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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 13, 1940.

BRITAIN'S COASTAL COMMAND KEEPS GUARD ALONG THE SHORES OF ENGLAND

BRITAIN'S "Coastal Command" controls all units of the Royal Air Force engaged in coastal Reconnaissance in home waters in conjunction with Admiralty requirements.

The Command is responsible for all air escort of convoys, for rounding up and report- ing ships which have sailed away from their convoy or are sailing independently, and for anti- submarine patrols over wide areas. For this work it is equipped with land machines, seaplanes and long-range flying-boats..

The sea area covered by Coastal Command aircraft stretches from Iceland to Norway and from west of Ireland far down into the Bay of Biscay.

From the outbreak of war enemy submarine activity imposad heavier duties upon Coastal Command than any other of the Royal Air Forco Commands and during the first four weeks of war along Coastal Command aircraft flow more than a million miles on reconnaissanco, anti-submarino and convoy duties.

Appalling weather conditions have been encountered in the course of the daily patrols,, which are frequently out of sight of land for hours at a strotch, necessitating navigational ability of a high order.

There have been many instances of those policemen of the air sighting scamen of various nationalities adrift in open boats and directing other vessels to the rescue.

In encounters with enemy aircraft over the North Sea Coastal Command aircraft have again and again demonstrated the superior fighting qualities of the British Air Crows.

So, day by day, in fair weather and foul, the pilots of Coastal Command seek to make the seas safe for Britain, hor Allies and the neutral countrics.

BLENHEIMS,

the 'British bom-

bars with the agility of single-engined fightors.

BELOW, a series of photographs showing how a con- -stant watch is being kept by the R.A.F. on Britain's coast.

KEY

1. A group of pilots con- sult the map in regard to their routo.

2. Some of the pilots refreshing their mem-

orics on bombs and

machine guns,

3. Three of the flying boats

taking off.

4. Two planes of

patrol in flight;

coastal

Submarine Is

Feared Lost

H.M.S. Soal Now Long Overdue

LONDON, May 12 (Router). -The British submarine Seal, which is overdue and is pre- sumed lost, was commanded by Lieut. Commdr. R. P. Lonsdale, who was mentioned in des- patches a few days ago.

His wife died in September, 1937, Jeaving an infant son.

Hongkong Saw Her

*The Seal was one of the sub- marines which appeared In the Intest Paramount British news-reel shown at the King's Theatre last week In conjunction with the Alm "U-Boat 20"*

The Seal was shown being hailed upon her return to a British part after successfully attacking, several German transports in the Skager Rak during the invasion of Norway. Them included a close-up of Lieut-Commander R. P. Lonsdale. commander of the Seal which show hkn weary-eyed and unshaven after a long and hazardous adventure in perilous Norwegian waters,

Crow Members Captured LONDON, May 12 (Reuter). Foreign reports indicate that sume members-of-the-crew-of-the-sub- marine Seat are prisoners of war. The vessel is of 1,500 tons. earrled normal complement of 35

men.

It

I was the seventh British sub- maring lost through enemy action since the war began. One was lost

as the result of an accident.

Britain has now 49 of the original | 57 submarines with which she started the war.

Not one of France's 78 submarines has been lost.

Both countries have many more being built,

COMING to the

KING'S

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