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Constant Watch Of The Navy Off The Coast BOOKS NOT

ALTHOUGH PUBLIC ATTENTION HAS BEEN CONCENTRATED CHIEFLY UPON THE MASSED AIR ATTACKS, THE BEGINNING. APPARENTLY OF THE BLITZKRIEG ON THIS COUNTRY, IT SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED THAT THERE HAS BEEN ALSO NO LITTLE-SIGNIFICANT ACTI. VITY- AT. SEA, WRITES A NAVAL CORRESPON DENT.

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Newspaperr alè exempted from the Purchase Tax Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exche quer; In making the announce- ment, which obviously had the hearty goodwill of M.P's, showed plainly that the important war- In the first place, the air attacks have been dir-time duty carried out by the ected both upon convoys when they could be locat- Press towards the nation had

thlefly, influenced the decision. ed-and also upon ports and naval establishments. The Chancellor freed books, Dover, of course, is a favourite target for the Heinkel and the Junkers, but Portsmouth, Southampton, and Portland in particular have all been the objects of Nazi attention.

That, however, is not all There have also been two, brushes: be- ween British and: German' 'light' forces at sea, and all these events clearly illustrate two things that the enemy realises that 'there is. great importance still in the sea affair' SO

that he cannot afford to neglect it. even if attacking with aeroplanes by the thousand, and that the vigilance of the Royal Navy is, as ever, unrelenting.

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so that the combination of the two seems incongruous.

it cannot be very easy for them to collaborate, and if the E-boats were Included; for the protection of the trawlers or vice versa it is curious that they should, both have retreat- ed without attempt at counter- attack' when they were engaged by the sort of British force which they must have most ex pected to encounter, Both incidents seem to suggest that the E-boat is hardly the real ly effective craft it has been Yet a third incident of impor-vaunted to be. But in truth it tance occurred at sea, when alseems to be but one more proof of destroyer, H.M.S. Windsor (Lieut. the fact that it is the man that Commander Huddart) and two counts far more than the material armed trawlers, the Edwardian or the weapon. (Skipper. F. A. Cunningham, R.N.R.) and the Péter Carey (Skipper, E. C. Catchpole, R.N.R.), recently contributed their quota to the great toll of Nazi air raid- ers by shooting down no fewer than five German 'planes in an. afternoon.

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SPITFIRE

at least for the present, and also periodicals and the vast mass of printing from the tax.

will not now have to be paid are

Among the things on which taxy

account books; printed music,> printed leaflets and pamphlets, including book lists, trade catalo. gues, trade lists, trade posters; and other trade advertising material. -

Diaries are practically the soler exception to the concessions.

“Vital Factor”

The Chancellor said it had been suggested to: him that if the tax were levied there might be in certain events a substantial de- crease in the circulation of new papers.

BMI certainly do not think that in this time-of war;" saldi · Sin Kingsley, "it would be in the national Interest that there' „chould be either a decrease ́in the jolroulation of newepapers or a diminution of the service which they provide for, the public.

M.P:s cheered this.

"Not only a free Press but a widely distributed Press, is, I re- cognise, a vital factor, particularly to-day, in the dissemination of in the main- tenance of public morale.?.

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In the early hours of one morn. ing, while it was still dark, a num Here is the story of seven ser- ber of British motor torpedo-buats,geant-pilots of a Spitfire squadron moving at about thirty knots, came as told in an Air Ministry coin-sergeant, "disappeared into clouds, into touch with two small enemy. ships, which at first they took for E-boats.

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They were in the official words "having the dog-fight of their lives off Dover and Folkestone," having run into Junkers dive-bombers and Messerschmidts.

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Sergeant No. 1 fired two bursts larger class, whereby the M.T.B. at a ME 110, saw one of its crew sustained some damage to herbale out, and watched the aircraft bows. The next M.T.B. passed be

go down smoking-furiously. tween the two enemy ships, en No. 2 caught a ME 109 as it was gaging both of them effectively as climbing and sent it down in she passed with machine-guns and flames. grenades; while a third, passing on the other side of the enemy sight ed two larger enemy ships, which she engaged at point-blank range with machine-guns.

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No. 4, still higher, avoided three enemy fighters and found another. in front of him. He fired five short bursts and watched it go straight down in flames. Then he turned at a second Messerschmidt 109 and disabled it. Make a BA

No.6, who was wounded, des- troyed a Heinkel...

Nos.. 6 and 7 attacked Messer- schmidt: 109s, saw them disappear -with-smoke --pouring-out. --- No. 3, at 10,000 ft., attacked one This Spitfire squadron, was able of 12 Junkers 87, He saw it drop to claim two dive bombers and, apparently out of control and then four fighters shot down in a few turned to deal with a Messerschminutes,

midt 109, which was coming, for In less than an hour, the skies over the Kent coast were cleared.

That was the end of that parti-} him. . cular encounter, but a little later" one of the M.T.B.'s had a running. fight with an E-boat, of which it was still too dark to see the re- sult.

But later the M.T.B.'s were-en- gaged by an enemy 'plane from á height of no more than 500 feet.. Their machine-guns set the plane on fire, and when last seen it was": losing height rapidly.

No Damage

In all these engagements the M.T.B.'s sustained no damage-- except the bows of one of them. stove in by ramming-and- no casualties; 'all, including the dam-i aged boat, returned safely to their base.

In the early hours of the next morning, a German force, consist- ing, as far as could be observed, of six armed trawlers with three E-boats was located in the North Sea by a British destroyer detach ment consisting of the Malcolm, flotilla leader (Captain T. Halsay;;; -D.S.O;) and the Verity (Lieuten-: ant-Commander R. H. Mills). The destroyers turned their search- lights on the enemy and at once opened fire.zi

The results again, were dimculu to assess with any certainty, To: [the enemy immediately resorlędu to smoke screens.. to make_thair: escape, ́anda 9 smoke screen visi never more effective than in the beam of a searchlight. But it was]| believed that one trawler and one!! E-boat were gunle, bofora the! cnemy was able to got away.

Curious Tactics

The composition of the enemy force was curious. Armed trawldisi are the slowest and clumsicht" of warships, though very effective! In the duties for which they are suited. The E-boats; on the otheri | Hand-are-the-fastest-and-nimblent,

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