1941-01-20 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

THE GRIM WAR AT SEA HONGKONG

Britain's Losses Have Been Considerable But She Still

Retains Full

Full Superiority

Britain mustered all the forces of her empire recently to assist her in retaining her grip upon the trident of sea power, -

Shipyards throughout the empire hummed as new hulls were waterborne to replace the 3,800,000 tons of merchant tonnage that has been sunk and to add new units to Britain's fleet, now engaged in po less a task than the blockade of a continent and the patrol of all the waters of the world.

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FACE-MASK FACE MASK TESTS FOR AIR RAID SHELTERERS

Face masks to prevent infection from coughing and meezing in air-raid shelters are now being tested by Lord Harder's Com- mittee, whose recommendations for safeguarding' health in shel- ters were published as a White Paper Masks are already available considerable quantity.

The committee's chief suggES. tions were:

of protection and hygiene is ve cured.

The committee acvises adjacent- boroughs to consider pooling

Utmost degree of dispersal, tr sources, prevent overcrowding:

Evacuation of more children, and

A new Defence Regulation for

A re-survey to find further ac- the requisitioning of factory and commodation;

commercial building shelters for Requisitioning for public use of public use after working hours has private shelters not used at followed the committee's recom- ship bottoms in the United States night

mendation on this point. The war at sea must first be A German surface raider has

and elsewhere. Her need of des-

PAID MARSHALS weighed in the scales of the naval been operating in South Pacific royers has not been satisfied by the aged, infirm and bedridden· Some 4,000 aged, crippled and strengths of the belligerent. Briand Indian Ocean waters and in the transfer of afty "boats" from

retains Tasman Sea. Australian and New this country- transfer that has shelter marshals;

Appointment of whole-time paid infirm persons have been sent out tain obviously st!!!

çi London and more are to go to superiority, despite the continuing Zealand forces have been combing not yet been finally completed.

Provision of adequate sanitary emergency hospitals in the coun- assaults against the men-of-war the Eastern seas for this vessel. largely because of the lack or

equipment and first-aid points try. About 4,500 children under flying the white ensign Her war assisted by such British forces as trained. British

with bunks in large shelters: tive have been sent to Country losses have been considerable (a can be spared from the Singapore them.

Sprayшg and ventilation of nurseries and billets found for grand total of about 170 naval base. This ralder has already ac-

But even if Britain should re-shelters:

1,500. vessels of more than 400.000 tons), complished her purpose; she has.

ships from America her

Inoculation against diphtheria but so too have been those of her forced a strengthening of the conceive

dominance at sea would not be

ANDERSON BUNKS opponents. An estimate of the voy escorts in this area. warships sunk follows

British naval forces in the Far assured. At the end of the World

Overcrowding, the report states, Britain. Germany. Italy. East are now composed of light War Britain had 50 battleships, 9

battle cruisers, 109 cruisers, 433 is the crux of the problem, and and

some submarines; there seems no prospect of any destroyers and 137 submarines in the committee urges publicity tor Immediate strengthening of these commission, plus the help of the the Anderson shelter, which "since

French, Italian Japanese and the Blitzkrieg has, quite unjust-even in winter... force as long as the demands of 1 the Mediterranean and the Atlan. United States Navies, and yet only tably, Inst some

In the last months of the strug-larity." 6-10 tie are acute. 15-30

gle was her dominance at sea assured.

Battleships Pocket bat ship

Aircraft

riers

1

car-

2

Cruisers

3

3

Destroyers ..

33

11-15

Submarines

17

25-50

Armed mer-

chant cruisera

10

Misc. auxiliaries

atenders, mine-

sweepers, traw-

102

16-30

171

forces"

THE MEDITERRANEAN The British hold firm control of the Mediterranean--a hold that

British The

had

seven

capital

at

destined

of its

A widespread publicity caul paign is to begin shortly, and the Government are encouraging the

shelters.

The longest recommendations [deal with ventilation and heating. The objections to heating mast shelters, it is stated, outweigh the

Shelters liable advantages. crowding do not require heating

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1941. -PAGE

to

25

Danger to health lies in the pos- ability of too high, rather than too low, a temperature level. But sparsely-occupied shelters might be heated.

The Medical Research Council is

If you Value your Health-

Insist upon

Gordon's GIN

NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients

Installation of bunks in Anderson stated to be examining a spray to NOW CANNOT

reduce air-borne infection.

PLEA TO EXCLUDE MEN' Asked at yesterday's meeting

FASTEN HER

DOES

DRY GIN

DISTILLERY

LONDOEL

Since the accident she had com- pletely lost the use of her first Hinger and thumb, and for a long time was unable to dress herself. "She was unable to carry on her job as a hostery cutter because

If one looks at the map of Ger- was tightened by the results of man- conquested and compares the successful

Britain's naval strength now with British raid an

Communal surface shelters, it -lers, etc.)

Taranto, when one of six Italian her strength and that of her allies Kipling wrote of England's con-

battleships is known to have been in 1917, and if one remembers the suggested, should be allocated to

whether London County Council CORSETS-£750 - stant toll to great waters that we seriously damaged and at least new menace of the plane, it is specified residents, who should be have fed qur sea for a thousand one other was probably damaged. easy to understand that the war entitled to regard them as their would make representations to the

ia sea

be own and given keys if there are Government that men between 17 to

A sum of £750, which included she could not use scissors. She Technical stafs are EX years and she calls us still unfed ships and three aircraft carriers. long and uncertain, that it has indoors,

and 40 should be excluded from special damages was awarded at could not do her own washing.

to mitigate over-Leicester Assizes to Mrs. Kathleen The Judge called Mrs, Warner to plus cruisers, destroyers and sub-t elements of greater peril than amining self-chosen shelters, which tube shelters

will be scheduled it the standard crowding. Mr. Charles marines In the Mediterranean;

Latham, Mary Warner, aged twenty-seven, the Bench and, standing in front Leader of the Council, sald he was of James-street, Anstey, Leicester,of her, gripped both pf her hands, some of these can perhaps now be

not sure that he wholly agreed with who told Mr. Justice Oliver that spared temporarily. for duty else-

Summing up, he said that Mrs... where.

through an accident to a hand she Warner had a useful band and "I have made strong represen- was now unable to fasten her cor-that she was now very handicap- tations to the Ministry of Health sets or wash her own baby.

ped. He thought she had ́exag- xbput the evacuation of children

Mrs. Warner sued F. Harvison,gerated when she said she could and others from London which, builders' contractor, of Bosworth-not bathe her baby, and she must acted upon, would reduce conges-street, Leicester, for damages for tearn to use her hands tion in the shelters.".

and the foregoing statistics prove it. But, despite the man-orwar tonnage lost, Britain still has avallable a surface fleet consider- ably superior in fleet fighting power to Italy and Germany com-

Britain has ever faced.

HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS the suggestion. bined, as the following comparison because of the raid, that the Axis STOCK EXCHANGE

shows:

It now seems unlikely, however,

powers will be able at any time in

Ships. But. Britain Germany, Italy. the near future to overcome. Brl- Battleships 14

5

5

Pocket bat

tleships

2

Carriers

5

A

1

Cruisers

61

7

20

Destroyers

Submarines.

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tain's absolute capital ship super. tority. Of new battleships build- ing, German ships are still some distance from completion (excent for the new Bismarck, which either has been completed or is (The table above takes no ac-almost finished); two new Italian count of ships camaged or ships vessels are one or two years from

while Ave commissioning, "building. A considerable portion

of those listed are always in dock British capital ships of the King yard hands for repairs. For in within a year. It can be sald with George V. class should be ready

$405 stance, it seems likely that two or

some authority" that it is impro-f $105 three Italian battleships damaged in the raid on Taranto bable that any of these five ships are yet ready for sea service, and probably 50 to 100 British destroyers are undergoing repairs fore the end of this year.

though one of them may be be-

or refit.)

were

In addition to the types listed

SAFE BRITISH, MARGIN

new

above, each belligerent has a vast! Nevertheless, Britain's lead 'In fleet of auxillary vessels, but Bri-capital ships is so substantial as tain's strength in these categories to make it unlikely that the Axis

far exceeds that of her enemies. powers can overcome it unless 696

they win possession of French bat- MERCHANT FLEET MARGIN

tleships and at the same time sink

In mercantile tonnage the dis-or damage seriously a considerable parity is even greater. Britain number of British capital units.

'had some 21,000,000 tons of 'mer-

chant

British control of the Mediter- shipping when the warranean has also been tightened by started, but even then 40 to 45 per the sinking or capture of six of cent. of her normal imports were seven Italian submarines, origin- carried in foreign bottoms. Today, ally based in the Red Sea, by the the merchant shipping of the Italian, reverses in Greece and the #3) United States, Germany and Italy establishment of British naval and is not available, as in peacetime, al: bases on Crete and air bases

for Britain's carrying trade, and on the Greek mainland. Britain herself has lost more than 2,250,000 tons

The scarcity of water and oil

of shipping, while may make difficult for some time the British, Allied and neutral loss to come resumption of the Italian Is about 3,800,000 tons.

drive for the Suez Canal

How-

But considerable parts of the ever, because of shortage. in train- merchant fleets of such nations as ed man-power and in material, Norway, the Netherlands

and the British probably will not be Greece are now controlled by Eri- able to exploit on land the Greek

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One armed merchant cruiser Despite the seeming superiority flying the flag of the Reich is be- at sea that the statistics seem to lieved to have been operating in imply, the British advantage is by the

South Atlantic; a German

no means clear-cut. For Britain, pocket battleship. probably the despite her great dominance in Admiral Scheer. intercepted a surface strength, is facing the Canadian convoy in the North At- elusive threat of the submarine. (lantic., British battle cruisers, the plane, the fast motor torpedo withdrawn

possibly from boat, the hit-and-run surface Western Mediterranean, an Bir. craft carrier, cruisers and armed merchant cruisers are searching for these raiders.

raider and the mine.

EFFECT OF BLOCKADE What of Britain's blockade of a continent?

the

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