1941-03-13 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1941.

CLUB'S

LIBYA POUNDING JOCKEY AS SEEN FROM A BATTLESHIP

(The Navy's part in the opening of the attack on Bardia is described by a Special Correspondent who was in one of the British battleships which sheiled the Italians).

FIRE FROM SEA, LAND AND AIR RAINED AROUND BARDIA ON FRIDAY MORNING IN THE OPENING PHASES OF THE GREAT NEW LIBYAN THRUST.

From the flagship leading the other battleships, as well as cruisers and destroyers, I watched the 'onslaught from before dawn until a false dusk of battle smoke and sand shrouded the beleaguered Fascist legions from our sight.

Attack Renewed

We knew that this im- airbomb because of the spread of

heavy splinter. posing array of British, sea power was destined to play its part by bombard- ing the area marked by the triangle of the coast, the Italian lines, and the road from Bardia, which

We prepared to deliver

Our bu narsachers Dom starboard as we began a min patullest with The coast again but, this time head. ing south into the Gulf of Sollum

The elett Fat 18

GIFTS

The Stewards of The Hong Kong Jockey Club have allocated further amounts to War Funds and War Charities as fol- lows:-

South China Morning

Post Bomber Fund British Fund for Relief

of Distress in China British War Organisation

Fund

$83,802.03

83,802,03

30,000.00 St. Dunstan's. £1,000 18,000.00 British Fund for Prison-

ers of War in Germany

5,000.00

$218,604.06 The first two items represent the nett proceeds of the Special Sweep on the Rooty Hill Derby.

These contributions. will bring the total distributed by the Joc-| key Club to War Funds and War Charities to $527,000 or approxim ately 32.800.

land which I The Stewards. a so amoune was the Wach was agam visible, that the Nett Proveeds of the next Here were the armoured vehicles | big Sweep, "The Lantão Handi- strikes inland towards which Bught ber expected to sup to be to on 2nd June, 1941. Tobruk.

entanter-affack it felt unmolested. will be devoted to British Wai Though we knew

Funds and the Brush

In the Fight hamt ceter

We

had

gurt

Fund for

hote on them already, we jround. Rehef of Distress in China.

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Tha Fea was our particular ob jective Wad Rahab, A deeply rewed gully, where a great deal! of Italian olen transport WHEN concentrated

Hardly a ripple ruffled the sea,! Suddenly, ahead, whole clusters ot golden stars sparkled and dis- appeared over the now discernible Jane. 4V looked at our watcher. It wa 5 30. zero hotfr

the Australians

Those winking shells told us they were keeping then rendezvous with Mussoni.

Navy's Turn

When our turn Cafe

of destroyers swung northwards. We followed them, but as we did so our 15- guns were kept teamed landwards, ready for their fir 1 broadude to port.

At first we thought that they were going to leave us alone, but

then camp a little yellow spurt ni

them agam

our

We had the range of their main armament which was camouflaged among lorries and other vehicles, and, AS commander expressed It sub- sequently in a broadcast to the ship's company, cach of those groups of tanks got "a decent allowance of 15-in. bricks."

GIVING

ENEMIES

NIGHTMARE

How Hitler is trying to

light with a puff of sake and the create a nightmare state]

bursting shell threw up a smoky

spout of water half a mile from, of mind among his en- US. Our six-inchers barked back.emies is described by

and immediately all the destroyers: Wallace Deuel, Berlin cor-

brought their guns to bear. Co-

Junts of water sprang up from

the base of the cliff.

With their next ranging the light gung hit the cliff face it

respondent of the Chicago who has "Daily News," just returned to the Unit- ed States.

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self, so that it began to smoul- der like a volcano. Their third effort landed fair and square on the headland, and clouds terror used by Hitler in the second i

bogan to gather from the burst- ing shells. The shore

battery went temporarily out of tion.

ac-

Duel writes "The strategy of i

world war is as incredible and Almost unreal as a nightmare, nothing, it would seem, is too fantastic or bizarre to happen." Meanwhile, our consorts with Possibly the most shocking and

• their 15-in, guns were

echoing stupifying thing of all things that Gur own hourse war cry.

The are happening, he states. is that seconds seemed to tick

indecent pictures are being used away

for slowly as the high-pitched ru l-

by the Germans as weapons

ing noise of the shells

the conduct of hostilities. in the ar faded away towards land.

"They are using them." he adds, Then, suddenly, the Wad, seem-

as nart of the most gigantic, most ed to alter shape.

most skilful at- Huge black Systematic, and and grey prowthis, now

tempt the world has ever seen to pointed uke daggers, now clustered

shatter the nervous systems and curve, like the heart of a giant

of whole armies wills to resist caul flower, shot up from the val- lev. The whole constling echoed with the chorus of this new fury as shell after shell screamed houme.

in

and whole peoples."

These pictures, of postcard gize. are beautifully drawn and printed in four colours. At first sight they look innocent enough, but when held to the light Bri- tish goldiers and Frerch women are shown in a degrading scene. The Nazis printed hundreds of Firing was fast as our 'plane thousands of these cards and pro- sputter had reported "OK." Induced a special type of trench the end he signalled nine succes- mortar which shot the cards over sive salvos as having found the the French lines. target of tanks and the other

'Plane Signals Hits

conglomeration

vehicles.

The

other

of

transport Typical Methods

The use of these pictures was battleships were

tactics the Nazis engaging other targets, and typical of the

their to demoralise well were using

enemies by psychological means.

though we were all firing

every

north of the town of Bardia it-These tactics extended to almost self, the whole coast soon be-

field of human life and came obliterated by the

grim thought and emotion. All were dust from our terrific fire,

Five times each of those 15in thought out years in advance and

based on a diabolical knowledge |" guns spoke on that northward of the weaknesses of human ner- run, while the six-inch arma- ves and human character. They ment was also barking away were all employed for the pur- at two coastal batteries.

pose of destroying the eneiny's

a matter of minutes the Battle will to fight before the first shot Fleet had flung practically 150 was ever fired. tons of death into the bealeged "The Germans have set out to Italian camp.

create a nightmare state of mind Then came the good news among their enemies, to cuúse 'from our spotter that he could nothing less than a collective ner- see tanks and lorries burning in vous breakdown on an interna- Wadi. The wrecking effect of tional scale, and to bring about a these huge missiles is much grea- paralysis of will on the part of 1er than that of an equivalent all Western European civilisation."

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