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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1938,
"SHADOWING" CONVOYS IN THE AERO-NAVAL WAR
SOMEWHERE IN BLUELAND,
operátor, two riggers and two fit-
I have just landed at this air base ters-smoked cigarettes in the me- after a flight of nearly 1,000 miles, tal-walled fusellage and cockpit of during the past 91⁄2 hours, to the he machine.. Bay of Biscay and back. I flew in
The navigator busied himself at one of the 'planes taking part in the combined air and naval man-his chart, taking bearings from a compass and marking our position œuvres, writes a correspondent.,
Flying at 2,000ft we saw the For the purpose of the manou-French coast some miles to the east! vres there is a conflict between
t 4.15. Although we were technic
Blueland and Redland. The Homelly "at war," creature comforts
Fleet, returning from Gibraltar, re- presents a convoy of merchaħtmen carrying food and raw materials.
The Blue forces comprise aircraft and submarines from home bases,
were not neglected.
Hot tea was made in the littla galley at the rear of the machine. and with it chocolate biscuits were handed round.
At 6.30 we were off Ushant, My 'plane was one of those which get out to locate the ships of the Schools of porpoises played in the Dusk began to fall. On Red fleet in the Bay of Biscay. We ea below.
the found them and "shadowed" them ve flew south-westwards into for more than an hour, our radioay of Biscay. At 6.45. when the last of the daylight was fading: sending back constant reports
we caught our first glimpse of the the home base.
to
The reconnaissance work we have carried out will help our submari- nes when later they launch their at- tack on the Redland fleet.
"nemy.
WAITING SUBMARINE Through a gap in the cloud wrack appeared first one, then another, and another destroyer. They were The activities were marred by strung out in a long line, several for the other miles apart, as a screen the an accident to one of
It main fleet behind. reconnaissance flying boats.. crashed in the sea off Ushant with the loss of six lives.
100 MILES AN HOUR
We veered away to avoid them At seven o'clock we sighted an air- craft carrier, the Courageous.
Night had now fallen. Half an
It was just three o'clock in the hour later the glaring "eye" of a afternoon when the floats of the signal began to wink up at us from Singapore flying boat, in which the blackness below. was a passenger, lifted from the sea on the start of the flight.
In the brilliant afternoon sunshine we droned over the Isle of Wight at 100 miles an hour. Far off to the right was Port and Bill, and presently, like, a dark crocodile crouching in the water, the Channel island of Alderney appeared.
It was ona
of our Blueland submarines wait- Wa invader. ing to intercept the answered him with our signal lamp.
With the coast now invisible we threw flame flares on to the sea and 'rom them took hasty bearings to determine our position. All
ights were switched off.
our
In the cockpit the instrument dials rlowed ghostly in the darkness. An The personnel of nine-two pilots, 'cy wind tore through the portholes. a navigator, an air observer, a radiol (Continued at Foot of Next Col.)
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Suddenly, in the obscurity below, the darkened battleships suddenly we could discern a line of large picked us out in a glow of silver ships. They were in darkness, but radiance. Once we caught sight of even the tell-tale gleam of their one of our fellow flying-boats," and foaming wakes gave away their radioed to her to fly at a different
altitude to us to avoid risk of position.
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When finally we had satisfied.our- Again and again we swung, in great circles above the merchant selves as to the number and size fleet and convoy. Our radio opera-of the ships below we turned and tor tapped out the news to Blue-headed for home. Following land's headquarters hundreds of reconnaissance work, will come the turn of the torpedo bombing squa¬ miles distant.
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