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AED CARS |

Make of Car

Year Frico

Studebaker Roadster. 1933 # 650.00 Studebaker Sedan

Bulek Sedan

1033 750.00

1035 2200.00

Sludebaker Sedan .... 1035 1200.00 Morria 10 Saloon.... 1934 850.00 Singer 11. Saloon..... 1935 1400.00 Standard 12 Saloon 1037 2000.00 Vauxhall 14 Coupó 1938 1800.00 Vauxhall 14 Saloon.. 1924 1200.00 Ford Sedan

$.S. Saloon

1035 1400.00

All cars serviced the same as

for now cars

March 11, 1941.

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FIREWOOD FRAUD

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You see her here

Can

Prosto! 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, "squeeze" 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 severe punishment. In this category

beat the U-boats in 1941?" the answer is Yes-

if only because we must April, 1917, when, as now,

were

beat them if they are not to sinkings beat us.

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

D.S.O., R.N.

RIDDLES OF 1941

ly beating the worthy object there is no such task of decisive. word as "can't" in their dic- U-boats is 18 tionary. But before outlining urgent as it is how our task is to be accom- difficult, but the

18 task

the plished, let us face its magni- measure of the tude. At our average rate of measure of the loss in merchant ship tonnage resoluteness and Eighth Article -for-the past fifteen_months success with which includes a long period when our losses in convoy were very slight-we are losing little

At there points, to which the U- 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 airfields now make economy in ship-sighted far from the land.

It probable that the convoys will be space and for lightening the When sighted, 180-m.p.h. enemy bombers and torpedo planes, but not sailors' task. alow U-boats, can be called up, and

Next comes the air attacks delivered. Home produc- tion of food.

Those directing the convoy system have thus to choose between the On this little risk of almost certain bomber attackk need be said and the less certain, but much more beyond emphasi- deadly, deep-sea U-boat attack. sing, that as the

-defeat of the U-bonta is our

Choice Of Evils

It is in this choice of evils that

greatest judgment may err.

immediate task,

And lakes courage as well as labour on the judgment, to invite the certain, but farins_is_more urgent than drill far less deadly, attack of aircraft in which-it-will-be undertaken.

order to lessen the uncertain, but-for- How are we going to set about for an army of Continental more dendly attack by a concentre- that know within it? I use the word "we" ad- dimensions, which so much of tion of U-boats

narrow limits, where the convoys visedly, because every Briton on our ship-space is being used to will approach. short of 3 million tons a year. land has an active part to play equip,

This is an example, and there are others, where a right judgment by u self-reliant individual may make the difference between success and

short of voy system while we are escorts for attacking the U-boats.

We started this war with which is as vital as, if less ex- There you have the Battle of the Atlantic on the Home Front. 1914; we have many more

crowned with success by the Navy and Air Force?

| can be placed the latest "racket" nearly 2,000 fewer ships than in citing than, the part played by How are these civil efforts to be failure in the operation of the con-

which apparently is being prac-mouths to feed and our food each individual sailor and air-

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

Ours is the negative side;

In that grim month we had theirs is the positive. the French, Italian and Japanese Navics to help us, whereas one of these fleets is now fighting 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, We had the use of the Irish ports, and now we haven't.

The problem of the sen is. two- fold-tactical and material. 1

Key Points

take the tactical problem first, We must hope, not fear, that or- as it is the one that must, and rors have been made, because errors First, then, for our part.

can, be solved quickly, whereas can be rectified, This, as Lord Woolton has, the material one requires time The material side of the problem of judgment and said, lies in cheerfully cutting that may not be available if the is less a matter

more one of ceaseless effort to aug- our demand for seaborne goods, tactical one remains unsolved.

ment our anti-submarine cratt, our to the point of tightening our

The tactical problem is the convoy long-range fighters and new mer- belts. Thus we save shipping system, which means the grouping chant ships,

of merchant ships on passage Into a These should have priority over compact body and the guarding of all other war material. Here all privilege should be such groups by escorting warships. The practical steps needed to de-

fent, the U-boats can now be sum ruthlessly eliminated, no more

Safely on the high seas is obtained marised as follows:- generous fare being available in by evasion of U-boats rather than the expensive hotels, restaurants by action by the escorts if the U- and West End clubs than in the boats sight the convoy, poorer places.

space.

The next source of great

Safeguards

1. Spartan economy in all seaborne goods.

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

3. The reformation of the convoy.

tised by some firewood dealers. When firewood, one of the essential commodities of the average Chinese in his dally life, recently touched It 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. But this, ap- parently did not suit the dealers, and several started casting 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 A group of herchant ships in a ing to reliable information, has we have it in use.

reduction, wherever possible; of compact body empties the seas of system.

4. The elevation of merchant ship been to soak the firewood in

Mercifully, we have no great, our importation of sea-borne oil single targets the group, if compact,

being little more likely to be alghted construction to the highest priority the second water, which naturally has the

in a vast expanse of sea thon a single and fighter aircraft to

highest. effect of adding considerable army to supply on the Con- and petrol,

Remember that a very large ship

5. Concentration of bombing. weight to the wood, to the loss tinent, neither have we now, ns

Thirty dispersed ships thus provide operations not so much on Industrial of the customer and the rich gain then, to feed and fuel Italy and part of our depleted merchant-

ship tonnage consists of "one nearly thirty chances of attack com- targeta and Invasion ports, as of the dealer. This is fraud and France.

way" tankers which can carry pared to the single chance of the U-boat bazes.

Failure to defeat the U-boat means should be treated as such by the In spite of these great present nothing but oil to us and salt group,

the defeat of our cause. Success authorities. Clearly it is not advantages, which on no account water, пя ballast, from 19. The fundamental safeguard of con- meons in victory. sufficient to impose fines of $25 must we forgo, Lord Woollon These tankers, even when voy therefore lies in using the vast in such cases. The dealer's pro- has recently confirmed what I

expanse of ocean for the passage of our merchant ships to the neighbour. fit from his fraud for one day asserted, under correction, many empty; need escort.

hood of our ports and the avoidance alone would more than cover that weeks ago that our present Fuel And Food amount. Punishment to fit the danger is greater than it was in crime and this is a crime-can be the only way of stamping out

of the problem are well known, and I is known, the enemy can concentrate such a beastly racket. Either brought to the attention the fine must be so big that it police. "Squeeze" can be accepted will not labour them, but it is his U-boats for attacks for out at sen, hurts the offender, or he should with a certain amount of tolerance clear that every new ship that and convey then becomes a positive when the victim is a person who burns coal, and every transport danger. (U-boots, remember, can be sent to prison.

can afford to

that little extra, vehicle that is changed over to keep the sea for weeks and range The victims too, should be en- but it is a different matter when couraged to play their part in bring- those who can only Just manage to gas, or producer gas, saves ship for thousands of miles.)

No such restrictions governed the ing these rascals to book. European eke out an existence are, to use an space and foreign exchange, householders, for example, should Americanism. taken for a ride, by and brings unemployed British approach of convoys in the last war, invite thelf servants to reveal grasping merchants, whose proats, miners actively into the fight and our hunting craft were concen- One of the greatest authorities straightaway when they are vie even after a completely honest deal,

against the U-boats, timised; and, the matter should be are not negligible.

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pay

My views on this great fuel

on

of restrictions on the line of approach TOMORROW:

of which the U-boats become aware,

If the probable course of approach

What Next in the Balkans?

By SIR RONALD

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STORRS,

trated at points of convergence near our shores.

on the Near and Middle East.