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October 18, 1940.
By Walt Disney
WALT DISNEY.
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VICTORY OF THE ATLANTIC FUNNY SIDE UP
The victory of the Atlantic has been the outstanding naval event of the year and it has never been officially an- nounced.
Fow details about it are known outside the Admiralty, and the world at large is hard- ly aware of what has happen. ed. Nevertheless that victory has played a considerable part in shaping the events of tho immediate past and moulding - the immediate future.
It was brought about by the vigorous offensive of the Navy at the very start of the war against the German sub- marine campaign. Rapidly though the Admiralty plans for establishing convoys work- ed, they would not by them-
defeated selves have
the U-hogts.
The German expectation was that some two million tons of shipping would be destroyed in the first month, and this appalling loss must in their estimation completely wreck any plans we had for the prosecution of the war.
In the result, the U-boats were so harried and hunted by our anti-submarine flotillas that it took all their atten- tion looking after their own safety, and they were unable to concentrate on the mer- chant ships.
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The total damage they were able to inflict in this first
a victory is the fleet's suc- cessful defiance of air power to interfere with its opera- tion.
Not only the one dramatic encounter between sea power and air power during the withdrawal from Dunkirk
marks this victory; scores of incidents, mostly already for gotten by the general public, have piled up the evidence during the your that the fleet, though not untouchable, is un- breakable from the air.
It is necessary to emphasise these three aspects of the naval history of the past twelve months, for they have not the picturesque drama which imprints events on the public mind.
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The year, indeed, has given a striking illustration of that "daily silent pressure" of which Mahan wrote. The ex- citement of the Battle of the Plate, of the destroyer attacks at Narvik, of the stopping of the Altmark make "history" in the popular sense, but it has been the little-known, the almost unrecorded events at sea, that have really affected the course of events.
There has been a heavy price in men and in ships to pay for the son security that has been achieved.
Again there has not been, except in one or two instances, the visible drama of hundreds of victims in one disaster.
It has been among the fringes of the fleet that the price has been most heavily exacted 75 minesweepers and patrol vessels lost, 31 de- stroyers, 14 submarines are part of the toll among the smaller craft,
A casualty-list of a dozen here, of fifty there, perhaps of a hundred on .occasion which would shock public feel- ing to the core in peace-time becomes, by some strange transmutation of values, but an item of news in war-time.
But at the end of a year of war we may surely pause for one moment to think upon not only the victories that have been achieved, the safety that has been ensured, but also upon those thousands who was in their deaths, as in their lives, the silent, unseen builders of both victory and security.
OE'S LONGH
By Abner Dean
"I always carry a spare for such situations!"
RAIDER THOUGHT SCOTS WOULD REBEL IT HAPPENED
Daily Express Staff Reporter
MR. NEWBY ("CHIPS") BURROUGHS, carpenter of the cargo steamer, King John, tells how his ship was waylaid and sunk off the month-was-no-more-than West Indies by a disguised German raider, successor to the Graf Spee-in-
attacking British merchant ships travelling alone in the Pacific Ocean.
184,241 tons, and in the course of those operations wc. know from a statement in Parliament that they lost. at least six or seven vessels in. three weeks.
The actual total was prob ably higher. In the next four weeks the hunting went on. There was one day on which three U-boats were destroyed, and by the end of three months of war it was clear, guarded though the official statements were, that the total German loss was
ap- proaching forty boats.
That meant that half the available craft had been re- moved, that between 1,500 and 2,000 trained officers and men were lost to Germany, and that wo had shown be yond all question that the U- boat menace was not likely, in this war, to approach the dimensions it reached in 1917.
Our
communications 800 were to remain open, loades could be kept within the mit at which they could be re- placed by strenuous effort in the shipyards, and our world- wide sources of supply could not be cut off.
It was a victory as import- ant to our future as any pitched battle ever fought bo tween flects on the surface, and nothing that has happen- ed since has undermined ita significance.
A second important naval victory about which rather more is known publicly was achieved with the nullifying of the effects of the magnetic mine.
That goes to the credit of the scientists more than to the fighting flect, but its im- portance in the war at sen is: Just as great as a defeat of the enemy fleot, since it on- sured free movement for our warships as well as for our "merchantman, mele
A third naval development that may fairly be classed us
The King John (5,228 tons, of Liverpool) was the second victim of this heavily armed ralder.
The German ship is now running the gauntlet, seeking to evade British warships in- tent on dealing with her as they dealt with the Graf Spee and her prison ship Altmark.
About nine in the morning of July 13 the captain of the King John sighted another ship on the horizon. "We all had a look at it when it camo nearer," said "Chips" Bur- roughs, "because ninety per cent, of the ships on the sCLS these days seem to be British.
"But this one was a for- eigner. The cabin-boy next to me asked if she was carrying a gun, but all I could see was something square at the stern of the ship. It was one of four hidden six-inch guns.
"The raider was flying the Swedish flag, and had Swedish colours painted on her sides. Suddenly she opened fire, Four shells burst around us, send- ing red-hot, Jagged shrapnel flying everywhere. Then there was another salvo of shells, and another. "With our one small gun we had no chance of fighting back. The raider had come up on us, innocent- ly, had carefully fixed kor gun sights and was tiring at point-blank range.
CAPTAIN CAPTURED
"I stopped to get a quick drink from the ship's pump-because I guessed rightly that we might soon be suffering from thirst in an open boat and I dropped my best trousers, not once worn, and lost them.
There
We
were
"They were still Aring ns Jowered the boat. nineteen in my boat and forty-one in the boat on the othe
other side of the ship. When
we were nearly two miles away a motor-launch from the German ship fired machine gun across our bows to make us stop. As they approached one of the officers shouted "Hunds
Up
"They look our captain and chief engineer on board to be prisoners in the raider, and then they looked us over for souvenirs.
"One of the junior radio men had his savings of £25 in a coshi- box on his Imp. They took that. They took a sheath-knife from me.
WATER RATIoned- "Both our lifeboats were brought alongside the raider, and the Ger
third one con- uns launched a taining prisoners they had taken off the Davisian, another British ship they had sunk just before us. [The Davislan, 6,433 tom, was re- gistered at Liverpool.] "The Davision's
crew were amused about the way the Ger
favoured the Scotsmen inans.
aboard. The Nazis seemed to have the idea that Scotland was only waiting the right moment to rebel against England, so they gave the Scotsmen a ration of cigarettes, and none to the Engllahmen, so us to spread discontent!
"We cast off in our lifeboat, hoisted the sails, and soon lost sight of the other boats. Luckily for us our captain had whispered to us the course we should follow
the Germons just before alongside.
came
"His reckoning was dead right, though it took us four days and four nights to get to the island he lind told us about. The sun beat down on us during those four long days. The skin peeled of our face and arms, and our lips were cracked.
"We were ratloned to a beaker- ful of water a day per man, and some of the men were getting desperate with thirst when the clouds broke and the rain came, We all opened our mouths to the sky, and sucked the water off our arms,
"Then we saw land. It was a blessed sight. It was a tiny coral island, with no landing place ex- cept up an iron ladder up the eliffs. The only inhabitants were four lighthouse keepers.
"We were grateful for the food they gave us, and for the know- ledge that we were safe."
MUST NOT SACK C.O.s JUDGE APPEALS TO "PATRIOTS”
JUDGE FRANKLAND, acting chairman at Manchester Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, disagreed with people who held that conscientious objectors should be dismissed.
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as I disagree with can have his name, removed from the re-
IN A RAID
A German airman, whose ma- chine was shot down by Spitfires in n North-East coast village, was unwise enough to uneer at the clothes of a workman who ran across to challenge him.
"My mate," said another work- man "promptly punched him on the nose and he didn't need toll- ing again to put his hands up."
A village. baker in the South- East, who woke to find that a bomb bnd shattered his window, placed a new nolice in front of his shop: "Don't let Hitler spoil your
and cakes appetite. Bread usual,"
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When a raid warning came dur- ing a pig sale in nn Eastern Coun- tics market the auctioneer asked whether the company would like to shelters or carry on ndjourn to
with the sale. The sale continued, but first a collection was taken for the local Spitfire fund, and opened by one of the buyers with a £500, cheque,
air-rald, with
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Ils assorted noises, had been disturbing a har- bour village for twenty minutes. As an old-age pensioner had not Joined her neighbours, one of them went out in a full to look for her. She
discovered halfway Whe through a large meal, and
stayed to plained that she had keep the canary company, as it had
seemned nervous,
ex-
A woman woke to the sound of bombs dropping. In open country near her house. Almost at once she heard her maid knocking on the bedroom door and announcing calmly: "Bombs, please, madam.”
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Petain Vainly Seeks Better Terms---
Italy's Cruel Snub To Vichy Request
-Pay In Full
The "Popolo d'Italia" commenting on. Marshal Petain's recent message to the French people, declares that the Vichy Government says, in effect, that Franco to-day would be willing to transform herself but that the Axis Peace Commission would have to reduce its claims.
Declaring that certain neutral- newspapers have given this interpretation to Potain's
message, the "Popolo d'Italia” says that the following points must be made clear:
Firstly, the war was not started and won to give France a totalitarlan regime;
FASTEST NAVY British Torpedo Boats
LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reuter).
Secondly, the Vichy Government is making a big mistake it in the "re- volution from above." it is trying to-Britain now possesses the save what France has lost;
Thirdly, when France has paid all that she will have to pay, she will be free to choose the regime which she prefers,
More Aid For Britain Urged
By Wendell Willkie
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY ABOARD THE
fastest small warships in the world, writes "Reuter's" special correspondent at a British naval base.
They are the very latest of the Navy's extremely secret wespor, (namely motor torpedo-boats. They are the fastest ships afloat and, though small, they have a sting as deadly as many larger ships.
Whether roaring along at full throttle when they virtually skim the waves at 30 miles an hour, or slipping almost noiselessly through the night
on silenced engines, they promise a SPECIAL new terror to the enemy. Their small TRAIN, Oct. 17 (UP)-Mr. size makes them a target almost im- Wendell Wilikle has called upon possible to hit, especially at speed. President Roosevelt to send fur-
ther material, aid to Great Britain immediately.
"The New Deal's record delay and procrastination in building up our
Half Million Children
Have Left London LONDON, Oct. 17 (Reutor)Some own defence was formidable. We 480,000 children or about 58 per must hope that in the instance of aid cent. of the school children of tho to Britain they can forget they are London evacuation area, have left the New Deal candidates for a third term, capital' Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and act promptly and effectively," he Minister of Health, told the House of said in a statement issued-to-dayCommons-to-day-
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