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Bentley Reports

by Captain Barnard Acworth, D.S.O., R.N.

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O far in the war at sea, we these great, and almost mythical, have heard little about ships." our battleships.

They may be regarded as We rend aboul the ettadel, so to speak, of our sen power Renown in the Battle of Sardinia in all its manifestations. and in the engagements off Take, for example, the blockade of Norway with the Scharnhorst. Europe which is the one unceasing We know that the food was at and sustained offensive of the war, Oran, and the Resolution at Dakar. unspectacular as it is.

Tits is mainly exercised at the We know, too, that the Royal Oak

great sea-gates to Europe of Dover, was sunk in Scapa Flow.

Beyond that, however, very little, Gibraltar and Aden, but in the gaps on the French Atlantic seaboard. As in 1914-10. these spectacular and in the 200-mlle gap between ships have been playing unspectacu- the Shetlands and Norway, and lar parts.

throughout the seven seas, our Yet, in a quiet way, their move- cruisers and destroyers on the sur- ments have been great, and their face, and our submarines below, are contribution to our cause of in- patrolling. estimable value.

They watch the foreign ports in What is more, one of these days, which enemy merchant ships are before he is forced to acknowledge lurking ready for a dash home to defeat. Hitler will almost certainly the Fatherland or to act as supply challenge our battle-fleet in a des- ships for ralders. perate son action.

Such a battle, we all hope and

believe, will give Britain her second

Trafalgar.

Let us see how the battle-flects of the warring nations compare.

Formidable

Guardians

The depredations of these surface raiders themselves are kept in check by The vigilance of uur cruisers, some of which have steamed over 100,000 intles in the past twelve months

By Leane Zugsmith NEW YORK. — Hali- fax in England's York- shire is about the size of Utica, N. Y. From Halifax it's a few miles over Cockhill Moor to Haworth, where the Brontes lived. But Hali-

Valuable convoys are guarded by cruisers In the Atlantic we have the fax has its own living

Britain started the war with 15 Lattle. counter-attnek against the U-boats con- Alip (including the three battle atantly going on

In a these activilles by our lighter novelist: Phyllis Bent-

cruisers). There were two Nelsens of

tons,' mowling nino- 16-inch ships, the battle fleets are the guardians Irresistible uttack by the ley, who memorialised, each with a range of over 20 miles; against

five Queen Elizabeths of 31,000 tons. enemy's heavy ships,

It is the German polley, as it is the industrial Yorkshire in

mounting eight 15-inch guns each; and

Indeed, it was the Пve Resolutions the Royal Ont was Italian, and as her book. "Inheritance.'

one) of 20,000 tons, mounting aise eight French polley in the Napoleonte war. to endeavour to starve us out by 15-inch guns cach, Since the war began this We shall soon have in commirslon five guerilla warfare waged by small, ships

against our vital trade. new King George Va, of 35,000 tons..

But this guerilla warfore, though trim, fair-haired, 46-year-mounting nine 14-inch guns each.

troublesome-and now, through U-boats, A formidable fleet of 19 grent ships! highly dangerous-has never succeeded old Englishwoman has been

And added to it in due course will be unchallenged by our battle fleet. three later and even larger ships.

the past, so almost certainly In only a part-time_novelist.

The composition-of-tha-German_the_future_the_necessity of meeting our For three shifts each week

battlefleet, though not certainly known, main Seet will be forced on lig enemy 15 probably two

battleships, with results we may be sure, that new [she's been driving an ambul- Bismarck and Tirpitz, two small battle will satisfy the untion.

ships, Von Scheer and Lutzow-skater ance in her home town.

ships of the Orat. Spee-and the two battle cruisera Seitarhorst Gnelsenau.

She's in New York now is a guest of George Brett, head of the Macmillan Co., which will soon publish her new novel, "Manhold." She wrote it in the cellar of the comfortable semi-detached house she shares with her 32-year-old mother and two servants.

Talks About England

She is here for a lecture tour. "About English literature," she said, "and about England if it's asked for."

It was asked for. And Miss Bentley answered each question with precision and composure. Here is her round-up:

As

A final word about the scope of the authority of the Commander-in-Chief and of the Home Fleet.

That post is now held by Admiral Sir John Tovey-Jack Tovey to the Navy.

At least three of these, and probably four, have been battered by the Navy, "

In a Crisis. but we may be sure that they will all be repaired in due course and ready for the tray which, to do the Gerinana

Responsible becauuse, as I have Justice, they never ahirk except for explained, it is under the shadow of adequate strategical reasons.

the Atlantic battle feet that all The Italian battle fleet consists of six operations in the Channel and broad ships of which probably four are Atlantic take place. temporarily crippled.

It remains a formidable threat, fex Adventurous--because of that only for the reason that it ties eno of new battle of Trafalgar which I anti- our battle Beets to the Mediterranean. cipate.

The Italians' running away" tactles

are dictated by sound considerations From the nature of modern sen- which are, as their admirals know. operations, and notably of the U-boat campaign, the war in Home Waters cannot be directed from the cabin of

nuisance to us.

What They Do the Fleet Flagship.

The ramifications are too great, and Lastly, there is the Japanese flect, too many decisions have to be taken which we hope we may not have to upon data that could not be quickly engage.

available to the admiral in the Northern In view of Japan's ties with the Axis, mists

this potentially hostile battle fleet of The Supreme Direction of the naval nine ships has a close bearing upon the campaign in Home Waters must largely composition and distribution of our own be from headquarters bu land-in fact, Battlefleets 131 tho Atlantic and from the Admiralty, where all the Mediterraneall

specialist branches of the Naval staff are encentrated.

Leaving Japan out of the picture, however, wo, have, or soon shall have. .19 battleships and battlecruisers to the

12 of Germany and Italy.

This margin of seven is certainly not excessive, in view of our need to be

always ready.

Modern conditions, therefore, to some extent, restrict the domain of the ad- iniral commanding the battle feet and attendant worships

Culture: "In my small town, our amateur players have play- rendings now instead of produc- tions, and a considerable body of members turn out for them, daring the black-out. Sometimes we find in the minutes of n meeting: The alerte sounded

Democracy: "People are com- Shelters: "They look awful, and we had to go down to the but the Government is getting pletely mixed up in the most cellar. Or: "Meeting was con- them in hand. The people them- splendid way. There have al- cluded with the welcome sound selves have organised commit- ways been class barriers. I of all clear."

tces in each shelter."

think they always break down Black-outs: "It takes us 20 Heroes: "The bomb disposal when it becomes necessary. This minutes to prepare our house at squads, of course. But the fire- time, I hope they stay down."

U. S. A. "We hope for all night and 20 minutes to undo men are equally heroes. All the

We don't our precautions in the morning, time they're working, bombs are help short of war.

want the slaughter to sprend. Halifax was bombed once, last raining down on them." autumn, when one of them must Food: "Lemons and onions We don't need mon. We do very have seen a light. The plane have vanished from the menu, much hope for ships and planes. just dropped a bomb, without which makes food a little un- There is a tough time ahead and warning. They say that's what anvory. Ment rations have been we know ships and planes would they do when they see a light-reduced, milk is a little short shorten it. I myself feel that if Thoy destroyed a whole row of for adults. There's a Govern- England wins the war, the U. S. If Ger- houses.".

ment frco-milk schieme for chil- might never see one. Health: "We haven't had any dren. Until April, the situation many wins, I think the U. S. epidemics yot at all, although will be not exactly critical, but will be at war within three

tiresomo."

years." we're afraid of them."

dut a crisis muy at any time arriva which will make Adiniral Toveyor. The enemy, remember, can choose his Derlaps, Admiral Cunningham. In the time for any concerted acllon he may Mediterranean- the arbiter of the world's fate, his big ships deciding kis- contemplate.

Now & word about the function of tory for hundreds of years,

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