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The British Government have HOW joined the Fair-Weather School. They bid us cast off the "jittera"-though they wore the only and original "itter bugs." In the words of a song popular few years back, we are moved to
nak-
How in the
Can the old folks tell
a
It ain't gonna rain no more? One of the solid facts making for peace is undoubtedly British rearmament. A second fact which Cases the situation for the time being is that the aggressive- minded States are having a bad time economically,
Submerge!
LIFE HAS CHANGED TO-DAY IN THE DEEP-SEA SHIPS
by Lieut. Commander Kenneth Edwards, R.N.
THIRTY-SEVEN years of pro- deck and sides and from the
gress in the design of the men. submarine has eliminated many. of the dangers and discomforts of the life.
THE times when a submarine is on the surface aro prac-
At the same time, nothing can ever make the submarine tically the only ones when the They may absolutely safe or entirely plea- men may relax.
sant.
One is always up against then smoke on the bridge-a0 the sea. Yet men who serve in many as may be allowed up submarines never wish to leave there-and those below may also smoke for a short time. them for big ships.
But a submarine only recharges The submarine sailor is the her batteries when on the sur- pick of the Navy. Everyone of face and after a few minutes of) them is a volunteer. He has to recharging explosive gases are pass a very severe examination given off, so that smoking muat before being appointed to a sub- be forbidden.
marine. Also, he must have an The number of men allowed exceptionally high level of intel- on the bridge depends on cir- Higence, for the modern sub cumstances. In war-time more marine is one of the most intri- than two men were never cate and delicate masses of allowed, up, sometimes none.
world, machinery in the
and One might have to dive hur- requires not only careful handl- riedly, and time would be lost ing but intelligent understand in getting them inside. Strange- ing.
ly, one does not feel the need of
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It is a service in which quick a smoke in diving. wits and steady nerves are
When diving, as few men essential, for one false move or possible are on active duty. one hurried or "panicky" move. The rest remain in their bunks ment on the part of one man sleeping or reading. The reason may mean the loss of the lives is that a resting man uses less
охудет. of everyone on board..
It seems to be established that the American submarine,
confined to the times one is
Squalus was lost through the COOKING is also practically failure of a valve; yet this may not have been a mechanical on the surface. During dives failure; a failure of personnel we live on "submariners' com- forts" tinned foods. Meat goes the mistake of one man-could
bad in submarines. have had exactly the same effect.
I remember an incident in the China seas. The petty officers' mess spent all its savings on buying a gigantle ham. Two WHEN the submarine service days out I had to order it to be
was first started in 1902, "buried at sea." the "apit and polish" snobs of The newer types of sub-
have the quarter-deck contemptuously marines
refrigerators, referred to it as "The trade." They should add materially to The
submariner, rarely looked the comforts of the men. beautiful in frock coat and Submarines do not carry a sword; more usually he was in supply of air for breathing. The dirty dungarees.
compressed air carried is for In those days submarines, no need, indeed, to carry air for "blowing the tanks." There is tiny little affairs, were driven breathing, since the diving en- by an ordinary petrol engine. durance of a aubmarine depends Petrol was a chancy thing to not on the length of time the air have about, particularly in will last, but upon the capacity confined space with electrical of the electric apparatus. machinery which might give off - sparks at any moment.
•
Living quarters are naturally
an
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
5-14
陇
"I don't want a nap-my marcel cost plenty, and I'm not going to have it mussed!"
The
hot-spots'
cool down
By NOEL
MONKS
Marseilles. "beat," leaving Enstern waters to the
Royal Navy,
Britons As "Foreigners"
no ground for long-term optimism. priest who kindly took these marines had an offensive value, RT to-day, after my peaceful there is mangler, in the bazaars,
peaco 18 the firm
ever, would be the first to advise
us not to exaggerate the change
in American policy.
To-day,
our- latest sub-
I
Your
small, but they are no smaller SITTING at case in one of the Most of the serious accidents than formerly, for while in-. famous Conneblere aldewalk in those days were due to petrol numerable new gadgets have cafes I scrawled in my work-a-day dlary: "Finished Mediterranean
NENERAL IRONSIDE, by the Men could only been introduced, and though the job. All quiet these parts." explosions.
GE U way, raised the merry dickens watch the engines for a few machinery is more complex and It gave me great pleasure to write over the German nürsenald Who hours at a time, and even then larger, the size of the sub-that, because last time I was in these gate-crashed the Rock last week
I wrote in a marine has correspondingly in-waombed at 6 am. Ship rocked on I'd hate to be the next person to try they finished their duty in
that diary: without even showing her passport. state of intoxication from creased.
her beam ends. Chart-room door to fool the port authorities. fumes.
blown in on Danish observer and At Gibraltar now, even Britons are Hence the introduction of
self, but neither of us hurt much." classed as "foreigners." Native-born white mice by which to measure THE modern submarine is
I was aboard the British tramp Gibraltarians only have the right of the pollution of the atmosphere.
entirely different proposition, were off Tarragona, in Spanish Re- loyal citizens under the Crown than steamer Hamsterley then, and we citizenship. And there are no more But the men made pots of the both for attack and defence, publican waters. There was a war the Gibraltarians, in spite of their For the time being Italy and little "beasties," put them as far from the old-even from those on. Bombs were falling thick in termed "Reds" by Fascists and "anti- Germany have to go slow. But as possible from the engines und wo used in the last war.
those parts. There were for heal- British" by the "Reds." That's just After all, it was only three or thier spots than Mare Nostrum. D little class war that goes on in any their economic difficulties afford so defeated their object.
small community, The great story is of the Irish four years before the war that.
All Was Peaceful
Over in it was recognised that sub-
talk of war-but so, If these difficulties become really mice from the men and agreed and were not merely of use to the P. and O. liner Strathaird, the
Journey up from Gibraltar in there is in Hyde Park on Sundays. acute, the dictators might hold to look after them. They were defend ports.
Undoubtedly there's a spot of arms aullook seems much more normal accounted for on the store lists
but war to be the only way out.
the French Zone Now that the Spanish war is ended, "ggling going on in the Spanish as "discharged dead."
the regular shipping lones Inside the
openly-so Another factor making for sult was that, judged by the world without the need of re-cut several hours off our passage.
The Imarinca can sail half round the Balearics are open again, and arms are culto
and wo there's
safety-valve. The Moors who fought for Franco stand official mortality of mice, sub- fuelling. In the last war they was sunbathing on the deck as against Spaniards (their natura taken on the democratic side by marine air was always too foul were often at sea for ten or we steamed past Majorca. I raised enemies) aren't going to fight against American statesmen; they, how-to support human life!
twelve days, operating away myself on my elbow and looked over. their brothers in the International
strained Instinct,
my cars. Zone if they can help it, from their ship. To-day it is Could hear nothing.
There are roughly 25,000 Moors nothing unusual for them to be Then I looked over in the direction living peacefully and happily in the at sea seven or eight days even of Valencia, where night after night Tangler Zone, As far as I could find TO-DAY there are
no white in peace-time exercises.
I used
to lay awake listening-listen-out, their main grievance was that The end of the Spanish war is mice, but the scientific au-
ing for the raiders from Majorca, the Sultan. didn't show himself ground for optimism. No doubt thorities are always worried the men are
It is on these occasions that Nearly always I'd fall asleep, to be among them often enough. I think trained in emer-wakened by the crash of bombs, the Administration has something General Franco will soon estab-about the air in submarines.
gencies,
shricks of humans, the boom of A.-A. there, They should take it up with lish his rule over all Spain, but allowed when diving. Actually,
Smoking, naturally, is not. A submarine rarely puts to guns. Majorca's death squadron had the Sultan. that may be the beginning of after a dive of a few hours there
sea without a "crash dive." come again.
But all was peaceful as we came
me The Lights Are On Again The men do not know when it past this time. It was healthy there trouble rather than the end. would not be enough oxygen to
is coming.
In the blue Mediterranean, with the IF trouble comes to Morocco 1 Apart from these factors, there keep a cigarette alight. Yet The commander breaks the has been no fundamental change there la no sensation or discom- switch and presses the hooters
It is the anti-democracy · foreign. in the'. European situation. Herr fort unless one is diving for a Ali lights go out. The sub- More Nostrum seems her old self element in the International Zone Hitler has never retracted one of one gets a bit warm and short the men to sort things out as
very long time, In that case, marine dives. Then he leaves again.
who are playing at powder monkeys the aims in Mein Kampf." At of breath,
from And they are liable to get hurt. best they can timing them by Gibraltar to Marseilles. I admit Eighteen years ago the Riff mas present the Nazis are keeping Normally a submarine, under a stopwatch. It is an invaluable some Franco-soldiers-and prisoners sacred 18,000 Spanish soldiers as
ambled down to the Neutral Ground, A hundred and fifty years ago
Nel quiet while their Ally in the Far war conditions, or carrying out training.
few hundred yards from the British son said: "It Tangler doesn't belong Enst sets the pace.
exercises, dives just as dawn is
scatry-post and started digging dit- to England, then no one Power must Optimism is justified by the coming up and goes to the sur. EVEN to-day, with all the ad-mies I spoke with at the frontier. Noques is putting his men through
ches the day before I left the Rock, ever own it." Wise words.
But I took my cue from the Tom
Over in
ver in the French Zone
General factors wo havo mentioned. But face as soon as it is dark. it should be kept within reason-During the war, submarines and science, no one can say the really had to take Algeciras, a few an invitation to witness them, but vances in naval construction and smiled.. They said: "If we some light manoeuvres. I received operating in the far north in submarine is a pleasant service. ditches wouldn't hold us up long was unable to accept. The French the summer often had to dive It never can be. A man's first It would almost certainly be more than eighteen hours a duty is his ship. There can be ed helter-skelter to Gibraltar two
Back across the Straits, in found that the trained experts of day.
no one really knows" no hard and fast roster on a months ago have departed without that the war hos
much except the Foxolan' Office do not sharo
emcially ended Evon at the end of a long dive, submarine. If a thing is wrong oven an official farewell. They just with Franco's the blithe' confidence of No. 10. the atmosphere in a submarine it must be put right, A 24. steamed out to sea ons day and didn't motit, the lights have gone 'up.
After two and a half years romains crystal clear; but as hour duty is by no means, un-cheery
come back. Gibraltar misses the
"matelots," with
their pom-again along the Spanish coast, from soon as she comes to the surface commen.
pon caps and nice mannera. and the hatch is opened so that
Seville to Barcelona. Rock's Governor, General Sir Ed-gation oflcers: "It's a darned good But they'll be back again if the Sald one of the Strathaird's navi-
any case, the Western Mediter-Mare Nostrum seeme her old self mund Ironside, thinks he needs them. thing to see them again." ranem is now the French Navy's again.
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able bounds.
i
In trying to bump up the value
of their stock by bucket-shop methods the Government are in danger of magnifying the slump which will inevitably follow.
the atmosphere inside comes in comfortable. There is no room, Nor can quarters be really contact with the air outside, a Yet It Is wonderful how com- dense white fog rises from the PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.
hot sun on your back and the breeze
don't think the Moors will start 11-not against the French and
"pirate" submarines. No mines. In your face.. No bombs. No English, anyhow,
Sure enough, all's
matey."
quiet
The 14 French warships that rush
are at ease-but ready for
.
long-delayed victory