ALL FOR BRITAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23969, 20 May 1941, Page 8

ALL FOR BRITAIN

AMERICANS ritt!ED "MUST GIVE EVERYTHING" DESTROY NAZI GANGSTERS (Heed. 11 p.m.) NK\Y YOKK, May is "The United States not only will fight for democracy, but will make it worth fighting for," said Mr. Harold L. fckes, Secretary of the Interior, in the course of a speech to-day. "We must give the British everything we have." he added, "and by everything 1 mean everything needed to beat the life from the common enemy. "America will lie']) brave England to I drive back the hordes ot llell who have j besieged her. Then we will join in the I destruction ot the savage, b.oodthirsty | dictators everywhere. Hut we must be onil decisive. We must know our will ami make it felt —and we must hurry." Mr. I ekes said he was convinced that Americans wotild lose their freedom unless they co-operated fully in aiding I enslaved people to recover their liberty. "These hundreds of millions of liberty-loving people constitute the greatest Sixth Column in history," he said. "They have the will to destroy the Nazi gangsters. We have always helped in the struggles for human freedom. We will help again."

SHORTAGE OF LEAD PROBLEM FOR GERMANY BRITAIN WELL SUPPLIED LONDON', May 18 An important comparison ol the lirilish and German supplies of lead is made in the Keonoinist, which says lead has always been one of the chief munition metals, a British official wireless message states. Since the last war its importance in the armament industry has increased as a result of mechanisation. Lead i,s used in the manufacture ot electric batteries for aeroplanes, tanks and other military vehicles, as well a.s warships. The greatly increased firing power of machine-guns has caused a substantially increased demand lor lead for the production of bullets. Germany finds it most difficult to cover her lead requirements, Germany and Austria together can produce .some 100,000 metric tons of lead annually. Another 10,000 tons annually nta\ he obtained from Poland, while S ugoslavia mav be able to supply SO,OOO metric tons, provided her mines have been kept intact. Spain, normally not an insignificant lead producer, has hardly any exportable surplus at present. Russia is not self-sufficient in lead. Compared with Germany's estimated minimum requirements of over -300.000 metric tons annually, the supplies to which she has access thus appear seriously inadequate even if allowance is made for the tonnage recovered from scrap. Britain, on the other hand, while producing only about 40,000 metric tons of lead annually from domestic sources, has access to ample supplies abroad. The British Empire produces about 000,000 metric tons annually, the great bulk of which is refined near the mines. The Empire's production is more than adequate for its needs. Indeed, it exports a large quantity to the lniited States to make up deficiences in that country. 'Hie United States last year produced 458,000 metric tons. Her consumption on the other hand was 625,000 tons, as against less than 450,000 tons in If.'iO. This deficiency between domestic supplies and requirements, however, was fully made up by increased imports from foreign sources, chiefly Mexico and territories in the British Empire.

KIEL AGAIN RAIDED DAMAGE TO SHIPYARDS (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, May IS British aircraft bombed the German naval base of Kiel again last night. -Further damage was caused to shipyards. Emden was also attacked. Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and the Coastal Command attacked the docks at Cherbourg, in France. No British aircraft are missing. The Air Ministry states that Royal Air Force bombers on Saturday night heavily attacked Cologne. They dropped many explosives and incendiaries, and large fires were left burning. Attacks on a smaller scale were carried out against the docks at Rotterdam and Boulogne, French and Dutch harbours also were attacked. DELIBERATE BOMBING HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT LONDON, May in Further proof that the bombing of the Houses of Parliament was deliberate is provided by a German newspaper. The German Air Force, the newspaper states, had the honour of rendering it impossible for Mr. Churchill to make further statements from these famous buildings. The German Air Force had the honour of destroying these buildings. WEEK'S AIR LOSSES BRITISH SUPERIORITY LONDON, May IS Axis aircraft losses for the week ending at dusk yesterday totalled 111, says a British official wireless message. Over Britain and round the British coasts Gonnanv lost 68 and the Royal Air Force three. Over Germany and occupied territory the Germans lost eight and the British 21. In the Middle East Axis losses were 1:5 machines in the air and 22 on the ground, while the Roval Air Force lost 11. The Navy meanwhile announced that 16 enemy 'aircraft were destroyed by naval vessels in the .Mediterranean between May 6 and May 12. ! ARRESTS IN PARIS LONDON, May 18 Tin- Viehv ('Ovei nmetit re|i|-eselit.aI ive in I'.iris, .M. Di'brinon. announced that 42 persons w re arrested for a demonstration in favour of Do Gaulle held at the I'uilleries (iardeus on the Joan of Arc anniversary lie added that the De Gaulle party's advance publicity enabled precautions to he taken and that disorder was reduced to a minimum. ENVOY TO COLOMBIA (ltoed. 0..10 p.m.) LONDON, May Ift Tho King has approved the appointment of Mr. T. M. Snow as Minister to Bogota, capital of Colombia, in succession to Mr. M. I!. T. Paske Smith, who has been obliged by ill health to relinquish the post, says n British official wireless message. G ERMANS REC APTITR E D LONDON, May 18 All five German prisoners of war. who were reported to have escaped from a prison camp in tho north-west of England last Thursday, have been recaptured. The men had to penetrate a thick barbed-wire fenoa to get; out of the wajv