1941-03-03 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1941.

HITLER'S U-BOAT THREATS

Highly Exaggerated Figures Of Nazi Strength

TRAINING WITH A

RAY GUN

A harmless ray gun which, military officials' said, "shoots" with the ac- curacy and range of a medium machine-gun, being used by the Canad- in armoured corps

ian

training.

is

By means of a light bulb. mag-| lying glass, arki

いいポ “fred" in exactly the same Any an an ordinary machine-gun

HITLER'S GREETING

TO KING BORIS

sent

Hitler yesterday a telegram to King Boris saying:

"'1 beg Your Majesty to accept my most cor- dial wishes for your well-being and for the

happy future of Bul.

in

garia in this hour lenger, the ray

which Bulgaria has reaffirmed attach- ment to Germany, Ita- ly and Japan."-- Reut-

It is equipped with a telescopie

sight similar to that used on ma

Jine-guns,

cause

ter.

When used in mock battley, the gun will

"casualties" by catching men In the flickering Those "shot" by the gun light will have no doubt that they are mit, officials said, because even at tanges, up to 1,500 yards in bright Armoured Corps Training Centre.

For gunnery practice when no sunlight, the ray is nearly blinding in intensity at its centre A few real target is available the gun is an unpredictable feel on either side, within what equipped with

moving target in the bull's eye of;

Analysis By FREE FRENCH

Naval Correspondent

HITLER'S NEW WAR ON BRITAIN'S SEA- BORNE COMMERCE MAY BE EXPECTED TO BE LAUNCHED WITH BETWEEN 100 AND 120 U-BOATS ACTUALLY AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE, BUT THE ATTACK CAN BE MAIN- TAINED BY ONLY ONE-THIRD OF THAT NUM- BER, SAYS THE "SUNDAY TIMES" NAVAL CORRESPONDENT.

Some highly exaggerated figures about the output of new boats from German yards have been put into circulation, he says, prob- ably from Berlin, as a move in the war of

nerves.

A total ranging from 600 to 1,000 craft would be the "beaten", zone" of as a photoelectric cell which has been mentioned. It may be well to say

machine-gun,

reddish-yellow

records the number of shots hit- light is plainly visible

The gun was conceived by Car!ted the bull's eye. F. F Worthington, Commandant! The gun also is equipped with at the First Canadian Armoured an automatie shutter, nke that onl Brigade, and test model was

allows "bullet, a camera, which

the barrel at ted last May It has since been rays" to flash from

real bullets are perfected by May. F. A Landhi temu,; the same rate as gunnery flieve of the Canadian cected from a machine-gun,

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definitely and unequivocably that figures are fantastic. They are multiplica tions by five or ten-fold of the possible output of German shipbuilding yards in 12 months spurt.

Submarines cannot be mass pro- duced, he writes. There is much work demanding skilled and pa tent handwork.

Furthermore

skilled

the

of

the

not a mere of

SENTENCES IN BEIRUT

Twenty French officials and officers in Syria have been sentenced to impri- sonment

varying from five months to five years after a trial at Beirut on charges of "conspiracy" against the mandatory

says government, |Free French news agency.

the

All the accused were arrested last autumn, when measures de- signed to repress the Free French movement were taken.

wa9

General de Larminat. now

for Free High Commissioner French Africa, was among those whose arrest

ordered at the time.

Com- While the former High missioner in Syria, Gabriel Puaux, the still held office last autumn, Germans arrested his son in France and held him as hostage.

It was made clear to M. Puaux that the treatment of his son de- pended on how he repressed the

Reuter,

The

which

French movement in Syria,

LITTLE MEN IN WAR EFFORT

Navy Auxiliary Patrol. is manned by

volunteer

a valuable and important part in the war effort.

It is probable that some 14.000 hands

are undergoing intensive training, and to give even a quar- tet uf that number

experienes for a week, some

20 under way supply

and beats must be detached from the yachtsmen and others, is one of hands is, limited there is no evidence that

giling feet

The lesser known Services playing Nazis have recruited extra hands from the overrun countries. Finally, there is the problem of

The number space.

of building slips on which Germany can lay down a vessel 200 and 300 feet in length. is accurately known, and even though yards ja occupier countries are used, there are still not enough to take anything like 600 new keels in the past year.

Generous Calculation

At a generous calculation there might have been a programme of 150 new boats in hand in recent months.

But between a blueprint and a ship at sea there is a big gulf, as the German navy found in the last war, when it was able to complete about only half the boats for which contracts were optimistically placed.

We may thitik, says the corres- pondent, and expect that Hitler's) new war on seaborne commerce will be launched with between 100 and 120 boats actually avail- able for service.

At first glance that number ap- peurs formidable but the number available is not necessarily the number active in the front line.

Many Deductions

There are many deductions to be made. For example, the sub- marine school at Kiel needs se- veral boats for training new crews.

A

VICHY OF ON A NEW TANGENT

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL!']

new law to enable inore effective control of Frenchmen living abroad, had just been pro- mulgated in Vichy.

French officials living abroad will henceforth be empowered to control · the political and private affoirs of all Frenchmen residing outside France. International News Service:

TWO MARRIAGES

TO-DAY

Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages, the follow- Ing marriages took place to-day:

Mr. Cheung Yan-gin; Physical Director, to Miss L Wai. Chun,,

Mr. Du Long,. Merchant, to Miss Wong, Yuck Wal

That

figure is

is the actual total guess, it

attached training boats

to the school at the height of the 1917 campaign.

Engaged on protecting rivers, their work requires constant vigil- once, long hours, frequent dis- comfort and often danger.

The whole number of craft

The Lord Privy Seal, Mr. C. R. available carhut be maintained at Attlee, visited vessels of the Patrol sea at the same time, and practi- |---which include first-aid rafts cal experience shows that about manned by women and men one-third of available craft can be recently and congratulated all in active service in any one week, concerned on the keenness and one-third resting and one-third efficiency shown in the continuous undergoing extensive repairs. and substantial record of service by all ranks. — British Wireless. Reuter.

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DANCING FEET-WAR 81 YLE-MIss Tyġa Bradshaw, London dancer, now helps in the land in, Gloucestershire. When work, is finished, she charges into her stage' clothes and entertains members of the Bervices or evacuees. Photo showa Tyap, at the end of a day's work on the farm, preparing for a- "show." (Copyright,. Pox).