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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 Vauxhall Ten has achieve ed a reputation for its combina-
The heavy lines show the sea tion of roominess, performance) and petrol saving, Its petrol routes by which in peace-time consumption of 40 mpg with Industrialised, urbanised Ger- normal driving has been proved many receives her main imports by so many drivers and indepen- of iron ore, wool, oil, cotion, dent experts that it is now taken | wheat, coffee, fruit, butter, coal, for granted.
'timber, copper and tin from the For 1940 it has been mada) U.S.A., Argentine, Brazil, India, larger and wider, and therefore, China and Japan,
roomier. It is now the roomiest To rench Germany all the "Ton" you can buy. Attractive,
both internally and extemally, It North and South Atlantic sea has reliability and low running routes must unverge into two costs that come only from in-main traffe lines, both dominat herent soundness of design and ed by the British Navy. The manufacturing methods.
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IN the detailed list of materials destined for Germany but detained by our Ministry of Economic Warfare
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learn expectation. We
that seizures of the very commodi- ties essential to the maintenance of armaments are stili piling up. The fundamental weakness of
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Ships nearer the extremity of the line would maintain what cross patrol,
control stations all steaming backwards and for- was known as
From May 1, 1918, wards in line aheat, across the track of shipping. for a similar blockade was maintained by a vessels, suspected of carrying How Blockade Works
distance to the "in and out" huge mincfield laid between Nor- contraband to German ports are
way and the Orkneys. Imune- conducted for examination.
Prize Courts in the last war During the last war the block- patrols,
diately behind it, and in the Fair Island Figures Of Success ade of Germany was maintained
channel, hundreds of were sitting from September, by the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
Throughout the period. this 'destroyers, patrol vessels, traw-1914, and did not conclude their At its maximum strength this included 20 armed merchant patrol was in operation, only 4 lors and other small craft, fitted work until long after the signa- anti-submarine devices, ture of peace. Up to March 31, cruisers, comprising ships of the per cent. of the merchant ships with Allan, White Star, Orient, An- crossing the Atlantic managed were constantly on patrol. chor, P. and O., Castle, Royal to avoid the blockade. During
In the English Channel the up to March 31, 1938, £6,770,927 Mail, Furness Withy, Elders and the heaviest weak recorded 156 ships were bourded and 58 'sent yes and other lines,
commanded by into porl for examination. Two blockade was a comparatively was paid out to the Naval Prize naval oflicers, but otherwise the armed raiders succeeded in get simple procedure. To-day, con- Fund for distribution among the through disguised as trol stations are established at personnel of the Royal Navy and personnel was mainly R.NR. ting
Experience neutral merchantment, but two Weymouth, Ramsgate and Ler- those who were attached to it
wick (in the Shetland Islands). during the Great War. (ex-mercantile ). during the first few months of were detected and sunk. the blockade proved these to be much better suited for such work than the old naval cruisers employed at the beginning. This procedure not only released nuval men for strictly naval
These were
Contraband Contral
1920, the amount which had passed through the Registry of the Court was £21,254,412; and
| Went Hungry In Germany
suhl quickly:-
by that alone.
arked for mure
I
Things have changed since the In my hotel that evening I ordered Hitlerism's policy of aggression duties, but the merchant cruisers JUST before the first gun was fred
Aalst Poland I crossed the days when I frat nerved you, sir. coffee in the lounge. This walter had greater storage space com-
into Belgium at itler seems to curry favour with the spoke good English. He looked at me -is-that-in-all the materinis which_bined with a lower fuel consump- German frontier
modern warfare requires the tion than the naval eruwers. Aachen. For nine-hundred-milor-people-by-bearing-down upon doubtfully, then bending forward he Vienna, falling because wherens in the old "You would not prefer a really good territory of the Reich, with all The mercantile personnel, too, had followed German highways and those who are better off. But he is sold:
were well trained in spotting by-ways en the road from
was days some ale very well indeed, and
iqueur, sir?" that it has annexed, is singular- other merchant vessels, and any watching what and how much
shook my head, noting the canting when nene of us will eat This list of captures odd features about those vessels, eaten by the peasants and towns-most of us sufflelent, now the tley Is ly poor.
resigned shrug with which te accept- These merchant cruisers were prople. shows at once the extent of the
"1 am sorry, sir, but I cannot anything at all."
led the order. Twenty minutes passed, arted with 6in. and 3in, guns, I'
and then ny coffee came a very dependence of German military and their fuelling capacity serve you steak," I was told at the
small cup Indeed. It was nauseating Sot ordered an omelette, and some stuff, obviously synthetic. I drank effort on supplies which she can enabled them to stay at sca for restaurant in Vienna's once fashion-Synthetic Coffee
periods varying up to 30 days, able Ringstrasse.
The waller would not meet my eye brown bread and butter, and a bottlehalf of it, and then demanded fresh. obtain from contiguous
Vessels were divided into patrois countries and the power of the which covered the whole arca lle was one of the old-guard who of wine. The wine was good, the wanted to make sure that even this
Nazi blight blockado to stop supplies from from Iceland to the Hebrides, remembered the "gay city" in the uncirite indifferent, and the butter famous hotel, in which mary crowned
cast scanty. When I
-butter, the waiter pretended not to heads have stayed, could do no better. The waiter's eye told much that le In four months thou- and as ice prevents ships from days before the
passing north of Icelánt for shadows over the faces of his sands of tons of petroleum and several months of the year it era. He glanced to right and left, hear. The Viennese know goed wine would nut say iron ore have been captured, was only necessary to keep that and then ever his shoulder before hejbut they will not long care to live
during section patrolled
the tens of thousands of tons of
summer months. In the map the scored arca re- manganese and aluminium ores, above, great quantities of copper, presents the extent of the ice lead and zinc, and valuable during the winter months.
As a general rule ships were amounts of rarer metals about 30 miles apart, since in munitions. visibility for the look-out in the Materials for explosives and crow's nest was usually about 15
miles Zig-zag war stores bulk large in the list. always steered to guard against the attack, and The blockade has been specially submarine 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 nn "in and greater than the figures exhibit. out patrol" was maintained.
Shipa would steam in line What is seized we can compute. abreast (l.c. 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
necessary
amount.
courses
were
the hours of darkness all ships
duced in Germany and Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia. These oversens imports: were absolute;
There is no source from which the Fuchrer's ministers can make good these deficiencies. Russin, if she choosce, if she will be paid and if the transport necessities of the armamentį 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 aroj. her cupboard is bare. The lost. Such is the prospect of Reich is isolated from the coun- Hitlerism in its first war winter. trics which in the first half of With the loss of importa Gor-
many has also lost markets.
early half her export tra
the year supplied her with half her imports. Wo know that. nothing was being imported wit done with 315 which could possibly
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
PETS
·LIGE SELECION
142
"It you would take my advlee, or-a liqueur."
I had a brandly. Passou stands on the Danube, and, until the Anschluss in March 1936, was a fronller town between: Ger- many and Austria. Now It is a quiet country town in the heart of the Reich.
My hotel was a typical family establishment. I had my evening. meal in a delightful garden overhung with trees, where, in happier days; the lownspeople gathered to cat hugely and drink vast quantities of beer. But my only companions were tu soldier, eking out a glans of ingor, and a family of four persons who ote coarse brown bread and cheese and drank nothing at all,
"Not To-day"
The waitress handed me a menu. It was a brightly-gurzilshed aftat having four long columna of atimes. Live-seeining dishes, I prepared to eat, well. Four times I made careful choice, only to be told upon each occasion, that that particular selection, of dishes was "not available to-day m At last I told the girl to bring me whatever she thought I should like best of those Items which could be had.
pon bed
My meal consisted of egg, a small portion of brown. Brans some rye bread. This was foll by stewed pdɔles,; uniwerate Bog drink I had an India
morning Ietere withou