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With American products to Britain being destroyed in transit in over larger quantities, it is urgent that a more effective system for the protection of British merchant shipping in the north. Atlantic be instituted without delay.
A. practical solution of the problem, in the writer's opinion, has long been avail- able but has been stymied by. sheer inertia and limited strategic vision. Briefly, it is the application to the job of guarding ocean commerce of Germany's own technique of attack on that commerce.
The inadequacy of the
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present convoy system has
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Phone 27770-9 long been apparent, and An expert suggests co-ordination of planes and ships in ensuring the safety of Ameri» various plans for improving can products for Britain while at sea. "It is about time that sea power sent an SOS or displacing it have been to air power, instead of spinning in the old circle," he declares, envisaging a wide
canopy of aircraft over the Atlantic that will beat Hitler at his own game.
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Wednesday, May 7, 1941.
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under discussion. One of
the latest suggestions is for
establishment of a destroyer By Major ALEXANDER P.
land or "bridge" across the
of ocean.
distance and soon one-half
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Atlantic, formed by a chain overhead even when they kind of co-ordination, to the ocean, from Newfound- of these fighting ships at re- are submerged. I have my put the matter bluntly, land to the north of Scot-.
now characterises land. gularly spaced posts, each self spotted and fought which
Air Canopy patrolling a definite segment U-boats from the skies re- Nazi methods of attack.
peatedly in the first World
There is every reason to It would amount to an War. German sea-craft believe that Hitler's Co-unbroken canopy of air Sensible Approach
would be located from the ordination can be matched.,
power, under which German This is a sensible approach air and if not disposed of, It is about time that sea seacraft would find to the problem. Unfortun- the nearest co-ordinated de- power sent an SOS to air virtually impossible... to ately the resulting land, stroyers would be directed power, instead of spinning in
operate. What is more, even if destroyers were to finish the job, so that the the old circle. The threat under the shield of such a placed at 50-mile intervals, entire path would be made of the air age must be met canopy British destroyers Nazi sea by the methods of the air and armed merchantmen Still would leave wide gaps untenable for in which submarines could power. Only when directed age. The disastrous Ger- could be really effective, ambush their prey, and bat- and supervised by the air man attack on transporta- since the aircraft not only tleships ignore such patrol. command could the proposed tion can be licked, but only would rain destruction on Besides, the terminal portion lane of destroyers become by utilising
same the enemy but serve as of the path on the European really effective.
techniques in line with the continuous surveillance ser- side-already one-third the Furthermore, it is not im- changed tactical conditions, vice, guiding the movements possible that the transporta The trouble with that pro- of the destroyers. And the of such a -would still be exposed, to tion of American bombers posal, and with so many of establishment the serious and growing
that they canopy is altogether possible hazard of destruction from on their own power, which the others, is the skies.
is now being done, could be continue to revolve helpless- and feasible, even with the fitted into the trans-oceanic ly within the limits of sea present types of aviation
Even equipment. To begin with, American air canopy, thus adding power conceptions.
Germany's counter- aircraft have the necessary vastly to its strength. Fol- where they assign some role
remaine blockade of Britain has been cramped achieved through range; at cruising speeds lowing the same route, the to aviation, it the great majority can cover bombers might be so dis- secondary and at least 1,200 miles. That patched that during trans- from the outset. Yet no markable co-ordination of gives them an effective port they would synchronise solution of the transporta- air and sea strength, Nazi a different light on the situation. operating radius of about their flight with the perman- tion problem will be found aircraft have reached out First blunder by the pro- 500 miles, which is plenty ent defensive forces along until the full potentialities hundreds of miles west of testors was to reject Govern- | and to spare for the main- the line. ment's offer of re-employment tenance of the canopy of air following official control of the power. Moreover, practic night soil system. This sug-ally all of these American gested petulance rather than pursuits carry bombs and sober-minded opposition. Per- are equipped for blind flying, haps too the move was planned to meet the challenge of un-
favourable weather. with the object of forcing
WRONG METHODS IF public sympathy for the
unemployed night soil carriers is rapidly diminishing, this is very largely the fault of the people concerned. First reaction to
their grievance was based more on sentiment than knowledge.
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of air power are exploited, Ireland. They have not under the guidance of people only bombed British ship- who have broken, through ping themselves but have the hypnotic effects of tradi-directed their surface and The idea thus would be to
tional thinking on the sub-undersurface seacraft dovetail the continuous air
ject.
their targets. patrols, surface commerce, destroyers, as well as our de- If the war thus far has If such co-ordination works livery of new American established any single with deadly results for purposes truth bombers into a homogene- strategic Unbroken Path
beyond of attack, why not apply it bold- falled, and rightly. Deliberate
ous, perfectly co-ordinated doubt, it is that surface ly for purposes of defence? refusal to accept employment is
The function of this un- and well-nigh impregnable operations are impossible if Technically, it would have been difficult to justify, and serves
avlation capable of spanning the only to place the people concert broken path of air power, of bridge linking the two shores the air overhead, is in the quite possible to build military ed in a false position. It is course, would not be limited of the Atlantic at its narrow- control of an enemy. In 1,800 miles of north Atlantic. tantamount to attempted to direct assault on enemy est practicable point. This line with this elementary an impregnable canopy anchored coercion, which especially at craft. Under normal con- obviously, calls for the most principle, the writer pro- only at its two terminal points. this time, is intolerable.
ditions, submarines are per- thorough preparation and poses that Britain take over Through lack of foresight, auch Complainants overlooked an-
timing for the a path of sky right across equipment is not yet available. other important point. Govern- fectly visible to aircraft scientific
ment-carinot break its own laws and employ child labour, which so many of the women carriers demand. Too often under the
old system were children ex- ploited in this way. If only to bring an end to this, Govern- ment's determined refusal to be
intimidated is welcome.
The time has arrived when the
disgruntled night soil coolles should be properly advised. The authorities are not lacking in sympathy for them as witness Mr E. B. Teesdale's declaration on Monday; but there are right and wrong methods of securing redress, and to date, the demons-
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What should be impressed upon these people is that there exists no possibility of a return to the old system of night soil collection, and that they aro wasting their time clamouring for it. Government is prepared to do what it can for them-re- employment as far as possible, and where this cannot be effect- ed, material assistance for the genuinely distressed.
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Readily Patrolled
That, however, does not cancel out the possibility of a canopy of air power anchored at a num- ber of intermediary bases. Be- cause of present limitations in the range of aeroplanes, tho route of protected commerce must be shifted northward and marked by air bases at New- foundland, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes and northern Scot land. These points are nowhere more than 600 miles apart; n distance, that can bo readily patrolled by existing. British and American aircraft.
Continuous patrol of stretches some 300 miles from the bases In both directions would provide a cover of uninterrupted air vigilance all the way across the ocean. Much has been said about the shortcomings of American pursuits when match- ed against German Messersch- mitts, but these American planes...... happen to be wonderfully adapt- ed for the purposes of such ocean: patrol service and could imme diately undertake this task, which is every bit as vital as any other single phase of the British defence in the air,(Copy- right 1941 by United Press).