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THE CHINA-MAIL, MAY 29, 1941:
THREE MILLION TONS OF AXIS SHIPPING SENT TO BOTTOM
NEARLY 3,000,000 TONS of enemy mer- chant shipping have been disposed of be- tween the beginning of the war and the mid- dle of May, it is stated authoritatively in Landon.
The figures are: German ships captured or seized, 61 totalling 274,000 tons; sunk or scuttled, 285 ships totalling 1,499,000 tons.
Italian ships captured or seiz- ships of other countries, in Axis
67,000 ed. 39 totalling
tons tons; service, 183,000
totalling sunk or scuttled, 178 totalling have been disposed of. 899,000 tons.
Germany has therefore Lost Bomber and Coastal Command directly 346 ships totalling 1,773,000 tons aircraft alone sank or and Italy 215 ships totalight be.ween March 13 and May 1,082,000 tons. In addition 3814. 01 ships off enemy occupied coasts--a great deal of this ship- ping being coastal traffic.
SABOTAGE
SEEN IN CRASH WHICH KILLED BANTING
Telling Evidence
The latter figure proved telling evidence of enemy efforts to use coastal traffic to a maximum to solve transport problems wherever possible.
GRAY'S INN
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AND TEMPLE DAMAGED
Places of historic interest in London damaged in recent air raids include the Gray's Temple and Inn and St. Nicolas Cole Abbey-British Wireless.
SABOTAGE
RISKS
"The present emergency That the enemy is still try has increased the risk of ing to circumvent the British
blockade by sea is shown by sabotage. The illicit pos- session and sale of explo-
the fact that in the recent wook April 23 to 30, 14 Gar-
man and 19 Italian ships were sives heightens the risk of
accounted for, mostly sunk.
In addition, evidence is reach- sabotage to mines and in- A report was current recently ing Britain of the extreme un-dustrial plants.' in aviation circles and credited willingness of Norwegian crews by reliable informants as authen- to sail and of intense efforts to tie that the crash of a Lockheed recruit Scandinavian crews for Madras Hudson bombing 'plane in which German service.--British
Banting,
the
This press note was issued by Provincial Government
of
yesterday announcing Wire-heavier penalties for illegally
£2,000 WAS
Sir Frederick
co-dis-less, coverer of Insulin, and two other persons were killed on February 21 soon after the ship took off from Newfoundland for a flight to England. has been traced to sabotage of its two engines. The Canadian scientist's intended mis- sion was to carry on research work among troop casualties in the Red Cross hospital at Taplow, England.
IN DEBRIS
A demolition worker who found The method by which the a handbag in the wreckage of a American-built bomber was bombed Plymouth shop was enter- brought to grief is said to have taining a crowd of giggling girls been the introduction of a small by powdering his nose with a puff amount of sand and grass in the when an elderly woman elbowed oil supply of each engine. One her way through the crowd
and
possessing manufacturing, using explosive in such areas.
The penalty extends imprison- ment to five years or, if there is intention to assist any State warring with His Majesty, death, transportation for life or Impri- sonment up to 10 years, with the addition of a fine. Reuter.
INDIA CONDEMNS
RASCHID ALI
of these, according to the story "That bag is mine," she scream-condemn Rashid Ali. heard,
out" "burned
anded "Give it to me."
collapsed.
fulled miles at sea because of the The salvage man opened the abrasive and clogging matter bag to return the puffand almost in its lubricating system, but the other lasted long enough to bring the ship back to the Newfound- land coast where it also "froze."
were
The bag contained nearly £2,000 in notes.
It was handed to the official in
claimant: "You'll
to the police for
In the resultant "dead-stick" charge of the squad, who told landing which was attempted on a the excited frozen lake, all aboard the 'plane have to apply
killed except the pilot, this." Joseph C. Mackey, of Kansas City, when
wheel collapsed and swung the ship sidewise into trees bordering the lake. Mackey explained afterward that he had instructed Sir Frederick and the two crew members, William Bird, an English navigator, and William Snailham, radio operator- mechanic, of Bedford, N. S., don their parachutes as the bomber was limping back to shore and jump as soon as land was reached. He did not know until after the crash that they had elected to stick with him und the ship.
Though injured
to
fatally in the
crash, the Canadian doctor was reported to have survived long
Indian opinion continues
to
A
of Jirgah representative
tribal men of a frontier 2,000
£ 150 as a province presented contribution to the War Purposes Fund. They expressed their loyal- ty to
Government the British and condemned Rashid Ali,
Rashid All's anti-British activi- lies were described as an attack on religion, liberty and peace. -- Reuter.
'A.R.P. SQUAD' HAS £50,000 HAUL
THIEVES MASQUERADING as an A.R.P. de- molition squad are suspected of stealing more than £50,000 worth of cigarettes in recent London night raids.
pickaxes,
They disguised their operations cigarettes, which were in a ateel- enough after the accident. to by using. an A.R.P. van, com-lined room with special locks. dress the minor wounds suffered plete with crowbars,
The losses have been on such by Mackey,
and other equipment carried by a big scale that tobacco whole- salera, complain that certain, in- British and Canadian authori- | demolition: men. ties, after examining the engines Scotland Yard men investigat-surance companies now refuse to as. a of the wrecked Hudson and find- ing a series of cigarette. rob- bccept tobacco businesses ing sand and grass in their. oll berles have found evidence that risk,
The thieves are able to dis- tanks, endeavoured to trace the tools of this kind had been used origin by a check-up at all the in almost every case to, batter pose of their haul with little airports where the plane stopped down shop, and warehouse doors, danger of detection. Cigarettes, to refuel en route to Newfound- They have also found that the the wholesalers point out can land from the Lockheed factory thefts often: took place on the find a market: anywhere, at Burbank, Calif. The results night, following delivery, of the Doors were also battered down warehouse of Messrs. of their investigation, have, not goods to the warehouse-which at the been disclosed, although rumours suggests, that the delivery vans. Thomas Smith and Sons (Croy are being circulated in Canadian had been, shadowed in the days; don), Ltd, Church Road, Croy American flying" circles--without receiving much. credence, in re sponsible A quarters in the U.S) that one man;' who helped sabotagè
the ship
Doors Battered:
don; who, have lost 800,000 cigarettes.
Other premises have been en- tered by smashing through. brick More than £1,000 worth of walls. At one warehouse the was caught and shot in cigarettes were stolen one Sunday thieves sawed through lin. iron Canada, and that: another was night from the Croydon firm, of bars...
Each job hag been timed to 'lured over the border from the W. and: M. Morley, United States and dealt. a similar The thieves smashed through take place in a raid when the
thred doors to *reach the police are busy 'elsewhere; fate.
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