SUBMARINE SUCCESSES

Evening Star, Issue 24328, 17 October 1942, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUCCESSES

BRITISH SCORE IN MEDITERRANEAN TOLL OF ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS (British Otlicial Wireless.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Oft. IC. Two British submarines in the Mediterranean have sunk three further supply ships and torpedoed four others, says an Admiralty communique. The first one torpedoed and damaged a small enemy supply ship near .. the Libyan coast, sank another small supply ship and a schooner at anchor, and scored a torpedo hit on a medium-sized supply ship which was beached on the southern Italian coast after R.A.l I '. bombing. The second submarine sank an enemy supply ship and torpedoed and damaged two others, one of which was a large vessel. ASSAULTS ON MALTA HONOURS AGAIN WITH DEFENDERS (British Official Wireless.) (Bee. 10.40 n.m.) Oct. 10. Honours are again with the defenders in the Axis muliminished onslaught on Malta. To-day’s Cairo communique states: “The attacks continued on Wednesday night, but most of the bombs fell in the sea. One Heinkel was destroyed by our night fighters. Daylight attacks on Thursday were on the same scale as Our fighters shot down 14 enemy aircraft for the loss of four Spitfires. Three pilots are safe. A Junkers 88 made a forced landing near Kufra on Wednesday and the crew were taken prisoner.” Referring to operations in Africa, the communique says: “There was nothing to report from the land forces yesterday except patrol activity. Our medium bombers on Wednesday night successfully raided targets in Tobruk, Sidi Hnneish, and Solium, where fires and explosions resulted. ( In the battle area yesterday our fighter-bombers were active over enemy transport. Our fighters destroyed a Junkers 62 southward from Crete. We lost six aircraft in these operations, including the four Malta losses.” BRITISH IN MADAGASCA AMBOSITRA OCCUPIED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 16. The British forces in Madagascar have occupied Ambositra, 142 miles southward from Antananarivo, says a communique from the Commander-in-Chief,- East Africa. _ Ambositra fell after stiff fighting, in which we took 170 prisoners. NEW TYPE OF AIRCRAFT (Rec. 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 16. The Associated Press Boston correspondent says Mr Eugene Wilson, president of United Aircraft, claims that Sikorsky and his staff have perfected a helicopter with a rotating wing. The aircraft is capable of ascending or descending vertically, moving sideways, forwards or backwards, and hovering under complete control. It can be built with the body of a small car. An owner could use it as a business car or aeroplane when the distance warrants it. BEST USE OF MAN POWER (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 16. The pipe and slippers attitude of peace time must give way to the cold steel and hot fury of total war, Mr Paul McNutt, chairman of the War Man Power Commission, told the American Hospital Association war conference. He added that the day will soon come when every American will be doing tho war work he can do best and where his country needs him most. Turning to medical problems, he said a survey of 400 critical industrial and military mobilisation areas showed that the shortage of doctors and hospital facilities had reached alarming proportions. MAGAZINE ARTICLE EDITORS REGRET MISUNDERSTANDING NEW YORK, October 15. “ ‘ Life ’ believes that Hitlerite Germany is the enemy of mankind; therefore ‘ Life ’ has done everything within its power to promote and support maximum mobilisation of American military power and maximum unity of policy and purpose between all the people fighting Japan and Germany.” Tins statement was made by Mr Henry Luce, publisher of ‘ Life,’ in an interview with members of the British dominions’ Press. “ The editors of ‘ Life ’ are amazed that their editorial caused a misunderstanding in Britain,” he said. “ Speaking for the editors, I am deeply sorry that this misunderstanding has occurred. The fault is partly ours for not having said what we meant as clearly as we, should, and partly others’, who chose to read into the editorial things we did not say. IVc meant that the war aims beyond the total destruction of the Axis should be made more plain. Furthermore, wc believed, and still believe, that one reason why the war aims are not more clearly stated is that there is not enough agreement between the British and American peoples and Governments on this subject. . ... “The editorial which caused the misunderstanding was intended as a plea to the British, people to help to clarify their positive aims for the freedom and world peace for which we are all fighting. One specific misunderstanding can be speedily cleared up. We failed to stress, in speaking of tho British Empire, that we know quite well that to a large extent the Empire is a commonwealth of free peoples. We do not advocate the breaking up of the commonwealth, but we do advocate the end of world-wide imperialism —British. American, French, or any other. The great majority of Americans believe that peace must be based on the utmost co-operation with the people of the British Commonwealth. In that faith ‘ Life ’ has written in the past and will continue to write.” [“ Americans may disagree among themselves about what they arc fighting for, but they are sure they are not fighting to hold the British Empire together.” declared the editors of tho magazine ‘ Life.’ in an open letter to the" people of Britain. “ If your strategists arc planning a war to hold the Empire together, sooner or later they will find themselves strategkang Mpne,”J. " ’ '