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"I'm Afraid!"
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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1940.
NAZI UNRESTRICTED SINKING CAMPAIGN: BRITISH LOSSES
DURING THE WEEK ending November
25, enemy action accounted for 19 British HONG KONG
ships, totalling 75,000 tons, and three Allied vessels, totalling nearly 12,500 tons. These BUILDING figures are above the weekly average but not half of those in the worst week.
It is fully recognised in Britain that the shipping problem is serious, and both Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Cross have dealt with the matter frankly in the past few days.
The Germans are putting into ervice, their new submarines, and now have, the whole of the French coast to use for bases.
British experts are hard at work devising ways of meeting the pro- blem, while a steady stream of. new warships is going into ser- vice,
story behind the repcated RA raids on Lorient, which again on Monday night had a dose of Br tish bombs.
FREIGHTERS
Eleven freighters of standard type are to be built for the Empire in Hong Kong, the “China Mail learns.
"The ships are all to be about 9,200 tops, so that the total ton- nage will be over 100,000.
Five keels have already been laid down, and the construction wark: Isdiyided- between Kow- And while this is going on, thelon Docks and Taikou, Dorks.
...All arrangements .for. steel 'sup- United States is selling us ship-plies have been made, from un
Some of the new U-boats, too,ping already in service and build-Empire country. never even get to sea: That is the ing new ships for us.
WORSE THAN BOMBS
Air raid shelter users this winter particular ly children will be in far greater danger of con- tracting influenza, pleu- risy or pneumonia than of being hit by a bomb.
Mr. Roland Cross, Minister
of shipping, announced in the House of Commons late yea terday afternoon that orders have been placed with U.S. firma
construction for, the
of 60 cargo-ships, white vessels al- ready afloat have been, and will [continue to be, bought...
Britain, meanwhile, is making the best use of the tonnage she has, and is doing without non- essentials to make more space for shipments of munitions and other
Reuter. war materials...
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Orders For Sixty
New Ships
The British Government has- placed orders with United States shipbuilders for the construction of 60 cargo ships. ·
MERCHANT'S SERIOUS LOSS
A large quantity of jewellery and $2,590 In local currency was stolen from No. 14, Wing On Street, between 1 am. and 6 am. yesterday.
The premises are the residènce of Mr. Wong Ping-kwan, and they were entered through an
open window during the night.
No arrest has yet been made.
PETROL IN JUNKS
That is the opinion of Scun- thorpe (Lincolnshirey doctors,
Six junk fokis were each fin- who have been advising peo
*ed $100 •by• Mr. E. · Himsworth ple, not to use their outside
this morning for possession of chelters during the winter, but A Government spokesman in petroleum on board their junks to take the risk of staying the Commons yesterday gave an yesterday without the necessary Indoors, on the ground floor assurance that in addition service- | permit., THE and near an inner wall-orable vessels continue to be pur- Altogether. 1,300 tins of kero- under the stairs.
chased through the Maritime sense were found on board their
junks. They have strongly advised all Commission-Reuter. bronchial patients not to refuge out of doors.
All Feel The Same Practically all the doctors
expressed the town have same opinion.
seek
in the
Last winter many Anderson shelters were found to be damp and although same people have since taken them up and
put them on the surface (with the local authority supplying thou- sands of tons of earth or sand to cover them) the doctors are still disca..sfied with the shelters.
..
Scunthorpe Corporation tried to persuade the Minister of Home Security to line all chef- tera with concrete, and sen*. an estimate of the cost obtain. ed through tenders. It worked out at £3 58. a shelter. The Minister turned, "the project down on account of the cost, There are just over 10,000 An-- derson shelters in Sounthorpe.
"Must Take A Risk''
Scounthorpe controller's reply to the town's medical, mento, is: In war-t.me everyone must take a risk. The Government have provided the shelters and it is up to the individual householde to decide whether he will risk. Influenza or. a: bomb. He or she should remember that a... doctoi cah cure a chill
'Getterally," added. (Aldermatt Kennedy, there is time, after the siren has sounded, to take children from their beds and get them used to a change, o temperature inside the house. Then, if they are well wrapped up, and the shelter is warm there should be litio, rĖKINA
“Making.........shsl era:,,habitable should not be beyond the Ingenu- ity of the average householder: If ho is in too, great a difficulty with it, then he, thould 'nsk for | help":from his local authority"
COMPENSATION FOR
RAID - VICTIMS
The Egyptien Government is compensating the victims of Fas- cist bombing ra'ds from Italian funds held in Egypt.
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