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August 19, 1940.
I have been through-
A HUNDRED
AIR RAIDS
BY BERNARD E. STERN
An Englishman who was in Belgium during the Nast invasion
ONG before the Nazis went found, that they were astonishingly blitzkrieging over their light, though numerous. Western frontiers, we Belgium were apprehensive about air raids.
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I ́m not trying optimistically to minimise the dangers of nir salds. I am not trying to gloss over the
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Hitler tries out his speedboats
BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL, K.BE.
The eminent naval writer
URING the last few days we have read a lot about German motor torpedo-bonts, which have been darting about the coasts of Belgium anil Northern France.
Two or three of them have been sunk, but we have yet to hear of any success on their part.
Any suggestion that the Germans have produced a new type
When zero hour finally came, Indeed, many of us, were on the number of deaths that have resulted of naval craft is quite wrong, verge of panic,
and will result.
During the fighting in Holland British motor torpedo-boats But, after days in which it seemed But when the thing we had that the planes were trying to get penetrated into the Zuider Zee, They can be run by a very small feared finally happened-well, me, personally and particularly, and with their light guns did complement. for most of us it was almost an, can say that the damage is never so useful work.
great as you expect it to be. anti-climax.
They
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With a swarm of British warcraft
The fact is that the destroyer has entirely outgrown her original func- 1 kave heard scores of terrific ex-strung out between Boulogne and
Zeebrugge, all Atted with the deadly tion. She has developed from a tor- Before I managed to escape to
the U submarine-detector devices, England, I had experienced at least plosions In a few minutes.
light cruiser. boats are keeping clear of those pedo craft into a small, very, mobile, Our destroyers of the Tribal" waters.
Possibly the German High Naval class carry just twice as many 4.7. these high- guns as they do torpedo tubes. They command hopes that speed torpedo-boats may have more carry fewer torpedo tubes than any luck than their submarines have cruiser in service on the outbreak of
the present war. met with.
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a hundred mir-zuids, big and small, have been so near, so loud, that have sheltered from Hitler's glasses have been bounced off the bombers in strong cellars, in ordin- table in the room where 1 sut. All the windows have been smashed to ary houses, and in ditches. I have smithereens. The house itself has been in crowded areas strafed by rocked as if in an earthquake. big bombs,
For A.R.P.-Cigarettes machine-gun fre.
bombs, little
and
And I can honestly say that I was more frightened before the bombers came than I were overhead.
And Jumpers
When it was over, we went out ex-
ever was when they pecting to and death and disaster all round the town in which we had been caught.
Fear Followed
By Heroic Rescue
was
Instend, rive found that nobody count had been hurt-unless you
Burt
one
the Channel ports.
with the senplane; she would cer tainly form a very clusive target for any bomber..
The gun, in abort, is their primary Their one asset is speed. They
weapon and their chlef work is con- are virtually hydroplanes.
voy escort, submarine hunting, and Down to the time, when Germany the sort of jobs they did so splen- ceased giving any information on didiy at Narvik and in rounding-up her naval building programmes, it the Altmuck, and are now doing at
known that the possessed
The motor torpedo boat offered a seventeen of these boats, all of the "S" class, ranging between 40 tons simple and practicable means of re-
vering to the original conception two people slightly cut by flying and 70 tons, with a credited specu which the destroyer was born. Be-
of 35 knots and armed with
cause of her extraordinary speed, the pompom motor torpedo boat might co-operate I was not alone in this attitude. glass-und that not a single build-heavy machine gun, one
and two torpedo tubes. Nearly everybody with me experi- ing had been directly hit.
This was a miracle, of course. enced the same feelings.
To the German naval mind, con- One man was must fainting with it was also in a town with no air-
of fear when the first
no balloon barrage.
which have exceeded 50 knots on sistent through the years in plotting "all out" trials, so we may conclude to destroy the maritime trade That experience, added to all my
that the latest German boats in this Britain, the type appeals as possers- sounded. Yet in the midst of a ter rife raid he ran out into the blazing
popular Nazi fort. others, encourages me to say that category will not be interior to our ing qualifications for piracy of the street to bring into safety some chil- the odds against any single, person own in motor power.
But the fallure of the U-boat in London getting killed, even in
What is the war value of such dren who had lost their another.
deterioration of German Another man, in n cellar with my- a really big air raid on the capital craft? They are manifestly designed compaign has resulted in a steady
purely for torpedo attack. Flashing through the water in a smother of policy. self and six women, talked wittily must be at least 10,000 to one.
Provided that is, that everybody spray they might count upon get- Motor torpedo boats dashed about into ling torpedo home against a big in the Kattegat when Nazi troops CLIL stays indoors. If you go all the time the bombs were falling. He kept everybody laughing. His the street, I must reduce the odds adversary and escaping from her were being, transported to, Norway, calm was amazing.
The Royal Navy possesses m.t.bs. warning raid shelters, no anti-alternft guns,
gunfire by violent manoeuvring. but
vur
A con-
naval.
all
destroyers reported that No naval mon would try to set their speed exhibitions were a limit to the possibilities of such devoted to keeping cut of their way. The Germans used motor torpedo extraordinary speed.
The British Admiralty experi- bonts during the Great War. They built a little batch of these craft, controlled from the mented with the type for siderable time before adopting it as electrically a definite naval unit. For the past shore, and capable of travelling some four years the 1st Motor Torpedo ten miles.
These were set loose against the Boat Flotilla has been attached to the Mediterranean Fleet and, in the British monitors patrolling the Bel- language of commerce, hus given glan const and causing extreme in-
Having disposed temporarily of the evacuation flood it seems
uf that the newspapers are now to
the very considerably. Most be the vent of another torrent of
But I had seen him before the bodies I saw In Belgium were in! publie bewilderment, criticism
bombers care, and then he had the open,
A final word. Even though bombs and complaint on another prob-been trembling uncontrollably.
aren't so terrifying as your imagina- lem presented to us by the
Even if the house in which you tiun may paint them, the noise of Government - War Taxation.are sheltering falls down or catches an air raid can be nerve-shattering As an air-raid veteran, I would say, 物 fact, that if anybody's Not, let it be stressed, upon the are-I have had both these experi- tax itself, which is accepted as enees-you are so busy saving your morale cracks under the strain, the
convenience to the right flank of the danger, will be responsible. necessary, but upon the con-self and others that you have no indescribable din, rather
little vessels have proved German Army with their ponderous wool themselves-excellent.scaboats. They guns.. I prescribe a little cotton struction of the Ordinance which room in your mind for fear.
So I am not being brave when I
inve very respectable cruising air rald in the ears.
radius at economic speed, although has been drafted presumably by
That, and perhaps a cigarette to
their fuel consumption is high when much "all out." the best legal brains at the
alarm sounded while I was writing Government's command, and is!
this, I would be less nervous than smoke, or a jumper to knit. now being read in two or three would be if, sny, I were sitting in different ways by their brethren
say that, if yet another
a dentist's waiting-room, next
of 'the local Bar. Why this the list of patients.
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One terrible night in a refugee anticipating of me rured
#hould be so would pass compre- hension but for the fact that the train same. thing happens to almost dangers, and of letting my imagine- tion picture, all kinds of approach- Ing torments. Bullets And Bombs
every
drafted- Ordinance chiefly, of course, because of but circumstances changing painfully often because of imper- feet phraseology, an overdose of erudition and verbosity,
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Cure Hysteria
The carriages were packed. Bables were erying, women were fainting.
scrupulous regard for writing Men were sweating and oursing—all
things that
we
afraid of air raids.
were mean something
Anally when But
and again, else as well, and an inability to
machine-gunned again foresee all contingencies that when our own shrapnel was falling any new departure will evoke. upon us, when every carrluge had The present Ordinance is to be its casualties from bullets or flying the all norrly umended, we are told, in order to glass-well,
And when we We came to count ourensualties,
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our war aims, to return to a plea economy of words would effect that Hongkong, laws made (not financial economy 18 well-of the people, by the people) but saving paper, Legislators' time for (or against) the people, (about which one must not belahould seek to present their sarcastic these days) and law-abjects clearly to lawyers at yers. One is tempted to go into a loast-if not to the framers tirade here on the crying need thereof and the sufferers there- for almplifying the English law under. Until the proposed so drastically that the man in amendment of the Taxation the streat could himself learn Ordinance is created it would be where he stood in the simple playing with words to comment routine of business life without on the alleged inequities con- plunging Into the respectable tained in the present Ordinance, but expensive maws of Ordnance for the ambiguity at the moment analysers to assure himself that is such that the responsible every innocuous step was not a people concerned are quite fatal one. We reluctantly cir divided on what they mean,
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The monotony of blockade WER the watching Felieved by antics of these craft.
THE BRITISH WEEK-END 1940
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