1941-05-27 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1941.

SINKING OF 'HOOD' STIRS AMERICA

THE SINKING of II.M.S. Hood near Greenland, while grimly dramatising the Battle of the Atlantic.

home has driven

the following facts in minds of U.S. naval and diplomatic circles:

the

Firstly, if H.M.S. Hood was being used for con- voying, it is evident that other British capital ships, so badly needed in other theatres of war, must have been similarly employed to minimise the loss of ships and supplies from the United States.

thinly

Therefore, the British Navy. I pread

throughout the Mven sous, needs the assistance of the US Navy

Secondly, the naval engage n PR Gecurred between Green Jane on Iceland athwart the main artery of Britain's Atlantre hfeline and

clese to the American defence zone that Reut- Admital Yates Sterling, ex-4,hief

US Naval Staff, and that it "awakened American concern for the approach of War 111 thi. Hemisuliere "

Consequently.

arises

the question whether the German Navy in patrolling Greenland merely to raid British convoys or to prevent the United States from occupying Greenland effectively as an advanced naval base of operations.

Thirdly, while Germany's other battleships Scharnhust

und Gneisenau have been forced to abandon harassing work and effuctively prevented from re- suming raiding by the R.A F. the need for strengthening the British Navy by the US. Navy is apparent.

The last Gallup poll showed a bare majority favouring U.S. coll- voying. The loss of H.M.S. Hood may profoundly affect American public opinion,

Central News.

LIVE BOMB

UNDER

HIS BED

SIR DELVES BROUGHT

TO TRIAL

THE TRIAL OF SIR DELVES BROUGHTON ON A CHARGE OF MURDERING LORD ERROL. OPENED IN NAIROBI YESTER- DAY BEFORE THE CHIEF JUS- TICE OF KENYA.

Lorel Errol was founici shol dend in a car outside Nairobi on January 24.

had

Towards the end of yesterday's hearing a police witness said he found Fascist literature in Lord Errol's house and dated 1934, showing membership of the British Union of Fascists.

Ladies' Man

ו'

Ca

WENT ON WITH HIS PLOUGHING

A ploughman work- ing in a field near a south-east coast town heard the roar of a bomber and took no notice.

Then he heard 0 bomb coming down. It plunged into the ground only 25ft. away from him. It was a delayed action bomb. The plough- man stepped over and peered down the little crater,

Then he just went on with the plough- ing.

ARTIST

AND WIFE

GAOLED

The "swordstick men-

A police

Lord aces" case ended in pri- witness said Errol was Assistant Military son sentences at the Old Secretary soon after war broke out

Kenneth Leslie but it was not part of his duty Bailey. to deal with orders for the in-Bennett, aged nineteen, Witness agreed Lord Errol was artist, of Mount Pleasant, South Ruislip, Middlesex, was sentenced to twelve its be-months' imprisonment.

ternment of Italians.

a successtul "ladies' man." Counsel asked: "Is there thing in this crime which cludes the possibility of ing the work of two or persons" Witness rephed Counsel: "One of these have been # woman?"

Reuter. replied "Yes.**

PREFER DARK

any- pre-

more

His wife, Constance Margaretta "No." might Bennett, aged nineteen, got nine Witness months.

After sleeping with a SHELTERS

live 25lb. bomb under his

The

Recorder

(Sir Gerald Dodzon) gaid that it was a deli. berate blackmall plot skilfully carried out. But for their youth, the penalty would have been much greater.

"It is one of the sad features of modern lite that young people are much older than their years, and

things which older peopl would never dream of doing." added the Recorder.

The couple were found guilty YOUNG PEOPLE WHO PRE- of demanding £250 with athares

bed since last October, &FER AIR RAID SHELTERS TO from Mr. Harold Shatter of East- inan has been accused of BE DARK HAVE SMASHED este, Muddlesex, receiving it and not re- NEARLY ALL THE ELECTRIC

LIGHTS

porting its situation.

thu ty-year-old IN

住まい

Phulup

Stomard, cabinet-maker, of Glen- Toy Street, Wood-lane, Shepherd' Bush, who pleaded guilty at West

London.

Sands

Detective Inspector caid that up to two weeks ago Stonard had lived at Shinfield Street, Shepherd's Bush, where. after he had left, another tenanti found the bomb under the bed. "It had

last been there since October," said the Inspector.

Very Much Alive

"Another man took it to the house and the rod was taken from the nose. By doing that they thought the bomb, a British one had been rendered harmless.

"In fact the detonator was etill there and it was very much alive."

The magistrate, Mr. Paul Ben- nett, ordering a week's remand, said he wanted to know what the other man was doing with bomb.

Stonard was allowed bail.

RELIEFS FOR U.S. MARINES

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

the

IN

TERS IN

MARE.

SURFACE SHEL-

WESTON-SUPER-

"Offer" To Girl, 17

Miss Marganta Cotton. aged

The lights were installed by the seventeen, friend of Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Shatter asked local council fullowing complaints | alleged that by moral welfare organisations.

"When the bulbs and fitings disappeared we put up new them in wire ones and fixed

A. Mr. H.

Brown, cages,"

the borough

told surveyer. "Daily Mirror."

"Now the fittings have gone again, and the cages have dis- appeared with them."

Mr. Brown is to ask the coun- vil to approve of the use of shel- ters by fire-watching parties.

**That will help to prevent destruction by those who want petting parties" he added.

A

MISSIONARIES STRANDED

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" A large

number

of American

missionaries are virtually "strand-

to will You

her if she would like a fur coat.

She continued: "I said: "They are very nice.' Then he said: 'If

can

wife to go get my Scotland for three weeks. you take a flat with me? can have all the coats and jew ellery you like and £5 a week.' I replied: 'I would not dream of doing anything like that." Previously, he had given her £10 because he said he was "in- terested in her."

be

Inspector Smith said: "Kenneth Bennett imagines himself to superior to the rest of his family, and is vain and self-seeking."

ANOTHER STRIKE THREAT

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAH."]

following the The labour situation in Shang- ed" in Shanghai decision recently promulgated by hai took a critical turn yesterday the home Board that approval with rice shop employees submit- for better treat- must first be obtained from the ting demands Board before permission can bement, with an ultimatum that if sought from the US consulate-to-the-demands are refused a gen- travel into the interior of China. eral strike will be called affecting The matter is believed to have all shops in the foreign areas.- been taken up with the State De- International News Service. partment. International News Service.

RAIL RESCUES BY A.R.P.

The U.S. transport Henderson Teft Shanghai yesterday afternoon for the United States with 324 of the Fourth Marines. When she arrived in Shanghai the Hender son brought 150 replacements. While the 'number of replace ments is less than those leaving, no great significance is attached to Hundreds of people were in one the matter locally-International of the trains and fifty were, in-

jured noné seriously. News Service,

TEA QUOTA" UP

The International Tea Commit-

ARP, men and war-workers tee yesterday raised the 'ten' quota on their way to work helped to for the current period of regula rescue passengers when two local tion from 90 to 95 per cent, with trains collided at Leyton, E., sta-a view to alleviating the position of the Eastern markets; where' the tion shortly after dawn,

Committee thinks prices have ris- extravagantly," says Reuter from London to-day...A

en

'Couldn't keep my eye

on the ball ip-day!'

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