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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1941.
TORPEDO, BOMBS, F OG AND STORM
BRITISH GRIT IN A BRITISH
SHIP
GERMANS DOUBTING.
LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, COUSIN OF RESULTS
THE KING, REFUSED TO ABANDON AND SINK HIS SHIP, H.M.S. KELLY, WHEN SHE WAS CRIPPLED BY A GERMAN TORPEDO OFF THE
ENEMY COAST.
Instead, he and his crew, fighting with the faith and fire of Nelson, used the destroyer as a floating fence to sink a hunted Nazi torpedo-boat then defied enemy bombing attacks for three days and made port safely.
Kelly was down by the bows, listing heavily to starboard. One of her boilers was shattered. Some of her men were dead and dying. And the Germans boasted that she was sunk.
But to-day Kelly her wounds! healed, after seven months in hos- pital, is in active service again waiting for the Germans to come out and fight.
The epic story that will live for ever in British naval helory fres been revealed in Londen.
Words Of Comfort
The story of a captam who found time in the thick of battle to leave his bridge to murmur words of comfort to a dying sen-
man.
Of a cook who left his stew pots to กาลก the guns against enemy warplanes,
All Evans was there. too Engineer Contuaeder Evans, baru- ther of Evans of the Broke,
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Kelly was Parking destrove. flotilla
German not t in a minelayers when out of darkness and North Sa lg a torpdo struck her
Flame from the explosion flash- ed above the level of the bridge.
its force lifted the warship bodily out of the water and blew the foremost boiler room open to the sea killing every
man In it.
Amid steam black smoke and explosion fumes HMS. Bulldog found Kelly lying like a log in the water and took her in tow as the log thickened.
Kelly' siel: bay wa, wrecked,
In the darkness, working with a few hand torches, the surgeon ar. attendants worked as, Ja
Jay past they toiled In the cockpit of N^eur's Victory.
Enemy "Over The Top"
The men's her im was in the highest naval tradition.
For hours a stoker, terribly wounded, lay without groaning or complaining,
A telegraphist, aged cig!leen wriggled into the wreckage of the the main wireless cffice.
Knowing that in the thip sank he could not escape he gave Injections of morphia to five wounded men who were trap- ped.
Shortly after midnight a Ger- man motor-torpedo-boat, pursued by British warships, came, streak- ing out of the fog at 40 knots.
Desperately trying to escape, the German captain attempted to use Kelly as a shield, but instead of a clear run around the Kelly's bows, the enemy', found himself faced by a slope of steel. **
Striking Bulldog-dr the quar-' ter in a final bid to escape, the torpedo-boat bounced off on to Kelly's bows and shot down the starboard side, tearing away her whaler motor-boat, davits and quard ralis.
Her crew were shouting ico manincs as she cannoned off into the fog and sudden silence.
After holding the man to ease his pair, Lord Louis said: "I'm
have proud to
served with
man like you."
a
Then ho returned to the bridge
the Nelson touch, Doc held the inan as he died
OF
WAR
The latest issue of the Schwarze Korps, the or- gan of the Nazi S.S. men, complains that many peo- ple in Germany have the audacity to question the results of the war so far achieved.
It is often said about the result of the war in France, remarks the paper impatiently, that precious time was wasted in marching 12 Lyons and Southern France while there was no attempt to cross the Channel, and it wares people to refrain from such "ridiculous remarks."
German
making
A Major Martin, writing in the German Army publication "Die Wehrmacht," also hits out at
felling him that his sacrifice had Brumblers; "Women at home," he
sved other men's lives.
German bombers appeared next morning es the
Kelly's wounded were being transferred to H.M.S. Kardahar,
An air escort beat them off. Re- pected bombing attacks also fail-
Dend were buried at sea. The wind and sea rus steadily as the Saturday wore
Kelly umunanage-
was yawing altirist
bly.
The
and
0:00
says, "show a lack of understand- ing by saying that our army dues nothing, and by asking why men who are sorely needed at home cannot be allowed to return.
The same question is oiten arked by soldiers, who seem to think that war can be carried on by the navy and the air fores."
Major
yes, we won the war in Poland, Norway Holland and France, but it is not sufficient to have reached this am as England is not willing to recognise our victories.
Martin's comment
Can
On the captain's order every man except those needed for the
"The conquered territories need guns was ordered to leave.
ruing by vast conting Pts of Ger Eighteen officers selected from
а whole ship's | Brian troops, so that the war
be carried on by the navy and company that volunteered to remain on board, were left in
the air force."
Kelly with Lord Louis Mount. hatter, who is forty and fought in the last war
Atceraft reported two eneriv submarines in her direct path, and her captam, realising she W3S merely a sitting target for their torpedoes. decided to transfer his volunteer party temporarily tu Bulldog.
All through the hours of dark- ness the Kelly lay abandoned with the seas churning through her
boiler rooms.
And all through the night the escorting destroyers steamed in an endless chain round their
stricken leader.
In the dawn two tugs arrived and the volunteer party returned to Kelly and got her in tow. The wind and sea rose again, Waves swept her from end to end. Again the bombers attacked and full- ed.
Steel Helmet
The guns were worked by hand, the crews
the scrambling over wreckage from one gun to an- other as cach came to bear on the attacking aircraft.
The able scaman who had volunteered to act as cook kept ruching from his stew pot, to his gun and back again In the lulls of his cooking.
He persisted in wearing a large white apron and steel helmet throughout.
On the Monday afternoon, hav- ing been ninety-one hours in tow or hove to, -Kelly, arrived in port.
She had beaten the most deter- mined Nazi onslaughts from the air, dodged submarines and evaded surface craft.
BIT HER NOSE
Judging by the amount of in- A MAN WAS STATED AT teresting wreckage she bad left GLAMORGAN ASSIZES behind and the silence sh3 SWANSEA TO HAVE BITTEN had foundered.
Anaval rating,
Stcker Cave "was
jured,
but
AT
OFF PART OF HIS WIFE'S Class NOSE AND THEN TO HAVE PAID A SUBSTANTIAL SUM FOR FLASTIC... · · TREATMENT
Hold Me When I Dia WHICH REMOVED THE DIS-
“Never mind me, Doo M
FIGUREMENT.
Anthony Misud, thirty, a' Mal- told a sick berth attendant: 'I'm tese fireman was. bound over for done for. Help the other lads three years on a charge of unlaw --but hold me when I die,1'11] fully wounding his wife with in- tell you when!!.
tent to disfigure her. Lord Louis Mountbatten, told ofIt was stated that he and his to the the man's courage, went down to wife had a dispute ne see him.
ownership of a cafe business..
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