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CARELESS TALK LEADS TO SHIP LOSSES
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE THE FAVOURITE HUNTING GROUND OF ENEMY AGENTS, AND AN INTEN- SIVE CAMPAIGN IS ON TO STOP THEM COL- LECTING INFORMATION.
Sailors, soldiers and airmen coming home on leave are their prey. They do not necessarily talk to these men. They get into compartments where other passengers are likely to talk, out of a desire to be friendly.
They know that a sailor going home on leave, say from Plymouth, is always an object of some regard by other passengers, who engage him quite inno- cently in conversation.
The spy himself may be wear- ing the winform of one of the Ser- VICOS.
A saijor may reveal where his! ship has been, what sort of a time he has had, and when and where
he exprets to start hus next voyage
Enthusiasts
A solder may explain in detail the mechanism and mmament of
AIR JOKE
BECAME
A BATTLE
Diving in his Spitfire to amuse himself with a mock attack on what he
TOWN HAS HAD
250 BOMBS BUT NO DEATH
More than 250 bombs have been dropped on an East Anglian coast town and its immediate dis- trict since the be- ginning of the war.
Every place of wor- ship in the town has been hit, but not a single person his been killed, and less than о dozen slightly in- jured.
COLOURS
thought was a friendly WILL BE
bomber over the Channel,| a Polish pilot when about 600 yards from the plane below saw the German crosses on its wings. enemy
a new tank or gun and an airman may talk enthusiastically about
some new aeroplane or accessory.
Passengers help the
agents by pointing out from the train window; and revealing with pride what certain camouflaged objects are.
They also discuss their relatives in the forces, what they have been dong and where they are,
The enemy agent is not always silent. Sometimes he talks to en- Pourage talk.
The Government is especially anxious that the movements of both warships and merchant ships should not be mentioned in trains. Some of our shipping losses have been traced to train gossip.
Invasion
Quick y the Pole converted his play into the real thing and damaged the German machine. a Junkers 88-his first "blood." The Pule was accompanied by another Spitfire. As he wheeled away to return for his genuine attack on the German ‘olane he called up to the other pilot: "My mistake.
It's a Jerry. Four times he dived to at- tack. Finally, he exhausted his ammunition and was brought to close to the enemy machine that he almost touched it.
Both the top and lower gun. ners of the Nazi bomber kept firing at the Pole, who forced it down to about 60ft. above the
sca.
Bits Flew Off
Pieces flew off the Nazi mo- chine. The Pole was so close that; his Spitfire was slightly damaged,
He was unable to see if the Junkers 88 crashed.
Then there is talk that might be useful in an invasion attempt. |
New defensive devices, special' manoeuvres, anti-tank traps, gun emplacements and the like are all being talked about. Even if the Service man tells only the mem- A second Junkers 88 was dam- bers of his own family, the in-aged off Aberdeen. The Nazi pi'ot formation is liable to get out when tried to escape when he found a he has gone back to his unit. Hurricane waiting for him.
The British pilot turned after. the enemy muchine and made two attacks.
All members of the forces are now warned individually by their commanding offlcers within two days of joining up or within two days of going to another ship or unit that they must not talk.
Thousands of men on specially secret duty are re-warned and put; on their honour not to utter a word about what they are doing.
ven
The enemy agent has been dri- to the failway trains be- cause public-houses have begun to learn the anti-gossip lesson, and because so many of the new Ser- vice men do not drink.
New Posters
50
Publicans have cooperated well that those who do drink are talking less in bars.
But a couple of drinks on a train may make a tired and jaded man open his mouth.
The railways have displayed 570,000 notices about careless talk in compartments.
Now they are going to have these reprinted in colour in a new design,
In the docks more than 2,000 posters have been displayed.
CONSCRIPTS' LOVE
INQUIRY
During the attacks the Junkers 88 was climbing. still trying to escape, but when the Hurricane pilot last saw it, smoke was pour- ing from one engine.
LIGHTER
Women's clothes will soon be produced in lighter shade, which require less dye than rich, deep hues.
Colour variety and colour fastness, however, are not likely to be affected.
A Manchester
expert
dyeing said that a vast amount of dye was required for Air Force blue. Navy blue and khaki.
"So many chemicals-some im- ported, some home-produced-are used in dyeing," added the expert, "that it is impossible to prophesy what may happen in the future.
"Increased production of explo- (sives will in some ways help dye production. Minerals from which they are extracted leave a white crystalline substance, anthracene. the basis of a number of modern dyes.
"Women need not fear that the huge range of shades to which they have been accus. tomed in the past few years will disappear.
"As compared with 1914, we are in a very favourable position. Then
we were produc.ng only about 10 per cent. of the dyestuff's we required; the rest came from Germany.
"In 1939 we were producing 85 per cent., and I see no reason why the quality of dyeing should deteriorate."
FAST U.S. 'PLANES IN SINGAPORE
VETERAN BRITISH Royal Air Force pilots took to the air over Singapore in new American-made Brewster-Buffalo fighter 'planes as ocean-going bombers, of the type developing by the United States Navy, arrived from Manila after a trans-Pacific flight.
One officer said only 24 hours elapsed from the time the crates were opened until the completed fighter 'planes were ready for active service.
The new ships give new speed and long distance striking power to the aerial defences of this Bri- tish stronghold and to Bri. tish-Australian sea asd air patrols which are charged with the task of i He said the Arst shipment, a keeping clear the empire's eastern large order of Brewster Buf- sealanes.
fa.oes, were assembled and ready For several weeks skilled Bri- for flight before the arrival of the tish craftsmen with Chinese, In-American factory representative. dian and Malay mechanics, have A visit to one of several British been working at top speed at the air stations in Singapore showed Singapore R.A.F. workshops con- every department working at top verting, crated machinery Into speed to improve and maintain ready-to-fly 'planes worthy of the Singapore aerial defences. While experienced British, Australian mechanics were rolling out the and New Zealand airmen who Brewsters for waiting test pilots, were recently brought here from torpedo carriers and dive bomb- Britain to round out Malaya's era were perfecting their techni- Now men who · have married Rocial defences, carpe
que on nencinyin urgenta while dider since. October 16 Inst, when Amer-A tour of the R.AF. workshops British flying boata and powerful icans registered under the Con- demonstrated the speed and em- | Australian-manned. - American- quiry into the circumstances of similar to those which recently out to sea to meet the patrol scription Act, will face an in- clency with which the Brewsters, built Lockheed Hudsons, roared their wedding and must prove it Joined the United States Navy's bombers which were completing was not for the purpose of evading first line fighter force, were push their voyage across the south military service.
ed; through to final assemblage. China sexAssociated Press,
U.S. conscripts can make them- selves incligible for military ser- vice by marrying a "dépendant wite."