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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1940:

NIGHT OUT WITH THE

NAVY: ON NIGHT RAID INTELLIGENCE PATROL

A BRANCH OF THE NAVY'S war effort about which little is known was last night exposed for the first time to civilian inspection, says Reuter's special”. correspondent with the Home Fleet.

TO BE IN WAR

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ed by Mr. E. Granville (L Nat., Eye, Suffolk) if the voluntary Press consorship and administra

"My first assignment as correspondent with the Home Fleet was to sail in one of the ships which carry out intelligence and anti-aeroplane work in the narrow waters over which German bombers flytion of Defence Regulation No. 3 in nightly attack on London and the South-Eastern

area.

The vessel used was, formerly aircraft, but none appeared and a favourite excursion ship, but the vessel returned to harbour." to-day she, bristles with guns and Reuter. searchlights and is manned by reservists representing all callings from farm labourers to a London. stage manager.

"We left a South-Eastern port in the late afternoon, passing. | Dutch, French and British war- ships, and a great mass of “mer- chant ships which still chug un- der convoy, through the Straits

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by the Ministry of Information, instead of the Service departments;

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Lion-will be made a member that body instead of merely, tending their meetings,

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of Dover like fast freight trains. OF FAMOUS PRODUCTIONS OF BY GONE DAYS!

"Half, an hour out come the warning: Hostile aircraft ap- proaching.'

"The gun crews

jumped to it.

immediately,

"A Heinkel -passed· over mat about -10,000 feet, but it seem- seeds, more Ceager to try and get at one of the great R.A.F. aero- "dromés" that dot the shore-line

than

with to try conclusions the ship's pom pom guns for which, said the Captain, Ger

man airmen have a marked distaste.

Raid On French Coast

we passed a concentration of British de- stroyers "which, I was told, were probably preparing to raid" the French coast-n not infrequent operation nowadays by British Boht forces, who like to singe

·Hitler's 'wings "now" and then, much as Drake used to harry the Spanish coast 350 years ago.

"Surprise approach and the | shelling of German-occupied, coast those are the tactics these light forces employ.

"A little further on ♥

It was dark, with a faint- ly glimmering moon when the| distant humming proclaimed the approach of hostile. - air- craft.

"Eight thousand red seventy- eight" yelled the spotter, mean- Ing that the raiders were 8,000 yards away on the port bow.

"The varning was echoed from the bridge all through the ship. The Captain ordered Action Stations and gun crews trained their weaponis, while pattering feet over the deck told that every man was running to stand by.

Searchlight Cuts Sky

"The drone of the raiders was now quite close and searchlights suddenly cut through the night sky. They must have taken the raiders completely by surprise.

I could see one with the- naked eye, scudding against * moon's' wrack and the searchlights "hold" him... · as he 'shot" across, our stern. Our pom-poms crashed out in deafening chorus, lighting up the whole ship with the"flash of blue and white; explosions. "We did not hit him; but maybe. we acted the part of beaters for another sportsman, for within a few minutes another plane ap pranched the from the direction in which the raider, had just dis- appeared und dropped recognition dares that showed ho was Bri-

ish

Stalking His Prey

"Even as the ship was firing, 'the British' ''pláne had been stalk- ing its prey across the open seu aided perhaps by the finalies of nur guns...

The remainder of the night passed without action, other German aircraft staying very

•high, out of range. St "A special watch was kept as always for enemy - mine-laying":

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