The Archive · 1941

Britain's Super Battleship

The new 35,000 ton super-battleship, Duke of York, is seen sliding down the ways of a Clydeside yard, The vessel, a sister ship of the King George V, which recently took Lord Halifax to th mounts ten 14 inch guns of a mew design and powerful anti-aircraft defences.

Because of her tremendous firing power she i; known as a super-battleship, The first, which Senator David Walsh, Massachusetts Democrat, vill introduce, is to prevent the' sal transfer or lease of any part of the Fleet by President Roosevelt and the second is to prohibit American conveys of British-bound ships, The caucus selected Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Missouri Democrat, as the first opposition speaker Monday en debate opens on the bill.

Wrm a view to ightening the economic blockade measures against the enemy, the China Industrial Co-

Operative Association has caused a rear number of industrial co-opera tives to be established in the guerilla areas in East Shansi, states a Chungking report to the "Sin Wan Pao." By the end of last year, these industrial ce-operatives t up factories for the manu-of leather shoes, paper, Meanwhile, Senator Charles W. military uniforms, preserved foods Tobey, New Hampshire Republican, and other articles, thus lending ged President Roosevelt to mal andid statement" on the future dis-great impetus to the fighting power of Chinese forces,

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