Shanghai 24 hours ending 7 p.m.
Yesterday Min. 66.0 Max. Same date, 1938 Min. 695 Max. 150
Rainfall nil.
Temperature at Siccawi Oil in Whenever I have passed any com-Wartime jive never omitted to make it citur ime ment on Britain's fuel policy, I Yesterday Min. 63.
Max. 828 Same date, 1938 Min. 696 Max. 152 that I speak as one without technical know-Siccawei's Report ledge of any sort or kind, observes a writer in "Truth" I have to rely on experts for my State on the morning of the 16th:—Pressure facts—experts such as "The Engineer." In the rather normal and steady over China and Japan. May 5 number of that famous publication there North-easterly to south-easterly winds along the was a most interesting and illuminating leading China Coast. Cloudy weather in the north: article on our "Oil Requirements in Time of rainy in our regions and in the south.
War." It estimates that a normal bomber of State on the morning of the 17th:—Cloudy and the immediate future, carrying a load of two variable weather. East-north-easterly wind. tons of bombs, will probably need 3,000 lip, Normal and steady pressure. ior some six hours per raid. Each raid would, Probabilities, 4.30 p.m. yesterday:—Fine and therefore, need fuel equivalent to 18,000 horse-hot weather with south-easterly to south-power hours, or about 1,200 gallons of petrol. westerly winds around Shantung. Cloudy, hot If 3,000 machines operated every day, the conand rather fine with north-easterly to south-sumption in the course of a war lasting a year easterly winds over our regions and the Coast to would be 1300000000 gallon. This figure, it the south of the Saddles. Rainy around the must be remembered is for aeroplanes alone, Loochoos and Formosa. and for one belligerent only. What I should like to know is this: How can Great Britain
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or France or Germany conceivably hope to get To Tub Kmo's Davcurens' Socurr in wartime oil supplies at all adequate to her need? Surely the inference is that, after the In memory of Mrs. Apce Mary Nazer:—Mrs. F. W. Schlobohm first two or three months of hostilities, warfare wil revert to what it was before the aero-To Tar E. K. F. A. C. Fuxp plane added a third arm to the fighting services,
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