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DESTROYER PATROL
by Taffrail
(The famous British Naval Writer)
We slipped from our buoy and steamed out to sea for our night's patrol in the grey bleakness of the winter after- noon. Other destroyers went with us. We had some dis- tance to go before reaching our appointed beat.
The wind blow shrewdly from the north-east, to ralao a confused Jabble of leaping white horses out- side the harbour entrance. One felf the ship kick a little as she met the first of them For the next, eighteen hours, until we re- turned to harbour, she was never
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"chant "ships "making, up for their (anchorage before dirk.. On one of the shoals to starboard Iny two broken-backed wrecks with the sen breaking over them, victims of U-bost mines or torpedoes. Mer- chantmen
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THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph" la used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" sa indicate news which in virictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommun)- cations Ordinance, 1838. Buch new NE bears in judicusión "UP" in received in Hongkong on the date of pubileation by the United Press Association, who to serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previoui Arrangement
American Opinion
nad
As everyone known, a change han recently taken place in the opinions sentiments of the American people in regard to the War. For a considerable time they tried to adopt
attitude a beutral
of
unconcern.
Many of them assumed an air of Some bold- philosophie detachment.
by asserted that their Interest in this "purely European struggle" was academile and not practical. There was much loose talk about the self- sufficiency of the States. ita im- pregnable position in n naval and military sense, the danger of en- tangling alliances, and the beauties of Isolationlsın. Recently, however,
many Americans seem to have dis- covered reasons for revising their opinions of a few months ago,
The Atlonic Monthly is one of the outstanding American periodicals in which educated publie opinion upon current questions usually Anda expression, and its writers are now speaking their minds very freely con- cerning isolationisin, and even go BO far as to advocate actual intervention In the War. Of course it would hardly do for an outsider to use the plain-spoken words and arguments employed by The Atlantic, but it is quite permissible to quote a few of them
In an open letter to American undergraduates; Arnold Whitridge, Master of Calhoun College and Pro- fessor of English at Yale University, says that the average undergraduate student
Cornell, of Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale, although he hopes that Britain may win in the present struggle, is nevertheless so anxious to keep America out of war that he hopes that the United States will "grant no credit, give no supplies, and send no mea to help the Allies." Some of these undergraduates, Mr. Whitridge says, are Christian pacifists and as such are worthy of respect. The true religious paciunt is a lion ut courage. Some persons, however, who call themselves conscientious
showed us a faint grey blur against the darkening horizon. The visibility was low, the horizon to seaward being shut out in a blanket of mist
passed by a buoy or two, and Ughtship
pitching at her moor- ings. Night came as we turned to- wards our patrol Kne,
The first lieutenant, somewhere in the middle twenties, came climb. ing on to the bridge to report the ship darkened. Our depth charges were ready, our guns manned for instant action.
"Shall we have the torpedo-tubes trained out now, sir"" the first lieutenant asked the commander.
"Yes, Number One," said the latter, a tall figure in a duffle cont and sea boots, with the inevitable glasses slung round his neck "Plener do."
Once out from the land the wind grow stronger, and the nen more steep
cep and confused, probably be. cause a strong tide and wind were running in opposite directions. Whiffs of spray came sweeping over the bows, and on bridge it was bitterly cold. The navigator, officer of the watch, lookout and myself were sea-boated and muffled almost to the eyes.
the open
The light of a winking buoy showed away in the darkness to port, The navigator, bending down to look along the compass, noted its bearing, and then dived down to crouch under the canvas cover of the chart table.
"We're on
the sir," came his muffled voice after an interval. "The new course is oh-eight-four.
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position
now.
"All right," the commander re- plied. "Bring her round to th eight-four, Mr. Carver."
The officer put his mouth to the volcepipe communicating with the wheelhouse below.
"Starboard fifteen," he ordered. "Starboard fifteen
it is, sir." from the quartermaster ut. the wheel.
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"Midships," after
interval. "Port ten-steady un oh-eight- four."
"Steady on oh-eight-four," came the voice of the quartermaster, The darkness had become tense.
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Astorn 1 could only just see the black shapes of two of the destroyers following in our wake. Several times during that long night 1 groped my way Aft forward along the darkened upper deck, picking my way foot by foot cncumbrances through the mony which threatened to throw me headlong, dodging from
part to starboard to escape the overhang- ing lips of the after torpedo-tubes. I visited the mess decks, to see few
fully clothed and figures, ready
for a
a call, sleeping on tables, lockers and even the deck itself. Out on the bleak, windswept deck the men at the guns, torpedo-tubes and depth charges relieved cach other at regular intervals.
All through that night we carri- ed out our patrol the exact locality of which cannot be disclosed. We were listening for enemy sub- marines with that uncanny Inven- tion which has already been re-
objectors enrol themselves under that Technically we are at peace with the banner, not because of conscience, but from unwillingness to take up a Third Reich; actually we are at war. We did not choose to help other hard duty. Again, there are some students who admire Hitler because nations to keep the peace. We did they have been brought up to admire not choose to use our herculear Success in any realm of effort. Mr. Power to prevent wars. We had no We Whitridge, however, warns them that foreign polley that made sense. in the
midst of their admiration they have been intoxicated by the sound ahould remember what Professor clares that the upshot of
of our high-flown words”. Ho de...
all William James said about the danger futility
this that to-day the United besetting Amerien: "The danger of
Sintes faces a hostile world in arms Moral flabbiness-born of an exclusive without a strong friend save Britain. worship of the goddess, Success." At France, he says, is in chains; Japan, if the close of his appeal Mr. Whitridge not actively hostile, is non-co-opera- atates his own position and belief in tive, and the South American coun these words: "If the way of life which tries are a liability rather than an wo have evolved in America is worth asset.
preserving-and we have taken it for His advice to his fellow Americans granted so long that we forget how is that they should join Great Britain much we love it believe we shall to fight and fight offensively, carrying have to do something more than hope the war to the enemy on his own for victory and sell second-hand ships terms, on his own soll." He exhorts to Great Britain on a strictly cash them to organize for production, basis. I believe that, much as we build planes, train pilate, and ind hate war, we shall have to fight, and mechanica; but, he adds, strike at the sooner we get ready for it, the once, for America now faces, "the better."
direst perii it has ever known.” Ho In the same August issue of The might well have added that his advice Allantic, Mr. David Cohn, described to Americans to-day is practically the by the editor' as "a, Southerner who same as that which Mr. Churchill would defend with his life democracy gave to other neutral countries here and in England," says without | earlier. They all failed to take it and mincing his words that the United" overyone knows the fate-that-over- States is again at war with Germany,
nas, took them or the result of their fally.
....
ferred to by the First Lord of the Admiralty as producing the dead- llest results.
.
Arranging to be in certain spots at certain times, we half expected, certainly hoped, to
·locāte – a U-boat, in which case we should have made a concerted attack with depth charges.
But on this occasion there was no luck. Wa sighted, or, focated, no more than a neutral steamer showing her lights, and a buoy or two. As the commander himself observed in the small hours of the morning while zipping steaming cocoa in the charthouse, it wai largely a matter of luck. In any case a good many thousands of miles must be steamed by many hunters for every
ry U-boat that is attacked or sunk. He hoped for better fortune one day.
At about 7 a.m., chilled through and through, I went below to one of the warmest places in the ship, the ship's company's galley under the forecastle. The chief cook was
there already, brewing cocoa and producing early breakfasts. In this small compartment, about afteen feet by twelve, nea
nearly half its
deck space occupied by a coal range, the chief cook, with one assistant, produced three or four hot meals a day for 170 hungry sailors. They weren't half "per- nickety" either, growling like fury If he failed to produce what they wanted.
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Yes, he and in answer to mny question, it was a toughish job. His day's work started round about four o'clock in the morning and ended at ten at night. Before coming here he'd been used to a big ship with an oil-fired galley and a host of assistants. In this during bad weather the sen sometimes developed
playful habit of coming in through เวล door to send his pots and pans flying, and himself as well. These destroyers roiled ilke fury in a gale of wind with a heavy beam sca. All the same, be prided himself on his job, reckoning that his ship's company, growl though they some- times might, were the best fed in the flotilla.
the
none
At 7.20 1 returned to the bridge, to find it was half daylight with low visibility and a biting breeze Д with from the north-eastward stiftish lop through which the ship plunged uneasily. Our anti-ishs craft guns were manned and ready in case of an attack; but came.
Probably the weather was 100 boisterous, and the clouds too low. For another hour, until full daylight came, we continued our hunt for a possible lurking U-boat; but no fuck came our way.
We turned homewards by the route whence we had come, even- und to lually to reach harbour secure alongside an oiler to re- plenish our diminished fuel. i was to leave the ship that day; but the next night she would be at sen again, and the two nights follow-
ing.
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Since the war began that little ship had spent between 70 and 75 per cent, at her time at sea, and had been under way for 100 days out of 127.
U.S. WORKERS WARNED OF FIFTH COLUMN
- HOLLYWOOD; Calif. -As- blinded as those people in sorting that there is no place Europe were. for any "lam" other than Americanism in this country) "Only two years ago, for example, I visited Copenhagen. Whilo there Harry M. Warner, president of I met the Prime Minister. We dis- Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., cussed the future of his country for called on 6,200 employees two hours. When I asked him why
he didn't
do something to protect his
would turning over all information and people, he said. “They evidence of subversive activities dare to come near us. I tried to
convince him the enemy.
enemy was not in and out of the studio to the just on the other side of the border Federal Bureau of Investigation, but actually within. I had the same .experience in Oslo, I had the same in London. People
not
Speaking to the first mass experience meeting of its kind in Holly couldn't understand that there could
be enemies within.”
Warner then read two paragraphs wood, which was attended by Warner employees and repre- trom a book printed in Germany acntatives of other studios, the, under the Utle of "The Deflement
of Race.? executive stated that the F.B.I. alone could not cope with the expanding "Afth "column" ac- represents the viewpoint of the gov
tivities of democracy'a ponents.
"Bear in mind," he explained, "that anything printed in Germany
operament. It can't be printed unless
It does. Please follow these words enrefully because your future ́de-.
He called for an awakening of pends on them: the public to the dangers threat- ened by the same subversive methods which lald Norway. Denmark and Holland open to totalitarian invasion. He cited the "it can't happen here" at- titude he encountered in those countries on his last trip abroad.
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"THEY laughed off the dau- ger. We must take it seriously. We fought to obtain our inde- pendence and democracy when Wo the country was founded. must fight to retain it now," Warner said.
The presence of subversive propaganda literature within studio gates was revealed by Warner when he described the Anding of Buch material in his automobile.
MR. HARRY WARNER
The mission of German no- tionality in the world is to free this world of Jews and Christians. When "We must report those has the meaning of national freedom is
other
untree. penings and track them down. Cognised by all
peoples they will also recover from There is no place in our studio the illness that besets them by fol- for exponents of Nazism, Fas- lowing the example set by the Ger cism or any other ism' but man spirit, .. Americanism. We do not want
to lose the freedom that permits ***IF wo wish to create sqme- us to hold such a meeting as this thing now we cannot permit the
to discuss the serious problems existence and operation of dis-
organising facing us and this country."
factors such Christianity. If wo wish to do
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WARNER read from official a thorough job, we must over German propaganda material throw and shatter all opposing that "Germanie blood and Chris- and destructive forces unspar- tian baptismal water does not ingly and without compromise. Germanic blood and Christian mix."
baptismal water can never mix." He also read from President Roosevelt's speech of May 26 on unued, "with the greatest organised "We are confronted," Warner con- "üfth machine, the dangers of the
subversive or military, column" and the means of that the world has ever seen............ fighting it, pleading for every American to do his duty in op- of peril when anybody invades any posing encroachments on the part of our country with subversive- fundamental democratic ideals methods to divide und destroy us, The least we can do is unite for our of the United States.
own protection.
My chief recollections are of those muffled Sgures on the bridge pearing out through the inky dark- ness; of the patient quartermaster in the wheelhouse with his face illuminated in the dim light of the gyro compass,
Robert ss; of the men stationed round the guns, torpedo-tubes, und depth charges ready for instant action; and of those others below In the engine room and stokeholds. The whole impression gained was one of readiness for anything that might happen-of that sleep- less watchfulness and preparedness which are the prime duties of the
Royal Navy in time of war.
FUNNY SIDE UP
112 O
"We are faced with the same kind
Schless, European "You must join together to pro- manager for Warner Bros, with teet yourselves. If you know some- headquarters in Parls, reported one working with you who is an briefly on the situation abroad enemy, I think you owe it to your- selves to tum him over to those who and ended with a stirring ples will know what to do about it. To to "Awake, America."
convince you that they will work for you, I want you to meet the man "Our problem, as I see it," to turn him over to--Arthur Come- Warner said, "is to avoid being lius, Jr., in charge of the F.B.I. in this district. We want to help him and prove to him that we arc serious.
By Abner Dean
"Capt. 1910 by Custed Panen stridemai
"Watch_your_rosidence, lady?"
ABER
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"We don't want anybody employed by our company who belongs to any bunds-Communist, Fascist or any other un-American organisations. I would rather deal with a burglar than with those enemies.
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"PUBLIC calamity is mighty levellery Bursting shells: and machine gun bullets are no respecters of race, colour or creed.
"The fact that you are Republicar,. Democrat or whatever is no protec tion from the horror of brutal Com- munist invasions,
"God knows I want peace. The only certain way to insure peace is to be so strong in arms and defence that we can command 'it. We will. never be strong enough to see that realised until we erase from our midst those enemies who are boring, from within to undermine our na=.. Lional security and plan the sabotage: of our great country.
.in
"I don't know of a aner teaching
the world than Christianity. pray that it may survive. Where can you find anything finer than Peace on earth-good will to all men'? Christ didn't say peace of carth and good will to any porticus Jar falth.
"I have, a
every
a great deal of confidence in the future of mankind." I cannot think for one moment that body in this world is no good.. Calamities have taken place la the- Past History tells us that. Attila the fun existed. He was destroyed. Others like him have been doswayed" in the future. I am sure that we who have faith; whatever that falla "may-"be," "will" kurvive in a strester: world.":
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