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The
Destroyer's Message
BRITISH destroyers were zard, but according to schemea at sea on an independent invented and tried out long be search for German sub- marines.
fore the war.
The weather was typical for THE thudding detonations of the time of year-a shrewd wind those massive- canisters about from the north-north-east caus- seemed to squeeze the air, and ing the little sens to break on top caused the sea momentarily to of a heavy swell from the south shimmer as if beaten by heavy westward. The sky was grey rain.
and overcast with a low cloud
Exploding at various depths below celling. Occasional squalls of water, they shook the ships from rain blotted out the horizon and which they were projected, and rais- shat down the visibility to about ed luge mushroom-shaped domes of while water which burst upwards in seven miles,
the size of ordinary dustbins Down below in a wireless gouts of spray tinged grey by the cabinet a young man in the early high explosive.
twenties stiffened and sat for- The explosions died away. There ward in his chair as a faint came the inevitable suspense as to crackling started to come whether the attoek had been success- Ня Iul. Many eyes searched the sea for through his earphones.
submarine breaking surface, or of or wreckage floating
hand moved to a knob on the in- the signs of a strument board in front of him, up from the depths. But for the time and the sound became intensifi- nothing appeared,
ed. Listening, he started to The destroyer left behind to pick
write.
A German submarine ha d
been reported.
THE predy "special to the Telegraph" Is used by the langkong Telegraph to indicate news which it strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommal callons Ordinance, 1938. Buch DEWI AJ bears the indication "UP is received in some distance to- Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Preu Associations, who re- the southward. serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or is part without previous BrangemeAL
Is It France?
-by-
TAFFRAIL
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
"It's for you!"
Southampton,
Wonder Dock
THE successful war effort of the modern area and will take a
efficient docks.
the clock with the greatest of case, leaving plenty of room for a much The major work of transporting bigger vessel.
up the survivors of the sunken ship Britain has depended largely vessel up to 100,000 tons.
came racing to the upon ses transport, which in
It is 1,200 ft. long and 135 ft. wide. scene ut full turn is reliant entirely upon The 73,000 ton Queen Mary enters speed, Three men, she reported, had been killed! when the steamer Britain's overseas army to the various
war hus torpedoed. theatres of pedoed a neutral steamer, and Twenty-two others lind been rescued.through the port of Southampton owning the world's largest Boating with a wonderful network of docks duck, capable of lifting a vessel with Collecting his (locks, the senior and quays, new and old. emeer ordered another attack. Once more the depth charges were dropped according
She
had tor-
the crew were taking to their boats.
Within a few minutes the des. Future historians, when writing. history of the war, will feature the troyers were steaming in the round up of the French fleet su one direction indicated at something success. of the most significant events in the over thirty knots. record of hostilities. This action by
W
$
been done The port also has the distinction of
n displacement weight of over 80,000 tons completely out of the water in The South of England port,
with under four hours. This mammoth to plan-this time with its wonder docks, is the world's floating dry dock covers three and a greatest romance of modern dock- quarter acres and was built on the
River Tyne. building. Yet, although it has been About half-a-mlie astern of one of a port from ancient times, and it was If seven of the world's super liners the destroyers the conning-tower and from here in 1620 that the little 180- which make the port their British long huli of a submarine suddenly tons sailing ship Mayflower set sall home were to berth at the jetty in the IT took them some time to broke surface bow first in a swirl of for America with the Pilgrim Fathers, mile and a quarter of quay. Their modern docks they would occupy t of Germany. In the desperate game of chess that is being played on the reach the reported position, water. The U-boat's stern was still it is only during the last thirty years total weight would be round about floor of the world, Britain, by her marked for all the world to see under water when her conning-tower that the port has enjoyed an inter- 350,000 luns, and they would carry prompt and efficient action, has
by three boatloads of survivors ld opened, and men started to tumble national reputation, from the time over 30,000 passengers, the population
the British has probably changed
the whole course of events ond changed them to the disadvantage
scored a distinct check to Germany. and a litter of floating wreckage up on deck. She might have a sting when it became a terminal port of of a good-sized town."
call for the largest France's position in the war th tumbling about in the grey sen. left. Nobody was to know if she in-
goes for nothing. She sold out
French
tended to surrender and risks could
trans-Atlantic
Hners.
the signing of the armistice by And while one destroyer was
not be taken. detailed to rescue the men, the others passed on ahead and then slowed down and started to quarter the sea according to
Marthal Petain and his
government, The
was no longer a fleet fest. It became a German arm and must be so regarded. To call it French misleading and unwise, as
the fleet her
own. Pelain
had
hundred miles from the nearest
·by · SPITHEAD
No port in the world has grown so fast or made such material pro- BUT it was a case of surren-gress during the
The years, docks
One of the most complex factors in modern commerce
la the science of distribution, dockland has to be equipped with 'every modern ap- "modern" pllance for dealing expeditiously with on the every type of sea-born traffic, passen-
it gives colour to the German le that France could still have caller Plan. They-were-well-over-a der. Some of the U-boat's crew Pas! dozen
lund; but an aircraft had sighted could be seen to be leaping over-site of 400 acres Udal mud-land, ger, and cargo, given the feet up to Germany co what was probably the conning- board. Others were holding up the home of seagulls. Over £10,000,-
German pletely when he recognised rule in the occupied territories of tower of a U-boat, and had has their hands. Her bows started France.
That the fleet was not to be used by either Germany or Italy tened to report it after dropping to lift as the stern slowly went was a story that would not deceive a bomb or two..
were
under.
have been
bullt
* *
BRITAIN'S wonder
port,
land and creating on it the finest dock 000 have been spent reclaiming this in the world, providing an
an additional 10,000 lineal fect of berthing. Twenty The destroyers' guns a child. French indignation is Ger-
million tons of mud was involved in mon indignation. Germany speaks manned and their depth charges Destroyers approached, stopped, and the dredging operations, half of which thanks to far-sighted planning,
concrete em-
m is easily as efficiently equipped through France. French
protests
ready. Extra lookouts were on went astern to check their way. bankments for reclamation purposes. as any great port in the world,
was pumped behind are instigated from Berlin;
the bridge, and the ships com- Boats were lowered. They rescued of the residue 3,000,000 tons was by Berlin, and French
a concrete and possesses one great natural reported to have takes the form of panies keyed up to the idea of the entire crew, some from the water, gravel, and re-used as the whilst
remaining advantage over them all. a raid
the submarine herself. oggregate, upon Gibraltar, was com-action. They all knew what was come from manded by Berlin. Probably the
Nature has conspired to make raia in the wind. Though it was They were described as youngish men 7,000,000 tons of soft mud was taken
Southampton a great port by giving planes that took part in this raid afternoon, and those who had and beard, some still self-possessed out to sea and dumped in the Chan- were manned by Germans. Accord-
her the practically unique gift of ing to Mr. Churchill, 400 German kept watches the night before but others obviously shaken by their
co-operation airmen
The modern docks are approached double tides which, in released under the might reasonably have been ordeal. They were well cared for armistice conditions. What could be asleep, there were few men on by their rescuers,
who gave them by a newly dredged channel, 2 miles with six miles of sheltered estuary. long and 400 ft. wide, running from gives complete and easy access to the better than to give them French
the moss-decks.
Navy rum and warm clothing.
the old occan dock to the end of the old and new docks in all weathers planes to operate against Britain?
It is necessary at this time, when
Those U-boat men described what new quay wall. So successful have and at any state of the tide. Liner been the dredging operations that the and cargo traffic are thus completely most crucial events in the some time nothing happened. had happened inside the submarine-largest shipa afloat, or likely to be free to make or leave port at any world's history are talking place to Then, quite suddenly, a flag first the bombs from the alreraft, and bulit, can arrive or leave the docks time of the day and night, thus saving realize clearly the difference between hoisted by one of the destroyera then, after an interval, the sound of at all states of the tide. German-France and the Frenchmen
the
were
The search continued: For
whose pride of race, independence indicated that the scent had been the hunting destroyers' propellers be- of character and bravery in war give picked up. The deadly Asdies coming louder and louder. Next the them the right to demand our res were at work. The remorseless thudding detonation of the first depth pect and affection. That Marshal Petain thought it to surrender his hunt began.
country into the ruthless hands of
upon
to be
the moment red is that Nazl pro-| country bears
the unmistakeable
paganda, under the guise of Fre
of French marks of Nazi censorship.
Indignation, must be
inel..
the
much time and expense,
The double tides in Southampton Water make it possible for passenger super liners to dock as easily as a
charges, closer, closer all the time. THE largest graving dock in' train coming into a station, and on s Depth charge after depth
The first attack caused serious the world-King George V Dock time. The Queen Mary and the
Normandie glide berthing
into the dock and of -capable Germany is a matter which charge was dropped or projected damage to their submarine and made mammoth liners, is enclosed in they berthas gracefully as small ferry judgment must be suspended. Apart from the throwers-not hapha-, her leak. There came a short respite,
steamers at a river pler, and except for fog are never late. Once from the lesson it teaches, It is, at
berthed, during which the propeller sounds)
two invasions begin in real earnest Immaterial. The point
could be heard receding. Alen Soon there was only enough pressure the pent-up passengers race for the breathed again, persuading them-left to blow the tanks and come to waiting trains, and hundreds of work- selves that the hunters had given up the surface to give the crew a chance men and cleaners jump aboard to France is suffering and will suffer The position of the French colonies the chase. more. Frenchmen who are being is not a happy one. On the one
for their lives, which the commander make the Liner spick and span for
the next voyage... subjected to terrific propaganda, are hand the greater number of French Vain, hope. Unseen impalpable decided to do.
All classes of maritime traffe, and in a cruel predicament. All the officials and business houses are fingers were soon groping again be- The rest of the story's been told every type of ship from giant liner more so, as
as in the confusion of the faced with ruin should they refuse neath the waters. The propeller Shortly after the rescue of her crow to fussy coaster are to be found in the moment, they are unable to Bec to acknowledge Petain the Fuehrer clearly and might be persuaded even of France-while, on the other hand, sounds became louder again, then that submarine flung her bows verti docks. Since the Great War, the against their inner convictions, that to accept German rule must be more depth charges-close, frightfully cally into the air, and sank stern volume of shipping using Southamp their old enemy has suddenly and wormwood and gall to a brave close. unaccountably become their friend, people.
in spite In the days to come, when the
But not for long. To doyce 18 world may be much startled by so-
of confusion of thought,
by no meana willing sacrifice on called. "French" action against THAT second attack put out)
Hitler's altar. Straws indicate the Britain, it will be necessary to per-
Very soon the U-boat's stern was
first in a flutter of whitened water ton has more than doubled itself and and an ever-widening patch of iride-now amounts to nearly 20,000,000 tons scent oll spreading over the surface per annum. More than half a million passengers use the part each year, and of the SCR.
it la a joke locally amongst the dock- "Attack successful", said the wire-workers, who take great pride in
Twenty-three survivors res-their port, that here it is
is possible to buy a ticket to anywhere the world: These cheery dockland A hundred and fifty miles away workers, when watching hundreds of In an office ashore a British omeer passengers passing up the gangways wearing the gold stripes of on Ads into the big liners can be heard
cued."
on a table.
wind and the order put out by the ceive clearly the truth of this capitu-lights, shattered delicate instru- less. Pelain Government forbidding oflation and to know that whatever ments, and caused worse flood- ficers to wear British decorations is Petain and his colleagues think wise, an indication of the opinion of the is not necessarily the opinion of the ing. country. It would be unnecessary vast majority of French people. The 10. issue such orders if the anti-dimeulty he is experiencing in chang- British feeling
eling were as strong as the ing the form of government and the full of water, which came spurting miral fcant over a chart spread out shouting: "All aboard for anywhere." Germans, would have us, belleve: constitution is further proof of this, in through the pipes and rivet holes
"Here's the posklen, atr," sold his The ordered arrest of such dauntless if proof were needed. Without doubt in the bulkhead. She developed a Chief of Staff, dabbing with a pencil. gifts of brain muscle and worked un- writers as "Pertinax" Mme,
me Ta- when the day: comes when Britain hauls, M: Henri de Karrilla and M succeeds in freeing the world from heavy lat. More water started to Emile Bure is a further indication German aggression, amongst the first seep into the interior. through the that France is now, as the "New is welcome and honour our exploit damaged conning-tower. York Herald Tribun puls: It, "no will be our old comrade in arms- longer free, and that news from that France.
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Men of all types have pooled 'their
reasingly, day and night, to make this The boys are surpassing them port the rival of all others, and they. zelves," the Commander-in-Chief have succeeded, These docks are answered. That's the third this owned and controlled by the Soutrern
Railway...
The compressed air was leaking. week."