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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May. 17.
SHELLING OF GENOA TE PH Eye-Witness Account
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The Italian reply consisted at the most of: 20 shells, mostly of small calibre, "not prie of which felf nearer than 500 yards. Our returning air- craft joyfully signalled the success of the bombardment as they swooped past, the observers leaning out and
to the menace of Italien bombers The
Between us and the shore appeared
was
QUIZ
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ON BOARD beginning to lighten the sky and was firing at the same rate. Wo waving their hands above their H.M,S. MALAYA, ahead I saw the big blurred out- were then steaming parallel with heads. We are steaming back to port
line of the flagship and the the coast. High above the tar- Ark Royal Escapes smaller dim shape of the Shef- hail of A.A. fire, were constantly with A.A guns munned to meet tho gets our spotters, dodging & At full speed we turned away, after striking a smashing new fold. Between us and the shore signalling directions blow at Italy. Bohind us ja Gonon, Italy's greatest port and destroyers raced through the guns.
Ark Royal's fighters were already Who was the first woman to a powerful naval base, where at water guarding the bombarding the faint shape of an oil tanker inng around us. Soon a shadow- become a Minister in the British!
'plane pald the penalty, The Government? dawn yesterday (Feb. 9) the ships from submarines or pos- Sharp cracks came from ahend as successfully broke up bomber
fightons Royal Navy carried out a bom- aible attacks from 60-knot the Renown opened fire with her for
During the day, but in the afternoon two
planes secondary armament of 4.5 guns. We thro
Fot bardment that wrought havoc boats,"
thought she was firing at the tanker, them.
A terrine barrage greeted through.
A Saluki is (a) a game of and destruction to military ob-
but we learned later that she was them.
.bombs Only three Over the still invisible Italian shelling the power station.
were cards (b) a Hungarian dish (c) They exploded dropped.
in the sca jectives in and around the har- coastline flashes of bursting
half a mile away on our port side breed of dog (di Arabic greet- bour. Over 300 tons of high-
Batteries Slow Reply and
kame the distance behind the Ing. A.A. shells, vividly red against
Arit Royal, which was apparently explosive shells smashed into
3 For fifteen minutes the Italian bat- the target. Another shadower the pale primrose sky, told us teries falled to reply. Then came a shot down later. Our only casualty dry docks, shipping factorles, warehouses, power stations, and that the Italians were putting red Bash from the shope to south of in the whole operation was one The Mona Lisa, famous paint- works as, for the first time Pa barrage against the Sword. the city and a white column of water Swordfish bomber, which failed to ing, is the work of (a) Van Dyck
chot up from the sea, 1,000 yards return after the dawn attack. (b) Reynolds (c) Raphael (d)| began. the fish bombers attacking targets short of the ships. More shells were With satisfaction that night we Botticelli (e) Leonardo da Vinci shores of Italy proper were at Leghorn and Pisa. Then, in fired from the shore, but the aim was learned from the aircraft that our (f) Titian,
so bad that the escorting destroyers shelling had scored hits on merchant the growing daylight, the high abandoned the smoke screen they ships, oil tanks, marshalling yards,
4 anow-capped peaks of the moun- had started, to lay.
the main power station, dry, decks, This daring, well-conceived, tain range behind Genoa appear round until towards the end of the capable of taking the largest ship of As we steamed on our guns slewed including the big 1,000-foot dock and well-executed swoop must ed suddenly out of the thick shelling they were firing on an after the Italian fleet, and the Ansaldo boxing weights-fly, feather, have brought home with un-
bearing
With the muzzles much electrical and boiler works. Huge welter, light, bantam? pleasant emphasis to Mussolint white mist which blanketed the
nearer the superstructure choking fires were also raging all over the
of smoke and cordite fumes target area. cloutis the extreme vulnerability of
swept over us. Doors were blown The Ark Royal's bombers had hiti Italy's long coastline,
uff and cabing were wrecked. The the refinery at Leghorn with high- stout tarpaulin protecting the bridge explosive bombs and had dropped 'a from bad weather was ripped lika large number of incendiaries in the paper. The Mulayn's share in the industrial area. They had also bombardment had been nearly half bombed Pisa aerodrome and railway the total weight of metal fired.
junction.
since hostilities
shelled from the sea.
coastline.
Not Detected
Our 'plane was The attack, which was carried
catapulted away with others from the Shef- out by a small but powerful striking force, consisting of the
field and the Ark Royal to act battle cruiser Renown, flagship as spotters. There was no sign
Vice-Admiral Sir James from the shore that our presence, The coast Somerville, the battleship Mala- had been detected. ya, the cruiser Sheffield, and the looked pleasantly peaceful.. aircraft-carrier Ark Royal,, took The Renown turned into post-
of
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Which is the lightest of these
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If you were deaf and wanted treatment, you would go to an otologist, polygamist, geneticist, orologist, athiest. 6
A group of rabbits is a- hutch, nest, herd, crowd, bavy, flock.
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You would ride on the back
the Italians completely by sur- tion. Silently we and the Shef-MR ERIC LINKLATER East, and a return to take part How many pints are there in. price. As we steamed. up the field turned with her. Battle is a novelist who al- Scottish Nationalist Movement.
in a riotous support of the a litre-31⁄2, 2, 4, 13⁄43⁄4? Gulf of Genon we saw neither pennants were run up to the ways writes with marrow Mr Linklater is patrolling ships nor aircraft, mastheads.
8 very funny! and the much-vaunted E-boats. Malay Union flag that had been
We flew the same in his sentences. He min- about himself as a political ideal- if any were in the neighbour hoisted when the Malaya fought gles laughter, sometimes ist, as he was some years ago in of an elephant in a' (a) punkah
(b) his novel "Magrius Merriman."
hookah (c) kulah Then came more adventures in howdah (e) newdah. the East and a return to Orkney to live a quiet life as a novelist
hood, remained In harbour,
in the Battle of Jutland.
Action!
harsh, with realism; and he sees himself as one of the figures in the tragi-comedy
When we left the harbour and turned cast into the Mediterran-
A few minutes before the at which he laughs. ean only a handful of people on board the ships knew the Ad- bombardment began we
sighted from the shore. White
In his latest book, "THE MAN
Steaming Up The Gulf
were
The huge 34,000-ton bulk of our ship shuddered from stem to stern as two guns of one of
(d),
:
9 When was the Short Parlia-
who loved his art and wrote a ment held, and for how long?
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Answers on Page 12
BOMBS ON LONDON
(Continued from Page 9.)
pacifist novel about peace which miral's intentions, though we and green lights flickered out 3 ON MY BACK" (Macmillan, 12. As he thought at the time hel
he now thinks was not so good guessed that something unusual challenge, "Who are you?" In od.), he has written his auto-
The Rosetta stone is (a), the wrote it. was afoot. Later the thrilling
chair in which kings are crown. a matter of seconds we sent our
The book ends with the com-ed (b) semi-precious stone (c) words, "There is a possibility reply. A great spurt of red flame biography and no book that he ing of the present war and the key for reading Egyptian hier-: that the ship may be in action shot from the Renown's side as has written has been more origi- end of what he calls "the comic oglyphics (d) famous Irish stone. to-morrow morning" appeared the first salvo of 15-inch shella nal-not even the book in which years." in the daily orders. It looked travelled towards the distant he portrayed Mary Queen of like business too when pictures, targets. Flames flashed from Scots, not as one of the world's glass light shades, and anything the Sheffield as her twelve six-grent lovers but as an under- likely to be smashed by concus- inch guns began to pour shells
sexed politician. sion from the guns were taken trical and boiler works.
(This may into the important Ansaldo elec-
seem a perverse theory, but ap down and laid on settecs, chairs,
parently John Buchan, who was or tables.
no modernist, agreed with it.)nounced more planes as lost and to find shelter at the appro- (3) The people have learned to take cover at the right time Childhood, boyhood, and youth than did the British, and this priate moment. we the forward turrets opened up, are all made extraordinarily real machines crashed on their re fighters for defence purposes is Throughout the night
because a number of German
(4) The introduction of night steamed at full speed. Not Again came the nerve-racking to us in this story of a young turn flight, were damaged on proving itself more and more. until the stand-to at 6 a.m. the explosions as one of the rear Orkney Islander-Orcadian, landing, or had to be posted up -next-morning was the secret returrets belched out two more think, is the right word. Mras missing. vealed. Between the shadowy ton shells. We strained our eyes Linklater was
(5) The balloon barrage and figures of the sailors at action towards the shore to see the
... anti-aircraft have been able to alrendy in un-
But London's six months ex- prevent German planes from stations muffled in their heavy bursts, and though the distance form in 1914 8oon after his perience of air bombardment has machine-gunning the people of hooded coats--the morning air was great we twice thought we fifteenth birthday, and his youth also shown that appropriate and Britain.
4541 was keen-I make my way to could spot a faint red glow. It was mainly spent in military ser- energetic defence measures can the upper conning tower. There was left to the 'planes to see the vice.
The whole world already a young fresh-faced midship- damage.
greatly diminish the terrors of knows that the British people's man told me without the faint-
His analysis as to his emotions
enemy bombing attacks. Here admirable spirit of resistance cat flicker of excitement in his
The Sheffield's side was almost and his account
are some conclusions. of his ex-
has not been weakened by six voice, "We are going to bombard continuously aflame 43 her periences as a soldier in the British -fighter planes
(1) The speedy and powerful months of air raids. Indeed it Genoa."
quick-firing guns pounded the Black Watch
have has been considerably streng- works. Our own guns were now their suggestion of the surface to an almost complete standstill. this, the above figures prove are admirable in brought German daylight raids thened. But over and above all We were steaming up the Gulf firing regularly. The Renown, of comedy that covers an in- of Genoa towards our target. sharing with us the important ferno. Then came life at Aber- population as fire watchers has bombing of London certainly (2) Organising the entire that the balance for six months The first gleams of day were objectives in the inner harbour, deen University, work in the rendered the enemy's incendiary cannot be drawn up to the bombs as good as harmless. favour of the German Air Force.
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