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CHINA'S DANGER

WHILE China would appear

at casual survey to be enjoying

a period of comparative rest and to be sitting safely in a middle position, a closer scrutiny shows that she is near the edge of a volcano, in withdrawing from which, she must exercise the greatest care, to avoid not only the impending eruption but also

AMAZING pictures-two of a series published in "Illustrated" of the rescue of 60 British seamen of a torpedoed freighter. The survivors were picked up in mid-Atlantic by one of our newly-acquired American destroyers after they had been afloat for more than 13 hours. Above, the men come aboard the destroyer and (right) well wrapped up in the ship's blankets.

THE

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It's the Submarine, not

the Bomber, says

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therefrom.

The Honan campaign has been re- dured to casual warfare, and while Chungking may or may not consider this time of recuperation after victory it is possible too that the Japanese

also satisfied with maintaining the

atalus quo. By withdrawing garrisons, reducing the

are

TN a recent broadleast, Lord or boats aimed at it, bat-all ́esenped-

pundits" who, before the war, autbreak of war, with no results, been repeatedly attacked since the forecast the crippling effect that And only recently the Empress of bombing aircraft would have Japan was bombed--and reached upon sea-power, and he em- harbour. phasised that these forecasts had been wrong.

T Chatfield referred to "the unscathed. Then, the Ark Royal has

It Is, of course, true that minny warships have been hit by bombs. The Empress of Britaln WDS- although she, remember, was finished off by a submarine,

by British warships, but by aircraft than an academic, or historical, It is true, also, that bomb casual with the result that she reached interest. les arrong small unprotected ships port. have been considerable.

But, from the accounts that have

Many striking examples of the force of their aerial bombardinents smaliness of the damage that and directing the point of their pro-aircraft have been able to inflict paganda mainly against Communists, upon warships, under the most, favourable circumstances, are the Japanese are inducing a false available to support Lord Chat, been issued it is quite plain that of senso of security in Free China field's view. while concentrating their fronts in the south in accordance with Axis policy.

bntile-

Free China must not, for her own protection, accept this temporary Immunity as a guarantee for the fu turo. By her present inactivity mute acceptance is made which en- ables the invader to divide his forces with the confidence that no enter- prising enemy will seize on his weak- ness and exploit it. Under Nazi guidance the Japanese are temporis- ing with Chungking through German agents who know all the wiles of tong tenn totalitarian diplomacy.

Saving The Ships

hour and made for Toulon.

corres

If the bomber, for example, is st!!! regarded as a threat comparable to the gun, torpedo or mine against Again, during the attack by heavy merchant ships, we should expect to all the means of inflicting Joss and British warships on the French Fleet, And convoys kept completely out of damage on our warships--and par- in Oran, the French battle-cruiser range, wherever possible, of enemy. tfeularly on the heavier ones the Strasbourg, and other units of the air-power. There is the classic example bomb has been Incomparably the French fleet, steamed out of the har- But, by so doing, the nren would of Dunkirk, where the Germans least effective.

be narrowed in which they could received their first big shock of The sume, it is believed, in true of Their destruction, also, was en- approach our shores, and their danger surprise at the inability of their our merchant ship losses, though the trusted to aircraft, of the Fleet Air from submarines would be mighty Luftwaffe to bring dis- proportion of losses attributable to Arm instead of to the powerful Bri- pondingly increased. aster to a mass of stationary not officially been disclosed.

In recent wecky our merchant ship. the gun, torpedo, mine and bomb has fish surface ships which were pre-

sent.

losses from submarines have been ships engaged in embarking a Nevertheless, the adverse effect of The French squadron reached very severe. great army in circumstances of the threat of enemy bombers on the Toulon.

In the Mediterranean, on the other exceptional difficulty.

exercise of our sen-power has, in

Other examples could be given of hand, if movements of our warships fact, been very much greater than the exaggerated bellef in the potency were restricted by the fear of Italian actual experience har justified. of the bomber against heavy ships, bombers until we had got what is re- whether used against us or by us. garded as an ample morgin of fight- They all go to show that, in the fog aircraft to safeguard the fleet, war at all events, we might well. And decisive action early part of the It was anticipation of unbearable air power was credited by those then delayed-with most unfortunate re- tosses and casualties from bombers directing policy with a potcney that sulis.. which deterred the surface ships of it did not possess and with most un- the Gerins troop movements in

the Navy from tackling the huge fortunate consequences. Skaggerak to Oslo-and these rein-

Losses there were, but they were a small fraction only of what had been expected.

Bombers Defied

Norway & After

the In marked contrast to this undue

of the

More Ships

In view of the confllet in the ear- threat from Her part of the war between practice

In effect Tokyo is asking Chiang attack in force against a fleet under forerments, given by Mr Churchill,soft was the confidence and precept in this question of bom-

Kai-shek to sit out for a while and attend to Communists while Japan lends a hand in another quarter be- fore coming back to renew the fray ormed this time with Axfa aid in place of promises.

The proof is so simple that it sturtles. China has always been willing to make a peace which would preserve her sovereignty, retain her territory and expel Japanese soldiers from her shores. Japan wants to exploit China as her first market, She has lamentably falled to do this through four years of fighting. At pence with China the growth of trade between the two countries would be enormous, fostered as it would be by the elle

elimination of other markets through the European war, Further more, a vast army would be freed for Japan's other, designs.

A striking demonstration of comparative harmlessness of bomber

free manoeuvre at no was provided when the British Fleet pursued an Italian squadron to within sight of the Calabrian const on July D.

It was assailed by squadron after squadron of bambers from the Italian Air Force. Every ship had hundreds

* failure.

120,000 men, led to the Norwegian with which battleships and cruisers ber-v-ship, the recent Inspiring were subjected, again with unhappy speeches by Lord Chatfield and Mr It will be remembered thint Musso- results, to the flre of heavy sliore Alexander and the exploits of the lini gloated over this victory of air batteries at Dakar.

Mediterrancar fleet are doubly wel power over sea power-for a mural This notwithstanding the accumu victory it certainly was.

lated experience of the weakness of

They tend to show that in the It cannot be sioubled that the new However inuch, therefore, those re be treated on its merits, as revealed future the threat of the bomber will greatly influenced his determination 110

share guns.

Facts To Face

come.

Let

to challenge our sea power in the sponsible for naval operations at the by experience, and not on its fear- cause she has not such confidence in Eastern Mediterranean, where cir Admiralty may protest that se value, her Axis partners venture that she cualances then were, and to some power has got the measure of the us make no mistake about it. can be sure of obtaining her reward extent still are, very similar to con bomber, their sellons in the past, an Our merchant ship losses are, at the in the south for participation. By ditions prevailing in the Skaggerak, revealed in the few examples given, present moment, our greatest source withdrawing entirely from China andį

What he overlonkell was that the do not square with their protesta- of danger. then falling in her southward expan-issue between air power and sen tions.

If our own sea communications are sion she would lose all that she has power in Norway was not put to the

secure, we are invincible. fought for and is still fighting for. test, as it since has been

Conversely, loss of control over While Berlin dicintes and Tokyo But undue

due timidity in bringing

If this question of the bomber our sen communications, caused by vacillates, Chungking must retain a warrhips deliberately into conflict versus the ship were a matter of past paying undue respect to the bomb clear view of the objectives. No one with bombers has found its natural history, it would be mischievous to danger, would

spell

disaster. will deny the Chinese the right to counterpart in reliance upon aircraft draw attention to it now. It would The output of small warships and make a just peace but more than to do the work of worships.

be a matter for historians to consider merchant ships should have prece over now must she insist on her ori- The Scharnhorst, it will be remem» when the war, was over..

dence over all other war material,. ginal terms, and, until they are made, bored, when limping slowly south But operations in the war art

and the correct handling of our con- she must prosecute her defence) from Trondheim. damaged and pending and now taking place, voys is a question which can brook sce things as simply as this is be- { unfalteringly."

heavily escorted, was attacked, not which give this question much more few errors of judgment.

The reason why Tokyo does not

i