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STUKA ATTACK ON DESTROYER TOLD
OFFICERS AND MEN of the Australian des- troyer Waterhen, who have just returned home on leave after almost two years continuous service in the Mediterranean, fell dramatic stories of their or- deals and adventures.
H.MAS. Waterhen was sunk by German dive bombers on June 29, this year, while it was taking supplies and reinforcements to besieged Tobruk.
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The Waterhen engaged in al-ing about, and at the crucial mo- most every kind of destroyer ment our steering-geår jamined. activity during her two years of service convoying, screening operations, anti-submarine work, patrol: duty, and carrying supplies and men.
She took part in the evacuation of Greece and Crete and. in the naval operations which supple- mented General Wavells drive through Libya to Benghazĩi. Of the
Great Gash
15,000 IRISHMEN TO AID BRITAIN
Over fifteen thou- sand Irishmen recently arrived in England to aid in the war effort, the B.B.C. announced.
The B.B.C; added that the men are not but mercenaries, come of their own will to defend the common
cause.
"The Stuka's bombs just missed a gun-crew and' exploded beside the engine-room. You could have0 rowed a boat through the great gash, in the side of the ship;
"The men in the engine-room barely had time to scramble.above. The order was given to abandon
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nounced as sunk by Australian warships she accounted for, three,
Many Air Attacks.
She was attacked many times by aircraft, but was not dam -aged until the day she was sunk. From first to last not one of her orew was killed or woundedi About 75 per cent, of her crew have now returned to Australia for 28 days' leave. Except for 24 hours in Alexandria, this will be the rst leave of more, thân” sêX hours they have had since the ship's departure.
The remainder of the grew, who are still in the war zone, are men who joined the ship within the last. 15 months.
of sinking immediately we waited or the other destroyer to come alongside and pick us up.
"After we had boarded her a "I have never heard a submarine broke surface nearby and fired two torpedoes at us. We case like this before," said Cassels at
soon dealt with the submarine We had no conclusive proof that Mr. Justice we sank it, but we belleve we did.
The other destroyer towed the Manchester Assizes after for about five hours a decree nisi had been before she settled down and sank.'
Waterhen
IS ISLE
OF MAN LEGALLY AT WAR?
The .contingent which hasar- rived in Australia was accom- panied by members of the crews of two other Australian destroy- ers and several Australian ratings
Is the Isle of Man, the who have been serving in Britisn ships.
personal property of the The men said that there was not King of England, legally a British ship in the Mediterranean which did not have at least one at war with the Axis? Australian serving on board. Most This question may be raised, at of them had four or five. These present owing to the special status. men were, nearly all specially of this little island, whose popula- trained for anti-submarine 'work.
Three or four months. before she was sunk, the Waterhen was de- tailed with other Australian des- troyers to transport: men and sup- plies from Metsa Matruh to To- #bruks and to take wounded. from Tobruk to Alexandria on the re- Burn voyage.
Bombed Ferociously
granted against Jock Mc- Avoy, the boxer, for the second t time.
McAvoy Joseph Patrick, Bam- ford, of Navigation Road, Broad- heath, Cheshife was alleged by Mrs. Joan Alice Bamford, of Hol- stein-avenue, Rochdale, Lancs. to have committed misconduct with his first wife. The case was unde- fonded.
Mr. Percy Butlin, for the second wife, said she was the women named when Bamford's firet wife obtained a divorce. from him..
Mr. Justice Cassels said Bamford tion does not exceed 60,000 souls. had the "somewhat unique experi- two There are indications that the is-ence of being divorced by land was not included in the women and still remaining with
the first. American declaration of war zones, and could thus be used as a land- ing point for American war mater- |ial sent to Great Britain
Dependent Upon.
The Crown Conquered in the 13th century It was norvy, perilous work.
by the English, who chased the Bulcide altcy was what the Scottish islanders away, the Isle men im the British ships called of Man' is not part of the British our 'run," said Petty Officer Empire or the United Kingdom. W. Raymond. "Tobruk, harbour' It is linked with the Kingdom af. was called the Graveyard of England and is dependent direct- Ships. When we left there were ly upon the Crown, which is rem the wrecks of 49 ships in the presented by a Governor. harbour our own ships and thei By virtue of a constitutional:-act Italians." "Destroyers had to be passed in 1886, laws voted by the detalled to take off the wounded Westminster Parliament because hospital chipe were al-plicable to the Isle of Man only if ways bombed ferociously.
such application is formally speal- "At an early stage in the slege:ded in the text of the law. dive-bombers deliberately attack ed a hospital ship when she left the harbour without escort We rushed to the assistance of the ship, and after the bombers had! gone managed to get alongside andi took off 497 patients and nurses
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Under these conditione, it may be wondered whether the war declared upon Germany by the British Government in 1939 in- cludes the tale of Man,
A precedent was set during the first World War when the Island outside 'tha remained legally hostilities, the Westminster Parlia ment having decided that the state "There was a heavy sea running of war was not expressly extend- at the time. and the emptying of ed to the Isle of Man,
the hospital ship was one of the most ticklish tasks we had to do. We finished the transfer withini an hour, and made for Alexandria with our decks literally covered with the wounded: We reached Alexandria without casualties;
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"The bombs which sank the The sanctfans moted out by the Watorhun strucks her about 7:30. Tribunal of Follient Responsibili- p.m. on June 20, when we were tes against Benor Juan Negrin, about 60 miles from: Tobruk with
former Republican: Premier, and reinforcements and supplies Senor Jimenez, do. Asuo, former. From 18 to 20 (German bomb-delegate of th Spanish Gaverne. ormattacked a deatroyer which was ment towing. yurmment-to-the with us. Then came our turn, League o
„have been ope flytromemtion Retually easing proved. By the Franco" Govern- one bomb coming. It looked like menta
the side of a house so it wobeam- | Senor Magrin was ¤ned Pesotas od down), and it was bright yel- 100,000,000 cand banished for a "law In: colour. It exploded just perioul of Afcon years, while
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"Perhaps we may take it for, granted that he won't have the same relationship, with the second ashe has liad-with-the-first," the Judge added, "otherwise he had better take out a regular, pass-for this court".
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