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THREE Merchant Ser- vice captains who out- witted U-boats the high seas, an able sea- man, and an obscure In- dian mahout clepliant driver-in a Bengal jun- gle have been linked as heroes in the pages of the London Gazette.
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The three captains each re- ceived 'the Order of the British Empire-the first awards made to the Merchant Service in this! war. They are:—
Captain Thomas II. Farrar, of the Baharistan (5,479 tons), owned by the Strick Line, London, Commander. Edward T. Grayston. D.S.C., RN.R. (retired), of the 0,457-ton Karamca (Shay Savill and Albion Co., Ltd., London). Captain Albert A. White, of the 4,003- fon Stonepool (Sir R. Ropner and Co., West Hartlepool),
The able seaman 13 Frederick unlayer of the George Hayter, Stonepool. lo receivos the Medal of the Order of the British Empire for a five-hour Aght with a U-boat,
That Is the award, too, which Aihman Sing Dhanwar, somewhere Jalpaiguri, Bengal, will receive his jungle exploit. for
Here are the heroes stories, as told by the London Gazelle:-
His shilp Was not
Captain armed. She was sud-
denly attacked at dead Farrar of night by an enemy submarine at very short range, not far off shore near Land's End.
The U-bont Ared from ahead of on her seaward. bow, so that to her. escape she hud to turn towards the land.
The master could not have been blame for heaving to and aban- doning ship. But he determined ot great risk to defy the enemy, and at onee. brought the gun flash astern,
The submarine brought her search- light to hear, extinguished it, and continued fring. All shots fell very close, but by the bold decision and ready skill of her master, Baharistan made good her escape. Commander Grayston
His ship wna not armed. She was chased for four hours by the U-boat
which cank the Bretagne [a 10,000- ton French ship. The U-boat fred
her ifeboats,
killing
Dh
people).
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The enemy fired at least thirty", shells, many of which fell within a few feet of the Karamei's hull.
The master felt he could expect no quarter. He therefore made up his mind to defy the enemy and at- templ escape.
I'M HAPPY THO SPENDING
Christmas
· In
Hospital
By I. T.
I'M spending my first Chrisimas in hospital. A memorable ex- perience, and a surprisingly happy
There was 18tle enough of the Christmas spirit about me when te ambalance whined at the door. I avoided my mother's eyes and remembered that thousands of people have operations and don't dte, and thousands of people spend Christmas in hospital every year and manage to enjoy it.
But it was
bail mament pinned helpless in blankois carried on a stretcher in the autet. Mark road.
Well, here I am, weak as a kit- ten, minus
an appendix
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and looking forward to my Christ- dinner, The nurses arc having front four transform - transform- Ing the men's ward, which is near my
room,
They are pinning "oak panel- ling" on the walls with drawing pinj.
Two Amali boys, Peter and Stewart, keep up a non-stop con- versation on how to sidetrack Father Christmas Into the hospital when he finds they are hot at home.
Everybody is looking forward to seeing their faces when Doctor Santa Claus turns up.
MY sister
bought # clock-
work Donald Duck for me from
a pavement toy vendor. Nobody from the matron downwards
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been able to re- sisi It.
They wind te up,
giggle at its indignant squawking. An old gentleman of sevcuty-six is in the next room to mine. He's had his operation and is doing ilne.
There's another of sevenly and another of seventy-five.
Imagine having operations at that age, all you healthy folk and be thankful for your own sound bodics,
German People Want Peace Remark By Nazi U-Boat Officer
"The German people do not!
I don't want it my want war. self. I am only carrying out my
Не was supported by the whole duty."
in this courageous If reckless crew resolve,
Hs act of faith was Justified in the event, and saved his ship.
[At his home at East Farleigh, Nicar Darming, Kent, Commander Grayston said "Destroyers appeared after four hours, and the sub- marine dived. I can't say if they sank . We weren't hit in the chase -tor only pot a splinter"]
Captain White
On sighting a U- boat, the Stonepool manned her gun in about two minutes, and exchanged shot for shot with the enemy,
The shooting was good, and the Afteenth shot may well have hl or damaged the U-bont, whose thir- teenth or fourteenth shot holed the Stonepool two feet above the water- linc.
By resolute and skilful action the master saved his ship. The disci- pline was excellent, and the gun- layer and gun's crew did very well. Last of all, the story of
Mr. A. V. Pullan, manager of Bengal tea estale, went hunt- Ing with Alhrman Sing for a tigress that had
Aihman Sing
mauled a coolie.
The tigress ambushed the hunters. Their elephants bolled in panic, and Mr. Pallan and his mahout were thrown to the ground.
Alhman Sing rallied his elephant, charged back and rested his two companions. Mr. Pullah was nevere- ly injured.
These stories of heroism from twa sides of the Empire, the seas and the Jungle, are linked in the London Gazette by the words: "The KING has been graciously pleased..."
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This statement wes made by German submarine leer after his ship had sunit the British steamer Binirlogic.
Ronald Farrell (19), a university working on the student. who was
cabin boy during his stemmer as a vacation and who has now arrived at Hamilton from New his home at
survivors of Blairto- York, where gle were taken by the flner Amerlean Shipper, said that after the ship was circled round sunk the submarine two ship's boats.
"An officer who looked like a chlef us if we had any male asked wounded or sick on board our boat
and It we had food. He Inquired; from our captain, Mr. D. McAlpine. whether everything was all right and!
a boat was put into stood by until ship-shape as it had shipped some waler. He gave us two stone bottles of of gin and a large carton' cigarettes. I have half a packet of thuse elgarottes still, and I'm keep- ing them as a souvenir.
"I noticed that the submarine crew seemed to be all young men about thirty years of age or less."
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