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Hitler's five "waves" of Attack on our Ships
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SEPTEMBER 24
1ST
|ST WAVE-U-boals cause big toyses during the weeks ending September 10th and 17th; then, the attack declines,
2ND WAVE-Surface Raiders join to, and U-boats aro
active, during (be weck ending Oct. 15th, this wave coo. lauing for another three weeks.
RD WAYE-The Magnetic Mine, 3 beginning in mid-November, causes
the heavlest continuous tosses of the war. It destroys 150,000 tons la Ave weeks, during which the U-boats sink 95.000 ions.
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|TU WAVE.—Torpedo cam
against acutraly develops in January, but the mines agata malie the Air xitacks biggest baui.
are a long way behind,
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10. FEBRUARY
MARCH
TH WAVE —U-boats again
become the main weapon in February, easily out- 'stripping the mines.
attacks succeed only agalast neutrals,
Air
SO THIS IS BEAUTY?
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.
WDs beautiful; her FOR she
beauty made
The bright world dim, and every-
thing beside.
Seemed like the feeling image of a
shade. Shelley,
As rich and purposeless as to the
rose,
Thy simple doom is to be beautiful
-Stephen Philips.
The saying that beauty is but skin-deep is skin-deep saying-- Herbert Spencer.
Beauty is a good letter of intro- duction,-German Proverb.
It is an extremely wretched thing to be over-handsome.--Plautus.
Thou has no faults, or i no faults
can spy:
Thou art all beauty, or all blind-
nesa I-Christopher Gourington.
Her lovely body and angel fave were but on attractive disguise for the set of a vulture of vice- Marie Corelli,
And Hightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal of a Bower.
Tennyson.
O, that her hand,
•
And sweet, red, splendid kissing
mouth --Swinburne.
The dew that on the violet les Mocks the dark lustre of thine
eyer-Scutt.
The flowers anew returning seasons
bring,
Beauty, faded, has no second.
spring-Ambrose Phillips.
A daughter of the gods, divinely
Lall.
And most divinely fair.-Tenny-
500.
Benuty is the lower of virtue.-
Proverb.
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And beautiful us sweet! And young as beautiful! And soft
as young!
And gay as soft! And Innocent as
gay!-Ren. E. Young.
I would that you were either less beautiful or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.-Ouid.
Beauty stands
In th admiration only of weak
minds
Led captive-Milton,
Her angel's fucc
A
- In-whose-comparison -- all -- whites-As the great eyes of heaven, shyned
are Ink, Writing their awn reproach, to
whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down 13 harsh.-
Shakespeare.
ELEVEN o'clock
at night on
the
estuary of one of the west Scottish
arms of the sca
A moon is trying
to struggle through
the flying clouds.
bright
And made a sunshine in the shady.
place;
I
Did never moral eye behold such
heavenly grace?—Spenser.
Spotting The Rank
GRIN AND BEAR IT
REAR-ADMIRAL
Equivalent to the military rank of Major-Gonoral, the rank of Rear-Admiral origin- ally signified the flag officer in charge of the rear division of a fleet.
To-day an officer of this rank may be either one or other of the junior flag of ficers of a big fleet, the chief of staff to a Commander-in- Chief, or a Commander-in- Chief on one of the lass prominent foreign stations. Various shore appointments arc also held by Rear- Admirals.
On the active list there were 28 Rear Admirals when the present war be- gan, as compared with dou- blo this number 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 markı on his cuff as a Rear-Admiral, but the shoulder-strap on his greatcoat differs in that the star is smaller.
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A Thought for To-day
PEACE I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
-St. John 14. Verac 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 mak- ing its way upward through the narrow channel that leads to safety from U-boots 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 dimness he saw the' conning tower of a submarine, fly- ing the British ding, slip in between him and the following ship. A British submarine, he thought, com- ing in from the Atlantie patrol.
And then, a necond thought struck the skipper. Supposing...
He ordered his searchlight to be floshed towards the heavens, tho estuary, then down across the bows of the submarine. The British flag struck out sharply from her conning tower.
ДОГОВ
But the skipper was not looking at the British flag. He was looking at the bows. On the bows he saw a number. The searchlight suppp- ed out. The night seemed blacker than ever.
nor
The skipper, whose name may not be yet mentioned,
The name of his ship, had his hand on a list of Identlication names and numbers of naval vesiais.
1x finger, under the cover of the doriger, traced that list. The gum- ber he had seen on the bows of the submarine.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 at her stern gun sent a challenging shell' across the bows of the submarine. From the signalling apparatus went n chal- lenge asking for the code word.
THE submarine began to sink out of sight. Down it went, as fast as its diving gear would take it. Down went the British flog into the black waters. The surface of the estuary smoothed out quickly,
But fast as the submarine lind -- been, the signalling light of the
merchant ship had been faster.
Across the estuary it had sent a
Came up
message; and from their sta- llons came two warships like greyhounds, ashing signals, ship every within the es-
to
tuary, telling
them what to do. telling them that the night now in other hands.
was
For the sub- marine that had tried to get in- side the boom a German -U-boat.
was
Through the convoy, through defences, out into the wider estuary riood the warships. Down went their depth-charges in a straight fine,
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 stations. More Naval vessels were already scouting.
The Urboat had run into a hornets' nest.
And then quietness came.
The warships ran up and down the convoy. Every ship was there. Nothing was dainnged. The U- bent 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
safety.
an
The
Half
hour
passed. searchlights had been extinguished. All was quiet on the estuary.
And then, suddenly, a search- light flashed out again. Something had appeared on the surface, and
!leaf
had been spoit- ed. The search- light picked it out.
A warship moved
liko shadow towards
It, guns ready and trained, depth charges balanced for the drop.
But no gun fired. No depth charge charged.
Was Dis-
The thing that had come to the surface was 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 ta 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 insido thal U-boat,
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