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The War At Sea

Though the Navy must be a silent Service, its actions are soon

LONDON LETTER

Air Mail News From The Empire Capital

Borenius,

A

fine

in

LONDON In their new and ad-, brother, Mr. Eimar inlruble campaign of "aking the former Finnish diplomat and a

scholar,

lives now Ministers classical confidence" public into have sought and obtained the advice Sweden, and has two sons in the

of the newspapers.

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 After Two Days Yesterday the evening newspapers

senseless.

Swedish army.

☆

Sailing Ships HARDLY more than a dozen of the large old-type sailing ships are in commission to-day. None of them

now belongs to Britain.

mine-infested ceas.

Hitler's Wireless Offensive

ACCORDING to experts excured the free subtle, Gerr

"But

the more

German

in London, who devote propagandists do not usually expose themselves to a day-by-day themselves to the chance of, such a

decisive refutalion, analysis of world, broad- One of the most popular forma casting, Hitler himself adopted by them is to ransack re- ports of official Commissions of directs

wireless investigation, letters to the "Times" propaganda.

German

for admissions and criticisms which, when taken from their contexts, give- The German Chancellor the required false impression. A

Not all of them are sailing the long ago recognised the im-

In

But one has

of the war.

favourite trick is to resurrect some long-forgotten disturbance and to

British statement

ent (often official) on local mal-nutrition or poverty, so giving the impression of brutal sup- effective answer in such canes is not pression and exploitation. The most

people concerned.

should.

DURIN

the social,

declared by results. The war at reported the authoritative figures of already gone down-the Oilve Bank, portance of this form of link it in a broadcast with a recent

a Swedish four-master, built in Bri-warfare and in his text sea has been progressively more U-boat prisoners. Pictures of these tain, which struck a mine in the book, "Mein Kampf", while disastrous to German plans. In the men being brought ashore were after curly weast war a number of these criticising the type of pro-

They last woven days, we fear only one ally available on Sunday. Jack Jackson's Orch. British ship, and that a small vessel were not released until this morning ships were sunk. Six Eight.

has been sunk by the U-boat attack.

a source that is un- from a learn

I was looking to-day at a painting PL.ganda carried out by Ger- laborious and long-winded analysis of the composite falsehood, but a 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

official war pictures have been taken wood, the wool clipper which was Jock Hylton's Orch. month, when the German Admiralty in France by one photographer alone, sunk by the Germans in 1917. crude and inept, he dis- ally been achieved for

had all its avallable submarines A handful, from all sources, have The enemy crew had Bunk

cussed at some length the economic and political welfare of the Jack Hylton's Orch. lurking, posted beforehand. for been pubilshed.

French ship Just before, and her form which he considered deadly stroke against our Mercantile

✩ ✩ ✩ store of wine had gone to their heads. So the crew of the Colling such propaganda Jack Hylton's Orch. Marine on its normal, individual,

URING the past few weeks the -unprotected voyages,were.....65,000

Grand-Duko ill.

wood were treated with a boisterous

propaganda offensive against the Hal Kemp's Orch, tons. Prompt counter-offensive,

But Hitler's conscience in re- British Empire has been intensed. hunting the U-boats with destroyers THE Grand Duke Dmitri, nephew lack of ceremony, and were allowed take.--

It is, broadly speaking, carried out to- of the late Tear and a popular only ten minutes in which to leave:

gard to his later actions in .Samy Kaye's Orch. and aircraft and organising of figure in the clubs of London, is the ship.

inspire contempt for the Empire in weekly in a Swiss sanatorium, He has been Conrad Was On Officer Europe, in spite of his asser-neutral countries and to induce Larry Clinton's Orch. sinkings by a third, by two-thirds, there for nearly three months. Another of Mr. Spurling's pictures tions to the contrary, is not sense of guilt among the people of Owing to the war he is cut off on view in a Park-lane gallery shows altogether clear and his propa-uspicion and discontent anywhere in

Britain itself as well as to

foment Artie Shaw's Orch. by five-sixths, till now we have

them reduced to almost nothing.

from his family and friends and the "highbrow" Torrens in which clamours for English news,

Joseph Conrad was once chief officer ganda, clever as some of it un- the Empire where the local situation Tommy Dorsey's Orch.

The Grand Duke is 48 years old 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. Dorothy Lamour,

und has one son.

the nineties.

It also retains an astonishing Empire in a state of decay and by This in the first show of Mr. amount of that same crudeness the idea will be to use a commer

continual suggestion It is hoped that .Fats Waller's Orch.

Spurling's work. He himself died

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I understand that certain members of the Russian colony in France have been interned. Others, numbering French army. two thousand, are serving in the

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of such a

cerned. The acceptance pleture would have a wide-spread effect. It would. allenate sympathy und in some cases might invite

the British and French neutrals.

It is not to be supposed that this immunity will be continuous. tier- inany will assuredly do her utmost to renew the attack and we must be prepared for further loss. But the losses which the German asub

six years ago, after seven years at of 1914-1918 which he himself jeial term-"sold" to the people con- sen, a period on the stage, and a deplored so strongly. marine service has suffered will be

Ufellme spent London Schome

In painting hts hard to repair. It is

The Grand Duke Dmitri is unable favourite sailing ships. CHATER ROAD, authoritively estimated to-day that to interest himself in their welfare

THIS makes the task before tack on the part of powciful SEAAAAAAAAA" | something like half the larger as he would have liked to do. But U-boats which Germany had allout Prince Vsevolod of Russia, and his

In Britain itself it might have the at the beginning of the war have wife, Princess Romanovsky-Pavlov-THE annual dinner of the Boone transmitting stations somewhat

alty, have launched a

and Crockett Club to be held casier. There are several ways effect of undermining the people's London to supply them with clothes in New York.

confidence in their traditional place But this year the of tackling German offensive in the world, while in India and So far as lo imown, Germany then and other necessities. had about 70 submarines completed, The Princess is collecting bales of dent will be missing, for he but the best one, it is cor- among the indigenous inhabitants of Major Kermit Roosevell, now serving sidered, is to nail the lies, the Colonial dependencies, every only

about half the number were wool and distributing them each with the British Army. large enough to be of service beyond week to members of the Russian

The club is exclusive. the narrow seas It is obviously on colony and others, who knit socks thesa larger and more destructive busily for their compatriots. craft that the Incidence of loss would he heaviest.. We know by the CCA50- tion of attack or British vessels that the surviving U-boats have for the time fled from our shipping lanes. They have many reasons. The hunt has been too hot,

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It is the emanating so freely from that group with a grievance would feel

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It is calculated, enn be big game hunters Shiker Club. And broadcasting a refutation. achieved by putting-over the idea of it was founded by President Teddy

This is being done daily from a populace in Britain, cheated and Rooseveli, father of Major Roosevelt, London and is indeed, the main misi

gang

of unscrupulous American Ald HAD a talk to-day with London's!

It is restricted to a hundred mem- objective of the British and politicians, Jinanciers and industrial magnates, who maintain themselves most distinguished Finn, Dr. bers, with a few associate members French broadcasting organisa- by the brutal exploitation of

"subject - elected Tancred Borenius, the art expert.

for distinguished achieve-tions. Dr. Borenius has just returned ments.

The picture drawn is neither so English Members

An effectivo example of re- direct nor so definite ns this, but Experience of the last war makes from a journey to Paris on behalf

of the Polish Relief Fund. Now the There are three English associate turning the lie direct was pro- every news item, every broadcast or it certain that the endurance and for 1940 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

clyffe Dugmore and Mr. Martin station recently. The French a piece of the general mosaic, trusted in such conditions. The fle tells me that the Americans are Stephens.

The embedded lle is partly con- German Admiralty, frustrated in its

announcer was dealing with a leaf- Major Dugmore, the doyen of big lot 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 belleves that the game photographers, will be 00 on

to which it relates. marines and other commerce des-Finns can hold out for a considerable Christmas Dar, ind for been a man planes in France. It accused areas other

of For example, garbled versions troyers-afloat and in the air to use time. He has the greatest respect wanderer since boyhood, when he Britnin of exploiting the French to all the resources of frightfulness on for their marksmanship.

went adventuring with his father in fight her wars (one of the Gorman compulsory Inbour regulations in undefended prey, the shipping of

Introducing Finland.

favourile forms of attack) and Africa are broadcast to North Ameri- ea and accounts of "stricken" Malaya neutrals.

Dr. Borenlus, a member of the He studied painting in Italy and showed on a background of war two being driven to destitution to pay for.... 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 and veyed to Latin America. and tradition of the sen on the rights kind of chaperon to the new Finland Journeys have taken him through seription,

This more subile form of propa- of neutral ships against a belliger in 1018, "Introducing" her to the Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Central eighty-thousand Englishmen fell in eat. Nothing except the safety of a various foreign Powers.

America and British East Afrlen.

1914-1918", and opposite, French gonda is less easy to counteract and belligerent vessel can justify it in He ha a sister Finland and o

★

badles piled high with the asser complaints have been heard that the

and paucity sinking, a neutral. The German war number of other relatives, of whom

terseness tion: one million, four hundred broadenst by the French and British on neutrals is being conducted, ac- he has not yet received news. HI

Double Ministor cording to the commander of one

and twenty-five thousand French- transmilting stations do not off-set IN peace time Mr. Ernest Brown, U-boat, under orders that neutral of 1917. Then as now she believed

these untruths na effectively as they. the new Minister for War, thought men died 1914-1918". shipping may be destroyed "on the that her brutality could frighten the week-end li-spent if he did not

The French announcer's comment might.

Great Britain and France have,. ground of destination." But apart neutral shipping from the seas and deliver at least one sermon. He is on this was as follows: "There is

the ndopted from capture neutral vessels have; terrify neutral countries into sacri- the

about only Cabinet Minister

this however, definitely who something horrible been torpedoed when they were Being their trade for her benefit. preaches regularly.

counting up of corpses, this num-policy of giving the truth only with going from one neutral port to on- 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 no Governments comes no sign of sub- less leisure for the minister of the obliged to bring to lo again all the propaganda or in relation to some taught 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 general attempt

resist the U-boat or se mission, but stern protest and pins Gospel, and Mr. Brown has been in mallaring and sorrow of the last war, particular event.

It is firmly believed that the final cape,

Germany will the pulpit only twice since the war it may be recalled that the actual, Thus far the Scandinavian of self-protection. countries have been the victima suf- And that the seamen of the world began,

uncontestable, and uncontested, figuro result will be more effective than fering most, but Germany has are as determined to defy her now He is to make his third appearance of British fosses during the Great the less accurate and misleading, but destroyed ships of other, nations and as they were then, and the capacity on Sunday at Bloomsbury Baptist War is one million and eighty-nine doubtless more dramatic, headlines blared threats all over the world. of British sen power to defend them Church. He is deputising for Dr. F. thousand, nine hundred and nineteen of the German wireless and press,

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