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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.

Candid Commons Criticism Of British War Production SERVICE M.P.s IN THE FOREFRONT

CANDID CRITICISM OF BRITISH WAR FRODUCTION WAS MADE IN SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTER - DAY WHEN A TWO-DAY DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT WAS OPEN- ED.

occasion for

The debate provided an

those who are not satisfied that the country CHOPPER

is achieving the maximum possible output to ventilate their views.

INCIDENT

Lt. Briabber (Cons.), who was with the RELATED

ALLEGED TO HAVE STRUCK HIS FRIEND WITH A CHOPPER WHILE THEY WERE BURNING JOSS BESIDES A GRAVE THE COFFEE PLANTATION. SOOKUNPOO, ON MARCH 28,

IN

Fleet Air Arm at Crete, complained of the lack of armaments and 'planes and of the weakness of tanks, while Lt. Cmdr. Hopkin- son asserted that none of the 'planes pro- duced by Lord Beaverbrook's drive parti- A 38-YEAR-OLD SHANGHAI cipated in the Battle of Britain.

that

He was assailed by Labour Mr. Mander continued members when he described the what they urged. however, was Labour Minister, Mr. Ernest still greater output. Bevin, as "an unskilled labour- er."

Mr. G. M. Garro-Jones (Lab) of a urged Minister of Munitions, with a seat in the Cabinet, "to end the jottling for men and materials,"

the appointment

He contended the production of tanks was being delayed by count-

were

He complained of idleness in factories due to change-over in types. Workers resented for being

darts. paid for playing

which was all they had to do in many cases.

A Scandal

Mr. D. J. K. Quibell (Lab) said less modifications, and while ex-it was a scandal that at the fac- pressing satisfaction with British tory which made the first tanks aircraft production, declared too in Britain only a quarter of the

being many types

sent employees were now engaged on from America, resulting in hun-war production,

in ware- dreds lying unpacked

Lt. Briabber declared that in houses because

necessary the Middle East, Crete, Libya and auxiliary

not equipment was

Syria, there was an almost chronic lack of the most important materials of war.

"We are still grievously short of anti-aircraft

and guns,

available.

the

Govt. Slowness

at

ma-

Major Oscar Guest (Cons) de- Maleme there was a great short- clared it was

very difficult for manufacturers to obtain clear-cut age of multiple half-inch and quick decisions from Govern-chine-guns for use against low-

fying aircraft, ment departments.

"OUR TANKS DID WELL AGAINST THE ITALIANS BUT NOT SO WELL AGAINST THE BECAUSE THERE criti- GERMANS

WERE NOT ENOUGH OF THEM AND THEY WERE TOO SLOW. "If we could produce 20,000 aircraft we could win the war."

Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal) said the enemy could draw no possible consolation from cisms for there had been a tre- mendous output of war equipment | of all kinds.

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Critic Of Mr. Bevin

TAILOR, CHAN CHUNG-SHAN, OF NO. 15, SHING WO ROAD, FACED A CHARGE OF CAUS- ING GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM TO WONG MING-KO, 29, BEFORE MR. T. AT

THIS MORNING,

SH WARUNCEASING BRITISH RAIDS IN

MIDDLE

SUPPLIES

FOR RUSSIA

Equipment for Rus- sia is already in transit from Britain, it was stated at the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London yesterday.

Arrangements have been completed in Bri- tain for supplying Rus- sia with large quanti- ties of war materials, it was also stated.

-Reuter.

FIRE

THE CENTRAL MAGISTRA FIGHTING

Accused pleaded not guilty. IN A

BOMBER

On their

first

EAST

Direct hits with heavy bombs were obtained by R.A.F. bombers on the railway station and warehouses near the har- bour at Tripoli, Syria, said

yesterday's R.A.F. Middle East cornmunique. Australian aircraft carried out a diving machine-gun attack on and motor Vichy armoured cars transport vehicles near Beirut.

During the night of July 7/8 heavy bombers attacked and damaged Vichy aircraft on the ground and at Aleppo and on satellite aerodromes at Nasrullahı, where three Vichy destroyed.

aircraft were

In Cyrenulca R.A.F. heavy bumbers again successfully at- tacked the harbour at Benghazi.

In one of these raids a large petrol fire was started on the rail- way terminus siding.

Was

Fires At Benghazi

Another extensive fre started at the base of the Cathe- opera-dral Mole, causing a 500-yards belt of flame which spread along second the docks and was visible from

40 miles.

Wong, in evidence, suld accus- him $600. When he ed owed approached him for the money, accused suggested that they selfle the matter in a tea house. After tea, accused suggested that they go to burn joss at the Coffee Plantation for luck. He agreed tional flight the

and they went to sleep besides a || grave at Sookunpoo on the night pilot and the rear gunner Fires were started at the buse of March 28. In his sleep, defen- dant struck him across the face of a Whitley bomber beat of the central mole by another formation which also severely chopper and ran. He with a

chase and accused was out a fire in their aircraft damaged a CR 42 aircraft. gave

Hill Road. arrested in Leighton

with their hands, and He had

ever been in hospital since.

smothered it with a The case was adjourned until to-morrow for further evidence. parachute bag.

Detective Sergeant V. Morrison is in charge of the case.

ENTERING

GIARABUB

A ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFI-

The

a

bomber had been on night raid on the oil tanks at Rolterdam. Half of the target area was already in flames when the aircraft arrived. After it had dropped its load of bombs in a direct hit on an oll tank, target went up in fire also.

the

Shortly after the Whitley re- crossed the Dutch coast on the

but a

R.A.F. bombers also attacked targets at Eleusis, Greece, and on the island of Crete, causing fires.

All aircraft returned safely.- Reuter.

WARRANT

ISSUED

CER WHO ENTERED GIARA- return journey the starboard A warrant for the ar- BUB SHORTLY AFTER ITS engine cut out, and then caught rest of Robert Thomas CAPTURE, REPORTED SOME Are. It may have been hit by INTERESTING STORIES OF flak over Rotterdam. When the Chan, aliaş Chan Cheung, ITALIAN GARRISON.petrol was switched off the fire aged 30, was endorsed by SEVERAL ENEMY SOLDIERS seemed at first to die out, GAVE HIM LETTERS TO POST little later it re-appeared blazing Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at TO THEIR RELATIVES IN fiercely, beneath the engine and the Kowloon Magistracy ROME AND ELSEWHERE, BE under the fuselage. LIEVING THAT, SINCE THEY

this morning when Chan HAD HAD NO NEWS OF ANY The rear gunner and the sec-failed to turn up to ans- ITALIAN DEFEAT ANYWHERE and pilot started to deal with the

Lt. Cmdr. Hopkinson urged THE competitive tenders for design and revision of the contract sys- tem, asserting that at present it paid to take 80,000 man-hours to produce aircraft which could be produced in 20,000 man-hours.

He charged Mr. Bevin with in- competitence in the manner which labour was being handled. --Reuter.

JOE LOUIS RESISTS DIVORCE

in

THE CAPTURE OF GIARABUB | fire. First the gunner tried to Wer a charge of offering MEANT THAT THE

ENTIRE beat it out with his hands, but he a car as a bribe to a Gov- ITALIAN EMPIRE WAS IN OUR could not keep it under. Then

HANDS.

he brought an extinguisher from ernment official.

A sad commentary on Gayda's the tall of the aircraft, and both Mr. W. M. Brown who was to arrogant propaganda!

he and the second pilot went to appear or defendant stated that, One of the soldiers had

been work with this, but still without apparently, his client had ab- whiling away the time by learn-dousing the flames.

sconded. ing German. His exercise book

Mr. F. W. Shaftain, Assistant was found filled with delicate Next, they took a parachute Director of Criminal Investigation caligraphy the headings of the bag and managed to smother the (Crime), asked for defendant's.

and bulk of the fire with that, finish-bail of $2,500 to be estreated; and graceful Italian, pages in underneath fatiguing columns of ing the job with an extinguisher for a warrant for his arrest. The German terminations,

applications were granted, ANSWERING THE DIVORCE When

captors his British

The Whitley was now only: '500

It was previously alleged that SUIT FILED IN THE CHICAGO searched him for something with feet above the sea, into which the accused, who described himself as CIRCUIT COURT YESTERDAY which to identify him, they found pilot thought he would be forced a rent collector residing at No. 45, BY HIS WIFE, JOE LOUIS, a postcard from his Mother, in down. As the fire was now out Kai Yee Road, second floor, offer- WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT what used to be the Italian Tyrol; he decided to try for the nearest fed the car, valued at $1,150, to Dr. CHAMPION, DENIED HE EVER "Dear Son" it read, "we are hop-aerodrome. The crew jettisoned C. Jones with a view to influen. STRUCK HIS WIFE.***.

ing that it will all be finished the ammunition and the dinghy cing him to unseal the doors of Asking dismissal of the suit, quickly, quickly ".

and the pilot just managed to get No. 566. Queen's Road, West and Louis completely ⠀⠀ denied the

enough height to reach a Coastal release, some 400,000 tins of can- charges of cruelty, and denied that

Command aerodrome. The under- his wife "treated him kindly and affectionately and conducted her- self towards him as a true and virtuous wife," as plaintiff claim- 'ed.-Reuter,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY SHROFF

Chong You-ming, 27, shop foki, three months' was sentenced to hard labour by Mr. G. T. Lowry. this morning, for embezzlement of $249.95, received by him on behalf of the Lee Hing Firm.

Det, Sergeant W. Summers said

carriage refused to come down ned goods of which at least eight but the pilot made a successful per cent, were unfit for human landing near the flare path. None consumption. of the crew was injured."

IRAQ TO COME UNDER INDIA

FINNS ENGAGED IN

HOSTILITIES

LEGAL ADVISER TO DOMINIONS OFFICE

Finnish forces have taken part Mr. K. E. Poyser, D.S.O., former Chief Justice of the Straits Settle-

The defence of Iraq will in in hostilities on Soviet territory, ments, has been appointed Legal accused was employed as a shroff future be the responsibility of the the Foreign Secretary stated in the Adviser to the Dominions Office and collected the money from India, Command and will come Commons. Mr. Eden added it was in Kowloon. under the authority of General untrue that the British Consul- and Colonial Office, in succession different :" firma to Sir Henry Grattan Bushe, K.C. Accused had been in the employ Sir Archibald Wavell, newly- General In Helsinki had been M.G., recently appointed Gover-mont of complainant for 18 appointed Commander-in-Chief, compelled by the Finnish Govern-

ment to leave Finland.--Reuter, nor of Barbados-Reuter,

montits at wages of $15 per month. -Router,