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Hitler's five "waves"
"waves" of Attack on our Ships
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17 24 SEPTEMBER
1ST
ST WAVE--U-boats cause big losses during the weeks ending September 10th and 17th; then the attack declines. -
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.15 22 29 5* 12 19 OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
WAVE.-Surface Raiders U-boats are in jola in, and
active, during tbe WICK ending Oct. 15th, this wave con- tinuing for another three weeks.
26
3 10 17 24 31
DECEMBER
7
14 21 281 JANUARY
281 4
18 FEBRUARY
25
10 3 MARCH
~TH WAVE ~U-boats again become the main weapon
in February, easily out- stripping the mines. Alr attacks succeed only againsÍ" neutrals.
ORD WAVE-The Magnetic Milne, beginning lo mid-November, causes the heaviest continuous losses of the war. It destroys 150,000 tons to five weeks, during which the U-boats .. sink 95,000 tons.
SO THIS IS BEAUTY? Spotting The Rank-
The dictionary definition of beauty is this: Combination
of qualities, as shape, proportion, colour, in human face or form, or in other objects, that delights the sight. Now let's see what poets and writers have to say about it. FOR she
wan beautiful her
beauty mude
The bright world dim, and every-
thing beside.
Seemed like the fleeting image of a
chade.Shelley.
As rich and purposeless us in the
rose,
Thy simple doom is to be beautiful.
Stephen Philips.
The saying that beauty is but skin-deep is a skin-deep saying- Herbert Spencer.
Beauty is a good letter of intro- duction.-German Proverb.
I is an extremely wretched thing to be over-hondsoine.--Plautus.
Thou has no faults, or I no fuulis
con spy,
Thou art all beauty, or all blind-
Codrington.
ness
Christopher C
Her lovely body and anget face were but an attractive disgulse for the soul of a vulture of vice- Marie Corelli,
And lightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petul of a flower,
Tennysou,
O, that her hand,
•
In whose comparison all whites
are ink,
Writing their own reproocli, to
whose soft seizure
The cygnel's down is harsh..
Shakespeare.
ELEVEN o'clock at night on the
estuary of one of the west Scottish arms of the sea..
A moon is trying
to struggle through
the flying clouds.
►
And sweet, red, splendid kissing
mouth.-Swinburne,
*
The dew that on the violet les Mocks the dark lustre of thine
eyes.-Scott.
The flowers anew returning seasons
bring,
Beauty, faded, has no
spring-Ambrose Phillips.
verand,
A daughter of the gods, divinely
tuli,
--
And most divinely fair.-Tennp-
M
Beauty is the flower of virtue.-.
Proverb.
*
And beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful And soft
as young!
And gay as soft! And innocent as
Bay! Rev. E. Young.
I would that you were either less beautiful or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty dues not suit such imperfect morals. Ovid.
Beauty standa
•.
In th admiration only of weak
minds
Led captive.--Milton.
·
Her angel's face. As the great eyes of heaven, shyned
bright
I
And made a sunshine in the shindy
place;
Did never moral eye behold such
heavenly grace?~-5penser.
REAR-ADMIRAL
Equivalent to the military rank of Major-General, the rank of Rear-Admiral origin- ally signified the flag officer in charge of the roar division of a fleat.
To-day an officer of this rank may be aither one or other of the junior flag of ficors of a big floot, the chief of staff to a Commander-in- Chlof, or a Commander-in- Chief on one of the less prominent, foreign stations. Various shore appointments Dra also held by Rear- Admirals.
On the active list thoro wcro 28 Rear Admirals when the present war be- gan, as compared with dou- blo this numbor in 1914. On the retired list there are about 150 Rear-Admirals.
A Commodore of the First Class, who is for practical purposes equivalent to an acting Rear-Admiral, wears the same rank marks on his -cuff as a Rear-Admiral, but the shoulder-strap on his greatcoat differs in that the star is smaller,
TH WAVE-Torpedo cam- pale against neutrals develops in January, but the mines again make the biggest hai. Air attacks are a long way bebind.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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A Thought for To-day
_PEACE. I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: nol. as the world givoth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid,
-St. John 14. Verse 27.
And Four Germans
Up on the bridge of a merchant
ship stood the skipper and the pilot...
The ship was one of a number that had passed the patrol vessel farther below-and was now malc- ing its way. upward through the narrow channel that leads to safety from U-bouts and floating mines.
Across the estuary the dark hulls of ships of war could be seen; other merchantmen, trawlers, private yachts. But the skipper was not looking at anything but what was happening in the wake of his ship.
For in the dimneas he saw the conning towor of a submarine, fly-- Ing the British Ang, slip in between him and the following ship. A British submarine, he thought, com- Ing in from the Atlantic patrol.
scoond thought And then, a struck the skipper. Supposing...
He ordered his searchlight to be flashed im towards the heavens, across the estuary, then down across the bows of the submarine. The Brish flag struck out sharply from her conning tower.
But the skipper was not looking at the British dag. He was looking at the bows. On the bows he saw a number. The searchlight snapp- ed out. The night seemed blacker than ever.
The skipper, whose name may not be yet mentioned, or the name of his ship, had his hand on a list of identification' names and numbers of 'naval vessels.
His finger, under the cover of the dodger, traced that list. The num- ber he had seen on the bows of the subinarine did not correspond with any on the list..
The U-boat Had Run Into A
Hornets' Nest
What happened after that was swiftly done.
From the stern of the ship came a muffled boom as her stern gun sent a challenging shell across the bows of the mibmarine. From the alymailing apparatus went a chol- longe asicing for the code word.
THE aubmarino began to sink out of sight. Down it went,'as fast as its diving gear would take it. Down went the British fing Into the black waters. The surface of the estuary smoothed out quickly,
But fast as the submarine had been, the signalling light of the merchant ship had been faster.
Across the estuary it had sent a
Came up
message; from
and their sta- tions came two warships like greyhounds, flashing signals, to every ship within the es- tuary, telling them what to do, telling them that the
was fight now in other
hands,
For the sub-
marine that had tried to get in- alde the boom WRS 4 German U-boat.
The
Through convoy, through defences, aut Into the wider estuary raced the warships. Down went their depth-charges in a straight line.
Back they came in a wide circle, dropping depth-charges all the time. The estuary was swept by searchlights.
On the shores guns were being trained. Farther down the estuary gun-crews were at their stailons. Moro Naval vessels were already scouting.
The U-boat had hornets' nest.
run
And then quietness came.
into o
The warships ran up and down the convoy, Every ship was there, Nothing was damaged. The U boat had not hit back.
Somewhere under the surface it was lying, perhaps waiting for a chance to strike.
The warships signalled the con- voy to get through the defences to safely.
The
Half an hour passed. searchlights had been extinguished. All was qulet on the estuary,
And then, suddenly, a search- light lashed out again. Something had appeared on the surface, and
had been spott- cd. The search-
light
out.
picked I
A warship moved like # shadow towards
li, guns ready and trained, depth charges balanced for the drop."
But no gun fired. No depth charge was dis- charged.
The thing that had come to the surface woa not dangerous It was a German seaman, wearing a life- saving apparatus.
And as this object was neared another came up; then a third, then 1 fourth. They floated strangely, stiffly, unnaturally,
No others came up. Not a mem- ber of that U-boat crew will ever tell what tragedy took place inside tint U-boat.
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