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Saturday, JANUARY 13,
BRITAIN'S
MERCHANT CRUISERS
THE sinking of the fine old P. & O. steamer Rawalpindi, so well known to all those who travel eastward from the United King- dom, will bring a pang of sentimental regret to thousands of old passengers, in addition to their sorrow at the loss of so many valu able lives by which we pay the price of Admiralty.
This loss will remind those who know, of the risks and perils as well as of the real hardships und zrgene by the Northern Patrol.
This is one of the least osten tatious of all our many squadrons spread round the world for the protection of our commerce, and for the establishment of that iron band of control which is slowly but surely strangling the trade of Germany.
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A squadron of armed merchantmen formed in the last war was the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
The Rawalpindi and her mates must be employed on similar duties. They are fine merchantmen of con- siderable speed armed as men of war. and functioning as men of war, though most of the officers and of the ships' compan es are from the Roval Noval Rererve. one of the finest bodies of men in the British Service. the flower of our Merchant Navy.
These are the ships who carry out the constant patrol of the approaches to the North Sea for the diver
ion of all merchant ships to the port of examination, where the contraband control is established for the
How Mines Are Laid
THE method of mine, laying
from submarines is shown
in the diagrams below. This method was adopted by Ger- many in the last war and is' probably used now.
The top diagram shows how the mine when released drops to the sea bed with its sinker attached (total weight about half 'n ton). After an interval enough to allow the submarine to get clear the mine is autornatically released from its sinker and rises with Its cable under its own buoy- ancy.
Underneath the mine is a hydrostat. When the mine has risen to a pre-arranged depth from the surface the hydrostat grips the cable and anchors the mine to its sinker,
which remains on the bottom.
The lower diagram shows the method of mine laying from a surface ship. Attach- ed to the sinker is a plummet ne. The length of this de termines the final distance the mine is to be from the surface.
When the mine is wheeled overboard it floats at first; the plummet line uncoils and sinks. Then the weighted . sinker is detached and begins to drop. The, mine proper is still floating on the surface.
When the pluminet toughes bollum its cable slacken. This automatically locks the main, 2 n- ker drum and prevente soy invote cable running cut. The IT rinker then crops to the zea b pulling the mine down with The mine is then anchored at prearranged depth from the sur face
From a Submarine
THE
KING'S
{MINE RACKS
A CONTINENT ITS STAGE.. AND ALL THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE EVER LOVED ITS AUDIENCE!
CARY
The stars of "Gunga Din" and "You Can't Take It With You"... together for the first time!
JEAN
GRANT ARTHUR
Only Angels Have Wings
THOMAS MITCHELL
•
BERICHARD
HAYWORTH BARTHELMESS
A HOWARD HAWKS PRODUCTION Screen play by Jules Furtman. A Columbia Picture
MINE RELEASED
ĮMINE AT
BOTTOM
HYDROSTAT| GRIPS CABLE AT-DESIRED. DEPTH
MINE RISING
From a Surface Minclayer
MINELAYER HOLDS 200 MINES
SINKER DESCENDS)
AND PULLS MINE
WITH IT.
DEPTH OF MINE [BELOW SURFACE EQUALS LENGTH OF PLUMMET
CHAIN
"I'm taking no moro risks-f wat
shot at twice as
unidentified air. craft last wook!"
IMINE DROPPED; PLUMMET RUNS OUT TO END
EMINE STILLON SURFACE SINKER DESCENDING
MINE STILL ON SURFACE PLUMMET HITS BOTTOM
AND PREVENTS MORE
CABLE UNREELING
יז.
SOFT LEAD HORNS CONTAIN GLASS TUBES OF ACID WHICH BREAK ON CONTACT. ACID ACTS ON WIRE CAUSING DETONATOR
4TO FIRE EXPLOSIVE
SHOULD THE MINE BREAK FROM CABLE SPRING PLUNGER COMES INTO ACTION RENDERING MINE
HARMLESS. MOORING CABLE ATTACHED TO
WHEELED SINKER®
Abere is the standard type of British mine used in the last war. Attached to in wheeled sinker it is rolled off along seul rails from the deck of the minelaver
By Admiral SIR HOWARD
KELLY
Former C. in. C. of
China Station
examination of the ship's papers and also of their cargoes, should suspicion render this necessary.
They are of suflicient strength
to engage with confidence any
euemy
armed merchantmen which may attempt to pass through the line of patrol, in order to raid our commerce, and they always have at their sup- port heavily armel squadrons of cruisers ready to render immediate assistance in case eneny men of war might en- deavour to break out in order lo prey upon our shipping.
These ships from the ucture of their peace time werk have a very large arlus of netim, and so are no to keep the sea for long perindo at high speed.
If you knew what the weather has bren like during recent weeks in the North Sou and up to the Aretle re- gins where these ships keep their constant watch and ward for week at a time, you would be able to walise the courage and endurance of these men and would know that the value of their work is as great as that performed by any other unit of 11.M. Navy.
When the Prime Minister tells
you in his weekly statement no many thousand tons of German goods have been sized, it is by the activitica of these ships in their arduous patrol that they have heen brought into the hands of the Contraband Con-
rol
Think then of the hardships, rlaks nd perils of these ships, and be rateful on your knees to those liko the officers and men of the Rawal- Jadi, who gave their lives to this service.
The "Telegraph" picked this out
ΤΟ A DANTE'S
PREFIXED SONNET TRANSLATION OF
"DIVINE COMEDY."
Oft have I teen at some cathedral
door
A labourer, passing in the dust
and heat,
Lay down his burden, and, with
reverent feet
Enter, and cross himself, and on
the floor Kncel to repeat his Paternoster
o'cy:
Far of the noises of the world'
relteni
The loud vociferations of the
strect
Become an indistinguishable roar. So as I enter here from day to day, And leave my burden at this
minster pate,
not
Kneeling in prayer, and
ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconLSO.
late
dies murmurs
To
Inarticulate away,
While the eternal ages watch
and wait,
-Longfellow.
OF COURSE YOU KNOW-
some
Franklin Roosevelt; Percu Shelley;
William Gladstone; Ralph Emerson; Henry Long. fellow.
These famous men are minus THERE'S a war on, but
Your general skip it for half an hour and their middle names.
you knowledge being what is mind to these.
• give your
should not bad it difficult to supply They are much less bother-
tuem:-- pro. than trying to
the nounce place-names in Saar-or remembering who is' who in Europe. Besides, you! would not be human if you
Now for a spelling-bee. Pick didn't prefer the pursuit of out only the wrong oues and correct
to the general knowledge Vanity of trying to figure out how Adolf reconciles "Mein. Kampf" with his extension of the Axis to include the Krem lin, where formerly his bogy-of cards are armed man used to lurk.
This is how it's done. Read carefully. Pick your answer, and if it's right you get two Points: Go on reading care- fully and picking answers until you've scored 50, may Above 30 is good; below, not so good.
be.
+
1.-Napoleon gol his at Waterloo. After that he took a sen-trip to SL Helena The ship which took him! iliere was tlic:-
Victory: Indefatigable; Bel-
L'Orient lerophon;
Arethusa; Rodney; Great Harry,
3-I'm going to tell you something. The word carnt le osed to denoie the proportion of alloy in gold. The zumber of carats in pure gold is:
.
Nine; 15: 18; 20; 24; 30. 3-A peculiar caractericide of Infra-red rays—they
them in targraphy a lot nowadays-ls that
they:
Use
Bend round corners; are too long for the human eye to see; ralic blisters on the alcin; con- not travel in straight lines; can detect the presence of enemy submariaca.
4-Tow are you OTI physics? This is easy. Indicato the point and the freezing point of:→→
bolling
(a) Fahrenheit; (b) Centi- grade; (c) Reaumur,
-You already know that som birds can fly and some cannot Pick out the Alghiless-ones:—
Ptarmigan; emu; klwi; ostrich; heran; osprey) avocet; conder.
The reigning monarch who is referred to by devoted subjects as the Son of Sayan be them
King of Siam; King of Greece:: Emperor of Manchuria; Emperor of Japan: Sufian of Morocco; King of England.
themes
Tendensious; supererogatory: ecclesiastical; corrolary; apopht- hem.
9-Three of the Kings in a pack with swords. The unarmed.King is the Kingof:-
Hearts; Diamonds; Spades; Clubs.
10 The Bounty mutisters, after dumping Bligh and his loyal suppor- ters in an open boat. lnd sundry adventures and eventually settled
down on:—....... .......
Ascension; Tristan da Cunha; Easter Island; Juan Fernandes; Lundy land; Pitcairn Island.
11One for the film fans, Spang- ler Arlington Brouch is the name whlohida'cent`hat wrong-headed parents plastered on a favourite star. tim Picturegoers, however, know
-
James Cagney; Robert Young; Robert Taylor; Wallace Beery Francis Lederer; Turone Power: Charles Farrell.'
12.Ilcro are Some more alm stars' real ramics, which I had in- tended to save until next work. Can you identliy
Grelchen Belzer; Gladys Mary
Lucille Smilli
Vasconeller Langhanke; Jane Peters.
:-
13-A. funambulist doesn't rééd medical treatment whatever You might think because a funambulist
sleep-walker: heavy amoker; a tight-rope walker: an American undertaker; a comics strip artist.
14,--"Biltkrieg" is a word we've ured often since Mo war" started.
"A Nari general; German s018- age; a swear word; a lightning aauerkraut; Germany's eastern fortifications.
15-You are so smart it would be
a shame if you didn't know - whie of those statements are (1) domest
But Whisky and ousters: gether are dangerous CLASE Turn Tos