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Air Marshal Sir Arthur Bafratt, who has been appointed head of the Army Co-operation Command under the new scJieme of .cooperation between air and land forces.. . '.„■••' Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, chief of the Fighter Command of the R.A.F. since 1936, who goes to the United States on a special mission. (Evening Post, 19 November 1940)
i Captain Henry Barne/t. Bay steamed towards the enemy, whose second salvo hit the Jervis Bay amidships. "Then the raider concentrated on the Rangitiki. Its first salvo fell 400 yards short, the second straddled us j amidships, and the third again | straddled us forward of the bridge. One shell landed less than 50 yards away, smothering the bridge with shell fragments, but without doing appreciable damage. But for a light south-easterly that enabled our smoke to screen us, it is unlikely that we would have escaped." Captain Barnett had not removed his l clothes for a week. (Evening Post, 19 November 1940)
Two of the French battleships referred to in today's news of the action taken by Britain to prevent the use of French warships by the enemy. Top, the battleship Dunkerque, 26,500 tons, which escaped but was torpedoed. Belcuv, the Bretagne, a battleship of 22,189 tons, representative of a class of which one was. sunk. (Evening Post, 05 July 1940)