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RADIO Convoy Strategists Try To Elude Raiders And Submarines Look Through HOW THE CONVOYS BEAT THE NAZI

ZBW, 355 metres (845 lc.c.) nad 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Sibelius Symphony No. 2 In

D Major, Op. 43

This war opened with a field day

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e. for the German submarines. They were at sea prepared for action upon

H. K. T.

cession.

LAG

and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pmtie declaration of war and by the and 1 pm. on. 9.52 m.c's. per middle of this week had sunk about second.

40,0000 tone of Allied and neutral 12.25 pm, Shurt Service of Inter-shipping. But even this consider. able nimount of tonnage was well 1.38 Mozart Piano Concerto in B below the average weekly harvest Major, Elly Ney (Photo) with Cham-reaped by the U-boats in the early part of 17 when unrestricted sink- ber Orchestra.

12,65 Mozart Song. I'll Have Yen-tags of life was being carried on.

British immediately. began "The Marriage of Figaro), Alexander Kiis (Bass), placing the convoy system in opera- Elisabeth Ruziczka (Mezzo-Soprano)tion and this precaution, together 1.00 Local Titan Signal and Wea-with other anti-submarine mensures ther Report.

revs to be obtaining the desired 103 Maxine Sullivan (Vocal) and rusult, if reports concerning the de- nf Bubmarinu Benny Goodmart and His Orchestra creased number

1.30

Reuter and Ruby Press, successes can be relied on. Weather Foreenst' and Annoulice- menin.

cance from

145 Variety with Charlle Kunz, Max Miller, Bob Hallia, The Duncan Sisters and Robinson Cleaver,

215 Close Down.

6.00 An hour of Dance arusle,

The

Convoying merchant ships is not o modern concept. The Homans con- Voyed their grain ships; Venice. In the. heyday of mercantile power. convoyed its ships; Spain's Convoys to and from America are historical; and Britab safeguarded its merchant

0.58 Closte Local Stock Quota-slips by this means in the time of tions.

7.00 London Relay-Musical Come-

d in Miniature. Citier of Music: Venice,

7.30 London Itelay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report und Announcements.

Napolech and during ila troubles with the United States.

However, convoying in other days was an entirely different proposition from to-day's method of handling the

Before the problem.

dunger of sudden attack by submarines com- plicated matters, a convoy was a loose agregation of ships that was accum- panled by one or more men-of-war to

8:03: Variety Programme with Oliver Wakefield. Georgo Formby, Gracie Fields, Eflie Atherton. Some

guard against raiders, and of These Days, Moanin! Low, Sophle Tucker. Pancalce Tuesday. Through usually it was only necessary for a out The Empire (A far-flung Relay), ship to remain in sight of an escarling. Max Keter and Jolin de Grey, vessel in order to be safe. Some- Tresell Harry Robbins with The times, however, a daring privateer, weather conditions, Four Bright Sparks. Crazy. Commen- favoured by tarica (Id Riding Hood v. The would be able to cut out a prize from Woll), Max Kester. By The Blue under the very nose of an escort, Elavallen Waters, Reginald Foort. To-dny's convey must proceed in The Voice Of Inexperience, Oliver a close and regular formation so that Wakefield. The Vision of Fuji-Sun, It can manoeuvre and be screened by Reginald Foort. My Young Mon's the escorts. The closer the farma- Ever So. Nice. Dennis, The Menacetion the less the target presented for from Venice, Emle Atherton, George submarine attack and the fewer the Formby Medley. Outside An Old number escorts required,

The quintessence of conveying is to prevent a submarine from attain ing a position from which it can successfully launch ils turpedoes against selected targets. The most | advantageous position for such an

Stage Door, Qld Father Thames, Broad Front for Convoys' Grade Fields. The Legionnaires, Sally The Circus. Queen, Warner and Getting Sentimental Darnell, I'm Over You, Falling In Love With You, Andy lona and His lalanders.

0.63 Studio Comments on Recent Events

0.15 London Relay News Sum-attack is somewhere fairly close on mary.

Course

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The purpose of the zigzag is fo confuse a lurking submarine and pre- vent it reaching a firing position There is, of course, the possibility that one of the changes of the ship's course will throw a waiting sub- marine fute the desired position, but the advantages of the zigzag far out- weigh is possibility.

is nothing the submarines can do except to submarine and try to get away, because if it has been seen, a barrage of depth bombs will surely follow.

Perhaps all the ships draw away the bow of an oncoming ship, and the rapidly. There may be an oppor D40 Folk Musle. Mutual Love, chances of making a hit rapidly de-tunity for a shot on the fly, but The Comical Fellow, Folk Dance creases as the submarine draws usually the chance has gone and there Band conducted by Ronale Munro, farther aft of his formation has a La Volta, Ayre Tower Hill; You're brond frout and a position. Pretty (Englih Jig); Butter'd Please For this reason, the convoy shallow (English Folk Song, Nancy Wants depth. For instance, all the ships in Her Own Share (Irish Folk Tune), a convey at up to seven venels would The Pipers' Guild Quartet, The probably steam Ina line abreast of Berkshire Tragedy (English County each other. Larger convoys would Song), O. Sad Ending, Oliver Crom-be in a line of columns of ships, with well (English County Song), Our Bill rarely more than four or five shilps in

drilled ships, accustomed to steaming chips visible at a distance. 9.43 Three Brahms' Songs by in convoy, the assigned distance be- Elona: Gerhardt

A submarine awash can sight an (Iezzo-Soprano),tween slips in a column might be approaching ship many miles away, Nacht), Standchen, Feldeinsam- as little as 500 yards, with 800 yards but can itself be seen from a dis- between columns. With large or tance of only three or four milos. a poorly drilled ships, these distances Once a ship is sighted and

dangerous waters

Zigzags are only used when in

presence of a submarine is suspected, or when the (Vocal). Scandinavian Dances, Folkea column. If they are bandy, well-there/is sufficient moonlight to make and they are not used.at night unless

Dance Orchestra.

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9.56 Brahms. Variations on Theme by Paganini, Op. 35. Pell (Piano).

1015 Sibellus, Symphony No. 2 In

and 1200 yards respectively.

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The positions talten by the escort-tion where it can use its weapons.

submarine. proceeds toward the post-

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Above: A standard "close convoy" is, shown in perspective. Destroyers do not necessarily maintain a straight course but zigzag and cover considerable area to keep the water clear of submarines. Contro: A typical sigzag course which,, for simplicity, is shown with equal shifts of course, cach, of which is followed for an equal period of time,

A

The "Telegraph":

50 YEARS

Jan. 9, 1800, Nebody would think to go through Shaukiwan village; what a neat Of Pirates It is

The remains of the date - Roberts Browning are being brought to England. for Internment in Westminster Abboy.

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 3, 1915. Ills Holiness the Pope has telegraphed. to the Kalier, appealing to his feelings of Christian charity to terminate a dia- astrous year and begin the new year with an net of Imperial generally by -nccepting the proposal for an exchange of prisonem, who are unfit for military service, between the belligerents. Tho Katser, replying, anxured the Tops that the proposal finds his full sympathy, Ele sayThe feelings at Christian charity which inspired this proposal cor- respond thoroughly with my own con❤ viction and desires.”*

10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 3, 1930.. M. Bart, a French aviator experiment- ine with speed machines, to-day covered the 36 miles from Croydon Aerodrone to Le Bourget Field In 88 minutes, Io was flying a Gaiden Ray plane, and overaged approximately 100 miles an hour. This in-n record..

5 YEARS AGO

Jan. 3, 1935. The trint of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with the kidnapping and mur dor of the infant son of Cotonel and Mr. Charles Lindbergh, opened to-day

NAVAL WEDDING

Looking extremely attractive in a pretty dark dress with hat to match, Mis Elizabeth Mary Kathleen Weeks, of Shanghal, entered St. John's Cathedral yesterday

evening, to be married to Surg. Lt. Joseph. Francis Meynell, IN.

Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell gave the bride away and the best man was Surg. Lt. W. Forrest. Following the wedding many friends of the bride and groom attended a reception held on the groom's ship.

Surg. Lt. Meynell is the son of the late. Dr. Meynell and Mrs. Moynell of Manchester, England, and the

Below: During the World-War-a-favourite-dewito for follow-bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. ing zigzag course was to mark the various courses on a cardboard Weeks of Shanghal. disk fitted to the face of a clock, so, they coincida with the times

Rev. W. H. S. Chapman omelated. when they were to be made. When the minute hand reached the new course, the wheel went over to put the change Into affact, All changes are made on time alone and, no signals are required other than the initial order placing a sigzag, in effect. The "clock"

COMING SHORTLY TO THE

shows the variations for the zigzag shown in the contro, assuming KINGS

that the initial couro is 150 degrees.

Planning The Germans Dare Not Stop

World Of To-Morrow

MR. W. ARNOLD-FORSTER,

Russians who Whisper

AMSTERDAM-Germans crossing the frontier into

Egon would have to be increased to 1,000 proximate course is determined, the the writer and lecturer, told the Holland to-day say that the Nazis are growing more and. Manchester Reform Club recent-more anxious about the way the German Communists are ly that, when peace terms come coming out in the open.

D Major, Op. 43. Serge Koussevitzkying ships depends entirely upon the and the Boston Symphony Orchestra,

21.00 Close Down,

JAPANESE WARNED

New China Regime Will Not End The War

Tokyo, Jan. 2.

number made available for duty and

any special conditions that may exist..

sea,

Speed Must Be Gauged

to be discussed, the case of Under the shelter of the arm alf

Ideas.

are

REGISTRAR RETIRES

In general, they operate shend of the If the ship maintains a steady France would have to be under-Stalin Communists are making whis- convoy and on the bow and beam of course, further, observations by the the outboard columns. When possible, submarine permit it accurately to de- stood as well as that of Ger-pering propagande.

Even soldiers in barracks one of them trails the convoy to pre-termine what is course and speed many.

stated to talk openly of Communist vent a submeriac following it and to should be to alisin the desired post- assist any vessel that may alraggle. tion.

Mr. Arnold-Forater said he hopedics. Bul, it te zhlp suddenly

Several reports have been] sent from Harrison commanders, Merchant captains unhcquainted changes its course, all the aubmarine's Britain would support the restoration with convoy duty, do not take kindly calculations aro nullified, and usually of a genuine Poland confined to particularly in the Czecho-Slovak tomed to sicering steady courses using full speed. With armed escorts Gemmans; a Poland with free access Ito it. They have always been accus without coming to the surferg and Sluding White Brian, Ukrainians or this fcellar

it is unable to begin a new approach genuinely Poish people, not in areas, complaining of the growth of

Mr. E. P. H. Lang, fonner Registrar: The Nazis are somewhat bewil-will leave, Hongkong tomorrow. along the routes to their destinations,

of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Lang and their natural inclination is to present, this procedure is impossible to the sca.

dered because no one, even those Mr. Lang retired recently and will give all other vessels wide berths at and the convoy goes on its way in

high up in the Nazi Party, knows Russia, he said had reverted to just now what the ocial attitude probably settle down in the south of Nor is the Declaring the prospects of a rottle furnished with equipment mich, as

merchant ship safety.

brutal, power policy because, she had

England. ment of the China Allair are sull the man-of-war has for signalling the van of a convoy make it Im-boration

The escorting vessel or vessels in been denied British and French colls towards Communiom is. They fear

In preserving collective that if they come down hard on the „Mr. Lang to a native of Monmouth- the Minisler, Shunrokit Anta, in his New Year room, faclifies for quietly determine happens to be in a favourable post- night win Russin back to a loyal friendly, towarths Husat);

small changes of speed to the engine

for a submarine which peate; but, if we showed falth, we talkers they may be punished them-shire and came to Hongkong in 1905 for taking an altitude too una solicitor. He worked with. message calls upon the people to ing the revolutions of the engines, tion, to get more than occasional part in the community of nations.. effect dose co-operation in the at- and means for measuring distances. glimpses of le targets through the

Descons until 1914 when he returned For the races which had been The Communists are adopting the to England to serve in the World War. tainment of the objective of the However, it does not take merchant periscope. "sacted campaign. aimed at the estab-captains long to learn the ropes and

Czecho-Slovakia, we would want policy of praising unit while say-He was commissioned in the 1st Halfment of a new order in Eait Aain. convoys soon manage to manoeuvre, unless fired within 300 yards, requires Gestapo.

An accurate shot with a torpedo, freedom;. nd dictatorship of the ing Uttle actually of Communiem: Monmouthshire Rides and was demo "A complete

Similarly, Sudeten Ger. They praise the Itussion paet warmly, bilised with the rank of Captain in settlement China Affair is not an cary, tasic. A out ligg is not a wild, rambling the Aring ship and the target, to be States must have something like a

of the zigzag, and get along at night with that the course and speed of the target mans should be free to attach them point out that the Soviet is the who told, He joined the Hongkong new Central Government will come

and the angle between the courses of selves to their own society. These power which is standing by the Ger- Government in 1928, The zigzag

mans, argue that Germany is after Into Malence in China. Shortly but dash at will over the ocean, but onlosely approximated. it will not signify an early termina the contrary, in a carefully worked a submarine have been so fortunate bours.

Even should federal association with their neigh- nil, atmest Socialist......

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of the current.emergency." oul, orderly method of altering then, to have obtained these data, It There could be no War Minister Hata warns the course by people against any feeling of relaxa specified limes. It is not a dificult is very disquieting to come up and the Czechs or the United States. All

defalte amount at usually tries for a final checkt, and it negotiation which ruled out the Foles GERMANS IN TYROL don which will affect the combined procedure for a single ship, but with find the entire convoy, is off on an- nations which could bring to that

Landoh, Jan. 3 power and strength of the nation. 20 to 40 ships of indifferent other courso,

"The situation in Europe and other manoeuvring qualities and varying

table, for the planning of the world The last batch of the Germans Parts of the world is becoming in-turning circles, steaming in close change of course is made just be had a right to be there to shape, not December 11 and were met at the For the same reason, a radical of tomorrow, impartial judgment living in Tyrol left by midnight on creasingly complicated and

le formation, the proposition is an en-fore dark, and the base course is the terms of armistice, but the frontier: by Gestape arents, who beccssary for the Japanese nation to tirely different one.

not resumed until it will pass a con- foundations of world peace, orcorted them to Austris, according make all possibles preparations for

siderable distance to one side of the sivaling the prospective developments Zigzagging Carefully Planned

We must make distinction between to the "Rome correspondent of the prolongation of the original course, terms of... - arinistice-those things Daily Express. of the world attuation on the one bad feature of even the best de- The same kind of change is made in which we insuited upon and the Over 50,000 preferred to become. hand and fall their duties the signed zigg, is that the distance mediately preceding daylight, to elude frea conditions of lacussion of those fallan citizens, while 10,000 elected tement of the China Affair on the inade good-along the base course, in a submarine which may have passed things we hoped to secure by equality to return to Germany, under Nazi ether in the face of all threatened over more than 70 per cent, of the shend during the night to assume a of negotiation. The two points had promises that they will be provided contingeficiosomal,

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favourable position at dawn.

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for-Reuter Special.

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In his younger days Mr: Lang went In for most sporta, principally, shoot- ing, walking and riding. He has a son, Mr. C. B. Lang, wire is a com- missioned officer in the Fleet Air Arm, England.

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