A HA'PORTH OF TAR
"Steward, there's tar on my dinner jacket."
"Yessir. Off the rigging, Sir. We told you it was wet, Sir, but you wouldn't take so notice. Up you went like a two-year-old."
"I ace. And what did I do next?" "You sang some songs, Sir. Greatly appreciated they was. Some of the crew asked me if you'd be so good as to write out the words."
"I'll have to think about that, Steward. So altogether it was a pretty matey night ?"
"There's been nothing like it on the South China Sea, Sir, zimes the Purser
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1941.
GIRL WRITES LAST DIARY IN RAID
NINETEEN-YEARS-OLD Ruth Owens lived on Merseyside -one of the zones that have been a target for Goering's bombers. But she never let her- self give way to fear.
She used to pick up any work she could find to pass away the time. In the last raid, when the drone of Nazi bombers and the crash of the guns began, she sat down and began to write a letter. She was writing to a young man friend and she gave him a picture of what was happening.
15. IS
G.P.O.
FIRE HERO
As the raid grew in intensity her pen raced on.. "The guns
as are going. It sounds whole German Air Force are over our house.
if the
KING
VISITS U.S. DESTROYER
Now Manned By
Canadians
The King was "piped" aboard a former Ameri- can destroyer by a Cana- dian 'bosun when he visit- "Oh, I hope they don't drop any ed Plymouth. It was the bombs. But they are diving like first time that he had they always do when they drop bombs.
me.
"I wish you were here with Every time they dive I go all sick inside. "Here they come again. afraid it's our night to-night.
"To make things ten umes
I'm
worse, the wind is howling some- thing awful.
"Oh, you would
Dad is
over
been aboard one of the 50 American destroyers which
were taken last year by the Royal Navy.
He d'splayed keen interest as he ship, inspected the
and talked with the crew, which is composed entirely of Canadian officers and ratings.
Only when a Home Guard threatened to club
Not Far Away him with his rifle did
"My two auntles are knitting. young Tommy Nuttall, Mum's just sitting still.
smoking and I am writing to The King and Queen, had
at arrived
Plymouth earlier West of England tele- you.
the laugh if you in
day from Swansea graph messenger, stop could see us all sitting by the in-and Cardiff, where
the dive previous day they had seen kicking incendiaries off side wall, ready to make a
Welsh town. under the table if things get too the damage to the
They were welcomed by Lady the blazing roof of a hot.
Lord "If you don't mind, dear, I think Astor, the Lady Mayoress. blitzed post office.
I will stop for a bit as my lor, Astor was unable to be present as they have dropped something not he was ill with influenza.
my Grumbiing and disappointed, he far away, the house shook — obeyed orders and went to shel-hand is getting tired.
"I am going to read your let ter. When the call came for
ter and see if it will give me a bit of pluck. My or what volunteers
valuable
a to
rowi Machine-guns and bombs und apparatus
records, Tommy,
and 'planes, cure and Hitler's. aged 15%, was first up the stairs
"It's our night to-night all right. to the top storey.
"I am now lying under the table. We have just had an incendiary My hand is bomb in the yard.
save
With him went his pal Frank Hugo, who twice got into shaking. difficulties and was cach time
saved by Tommy.
Sudden Stop
The Royal visitors toured the shipyards and talked with women taken over recently who have men's jobs.
Among them
was Mrs. L. Short who was working a power press. When she said that she had come straight to the ships outside training without any the Queen said "Well done."
Two other women, Mrs. Drake and Miss Dorrington, said that they were the only two women any french polishers in the dockyards. "Are you winning the war for had us?" asked the Queen who, when remarked, that they relied, "Yes,"
"Every little helps."
The letter broke off there-the
time to write Frank, eighteen, was off duty girl had no when the raid started, and the more.
Out of the hell that she where he worked office post
been describing came a bomb struck her home. caught fire.
It killed Ruth, her father and mother, and her two aunts.
On the quayside the King de- The letter was found near thecorated a Polish naval officer with
He ran up
a ladder with a Stirrup pump hose, put his head through the blazing frame of a girl's body. trapdoor and, while Tommy pumped, fought the flames on the roof. The water gave out and the burning celling collaps. ed on him and Tommy.
Frank crawled out, dazed, and with his tunic alight. Tommy beat out the flames, with his hands.
They were ordered to clear out, but went upstairs again to save cash and papers.
All through the night, with walls threatening to fall on them, the boys went on with their salvage. They saved valuable records and thousands of pounds worth of apparatus.
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NAVY KEEN ABOUT U.S. DESTROYERS
(By STUART YOUNG)
and YOU WILL FIND THE hardest worked
sailors of the British most cheerfully enthusiastic Navy in a destroyer on convoy duty. To discover that, I left London (which is comparatively stable) and went to sea in a convoy destroyer (which isn't).
"Stop Me'
Ship
Our ship is one of those taken the ship's seaworthiness: the chief over from the United States," engineer about her engines.
Hammocks Preferred Almost the only things chang- She rejoices in a remarkable camouflage painted in blue and red are the bunits. Tradition, dies hard In the Navy. The lower white and designed by Peter Scott, the artist son of Lady Kennet, and deck intimated that they prefer- red hammocks, so hammocks have himself a destroyer officer now been installed.
Men In other ships have seized For one thing, u real sailor never on the resemblance to trollies falls out of a hammack, however used by an ice-cream firm and rough the sea, but he easily cân christened' us the Stop Me and out of a bunk. Buy One."
No ona jokes, however, about the real qualities of there American ships: The-ship "handed over::in
dition, complete in every peot
My Everyone in the chip is young, and everyone?la wildly keen on his job. The average age-must be about 22 yearsjes vandens |-... Cur Chief Oficer always refer- red to as "Number One is a *** {vetorun of 24, who has served in:
the
West Indies, the Mediterran=" ean, and in the battles of Norway. Youngest bridge officer is Mid. the midshipman; aged 20. Mid. has the expression of a: cherub in Reynolds's famous plc- ture and a wicked knowledge of ways of finding and sinking sub-
Aboard, one sleeps between blankets: stamped "US Navy ente from plates with the same in signia, uses knives and forks that are the official issue to the United States sailors, w
The captain is enthusiastic about | marines?
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