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"BLOCKADE"

(By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT)

A BATTLE HAS BÉEN RAGING FOR MORE THAN HALF A YEAR OF WHICH WE HAVE HEARD LITTLE OR NOTHING, APART FROM THE BARE TOTAL OF LOSSES THAT WE OUR- SELVES HAVE SUFFERED.

It is an odd position, but this one-sided view of the naval struggle in the Atlantic is all but inevit- able. So much of what we would like to say about our own strokes of good fortune and of the good work done by our men out there would be helpful to the enemy, if he could but get hold of the informa- tion.

The battle of the Atlantic is Hitler's desperate effort to enforce his total blockade of Britain. Heavily defeated in his lightning stroke with the U-boat attack on our seaborne trade at the outset of the war, he had to abandon the campaign for several months while the utterly unexpected losses in his submarine Botillas were made good.

The Menace From The Air

Attempts during last winter to make mines an alternative and

aented by a weekly average of einkings of 88,000 tons.

The table, however, throws an interesting light on the ebb and! flow of the battle of the Atlantic. It will be seen that in every

month there is une outstanding! | week and at least une (occasion- ally two) when the total falls to about half the general average.

TWO ENEMY BOMBERS SHOT DOWN

Single German air- croft dropped bombs in East Anglia and at a few places in south and south-east Eng- land during daylight yesterday, according an Air Ministry communique.

to

These generally did little harm but at two places some damage and casualties caused. a

This fluctuation was also characteristic of the 1917 attacks, and the meaning of it, as we dis-; covered then, is that only a pro- portion of the U-boat captains are equally effective element in the really competent, and that the blockade were also defeated by periods when these few men are us, and he quickly realised how back in harbour, resting and re-. hollow were Goering's

fitting, are comparatively quies- pre-war

cent. boasts that the Luftwaffe would speedily stup all traffic to British ports.

Neither on the sea nor in the ports has the German Air Force seriously affected the naval side

of the war.

1 In 10 Dangerous

The official German history of the last U-boat campaign listed twenty "aces" and some twenty- five "next best" among the coni- manding officers, Allowing for Accordingly. last May, when men killed on service and replaced new U-boats began to come into by promoted flest officers, there service, Hitler røverted 10 the were about 450 captains engaged Tirpitz methods of unrestricted throughout the war. One in ten of subnime war. He had the luck, them was really dangerous to our which the Kauser's Navy never shipping. had, to seize naval bases much nearer to the Atlantic traffle lanes. He broke out of the "Wet Trian- gie" of the Heligoland Bight. Even since then the weekly totals tonnage sunk have been serious, They have fluctuated for reasons to be discussed later, but the aver- age of the six months

is a big figure.

of

Those who only see the indivi- dual weekly returns may not have realised just the size of the inroads made on the world's sea- carrying capacity, so it may be well to give a tabulation, correct- ed by Admiralty figures, of the losses for six months.

Weekly Losses

British

S

tons

U

Q

June

2

85,614

June 1 to December 1, 1940 Week

Total World ending

tons 110,195

9

45,905

16

53,115

23

91,370

30

P

U

30,377

82,908 115,199 174,775 51,339

July 7

75,833

114,137

14

40,469

72,049

E

21

37,577

58,308

28

65,601

72,691

R

A

Aug. 4

73,185

88,251

11

32,257

46,639

18

41,175

55,388

25

108,404

117,814

L

A

TAYLORS London Dry GIN

L

Sept.

1

62,921

94,898

8

44,975

77,289

15

55,153

75,107

22

145,036

172,467

29

56,096

72,506

T

I

Oct. 6

30,886

40,315

13

52,688

20

154,279

83,583 205,781

27

9,986

18,443

I

T

Νον. 3

65,000

71,012

10

69,110

87,983

17

57,977,

74,676

V

24

80,420

92,841

Dec. 1

41,300

52,229

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ac-

were

British fighters de- stroyed two enemy bombers. Reuter-

Italians

Under No

Illusion

WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN INDICATION OF ITALIAN And, as further evidence of their

REALISATION OF THE DIF- skill, it may be pointed out that

FICULTIES AHEAD OF THEM only three of the twenty "aces" IN EAST AFRICA IS CONTAIN. were eliminated-one by an

ED IN A TELEGRAM FROM vident at sea, one by the destruc-

THE DUKE OF AOSTA, tion of his boat, and one by cap-

VICEROY OF ABYSSINIA, TO ture. The "dog-fox" in submar-

THE DUCE THANKING HIM warfare

FOR well deserved ine

AS PROMOTION

GEN- the nickname given to him by

ERAL OF THE AIR FORCE AND our hunting flotillas.

QUOTED BY ROME RADIO YESTERDAY.

sub-

The solution of the problem,

The Duce says, inter alia: "We now as then, is multiplication of will last somehow at any cost," the number of hunting craft. It adding that the Italian people are is true that modern detector ap-ready for any sacrifice for the paratus has to some extent eased achievement of victory. the work of locating the

The announcer, commenting, merged vessel, but against that the said: "The Duke attains this rank area in which the Germans can

on the battlefield for at this mo- work is far more extensive now,

ment he is leading his men in owing to the fact that they can

one of the hardest battles ever start their operations from

fought by the occupied ports on the

against a well Bay Biscay, and so save the 3,000 mile prepared enemy." trek round the North of Scotland from the German bases.

the of

A Comforting Estimate

It is not yet permissible to dis- close the scene of all their attacks, but indications of some localities have been given, since the in- formation

already known publicly in neutral countries. And

was

Italian army armed and well Reuter

CANADA'S NEW WAR BUDGET

MR. J. L. ILSLEY, CANADA'S

THE WAR

it is evident that our hunting has FINANCE MINISTER, WILL ASK to be done over a much

FOR wider FOR $1,300,000,000

PROSECUTION OF THE fleld than in 1917.

DURING 1941/1942,

Have we had any success?

THE FISCAL YEAR COMPARED WITH $700,000,000 THE PRECEDING

Only two Admiralty bulletins YEAR. have referred to this elde of the

This sum,

plus $443,000,000

battle in the past six months. which Mr. Ilsley estimated to be From them we know of ning necessary to cover all require- German submarines sunk in the ments except in the air, brings the Atlantic; of some Italians we total expenditure for 1941/1942 to have inklings in the issue of $1,743,000,000.-Reuter. names of prisoners of war. But that is nothing like the whole of the story.

FEATS OF SOUTH AFRICAN AIRMEN

!

The average monthly destruc- tion of enemy craft was between five and six in 1917-1918. In the autumn of last year it was higher THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR than that, for Mr. Churchill ad- FORCE, OPERATING IN EAST mitted that the rate of sinking was AFRICA, HAS RECEIVED THE between two and four a week. If FOLLOWING TELEGRAM OF we have doubled our 1917.rate in CONGRATULATIONS FROM these past months we have, as I AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR AR- calculate it. removed seven-tentha THUR LONGMORE COMMAN of the additional U-boats that| DER-IN-CHIEF OF THE RAF. Hiller threw into the battle be- MIDDLE EAST, The Prime Minister's word tween May and August. ・

"Best congratulations to the for the losses in his speech to If we keep up that rate of South African Air Force on its the Commons was "disquieting,” destruction,: wa Zare equal to his splendid, contribution to success undjing' one-will attempt to probable rate of replacement. Thạt in the offensive now taking place. minimise the drain on the is a comforting thought-even I`am following their activities world's shipping that is repra. though it is entirely unofficial, with great interest."--Router.

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