To Protect Seamen From War Dangers
Chamber Of Shipping's
Recommendations
LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter).—LIS saving Jackets which a crew could wear at work, and the provision of rafts for all on board were among the recommendations made by the British Chamber of Shipping to its members as safety measures to meet the danger of ships being torpedoed or mined.
CHURCHILL UTTERS
WARNING
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near future" further and greator al- tacks on British sen power,
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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
COLOMBO CRISIS
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appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into alleged shooting by the Police on the other.
The Home Minister subsequently protested to the Governor that Mr. Banks had not carried out "Instruc- tions" to postpone the cases pending the Commission's report as decided by the State Council.
Chocre For Churchill LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter) ----In the Ilouse of Commons to-day, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the | Admiralty, was received with cheers by
when he rose lo speak on, the Naval Estimates:
come on behalf of the Navy." he said, "to ask for few men some ships and a title money (laughter) to enable them to carry on their work." Mr. Churchill's reference to money This is revealed in the annual re-referred to £100 token grant repre-
of Shipping.
zenting An amount running into many
Illumination on rafls
Governor's Decision
Trade With With Japan
February 28,
1940.
Political Storm Over Saito Affair
Demand For Statomont
As the result of the appearance
Questions Asked In House Of Commons LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reutor). By Government In the House of Cominons to-
·TOKYO, Feb. 27 (Reuter),- day, Miss Wilkinson asked Sir
in the forefront of the domestic The Governor, Sir Andrew Calde-Andrew Duncan, the President The Saito affair continues to be cott, formerly Governor of Hongkong, of the Board of Trade, regarding and political situation in Japan. though regretting that Mr. Banks the arrangement recently made had not "worded his letter more happily" to the Minister, did not with the Japanese Government before the Dick Disciplinary Com- think that there had been insubor providing for the import of 350,-mittee fast Saturday of Mr. Takao dination as alleged.
000 dozen pairs of stockings and Saito, who caused a storm by his He also pointed out the statutory
ment which is being used as a basis by the Government in efforts to end and doubted the propriety of the from Japan. and on an increased number of Churchill contined, "There has grown procedure adopted by
Sir Andrew replied that there had the China conflict, the gap between been for somo years an agreement those demanding his expulsion from buoys, alternative lighting on ships
be Minister. and electric torches for members of
The Minister maintains that the between British and Japanese hosiery the Lower House and those opposed
of the manufacturers for the limitation of to such action has widened. question goes to the root
exports of Japanese hosiery to the No Government Action Donoughmore Constitution.
United Kingdom. This
agreement
The Government is avolding inter- was renewed in January and with the ference in the matter for the time zentous to discharge our task and to Admiralty are going to meet their agreement, the British hosiery indus-being, but has communicated to the give satisfaction and win approval by wish.
try Imports licensing restrictions were political parties The since relaxed as to allow the should show no leniency in consi- opinion that they producing good results.
limited Import of cheap Japanese dering Saito's punish hent. hosiery of a kind not made here is
meet demand.
port of the
Other radations included millions but which is undefined. Mr. responsibility imposed on the Police ja Inrge quantity of other textiles questions regarding the Konoye state-
The provision
the crew..
Higher Running Costa
The report dealt with the creased running costs for shipping,
pointing out that a deep sea tramp steamer of 'about 9,000 tons would, in April, 1939, have cost £35 per day to run, September, 1939, and £1 per day In January, 1040.
a much wider comprehension of the certaloty that mistakes will made both at Whitehall and on the salt water and that however hard we Iry the painful drain of losses will be sustained.
"This will only make us
Not Expedient
more
(cheera),
the Home
quantities sumelent to £48 per day in
out that there is
"I regret it is not expedient to give the House the precise facts and figures regarding the proposed strength and cost of the Navy but there is no need than is good to tell the enemy m
are doing for him about what (laughler).
A vernei which would have cost £100,000 to build in 1938 cost £120,- 000 immediately before the war and would cost £180,000 to-day.
The report
Mr. Churchill said that by the not is single shipbuilding yard ile it of 1939, Germany had lost from end this counry. Foreign competition, so causes at least half their U-boats, far from diminishing, was beingnamely 35. He doubted very much whether even ten fresh U-boals came greatly strengthened.
nth action in that period.
Under the Brst step towards main- taining British sipping, says the report, there must be a strengthening of the financial position of the Indus- try during the war in order that 11 might be able to compete with foreign shipping after the war,
DRAMATIC FLIGHTS OVER NAZI CITIES
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Paris region. Others scouted in other sectors. Ал anli-aircraft shell street blasted a two-foot hole in a near a subway station, shattering the windows in the neighbourhood.
Heligoland Raid
In the last two days, he said, there had been one certain and two almost Certain U-boat sinkings.
Cloar Warning
Execrable Behaviour "So execrable has been the be- haviour of some of the German aviators in attacking barmless un- armed vemels and machine-gunning the crews when in boats and in describing on the radio "What fun is was to see the little ship crackling up in flames like a Christmas tree', that we have had to set about arming all our fishing boats and small craft with a means of defending themselves. (cheers).
"We have reason to know that several of them have sheered off very quickly when they found that the fishermen who had only just been given
a weapon fired back upon them.
Thousands of guns of all sorts and
the
The attitude of the army and Navy ts reported to have strengthened, but these quarters are much concerned the over the ultimate outcome of issue.
Exports Agreement Miss Wilkinson asked whether in
May Suspend Diet view of our position as regards unem-
The Cabinet la watching develop- ployment and food supplies, it was necessary to arrange for the importments and is understood to be plan- ning on order for suspension of the of silk stockings in war time.
Diet if the Party leaders are unable to enforce action and dispose of the affair speedily.
Sir Andrew replied that there was likewise a need for export trade and it was made quite clear to the Japanese Government that the con- nuance of this conccasion dependa on their attitude to the admission of British woollen hostery to Japan.
Mr. Thorne (Labour): "The more trade we do with the Japanese they
Wants Govt. Statement
In the House of Peers to-day, Mr. Yoshiharu Tazawa, Chairman of the
Japon Young Men's League, urged that the Government
makes
in common with:
Mr. Churchill said, "Bo far the sizes are being issued to our mer- more they can hammer away at the known Ita poliarder to avold an
Navy has borne the main weight of the war. If at any time in the future it becomes apparent that we have got the upper hand in an even more marked and declaive form than that at present, shall be the first to propose a review of our resources and requirements: but
chant and fishing deets.
The Nazis have retorted by saying this entities them to break all con- ventions which they have already broken many times over. (laughter).
"They may be, of course, able to apply their methods on a larger scale but they have not for some time been
Chinese.'
the Salto case
case in
unfortunate misunderstanding" (Ap- plause). He referred to newspaper
DEATH PENALTY reports that the Government was
APPEAL FAILS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
the the
causing a general impression that it was intimidating the Legislature.
In reply, Admiral Yonal Premier, stated definitely that Government had no intention whatsa- of the Imperial Diet
attacks will be dativered upon our able to descend to any new levelBritish Full Court to-day dismissed ever of interf ring with the business
seapower, by which we live on and which we all depend on, on a far greater scale than anything which we have so far beaten
or beaten down."
back
cruelty and disgrace,
Referring to the U-boat campaign,dure of the most
the last war. (cheers).
thingy I have
SHANGHAI, Feb. 27, (UP)-The the appeal of Private Eckford of the Seaforth Highlanders against the death sentence passed on him for the murder of Lance-Cpl. Davis,
The appeal was based on the elaim that the trial judge, Sir Alan Messop, had falled properly to instruct the Jury.
Youth Versus Youth
"I suppose the House realises that Hitler and his Nazis huve quite de- finitely exceeded the worst villainies which Imperial Germany committed extraordinary Mr. Churchill said: "I was in error The offelal_news agency lu Berlin when some months ago I said that
ever known 'in my claims the Germans shot down a the rate of Germany's new building experience is the way in which the British Bristol-Blenheim
Eckford's attorney. Mr. K. E. New-To-day's Conflict And over the of U-boats could be counted at two German legalities, atrocities and Heligoland Bight and said the anti-weekly. This and even more may brutalities are coming to be accepted man, addressed the Court for an hour aircraft guns so damaged a second be true in the future but it was not as if they were part of the ordinary and 40 minutes.
To-morrow's Problem day was probably unable true up to the end of 1938.
conditions of la, day R.A.F. plane it to return to its base.
"The enemy may have ended last (cheers). The Berlin official news agency year with about 45 U-boats of which Criticises Neutral Press admitted that the RAF. flew over about 20 would be required for train-
"Why does the neutral press make active more fuss when I make a speech tell- northwest Germany but denied they ing leaving perhaps 25 reached Berlin.
operations. As these would work ining them what is their duty than they two or three reliefs the number at any one time cannot be very large. "Indeed our calculations show that it has probably not exceeded that at any one time.
A London report says a British patrol brought down a Heinkel plane over the Firth of Forth and brought down 33 second Heinkel off the Northumberland coast. The crew of three of this second plune look to rubber boats. These two German planes are the 42nd and 43rd known to have been downed by the British
defenders,
Air Ministry Admission The Air Ministry said the R.A.F. successfully reconnaissanced over the Heligoland Bight and admitted that one plane falled to return.
for
"Since the New Year things have
of
sharpened up on both sides. We are getting an Increasing number U-boats and we have had some quite exceptional weeks of proved results.
Mystory Sinkings
"We do not make announcements of the sinking of U-boats. Unless there are some features of special
Interest we leave them wrapped in mystery.
War
Swedish Ship Rammed
LONDON,
Feb.
27
LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter).— Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, addressing members of the Univer sity of Oxford as Chancellor of the University, declared that the conflict (Reuter)-to-day as between youth and youth, and this was the kernel of our future What has been the driving force behind the Nazi movement? It has been the German youth.
Seventeen survivors of the Swedish steamer, Nordiu 1,316 tons, which is problems. stated to have been accidentally ram- med and sunk in darkness of the Norwegian coast, have been landed at a Scottish port by a British warship. Two men
are missing.
have done when hundreds of their ships have been sunk (cheers) and over a thousand of their sailors have been drowned or murdered--that is the right word-on the open seas.
"Apparently, according to the
DTC- sent ductrine of the neutral states by the Govern- probably endorsed meat, Germany is to gain one set of advantages by breaking all the rules adapted to under water explosions and committing foul outrages and than anything they had to-day. then go on and gain another set of Mr. Churchill declared that he did advantages through insisting, when-not wish to raise any undue appre-minds, are distorted but for which ever it suits her, upon the widest in-hensions about the strength of exist terpretation of the International Code ing ships. she torn to pieces.
Getting Tired Of It
Air, cireles Indested that during
"Remembering. Uie. substantial the past 24 hours nir activity has been
lasses we have suffered from just the heaviest since the start of the these few U-boats operating, up to war. At least four separate fights the present, the House will see how were made over German territory-vast must be the preparations which the fourth of such flights in the last we ought to make and which we have Ilve days.
A report from the Hague states to cope with a full-scale attack say without hesitation that in the
officially that neroplanes of unidenti- fed nationality were observed along tho court ncor Amsterdam and Utrecht where anti-aircraft batteries went into action several times,
SCREAMING “ONIONS" summer at our capacity
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will
"I am getting rather tired of it myself (laughter). For my part I can
announced that H.M.S.
Impenetrable Barrier? Dellberately deprived as they have been of the elements of true judg ment, It is they who have made the movement and sill sustain it. They have their own deals which, to our
hundreds of thousands of them are prepared, without a moment's hesita-
sacrifice thair: Ilves, has to be odd that His an old ship which had stood up well There is what seems to be an im- Majesty's Government is getting to torpedoes, would soon be repaired penetrable barrier dividing_us_from_ rather tired of it (cheers).
and ready for sea and that H.M.S. them which somehow must be broken Nelson, a modern ship but neverthe-down.
Lord Halifax urged his hearers to less fifteen years old, had been dam- aged by a magnetic mine but would be so proud of the race to which they belonged that they would be as This secret of which manyjealous of its honour as its safety.. coon be rejoining the Fleet. thousands of people were necessarily nware was very well kept,"
JAPANESE STRIKE Churchill observed amidst laughter, and has only just leaked out into
CHINESE POLICE Germany after it has ceased to have any importance.
"Apart from -II.MLS. Royal Oak
and 11.M.S. Courageous to other Only Doing Their Duty
large slups have been damaged or sunk since the outbreak of war during the very difficult winter months" he said.
Referring to the fact that the ships both great and small had been at aca more continuously than was ever done
Says Spokesman
which may come upon us.
interpretation of the rules and con- "With the
passage of the summer ventions affecting neutrals, humanity the new buliding of U-boats
rather than legol pedantry must be increasingly come into play and we our chief guide (cheers) and judg expect to meet them with our very ing from the Altmark episode this large new buildings of craft especial- seems to be the opinion not only of ly adapted to their destruction. the British nation hut of the civilised
"We shall be
all this world."
Referring tu battleships, Mr, After mentioning the efforts which Churchlil said, "It we had not got at are being made
to make a large in-the present time an unquestionable
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" crease in the rate of merchant ship- superiority in battleships, Germany's
TIENTSIN, Feb. 27 (UP)-Asked building in order to replace inevit-heavy cruisers would come out into
why Japanese sentries occasionally able losses, Mr. Churchill continued: the Atlantic Ocean and, without fear
struck French Chines policemen nounced by the Alr Ministry this "The U-boat la being steadily driven of being brought to account, would be
passing through the barriers under morning, constituted the fourth R.A.F. from using the gun on the surface of able to obstruct, if not to arrest. night survey of Germany in five days. the water and hos beeh largely driven whole of the enormous trade without | or dreamed of In any previous war the existing Police exchange agrec- since the introduction of steam, Mrment, a Japanese military spokesman not live. (cheers). and laying which we could
Churchill said that since H.M.5. Royal stated this afternoon that the make temporary bases Oak was sunk we had not used Scapa Japanese sentries were only doing in different
of the globe and Flow which Wad of course, our best their duties. and the Ruhr.
The Magnetic Mines of they might
positions where we could have no Referring in more Leaflets and recognition
detall to the flares
means whatever of attacking them. were dropped on Berlin, where not magnetic mine, Mr. Churchill de-
"In this way they would soon bring a single searchlight came on, al-clared: "There is nothing particularly
about our mortal ruin. though the aircraft came down to new or novel about, it although a few thousand feet above such mechanically it is very nicely made famous streets as the Unterilenlin-
(laughter), I feel entitled to say that we see our way to mastering this den and the Wilhelmstrasse to re lease their load."
magnetia mine and other variants of the same idea (cheers),
The aircraft first visited Boekuun, from using torpedoes the base of mine-laying seaplanes, mines, magnetic and other kinds, in after which they separated for two approaches to our harbours." main objectives-Berlin
Only one aghter was seen here- abouts but it did not attempt to join in combat with the .raiders which were plainly visible in bright moonlight.
Leaflats On Cologne More leaflets were dropped at Cologne.
Other lowns crossed Included Emden, Duisberg and Dortmund.
The most important detalls were observed by the planes, and, it is belleved, by those which flew over the important seaports in north-west Germany and the Baltic..
In less than a week, R.A.F. night- flers, by the aid of photographs and ordinary observation, have secured a great moss of new Information about Germany with little or no loss,
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"How this is being achieved is a de- tective story written in a language of its own.
"To be modest (laughter) we do not feel at all outdone in science in this country by the Nazis.
There are two stages in process of dealing with the magnetic mine. The first is the finding of what to do and the second is the applying of that knowledge on a very large scale.
Believe We Can Deal With It' "We are now advanced upon the second stage and although we must expect perhaps, in the immediate future, further and much heavier at- tacks upon us by this method we be lieve we shall find ourselves able to deal with it.
TO
the
"They themselves in strategle bate
Roady For Anything *Happily we have a far greater strength in capital ships than the ther enemy and if at any time break out, as they may do we are Always ready to meet them with much larger forces and bring them to battle and destroy' them as we did in the isolated case of the Graf Spec.
Without a superior battle fleet wo could not exercise any command of the sea nor even keep ourselves niive with food.
Recalling that during the last war Britain had to keep always ready 30 to 40 battleships with attendant squadrons and fotillas to fight a main battle at any time, Mr. Churchil sald, "Now this preoccupation has been diminished. The enemy have only two really big ships and cannot at tempt to form a line of battle:
of
We have at least three if not four Ines of baitle not one which the enemy could face in an engecut. "Therefore we are able to dispose of our ships much more widely and at the same time, to keep ample forces always at sea ready to engage they present themselves.
cope with these attacks by mines we have had to call upon our Ashing feels and shermen. Although this year we shall have about 25,000 t our disposal, we had at the end of November to call for many thousands of volunteers for mine sweeping the enemy's principal vessels should
only
for
Upon this fact depends the whole
Better Equipped
Tribute
It might not be possibly known, he Glowing
said, that Japanese sentries would not Mr. Churchill paid a glowing permit foreignem entering the French. tribute to the engineering branch of Concession to bring in large quantities the Royal Navy for the fact that even of baggage, stating that it was neses- ships with old engines had steamed sary to all in a form. However, no 90 days. or more out of the first 110 such official form exists. days of war.
morc
A local rumour that the barriers There was, added Mr. Churchill, will be litied next month cannot be very little doubt that the whole of
confirmed. the North Sea system of contraband control would become far efficient as the forces increased and the long nights turned into long days and as the summer weather enabled amphibian aircraft to range constantly over the whole areo,
There would be no dimeulty from a naval point of view, in making the blockade more severe but no one could neglect the serious character of political decisions which were dictated by relations with foreign countries,
A balance had to be struck between
the full efficiency of the naval control. and the hardship It might inflict on friendly neutrals, sequ
After the first six months of war, he said, we lost 63,000 tons of war- ships or, about half the losses of the first months of the last war.
"We had lost on a balance of gain and losses less than 200,000 tons of merchant shipping out of a total of 20,000,000. This could be compared with 450,000 Tout in a single day of the deadly month of April 1917. Wo had captured more cargoes in tonnage | destined for the enemy, than we had
lost, to_concluded."
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LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter)-Sire engagement was John Simon, Chancellor of the three monus and it is now clear that of our sea control. Exchequer, assured a questioner in it must be greatly prolonged, the House of Commons, to-day that "In many seaports over 75 per Mr. Churchill mentioned that the PARIS, Feb. 27. (Reuter)—It is currency depreciation would not be cent, of those who volunteered for new warships which Britain was officially announced that the torpedo Vi-Tel resorted to us a means of stimulating three months now wish to continue | building were capable of standing up boat, Simoun, sonic a. U-boat off Cape export trade by giving an unresson-
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