NOTES ON WAR NEWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 197, 9 August 1940, Page 6

NOTES ON WAR NEWS

WORLD IS BUYING BRITISH British industry supplied the world with goods at the rafe of 800,000 worth every year, achieving the highest monthly export figure for nearly 10 years. Cotton goods sent abroad were the highest in value since October, 1037, export of Avoollens and other textiles were the best since 1930; overseas sales of pottery and glass were the highest for ten years; and those of cutlery, hardware, electrical goods and apparatus, and chemicals and drugs were the greatest for 20 years. Vehicles of many kinds, including locomotives and ships, showed large increases, and coal exports were up by £400,000. Beverages, tobacco and certain kinds of food accounted for a gain of £900,000. The total export figure for April, the eighth month of the Avar, amount ed to £48,300,000, against £41.156,000 the previous month and only £35,149,000 in April, 1939. Added to these are re-exports (goods made for export from import ed material.) of £4,434,001), the best war-time total which compares with £3,598,000 in April, 1939. In many industries the Government has specially allocated raw materials at controlled prices when manufacturers are producing .lor overseas customers.

HOW HE WON THE D.S.<C. How a British submarine limped home with of her bows blown : off by a mine was the story behind a paragraph in a recent London Gazette." It recorded tlic award of the Dis- j tinguished Service Cross to LieutCorn, John Wentworth McCoy "for outstanding initiative, skill and resource when a mine struck his ship." Now I can tell you that the submarine which was mined was the Triumph, sister of the now-famous-Truant and Triton, writes A. J. McWhinnie in the London Daily Herald. I saw the Triumph come slowly alongside her mother ship, several days overdue. She had been out on a particularly dangerous mission. As she began her voyage home hex* captain saw, less than 30 feet away, a. floating mine. There was no chance to avoid U.. A bump and an explosion. The bows of the Triumph went up in the air. But the Avatcrtight doors behind the forAvard torpedo tubes were shut. A quick inspection Avas made. The Triumph, Avhich cost nearly £350,000, Avas built to las-t. She Avas still iloating, though she was avcll down in the water forward. There was only one casualty. A seaman was cutting slices of biead when the explosion came. The knife slipped. He cut his finger. At slow speed the Triumph came home. She looked badly battered when you looked at her smashed and tAvisted torpedo tubes —surA'ivor of one of the most amazing jul ventures of the war.

SHOULD WE PRAY FOR VICTORY "What shall we pray for?" asks Dr Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's. "I know quite well what I shall pray for —victory and that we may be worthy to be victorious. "Some very good Christians seem to be shy of mentioning 'victory 7 in their prayers. I have even heard j it said that ;\ve ought to use no prayer in which a German could not join. "I do not understand this, in the past there were devout Christians who owned slaves and others who, apparently with a good conscience, made fortunes out of slave trading. Are we to think that it would have been wrong to pray any prayer in which a slave-owner could not join? "The German nation is, at the present minute, a slave-owner on a vast scale, and aims at even further enslavements. T refuse to believe that T am not right in praying that they shall be defeated and overthrown and their victims delivered." 000000000000000000000000000000000000000