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I'VE SEEN
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ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESS- I've seen my first air FUL CARS EVER MADE BY raid. Taken cover in
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By
IRIS CARPENTER
Iris Carpontor is a well- married, with two children, known London journalist. Sho and lives in south-cast Eng- land. During the first pharo of the air war against Britain she was at home when an air her. Dospite the horror and battle blazed into life above
naise of it all she recorded what she saw and felt. Hor description of the battle is as vivid as anything that has 10 far been written by observers of war, 1940.
THE DESTROYERS COME TO SAVE
By "Strategicus"
In the state of uneasy waiting into which the war has drifted the welcome addition of the re-conditioned de- troyers from the United States mark a significant change. They are of course old types; but very similar to one of the classes of British destroyers which has done excellent work. They are gunned sufficiently and have an anti-aircraft defence that will protect them ́against a menace which has arisen since they last saw active ser- vice. Their number can best be measured by the re- flection that they represent almost thirty per cent. of the destroyer strength with which Britain entered the war.
It is not so obvious, that this good, and the risks of invasión reinforcement will appreciably are to that extent increased.. affect the military situation. The appreciation of this fact Clearly it must increase the may drive Germany to chance difficulties of any attempted in her luck at once. In any case vasion; and this is the purpose the weather will begin to de- of Germany's present activity teriorate in a few weeks' time; and the prospect of the rein- against Britain."
JOURNALISTS AS THE IDEAL Sity instead of caution. ̧ I've filled with experience RADIATOR GRILLE. BETTER the fabric of imagination LOOKING ALL ROUND, MORE concerning those graphic EFFECTIVE ROOM IN THE REAR COMPARTMENT, MORE phrases we've read so often LUGGAGE SPACE AND A HOST these past months.-Roar of
guns
Thud of bombs Scream of 'planes. Chatter of machine guns!
I've wondered so often what it would all be like if the threat
The plethora of air-raids can have forcement of the destroyer force no other explanation. They attempt may persuade her to strike at should ever materialise to make the bit of sky above "our" bit against the blue sky, in a long to destroy the Royal Air Force by once if she means to strike at
Sombing is aerodromes and the all. drawn scream to earth.
acroplane factories. But the de-
There is, however, another direc of the world black with menace,
struction of the Royal Air Force is The silence following the crash only a means to a further end, the tlon in which the reinforcement will If Death should ride some moon came sharp as the jolt with invasion and destruction of Britain, be even more welcome. The Service commanders do not fear the In- light night or some bright which one falls off a cliff in al From the first Germany has been vesion; but it has to be admitted that "our" dream. Silence broken almost under the necessity of seeking the lack of sufficiency of smaller before it fell by, the same ghastly speedy decision and for some months. naval vessels has had an appreciable never noise again... and again . '. It has been obvious that only the effect upon the shipping losses.
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During the lust four weeks the
been
sunny morning, garden. Somehow 1 28, 1940, thought it would.
But there has recently risen above Figures, for the eight weeks since Therese Maria Vieira, aged 24 years, dearly beloved daughter of Never thought that with all I had broken the rule of all the horizon new factor which the capitulation of France are now Mc. and Mrs. J.
Alves its dread insistence this war honourable and law abiding makes the need of a decision even available; and though those of the
recond four weeks show u inore, imperative.
dicerense Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 pan, to-day, (Singapore, would ever hurt itself at little Instead of remaining safely citizens without realising it.
of thirteen per cent. in sinkings. Macau, Shanghai and
Goebbels and itler have made it they are still too heavy for comfort. papers please copy).
insignificant bits of my world under cover, I found myself clear that the British at offensive. It was of course, inevitable that like my little shopping area, my standing at the top of the steps which for so long they affected to fosses should increase. Germany is ugore, is really injuring Germany in now in possession of the Dutch, bit of rond, the flelds and woods leading down to the shelter material as well as in inorate. Belgian and French Atlantie ports:
Mother instinet, however, had
the French fleet is no longer avail- where my children play. It made me shut the shelter door recognises he must defeat Britain. compets the Royal Navy to divide its To check this offensive Hitler able and the Italian fleet at least seemed so silly that anything so
He has found it impossible to force ferees. These factors were bound to big could ever be so small and
Drama streaked towards me back the Royal Air Force concen- have their effect; and indeed it is
tration suffelently
from personal:
The from every part of the sky.
risen more. But that's the way it is.
Right above my house a Spitfire cost to secure a chance of landing edible that the losses have not an expeditionary force tinder cover and a Messerschmitt banked and of his Air Force, cross-Channel guns To-day I've picked up scores dived and spat fire at one an- and small naval vessels; and in any weekly sinkings have twice of machine gun bullets from my other in the first dog-fight I have case he would have to dent with the over 70,000 tons; but on one occasion
Navy.
they were as low as 30,007. Though lawn and among my roseя. A ever seen. Three other planes
and though vary Gloomy before, the outlook is now they naturally Dornier bomber flew across my British or German' it was im- en admitted that the surrender of shipping tonnage than at the out- joined them in a flask whether almost completely forbidding. It has Urilain is now in control of more bears the indication "U" in recolved in Houskone on the date of publication by garden no higher than the trees the United Press Associations, who re-
possible to say.
Fronce gravely changed the naval break of the war, the losses are serve all rights and forbid repubiteation, which fringe it. I could see either wholly or in part without previous each member of the crew clearly
situation; and, even when the French serious in view of the wide and The noise was deafening. Yet, capital ships were dealt with, the widening range of uses to which the enough to distinguish features. and the scream of diving planes handicap.
however loud the roar of engines shortage of smaller craft remained & shipping has now, to be put.
That effective steps pre being The first of the dozen bombs became, nothing seemed to cover IT is interesting to speculate on the dropped created a large crater the sharp rattle of machine guns considerable extent been made fall of thirteen per cent. In the last
That shortage has now to a bounds
taken to keep the sinkings withhi ran be gathered from the possibilities of Hitler's grand diplo mucy in Europe to-day for it gives behind our garden. The plane s burst after burst clattered us a glance at the enormous difficul- itself is spilt over the field from planes streaked away, smoke find them playing the gramo-beth of the destroy
four weeks as compared with the preveding period. Liltle more could apl to seem terrifying to us on the which earlier in the morning we pouring from them. Mustn't phone, unaware of all that hadtrength of the destroyer force,
increase in Allied side if we nilow the mere bulk had gathered blackberries for think they'll all crash," I said. been going on over their heads. of the pro-Axis or Axis-influenced our luncheon pie. world to dominate our thoughts,
"They may be putting up a My son was indignant at boing the situation in the Mediterranean. Should Hitler's dream come true, We had just served luncheon smoke screen to get away.' kept "cooped up." "If this is Capital ships owe their security very Spain and France will turn offensive when the sirens wailed. There weapons on the British Isles to make was nothing to tell us that the ning the roads, added to the in- "there might just as well not be that is they owe their effective Dive bombers, machine-gun- going on," he said, bitterly, largely to the smaller craft which attend them when they leave port: a complete and hostile wall of Euro-warning would herald anything ferno and made me run quickly any raids at all."
mobility to cruisers and destroyers. exception of Portugal whose influence more exciting than previous down the steps of the shelter. A friend came_in_from_next Everyone recognises the desir- on our behalf would be negligible ones had done. Twice-we-had-1-got a good view from the bot door with a cup of ten. She has ability of bringing the elusive Italian with such powerful enemies behind heard distant gunfire. Once lier,
toni, with a margin of safety an electric kettle in her shelter means easy in so great a sen as the Navy to battle; but this is by no nothing at all-not even the from behind the parapet of sand- and can accordingly provide hot Mediterranean, particularly It may be that Spain has been drone of an airplane. promised the restoration of Portugal
bags with which the entrance to drinks there at any hour of the Italy, despite losses, still has a large the shelter is protected.
number of submarines at her dis- day or night.
posal. There was a roar like thunder
We had just started gratefully behind me as a huge Dornier to drink it when a fresh fight
The great enemy of the sub- came slowly over the trees, fol- developed with the arrival of an-marine is the destroyer. With "Let's take lunch down to the lowing the railway line which other Dornier. Again it was its modern detecting apparatus Lon of Colonies until she is better shelter," they suggested. Each runs beside our garden. A Spit- only just above the trees, com-and great speed the destroyer equipped to share the race.
carrying a plate of roast beef fire screamed out of the sky in ing towards us and losing height can pick up and trace the sub- The actual effect of a successful and vegetables (yes, we still a four-hundred-mile-an-hour dive so rapidly it seemed that it must marine to its hiding place; and Hitler diplomacy would not add have roast beef in Britain) and right over him. Fired a stac- crash into the garden. Actu-when that is accomplished the greatly to the weight of attack one of blackberry pie and cream cato burst, sonred to engage a ally it came down about a quar-submarine's days are over. That Britain jas to susinín. French
Spanish troops would we walked through the garden Messerschmitt which had come ter of a mile away in the black- The United States destroyers, in hardly fight with vigour against to our first underground meat, down after him to the bombers' berry field. It was the plane giving the Mediterranean Beet they don't want to fight anybody now The drone of aircraft as we wheeled in a thrumming cres- brought down with rifle fire Italian fleet to action. No one in
protection. Together these two which a platoon of Home Guards greater mobility, will greatly in
crease its chance of bringing the and secondly because their grievances went through the garden was cendo of noise away out of sight from their post a little way up Britain has any doubt about the re- against the Altles ure more theoretical then real, Their feets very great. "Must be our craft over the trees. and air forces are not considerable. off to attack" we thought..
Germany already has all the bases little dreaming they were Ger-
tles that lie behind moves which are
peon nations about ur-with
the
to the old empire Costille if that The children-I have a daugh staunch little ally should prove anter of ten and a son of nine impediment, to total warfare conduct-
ed from the entire Iberian Peninsula. were hungry.
If such a bargain has not yet been
struck, maybe it is beenuse Germany
doesn't want to see another disposi
the Alles because for one reason
my
More Spitfires appeared
the road.
radius.
was
A dozen came down in quick
•
The destroyers will also Improve
when
sult of any such clash; and the effect of an Italiari defeat would be Immediately felt over the eastern
in Ня faster units
motter of mere speculation. But her
in France that she needs for her raids man planes pussing right over magnificent in their ruthless and All around us to-day is strewn Mediterranean. on England. If she had Spanish help our heads in waves. We could spectacular tenacity as a shat- evidence of the price the Nazi | Even apart from a defent, any in- in launching an attack on Gibraltar, not see them. In a deep blue tering crump throbbed its way Air Force paid. One bomber crease of the British Navy in this and if that attack were successful, the cloudless sky they were at such up from the ground. British fleet would not greally mind
..right wrecked itself and the pence of jaren especially
will improve its patrolling power, being "trapped" In the Meditera height as to be invisible to the up through my bones to bump our churchyard, Another littera and to that extent increasingly re- Fanean. They would still have to be naked eye.
stomach. So far under- the gardens of the group of cot-strict the radius of action and In- wiped out and neither Italian war-
ground that was the most I could tages in which our gardener fluence of the Italian Navy. ships nor German bombers could
We had settled with some feel physically of the concussion lives. There
On paper this is a strong and are dozens of bring that to pass.
amusement to the intricacy of of the first bomb I heard fall on others within R few miles' celent Bghting force; and while it A battle of Infantry, would have to balancing a plate on our knees my native land.
Is undefeated and retains a certain be fought and a logical scene for such and were half way through the
amount of Uberly every State which a battle discounting an invasion of beef. The shelter door
the Mediterranean must feel borders the My greengrocer and the man ite Influence. Great Britain would be North
ment captured No Africn. Happily we have had time open to give us fresh air as long succession. I experienced sad- who serves my
knows what Italy means to prepare our plans.
as possible. The highest note ness for brave men who must the crew of one plane. They by her "bullying of Greece. Her The Balkans have long been a sound I have ever heard, like a die, horror at the manner of shewed me the plane's camera, nonoeuvres in Syria are similarly a melting pot of policies, racial war- fiddle string at breaking point, their dying, admiration for the When it was all over, my mind broad design is to break British fare and commercial jugglery. The began in a whisper.
courage of the pilots in the was tense, packed with every power in the Near East. ao-called adherence to the Axis of
nerve-rending excitement of air emotion to create hate. The British naval concentration in Hungary and Rumania, the hesitation In far less than a second of combat.
Hate such as I never dreamed with the Italian Navy. But with
that arca s of Bulgaria and the trepidation of time. it had become the most ear- Yugo-Slavia need not worry us much splitting and horrifying noise 1 These had cleared thought of
I could experience for the things this new Increase in strength. It will now. Hitler has exposed their fundamental weaknesses; he will find have ever heard. I know it in the dread purpose of it all, which that had been done in this little be able to forbid any hope of pront- it much more difficult pour them stinctively for what it was a was to drop these monstrous district I call "home." To peoing by the attempted seizure of ports Into the Axis mould,
Innd offensive plane hurling through the sky to missiles so as to harrow the soll ple I know ... vehement, sear in Greece and make With Turkey and Russia standing destruction. It made me, in the and numb the heart; to hurt ing hate against the regime that It wil
will have its affect even on the grimly expectant on the Reich's utter and complete meaning of people, ordinary people who have can cause these things to happen, East of Africa where the
recent ad- artificial frontiers, Hiller must be that graphic American expres. done nothing to deserve it, to Insignificant, puny hate when I vince in Kenya shows that Italy careful not to strain his now found sion, "sic in the atomuch."
Duisance allies. They represent so much dead
hurt them dreadfully, to break come to set it against the vast means to exploit, har up their bodies and split open when I come to reflect how many Italy and its influence upon neutrals weight and are likely to do so for
canvas of the war, but important to the full.
The effect upon the morale of Oddly, it didn't occur to me their homes. some time. Greece Is a "different matter, but it is certainly unlikely that it could be an English plane.
other ordinary unimportant must also be taken into accounts Ar any ultimatum, to this plucky I said: "Poor, poor beggar" and With the bombing over, overy-women are hating too, Just as one stroke the war situation every little country will be accepted with "Oh God, how horrible, as I thing seemed to stop for, a little vehemently and saying as where has been changed.* Even out a fight in which the British Navy would help to give the Axis a metallisaw him plunge-smoke pouring while I went into the shelter I am; "No one is going to get where the change is slight is alguie and completo answer
In fantastic feather plume to see how the children were, to away with this sort of thing.cant and in several directions
must be very considerable. Y
that
|valueless,
is quite sumclent to dent
value.