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Blood!
And Loss Account
REVIEWING THE 'profit and loss account” of the Navy during-- two years of the Battle of the Atlantic, a naval officer in London yesterday declared there has been very big improvement recently in losses from submarines but still more escorts were needed.
The ultimate success of the Navy in de- ITALIAN
fending Britain's sea communications was the Navy's ability to maintain our seaborne trade, and judged by this the past two years could be counted as a success.
Our imports were satisfactory, he said, and life
in Britain went on fairly normally. This was the keystone of Imperial policy.
The work of the Navy in this respect was not spectacular but it went on steadily and at the same time the blockade, the
Navy's offensive weapon, constantly maintained.
GUN GETS HEINKEL
(From A Special Correspondent)
LT. A. PALMER AND HIS Keeping down submarine shin- ping losses was therefore a matter CRew have jusT BEEN CON. ADML, SIR not only for the remarkably ga)- GRATULATED BY lant performance of the Navy and ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, COM- was Merchant Navy but shipbuilder: MANDER-IN-CHIEF, MEDITER-
·RANEAN, FOR SHOOTING and dockers
DOWN A HEINKEL. LT. PAL- MER'S SHIP IS THE CAPTURED ITALIAN SCHOONER MARIA
Merchant Raiders
MENT.
The slow but steady pressure exercised by the Navy, bringing up all our needs to carry out our The armed merchant raider GIOVANNA, AND HIS GUN AND plans and denying the enemy his, presented a similar problem to the AMMUNITION ALS0 BELONG- would be found on future analy-warship and they were extremely ED TO THE FASCIST GOVERN. sis to be the cause underlying all hard to reach. others of Britain's ultimate vic-
"In fact," he said to me over tory.
The cruiser was a match for the dinner-table last night in
could out-shout the them and therefore it did not voice that require such a careful combina-roaring forties, "I don't think tion of forces to search and hunt have ever used a round of British for this type of vessel.
Government ammunition in that ship."
Sea communications had been threatened by five forms of attack
submarines, surface warships, armed merchant raiders, mining and uair attack,
Big Advantage
a
I
We had not sunk many of these
An Australian merchant officer although from time to time there with a tanned, good-humoured beamed its way had been a fair number of them face that has operating, but this was largely through every port and lagoon in Palmer might the South Seas, well have stepped from the pages of Somerset Maugham.
because of the
success of our
The Germans had started with a big advantage in regard to sub-policy of forcing them to frequent marines because, having deter-almost deserted areas of oceans mined at the outset to adopt un- far from the sea lanes where restricted submarine warfare, there was little prey. many of their underwater craft were already in position, whereas even had we anticipated this it was not possible to operate our most effective defensive measure, the convoy system, until actually the outbreak of hostilities.
Thus, during the first two months of the war our losses from submarines were
very high something like 150,000 tons, but after that. during the winter of 1939/40, they progressively de-
clined.
When France collapsed, how- ever, and from improved basea the Germans were able to bring heavier attacks upon our ocean routes, the position deteriorated.
Mine Tactics -
the
The magnetic mine and practice of laying mines from the air was unknown in the last war, but they had not been such a sur- prise to the Admiralty as some people had thought.
They were already working
I tried to get him to tell me the story seriously, but it went some- thing like this:
me.
"Boy, you should 'a been with There it was mighty fun. was my old tub loaded to the In explosives, scuppers with fact everything that nobody else would dream of carrying:
"Couldn't Play Harps"
"When we saw these two birds
on them themselves at the time come over only a few hundred and scientists had rapidly sup-feet up I said to my boys, 'Now, plied the antidote so that the by heck, you have gotta fight like mines were now more of a you have never fought before, or nuisance than a danger.
you and I will be meeting upstairs in a few minutes, and I know It was worth noting that the none of you coves can play harps.' Germans seemed to experience " took the wheel and started more difficulty in sweeping up our swinging poor old Maria Giovanna mines than we did in picking up us she had never had helm before. theirs. Although the Germans Jerry thought we were a piece The situation was further ag- were operating From bases in of apple pie and came down to gravated by British losses of Northern France, Belgium and look at us. valuable escort craft in the Nor-Holland, we were able to run con- wegian operations and the French evacuation, which left some of our convoys very sparsely protected.
Turn Of Year
Result was that in the month of July, 1940, shipping losses were about six times that of the aver- age for the previous Spring and Winter.
It was not until the end of last year and the beginning of this that we were able to put round our convoys escorts of a size we considered desirable, and a mark-
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The final method of attack, from the air, although a menace and nuisance occasioning some loss. could now quite fairly be said to.. have been dealt with satisfactorily,
Reuter.
CONFISCATION
CONFIRMED
THE APPEAL OF. KWAN But in the early Spring of this CHO, AGAINST A CONFISCA- year, March, April, May and TION ORDER INVOLVING 350 June, submarine losses sobred TINS OF KEROSENE, IN ADDI- again,
|TION TO THE MAXIMUM FINE |OF $250-IMPOSED ON- HIM BY This was mainly due to the fact MR. T. HOUSTON ON JUNE 28 that. the German submarine FOR ANCHORING IN A PRO building programme had by then HIBITED AREA WAS DISMISS begun to materialise:
Recent Improvement
"Leading fellow circles round. to give us the works when my forrad gunner turns the hose on him. Boy, we gave him 25 of Murso's best little 12-miilimetre shells right in his ribs. "Bits and pieces flew in...every direction, black smoke poured out of him, and he put his nose straight down into the sea with an almighty splash, **"I had~no' time to do any- thing more about him, for his mate came for us. He never gave us. the same chance, but tried from all heights. for nearly an hour to get. us. I thought he'd never run out Lof: bombs."!
LONDON MAY STAY A SMALLER CITY
London may be per-
ED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, manently small suggests SIR ATHOLL MacGREGOR, AT the Pulitzer Prize his- THE SUPREME COURT THIS MORNING!
torian Professor Nivens,
5.
However, British shipbuilding Mr. Peter H. Sin, appearing for who has returned to New was also bearing fruit and various appellant, said that in the lower York after six months in other measures which cannot be court he pleaded guilty through
mentioned had been brought into his: solicitor and was fined the England. GUMS play, and the result was that re- maximum, pag panga He thinks that many of the
cently there had been this big
When the prosecution closed its people dispersed throughout the [ improvement.
case the learned Magistrate on country will never return to [his own accord ordered, the con- London; ** One factor, which still could fiscation of the kerosene, de
Due to immense population not be controlled was the mobil. The only ground of appeal was shifts and bombings, such “once- ity of German submarines and that the learned magistrate did populous areas as Mayfair, Ken- the inability to anticipate where not exercise his discretionary sington, Bayswater and Chelsea they would go next after they powers in this case. Appellant now bear a semi-deserted looks.. had been driven out of any had no previous conviction... This Country life, has raised the ticular areata
was his first offence. The kero- health manners and ambitions of IT WAS FOR THIS REASON sene was worth $1,500 and the slum children. THAT MORE AND STILL MORE confiscation "order in addition to ESCORT VESSELS WERE NEED- the fine was an additional cation order without an applica-“ ED-IF TROUBLE DEVELOPED penalty.
Sation which showed that he had
IN THE FAR EAST THEN EVEN Mr. Murphy submitted that the no ulterior, or wrong motive; and, MORE WOULD BE REQUIRED. Magistrate had made the cons-laid what he thought rig