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Standing on narrow steel girders, which until recently provided the main support for the luxurious state rooms and lounges of the once - famous liner Beren- garia, an observer can gaze to-day one-hundred feet into the depths of its enormous engine rooms.
Her huge steel boilers and casings glistened in the sun for the first time since, nearly thirty years ago in a shipyard. in Bremen, Germany's crack liner Imperator as she was to be called was taking form.
Far below shipbreakers were nt work, with acetylene burners, cutting their way through what seemed to be never-ending lengths of steel plating, while giant cranes stretched out over- head waiting to remove bun- dreds of tons of steel and valu- able metals to the dockside.
Thus, day after diy. the transformation of the Bezen- paria is rapidly taking place and her massive structure steadi-j
by being trans
ferred to flast
the furnaces
be turmedi
into munitions.
September 28, 1940.
sledge hammers, breaking up the metal to suitable sizes ready to be fed back into the furnaces. Here what remained of her forty-six huge water tube boil- ers were being brokon up. Com- ponents of the engines alone.are providing hundreds of tons of steel, cast iron, gun metal, copper, tin, brass, white metal, and, in fact, all kinda of non- ferrous metals and alloys.
The mighty quadruple screws which drove her scores of times across the Atlantic; each weigh- ing fifteen tons, are providing manganese bronze. All these are being melted down and re- fined. The thousands of blades which formed her turbines, each composed of brass, are, of im mense value in the manufacture of armaments. Several brass tubes taken from the engine rooms weighed over half a ton each. Over two-hundred tons of lead piping have already been British melted down. poured out into workmen are ingots, and delivered to the catling πρ the munition factories,
Berengarla
BCTAD
For
BERENGARIA
For thousands of wople at An Ex-German Liner Is Scrapped
over the world who were well arquainted with the Herrnguin,
Te familiar Three funnel
To Make British Munitions
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Asering high above bee buat Truck has been laid for convey fires, anti-aircraft Kuns decks. her present condition. ing Use metal and steel, as if pe shells with all the apextravture re released from the bowels of the moved, would undoubtedly pro ship, to the breaking up and
ide them with a surprise
metal classification wheels ** All hei main promenade deck, bry -Underavons and cabins have dis Alreuly
And so this
transformation.
of an historic liner with
proceeds rapidity,
under the guid ance of expert shipbreakers.
Care must be taken not to remove too much of the struc→ ture at any one section of her entire 880-feet long hull. The error of such a process would and probably sel
A weakness which might even result in the Berengaria ending her days, by Shipbreaking experts compute breaking her back, before the that ninety-live per cent, of the shipbreakers have finished their ship's structure can be turned task. into munitions of one descrip. For fteen months the Beron- TON of De top or another and there were paria has been steadily employ- appeared, and only her great Herengaru must have found fifty-six thousand tons of it being one hundred-and-twenty to men, and many months will yet have to pass before this poten- shed tial source of supply for muni-
heavy will have come to an end.
hull rema
their way
shape
back to Germany in bomis Other
fore the shiphrenkers work on it!
the breaking-up
Kut
Along that part of her deck the which has been quired by the metals are helping in the cone scores of workers, are continu- tions for Britain's WAT effort Shipbreakers a full-size railway struction of bombers and Spit ausdy wielding their
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my son, my son
I had not seen Livia in more tired, and he and Oliver went up the way I've turned out. No matter i couldn't have When I came to stairs to their juipt room in the old what you'd done, than a month.
chiatri that Acrved JES officers' turned out any better. It wasn't it heer studio, that same night, her quarters, while the Cohne held me the cards while, drawn face took
It with an inferminable unerdote over Polvert Oliver' 1 wanted so much
for you" glow of happiness more marked a bottle of port
B1111 "Tov meuch Don't for the contrast.
But her mo
Frie
you see? }
But what done, I've never
Was ATEXJn to get away ment of happiness was short- the boys, for Ray had whis couldn't live up to you
pered to me that he had seen Anne ever may have lived, as I forced myself to tell in Lundoa, atut had found out the doubted you-Pve always known you
Goodbye." cause of Mueve's subende her what I had to tell her
The wit, were there
He put out bls hand, then suddenly Livia," said almost urshly bitter look in his eyes gave
Tve feeling of gresit qvenskness.
Threw his artns around me and clung yin wasted your time via 791e
brought
but When finally escaped from the is the for a moment. "Oh, father APVER
avy trapp you
Fatherf Colonel's clutches rustied up- ITINOTY I never wil
stoot there holding him gently She looked at me searchingly, as stairs Rory was having it out with marmuring, "My son. my xon.
with Then he was gone.
1
"Yes "You want me to release you?" "Yes"
"dim't believe you Why should
1′′ Why should you suddenly want
burl
4
It was Rory who came to the
11 sensing what was about to come Oliver, speaking quietly
sell great Intensity "So that's what you ene
"It used to amuse ** To walch you He." Horny was sayinĘS. "You did 2 st wal| It's not se amusing new house at Heronwater to bring me the news of Oliver'a heroic "I'm not lying." said Oliver death and to hand me the Vic- coldly. "Maeve told me noth toria Cross awarded him posthu reason why ting. If you won't believe me, mously for valour in battle.
there's nothing more to be done I took the medal and stared at R, dumbly. Livia, sitting beside me on "On, my dat - about it.”
the purch, quietly put her hand over
There was ti question I had to ask Rory "Rory, đo you think-Oliver the gun. I sprang to meant to die?" his side and seized the hand that
to leave me, for no reason?"
There's only ne
ruuld leave you!"
"Oliver!" she cried
ng, don't let that seguirate us
It's not Oliver."
night
Then why" Why?
"Do you remember
into your
out of my life?"
"ut there is." said Rory softly mine. His hand went lo ha service revolver at his s.de.
He raised
you told me that if I would look
"Who can say?" he answered, "J eyes und nay. Livin held H
only know when we went over that Vayne, don't love you, you'd go "Keep out of this." cried Rory morning-1 never saw him look so
"Oliver's going to pay up, and you happy. "And you couldn't May
she can't were him!
Soun Dermot and Rory left for red. "You couldn't say "
With my back to Oliver, and tk- lown. I watched them as they walkc- Shrinking inwardly. I forced my; ang no notes of hun. I explained to ed toward the station, Dermot's armi self to look at her. "I can say it Rory that I cared nothing about save
now.
bug Oliver that 1 doubted whether) She stepped back away from me, he were worth saving; but that I felt unstendily, as if I had struck her.
I must save Rory himself from the cotasequences of what he proposed to du Even I have lost ng son,
On my way to Maeve's fat I can't let your father lose his. It's next morning 1, stopped off and the only way we have of making up bought a corsage of gardenias, to your father for Maeve with a white, satin bow as be- fiory handed me the gun. fitted a bride:
for
He
then
violently, began to tremble steudled himself with a supreme Annie upened the door
me effort as the bugle below sounded Her face was swollen with weeping, the company fall-in. I returned his "Oh, Mr. Essex, I've been trying to gun to him. secure in the feeling that) get you how to tell you, but
I pushed pust her and hurried into the lat. Already I felt. I knew al most too well, what I would find.
Maeve
bed, dressed stretched out on her
night
he would obey my wisher; then we both left the room, leaving Oliver staring at the wall..
I watched the regiment form- na I had left her the ing, ready for the march up before. The remnants of મ
box of sleeping powders lay beside front. As I turned, about to Maeve. My lips moved in what enter the Colonel's headquarters must have been a prayer.
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Lo
bid him goodbye, Oliver stepped in front of me.
An assignment as war cor quite gone; he spoke haltingly, respondent for a London paper
His old jauntiness seemed to be
"I-I was coming to find you. took me close to the Western We're moving off now,” Front a few weeks later.
"Yes, I know," I said coldly. Without at Brst realising it, saying things," he stammered. "But "I supose-it's a little. late-to_bo found myself covering the move that was a good idea of yours-up ments of Rory's and Oliver's re there. Rory is the one worth saving." giment,
"You mean that?" I asked, ' as- Presenting my credentials to the tonished,
+
aftable old Colone), 1 was promptly. "Yea. I've always known it. invited to dine with the officers' Good that you do, too... One thing, mess, and found myself sitting op- though. About Maeve-the, never posite Oliver. Rory was absent on told me." leave, but wan éxpected back later "I know." that evening,
de
"Rory didn't believe that." He
I got through the meal as best I smiled wryly. "All my lies came could, saying as little as possible to home to zoost."
Oliver, despite the Colonel's efforts He looked at his watch, then con- to promote a grand reunion, between tinued hurriedly: "One thing more.. ua. As dinner was ending Rory ar- Don't blame yourself too much—for
FUNNY SIDE UP
TALKING PARROT
iMARE
HIM AN OFFER:
What Has Gone Before: Having suffered extreme pov- erty in childhood, William Essex, muccessful novelist, lavishes every
his son Oliver to give the boy what he himself was denied.
Oliver grows to young manhood completely spoiled, set- fish and heartiest, though very charming. Essez falls deeply in love with Livia Vaynol, but sends her abruptly out of his life rather than betray his wife, Nellle. Nellie diez a few months later, and Essex trien unsuccessfully to find Liela, He then finds that Oliver, now twenty, has met Livia and marked her for his own.
Oliver
makes a magnanimous gesture of renouncing the girl, but it develops that he intends, victimizing her afler she marries his father. leaves home, Found out, Oliver then seducer Maeve O'Riordan, daughter of his father's best friend.
When the war breaks out he entists, leaving Maeve to take the consequences alone, though he is ignorant of her plight. Essex, blaming himself for Oliver's way- wardness, resolver 10 marry Macoe.
about his son's shoulder. Then I rose wearlly and turned to go inside the house. But Livi put a restraining hand on my arm,
"No. sun,"
Let's stay out here in the
There's no sun this morning.” "It's shining behind that mist," said Livia. "It'll break through after abit. We'll wait for it."
THE END
By Abner Dean
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I want one I can confide in!:
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