THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1941.
LIBYA POUNDING AS SEEN FROM A BATTLESHIP
attack
(The Navy's part in the opening of the on Bardia is described by a Special Correspondent who was in one of the British battleships which shelled the Italians).
FIRE FROM SEA, LAND AND AIR RAINED AROUND BARDIA ON FRIDAY MORNING IN THE OPENING PHASES OF THE GREAT NEW LIBYAN THRUST.
From the flagship leading the other battleships, as well as cruisers and destroyers, I watched the onslaught from before dawn until a false dusk of battle smoke and sand shrouded the beleaguered Fascist legions from our sight.
We knew that this im- arbon because of the spread of
heavy splitter. posing array of British sea power was destined to
play its part by bombard- ing the area marked by the triangle of the coast, the Italian lines, and the road from Bardia, which strikes inland Lowards Tobruk.
In the agt hand bene This are
O port:cutar ob Wd: Babab ik sleeply wood goly, where a great deal of Haban motor concentrated
WAS
Hardly a
Puppie auded the sea Suddenly. ahead, whole clusters et golden stars apatkled and dis- appearvil over the joy discernable tanki.
We prepared to
our
badside, from starboard as we began a un parallel with the cost agam but, this those head-
ing south into the Gulf of Sollimi.
The elett the
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WHAT GLADSTONE
SAID IN 1940
GLADSTONE, THE GREAT LIBERAL STATESMAN, HAS DECLARED THAT BRITAIN WILL ACHIEVE "VICTORY SOONER THAN YOU BELIEVE." Claims that this message was received through a Bath spiritua- list medium have been made by Sir Jahn Auderson, of Rivers Street, Bath.
Sir John, who is no relation to the present Lord Privy Seal, said that the message came during a meet ng of a spiritualist circle in his home.
The text of the message was: "Good evening, my friends. Once more I return to your earth. I an Willam Ewart Gladstube. 1 have just this last day been with your Premier in the House of Commons
to
"My friends, you are going victory sooner than you believe. Good night
SEA "SLANG"
The latest manifestion of Itaban Attack Renewed
nationalism is a movement la place by matse phra es deliver
Brite h slupping time chich "belts of fading an. l. wirel are used in honally
The Popolď!t die land which | Patriatisin was the Wade war again visible proverbial. Here were the namuured velueles, fore, to be
which continually which might be expect d lo
of a per pl Trom winch thes entinter-attack if left unmaiested.
ceive the worst of affronts Though we knew
had gol
the no. I uitter humidity 1. hon on them already, we pound- ed them agap
our
We had the range
their main armament which was camouflaged among lorries and other vehicles, and. 15 commander expressed it sub- sequently in a broadcast to the ship's company. each of those "a decent allowance of 15-in, bricks."
groups of tanks got We looked at our watchty,
It was 530 zero hour for the Au trabn
Thuse wink og
shells told us they were keeping their rendezvous with Mussonm,
Navy's Turn
When our ture eame A screen of destroyers swung northwards, We followed then, bul ax we did so cute 15-m guns were kept trained landwards, ready for their first broad; ale to port.
Alt k
thought that they
were going to leave us alone, but
then cong a little yellow spurt ni
bursting shelf threw up a smoky
GIVING
ENEMIES
NIGHTMARE
How Hitler is trying to:
fight with a puff of sanke, and the create a nightmare state spout of water half a mile from of mind among his en- 415 Our 8-inchers barked back.emies is described by and immediately all the destroyers Wallace Deuel, Berlin cor- brought then gans to bear. Cu- lumns of water sprang up from respondent of the Chicago "Daily News," who has just returned to the Unit- ed States.
the base nị The chif
With their next ranging the
light guns hit the cliff face it
rolf, so that it began to smoul. der like a volcano. Their third *Hort landed fair and
square
began to gather from the burst- ing shells. The shore
went temporarily tion,
out of
cry,
ac-
The
Danel writ's "The strategy of
on the headland. and clouds terror used by Hitler in the second world war is as incredible and Almost as a nightmare. battery unreal
too nothing, it would seem, is fantastic or bizarre to happen." Meanwhile, our consorts with Possibly the most shocking and their 15-in. guns were echoing
stupifying thing of all things that our own hoarse war
are happening, he states, is that seconds seemed to tick
indecent pictures are being used for slowly a the high-pitched rust by the Germans as weapons
the conduct of hostilities.
"They are using them." he adds, "as part of the most gigantic, most most skilful at- systematic, and tempt the world has ever seen to shatter the nervous systems and wills to resist of whole armies and whole peoples."
away
ing noise of the shells in the ai faded away towards land,
Then, uddenly the Wadi seem- et to alter shane Thuge black and prey jerus tit. POW po'nted ike dager... Be clustered in bke the heart of a giant candlowe, hot up from the val- lev The whole coastline echord with the chorus of this new buy as hell after shell screamed home.
CUENC
These pictures, of postcard size are beautifully drawn and printed in four colours. At first sight they look innocent enough, but when held to the light Bri- tish soldiers and French women are shown in a degrading scene. The Nazis printed hundreds of Firing was fast as our 'plane thousands of these cards and pro- spotter had reported "OK." In duced a special type of trench the end he signalled nine succes-mortar which shot the cards over sive salvos as having found the the French lines.
'Plane Signals Hits
target of tanks and the other Typical Methods
conglomeration
vehicles.
of transport
be-
The use of these pictures was The other buttleships werc
typical of the tactics the Nazis engaging other targets. and though we were all firing
were using to demoralise their well
enemies by psychological means. north of the town of Bardia it-
These tactics extended to almost self, the whole coast soon
every feld of human life and came obliterated by the grim thought and emotion.
All were dust from our terrific fire.
thought out years in advance and Five times each of those 15in based on a diabolical knowledge guns spoke on that northward of the weaknesses of human ner- run, whlie the six-inch arma. ves and human character. They ment was also barking away were all employed for the pur- at two coastal batteries. In pose of destroying the enemy's
J
cause
a matter of minutes the Battle will to fight before the first shot Fleet had flung practically 150 was ever fired, tons of death into the, besieged The Germans have set out to italian camp.
create a nightmare state of mind Their came the good news among their enemies, to from our spotter that he could nothing less than a collective ner- sce tanks and lorries burning in vous breakdown on an interna- Wadi. The wrecking effect of tional scale, and to bring about n these huge missiles is much grea- paralysis of will on the part of ter than that of an equivalent all Western European civilisation.
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