THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
WASHINGTON NOT SURPRISED
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While terms of the armistice between Indo-China and Thailand are still not officially dis- closed, reports from the Far East that Japan has used the occasion to get more out of it than anyone else surprise none in Washington, indeed it had been fully expected.
The general view of the situation is that Japan has secured though the fiction of mediation what she might otherwise have had to fight for.
It is believed in informed cum - fers here that Japan's new tech- nikque is too closely allied to Axis procedure to allow of Berlin's in- Huence being dissneraled from what recently
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USE OF
TORPEDO 'PLANES
The assault carried out!
The idea p. bebeved to be plam to put Japan In A arking prOSI firm against both Singapore and by the Fleet Air Arm on! Rangoon as well as to be handily the main units of the Ita-]
placed fer adventures toward the
Netherlands East Indie if delian fleet velopment. favour such a move While at 15 But expected that Japan will be
a position
as they lay in
their base at Taranto is unique in the history of
pade any threats of that nature air warfare, writes the Air|||
for some time at in recognized that she has taken a further step 111 that "strong determmation. push Japanese expansion south- ward of which Me Yosuke Mat-
suoka, Foreign Minister, recently spoke.
"Typhoon Weather"
Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian."
For the first tune battleships were completely vanquished by aeroplanes, and for the first time torpedo-carrying aircraft were used in a large-scale attack.
At the present t me the Fleet Air The "Washington Star" uses the Arm is mainly equipped with two term "typhoon weather" to des-, types of torpedo 'planes.
These
The Alba-
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cribe the political situation created are the Fairey Swordfish and the by Japan's further encroachment Fairey Albacore. Both are biplanes, on Indo-China's sovereignty. In and the former, though a machine the midst of such weather the of 1935 design, has done good work news of the Netherlands East In- since the war began. dies' refusal to be incorporated inre is a new type and went into Japan's new order is distinctly, service only recently. It has cheering here,
Bristol engine, and, like the Swordfish, carries a torpedo un- The crew The New York "Herald-Tri- derneath the fuselage.
an enclosed bune" refers to the spirited reply is accommodated in to Mr. Matsuoka's suggestion of cabin, the pilot sitting in front of "Intimate, inseparable relation" the top wing and the navigator and with Japan and adds, "After the' gunner behind him. The perfor- success the Japanese have hud in|mance of the Albacore and its bullying their way into Indo- runge and speed have not yet been China this will be disconcerting to revealed, but its high power and Tokyo. All piratically minded clean lines suggest that it must be Army and Navy men there who an exceptional aircraft. have been whipping up each other's courage for a raid into the South Seas and whetting each
Britain's Lead
other's appetite for easy tool will A wealth of experience is be- be wondering if there is not stinehind these torpedo 'planes and the reason they have overlooked why technique required in employing luoting is not going to be so easy." them in such act ons as that which has just been made in the Mediter-
The paper suggests they willanean, No other country has de- jump at the conclusion that the veloped torpedo-dropping from the Netherlands East Indies' reply air to such an extent as Britain, would not be issued without Bri-and the method and mechanical tish encouragement and this may devices involved in connection lead them to guess there will be with it have been kept secret. some secret pledge of naval id From the close of the last war un- from the United States.
til last year experiments were be- ing made with aircraft carrying torpedoes weighing nearly 2,000 pounds, and successive types of torpedo-carrying aeroplanes for operation from both shore bases and warships have been produced.
Useful Diversion
The Hera'd-Tribune" says the Germans are probably delighted, to be leve this because their only use for Japan is to have her create The Axis too employs torpedo a diversion of American attention planes. Germany has numbers from Europe, but the Japanese are of Arado seaplanes and Italy has, hardly delighted because their only use for Germany is to keep number of Cant
among other types, a considerable float seaplanes. the British Navy busy while they Some of these have been destroyed exploit their opportunities, and
by the R.A.F. as they would much rather American vessels in the Atlantic
Navy. sinking German submarines than nosing into the western Pacific to give Japan's prospective victims courage to resist the forces of oc- cupation. whose efficiency the Chinese already have discredited,
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well as by the
'KILL SECRET IN
MY MIND'
HOTELS
BECOME CHURCHES
Altars have been erected and religious services are being held in two Coventry hotels.
They are being used
temporary chur- ches by parishioners of St. Nicholas and St. Francis, Radford, Coventry, which suf- fered badly in the big raid.
The altars are in the assembly rooms of the Gropes Hotel and the Pilot Hotel, where priests hold Com munion and services each Sunday.