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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

THE profix "Special to the Telegraph" | newly-acquired American destroyers after they had been afloat

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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

for more than 13 hours. Above, the men come aboard the destroyer and (right) well wrapped up in the ship's blankets.

THE

REAL

MENACE AT SEA

It's the Submarine, not

the Bomber, says

LON the fatal currents which result Capt. Bernard Acworth, R.N.

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therefrom-

The Honan campaign has been re- duced to casual warfare, and while Chungking may or may not consider this a time of recuperation after victory it is possible too that the Japanese are also satisfed with maintaining the status quo. By withdrawing garrisons, reducing the force of their aerial bombardments

and directing the point of their pro-. panganda mainly against Communists, the Japanese are inducing a false sense of security in Free China

while concentrating their battle-

fronts in the south in accordance with Axis policy.

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TN a recent broadcast, Lord of bombs ineditif, but all-escaped- Chatfield referred to "the unscathed. Then, the Ark Royal hos been repeatedly attacked since Use pundits" who, before the war outbreak of war, with no results. forecast the crippling effect that And only recently the Empress of bombed-and reached bombing aircraft would have Japan was upon sea-power, and he em- harbour, phasised that these forecasts had been wrong.

It is, of course, true that many Warships have been hit by bombs. The Empress of Britain although she, remember, was finished off by a submarine.

was--

des among small unprotected ships have been considerable.

Many striking examples of the

by British warships, but by aircraft than an nendemic, or historical, smallness of the damage that It is true, also, that bomb casual with the result that she reached interest. aircraft have been able to inflict upon warships, under the most favourable circumstances, are available to support Lord Chat- field's view.

But, from the accounts that have

port.

Saving The Ships

bour and made for Toulon.

sent.

If the bomber, for example, is süll regarded as a threat comparable to the gun, torpedo or mine against

corres-

Again, during the attack by heavy merchont ships, we should expect to all the means of inflicting loss and British warships on the French Fleet, find convoys kept completely out of been issued it is quite plain that of damage on our warships and par- in Oran, the French battle-cruiser range, wherever possible, of enemy ticularly 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 area would he narrowed in which they could of Dunkirk, where the Germans least effective. received their first big shock of The same, it is believed, is true of Their destruction, also, was en approach our shores, and their danger Free China must not, for her own

surprise at the inability of their our merchant ship losses, though the trusted to aircraft of the Fleet Air from submarines would be

increased. protection, accept this temporary

mighty Luftwaffe to bring dis- proportion of losses attributable to Arm Instead of lo the powerful Bri- pondingly immunity as a guarantee for the faster to a mass of stationary not offelally been diorfused,

In recent weeks our merchant ship surface ships which were pre- the gun, terpido, mine and bomb has tish

lasses from submarines have been ture. By her present inactivity n

The

French squadron reached very severe, ships engaged in embarking a

Nevertheless, the adverse effect of

Toulon.

In the Mediterranean, on the other mule, acceptance is made which en- great army in circumstances of the threat of enemy bambers on the ables the invader to divide his forces exceptional difficulty,

exercise of our sen-power has, in

Other examples could be given of hand, if movements of our worships fact, heen very much greater than the exaggerated belief in the potency were restricted by the fear of Italian of the bomber against heavy ships, bombers until we had got what is re- actuid experience has justified.

whether used against us or by us. garded as an ample margin of fight- They all go to show that, in the ing aircraft to safeguard the fleet, early part of

of the war at all events, we might well find decisive action It was anticipation of unbearable air power was credited by those then delayed-with most unfortunate re- losses and casualties from bumbers directing policy with a potency that suits, Defied

which deterred the surface ships of it did not jussess-and with most un- More Ships the Navy from tackling the huge fortunate consequences.

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 term totalitarian diplomacy. In effect Takyo is asking Chiang

Kai-shek.to ski out for a while and attend to Communists while Jupon fends a band in another quarter be- fore coming back to renew the fray ormed this time with Axis ald in place of promises.

The proof is so simple that it startles. China has always been willing to make a pence which would preserve her sovereignty, retain her territory and expel Japanese soldiers frum ber shores. Japan wants to exploit China as her fut 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 na it would be by the elimination of other markets through the European war. Further more, a vast army would be freed for Japan's other designs.

The reason why Tokyo does not see things as simply as this is be

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

Bombers

Norway & After

1 the

A striking demonstration of the German troop movements

In marked contrast to this undue In view of the conflict in the car- comparative harmlessness of bomber Skagerak to Oslo--and these reln apprehension of the threat from Her part of the war between practice attack in force against a feet wider forcements, given by Mr Churchill bombing aircraft was the confidence and precept in this question of bom- free manoeuvre at sea was provided as 120,000 inen, led to the Norwegian when the British Fleet pursued un

failure. Italian squadron to within sight of the Calabrian const on July 9,

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

with Wi

which battleships and cruiser ber-v-slip, the recent Inspiring were subjected, again with unhappy speeches by Lord Chatfeld and Mr It will be remembered that Musso results, to the fire of heavy shore Alexander and the exploits of the lini gloated over this victory of air batteries at Dukar.

Mediterranean fleet are doubly wel- power over sea power-for a moral This notwithstanding the accumu come. victory it certainly was.

ted experience of the weakness of

the It cannot be doubted that the news ships versus shore guna. tatly influenced his determination However much, therefore, those re-

મુક્તપં sen tions.

They tend to show that in future the threat of the bomber will

by experience, and not on. Its fear- to challenge our sea power in the sponsible for naval operations at the be treated on its merits, as revealed cause she has not such confidence in Eastern Mediterranean, where clr Admiralty may protest that sea- value.

Let us make no mistāko about it. her Axls partners' venture that she cumstances, then were, and to some power has got the measure, of the enn be sure of obtaining her reward extent suit are, very similar to con- bomber, their aellona in the past, us Our merchant ship losses are, at the In the south for participation. By ditions prevailing in the Shaggerak., revented in the few examples given, present moment, our greatest source withdrawing entirely from China and What he overlooked was that the do not square with their protesta- of danger.

Jasu between air power

If our own sea communications are then fuing in her southward expan

slon she would lose all she

power in Norway was not put to the

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Facts To Face

secure, we are invincible, fought for and is stili nghting for. test, it since has been.

Conversely, a loss of control over While Berlin dictates and Tukyo

But

undue timidity in bringing If this question of the bomber our sen communications, caused by vacillates, Chungking must retain a warships deliberately into condict 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 make a just peace but more than to do the work of worships. ever now must she insist on her url-

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The output of small warships and

be a matter for historians to consider merchant ships should have prece The Scharnhorst, it will be remem- when the war was over,

dence over all other war material, final terms, and, until they are made, bered, when limping slowly south But operations in the "war ard and the correct handling of our con- she must prosecute defence from Trondheim, dommaged and pending, and now taking place, voys is a question, which can brook unfalteringly.

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

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