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14 SIX
September 12, 1940.
ANOTHER STORY OF BRITAIN AT WAR BY "TAFFRAIL“ THE FAMOUS NAVAL WRITER
entries
I lately spent some time on box crammed with machinery board a British cruiser in which was their ship. northern waters. Where I join-
HERE are a few ed her, where we went and chosen at random:-"During precisely what we did the censor the day the weather bocamo ship does not permit me to say, steadily worse, and the swell But she was a modern cruiser of increased from the south-west 10,000 tons odd, with a ship's At 8.15 a.m. the star-board company of round about 800 whaler was carried away by a officers and men.
heavy sea""A north-easterly
In over nine months of war gale made it necessary for the Manufacturing schedules were she had not had the luck to be ship to heave to from the after- noor of Wednesday, when the trebled to catch up with the in action. She had been one of noon of Monday until the fore-
the Northern demand for this livalier, bigger, the ships of
ship regained her patrol line.”— Patrol of cruisers, armed mer "Wind north-west, force 8. more luxurious Vauxhall 14. 30
chant cruisers and trawlers m.p.g. at 30 m.p.h. independent which for week after week, and Short heavy north-westerly swell with rough sen thick fog." springing, all synchromesh gears, month after month, have watch wind south-west force 9," followed a little later by the hydraulic brakes, etc.
"Weather very bad. May we demonstrate?
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One cannot specify her exact entry patrol ground; but for bad Storms of snow and hail." And wenther and general inhospitali- so on and so forth.
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THE pret -Special to the Telegraph" 1x word by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomamani- cations Vidinance, 1834. Much nowa до bears the indication "UP" is perelved in Flongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who anryn att rights and forbid republication
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A Democratic "Axis"
Goebbels.... must now suspect
it approximates to 800 miles of sea.
It is summer now, and in those high northern latitudes there is daylight practically all through the twenty-hours, with twilight and the sun only just below the horizon at midnight.
In winter it in the very oppo- site, with the sun rising at ten ir
the morning and setting at thres. For the intervening hours there is darkness, except on those rare occasions when there may be a moon and a cloudless nky in which to see it.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
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ABVER DEAN
Capr., 1960 by Tinlied Pestus Hyndeklu, han,
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"Could you use a good spy ?"
NORTHERN
PATROL
It gets all the bad weather that's going
merchant cruiser appeared in official Admiralty Communique,
*
An
THERE was, of course, the ex- P. and O. liner "Rawalpindi", Captain E. C. Kennedy, Royal Navy, manned by merchant seamen, reservists and pensioners of the Royal Navy, and by men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Wan
At about 3.30 pm. on November 23, 1039, cruising to the south-east of Iceland, she sighted a German worship, soon recognised as the pocket
"Deutschland". battleship Course
The altered to bring enemy astern, and smoke-floats lit and dropped into the sea to help the "Rawalpindi" to escape. Her full descend to the lower deck and round across the steamer's bows to speed was something over seventeen knots, and the "Deutschland's" more than twenty-six. through a labyrinth of flats and enforce il
•
the "Rawel-
BUTUTIONA was disregarded, fired a
party
weupons.
cruiser and was hoisted at 0.30 room.
four
pan., by which time it was, dark. proached and was fring from port
was ac-
In one of this cruiser's reports passages and watertight doors. MEN on board her could be seen Approaching at high speed, the of proceedings I caine across the Sometimes they experienced throwing things into the sea and warship signalled to Speaking of the Anglo-
remark--“Visibility mainly one that electrical phenomenon turning out the boats; but at 6.5. p.m. pindi" to stop, and then, when the American naval treaty Just mile for a period of six days. known as St. Elmo's Fire, when in the gathering dusk, she had stopped concluded Mr. Wickham Steed. I Under a quarter of a milo in the signal halllarda, rigging, and started to lower her bouts. The shot aerosa her bows. This warning was also rejected, and at 3.45 the boat with board "Deutschland" opened fire with her in his weekly broadcast from snowstorms." There was ice mastheads and yardarms, even warship lowered
Ing Daventry on the progress of the about, too, icebergs whose un- cap-peaks, the hair of duffle party, and ordered the German 11-inch guns at a range of 10,000
crew to return to their
This ship.
yards. The "Rawalpindi" replied war, last week, declared that scen presence was manifest by coats, and the moustache of the they refused to do, or pretended not with her
starboard 6-inch "There is not only a naval and the sudden fall in the tempera- Captain of Marines, became to understand, so the British
ture of the water.
illuminated in a lambent bluish- boarded the vessel, to find that plates
The "Deutschland's" third salvo, put military side to this arrange-
white glare. Often they saw had been removed from the condenser
and the seacocks opened. She had out, all the lights and smashed the ment, but a psychological side as The spray was freezing as it
the Aurora Borealis in the been scuttled, and was making water electric winches for the ammunition The fourth salvo' shot away well. Herr Hitler and Dr.fell to solidify the driven snow.
"The temperature of the air northern sky, its rays sweeping fast. As it was impossible to save supply. never rose above freezing point over the horizon like search her, the boarding boat returned to the whole of the bridge and wireless AnoBer German ship bad up- that the United States would for this six days," says the same lights or hanging like a rippling
The steamer's sinking not have entered into this Angle report. "For one day the tem- curtain of pale green and yellow, American Pact unless they were, perature averaged 8"
Fahren- or a faint rosy pink. The Aurora celerated by a few rounds of gunfire, side. But the "Rawalpindi" fought was generally taken to be the and then there remained the task of until every one of her guns was out Locating and picking up the four of action, and the whole midship convinced that the British Com- heit."
harbinger of bad weather.
boots containing the Germans. As
As portion of the ship was oblaze. For monwealth and her allies are
A photograph of the cruiser's This cruiser used to spend thirteen the wind was force 6, with a lumpy between thirty and forty minutes the
fourteen days out un patrol not going to be beaten."
sen and intermittent snow squalls, unequal combat was continued. forecastle at this time shows to
sen again. It was not until 11 p.m. that the last A Few survivors managed to eccape every deck fitting, rope and rail followed by perhaps six hours in this was a work of some difficulty.
harbour and then off
or foul they inter- boat was picked up, and the whole in three boats, one of which enlarged to double or treble its Fair weather
officers waterlogged. The occupants of two. normal size with a thick cn- cepted merchant ships, boarding them of the Afty-seven German
of them were picked up by the crustation of solid ice,
Boat's when the weather permitted, oter and men were rescued.
Germans and some others by a British falls had to be unfrozen before wise ending them into harbour for
worship which presently appeared on were neutrals,
the sche. They were pliifully few. they would pass through the some German.
The "Rawalpindi" continued to A ven- On one occasion, they noticed a
burn until 8 sheaves of the blocks.
merchant ship at a distance
p.m. when she capsized turous midshipman going aloft at twelve miles. She started to use
who remained on board, Un- to secure a photograph had both lier wireless, so the cruiser ordered
"What fur a hurried departure.
armoured and outranged, she had ears badly frostbitten.
"Stop Using your
radio",
These ships with the armed mer- made most gallant fight against allp?" "Where bound?" Then the I happened upon other terse
odds, without stranger
was seen to be disguised as a chant cruisers and armed trawlers overwhelming
went showed
surrender. She the Russlar. remarks which
was that operate with them, function out thought disguise
She of sight and largely out of mlad. One down with her colours still flying.. severity of the weather; but amateurish and unconvincing.
seldom hears their names, for they A hundred years ago a frigate line-of-battle give little real idea of what that was a German without any doubt,
"Stop your engines instantly" the rarely have the luck to be in action. might surrender to
of prestige, or weather really meant to the 800, cruiser commanded, and then, when On very few occasions since the war ship without loss people living in that long steel the order was not obeyed, fred n began has the name of an armed dignity. War at sea is different now.
But the agreement goes still decper.
It is one of the best examples of how democracy can by means of negotiation, assure the common good. It is further an indication of complete con- fidence in the friendly intentions
of the two nations who can even at a moment like the present, consider it not only feasible but natural to make concessions of so important a nature.
Great Britain's Navy has been strengthened by the addition of 60 destroyers which, as Mr. Churchill pointed out **will bridge the gap which inevitably intervenes before our consider- able wartime programme
now under construction comes into service." The United States on
examination.
strungs
Some
that
13,000,000 MILES
By An Air Correspondent
WAR
On this occasion, as on others, the German crew had mode previous arrangements for scuttling the ship and setting her on fire on sighting a British cruiser. Even their bugs and Bites were packed in readiness to starboard and foundered with all
ol
may start out on a patrol or an attack Bruges, Ostend and Zochruire. At from Southern England ono day. Ostend supply ships have been hit, the ennal locks damaged, naval store- Scotland the next.
houses fred. The reconnoftring machines spot a
Ports Attacked HARBOUR objectives in the
I have just heard first-hand at the headquarters of Britain's sudden concentration of barzen or Coastal Command the magnificent story that day by day, night by other craft in this harbour or that. the other hand receives naval night, is being written by the Royal Air Force's first-line of defence break wireless silence if necessary French ports of Boulogne, Calais, Le
--and offence against Germany. and air bases at strategic points
The Coastal Command ~ has which can best defend the It is a story that begins in the outs Western Hemisphere with mind of that remarkable man France's Bordeaux.
flown every
to
from Norway's Bergen
For twenty-four
day hours a Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, is transmitted from his Coastal Command patrols, in closest
Fleet Arm with
Blenheims.
Meantime, the pilots who keep their eyes over the sca, bave not spared their explosives on U-boats,
one of them particular emphasis on the Panama Canal, Britain also Operations Room by inter-com- n-operation with the Navy and the benefits in the building of these munication signal or wireless to R. Boraber and Fighter Ci by reporting home in code, and ant Havre, Brest have cought the full Jn the South, and in the extreme North Norway's Stavanger aerodrome bases as they will not only form his Group chiefs, from them to mands, have their eyes open and their the bombers-Beauforts, Hudsons, blast of Coastal Command's offensive a line of defence for American the operational stations who "do bombs ready over the seas.
They are creating havoc in Holland comer in for constant survey and The invasion threat keeps those the job." -interests but also for British
eyes still wider open, and the work where, on the testimony of an Ameri. assault. possessions in that part of the
The job at the moment covers the of bombing German submarines and can official, "some of the larger ports world. Leases in Newfoundland watch over 4.000 miles of Britain's surface ships is now enormously are just a mass of ruing."
coast-lines, the offensive patrol over augmented by incessant onslaughts
The records of Coastal Command
-Minės from Air and elsewhere may likewise be the sens from Iceland to Gibraltar, on cross-Channel German-occupied
and from Britain's Western shores 800 ports wherever it is found that suit tell you why.
FROM the air, too, mines have been regarded as a contribution tolles into the Atlantis, the censeless able craft for invasion are being
Carrying a ceaseless and relentless laid outside. Dutch, Danish, Belgina, and bombing of assembled. wards the command interest of reconnaissance
German coastal strongholds and hide- Pilots of Coastal Command, who offensive into Germany's lairs, bombs and French harbours, and of the both nations in the same defence
since the war have. In the aggregate have been rated on concentrations tiorweglan and German-Baltle coasts, scheme.'
flown over thirteen million miles, are of barges and tugs near Rotterdam, keeping the German mine-sweepers The two greatest democratic Britain and the United States at present, on the average, covering and on the canals at Zwolle, Haten, constantly active and rendering the craft hazardous if not entirely of the Hudson squadrons have topped countries in the world are thus are happily willing to pool their many hundreds of miles a day. Some and Weest, many vessels being sunk movement of Nazi warships and other
botting them up. wisely drawing closer together: resources in the cause for which the million mark
Democracy is fighting.
It is quite possible for a Coastal Attacks. have been pressed home The bond between them has always recognised as close, but Faced with a solidarity of squadron, elther on reconnaissance or on the harbours of Wilhelmsoord, smid
on the nerodromes at largest bombs in common use. They bombing expeditions, to visit Ave Harlingen, never before in their history purpose, it is not surprising that German-occupied countries in one Flushing and Wallhaven, and on the ore a weapon, first employed by the have they had a closer alignment Herr Hitler in his speech a few week-Norway, Denmark, Holland, seaplane base at Texel than at present, Faced with days ago betrayed a sense of Belgium, France, and in addition
Germany itself. the threat of ruthless aggression futility and helpless fury, which which President Roosevelt cannot hava added confidence to described some time ago as a his cause either in Germany or danger to civilization, Great in Italy.
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or set on fire.
These mines are bigger than the
Germans and now being used against them in widespread operations.'; Of the Danish coast patrol vessels All those activities, and many more have been hit, and the Frislan son- plane base at Norderney attacked. besides, you will ind recorded at headquarters of Coastal Command, In Belgium havce has been wrought the youngest air - Commend the are extremely mobile units. They on military objectives, at - Ghent, R.A.FY "Baby.”
Very Mobile Units BRITAIN'S air squadrons