THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1941.
HUGE
MEET HITLER SHORTLY
ARMOURED PETAIN TO CITADELS FOR THE NAVY
(By A Shipping Correspondent)
BRITAIN'S FIVE NEW BATTLESHIPS, WHEN IN SERVICE, WILL FORM THE FIRST COMPLETE SQUADRON OF NEW CAPITAL SHIPS TO JOIN THE ROYAL NAVY SINCE THE GREAT WAR.
Already the Navy has been reinforced by the first of the King George V. class, laid down in 1937. The King George V., Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Beatty and Jellicoe are the most formidable battle- ships ever built.
These 35,000-ton warships, cost- mg £8,000,000 each, have homb-
our plating and all the aufi-arreraft devices.
latest
Geared turbines developing 130,000-horse power, will drivu them through the water at # 30 maximum designed speed of knots This is five knots faster than the speed of any exuting British battleship.
Besides the inam arınament o
battleships
14 guns the
new
will carry a secondary battery of
16 525m.
GIRL IN
DARK SAW MURDER
Sitting in the shadows The 5.25mn. gun is new wea-behind the counter of a pon for the Royal Navy It was North London hotel, a girl] The Bonaventure class in 1938. It was a mute witness of the is the result of long experiments murder of a friend and and tests and has proved itself
Arst mounted in the cruisers of
capable of attaining a high rate colleague.
of fire combined with tremendous hitting poWYE
and accuracy at Jong range,
I am informed that this fun, on past performances, considered for superior to naval medium-calibre piece veloped by any other natica
Like A Puzzle
nev
As the strains of dance musie from the crowded hotel lounge a few yards away mingled with the dull boon of A.A. guns, Gwendu- isine Cox, forty-two, the hotel ofY- any licence manageress, fell dying be- dehind the counter with a bullet from the revolver of a masked bandit in her chest.
And
bandit as the
stood, il smoking revover in hand, the un- seen witness of the tragedy ran into the lounge screaming. "Miss Cux has been shot!”
Over a third of the displace ment of these capital ships devoted to armour protection. The will enable them to receive teri
The band stopped playing, cus
fe punishment without their Bight-tomers jumped to their feet, and Ang efficiency being impaired.
Naval experts have compar
the landlord vaulted the counter.
ran into the eff-licence. and
ed to me the general design of found Miss Cox lying bleeding on
their
Chinese Interiors with a puzzle-box. That ic. Берагае inner hulls are fitted into the outer shell.
tend
1
Magazines, engine and boiler toons and all other interne vil- nerable spaces are contained the inermost "bus" rounded by thick arHOUT Lets In this way vital parts are com pletely isolated from the effects of explosions which might break the outer hull er even shatter the first of the inner hulls.
The floor.
In her lap was a bottle which she had picked up to defend her- self when the gunman with tw other men crashed into the little room during the air raid.
Died In Man's Arms
the landlord Kneeling down, star-
placed his thumb in the wound in the dying woman's chest in a vain attempt to stop the bleeding. His wife ran to the door and heard in the darkness the sound of a high- powered car being driven away.
She died in the
In the event of a hit by a tor-Gwendoline Cox never recovered pedo, mine or shell, damage will consciousness. be localised and the rush of landlord's arms. water confined to a small area of the hull.
Two thick belts of deckar- 'mour extending from side to side of the ships and covering all vulnerable compartiments provide the maximum possible protection #gainst plunging shell fire and aerini bombardment.
It was at nine o'clock at night that the door of the off-licence of the Alexandra Park Tavern, High Road, Wood Green, swung open, A Miss man walked in and asked Cox for a brand of cigaretttes she did not stock.
Miss Cox's friend, Alice Higgins. was sitting in the shadows. A few Even the bridges and gunnery seconds later three men entered
 them had control towers are enclosed in a One of
black silk heavily armoured citadel. And handkerchief over the lower part between the two funnels on each of his face and his overcoat collar ship is a hangar to acconimodate turned up. *planes.
4-Gun Turret
In their armament King George V. and her sisters strike an en- tirely new note in British prac- tice as the main battery of 10 14in. guns is mounted in two quadruple and one double turret.
This man pointed a revolver at Miss Cox.
The story of what happened then has been told to the landlord by Miss Higgins.
"The man said, 'I want the money. Put your hands 'up,'" the landlord told a reporter. "'I should say so,' Miss Cox sald. Then she plaked up a bottle to defend herself,
The four-gun turret was first used in the French battleship "At close range the man, who Dunkerque. But whereas the suddenly saw Miss Higgins jump Dunkerque mounts 13in. guns, to her feet, tired a bullet at Miss the 14in. guns of these new Bri- Cox. Miss Higgins was able to tish battleships will be the give the police good descriptions heaviest weapons yet mounted in [of the men, quadruple turrets.
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No torpedo tubes will be mounted, as naval opinion, am told, inclines to the view. that torpedo work is no longer within the province of the capt tal chip, which can attack more effectively with her guns,
"Miss Cox's home was at Scar- borough. She was not afraid of| anything, even air raids."
DIVORCE AFTER
45 YEARS
Married forty-five years ago, Mr. Orton Watson, of Beaumont
Each of our new battleships Road, Bradford, was granted a [will carry a crew of 1,500 officers decree nisi in the Divorce. Court and men. They were launched because of desertion by his wife,
considerably more advanced In Sarah Ant. equipment than is customary. And
Mr. Watson's case was that his
when this happens the time of wite went to her two daughters in completion for sea lɛ, of course, Australia in 1922, and had never «correspondingly shorter.com
returned..
Hitler and Marshal
may
meet
Petain again shortly, accord- ing to Ankara radio, which declared last night that there were 'certan persistent re- ports" suggesting such
a move.
Vichy's representa- tive in Paris, the Count de Brinon, has returned with just Hitler's reply to Mar- shal Petain's recent Note.--Reuter.
NAVAL BUILDING BILL PASSED
The Bill authorising the alloca- tion of $909,000,000 for expand-
was
ing naval construction facilities anel building 400 small Navy
raft,
passed by the U.S. Senato yesterday and sent to the
Minesweepers. and submarine White House for signature. chasers are included among erafi
to be built.
Reuter
FIVE BEHEADED IN BERLIN
TO EVERY MAN THE STRENGTH OF TEN!
UNAID