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"BLOCKADE"
(By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT)
A BATTLE HAS BÉEN RAGING FOR MORE THAN HALF A YEAR OF WHICH WE HAVE HEARD LITTLE OR NOTHING, APART FROM THE BARE TOTAL OF LOSSES THAT WE OUR- SELVES HAVE SUFFERED.
It is an odd position, but this one-sided view of the naval struggle in the Atlantic is all but inevit- able. So much of what we would like to say about our own strokes of good fortune and of the good work done by our men out there would be helpful to the enemy, if he could but get hold of the informa- tion.
The battle of the Atlantic is Hitler's desperate effort to enforce his total blockade of Britain. Heavily defeated in his lightning stroke with the U-boat attack on our seaborne trade at the outset of the war, he had to abandon the campaign for several months while the utterly unexpected losses in his submarine Botillas were made good.
The Menace From The Air
Attempts during last winter to make mines an alternative and
aented by a weekly average of einkings of 88,000 tons.
The table, however, throws an interesting light on the ebb and! flow of the battle of the Atlantic. It will be seen that in every
month there is une outstanding! | week and at least une (occasion- ally two) when the total falls to about half the general average.
TWO ENEMY BOMBERS SHOT DOWN
Single German air- croft dropped bombs in East Anglia and at a few places in south and south-east Eng- land during daylight yesterday, according an Air Ministry communique.
to
These generally did little harm but at two places some damage and casualties caused. a
This fluctuation was also characteristic of the 1917 attacks, and the meaning of it, as we dis-; covered then, is that only a pro- portion of the U-boat captains are equally effective element in the really competent, and that the blockade were also defeated by periods when these few men are us, and he quickly realised how back in harbour, resting and re-. hollow were Goering's
fitting, are comparatively quies- pre-war
cent. boasts that the Luftwaffe would speedily stup all traffic to British ports.
Neither on the sea nor in the ports has the German Air Force seriously affected the naval side
of the war.
1 In 10 Dangerous
The official German history of the last U-boat campaign listed twenty "aces" and some twenty- five "next best" among the coni- manding officers, Allowing for Accordingly. last May, when men killed on service and replaced new U-boats began to come into by promoted flest officers, there service, Hitler røverted 10 the were about 450 captains engaged Tirpitz methods of unrestricted throughout the war. One in ten of subnime war. He had the luck, them was really dangerous to our which the Kauser's Navy never shipping. had, to seize naval bases much nearer to the Atlantic traffle lanes. He broke out of the "Wet Trian- gie" of the Heligoland Bight. Even since then the weekly totals tonnage sunk have been serious, They have fluctuated for reasons to be discussed later, but the aver- age of the six months
is a big figure.
of
Those who only see the indivi- dual weekly returns may not have realised just the size of the inroads made on the world's sea- carrying capacity, so it may be well to give a tabulation, correct- ed by Admiralty figures, of the losses for six months.
Weekly Losses
British
S
tons
U
Q
June
2
85,614
June 1 to December 1, 1940 Week
Total World ending
tons 110,195
9
45,905
16
53,115
23
91,370
30
P
U
30,377
82,908 115,199 174,775 51,339
July 7
75,833
114,137
14
40,469
72,049
E
21
37,577
58,308
28
65,601
72,691
R
A
Aug. 4
73,185
88,251
11
32,257
46,639
18
41,175
55,388
25
108,404
117,814
L
A
TAYLORS London Dry GIN
L
Sept.
1
62,921
94,898
8
44,975
77,289
15
55,153
75,107
22
145,036
172,467
29
56,096
72,506
T
I
Oct. 6
30,886
40,315
13
52,688
20
154,279
83,583 205,781
27
9,986
18,443
I
T
Νον. 3
65,000
71,012
10
69,110
87,983
17
57,977,
74,676
V
24
80,420
92,841
Dec. 1
41,300
52,229
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Better Than In 1917 This gives us in round figures total world loss of some 2,370,000 tons for the six months. The figure for the first alx months of the un- restricted campaign in 1917 was 3,394,000, approximately a million more tons than the Nazi effort has uchieved,
ac-
were
British fighters de- stroyed two enemy bombers. Reuter-
Italians
Under No
Illusion
WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN INDICATION OF ITALIAN And, as further evidence of their
REALISATION OF THE DIF- skill, it may be pointed out that
FICULTIES AHEAD OF THEM only three of the twenty "aces" IN EAST AFRICA IS CONTAIN. were eliminated-one by an
ED IN A TELEGRAM FROM vident at sea, one by the destruc-
THE DUKE OF AOSTA, tion of his boat, and one by cap-
VICEROY OF ABYSSINIA, TO ture. The "dog-fox" in submar-
THE DUCE THANKING HIM warfare
FOR well deserved ine
AS PROMOTION
GEN- the nickname given to him by
ERAL OF THE AIR FORCE AND our hunting flotillas.
QUOTED BY ROME RADIO YESTERDAY.
sub-
The solution of the problem,
The Duce says, inter alia: "We now as then, is multiplication of will last somehow at any cost," the number of hunting craft. It adding that the Italian people are is true that modern detector ap-ready for any sacrifice for the paratus has to some extent eased achievement of victory. the work of locating the
The announcer, commenting, merged vessel, but against that the said: "The Duke attains this rank area in which the Germans can
on the battlefield for at this mo- work is far more extensive now,
ment he is leading his men in owing to the fact that they can
one of the hardest battles ever start their operations from
fought by the occupied ports on the
against a well Bay Biscay, and so save the 3,000 mile prepared enemy." trek round the North of Scotland from the German bases.
the of
A Comforting Estimate
It is not yet permissible to dis- close the scene of all their attacks, but indications of some localities have been given, since the in- formation
already known publicly in neutral countries. And
was
Italian army armed and well Reuter
CANADA'S NEW WAR BUDGET
MR. J. L. ILSLEY, CANADA'S
THE WAR
it is evident that our hunting has FINANCE MINISTER, WILL ASK to be done over a much
FOR wider FOR $1,300,000,000
PROSECUTION OF THE fleld than in 1917.
DURING 1941/1942,
Have we had any success?
THE FISCAL YEAR COMPARED WITH $700,000,000 THE PRECEDING
Only two Admiralty bulletins YEAR. have referred to this elde of the
This sum,
plus $443,000,000
battle in the past six months. which Mr. Ilsley estimated to be From them we know of ning necessary to cover all require- German submarines sunk in the ments except in the air, brings the Atlantic; of some Italians we total expenditure for 1941/1942 to have inklings in the issue of $1,743,000,000.-Reuter. names of prisoners of war. But that is nothing like the whole of the story.
FEATS OF SOUTH AFRICAN AIRMEN
!
The average monthly destruc- tion of enemy craft was between five and six in 1917-1918. In the autumn of last year it was higher THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR than that, for Mr. Churchill ad- FORCE, OPERATING IN EAST mitted that the rate of sinking was AFRICA, HAS RECEIVED THE between two and four a week. If FOLLOWING TELEGRAM OF we have doubled our 1917.rate in CONGRATULATIONS FROM these past months we have, as I AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR AR- calculate it. removed seven-tentha THUR LONGMORE COMMAN of the additional U-boats that| DER-IN-CHIEF OF THE RAF. Hiller threw into the battle be- MIDDLE EAST, The Prime Minister's word tween May and August. ・
"Best congratulations to the for the losses in his speech to If we keep up that rate of South African Air Force on its the Commons was "disquieting,” destruction,: wa Zare equal to his splendid, contribution to success undjing' one-will attempt to probable rate of replacement. Thạt in the offensive now taking place. minimise the drain on the is a comforting thought-even I`am following their activities world's shipping that is repra. though it is entirely unofficial, with great interest."--Router.
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