THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1941.
BATTLE OF ATLANTIC RAGES ON
Two Of Germany's Three Ace U-Boat Captains End Their Career; First Lord's Revelations
Review Of Naval Situation
GERMANY HAS NOW LOST TWO OF HER THREE BEST U-BOAT ACES. THIS NEWS WAS GIVEN BY MR. A. V. ALEXANDER, FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, SPEAKING OF SUCCESSES IN THE "UPS AND DOWNS” OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC AT TOT- TENHAM YESTERDAY.
Schepke, ace captain of U100, Mr. Alex- ander said, was dead. His submarine had gone to join U99, captained by another ace, Otto Kretchmer, who is now a prisoner.
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be taken to support Greece and which rely m home we were don't bound to du we had to pers will form the great task of transport -
and the
ing very large numbers of troups Land equipment, which was safely done, thinks to the Royal Navy
"We had at the Бате time to main supplies to our garri Eons in Libya.
"wolf of the Atlantte.” He had "IN SPITE OF ALL THAT the highest record of destruction! HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT of any U-bout captain.
MIR
ALEX ANDER STATED
ENEMY
REINFORCEMENTS, WE HAVE DESTROYED ITA- LIAN TRANSPORTS RUNNING
THAT NEARLY 2.500 000 TONS INTO A TONNAGE OF SIX
OF ENEMY SHIPS HAD BEEN CAPTURED. DESTROYED OR FORCED TO SCUTTLE
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The burden of the Battle of the Allantie was both KUIVOUS and heavy but never for ment, day DE might, was there any slackeniafig in the proseva- tion of the Oght.
FIGURES.
Government "I do not think has any need to apologise for its decisiun 10 Ko to the and of the Navy to apologise Greece, or for its work."
R.A.F. Hitting Hard
RAP. bomber pilots, he said.j
back and striking were striking Ups And Downs
hard, and it was evident from
This battle has its ups
and complaints over the German radio after the raids on Berlin, Kiel dows but I assure you
that and Bremen.
that the Germans! ne ther U-boats 201 Germun Jong can arcraft have It ali their own way," he said.
"We continue to take toll of hot and a. the strength of the Cooperation of the Navy
with
the Come tai Comunand increases and the number of escorting de- stroyers and corvettes expands, that toll of the enemy will -
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The Fat Lord sand we had get to continue fighting, labouring and struggling be get back to! something like the meort pusi- ties when we worked not only as # single fleet but had five powerful Allied feels and five times the present number of destroyers.
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ALEXANDER SAID.
last
war,
did not like it.
Mr. Alexander concluded must go on with that until win."
Reuter.
INDIAN
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TROOPS AT TOBRUK
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The Prime Minister recently witnessed a tank demonstration in which capabilities of various armoured fighting vehic es over rough country. teen inspecting a
Bofors gun.
he was shown the Prime Minister is
"HEIL HITLER Kisses From
- AFTER MUSSOLINI!
Rome radio, brood. birthday casting greetings to Hitler declared yesterday, "Hitler is no doubt one
of the greatest men in history but fate de- cided he should only reveal himself ofter Mussolini had been acknowledged every- where as the greatest statesman in the world."--Reuter.
APPEAL TO DOCTORS IN AMERICA
THE PRESIDENT SAID
а
THE
Soldiers In Court
AS POLICE AND MAGISTRATES looked on, three Army sergeants dashed across the floor of a Sussex police court, picked up in their arms an at- tractive brunette agèd about thirty, and carried her in triumph to the court hall.
There she was surrounded by soldiers who kiss- ed and hugged her as their comrades cheered. Laughing happily, though her make-up was ruined. by scores of kisses, the woman left for home with her husband. He had been pushed aside by their soldier friends in the rush to congratulate his wife.
of
Wyles said the Corporal Basil She was Mrs. Hi'da Ann Hun-}
when told they - gerford. manageress
a men grumbled NAA.FI. canteen, just acquitted could not have cakes and choco- by Lewes magistrates on charges tates. Asked if there was a lot *1 of making a Statement, liable to of bad language he replied:
or two they used one alarm and
tippose and of "exhorting soldiers to lay wits we always use in the Army, lay down their arms when the but I didn't taken any notice be- Germans caine."
Cause we knew them so much."
cause
despondency,
ever
"Cheers and stamping of feet followed the magistrates' dc- cision to dismiss the charges. Mrs.
Hungerford denied having said: "We would be much better off under Nazi rule. The English soldiers art no good, they will never win."
According to the evidence, the trouble arose out of a battalion
order on January 24 that no solid
food was to be sold in the can- teen until 5.30 p.m.
She had to tell the soldiers they could not have chocolate and cakes in the morning.
There was a "bit of a commo- tion." Some were annoyed- they thought the chocolate and cakes were being saved for other
President Roosevelt last night urged American doctors to volunteer to serve in the military and civilian hospitals of "our
in Indian mechanised British friends," THE AMAZING THING IS
issued from THAT THE NAVY HAS KEPT troops are among the Bri-statement THE LIFELINE OPEN," MR. tish forces defending his Hyde Park (N.Y.)
Tobruk, well-informed home. At The Bottom circles in Cairo revealed BRITISH RED CROSS HAD He continued: "We published yesterday. the other day that we had many The Indians have been taking AMERICAN RED CROSS, hundred U-boat prisoners but part in the fighting in the Western 1,000 YOUNG AMERICAN DOC- MEET THE many more of the U-boat per- Desert and have been in action in|TORS TO HELP sonnel lie at the bottom of the the west, around Gebel and Akh-"ACUTE SHORTAGE" OF DOC- TORS IN BRITISH HOSPITALS. There was no indication yes- | "As President of the American terday of any change in the al Red Cross," he said, "I heartily tuation of the Axis forces In approve this request." Libya.
He explained that volunteers would be enrolled in the Bri- tish Red Cross and would be He submitted that some of the protected by the Rod Cross men had their knife in the man- ageress" because they thought she Treaty of Geneva. "Young doctors, whom Britain favoured the other unit.
do can
"I do not know why some of the are so desperately needs,
ocean.
the on
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APPEALED,
THROUGH
THE FOR
soldiers.
Good To Them
Major T. H. Carter, defending,
said the eight soldier witnesses for the prosecution belonged to one regiment, while the fifteen soldiers were from an- for the defence other regiment.
The chairman, Mr. J. 1. Blen- we said the Bench considered Mrs. Hungerford had no serious, intention of contravening regula-V tions, but did make some foolish remark,
SOVIET'S POLICY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Commenting on foreign press interpretations of the Russo-Japanese Neu- trality Treaty, the Moscow newspaper "Pravda” de- ́ clares:-
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"Apparently certain clrcles In London and Washington counted- on a worsening of Russo-German relations, no less than they count- ed on a worsening of Russo-Ja- panese relations."
"I can assure you that reporta to the Admiralty of our anti- submarine captains are nearly always
conservative elde."
In Abyssinia, the Imperial forces Speaking of the 10 Coastguard have practically reached the out- cutters America sent to Britain, skirts of Dessle, one of the last re-! the First Lord said "Believe me, maining Italian strongholds in the they are some ships. Most are country. little, but bigger than a destroyer.
"They were built to stop the bound to slow down somewhat much to heal wounds inflicted on soldiers should have done this to Pact is directed against Germany ships of bootleggers and I think because of the task of mopping up civilians, and military alike
columns, will be even more usefully om various Italian ployed in protecting our bon-l pointed out in Cairo Reuter,
Operations in
Abyssinia
it was this'cruel' war,'
added.Reuter.
ご the
"Pravda" denied that the new,
News Ser
in me, because I have been so good or was signed under German pres President to them all," said Mrs. Hunger-sure-International
¿vica.
ford.