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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 27, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I DON'T KNOW ---HE JUST ASKED TO SEE THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE!
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Mines Seen As Nazi Confession of Weakness
WE
CAN DEFEAT TERRORISM
LONDON, Nov. 26 (Reuter).—Reviewing the
war
at sen, the I.B.C. naval observer said that all German mines had been laid along the shipping routes around the British coast.
The sinking of British and neutral shipping by this illegal method is going to have a great effect on the war as a whole and not quite in the way the Germans had intended.
tion strife between the parties Imme- diately became subdued, War at sea was a complicated Parlament is working as a free R forum of the nation business. It was not only con-assembly, fined to straight naval battles,jdering valuable service as an intermediary between executive and but was a contest to strangle blir opinion. sen-borne trade.
Britofm's Peply
Progress of the war is the single public consideration which dominates
the function all others,
of
This method of laying mines was Parliament remains that while Πρ
to against International Law, not mention
considerations of Bessary acrifice is grudged, the humanity, but we were pretty used to country retains the strength of its the Nazis breaking International Law, freeilen and maintains the prin- and we would take reprisals by the ciple of fair play, and honest and stopping of German exports,
No German 1p would dare to sail) except to ports in the Baltic, and that meant that her exports carried in neutral ships.
were
Reprisals would affect neutral shipping, bai wo adonied the same reprisals to 1915 and would make every effort to respect genuine neutral trade
constructive criticism.
NEW
ALLIED FLEET
1030
Transitory Advantage LONDON, Nov. 26 (British Wire-914500
less).The new turn given to Ger- many's war on shipping in the last week is the subject of much public discussion here.
It is recognised that a surprise fac- tor can always be introduced by an enemy which does not scruple to Confession Of Weakness
violate international Inw and, as to The laying of mines was a con be expected the surprise factor has of weakness. The U-boat brought immediate gains to Germany. fession
Indiscriminate sowing of mines in campaign had not been as effective as was hoped and U-boats had been! frightened far out into the Atlantic, the North Sea has resulted in the where they could only attack a few sinking of several ships, many be
longing to neutral countries.
lone unconvoyed ships. mostly Reflection Is frequently heard.
neutral.
And no the Nazis had turned to however, that as the experience of magnetic mines, which were not new the past has shown, the advantage is and which, in fact, were used in the likely to be merely transitory. That it is pointed out, was so in the case last war.
The terra "magnetio.mines dia of Germany's "ank at sight" policy not mean that the mines would, in the leal war which not only failed move towards ships like chickens in the end but recoiled with deadly
force upon herself. wlien yen carne out with a handful
It is not doubted that methods to of corn.
menace
of the so- They were the came as any other deal with the
nine have been mines except that they were mag-called magnetic
considered by naval experts in anti- netically exploded.
cipation of their use, and there is in
to believe that fact reason methods are being urgently deve- loped,
Steel ships formed magnets which would set these mines oit.
An Initial Success
ש.
Reprisals Effect
these
The new departure had been the taying of mines from aircraft which] could, swoop down and drop their mines and be off almost before one to be the short life of the technical realised what was happening.
Apart from what may well prove
advantage Germany appears to have That was an initial success for the secured, she has now jo reckon with Nazis but an effective antidote would the effects of reprisal she has brought down upon herself in the form of the soon be working.
Allied decision to seize her exports
British ships were plying the seas of the world and it was inevitable in neutral vessels.
that there should be some losses.
This confronts her with the loss of Germany could break Intera considerable part of what remains national Law, but she could not in wartime of her export trade-and break the spirit of British merchant that part upon which she chiefly de-
pended for free exchange.
BORENCE,
merchant
DENTACTI
As long as that spirit remained, Although by using aeroplanes as;
and the Royal mine carriers Germany can sow Navy between them would see that mines in waters which are closed to this country came out on top at the her warships, thus for, she has not succeeded in compelling the closing end.
of any French or British port
In any care, all British western
The Navy's Spirit
•
This spirit was best exemplified)
by a survivor from the destroyer ports are totally unaffected.
Gipsy, who was pleked up wearing] only a football jersey. He explained that he had come ashore play Newcastle United.
Danmark's "Fairway" Considerable interest has also been aroused by the announcement
that
THIS SHOWS WHY NAZIS ARE LOSING
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ENEMY
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WITZERLAND
ITALY
THIS map contrasts Germany's siluation six tuccks after the outbreak of war (3) in 1914 (2) in 1930.
In 1914 the Kotser had already oveTTUN Belgium and Luxemburg. This time the French start with the advantage of holding Alsace- Lurratue us well as fighting in Germanys.
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In 1914 Germany already occupied most of the Polish provinces she has now repdined. And in addition ale hud the backing of the vast empire of Austria-Hungary, which stretched from the Adriatic almost to the Black Sea
Comparative strengths of the fleets and gold reserves complete the picture.
Octogenarian Wants To
Fight Fourth War
LONDON.
Private John Wright, aged eighty-two, refuses to be cvacuated.
White-haired and bearded, he stumped his stick on the ground at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and mumbled;. "Evacuato me, ch? Not likely. I fought through the Afghan War, got through the Boer War and Great War all right." And I'll get through this one.
Britain's Gold Wealth
Transferred To The--
Exchange Fund
LONDON, Nov. 20 (British Wire- less). In the Bank of England re- turn of November 22, gold coin and bullion in the Issue Department was valued, nt 188 shillings per. One oz., at £210,501.
Control, But I am not going to run away from it."
Some of the Pensioners have been evacuated to a largo house which has been taken for thom in Herefordshire. Those remaining in London have had deep shelters built for them,
an
GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO SEPARATE ALLIES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Nov. 26, (UP)-Renewing the campaign to separate France and Great Britain, the Sunday press published official declaration commenting on the British French economic agreement.
of War Graves, placed a wreath on Under the headline "Franco Has the grave of the French dead in the Sunk to the Position of a British war of 1070 at Garrison Cemetery in Colony: England Exploits Ally to connection with the National Memor- Exhaustion," the press officially de-ial Day (Totensonnag). elares. The French will have used her still considerable gold reserveS
"You can change the methods of the Danish Board of Trade has proof nearly one hundred miliard francs warfare and you can change the type claimed the existence of a "fairway" to support the English pound and pay of ships," the naval observer con- cluded. "But the sea and the spirit to the British const.
This is taken as a significant in-not only the French but the British armament purchases in the United of our men who sail it will never dication of what was to be expected States.
olher change."
that neither Denmark nor LONDON. Nov. 20 (Reuter) neutrals will be prepared to submit "After it was deserted by the whole The British Press to-day was conto German intimidation of neutral world the sinking pound was attach fident, that an effective method to deal with the Nazi mine-laying will shipping. That Denmark clearly in-ed to the frane which it will drag
Londs to maintain her normal exports Into an abyss in its collapse." soon be found.
Writing in the "Observer," Mr. J. to Britain is the meaning many here
Garvin says that under Mr.read into her announcement. Winston Churchill there is no slow-:
ness to-day.
More than ever, there is need for an overwhelming air supremacy of the Alikes to carry the war right into the enemy's country, an
Parliament At Its Bast
TWO DIE IN
CITY BLAZE
Two died in hospital, five others neriously injured following fire which
The "Observer" also comments on gutted three-storey tenement at 408 thổ: Kinh hơitary teston which Queen's Road West at 1 am. to-day. ended on Thursday, saying that the others thought missing."
They charge that the French will be forced not only to feed the British soldiers but also to fill in the gaps of Great Britain's food supply and also replace sunken British ships with French tonnage and to protect Bel- 'tain's convoys with French warships.
Gosture To Franco SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Nov. 28, (UP). --- The Relch made another, #eature towards
war has shown Parliament at its Dead, both women, are not identi-the French when Dr. Evlin, leader of very best in opleit and efficiency. ned. Remainder are in Queen Mary the Feople Association for the Care
The House of Commons had put Hospital, some in critical condition, factions behind it,
felther suffering from burns or from
No further refutation of Incapacity injuries received when they jumped
of Democracy in wartime was needed to escape flames, 'than'is" provided by the record of the past three month
A Free Assembly
The new Japanese warship Zulkaku thens The - "Sunday Times" says that will be launched at Kawasaki dock
during the period of defence prepare yards to-day.
PATROLS ACTIVE
PARIS, Nov. 20 (Reutor) come munique Issued to-day states that patrols were 'activo during the night In the Vanges région,
As a result of the polley of mass- ing gold reserve behind the Exchange
this
a decrease of £320,000,000 compared with a year
ngo.
was
Naxi Misrepresentation This drop in gold held by the Bank of England is capable misrepresenta- tion, and Nazi propagandists have not failed to exploit the opportunity. It is suggested that the £220,000 in the issue Department constitutes the entire Brilish gold reserve.
The gold reserve is now held, however, in the Exchange Equalisa- tion Account, which in addition to.. a large amount of gold already in its possession, received £200,000,000 at the outbreak of war transferred Overseas investments, from the bank.
The gold masses in the Exchange Account, moreover, are only a part of the finaricial reserves of Britain, which has foreign investments to the estimated £1,000,000,000.-
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