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TEN FACTS
How We Knocked
1/5th
Off Hitler's Battle
by
Fleet
H. C. FERRABY,
Daily Express Naval Reporter
At the beginning of the war Germany's battle fleet con- alated of the three pocket battleships Graf Spec, Admiral- Scheer and Deutschland, and the battleships Scharnhorst and
Gneisenaut.
any of our cruisers. The crushing battleship named after that 1. Tactics
effect of one 670lb. shell is 90 admirel were not worthy of their. much greater than that of one
forerunners. HEN the first whis- 100lb. shell, and the amount of
But the battle was a remark- per reached me that damage done by one greater than the Achilles was in that by six of the British shells able triumph for the gunnery Admiral -because of its concentration in men of the British cruisers. For such comparatively light craft
ABOUT FINLAND W
1. A Swedish colony for 500 years, action with the
during the eighteenth century.
in
Finland was ceded to the expand-Scheer (as we believed the one spot
Moreover, the British crui- to knock a ship of the size of FIGUEIREDO-At his residence No.ing Ruslan Empire in three stages ship to be at that time) and aere gun range is some 18,000 the Graf Spee about so badly
finally won
2. Backed by German troops, she then later that she had been yards, which is well inside the without being smashed up them-
ber Lidependence by sunk, I
saw nothing im- 30,000 yards of the German selves is a feat that takes some crushing + Communist revolt
ship. The cruisers could not believing, even though there 1918.
probable in the report. 3. Finland has been friendly with Ever since the start of the hope, as it seemed, to be within were three of them on the spot.
range where they could damage
Why were our gunnery mon so Germany since, Coloured shiris and swastikas are match in evidence, hunt for the German pocket the German without being them successful, the Germans so sur- alilaugh the Government is a Social battleships, those of us who re: selves under such weight of fire prisingly bad? The answer is in
member the battle of Coronel have feared that the Germans a must annihilate them in a the tactics which the British
few salvoes,
cruiser, adopted. It didn't work out that way. might have the luck to catch Finland was the Brst country to some of our searching light The gunnery of the Germans have been modelled on those of give votes to women under a short-cruisers out of reach of pro-
whe
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Someone Blundered
How long Germany can wage
Democratic-Agrarian coalition.
4. The country is governed by President (elected for six years), Council of State, and a Diet of 200.
+
a
The British tactics seem to
up to their lived self-government constitution tection of the bigger ships, and was by no means
long, running granted by the Czars in 1007, They that another easy triumph for usual standard-which was do. Sturdes at the battle of the still have them.
monstrated when the Deutsch- Falklands a G. Fluns are mainly Lutheran the German Navy might precede land sank the Rawalpindi. We fight; excess of speed ensuring
Their Protestants.
other religion is the extinction of the raiders.
are told that at the start of the that touch could always be kept; physical fitness. Remember Faavo
The fear was reasonable. battle the only ship engaging steady hammering at the enemy Nurmi, le runner?
7. They are also one of the best Consider the gun power of the the Graf Spee was the Exeter, for hours on end with slow, con- educated and most cultured races in respective ships: Europe,
B. Asiatic in origin, they moved!
the eighth cen- from the Volga in tury. They are related to the Estoni- ans and Hungarians.
9. Malu product is timber carried
arc
Single B'side
lbs: lbs. lbs.
Shell B'aide per min.
The German gunners had at centrated fire at intervals so as that time only the one target; not to waste a salvo by hitting. they had also only the fire of at the empty air; skilful dodg- ing of his salvocs by manoeuv- one ship to unsettle them.
shot.
Graf Spee class 670 4,020 12,050 At that stage gunners of the ring, and, of course, simultane- to the coast on the country's many Archilles class 100 800 8,000 skill of those who fought under ous concentration of fire from Iakes and rivers. Minerals Exeter class. 250 1,500 7,500 Admiral von Spec at the battle three directions to worry both LTD. war, and with what prospect of scarce, there is no coal.
Not only was the pocket of Coronel would have reduced the gunnery control in the 10. Pop 1,611,791: area, 132,000 battleship's total weight of fire, the target to splinters in.a few enemy ship and the attempts of success, is a question exercising the square miles (size of England, Scot 50 per cent, greater than that of rounds. The gunners of the the bridge to dodge the fall of talents of government experts in land and Wales). several countries. In all their estimates, speculation In measure is necessarily present, The knowledge whether Hitler deliber- ately chose war with Britain and ~France or whether he blundered
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GAS
BEHIND THE WAR NEWS
AS A WEAPON
into it on the assumption, that these DURING the last few years
there has been more public by Peter Evans
nations would not fight--this would: help toward an estimate of Ger- many'a real strength.
discussion on the subject of
Observers outside the ship- have already told us of damage to the superstructure and the bridge of the Graf Speer--But- that is superficial damage, and would not of itself explain her decision to seek shelter in the
of lie time. In the same way men neutral harbour. Yet her arm- can crawl forward to cut it..
oured sides should have been Shell fire 'cun flatten wire, and that
against a de-calibre that were fired at her. gas in warfare than on most lay gas in front of a weakly held is the main purpose of a barrage sufficient to resist shells of the troops may be con- before an advance other aspects of the science of sector so that
centrated in front of another sector. fended' position. Tanks largely came She is reputed to have had arm- oured decks us a defence against If Hitler deliberately chose war mutual destruction.
Then again, in withstanding an into existence to overcome wire.
But gas is subject to none of these plunging fire (that is, shells: against two powerful nations in ad-
For some reason it has always offensive, gas is an effective barrier. been represented as <dition to Poland, one might assume
u particularly It can be so effective a barrier that disadvantages. It is thus in defence dropping from a great height), and there have believe the first army to be really much more valuable aid than everland ner gun turrets had seven- horrible weapon,
But if its chief use is defensive, it inch armour. Either British he counted on the material equip- been more efforts to make rules for hard pressed will use it; it will be wire was.
the use thats there have been to unable to overcome the temptation can also play a part in on offensive, shells to-day, even of medium ment of the Third Reich to carry it abolish the circumstances in which it To a large extent it will take the:
place, that barbed wire held in the particularly in open warfare. Troops calibre, are a vast deal more advancing on a sector can protect through. But if he blundered into could be used.
of its use against last war.
flanks by contaminating the powerful than we have ever it. relying on bluff to win the day, the civilion
The and the rea-
In lying wire, men have to expose their
suspected, or the construction of PLEASE Turn To Pago 3. it was not on German strength but sons why it should
themselves, and as night a front can country on each side of them.
the pocket battleships is nothing be, and probably will be, lit up most
like as formidable in defence as we have been led to believe.
on his own cleverness that he may have relied.
if it is, were very clearly shown by Prof. J. B. S. Haldane yesterday.
But the professor said nothing as to its use on the field of battle.
Thus the recent disclosure by
In 1825 the principal Governments GRIN AND BEAR IT Reikichi Kita, member of the of the world, gathered at Geneva, forswore the use of all asphyxiating! Japanese House of Representatives, and blistering gases for evermore. Indienting Hitler did not believe The Governments of the world have Britain and France would fight, is forswom many things that they have
subsequently done. extremely Interesting, Mr. Kita: Will this prove to be another?
think it will. says that a Japanese Industrialist! who was invited to the Nazi rally at Nuremberg, but who decided' be | cause of the crisis to go immediately
* *.
I
used gas in war during the last few Alrendy one nation-Italy-has years. The campaign in Ethiopia Gos
to Stockholm, was urged in, a note seemed to be at standstill. from Hitler to stay in Germany be- cause there would not be war.
made it fluid again, and the Italians won.
Many hard things were said of It was not possible for the Allied Mussoflol for his action, but from al diplomate, in direct negotiation with military point of view, he was only doing what any nation might do with Hitler, to know certainly whether its back to the wall-take the best ho was really ready to face a major means to get away from it.
Gar in war is a very valuable war. Many asscaned his boldness weapon, and no more human than as bluff. Some appear to have felt anything else that is designed by that at the last moment, Hitler man for the mutilation or destruction began to realize what he was up of his fellow man.
It does not do the former and it against but decided to go ahead comparatively rarely does the latter. even Into general war. Mr. Kita's But it may put quile a lot of men report, supporting the vlows of out of netion for "quite a long time. thone who bellove Hitler blundered, the blistering gases.. Except for the The Important gases are, of courke,
helps also to explain why he risked i oloment of surprise among troops un- the Russian partnership. Had that prepared to meet thom, asphyxiating last gigantic bluff worked, Hitler Hoses have little military value to- might havo had Poland and peace- his kind of poace, a spectacular victory over the western demo. cracies and some gains at the ex- pense of the Soviet, grinted un- wittingly by Stálin's own hand. ⠀
But if somebody blundered, it wasn't Stailn.
day.
They are volatile and 1 miight! breeze quickly blows them away. Since, modern armies are provided it means that, as- "with"-gas-emaak,
phyxiating gates only add 'another' to the many discomforts of war.
X
Glas, therefore, appears as a valu- able nid to defence. It is possiblē ́to
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By Lichty
-she looks too young to be his daughter-sho must be
his wife!"
2. Strategy
The strategical disposition of the British forces in the South Atlantic to deal with the prob- lom of the raiders has been justi- fled by the event.
-It has always been obvious to the student of naval warfare that if the raiders were to do. any damage it could be done only at the focal points, those areas. of the sea into which merchant ships must come
thoy. approach or leave the harbours. They might roam the open space. for weeks on end, as they have done, without catching more. than an occasional freighter.
Our covering forces did not need to roam the seas wildly looking for them. Sooner or later they must venture into the areas whero shipping was to bo found. The mouth of the River Plato and a hundred miles to. seaword of it is a vital focal' point. There are several others-- in the South "Atlantic. There ́ are several in the Indian Ocean..
Thore and thereabouts" was the place in which our patrols werb most nooded, - And precise- ly off the River Plate the Graf Spes runs straight into some of them.