‘File 28/7 I War: Propaganda: local opinion’ [‎306r] (616/664)

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of tliG Lniteo. State’s Navy recentlv ■hniri no „ +.
seventeen ner b -1 ti PcOni no I t' < - bnT: - L y ^oid us that there were
seventeen new D^ttlesnips, eleven aircraft carriers fi ff-
four cruisers and one hundred and ninety two destroyers in
building, many of which are in the advanced stage and all
of wnich are being pushed on ahead of achedule^ This if a
ofthe P ^pane"e S v P ldf r tf e th f is / ar he capacity
stinfftrlneth of th? rr^fh at K la lnd e fd more than the
e**siing^ strength of the United States fleet, and even ti n
is numerical!/ superior to the Japanese forces. To tain the
babble snips alone - and they arc the final anl deteminlng
the United States Pacific floe? 6
f s “ bc ' lt tl " elve a £Cinsp eight that are available to Jinar
isorcover, raany expeditions in the South China sea havetflhd
resulted xn a serious weakening of Japan- naval refurces?
Official Allied bulletins have recorded th= <-1 >k-
mg or oimaging of some fifty Japanese cruisers“eftro^rs
c’iq submarines. As she started the war .-ith a t-'t'-l n h-- r
hundred and fifty warships in her fleet, her avaiW: ebtren^-o
is nlreany considered by the B.B.C’s chief raval commentator
to have been reduced by one-fifth. Even tne shlpo the? were
eamagec cannot be put back into the fighting line wieh af
8 v e °^ because they wore in action two thousand ov three
thousand rules away from their nearest dockyards.
y
very serious loss of strength.
Th
is
to the
i'G S'
mb x icrjg ovon b said tha.t it is day proportionate
ilts acnicvod. because these shins have boon put
ouu or D.C cion on secondary operations and net while inrlictin
^paraHem damage on their opponent’s naval forces. The loss
temporary loss
of noose snips v/hich have been sunk-and rhe , _u 0
pbose aariagect > nas not brought Japan anywhere nearer t
making permanent her present temporary command of the sea
the South-West Pacific,
in
-o turn to Britain and Germany in the Aim The re
nave been fewer a'stacks this winter so far on Germany tear,
lasp^ and some people may have wondered if this meent a charge
of^plan. e The answer is "NO” . The weather alone has cut dean
Bmtish^air offensive, and yet it has not cut it lean no any
thing like the extent many imagine,
Some details and results of R.A.F, bombing are new
revealed which prove choir great effectiveness conclusivelm
In the month of January, 1C42, alone Bomber Command
’■os over Germany on ten nights, and all but -h.j first of these
attacks, when Hampdens made widespread attacks on worth-•'■Vest
Germany on a night of: b d weather, were of considerabxa 1 vli.-:;,
On th
ie night of
and
,r r.ilU;
c - c ful
-iOavy and succeed
s uccessful c 11ack or.
;ry tire 14th for example there was a
attack on Hamburg, and another equally
a smeller scale on Emden.
As a whole if
J - n g back 11 i s curp r i s 1 ng
found their targets on th
woe a month of bad weather, but lock-
to find low readily our bombers
better nig]
410 End on on this night of 14 th
W end at Kami
Shipyards a substantial
■o th at Ik burg
vi - 1 i c ri t
lines ; end at Hamburg in the area of the Gi
Jaimary there wan , a;
.t Blohm and Voss
- - 0 _ high explosive bombs was
tnopped where fires were already burning. Such abtacks do grout
Carnage, " .
onnage oi
G( lU-C.l 1 p i ?
large
Hamburg
fore
was otto..eked ag
of vhicL some
.in the next n
'&% were fully
joined bombers, each capable of carry ing more tJ
u ia load of He 11 ing tons or Whitleys,
.ght by an
loaded f our -
than eh: • ec 11mc i ,
seven time
a Part i-ror
wer
Imden was attacked on that
during the month. Other town
w
ohoso which \;eie )cubed by onl
ight
...Iso e.nd in all
■ to.ck(;d aulte
simmer of 1941, .3:,
Funs t or Ha .11 wc \ c en t r o
:h
f cm a
! dova
ir-k x-c
S ted
r> r> j- p
in
tk
remen. Ho never e nd Wilhelmsho.ven