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October 21, · 1940.
BRITISH CONVOY
By Brydon Tavas
United Pross Spacial Correspondent
Aboard a British dostroyer, 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 thất hundreds of ships are entering and leaving British ports each week.
German submarine and air area to constal watera, 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 munning 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. Thoro 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- nian 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 sprend 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, and a sister of charity lead-
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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 stern. It came from the oppo- quickly as it wheeled around site side of the convoy and the that in a moment our bows were torpedo must have passed scooping up mountains of sea, through the column of ships 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 signalled an emergency turn and the whole convoy veered in unison to starboard and plodded
Hongkong Telegraph.ing a bunch of orphans across safe distance of as much as five on.
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Champions of Civilization
Or
IT is and that some animals can lose a leg without knowing it. Is civilization like that? 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 Ethiopiana, the Spaniards, Poles, Finns, 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, that the new barbarism shall be turned back for good?
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 officer in a convoy control room in a West coast port told me, just before I sailed.
"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."-
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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 sont 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 three!"
The torpedo was fired from n
We swung into a "sweep" miles into the middle of the con- nt twenty-five knots and racel
Three big tins hurtled from voy. Such long range shots, beyond the inverted convoy.
the stern. There was a mo- which U-boat captains are said After twenty minutes I began ment's silence after they to favour increasingly, are hit to think that "Heart Disease" splashed. Then the whole sur- or miss. They generally have merely had hal jitters. Sud- face of the water aeemed 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 # 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 Inter, 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. us that morning to, help track We fired depth charges. Some down the U-boat, while the one on the bridge shouted. A The smaller warship nicknamed line of bubbles and spray moved "What do you think?” was sent to pick up survivors. across the port how, 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
There was a new patch of oil, spreading and bubbling. Our detectors heard nothing more.
Sunderland signalled:
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.
Our destroyer was more than twenty years old but she could do thirty knots without strain- ing and could turn around on 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 dead within her own length U-boat.
a trace of the appeared overhead. Our signal Signal lamps blinked between We found twenty-six lamp flashed "U-boat some the ying boat and the surface when moving at twelve knots. survivors from the freighter, where around here" and like a boat saying:
Our operation orders were to but five were missing and pre- big bird the Sunderland banked
"Good bye." take an outwardbound convoy to sumed killed by the torpedo ex- and began skimming the water "God bless you." of range of subs, and then pick a point near mid-Atlantic, out plosion.
ahead of 8. A moko flame "You too." The_next_day_a_U-boat_paid_dropped from her wing and she.
And_the_flying_boat_disap
up an incoming convoy and for the lucky shot. It was circled back to it. I saw a peared into the dusk, in the shepherd it through the danger slightly calmer. We had just bomb leave her racks and ex- direction of England.
THE GLASS
HAS
AGE ARRIVED
Gloss in other words,
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AIR ralds are making works
for glass manufacturers die. In other words, they break and inspiring intensified to pieces, and many wonderful search to discover a new, cheap, examples have been lost to the unbreakable window glass.
re-
world in this fashion.
The first safety glass was dis- Glass cookery utensils, even covered by accident. A Frerich frying-pans, long since becaine chemist, dropped a bottle and familiar, Today, the origina- was surprised to find that tors of heat-resistant glass have its fragments held together produced a "shrunk glass" capa- through a celluloid film from an ble of standing up to a tempera- evaporated mixture of chemicals ture change of 3,000 degs. One which the bottle had contained. of its oddities is that, after its Now there is a glass so strong first fashioning, it has to go that it will bend long before into the oven again and be breaking point. It is made of shrunk, hence the name. 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.
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 totalitarinns' twisted propaganda, all weighing of past Glass has uncertain habits. mistakes, that is the simple fact. 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 sense this situation. They are pieces. The housewife knows not like the animal which can how glass that has been boxed lose a leg without knowing it.up for years will lose its lustre. And they must give thanks daily The connoisseur knows of for the kind of champions that glass-sickness which hair-cracks now defend civilization. The the entire surface of a vessel. spirit of the British people against odds which no one dared count is beyond. praise. Its magnificent courage has been truly voiced by Mr. Winston Churchill, its spiritual strength by Lord Halifax.
staying power comes from the writings of an American:
Another new kind of fireproof can be twisted, pierced with nails, even planed like wood. Armour-plate glass has been evolved from sand, soda, and of heavy gunfire and refuses to Hime. It withstands the shock
splinter.
When smashed the fragments remain together, making the glass gas-proof. Among its domestic uses in a glass oven door to enable the cook to know what is happening inside the oven.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
Čage, 1530 By Vries Fioláre deudesta, Indi
DEAN
"I can't confide in. nobody to-day horoscope!"
'it says so in my
Then there is one-way glass- millions of tiny crystals so ar- ranged to comb out the light are coming into demand. I wool, and furniture aro emerg- Lat who will fail, England will not, that you can see out, but cannot have worn a glass shirt im ing. These people have sat here a thousand
sec in. It is useful in hotels ported before the war from I have seen a man playing on Year, and here will continue to sit.
will not break up or strive at and blocks of offices where Germany. It was indistinguish a glass fiddle. I have heard a any desperate revolution. like And its
the dozens of windows face a com- able from any other shirt ox- shipping man discussing the neighbours; for they have as mucli Fontinence of character, as they over mon courtyard.
cept that it did not get dirty so new processes of painting a find.
Emerson wrote that a hundred To save metal, we shall soon quickly.
ship with liquid glass. years ago. It is true to-day.be using glass door bolts, and Nowadays, you can live in We're living in the ginss age. And all who give thanks for to save wood, glass rolling-pins, a glass house, without black-out Some people living in pro- those who stand so stanchly, in Glass cloth and finely-spun troubles. Glass bricks can be toughened glass houses to-day the front line can find means of glass-silk, impervious to the obtained in black or light proof can afford to throw stones with making their gratitude effective.troubles of ordinary fabrics, glass. Glass "paper," thread, Impunity.
heroic self-sacrifice by the little home-owner near a vital airport who surveyed the ruins of his house and said: "When they hit us they miss the aerodrome.”
But one of the most confident tributes to the British people's
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