THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1941
CONVOY OF 50 CROSSES THE ATLANTIC
THE SAFE CROSSING of the North Atlantic from Canada to a port in Britain of what was des- cribed as the largest convoy in history-more than fifty ships loaded with $100,000,000 worth of war and food supplies for Britain—was announced in a cabl- ed report published in Collier's Weekly from Quen- tin Reynolds, staff correspondent, who made the trip on one of the vessels.
During the entire voyage from Halifax, accord-
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SURVIVORS TO BE
MOVED
Survivors from several British vessels who are now at the Azores will, it is ex- pected, be taken to Lisbon by the port steamer Lima.
ing to Mr. Reynolds, the convoy was in danger of CZECHS TO
attack only once by submarine, and endangered once by a floating mine.
BLITZ TACTICS PLANNED
The Germans intend smashing Russia by
destroyed The submarine was by one of several former Ameri- can destroyers guarding the con- by voy and the mine was sunk machine-gun fire. The only Nazi 'planes encountered were heard from the
overhead
returning
bombardment of Belfast, and they passed unseeni in the night, un- aware of the rich prize beneath them. Mr. Reynolds said.
Joined By 25 More Ships
twenty-five
TRAIN IN CANADA
After negotiations
between the
Czechoslovak Embassy in Wash- ington and the United States Gov- ernment a Czechoslovak Military Committee is now on its way to
Canada to organise a training Camp for Czechoslovak citizens of America.
as
Those who have not yet acquired the five years' residence qual fica- tion necessary for naturali ation Blitzkrieg methods. Starting from Halifax the con-
United States citizens or Canadians are estimated at from states the Berlin corres- voy comprised only
60,000 to 100,000. A contingent the Zurich, dups.
of about 15,000 pondent of
recruits is newspaper "Die Tat." and
"On the filth morning we were envisaged.
Mr. Reynolds The system of enlistment would 150 German divisions given a surprise,"
said. "Par to the southeast smoke be voluntary, as it is in Britain. crossed the Russian fron- fringed the horizon raggedly. We It is confidently asserted in com- Were these the petent Czechoslovak quarters that tier at 3 o'clock yesterday almost stopped.
of military age will raiders? We stood on the deck every man morning to attack Rus-watching and then saw that this join up.
Besides the Czechoslovak army sian forces estimated in was not one ship but
Britain there is a training in Berlin at 160 divisions.
force in Egypt consisting of men who escaped from Czechoslovakia in the hope of going to France, but were prevented from doing so by Italy's entry into the war.
It is learned, the correspondent adds, that Marshal Vorush lov hus massed his army along the
frontier.
two-no, three, four-it was in fact another convoy come to join us: to add her strength to ours and better to pro- tect us both.
"In all there were twenty-five ships. They steamed solemnly to- ward us and took up their posi- Then we sailed tions to the rear. on-more than fifty of us-the largest convoy ever to attempt the I climbed the narrow crossing. steel ladder to the crow's nest. As far as the eye could see there wert ships. Never before in the history of shipping did so many merchant- procession men form in orderly
The Germans expect "tremen. dous results" if, using several thousand tanks, they can drive an opening in the Russian line. The correspondent describes how the secret of Germany's attack leaked out at a reception for the foreign press on Saturday night, following which foreign corres pondents were summoned to - tend the Foreign Office at 6, like this. o'clock yesterday mornin 4
to!
"In Canada the shipping agent hear Ribbentrop read a declara- told me that our cargo was worth about $2,000,000. This would prob- High German diplomats. inably be the average worth of each the presence of the press. drank of the cargoes. That meant that to the success of the German our convoy (leaving out the actual army. Nobody at the reception cost of the ships themselves) was more than $100,000,000. appeared
doubt Germany worth would defeat Russig, the corres- But, of course, this cargo cannot pondent says.
be valued in terms of dollars and cents.
tion.
The need for Sweden to adont a definite attitude and abandon her policy of sitting on the fence, was also much discussed. -heu- ter.
SQUADRON LEADER'S EXPLOIT
A squadron
score
"In terms of lives that it will cave, in terms of blows against Germany that it will strike and blows from Germany that it will ward off, its value is beyond any consideration of dollara and cents."
All Reach Port Safely
Mr. Reynolds sald that two Hitler months ago Reichsfuehrer boasted that when Spring came he would have 600 new submarines in action and that it would be impossible for convoys to reach Britain in safety.
But
"A few days after Hitler's boast Churchill answered h'm and leader laughed at his grandiloquent rant- D.S.O. with the highest chill knew how long it would take ing," said Mr. Reynolds, "Chur- among Fighter to build 600 submarines. Command pilots in Bri- people I met in New York and Chicago and Detroit and Los tain, shot down the two Angeles shook their heads. Who ME109's which brought was right?
"I came to England by convoy the total number of enemy to find out. The answer is that I aircraft destroyed by am writing this in the messroom fighters on Saturday to ed from Carlada and now lies in 28.
of a freighter. that has just cross-
that
an English port, I know more than fifty of us left and I know that by late this afternoon every single one of those ships.
He also damaged. another. baled out in the sea himself and was rescued within 45 minutes had arrived in British harbours.
The squadron leader was on patrol off the East Coast when he was attacked by three ME109's.
We would have been unable to do that had 600 German submarines been lucking beneath the surface of the Atlantic.c
All of Mr. Reynolds's 'report' was passed by the British censor.
In the dog fight which follow- ́ed the squadron leader described how his second victim fell straight: down into the sea in the middle. of the bits and pieces of the first, The pilot flow his badly dam- aged Hurricane back come 30 milos with no throttle. When he was within three miles of for threequarters of an hour. the English coast the engine He was picked up by a barge #alzod up and he baled out. and transferred to a sea rescue As soon as he entered the water] inurich-British Wireluss,
he released a new type rubber dinghy Incorporated in the latest parachutes and floated around
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