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And this is why:-
It was early un'a Kormy, iniserable North Sea morning.
The East Dudgeon. lightship was riding a swollen, awelling sea. Jacks Sanders, Stt. Ding. und 12st. lbs., had just come up on deck to juke
. You road a week ago of German air raids along a 400- mile line off the east coast of Britain. One of the victims was the East Dudgeon lightship. At the time, the attack on this dofoncoloss craft was told in a fow words. Read, to-day, the dramatic story of the only man in a crow of eight who escaped
as told to
ANTHONY COTTERELL
his turn in keeping watch with young drink of water, but the bung fanc
| George Jackson.
They were great friends these two, After a few minules they heard airplane engines, Then down out of
got knocked out of the keg and the water had all run away.
They didn't feel much like eating;
the clouds came a Heinkel bomber they were too busy watching the and swooped just over their mast- horizon. head. Even then they weren't terri-
Bly alarmed, for Nazis had sometimes It began to gel dark. Hurry Davis flown over their ship before and took Jack Sanders's place at the oar. waved a grecting.
It was the first break for Sanders that day. He began to nod,
But when it circled round they run for cover under the after-part But after twenty minutes Davin of the deckhouse. George Jackson had to give up; he was too tired and and three others of the crew had frozen to go on. Sanders said, "Well, seen this happen before. They knew get back, old chap," gave him a clap what was probably coming..
on the back and he fell back into the water on the floor of the boat.
ND sure enough there exine
fire. The German carte over a third time and dropped a bomb.
A burst of machine-gun
Seeing the way it fell the crew made for shelter in the bows.
seemed to this cruelly battered man to be great imountains of black rock. The pleasure beach was a' pavage windswept shore. ·
Hla seven friends crawled a few yards up the shore and went to sleep. They were found next morning in n. sud quarter-mile line along the annds --dead,
But something drove Jack Sandera on to get help.” He dragged himself through gaps in the dunes, down across 200 yards of rough wind- slashed ground, through a gato, up a patch and round a corner out of rench- of the wind.
:
1 traced his path a few mornings "You could hear the chips shouting Inter. How he had the strength is a to each other. One man had hold miracle. of the back of my life-belt. Next minute a wave came and iffted him right over the top of me..
LL I could do was dog
Next: "I fell forward. My hands went through a window. I couldn'l feel the cuts. I pulled more gloss away with my hands and slumped
"Andale My legs were down.""
dead. All I was thinking was to keep my back to the surf, otherwise you got a swamping mouthful every time a wave broke,
"The others were gradually drift ing away from me.
I could just see black dots for their heads, but the night was too dark to see more than a few yards,
NUT it was only an out- house. He fell back in a faint. If he had slept then he would have died.. But his lifebelt was keeping his neck strung up so that he couldn't sleep.
He staggered across the path and, rattled a gate... then on to and "It seemed an hour and a half we alust effort against the door at the up some steps, and threw himself in were in the water; probably more like three-quarters of an hour. Time top of them.
THEY went on pulling. The worst thing of all was the darkness.
seems so long when you're suffering. And by a tremendous stroke of They were beginning to reach their "Then I felt my knces touch some. luck he found himself in a room limit. They had been rowing in thing (I couldn't feel anything with used for storing blankets. Far gone as he was, he struggled for more heavy sens all day and most of the my feet). I was on my hands and then an
hour to get out of his One of them, Bell, was a slek night. The skipper ordered them to knees in the water, but I couldn't clothes; then buried himself in blan- THR profix "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the "longkong Telegraph to nun, but the skipper had to order put the anchor over. They did; it realise I'd struck shore.
kets and slept Etfully until 7.30 am, Indicate news which is strictly copyright || him to get dressed and stand by. touched bottom, and they knew they under the provisions of the Telecommuni-
"I crawled forward qut of the sea when through the window he shout- must be somewhere near' land. sations Ordinance, 1930. Such new a bears the indication "UPO is received in
and up the sand. I wanted to get ed to young Welly Turfitt. Hongkong on the date of publication by
They should have been warned
Turfitt roused Mr. and Mrs. George the United Press Associations, who re-
by the sound of the breakers, but the water, as possible. I wanted to Threadgold, retired pork butchers, serve all rights and forbid republication.
these were drowned by the heavy lose the sound of the surf. either wholly or in part without previous It was murder, crouching there in surt which had been chasing them
whose house it was. arrangement.
the bows, with not even a shotgun all day long.
"I yelled, shouting 'Hello' all the to defend themselves with.
time. The others yelled too, but
Nazi Super-Man
Dr. Ley, the leader of the Nazi Labour Front, repeats what he has often said before, that Poles and Jows are more vormin, to be exterminated so that the superior |race, the Germans, may have room MM to live. A German, he insists, could never live in the same con- ditions as a Pole or a Jew.
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OF CHILDREN (Women's Auxilliary)
What sort of life, then, does this superman live? The question has been answered in various
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The plane circles round and drop- ped another bomb, then a salvo of four.
as much distance between me and.
"I thought I was on one of the bird sanctuary islands where no one Hoes but once a year.
And these white tops were to be after a bit I couldn't hear thein. And the German was getting their ruin. A cross current caught nearer. His seventh dropped not them and three great waves came. much more than ten yards from amacking down." the ship. The eighth smashed right through the port lifeboat and explod- ed under the stern,
She Jumped almost clean out of the sen, and us uhe wallowed back
they found themselves waist deep in
swirling, icy water.
The deck rail went overboard and all the glass in the big lantern started badly to starboard. rattling back. The ship was listing
THEY stuck it for half an
hour, and it was obviously
no use trying to stay any longer.
They run for the remaining boat and put on.
They jumped to right the boat for the first one. "Start balling out," shouted the skipper.
"I carried on crawling till I saw two beach huts. I was loo done to find the door but I knew I was
"Bul before we could move the somewhere,"
Wis
ut small east coast town, But
ACTUALLY he
the local Daily Express man, arrived, At 10 a.m., when Juck Manning.
Sanders was talking freely, but was still dazed,
The doctor allowed him bacon and eggs. Then Police Sergeant Conner
took him to the police station, where Mrs. Conner has been looking after him ever since.
He la still very weak. He can't use his swollen fingers properly yet.
second one struck us," says Sanders. "We're on a shoul, skipper, I heard young George Jackson shout. Then the third one simply upped the boat on that night the sand dunes where "It be a long time before I can "crowds flock to watch the sunsets"
and threw us all out into the water.
But the main trouble is mental: stop thinking of those seven men."
£4000 A MINUTE
The Nazis circled round three of THE Chancellor's revelation that thej going back to the ship, and made of least £0,000,000 a day just over four times to make sure they weren't" "
war Is costing this country sti in a northerly direction.
£4,000-a-minute-is suficiently-Im-
Then they pulled back and young went inboard to George Jackson Dutch,
get the lifeboat equipment box and emergency stores.
Nazi hierarchy. One of the latest which throws light on. those dark places is "Hitler's Twelve Apostles," by Oswald describing the character and ex- ploits of the chiefs of the clique which Hitler has gathered round hin
This Ley, nick-named "the Jallor of the German Workers" when German working men were still free to speak their minda, is acknowledged to be the champion toper of the Party, "He is best found in the ale-house from which the loudest laughter issues, but it is also common knowledge in the Party that when Ley is urgently wanted all that is necessary to produce him is to ring up his favourite taverns,'
"Although he is married, and,
They were wet and freezingly cold, but very hopeful. They didn't talk
much.
Some one started singing "Roli out the barrel" and some one else told him to shut up.
The Cost
of.
notable scheme, whereby every per-. son should contribute a percentage of his income for loan purposes. This,
pressive proof of the enormous burden Totalitarian War estimates, would bring in about
twentieth century totalitarian hos-i tilities place on the belligerents.
A well-known economist, Mr. Colin maximum of her war
Anunce the
four hundred millions a year. It would serve a double purposo; the restriction of expenditure resulting
as much
Actually that is not the end of the millions. Taxation will rise about upon higher wages, thus creating de story, because when Britain is fully £995,000,000 this year. This proves mund and forcing up prices, so leading. into her war stride the cost will most that so far the Government is only to the pitfall of Inflation; and the probably rise to half as much again taking in taxation about 16 per cent. putting away of money which would As a measure of the extent of the Although taxation seems heavy en-be released after the war, when, there national effort £6,000,000 is more ough, before the close of the Great will occur, the inevitable slump., The- dramatle than
final. For, although War nearly 30 per cent. was being money so taken would help to pay expressed in sterling of present day taken in taxation to
for the war and afterwards when re- HE skipper, Mr. George, a purchasing power, it is actually great- THE
turned assist the wage-earner over tough, compactly built man er than the daily expenditure in the struggle.
the industrial depression. of about fifty-four, was at the tiller. Intter days of the Great War, it His plan was to run for the Humber, represents a materially smaller fra If Inflation Came
Whether this war will cost'; and his job was a dificult one; for|tion of the national Income than 21 with the seas that were running years ago.
These figures are further proof that the Great War, nobody can tell, Britain has by no means reached the duration. An exact calculation of lis as this will entirely depend on its they were in much donger of being them." swamped if she got broadside on to Clark, now Government statistician in national income is bound to increase, The day after the declaration of war effort. The cost to Great Britain is impossible. Queensland, estimates that in 1018 and, as Sir Walter Layton has pointed the Government obtained from Parlia- As it was, two men were kept Great Britain was devoting to war out, if by Anancial mismanagement Nobody realised then this would be ment vote of credit of £100,000,000. balling all the time.
purposes 60 per cent. of the current national Income. So far in this war uncontrolled Infintion sets in, it would N Sanders and Bert Rumsby were only about 40 per cent, is being de- danger of terrible collapse as in Ger-50, and the other day. lecturing on the rise to astronomical figures-with the . mere drop in an eccan, but it was pulling, and the other three were voted to them. Furthermore-and up in the bows.
war potential of Britain, Professor this is greatly in
Whatever hap-Shirras, Professor of Economics until our favour-he many after the war. reckons that the present Productive pens, some rise in prices and wages recently at the University of Bombay, Bell was too l to do anything.
is inevitable, and economista believe He had been seasick ever since he large again as it was in 1918. There-that, the national income will rise to to seven thousand millions, and the
capacity of British industry is half as
said that if the national income, risex came aboard the previous Thursday. fore the expenditure on the present between seven thousand millions and Government takes the same propor as an organiser of the German Sanders didn't even know his name scale could be continued for a num-eight thousand millions. Labour Front is busy day in and until the police told him afterwards bor of years without undue burdens.
tion of our expenditure as in the last If the cost of the Great War is wor, we shall be able to reach a day out, he is hardly over to be
"They were a very nice crowd."The Tax-payer's Load
anything to go by the Government! maxi
maximum war effort of at least three found at home in the evening or
says Jack Sanders,
month, which will require well over three thousand hundred millions a This policy, however, would drag millions for war purposes, and in ati gives us daily expenditure of over early hours of the night; he is
"Herbert Rumsby, very quiet but out the conflict. Britain's aim is to it will very probably expend tour the nine millions estimated by some very nice. About forty-five, I sup throw the whole weight of her re- thousand militons. Much remains to financiers. always at some inn or another. It of our jo duo mara haavi od sources into the struggle to bring it be decided and planned out before the has repeatedly happened that not eat men you could wish to be with, to a speedy conclusion, and it is plain nation is fully girded for war. The Nazis' Financial Weakness
a man nearly fifty. I'd been ship that £0,000,000, a day by no means large number of unemployed is sɔm- only has Loy had to be brought mates with him before-nine years represents our maximum effort,
One hundred millions to-day would. I've been in lightships-ond Bardolphi
Just little more than a fortnight, and home dead drunk in his service Boulton too, he was a nice chup, The Anancial side of the present To quote Sir Walter Layton:-"Up in the end the War Governments of car, but also he has even attended about forty-four, I think.
war very much resembles that of the to the present we are a very long way 1914-1918 had to spend the huge sum Great War. The upward sweep of short of our maximum war effort, of £8,427,000,000. important Party meetings not "Then Dick Norton, he was a good expenditure is following much the How quickly the peak can be reach-
old sort, must have been about fifty-some course. In September it was ed, how far
Wolhud to lend huge sums to the should be financed by entirely sober. Since, howevor, in Ave. I lived alongside him; home in £6,250,000 a day, and it will soon be taxation or by internal borrowing, the Allies, and ourselves borrow from the
United States. the Party drinking is a peculiarity Yarmouth, for two years."
It says much for the 125 per cent. greater dan that. proportion to be spent on the three enormously strong financial position which, even if it is carried to
IT was about two hours before it is Interesting to compare the respectively, and the extent to which pelled to make loans to Russia, services and civil defence of Britain, that had we not been com- nghting excess, doce not in any case cast a They were glad to do that, for it and the present war. They
they lost sight of the ship, expenditure curves of the Great War the decision must be governed by the France, Italy, Rumania, Portugal, and
show amount of Imports which we have the sundry other countries, slur on the offender, Dr. Lay's love meant they were getting somewhere. striking resemblances, which are like-means of buying overseas-these aro have been able to finance our efforts. of beer and wine has aided rather
ly to continue. The Shortly after that they sighted mark will soon be passed, and in the answered before it is possible to draw
seven million all major questions that need to be entirely. than injured his reputation." trawlor. A wave of life swept over course of little more than a year the up a national wor plan,"
And na for his other qualities, them. They tied a blanket to an seven millions, may, reach eight they are much the same as those car and holsted it,
militoris, and even nine millions a day. The People's Savings
of most of the notorious twelve.
When Ley destroyed the German Trade. Unfone and established the Labour Front in their place, he did
elent, evidence of this.
WO would
We can take courage, from the fact that whereas we are this time:no-. where near. the peak of our 'war
They burned some flares, hoping Most far-sighted economists hope, The enthusiastle reception given by effort, Germany has alrendy mar they would see the smoke. Pathetic for the sake of posterity, that we shall the public to the new issue of National slalled practically her full woonomic ally they shouted. But the travler be able to raise a larger proportion Savings Certificates did not see them and passed on.
and Defence reserves and cannot make greater: of this out of the current taxation Bonds is striking evidence that the effort (Mr. Colin Clark), and in bis book ("Nazi Germany Can't Win") When sho'd gone, it took a bit than we did before. If not the next British public is anxious and willing of the go out of us," says Sanders, generation will be faced with crippling to contribute towards the cost of the Dr. Necker, himself a former deman
officer, declares the Nazi doctrine of: shamelessness. The brutal fist
burdens. and the point of the bayonet" beer and biscuit
soll-sufficiency has created new weak- They got out their rations, bully The country's total income at the
present time is eniculated by Anancial Mr. J. M. Kaynci, the eminent nemes, both moral and economic. made bla auecoss possible,
"Boil; - the nick mun, askért for
Norman Barolar a experts, to be
about six thousand economist, has come forward with n
so with the utmost violence and
wer.