the tactics so farem- ployed against Britain in the air, if there were an Increase in sporadic, and rather aimless night raiding in the hope of adversely
Two months'. hard labour was affecting public imposed by Mr. Q, A. A. Macfad- morale.
yet, at Kowloon this morning on
The growing enemy air activity during the Because even very heavy mass Li Ki, 22, for entering the Man next ten days seems to have day attacks on aerodromes of the Sang Knitting Factory, at No. 142, kept pace with the gradual in-Fighter Command have proved Kuikong Street, ground floor, yes- crease in these preparations for much less effective than a.blitzkrieg on Britain.
the terday, and stealing four rolls of Germans must have hoped. Such cloth.
It is believed Germany could damage as has been done has. A Chinese constable who saw hardly have been prepared fot for practical purposes been re-flashes of light in the building, toal war from the start, and an paired within quite a short time. went in and increase in the scale of attacks is-British Wireless.
arrested accused. likely to follow as the organisa-
Two accomplices escaped, tion of bomber squadrons im-
proves.
The outlook, however, is not
regarded pessimistically.
Too Expensive
the
Germany's fond belief in efficacy of precise day bombing was badly upset at the start by the stoutness of resistance the R.A.F. and British anti-air- craft gunners, and she may be ex- pected to carry out more and
pensive.
by
EMPIRE MUNITIONS DRIVE IN THE EAST
Mr. HERBERT MORRISON, Minister of Sup- more night raiding as day opera-ply, disclosed in London yesterday that a special tins prove more and more ex-mission under Sir Alexander Roger is on the way to Germany is now training her India to investigate means of increasing India's pro- night crews as fast as she can duction of munitions and other war stores both for on the far side of Germany and her own needs and to meet those of the forces in Losses of aircraft in the first the Middle East and east of Suez.
in occupied Poland.
blitzkrieg attempt have forced Germany to aim at closer syn- chronisation of day and night, at- tacks, since the blitzkrieg re-open- ed and now she is aiming heavy blows on several different tar- gets at roughly the same time, re- peating this twice and sometimes three Umes a day.
Sauce For Goase
NO MORE
FANCY BREADS
The task of increasing India's arms industry will need to bel considered in relation to the ex- isting and potential arms output of other Empire countries in the Eastern Hemisphero Austrália, New Zealand, South Africa, South Rhodesia, Burma, Hong Kong, FROM YESTERDAY, ENGLISH Ceylon, Malaya and the East |HOUSE-WIVES-CAN ONLY BUY African territories.
FOUR KINDS OF LOAF AND Hence it is fortunate that the Loosely directed mass attacks SCOTTISH HOUSE-WIVES FIVE conference of representatives of all day by from 500 to 1,000 KINDS. THIS WILL CAUSE those countries will be meeting| 'planes, like those during the first LITTLE OR NO INCONVENŢ- at Delhi during the time of the phase of the blitzkrieg, proved too ENCE. AS ALL THE COMMON Ministry of Supply mission's expensive.
TYPES ARE STILL BEING stay in India. One final comment made yes-MADE, BUT IT WILL SAVE In pursuance of the same ob- terday was: "Up to date Britain WASTE AND UNNECESSARY {fect and at the request of the has done for more bombing dam- WORK IN BAKERIES.
Union Government, the mission age to Germapy's war effort than British house-wives who re-will profit by Its call at Capetown Germany has done to hers, and member the last war say that res-jen route for India to study the as Germany's effort increases so trictions are less extensive
and munitions capacity of South will Britain's."— Reuter
Inconvenient than those of 1017, Africa.-Reuter. when the U-boat campaign was at
German Training
The general trend of enemy pre-war air training was special ised day flying. Not so with the
its height. The Food Controller
In that year issued an urgent ap-'dence to show how far less effec-: peal to eat less food, particularly live is the blockade of 1940 of bread,
which the Nazis are talking so To-day, there is plenty of evi-much. Reuter.
has
paper Yenisabah" of tain, and yet merchant ships re- gularly unload foodstuffs, muni- Istanbul yesterday.
tions and raw materials of Bri-
When the R.A.F. has acquired tish ports. numerical superiority the position will further improve."
..
Can one say the same of Ger- many and occupied territory? The Premier tells us what will Reuter.
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