1941-02-06 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1941

MEDITERRANEAN BATTLE FLEET PUTS OUT TO SEA Admiral (Come-Out-And-Fight) Cunningham Offers Challenge To Luftwaffe

NO TAKERS IN FIRST FOUR DAYS OF SWEEP

CABINET CHANGES LIKELY

The question of a suc- cessor to Lord Lloyd, Se- cretary of the Colonies, is complicated by the fact that Lord Lloyd was also Leader of the House Lords.

of

Only other Secretary of State in the Lords is Viscount Cran- burne, and he is a newcomer,

In some quarters the sugges- tion is made that Lord Har. lech. who is now one of the Civil Defence Commissioners, be recalled to jake over both posi tions, while others suggest that the Duke of Devonshire is in the running.

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the Medi- terranean Fleet, On Board a British Battleship)

UNDETERRED BY THE new threat from the skies Britain's powerful eastern Mediter- ranean battle fleet has once again put to sea,

Taking up the gauntlet flung down by the Luftwaffe on the decks of the aircraft-carrier Illustrious in the epic seven-hour duel last month, the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, issued a stirring signa! to all ships that "Italian or German, these pests must be shot out of the sky.'

and Italian has failed to

The Germanton challenge

fleet activities,

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air, has exercised well within range hinder of enemy aircraft without pro- ducing a reply from the enemy.

Reuter

fulfilled a

Certain units have highly important mission in the central Mediterranean, and light forces along the Libyan coust have maintained uninterrupted operations.

Far from shrinking before the aerial threat, the flect is carrying the war into the enemy's camp, ready to make or seek an engagement

Not Accepted

In the fourth day of the pre- sent voyage the British challenge

Const tutionally there must be has not been accepted.

the

two Secretaries of State in Lords, so the present vacancy

The fleet has completed cover

ing operations uneventfully and

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A threatening tone was used by the Spanish! newspaper "Arriba" yes- terday in an article at-

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ade and those who "with- in and without are trying to paralyse Spain."

After stating that thus fari Spaniards have been able to rest from their recent battle and for- give the enemies who put ob- stacles in the way of their pro- gress, the newspaper adds: “But henceforth we must be united and vigilant round our flag.

"The moment has come when action must succeed words and a wrathful offensive replace a prudent defence, if we, with our present circumstances at home and elsewhere are to im- prove and Spain is to be some- thing more than a desert in which the last hungry groups | of an old race of soldiers are ancamped."

The article follows a number; of allusions in the press and speeches during recent days to i the blockade as one of the causes of Spain's food shortage.-Reuter.

CALM BEFORE THE STORM

STOP PRESS

LEAD TYPE STOLEN

(Continued from Page 1) there are 'caravan roads says the

Some 300 pounds of lead print- correspondent, direct to` Benghazi,

$120. besides the coast road, and it does ing type, to the value of not appear impossible that British was stolen from No. 6, Chlu Loong tanks will again carry out another Street, yesterday afternoon. successful operation.

Italy's steady, reverses -and Money and articles, valued at losses must have had a depress- $125 were stolen from No. 46, Ing effect in italy and now that Wing Lok Street, between 1.30 country's' twenty thousand co- | a.m. and 7 a.m. yesterday. lonists are threatened.

There is another interesting de

tail, the Free French forces, blow

Contrary to rumours, the restrictions on port clearances trom Hong Kong of British French and Allied ships to

not Indo-China puits have been lifted, the "China Mail" this was informed officially afternoon

Restrictions have been lift- ed only in the case of one British ship plying between Hong Kong and Saugon,

at Mursuk. which is yet another able prospects af defeating - tha proof of General De Gaulles, Italian power in Tripoli and fight-

bead by strong position in French Equing a vulnerable Italy from bases "China Mall" to insu torial Africa,"

in Algeria and Tunis,

Lind is strictly · copyright "un Perhaps such a situation may signs of th Legömmun arise, the correspondent concludes, dinance,” 1936, and may as a result of the conflict now go* eď under any ing on between. Laval and Petain: wholly or in part. -Reuter.

The French One cannot help reflecting, the correspondent goes on to-day, on how conditions would have been now, had the 'French Government

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