THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
On This Occasion
ARK ROYAL AGAIN Only Hit By Three Torpedoes
Carrier Steams On Blissfully Unaware Of It!
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the Mediterranean
Fleet, on board H.M.S. Ark Royal)
WE HAVE JUST BEEN LISTENING ON THE RADIO TO FANTASTIC ITALIAN CLAIMS OF SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT BROUGHT DOWN DUR- ING LAST WEEK'S AIR ATTACK ON BRITISH WARSHIPS ESCORT- ING A CONVOY IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN.
THE NAZI PERIL
"If the Nazis won, the hope of civilisation in Africa would be at an end and its peoples would be thrown back into slavery
under
masters."
German task-
We were steaming merrily along quite unaware we had been struck by three torpe- does, and the glowing account of the damage inflicted on our ships gave us a good laugh after the grim night-hour battle between British fighters, ships, guns and Axis
bombers.
EARLIER HESS
FRANCE'S
LETTER TO DUKE QUISLING
OF HAMILTON
(Continued from Page 1) amongst the people there over the bombing by the R.A.F. and of the suffering of the civilian popu- lation.
to
He also said that be had message of great importance deliver to the Duke of Hamilton. - Reuter.
Nazi Version
The newly authorised German version of Hess's intentions affords further circumstantial evidence that the escape was carefully pre- meditated.
A
CABLE FROM GENERAL DE GAULLE WAS READ AT A LARGE MEETING OF FREE FRENCH IN SYDNEY YESTER. DAY URGING A REDOUBLING OF THE ATTACKS ON VICHY AND DECLARING THAT DAR. LAN WAS FRANCE'S QUISLING AND
THE AGENT OF GER. MANY.
M. Brenac, Sydney Free French tender, said Free French in Aus- tra'ia were with the French people in the struggle agamst Germany,
There were emotional scenes at the meeting and cries of "Vive l France" and "Vive Australia."-- Reuter.
It is to be remembered that Hess was leaving Germany under report characterises such an idea very extraordinary circumstances as absurd.
As a prisoner of war he would ity. By so doing he was clearly have known such liberty would
be out of the question.
and admittedly contrary to author- runniga grave personal peril
course! letters
It would therefore have been a perfectly understandable for him to leave behind which would have put an innocent construction upon his action,
Absurd
Indeed, if any such idea had been entertained, it would indi- cate a certain lack of mental balance entirely contrary to the now ertabi|shed fact that Hess Is sane.
Meanwhile, Herr Hess remains
The simple truth is that the Italian bombers. escorted by hordes of fighters and assisted by Nazi Stukas and Messerschmidts, with favourable weather, failed to secure even a near miss on any ship but were given such a rough handling by our fighters and a tremendous concentration of nearly rapprochement. Even the German tish Wireless. 100 A.A. guns that they lost seven aircraft for cer- tain and five more badly damaged.
hospital where he has had In the German account i several interviews with a repre- stated that Hess entertained the sentative of the British Foreign idea that he could return again to Offier and reports of these Germany alter a short time when versations have been referred to he had fulfilled his mission th the appropriate authorities.-Bri-
Four actual attacks materiale p
This declaration was made in a broadenst
yesterday by Lord
accompany ther bombers Moyne, Secretary for the Colon- two by torpedo-bombers and two in any squadrons of
ed in a day of perpetual threat. to accompany their bumbers with
fast. well- ies, speaking in the celebrations off by high-flying bombers.
at med land fighters.
the Aftieth anniversary of the Nyasaland Protectorate.
Every minute of the day the ship's fighters were constantly alert, for everywhere in the
Relentless Attacks
While the ships' guns belched
low hanging clouds were enemy shells in an almost daylong bar- bomber formations.
Lord Moyne said that men from all parts of Africa had been fight- Ing like lions in the Empire's arm-! We were s'eaming between ies which had destroyed Italian Cachar naval base and rule in East Africa, Reuter.
so that the Italians were
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Fage, spattering the clouds with deing fire 11/ black puffs of
innumerable smoke. fighters flashed, twirled and dived among the clouds in a furious and re- lentless attack 011 the enemy bombers.
Many times in the far hori. zon around the ships could be Feen spouting columns of water äs bombers jettisaned their projectiles and fled from the blazing guns of British falters. despite the scores of fighters protecting them.
Against such overwhelming odds time and again our fighters ashed up a formation of bom- hers lurking in the clouds await- ing a favourable moment to swoop town and bomb the ships.
Notable Feat
feat
The day's most notable came at dusk, when the last attack was made by torpedo- bombers, while at the same time રા force of 30 Stukas, protected by six fighters, were cruising In the clouds with the obvious in- tention of making a simultaneous assault.
Suddenly six British fightors dived among them, machine- guns spitting venomously. One Stuka dived into the sea in flames and two fighters stag- gered off into cloud shelter with smoke pouring from them.
Bullets rained on the gallant little group of Brit'sh fighters from all sides but they tained their attack enemy quailed.
HOPELESSLY
main-
until
the
THE
SCAT- TERED STUKAS DROPPED THEIR BOMBS INTO THE SEA AND FLED, LEAVING OUR FIGHTERS HARD HIT BUT VICTORIOUS. REUTER.
FIRM TONE ON STOCK MARKET
A generally flrm undertone was maintained on the London
STOP PRESS
Stock Exchange yesterday, with the prefix s'special!" to telegrams. In Kaffers, coppers and-olls encourag-used by the “Sunday, Herald"" and ed by detalls of wasting assets "China Mail to indicate news which allowances announced in the is strictly copyright, under the provi Finance Bill, Industrials-:- were sions of the Telecommunications On steady to firm, with useful gains dinance, 1936, and may not be reprint. by breweries and Unilever, while under any circumstances, either Dunlops partially recovered, after wholly or in part, without prior ar losing 1/ on, a 10 per cent dis- rangement, tribution against 12 per cent last year. Japanese bonds were higher among foreign issues which, gen- erally were firm Wall Street mm was launReuter
con-
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