1941-03-11 — Page 12

March 11, 1941,

The Ace of Ales... WHITBREAD'S

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THE MAGICIAN

GOOD USED CARS

Year Price

Make of Car

Studebaker Rondater, 1933.$ 650,00

Studebaker Sedan Buick Sedan Studebaker Sedan

1033 780.00

1935 $200.00

1036 1200.00

Morris 10 Saloon Singer 11 Saloon Standard 12 Saloon

1024 850.00 1935 1400.00

1937 2000.00

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1935 1400.00

1935 1000.00

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FIREWOOD FRAUD

1.5%

You see her here

Can

Presto!

I change her into

this!

We

U-Boat

་

Beat The Menace?

"Squeeze" in the Far East, To the question, "Can we By Capt. Bernard Acworth,

having been tacitly legitimatised by tradition, the gentle art of defrauding people has become a notorious feature of life in Hongkong. The insidious habit of "squeeze" has found expres- sion in all forms of business transactions, from the house "boy" who seeks to make that little extra at the expense of his employer to big commercial firms

engaged in important deals: and, so long as it is not pushed too far, "squeczo” is now

-recognised as a necessary evil to be borne with a grimace.

There are distinctions, how.

ever, and cases arise where so- called "squeeze" becomes out- right fraud, meriting punishment. In this category

severe

beat the U-boats in 1941?" the answer is Yes- if only because we must April, 1917, beat them if they are not to sinkings beat us.

were

our

when, us now,

exceeding replacements. When British folk are fully It will thus be aware that they must achieve a seen that

task of decisive- worthy object there is no such

ly beating the word as "can't" in their dic- U-boats is a8 tionary. But before outlining urgent as it is how our task is to be accom- difficult, but the plished, let us face its magni- measure of the task is the tune. At our average rate of measure of the

D.S.O., R.N.

RIDDLES OF 1941

At these points, to which the Ự. boats had to come if they were to sight the convoys, they were heavily attacked and destroyed.

Long-ranging aircraft from the So much for French Atlantic airflelds now make economy in ship- it probable that the convoys will be space and for sighted far from the land. lightening sailors' taak.

Next comes the Homo

the

produc-

tion of food.

When sighted, 180-m.p.h. enemy. bonbers and torpedo planes, but not air attacks delivered, slow U-boats, rån be called up, and

Those directing the convoy system have thus

to choose between the On this little risk of almost certain bomber attack need be said and the less certain, but much more beyond emphasi- deadly, deep-sen U-boat attack, sing that as the

defeat of the

U-boats is our

Choice Of Evils

fuss in merchant ship tonnage resoluteness and Eighth Article immediate task, And It takes courage as well as

success with

which it will be undertaken.

production at home is less than man. in April, 1917, the blackest month of the last war.

Ours is the negative side;

It is in this choice of evils that greatest judgment may err. labour On the judgment, to invite the certain, but farms is more urgent than drill far less deadly, attack. of aircraft in more deadly attack by a concentra-

where the

convoys

short of

escorts for attacking the U-boats.

for the past fifteen months which includes a long period.

How are we going to set about for an army of Continental order to lessen the uncertain, but far when pur losses in convoy were

it? I use the word "we" ad- dimensions, which so much of tion of U-boats that know within very slight-we are losing little

narrow limits, visedly, because every Briton on our ship-space, is being used to will approach. short of 31 million tons a year."

equip. land has an active part to play

This is an example, and there are We started this war with which is as vital ns, if less ex- There you have the Battle of others, where a right fudgment by a can be placed the latest "racket" nearly 2,000 fewer ships than in citing than, the part played by the Atlantic on the Home Front, self-reliant individual may make the

1914: we have many more

How are these civil efforts to be failure in the operation of the con- difference between success and which apparently is being prae-mouths to feed and our food each individual sailor and air crowned with success by the voy system while we are tised by some firewood dealers.

Navy and Air Force? When firewood, one of the essential commodities of the average Chinese in his daily life, recently touched a new 'local high record in price, Govern- ment rightfully decided to do its best to protect the tens of thou-two is potentially hostile. sands of impoverished Chinese by fixing the price; the order went out, 40 catties per . $1, which in itself was high enough and allowed the retailers a fair margin of profit.

the French, Italian and Japanese

In that grim month we had theirs is the positive. Navies to help us, whereas one of these flects is now lighting us, and one at least of the other

It's Serious

In 1917 the enemy had not the use of the Channel and French Atlantic ports, and now he has,

The problem of the sea is two- fold-tactical and material. I take the tactical problem first,

Key Points

We must hope,, not fear, that er- First, then, for our part. as it is the one that must, and rors have been ninde, because errors This, as Lord Woolton has the material one requires time

can, be solved quickly, whereas can be rectified.

space.

The material side of the problem

said, lies in cheerfully cutting that may not be available if the is less

a matter of judgment and our demand for seaborne goods, tactical one remains unsolved. more one of ceaseless effort to nug- to the point of tightening our The tactical problem is the convoy long-range fighters and new mer- ment our anti-submarine craft, our belts. Thus we' save shipping system, which means the grouping chant ships.

of merchant ships un passage Inton. These should have priority over Here all privilege should be such groups by escorting warships.

compact body and the guarding of all other wor material. ruthlessly eliminated, no more

The practical steps needed to de feat the U-boats can now be sum- Safety on the high seas is obtained the expensive hotels, restaurants by uction by the encurts if the U- and West End clubs than in the boats sight the convoy. poorer places.

1. Spartan economy in all seaborne

lols,

2. The need of agriculture to have priority over all war material except Ships and fighter aircraft.

But this, ap- We had the use of the Irish generous fare being available in by evasion of U-boats rather than marised as follows:- parently did not suit the dealers, and several started casting ports, and now we haven't. around for ways and means of And last, but not least, we getting in that little bit of then had the triumphant convoy "squeeze". One method accord-system in reserve, whereas now economy in ship-space lies in a

The next source of great Safeguards ing to reliable information, has we have it in use.

A group of merchant ships in a 3. The reformation of the convoy been to soak the firewood in

reduction, wherever possible, of compact body empties the sens of system. water, which naturally has, the

Mercifully, we have no great our importation of sea-borne oil single targets the group, it compact construction to the highest priority 4. The elevation of merchant ship being little more likely to be sighted effect of adding considerable army to supply on the Con- and petrol. weight to the wood, to the loss tinent, neither have we now, as, Remember that a very large ship.

the second In a vast expanse of sen than a single and fighter aircraft to

bighest. of the customer and the rich gain then, to feed and fuel Italy and part of our depicted merchant-

6. Concentration of bombing of the dealer. This is fraud and France.

ship tonnage consists of "one- nearly thirty chances of attack com- targets and invasion poris, no on Thirty dispersed ships thus provide operations not so much on industrini should be treated as such by the In spite of these great present way" tankers which can carry pored to the single change of the U-boat bases. authorities. Clearly it is not advantages, which on no account Bathing but oil to us and salt group.

Fallure to defeat the U-boat means aufficient to impose fues of $25 must we forgo. Lord Woolton Water, RA ballust, from UA.

the defeat of our The fundamental safeguard of con- means its victory.

Success in such cases. The dealer's pro- has recently confirmed what I

These tankers, even when voy therefore iles in using the vast fit from his fraud for one day asserted, under correction, many empty, need escort.

expanse of ocean for the passage of alone would more than cover that weeks ago-that our present

our merchant ships to the neighbour- amount. Punishment to fit the

hood of our ports and the avoidance crime-and this in a crime-can I be the only way of stamping out such a beastly racket. Either the fine must be so big that it hurts the offender, or he should be sent to prison.

The victims too, should be en- couraged to play their part in bring- ing these rascals to book. European

householders, for example, should invite thele servants to revent straightaway when they are vic- timised, and the matter should be

danger is greater than it was in Fuel And Food ́.

couse.

of restrictions on the line of approach TOMORROW:

of which the U-boats become aware.

If the probabie course of approach

My views on this great fuel brought to the attention of the problem are well known, and I police. "Squeeze" can be accepted will not labour them, but it is his U-bonts for attack far out at sea. is known, the enemy can concentrate with a certain amount of tolerance clear that every now ship that and convoy then becomes a positive when the victim is a person who burns coal, and every transport danger. (U-boats, remember, can cum afford to pay that little extra, vehicle that is changed over to keep the sea for weeks and range but it is a different matter when

for thousands of miles.)

What Next in

the Balkans?

By SIR RONALD STORRS,

those who can only just manage to gan, or producer gas, saves ship. eke out an existence are, to use on space Americanism, taken for a ride, by and brings unemployed British approach of convoys in the last war, and foreign exchange, No such restrictions governed the grasping merchant, whose pronts, miners actively into the fight our hunting craft were concen- One of the greatest authorities even after a completely honest deal,

trated at points of convergence near are not negligible.

our shores.

on the Near and Middle East.

against the U-boats,