1941-05-05 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

A DOUBLE DOSE

The ingenius idea of the late Mr. Willett for getting the utmost enjoy- ment out of our summer days has been seized upon by the war for purposeS which he, happily, never contemplated. The Gov- ernment, having kept "summer time" running] throughout the winter. recently decided to add' another hour to it during the mouths from May to August and it come ta effect yesterday.

Nobody will imagine in these days that the extra hour is for delectation. Its purpose is to increase the working hours for munition making, and for work in the docks and on the railways. - For this and for more selfish rea - į sons most people welcome! it.

But on the farms it has appeared as a consider- able grievance, as creat ing special difficulties on dairy farms. The cows must be milked at regular intervals. To maintain the hours which custom and the sun have established would put the work of the dairy and the distribution of milk seri- ously out of step with the

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TOBRUK

Help

frostn

In a 400-miles journey Portland, Mame, down America's Atlantic seaboard. I have seen at

first hand what the passage of the Lease-and-Lend Bit by Congress

making merchant

means to Britain.

They

are

to

THORN IN THE SIDE

For Britain

By

Walter Farr

of

life of consumers. Under ships, patrol bombers for use the new summer time, it against the U-boats, bombers has been pointed out, the cowman would have to begin his work at three in the morning. Those who! have charge of children, to give you an idea of the gigans too, will find the problems te sperd-up now going on: of bedtime enormously Speeding The Ships

attack the U-boat bases, torpedoes charge that once they begin roll- for the British Navy, depth ing out of the basins they will be charges, and even huge quantities completed at the rate of one every of foodstuffs for Britain (mainly fortnight. Each ship will be such things as powdered milk).

10,000 tons dead weight. the following notes in i the places I visited along the coast

increased.

I made

more workmen are being rushed

The Government has! Portland (Maine). Hundreds recognised these griev- here to hurry forward the build- ances, which were urged 18 of a series of basins in which a mass of new cargo ships for the with almost dramatic British Merchant Service will be

men

are to

to sea,

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Philadelphia.---During the hour

I spent here between trains I was invited to attend a conference of leading American machine-tool manufacturers,

Machine tools are the very foundation of war industry.

The conference discussion showed that machine tools in America will in future be used almost solely for the manufacture of war material, not for making new designs for American motor-cars or other such luxuries, and that a large

American quantity of

machine. tools are being sent to Britain.

on this

Secret Bomb-Sight

A Heartening Sight Brooklyn (New York).-Coming here from Portland } pussed Baltimore. -Here is the most through hundreds of small towns heurtening sight of the whole trip. and villages each one of which is In the vast Glenn Martin bomber doing some kind of job to help the factory they told me that the new Aid to Britain programme.

orders which Britain has been able One of the must vital sections to place now that she doesn't have. of the Lease-and-Lend Bill from to worry about the dollar sign will our point of view is that it gives ensure us getting a new batch of Mr. Roosevelt the power to send many hundreds of fast medium force: but it weighed the The first order

constructed.

Britain many more of America's bombers of the type specially suit-. | was for 60 of secret weapons, such as the Nor-ed to the job of lashing, the, in-. advantages and disadvan- these ships. Now the number is den bomb-sight,

vasion ports and breaking up the I was shown over the home of barge concentrations. (A large tages against one another expected to be doubled or trebled.

To get increased speed in the that famous American bomb-sight| number of these have already and it found that the building of British Government here in Brooklyn, the factory of been delivered to Britain.) former preponder struct the

shipping, experts decided to con- the Sperry Company-one of the The head of the Martin factory vessels in busing in- most closely guarded buildings in showed me acres and acres of ate heavily. The COW- stead of 011 ordinary sloping America, As the result of new workshops doing scarcely anything more else but build these bombers for adjust stocks. Instead of launching them British orders thousands

in the ordinary way, they will be workmen are being taken on to the R.A.F. These constitute one their hours by starting launched by water bring let into double the manufacture of such of our greatest needs at the pre- later. But there is the basins and floating them out things as bomb-sights and for sent time. Included in our new gadgets ensuring accurate anti-orders here will also be a mass of immense value in the It is a secret when these ships aircraft fire by day and by night. newly designed Martin long-range extra hour to transport will be ready for service, but The Sperry people have many bombers for use in attacking Ger-

was told by one of the men in other secrets beside the bomb-man U-boats in the Atlantic. and industry. It will

sight. One is # new kind of The last, and probably the most enable many factories to lish native has been cele- guiding-ray which helps aircraft significant, thing I saw

to land in bad flying conditions, trip down America's coastline was work two shifts in day- brated for centuries and and which may be used to help the huge Bethlehem shipbuilding. light.

The effect of the it has even been claimed the R.A.F. to carry on attacking yards at Baltimore. Mr. Frank.

Germany in the worst kind of Hodge, who is in charge of change upon the black- that it was one of the weather.

yards, took me along the shore of out will be remarkable in things which brought the A few miles away, in another the Patapsco River and pointed huge Brooklyn factory, I saw hun- proudly to nine different slipways, Romans to Britain; at dreds of torpedoes being made for each with a merchant ship on it any rate, they devour- the British Navy-torpedoes which nearing completion.

can be taken aboard British war- "We are not wasting a minute," OYSTERS ed it in great num-ships, when they come for re- said Mr. Hodge. "There is no red: bers, as is proved by the pairs to Brooklyn Navy Yard. tape now. I get people ringing Not far from Brooklyn are Port me up and ordering a batch of Are there any grounds oyster shells on the sites Washington and the LaGuardia new ships by telephone, instead of at all, except those of of their villas.

Field, now two vital airports for arranging conferences about it. Britain. Special arrangements local patriotism, for the

"We delivered one ship last Perhaps he is thinking are being made there to provide Saturday. We are launching a new obiter dictum of Mr. of mere size, and it may depots and extra facilities for one this Saturday. A few hours Menzies to Fleet Street be admitted that, South-coping with the hundreds of the afterwards we lay down another new type Flying Fortresses new one. What is happening here journalists, "The British ern seas produce some and patrol bombers-the first is happening everywhere through- oyster is incomparably in- whoppers; there

batches of which are arriving from out the country. It's the last war California--which use these air-all over again.”. ferior to the Australian oysters dredged up near norts as the last ports of call be- The ships Mr. Hodge is 'building. oyster?" If that state- Ceylon which

are not destined directly for the fore heading for England.. measure The ferrying of these bombers British merchant fleet, but every ment is correct the Aus-eleven inches across. But across the Atlantic is being enor one that rolls off the stocks means tralian oyster must be then again, especially as mously spended-up by the use of releasing an old American ship for very good indeed and he was speaking in front series of transport planes for use in carrying supplies to Bri- worthy of far more gen of journalists, he may Britain instead of bringing them Across Chesapeake Bay they're over by boat. "The number of building more shipyards. It's the eral fame than it has have been thinking of terry pilots has been doubled and same wherever you go in America. yet secured for itself. For another kind of oyster the excellence of the Eng- altogether.

midsummer.

/ are

rushing ferry pilots here from tain......

the

trobled, showing that Britain canThe avalanche of American in-

now expect many more big bomb- dustrial ald. to Britain:1s begin- ers from America,

ning to roll.

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