THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
ARK ROYAL AGAIN
Only Hit By Three Torpedoes On This Occasion
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
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
"If the Nazis won, the bombers. hope of civilisation Africa would be at an end and its peoples would be thrown back into slavery: under German task-
masters."
in 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 100 A.A. guns that they lost seven aircraft for cer- tain and five more badly damaged.
This declaration was made a brondenst yesterday by tr Moyne, Secretary for the Colon- ies, speaking in the celebration of the Afteth anniversary of the Nyasaland Protectorate
ed in
Four actual attacks materialis- ta accompany their bombers a day of perpetual threal, to accompany their bombers with two by torpedo-bombers and two many squadrons of fast, well.
armed land fighters, by high-flying bombers.
Lord Moyne said that men from | all parts of Africa had been light- ! ing like hons in The Empire's arm-: We were s'eaming between jes which had destroyed Italian Ca Har) naval base and Sicily, rule in East Africa.
UND that the Italians were
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SHIRTS
WITH
Relentless Attacks
Every minute of the day the ship's fighters were constantly alert, for everywhere in the While the ships' guns belchet Tow-hanging clouds were enemy shells in an almost daylong bar-! bomber formations.
rage, spattering the clouds with dancing fre and innumerable black puffs of smoke, fighters flashed, twirled and dived among the clouds in a furious and PR- lentless attack 311 the enemy bombers.
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Many times in the far hori- zon around the ships could be seen spouting columns of water as bombers jettisoned their projectiles and fled tcom the blazing guns of Britisk Aglitera, despite the aruies of fighters protecting them.
Against such overwhelmin acid, time and again our fighters) smashed up a formation of bein- bers lurking in the clouds await- ing a favourable moment to swoop down and bomb the ships.
Notable Feat
The day's most notable feat came at dusk, when the last attack was made by torpedo- bombers, while at the same time a force of 30 Stukas, protected by six fighters, were cruising in the clouds with the obvious in- tention of making a simultant jus assault.
Suddenly six British fighters dived among them, machine. guns spitting venomously,
One Stuka dived into the seu In Blumes and two figh.ers stag- gered off into cloud shelter with sinoke pouring from them.
Bullets rained un the gallant little group of British fighters from all sides but they main- tained their attack until the enemy qualled.
HOPELESSLY THE SCAT. TERED STUKAS DROPPED THEIR BOMBS INTO THE SEA AND FLED, LEAVING OUR FIGHTERS HARD HIT BUT VICTORIOUS.—REUTER.
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GUN BATTLE SEQUEL
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Serious repercussions loom over Tuesday's gun-
OUMANSKY GETS A SURPRISE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
fight between Shanghai M. Oumansky, Soviet Settlement police and Ambassador in Washing- armed Wang Ching-wei ton, expressed keen dis-
after appointment guards in which a Wang
hour's interview with man was killed and a
his
Chinese and foreign Secretary of State Cordell S.M.P. officer wounded. Hull yesterday over the The S.M.P. and the Wang poli-American refusal to ex- tical police accuse each other of port machine-tools to
tarting the battle, and both sides
say
they will demand apologies. Russia.
The S.M.P. report shows that The Ambassador intimated that the bodyguard of Mrs. Wu Sze failure to meet what the Russians pau, wife of the Wang police consider comparatively small de- chiet In Shanghai, refused to mands will jeopardise the trade surrender a Mauser for inspec agreement. tion when the car, with Mrs.. The meeting covered entre Wu Inside, was stopped by an trade relations, past, present and S.M.P. search party.
future. -International News Ser- instead the bodyguard opened¦ vice. fire, wounding a foreign officer. according to the S.M.P
"action" against newspapers The Wang police claim the re- publishing it. port is "misleading" and demand News Service.
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