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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1941.

ATLANTIC HOT SPOT AWAITS

PATROL

SEA

AFTER CAREFUL STUDY of President Roose- velt's plan for a far-flung air and sea patrol wherever necessary, the British view suggests that United States fighting ships and 'planes soon will be operating in the North Atlantic spot where thero is the highest mortality among merchant ships from submarines and raiders.

This area is identified as occupying a large circle roughly blocked in by a square formed by 16 to 30 degrees longitude and 45 to 60 degrees latitude. It begins just outside the line roughly 400 miles westward from the Irish Coast and touches most of the usual sea lanes between the United States, Canada and the British Isles.

It is this area which is just far to enough removed from the United Kingdom to make bombing patrols theult and ineffective, and it is there that German subinaries have been taking their heaviest toll.

'The President's determination To use the fleet plus the air arm,

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these waters be- adjacent to the route which the 150 in getting

men and materials to Greenland.

Alarms Feasible Against Raiders

hailed Although

by Winston Churchill the other night as pro- viding much-needed help, it is still found difficult in London to grasp the full working details of the plans unless it is proposed that Americans. will

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reduce the volume of wool brought from the colonies and the Egypt is being per- Dons. suaded to reduce its cotton crop.

With all such items cut to the bone and shipping space now taken by

them given over to materials of war, a curtailment of the war effort is foreseen within only twelve months or Icss.

German sinkings are running at about 5,000,000 tons annually. The government's ship loss figures were 550,000 tons, for March covering five weeks.

Offseiling losses to some degree is the British building schedule for this year, which is expected to produce 1,500,000 tons to which 1,000,000 tons from the United States will be added. Although I American plans talked 11t 201 London suggest that the United States will be providing 3,000,000 new tonnage

1942 there is

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some skepticism.

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Losses thus run far too much alarms when they see raiders or higher than current or potential submarines, while the British replacements, and while these are send out bombers to make ar

very important the prime neces- attacks. In the case of the sub- sity is to cut down sinkings. marine, such a plan offers obvious is hoped that the American patrol obstacles. Once spotted. surface will help in that direction, bul raiders would have, on the other the only effective help will mean hand, small chance of escaping a direct American interference in bombing patrol.

German war activities, with what- Naturally, the hope is held that ever consequences may follow. this plan will reduce ship losses, but there is no optimism among shipping authorities. Figures un- officially compiled, but taking in

suggest all considerations,

that unless more ships are produced and fewer lust Britain will reach a critical stage in the haltle of the Atlantic in the Spring months of 1942, at which point a curtailment

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In counting

all factors, it is said that "the effective tonnage" of British shipping available for the North Atlantic service to-day

BRITISH CREDIT TO CHINA

A new Sino-British ex-

is about 5,000.000. Actually there port credit agreement for is a total of 15,000,000 tons in ser- £5,000,000 will shortly be vice. But materials such as time signed in London, it is

LONDON UNDISTURBED BY UNIFORM

Unchallenged,

a man wearing a Ger- many Army officer's uniform and trappings strolled London streets for hours, look- ed over busy Scotland Yard and peered through Buckingham Palace's fences.

His was merely an- other uniform to Lon- doners accustomed to the varied garb of British, Dominion, Colonial, Dutch, Czech, Norwegian, Free French, and other Allied forces. The 'German officer"

Mr. Donald Collins, film actor employed by the "Daily Sketch" to point up its editorial cam- paign urging closer surveillance of aliens. ..--Associated Press.

Was

CHINA'S STABILISATION COMMITTEE

The Committee of the Chinese Currency Stabilisation Fund, which comprises three Chinese members, a Briton and an Amer... ican, will shortly be established with headquarters in Chungking. according to the "China Times." regarded as which is generally being close to Chinese linancial circles.

The Chinese

members of the

committee are Mr. Chen Kwang- ber, Iron ore and other warstuffs, which in the World War it was learned from well-inform-lu, Chairman of the Foreign Trade Commission, Mr. Pel Sung-sun, possible to bring on from the ed circles.

of the Bank of China und Mr. Scandinavian countries is now

Hsi Teh-mou, of the Central Bank brought from Canada, so it takes two or three times longer and the effective tornuge is reduced by

that factor,

Reuter,

Mr.

Negotiations which have been of China. carried on for some time between

The British member is the Chinese Government repre- The same thing is true of sented by Mr. P. W. Kuo, Vice-Cyril Rogers and the American. foodstuffs. formerly brought Minister of Finance, and the Bri- Mr. Fox. from Holland, Denmark and tish Government have been con- near-by countries, but which cluded satisfactorily. now come from Australia and New Zealand.

The new

credit is good not In addition, there are the in-only for purchases of materials creased lines of the empire, Sup-| in the Sterling area but niso for

THE LUCES

plies go around the southern UP covering the cost of services con- LEAVING

China.

for national purposes

of Africa instead of through the nected with the purchases, to- Mediterranean to the Near East gether with other services neces- and North Africa and thus there sary Is an additional loss of effective tonnage. More than that, losses in time due to the slowness of convoys have figured in reducing the effective tonnage by from 20 to 30 per cent, while harbour delays due to unloading and turn ing around figure in the lowering

will be They are n.aking arrangements of total effectiveness by 23 per agreement, a committee

formed. It will consist of three with the British authorities cent. It is said that in this way Chinese and three British mem aeroplane passage Iron Fugapore 15,000,000 tons of ships are really bers whose appointment will be to Manila. If this fails to materia- equivalent to 5,000,000.

agreed by the two governments lise they will fly from Chungking concerned. Central News. to Hong Kong and take the Clip-

per to Manila.-Reuter.

MR. HENRY LUCE, PUB- in LISHER OF "LIFE" AND |"TIME," AND MRS. LUCE, WILL PROBABLY LEAVE CHUNG- The terms and conditions of, KING TO-MORROW

OR the agreement are said to be THURSDAY FOR THE UNITED more favourable than those of the STATES VIA RANGOON AND

SINGAPORE. previous credit.

Food Shortage Possibility

Between four and five million tons are needed to keep the island fed and the war industries turn- ing at top speed. Already the lack

For the purpose of

the new

UGANDA FIGHTER

SQUADRON

of shipping is reducing food sup- Uganda has now raised a total plies. Cattle, important for the of £100,000 for the purchase of milk and beef supplies grown at "fightor aircraft and the squadron home, 010 being systematically will be named after the Protec- slaughtered because it is impos- torate.

WOUNDED MAN IN

for

HOSPITAL. Suffering from a bullet wound

in the left hip, Kan Kwan, 32, junk foki, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday after-

sible to bring in the necessary The anal figure was reached noon, feedstuffs to keep them. ·

with gifts of £5,700 from the He alleged that was shot By Clothing rations are hold not local committee and £10,000 a Japanese soldier two days ago impossible in the future in order from Uganda.-British Wireless, Incar Hau Hoi, in Chinese waters.