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Concerto No. 2 in F minor (Chopin) ......Alfred Cortot with: Fair-Weather School
John Barbirolli's Orchestra Album No, 330
BY
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 At the same time, nothing is on the surface are prac- can ever make the submarine tically the only, ones when the absolutely safe or entirely plea- men may relax. They may sant. One is always up against then amoke on the bridge-as] the sea. Yet men who serve in many as may be allowed up submarines never wish to leave there and those below may them for blg ships."
also amoke for a short time. The submarine sailor is the her batteries when on the sur- But a submarine only recharges pick of the Navy. Everyone of face and after a few minutes of pass a very severe examination given off, so that smoking must them is a volunteer. He has to recharging explosive gases are 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- ligence, 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. machinery in the world, 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
FLS
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 rending. The reason may mean the loss of the lives is that a resting man uses less of everyone on board,
It seems to be established that the American submarine,
oxygen.
Squalus was lost through the COOKING is also practically failure of à valve; yet this may
not
confined to the times one is
have been a mechanical on the surface. During dives failure; a failure of personnel-
we live on "submariners' com- forts"-tinned foods. Meat goes have had exactly the same "It's effect.
Symphony No. 86 in D Major (Haydn) ..London Symphony Orch.py saying to ourselves as we go the mistake of one man--could bad in submarines. The Hundred Kisses (D'élanger)
Ballet Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By-Antal Dorati The Dancing Years-(Ivor Novello's Latest Drury Lane Success) With:-Mary Ellis-Ivor Novello-Olive Cilbert and Roma Beaumont Rondo from "Haffner" Serenade (Mozart) Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Major (Chopin)
out In the morning, going to be fine to-day" we can doubtless keep our spirits up for .Fritz Kreisler the moment; but it might be Benno Moiseiwitsch more serviceable in the long run
to take a raincoat.
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I remember an incident in the China seas. The petty officers' mess spent all its savings on buying a gigantic ham. Two WHEN the submarine service days out I had to order it to be
was first started in 1902, "buried at sea." the "spit 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 sword; more usually he was in dirty dungarees. ·
Submarines do not carry a supply of air for breathing. The, compressed air carried is for There is "blowing the tanks."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Lehty
"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
The British Government have now joined the Fair-Weather School. They bid us cast off the "jitters"-though they were the
In those days submarines, only and original "jitter bugs." tiny little affairs, were driven breathing, since the diving en- no need, indeed, to carry air for In the words of a song popular a by an ordinary petrol engine. durance of a submarine depends few years back, we are moved to Petrol was a chancy thing to not on the length of time the air |
have about, particularly in a will last, but upon the capacity confined space with electrical of the electric apparatus. machinery which might give off
Living quarters are naturally sparks at any moment. small, but they are no smaller SIT
CITTING at ease in one of the Royal Navy. Most of the serious accidents than formerly, for while in- in those days were due to petrol numerable new gadgets have cafes I scrawled in my work-a-day Britons As "Foreigners"
diary: "Finished Mediterraneanj VENERAL IRONSIDE, by the explosions. Men could only been introduced, and though the tob. All quiet these portare to write ove watch the engines for a few machinery is more complex and
way, raised the merry dickene 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
It gave me great pleasure
over the German nursemaid who they finished their duty in a marine has correspondingly in- "Bombed at 8 a.m. Ship rocked on I'd hate to be the next person to try waters I wrote in that diary: without even showing her passport. state of
her beam ends. Chart-room door to fool the port authorities. fumes.
blown in on Danish observer and
At Gibraltar now, even Britons are
How in the—————
Can the old folks tell
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.
intoxication
from creased.
Hence the introduction of white mice by which to measure THE modern submarine is an the pollution of the atmosphere.
entirely different proposition, But the men made pets of the both for attack and defence, For the time being Italy and little "beasties," put them as far from the old-even from those Germany have to go slow. But as possible from the engines and we used in the last war.
After all, it was only three or their economic difficulties afford 80 defeated their object.
The great story is of the Irish four years before the war that no ground for long-term optimism, If these difficulties become really mice from the men and agreed and were not merely of use
priest who kindly took these it was recognised that sub- marines had an offensive valuc, acute, the dictators might hold to look after them. They were accounted for on the store lists
defend ports. war to be the only way out.
as "discharged dead." The re- Another factor making for gult was that, judged by the pence is the firm stand official mortality of mice, sub taken on the democratic sido by marine air was always too foul American statesmen; they, how-to support human lifel ever, would be the first to adviso
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to
Marsciiles. "beat," leaving Eastern waters to the
famous Canneblere sidewalk
self, but neither of us hurt much." classed as "foreigners." Native-born I was aboard the British tramp Gibraltarians only have the right of steamer Hamsterley then, and we citizenship.. And there are no more were off Tarmgona. in Spanish Re- loyal citizens under the Crown than publican waters. There was a war the Gibraltarians, in spite of their on. Bombs were falling thick in termed "Reds" by Fascists and "anti- those parts. There were for heal- British" by the "Reds." That's just thier spots than Mare Nostrum. a little class war that goes on
small community. All Was Peaceful
Over in Tangier, in the bazaars,
of
the
any
BUT to-day, after my peaceful there is much talk of war--but so Journey up from Gibraltar in there is in Hyde Park on Sundays. the P. and O. liner Strathaird, the Undoubtedly there's a spot of arms outlook seems much more normal.) marines can sail half round the Balearics are open again, and we
To-day,
but into the French Zone our latest sub-the regular abipping lanes inside the arms are pouring quite openly-50 Now that the Spanish war la ended, Zones going on in the Spanish world without the need of re- cut several hours off our passage.
there's your safety-valve. fuelling. In the last war they
The Moors who fought for Franco were often at sea for ten or
was sunbathing on the deck as against Spaniards (their natural We steamed
past Majorca. I raised enemies) aren't going to fight against twelve days, operating away By instinct, I strained my
myself on my elbow and looked over. their brothers in the International from their ship. To-day it is Could hear nothing.
cars. Zone if they can help it.
There are roughly 25,000 Moore us not to exaggerate the change
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nothing unusual for them to be Then I looked over in the direction living peacefully and happily in the in American policy.
TO-DAY there are
Valencia, where night after night Tangler Zone. As far as I could find at sea seven or eight days oven or to lay awake listening-listen out, their main grievance was that white in peace-time exercises. no The end of the Spanish war is mice, but the scientific au-
ing for the raiders from Majorca.
Sultan didn't show himself ground for optimism. No doubt thorities are always worried the men are trained in emer-wakened by the crash of bombs, the Administration has something It is on these occasions that Nearly always I'd fall asleep, to be among them often enough. I think General Franco will soon estab-about the air in submarines.
shrieke of humans, the boom of AA 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. The men do not know when it post this time. It was healthy the: I don't think the Moore will start But all was peaceful as we came The Lights Are On Again trouble rather than the end. would not be enough oxygen to
is coming. Apart from these factors, there keep a cigaretto alight. Yet The commander breaks the has been no fundamental change there is no sensation or discom- switch and presses the hooters. in the European altuation. Herr fort unless one is diving for a All lights go out. The sub-
very long time. In that case, marine dives. Then he
leaves one gets a bit warm and short the men to sort things out as the aims in Mein Kampf. At of breath,
best they can timing them by present the Nazis are keeping
Normally a submarine, under a stopwatch. It is an invaluable quiot while their Ally In the Farwar conditions, or carrying out training. East sets the pace.
exercises, dives just. na dawn is Optimism is justified by the coming up and goes to the sur-
Hitler has never retracted' one of
gencies.
in the blue Mediterranean, with
chea
the d
But
amiled.
trouble.comes to Morocco I
hot sun on your back and the breeze--not against the French and. "pirate" submarines. No mines. In your face. No bombs. No English, anyhow,
It ថ · · the anti-democracy foreign Mare Nostrum scems her old self element in the International Zone again.
playing at Sure enough, all's quiet from And they are able to get hurt,
powder quot from who
monkeys. Gibraltar to Marseilles. I'll admit Eighteen years ago the Riffs" mar- same Franco soldiers and prisoners sacred 10,000 Spanish soldiers. ambled down to the Neutral Ground,
A hundred and fifty years ago a few hundred yards from the British son said: "If
Nel- Tangier doesn't belong sentry-post, and started digging, dit- to England, then no ane Power
day before I left the Rockt. ever own it." I look my cut from the Tom
Wise words must factors we have mentioned. But face as soon as it is dark,VEN to-day, with all the ad-mies I spoke with at the frontier, Noques, 1 putting his men throu
Over in the French Zone General During the.
vances in naval construction and submarines war,
They mid: "If we some light manoeuvres. I received operating in the far north in and science, no one can say the really had to take Algeciras, a few an invitation to witness them, but
submarine is a pleasant service.
wouldn't hold 14
was
unable to accept. The French It would almost certainly be more than eighteen hours a duty is his ship. There can be ed helter-skelter to Gibraltar two no one really
are at case but ready for anything. The 14 French
·Back across the d warships that rush- found that the trained experts of day,
SUBINA except Even at the end of a long dive,
delay des no hard and fast roster on a months ago have. doparted without that the war las the Foreign Offico do not share
ended the blithe confidence of No. 10. the atmosphere in a submarine it must be put right. A 24- steamed out to sea one day and didn't march. After two, and a half years In trying to bump up the value remains crystal clear; but as hour duty is by no means un-che
come back. Gibraltar misson the blackout, the lights have gone up of their stock by bucket-shop soon as she comes to the surface common.
cheery "matelets," with their pan-again along the Spanish const, from pon cope and nico mannera,
But they'll be back again if the Rock's Governor General Sir Ed gation officers: Its a darned good Said one of the Strathaird's navi- und Ironside, thinks he needs them thing to see them again In any caso, the Western Mediter Mare Nostrum seems her old self -ranean-de-now the French Navy'a ugali.
It should be kept within reason! able bounds,
the summer. often had to dive. It never can be. A man's first fessup, lon
methods the Government are in danger of magnifying the slump which will inevitably follow.
and the hatch is opened so that the atmosphere inside comes in contact with the air outside, a dense white log-rises from the
Nor can quarters be really comfortable. There is no room. Yet it is wonderful how.com
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