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HOW TO PROTECT

With American products to Britain being destroyed in transit in ever larger quantities, it is urgent that a more effective system for the protection of British merchant shipping in the north Atlantic be instituted without delay.

A practical solution of the problem, in the writer's opinion, has long been avail-· able but has been stymied by sheer inertia and limited strategic vision. Briefly, it is the application to the job of guarding ocean commerce of Germany's own technique' of attack on that commerce. The inadequacy of the

present convoy system has

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Phone 27778-8 long been apparent, and An expert suggests co-ordination of planes and ships in ensuring the safety of Ameri- various plans for improving can products for Britain while at sea. "It is about time that sea power sent an SOS or displacing it have been to air power, instead of spinning in the old circle,” he declares, envisaging under discussion. One of canopy of aircraft over the Atlantic that will beat Hitler at his own game.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

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WRONG METHODS

the latest suggestions is, for

establishment of a destroyer By Major ALEXANDER P. DE land or "bridge" across the

Sensible. Approach

side already one-third the

distance and soon one-half

a wide

SEVERSKY

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more,

Atlantic, formed by a chain overhead even when they kind of co-ordination, to the ocean, from Newfound- of these fighting ships at re- are submerged. I have my- put the matter bluntly, land to the north of Scot- gularly spaced posts, each self spotted and fought which now characterises land. patrolling a definite segment U-boats from the skies re- Nazi methods of attack.

Air Canopy of ocean.

peatedly in the first World

There is every reason to It would amount to an War.

German

sea-craft believe that Hitler's co- unbroken canopy of air would be located from the ordination can be matched, This is a sensible approach air and if not disposed of, It is about time that sea seacraft would find

power, under which German to the problem. Unfortun- the nearest co-ordinated de- power sent an SOS to air virtually impossible to ately the resulting land, stroyers would be directed power, instead of spinning in operate. What is even if destroyers were to finish the job, so that the the old. circle. The threat under the shield of such a placed at 50-mile intervals, entire path would be made of the air age must be met canopy British destroyers THE prefix "special to the Telegraph Still would leave wide gaps untenable for Nazi indiate by the longkong TelexTape in which submarines could power. Only when directed age.

sea by the methods of the air and armed merchantmen under the provisions of the Telecommuni- ambush their prey, and bat- and supervised by the air man attack on transporta- since the aircraft not only The disastrous Ger-could be really effective, tleships ignore such patrol. command could the proposed tion can be licked, but only would rain destruction on Besides, the terminal portion lane of destroyers become by utilising the of the path on the European really effective.

same the enemy but serve as a techniques in line with the continuous surveillance ser- Furthermore, it is not im- changed tactical conditions. vice, guiding the movements IF public sympathy for thewould still be exposed to possible that the transporta- The trouble with that pro- of the destroyers. And the the serious and growing tion of American bombers posal, and with so many of establishment of such a unemployed night soll carriers is hazard of destruction from on their own power, which the others, is that they canopy is altogether possible rapidly diminishing, this is very the skies.

is now being done, could be continue to revolve helpless-and feasible, even with the largely the fault of the people

fitted into the trans-oceanic ly within the limits of sea present types of aviation concerned. First reaction to

To begin with, American air canopy, thus adding power conceptions. Even equipment. their grievance was based more

aircraft have the necessary vastly to its strength. Fol- where they assign some role

Germany's counter- on sentiment than knowledge. range; at cruising speeds lowing the same route, the to aviation, it remains blockade of Britain has been Since then certain facts have at least 1,200 miles. That patched that during trans from the outset. Yet no markable co-ordination of

the great majority can cover bombers might be so dis- secondary and cramped achieved through an been made known which throw gives them an a different light on the situation. operating radius of about their flight with the perman- tion problem will be found aircraft have reached out effective port they would synchronise solution of the transporta-air and sea strength. Nazi First blunder by the pro- 500 miles, which is plenty ent lefensive forces along until the full potentialities hundreds-of-miles west of -testors-was-to-roject Govern and to spare for the main- the line: ment's offer of re-employment tenance of the canopy of air

of air power are exploited, Ireland. under the guidance of people only bombed British ship- They have not following official control of the power. Moreover, practic

who have broken through ping themselves but have night soil system. This sug- ally all of these American. The idea thus would be to

the hypnotic effects of tradi-directed their surface and gested petulance rather than pursuits. carry bombs and

dovetail the continuous air tional thinking on the sub- undersurface sober-minded opposition. Per- are equipped for blind flying,

ject. patrols, surface commerce,

their targets. haps too the move was planned to meet the challenge of un-

favourable weather.

destroyers, as well as our de- If the war thus far has If such co-ordination works livery of new Américan established any Government's hand; if so it

single with deadly results for purposes failed, and rightly. Deliberate

bombers into a homogene- strategic truth beyond of attack, why not apply it bold- refusal to accept employment is

ous, perfectly co-ordinated doubt, it is that surface ly for purposes of defence? difficult to justify, and scrves

The function of this un- and well-nigh impregnable operations are impossible if Technically, it would have been only to place the people concern broken path of air power, of bridge linking the two shores the air overhead is in the quite possible to build military ed in a false position. It is course, would not be limited of the Atlantic at its narrow-control of an enemy. In 1,800 miles of north Atlantic

aviation capable of spanning the. tantamount to attempted to direct assault on enemy est practicable point. This line with this elementary an impregnable canopy anchored coercion, which especially at crait. Under normal con- obviously, calls for the most principle, the writer pro- only at its two terminal points. this time, is intolerable.

Complainants overlooked an-ditions, submarines are per- thorough preparation and poses that Britain take over Through lack of foresight, such other important point. Govern- fectly visible to aircraft scientific timing-for the a path of sky right across equipment is not yet available. ment cannot break its own laws Land employ child labour, which so many of the women carriers demand. Too often under the

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old system were children ex- ploited in this way. If only to bring an end to this? Govern-

ment's determined refusal to be

intimidated is welcome.

The timo has arrived when the

disgruntled night soil coolles should be properly advised. The authorities are not lacking in sympathy for them as witness Mr E. B. Teesdale's declaration on Monday; but there are right and wrong methods of securing redress, and to date, the demons- trators have chosen the 'latter. Parades around the city and to Government House will avail

nothing. They merely, an-

tagonise the authorities, who are willing to listen to reasonable complaints through the proper channels.

What should be impressed upon these people is that there exists no possibility of a return to the old system of night soil collection, and that they are wasting their time clamouring for it. Government is prepared to do what it can for them-ro employment as far as possible, and where this cannot be effect- ed, material assistance for the genuinely distressed...

Unbroken Path

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LAST TIME: KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING!

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seacraft to

Readily Patrolled

Thnt; however, does not cancel out the possibility of a canopy of air power anchored at a num- ber of intermediary bases. Be- cause of present limitations in the range of aeroplanes, the route of protected commerce must be shifted northward and marked by air. bases at New- foundland, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes and northern Scot- land: These points are nowhere more than 600 miles apart; a distance that can be readily patrolled by existing British and American aircraft. baig

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Continuous patrol of stretches some 800 miles from the bases · in both directions would provide a cover of uninterrupted air. vigilance, all the way across the ocean. Much has been said about the shortcomings,

of American pursuits when match- | ed against German Messorsch- mitts, but these American planès happen to be wonderfully adapt ed for the purposes of such oceán patrol service and could imme dintely undertake this tnak, which is every bit as vital as any other singin phase of the British defence in the air (Copy- right 1941 by United Press)40/

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