KEEPING OPEN OUR LIFE-LINES
Mr. A.V. Alexander On The Effort Of The Navy
Vast Expansion Of Escort Ships
"THE VERY HEART OF OUR STRUGGLE IS KEEPING OPEN OUR LIFE-LINES TO THE WORLD AND ESPECIALLY TO THE UNITED STATES," DECLARED MR. A. V. ALEXANDER, FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, IN A BROADCAST REVIEW FROM LONDON YESTERDAY OF THE NAVY'S WORK.
The construction of every type of escort vessel, he said, was being speeded up to the full and Britain's shipbuilding capacities were being employed to the full.
MEETS THE OLD SOLDIERS the United States and the Dominions can do
"We shall take full advantage of what
as regards the construction of merchant ship-
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Old soldiers greeted; ping." General Auchinleck,|
M Alexander continued: "With hands with such bvious plea - Commander-in-Chief, In- the assistance of American me-ur and we hel dia, when he attended a cantile shipbuilding I
"The Navy is now carrying out In expect anything but similar operations in support of Soldiers' Board meeting that we shall win through, aul our South African troops and the at Bulanshahr yesterday. the figures of shipping losses for Air Force units who have penc- Somaliland, have Replying in Urdu to an address the last mine weeks are encourag-trated Italian
already captured Kimayu and of welcome (in which it was stat-
Referring to possible invasion are pressing northward Reu- ed that under General Auchin- leek's leadership India would take attempts Mr. Alexander said: "We ter
have repeatedly heard of the a full share in the struggle), the Commander-in-Chief said the Bri-feelings of despair among soldiers
who have known they fated to perish folly, and while remorselessly im- spoken over the radio since The Air Force was dally gain pelled, by yielding to the pre-exploit of the Fleet Air Arm at ing in strength, the enemy in sure of events, towards this des- Africa was routed and victory perato gamble of Invasion, an- was certain.
other nightmare of Germany has He added he had seen many come true, namely a war on two Indian soldiers in the Sudan. They I fronts, due to the collapse of were cheerful
looked Ituly which let the German plans after.
down.
tish Navy, Army and Air Force were undefeated.
and well
the
He expressed pleasure at Hoard's assistance in raising re- cruits.
The meeting was followed by demonstration of the manoeuvra-} bility and striking power of tanks on which the old soldiers invited. Reuter.
were
YOUNG GIRL CHARGED
may be in this reckless
No Flash In The Pan
"Our great successes in Africa
no flash in the pan.
"If, in pursuit of a quick end to his desperate gambie against time, an attempt at Invasion is made, the mon whom Hitler condemns to the task will play a terrible role.
"They will be an army of the doomed, doomed because of Hit- ler's fatal miscalculations."
In Mediterranean Shumi Ho, 18, a Chinese girl, was charged before Mr. H. G.
Reviewing the position in the Mediterranean, Mr. Alexander Sheldon, K.C.. this morning, with
said that the dive-bombing at- entering the Colony without per-tacks on the Fleet off Malta cost mission on January 22.
It was alleged that she hid her- the enemy about ninety machines.
self on board a ship, and attempted
to land after the Immigration Offleers had completed their in- vestigations,
Defendant pleaded not guilty.
The Dive Bomber
We may leave the dive- bomber to be dealt with by Ad- mira! Cunningham. We shall She was discharged, the pro- | break the threat of the Stukns secution offering 110 evidence Just
have broken against her,
threat of the Italian Navy.
"We hold the initiative in the Mediterranean and we shall con- tinue to use it.
as we
Consternation in Italy
Mr. Alexander recalled he had not
the
Taranto. Since then, both in the eastern and western Mediter- ranean, the Fleet had carried out
caused operations which
much the surprise and consternation to Italians.
Mr. Alexander instanced the bombardments of Genoa, Pisa and Leghorn.
On their
first appearance, German diva bombers had in. filcted considerable damage on warships escorting a convoy but the convoy got through intact and subsequent attacks on Illua. trious in Malta had been а failure costing the enemy some ninety acroplanes.
Speaking of the Navy's part in the Libyan campaign Mr. Alex- ander said there was smooth co- operation and happy comradeship Navy, Army and between the R.A.F.
These viețories had caused small privations in Britain because of the diversion of shipping. "You may have gone a little short of butter, tea and meat but you have got Bardia, Tobruk and Benghazi."
had
Trade Protection
Speaking of the Navy's trade theprotection duties Mr. Alexander said destroyers, corvettes and sloops during recent months convoyed over 3,000 ships of which only nine were lost.
"Let me say here that in "On the flank of our advancing The United States and New Zea-army and preventing reinforce- work the American jand have decided to exchange di-ments and supplies from reaching destroyers are carrying plomatic representatives, Mr. Marshal Graziani, naval vessels valuable operations."
Under-Secretary acted as water carriers for Sumner Welles,
N.Z. ENTERS INTO DIPLOMACY
. of State, announced at a press troops and transported an
conference in Washington yester- barrassingly large number of day, says Reuter.
lian prisoners who fell into
our
em-
this Town class
out in-
Although the Navy was doing work which in the last war was Ita-shared between the navies of Bri- our tain, the U.S., France, Italy and Japan, who between them muster- ed over 900 destroyers, losses 1917 were much higher than 1941. This in spite of the added factors of air attack and the
A city chef proprietor and a restaurant chaf" combina to cook-300-luncheong on an open fire-in-a-London street, owing... to the low pressure of das In the City. (Copyright, Fox).
magnetic mine.
in in
Mr. Alexander said events might force Hitler to try an in-
| vásion--British Wireless,
ANCHORED IN A
MINEFIELD
For anchoring in the Tathong. Channel Minefield yesterday, the master of a fishing boat was fined: $20, or 21 days' imprisonment, by: Commander J. Jolly; in the Marine Court this morning.........
SNATCHER GAOLED:
- Convicted of stealing a purse from a 10-year-old girl-student in Soy Street on Monday, Ko Shing-hing", 10, an old offender, was sentenced to six months' [hard labour, by Mr. D. J. N. AnK derson at Kowloon this morning.
SCENE ON BOARD A DESTROYER Looking down the muzzleu of 4.7" after they have been sponged out. (Copy- right, Fox).
PORTUGUESE HURRICANE DEATH ROLL
It is now known that the number of deaths in the Portu- guese cyclone exceeds 100.
Three hundred fishing vessels were destroyed in the port of Sessibra alone, says Reuter from Lisbon.
ELECTROCUTED IN HIS RAID SHELTER
George Richard Shirley, aged thirty-five. a papermaker, of Pri- was ory Close, Dartford, Kent, electrocuted in his air-raid shelter during the night when he went to lift a metal electric table lamp which was connected by a lead to the house.
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Hearing his cries, Mrs. Shirley ran into the shelter and found her husband lying on the floor dead.
When she went to take the lamp from his hand she, too, received a shock. In her attempts to let go the lamp she broke the lead, thus disconnecting the current.
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