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JOHNSTON. On 19th October, 1940, at the French Hospital, a son to Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Johnston,
The
October 21, 1940.
BRITISH- CONVOY
By Brydon Tavos'
United Pross 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 loader I can say that hundreds of ships are entering and leaving British ports each week.
German submarine and air attacks marked my voyage. Not one day passed without action. The British crew was elther munning gun and depth charge stations to fight off a U-boat or manning anti-aircraft stations to fight attacking planes.
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
acorc.
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 ly over the surface, marking
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 dog and a sister of charity lead-
Times Square.
area to constal waters, where it would be divided, the ships pro- ceeding to various ports.
Was
| PLAN TO INMODE BRYTAN
CAN'T YOU STOP THAT NOISE OUTSIDE.
On the fifth day, after we had picked up the big inward bound convoy of almost fifty ships, a submarine appeared, We were plowing through heavy seas. The tail end of a gale was blowing. I
on the bridge. There was a dull boom finished lunch. The call came: among the ships stretched be- "Man the depth charge sta- hind us and a column of smoke tions!" We raced up the steps rose from the side of the lead to the deck. ing ship on the port string of freighters about a half mile away.
plode dully beneath the surface.
away
The Sunderland came back, dived low, let go three bombs that hit in quick succession and "Heart Disease" had just sent great spouts into the air. signalled a torpedo track that
Our detectors picked up a passed twenty feet behind her U-boat moving slowly stern. It came from the oppo- from us. 50
site side of the convoy and the
have torpedo must
passed through the column of ships without scraping one,
The destroyer lurched quickly as it wheeled scooping up mountains of sea, bridge and into the yard arms hurling them back high over the,
in geysers of spray and foam.
around that in a moment our bows were
.
The torpedo was fired from a
Thongkong Telegraphing a bunch of orphans across safe distance of as much as five on. We swung into a "sweep"
Monday, Oct. 21, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone; 20615
We were one destroyer and one smaller warship escorting a thirty ship convoy spread over fifteen square miles of ocean. Watching the line of bulls under the provisioox of the Telecommuni- stretching out behind us, I re- membered what a naval officer in a convoy control room in a West coast port told me, just before I sailed,
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Champions of Civilization IT is said that some animale 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 subjected to this kind of crime the Chinese, the Ethiopians, the Spaniards, Poles, Finne, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, and French. Ruthless aggres sors have spared no treasure of person or possession. Now they 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,
turned back for good?
"Give me fifty over-age American destroyers", he said, "and I will guarantee to cut our shipping losses by considerably more than 50 per cent."
.
It was very close. The captain sent the des- troyer full speed ahead and great walls of water circled
around the bows and lashed. our faces as we clung to the rocking bridge.
"Stand by, depth charges!" "Fire one!
"Fire two!
"Fire threel"
Three big tins hurtled from the stern. There was a mo- silence after they ment's
The commodore of the convoy signalled an emergency turn and the whole convoy veered in unison to starboard and plodded
miles into the middle of the con- at twenty-five knots and raced voy, Such long range shots, beyond the inverted convoy. which U-boat captains are said After twenty minutes I began to favour increasingly, are hit to think that "Heart Disease" splashed. Then the whole sur- seemed to or miss. They generally have merely had had jitters. Sud- face of the water less effect when they hit and denly a blue and yellow "attack" shiver and the ship rocked air around 19 this is why many ships lately hit signal ran up her yard and she crazily. The by torpedoes have been dam- loosed 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 signalled a sloop that had joined lunged to attack,
13
Tho
The
There was a new patch of oil, 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
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 Our captain' answered: "I Our destroyer was more than In the gathering darkness our thirty feet from us. It was a think he's dead. I can find no twenty years old but she could search was virtually hopeless, torpedo, but it appeared to be trace of him now."' + do thirty knots without strain- We were drenched to the skin spent.
Sunderland hovered ing and could turn around on when we gave up and rejoined
around the convoy the rest of Our detectors had A big Sunderland flying boat the day, a dime. Her captain told me the convoy. proudly that he could stop her not picked up a trace of the appeared overhead. Our signal- dead within. her own length U-boat. We found twenty-six lamp flashed. "U-boat some- the flying boat and the surface when moving at twelve knots. survivors from the freighter, where around here" and like a Our operation orders were to but five were missing and pre- big bird the Sunderland banked take an outwardbound convoy to sumed killed by the torpedo ex- and began skimming the water
ahead of us. Amoke flame. of range of subs, and then pick The next day a U-boat paid dropped from her wing and she up an incoming convey and for the lucky shot. It was-circled-back-to-it. I saw a shepherd it through the danger slightly calmer. We had just bomb leave her racks and ex-
a point near mid-Atlantic, out plosion.
THE GLASS AGE
HAS
ARRIVED
that the new barbarism shall be glass manufacturers dic. In other words, they break IR raids are making work Glasses dim and grow wet and
search to discover a new, cheap, examples have been lost to the and inspiring intensified re- to pieces, and many wonderful unbreakable window glass. world in this fashion.
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 largely unseen struggle of civili- zation against barbarism to-day. Every pilot of the Royal Air Force, every bargee at the Thames docks, every humble 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 propaganda, all weighing of past mistakes, that is the simple fact.
covered by accident. A French The first safety glass was dis- chemist dropped a bottle and was surprised to find that its fragments held together through a celluloid film from an evaporated mixture of chemicals which the bottle had contained. Now there is a glass so strong that it will bend long before breaking point. It is made of two sheets of glass with a space between filled with specially treated glass. Even when the outer sheath breaks, the filling runs away like sand.
frying-pans, long since became Glass cookery utensils, even familiar. To-day the origina- tors of heat-resistant glass. have produced a "shrunk glass" capa- ble of standing up to a tempera- ture change of 3,600 degs. One of its oddities is that, after its first fashioning, it has to go into the oven again and be shrunk, hence the name.
Another new kind of fireproof can be twisted, pierced with mails, even planed like wood, Armour-plate glass has been evolved from sand, soda, and lime. It withstands the shock of heavy gunfire and refuses to splinter.
Signal lamps blinked between
boat saying:
"Good bye." "God bless you." "You too,
And the Rying boat disap- peared into the dusk, in the direction of England.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
Član 1800 by United Pillar TradeSIA,
ABNER DEAN
"I can't confida in nobody to-day it says so in my
horoscope!"
Glass has uncertain habits. It can become ill. It can be Those who cherish the best frightened to death. The mala- the human spirit has known dies of sick glass are known to-
every expert collector of fine When smashed the fragments sense this situation. They are pieces. The housewife knows remain together, making the not like the animal which can how glass that has been boxed glass gas-proof.
Among its lose a leg without knowing it. up for years will lose its lustre. domestic uses is a glass even And they must give thanks daily The connoisseur knows of door to enable the cook to know for the kind of champions that glass-sickness which hair-cracks what is happening inside the now defend civilization. The the entire surface of a vessel, oven. spirit of the British people
Then there is one-way glass- against odds which no one dared | staying power comes from the millions of tiny crystals so ar- count is beyond praise. Its
ranged to comb out the light are coming into demand. I wool, and furniture are emerg- magnificent courage has been
that you can see out, but cannot have worn a glass shirt im- ing. see in. It is useful in hotels ported before. the war from I have seen a man playing on truly voiced by Mr. Winston Churchill, its spiritual strength
They will not break up or arrive at and blocks of offices where Germany. It was indistinguish a glass fiddle. I have heard a by Lord Halifax. And its mighbours for they have much dozens of windows face a com- able from any other shirt ex- shipping man discussing the
continence of character, as they ever mon courtyard,
copt that it did not get dirty so now processes of painting · a heroic self-sacrifico by the little
«dship with liquid glass, home-owner near a vital airport Emmerson wrote that a hundred To save metal, we shall soon quickly.
We are living in the glass age." who surveyed the ruins of his years ago, 'It is true to-day, bo using glass door bolts, and Nowadays, you can. live: in house and said: When they hit And all who give thanks for to save wood, glass rolling-pins. a glass house, without black-out Some people living in pro- us they miss the aerodrome." those who stand's stancbly in Glass cloth and finely-spun, troubles. Glass bricks can be toughened glass houses to-day But one of the most confident the front line can find means of glass-silk, impervious to the obtained in black or light proof can afford to throw stones with tributes to the British people's making their gratitude effective, troubles of ordinary fabrics, glass. Glass "paper," thread, Impunity,
writings of an American:
Lat who will fall, England will not, These people have sat here a thousand years, and here will continue to sit. any desperate revolution, Uke their
had.
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