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CRIPPLING BLOW DEALT TO
TO THE ITALIAN FLEET
Commons Cheer Churchill On Hearing News Of The Glorious Taranto Episode.
Members of Parliament yesterday cheered Mr. Chur- chill, Prime Minister, when he gave them the Arst news that planes of the Fleet Air Arm had dealt a crippling blow to the Italian Battle Fleet.
Mr. Churchill rose in the House of Commons in a very cheerful mood, says a London message.
STIRRING SPEECH BY METAXAS
ATHENS, Nv. 13
He said: "I have some good news for you" and when he read the Admiralty commu- nique there were frequent bursts of cheers.
Per Month: $3,00.
AT AT TARANTO
Shortage In Dodecanese CANDIA, CRETE, Nov. 13
Battleship Of Cavour Class Beached: Two Acute Food
Auxiliaries With Sterns Under Water DETERMINED AND HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NIGHT ATTACK BY FLEET AIR ARM
THE ROYAL NAVY HAS STRUCK A CRIPPLING BLOW AT THE ITALIAN FLEET. AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT 1 P.M. YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO BRITISH WIRELESS, STATED THAT MAIN UNITS OF THE ITALIAN FLEET WERE LYING SNUGLY BEHIND THE SHORE DEFËNCES IN THEIR MAIN BASE AT TARANTO.
Revolvers, Rifles For
"I feel it my duty to bring this glorious episode to the immediate notice of the House," said the Prime Minister. "It will affect the balance of naval power and also cause reactions on the naval situa- (Reuter)tion in other parts of the world." Opening his stirring speech at Mr. Churchill then referred to
Home Guard Athens University with the an-Saturday's attack on Sidi Barrani nouncement that mobilisation" had and said, "All these results reflect been completed, General Metaxas, the greatest credit on the Admir- cargo of rifles, revolvers and am- LONDON, Nov. 13 (Reuter-A Premier, added, amid a storm of alty, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunning-munition, the fret or hundreds of cheers, "closely united with oar ham, the Mediterranean Fleet and thousands that are being collected British Allies we shall win."
the Fleet Air Arm who are render- For the successful mobilisation ing their country services of the from homes in America has just arrived in England and has been the of the Greek forces, Gen, Metaxas highest order."
distributed to members of CUT EY HALF thanked God and the patriotism
The Prime Minister's claim that Home Guard. More shipments are and self-sacrifice of the Greek
the victory would affect the on their people and the ability of her milliance of natal power in the tary leaders,
"The time has now come for the spiritual mobilisation of Greece that is the reason for my visit.
From the tolling virtues of dis- cipline," the Premier declared "we have raised the virile and fighting youth of Greece and, we are marching against the enemy with order and precision as well as en-¦
thusiasm.
"All Greece has replied to the enemy through my lips: 'I' you! dars, come and take our territory'. Now 1-have need of you"
"They are gifts from thes Mediterranean shows that Italy's rican Committee for the defence total battleship strength has been of British homes. cut for certain by one-third and probably by half.
(Reuter)-An acute food.." shortage in the Dodecanese Islands is reported by Greek fishermen who left just be- fore the outbreak of the Italo-Greek war.
They say that bread is so scarce
that the women are even" bar........ tering wedding rings for loaves...... while oil is rationed at five drams a head weekly and motor transport has practically ceased. owing to the needs of Italian warplanes.
On the night of November 11-12, the communique con- tinues, aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm carried out the attack The morale of Italian troops, most-
the results of which have now been established by photo- graphic reconnaissance.
»
It is now known that one battleship of the Lattorio Class is so badly down by the bows that her forecastle is under water and she has a heavy list to a starboard.
ONE BATTLESHIP OF THE CAVOUR CLASS HAS BEEN REACHED AND HER STERN,
UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AFTER TURRET, IS UNDER WATER. THE SHIP IS HEAXY LISTED TO STARBOARD. IT HAS NOT YET BEEN POSSIBLE TO HE FACT WETH CERTAINTY BUT IT APPEARS PROBABLE THAT SECOND
SHIP OF THE CAVOUR CLASS RAS ALSO BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED
In the inner harbour two cruisers are listed to star- board and are surrounded by oil fuel.
Two, fleet auxillaries are lying with their sterns under water.
The total strength of the Italian Battle Fleet was six battleships, two of the Lattorio Class which have just been put into service and four of the recently reconstructed Cavour Class.
Enemy Air Losses On Monday
The Arst consignment consisted mostly of modern firearms, in- Mr. Churchill in announcing the cluding 100 rifles and 50,000 rounds success of the Fleet Air Arm link-pf ammunition from an unknown ed it up with a reference to the sender, but it also included some loss of the Jervis Bay. He said: old frontier buffalo guns and rifles made in 1873, relics of the Civil War in Louisiana,- when Gen. Candy and his men were massacred
The toll of aircraft lost by the by Indians near Oregon,
As a result of this deter-, tacked a convoy of two supply enemy on Armistice Day is still in Even these old weapons, how mined and highly successful ships escorted by a destroyer. creasing as the result of later re- ever, are in perfect aring con-attack probably only three
As a result one heavy laden ship parts, states dition and each is accompanied by italian battleships now re-second ship was certainly damaged of 3,000 tons was sunk and the
and probably sunk
"The spirit which the Royal.. Navy has shown in its dating attack on Taranto is also shown in the heroic action of the Jervis Bay against over- whelming, odds in the Atlantic in order to protect the convoy she was escorting."
20 rounds of ammunition.
First Real Account Of Magnificent Fight By Jervis Bay: Merchant Cruiser Had Vastly Inferior Guns
Survivors of the armed merchant cruiser, which was sunk in action with a German ralder, have now landed at an East Canadian port and the first real account of the magnificent fight has been made available, states a message from London last night. The JERVIS BAY (Capt. E. S. F. Fegen), according to a survivor, had no great speed and was o? vastly inferior armament.
As soon as the attack began, the Jervis Bay put out a smoke-screen to help the convoy to escape and as a result of her gallant fight at least 29 of the 38 ships in the convoy have been saved,
main effective.
It will be recalled that the Italian communique issued on
.
■ British Wireless message.. i
The Admiralty announces that it i 's now established that during an i enemy a'r attack on a North Sea convoy, HMS. Vimiera ahot down
wo Junkers 87s into the sea.
ly encamped in the woods, owing : to the danger of air raids and naval bombardments, is report ed to be very low.
PETAIN'S PLAN FOR FRANCE
According to a message from London last night, Marshal Petain told the French Press yesterday' of a plan to divide up the rountry- Inta, a scure, of regions with a Governor as a central authority.
This authority will be exercised, Marthal Petain said when the Government gives orders to a small body of trusted men "whom it knows well,
The London message also added that M, Laval has again. left. Vichy for Paris, but that before leaving he saw General Nouges, who had arrived in Vichy for conversations with the Govern
ment.
Bucharest Rocked
WAITING FOR MONTHS "We have dealt a crippling blow Nov, 12 admitted that one to the Italian Fleet. Our Navy varship had been badly dam-in the Mediterranean bas been
The total of enemy aircraft, des- NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (Reuter).......... iged. The Italian communi- waiting for months to have
troyed by A.A, guns of B.M. ships Two "new earthquake shocks, of smack at the Italian Fleet and as are now five and it is known that considerable que also also claimed that six the mountain would not come to two were damaged.
intensity, rocked Bucharest last night, says the of our aircraft were shot down Mohamet, the prophet must go to
d three more probably shot the mountain."
These are in addition to 12 Ger. Bucharest correspondent of the remarked Mr. down.
Cyril Lakin in a talk in London lastroyed by the RAF.
nan and 13 Italian machines des Trans-radio Agency.
night,
In fact only two of our aircraft are missing and it is noted that the enemy claim that part of the crews have been taken prisoner.
And so it is that our Fleet Air Arm has done what the Navy in tended to do and the effect of this is going to be incalculable. You may be sure that this blow to the Italian Fleet will have rë perenssións throughout the world.
The Mediterranean Fleet also continued to harass the Italian, communications with their armies in Libya. ". On the night of Nov, 0-10 a suc-It is great news and it has sent cessful bombardment was carried a thrill through this country to
The captain of the ship the White Ensign was shot away, for excellent boat work which re-out on Sidi Barrant. The fire was day." that went to the rescue of the but a seaman ran up the rigging sulted in the rescue of 14 of the returned by shore batteries but German inatorship Hedwig which four ships sustained no damage and Jervis Bay said that the ac-and put up a new flag,
An explosion then shattered the ran aground in rough weather on no casualties. tion of the Jervis Bay was Jervis Bay and she sank rapidly. a reef between China and the It is also reported that one of glorious and it was the gal- Two-thirds of the crew of the Philippines.
our submarines has recently at Lantry of her crew in this Jervis Bay who fought this battle fight that prompted him to were men of the merchant service return to her rescue.
The attack took place on Nov. 5, when a convoy was on its way
who had never been in action before.
TRIALS NOT OVER
-to-England with food and supplies. Even when the ship was sinking.
It was a bright and sunny morning by the stern, the trials of the when the German raider hove into crew were not over, for they were sight and opened firing at long still raked by gunare. range. While the raider "was-fir= |}, "The "great,, fight saved 150,000 ing, the Jervis Bay put out a smoke tons of shipping for certain and screen and awung out of the con- voy and closed with the enemy,
HEAVY SHELL
A hit by a heavy shell put the steering gear out of action and Captain Tegen had one arm badly shattered, while the upper part of the bridge was shot away.
some of the nine, missing ships,
not yet known to be saved, might still reach home.
This glorious epic of the sea, says, Reuter, was related in an Ad- miralty communique,
were
HEARTS STIRRED
*Only this morning we talking here about the magnificent action of the armed merchant cruiser, the Jervis Bay, which fought one of the greatest actions since the Rawalpindi lought the
TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY Deutschland. It has surred our
The damage was slight
RUSSIAN COLLABORATION WITH AXIS, THEN JAPAN
Molotov's Visit
Nothing has been inued in Berlin as to what passed between HERE HITLER and M. MOLOTOV at their two-and-a-half hour- meeting on Tuesday, states a message from London.
According to the French Wireless,
Gern Pak
"Foreign Office handed a statement to foreign journalists, which, declared that in view of the new developments created by the war, It had become necessary to define clearly the position of the Soviet Union.
The German Foreign Office is THE ITALIAN FLEET, main units of which were lying in their main hearts here and I am sure it has also quoted as saying that one purpose of M. Molotov's visit is to base at Taranto, suffered a crippling blow dealt by aircraft of the stirred your hearts too.
fix a basis for political and Fleet Air Arm on the night of Nov, 11-12 „As a result of this 'de- "The Jervis Bay went down in economic collaboration by Russia termined and highly successful attack probably only three Italian a blaze of glory and by her action with the Axis Powers and even- battleships now remain effective. News of this glorious episode was she saved at least 29 of the 38 tually with Japan. revealed by Mr Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and ships she was convoying that the Premier was loudly cheered on several occasions when he read convoy which the Germans claim important part of the conversa
Japan is expected to form an
the Admiralty communique
to have wiped out entirely. A aur- tions. THE STORY OF THE GREAT FIGHT PUT UP BY the armed vivor who described the action here merchant cruiser Jervis Bay against overwhelming odds, when es said Never before have I seen and conanes itself to a report of Moscow volds any comment corting a convoy, was told by survivors who landed at a East Cana such fearlessness as that shown the arrival of M. Molotov in Ber dlan port. Tribute to the gallantry shown was paid by the Premier by the captain and crew of the in in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon.. It la of Interest to' pote that the master of the vessel Cant ES F. Fegen, formerly Jets Bay. Her name will live commanded H.M.8. Buffolk in Chion. R
for ever!"
It is known that the Jervis Bay steered for the enemy and engaged
GENEMY DETACHMENTS ARE REPORTED TO BE STILL re- her with greatly inferior armament
treating from Konits in the Findus sector of the Greek front and
In spite of his injury, Captain thus enabling a majority of the Fegen went up to the upper ships in the convoy to make good bridge from where he tried to con- their escape. trol his ship, until that too was shot away. He then returned to the main bridge and was not seen after that. THESE
WAS IN CHINA.
British Wireless reports that in
command or the Jervis Bay was
Long after the Jervis Bay had Capt. E. 8. Fegen. He
碗S
started to list her guns were still | specially commended when com- blazing away. During the battle mander of HB. Suffolk in China
are leaving behind a certain amount of equipment and prisoners ADM. DECOUX HAS
The Greeks are advancing towards the Kalamas River and are cer-
three-quarters of the way,ge NOTHING HAS BEEN ISSUED AS TO WHAT TRANSPIRED A
NOT RESIGNED SHANGHAL, Nov 13 (Router)
lengthy talk between M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commissar and French reports received here from the German Fuehrer but it was reported that the talks were com- Esnot, it is stated ocially, denied tinued yesterday. M Molotov also conferred with Tield Marshal that Admiral Jean Deco Gover Goering yesterday and on Tuesday night was the guest of honour at j nor Gen
a reception given by the German Foreign Minister.
Indo-China,
The German Press regards the visit as a great political event and adds that developments of a more tangible nature will now be forth-
coming, which is taken to meat Russia's acceptance of a plan to collaborate with the Axia
WHAT HITLER THINKS
states that
The Londo
it is interesting had
Herr Hitlery think
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