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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941:
EFFICACY OF BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE
THE IMPORTANCE and efficacy of the British blockade was stressed by the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare in a speech at Birmingham yesterday.
"Because Hitler is temporarily master of most of Europe," Mr. Wilmot said, "some people imagine he now has access to vast unlimited supplies which will enable him to carry on the war indefinitely.
ENVOY'S BID FOR NAVY
Mr. George Earle, the United States Min- ister to Bulgaria, whose scrap with Ger- mans in a cafe over the British Tommies' tune "Tipperary" re- cently caused on in- ternational stir, has asked President Roo- sevelt to permit him to resign so that he could volunteer for the British Navy, re- ports the "New York
Post."
Earle served with distinction in the American Navy dur- ing the last war as commander of a sub- marine chaser.
"They either forget the blockade or attempt to argue it no longer counts.
"Let me disillusion them. Hitler controls the western seaboard of Europe from Narvik to Biarritz but from the point of view of sup- pljes it avails him nothing. for nu German ship dare sail on the sur- face of the Atlantic to bring him goods from the Americas.
"if the conquered countries are to be of any use to him Hitler must feed them, organise their Industries and adapt their tran- sport systems. This means send- ing valuable stocks of food, raw materials and machinery which Germany can ill afford to spare. "Immediately on occupation the Germans looted everything of value in the conquered countries and so made up many deficiencies. Now they are grudgingly having to return some of the spoils. "A conquered country liability as well as an asset.
Feeling Pinch
Is а
who
"More and more the Germans are going to feel the pinch but whatever shortages there may be in Germany will not be felt by the
It army first. is civilians will have to bear the brunt of want and it may well be that un- der the strain they may break, as they did 1918, irrespective of the victories of German arms. That is why the blockade must be maintained.”—British Wireless,
MARINES
AMERICA'S IN EVERY
SHIPPING EFFORT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
WASHINGTON EXPERTS DE CLARE THAT 1,000,000 TONS OF
SHIPPING, HALF OF WHAT
SCRAP
At the beginning of the war thirty Royal Marines N.C.O.s went through an officers' training course.
FREE-FOR-ALL
IN SHANGHAI POWER DEPOT
Five workers of the P.W.D. in the French Concession of Shang- hai
were seriously injured and 30 arrested when police intervened in a free- for-all at the power depot.
The fight started when workers who had gone on strike last week tried to stop other workers return- ing to their jobs.
International News Service.
VITAMIN
CANDY FOR CHILDREN
A plan to send vitamin candy tablets to British children has been launch- ed in New York by the British-American Ambu- lance Corps.
The tablets are cinnamon-fla- voured and contain vitamins A (particularly useful in preventing night blindness); B-1 (for nerve and growth); B-2 (which prevents skin troubles); C (anti-scurvy); D (bone-building); and E (specially beneficial to children).
12,000,000 A Year
Dr. Norman Joliffe, who has
collaborated in making the tablets, said that the British Ministry of
Health had welcomed the formula. It is hoped to ship 12,000,00 or
more tablets a year, says Reuter,
for distribution in shelters,
com-
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Of the twenty who munal feeding centres and fac- ORDERED, WILL BE AVAIL ABLE WITHIN A MONTH, FOUR became commissioned tories and to evacuated children. MONTHS BEFORE SCHEDULE. officers at least two are
The Administration is to speed now acting majors and
Repre- one has served with par- HEAVY RAID
ticular distinction.
action in the House of sentatives to-day of the Bill to bring 500,000 tons of foreign shipping under immediate Ameri- Since the Battle of the River can jurisdiction. The Bill will Plate we haven't heard much of probably be passed in three the Marines, but they have been weeks. International News Ser-In nearly every "show" in the war, vice.
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ON MALTA
with an unfailing record of gal- Two separate waves of
lantry.
They are flying with the Fleet enemy aircraft heavily Air Arm, they man the long-raided Malta on Saturday
range guns on our South Coast. night.
In Low Countries
Marines fought with conspicu- ous heroism when the Nazis over- ran the Low Countries and France. Their job was to defend the ports and to cover naval demolition parties.
Bombs were dropped Indis- criminately, damaging civilian and Government property.
Two German bombers were brought down for certain and a third damaged.
A few people were killed and a few seriously injured. Reu-
At Calais, a gallant detach- | ter. ment lost all its officers. "By Sea and Land" is motto-another way of saying "The Marines are always there!"
their
CONDUIT ROAD ROBBERY
LORRY GAVE 20 FT. Conduit Road, has reported the
LIFT UP
Doctors of the R.A.F. medical branch get some queer cases.
One recent patient reported that "he had" "fullen 2011; from a lorry." "But you can't fall 20ft. from a lorry," protested the medical of- ficer:
You could from this one, sir," the man replied, firmly. "It was being dragged over a field by a run-away balloon, and when it got up to 20ft. I baled out?
Mrs. M. W. Turnbull, of No. 4,
theft of a brown suit' case valued at $25,- from... the roof of her house, between noon and 1 pm. yesterday.
FIGHTING PEERS BEAT M.P.S
A White Paper shows that 166 members of the House of Lords and 110 of the House of Com- mons-are serving in the. Forces,