1940-04-15 — Page 15

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1940

BLACK-OUT

BLOCKADE

(By A Military Correspondent)

HITLER'S MOST effective weapon is his tongue. Neither the German army, nor the U-boats, nor Hitler's great air force have brought him, in actual battle, such large gains as his wordy threats to bomb us. This blackmail will cost us in a full year more than a

A.R.P. thousand million pounds.

expenses are £300,000 a day. The bill for evacuation is £36,000 a day. The black-out slows up factory output, even the out- put of aircraft. All this increases the cost of produc- tion.

So far this has been a war of two blockades. Our blockade of Hitler, and Hitler's blockade of us. In this phase Hitler's strategy is to compel us (1) to waste our energies; (2) to disperse them.

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By attacking a few fishing smacks Hitler imposes

on us the duty of providing guns for all sea-going craft. By mine and U-boat action he compels us to build extra flotilla craft to protect convoys. On actual patrol, by sea and air, our expendi- ture is immense. All this is part of the enemy's deliberate design.

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There are three ways of dealing with the raiding bomber. (1) Anti- him with aircraft fire; (2) attack fighters; (3) retaliate by bombing his bases. This week's air fighting affords valuable lessons on all three methods,

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The anti-aircraft gunners have made a poor showing. At Scapa Flow they blazed away at a dozen German targets for an hour and a half. They failed to bring one aircraft down. All the gunners could do was to drive the raiders so high that though they dropped ten tons of bombs, none of these could be aimed with precision. Meantime, our fighters could not get at the raiders for fear of being hit by our own gun-fire from the ground.

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At Sylt the German anti-aircraft gunners put in nearly seven hours' shooting. It seems they shot down one British bomber. On this occasion the bombers simply defled the bat- and teries on the ground, flying up down the quays and wrecking them at will.

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The German fighters went up, ac- cording to German custom, despite They their own anti-aircraft fire. did not go in force, however, and had no success. The German fight- ers seldom do go up at night, They have such high landing speeds that they find it hard to get down again safely on their airflelds in the dark.

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Airplanes are very tough birds, They can stand an immense amount of punishment. A German machine came down in France the other day. She had 23,000 bullet-holes in her.

Many an airplane comes whistling home, whistling like a tin whistle band, as the wind rushes through the bullet holes, When this happens it Is no easy job to handle the airplane,

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The Germans are well aware of when We drop our flights, both pamphlets and when we drop bombs. Flying over Munich the other night one of our pilots picks up the radio message from the ground, “All okay. Come

down." on

To which he politely replies, "Not to night, sweet- heart!" and passes on his way.

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Swooping over Pilzen,

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south

of

Prague, and the giant Skoda arma- ment works there the pilot sees them ablaze with light. We do not seem to have blackmailed Hitler into hav- ing a general black-out.

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TRUE BLUE AGAIN

the Jan Kong

the results of Following are

Race held Trophy

by Royal Hong Returning home after visiting Po-Yacht Club yesterday over 20 miles: land, the pilot produces a few unde- livered pamphlets in Polish. "Oh! True Bluc What do they say?" inquires B curious gentleman at the hangar. "Why they say, 'Dear Poles! Here we are at last!" answers our young pilot with a grin.

R.A.F. PILOT

TO MARRY

(L. Garner). Artemis

Finished Pos.

1.41.35 1

1.46.36 2

(G. G. Wood).

Gull

1.40.04

3

(Capt. A. O. G. Mills). Maureen

1.53.31

4

(C. F. Hyde).

Tyrone Chal

1.59.20

5

(B. Herschand),

2,27.17

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D.N.F.

Guri

(3. Johnson). Joss

IN CAPTIVITY DENMARK

Phyllis Clitheroe, a

Birmingham

girl, is going to Belgium to marry | Pilot-Officer Charles Kempster, one of the twelve British prisoners of war in Belgium,

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He has been granted a marriage li- cence, says the Associated Press, and now, at a port near the Dutch fron- tier," where he is interned, he impa- tiently awaits her arrival.

Pilot Officer Kempster and Miss Clitheroe were to have been married in January, but ten days before their was forced wedding day his plane

reconnaissance fight his plane was attacked by five German fighters, who forced him over Belgian territory.

down.

Returning from

a

Belgian anti-aircraft fire forced him down, and in landing the plane struck an electricity power cable and burst into flames.

Pilot-Officer Kempster escaped with slight injuries, but his gunner was killed,

On the day they were to have mar- | ried Miss Clitheroe saw her fiance in

a news reel of the gunner's funeral.

The number of British airmen taken on Belgian soil is now seventeen, but five escaped some time ago, and are now back in the R.A.F.

for the whole of her aerodynamics is CURED BY

altered, and she darts and lurches about quite unaccountably.

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RIDICULE

A British pilot returned, recently A colonial governor, whose favour- from a reconnaissance flight over ite penalty for the recalcitrant head- South Germany. His rudder was hunters of Papua was to make them sheared clean through, his landing take long walks with him through gear was shot away, and altogether the forests to outlying posts, died re- his ship closely resembled a sleve.cently at Port Moresby, Papua. When he pancaked her down at last He was Sir John Hubert Plunkett the aircraft fell to pieces with the Murray, aged seventy-eight, Britain's Impact of landing. But he had flown veteran colonial governor. her about 200 miles in that riddled state.

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Another remarkable feature of the new military reconnaissance alréraft is their long-distance capacity." They will fly 10 hours on reconnaissance or patrol, perhaps the great part of the time in a black-out, and return

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Sir John stood Bft. sin., and was extremely energetic, so that the walks became a real punishment. Ridicule, he found, was a better deterrent than hanging.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The demand rate on the Hong Kong to their base. We should marvel dollar to-day was 1/3 18/16. even more at the staying power of - The cross rate London/New York the men who fly them.

London £-U.S.$852-7/8.

RESTIVE

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LOCAL SHARES

Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- day:

BANKS

Hong Kong Bank $1400 b.

INSURANCES

H.K. Fire Ins. $171 b.

SHIPPING

H.K. Steamboats $10 b.

DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,

ETC.

H.K. Docks cum Rts. $21.60 b., $22

s., $21.00 sa.

H.K. Docks Ex. Rts. $19.35 b:

LANDS, HOTELS & BLDG8.

· H.K. and S. Hotels $5 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

H.K. Tramways $17.65 b. Yaumati Ferries $25 sa. China Lights (Old) $7.90 b. H.K. Electrics. $05 b.

Macao Electrics $21 b.

Telephones' (Old) $28 b., $281⁄4 sa. Telephones (New) $10 b.

STORES, &C.

Dairy Farms $211⁄4 b. Watsons $9.20 b.

Lane, Crawfords $7% b. Wm. Powell, Ltd. $1 b.

MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $6.80 b.

LAST DAY'S SALES 100 Docks C. Rts. @ $21.90 52 Docks X Rts. @ $19.45 100 Yaumati Ferries @ $251⁄4 100 Telephones (Old) @ $281⁄4

MANILA SHARES Antamoks Ps. .12 b. Atoks Ps. .16 sa. Baguio Gold Ps. 20 sa. Batong Buhay Ps. .009 sa. Benguet Consol. Ps. 5.25 b. Big Wedge Ps. .17% sa. Coco Grove Ps. .08% sa. Consol. Mines Ps. .003 sa. Demonstrations Ps. .09% sa. East Mindanaq Ps. .09% sa. I.X.L. Ps. .32 sa.

Ipo Gold Ps. .09%1⁄2 sa.

Itogons Ps. .21% b.

Masbates Ps. .00 sa.

Mind. Mother Lode. Ps. .09 sa.

Mine Operation Ps. .09 b. North Camarines Ps. .05 b. Paracale Gumaus Ps. .171⁄2 sa. San Mauricio Ps. .66 b. Surigao Consol, Ps. .181⁄2 sa. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .12% sa. Syndicate Inv. Ps. .017 sa. United Paracales Ps. 24 b.

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Havana, Yesterday. MANY RESPECTS RESEMBLES THE BY THE

Herr Hessinger, German consul at REGIME ESTABLISHED

IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, Santiago de Cuba, is trying to trans- NAZIS

fer the cargo on the Danish ship Hel- THOUGH THE TROOPS HAVE RE-

a German or Italian CEIVED DEFINITE INSTRUCTIONS ga on board

vessel.

The Helga's cargo includes TO AVOID ANY BRUTALITY.

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The food situation will soon become America when she received instruc- tions from Copenhagen to go to Cuba critical since Denmark no longer re- ceive the raw products necessary for | following the occupation of Den-

mark. agricultural production.

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