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THE ENEMY HAD BEGUN

CONCENTRATING BARGES,

SO THE R.A.F. ATTACKED

An Air Ministry communique told of the success of that operation:~R.A.F. bombers made daylight attacks on con centrations of enemy barges on the Dutch canals at Zwolle, Haten, and Weest, and also Elberg and Delft. Many barges were sunk, wrecked, or set on fire.

WHAT chances have the Germans of making

a successful invasion of this country?

That question may first be answered as our Royal Navy have anawered it for generations past—that, given a favourable opportunity and the ability to use it rightly, an enemy force ought to be able to make a landing; but to this the Navy have always added a rider: "If an enemy lands." they say, "we'll see that no supplies rench

him, and that, he never gets off again."

We must conckler now whether we may expect the Navy. Army, and Air Force combined to prevent pus- siblity of an enemy landing.

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The British Will

From age to age the enemies of the British people have found themselves waging war upon a stubborn national

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By Abner Dean

ABNER DEAN

TO THE SHOWERS.

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"I should have told you, Mr. Reilly

are

what invader's

the chances?

stressfall crossing the enemy must have

A mounless night,

2. A dead smooth sea,

3. A high tide at the landing hour. The chances of getting all three on any one night must be rare in- deed, but in any event these con- siderations are less

less a necessity than been supposed

han

A crossing may take from two lo three or from Ave to six hours from

Dutch determina- French, Belgian, or

ports. Even a summer night is long eqough to give sufficient hours of darkness for this.

Less than a month ago the German Air Force began to attack England with large num bers of 'planes, The R.A.F. has net intensified raids, and the proportion of fighters with the bombers was higher.

THESE

A NAVAL

EXPERT SUMS UP THE SITUATION

Smoke Screens

I pick up things very fast!"

A dead calm would be most heip ful, but moderately rough

ses or

MIST, OR, Tan, In thick weather wind need not hold up an attempt, might lengthen the beurs of poor A London barge, a Dutch schoet,

and

the invading any little coasting steamer haminers Kive visibility Notita

and a Kook stort without risk of o

from the Continent pa their being spotted

routine peuce-time Job i really bad weather.

In addition, artificial fog or sinoke screens can be used to blind sen or But a very rough sen would cer- ale observation, and at least bide tainly be

a great hindrance to any which is the real masa attack and landing operation, and for this rea- which иге the skeleton UT feint efforts defenders.

The

however, GETMANS,

bove starwn บร that they know how to make good use of the unforeseen, und that we must expect the unex-

that a pected, so

gamble may be taken on the weather.

A landing at high tide would no doubt be preferred, because it would facilitate men wading ashore us the tide receded. But a landing could be made at my state of tide, and indeed would probably continue over more then a tide time.

Remember what was done at Dun- kirk--high tide and low, daylight and dark, and against all efforts of bombers and shell-fire. It is feasible that the Germans might

might reverse the must at least be prod for the attempi.

and

and we

Some fantastic Agures have been offered of the number of ships it would require to transport the in- vaders. These figures seem to ignore the fact that the transports would be packed to the extreme.

A Dunkirk a little steamer, Bull- finch, of about 700 tons brought out 1,300 men on one trip. It is the sort of sardine packing the Germans would make. A pleasure steamer like London's Royal Eagle would probably be made to curry 3,000 men

We (and the Germana) do not know whether we have inid mine- fields with mines only two or three

but the feet below the surface;

ог твоге,

Germans will probably expect this

to distruct and scatter the son we might expert any attemp! to and

tre made in smooth weather.

FAST

Are They

curing a hopeless odds,

SHIPS

Worth While?

"gel-away" Ira face of smaller number of extremely high-

into

speed ones.

contact with а

borne

de-

and use large numbers of barges and shallow-draught tugs, trawlers, and pleasure steamers. The coals of France, Belgium, and Holland ure filed with barges of the type re- quired.

We must not expect a single fiert to attempt o landing at the top of one de. There is more likely to be a continuous procession of trans- ports-like Dunkirk agafa,

Paratroop Attacks

Every effort will be made to deliver a far more destructive THE outstanding feature of onslaught. Everything which

THE

Italian warships is speed. Hitler can put into the air will The speed of their cruisers is assuredly be hurled against Eng-

as high as 38 knots, six knots landi.

But our counter offensive has been developing. During faster than any British ships, recent

and the speed of their four older weeks, while German bombers crossed

our coast 13 battleships is 27 knots. times our Air Force was

It was high speed ships of this Germany on 36 nights. The type with which British ships made The Repulse, a faster ship than the dozen.

contact and which made off under her German opponent, was unable than upheld the greatest traditions without 2 serious weakening of

of the Navy, and pet, so far as I am aware, there is not a single instance strength; and will,, no doubt, take

risk that offers. in which their outstanding charuc-

risk would teristic, speed, has been of value to

be justified, and perhaps the "little ships," drifters, them if indeed, it has been used.

sweepers, and patrol vessels, with no more than one or two guns on enormous

PROBABLY smoke screens will be used extensively to prevent ships' or shore batteries moking accurate The Glorious, for example, was Throughout the war our

shooting; and 30 to 40-knot torpedo dourned in advance if brought un-stroyers, as in the last one, have motor-launches flashing in and out expectedly

the brunt of the fighting, of the smoke would be a danger to battle-cruiser. Yet, potentially, she aim of then, if not most, spending our destroyers or similar craft.

almost their entire time at sea, anid

The Germans, no doubt, would be had a speed of 30 knots, and the a great part of it in action.

Indifferent to the heaviest casualucs, Scharnhorst less. Speed did not en-j

would lose thousands to be able to Table our battle-cruisers to intercept] They have had to bear ceaseless land hundreds, and we must accept bombing and encounters with heavy this basle fact and be equally pre- ships. They have sunk U-boats by pared for desperate losses. Our own In short, they have more Navy is able to afford such losses

over

cover of smoke-screens after a single hit by a British battleship.

Nazi wireless blurted out 1 confession the other day in a broadcast to America: "If the German Air Force is not sent over Britain there will be revolu. tion in Germany." Such is the strain put on Nazi nerves and on the resources and capacity of German industry by British The truth is that in naval warfare

This first brush with our Navy- in the absence of further Informa- tion-exemplifies the only virtue of extreme speed, if it is a virtue, and that is the ability it gives its pos sessor of avoiding action.

threaten rather than flight.

the crippled Scharnhorst.

By CAPTAIN

BERNARD ACWORTH, D.S.O., R.N.

On the contrary the

horse-power and great propelling plant these lite craft carry unused about with them has been a source of weakness; contributing to their Allmsiness and their extreme vulner- ability to gun-fire and bomba.

Furthermore, their enormous

board, will play a big part again. They would be like wolves in a flock of sheep among the Nazi. fleet slow and heavy barges under tow.

Yet in spite of the "little ships,"

spite of mines, et air bombers, or our destroyers and warships, a land- Ing might be made. Then our land

י.

raids. The Ruhr and all the the extremes of speed are a source to hold her, almost certainly because potential speed is not only the major forces would get busy Rhineland have suffered heavily. of weakness in warships that mean "We cannot work while this is

business and are * source of strength she could not, in the circumstances, item in their great coal, but it must Our beach fighters would have to have steam for full speed at the un- also increase the time needed to face two ways, because We can going on," said the burgomaster only to those that are intended to

swell the numbers of our small wor-fairly count on the heaviest air of Wesel to American journalists

expected time of the encounter; and ships which are now our

most bomber and parachute troop attacks

from Inland yet known on a conducted tour which kept

On any given tonnage, speed must warships that keep the sea, like the urgent need.

British, and unlike the Italian, can- them from the places they most be dearly bought at the expense of not always have steem for full speed extremely high speed to some extent

It has been argued in the past that Tanks in Barges gun-power or armour, and it is guns at a moment's notice. wanted to see. The sources of and armour, where the opposing

offrets a lack in numbers; but the THE landing of heavy tanks and German air power are being crews are equally skiiful, and deter-

nature of the war that lies ahead of In the battle of the Rlyer Plate itus, unexpected as it was, does not the invaders. They have many of guns must be the severest trial for steadily weakened, and the mined, which win the day.

was not the extreme Umits of speed justify this argument for speed their huge Rhine barges, euch cape German people taught the

which enabled the Ainx and which, in pre-war years, may have able of carrying several of the Experience in this war must by Impotence of Gooring to

fulfil now

heaviest German tanks; and Rhino have

Achilles to defeat the Graf Spee; it had some justification. convinced the πανα

the courageous are of two his promise that. no British stafs of all the belligerents that the was

No one to-day, at sea or ashore, tugs which tow half a dozen of these

barges up

stream against a 4-knot: current. 'plane would reach them. Mean-extremes of spied, upon which smaller ships upon the much more bothers overmuch as to the top

they ask is: Are there ships' nuati- Such barges could be while from week to week our great store was placed in pre-war powerful, but single, German ship speed of particular ships. What curre

rammed days, are a source of weakness when that was the secret of that outstandable to be where they are loanted at ashore during a receding tide, and strength in attack and defence action is joined,

ing victory. The Exeter's speed, some unknown, but decisive, without ramps, on a steep beach.

the tanks driven over the side eveni intreasca..

valiantly used, brought her very ment?..

At the same time troop-carrying Extreme speed has on no occasion nearly to disaster, though if she had!

That some very high-speed de-aircraft would be dropping. men, Justified itself, except, possibly, in used it as Italians are opt to use stroyers are needed for operation machine-guns, motor - cycles, ́and' Arms Chief Appointed his first brush with the Kullan theirs, it could have carried her to with the battle flects may be true: even light tanks a little way inland. But it is also true that for the vast It would be their job to create chaos Navy; by Ils retreat behind a smoke safety, By General de Gaulle screen it has revealed its taste for

general work which our destroyers behind the beach defenders, attack. But if there is still insufficient ex-have done, and have to do on an in- and distract them, and improve the General de Gaullo has appointed the naval doctrine of the Fleet in thirty-eight-year-old

M Andre being rather than for the British perience in this war to settle the creasing scale, slower, more robust chances of the landing parties.

and more quickly-bullt shipa ure Our RAF would have to deal Labarthe to be Director-General of doctrine of decisive action as the pre-war speed controversy in the needed, as, we may be sure, they are with as many of them as possible. bil French armament, and scientiae basis of sound strategy. there be abundant evidence to prove

case of battleships and cruisers, being provided.

To sum up the Navy's old belief services in Great Britain,

still holds good that given the oppor M. Labarthe is a Doctor of Science,

Speed, in, short, is an expensive president of the French Society of It seldom happens that full speed that a small ships, and notably de- luxury, and, for the bulk of the work enemy may get share; but none) tunity and the wits to use it, an Engineers, and was Director-General is immediately available when its stroyers, a greater number of slower which these ships, carry out," in will get off-and who femaine of public works in Paris,

employment would be justified in ships is more, hecessary than #actual source of weakness.

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