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The War At Sea
Though the Navy must be silent Service, its actions are soon
LONDON LETTER
Air Mail News From The Empire Capital
Hitler's Wireless Offensive
D
ACCORDING to experts exclaimed the French announcer.
"But
the more subtle German
Borenlus, LONDON.In their new and ad-, brother, Mr. Eimer mirable campaign at "talding the former Finnish diplomat and a fine.
cunûdence" Ministera classical public into have sought and obtained the advice Sweden, and has two sons in the themselves to a day-by-day themselves to the chance of such a
of the newspapers,
I suggest that the Ministers should now address the same request to their own colleagues in charge of the three Services.
The hold-up of news which would
be stimulating to the people is severe. The hold-up of pictures is merely senseless.
scholar,
Swedish army.
lives now.
in
Sailing Ships HARDLY more than a dozen of the large old-type salling ships ure in commission to-day. None of them now belongs to Britain.
mine-infested scas.
But one has
in London, who devote propagandists de not usually expose
decisive refutation.
One of
the most popular forms: analysis of world broad- casting, Hitler himself adopted by them is to ransack re- of directs propaganda.
German
wireless ports of oficial, Commissions
investigation, letters to the Times" for admissions and criticisms which, when taken from their contexts, give The German Chancellor the required falso impression. A trick is to resurrect. come
to
After Two Days
Not all of them aru saliing the long ago recognised the im. favourotten. disturbance and
British statement (offen oficial) on the
a Swedish four-master, built in Bri- warfare and in his text local mal-nutrition or poverty so He has been progressively more U-boat prisoners. Pictures of these tain, which struck. a. roine in the book, "Mein Kampf", while giving the Impression, of brutal sup declared by results. The, war at reported the nu evening newspapers already gone down-the Olive Bank. Fortance of this form of lak. It in is broadchst with a recent pression and exploitation. The most dinaatrous to German plans. In the mea being brought ashore were petu- early weeks of the war.
Sunday. They In the last waria number of these criticising the type of pro-effective answer in such cases is not last seven days, we learn only oneally available on British ship, and that a small vessel were not released until this morning ships were, sunk..
I learn from a source. that is un- I was looking to-day at a painting Peganda carried out by Ger- a laborious and long-winded analysis has been sunk by the U-boat attack. BD5531-Till the Lights of London Shine Again. FT. Jackson's Orch. Our losses in the first week of the deniable that more than a thousand by Mr. Jack Spurling of the Colling many during the last war as positive statement of what has actu ..Jack Hylton's Orch. month, when the German Admiralty.in France by one photographer alone.punk by 13h4: Germana In 1917: crude and inept, he dis-ally been...Achloved for the social,
French ship just had sunk
DD5532-Berlin or Bust. Quick Step
Jack Jackson's Orch. Chi Ain't it grand to be in the Navy. Six Eight.
I'll pray for You. F.T.
BD5838--Most Gentlemen Don't like Love. FT.
My Heart belongs to Daddy, F.T.
BD5530 Good Bye Sally. FT.
A Mother's Prayer at Twilight.-FT.
BD5537-I'll remember. F.T.
Lords of the Air. Quick_Step.
BD5534-Siberfon Sleigh Ride, T.T.
In an 10th Century Drawing Room. FT. RDS530-Let's make Memories To-night. F.T.
Yours for a Song. F.T.
BD3535-An Apple for the Teacher. F.T.
Sill the Bluebird Sings. F.T.
B8007 Out of Nowhere. FT... I'm Coming, Virginia, F.T.
B8908-Tea for Two. F.T.
Night In Sudan. F.T.
B8992-Comes Love
My Heart Keeps Crying.
BD5533-Anita. T.T.
S.
I used to Love You. F.T.
Jack Hylton's Orch.
Jack Hylton's Orch.
Hai Kemp's Orch.
Samy Kaye's Orch Larry Clinton's Orch. Artie Shaw's Orch. .Tommy Dorsey's Orch. Dorthy Lamour. Fats Waller's Orch.
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amcial war pictures have been taken wood, the wool clipper which was
had all its available submarines A handful, from all sources, have lurking, posted beforehand, for a been published. deadly stroke against our Mercantile Marine on its normal, Individual, unprotected voyages, were. ·66,000
Grand Duko Ill tong. Prompt counter-offensive, hunting the U-boats with destroyers THE Grand Duke Dmlari, nephew of the late Tear and a popular and aircraft and organising of figure in the clubs of London, is ill Convoys, diminished the weekly in a Swiss sanatorium. He has been sinkings by a third, by two-thirds, there for nearly three months. by five-sixths, till now we have
Owing to the war he is cut off from his family and friends and them reduced to almost nothing.
clamours for English news.
The Grand Duke is 48 years old and has one son.
of the composite falschood,
but a
+
concerned." + nang k people The enemy crew
2cussed at some length the economie and politiehl welfare of the and her form which he considered,
* * store of wine had gone to their
URING the past few weeks the heads. So the croy of the Colling such propaganda should
15 propaganda offensive against the wood were treated with a boisterous
take.
Blush Empire has been intensed. lack of ceremony, and were allowed only ten minutes in which to leave But Hitler's conscience in re-broadly speaking; carried out to gard to his later actions in inspire contempt fer, the Empire in the chip..
Europe, in spite of his asser-neutral countries and to induce a Conrad Was On Officer Another of Mr. Spurling's pictures tions to the contrary, is not sense of guilt among the people of suspicion and discontent anywhere in on view in a Park-lane gallery shows altogether clear and his propa- Britain itself as well as, to foment the "highbrow" Torrens in which ganda, clever as some of it un- the Empire where the local situation Joseph Conrad was once chief officer and John Galsworthy was a passen-doubtedly is, almost invariably appears to provide an opportunity,
The picture drawn is that of the ger from Adelaide to Capetown in betrays this mental weakness. I understand that certain members the is the first show of Mr-amount of that same crudeness the Idea will bo-to usa a commer- It also retains an astonishing Empire in a state of decay and by continual suggestion it is hoped that This
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It is not to be supposed that this immunity will be continuous. Ger- many will assuredly do her utmost
He himself died to renew the attack and we must of the Russian colony. In France have
But been interned. Others, numbering Spurling's work. be prepared for further loss.
cerned. The acceptance of such a the losses which the German sub-two thousand, are serving in the six years ago, after seven years at of 1914-1918 which he himself cial term "sold" to the people con-
French army,
sea, a period on the stage, and a deplored so strongly,
picture would have a wide-sprend marine service has suffered will be
lifetime spent London Scheme
in painting
☆ ☆
⚫effect. It would allenate sympathy very hard to repair. It
The Grand Duke Dmitri is unable favourite sailing ships.
the part of tack on
powerful CHATER ROAD. authoritively estimated to-day that to interest himself in their welfare
THIS makes the task before and in some cases might invite at- * something like half the larger as he would have liked to do. But
the British and French neutrals. U-boats which Germany hnd afloat; Prince Vsevolod of Russia, and his Chief Big Game Hunter
In Britain itself it might have the at the beginning of the war have wife, Princess Romanovsky THE Annual dinner of the Boone transmitting stations somewhat been sank.
sky, have launched a scheme in
and Crockett Club is to be held casier. There are several ways effect of undermining the people's London to supply them with clothes in New York.
conadence in their traditional pláco But this year the of tackling German offensive in the world, while in India and So far as is known, Germany then and other necessities.
The Princess is collecting bales of president will be missing, for he is but the best one, it is con- among the indigenous Inhabitants of had about 70 submarines completed, }.
dependencies, only about half the number were wool and distributing them each Kermit Roosevelt, now serving gidered, is to nail the lies, the
with the British Army. large enough to be of service beyond week to members of the Russian
The club is exclusive. It is the emanating so freely from that group with a grievance would feel encouraged to revolt. This three- the narrow seas. It is obviously on colony and others, who knit socks American equivalent of the British country, to the counter by fald result, it is calculated, can boʻ these larger and more destructive busily for their compatriots.
big game hunters Shikar Club. And broadcasting a refutation.
achieved by putting-over the idea.of craft that the incidence of loss would
It was founded by President Teddy
This is being done daily from a populace in Britain, cheated. and he heavlest. We know by the ceasa-
Roosevelt, father of Major Hoosevelt, London and is indeed, the main misied by a gang of unscrupulous tion of attack on British vessels that
half a century ago,
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the surviving U-boats have for the
HAD a talk to-day with London's
It is restricted to a hundred mem- objective of the British and politicians, inanclers and Industrial magnates, who maintain themselves time fled from our shipping lanes. most distinguished Fion, Dr.bers, with a few associate members French broadcasting organisa by the brutal exploitation of subject:
elected for distinguished achieve- tions: They have many reasons. The hunt, Tinered Borenius, the art expert.
Dr. Borenius uns just returned ments.
English Members
The picture drawn is neither so1. An effective example of re- direct nor so definite as this, but: Experience of the last war makes from a journey to Paris on behalf
There are three English associate turning the lie direct was pro- every nowe item, every broadcast or It certain that the endurance and of the Polish Relief Fund. Now the morale of U-boat crews cannot be problem of relief to his own people members, Lord Lonsdale, Major Rad- vided by a French broadcasting newspaper article is twisted to form
arisca
clyffe Dugmore and Mr. Martin station recently. The French a plece of the general mosaic trusted In
conditions. The
partly con- such
He tells me that the Americans are Stephens.
The embedded lie is announcer was dealing with a loaf Gerroan Admiralty, frustrated in its
Major Dugmore, the doyen of big let which had been dropped by Ger- cealed by transmitting a story to onslaught on us, has directed its sub planning a big effort in this direction.
Dr. Borenlus, believes that the game photographera, will be 89 on
For example, garbled versions of: marines and other commerce des- Finna can hold out for a considerable Christmas Day and has been a world man planca in France. It accused areas other than to which it relates..
Inbour
regulations compulsory time. He has the greatest respect wanderer since boyhood, when he Britain of exploiting the French to for their marksmanship.
went adventuring with his father in fight her wars (one of the German Afrien are broadcast to North Ameri Introducing Finland
a small schooner.
favourite forms of attack) and ca and accounts of "Birleken" Malays" He studied printing in Italy and showed on a background of war two being driven to destitution to pay for Dr. Borenius, a member of, the There is no doubt about the law Finnish Political Service, acted as a ornithology in America, and his Tommies lying dead under the in-the Singapore naval base are pur-
"Four hundred andveyed to Latin America. and tradition of the sea on the rights kind of chaperon to the new Finland Journeys have taken him through scription,
This more subila form of propa- of neutral ships against d belliger in 1910, introducing her to the Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Central eighty-thousand Englishmen fell in
America and British East Africa. ent. Nothing except the safety of a various foreign Powers,
1914-1918", and opposite, French ganda is less easy to counteract and belligerent vessel can justify" it in He has a sister in Finland und a
bodies piled high with the adsor- complaints have beer heard that the and paucity of news sinking a neutral. The Germen war number of other relatives, of whom on neutrals is being conducted, ac he has not yet received news. Is
tion: one million, four hundred terseness
transmitting stations do not off-set cording to the commander of onom
ow the belleved
IN pençe time Mr. Ernest Brown, and twenty-five thousand French-broadcast by the French and British
men died 1914-1918"
these untruths as effectively as they U-boat, under ordern that neutral of 1017. Then as now the
the new Minister for War, thought: The French announcor's comment might. shipping may be destroyed "on the that her brutality could frighten the week-end Ill-spent if he did not
Great Britain and France have,. ground of destination." But apart neutral shipping from the sons ond deliver at least one sermon. He is on this was as follows: "There is
about this however, definitely adopted the. only Cabinet Minister from copture neutral vessels have terrify amitral countries into sacri-the been torpedoed
when
they were
ficing their trade for her benefit, preaches regularly.
counting up of corpses, this num polley of giving the truth only with- going from one neutral port to an- The lesson of the last war has to be But additional war responsibilities bering of victims. We are not out all the embellishments which go other with a neutral cargo, They have been sunk though they made her faught her again. From, the neutral placed on the Minister of War left responsible for it, but since we are "to make a good story", be it generat
resist the U-boat or cs comes no sign of, sub-fleas leisure for the minister of the obliged to bring to life agoin' all the propaganda or in relation t attempt
but stern protest and Blans Gospel, and Mr. Brown, has been in suffering and sorrow of the last war, particular event. Thus far the Scandinavian of self-protection, Germany will the pulpit only twice since the war It may be recalled, that the actual, It is firmly believed that the frial countries have been the victims sut- and that the sanmen of the world herang
uncontestable, and uncontested figure result will be more effective than during the Grent the less accurate and misleading, but fering most, but, Germany has are as determined to defy her now He is to make his third appearance of British losses destroyed ships of other nations and as they were then, and the capacity on Sunday nt. Bloomsbury Baptist War, is one millions and eighty-nine doubtless more dramatte, headlines blared threats all over the world. of Belush sea power to defend them Church. He is deputising for Dr. F. thousand, nine hundred and nineteen of the German wireless and press,
PLEASE Turn To Page. 9. dead. Lies Lie Sull more Heal". PLEASE Turn To Page 9. She is raving again in the madness greater than ever.
* * Double Minister
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to some
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