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[N an office high up in aONE. submarine commander, the most successful in the New York skyscraper there sat, towards the end German Navy, Von Arnold de la Perriere, did attack a slow of 1917, an Admiralty of-convoy. He had the advantage ficial who was responsible both of speed and gun range for the American end of the over its obsolete convoy escort successfully en- convoy system which was to vessel. He. affect so fundamentally the gaged her, killing and wounding some of her crew, and sank two safe transport of men and of the convoy. material across the Atlantic to Europe.
Then, however, he was forced to submerge, and was unlucky enough to conie in contact with one of the Tho, convoy system was also sinking vessels, whose keel tore his employed on other scas during conning-tower right out. Miracul- that last year of the great ously the watertight hotch beneath it held. He escaped and 1mped back struggle.. But the service from
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From New York, or a cofres- ponding Canadian port, convoys
At
When the convoy rystem started there was an insistent call for more signalmen for the merchant ships. The fighting fleet had none to spare, so they had to be created. Callow, seasick youths were rushed through intensive short courses of signaling i. at the depots and sent to scr. In fine weather they were passable, but in storm, darkness and driving rain they were almost useless. Yet on the instant seeing and reading of n might at any moment depend.
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"No more sitting by the window for Snodgrass➡hle doctor
ordered a complete rest.”:
These
Never
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Men See
Sky
guns.
HAVE seen the great passageway's ench with its separate steel gates roll silently ward of living men and glittering into place;, heard the crash of
Here and there are humming the world in a ferment during sailed every day of the week. Ati MORTUNATELY, many of the mer- bars and bolts. And now the dynamos, with red lamps. Enshing. whole of the Maginot Line of Miniature electric trains carry food
redoubt to the far-flung system a given moment there were a their minds should not be distracted forts stands ready for the rudest and ammunition from one central
smaller fortă, pen
the Napoleonic Wars. Substitute the name Hitler for Napoleon and we have an exact parallel.
chant service officers were good signallers, but it was important that
onerous watchkeeping assaults that modern war can ways 100 or more ships crossing from their
In a deop recess, I found the the Atlantic from west to east, duties and thus imperii, their ships threaten.
The departure of a fast troop convoy and a similar number returning, from New York, was a stirring sight
At points I have visited, like the bakeries and cookhouses, where men, Hochwald or the Zimmerhof, there stripped to the waist, were preparing fortresses meals for & garrison of some 900 Each convoy was timed as ex-as the great liners, gay in their weird
are great underground "dazzle"
conts of paint, nosed their After the final defeat of actly as an express train, each way down river and assembled of stretching for many miles and buried troops.
Next to the command-past is the ran on a different route, and the Ambrose lightship. The com- 2001, deep,
Elsewhere, forming links in a huge telephone exchange, with its hundred each was scheduled to arrive on modore, flying his broad pennant in
the armed merchant cruiser which steel chain, are the machine-gun and | odd numbers. There is no fear of severed communication. Every forl time at a fixed but changeable generally formed the ocean escort, artillery cupolas. "rendezvous" some 200 miles to took his station in the centre, the In the Alps, 10,000ft. up, forts have has its triple set of armoured tele- other ships forming in. column of been cut deep into the rock beneath phone lines buried to deep and so protected that not even iho biggest the west of Ireland. There it ne ahead on either beam..
the white of the eternal snows.
From there the Line stretches shell of the greatest siege-gun ever was met by a destroyer escort
Course and spoed were signalled, northwards past Belfort to the green constructed could reach them. which took it through the more and in a short time all were heading meadows bordering the Rhine where dangerous home waters until, seaward, leaving behind the cloud every slope conceals a hidden fort. approaching their destination, of patrol-boats, mine-sweepers and aircraft .which had accompanied ships were dispersed to their them. On deep water being reached,
paravones, a mine-cutting respective unloading ports.
Napoleon, Wellingtori wrote:- "The Allies took up arms against Buonaparte because it was certain that the world could not be at pesce as long as he should possess supreme power in France. The Allied Powers have fought, not against France, but against one man and his adherents."
But Wellington.went further. He spoke of the conditions that should prevail after the war, and of the only way in which peace, could be preserved. Не said, in effect, that the Allies
must either weaken France and koop her weak, or must make an arrangement which would suit all parties to it. Here, too, we have an opinion which bears weight to-day.
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The tendency to roam at ran- dom over the field of the future and to make generalisations on peace should be curbed. This war will be won by the surren"
device,
Let me take you into one of the machine-gun posts. We find it at the end of a a passage, with glistening con- crete walls and, we, pass an immense
door. blue-painted steel
☆ * AND-50, along the nur w ND 30, along the narrow
Somewhere the hum of electric were hoisted inboard, and the first the tree-topped hills of the Ardennes, ventilators.can be heard, keeping the All this immense detail had to zig-zag signalled. The zig-zag might pushing north past Montmnedy and passages and gun positions provided be worked out weeks, generally be any one of some 20 designs clearly Sterny to the corn and blue-flowered with "conditioned" sir at such a pressure that no outaldo gasca con a month, ahead. Yet convoys set out in a book, some very drastic fax felds of the Belgian frontier.
Every fort, every machine-gun look through, and with such suction at sea rarely saw one another, and some tess so, but all entailingg n though one might guess at the loss of from 10 to 20 per cent. on the post is so deeply buried, every ap- draught that the gases from the gun-
hour the slijps altered course to have driven for miles along the Line way. presence of a slow convey 40dy's run. Several times in every preach is so skilfully hidden, that I bacchies are instantaneously cleared Twinned. or quadrupled heavy miles away by the pall of smoke gether by clock, and continued so without seeing anything to reveal that.
to do while daylight remained. within a hundred yards, there exists machine-guns are.Installed. Only the accompanying it.
the most powerful and complicated mechanism of the guns Is visible. * K
machinery that has over been set up The muzzles point through the steri * 34.
to secure a frontler from attack, ehields, and all would be dark but I have visited fortress systems all for the clear light of the electric.
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AT dark. zig-zagging (sed by over Europe, but never have I seen lamps.
signal, to be resumed again at anything like this Maginot Line, The belts of tartridges are auto-
A SLOW convoy, ita molley collection of lame ducks
earliest dawn. It also ceased during which
WAE the Iden of Sergeant nutically filled and run to the gun- wallowing their rusty sides and fog. Fox was the bane of existence Maginot, who became Minister of breeches. The guinness bave merely struggling over miles of ocean, of the Banks of Newfoundland, es- War
to keep the machinery set and swing When a staff officer pointed out to the whole gun-block round to the offered by far the easiest, if not pecially during the early summer. most tempting, balt to a lurking One moment all was fair to look me a gun position, all I could see angle and elevation indicated to them
was a slight curve in the ground, and by telephone? submarine, yet it was strange upon. The next, with the sudden-
ness of a thunder-clap, the ships then my eye barely distinguished the how seldom such ships were were enshrouded in an impenetrable form of a cupola." attneked. That submarines did cloud, a cloud which kid the grim not like convoys was very soon dangers of the bergs Boating on its
*surface. obvious.
In the sceret orders supplied be-
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In the cupolas sheltering, say, a couple of 3in. quickfrers the principle is the same. The breech-mechanism and the laying of the gun is all that concerns the guptéry. The shells: and ground and cumou-hoist from the aminunition store 50fi..
002. The or 60ft, below: Each abell runs auto-
EVERY advantage of slope come up in a ceaseless stream by The reasons were also fairly fore falling there was a list of "ron-flage had been seized obvious. Ships in #1 convoy | dezvous," one for each day of the Maginot Line runs, almost invisible, ¦ matienily into position; the breech- were continuously zig-zagging voyage. In the event of attack, the from sea to mountain, and thence blocks silde to, the guns are fired..
towards the sen again. close formation, leaving convey had orders to scatter in every
and the cartridge-cases ejected. in
All along the 500 miles of frontier, little. room for intrusion.direction, reassembling at the next
day's "rendezvous." A ship dam- tens of thousands of French Infantry der of the common people of Besides their artillery, bomb-aged by the encry was to be left to and artillerymen have been swallow-
IN front of the forts, extend- Germany to the dictates of rea- throwers and depth charges, her fate, and all were strictly for ed up and have disuppeared from
ing to h depth of hundreds. they also had a well-armed na-bidden to succour her. This work sight. There they remain deep down of yurts are the great bulks of
had to be left son. To win this war, and to val escort.
to the small craft at their piloted posts. which would at once be rushed to The role the runk-and-file of the barbed wire and the immense bar- make another war less likely, we
fortress regiments play is that of ricre of in thick steel pigkets which, Clearly a submarine could the scene.
with other devices, form the tank-- blind automatons. need to say quite simply to the not approach closely on the sur-
From the time they reach their trups positions at machine-gun and artil
her
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lery posts, or beside the complicated the underground forts. Despite, all'
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It is difficult to accustom men to live like motes without a night of the sky, for days on end. It is hard to conquer, the prevailing damp,:'and. even, more dišeuli to overcome the
monotony of sitting idle, walling for the funtmons whleis may, noves come. The French High Command hos realleed this:
she dived her face, and when Gorman people-Give us a Gov-speed was limited. The con-- ernment which accepts the prin-voy's zig-zag pattern was also ONLY saw one enemy submarine machinery which lights and ventilates the ghung, ventilating, and-heating while on convoy chilly. This the forts and works the lifts and arrangement, life is not too pleasant. was at midnight in foggy weather, ammunition-holsts, the men never, in these, concrete. tunnels and steel was almost hopeless to judge when ciple of negotiation as a sub. continually changing, so that it
conning-tower almost see the sky above or the fields around redoubts,
them. stitute for forec and which is where the ships would be when brushed against our side. It was
They are a blind army. she put up her. periscope again. narrow squeak for the submarine, composed of people whose bond They might be heading right for she was on the surface quite unconscious of our presence, and was is worth having,
away from her, in which case out of sight agnin probably before
If it came to an attack they an attack was hopeless.
she had time to realise it. But sub-
would fre- their bullets and marines there were in plenty;
khells an unseen army-at an un- Equally well, a submarine on coming to the surface mightouth About Ireland. While still 200
Convoys passed either, north or seeit enemy.
There are no loopholes, no em- For the officers and N.C.Os per- find herself right among then out at sen they were met by a prasures through which they can manently attached to the Maginot She would be too close to fire a destroyer escort. This skirmished look. Every operture is shut out by Line the time spent garrisoning the CAMDEN, N. J. (UP) Southern torpedo, and would be in the ahead and on the Bouks. As the foot and a half of hardened steel, forts counts as, if they were engaged
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