Show How German Blockade Bears Down Existing or Possible 1 German Sub Attack Lanes British Conroy Routes North sea SOVIET o GREAT A RUSSIA EIRE BRITAIN German planes subs German subs r based on Norwegian brou ht by French coasts roil sift raids on shipping ready to strike in inS S t Mediterranean GERMANY from Rumanian i Bulgarian bases GARY ITALY G RUMANIA FRANCE boots U-boots based SPAIN in Italy could I s n corer middle k N Na a Q Mediterranean a o 5 E c Oran P ms r rc Hitler would like Mediterranean Sea French bases here Miles for planes subs British aid aido route to Greece LIBYA o app ALGERIA MAP SHOWS EXTENT OF ATTACKS ON SHIPPING I U-boats U and planes now active in Atlantic may intensify sea I warfare in Mediterranean British leaders Predict u. u s. s He p in Time I LONDON March 11 UP The Ri-The The battle of the Atlantic is on Britons proclaimed Tuesday and officials optimistically staked the future of the kingdom and empire on n United States aid at hand or available Without clarifying his intent a nIgh high British naval official said that Britain had enough trained personnel personnel personnel per per- to man the whole American fleet it if it were turned over to her herfor herfor herfor for the conflict between British shipping and axis raiders aerial surface and undersea Britain he declared wants all the he ships from America she can get He paid high tribute to the 50 former United States destroyers now convoying freighters on the empires empire's lifelines Air Mr Minister linister Confident Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair told the house of commons that hat American warplanes will get here in time for the developing battle of the seaways Sinclair said Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels was telling his dupes that American help for would arrive too late But I tell the house that splendid splendid splendid did aircraft the aircraft the choicest fruits of American design and craftsmanship will will get here in time Sir Archibald Archibald Archibald Archi Archi- bald said Well-informed Well quarters said Britain already has trained a vast skeleton organization of fliers seamen seamen seamen sea sea- men and soldiers to take over the large quantities of planes ships and guns expected from the United States American military naval and air experts have been working here more than four months in close cooperation with the British so that the empires empire's forces can operate American equipment immediately Sinclair told the house of commons commons commons com com- mons that the R RAF A F was now on the threshold of its period of greatest greatest greatest great great- est expansion and declared that unless Adolf Hitler had a more effective secret weapon than any he has yet managed to produce British planes going into the battle battle battle bat bat- tle would be better than nazi craft In the past 10 months he announced announced announced an an- the British air force has destroyed German and 1100 Italian airplanes and lost fewer than 1800 aircraft of our own Leaving out of account reserves we have destroyed half of the Italian Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian first line Sir Archibald said We have certainly destroyed much more than half the first line with which Germany entered the war Earlier Tuesday the admiralty announced the loss of 29 British allied and neutral ships totaling tons in the week ended March 2 This the admiralty said was the heaviest toll of merchant shipping in the sea war since last October It said its figures contrasted with German and Italian claims of having sunk tons during the period An authoritative source nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless never never- said The spring blitz which Hitler promised has begun He added that British countermeasures countermeasures counter- counter m measures measures nevertheless were improving improving improving im im- proving and had produced particularly particularly particularly par successful results |