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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MAGAZINE
HITLER
SENT
May 28, 1940, Ubrary, Supreme Court
PAGE
NAZI GRIN AND BEAR IT
NURSES TO TURKEY
by
G. WARD PRICE
ISTANBUL.
THE shabby individual who pushed into my hand a little pro-German pamphlet can scarcely, have been a Nazi. He was one of those extraordinary mixtures of every race known to the Mediterranean which fill the sordid streets Galata, where the Golden Horn juts into the Bosphorus. ·
But I have no doubt he is being paid 50 kurush, or about eighteen pence, a day by the German Embassy to deliver these Nazi tracts to passengers landing from the Haidar-Pasha ferry, which brings travellers from Ankara.
SECRETS OF THE HOME FRONT
By War Reporter O. D. CALLACHER.
They the
go
sea
WE stood in the torpedo compartment of his Majes- ty's submarine Shark. the last few minutes be- fore she slid out silently
to sea.
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The man next to me clamped a plece of brass in a vice. He and his shipinates were making last preparations.
That night they must sail out in the dark unller, their thirty-year- old commander, a lieutenant.
To
the enemy minefields of Heligo- Or To Skagerrak? land Bight? north of Bergen? Only the young commander knew.
I saw no special fluster in" Those cramped compartments. Each man this appointed post. Looking a bit bored, aeumily, with the vacant look you see on the face of a bus driver when he's pulled up at a stop.
Four Days' Supplies
4
They were bringing supplies down, lowering them through the hutch. Four days meat for the whole establishment. That svent to the galley to be cooked imme. diately, as it keeps edible longer that way. Four days' bread, ind four days' vegetables. From the fifth day onwards they all eat out of tins, and ship's biscuit replaces bread.
In the wardroom I'met the young commander. There were bunks on three sides of a table no bigger than one you cards on the eating, living and
under
in ships
READY TO-GO·
recharged. They surface to let the chlorine gas escape.
Leaving the empty berth, I came to a dry dock. A baby submarine toy in the dry clock. supported by wooden propa. She had come back to be overhauled. It's a day and night job getting her rendy for the son again.
terrine Reveting machines innde noise. Plates were removed and dropped with a clatter on the stone basin. Men shouted. But not a The limmer of light escaped. flame of the oxy-acetylene welders was shrouded by heavy tarpaulins. And while the men work, the crew live ashore near by, and keep normal watches.
They will have their cigarettes play or pipes in their mouths until the last hour before they go out again
Sleeping quarters of the five-to-do their part in ensuring safety
officers. It was the only part of the submarine not packed with
shining machinery. Submarine designers begrudge space human beings.
to
I watched her leave that night.
Half a dozen dockhands Have cheer
ព
for our convoys,
pro- There in a big German
That, paganda drive in Turkey,
arc the and discreet espionage, main occupations of such Germans as remain here.
The stocky gentleman who was inspecting my luggage so closely in the hall of the Ankara Palace Hotel last night would not have attracted my attention had he not been so constantly in the neighbourhood during my ainy. If I discussed the British Fleet's action In the Skagerrak with another English- man, thla mysterious individual would sit down to read a news- paper within earshot. When I was sending telegrams from the post office he was handing one in by my skje,
Turkey was by way of becoming almost a German colony until III- assurances ter falsified his own that he coveted no region that was not inhabited by Germans, and, in annexing Czcelio-Slovakia, reveal- ed his purpose of plundering every country that was not strong enough to resist him.
The seizure of Prague-opened the eyes of the Turks. Their shrewd political instinct recognisel it as the first step in a deliberate German advance to the Black Sea or beyond. At once they changed their political All the and economie orientation.
Germany patient spadework that had done in Turkey went for Ger- nothing. Briens displaced mans as the closest Associater-of- the Turk.
The thousands of Germans who had come to Turkey on n variety of pretexts gradually vanished, The Turkish police, who are
among
the most efficient and unobstrusive in the world, quietly put some of them across the frontier. The rest recognise that their game is up.
น the German goods used to Turkish shops. Now they rare that you cannot even genuine packet of German aspirins. The ban on Imports from Germany
has stopped them.
are
buy
54 a
Talk In Whispers Now
A
FEW months ago three Germans talking in this place would have made so much noise that you could hardly have sold the heard yourself speak," Turk who was seeing me off in the at Ankara, lofty marble station "Now they talk in whispers."
ICEL
He nodded towards a group of them, conversing earnestly with their heads together like conspira tors. A Turkish newspaper boy was adding to their self-conscious- ness by offering them the Turkish a large weekly "Karikatur", with coloured comic cartoon of an im mensely obese Goring on the cover
It is not enough to send out lend ing business to do big deal with the Turkish
Government. go. They sign their contracts and Even the engineers who come out with British-built machinery stay long enough to explain it -woricing to the Turks.
mord Gerniaris were The
31ved stayed; thorough. They among the Turks, learned their language; made themselves useful in many ways. The result is that and dis- though Turkey dislikes trusts the Germans, she does not despise them.
We know that the British Em- Turkish pire will never threaten interests," said a Turk to me, "whereas the empire the Germans are trying to build would certainly do so. That is why we prefer you to them.
DID YOU EVER WONDER?
as she cast off. A reply How the Crew of a Submarine Gets Air
came back through the dark, from
the men in the conning tower and
those on deck watch.
Last Daytime Smoke Routine had already taken charge of the men down below.
Most likely they were not even wondering when they would see daylight again, for that is some- Their sub- thing unpredictable. marine would dive with next day's down, and return to the surface Un- only when the sun had set. less, that is, they had to surface to challenge the enemy..
When the Boat is Under Water?
It is said that Alexander the Great visualized a boat that could be made to subinerge and travel beneath the
Aristotle surface. writes of a submarine which he declares to have been used in the slege of Tyre, an ancient maritimne and of diving city of Phoenicia, apparatus in which the diver drew his supply of alr from above the surface through"a" hose or tube re-
They had all had their last day-sembling the trunk of an elephant. thne smoke, too. Submarine men cannot afford to contaminate the nir when they are below the sur- The first thing.most of them face,
do when she strikes the surface at dusk is to light up elgarettes and pipes.
There would not be even a night smoke for the men to look forward to if the batteries had not to be
PEPSODENT
TOOTH
PASTE
AND
POWDER
DONTAIN IRIUM
FOR GREATER CLEANSING
POWER
It was not, however, until the lat- ier part of the 19th century that the submarine became an accom- plished fact of practical Importance. One of the principal problems in submarine work is thni of pro-
Water- vapor
nitric acid
Tearbor
dioxide
sulphurice
oild
OXYGEN
AIR
ozone
neon
argor
helium
Xemori
NITROGEN krypton Some of the gases and chemicals found in ordinary atmospheric nir
viding air for the crew to breathe. Air suitable for this purpose should be made up chiefly of oxygen and nitrogen mixed (not chemically combined) In the proportion about one part of oxygen to four of nitrogen. The nitrogen is of no use for breathing purpose except
of
xide in the air, even in very small to dilute the oxygen.
In breathing, our lungs make use of or absorb oxygen from the alr hut do not affect the iltrogen. which is given out again unchang- ed, but the oxygen is changed to carbon dioxide or carbonic actel Kas. The presence of enrbon dio xde in the air, even in very small percentages, tends to render air unfit to breathe."
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ان
DIRECTOR
PERSONNEL
By Lichty
"Sorry, Endicott--we've decided wo need a married man
for the job!"
PARACHUTE
POINTS
AVERY time n plane roars over
England
or France through
the dusk or dawning it carries with it the menace of parachute troaps,, well-armed and desperate Germans who may be disguised and who drift soundlessly to earth. can create a troops Parachute new fighting front anywhere on the instant. And parachute troops are brave men. They drop in bad light, carrying a great weight of fighting equipment, right into the heart of enemy country.
All men
chosen as parachute troops have not got the nerve needed for the job, We have heard stories of soldiers found shot near-where-landings have been
made.
The signs clearly were that these men were afraid to make the jump when the time come and had been shot and pushed out of the plane by their officers for hesitating.
UT all parachute soldiers need
Bhong training. The impact. when a laden soidler hits the ground, is, I am told, surething like the shock of jumping from a 20ft. wall on to hard ground.
In training, when troops leap down from heights which are gradually increased they do this before they ever see a parachute- the landings are on soft ground or sand.
In action, a parachute soldier may drop on anything or any- where; the percentage of sprained ankies and broken limbs is high. It is easy to fail awkwardly when carrying heavy equipment.
Parachute soldiers from Germany rarry a water-bottle, tent, cycle,
stol, ammunt automatic rille, a pistol, tion, portable wireless set, explo- and sives for demolition work many other things. They are fully trained in the use of everything they have with them.
Usually they expect to be helped by Fifth Column men in the aren where they fall. Pictures have been published of civilians in Invaded territory helping parachute troops to assemble their cycles after landing,
1
TITLER seems to have learned
the Russians. During Soviet man- oeuvres more than three years ago 1,200 fully equipped Russians were dropped from acroplanes. They landed, it was sald at the time very succesfully one hundred miles behind the enemy lines." This display was watched by ex- from the Germen War Office, perta
Photographs taken of this Rus- sian display show, as many as 100 parachutes in the air at once, all swaying slightly as the men they carried steered them by pulling on the cords. Onc
It is possible to alter the course of parachutes by this method.
The problem in a submarine is to get rid of the carbon dioxide and obtain more oxygen. way to do this is carry steel on- filled with tainers or cylinders compressed air, sometimes at pressure of as much as 2,300 pounds -per-square - };
-inch-In-this-way--a. great many cubic feel of air enn be carried in a mall space. This com- pressed air is released as needed and the impure air, like the ex- haust gates, is driven from the shilp..
In some submarines chemicals which have a great affinity for car- bon dioxide are used to help keep the air it to breathe. However, these chemicals, such as Ilme water and caustle sodo, take away the carbonic neld gus as a whole, oxy- gen and all. So to prevent the re- moval of the carbon dioxide 'from resulting in a lack of Oxygen, pure oxygen or oxygen mixed with air. is carried, compressed in cylinders and released as needed, P. Keasbey,
Soviet planes dropping a unit of parachute soldiers.
them speak fluently the language- of the country in which they are dropped.
on
trained They have been large-scale models of the particular section of country they are going to attack.
They know all strong points that can be known-they know just how to reach the power-lotions, railway junctions, waterworks, and other things which are their ob- jectives.
The real objective of parachute troops is to wreck all communica- tions and so paralyse a country. The Germans were successful in accomplishing this in Poland. Holland and Belgium, bi ac hieved few results in Norway, perhaps because of the nature of the country.
In Poland, many soldiers in dis- THE Germans have much im- gulse were dropped in twos and threes ar singly to cornmit ects of T
proved on Russia's Ideas of parachute training The Russians-sabotage, such as destroying rail-
para- made an entertainment of chute drops over a distance of 160 this feet and set up towers for purpose on sports grounds in Mou- cqw.
People made the jump by the hundred as a new thriit; queues nt would-be parachutists waited to try the game, Floodlights had to be installed to cope with the rush, All that was three years ago, and the result is that Russia has hun- dreds of young men who do not fear a paracliuto drop, and, in fact, regard it as an honour to ba chosen to do one,
THE
THE German parachute troops are the equivalent of the storm troops of the inst war. Most of
Other had ways and bridges, with them portable wireles trans- mitters and gave constant informe- tion of the movements of Polish troops.
IKE the Russians, the dermans drop supplies by parachute to There is men already dropped. nothing new in the sending down of food and ammunition in this way.
The R.A.F. in the Eat have done it for years; they did it in the last war,
But in spite of all the risks they may carry to a country, parachute troops are not feared in England. Arrangements to receive them have been made.
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