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May 29, 1941.

FLEET AIR ARM PROVES STRENGTH AGAIN IN SINKING OF

BISMARCK

There official Admiralty pictures show how the Fleet Air Arm operates from an aircraft carrior. Hore a plane has, just come up through the woll and is having its wings spread.

Details of the sinking of the giant Naz! Battleship, Bismarck, as issued by the Admiralty and published fu the, Telegraph" yesterday, have thrilled all Hongkong just as the news has exelted the imagination of people all over the world.

The communique makes muntion of the big part which alrcraft of the Fleet Air Arm played in running down and shattering the enemy battleship. In the determined pur- sult of the Bismarck by British naval forces recking to avenge the chance Binicing of H.M.S. Hood, the · Arst blows were struck by naval torpedo aircraft from the aircraft carrier, Victorious., Subsequently, aircraft from the Ark Royal also torpedo allacked the Bismarck by the same,

means.

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

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

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

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Governor of Burma, were submarine recently officers who understood the tiveness of the torpedo as u During the past few years, and es- weapon.

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AMERICA DECLARES

HERSELF

SOLEMNLY, President Roosevelt yesterday issued a warning to Herr Hitler as grave and purposeful es 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 a state of unlimited nationul

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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 so seriously engaged. The hordes of Hitler are desperate 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 receiving 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 Goverment 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 botter. 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.

THIS COLONY enjoys the blessing of peace, but that blessing should serve to stimulate and quicken the desire 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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entire nation to labour ceaselessly and willingly to prevent the disaster with which the Nazis and their cohorts threaten the universe,

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

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

And if the Nazi leader is still expable of absorbing realistle facts in his perverted 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 enuse, 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 foe is exposed. Hitler stands warned by the great champion of the de- mocracies.

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

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In short, the entire world to-day now knows where America stands in relation to the conillet which is raging on three continents, and which 1s threatening a fourth. Unflinching- 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 Anal analysis, it involves her, like Britain and the other democracies, in total

war.

These are Blackburn Skua dive-bombers assombled on the deck of the carrier, They are ready to take off to attack the enemy.

An aircraft flying off to take part in the attack.

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

from a Fairey Swordfish plane,

Roturn after a successful operation,

pecially since the outbreak of present war, this branch of the fight- ing services has been brought high pitch. of eMciency.

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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 striking power of this method of warfare is

is that it is designed with single tye to hitting the target with precision. Should the torpedoes, or the dive bombers bombs, miss their mark, civilians do not suffer, British and other European civilian populations sulfer so cruelly at the hands of German pilots. The Navy, true to its tradition, strikes fiercely at its enemy's armed forces, but spares non-combatants.-A. C. G.

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4 NAVY CHIEFS

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ERICH RAEDER, Commander-in- Chief of the Naz! Navy. His rank. Grand Admiral; his age, sixty-four: his reputation, shrewd, capoble sailor, a maittnet i discipline.

Raeder

As a young officer of the old—Imperial~ Navy he was navigator of the Kaiser's yacht; during the last war he was Chief of Staff

to

Admiral Hip- -

per,

Com- Inander in

Chlef of the German bnt- tle-cruisers.

He knows what it is to be at the receiving end of the Royal Navy's merciless artillery. He was in the "Lutzow at Jutland when she

pcunded by the gunfire of our big ships, but Raeder escaped.

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

VICE-ADMIRAL J. C. TOVEY, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Flect, bas shown, himself markedly dissimilar from his opposite number. He has been making no vaunting speeches, telling the world, like the prize-lighter of old, just what he plans to do.

Tovey

Jack Tovey has done great part of saltering in destroyers, In the Οποίον, destroyer, at Jutland

ho

to

stood in the cruiser Wiesbaden-

and hit her, again.. anel: again with his smail guns. His eralt dis abled, he had a crack at the Der- Minger, a capital ship, and finally had to be taken in tow. All this won him a D.S.O. Kipling wrote a story about it.

Is said to be just the man to throw everything at the Germans when the right time comos.

Tovey (pronounced Tuvvy) y aixty, and in vigour a young man. The Navy to a man rospects lim.

Best saying? [Tovey.doem't talk),