THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1941.
CLUB'S
LIBYA POUNDING JOCKEY AS SEEN FROM A BATTLESHIP
(The Navy's part in the opening of the attack on Bardia is described by a Special Correspondent who was in one of the British battleships which sheiled 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.
Attack Renewed
We knew that this im- airbomb because of the spread of
heavy splinter. 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
We prepared to deliver
Our bu narsachers Dom starboard as we began a min patullest with The coast again but, this time head. ing south into the Gulf of Sollum
The elett Fat 18
GIFTS
The Stewards of The Hong Kong Jockey Club have allocated further amounts to War Funds and War Charities as fol- lows:-
South China Morning
Post Bomber Fund British Fund for Relief
of Distress in China British War Organisation
Fund
$83,802.03
83,802,03
30,000.00 St. Dunstan's. £1,000 18,000.00 British Fund for Prison-
ers of War in Germany
5,000.00
$218,604.06 The first two items represent the nett proceeds of the Special Sweep on the Rooty Hill Derby.
These contributions. will bring the total distributed by the Joc-| key Club to War Funds and War Charities to $527,000 or approxim ately 32.800.
land which I The Stewards. a so amoune was the Wach was agam visible, that the Nett Proveeds of the next Here were the armoured vehicles | big Sweep, "The Lantão Handi- strikes inland towards which Bught ber expected to sup to be to on 2nd June, 1941. Tobruk.
entanter-affack it felt unmolested. will be devoted to British Wai Though we knew
Funds and the Brush
In the Fight hamt ceter
We
had
gurt
Fund for
hote on them already, we jround. Rehef of Distress in China.
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Tha Fea was our particular ob jective Wad Rahab, A deeply rewed gully, where a great deal! of Italian olen transport WHEN concentrated
Hardly a ripple ruffled the sea,! Suddenly, ahead, whole clusters ot golden stars sparkled and dis- appeared over the now discernible Jane. 4V looked at our watcher. It wa 5 30. zero hotfr
the Australians
Those winking shells told us they were keeping then rendezvous with Mussoni.
Navy's Turn
When our turn Cafe
of destroyers swung northwards. We followed them, but as we did so our 15- guns were kept teamed landwards, ready for their fir 1 broadude to port.
At first we thought that they were going to leave us alone, but
then camp a little yellow spurt ni
them agam
our
We had the range of their main armament which was camouflaged among lorries and other vehicles, and, AS commander expressed It sub- sequently in a broadcast to the ship's company, cach of those groups of tanks got "a decent allowance of 15-in. bricks."
GIVING
ENEMIES
NIGHTMARE
How Hitler is trying to
light with a puff of sake and the create a nightmare state]
bursting shell threw up a smoky
spout of water half a mile from, of mind among his en- US. Our six-inchers barked back.emies is described by
and immediately all the destroyers: Wallace Deuel, Berlin cor-
brought their guns to bear. Co-
Junts of water sprang up from
the base of the cliff.
With their next ranging the light gung hit the cliff face it
respondent of the Chicago who has "Daily News," just returned to the Unit- ed States.
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self, so that it began to smoul- der like a volcano. Their third effort landed fair and square on the headland, and clouds terror used by Hitler in the second i
bogan to gather from the burst- ing shells. The shore
battery went temporarily out of tion.
ac-
Duel writes "The strategy of i
world war is as incredible and Almost unreal as a nightmare, nothing, it would seem, is too 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 Gur own hourse war cry.
The are happening, he states. is that seconds seemed to tick
indecent pictures are being used away
for slowly as the high-pitched ru l-
by the Germans as weapons
ing noise of the shells
the conduct of hostilities. in the ar faded away towards land.
"They are using them." he adds, Then, suddenly, the Wad, seem-
as nart of the most gigantic, most ed to alter shape.
most skilful at- Huge black Systematic, and and grey prowthis, now
tempt the world has ever seen to pointed uke daggers, now clustered
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of whole armies wills to resist caul flower, shot up from the val- lev. The whole constling echoed with the chorus of this new fury as shell after shell screamed houme.
in
and whole peoples."
These pictures, of postcard gize. are beautifully drawn and printed in four colours. At first sight they look innocent enough, but when held to the light Bri- tish goldiers and Frerch women are shown in a degrading scene. The Nazis printed hundreds of Firing was fast as our 'plane thousands of these cards and pro- sputter had reported "OK." Induced 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. target of tanks and the other
'Plane Signals Hits
conglomeration
vehicles.
The
other
of
transport Typical Methods
The use of these pictures was battleships were
tactics the Nazis engaging other targets, and typical of the
their to demoralise well were using
enemies by psychological means.
though we were all firing
every
north of the town of Bardia it-These tactics extended to almost self, the whole coast soon be-
field of human life and came obliterated by the
grim thought and emotion. All were dust from our terrific fire,
Five times each of those 15in thought out years in advance and
based on a diabolical knowledge |" guns spoke on that northward of the weaknesses of human ner- run, while the six-inch arma- ves and human character. They ment was also barking away were all employed for the pur- at two coastal batteries.
pose of destroying the eneiny's
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 bealeged "The Germans have set out to Italian camp.
create a nightmare state of mind Then came the good news among their enemies, to cuúse 'from our spotter that he could nothing less than a collective ner- see tanks and lorries burning in vous breakdown on an interna- Wadi. The wrecking effect of tional scale, and to bring about a these huge missiles is much grea- paralysis of will on the part of 1er than that of an equivalent all Western European civilisation."
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