NANCY
WHO IS THIS LITTLE BOY,
NANCY?
HIS NAME IS TOM--- HIS MAMA WANTS TO BORROW SOME ASPIRIN FOR A DIZZY SPELL!
Saturday,
HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH
February 22, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller.
THANK
YOU,
MISS
NANCY!.. QUICK!... GET
ME SOME ASPIRIN!
WE'LL
YEAH-- NO HERE,
WAIT OUT
SENSE IN, TOM!
US ALL
HERE?
GOING
THANK
YOU?
IN !
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H.M.S. Ark Royal
THEY'RE ALWAYS "SINKING"
HER
the this time that the cluase for the Italian battleship strength,
H.MS ARE ROYA" from Graf spee was getting fust and Fleet Air Arm planes from Ark
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Now comes her latest exploit,
whose 65.000 sq. ft. of flying furious, and it was widely be- Royal were bombing the port of deck the torpedo planes and lieved that Ark Royal and Re- Cagliari, in Sardinia. She in dive-bombers of the Flect Air own were steaming towards turn was attacked by enemy assist in the bombers, but no hits were made Arm have been taking off to in- Montevideo to flict serious damage on the search for the German raider. and there was no damage and Italian Flect, has probably made However that may be, the two no casualty. the headlines more often than ships did not arrive in time, and any other British ship.
it was left to Ajax, Achilles and in which her aircraft helped to batter the fleeing Italian ships, Not a little of the publicity Exeter to make the kill.
and she herself was the object she has received in the last year-
of an air attack in which, in the has been given her by the Ger- man and Italian Press and
for once graphic words of the Renown. Ark Royal and Nep- Admiralty communique "H.M.S. wireless.
tune paid a visit to Rio de Ark Royal disappeared from For weeks after a bombing Janeiro early in January last sight behind the splashes of attack on British naval forces in the North Sea, in which the and Ark Royal returned to about 30 bombs falling close to
Britain late in March, when she her, Germans claimed to have hit Ark Royal, German wireless tion. announcers got into the habit of asking at the end of nearly every news bulletin: "Where is the Ark Royal ?"
was given a tumultuous recep- "She emerged from the spray with all guns firing furiously, Then in July she was, sunk having sustained neither dam- again, this time by the Italians. On July 10 the Italian official nge nor casualties."
communique stated that, accord- ing to photographs taken at the
time, two bombs fell on the air-. Ark Royal was laid down in Unaccustomed at that time to craft carrier Ark Royal during September, 1935, in Cammell the trickeries of German propa-
action off the Balearic Laird's yard at Birkenhead, ganda, the public began to be an
She was launched on April 13, The same and seriously disturbed, the Islands on July 9. Admiralty was forced to issue communique claimed that Ita- 1987, and Lady Maud Houre several denials. The quietus was liau bombs had seriously dam- performed the christening cere rumours aged and set. on fire the battle- mony. She was the first air- finally put upon the
craft carrior-to-be-launched-in that Ark Royal has been dam ship Hood
The Italian propaganda de- Britain in nearly 18 years. aged by the announcement that
She was commissioned and the time issued Captain Alan Kirk, U.S. Naval partment at
run her acceptance trials in Attache in London, has attended thousands of these photographs, divine service on board on Octo- which were widely distributed November, 1938. ber 2, and had reported to to the Press and to neutral Washington that he had done countries.
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It was at a film show in the hangar of Ark Royal in April, 1939, that Lord Stanhope, then In a review of the war at sea First Lord of the Admiralty, But this did not stop the Ger- issued on the anniversary of the startled an already tense and mans, and on October 10 it was outbreak of war, it was stated
war-nervous world by the casunl reported that Lance-Corporal that, in spite of having been remark that the Navy Francké, of the German Air "sunk" twice, Ark Royal had Force, had been promoted to steamed more than 75.000 miles standing to its guns in readiness lieutenant and awarded the Iron in the first year of the war, and for any emergency, a statement which received wide publicity, Cross of both the first and her aircraft had made recon- and increased European tension second orders for "sinking the naissance flights totalling more
almost to snapping-point, Ark Royal."
than 5,000,000 miles.
was
It was only five months later Ark Royal was next heard of On November 11, while
thut Ark Royal's crew were from Capetown, where she ap. Swordfish and Skua aircraft in standing to her guns in deadly peared in company with H.M.S. Eagle and Illustrious were get- Renown, and whence both ships ting ready for their daring raid earnest, and the chapter of her departed secretly and hurriedly on Taranto harbour that night war-time adventures had begun. on December 3. It was at about in which they crippled half the
"SUBMARINE"
OF
HE torpedo-bomber is mak- THE Bristol Beaufort is the THE in the
best torpedo-bomber.
WO
R.A.F. (not, so far as is known, have. It is faster even than the in the Luftwaffe or Regia Aero- well-known Blenheim bomber. nautica) and has a big future. The only drawback is that it It is the "submarine” of the air. has not the range to scour the
The modern torpedo-bomber is Atlantic to torpedo a
Burface
a land monoplane, fast, and with raider, or a submarine cruising retractable undercarriage on the surface to recharge its
batteries. such as all first-line aircraft used in this war,
0
But our gigantle Saunders- Lerwick and Short-Sunderland The enemy's theory is that flying-boats have the range. shipping can be sunk and a They could carry, probably, more blockade maintained by bombing than one torpedo. from the air. But despite the Why has the torpedo-carrier
reasons,
THE
E. P. M.
SKY
the vessels from being crip- pled. Bombs, although hea vier and better stream-lined than those used in the last war, do not exceed a speed of under 1,100ft a second, whe- ther dropped from 6,000 or 40,000ft.
(2) Against surface raiders and merchant ships bombs are more destructive, but aiming is liable to be uncertain unless a low-level attack is made. Low-level attack brings an aircraft, into a hail of defen- alve fire.
(2) Torpedoes can sink or cripple any warship; lighter vessels have no chance against them.
The torpedo-homber drops its lond quickly and (1) While aircraft at Tar- never need hang about. anto successfully launched Anti-aircraft guns on ships torpedoes against warships, it find the aircraft a difficult target is realised that the heavily because it flies towards them low armoured deck of a warship over the water-below. their can keep out bombs and save angle of fire.
activities of the Focke-Wulf
(the oldest form of missile- Condor four-engined Nazi bom- carrying airplane) como sudden- bers, which are ranging far into y into prominence? For these the Atlantic, and bomb our ship- ping, the argument as between bomber and convoy appears to have been settled in favour of tho convoy. Thousands of bombs have been dropped against our convoye.
Most were wasted.
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