THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.
Candid Commons Criticism Of British War Production SERVICE M.P.S IN THE FOREFRONT
CANDID CRITICISM OF BRITISH WAR FRODUCTION WAS MADE IN SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTER - DAY WHEN A TWO-DAY DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT WAS OPEN- ED.
occasion for The debate provided an those who are not satisfied that the country is achieving the maximum possible output to ventilate their views.
Lt. Briabber (Cons.), who was with the Fleet Air Arm at Crete, complained of the lack of armaments and 'planes and of the
DE GAULLE
AND DENTZ
weakness of tanks, while Lt. Cmdr. Hopkin- REQUEST
son asserted that none of the 'planes pro- duced by Lord Beaverbrook's drive parti- cipated in the Battle of Britain.
BRITISH WAR SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA
Equipment for Rus- sia is already in transit from Britain, it was stated at the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London yesterday.
Arrangements have been completed in Bri- tain for supplying Rus- sia with large quanti- ties of war materials, was also stated. -Reuter.
it
Genera FIRE
The Political Director- ate of Free French states, that regarding Mander continued Mr. Labour He
assailed by was
however, was Dentz's members when he described the what they urged, Labour Minister, Mr. Ernest still greater output. Bevin, as "an unskilled labour-
er."
a
request for Syrian armistice; “It was He complained of idleness in only under the necessity
factories due to change-over in
darts.
FIGHTING
Mr. G. M. Garro-Jones (Lab) types. Workers resented for being of freeing the Near East IN A
of
which of Nazi influence that' for playing a paid urged the appointment Minister of Munitions, with a was all they had to do in many geat in the Cabinet, "to end the cases. jostling for men and materials."
He contended the production of tanks was being delayed by count- Jess modifications, and while ex- pressing satisfaction with British declared too aircraft production,
were types
being sent many from America, resulting in hun- in ware- dreds lying unpacked houses because the necessary
equipment was auxilary
not available.
Govt. Slowness Major Oscar Guest (Cons) de- very difficult for clared it was manufacturers to obtain clear-cut and quick decisions from Govern- ment departments.
Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal) could draw no said the enemy
criti- possible consolation from
tre- cisms for there had been a mendous output of war equipment of all kinds.
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A Scandal
Mr. D. J. K. Quibel} (Lab) said it was a scandal that at the fuc- tory which made the first tanks in Britain only a quarter of the employees were now engaged on war production,
Lt. Briabber declared that in the Middle East, Crete, Libya and Syria, there was an almost chronie lack of
Important the most
of
#1
ma-
Allied forces entered BOMBER
Syria.
French forces,
unpalatable,
UNCEASING RAIDS IN MIDDLE
EAST
Direct hits with heavy bombs were obtained by R.A.F. bombers on the railway station and warehouses near the har- bour at Tripoli, Syria, said yesterday's RAF. Middle East communique.
and
Australian aircraft carried out a diving machine-gun attack on Vichy armoured cars and motor transport vehicles near Befrut.
During the night of July 7/8 heavy bombers attacked damaged Vichy aircraft on the ground and at Aleppo and on satellite aerodromes at Nasrullah, aircraft were where three Vichy destroyed.
In Cyrenaicu R.A.F. heavy bombers again successfully al- tacked the harbour at Benghazi.
In one of these raids a large petrol fire was started on the rail- way terminus siding.
Fires At Benghazi
Another extensive fre was
On their first
opera- thus action, tional flight the second started at the base of the Cathe- dral Mole, causing a 500-yards they would pilot and the rear gunner belt of flame which spread along
"For the Free who fully endorsed it was extremely because they knew And in front of them French
misled troops
by the
bad of a Whitley bomber beat 40 miles. shepherds of Vichy who were ex- pected to fight for Germany.
out a fire in their aircraft
the docks and was visible from
Fires were started at the base "In consequence, Free French with their hands, and of the central mole by another formation which also severely smothered it with a damaged a CR 42 aircraft. parachute bag.
were particularly happy to hear materials of war.
of the request for an armistice. "We are still grievously short
anti-aircraft guns, and
"They hope it will be possible Maleme there was great short-
to conclude the hostilities, over- multiple half-inch
throw the German threat to the age of chine-guns for use against low- Middle East and bring indepen- dence to Syria and Lebanon with- Пying aircraft.
"OUR TANKS DID WELL in the framework of the treaty France, whose connections with the AGAINST THE ITALIANS BUT of alliance with NOT SO WELL AGAINST THE historical
BECAUSE THERE Levant will thus be preserved. GERMANS WERE NOT ENOUGH OF THEM AND THEY WERE TOO SLOW. "If we could produce 20,000 alrcraft we could win the war."
Fraterual Feelings
"It is with the greatest fraternal feelings that they welcome into their ranks their have been deceived paganda of falsehood are now resolute in common with them against Germany,
The
bomber had been on 11 tanks al
R.A.F. bombers also attacked targets at Eleusis, Greece, and on the island of Crete, causing fires.
All aircraft returned safely.-
night raid on the oil Rotterdam. Half of the target area was already in flames when the aircraft arrived. After it had, Reuter. dropped its load of bombs in a direct hit on an oil tank, target went up in fre also.
the
A PILOT'S DETERMINATION
Shortly after the Whitley re- crossed the Dutch coast on the return journey the starboard engine cut out, and then caught brothers who. fire. It may have been hit by by the pro- flak over Rotterdam. When the
On May 15 of last year and who
off the fre pursuing in petrol was switched
seemed at first to die out, but aa fighter pilot took off the struggle
little Inter it re-appeared blazing with a section of three the
fiercely, beneath the engine and'.
Hurricanes to intercept twenty German
Critic Of Mr. Bevin
Lt.-Cmdr. Hopkinson urged competitive
design tenders for and revision of the contract sys- tem, asserting that at present it paid to take 80,000 man-hours to enemy of the French people."
Reuter.
produce aircraft which could pe produced in 20,000 man-hours.
He charged Mr. Bevin with in-
in
competitence in the manner ENTERING
which labour was being handled.
Reuter,
JOE LOUIS RESISTS DIVORCE
eternal
under the fuselage.
GIARABUB
-
some
The rear gunner and the sec- ond pilot started to deal with the bombers. Describing the fire First the gunner tried to action at the time, he beat it out with his hands, but he
could not keep it under. Then said:
he brought an extinguisher from
the tail of the aircraft, and both "We waded into them and T he and the second pilot went to was determined to get at least one.. work with this, but still without I had already shot down two dousing the flames,
enemy aircraft and I wanted a third for luck. I engaged one of them and in doing so got one or two hits in my oil tank. The oil fumes started to get in my eyes.-
A ROYAL AIR FORCE OFF! CER WHO ENTERED · GIARA- AFTER ITS BUB SHORTLY
Next, they took a parachute CAPTURE, REPORTED SOME bag and managed to smother the INTERESTING STORIES - OF bulk of the fire with that finish THE ITALIAN GARRISON. Ing the job with an extinguisher. Then my radiator was hit and the BEVERAL ENEMY SOLDIERS:
glycol came through the cockpit. The Whitley was now only 500 Next they must have got my ANSWERING THE DIVORCE GAVE HIM LETTERS TO POST SUIT FILED IN THE CHICAGO TO THEIR RELATIVES IN feet above the sea, into which the wireless and the tail-plane: CIRCUIT COURT YESTERDAY ROME AND ELSEWHERE, BE pilot thought he would be forced BY HIS. WIFE, JOE LOUIS, LIEVING THAT,
"I was returning fire all the SINCE THEY down. As the fire was now out WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT, HAD HAD. NO NEWS OF ANY he decided to try, for the nearest time and saw my opponent go CHAMPION, DENIED HE EVER ITALIAN DEFEAT ANYWHERE aerodrome. The crew jettisoned down with a decisive hit after STRUCK HIS WIFE,
THE CAPTURE OF GIARABUB the ammunition and the dinghy, I'd given him all the ammunition MEANT THAT THE ENTIRE and the pilot just managed to get I had." The pilot then decided to ITALIAN EMPIRE WAS IN OUR enough height to reach a Coastal land and try to save his aircraft. Command aerodrome. The under- all fumes were still pouring out down and he was more or less: blinded; carriage refused to come but the pilot made a successful, he managed to spot a field but as landing near the flare path. None he came in to land his right wing of the crew was injured.
Asking dismissal of the suit, Louis completely. denied the charges of cruelty, and denied that his wife "treated him kindly and affectionately and conducted her- self towards him as a true and virtuous wife," as plaintiff claim
ed.—Reuter.
HANDS.
A sad commentary on Gayda's arrogant propaganda!
One of the soldiers had been whiling away the time by learn ing German. His exercise book delicate was found filled with caligraphy the headings of the and pages in graceful Italian,
underneath fatiguing columns of
German terminations.
When.
LEGAL ADVISER TO DOMINIONS_OFFICE Mr. K. E. Poyser, D.S.O., former
his British captors Chief Justice of the Straits Settle searched him for something with ments, has been appointed Legal which to identify him, they found Adviser to the Dominions Office a postcard from his Mother, in and Colonial Office, in succession what used to be the Italian Tyrol to Sir Henry Grattan Bushe, K.C.Dear Son' it read, “we are hop- M.G., recently appointed Gover- ing that it will all be finished nor of Barbados. Reuter.
quickly, quickly.!?
IRAQ TO COME UNDER INDIA.
hit a tree, and the machine burst into flames. On impact the hood slipped and Jammed close; his face was very badly burnt as he tugged away at the hood to get it open. Eventually he succeed. ed and, threw himself out head- irst.
The defence of Iraq will in future be the responsibility of the For months he remained in India Coromand and will come hospital slowly recovering, from under the authority of General' his burns. Now, a year later, he Archibald Wavell, newly has stopped into an aircraft once Chief. ¦ more -- the first stage in his Sir
Reuter. appointed Commander-
return to full operational duties,