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WHE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1930, AN

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS; THE THIRD BOOK

How would they like to be told on Tuesday when they met tus unavenged, that the Hood was several of our convoys had been': cut up or even massacred, and that the Bismarck had got 'homo or to a French- to Germany

Crete was occupied port, that lost,

without: evacuation heavy cuaunlikes doubtful?

and

THE GRAND ALLIANCE

The end of the Bismarck

failed. Despite any prowling U- boats, searchlights and signal lamps were used to help the plots in their approach. It is pleasnat to record that their splendid ef- forts were rewarded.

All suc- ceeded in landing safely in the darkness amidst general rejoicing and relief.

*

Once more everything seemed to be set for a morning climax. and once more the Admiralty hopes were dashed. Soon after 3 a.m. on the 25th the Suffolk sud- denly and

lost con fact with the

She had by radar with skill from

By Winston Churchill

A Morning

Scotch whisky, says the gbvchinent,.

naw ba

may exported from the Colony,

-Gad

Myrtle's - sir, says grandfather, exporting the stufft And me with my ose bottle a

.

-other

mast was shot away. The ship lay wallowing in the heavy seas, a month. Naming and smoking ruin; yet even then she did not sink One of our tealing public was the cruiser Dorsetshire that speakers

told

the me delivered the final blow with evening: "I never listen to a torpedoes, and 10.40

foundered. something." Further confusion was in store ship turned over and the great speech of mine without teaming

With in this clutching and grabbing her perished nearly 2,000 scene. Admiral Somerville, has- Germans bnd their Fleet Com- Reports about the flying diac keep coming in. It is difficult to tening Northwards, sent on the mander, Admiral Lujens. Shefield to close and sindow the We must now lay bare the disc-over whether we should enemy. The Ark Royal was not error and vanity of cold-blooded disc-rellt discard theso informed of this movement, "and calculation of the Soviet Gby-disc-oncerting news items, Disc when sho, launched her air exdiment and enormous Commu-ord may be reused in disc-angolate striking. force their radar led nist machine, and their amazing realers it we do not disc-ontinue them to the Shefeld, which they morence

about

where they sc-ussion of these seemingly attacked but ald "tot hit, The | stood theinselves. They had disc-onnected happenings. We

really must avoid discomfort.~ take, dodged successfully and fate of the Western Poworn, al- did not fire. The aeroplanes, pen-

destruc.Personally I think it's all very pen-though this meant

disc-usting. tent, returned to the Ark Royal,tion of that "Second Front" for and the Sheffield gained contact which they were SOUN to **Mon arrested in act of with the Bismarck and hence-einmoir. They seemed to have forth held her for sure.

I had great confidence in their een shadowing osition on the Sheffield, understanding: the mix-) shown's total indifference to the

PEKING TAKES THE pluck and fidelity if once they could be convinced that their business was not being muddled. But could they be? My American muest Mr. Averell Harrinun] thought 1 was gay, but it custs nothing to grin.

There are, unfortunately, a great many reports in the papers these days which one- would prefer to pass over- they are much too bad for the digestion. Some of them can quite safely be ignored, but the 'Peking announcement on State trading is not one of them. Appréhensions have existed for months. The reality

nevertheless comes Con-

|

it

KIL enemy's port quarter. All ships were now zigzagging as they moved South Into waters infested wax this which by U-boats, and brought about the misfortune.

ΔΙ the end of each outward leg, of her zigzag course the Suffolk but regained It lost radar contact, on the inwari leg, Perlings she

was overconfident after such pro- longed and successful shadowing. But now when she turned oase more to the Westward the enemy

was no

No mistake

the

TC-1

210 inkling that Hitler had for more thin six months solved to destroy them.

If their

Intelligence Service Fifteen Swordfish again left informed them br the vast Ger- the Ark Royal,

towards a little after 7 man deployment

the Increasing j.in. The enemy was now less East, Which was how than 40 miles away,

omitted many and this time there was

Neps to meet it. Thus по

mitakeredful they on their prey by the they hillows the whole of the

All through the 24th the British cruisers and the Prince of Wales continued to dog the Bismarck and her consort, Admiral Tovey. in the King George V, was still long way off, but signalled that he hoped, to engage by 9 aan. on

longer on the presumeil the 25th. The Admiralty sum-

Directed The Rodney. i'urse. Had he turned West or monted all forces. soumiles away to the South-Eat-doubled-back to the North and was ordered to steer n closing course. The families was ordered to quit her homeward-bound con

anth place voy

ce herself to tha Westward of the enemy; and the Revenge, from Halifax, was also directed to the scene.

Cruisers were posied to guard break-back by the against n enemy to the North and East, while i the time Admiral Somerville's force was pressing

Northward from Gibraltar, Sub

uncertainBieu of the net wan drawing

ject to all the ighter.

ihe

sen,

09 A severe shock. trols have liven the order, and sometimes the bune, of econo- mic enterprise for a great mahy years now. Merchants in North China had to operate under them even before the Sint-Japanese War, but trade was still possible by sheer ingenuity and refusal to be beaten. During the Pacific War, all foreign trade in

That evening about 0.10 occupied Asia came to an end,

suddenly turned Bismarck and trade within the area was

there throttled by incredible mis-enge her pursuers, and

was a brief encounter. We now management and total ex-

know that this movement was ploitation by the Japanese Services. They took what they wanted, gave nothing but useless paper in return, and showed a staggering in- difference to the needs of everybody else.

uttering."

or

Freedom of speech, becomes more restricted every day, God's own territory.

· A' book of "more than 1,000 pageO has been published, all about

British 30-called

incebanical Inventions, Arhericans

I do hopautthe

will immediately,

Inventer of this

forgiving Sheffield, they pressed Balkans to be overrun-by-Gor-prosecute the

Imaginative novel.

Situation at 10.15 a.m.,May27:

KING GEORGE V. ceases fire Cruisers closing in BİSMARCK sankat:10:40 am.

RODNEY

the to

KING GEORGE V

made to cover the escape of the Prinz Eugen, which then made cff at high speed to the South, and after refuelling t sea reached Brest unchallenged 10 days

Admiral

Tovey now sent the Victorious ahead to make an air attack in the hope of reducing the enemy's speed.

later.

Little experience

#

BISMARCK Stopped and burning

Scale of Sta.MÚties

East? This

caused the utmost anxiety and rendered all con- centration futile.

Steering for Brest

Twelve huge State Trading Corporations are being set up! in 'China on a national basis

The Victorious was newly com- to unify and control the opera misslo.icd, and some of her air tions of regional and local crews had little fighting experi- State and private trade or- ence. At 10 p.m. covered by ganisations. Wholesale trade nine Swordfish rat

four cruisers, she

her will be supervised by, the na-

on, a 120-mile flight against tional bodies or by branch strong head wind with rain and

After making a cast "tó” the Westward at daylight the King Led by Lieutenant organisations, and retail trade. low cloud. Led

in Commander Esmonde and guided George V turned Eastwarde by the municipal or city gov by the Norfolk's wireless, the the belief that the Bismarck was ernments. On the face of

aircraft two hours later found the making towards the North Sea, things Peking has taken

whole British pursuit Bismarck, tremendous leap into full groat gallantry against

intense now treaded in this direction. socialisation of trade, bypass- fire. They scored a torpedo hit At the Admiralty there was a Bis- growing opinion that the under the bridge.

On board the Victorious the mark was steering for Brest, but question of a recovery of the air

it was not until six o'clock that sygadron was causing acute on

this hardened. The Admiralty forthwith deflected all our forces xiety. By now it was pitch- dark, with

Southerly High wind a

and towards blinding showers of rain, and the

route.

A

and attacked

with

and the

the more

NORFOLK

DORSETSHIRE

48°05'N

1600.W

home their jack with lotus- mination. By 930 fhoir work was 'done. Two torpelties hall cor- tainly hit, and probably a third. A shadowing aircraft reported that the Bismarck had been seen to make two complete circles, and it seemed she was out of control. Captain. Vian's destroyers were

and now approaching, throughout the night they sur- rounded the stricken ship, attack ing with torpedoes whenever the chance came.

pilots had had little practice in But meanwhile the confusion i Fraser. "I am waiting to see what

18in

still

mony,

They listed and despised the de- mdcracles'brithe West; but the *Four obuktifes, Turkey, Rumania *Bulgaria Vapid Yugoslavia, which' were of vital interest to them and their vown anfety, could all Have Been Ebmbined by the So- viet Government in January with active Blush aid to form a Bal. Jan front against Hitler: They -let themjål! break into confusion,

antt

ali but

Turkey were mopped up onelty one.

War Is mainly a catalogue of blinders, but it may be doubted whether any mistake in history has equalled that of which Stalin and the Communist chiefs wore guilty when they cast all possi- Balkans and Bilities in the supinciyawolted, or were in- capable of realising, the fearful onslaught which impended upon Bussin. We have hitherio rated

as selash calculators. In them this period they were proved

ons as well simpletons as

Myrtle says: "I'm the kind of girl I'll hate when I'm married."

The Marine Department hos banned the Press from information

the cegarding

arrival and departure of ships trading with Communist ports..

The theory apparently is that Nationalist gunboats depended

solely for detaile of shipping movements on the Hong Kong newspapers,

the New

I am told that Betty Grable's photo is very popular with troops Territories. They don't pin her picture up, however, Oh, no. It is held to the wall by their heavy

breathing.

Club secretary yesterday

The Reform WES •quoted saylag, “The Club will spenk with au-numbered in proportion to the

The force, the mass. the bra-numbers prezent." very and endurance of Mother This will be a change, from

I what Russia had still to be thrown in-

know of the numbers. to lite scale. But so far as stra teky, pelley, foresight, compe

Now Il's a bear it's got, logse

This is becoming. tence are Arbiters, Stalin and his from a 250. commissars showed themselves monotonous. Looks,, to me like at this moment the most comple- world-wide idly soutwitted bunglers of the driimosity. Second World War,

near It

move-

sent

animated

animal

seemed.

מג

and divid¬

wide limits

(To be continued)

in Article 37 that all legitimate minds of the peasants are not! Buy lay between her We shall fight to the last shell place through front, stretch- | World Copyright reserved. Re-

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"I might get killed any day,” xleclored the bore, recounting his 'exploits. Up t the end of March, 1941; I'll try not to be impatient," was not convinced that Hitler was resolved upon mortal war murmured the girl,.. with Russin, nor how

Our Intelligence reports mejor war with Russia was.

to me too good to be true! revealed in much detail the ex- tensive German

The manner in which-the-Ger- troops ients towards and into the man troop concentration On this Monday night I went Balkan States which had marked Rumania, and Bulgaria had been ed the intermediate forms into

to. the Admiralty and watched the first three months of

glazed over and apparently 1041.80 the charts in the Our agents could move with a cepted by the Soviet Govern- which the Bolsheviks in

the scene on War Room, where

the news great deal of freedom in

these men

mment, the evidence wa had of Russia were forced, by econo-

streamed in every few minutes, quasi-neutral countries, and were large and Invaluable supplies

What are you doing here?" I mic chaos, under Lenin's

able to keep us accurately posted being

Germany from socalled New Economic

said to the Controller, Admiral

about the heavy German forces Russia, the obvious community Polley. It has begun this vast

gathering by roll and road to the of Interest between the two coun- I have got to repair" he said. South East.

tries in over-Empire the and immensely difficult ex-deck-landing even in daylight, and delay arising from the loss Four hours passed quickly away, But none of these necessarily ing the British periment from the point at Furthermore, the homing beacon, of contact had-er-bled the Bis-and when I left I could see that involved the invasion of Russia, East, all-made-li-seem more like

and his they could be marck to slip through the cordion Admiral Pound

་་ which Soviet economy now by which alone

that Hitler and Stalin, would school and all were readily explainable company of experts were sure

by German interests and safely guided to the ship, had and gain a commanding lead in

moke bargaini polley

at our expensa stands.

her race for safety. By 11 p.m. the Bismarck was doomed.

In Rumania and Bulgaria, by her rather than a war upon each Under the Common Pro-

sho was already well 10 the The German commander, Ad- designs on Greece and atrage other. This bargain, wo now gramme, which is the agreed were given discretion to post- Eastward of the British flagship. miral Lutions, had to illusions ments with Yugoslavia and Hun-how was within

bur informantion about Stalin's Him. basis of policy for the People's, cone it until the autumn of She was short of oil through the Shortly before midnight he regary.

unmanoeuvrabled the immense

movement taking Government, it was laid down 1951 "if they feel that the leakage. The Rodney, with her ported: "Ship

Germany towards and home, but she too was mov- Long live the Fuehrer!" The the main Russian sufficiently

was Bill 400 miles public and private trading yet

Rumanin to the Baltic. prepared Ing to the North-Eastward and Bismarck

itig from should be protected, though it psychologically" before that grossed ahead of the Bismarck from Brest, and no longer even was far more difficult to gequire. able to steer. thither. Strong That Germany should 群聚 this did stipulate that "control" of time. Meanwhile all rents during the afternoon,

which had begun German bomber fordes were now stage, and before clearing the foreign trade should be en- were to be reduced but col- full of promise ended in disap- sent forward to the rescue, unde Balkia scene, opent another forced. Domestic free trade lected by the landlords, who pointment and frustration. Hap- U-boats hastened to the scene was to be adopted, though were forbidden to sell or dis-plly, from the South, breasting one of which, having already ex- under a "unified economic pose of their lands.

the heavy Atlantic sens, the Re-pended her torpedoes, reported that the Atk Royal had passed The People's Government, eraser Sheffield were steadily up- tance.

nown, the Ark Royal and the her within easy plan of the State." It was

striking dis- also provided that the Gov- unlike the Japanese Military, proaching on on Interception Meanwhile the King George V emment should encourage

áre basically influenced by course.

and the Rodney were drawing the active operating of all Socialist doctrine. But the private economic enterprises, overwhelming view of pro- problem of fuel for all our wide that unless the Elsmarak's speed By the morning of May 28 the near, Fuck was a grave anxiety, and Admiral Taver had decided beneficial to the national wel vincial officials and they scattered ships, which had could be greatly reduced he would fare and people's livelihood., people alike no doubt will be now been steaming hard! for four have to abandon the chaso It is true that Socialist ideas that revenue is at present the days, began to clamour for atten- midnight. At my, suggestion the

tion. Already several of the rum through the whole docu- primary practical considera- pursuers had had to reduce speed. First Sea Lord told him to go ment, and that some clauses tion. Most of us are familiar it was clear that in these wide on even if he had to be towed appear markedly inconsistent with the terrible ordeal the expanses all our eff

cffarts

might home. But by now it was known with others. But in a general Russian people went through soon be vain. However, at 10,30 that the Bismarck was actually sense both this document, and during the years that follow-am, just as hopes were begin- steaming in the wrong direction. Her main armament was unin- Bismarck was the the speeches delivered at the ed the Revolution, culminat-ning to fade, People's Consultative Coun- ing in the counter-revolu fund pain. The Admirmity and lured, and Admiral Tovey de

with Catalina aircraft working ell in Peking, implied a long tionary plot of Marshal Coastal Command were searching elded to bring her to battle in

Ireland. period of transition both in Tukachevsky and the heads of from Lough Eme in

One

Rodney opens fire pality and in economy, on the the Red Army Stalin just of these now located the fugitive steering towards Brest and still, Fabian principle of "the succeeded in winning through, about 700 miles from home. A North Westerly galo was in Inevitability of gradualness," but only just, and not without The Bismarck damaged the blowing when daylight came on Priorities seem to have unexampled terror and ruth-alreraft and contact was lost the 27th. The Rothsey opened fire changed under immediate lessness. One would have But within an hour two Sword- at B.47 um, followed a minute imagined that, in dealing with a from the Ark Royal spotted later by the King George V. The her once more. She was still well British ships quickly began to so vast and individualistic a to the Westward of the Renown hit, and mor

the Bis DALEN

For a race as the Chinese, the in- and not yet within the German marck, too, opened Star choate Central and Provincial air over radiating powerfully short Umme her shooting we got

although the crew, infan · OUTS, administrations would have over could not face her single gruelling days, refusja dr refrained from imposing ex landed. It was necessary to hausted and mailing sleep – at treme policies on an economic await the arrival of the King their posta. With her durat

George V and Rodney, both still

she straddled Balan structure so poor and relative far behind the chase

•

the morning.

!!

At

stress and possibly under the stronger control of the pro- Russian elements. The agrarian reform plan original ly had first priority but owing to the severity of the famine and a variety of other difficulties, there has been a

A thereafter the prelims on this Thi sort of strategic withdrawal y primitive. It is not merely but now Captain Vian, of All- tish attack WOMA on that front for the present a question of scraping the bot-mark fame, still in the Cossack, A directive on land reform, tom of the barrel, but one of with four other destroyers which and with hull aurapur most ad had been escorting the troop har guns, were allant d for wan Issued a month ago, authorised creating new aween contan convoy, End, had been ordered in heavy llespie V a delay in the re-distribution cial rivalry between central loave it,

a signal from

The Rodaty zagra?? of land in all newly-liberated and provincial officials, new a Catalina siromit which gave

him the Blamarck's position. her bow, pouring in arcas. The provincial Gov- temptations to curruption, and without waiting for further or from a range of no more than ernments of a dozen provinces even the possibility of cono-dua heat ones furged towards 4,000 yards. By 10.15 all the Bla in Central and South China mic disaster, da

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