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BLOCKADE

GLANCE at the map will show you why Napoleon, more than a century ago, cursed the geographical situation of Great Britain, why Hiller curses that same Inescapable fact to-day.

The heavy lines show the sca routes by which in peace-time urbanised Ger- industrialised. many receives her main imports of iron ore, wool, oil, cotton. wheat, coffee, fruit, butter, coal, timber, copper and tin from the U.S.A. Argentina, Brazil, India, China and Japan. "

To reach Germany all the North and South Atlantic sea routes must converge into two main traffic lines, both dominat- anded by the British Navy. The

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BLOCKADE POWER

IN the detailed list of materials destined for Germany but detained by our Ministry of Economic Warfare wo have proof of success which betters expectation. We learn

that: seizures of the very commodi- tles essential to the maintenance of armaments are still piling up. The fundamental weakness of Hitlerism's policy of aggression

is that in all the materials which

modern warfare requires the

Obrattar

MOROCCO

SCALE IN MILES

I

NEWS

REEL

FRANCE

ALGERIA

northern routes must pass some- where between the 250-mile span between Northern Scotland and Southern Norway, the southern routes must pass up the English Channel, through the 20-mile Straits of Dover. Those 270 miles control 85 per cent. of Germany's oversea trade routes, and those 270 miles are controll- ed by Britain.

would steam to the castward, Further South, the great thus preventing vessels slipping Mediterranean trade routes can through the cordon at night.

Ships nearer the extremity also be controlled by the Allied navies from several inses. At of the line would maintain what was known as a cross patrol, Suez, Malta and Gibraltar vessels steaming backwards and for- can be inspected for contraband. wards in line ahead, ncross the

How Blockade Works distance to the "in and out"

FINLAND

HUNGARY

KUMANIA

AVIA

SULGARIA

LIBYA

EGYPT

US S. R

From May 1, 1918, the To these control stations all track of shipping, for a similar blockade was maintained by a vessels suspected of carrying huge minefield laid between Nor- contraband to German ports are way and the Orkneys. Imme- conducted for examination. diately behind it, and in the Fair Prize Courts in the last war Island channel, hundreds of were sitting from September,

During the last war the block- patrols. ade of Germany was maintained

by the 10th Cruiser Squadron.

Figures Of Success

devices, ture of peace. Up to March 31,

1920, the amount which had passed through the Registry of the Court was £21,254,412; and

At its maximum strength this Throughout the period this destroyers, patrol vessels, traw- 1914, and did not conclude their included 20 armed merchant patrol was in operation, only 4 lers and other small craft, fitted work until long after the signa- cruisers, comprising ships of the per cent. of the merchant ships with anti-submarine Allan, White Star, Orient, An- crossing the Atlantic managed were constantly on patrol. chor, P. and O., Castle, Royal to avoid the blockade. During

- Contraband Control Mail, Furness Withy, Elders and the heaviest week recorded 156

ships were boarded and 68 sent In the English Channel the up to March 31, 1938, £6,770,927 Fyffes and other lines.

a comparatively was paid out to the Naval Prize These were commanded by into port for examination. Two blockade was naval officers, but otherwise the armed raiders succeeded in get- simple procedure. To-day, con- Fund for distribution among the through disguised as trol stations are established at personnel of the Royal Navy and personnel was mainly R.N.R. ting

Experience neutral merchantment, but two Weymouth, Ramsgate and Ler- those who were attached to it

wick (in the Shetland Islands). during the Great War. (ex-mercantile ). during the first few months of were detected and sunk. the blockade proved these to be much better suited for such work than the old naval cruisers employed at the beginning. This procedure not einls Foll naval men for strictly naval

I Went Hungry In Germany

against Poland

|

bined with a lower fuel consump-German

frontler

I

crossed

the

"Things have changed since the In my hotel that evening I ordered duties, but the merchant cruisers JUST before the first gun was fired!

days when I first served you, sir. coffee in the lounge. This waiter had greater storage space com-

into Bolglum al Hiller seems to curry favour with the spoke good English. He looked at me tion than the naval cruisers. Aachen. For nine hundred miles poor people by bearing down upon doubtfully, then bending forward he The mercantile personnel, too, had followed German highways and those who are better off. But he is sald: were well trained in spotting by-ways-on-the-road from Vicuna, falling-because-whereas-in-the-old -"You would not prefer a really gol other merchant vessels, and agy watching what and how much was days some ate very well indeed, and liqueur, sir?" odd features about those vessels. eaten by the peasants and towns-most of us suficient, now the day is

coming when none of us will eat; These merchant cruisers were

people.

armed with Gin. and 3in. guns, "I am sorry, sir, but I cannot anything at all." and their

fuelling

་

I shook my head, noting the

resigned shrug with which he accept-

ed the order. Twenty minutes passed, and then my coffco, come very small cup indeed. It was nsuscating

territory of the Reich, with all that it has annexed, is singular ly poor. This list of captures shows at once the extent of the dependence of Gorman military

capacity serve you steak," I was told at the effort on supplies which she can enabled them to stay at sea for restaurant in Vienna's once fashion- Synthetic Coffee

So I ordered an omelette, and some stuff, obviously synthetic. I drank not obtain from contiguous periods varying up to 30 days, able Ringstrasse.

The walter would not meet my eye. brown bread and butter, and a boils half of it, and then demanded fresh. Vessels were divided into patrols countries and the power of the which covered the whole area He was one of the old-guard who of wine. The wine was good, the wanted to make sure that even this blockade to stop supplies from from Iceland to the Hebrides, remembered the "gay city" in the omelette indifferent, and the butter famous hotel, in which many crowned

before the Nazl blight cast scanty. When

I asked for more hoads have stayed, could do no better, and as ice prevents ships from days

overseas.

In four months thou-passing north of Iceland for shadows over the faces of his cus-huiter, the waller pretended not to The waiter's eye told much that he sands of tóns. of petroleum and several months of the year it tomers. He glanced to right and left, hear. The Viennese know good wine, would not say.

by that alone. iron ore have been captured. was only necessary to keep that and then over.his shoulder before he but they will not long care to live tens of thousands of tons section patrolled during the old quickly:

of manganese and aluminium ores, great quantities of copper, lead and zinc, and valuable

necessary

in

summer months In the map the scored Brea rc- above, presents the extent of the ice during the winter months.

As a general rule ships were amounts of rarer metals about 30 miles apart, ainco munitions. visibility for the lock-out in the Materials for explosives and Crow's nest was usually about 16 miles. Zig-zag courses were war stores bulk large in the list. always steered to guard against attack, and the The blockade has been specially submarine effective against armament im-general rate of steaming was 15 knots. In the centre of the line] porta, and its effect is far what was known as an "in and greater than the figures exhibit. out patrol" was maintained.

Ships would steam in line What is seized we can compute. abreast (i.e. on parallel courses) What Germany had contracted along the tracks of shipping for for but found no shipping to 30 or 40 miles in one direction, and then for a similar distanco bring must

in the reverse direction. During amount.

the hours of darkness all shipa

be a far larger

There is no source from which

the Fuehrere ministers can duced in, Germany and Aus make good these deficiencfca. tria and Czechoslovakia. These Russia, if she chooses, if she overseas imports were absolute will be paid and if the transport necessities of the a

Barmament can be created, may supply some programame. As the strain on petroleum and perhaps sufficient, munition factories is raised to a manganeso. But for the rest higher tension the imports are her cupboard is bare. The lost. Such is the prospect of Reich Is isolated from the coun- Hitlerlam in its first war winter, tries which in the first half of With the loss of Importa Ger- the year supplied her with half many has also lost markets. her imports. We know that Nearly half her export trade nothing was being Imported was done with Britain and which could possibly be pro- France and neutrals ovarsons.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

142

“Ha's nice, but ba

n't do it couldn't" possibly use 'ode-mun" dog."

"Ir you would take my advice, sir-a liqueur," I had a brandy.

. Passau stands on the Danube, and, until the Anschluss in. March 1938, was a frontier town between Ger- many and Austria. Now it is a quiet country town in the heart of tha : Reich,

My hotel was a typical family establishment. I had my evening meal in a delightful garden overhung |with trees; where, in happier days,

the townspeople gathered to.

cat hugely and drink vast quantities of beer. But my only companlona, were- a soldier, eking out a glass of Ingår, and a family of four persons who ate coarse brown bread and cheese and drank nothing at all.

"Not To-day"

The waitress handed me menu.

It was a brightly-garnished nfair, having four long columns of attrac- tive-seeming dishes, I propired to eat well. Four", Hmes I made careful cholce, only to be told upon each occasion that that particular selection of dishes was "pat available to-day.” At last, I told the gir) to bring me whatever she thought 1 should like best of those Roms, which could be had;

My "meal consisted of a poiched, egg, a small portion of brown beans, some rye bread; This was followed. by stewed apples, unsweetened," For, drink I had on Indifferent lager.. Next morning I left without break": fast, determining to get a full, ment at some larger place upon the road, I made my choice carefully, stopping PLEASE Turn To Paza 9.