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Beating the
ERMANY is waging inter- Usive submarine warfare in an attempt to blockade Britain's coasts. The Athenia was sunk without warning. A number of other merchant ships have been destroyed. That is one side of the picture.
Now look at the other side. The liner Arandora Star, steam- ing at full speed on a zig-zag courso, outwitted nine U-boats in the Atlantic and reached port
in safety.
"Now I am dropping of to sleep. My book falls from my hands. But although my eyes are closed, I cant- not sleep, for to my trained cars noises · of Uko come all the weird heart of the ocean. A big fish swimme by with a swishing sound. Then I hear, a distant boom like an echo from far off; that is a gun or a depth charge, exploding. Sound travels a long way under the sea.
"At last I sleep,"
Sometimes what appears to be a hammless tramp steamer is really n ship, on armed vessel disguised as a decoy to lure submarines within runge its guns. Capt. Hashagen
was more fortunate than many a
U-boat skipper in the following en-
my
It should be remembered that a counter with a ship. vessel can outdistance a submerged; submarine by steaming ut 10 knots or more. True, a speed of about 20 knots is needed to elude a submarine on the surface, but the U-boats" dare not remain long above water.
"I was still dark when my ser- vant awoke me. I pulled on leather jacket, climbed the Iran tad- der 10 the conning-tower, and gave the order to surface.
The Prime Minister hos disclosed that the U-boats are constantly at
"There was nothing in sight, so we had coffee and cigarettes. The first grey light of morning showed that tho ocean. The we were alone on
Inspection and irials by arrangerdent | tacked and that successes bave been sky, was clear and all looked quiet.
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"At 11.30 a.m. a funnel und two
nghieved. There will be more suc cesses. You may not hear of them.masts were alighted straight over our Germany will be left to find out be-bows. I watched them approach for few minutes. Suddenly they dis-
Inter Iatedly that one after another of the
the trade routes has been made safe for appeared. Five minutes
come Intu view Stubba Rd. peaceful shipping. Remember, too, funnel and masts
that submarines cannot be replaced as again, but after another ve minutes they vanished once more. I knew quickly as many end airplanes.
that the ship wos zig-zagging across the ocean, Her true direction was What may prove to be the death-towards me, however, so I submerged knell of the U-boat as a major wea- and moved. slowly to pon of naval warfare is the rapid stranger. As she came nearer, the development of the airplane since periscope showed me a black freighter 1918, A submarine has no effective of about 2,000 tons, way of attacking un alplace and
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'Phone. 26615 October 30, 1939
Seeds Of Defeat THOSE who oppose the expan-
sion of German nationalism and National Socialist racialiam may be encouraged by the firm start of the Allied plan to end
tanks. But even submersion is only
meet
the
"For some time I kept close to the uncertain whether to attack as she continued to n partini defence, for an airplane her.. As long zooming at 300 miles an hour or more zig-zag, the chances were against my can reach the submarine and bomb hitting her with a torpedo. But ni 359 yards, the freighter swung right it before there is time to dive.
into the centre of my torpedo sights.
"I gave the command 'Los.' The
was a
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Siegfried: Can
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by such distance, as will prevent
Naziism and the rejection of safety and begins to run the gauntlet. | had another look through the peri.! How strong is the Siegfried Line? more than one at a time being taken
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Even after the submarine has dived successfully, on airplane can
in petty umrer standing next to me in spot it at a considerable depth reasonably clear water and can nd-the conning tower pressed the electrie vise nearby destroyers and submarine button. U62 quivered as a torpedo left the tube and bored through the chasers.
water. Ten seconds later my boat It is a terrifying experience for agave a heavy lurch as the torpeda hit U-boat
There commander and his men the vessel astern.
her boilers ex- when a submarine chaser gets wind deafening roar as of her whereabouts and begins toploded. Then all was quiet again. drop depth charges. The submariae "I raced the submarine a few hun- submerges as deeply as it can with dred yards farther away. Then I
From the first day that the Ger- under concentrated fire of attacking
woukt saw amazed me. man's begun building their "West artillery. This
necessitate The U-boat moves dead slow, with scope. What I
defenceless tramp had been Wall." intelligence agents, partiet that the attacko bring his own The
of the French, have sought the boom of exploding depth charges all round. The submarine rocks and completely transformed. She bristled rolls and quivers with each concus with guns and the decks were clear the answer. The fact that answers artillery forward after capturing one
theed for action,
have not been divulged in the press position before being able to attack sion. A close explosion spins of "Mein Kampf." For in-boat completely ground and men are "Very slowly, very cautiously, and that the character and equip- the next.
From the Swiss border near brought U82 closer to have a better ment of the German Hine remains thrown off their feel. stance: "The lack of a great,
Stil more to be dreaded is a sub- view of this phenomenon, leaving mystery to the public does not Buste to Karlsruhe, the Rhine River
that the Allied command is new, creative idea means at all
marine net, fortifed with mines and my periscope in view. Immediately mean
Germany. Here the Rhine Valley is had Naz! fortifications. times a limitation of the fight- guarded by surface vessels, The there was a fusillade of shells all ignorant of the major outline of the is the frontier between France and
me. But ny torpedo U-bcat which is enreless or unlucky round
But at the same time there are the bottom of a wide Irench made ing power." Herr Hitler is
enough to become eameshed will broken the Q chip in two, and 20
but without the exploration of pre-Walls of the trench are cheer, high. right. In the long run it is stand no more chance than a fly in minutes, later I saw the crew taking many things that cannot be found when rocks collapsed in ages past.
a spider's web. Even if the sub- to the boats,"
liminary combat. This, to a large Heavily wooded plateaux slope away from the crests. These form the ideas which prevall. And the marine is not destroyed by mines or
The U-boats which Germany haaj degrob, explains the "delay" in the Black Forest in Germany facing the depth charges, it may be unable to
Vosges Mountains in France. Here Jack-of ideas limita.power...
clear-the obstruction before the ale built in recent years are capable of offensive on the Western Front.
is" frontier-Ideal for defence.-- Where is such lack most supply is exhausted.
operating anywhere in the Atlantic)
it the Ger- Finally, there is the constant na-or Mediterranean, but
For it must be understood that ALMOST INVINCIBLE evident to-day? The author ofural danger of hidden rocks, which mans should succeed in establishing
The nilles to-day, operating "Mein Kampf" says the secret are often unknown to chart makers refuelling bases the cruising range of the term "line" is, in itself, some- the submarines and the length of thing of a misnomer. The position
weapons, would and are quite harmless so far as
n line of forts, pillboxes, against modern of the French Revolution's suc-
ordinary surface shipping is concern-time they could remain away from a not
cost from attack launched of varying width and probably any cess was a great, new idea. And ed. But the U-boat, gliding slowly, home port would be increased ne-trenches, and the like. It is a zone have as little chance to success in
almost noiselessly, along the sen bed cordingly.
Da much nr 30 this part of the Maginot Line against history tells of the remarkable of a depth of perhaps 130 feet, many One method is to have a floating reaching back
cruises miles from the frontier at some the commanding crest of this huge ram an unsuspected crag which rises base-an oll tanker which military results of that idea starkly from the ocean floor.
at pre-arranged meeting points. It extends from the Swiss bastion across the river as the Ger- place in some unfrequented part of border near Basle, running north mans would have had in 1914 at- when France's neighbura at-
We know that the Germans nol of the Rhine River toward Karls- One of the most important methods the ocean, Germany bought a num-along the frontier on the east bank lacking west.
no serious uttempt to tacked. They even carried over
of combating the submarine menace ber of old tankers not long ago, into Napoleon's counter attack. is the convoy system, the escorting of The biggest ocean-going U-boatsruhe, parolleling the French Magi- only made
border and French World War but moreover did not groups of merchant vessels by a ring have a cruising rodlus up to 12,000 not Line. At this point, and still attack this part of France ki the
fronting the But it was an idea of freedom, of warships, which not only fight off miles.
line, It leaves the river traversing dislodge the French, who had ad- the undersea raiders but are at hand not of conquest and oppression
Whatever the size or range may the upland region to the west of vanced rapidly cast: In the early
where it strikes to help in rescue work if the defence be, you can be sure of one thing, the Saar,
the days of the war, pushing Their lines the Luxemburg | forward through Alsace to the river. them Britain will sweep
from the Moselle River at of other peoples. And ultimis penetrated.
border. From here it is out of It was not that the Germans had ately it did not support Napolished efficiently until the latter half
The convoy system was not estab-seus.
contact with the Maginot Line,Insumelent confidence in the ability with Luxemburg and Belgium of their heavy artillery to crush the leonic ambitions..
separating them. Then it swings French forts around Belfort but they north once more, paralleling the realised that the topography placed east Luxemburg and Belgian fron- all the odds against them and too flers, a total distance of some 30 strongly favoured a protracted and miles.
stubborn defence by field fortifien- tions,
seeds of defeat for any such
...
of the last war, but this time the Admiralty has been prepared from the outset.
about
Found Her Child After 7 Years
|A
TERM A MISNOMER
HASTE IN BUILDING
Between the north end of the Mountains near Karlsruhe
Picture the mixed feelings of a
the nx
criss- U-boat commander crossed mirror of his periscope re- flects a forest of magis and funnels)
MOTHER and her 15- moving across the horizon. He has
It is known that the position was Vosges year-old daughter who splendid choice of targets, but his danger is increased correspondingly. had not heard of each other To dive beneath the outer ring of for seven years were re- warships and bring the periscope to the surface again before aiming at a united at Lambeth juvenile merchantman is a hazardous bust-court recently. ness, calling for mathematical nc-
dut and the works in it cons on the Rhine and the Luxemburg structed in relative haste. In all border near the Moselle River lies probability the Siegfried Line is not the region frequently referred to language as the Lor- as complete in detail of organisa-in military tion as the Maginot Line, to which raine Gateway. At the west end of
curacy, personal courage and perfect The girl, who had been found thorough execulion. co-operation with the englue room wandering in the streets of
a torpedo, stalt. Then, after firing
Lo
be
If National Socialism had creative idea, it applied to in- ternal unity and revival. In so far as it gave Germans a new sense of self-respect, assurance and freedom from war penalties it operated powerfully. But how far beyond that can it carry? Can it be turned into an instru-
the French devoted several years of this line is the Snar Basin, over 700 ment for nationalistic conquest
Intensive preliminary study and square miles in area and one of the richest mining and industrial regions and the domination of other
If reports are correct of a short-in Europe, Awarded by the Ver- peoples? Its most dynamic con-
of cement in Germany, the soilles Treaty to Franco Ugc cept is one of race, and that is the submarine must dive deeply and Brixton, was said to be in need nstruction work may not be et exploited for 15 years in compensa- self-limiting. The inclusion of creep away under the escort vessels, of care and protection. It was sufficient strength to withstand the tion fur French coal mines destroyed
restored to which by this time will be searching stated that she had run away pounding of heavy artillery and air by German forces in the war, it was Germany In 1939 after a other races (declared_Inferior for it and dropping depth charges,
from a nursing school,
bombs.
Targest city and unmixable). contains the
The rotary value of such a pleblecito." Ila The girl then heard for the position depends on several factors. Saarbrucken, near which was fought Captain Ernst Hoshogen, U-bont idea.
ace of the last war, commanded U02. first time this story of her early important among them is readiness the first battle of the French-Prus- for defence, shelters, ammunition slan War of 1870, should forecasters He has described with dramatic aim-life, told by her mother: In a struggle of ideas demo-plicity what it means to serve in a
and food, telephonic communica-be seeking a portent. "When my baby was born I was tions, and traps to ward off attacks.
RUGGED REGION cracy's concepts are by National U-boat, hunting merchant ships and
tive and tactlent wire barriers to This entire region strongly re Socialism's own tenets on firmer dodging mines, nets and hostile war- destitute and was sent to the work-In addition, it should have protec-
shipa liere is Captain Iashugen's house.
small protect
posts from belng sambics the Ardennes to its west, 'LEFT ARM IN ARM ground, They are supported description of life in a U-boat which
uneven und rugged, "My daughter was taken away rushed at short range or bombed by being very C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd. also by the natural idea of self-is nosing its way cautiously along
densely wooded, with small streams 001. below the surface;
from me. She was sent to one school grenades.
Whether the Siegfried Line has cutting the upland country in defence and defence of liberty,
all directions, rendering cross-coun "1 is night-time and U62 is asteep, and then to another. I heard about home, and family. But this is In the control room the officer of her from time to time over a num-all of these is surmise,
try travel arduous, Roads of neces SEVERAL POSITIONS
sily are forced to the valleys." much more than an ideological the watch stands in charge. On one ber of years and then lost all trace
The French will probably find that struggle.
Other ideas chal-side is the man controlling the depth of her. That was seven years ago.
It is improbable that the land- manometer; on the other side, tho I did not see or heer of her until lenged by National Sociallent. helmiman. In the engine room all is a few days ago."
A welfare worker said the girt scope is checker-boarded with con-portion of the Biegfried Line be- cealed guns and troop positions, tween Karlsruhe and and Saur not quiet. We are travelling dead slow.
tremities named. In other words, the country and could hardly ful world order and the co- | asleep,
but severni positions. member her mother.
These successive positions, all the topographically weak parts of. operation of many races
my cabin I take up a book, The girl naked the magistrales if nations in the building of a before going to sleep. By a coln-she could return to her mother, and Henerally parallel to one another, this section of the Line may be con- cidence it is "Twenty Thousand Lea- the woman pleaded: "I have a hus- with owitch positions running from tidered as being the natural open higher civilisation. As against gues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo'd band now and a home, and I want parallel to parallel, will follow, songs pierced in it by the thing, and -
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far as possible, the features of the Moselle River Valleys, which may well prove to be the heaviest fortified them any concept of narrow adventures were the wildest fantasy my daughter." A
The magistrates adjourned the terrain.
mother and Moreover, they will be separated sections. It will be noted from ro
PLEASE Tum To Page 3, nationalism must mean "of Jules Verne's imagination. To-
night I am reading them and living case sine. dio and Ilmitation of fighting power."
them in stark reality.
laughter left the court arm in arm. from one another, when practicable,