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The Air War
at sea.
IT IS "UP THE
DESTROYERS”
men
UR
of. the destroyers are in the
Wherever there was dan- ger, there they were.
With the speed of greyhounds and the maneuvring capabilities of a London taxicab, the destroyers will go on leading the Navy in the war at sea' however long it may last.
Whenever there is a war, when- ever an emergency arises, someone always calls for more destroyers.
In 1817, when there were 283 de- stroyers in home waters alone. Jellicoe told the WariCabinet that the demands for destroyera ex- ceeded the supply by 80 ships. He had taken into account those which had come to join us from the United States.
It's the same to-day-destroyers On Drst, whatever the danger. these light, swift, heavily armed craft, on these forrets of the
By A. J. McWHINNIE
Special Naval Correspondent who tells you about the men and the ships in the front' line of the war that is raging at sea.
sea," Britain's sea-power uit mately depends.
Before you can understand 'the ships you have to know the men. I've been out in the North Sca with our destroyer patrols.
They're young, they're tough, they're jolly. They will laugh with you as they tell you they are the maids-of-all-work.
At a moment's notice they must be ready to dash off, at nearly 40 knots, to any emergency.
They may be out in the war- zone screening the battle feet They may be sending their tor- pedoes crashing into an enemy warship.
They may be escorting convoys or standing-by prepared to enter baitio with U-boats or Nazi planes to protect minelayors.
The look-outs, to port and to
HOW THEY GREW
THE modern destroyer is 853ft in length, costs £450,000 to build, mounts eight 4.7-inch gunu, seven smaller guns, and four 21-Inch torpedo tubes.
The first torpedo-boat destroyer- forerunner of the destroyer of to-day--was built in 1893. She was only 180 feet long and mounted four small guns. She carried one torpedo tube.
Indies are Important
to U.S.A.
By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent
AS THE results of last week's Ger- Jonn air raids on Britain come to be
summed up "by neutral observers, it becomes increasingly evident that one of the most important victories of the entire war has gone to the Royal Air Force. The Nazi losses have been so staggering that doubts have been
AMERICA'S stake in Nether cast on the authenticity of the Air lands India, whose future Ministry reports. These, however, fate the entire world is watch- have been confirmed in unmistakableing since the conquest of Hol- land by Nazi Germany has been _fashion.......The initial stages of the an ever-growing one for years aerial blitzkrieg has seen victory won past, according to the Institute by morale, by endurance and energy of Pacific Relations. and will power; and defeat sustained
A complete survey of Ameri-
by mass force. It would be idle to can interests there recently com- pretend that the German air attack pleted by the Institute reveals have yet attained full proportion, or that as a source of vital raw that the defcal sustained by the materials for the United States, Germans in last week's series of raids the Netherlands India has is Anal. Nevertheless, the results of worked up from fifteenth place those encounters give every reason in 1933 to eighth place in 1938 for optimism. Experience of many and seven place in 1939.. and, dangerous struggles and most re-
At the present time, the Institute cently of the breaking-point of Ger-revealed, American oil companies many in 1918 assures us that
now control 40 per cent of the oil initial successes in the air last week interests of the islands through the Standard Oil Companies of New are a happy augury for the outcome Jersey and California, and occupy of the war.
fourth place among holders of rub- ber Investments In the Indies through the U. S. Goodyear Co., Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
our
The percentage of destruction of Nazi machines is much heavier than was expected. Co-operation between our fighters and anti-aircraft Kung
The entrance of the American has clearly reached a high pitch of rubber interests in the islands was efficiency. The discipline and com- selves from dependence on foreign for the purpose, of freeing them-
mon-sense of the people in the dis- sources, according to spokesmen. fricts attacked has been, by all Turn to Page 2. Third Column accounts, admirable. Britain bas Blang an attack to beat off yet, and the people at Home must be prepared j for raids on a larger scale and the certainty that a large proportion of
Year by year, ships to smat the torpedo-boats became bigger and bigger untii to-day we have the Tribal class destroyers will their 44,000 kp, engines.
Starting with oli tanks full and running at economical speed our modern destroyers are capable of making a nonatop run of 6,000 miles,
When war started Germany.
had only 22 destroyers against our 170,
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starboard, have the finest oyes in the Navy. They have to be the quickest "spotters" in the Flect to see things clearly at high speed. The men of the destroyers don't get "hard-lying money, as they aid in
There 18 the old days. allow upholstery now. There is mechanical ventilation.
Buil, you'll never get landlubbers' comfort when you're the liveliest In the Dghting craft in flect.
Certainly, there was little com- fort for the destroyer man I met out in the North Sen, when icicles hung from the rigging, the decka Wote coated in ice, and the wind on the bridge froze you to the bones.
Just the same, they went on looking for adventure at top speed.
Having talked to the men of the destroyers since the war started. I can imagine them in action off the Norwegian coast-men of steel, trained for the very battle they And themselves entering.
I can imagine these men, who have patrolled thousands of North Sea miles escorting convoys and searching for submarines, quoting their slogan as they went into battle: "It's up the destroyers."
Somewhere out there off the European coast are the destroyer
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mon I talked to in a Plymouth tavern's fow weeks ago.
They said then that their guns and torpedoes were ready for the Gorman Fleat' to come out, and that they would give all they had: to "have a go at them.”
They'll behaving--a them" now.
go at
Aboard each destroyer will be about 175 men, each with his own job to do-manning 4.7-inch and smaller guns, ready at the tor- pedoes, whipping up the engines full speed ahead, or ready to send their depth charges thundering through the seas to smash a U- boat..
Some of the destroyers will be. dashing through the lines of our battle fleet-forging ahead to search for the enemy, rattling their anti-aircraft guns at aky raidors, and acting as Links between the main feet and the advanced forces,
They won't be coming back for a
some. Wie-not while there's thing doing. They won't have to." A destroyer of the latest typu can make a non-stop trip for thousands of miles,
They don't fight shy of the storms they have been having across
Their the North Sea. decks may be awash, they may be pitching and tossing, but our modern destroyers can stand up to anything.
In the last war, whenever there was a dirty job to be done, some- ona in authority always sald,
Send a 30-knotter."
The only difference in this war. is that they'll go out and do the job at more than the speed they dreamed of in the last war.
When you read the news of what the Navy is doing in this vital phase of the war at sea, think of the men of the destroyers.
Italian Hospital And Church
To Keep Open
Two Italian institutions in London, at any rate, hope to be able to keep their doors open throughout the war. Even-if-all-the-Italians in London. fare interned there are sufficient Irish men and women employed there to "see the war through.
The two institutions are the Italian Hospital, in Queen's-square, and St. Peter's Italian Church, In Clerktu- well-road. Both are carrying on us usuol.
The house surgeon of the Italian Hospital is an Italian, but most of the nurses are Irish, as very few Italian girls In England take up nursing. •
The hospital is vialled by several famous Harley-street specialists,
Of the Italian church's two`priests. one is an Irishman, the Rev. R. Ken- nedy. Many of the congregation, though Italian by birth, are naturalised.
Father Kennedy said:
"Things will go on as usual here. In this district most of the Italian people are disgusted with Mussolini'z action. They have lived here, for many years and are really English."
THE PARASHOTS SHOULD HAVE GRENADES
the Nazi bombers will get through. HITLER and
There are several purposes in Ger-
his general| staff have about 100 days
man air raids besides the definite to go to crack this hard nut of
military objectives of aerodromes and
stores and factories. They are de- Britaff. The same as Napo- signed—and this will become increas-leon's disastrous time from El- ingly evident--to terrorise and to ro- ba to Waterloo. duce effetency of production through fatigue and nerve strain. That st tack overy man and woman in the United Kingdom will undoubtedly do their part in beating off by refusing to be flustered.
In
about 100
daya his
By O. D. GALLAGHER
our positions in France for nine months waliing for lilm to start. I belleve he delayed It for the express purpose of allowing his sples and Columnists to report corn-
most Firth
trustworthy ally gets cold, wet feet; pletely on our preparations.
Wo once said. Individually
the ally without whom his wheeled German soldier isn't so good as a
thing - later), nor his revolver, nor. folding bike. It is his terrorism.
How
Parashots the Give
| bombed and machine-gunned. à num- ber of times, and hardly ever did the right thing, which was to tako cover. That
was all right in those wars, Not this one. It's all-in. A, thost-
and times more dangerous.
If it starts and you've no cover dcar by, for heaven's ''saho get as close to
the ground as possible. Lle to deal with these down wherever you are. In a de- murderers? Give the pression, a gutter if there's nothing
heavy hand-grenadesse.
the Parashole sub-machine- ||--Ideas about dignity, may-
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prevent
and tractored columns could not Frenchman or Britos, because he soon as sufficient numbers you doing this. There were then-
can be produced. Until then-hand- sands of civilians in Holland, Bel Initiative. Scrap that, have rushed deep into all those eight licks
and grenades Strange thing to say, but gium, and France who would tell you countries from Poland to Franice. examine the Naz parachutisis, schoolboys can use them, too, because the unimportanen of that frayed self-
can't quote my Informants, because who handles a cricket ball more as importance. If they
and are numerous; French
ther
WHAT have we to face Thutch soldiers who have fought turally than thes?
We against them.
these 100 days? know Hiller's methods · now,' When he began his blitzkrieg we didn't.
Hiller let us stew Impatiently in
急
could
speak th
thin
or woman.
Nn one should think of the air war as a series of raids on Britain. Our
day. Air Force is taking the offensive.
About the parachutist's rum. It TFTII COLUMNISTS, Sples. If you have, reasonable Every bomb exploding among the
But parachutists are anything but lan't a "lommy" is so frequent- factories of the Ruhr and the
the superpen that they have been reported. It is made by Shods suspicions about em Rhineland Impairs the German war
made out to be by defeat-drooling It carries two clips of sixteen 3.8 report them.
They can do tremendous damage machine. A single successful raid on
Fifth Columnists. If they are met.cartridges. They are fired together by determined definders the moment with two hammers. The rum is to the armed forces who fight for oil stores and oil-producing plant-- and there have been many Oll supplies are drawn from resources Hey try to go into action on the securate, but more deadly for close su France was (and la) riddled
ground: they arù defeated, because tango batchering then, thà gungiict's with them. OSA CRUZARINGEA diminishes, the power of Germany to beyond the reach of Germany. On her cannot be landed in such great, Thompson run,
know of, one : RAF, squadron strike.Britain's own production of the home front Britain fights the air compact numbers as to become im Asover of heavy band-grenades which moved to a new airfeld' dar- Consideringing the withdrawal from a “nórilasi aircraft hos recently risen beyond war with the national stubbornness, mediately a powerful and established would slicnce thom.
their destructive power against hu- ekstern France. The Blanes and men. optimistic expectation by better dis the practical genius which built up fighting unit. THAN
man beings, they are probably the had been installed about two hours tribution of craftsmen and above all her industries and the daring enter= |Penalt
when the Luftware, bebers came worthe develed work which has prises which calablished the British Darachutist's most cheapest treapon" to "produce.
142, powerful weapon” is not | My ylolded'p much larger output per | Empire. Naildom challenged Britain; his belt of hand grenndles (explosive
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Unfortunately, that was not din ex- head, More and more "planes” are in the alez-Beliain: has token up the and * incendiary);'m not "his" Skoda |=" lived through three wars deptional cale
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