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October 28, 1940.)

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In the state of uneasy waiting into which the war has drifted the welcome addition of the re-conditioned de- troyers from the United States mark a significant change. They are of course old types; but very similar to one of the classes of British destroyers which has done excellent work. They are gunned sufficiently and have an anti-aircraft defence that will protect them against a menace which has arisen since they last saw active ser- known London journalist. Sho is married, with two children, vice. Their number can best be measured by the re- and lives in south-cast Eng-flection that they represent almost thirty per cent of the land. During the first phase of the air war against Britain destroyer strength with which Britain entered the war. she was at home when an air battle blazed into life above Despite the horror and noise of it all she recorded what she saw and felt. Hcr doscription of the battle is as vivid as anything that has 50 far been written by observers of war, 1940.

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Hongkong Telegraph. seemed so silly that anything so

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Hitler To check this offensive

for from

Iri-

The plethora of air-raids can have no other explanation. They attempt may persuade her to strike at bombing its aerodromes and the all.

de- the acroplane factories. But

There is, however, another direc struction of the Royal Air Force is The silence following the crash only a incans to a further end, the tion in which the reinforcement will If Death should ride some moon- came sharp as the jolt with invasion and destruction of Britain. be even more welcome. The Service

commanders do not fear the light night or some bright which one falls off a cliff in a From the first Germany has been vasion; but it has to be admitted that "our" dream. Silence broken almost under the necessity of seeking the lack of sufficiency of sinalier sunny morning, over

before it fell by the same ghastly speedy decision and for some months naval vessels has had an appreciable Somehow 1 garden.

never noise again... and again.

It has been obvious that only the effect upon the shipping losses. destruction of Britain will yield it. and again.

Figures for the eight weeks since ALVES. On October 20, 1940, thought it would.

Sat there has recently risen above

new factor which the enpitulation of France are now Therese Maria Viciru, aged 214 years, dearly beloved daughter of

Never thought that with all. I had broken the rule of all the horizon a

abiding makes the need of a deckston even available, and though those of the second four weeks show a decrease Mr. and Mrs. J. L.

Alves, its dread insistence this war honourable and law

more kaperative.

of thirteen per cent. in sinkings, Funeral will pass the Monument

citizens without realising i at 5.30 p.m. to-day. (Singapore, would ever hurl itself at little Instend of remaining safely Goebbels and Hitler have made it they are still too heavy for comfort. of course, Inevitable that which for so long they affected to loses should increase. Gen

Germany insignificant bits of my world under cover, I found myself clear that the British air offensive. It was

possession of the Dutch. like my little shopping area, my standing at the top of the steps ignore, is really injuring Germany in navy in

Belgian and French Atlantic ports: bit of road, the fields and woods leading down to the shelter, material as well as in ingraic,

the French fleet is no longer avall Mother instinct, however, had) where my children play. It made me shut the shelter door.

recognises he must defeat Britnin able and the Italian fleet ni lenst ree forces. These factors were bound to He has found it impossible to force compels the Royal Navy to divide its big could ever be so small and

Drama streaked towards me back the Royal Air Force concen- have their effect; and Indeed it is

iration sufficiently

he incredible that the loses have not personal.

from every part of the sky coast to secure a chance of landing risen more. Right above my house a Spitfire an expeditionary force under cover But that's the way it is.

During the last four weeks the and a Messerschmitt banked and of his Air Force, cross-Channel guns To-day I've picked up scores dived and spat fire at one an- and small naval vessels; and in any weekly sinkings have twice been

Navy.

they were as low as 39,007. Though itsed by "pecial to the Telegraph of machine gun bullets from my other in the first dog-fight I have case he would have to deal with the over 70,000 tons; but on one occasion

Three other planes) indicate news whleb is strictly copyright lawn and among my roses., A ever seen.

Gloomy before, the outlook is now they naturally joined them in a flash-whether almost completely forbidding. It has Britain is now in control of more cations Ordinance, 1918, Buch news at Dornier bomber flew across my British or German it was im- been admitted that the surrender of shipping tonnage than at the out Hongtong on the date of publication by garden no higher than the trees possible to say.

France gravely changed the naval break of the war, the losses are the United Press Associations, who re

I could see

situation; and, even when the French serious in, view of the wide and serve all rights and forbid republication, which fringe it. either wholly or in part without previous each member of the crew clearly

The noise was deafening. Yet, capital ships were dealt with, the widening range of uses to which the enough to distinguish features. however loud the roar of engines, shortage of smaller craft remained a shipping has now to be put.

That effective steps are being and the scream of diving planes handicap.

tuken to keep the sinkings within The first of the dozen bombs became, nothing seemed to cover

That shortage has now to a bounds can be gathered from the IT is interesting to speculate on the dropped created a large crater the sharp rattle of machine guns considerable extent been made fail of thirteen per cent. in the Inst possibilities of Hiller's; grand diplo-

burst clattered

four weeks as compared with the macy in Europe to-day for it gives behind our garden.

The plane as burst after

preceding period. Little more could over the sky. One, two, three us a glance at the enormous dificul- itself is spilt over the field from planes streaked away, smoke find them playing the gramo be done wie es

an increase apt to seem terrifying to us on the which earlier in the morning we pouring from them. "Mustn't phone, unaware of all that had strength of the destroyer force. Allied side it we allow the more bulk had gathered blackberries for think they'll all crash," I said. been going on over their heads. The destroyers will also improve of the pro-Axis or Axis-influenced our luncheon pie.

"They may be putting up a My son was indignant at being the situation in the Mediterranean. world is dominate our thoughts.

We had just served luncheon smoke screen to get away." kept "cooped up.". "If this is Capital ships owe their security very largely to the smaller craft which Should Hitler's dream come true,

he said, bitterly, attend them when they leave port: Spain and France will turn offensive when the sirens wailed. There Dive bombers, machine-gun- going on,"

they owe their effective weapong on the British Isles to make was nothing to tell us that the ning the roads, added to the in- "there might just as well not be that in

mobility_to_cruisers_and_destroyers. a complete and hostile wall of Eure warning would herald anything ferno and made me run quickly any raids-at-all."

exciting than previous down the steps of the shelter.

Monday, Oct. 28, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

is by the "lengkung Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommuni

bears the "UP is received in

arrangement.

AXIS-Round and Round

tles that lie behind moves which are

ker.

impediment to total warfare conduct-

ed from the entire Iberian Peninsula.were hungry.

If such a bargain has not yet been

struck, maybe it is because Germany

a

vary and though

in

pean nations about us with the

the desir Everyone recognises A friend came in from next exception of Portugal whose influence more on our behalf would be negligible ones had done. Twice we had I got a good view from the bot- door with a cup of ten. She has ability of bringing the elusive Italian Navy to battle; but this, is by no with such powerful enemies behind heard distant gunfire. Once tom, with a margin of safety an electric kettle in her shelter meann cosy in so great a sea as the nothing at all-not even the from behind the purapet of sand- and can accordingly provide hot Mediterranean, particularly when It may be that Spain has been drone of an airplane.

bags with which the entrance to drinks there at any hour of the italy, despite losses, still has a large promised the restoration of Portugal

number of submarines at her dis- to the old empire of Castille if that The children-I have a daugh- the shelter is protected.

day or night.

posal, staunch little ally should prove anter of ten and a son of nine- There was a roar like thunder We had just started gratefully

behind me as a huge Dornier to drink it when a fresh fight The great enemy of the sub- came slowly over the trees, fol- developed with the arrival of an-marine is the destroyer. With doesn't want to see another disposi "Let's take lunch down to the lowing the railway line which other Dornier. Again it was its modern detecting apparatus tion of Colonies until she is better shelter," they suggested. Each runs beside our garden. A Spit- only just above the trees, com-and great speed the destroyer carrying a plate of roast beef fire screamed out of the sky in ing towards us and losing height can pick up and trace the sub- The actual effect of a successful and vegetables (yes, we still a four-hundred-mile-an-hour dive so rapidly it seemed that it must marine to its hiding place; and Actu- when that is accomplished the Hitler diplomacy would not add have roast beef in Britain) and right over him. Fired a stac- crash into the garden. greatly to

the weight of attack one of blackberry pie and cream cato burst, soared to engage a ally it came down about a quar-submarine's days are over. that Britain has to sustain.

The United States destroyers, in French Spanish troops would we walked through the garden Messerschmitt which had come ter of a mile away-in the black-

the

feet Mediterranean It was the plane [giving hardly fight with vigour against to our first underground meal, down after him to the bombers' berry field.

protection. Together these two which a platoon of Home Guards greater mobility, will greatly in- crease its chance of bringing the they don't want to fight anybody now The drone of aircraft as we wheeled in a thrumming cres-brought down with rifle firefallen ficct to action. No one In and secondly because their grievances went through the garden was cendo of noise away out of sight from their post a little way up Dritain has any doubt about the re- against the Allies nre more

Their fleets very great. "Must be our craft over the trees. theoretical than real. and air forces are not considerable. off to attack" we thought

Germany already has all the bases little dreaming they were Ger-

equipped to share the race.

or

the Allies because for one reason

ships nor German bombers, could bring that, lo pass..

to prepare our plans.

More Spitfires appeared

the road.

sult

of any such clash; and the

effect of an Italian defeat would be.

the Jmmediately felt over

castern

apart from a defent, any in-

а few

usag

No one knows what Italy means

All around us today is strewn Mediterranean. in France that she needs for her raids man planes..passing right over magnificent in their ruthless and on England. If she hnd Spanish help our heads in waves. We could spectacular tenacity as a shat- evidence of the price the Nazi In launching an attack on Gibraltar, not see them. In a deep blue tering crump throbbed its way Air Force paid. One bomber crease of the British Navy in this If that attack were successful, the cloudless sky they were at such up from the ground. right wrecked itself and the peace of area especially in ita faster units British feet would not greatly mind

to that extent increasingly re- being "trapped" in the Mediter-u height as to be invisible to the up through my bones to bump our churchyard. Another litters will improve its patrolling power. my stomach. So far under- the gardens of the group of cot-strict the radius of action and in- rancan. They would still have to be naked eye. wiped out and neither Italian war-

Kround that was the most I could tages in which our gardener fluence of the Italian Navy......

is a strong and On paper this are dozens We had settled with some feel physically of the concussion lives. There

of On amusement to the intricacy of of the first bomb I heard fall on others within

milen emclent Dghting force; and while it is undefeated and retains a certain A battle of infantry would have to balancing a plate on our knees my native land.

radius.

amount of liberty every State which borders the Mediterranean must feel be fought and a logical scene for such and were half way through the abattie dbcounting an Invasion of beef. The shelter door was A dozen come down in quick My greengrocer and the man its influence. Great Britain would be North open to give us fresh air as long succession. I experienced sad- who serves my meat captured Africa, Happily we have had timens possible. The highest note ness for brave men who must the crew of one plane. They by her bullying of Greece. Her matter of mere speculation. But her The Balkans have long been a sound I have ever heard, like a die, horror at the mannor of shewed me the plane's camera. manoeuvres in Syria are similarly a When it was all over, my mind broad design is to break British melting pot of policies, racial war-fiddle string at breaking point, their dying, admiration for the

courage of the pilots in the was tense, packed with every power in the Near East. fare and commercial jugglery. The began in a whisper.

nerve-rending excitement of air emotion to create. hate. Bo-called adherence to the Axis of

The British naval concentration in that area

is quite sumelent to deal Hungary and Rumania, the hesitation In far less than a second of combat.

Hate such as I never dreamed with the Italian Navy. But with of Bulgaria and the trepidation of time it had become the most ear-

I could experience for the things this new increase in strength will Yugo-Slavia need not worry us much

much splitting and horrifying noise 1 These had cleared thought of that had been done in this little be able to forbid any

hope

of profit now, Hiller has exposed fundamental weaknesses; he will find have ever heard. I knew it in the dread purpose of it all, which it much more dimcult to pour them stinctively for what it wasa was to drop these monstrous district I call "home." To peo-ing by the attempted seizure of ports

plane hurling through the sky to missiles so as to harrow the soll ple I know.... vehement, scar.in Greece and make

It will have its effect even With Turkey and Rusala standing destruction. It made me, in the and numb the heart; to hurting hate against the regime that grimly expectant on the Reich's utter and complete, meaning of people, ordinary people who have can cause these things to happen, East of Africa where the recent nd- hor nuisance value artificial frontiers, Hitler must be that graphic American expres- done nothing to deserve it, to Insignificant, puny hate when I vance in Kenya shows that Italy careful not to strain his new found sion, sick in the stomach."

hurt them dreadfully, to break come to set it against the vast means, to exploit They represent so much dead allies.

up their bodies and split open when I come to reflect how many Italy and its influence upon neutrals

canvas of the war, but important to the full.

effect upon the morale of The weight and are likely to do so for Oddly, it didn't occur to me their homes. some time. Greece is a different

other ordinary unimportant must also be taken into account. At matter, but it is certainly unlikely that it could be an English plane. that any ultimatum to this plucky I said: "Poor, poor beggar" and With the bombing over, every-women are hating too, just as one stroke the war, situation every-

and saying as where has been changed, little country will be accepted with "Oh God, how horrible, as I thing seemed to stop for a little vehemently. out a fight in which the British Navy would help to give the Axis a metallic saw him plunge-smoke pouring while. I went into the shelter I am;. "No one is going to get where the change is slight it la signi and complete answer.

In a fantastic feather pluma to see how the children were, to nway with this, sort of thing."neant; and in several directions It

into the Axis mould.

valueless.

land offensive

even on the

must be very considerable; (

Even

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