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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950.

CONTROL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IS

RUSSIAN STRATEGY

Washington, April 3,

Why are the Russions building up a big navy, as many reliable reports

show they are doing? To invade the United States? No, say some ex- tromely well-informed officials.

A landing on the U.S. coast has a low priority in the Russian military scheme, these men say, although it is. probably featured in the final chapter of their military book.

that array.

Inactive

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The Turkish stralls will become compared to increasingly. Important, giving its big Black Sea feet access to the Mediterranean. It will be eyein

new canal connecting the with Baltle and White seas.

with

It uses

Foremost in the Soviets' good ships. Russia now has 14 strategic

Kny,

cruisers, plan, they control of the Mediterrancan Amerien's 13. -

nu- "Jone's Fighting Ships," and all the shores of 'that sen. With that they could protect thoritative manual of the world's jealously the control of the Straite a Redavies, reported in December that of Tsushima, between Korea and the Southern flank of

the Russians were building three Japan, where US. forces are sla- army sweeping West across

ultra-modern battleships, equip-tioned. It needs these straits in Europe. They could supply ped to fire radio-controlled roc-winter for the passage of Its Pack- kels and ncriul torpedoes. Two fie fleet, blocked from the North They could pullify or greatly more may now be in the yards. by ice. diminish the effect of present The Hussians plan to complete plans of the Western Democracies 750 to 1,000 submarines by 1951 A vital and vulnerable route is for. bulking up a defeace core according to "Jane's," which says the centred in Africa.

now 300. they may have 360, maty wier Inker Lydoga and Onaga nnd fol- speed, Latest types were deve. lows natural waterways in be

It enables Russia to send loped from the German super- tween,

the Baltic over submarlaes which were ready in vessels from

Arctic through the the last days of the war.

new route Ocean to the Pacille during the three months when the Northern sea is not ice-locked. But it is within bombing range of air bases in the Scandinavian countries.

1. In January one of the fore- Russia's naval bases are on the must engineers and organisers in Black Sea, White Sea, Barents Soviet Industry, Viacheslav A. Sca. Arctic Ocean, Pacific Maleshev, was appointed Minister Ocean and Yellow Sca. It Shipbuilding, bath naval and acquired the base at Port Arthur, in Manchuria, from the Chinese, merchant marine.

No corriers

Meanwhile, other significant developments have occurred:

Another reason Russin wants strong navy, say the ofleins, is that it has

it has learned a lot from the experiences of the Germans,

Germons learned that any The nation that means to seize Europe and hold it also must take Great Britain, lest it once agala become the stepping stone for Amertear forces sweeping to Europe's re- seue. This calls for a strong fleet to conquer

*iarve out the British.

The Germans never attempted the invasion of Britain because their navy was not adequate to protect iheir transports. Both Marshal Rundstedt, and General Jud) revealed this after the war

There is one other great lesson a separate Ministry of the the Germans taught:

or

Capacity doubled

of

In February the Russians: de-unified their armed forces,

Moscow observers believed this might have been reward to the

completing its

That even a numerically In-navy for ferior navy can exert great strafe- 1050 five-year plan. Ric influence, The British and 3. Lost October the Americans had maintain strong Government announced the

In the ling elements of ses power

of a two-year naval North Sea area for yours lest the academy in Leningrad. tough little German navy some day sally cut and pounce on their vital transport line

The Rusalans are said to have doubled doubl

their shipbuilding capacity since 1940. Admiral Forrest Sherman, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, declare ed in a recent speech that within the past year they have added to their flect new high-speed, heavily-armed cruisers and many destroyers. He said they are

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U.S. Army inteligence sources y Russia is building bases at German ports along the Baltic, It got a base on the Finnish coast after the war with Finland. Re- is 1946-fugees from Albania say it

building a powerful submarine Soviet base on the rocky island of Saseno, open-off Albania, in the Adriatic Sea. officer-Associated Press.

What kind of navy do the Rus- PETER LAWFORD

sians now have? A weak one compared even to the U.S. active fleet. Although stronger in sub- marines, they have fewer vessels' in nearly all other categories.

you add the U.S. reserve

DENIES REPORT

but a flat

New York, April 3. ficct, this country has several The film star. Peter Law times the naval strength of the ford, left for London today Russians. Furthermore, there seems no indication that the Rus-With words of praise for Miss

Sharman Douglas sians have any aircraft carriers unless they recently have convert-denial of reports that they are ed other ships.

engaged.

As he boarded a plane at Idle- airport, the 26-year-old wild actor told reporters that he is too young to marry.

American naval men consider carriers the backbone of a fleet. So as far as they are concerned, the Russions navy, exce), for its submarines, is not # present threat-only something to bet guarded against,

Can the Soviet build a navy to compare with that of the U.S.?

Good sailors

One competent cḥserver sayt It is not unlikely that as. long as the Russiano maintain their present controlled economy, In- cluding controlled labour, ome day they might well surpass the their U.S. In all elements of armed forceE.

Lawford squired the beautiful daughter of the American Am bassador to Britain around Holly- wood on her recent visit and kiss- ed her good-bye a month ago when she returned to London,

He said today."

"I am not en- gaged to Sharman," The British- born Lawford explained that he is merely planning a holiday England between pictures.-Unit- ed Press.

RUSSIA REJECTS BRITISH NOTE

in

„London, April.3.

Britain's

The Russians-seem-to-be-good. sailors. When they returned 27; Russia has rejected lend-lease frigates, U.S. naval note objecting to the elimination officers found them Althy but of the diplomatic rouble rate were astonished at their excellent after Junc. mechanical condition.

In a note delivered to the Bri- What are Russia's strategic tish Embassy in Moscow yester- naval areas?

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day, the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Andre Vyshinsky, declared that British comments on the cost of living in Russia constituted interference

the with

Soviet Union's internal affairs.

The note made no reference to the reduction of the diplomatic rate for the rouble, but contested the British view that the recent de-

Everybody's saying it! valuation of the rouble had the

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Flood havoc in Australia

Sydney, April 3, Hundreds abandoned thair, home and fled from rising flood watera In Now Bouth Wales today as torrential rain turned rich farm land into an inland sea.

The swollen Macquarie and Lachlan -rivers, ' sprawling over their banks, have cut off townships, put roads

under water and · cut off rall And telephone communications.

The Wagga Wagga district, .devastated by floods, lant 'week, faces a new threat, and

the worst floods for

years have Inundated 'rich farm lands in Victoria, where hun- dreds have left their homes and thousands of acres under water-Reuter.

ACTRESS ADMITS HOAX

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Parls, April 3. Nicole Riche, 23-year-old French actress and the star of "No James Hadley Chase's Orchids for Miss Blandish," today admitted to an Examin- ing Magistrate that her alleged from the Grand kidnapping Guignol (world-famous "hor- ror" theatre), was a complete hoax.

Mile Riche said the spectacular "kidnapping" stunt had been or- ganised at the instigation of the theatre

Alexandre - manager. Dundos.

charge Today's

followed days of speculation in the several French Press whether or not the blondo, of the disappearance

the dark-eyed Nicole between acts of last Thursday's show was publicity stunt or not

News of her disappearance after leaving her dressing rooni with a fur coat flung over the negligee she wore in Act 2 ha for days occupied the headlines of the French Press, accompanied by photographs of her in variety of scantily-dressed poses, The police of all France search- ed for her for three days and then оп Saturday Mlle Riche reap- the company of many peared in newspapermen who had "found" her in the forests outside Paris. She was still in her sconlies.-- Reuter.

PEKING RADIO ACCUSES KOREA

San Francisco,. April 3. The Chinese Communist radio tonight accused the South Korean Government of persecuting Chinese residents in South Korea. Among the "Inhuman atrocities" perpetrated by "the puppet Sync- Kuomintang nan Rhee and his agents," is the case of a Chinesa merchant who was arrested on January 22 and "bilnded by elec- trical torture devices,' the radio sald-United Press.

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