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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ” 71, - 1958,"

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MUSICAL

LATEST LPS consist of dimric

of

High Speed Raids

And Under

Water Strategy

London, Nov. 10.

British naval experts, after their first close-up of the Soviet Navy in the form of the squadron of two modern cruisers and four destroyers which visited Portsmouth in October, are busy comparing their impressions.

Senior officers with experience of sailing and fighting Britain's greatest warships, engineer officers, naval architects, and scientists have all cast ar eye over the upper decks, superstructures, armaments and other outward aspects of these finest of the Soviet Union's big and growing navy, without getting any shocks

-or discovering anything particular new. Although they did not. of along the ocean lanes, coupled course, have an opportunity to with the role of fast mindlayer. British like Inspect the Inner socrets of the something ships, certain Interesting points cruiser Apollo which was

survey. havo emerged from this general of the ships paying the

ciprocal Royal Navy visit

Alexander

mall, carols by King's Collage Chapel Cambriday, Songs From Jamnales, Trinidad, Calypaća, Kentucky, Song

Admiral Aranul Golovko'n Cycle of Vaughan Willems, Peter Warlock, Roger Guitar, Benjamin | flagship, the Sverdlov, and her Britte

sto. From the sole dis

the ship. Đ Đ P là bàn vùng Alter kond, Moven 1, tad door, telephone Suvorov, are jof definitely con- ventional design, and even look bit old-fashioned with their bulky optical rangefinders towering above their triple six- inch gun barrets fore and aft

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Although these rungefinders are obviously of the most modern design, appear to be of German style, and even have

some advantages Irt certain conditions, they suggest that the Russians may not be 13

far advanced in mndar and other electronic gunnery controls

Leningrad.

the

Plenty of Space

one re-

to

There seems to be some re- lution between the

Soviet Army's idea of using plenty of space to win unl victorles, was demonstrated in the DS last

and Soviet war,

naval thinking. All indications sug pest strategy based on masa underwater Warfare coupled with "smash-and-greb" cruiser raids on shipping lanes, using the great spaces of the sea for manoeuvre.

Half dozen of these cruisers pose on the shipping lanes of the world would certainly

of stretch the resources the North Atlantic Power's navics, for it is always necessary to concentrate many ships to hunt powerful And down a swift.

even

in these elusive raider HEREBY

days of radar and tast aircraft.

China Mail Special.

the

British and United States navlet. Notice to Shareholders

Outwardly, there was nothing NOTICE

to suggest that the Soviet six-

each inch guns-12 in

cruiser GIVEN

Interim mounted

in four triple turrets Dividend of £1.0.0 per share --had

high-speed system has been declared on account | being installed 1n British of the year 1955.

cruisers which, in effort, more than doubles their fire power.

The banks of torpedo tubes, five

side amidships. on either so looked ordinary enough." Some

surprise

caused.

This Dividend in payable on or after 21st November 1955.

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was

however, by the wooden plank- ing seemingly of Baltic pine or similar Limber-which ran along the upper cleek where British ships would have plain Jaleel decks. This seems to offer jan unnecessary Bre hazard for

a worship.

In

reference books these cruisers, of which Russia has 12 and more building, are rated al 12,800 tons displacement. After a closer look, however,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES many experts here came to the

EUMAYUN "

Damaged cargo ex this verset will ae marveyed by Messrs Goddard & Dougies at Holt's Wharf from 10 km. on November 12 and 14, 1933, azidi consigneey are

requested

น

conclusion that the two which come to Portsmouth were well above this tonnage.

Remarkable Speed

Roference books also give these ships a maximum speed have of 34.5 knots, but the experts tveir representatives present during estimate that they are capable

in of more than 35 knots emergency remarkable speed

be survey.

BUTTERFIELD & AWIR",

Agenia

Hong Kong. November 10, 1053.

To ADVERTISERS

for ships of this sizo.

Perhaps the most

NY GANGSTER

DEPORTED

Washington, Nov. 10. THE Immigration Com-

Tmissioner, Mr Joseph

Swing.

announced today

that Frank Orlando, 56- year-old New York allen, had been deported to his

where native Italy, faces a life sentence for murder.

The world-famous Stage Opera House at Vienna, destroyed by wartime bdába. Fins been rebuilt and Baturday saw a gala-reopening, aftended by opera lovers from all over the world. Floture here shows A section of the audience wildly ohnering the end of the open- ing performance, Beethoven's "Fidelio", which was dirooted by Karl Bolum. Stars were Martha Modi, Irmgard See- fried, PADI Schörffler and Ludwig Webber. Express Photo,

he HMS NEWCASTLE

LEAVES

Mr Swing said that Orlando was being sent back to Italy via Canada aboard a government plane.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

By Air

Formosa ( 9.m.

her Cor

Korea, 6p.m.

Canada, 4 p.m.

HMS Newcastle nying

left paying-off pennant, Singapore today for recommis- HMS Newcastle was sioning. among the many naval ships in Orlando was first ordered de-

ported by an Immigration Hongkong that fook part this Service Inquiry officer in Sep-week in the Far East Fleet tember 1953, on chargés of Regatta in Junk Bay.

entering the US illegally. The

service said he entered through

the

eport of New York on April, stowaway. 1924, as Mr Swing said Orlando had a

In record the US criminal dating back to 1931, when he was arrested for violation of the Prohibition Act His record Mr Swing said, in

"various for cludes other offences. Unitat Press,

arrests

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ominous

aspect of the cruisers is the network of light raits

which cross the quarterdeck aft. Like most Soviet naval vessels, they are fitted for minelaying. SUNDAY POST-MERALD

These ships do not seem to Брасе for commercial be designed to bear the brimt advertising should be of a full fleet action. The booked Not lator than whole shape of the Bovlet

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Few Former POWS Convinced Nazis

BUT ARE INTENSELY NATIONALISTIC

By GARY LEVY

Berlin, Nov. 10. Very few of the thousands of Germans, who have just returned home from Soviet prisons and forced labour camps, are still convinced Nazis, but most have come back with intensely nationalistic feelings, kindled by the intoxicating" welcome they have received.

Among the dozens of returned ex-generals with whom I have talked, only one volunteered aware of his remarks_suggesting that he was share of responsibility for the crimes which Germans committed during the war and the disaster which overtook his own men.

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former

He was a man whom the others Hitler, found it necessary to shurined and ostracised because dead his action on his return, be, Walter von Seyditz, captured He sounded as he expected at Stalingrad, later collaborated to be attacked for disobey with the Russians and sought Hier's "defend till death" order.

other Gurman persuado

Perhaps the most nationalistic soldiers on the Eastern

Front ninong the returned

and to lay down their armé.

mostly

rosen who The question whether Seydlitz may or may not have reached their rank of an excep- carly age for devotion trcome a

Communist did not tionally interest the other generals. They to duty in the field

Among these, too, there ap said that they found him di- lasteful because he urged Ger- pears to be the highest percent- nan soldiers to "abandon their age of unrepenting Nazis. Some colours."

Not Responsible

One

former

the ure von colonels,

of the ex-generals, all commanders of Gorman fices in Eastern Europe, con Thailand,, india, Pakistan, Middle | sider themsely es for East. Afrios, Great Britain di Europe, responsible 8 p.m.

measures which

Japan. 9 p.m.

By Surface Formoso, pin. Macao. 4 pan.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 By Air

U.S.A., B.. France, 10a.m.

In the loast "total war they ordered [ther men to carry ouL

Their invariable answer is: We carried oub superior orders makepf our cath to the

on

the

with whom I have taked had terey put aside their trensured uniform costs when they began lecturing reporters and fellow. treed for and returnces national discipline

"Tuchrer-prinzip" value of the

principle pro- (the leadership pagated by Nazi theorists). Quite Different

The picture is quite different Fuehrer, even when the sitúa-atmong the former junior officers, non-commissioned officers and tion was bad or hopeless."*

of whom werd men, most There is not one of them who conscripted into service and had doubts that the Soviet sentences

Thailand, Malays Indonesia, Aus- prised upon them for war crimes lile or no enthusiasm for the strenuous Eastern Front cam- tralia, New Zealand, Ceylon, 11 a.m:

were unjustlock Indo-Chim, Noon!

the time they werd paign by Even a Philippines, 1 p.m.

a man like ex-general Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New

Pakistan to Lasch, who surrendered ceplured. Zealand, Thailand, India, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, Koenigsberg contrary to Hitler's

endors when Europe. p.m.

the city was hopelessly surrounded and was sentenced to death for it by

Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, Hores,

⚫ p.m...

fawadi, U.S.A., Cszuka, é p.nó,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THIS ARM CREARED A BIT --NEEDS OIL.

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By Mik

By Erale Bushaisiller

THEY SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME WITH A MORE PLEASANT. EXPRESSION

By Frank Re MIGHTS" AND "THANKS- FOR THROWIN

TALK

ABOUT ~MAGIC!

Have you seen

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DAIRY BOX

MILK

CHOCOLATE

Fhis situation

Can Miguel

Many of the men told me that ardent Nazis at first tried to maintain morale and discipline" in the prisen camps with lectures and meetings but soon gave up fellow prisoners- because of

heir main mern w to keep suve, to sleep enough, and to survive until they could return to their families. They cared little about the fatherland" or FuchTer under these circumstance

complete apoths

Cat

ime.

and

What appears to have restored many national consciousness to

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the over-growing flow of parcels and letters from West Germany. The parcels sent by private charitable organisations as well as their relatives, helped them materially, to survive tho.

The and malnutrition. cid letters did an

bit to extrit persuade them that the homeland had not forgotten them.

Like Lifebelt

To men cut off from all that is familiar for ten or more years, such signs of friendahly are like a lifebelt to which they cling to the last.

.:

It was symptomatic of the immense gratitude that ren's they

gave

louching spontaneous ovation at Friedland Leception

camp

to Bishop Tacodor Heckel, founder of the prisoners and liternees aid or genisations, who bus well carned his nicknatio "father of prisoners" in 18 years' devoted works

Some of the "grelcome home""" speeches of federal and state riinister tended to direct the returnees' natural gratefulness to compatriots who had not for- gotten

them, into

Vouch

channels. there, was

purely

of the old blonde than

.and in

In

and soll? spirit

vary few WEA there even a prming reference to the nationalistic foilies of the pest which had led the men into disaster as some of the returnees temarked with evident astonish

TRO official ceremonics ended

And comes

invariably,

lod from the official platform, with the Best verse of the pre-

| war, national anthem "DEUURTE"

land, Deutschland gober (Germany above everything), and not with the third verso twit

Recht und Frelse?" (Unity, Justice and | Trzsijom)--which is in fact the offdina, puthens of the postwar Federal Repuisila,

OF the other hand, there was nothing but human warmth and pity-not trade of political naffollam in the welcome of the population for La. Bona, brothers and fathers.:

Nauded Affection The men, women and children Who sumeet the buses on the way from the tiny, railway slayg on the Border to Friedisaid, held showered them with flowers and only men who Had needed, know of abiection help them to. And