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Seeks Enemy

We had sailed from our base on

The sky cruisers and destroyers. was grey and lowering, and the weather forecast name too good,

charges British leaders a winter's evening capital ships! with doing, Britain show- ed that she would have welcomed a peaceful set- tlement of the German claims against Poland if this could have been ach- ieved by anything ap-under the lee of the land. proaching real negotia- spray, soon to be succeeded by

tion.

Soon after moving out to sea through the narrow entrance in: he boom, one felt the ship curt-

seying to the first of the swell, i The Wind freshened and the Sta increased as we drew out from

Heavy

ly, to roll a little.

An hour or two later the clouds had started to disperse. Through the masses of frayed out cirrus

100 driving overhead a bright and clusters of stars shone down

upon us.

By "Taffrail"

Just back from a speil with the Home Fleet.

are probably the hardest worked ships in the fleet, and among the

most comfortless.

Ready To Meet The Foe

There was little reat sleep on board our ship. Most of our amament was manned and ready for instant action. In spite of our deep movement, a few shrouded figures dozed beside their guns, while their fellows, connected by telephone to the control positions, remained alert and wakeful.

uecasional green seas, came surg- ing over the forecastle to deluge| Statements that "Ger- the foremost gun turrets. The! many demanded nothing great ship started to pitch sfight- of England" must be meant for German ears. alone. They do not help Nazi propaganda among free peoples. In fact, the statement that "Germany

The visibility was good when demanded nothing of

the moon was clear in the sky.

High up on the bridge, more with complicated instru- England" is one answer and a few cables away I watched filled

મ destroyer, ments than the black shape of

any telephone the fence-sitters in

silhouetted sharply

against a change, officers and lookout United States or else-heaving, silvery sea, plunging like kept their ceaseless watch, sweep- ing the horizon with their glasses.

In a brilliantly it where who suspect Britain muddened thing. of fighting "another im- The seas cascaded over herby, with every chink of light rig- more officers perialist war.'

.." Had Brit- forecastle as she dipped her bows orously excluded,

under. Sheets of shining, irides- bent over a chart, marking down

that. ain been content with the cent spray swept high over her this and Messages

It was flickering through the ether to the sort of Europe Naziism bridge and funnel tops.

beautiful to watch; but suprême- wireless cabinets, to be translated was aiming at, it need not ly uncomfortable for her. Few into language of significant pur-

Nazi have feared

de-on board that little ship can have port.

to

mands, according to Herr slept during the wildness of

night.

Hitler himself.

the

I remembered that this musi

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to arms.

The

We had hoped; but were disappointed. Full daylight came to reveal a horizon, barren except { for our own ships.

Continual Guard Against Air Attack

Visibility was extreme, with a sky heavily dappled with cloud. While some of our crew were al-i lowed to leave their action sta- tions the anti-aircraft armament remuined almost wholly manned. We were not out of range of enemy bombers or reconnaissance 'planes.

It still blew half-u-gale, with a heavy. breaking swell rolling down from the horizon.

The weather faces of the swells were all furred and ruffled by the

and wind; their slopes streaked patterned with a delicate network of yeasty white. The ships, par- ticularly the destroyers, rolled and pitched and tumbled as they drove to windward. Breakfast, with day- light and full visibility, had all Yet a sense of brought comfort. disappointment remained.

We had hoped, with all the fer- that day- possessed, light might bring the welcome sight of enemy masts and funnels silhouetted against the pale sky But it was not over the horizon, came

to be.

ex-

men

room near-

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your we

I was glad to have the chance of seeing something of the work of the Home Fleet at sea, for it In the engine, boiler and auxit is playing a most important part iary machinery rooms more men in the war. drove the ship through the grad- What particularly struck me ually rising sea. 'In ́a score of was the great keenness and cheer- Then why is Britain be only one of the hundreds of different places in the ship, in the fulness of the officers and men, fighting? For the same such nights she had spent noyers bakery and galley, men went who are having a tough time with since this war began. "Destroyers about their business. Passing plenty of work at sea, in one of reason, evidently, that the

through the darkened messdecks the most inhospitable areas in United States is aiding

on my way forward I saw the world.

I met some who had not set. Britain's fight. The posi- of free peoples in the kind more than a few oilskinned or

dufflecoated figures stretched un- foot out of their ships for six, and tion of neither of these of world Nazism would easily out on the deck or the eight months. Yet I never heard

mess-stools.

a grumble, though not a few wère countries is taken wholly create. When Mr. Chur

Bugle calls and orders coming a little jealous because their com in a spirit of self-sacrific-chill and President Roose through the loudspeakers herald-rades in the Mediterrancan -- were ing altruism. But both velt speak of fighting for ed the changing of the watches at having all the fun. They were midnight and 4 am. Overhead all so intensely keen to come to have developed a view of the rights of small na the wind howled and the seas grips with the enemy...

My chier impressions were those their own self-interest tions they are talking of a came crashing over the forecastle.

The long night moved slowly on. of silent watchfulness, and each that inevitably includes cold fact, not of a warm The smell of breakfast pervaded man doing his job. the self-interest of other wish. The kind of world the ship an hour before dawn. The The vigilance and readiness of nations as well. Both are America and Britain need meal was finished before the first the fleet were borne in upon me, pale gleams of wintry light came ugain and again, and I was at sea opposing Naziism because is the kind of world in hitoring through the clouds on in three different ships-a they are not sure they which small as well as the eastern horizon. We assumed troyer, a cruiser, and-a-battleship, the "first defence of readiness", Some day that eternal vigilance could exist as free nations large nations will be safe the naval counterpart of standing must be rewarded.

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