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August 30, 1940.

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•WALT DISNEY

WHY U.S.A.

Air Supremacy Over MUST HEL

Warships:

By Commander EDGAR

P. YOUNG, R.N. (Retd.)

INTERESTING

new

light

Inseen throw the

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warship v. aeroplane contro- veray by the communiques lagued recently by the Ad- miralty and the Air Ministry regarding the attacks made by aur Fleet Air Arm aircraft the Nazi battle cruiser Scharnhorst,

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It may be noted, to begin with, that the circumstances could hned- ly have been more favourable for the attacking force.

It was known that the Scharn- horst, after her suevesa, in compuny with her sister-ship, the Gneisen, against our aircraft-carrier Giors-

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curd her Ballant destroyer esenri, had taken shelter to Trond - helm Ford.

There she had been loented and allacked successfully by our bon- bers, so it must have been appli cipated that

ste would hotty

some

hove to make a dash for dockyard port in Germany for t

pr

In teipation of her mucking such a sortie, we had a submarine

or, mure probably, several sub- marines lying in wait off Bir en- trance of the Bord, with the mitis- factory rusuit not only that t satling was speedily reported but also that she was struck by one of their torpedoes.

Going to her destinatim doubt lens at reduced speed owing to the damages indicted on her by bush "henvlly and torpedo, she wus

presumably by de- escorted,"

the fall strayers, as well as by Menserschnitt fighters mentioned in our Air Ministry's communique

THE distance she had 16 ser with about QUG miles, turned ar the best four-fifths of tlust Jenziney who had to move inser and a fraser to mat oval loses at Scapa Flow. only 330 miles distant from Sta-

vanger

THE BRITISH CHARACTER

IN

By M. A. MALYON

TN the carriage of my accustomed train from town the other day I was joined by a soldier evidently back from the front. He was a big, burly man, and the perspiration streamed down his weather-tanned face-for it was a hot day- be divested himself of his incredible burden."

This included էի bulging pack, two equally bulging baga dangling down to his waist and jostling against a steel helmet. To crown all, thick overcoat. Issachar crouching between his two burdens was, in comparison, but lightly loaded.

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The soldier disposed all this im- pediments on the rack, and ex- pressed his rellef by nothing more

broad grin. than

"You

must find it heavy going in this weather," I said, sympathe- tically. Ho

grinned again and replied, "Oh, you get used to IL" Then he told me of some of the things that had been happening, to him, as a unit in the grent with- drawal from Northern France. He s quite laconic and unemotional as he related experiences which, to my civilian senses. seemed enough to try the strongest nerves, but which he accepted as a matter "of course, "Oh, you get used to it,'

was hits only comment.

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He was not only unshaken, but entirely cheerful and content. Al the perils and privations that he had endured were to him just part of the day's work.

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When he strapped on all his burdens again and got out with a friendly "So long." could not but say to myself, as the poet exclaim- ed to the village blacksmith

Thanks, thanks worthy friend, for the hou host taught." His untroubled, un- SALE acceptance ka of such an lot was not only a to any grumbling here at home, a fortification of faith in the triumph of the cause which rested on such a foundation. In that

but

simple soldler's character the no- tion must have defence stronger Dian any. Muginot

Thero, Line. Indeed, was something 011 which the nation could lean with its whole weight, knowing that under no strain would. It fail.

This, encounter. reminded me of

when he spoke of the ancient and inbred integrity, piety, good nature and good humour of the people of England." Thank Heaven that we at deserve t; and that we du sta I have and further witness.

A cottage-neighbour

mine,

who has been serving in France as a supper, has just reached home after moving accidents by flood ས་་ and field, the recital of which would be manterial for an epic. This man's perlloga way was taken deviously and dangerously from the Belgian front, through France

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of port. Days marching and Bghting were follow- ed by anbarkation on t ship that was bombed and sunk, and by a swim fot life under incessant machine-gun fire.

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When I met my friend in the lane he was in the highest fettle, looking as if he had just returned from a holiday at Skegness, and his spirits conveyed the same sug- gestion that he had been having a really good time. He radiated cheerfulness.

My friend had no thought of defeat. On the contrary, he was full of pride in the way in which "the boys" had borne themselves and had stood up to all that came to them. The only thing that irked him was the ubiquitoué treachery that had dogged the British Army's movements, even to the last, but nothing had. happen- ed to dim his confidence or

disturb his serenity of mind. He was in- yesterdays

deed " man of cheerful and confident to-morrows."

That surely is the temperament and the spirit that connot be con- quered. There speaks "the inbred integrity, plety,

nature and good good humour of the people of Eng- There is made manifest is the backbone of the British

Empire. These men, in their stead- fastness and their cheerfulness have the quality, which Thomas Hardy celebrated in the characters of his peasant-folk. In the presence of such fortitude" one feels that' It' would be a shameful thing even to

that fine tribute to the English doubt and much more shameful to character which was paid.by Burke, despalt...

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Even at her maximum speed of. any, 30 knots, it would have taken her 10 hours to reach, at Staynn- ker, the most dangerous point of her Journey (within that period

whole of our could have travelled there from Seape Flow. rhlie fiur battle cruisers, any one of which should 11 more then maich for the sonder Scharnhorst, could have entred there fran very murts further way

What actually happened, how- ever, whs tut the aircraft of nur Fleet All

shadowed Ari

the nemy convny for nine hours or 251ET".

Corte trying repeatedly to home torpedo and bomb atincks against the damaged battle cruiser.

The resistance of the Aghter escuit, and presumably sise of the anti-aircraft fire of the warships, was an effective, though, thal, des- pite their herolsin and skill, they succeeded only in damaging with a torpedo one of the enemy's de- stroyers and in further damaging with their bombs the main object of their attacks, the Scharnhorst.

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THIS must, of course, he con- Andered

ment unfortunate. though we con take A that the Schau alporst will not be able to trouble us for some time to coine, ulsa Ch Soiree of on- eulagement, since it would appear taxdiente that the air weapon, oti which Hider rabies for the break- ing of our seu power, is less deadly Pan has generally been supposed,

For to imagine that Hitler's Air Force could succeed where OLLE own, despite the favourable cir- rutaalances, was only partially suc- cessful, would be to assume thei

151 SOUR wuy or another, superior to ours, or that the Naal's enunterrneosures against aerial at- tock at sen are more effective than

actual

une our Owl

fact, gathers, the reverse is more true,

Huw NOW comes the question. won it that our naval forces failed to Intercept und destroy the Scharnhorst? The Admiralty com- munique states that: "Unite of the Royal Navy were immediately dis- patched at high speed to intercept the Genuan forces, but, with the visibility rapidly

deteriorating. further contact was not made."

One knows the visibility in the North Sea

A very uncertain factor, but let us not forget that the disabilities which it imposes are Impartial, and that they have been very much diminished since the development of aerial recon- Jurissance -- euch as was, apparent- ly, available to us in this instance.

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The explanation of how our Navy missed this excellent oppor- tunity of disposing once and for all of a dangerous opponent must be either that it started off too late or that it had to come from some base so far away that it could not reach the Scharnhorst in time. In either case, the reason would appear to be the

overestimated same; the effiency of aerial attack against heavily armed and well-escorted surface warship, and underesti- nated the deterrent effect of anti- atrernfi fire and fighters.

that it

It wouki scem Indeed, that the moral rüfert exercised ព our Admiralty by the air weapon, like that which was exercised on them in the last war by the submarine of which, in a sense, it may be considered the modern counter- purt), has been far greater thun, as they have pory discovered to their cost. Its actual effeaey would warrant,

The threat, fact, has been mure powerful than the actuality- and the price we have paid for this misraletalution has Included, Among other Hems, the loss of Nor- way, and the unpunishest destruc- tton by the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau of the Glorious and her inadequate escort.

By WENDELL WILLKIE

48-years-old lawyer and cice- tricity supply chief, who was sensationally nominated Repub- lican candidate for the U.S. Presidency.

THE United States foreign

THE

policy must be forthright and clear.

Although the country generally agrees that its sons should not be sent to fight on the battlefields of Europe, the outcome of the war is of vital interest to America. We have nothing to fear from a victory of the Democracies, but we shall be less secure if the totali tarian powers extend their domination over lands near- er our borders.

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On behalf of our own peace and security and our

piritual values, should give to the Democra- cies such assistance as can, short of war.

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I believe we should ask Britain openly what help, short of troops, the Ameri- can people can give in the war crisis.

It is clear England con- stitutes our first line of de- fence against Hitler. If any. body is going to stop Hitler from further aggression, she is the one that will do it.

Just putting the matter in the most selfish light, if Britain licks Hitler now we may be saved billions of dollars, billions of tons of armaments, and billions of hours of wasted and un- fruitful work.

It must, therefore, be to our advantage to help them in every way we can short of declaring war.

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