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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.
BEGINNING: HALF-FORGOTTEN HEROES
U
Then Hudson “S”
Leader
from 200
--570 wallowed in tho
Atlantic gale like Squadron, piloted by Squadron
H. Thompson, atriken killer whale. over the patrol.
took and continued Kapita nleutnant circling the area. At 10.50 a.m. Hans Rahmlow stood in the Rahmlow decided
to surface. Thompson spotted V-570 us her jean gray shape broke surface and he put the Hudson intu shallow dive,
conning tower, watching the signal lamp flickering a mes
from the British Bage trawler Northern Chief:
.
The jubilant Thompson radio ed to Inno, asiting for ships to come and lake off the German crew. Immediately C.-C. Western Approaches,
signalled two destroyers and three drawl- ers to ebeam at full speed for
-570's reported poaltion.
Weather
www
By noon the Hahmlow climbed up into the appalling, with a full gale blow- conning tower just in time fo in Thorson's Hudson circled "If you make any attempt spot the plane and immediately until 1.48 . when a Catalina of 200 Squadron erdem
flying boul for shouted down scuttlo or abandon your crash
Thompson signalled: dive. But the
patient arrived. ship I will save no one and Thompson was too quick-four "Look after our sub, which has open fire on your boats and depth charges dropped from the sun while Ong." The Catal rafts."
to
Rahmlow, on the third day of His first operational poteval as a U-bont comnunder. Cashed back to the trawler: "I cannot abandon l soittle. Navi 125 tomorrow pleasp." ŚCITITOW
U-boat packs
Those Iwo signals helped forge one of the Royal Navy
ngairest the greatest wenpons
Alleed convoys as they crossed the A1 lantic they meant Beitra Ikul captured its fest -
laid bare
pecrets.
Hitler's
zabranite
When the new 300-ton U-bol was commoned in June, 1981 Adrukrul Tenutz wan scraTANK the bottom of the Kriegsmarine barrel for Mubinau DE CROWS CH 510' crew of 43 only fun trand done a wat cruise a V boat
After a few "working up cruises in the sheltered Katlegat and Skagerruk U-670 went ferias to Norway, such on the night of August 24, 1941. Italumlow tow his best out of Lails Fjoust her Arm war patroł
The weather Was bad. As the spray-swept U-470 pulched 41716 rolled her way towards her Ai lanke huntingt gevound,
and then rekkeri
became volently
Tarest case
MUNICH
crew
F
39 of the 43 it was the test taste of life in J small U boat heavy wealthies
A latter taste thuit lo no appetite for
DI
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Chaos Below
JUS
JUST after dawn on August 27
Rahunlow decided to dive to
three hours to give the crew rest becau
umorulu
it
was very Iow Water flowshed inle the bal- last tanks and U-570 mutamerged
a swirl of water
The time Coastal Commund Hudson om leelum
was 0.30 am -und
spotted that swirl
down und
The plane dived dropped stroke floats, radioing a sighting report le 24 base, The Spilot flew
for ruutu
another hour, urching for a trace of U-570. "Vision was very limited the pilal owing 10 non-squial, reported later,
Hudson's bồnù bays,
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He reported: "The U-bout was completely enveloped the explosions and shortly after wards submerged completely
Two minutes later U-570 shot to the surface again out of con- trol at 10 or 12 of its crew, wearing yellow lifejackets, ap- peared in the conning tower and came down on dock.
[tt
was joined by other plants,
But the outs were speeding by and the gale continued un- abated. Orders went out the gunding pans. If it appears to reach surfnce eral) unable punition before dark, after giv ing die wartung you should sink the U-bont."
However, Me RAF Cometal
in brought L'ommand There had been chaos below during those Iwo alikut planer to
an all-night
more
AFTER BOFFINS HAD PROBED HER SECRETS THE NAVY USED U-570 TO HUNT HER FORMER SISTER SHIPS
THE
OF
batten vers ante
A
bulinst strument husi been damagent The electric lights went init small amount 11 chlorine Kas from the batteries serpent the engine-room and DC LAT ad, refusing to return to duty
unles
Thampi vaught his Hudson Potunel agard and his Klainers
prned fire from the East
357ኀ . Kuns
Germans belly
ged back into the shelter o
lover
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tlasz
k
HARRIN Cracklest thear
2141 We watched
Concluding: Adventure On A Shoestring
THE FEAST IN THE STREETS
By Cliff Hanley
FTER
the
Pingaro in the middle of the street, and climb, the Cunningham- we sat down there to eat. Melnes Himalayan Ex- "Everybody in town gathered
The sight pedition was more or round to watch us. 1css finished with of white men eating in public.
with long especially
cating Climbing. But they bad a way to back to New Zea fingers, must have been a real entertainment, We ato with land.
as we had been doing
Much of their time in Nepal our fine."
they had spent on the forbidden for Nepal-Tibet border, They had
no
business
ביר
possiblo
their
This was the welcome home
in Nejual, to Mother Iradio, and no highly-
thet
having recolved no official per- organised expedition ever had u better. All the climbers had to mission to enter.
they do now was find their way to It 19 wander across into Tibet during some money and to New Zealari.
mountains. But,
their four months among the Tough and Lean
Cunningham
would know?
and
U-570 surrendors to a RAF Hudson: the captain's dress shirt (arrowed) was used as a white flag.
CAPTURE
U-570
By DUDLEY POPE
patrol, using dates, and pos wiresaff Nufled a warning fo
"Yout (tainless
11111 Premi slay mustered on deck bught antal be shown all night
N 1. 1. Kaight, rammanding the trawler Northern Chief, signalled that oche but sugated -170 Through
Northern night the
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Pave Chip tought the westerly gale
To kump close to the subtharine
By the time the Hudson depen e third 2426 KO Lite E-li Surender signal was being waved from the conning lower it was the raplami clown the starched
and
Frilleret lightly To avoid uny 1111-
board Winte
tanelerstanding th was put on deck,
U-570 had capitulated to Un Hudson its demora kusech, S= sicht crew bad and eastagh
Leading reporters the world over have spontane
ously acclamed the amazing accuracy of automatic winding on a ball-bearing! It is to watchmaking
what jet propusun is to aviation"
By daylight oldar strips atsived the
Burwell tientenjers
atul Nugara. Winderme
Agate At 7:20
and the trawlers
and
Tht ships wanted
pm when the wind cased a bit and the Kangston Agate man- Deuvred so that she could drift a Carley let down to U-570
fixt Ett 1:34
W***** Lacul 11
Identenant Sub Campbeli Waghmom and two ratings, when scramblest aboard the *lil marine and organised the trans fer of the five wounded men to safely Within a equple of hertirs all the German erise of 43 bad been tranfgrted to the destroy er Niagara
Kingat Great Secrecy
Winder -
were so big that the mere steamed to windward and pumped rut l
to calm them, H Chief managed to get HALF an hour later the North
At the same time a Jarie passert to the Burwell. Jardi.
The first self-winding watch on a ball-bearing'
ETERNA MATIC
banishes the last weak spot
in the automatic watch
The arch-enemy of any mechanism is wear. Until now the "staff" of an auto- matic watch was regarded as its danger-spot because of the friction it caused. Eterna has brilliantly eliminated this source of danger by fitting a smooth- running near-microscopic ball-bearing in place of the staff". But this Eterna-Matic ball-bearing with its 5 unbreakable steel balls so tiny that a thimble would hold 30,000 has not only removed harmful friction: its easy action enables the rotor that automatically winds the watch to respond to the slightest movement of your wrist so hat it quickly and soundlessly stores up a power-reserve of 44 hours. Moreover, so smoothly does the Eterna-Matic ball-bearing work that it enables every component of the movement to function with a steady rhythm that is the secret of the amazing accuracy of this self-winding watch.
LOOK FOR THIS STERNA SY400
WHS
If by using radio durevlon - finding F), the position of the U-boat could be found as he transmitted the signal other Alhed convoys could be routed ground!
NIXIt the danger escorte could attack the parks"
The Ilunt
TH
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and
Jahn
Ican John
In however. after their
Tough points out, who
had Cunningham
Buce shed Di his originally light The classical conception
of stone
months in frontiers, with striped barriers weight during four
immigration the Himalayas Cunningham and lynx cyed
Hamish McInnes arrived officials, soems funny when the
looking. Bombay line drawn on the inap rwis Through blizzards and glaciers reasonably vilised
down through India, no human journey gullys where
Their only worry was money. being has over den.
ef which they had almost none ut all. But they had £150 in
The
some bankin frightening ex- the kitty, must
agent in Now perience of the trip had nothing Bombay. An to do with climbing, glaciers, Zealand had handled this for At 3 52 pm Marriott gave the
omitted to say and guns or drug-runnere. In both them, but had urder to close the contact
Cunningham and which bank in Bombay, where went up to the kiosk and sealed dhections, himself at the periscope. A few Meluns had to cross big rivers, there are many banks,
they 11.
55 mules northeas1
Cape
hydrophone reported a contact ahead at long range.
Ortegal when the rating di the "Real Fright"
IL
Before their few rupees ran
A helpful clerk suggested one
he spotteck munches later enemy--a U-boat,
WALS
}
usic "wolf
the On the
Khost by out they telephoned to the big- negotiated the Sun
The river wus in test and most likely bank in the He reported later:
which bank was "A heavydugou,
boiling tc, and the dugouts city, asking Only thu running.
of pat swell
kely to handle much had only an luch or tower conning
*ransmotion. wund
freeboard. any's
"This was my first rend fright,” Heen, though this with coneldor able clearness for a second. was painted bright pren, which Cuningham declares. "I wanted such bank, which suggested an-
ito sereni
It's quite different other, which suggested another. and the sin, shone in
it up-tom rock climbing.
Faced with a staggering list of disuppenzone of on," to be roughly beam peared
"On the way out, we followed bunks and
went to fur Then came the moment
a different route, farther cast, rush balance, they
hostet tid Army This Salvation months of training and out this didn't spare us. which
hoophality for planning ad prepared them. tume it was the Dhud Kho, in found generous
with Mar- Everything rested
from suveral days till they could dis- spate with melting snow
ouver where their money was mott as, forward in the torpedo Everest.
don't evesi "They
consider a Bombay. POUT, men waited for the onder
The Salvation boats using
un it--it would wash to fire.
The showed away. Then Marriott, his eyes press-the Queen Mary
way
two
#
A
Army people
no
suspicion and
4 had
no for bed and and thin time Bombay
camo
THERE was, however,
"but High-frequency radio direction-finding (R: F 1/F) had been developed in 1930 but
wel very successful
WAR
ly 1940 the Admiralty tried crat new set called the FH 3
vorited
ed to the rubber-padded eye-lerrymen had a rope stretched. haste to be paid piece of the periscope, gave the but not lightly mouth, from one lourd, but Cunningham order to fire. At 4.50 p.m. for bank to the other, and we had McInnes
wandering
roland the to cross by this rope. from korpedors
"I know It was coming, and 1 penniless till the answ Chraph's bow tubes.
tried to make myself weigh halt from New Zealand.
It was to the effect that their a pound, te minus hulf a pound, or float in the air like a rope- deposit was with the Best bank
But trick buy.
hadn't got the they had approached.
End of Danger trick of it.
in two destroyers. But the set Explosions
only gave directions, not range. By the end of 1941 another set. the M 4. was produced This gave a cathode ray presentation which allowed the operator see if the range was less than 50 miles.
But the tow line to the submarine and
ships, by Ute other escrcteri
Then we captured W-570. shaped a course for Iceland. Be-
As soon as possible she wus cause she was leaking slightly
the "boffin" -370 was beached for examina- ptzt to sea and
with her radio experimented Ton and repairs. and then
From her signals Royal Navy steaming crew under transmiters.
sailed Lt Colvin
her, with the scientists altered the FH 4 the White Ensign Aying to Eng- sot zo that it could give
accurate ranges. And those new at Barrow on latid, arriving
sels were atted to the CUNYOY escorte fighting the Battle of the Atlantic.
October 3.
Imunediately.
secrecy,
amii poreal
take
tr>
4571
she WEIN Vicker's yard and Kiven ordinary Job number. Then the
the Admiralty
"all" Turla
stel-
arrived. Stadily they winkled every secret there was out of the U-boat and then the radio experts had u
more
While the "bons" were al work the Admiralty developed other plans for U-670-she WAN to sea under the White Beshin. And her job was to hunt her former sister U-boats
g
cof
U-570 was renamed HM Sub- marine Graph. and Lt. I. B. The Navy's great problems in Marriott, a 29-year-old veteran fighting the Battle of the submariner, was given the com- No essential alterations Atlantic was, naturally, in find- mand. ing out where the U-boats were. were made in the boat's They did have one chance of struction,
The day inpohting them; whenever U-boat sighted a convoy it sent Graph to sail for her first war a radio message-u sigghlang re- patrol under the White Ensign, port This enabled other U-boats and Mario11 took her into the to join in to form a pack.
Bay of Biscay. He was cruising
came
for HMS
CID Arrive
STOP watches were storted,
From this point, danger and men walled, stiff with tension.
"I touched the water in the ulscomfort end in the Himalaya They counted the seconds........
One ex-iddle of the rope, and i didn't story. Within four days on the then the minutes. plosion, then, 16 seconds later, breathe till I was well over to boat to Australia, Cunningham
his lost pounds, and the other alde. If I had come regained unother.
These two were followed by all the rope, I would have been the two of them ate their way within three solidly through everything the ten mile away prolonged explosion and
including a offer, I don't like taking risks ship could seconds
this."
constant diet of ice cream be-
El
hor
11 The apes. hydrophone operator reported like
Jubing, where they tween all meals. From grond assortiment of all kinds
Once in Australia, they still their nex the river, of metallic noises"
way back to lasting for
LOWS
ol size was Jaynagar, had to find their two ininutes.
New Zealand, where Cunning-- where they run into trouble. Marriott
8.30
ham had £80 deposited with police there were There The Indian
the Government as un carpest passionately interested in then
waited until p.m. and then surfaced.
wis no sign of the U-boat, nor cause they had no record of of his good faith as a sponsored was there any wreckage. HMS
any such climbers having left Graph's first operation was com-
India at that point for Nepal. pleted.
"Wo Welc
Laking our first Note: Later in the war Graph
months," Says attacked a couple of enemy debutha
"Baths! Cunningham.
A tuo stroyers. Marriott was awarded
with a cold water tap above it, thu DSO for "great courage, You sit in the tub and turn the
water on to your head.
"I WIL
ski and determination" while in command of her,
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NEXT SATURDAY:
Tito boats the "Knight's Move."
ROMANTIC BALMORAL
By JAMES TAYLOR
WHAT h
romantic rumours, Balmoral Castle has been very much
i11
becomes more Axext in this dear
had
many
HAT with Royal birth year my heart
Paradise,"
hay The Castle links with Hoyal romances,
Queen George
and Mary, and although it is not a
it
posed to the Princess.
until the following year.
Mor-
for.
inmigrant, but this couldn't be collected till he actually landed in New Zealand.
finances and They juggled sold their camera to get him home to collect the cash so that McInnes could be rescued
Hamish Meinnes is still in the doing nobody can the Antipodes,
sitting under shower when the CID arrived, guess what from day to day. He dkin't want to have anything has tried his hand at gold pros- to do with them. I played stupid, pocting, and once took on a und referred them to Hamish, contract to clar bushland for Christchurch County Council, 1 think now he had referred
while,
them to me in the first place. Big Stuff We kept them going for a
John Cunningham, the Glas- but they were enormously polite gow joiner, is back in Scotland, B mountain
and perfectly unshakable.
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"didn' produce mora
"They wanted to know every- Instructor. He declares that ho thing, and we could see prison is disappointed that the expedi
us while ton bars closing around they took us through the whole d
the did manage to get to Nepal But when they had finished, and climb the big stuff
story.
to the
10
timo
dramatic results, but happy that
tho
they changed quite suddenly, How do Cunningham and and gave uts the rod carpet Mclares measurO Up personally treatment. They evin invited to the famous Himalayan elim
bers? plain lieutenant Philip Mount-us to the pictures,
There seems to be no batten until his marriage, pro- Ham And Eggs doubt among Scottish climbers that they aro, better on rock "The pictures Joynagar
than many
of celebrated Earlier Prince Philip bad first are a fabulous experience. We Himalayan adventurery. sought the King's permission were in the balcony, as honoured "It is
believed the limelight of late, particularly since the reign of to marry his daughter, but the guests. From time to
anottur dilmbe sumong particularly since
has King
King felt that Elizabeth was too somebody would shout above
member of the Craig Dhu club the pictura reached
told пе "that to becoma an amiversary of axed tradition, there are plenty young to make up her mind the sound track, its own -- its centenary.
of precedents for the announcing quickly and asked him to wait would stop, and the lights woud member of one of the big expedi
up while a water-carrier emb of a Royal engagement from
tions, you have to know the attended
shouting Balmoral.
Almost
bo 4 Princess
rather than 31
right people customer..
crack climber as such, garot's birthdays have been
Would you like some ban "Not long ago a very famous celebrated, as this year, at Bal- moral
egg? our hosts asked us climber indeed had to be taken during
Royal the
thing!'. The programme off a rock climb in
In the Lake the Family's holidays, and most of Sure Queen
table laid and District a climb that dozens o when the rumours of romance which was stopped, a Although have beset her since she reached ham and agra were brought to unknown club climbers could do a qumpner residence for himselfgagement was announced the age of 21 have assumed 18.before the film could go on any week-end."
from Buckingham Palace in tover-peak on Deeside.
"After the show, the CID men This may or may not be an wouldn't let us go. They had exaggerated picture. Climbers July 1947, it is believed that it was at à Balmoral house party
It was during her 21st birth-arranged a banquet for us, and in Scotland certainly feel that during the previous summer day celebrations at Balmoral we were quite willing to try it. Cunningham and Melnzes: have
of Edinburgh, that
Peter Giroub Captain
"When we asked where it shown Writing of Balmoral, where that the Duke
biz expeditio her happiest times were spent, then known as Prince Philip of Townsend was on duty as her was, they pointed, to the main something,
atrect. A tablo was being laid Queen Victorin vald: "Every Greece and Inter. to become father's equerry.
It was in 1055 that the turreted, groy granite baronial castle
of Balmoral (which means in Gaello "the majestic dwelling"), built to the Prince
played Consort's own design to replace romance of the the smaller original home on Princess Elizabeth. the estate that he had bought as
and hin adoring "Vickey" (Queen Victoria), was first oc- cupled.
It
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THIS TOURIST FROM THE YEAR 5055 HAD A WEAPON ITE CALLED/ A MOLECULAR DISPLACER--IT- MADE HOLES THAT DISAPPEAREQ←
Y-YEST
THAT'S HOW THEY GOT INTO THE | VAULTS--WITHOUT LEAVING
CLUES, HE ALSO HAD PILLS THAT MAKE YOU TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER-- FOR ONE WEEK
HOWEVER, WARDENS FROM HIS OWN TIME SEARCHED THROUGH. TEN CENTURIES FOR HIM, AND TOOK HIM BACK.
IS THAT SOT
and
By Lee Falk and Phil Davia'
YOU SEE, HE BROKE THEM RULES,
HE SHOULD HAVE OBSERVED** NOT REVEALED HIMSELF.
the
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