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Enemy Convoy Off Sardinia Smashed By Fleet Air Arm
CAIRO, Sept. 5
(Renter)—A successfu|| atlack by the Fler! Air Arm on an enemiy Convoy is recorded in A RAF com munique. It says that the convoy consisted of five merchant- men with an escort of seven destroyers, and #1 WAN attacked east of Cape Spartivento (Sardinia).
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during the night of September 2 3. A large merchantman was ilt by lorpedo and blew up in a column + Amoke rising 9,000 feet, A- ather large ship was hit by a tor pedo andstips, and two smaller vessels in the convoy were damag
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FORMIDABLE US. SQUADRON IN THE ATLANTIC
ABOARD A U.S. WARSHIP ON THE ATLANTIC PATROL Aug 21 United States warship. operal· Ing under virtual wartime candi
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are carrying out President Roosevelt's instructions to keep the sea lanes cieur and maintain the nation's promise That the
to applies
Britain will Zel through writes Phil Newsom in the Manila Bulletin,
GENERAL
ALLIED MERCHANT
SHIPPING
British, Allied, and neutral shipping losses have risen sharply in recent muaths to an annual rate approaching 6 million tons. Sink - Ings for May were 461,000 toos, compared with 189,000 and 488.- 400 tons for March and April respec-ively. Lower losses in June, 329.000 tours. probably reflect Germany's present preoccupation with Russia and should not at this time be used as basis for future estimates. Until the spring of the present year it had been possible to poune average monthly losses to
а rate of approximately 5 million tons per annum, and there was considerable hope that Bri- tain would be able to carry on un lit effective replacements became available. The rapid widening of the margin between present sink- Ings and potential replacements, however, has brought the shipping stluation to a critical stage.
Nazi leaders early realized that net increase in available tonnage, purts revelved in bond in show that complete surprise and caused
the one hape of ultimate victory, since to pre-war years a substan a welcome addition to Watt Breat disorder. Destroyers 03- Empire supplies is the remarkable' parently fired on their own ships been aboard this warship during Europe to the sea lanes. The pos
This correspondent, who hay ay in breaking out of Continental tal proportion of Britain's com progrss in th linen fiax industry some of which narrowly avoided
merce had been carried in foreign the past 10 days noticed that session of strategie bages on the in New Zealand
bottoms. collision with each other.
Throughout the 2680 mile journey. i wo thousand mile coastline from the During
In 1938 only 54 per cent of all night, the the guns
were constantly ready Narvik to Bayonne has enabled Imports arrived in British vessels. Fleet Air Arm dropped a number
for immediate action. 01 bombs an Sicilian aerodromes
them to launch vicious assaults In addition to deducti'ns for it 1
on all merchant shipping approa, sinkings. allowance must be made Comiso and Gerbin
One enemy aircraft going into land
except while the british Lates, and in the tor ships that are unsuitable for Wile attacked from cost
summer and autumn of 1940 losses freight transport, e.g.. passenger range
were particularly heavy in con tind was htt while an enemy
liners and small coastal veskis crast tree-engined aircraft
with the rapidity of land Tomage laid up for repairs at uny was down in fames over Gerbin!
operations in the present war, et. one timu estinated at nearly 2 Toris
to supply Britain by sea million tons, and the requisition have settled down to a struggle of very substantial tonnage for use a trition in which no single astmas Army and Navy auxiliaries, hav
Before The war. was grown in the Densimon ul. when the war redured supullea 10 Britain from other sources, exper ments on a large scale were on dertakeli
So great was the success flyd far British Government has now in dertaken to buy the crop of 25 30e arres during the war and for the year afterwards at ngreeč prices.
Six additional factors are be erected, making a total of de the Domzalen
י {:
The value of the Mt year's A
was £35.00
INTERVAL IN
INDO-CHINA
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Berted trom airplanes af sult jmarines by sensitive Istening de
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British alrerait machine gunned (vices bolly aerodromes
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the complements but NAT heavy bombers altacked can say this squadron is formid Derna. Gazula and Bardia during abie
This stup is rated une of raght of September 23. At the most powerlul in the navy Berna, bombs fell near a barrack Navy men leave to the navy and a post and telegraph office department and the President to causing a fire and explosion.
decide the policy which they are
At Gazala, Bres were started on confident they can carry out The south Juding ground
was
Officially. whom I
STRICTLY NEUTRAL"
1 officers
Serversed are
A Bard:
2 dire! scored on the officers' quarters
The Fire!
Air Arn iliked
BETWEEN ACTS store dumps at Gambut where
OCCUPATION MOVE JUST A BLUFF?
SAIGON, Sept
· Reuter
uf
res
were scen
<f
expert the United States
has arrived in Salgon after a tour landing grounds In uir combat, sivel
moment and with
southward and thr second ar!
of incurston in Indo China appears
No
Goebbels
even.
decision.
an emtribute largely the anajalso car deeply into Britain's re- sources a final allowance for ship- ping employed or routes fat remov. ed from the battle zone will reduce
British Isles to approximately 15 the tonnage directly supplying the
million tons.
15
Britain
Tonnage present
ot
SO
CARRYING POWER Normal peacetime standards are Useless
in assessing the carry- power
this remaining Effectiv tonnage, under conditions. 16 related much to the nuin
number of round trips that can b ber of ships available but to the
made in a given perlod between which Britian is trading. Many of British ports and the countries with
nsiderable margin,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941. -PAGE 9
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WET FLEX LED TO ELECTROCUTION
A shop assistani, 20-year-old Khek Ang Moh, died of heart failure fottowing an electric shock on the night of Aug. 13. while he was engaged in salting vegetables in the back yard of a shop in Bali Lane, Singapore.
MILKING RECORD
At the inquiry into the youth's death, It was concluded that be came into contact with a length of flexible electric wire which had become wet when it fell into the ¡tub of
had been vegetabies he working at. and thus received the Park cattle, descendants of the electrical charge which caused his
beasts that once death. through Britain's
roamed
wild
He found that a naked electric bulb was suspended by a piece of flex. which was loose, over a mil in the beam of the roof.
Provided that lusses do not get jout of control, and that every re
maining Source of tonnage
flized to the fullest extent Bri ist, authorities are confident that it will be possible carry on through th coming critical months
serious with without
impairment of strictly the war effort. It is recognized, neutraj with regard to the merits however, that such measures ra. "or demerits
not in themselves be relied upon ber
America's entry: to into the war, bur privately, they to shift the balance of offensive break u!
power from Germany On Wednesday in the frontier tually to take active part in the
The only real answer to the pro- ates, ghters of the Sul Alri-
confule! Interventionist Teeling
blem which must involve Barge Can Air Force intercepted a num. appears stronger among the
additional amounts of ald Sea
fro ber of enemy #ghters which at
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the United States to Great Brital Governed firmrad Adiniral Deconx Templené to attack
forward This correspondent saw a giant is new ship construction.
which wax scribbled
21 MILLION TONS
the factors affecting the efficiency Sizantic white I Cambodia No Tw politie, Avi of the enemy fighters were "This one is for
of merchant shipping do not per* Hitler. Other britain at the outset of the pre-
Mr. Philip Cooper Sands. flec developments are experter at the shot down without loss to our shells were addressed to Nast Air sent
mi: statistical analysis. It will be forests, are today setting up new trial ongineer War
attached to the the departure formation.
owned or directly con-obvious, however, that those tend-miking records. Marshal Hermann Guering and trolled a merchant marine of ap
Municipality, British alreralt is missing Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph proximately 2; million tons. Since power outweigh all others by a very sex, last year attained an average
testified that of General Sunita Japan, the
he Ing to reduce effective carrying
The cattle owned by Sir Claud visited the scene of the accident latest phase of the Japanese use from these operations.
Alexander, Bt. of Paygate, Sus- that time, through the capture of
the next morning. enemy shipping. acquisiti:-n
milk yield for the herd of 8,060 Despite the blockade of Europe, lbs, with a butter fat content of merchant fleets of occupied countries, purchase and charter ut resulting in the release of large 456 In the
previous quantities
year one neutral shipping and
of shipping for other helfer gave 11.7241 lbs., and was purposes, the establishment of im-fifth best helfer of all breeds in the bath and socket showed struction within the British En-
Part of the flex was wet and pire. she has acquired direct zon-
port controls, and the more econo- the West Sussex Milk Recording rol over an additional 11 millions
mical operation of ali
signs of having come into con- vessels. Society's books. British shipping is badly handicap-
tact with water. ons. To a very large extent, how. ver, these additions are of a non
ped In many directions. Convoys
Mr. Sands stated that the bulb. Park cattle are both the oldest proceeding at the speed of the and youngest of British breeds- recurring nature. Against the to
suspended above a tub of vegetables. It a fraction of the recent estimates
wat of such credits must be placed slowest ship, longer hacis due to oldest in
was possible, he respect of thetr long the elimination admitted losses by enemy action abroad
of Europe BS aneage, and youngest in that they flex were dislodged and fell into said, that the electric bulb and the The opinion is that this tends duction of strategie materials and While
source of supply and the dangers made their first appearance in the of approximately million scre quarters interpret, lo confirm
tons reports that simular purchase of military suppiles.
of the Mediterranean, and conges-ring at the Royal Agricultural 80-received the electric shock while leaving some 25 million tons of the Japanese occupation of South loans are being negotiated with ern Indo-China as a bluff intend-| Ecuador, Colombia
A high official indicated that shipping still available for use.
tion in British ports, have greatly clety of England's 1920 Show. replacing the flex. and pably most of the major differences had ed to distract attenthur from
Impaired the present effectiveness The first volume This amount, white representing other Latin-American countries
of the Park been ironed
of the merchant service Out and f.hat surprise attack against the Nether.
Cattle's Society's Herd Book The
an a gain of 4 million tons over that stabilisation
Was loan would agreement may be announced in controlled lands East Idies, other circles con- bolster Mexican
સમ the outbreak of
published in 1918 and dealt with currency and a "week or a month" sider that the first sign of a
hostilities, cannot be considered a
all the animals then in existence. de would apparently be made simul-
herd of 150 head, no fewer than Ante weakening in
A vivid white the Russiantaneously with the settlement of
which NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Reuter) ears, muzzle, teats and eye-lashes Ministry of Agriculture's 3-year
colour, with ten of
have earned the western front will be the signal the expropriation question,
Mr. Myron Taylor, President Ron-¡black OF for a Japanese move
red, they are against 81- Ja this connexion, the "Journal
large, Certificate (for a yield of 24,000 sevelt's personal representative to magnificently proportioned beasts. lbs.) have all passed the tubercp- berla.
the Vatican, by Clipper yesterday adapted to both milk for Lisbon en route to Rome, hay-production.
and beef losis test for several years in sue-
cession without a single reactor.
This herd has averaged 7,859 lbs. Park cattle are remarkably free of milk annually over a period of from tuberculosis. Major Gurney's 15 years.
to have ended, leaving the curtai down between acte preceding the unforeseeable next episode
are pre
While Japanese troops paring for a prolonged sojourn they are manifestly incapable further offensive action in
of
This
area due to various Jactors, notabiy insufficient strength which is only
fl
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U.S. STABILISATION LOAN TO MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (Reuter-Real `progress in negotiat- ing a stabilisation loan to Mexico is being made, according to art announcement made by the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau. who added that these were simple negotiations on which he could conument.
01 Commerce" reports that the
A considerable school of thought formula for a settlement of the
emphasises Japan's previous du
expropriation controversy calls for mestle and economic position and payment of $8,000,000 down believes that an agreement be-American oil companies and fut tween Japan and America in which ! ther instalments chiefly in the! Japan makes certain concessions sales of all at 20 per cent. below! In return for certain economie ad- the prevailing market price. vantage is a likely solution to the The journal adds that the sel
feared,lement of the of question, which however, that such an agreement has been presented to the inter- may be reached at the expense of ested companies for
acceptance. Indo-China.
present Bituation. It is
THAI-HANGCHOW TRAIN DERAILED CHUNGKING, Sept, (Centra
A Hangchow-bound train on the
will be part of a comprehensive agreement involving a stabiilsa- tion loan of $80,000,000 and $30,000,000 Export-Import
AUSTRALIAN
TO CHUNGKING BATAVIA, Sept. 5
a
Bank
new con-
DIGGERS IN MALAYA WANT REAL ACTION
(TRIBUNE STAFF KEPORTER)
Australian troups in Malaya, of whom there are many thou- sands, are feeling slightly bored with having so little to do. They want action, like their brothers in Libya and on other frouls, and they want to do their job in such a way that there will be no need, either In Malaya or elsewhere, for any of them to remain here.
These are some of the impressions of Senator H. S: Foll. Australian Minister of Information, and of the Interior, who. with a party of leading Journalists from Down Under, have been visiting our defences, principally with reference to troops from their country.
in this country so pleasant, and given the men such hospitable re- ception and welcome.
Shanghai-Hangchow Railway was deralled at Shihutang near Sung- klang, important station southwest of Shanghai, on the morning of September 2, according to a Shang-The first Australian Minister
(Reuter-
Mr. Full added that his party hai dispatch.
Chungking, Mr. Frederick William and he were very grateful to all The derailment was caused by Eggleston, who is at present in the local Service chiefs and others the removal by the Chinese guerll-the Dutch East Indles, yesterday with whom they had come in lus of a considerable section of paid a visit to the military au- tact.
to
"My own experience here," he
g recuperated from
lness that has months.
lasted
# severe several
waa
water. The shop
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In a farewell interview with the Speaking of Mr. Menzies' pro- to London, Mr. Foll pressed thanks, on behalf of the expressed the hope that Mr. Australian troops in Malayu, to all Menzles would spend some days in ENVOYhose who have made their stay both Malaya and the NEL
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Sundays and Holidays In a Press interview Mr. Eggles-Australian envoy in Malaya, on deprived. of representation in the open. be heavy but the number of casual-ton said that his nomination was which he touched in the course heart of the Empire at a ties is not known.
time the third of a series of appoint of his interview on arrival here. when that valuable representa ments which demonstrated Aus- Mr. Foll said that he had had tion was so urgently needed.
desire to develop very full discussions with the relations with other Pacific coun- local authorities, and when he re- He expressed the hope that
the tracks.
The damage done is believed to
REALISTIC S'PORE WAR GAMES SINGAPORE, Sept. 5 (Reuter)
thorities at Bandung.
tralia's sincere
tries
BRITISH ASSISTANCE,
Any action now
Austral-Malayan trade would improve and that relations would get closer. Discussing the qucation American collaboration In
of the
turned to Australla be would im mediately go into the matter. He was more convinced now than ever of the great need for Aus- Defence exercised with "effecta“
TO CHINA
tralian representation in Malaya. will be held here in the middle of
SHANGHAI, Sept. & (Router)-!
Speaking of the local war effort. Paclic, Mr. Fell said that if it be- September lasting two days. They will ba realistic
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he sak that he had been greatly came necessary, and if America that SU Archibald Clark Kerr, Britleb impressed by what was being done were in any war on our side, the
the population has been warned in Ambagaudor to China, has appoint- here, as also in the NEI. advance not to be alarmed,
ed a special committee to unify
A communique announcing the exorcisco declares that the mea-ald to China.
Buren tend cause no alarm. They
Singapore Bass should be thrown One outstanding impression of open to American warships, just na
Australion Harbours would
be
all British organisations rendering Malays that he would carry with The Committee will be authoria Chinese, Malays and Indiana-
hin was how the local people made available to the US, Fleet. Mr. Foll said that he and his
are raerely a contribution towards ed to take direct control of all were helping in the war effort, party had made many friendships;
the training of services on whose British ald services to China, ac- both in the industries, and fac-during their visit here, and ho work the community will depend cording to reports in the Chinese tories and actively in the Services, was sure that they would be last- in an energency.
Fress here,
motively in the Bervices.
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