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Screenplay by ARTHUR 1 HORMAN - Based on anginal story by Solly Sandlin and Michel Kraka 28 Directed by ARTHUR LUBIN • Associate Producer: KEN GOLDSMITH

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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.

"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 fly. in nightly attack on London and the South-Eastern

area.

TO BE IN WAR

CABINET?

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ed by Mr. E. Granville (L. Nat., Press censorship and administra Eye, Suffolk) if the voluntary Hon of Defence Regulation No. 3 instead of the Service departments. by the Ministry of Informatión, '

now represents the considered policy of the War Cabinet; and ... whether the Minister of Informa-

tending their meetings.

The vessel used was formerly aircraft, but none appeared and tion will be made a member of a favourite excursion ship, but the vessel returned to harbour."--that body instead. of merely- 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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"Half an hour out came the warning: 'Hostile aircraft proaching.'

"The gun crews

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ap-

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at

"A Heinkel passed over about 10,000 feet, but it seem- ed more eager to try and get at one of the great R.A.F. aero. dromes that dot the shore-line that to try conclusions

with the chip's pom-pom guns for which, said the Captain, Ger- man airmen have a marked distaste.

Raid On French Coast

"A little further out we passed

a concentration of Britishi de- stroyers which, I was told, were probably preparing to raid.. the French coast-n not infrequent operation nowadays by British light forces, who like to singe Hitler's wingsTMTM now” and then, much as Drake used to harry the Spunish coast 350 years ago,

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

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

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

"The warning was echoed from the bridge all through the ship. The Captain ordered Action

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their weapons), while pattering feet over the deck told that every man, was running to stand by. Searchlight Cuts Sky

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

1 could ace one with tho

naked eye, scudding againot

真盘

In

+ moon's wrack and the searchlights held him

he

•sitot acros our stern.

"Our pom-poms crashed out. deafening. chorus,^ lighting, up. the whole ship with the flash of blue and white, explosions. We did not hit him, but maybɛ we acted the part of beaters for another sportsman, for within a few minutes another plane ap- proached the from the Urection in which the nider had just die- appeared and dropped recognition flares. that showed he way. Bri- tish

Stalking His Prey

"Even as the ship was firing, the British plané. had been stalk- ing its prey across the open; sca. aided perhaps by the flashes of our guns.

"The ranjainder of the night. "passed without chation, other German aircraft staying: vary. high, out of rango, ama **HA/specia] watch was, kept në ulways for cnomy; inine-laying

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