1940-08-10 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940

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FOUR TO ONE RATIO How Long Can Germany Wage War on This Scale? One of R.A.F.'s Best Days Since Dunkirk

REUTER'S DIPLOM ATIC CORRESPONDENT WRITES THAT THE GERMANS CANNOT AFFORD TO WAGE AIR WARFARE INDEFINITE- LY ON THE LINES OF THURSDAY'S BATTLES FOR APART FROM THE PHYSICAL DIFFICULTY OF REPLACING NOT ONLY MATERIAL BUT MEN, THERE IS THE BIGGER QUESTION OF MORALE.

CHEQUE TO COVER REPLACEMENT

Mr. Garfield Wes-

ton, M.P. for Maccles-

Sixty German planes to the British 16, was good going. British aviation had one of its best days since Dunkirk.

The immense importance the Germans attach to the factor of morale is shown by their policy of excessively exaggerating their successes and abnormally minimising their losses.

field, has presentedCANADIANS

the Minister of Air- craft Production with

a cheque for £100,000 to build 16 Hurricanes

re-

and Spitfires to place the total British losses in Thursday's air battle over.

the Channel.-Reuter.

SCHOOL BOYS ARE

APPLAUD R.A.F.

ONE OF THE MANY EXPRES- ĮSIONS OF CONGRATULATIONS TO THE R.A.F. YESTERDAY CAME FROM MR. VINCENT MASSEY, CANADIAN HIGH | COMMISSIONER TO LONDON, WHEN HE INSPECTED A CANADIAN AIR SQUADRON AT AN AERODROME |SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND.

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The high degree of this exagger- ation is regarded as significant: that is to say, it is significant that; they should find it necessary widely to prevert the tru'h, be- cause it is obvious they cannot de- ceive their people completely or indefinitely.

Their airmen, despite the fact, that they are drawn from widely scattered units to avoid com. parison of experiences, cannot be expected to accept the state- ment that "three of our planes are missing." when many

of

them must have seen eight, ten or even 16 of them-Junkers and Messerschmidts-shot down in flames in a few minutes. (The Germans later admitted the loss of 12).

Verisimilitude

Claims of successes can more

H.M.S. Hood, one of Britain's most formidable ships in the Mediterranean, photographed the other day travelling at high speed. (Copyright, Fox).

AND THE ITALIANS

LOSE FIFTEEN TO TWO BRITISH

THE LATEST CHECK-UP shows that in Thursday's air battles the Germans lost 60 His reference to the achieve-

machines over the Channel and the Italians ments of the R.A.F. was received] with cheers.

The men of the squadron come militude.

casily be given an air of verisi- 15 over Libya. Sixteen British fighters were from all parts of Canada,

German communiques lost in the Channel fighting, but three of the andi the squadron itself is the first tographic detail, how

often describe, with almost pho- Royal Canadian Air Force fighter squadron of British planes were

whole pilots are safe, while two British 'planes fail- squadron to reach Britain.

It has been on duty for six gian or Dutch

brought down over French, Bel- ed to return from Libya. months around Newfoundland over Germany, Working two and a half hours and Canada and is now complet "overtime' оп their normal ing training in Britain. It willled fires visible for many

be-soon be in action, Reuter,

MAKING ARMS

school day, scores of boys tween fourteen and sixteen years of age are turning out factory components for arms works by

the hundreds every day.

They are cutting down by two-thirds work that skilled men need to do to finish component.

for their work.

the

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ions in both the Settlement and Concession. Apart from robberies and one kidnapping the whole city was quiet. Havas.

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In addition to the 60 'planes the Germans They also claim to have start- lost, many others were badly damaged. The among British industrial plants, 60 comprise 24 dive-bombers and 36 fighters.

inflicting immense damage.

miles

All such allegations can nel- ther be proved nor disproved by..people...in Germany. It la different, however, with losses. These cannot be concealed all the time nor from all the people. Empty Chairs

3,200 MILES IN QUEST

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one-seventh.

About 400 German 'planes took part in Thursday's fighting, and on the basis of this, the Germans lost one-seventh of the 'planes they flung into the battle. It is

Nearly thirty lathes from the

probable, however, that many of Mrs. Alice Cooper, a widow, the German 'planes were in action The third anniversary of the handicraft and technical schools slaying of two Japanese officers at

Just as the British nightly raids who has travelled 3,200 miles from of Newcastle have been centralis-Hungjao, near Monument Road, over Germany have proved the

more than once, after refuelling Peterborough, Ontario, seeking and re-arming, so that the actual ed in three school workshops, which preceded the outbreak of falsity of Goering's claim last news

of her only son, Private which have been turned into Sino-Japanese hostilities in year that no British airmen could Kenneth Cooper, of the West Kent percentage loss is higher than seven-day-a-week factories. The Shanghai, was marked in Shang-bomb Germany, so empty chairs Regiment, wants to get in touch pupils are receiving no payment hai yesterday by strong precau Fingland, whispered experiences

Such losses, it is felt in London, at airmen's messes after visits to with a girl he mentioned in his

cannot fail to have an effect on letters.

the morale of German airmen. Mrs. Cooper, who of those airmen lucky enough to

emigrated Altogether, 400 German 'planes escape and the steady drain on from Oldham twenty years ago, is have been brought down over or reserves must be known through-staying with her sister at Park-around Britain since war began, out the German air force and to heard of her son for months, so a daily average of six.

fteld, Chadderton, She had not 326 within the last eight weeks, thousands of the German people. she gave up her job and came¦

The fact that the Nazi High to England alone.

In the early morning, German FOR GERMANY Command nevertheless finds it "Kenneth is all I have and I motor torpedo-boats attacked

imperative to go on minimising cannot sleep for worry about him,"Itish escort ship and another dam- convoy. One was sunk by a Bri- The Bremen wireless stated losses to an almost unheard of she told a reporter. yesterday that an agreement has degree is significant as showing! been signed in Bucharest for the what the High Command itself

"All I know about the girl is ged. Three British coasters were export of Rumanian wheat to Ger-feels about the needs of

that her name is Pat. She i torpedoed and sunk. Ger-

An officer who has landed *many.-Reuter.

about nineteen, short, dark and man morale.-Reuter.

from one rather pretty. She lives in Bat-

of the coasters says that a swarm of the Nazi tersea and is a typist.

M.T.B.8 suddenly appeared and "Kenneth used to say how good

his own ship she had been to him, darning and

was lifted right mending for him,” and I want to

out of the water when a torpedo thank her and ask her for any

struck it.

These school factories open at 8 a.m. cach day-an hour before normal school hours-and the youngsters work till noon. There is a break for lunch and

RUMANIAN WHEAT then

they go on for another four hours completing the peace-time engineers' working day shift of eight hours.

Boy Teach Masters

Many want to work at night but are barred by regulations.

The

lathos are not though volunteers, many them teachers, put in a night of four hours and work,

Saturdays and Sundays.

The curious thing

idle, of

on

18 that

many of these teachers are be- ing taught to work the lathes by the boys.

The boys all have their parents' permission to take part in this vital aid to increase arms out- put.

But their normal schooling is not neglected. A spread-over system is employed, so that cach boy works only two or three days a week in the "factories" and devotes the rest of the week to 'normal school work..

One of the Newcastle educa- tion authority officials responsible for the scheme, told a reporter:

"We are not playing: we are doing vital work. Our output doubled in the first two days and has been increasing cach day since

"What is more, we have no waste. We have centralised -all; the available lathes from the schools. There is room for more, Perhaps there are unused lathes Plying in garages. We would like, them on loan so that we can increase our output." We have the boy-power to spare

'Heddy Lamarr and Robert Taylor in a scene from the M.G.M. flim "Lady of the Troplos," which is being shown at "the Queen's, and "Alhambra Thentros.

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Private Cooper was Peter- borough's first soldier, and came; over twelve months ago to join the Army.

MAJOR SHOT, WIFE INJURED

Major Gerald Francis Bird,

Q

three

The entire crew got away in one life-boat within minutes.

"The men were marvellous," he said, Reuter,

HE'LL SEE B.E.F. DOG PAL AGAIN

R.A.M.C. (retired), aged sixty- A big surprise awaits a private one, was found shot dead in the of the R.A.M.C. when he next grounds of his house Basing comes home on leave to Birming- feld, Basingstoke, Hants. There ham. was a revolver at his side.

At the R.S.P.C.A. 'kemels near

A short time before the body to his home at Acocks Green, was discovered a maid answered Private Harrall will find the faith- a bell and found Mrs. Bird injured ful Red Setter bitch with whom and in a state of collapse. On the he survived the terrible bombard-" floor of the bedroom was a wooden ment of Belgium,

mallet.

The two became faithful friends Mrs. Bird is having the constant in Belgium, but in England. the attention of a doctor and a nurse.dog had to go into quarantine.

She has been subject to strokes Privato Horrall did not `know since her youngest son, who was if he would ever see his friend {then_sixteen," died about a year again, but after he had left the ago, Major Bird had also shown R.S.P.C.A. inspector volunteered signs of worry.

|to put the dog'in' quarantine at One son is serving in the Army Birmingham, which" is. Harrall's and one in the Navy.

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