1940-10-12 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 12, 1940,

SUBMARINE GETS HOMEBLIND VILLAGERS

THE BRITISH submarine Sealion, which at- tacked a U-boat and sank three German transports and an anti-submarine ship in the Norway cam- *paign, has returned to a Scottish base after another

"adventure cruise." During it she

Fought a surface battle with a U-boat;

Sank a 3,300-tons store ship; Crept inside a German convoy outside an enemy naval base and. had her periscopes torn away; in a collision;

Spent hours on the sea-bed while depth charges were dropped; Spent, two days in German waters while the crew effected re- pairs on the surface; and' voyaged home "blind", by a masterpiece of navigation.

When the Scalion sighted the U-boat two miles away, on the surface, the German's position was unfavourable for torpedo attack. So the Sealion surfaced too, and opened with her guns.

A choppy sea. made firing diff-

cult, but the Sealion's third shot

landed beside the U-boat.

'The

German submerged and made off.

After two days searching the North Sea for German ships the store ship was sighted inshore--

and was sunk.

Depth Charges

R. A. F.

EAGLE

SQUADRON

RAID ANXIETY

I have spoken to some villagers who were victims of Hitler's favourite prac- tice of working on civilian nerves. There were no casualties in the village, which is not very far from an aerodrome, writes “a correspondent.

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There were, however, deliberate attempts to terrorise the inhabi- tants of a row of small houses and THE to scare people out for Sunday walks in the lanes."

that the

It was inconceivable bomb, the 8ft crater of which I in-

The Royal Air Force is spected, could have been directed at any militarý objective, One of to have an American the seven occupants of an Ander- son shelter within a yard of the squadron carrying on the crater is convinced that the ob- tradition of the Escad-icct of the attack was sheer ter-

rorism.

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rille Lafayette, who per- formed great deeds with and machine-gun fire, she said, "and suddenly we were flung to the French forces in the the back of the shelter, and it felt as though our ear-drums would burst.

last war.

The squadron, which is being young Mr. Charles Sweeny, will be known officially as the Eagle Squadron.

The submarine crept near a formed by German naval base and there at last saw some German shipping

four merchant vessels surrounded by a large number of naval units and anti-submarine ship.

Commander Bryant, D.S.C., manoeuvred among the vessels. He was preparing to torpedo a .9,000-tons vessel at close range when by chance the ship altered course and made for the, sub- .marine.

The Sealion just managed to avoid being rammed.

as

a

The convoy split up. Individual ships began to steer zig-zag

Just course.

another ship came into range the German crew spotted the Sealion's peris- course and came

cope, changed

to ram her,

These young cagles will num- ber about forty. Some are already flying with the R.A.F. Others are cxpected here shortly,

Soldier Of Fortune

Holes In Shelter Steel

"When we came out we found that the bomb had dropped within five feet of the entrance and that

holes had been made in parts of the steel covering of the

trance."

en-

A shed nearby was demolish. ed by a shell from one of the German aeroplanes, which many people saw approaching at what they described as "bun- galow height."

Air Commodore of the Eagle Squadron will be Colonel Charles Sweeny-"Sweeny of the Legion " the world's most colourful soldier chine-gun, and a woman told me

It raked the road with its nia of_fortune.

The younger Charles Sweeny, who is associated

City financial house, is the Colonel's nephew.

with

a

how she had crouched in the hedge as it came over and heard

the bomb as it the whistle of

fell.

Yet in the evening there was no Colonel

millionaire's Sweeny,

to son, went

West Point, the sign of nerves or panic. Every- talk of their He body was eager to

The submarine crew felt a United States Sandhurst. grinding shock.

Then

depth wanted adventure. He found it in adventure, and although they do charges began to explode. Mexico, guerrilla fighting-on the not want a repetition it was ob against Presidentious that their morale was un- had gone, losing side The two periscopes

shaken. the first of With no "eyes" to see, the sub-Diaz," and receiving marine submarged. While depth many wounds. charges exploded all round them they crept away along the sea bed.

Fixed Aerial

the

He went to Morocco in 1914, hastened back to Paris when war seemed imminent, and enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He was most daring of the many daring Hours later the Sealion-sur-spirits of the Legion. At the bat- faced, still near the naval base. tle of the Marne he captured Only two men at... a time were single-handed a German machine- allowed: on deck to inspect gun.

damage.

The forward periscope was lash- ing about, threatening to cause damage. A heavy sea was run-

ning.

Major In A Day

After two years of hazard he was caught by a machine-gun. He Yet the crew, working in re-crawled to a shell-hole. In has- lays, cut part. of the wreckage pital the Cross of the Legion of adrift and secured the rest.

Honour was pinned on his breast. He had already received Croix de Guerre and numerous

mentions."

Deck rails had been wholly torn away. Chief Petty Officer R. Clark crawled along 30ft: of the submarine to fix a jury aerial and re-establish contact with the base.

The damage could not be re- paired. in a night. So for another day, with enemy ships still hunt-

the

In 1917 he went home to be- come an American private drilled by boy officers. Within 36 hours he was a major.

ing her, the Sealion lay on the Recovered from another wound, ocean bed. After dark she sur-received towards the end of the faced. The repairs were com-war, he found more fighting, help-- pleted.

fing the Poles against the Russians. “Blindness" making her use. In 1925 he turned up again in less for further operations Morocco, where the Riffs were against enemy ships, the Sealion turbulent, and this time he took slowly moved out of enemy to the air. An Escadrille Lafayette, Awdwaters and so home.

which he organised, once again helped the French.

"It's not easy to achieve big results now," a member of her crew said. "There are so few German targets to torpedo.!!

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The dare-devil courage of the original Escadrille has inspired several: American air-ace films of the past.

Soven young Americans, enlist- ed, like Colonel Sweeny, in the Foreign Legion; and transferred

the

An order for 20,000,000 yards in 1916 to the French air force, of cambrics for Java, valued about formed.. the... nucleus of £500,000, has been placed in Lan-Escadriile.

...The insignia of the

cashire. Before the war Java squadron was a Red Indian's bought mostly from Holland. It head.

is the largest single export order. placed in the Lancashire cotton industry for many years and will be shared among several firms, Negotiations were conducted under the guidance of the Cotton Board.

FOR NIGHT FIGHT

Two of the `savon "survived the war. They were. Witflo Thaw and Bert Hall,

Last year another Escadrille Lafayette was formed in France. The machinca had the same Red Indian badge, the pilots used the bar that the Americans of 21 years ago: had used; and, as the Pilot Offr. Charles P. D. Price, Americans had done, they kept a who, by skilful manoeuvring in battle of whisky which could be a night fight between his bomber drunke only by pilots who had and three Messerschmidt 110s, brought down an enemy aeroplane. enabled one of the enemy to be But this time... there were no shot down and another damaged, Americans. The Squadron was bue been awarded the

till-French

One anxiety in the neighbour- hood seemed to be the where- abouts of the cats, which at the first sound of air activity fled and have not been seen since.

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