Page 12 ATLANTIC VOICE Saturday 3rd. November 1945 BULLETINS FROM BRITAIN FLYING BOMBS BRITAIN WAR SACRIFICES BAILLIE STEWART AT JAPS MISSED GREAT BRITISH BLOW SINGAPORE, October (By Ca even after the surrender, wher In the United Kingdom, aggre. 54. for men and 46. for women BOW STREET ble. The Japanese defenders of Japanese Army and Naval stafi Eate per capital purchases of In the United Kingdom the to Norman Baillie Stewart was this great naval base would have officers were being interrogated, consumers goods and services tal number in the Armed Forces flown to Britain from Brussels been quite unprepared for the the naval men stood some dusta valued at pre war prices decrea and full time Civil Defence ser yesterday. He arrived at Bow sed between 15 and 20 per cent. vices increased from half a mil Street police station, London, massive land, sea and air assalt ce away from the Army offices from 1938 to 1941, and during lion in June, 1939, to 594 million yesterday afternoon. Arrango which Admiral Lord Louis Morint and refused to speak to them.
the following three years remai in June, 1944. In the United Staments had been made for him batten, Supreme Commander, The Japanese colonel in charge med slightly below the 1941 le tes in the same period the total to be lodged in the cells there South East Asia, had planned for of fortifications, did not know vel number in the Armed Forces in overnight and today. He will be September 9, it was revealed where the defenses were supposcreased from less than half a mil. charged there though details of CONSUMPTION INCREASE here today.
lion to nearly 11 million. In the charge have not been revealed to be built and left the entire In Canada and the United Sta Canada the increase was frora ed.
British officers have now com work to junior officers. The result tes aggregate per capita consumer purchases, measured on an 20. 000 in 1939 to 800. 000 in 1944. He will appear before the Bow pleted their interrogation of the was chaotic. One concrete sun The experience of the United Street magistrate to morrow. Japanese military and nav. position was so wall cunceled approximately comparable baBaillie Stewart was captured in staffs, and have inspected all the sis, were in 1943 and 1944 10 to Kingdom was markedly less favourable than that of the United the Austrian mountains in May, defenses of the island fortress.
mong palm trees that to create 15 per cent. higher than in 1939. States and Canada in almost eve when he is stated to have offered a field of fire they had to cut Such purchases were at about the same level in 1943 and 1944 ry category of consumption. Pur his services tp the Allies, saying They have found that the Japa down about 100 trees and so chases of civilian clothing, house that this would be a much more nese had no big defenses, no make the positnon obvious from as in 1941.
in 1938 and 1939 the physical hold soft goods, cosmetics, toys. enlightened procedure than a minefields, no materials for build the nir. This lack of readiness Volume per capita of consumer jewellery, stationery, and other nishing him for any past youth ing construction and only four existed on all levels. One Britful idisncretions.
purchases was probably between paper products increased in the coastal guns. The Japanese 7th. ish fifteen inch gun escaped 03 10 and 20 per cent. lower in the United States and Canada and Area Army, which was responstruction for years. The Japanese United Kingdom than it was in decreased in the United Kingble for the defense of Malaya, kept it perfectly oiled with two the United States. With the war.
dom The low level of purchases of Java, Sumatra and Borneo roula shells in the hoist but there was time rise in United Kingdom, the Paul Gallico says: was ha not have coped with the trennen not one gun crew in the garrison difference between levels in the clothing and household soft goods two countries materially widen was so long continued in the ving breakfast with several Ame dous blow which the Pritish capable of firing it. Intelligence ed United Kingdom that, by 1943. rican generals in their apartment Commonwealth forces had amang was remarkably bad. The senio The war impact on consurap 44, wardrobes and linen closets intelligence officer of the Seventh tion in the United States ond included a large proportion of in London. The sirens sounded, ed in complete detail.
Singapore itself was garrisoned Area Army had no idea of the Canada came later, and its ef items that, even by wartime sten signifying an alert. was talking fetts on consumption were both dards, in the United States and at the time. No one apparently with about 64, 000 Japanese strength or disposition of the Brit more gradual and less severe thon Canada would be classed as worn paid any attention to the alarm. troops. Of these, 24, 000 belonged ish forces, and made inaccurate was the case in the United King out.
We went on eating and went to the Army, 13, 000 to the Air and conflicting views of the prodom. The differences were due in Consumption of some goods part also to the fact that ca and services increased in all three on talking. could hear a flying Force and 27, 000 including, 11, 000 bable moves of the South Eost civilian workers, to the Navy Asia Command.
nada and the United States were countries. Among these were al bomb approach as talked.
geographically more remote from coholic beverages and tobacco, didn want the generals to know The exact figures are not known The British had actually plann the war.
reading matter, amusements, pu how scared was, so kept on because the Japanese Army Comed to make their landings on In 1943 and 194 war produc blic transportation and commu talking.
mand had no figure of its own September 9, this year, ac Port tion represented something like nication services. In each of these Just as the bomb got overhead, strength, and no idea of the nur Swettenham and Port Dixon, a half the value of total gross na five groups there was a slight tional product both for the Unit rise in the United Kingdom, and, heard its motor cough and quit. ber of men at the disposal of the full four months ahead of Japued Kingdom and for Canada. The in general a somewhat greater thought, This is it? But by naval commander, or the air for nese guesses.
This lack of inter service proportion was about 40 per rise in the United States and some amazing piece of luck, the Canada.
cent. in the United States motor picked up again, and the cooperation was largely resporasi AIR SPEED RECORD There is reason to believe, the bomb flew on. At that point ble for the state of unprepared When the attempt on the LOSS OF NATIONAL report adds, that in the case of world speed record is made at WEALTH such items as beer, amusement, came to my senses and said, m ness.
railway travel and communica sorry, gentlemen, but haven Right np to the time of sur: Herne Bay, the Meteor to be used In all three countries, addi ceman expenditure was consi saying. tion services, the average Servi the slightest idea what ve been ender no plan had been drawn will probably not be using all the thrust available in its two gas turbines. Normally the greatLions to the stock of non war derably above that of the averaThat all right, son. replied up for the demolitions in the The harbor harbor area one of the generals, none of us buildings and capital equipment ge civilian.
are est possible speed is aimed at were listening.
was in the Army sector but tac In this instance a particular speed ceased, many capital goods were not replaced as they wore out FALL IN SERVICES the need to divert labour to war Army had apparently pased the is the object, and unofficial tests and stocks of civilian goods ran production was greatest, purcha responsihility over othe Navy show that that speed should be down. When peace time uses of ses of household goods fell of the Navy refused to take orders last pound of thrust from the reached without demanding the war surplus property (munitions ticularly in the United Kingdom, and furnishings by nearly 80 per In all three countries, and par steeply in the case of furniture from the Army and therefore and Rolls Royce Derwents, plants, army trucks, merchant withdrawals of manpower nothing.
to cent.
The feeling between Whether or not this in interships, etc. are taken into ac other uses led to decreases in count, however, only in the case the numbers of doctors and den main Labour stringency was also the the two services ran so high that preted as prudence or as a sign of confidence that Britain will of the United Kingdom was there tists reason why the United civilian practice and of Kingdom experienced a 34 per a net reduction in national domestic servants, and took from clothing and a 37 per cent debe able to keep the speed record wealth, e, in productive capaci the schools experienced members ty and command over In the United Kingdom where There a story that once a seems no doubt now that there foreigh of their teaching staffs more ra cent will be plenty of power. Prudecrease in the case resources, and there the reduc pidly than necessary replace crease in the case of cosmetics, been summoned to appear before for selecting a definite speed.
calcitrant Samoan chief had dence is probably the real reason of tion was a material one. ments with trained substitutes In spite of the fact that, as in could be provided.
toys and sporting goods, such the governor. He appeared, very Reference was made yesterday the United States, many house Similarly, all three countries durable items as perambulatorspolite, very firm, but obdurate to the informative value of wives, youths and older persons suffered shortages not only jewellery, and luggage.
were drawn into industry after housing but also in schools, me States, on the other hand, purIn both Canada and the United There came the inevitable dead some of the speed tests. Pilots of 1942 the total supply of labour dical care, and other local serviHis Excellency eye fell the Gloster Aircraft Cº and those imposed an over all limit on United chases of many of these goods in the map of the world hanging of the associated with them Kingdom production. shortages were aggravated ces. In the United Kingdom such continued to expand under the on his office wall. He invited the know from experience how tho Meteor behaves up to the top Restrictions on the use of labour enemy action; to the congestion by influence of high consumer pur ehiet to examine it with him.
speed so far attained.
for non war output were deve created by war production cerechasing power. The world the chief nodded Plans for the attempt on the Joped to an extent not attempted tres was added the necessity of Consumption of alcoholic be The British Empire. The gover record are based on that experiin the United States and Canada billeting in other areas much of verages, despite output restric nor finger moved over the red ence.
even in 1944, To advance far beyond tions, rose sharply in the United the population of areas most vul States and Canada, but in the patches; the nodding grew apors that speed would be to introduce In the United States the wage nerable to enemy attack.
an official test hazards, earner average weekly hours The outstanding example United Kingdom showed no mas piately appreciative. Samoa. into of in munitions industries increas curtailed consumer purchases is ked change.
this tiny insignificant spot on the which ought first to be investied from 37. in 1939 to 47. in the category motor vehicles and Tobacco consumption increa rap. There was a moment pau by test pilots. Flying is now tak.
gated at much greater heights 1943 44. In the United Kingdom their operation. The per cent.
sed in Britain by 12 per cent, and se while the governor waited, ing place at critical speeds. Al pre war average weekly hours in decrease was greatest in the in the United States and Cano expectant of the chief submi somewhere between 560 and 39the engineering and allied indus United Kingdom, where private da by about 25 per cent. from ssion. Then slowly turning, smil the air through which the Cries were materially higher, 48 motoring almost ceased.
an average of cigarettes a for men and 44. for women in day in Britain, in Canada anting, the chief asked, Ah, yes, aeroplane passes begins to be.
have strangely. One effect of 1938. In 1943 average weekly FURNITURE AND CLOTHING in the United States, to 61, your Excellency, but who made that behaviour is to make control hours in these industries were In the United Kingdom where and respectively. the map?
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