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January 24, 1940,
BLOCKADE
GLANCE at the map will show you why Napoleon, more than a century ago, cursed the geographical situation of Great Britain, why Hitler curses that same inescapable fact to-day.
The heavy lines show the sea routes by which in peace-time
urbanised Ger industrialised, many receives her main imports of iron ore; wool, oll, cotton, wheat, coffee, fruit, butter, coal, timber, copper and tin from, the U.S.A., Argentine, Brazil, India, China and Japan.
To reach Germany all the North and South Atlantic sca
has reliability and low running routes must converge into two costs that come only from in-main trathe lines, both dominut- herent souridness of design and ed by the British Navy. The manufacturing methods.
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northern routes must pass some- where between the 250-mile span between Northern Scotland and Southern Norway, the southern routes must pass up the English Channel, through the 20-mile Straits of Dover. Those 270 miles control 85 per cent. of Germany's oversea trade routes, and those 270 miles are controll- ed by Britain.
would steam to the eastward, Further South, the great thus preventing vessels shipping
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Wednesday, January 24, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
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Ships nearer the extremity also be controlled by the Allied navies from several Lases. At of the line would maintain what was known as a cross patrol, | Suez, Malta and Gibraltar vessels steaming buckwards and for- can be inspected for céntraband. wards in line ahead, across the track of shipping, for a similar How Blockade Works
distance to the "in and out" During the last war the block- patrols. Hongkong on the date of publication bynde of Germany was maintained
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From May 1, 1918, the To these control stations all blockade was maintained by a vessels auspected of carrying huge minefiek laid between Nor- contraband to German poria ure way and the Orkneys. Imme- conducted for examination. diately behind it. and in the Fair Prize Courts in the last wat Island channel, hundreds of were sitting from September,
Contraband Contrǝl
At its maximum strength this Throughout the perial this destroyera, patrol vessels, traw, 1914, and did not conclude their included 20 armed merchant patrol was la operation, only lers and other small craft, fitted work until long after the signa cruisers, comprising ships of the per cent of the merchant ships with anti-submarine devices, ture of peace. Up to March 31, 1920, the amount which had Allan, White Star, Orient, An- crossing the Atlantic managed were constantly on patrol.
passed through the Registry of chor, P. and O., Castle, Royal to avoid the blockade. During
the Court was £21,254,412; and IN the detailed list of materials Mail, Furness Withy, Elders and the heaviest week recorded 156
In the English Channel the up to March 31, 1938, £6,770,927 ships were boarded and 58 sent destined for Germany but; Fyffes and other lines.
These were commanded by into port for examination. Two blockade was a comparatively was paid out to the Naval Prize. detained by our Ministry of
naval officers, but otherwise the armed raiders succeeded in gel- simple procedure. Today, con- Fund for distribution among the through disguised as trol stations are established at personnel of the Royal Navy and Economic Warfare we have personnel was mainly R.N.R. Ling
Experience neutral merchantment, but two Weymouth, Ramsgate and Ler those who were attached to il proof of success which betters (ex-mercantile).
wick in the Shetland Islands). during the Great War. during the first few months of were detected and sunk expectation. We learn that
the blockade proved these to be seizures of the very commodi- much better suited for such ties essential to the maintenance work than the old naval cruisers employed at the beginning. This of armaments are still piling up. procedure not
only released The fundamental weakness of naval men for strictly naval. Ifitlerism's policy of aggression
I Went
Hungry In Germany
duties, but the merchant cruisers JUST before the first gun was fired |
I
prople.
זיי
רתו
asked for
Titigs have changed since the In my hotel that evening I ordered had greater storage space com- against Pufand crossed the days when I first served you, sir. coffee in the lounge. This waller is that in all the materials whichbined with a lower fuel consump- German frontier into Belgium at Her seems to curry faveur with the spolce good English. He looked at me For nine hundred miles poor people by bearing down upon doubtfully, then bending forward be modern warfare requires the tion than the naval cruisers, Aachen. territory of the Reich, with all The-mercantile personnel, too, had followed German gways and there who are better off. But he in said:
were well trained in apottingy-ways on the road from Vienna, falling because where in the old "You would not prefer a really good that it has annexed, is singular- other merchant. vessels, and any watching what and how much was days stue ate very well Indeed, and liqueur, air?!
I shook my ly poor. This list of captures odd features about those vessels, eaten by the peasants and towns-most of us sufficient, now the day is
hend, noting the coming when none of us will cat These merchant crukers were
resigned shrug with which he recept- shows at once the extent of the
sorry, sir. but I cannot anything at all," armed with Gin. and 3in, guns,
ed the order. Twenty minutes passed, dependence of German military and their fuelling capacity serve you steak," I was told at the
and theu ny coffee came a very small cup indeed. It was nausealing effort on supplies which she can enabled them to stay at sea for restaurant in Vienna's once fashion Synthetic Coffee
So I ordered an emelette, and some stuff, obviously synthetic. I drank που obtain from
periods varying up to 30 days, able Ringstrasse. contiguous
Vessels were divided into patrols The waiter would not meet my eyebrown breact and butter, and a bottlehalf of it, and then demanded fresit. The wine was good, theft wanted to make sure that even this countries and the power of the' which covered the whole arcate was one of the old-guard who of wine. blockade to stop supplies from from Iceland to the Hebrides, ranembered the "gay city" in the omelette indifferent, and the butler famous hotel, in which muny crowned
cast ueanly. When I
muts hends have stayed, could do no better. overseas. In four months thou-and as ice prevents ships from days before the
passing north of Iceland for thadows over the faces of his eas-hulter, the walter pretended not 10 The waiter's eye told much that he
He glanced to right and left, hear. The Viennese know good with, would not say, sands of tons of petroleum and several months of the year iter.
"If you woul take my advice. iron ore have been captured, was only necessary to keep that and then over his shoulder before hejbul they will not long care to live
sira lqueur." I had a brandy. section patrolled during the tens of thousands of tons of
suminer months In the map
Passau stands on the Danube, and. manganese and aluminium orca, above, the scored area re-
until the Anschluss In March 1038, grent quantities copper, presents the extent of the ice
was a frontier town between Ger- many and Austria. Now it is a quiet tend and zinc, and valuable during the winter months.
As a general rule ships were
country town in the heart of the of rarcr metals about 30 miles apart, since
Reich. in munitions. visibility for the look-ut in the crow's nest was usually about 15 miles. Zig-zag courses were always steered to guard against |
the attack, and submarine
amounts
necessary
of
out patrol" was maintained.
Materials for explosives and war stores bulk large in the list. The blockade has been specially effective against armament im-general rate of steaming was 15 knots. In the centre of the line ports, and its effect is far what was known as an "in and greater than the figures exhibit.
Ships would steam in line What is seized we can compute. abreast (i.e. on parallel courses) What Germany had contracted along the tracks of shipping for for, but found no shipping to 30 or 40 miles in one direction, and then for a similar distance bring must be a far larger in the reverse direction. During the hours of darkness all ships
amount.
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There is no source from which the Fuchrer's ministers con duced in Germany and Aus mako good these deficiencies. tria and Czechoslovakia. These Russla, if she chooses, if she oversens imports were absolute will be paid and if the transport necessities of the armarnont can be created, may supply some programme. As the strain on petroleum and perhaps sufficient munition factories is raised to a manganese. But for the rest higher, tension the imports are lior cupboard is bare. The lost. Such is the prospect of Reich in isolated from the coun- Hitlerism in its firat war winter. tries which in the first half of _With the loss of imports Gor the year supplied her with half many has also lost markets. her imports. We know that. Nearly half her export trado nothing was being imported was done with Britain, and which could possibly be pro- France and neutrals overseas.
[said quickly;— .
Nazi blight
by that alone.
GRIN. AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
∙PETS LIGE SELECON
nies, but he won't do-l couldn't possibly une
'ond-man, dog.
142
My hotel was a typleat family establishment, ́I had my evening meal in a delightful garden overhung with trees, whore, in hoppler days, the townspeople gathered to cat (hugely and defnie voet quóntities of ¡beer. But my only companions were
ļu soldier, eking out a glass of lgger, and a family of four pèrsons who ale coarso brown bread and cheese, and drank nothing at all.
"Not To-day"
The waitress handed me a menu. It was a brightly-gamished; affair, Paving four long columns of atträc- tive-seeming dishes. I prepared to cat well. Four times I mado; careful chofed, only to be told upon each occasion that the particular. selection) of dishes was "not ovallable-to-day 15, At Inst 1 told the girl to bring me whatever she thought I should like best of those Rems which could be {hnd.
My meal consisted of a poached- egg, a small portion of brown bema, some rye bread. This was followed: by towed ⠀ipples,; unsweetened. For drink 1:had an indifferent lager Next morning I left withoilt beet fast determining to get a fat-some latter place upo
I made my choice carefull PE PLEASE. Turn To