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May 29, 1941.

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Total Warfare

means

Total Sacrifice

MERE WORDS FAIL to emphasise the gravity of the great fight against brutality and oppression, in which we are The hordes of Hitler are desperate so seriously engaged.

in their fiendish desire to obliterate the British Empire, and all that it stands for. It is total warfare. Total in the sense that not only are our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen in- volved, but civilians as well.

ALREADY - THE TOLL of lives amongst the civilian population of the British Isles, is heavy. Already, innocent children are being maimed and blinded. The scene is poig- nantly grim. Our folk who are in the midst of the holocaust come up smiling after every onslaught - even though they have tears in their eyes and anguish in their hearts. They are Undaunted! Unconquerable!

THEY ARE ENCOURAGED by the great help they are Tecalving from their kindred nations overseas. In common with the rest of the Empire, Hongkong is helping. Nearly a year ago, the Bomber Fund was started, and thanks to the generosity and the sacrifice of many, over two million dollars have now been subscribed and placed at the disposal of the British Government for the purchase of bombers-so urgently needed to avenge the innocents who have fallen, and to smash the German war machine.,

HONGKONG is doing well, but can do still better. There have been magnificent contributions to the Bomber Fund, and there has been great sacrifice on the part of some who have given again and again. Let it be remembered however, that the two million dollars would not have been recorded but for the humble gifts from those who could afford no more.

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THIS COLONY enjoys the blessing of peace, but that blessing should serve to stimulate and quicken the desira to give to the greatest cause of all time. Our people at Home know what total warfare means. Let them know that the, people of Hongkong understand what total giving means.

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AMERICA DECLARES -

HERSELF

SOLEMNLY. President Roosevelt yesterday issued a warning to Herr Hitler as grave and purposeful as that delivered to Germany by Pre- sident Wilson. 24 years ago. In language, pregnant with meaning, the leader of the United States flung out his answer to the Fuchrer's challenge for world domination, giv- ing added weight to his words by simultaneously proclaiming that n state of unlimited national emer- gency existed, and calling upon the entire nation to inbour ceaselessly and willingly to prevent the disaster with which the Nazis and their cohorts threaten the universe.

As generally anticipated, many of the sentiments expressed by Mr Roosevelt were-reiterations, but he also announced two important new features of United States policy vis- a-vis the European War which are bound to have far-reaching effects on its future development.

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Without in as many words openly, committing the US. to the employ- ment of armed convoys for the con- veying of vital war materials to Britain and the other democracies, the President referred with approval to the afectiveness of this system in the last World War, and added, with profound significance: "The blunt truth is that the present rate of Nazi sinkings of merchantmen is than three times as high as the British replacement capacity, and more than twice the combined British and American output of merchant- inen to-day. We can answer this peril by speeding up and increasing our great shipbuilding programme, and secondly by helping to cut down the losses on the high teas." It is doubtful whether any other sentence in the entire speech will ring so un- pleasantly in Hitler's cara.

And if the Nazi leader is still capable of absorbing realistic facts in his perverled mind, surely Mr Roosevelt's announcement that the United States already has taken, and will continue to take adequate steps to safeguard the nation's vital outposts, must give him cause to ponder. It means that, the United States is now prepared to translate warnings into actions; the velvet glove of diplomatic conciliation. Is off; the iron hand of an implacable foo is exposed. Hitler stands warned by the great champion of the de- inocracies.

The fact that Mr Roosevelt's speech was directed essentially to filter does not mean that his chal- lenging statements were intended to remain unheeded in other parts of the globe. Japan was clearly invited to ponder the President's words and to appreciate the meaning behind hts tribute the "magnificent de- fence of China.”

In short, the entire world to-day now knows where America stands in relation to the confilet which la raging on three continents, and which threatening a fourth. Unlinching- ly, and with the aid of every re- source at her disposal, the United States will defy and combat the Totalitarians, even if, in the final analysis, it involves her, like Britain, and the other democracies, in total war.

FLEET AIR ARM PRoves streENGTH AGAIN IN SINKING OF BISMARCK

Those official Admiralty pictures show how the Fleet Air Arm operates from an aircraft carrier, Here a plane has just come up through the well and is having its wings aproad.

These are Blackburn Skua divo-bombers assembled on the deck of the carrier. They are ready to tako off to attack the enemy.

An aircraft flying, off to take part in the attack.

The Bismarck was damaged by torpedocs of this type, soon in this picture being launched

from a Fairey Swordfish plane,

Return after a successful operation.

Details of the sinking of the giant Nazi battleship, Bismarck, as issued by the Admiralty and, published in tho "Telegraph" yesterday, have thrilled all Hongkong just as the news has exolted the imagination of people all over the world."

The communique makes mention of the big part which aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm played in running down and shattering the enemy battleship. In the determined. suit of the Bismarck by British naval

-pur forces seeking to avenge the chance sinking of H.M.S. Hood, the frat blows were strucic by naval torpedo aircraft from the aircraft carrier, Victorious. Subsequently, torpedo aircraft from the Ark Royal also attacked the Bismarck by the same nicans.

These successful. attacks - caused damage to the Nazi battleship and Blowed it down, paving the way for its eventual dispatch to the depths by the surface battle feat.

The Fleet Air Arm has by this latest exploit proved once again its strength and the effectiveness of nertal torpedo attack. The first big success secured by use of this method of warfare was at Taranto, when Mussolini's much-vaunted battle fleet was cut to pieces.

The development of flying for war purposes originated in the British Navy. Its earliest ploneers, who in- cluded Admiral Sir Cecil Talbot, now Director of Dockyards, and Archibald Cochrane, until

Sir Governor of Burma, were submarine recently officers who understood the effee- tiveness of the torpedo as a weapon. During the past few years, and es- pecially since the outbreak of the present war, this branch of the fight- ing services has been brought to a high pitch of emclency.

The Fleet Air Arm is served by many types of aircraft, Including dive-bombers and fighters, but the torpedo

plane remains the speciality, One of the most striking features of this method of warfare is that it is

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designed with a single сус to hitting the target with precision. Should the torpedoes, or the dive-bombers bombs, miss their mark, civilians not suffer, na British and other European civilian populations suffer so crucily at the hands of German pilots. The Navy, true to its tradi- tion, strikes flercely at its enemy's armed forces, but spares non-com- batants.-A. C. G.

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NAVY CHIEFS

ERICH RAEDER, Commander-in- Chief of the Nazl Navy. His runk. Grand Admiral; his age, sixty-four; his reputation, shrewd, capable saltor, à martinet in discipline."

Raeder

As a young officer of the oldImperial Navy he was navigator of the Kaiser's yacht; during

the

last war he was Chlef

to

of Staff Admiral Hip- per,

Com- mander in -

Chief of the German bat- tle-cruisers.

He knows what it is to be at the receiving end of the Royal Navy's merciless artillery. He was in tho Lulzow at Jutland when she pounded by the gunfire of our big ships, but neder escaped.

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His chief amusements are listening to music-particularly Furtwangler's and watching football. His chict abominations, women's short hair, short skirta, cosmetics and cigarettes. Best saying: "We do not under- estimate England's strengt

VICE-ADMIRAL J. C. TOVEX, Commander-in-Chief of the. Home Fleet, has shown himself markedly dissimilar from his opposite number. He has been making RD vaunting speeches, telling the world, like the prize-fighter of old, just what he. plans, to do.

Juck Tovey has done 籍 great part of malloring in destroyers. In Onslow, destroyer, at Jutland . ho stood in to the cruiser Wiesbaden

the

and hit her

again arki ngain with his small guns, His craft dis-

Tovey

abled, he had a crack at the Der- Mingor, a capital ship, and finally had to be taken in tow, All this won him a D.S.O. Kipiing wrote a story about it.

Is said to be just the man to throw uverything at the Germans 'when' the right time comes.

Tovey

(pronounced Tuvvy)" ("li") sixty, and in" vigour : a young man; + The Novy to a man rospects; him, Best sayingTovey doen't talk

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