NEWS RESOUNDS ROUND WORLD

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 7

NEWS RESOUNDS ROUND WORLD

Deep Moral Effect BRITISH & AMERICAN COMMENT Public Imagination Captured LONDON, November 14. News of the British success in the Mediterranean has captured public imagination and is frontpage news in the newspapers hetc and elsewhere. The leading articles make cheerful reading. Public discussion on these blows is concentrated on Mr. Churchill s statement that the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean is decisively affected. The "New York Tinies" says that this crippling blow to the Italian navy will resound all round the. world. If Mussolini looks back on his miscalculation when he entered the war last June on the side of Germany, if he looks at the walls of England and sees them still standing, he may also see the folly of plunging his longsuffering people into the war.

The “New York Herald Tribune” says the thunder of the bombs dropped on Taranto will be heard from one side of the world to the other—across the Atlantic and as far as Tokio. They will reverberate in all capitals, in the walls of the Kremlin and in Hitler’s marble Chancellery. The “New York Daily News” describes the incident as a major blow to Italy in an article under the heading “Britain rules the Mediterranean waves.” “The Times,” London, says the value of this brilliant victory, which has changed the situation from one of difficulty, cannot be over estimated. 'The “Daily Telegraph” comments that there have been those who insisted that air power constricted the might of British sea power. Over the heavily-fortified harbour of Taranto, however, the Fleet Air Arm hud given its answer. 'rhe “Daily Express” says: Here is something for the Greeks to tell their Italian prisoners, and something Io interest General Franco. The “News Chronicle”: Ever since Italy sneaked into the war lust .Tune we have been waiting for this moment. The eastern Mediterranean belongs to us. The moral effect of the victory can scarcely be gauged. CONGRATULATIONS FROM CHURCHILL (Received November 11, 11.25 p.m.) LONHON, November 13. Mr. Churchill scut the following message to the First Sea Lord: "Heartiest congratulations on the Fleet Air Arm's successful raid at Taranto. Magnificent show.”