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ENGLAND ADOPTS COMMUNAL KITCHENS

The system of communal kitchens during the present war has been adopted with outstanding suc- cess, especially in the large cilles. A full dinner and sweels are served for sixpence. The majority of the people who use the kitchens have had their homes bombed, but they still carry on. is a charming study of the Queen, warming her hands over a

In the lower ploture With her is Lord Woolton, the Food Minister.

stove while visiting a communal kitchen.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941.

HAVE THREE

AND

U.S. FLEETS, WAR-TIME

ALL AT

STRENGTH

Special to the "Telegraph"

WASHINGTON, JAN. 8 (UP).-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO-DAY ORDERED EACH WARSHIP TO BE MANNED AT FULL WARTIME STRENGTH. HE ORDERED A SWEEPING REORGANIZATION AND A WHOLESALE SHAKEUP OF THE NAVAL HIGH COMMAND AND AUTHORIZED AN INCREASE IN THE ACTIVE ENLISTED STRENGTH FROM 192,000 TO 232,000.

THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, COLONEL FRANK KNOX, SAID HE WAS CREATING A THREE FLEET NAVY-ATLANTIC, PACIFIC AND ASIATIC, EACH UNDER A COMMANDER-

IN-CHIEF.

Italian Air Force In North Africa Is Smashed

("Reuter's" Air Correspondent)

Up

Colonel Knox said the reorganization of the. Navy represented a "rearrangement which fits with the facts. We have gradually been enlarging our Atlantic fleet and it has assumed a dignity which warrants setting it up separately.” He said that no change in the size of the Atlantic fleet is contemplated. The present strength is 125 ships.

The fleet hereafter will be known as the "United States Navy" sub-divided into three fleets, of which two LONDON, Jan. 8.-Italy's empire air force has suffered as will be based in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic. One damaging a blow as Italy's land army, partly because it has been will be called the Pacific fleet and will be based at Hawaii. brilliantly out-manoeuvred by the R.A.F. and partly because of The Commander of that fleet will simultaneously be the brilliant stuff work of the British navy, army, and air force.

Commander-in-Chief of all three fleets.

Undoubtedly the Italian air force is being reinforced and re-fitted across the Mediterranean ht the cost of big hazards but the history of its participation in the desert air war is one of

Igrowing failure.

FOOD TO

HUNGRY SPAIN

American Red

Cross

One month after the British blitz opened the "Rigia Aeronauticn" In Libya lost probably fifty per cent, of its original total of front line planes in combat with the R.A.F.; lost several advance bases and is now suffering severe shortage In. supplies, particularly petrol, thanks to the British navy.

Losses Compared Some 250 Balian aircraft, about half of the original Italian-strength in Libya, were certainly destroyed between December 7 and January for the loss of less than 20 British planes. It

1s considered highly probable-that-123-were-battered-on WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Re the capture of 40 of these in unser- Around during R.A.F. ralds and ter).-Conditions upon which vierable condition at Eladem suggests the American Red Cross would that as the Dritish capture new air- send a cargo of wheat or four to fields it may be found that Italian air Spain to meet immediate civillan losses have been much heavier than

is yet known. requirements have been com-

the

BERGANZOLI ESCAPES

CAIRO, Jan. 8 (Reu. ter).-General Berganzoli, Italy's Blackshirt comman- der of the operations al Bardin, slipped through British fingers at the last moment after deserting hist troops and leaving the regular commander to fight

on,

To

One of the Blackshirt commanders, who are stated

have deserted

their tros, has been found with the bulk of his staff wander- ing north of Bardia,

municated to The Spanish Vulnerable Aerodromes THE AMY

Government, states Mr Norman vulnerable as it la almost Impossible Desert serodromes are particularly Davis, Chairman of the Ameri- to hide aircraft by dispersal. The can Red Cross.

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If such a cargo were sent, i would presumably be a separate | shipload and additional to the cargoes already announced as being went to Europe.

The conditions are not specified in! the announcement made here, but it

Red

is believed that the American Cross is requiring assurances that it. will be given complete freedom handling supplies.

Free French Spitfires

strain on Graziaul's air arm is shown

JOHNSON MYSTERY

REGULUS Air Ministry Theory

OVERDUE

LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter). Mystery still surrounds

the

Considered Lost death of Amy Johnson, the

famous British airwoman, who,

Admiral James Richardson has been ordered to report to Colonel Knox for duty, the nature of which has not been disclosed. Colonel Knox said the reorgani- sation, as far 118 can be de- termined, will have no effect on the general setup. He explained that the fleet would hold the customary fleet manoeuvres in the spring time.

The increase in enlisted strength also applies to the reserves. Sccre- tary Knox said that as the dect grows further increases will be made. All ships are in commission and are being kept at full war strength.

C.-in-C. Pacific

E.

Colonel Knux further announced that Rear Admirol Husband Kimmel is replacing Admiral James Richardson as Cominander-in-Chief, Parle Fleet, and that he will also become Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleets.

Admiral Richardson will report to the Secretary of the Navy for duties at present undisclosed.

The present Allantie patrol force,

Colonel Knox saki,

now includes

about 125 slips and the principal TURN to Back Page, Column 5

Greeks Will

Not Yield

Minister's Assurance ATHENS, Jan. 8 (Reuter).

LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter) was drowned after bailing out"Whatever the circumstances The British submarine Regulus,

(Commander F. B. Currie) is of the plane which crashed in the Greeks will not yield," de- LONDON, Jan B (Reuter)- now overdue and must be con- the Thames Estuary on Sunday.clared the Press Minister, M. Spitfire fund for Free French forces sidered lost, states the Ad-

Nicoloudis, replying to New Year In Britain luas been opened with

It has now been established,wishes from foreign correspon- £600. This sum was handed to miralty. General de Gaulle by the Association The Regulus was stationed states the Ministry of Aircraft dents.

that when Miss in Hongkong for several years Production,

of Frenchmen in Britain.

from the funds will be named "General de Gaulle,"

war.

Uncle Sam's People Face Heavier Taxes

He said. "Our great lender and The first Spitfire to be purchased just prior to the outbreak of Johnson left the airfield on Sun-historic refusal on

premler General Metaxas, by his the night of day morning, no passenger ac- October 28 to submit to Itallun vio- companied her. The weather re-its renlisation of duty, of dying for lence brought back a tired world to port given her was bad and her honour and liberty. parting words were "All right, "The struggle continues and will be long and hard. We do not know I am going to the top."

what complications, what forces, This indicated that, she proposed what trinis we shall have to face, but to fly over the bad weather with world that the Greeks will not be you can tell your countres and the

clouds below her.

afraid. They will not yield; they wili WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Reuter).-Stiff increases in income Nothing more was seen of Miss fight on to the end and will conquer." lax and excess profits tax are predicted by officials as the im-

Johnson's plane until I came down over the Thames Estuary. mediate result of President Roosevelt's budget proposals.

The machine carried sufflelent petrol for af Tax revenues under the pre-vestigation) to counter espionnge and 44 hours night-the exact time be- sent budget programmes will sabotage, is recommended in the bud-tween the take-off and the crash. reach the highest point in get. The strength of this body al- Her scheduled flight should have

rendy equals the peak of the last war taken one hour. American history, but neverthe-at 1,500. less President Roosevelt recom- Wall Street Unmoved

One Parachute Seen mended additional taxation. NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (Reuter)-The Ways and means, however, were publication of Mr Roosevelt's record to leave the plane before it hit the Only one parachute was observed loft to Congress,

budget aroused no marked reaction on Wall Street and the market took the news of the huge prospective expenditure with relative calm.

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An Expert Debunks Rumanian Oil Tales

than one-fifth of the available oil out of Rumanin, according to LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter).—Germany is not getting more

figures I recently received, and now with the Danube frozen, I' doubt whether she is getting one-tenth.”

So declared Mr H. G. Austin, who has just returned from Rumania where he was engaged for six years in the installation of petroleum equipment, speaking at the Fuel Luncheon Club in London.

The telegram refers to 'n "lot of grumbling" among the people con- Ho sald that the position in cerning the arrival of German troops Rumania was mucif more favourable but does not confirm the more lurid to Britain than they were led to stories published abroad of large-

scale rlóting and sabotage,

ATHENS, Jan, 8 (Router).The expect." creation of a third period of Greek The impression that Rumanin is civilisation as a result of the victori-pro-Nazi and is helping the Germans us conclusion of the present war in every way is quite wrong, and I was predicted to-day by General am not surprised that there are con- Metaxas

flicts there, I am quite sure that The occasion was the presentation acts of sabotage will continue and to him' of a bronze copy of the increase, and that the Germans will dating from the sixth century. statuette of Pallas Athene by Macho be forced to send considerably more troops to keep the Rumanians down Disalming credit for creating if they are to obtain any benefits from Greece's moral strength, General the resources of the country." 31 is believed that Miss Johnson Metaxas said that this strength lad lost her course in the bad weather. been dormant and was now re-

Lurid Reports Unconfirmed Observers expressed some confu- After flying round for several hours, awakened and given a forward`im- sion over, the budget's double Impli,her petrol became exhausted and she pulse.

LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuler)-Some Increases in gift and estate Jovies|cations of still higher corporation finally balled out over the Thames

what better light was shed on the are also predleted.

taxes and the enormous industrial Estuary, possibly hoping to alight as complished is the work of the Greek received yesterday by the Foreign "The miracle that has been ac-situation in Rumanid in a telegram An increase of 800 in the number activity which the defence spending near as possible to one of the vessels people. It is in this that its signi- Omice. from the British Minister in of "G-men" (Federal Bureau of In- must stimulate.

in the naval convoy.

fleance' lles," concluded the Premier. Bucharest.

Tax experts consider income tax the most logical means of raising additional revenue.

water.

Spanish Envoy To Italy Recalled

Warned To Be Ready LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter)-The Spanish Ambassador to Italy, Senor Garcia Condey Mendez, has been re- enlled and has been told to hold himself at the disposal of the Spanish Foreign Office, says a Madrid patch to the "Stefani"" agency.

Senor Mendez became Ambassador on Italian Ambassador had been ac to Italy in July, 1937, shortly after credited to General Franco's Govern-

ment,

dik

Only 600 Casualties In Capture Of Bardia

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

CAIRO, Jan. 8 (UP),~~A Geni- eral Headquarters communique states: "The concentration of our forces in the Tobruk area is continuing. The total British and Australian casualties, in- cluding those captured, are 600. "Active patrolling continues Jon the Sudan-and-Kenya-fron--

[tiers."

A further communique states that General Berganzoli and other officers are "still missing. The search is continuing."

Arabs Impressed

ADEN, Jun. 8 (Reuter).-One re- [sult of the British victory at Bardia is the change of opinion in Britain's favour in the kingdom of Yemen, according to reliable reports received there.

Many prominent people there are stated to have abandoned support for Italy in favour of Britain.

One inilleation of the general op- inlon as to the Italian defeat in the war Is that the tire is nowhere ac- jcepted while sterling circulates freely.

Italian Communique.

and

ROME, Jari 8 (UP)-To-day's communique stated: "Patrols artillery were active between Bardia and Tobruk. British planes raided various localities, including Tripoli, killing four and wounding ten. Italian planes toroedoed a British destroyer near El Sollum. Italian Naval units shelled the roads on the Greek-Albanian coast. Italians re- pulsed a Greek attempt to altack the TURN to Back Pago, Column 3

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