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THE en "pecial to the Telegraph" is used by the longkang Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly ropyright under the provisions of the Teleenm cations Ordinance, 1936. Such nowe ke brary the indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights ond forhid republications, other wholly or in Dart without previous strangement.
FIREWOOD FRAUD
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I change her into
We U-Boat
"Squeeze" in the Far East, To the question, "Can we By Capt.
beat the U-boats in
having been tacitly legitimatised by tradition, the gentle art of defrauding people has become a notorious feature of life in Hongkong. The insidious habit of "squeeży" has found expres- sion in all forms of business
1941?" the answer is Yes-
now, . were
our
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transactions, from the house "boy" who seeks to ma that little extra at the expense of his employer to big commercial firms engaged in important deals; and, so long as it is not-plished, let us face its magni- measure of the
1914; we have many more
In that grim month we had the French, Italian and Japanese.. Navies to help us, whereas one of these fleets is now fighting us, and one at least of the other
man.
this!
Beat The Menace?
Bernard Acworth, D.S.O., R.N.
RIDDLES
OF 1941
Eighth Article
Ours in the negative side; theirs is the positive.
At these points, to which the U- boats had to come if they were to sight the convoys, they were heavily attacked and destroyed.
from the Long-ranging aircraft So much for French Atlantic airflelds now mako economy in ship. It probable that the convoys will be
sighted far from the land. space and for the lightening
When sighted, 180-m.p.h. enemy bombers and torpedo planes, but not sailors' task.
slow U-boats, can be called up, and Next comes the air attocks delivered. Home produc-
Those directing the convoy system tion of food.
have thus to choose between the On this little risk of almost certain bomber attack need be said and the less certain, but much more. beyond emphasi- deadly, deep-sen U-boat attack.
sing that as the Choice Of Evils
defent of the U-boats is our
convoys
escorts for attacking the U-boats.
The problem of the sea is two- Key Points
fold-tactical and material.
I
if only because we must April, 1917,
when, as beat them if they are not to sinkings
exceeding beat us.
replacements. When British folk are fully It will thus be
that task of decisive- aware that they must achieve a scen
ly beating the
is worthy object there is no such word as "can't" in their dic U-boats tionary. But before outlining urgent as it is how our task is to be accom- difficult, but the
It is in this cholee of evils that task is the
-g-r-o-a-t-e-a-t-judgment`muy-err. tude. At our average rate of
measure of the
-immediate task.
as well as And takes courage pushed too far, "squeeze" is now
loss in merchant ship tonnage resoluteness and
labour on the judgment, to invite the certain, but with recognised as a necessary evil to
for the past fifteen months success
farms is more urgent than drill far less deadly, sitack of aircraft in which it will be undertaken,
order to lessen the uncertain, but for be borne with a grimace.
which includes a long period
How are we going to set about for an army of Continental more deadly attack by a concentra- of U-boats that know within There are distinctions, how-
when our losses in convoy were
narrow limits, where the ever, and eases arise where so-
very slight-we are losing little it? I use the word "we" ad- dimensions, which so much of tion
viserily, because every Briton on our ship-space is being used to will approach. called "squeeze" becomes out-
equip. short of 3% million tons a year. land has an active part to play
This is an example, and there are right fraud, meriting severe
There you have the Battle of others, where a right judgment by a We started this war with which is as vital as, if less ex-
between di!Terence
success and punishment. In this category
How are those civil efforts to be failure in the operation of the con can be placed the latest "racket" nearly 2,000 fewer ships than in citing than, the part played by the Atlantic on the Home Front, self-reliant individual may make the which apparently is being prac-mouths to feed and our food each individual sailor and air crowned with success by the voy system while we are short of
Navy and Air Force? tised by some firewood dealers. production at home is less than in April, 1917, the blackest When firewood, one of the
month of the last war. essential commodities of the average Chinese in his daily life, recently touched a new local high record in price, Govern- ment rightfully decided to do its best to protect the tens of thou-two is potentially hostile. sands of impoverished Chinese by fixing the price; the order went out, 40 catties per $1,
In 1917 the enemy had not the which in itself was high enough and allowed the retailers a fair use of the Channel and French Atlantic ports, and now he has, margin of profit. But this, ap-we had the use of the Irish parently did not suit the dealers, and several started casting poris, and now we haven't.
And last, but not least, we around for ways and means of getting in that little bit of then had the triumphant convoy
The next source of great "squeeze". One method accord-system in reserve, whereas now economy in ship-space lies in a
reduction, wherever possible, of compact body empties the seas of "The elevation of merchant ship ing to reliable information, has we have it in uso.. been to souk the firewood in
Mercifully, we have no great our importation of sea-borne oil single targets the group, if compact,
being little more likely to be sighted construction to the highest priority the second highest. water, which naturally has the
in a vast expanse of sea than a slagie and fighter aircraft to
5. Concentration, of bombing effect of adding considerable army to supply on the Con- and petrol.
Linent, neither have we now, as Remember that a very large ship. weight to the wood, to the loss
Thirty dispersed ships thus provide operations not so much on industrial of the customer and the rich gain then, to feed and fuel Italy and part of our depleted merchant-
ship tonnage consists of "one nearly thirty chances of aflack com- targets and invasion ports, as of the dealer. This is fraud and France.
Failure to defent the U-boat means In spite of these great present way" tankers which can carry pared to the single chance of the U-bont bases.
the defeat at our cause. Success should be treated us such by the
from UN. na ballast, water,
The fundamental safeguard of con- means its victory. authorities. Clearly it is not advantages, which on no account nothing but oll to us and salt group.
These tankers, even sufficient to impose fines of $25 must we forgo, Lord Woolton
when voy therefore Bes in using the vast expanse of ocean for the passage of in such cases. The dealer's pro- has recently confirmed what I
our merchant ships to the neighbour flt from his fraud for one day asserted, under correction, many empty, need escort.
hood of our ports and the avoidance alone would more than cover that amount. Punishment to fit the crime--and this is a crime-can be the only way of stamping out Either such a beastly racket. the fino must be so big that it hurts the offender, or he should be sent to prison.
It's Serious
take the tactical problem first, We must hope, not fear, that er- as it is the one that must, and rors have been made, because errors First, then, for our part.
can, be solved quickly, whereas can be rectifled. This, as Lord Woolton has the material one requires time The material side of the problem said, lies in cheerfully cutting that may not be available if the is less a matter our demand for seaborne goods, tactical one remains unsolved. to the point of tightening our heits. Thus we save shipping space.
of judgment and more one of ceaseless effort to nug- ment our anti-submarine craft, our
The tactical problem is the convoy long-range fighters and new mer- system, which means the grouping chant ships. of merchant ships on passage into a These should have priority over compact body and the guarding of all other war material. Here all privilege should be such groups by escorting warchips. The practical steps needed to de- feat the U-bonts can now be sum- Safety on the high seas is obtained marised as follows:- ruthlessly eliminated, no more generous fare being available in by evasion of U-boats rather than the expensive hotels, restaurants by action by the escorts if the U- and West End clubs than in the boats sight the convoy. poorer places.
weeks ago that our present Fuel And Food
danger is greater than it was in
Safeguards
A group of merchant ships In a
1. Spartan economy in all senborne goods,
2. The need of agriculture to have priority over all war material except ships and fighter aircraft.
3. The reformation of the convoy
of restrictions on the line of approach TO-MORROW:
of which the U-bonls become awarę.
If the probable course of approach
What Next in
the Balkans?
on
My views on this great fuel brought to the attention of the problem are well known, and I is known, the enemy can concentrate poller, "Squeezo" can be accepted will not labour them, but it is his U-boats for attack far out at sen, with a certain amount of tolerance clear that every now ship that and convoy then becomes a positive when the victim is a person who burns coal, and every transport danger. (U-boats, remember, enn afford to pay that little extra, The victims too, should be en- but it is a different matter when vehicle that is changed over to keep the sea for weeks and range No such restrictions governed the those who can only just manage to gas, or producer gas, saves ship. for thousands of miles.) couraged to play their part in bring- ing these rascals to book. European eke out an existence are, to use an space and foreign exchange, householders, for example, should Americanism, taken for a ride, by and brings unemployed British approach of convoys in the last war,
· servants
reveni Invite their
to
grasping merchants, whose pronis, miners actively into the fight hunting craft were concen- One of the greatest authorities on the Near and Middle Eust. Vic- straightaway when they are
even after a completely honest deal,
against the U-boats. timised, and the matter should-be
aro ̄not negligible.
сап
By SIR RONALD STORRS,
trated at points of convergence near ⚫ our shores,
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