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BRITISH CONVOY
By Brydon Tavés
United Press Special Correspondent
Aboard a British destroyer, in the North At- lantic, September 3, (UP),—Germany is shooting the works to make good its threat of total bloc- kade of the British Isles but after eight days aboard a little British flotilla leader I can say that hundreds of ships are entering and leaving British ports each week.
German submarine and air area to constal waters, where it} attacks marked my voyage. Not would be divided, the ships pro- one day passed without action. ceeding to various ports. The British crew was either On the fifth day, after we manning gun, and depth charge had picked up the big inward stations to fight off a U-boat or bound convoy of almost fifty manning anti-aircraft stations ships, a submarine appeared. to fight attacking planes.
We were plowing through heavy sens. The tail end of a gale was blowing. I was on, the bridge. There was a dull boom among the ships stretched be- hind us and a column of smoke rose from the side of the lead- ing ship on the port string of freighters about a half mile away.
I saw one British merchant man take a long range torpedo squarely amid ships and sink within a half hour. The next day our destroyer evened the
score.
A "Tin Fish", meant for us, missed by a scant thirty feet as we whipped around it. Then we rocked from the concussion of our own depth charges and I saw an oil patch spread slow JOHNSTON. On 19th October, 1940, over the surface, marking
BIRTHI
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that U-boat's end.
The destroyer was engaged in a typical convoy job, and its duties were something between those of a conscientious sheep
ing a bunch of orphans across Times Square.
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Champions of Civilization
We were one destroyer and one smaller warship escorting a thirty ship convoy spread over fifteen square miles of ocean. Watching the line of hulls stretching out behind us, I re- membered what a naval oficer in a convoy control room in a West coast port told me, just before I sailed.
"Give me Afty over-age American destroyers", he said, and I will guarantee to cut our shipping losses by considerably more than 50 per cent."
Our destroyer was more than twenty years old but she could do thirty knots without strain- ing and could turn around on
+Polestar), did bette
PLAN TO INVADE BRITAIN
CAN'T YOU STOP THAT NOISE OUTSIDE.
finished lunch: The call came: "Man the depth charge sta tions!" We raced up the steps to the deck,
"Heart Disease" had just signalled a torpedo track that passed twenty feet behind her The destroyer lurched so stern. It came from the oppo- quickly as it wheeled around site side of the convoy and the must have passed that in a moment our bows were torpedo
column of ships acooping up mountains of sea, through the hurling them back high over the without scraping one. bridge and into the yard arms in geysers of spray and foam.
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The commodore of the convoy
turn algnalled an emergency and the whole convoy veered in unison to starboard and plodded on. We swung into a "sweep" at twenty-five knots and raced beyond the inverted convoy.
plode dully beneath the surface.
The Sunderland came back, dived low, let go three bombs that hit in quick succession and sent great spouts into the air.
Our detectors picked up a U-boat moving slowly away from us. It was very close.
The captain sent the des- troyer full speed ahead and great walls of water circled around the bows and Inshed our faces as we clung to the rocking bridge.
"Stand by, depth charges!" "Fire one!
"Fire two!
"Fire three!”.
The torpedo was fired from a safe distance of as much as five miles into the middle of the con-
Three big tina hurtled from voy. Such long range shots,
the stern. There was a mo- which U-boat captains are said
silenco After twenty minutes I began ment's
after -they to favour increasingly, are hit to think that "Heart Disease" splashed. Then the whole sur or miss. They generally have merely had had jitters. Sud- face of the water seemed to less effect when they hit and denly a blue and yellow "attack" shiver and the ship rocked this is why many ships lately hit signal ran up her yard and she crazily. The air around us. by torpedoes have been dam- loosed a depth charge. We shimmered as on a hot summer aged but not sunk.
picked up the U-boat ourselves a day. The charges went deep This shot was lucky. It few minutes later, wallowed for and there were no geysers. on struck a 4,000 ton freighter a moment as the captain took the surface. squarely abeam. Our captain his detector bearings, and then There was a new patch of oil, signalled a sloop that had joined lunged to attack.
spreading and bubbling. Our us that morning to help track We fired depth charges. Some detectors heard nothing more. down the U-boat, while the one on the bridge shouted. A -The Sunderland signalled: smaller warship nicknamed line of bubbles and spray moved "What do you think?") was sent to pick up survivors. across the port bow, about In the gathering darkness our thirty feet from us. It was a search was virtually hopeless. torpedo, but it appeared to be We were drenched to the skin spent. when we gave up and rejoined
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IT is said that some animals can lose a leg without knowing it. Is civilization like that? Or is it awake to its peril? Listen- ing to accounts of the bombing of London one wonders. Other cities, other peoples have been proudly that he could stop her not picked up
a dime. Her captain told me the convoy. Our detectors had A big Sunderland flying boat subjected to this kind of crime dead within her own length U-boat.
a trace of the appeared overhead. Our signal -the Chinese, the Ethiopians, when moving at twelve knots.
We found twenty-six lamp flashed "U-boat some survivors from the freighter, where around here" and like a the Spaniards, Poles, Finns, Our operation orders were to but five were missing and pre- big bird the Sunderland banked Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, take an outwardbound convoy to sumed killed by the torpedo ex- and began skimming the water Hand-French-Ruthless-aggros- a point near mid-Atlantic, out plosion..
--ahead-of-us---A — #moko-flame- of range of subs, and then pick sors have spared no treasure of up an incoming convoy and for the lucky shot. It was circled back to it. I saw a The next day a U-boat paid dropped from her wing and she person or possession. Now they ahepherd it through the danger slightly calmer. We had just bomb leave her racks and. ex- unleash on one of the greatest capitals of civilization their boasted utmost of destruction. Will what remains of the civiliz ed world be merely horrified or will it arouse itself to make sure that this shall not happen again, that the new barbarism shall be turned back for good?
the
THE GLASS
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IR raids are making work for glass manufacturers and inspiring intensified re- unbreakable window glass. search to discover a new, cheap,
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Glasses dim and grow wet and die. In other words, they break to pieces, and many wonderful examples have been lost to the world in this fashion..
Class cookery utensils, even frying-pans, long since became familiar. To-day the origina.. tora of hent-resistant glass have produced a "shrunk glass" capa- ble of standing up to a tempera. ture change of 3,000 degs. One of its oddities is that, after its first fashioning, it has into the oven again and be 10 до
shrunk, hence the name.
can be twisted, pierced with Another new kind of fireproof nails, even planed like wood. Armour-plate glass has been evolved from sand, soda, and
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It withstands the shock of heavy gunfire and refuses to splinter.
All these peoples have been champions of civilization. Too often they have fought alone. To-day Britain fights alone. And this struggle over London is the complete symbol of the samantham | largely unseen struggle of civili- zation against barbarism to-day. Every pilot of the Royal Air Force, every bargee at Thames docks, every hañible householder in the East End is a champion of world culture and Christianity. After all the hair splitting over the war's causes, all the totalitarians' twisted propagande, all welghing of past mistakes, that is the simple fact. Those who cherish the best the human spirit has known sense this situation. They are not like the animal, which can lose a leg without knowing it. And they must give thanks daily for the kind of champions that now defend civilization. The the entire surfaco of a vessel. oven. spirit of the British people against odds which no one dared count is beyond praise. Its magnificent-courage has been Let who will fall, England will not, Those people have sat here, a thousand truly voiced by Mr. Winston
years, and here will continue to sit. They will not break up or strive at Churchill, its spiritual strength
any" desperate revolution, He their by Lord Halifax. And its neighbours: for they have as much horoic self-sacrifice by the little
continence of character, as they over 'home-owner near a vital airport Emerson wrote that a hundred who surveyed the ruins of his years ago. It is true to-day. house and auld: "When they hit And all who give thanks for us they miss the aerodrome." ... those who stand so stanchly in But one of the most confident the front line can find means of tributes to the British people's making their gratitude effective.
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Glass has uncertain habits. It can become ill. It can be frightened to death. The main dies of sick glass are known to
When smashed the fragments every expert collector of fine pieces, The housewife knows remain together, making the how glass that has been boxed glass gas-proof. up for years will lose its lustre. domestic uses is a glass oven Among its The connoisseur knows of door to enable the cook to know glass-sickness which hair-cracks what is happening inside the
Our captain answered: - “I think he's dead. I can find no trace of him now."
The Sunderland · hovered around the convoy. the rest of the day.
Signal lamps blinked between the flying boat and the surface boat saying:
"Good bye."
"God bless you."
You-too,
peared into the dusk, in the: And the flying boat disap- direction of England.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
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ABNER "DEAN..
Cage, that by tailak Roškare kradenia, kad
"I can't confide in nobody to-day horoscope!!
it says so in my
Then there is one-way glass- staying power comes from the millions of tiny crystals so ar- writings of an American: ranged to comb out the light are coming into demand. I wool, and furniture are emerg
that you can see out, but cannot have worn a glass shirt iming. see in. It is useful in hotels ported before the war. from.. I have seen a man playing on and blocks of offices where Germany. It was indistinguish- a glass fiddle. I havo heard a. dozens of windows face a com- able from any other shirt ex- shipping man discussing the mon courtyard.:
cept that it did not get dirty so new processes of painting a .quickly.
ship with liquid glass, Nowadays, you can live in We are living in the glass age... to save wood, glass rolling-pins a glass house, without black-out Some people living in pre
Glass cloth and finely-spun troubles. Glass bricks can be toughened glass houses to-day glass-silk, impervious to the obtained in black or light proof can afford to throw stones with:: troubles of ordinary fabrics, glass. Glass "paper," thread, impunity.
had
To save metal, we shall, soon be using glass door bolts, and