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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940

NAVY MASTERS NAZI TACTICS

THE BRITISH NAVY in the first year of war has been faced with and in each case has mastered three distinct forms of attack from the enemy.

For days before the outbreak of war German s had been posted all over the world on the most frequented trade routes.

Thus, during the first wecks, British merchant vessels, still scattered as they were in days of peace, were highly vulnerable to German submarine at- tack.

of

But with the introduction the convoy system and as result of. vigorous action taken by the Navy-in the first 20 days of war lover' 100 attacks were made on U-boats-the, German U-boat campaign, was clearly seen to be failing to achieve its object of crippling Britain's overseas trade.

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was officially announced in London yesterday that H.M. sloop Penzance has been torpedoed and

sunk. WELL BELOW

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Realisation of this failure by the German authorities was mani- fested in two ways: ruthless war-

The Ministry of Labour fare against neutral merchant shipping and violent propaganda announced in London yes- and threats directed towards com- terday that between July pelling neutral shipping to eschew the safety of British con- 15 and August 12 there was a reduction of 27,814 Magnetic Mine in the number of un- persons in Then, just after the middle of employed November, Germany began to Great Britain. Employ her so-called secret wea- There was a reduction of nearly pon--the magnetic mine. Again Germany met with some initial 50,000 in men and women regis- combination of lered as unemployed but the great skill and gallantry brought numbers of boys and girls rose by the secrets of the magnetic mine nearly 22,000.

The total of 799,000.. persons to light and the provision, of thei

registered as unemployed on necessary counter-measures was a mere matter of time. Soon Ger-August-12 was 432,000 less than the corresponding date a year many's mining campaign was re- legated to the ranks of many cost-go. Reuter.

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Finally came air attacks on shipping-attacks which included lightships among their targets and manifested other forms of ruth-: lessness which shocked the whole world.

WARNS OF

ENEMY AT HOME

Indecisive - Expensive "The greatest attack

But

has the gunners of merchant that

ships and of convoy escorts be-

ever been

came more and more proficient iaunched against the free- and they inflicted many losses on dom of the individual is the enemy and, like the U-boat

decisive and expensive,

Penzance was com- missioned in 1931 and figured in the occupa- tion of the Red Sea port of Hodeida by King Ibn Saud's troops in 1934.

After

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the with- drawal of the Yemeni troops, she was used to transfer 300 for- eigners including number of British Indians from Hodeida to the island of Kam- aran. Her comman- der, Commander Wavish, was formerly King's Harbourmaster at Gibraltar.-Reuter.

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campaign and the mining cam nearer the Americas than MAN AGREEMENT [paign, air attack was proving in-ever before," declared Pre-WITH THE STATUS OF THE sident Roosevelt yester-OF THE GERMAN MINORITY The well established principle

IN RUMANIA, COMPLETELY in war that sea control can only day, speaking at the de-RS THE SITUATION OF be attained and exercised on the dication of the National GERMANS IN RUMANIA. sea has been once more proved

President

enjoyed a certain freedom grant- added: Roosevelt

ed by the Rumanian Government. "To meet the attack the United

Henceforth they will have pro- States must prepare before.

representation in re- hand, for preparing later may portional

They and probably will be too late gions in which they live. President Roosevelt also drew will also have full freedom of expression in the Eleven German destroyers attention to the enemy: at home speech and met their end at Narvik and two which existed "in a mean and press. others were probably lost else-petty spirit that mocks at ideals, where, three cruisers were sunk, sneers at sacrifice and pretends

valid by events in the past year. Park at Great Smoky Formerly the German minority The Norwegian campaign alone Mountains, Tennessee. virtually deprived Germany of a chance of seriously challenging the British Navy with her own sea forces for in that campaign a' substantial part of the German navy was destroyed.

Hayas.

the battle cruiser Scharnhorst the American people can live by WEATHER REPORT

and the pocket battleship Ad-bread alone:" Reuter. miral Schper received serious damage and losses were also VISCOUNT WOUNDED Inflicted

on her U-boat and

"Major other craft.

in

southern Lindsay, is Sea in the vicinity of officers. re-Korea, moving NNE, and an area from Army Cas-of low pressure extends

Formosa to the Mariana Islands.

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest over the Viscount Garnock, of Pacific to the east of Japan. The Most outstanding naval event of the Scots Guards, only son and typhoon is situated in the Yellow the first year was the historie ac- heir of the Earl of tion of the River Plate in which among twenty-two the greatest traditions of the Roy ported wounded al Navy were vindicated anew in ualty List No. 21. the gallant attack upon ie poc- ket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was chased into Montevid- eo and scuttled herself to avoid. further action with the British forces.-British Wireless.

TURKISH AID FOR GREECE?

TURCO-GREEK)

IT 18. UNDERSTOOD THAT] INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN PROCEEDING, RECENTLY: WITH THE OBJECT OF ESTABLISH- ING WHAT' AID, IF" ANY; GREECE COULD EXPECT FROM TURKEY, 18 SHE WERE THE VICTIM OF AGGRESSION.

In some quarters in Ankara it Is feared there, may be a revival of the Italo-Greek dispute,

It is thought the dull hitherto may have been due to the need for the Axis powers to dispose of the Rumanian question first

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940

MUNICH'S FIRST BOMBNG

was

The R.A.F. attacked the North Sea to Lombardy on Sunday night and one of the new objectives on this 700-mile front the Bosch ignition plugs factory at Stuttgart, which is heavily defended by A.A. batteries and searchlights.

Several explosions were heard and fires seen after bombs were dropped on the factory.

the

High explosives fell all along rallway sidings at Munich which

was bombed for first time, and many fires broke out, says the Air Minis- try news service.

At Turin (Italy) the frst air-

craft bombed the Fiat works so effectively that an explosion oc- curred the reverberation from

NEW ZEALAND'S

AIR FORCE CONTRIBUTION

The New Zealand Defence Minister an- nounced in Dunedin' yesterday that when New Zealand reaches its maximum contri- bution under the 'Em- pire air scheme she will send nearly 3,000 pilots, gunners and observers to Canada and Britain' a year. First observers and gunners are going to Canada soon.-Reu- ter.

FRENCH NAVAL MEN DECORATED

THE FIRST BRITISH DE- CORATIONS AWARDED TO A FRENCH NAVAL UNIT SINCE THE START OF THE WAR WERE PRESENTED BY VICE- ADMIRAL SIR MAX HORTON AT A NORTH-EAST. SCOTTISH PORT YESTERDAY WHERE SEVERAL HUNDRED MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY, THE FREE FRENCH NAVY AND THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY PARADED.

The senior officer of the Frenchi unit received the D.S.O., two junior officers the D.S.C. and four warrant officers the D.S.M., while five French ratings were specially: mentioned in despatches.

Admiral Horton, addresssing the French navy.

men, spoke of the close and happy cooperation existing between the Free French] and British Navies which he hoped to see greatly extended in the future. Reuter.

WANT TO GO ON

which shook the aircraft at a MOST OF THE CHILDREN, to decide. The children are being height of several thousand feet. WHO WERE BROUGHT BACK, seht home while the parents make;

Reuter.

ALL SAFE AND SOUND, FROM up their minds.

Extensive Operations

THE TORPEDOED SHIP STILL The leader of the party of chil-| WANT TO CONTINUE THEIR dren said yesterday that he has VOYAGE TO CANADA.

only been able to find two out of the 320 who are "fed up."

Extensive operations over Germany, Italy, Holland and

As one 13-year-old said: "I'm Please let me sail to France were carried out by R.A.F.at afraid. bombers, states an Air Ministry Canada before my mother knows.

She'll only try to stop me!" communique,

After chronicling the bombing of enemy aerodromes at Ypen- burg and Schipol on Sunday, the communique says on Sunday, night aircraft factories at Munich and Stuttgart, oil plants at Hanover, Ludwigshaven and Nordenham. munition factories] at Leipzig and Bitterfeld, ship- ping at Emnden, the power sta- tion at Kassel, goods yards nt Scest and Mantheim and many enemy aerodromes were among targets attacked.

Crash On Landing

The Fiat aircraft works.. at) Turin and the Marelli magneto) works at Eesto San Glovanni were successfully bombed. Aircraft of the Coastal Com-

mand attacked an enemy marine and E-boat base

Lorient (France).

sub-

at

~~From ̄all these operations all our aircraft returned safely ex-j cept one which crashed landing-Reuter.

SHEER WEIGHT OF NUMBERS

013

Details of heavy Ger-

It is, of course; for the parents

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Describing the scene on board ship, he said that he never saw a frightened child. There was

no panic and no screaming.— Reuter.