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Total Warfare
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MERE WORDS FAIL to emphasise the gravity of the great fight against brutality and oppression,, in which we are so seriously engaged. The hardes of Hitler are desperate in their fiendish desire to obliterate the British Empire, and all that it stands for. It is total warfare. Total in the sense that not only are our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen in- volved, but civilians as well.
ALREADY THE TOLL of lives amongst the civilian population of the British Isles, is heavy. Already, innocent children are being maimed and blinded. The scene is poig- nantly grim. Our folk who are in the midst of the holocaust come up smiling after every onslaught—even though they have tears in their eyes and anguish in their hearts. Undaunted! Unconquerable!
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THEY ARE ENCOURAGED by the great help they are receiving from their kindred nations overseas. In common with the rest of the Empire, Hongkong is helping. Nearly a year ago, the Bomber Fund was started, and thanks to the generosity and the sacrifice of many, over two million dollars have now been subscribed and placed at the disposal of the British Government for the purchase of bombers-so urgently needed to avenge the innocents who have fallen, and to smash the German war machine.
** HONGKONG is doing well, but can do still better, There have been magnificent contributions to the Bomber Fund, and there has been great sacrifice on the part of some who have given again and again, Let it be remembered however, that the two million dollars would not have been recorded but for the humble gifts from those who could afford no more.
THIS COLONY enjoys the blessing of peace, but that blessing should serve to stimulate and quicken. the desire to give to the greatest cause of all time. Our people at Home know what total warfare means. Let them know that the people of Hongkong understand what total giving means!
Total to date: $2,118,581.08.
Remitted to London: £130,889.19.68
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AMERICA DECLARES
HERSELF
SOLEMNLY, President Roosevelt yesterday issued a warning to Herr Hitler as grave and purposeful as that delivered to Germany by Pre- sident Wilson 24 years ago. language, pregnant with meaning,, the leader of the United States flung out his answer to the Fuehrer's challenge for world domination, giv- ing added weight to his words by simultaneously proclaiming that state of unlimited national enver- gency existed, and calling upon the entire nation to labour ceuselessly and willingly to prevent the disaster with which the Nazis and their cohurts threaten the universe,
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As generally anticipated, many of sentiments expressed by Mr Rousevelt were reiterations, but he -also-announced-two-important-now-- features of United States polley vis- n-vis the European War which are bound to have far-reaching, effects on its future development.
Without in as many words openly committing the U.S. to the employ- ment of armed convoys for the con- veying of vital woe materials to Britain and the other democracies, the President referred with approval to the eletiveness of this system in the last World War, and added, with profound significance: "The blunt truth is that the present rate. of Nazi sinkings of merchantmen is more than three times as high as the British replacement capacity, and more than twice the combined British and American output of merchant- men to-day. We 71 answer this per by speeding up and Increasing cur great shipbuilding progrúmme, and secondly by helping to cut down the losses on the high scas." It is doubtful whether any other sentence in the entire speech will ring so un- picasantly in Hitler's cars.
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And if the Nazi lender is stil capable of absorbing realistic facts In his perverted mind, surely Mr Roosevelt's announcement int the United States already has taken, and will continue to take adequate steps to safeguard the nation's vital outposts, must give him, cause ponder. It means that the United States is now prepared to translate warnings into actions; the velvet glove of diplomatic conciliation Is off; the iron hand of an implacable foe is exposed. Hitler stands worried by the great champion of the de- inocracies. ..Tha
fact that Mr Roosevelt's specch was directed essentially to Hitler does not mean that his chal- lenging statements were intended to remain unheeded in other parts of the
globe, Japan was clearly Invited to ponder the President's words and
to appreciate the meaning behind
his tribute to the "magnificent de- fence of Chinn.
In short, the entire world to-day now knows where America stands in relation to the conflict which la raging on three continents, and which is threatening a fourth. Unflinching- ly, and with the ald of every, re- source at her disposal, the United States will defy and combat the Totalitarians, oven if, in the final analysis, it involves her, like Britain and the other, domocracles, In total War”
FLEET AIR ARM PROVES STRENGTH AGAIN IN SINKING OF BISMARCK
These official Admiralty pictures show how the Fleet Air Arm oporates from an aircraft carrier. Horo a plane has just come up through the well and is having its wings spread.
These are Blackburn Skua divo-bombors assembled on the deck of the carrier. They are ready to take off to attack the enemy.
An aircraft flying off to take part in the attack.
The Bismarck was damaged by torpadoos of this typo, soon in this picture boing launched from a Fairey Swordfish plano.
Return after a successful operation. Signals guide the
Detalls of the sinking of the giant Nazi battleship, Bismarck, as issued by the Admiralty and published in the Telegraph yesterday, have thrilled all Hongkong just na the news has excited the imagination of people all over the world.
The communique, makes mention ut the bly part which aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm played in running down
and shattering the enemy battleship. In the determined pur- sult of the Bismarck by British naval forces seeking to avenge the chance sinking of H.M.S. Hood, the Orst
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were struck by naval torpedo aircraft from the aircraft carrier. Victorious. Subsequently, torpedo aircraft from the Ark Royal also. attacked the Bismarck by the same means.
These successful altacks caused damage to the Nazi battleship and slowed down, paving the way for its eventual dispatch to the depths by the surface battle feet.
The Fleet Air Arm has by this Intest explott proved once again its strength and the effectiveness of nerlat torpedo attack. The first big success secured by use of this method of warfare was at Taranto, when Mussolini's much-vaunted batile fleet was cut to pieces.
The development of flying for war purposes originated in the British Navy. Its carliest pioneers, who in- cluded Admiral Sir Ceell Talbot, now Director of Dockyards, and Sir
until Governor of
recently 'were submarine officers who understood the eRec- tiveness of the torpedo as a weapon. During the past few years, and es- pecially since the outbreak of present war, this branch of the itght- ing services has been brought to a high pitch of eliciency,
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The Fleet Air Arm is served by many types of aircraft, Including dive-bombers and-fighters, but the torpedo plane remains the speciality, One of the most striking features of this method of warfare is that it is designed with a single eye to hitting the target with precision. Should the torpedoes, or the dive-bombers bombs, miss their mark, civilians do not suffer, as
British and other European civilian populations suffer so crucily at the hands of German pilots. The Navy, true to its tradi tion, strikes fercely at its enemy's armed forces, but spares batants.-A. C. G.
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Opposite Numbers 4 NAVY
CHIEFS
ERICH RAEDER, Commander-in- Chief of the Nazi Navy. His rank. Grand Admiral; his age, sixty-four; his reputation, shrewd, capable sailor, a martinet in discipline.
Raéder
As a young officer of the old Imperial -Navy-he-was navigator of the Kaiser's yacht; during the last war he was Chief
of Staff to Admiral Hip- per,
Com-
mander in -
Chief of the German De-cruisers.
He knows what it is to be at the receiving end of the Royal Navy's merciless artillery. He was in the Lulzow at Jutland when she pounded by the gunfire of our big ships, but Raeder escaped.
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His chief amusements are listening to music-particularly Furtwangler's and watching football. His chief abominallons, women's short hair, short skirts, cosmetics and cigarettes. Best saying: "We do not under- estimate England's strength."
VICE-ADMIRAL J. C. TOVEY, Commander-in-Chief-, of the Homé Fleet, has shown himself markedly dissimilar from his opposite number. He is been making Do vaunting speeches, telling the world, like the prize-fighter of old, just what he plans to do.
Jack Tovey has dono Д great part of safbring in destroyers. In
the Onslow, destroyer, al
. Jullind stood
ho
in to the cruiser Wiesbaden
and hit her
again and
again with his
small guna. Hits craft dis-
Tovey
abled, he had a crack at the Der- Minger, a capital ship, and finally hud to be taken in tow. All this won. him a D.5.0. Kipling wrote a story about it.
Is said to be just the man to throw everything at the Germans when the right, time comes,
Tovey (pronounced: Tury sixty, and in vigour a young manë, The Navy to a man "rospects, kimi! *--- Best saying!--[Fovey doesn't talk};
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