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FIGHT TO SAVE CONVOYS

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1941.

DESTROYERS

2 NAZI

SINK U-BOATS

(By A Special Correspondent)

TWO CONVOYS OF BRITISH AND ALLIED SHIPS SAFELY · ESCORTED THROUGH THE DANGER ZONE, AND TWO U-BOATS SUNK BY SISTER DESTROYERS. THIS IS THE ENCOUR- AGING RECORD OF A 2,000-MILE VOYAGE I MADE IN A DESTROYER WHICH IN SEVERAL DAYS HAS RANGED FAR OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS OF THE VAST ATLANTIC BATTLEFIELD.

As escort vessel and submarine chaser, this ship is helping to fight a way through the German coun- ter-blockade of our north-western approaches, now being ruthlessly prosecuted by U-boats and surface raiders. In a few days I have seen over 200 ships sailing safely in convoy, an antidote to the figure of shipping losses.

spar.

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Convoy

to a body lashed Alarms and scares were and once plentiful but our two con- On the third day out a COF- voys were not attacked vette accompanying the

signalled that she had picked up once. Condign punish-three survivors from a raft and and two ment of U-boats which a boat, a Norwegian

Icelanders. The Norwegian had imprudently made an at-

been adrift for 12 days and tempt on a convoy ahead probably explains our ìm- munity.

came

After some minor adventures the testing moment of our voyage

sixth day. on the

Late the previous night the officer of the watch observed a great flash many miles away, illuminating| the sky under the giant cartwheel of the Northern Lights.

Enemy 'Plane About

a relic of the

medical help was urgently needed.

The captain agreed to send our surgeon-lieutenant, who in peace-time is assistant to a coun- try practice in Lincolnshire. We hove to in a surging sea, which caused the ship to heel to an acute angle.

The Dorvette approached an close as she dare and lay bob-

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RIOT AS LINDBERGH ATTACKS BRITAIN

Women were · kick- ed and beaten when' rioting broke out at a pro-Nazi meeting in New York addressed by Colonel Lindbergh. The meeting was described as "America First" rally, but most of the ap- plouse came from Germans, and Ger- man accents among the audience were

common.

an

101 ARMY USES FOR POTATO

An exhibition of dishes made with potatoes was

held at the Army School of Cookery recently. Sir Isidore Salmon, the Army's honorary catering adviser, was there, proving for himself that the exhibits were as tasty as they looked.

with one

a

bing and rolling in the roughest cea have seen. Then came the ticklish operation of lower- ing a boat with a crow of five.

Wheat and rationed food are The doctor alone among those conserved by the use of potatoes, Wireless reports established

in the boat wore no oilskin. Huge it was explained, and this claim that a merchant ship had been waves threatened to engulf them. torpedoed more than

was clearly shown by a quantity 50 miles We last saw him facetiously wav-)

of potato bread made away. The following morninging his cap and making a paddl- we passed a patch of oil, possibly, ing motion with his hands. After-part of potatoes to two parts of

flour, which keeps fresh for torpedoed ship. wards, we heard that this perilous week. It looked and tasted like Shortly afterwards câme news midocean trip had been highly ordinary bread. of the approach of a Nazi 'plane, successful and that the patient followed by an SOS from

@recovered, but the doctor did not

Potato pastry was tasted and ship torpedned off the west coast

rejoin us for the rest of our dry mashed potatoes were used in of Ireland.

chocolate cake, treacle pudding and other delicacies, while potato was combined with soup, meat, eggs, fish, salad and cheese in Somerset farmers are petition-tremendous variety. ing for an extension of licensing "One hundred and one ways of double Summer using the potato" aptly described hours to offset Time. The hotel trade is organis- the display, for there was precisely ing a counter-petition,

that number of varieties on show.

A the

that

The air-raid did not materialise, but the weathe, began to worsen, causing the ship to pitch violently. Next came a big thrill. sister destroyer escorting convoy ahead wirelessed she had sighted an enemy sub. marine on the surface. How we envied her and speculated! Adding to our preoccupations us that were messages telling

German warships were out in the Atlantic.

Tense Vigil

Look-outs scoured the gloomy seas with their long glasses; the Asdic detector explored the depths. The strain, sustained for hour after hour was intense, until finally the sunless day

night, and still we drove on

voyage.

PLEA FOR DRINKS

OUR NEW FIGHTER

IS FASTEST EVER

IT MAY NOW BE revealed that there is in pro- was replaced by impenetrable duction for the R.A.F. the finest fighter aircraft in through the tumbling billows, the world the Typhoon. It is confidently expect- U-boats, like the assassin, waited to go a long way towards winning for this coun-

for darkness, and the, task

finding them is desperately dif- try the war in the air.

ficult. Eventually our. eyes, The Typhoon is of British design and construc- straining through the night, de- tected the dim shapes. of the tion and is powered by a British engine. Designed convoy ahead. I made a perilous by Mr. Sydney Camm, the

way down the slippery steel lad-

gave us the

ders to my cabin to wait for Hurricane, it is fitted with t Sabre engine made morning, fully clothed, as always, by the firm of Napier. The e engine develops 2,400

and with a lifebelt on:

Next morning, at action h.p.

stations, the weather was still depressing, and I made a sult. All the information about the Most of the credit for, the Sabre able comment to our: 28-year Sabre which has so far been engine belongs to Major Holford old captain. A Jolly good made public is that it has a small the technical expert of Napier. day, you mean," he retorted. frontal area, develops more but it has been helped in develop- Two submarines sunk. We power than the Royal Scot," and ment by the back room boys, had just picked up the wireless is less than 6ft in length. To of Lord Beaverbrook's Ministry. message. The news spread like develop 2,400 h.p. from an engime of Aircraft Production. The wildfire. There was great jubilia of this size is a triumph of engine is in good-scale production in this country and is also to be tion in the wardroom and also engineering skill. disappointment that we had The Typhoon is a single-engin- produced in the United States. not been the lucky ones. The ed, single-seat fighter, in appear spirits of the ratings rose. Uance not unlike the new Tornado, boats have been attacking pro- Its speed, has not been revealed; tected convoys with determina- but it is well over 400 m.ph tion lately. Now they have had a probably nearer 450 m.p.h. ---- and sharp lesson.

is certainly the fastest aircraft the world has ever known,

Its: armament is a mixture of d cannon and machine-guns: Both Together with the new Beau As the convoy weaved its slow in defensive and offensive power fighter (as night fighter) and zig-zag we saw some of the flot-it is far ahead of anything the the Tornado, the Typhoon should som of this terrible battlefield Germans are known to have in win a clear-out victory ove empty rafts, bauliss of timber. | production.

every German bomber.

Terrible Flotsam

Though it would be incorrect to describe the Typhoon, as long-range fighter, it has tonger rango "than the later. Spitfires and Hurricanes now |«production.