THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE PERSECUTION
IN POLAND
Cardinal Hinsley writer a preface to a little book that tells the dreadful tale of the Nazi treat- ment of Roman Catholics in Poland. The book con- sists in the main of re- ports presented to the Pope by Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, and of Vatican broadcasts. Car- dinal Hinsley makes the true and interesting com- ment that the Nazi anta- gonism to morality
is
Christian illustrated
clearly in the Nazi ideas of honour. He gives two pertinent quotations. The new German "Allbuch,' formerly Meyer's En- cyclopaedia, thus explains the meaning of that word:-
A man is honourable only if the idea of Ger- man honour is insepar- ably bound up with his whole being. The 'en- tire new German
ATOR WAR
THE WRONG CALIBRE.
"Trouble-Shooters
ute, all the ships had heeled over,
increased speed, left behind
semi-circles of green water fleck-
universe is based on this new conception of WE were coming in and then, honour. The Christian suddenly, we were going out again. A flip of the wheel, idea of charity is
Just like that. One minute our radically opposed to ship was one of a small party of
destroyers
41 bumping along this conception of
comfortable jog-trot through the honour as entertained graying Atlantic swell, making our way home after a wearying by the German people. escort assignment; the next min- No set of men who had not made a mystical system of cruelty could have been guilty of the hideous crimes described in these pages. The Nazi aim is defined by the Pri- mate of Poland as "the systematic and total des- that we were going out again and truction of the Catholic that we would not get ashore that
night, or for many a night Church" in that country. come. Later we learned of the Readers of this book will reason for our unexpected altera-
tion of course, and as it
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formed-all those tess publicised his dripping at one and the same but none the less arduous duties time, or so nearly so that it makes which all destroyers perform and no difference. In a destroyer he does not have much to laugh`atj call routine.
Mr. Winston Churchill has stat-except himself and his ed that the continual hours of steaming done by ships of the Royal Navy during the course of this war stand as a record unsur- passed and unlikely to be sur-
But he has not much else to do, there being little time" for "recfea tion and less space.
Strange to say, it can somet times be very boring out in the
the
Atlantic. Particularly on convoy work, when each day finds same ships in the same places on what might be the same patch of
passed. We can well believe it. thin It often feels like that. If those that build the ships and keep them ed with white foam, and we were running need a tribute, they can one of a posse beating it out into find none better than that impli-sea for all the ordinary sailor the open ocearr on business bent. cit in the faithful manner their We did not know for what rea- ships stand up to an ordeal by
son we had turned.
At first
we water.
There was one vouch for when
thought we might have picked up that was not the explanation we battered destroyer gave up thinking about it. What concerned us was the certainly
a U-boat, but once we were sure
to
Was
forgot what we had meant to do
ashore.
occasion I can an elderly and Was in the
By John Allan May
wonder more than ever something secret, exciting, and company of one of the very latest how French cardinals out of our usual Toutine. we products of the shipyard at a time and bishops can urge the people of France to colla- borate with the Power that strives by such methods to make itself supreme in Europe.
THE PROPHET
and Russia:
knows, and when days and dates lose their significance and time is divided merely into spells of
開 watch and sletp.
This fact, that it is possible to: sail for weeks upon the Atlantic battleground without catching scent or sight of the marauder, puzzles many a ́new-made mate-T lot. But there is a reason for it.¦ At the beginning of the war when the shark ships of the Reich"]" stole in toward the British coasts in large numbers-destroyers, with:|| the help of other small ships, cracked down upon them without mercy, forcing them always fur- ther out into the vastness of the ocean far away from the vulner able
on
shore lines. With every British success the main battle area is gradually extended fur ther west nearer the coast of America. There, Gerinian" sub- marines and bombers, based the French west coast, have been in a better position relative, to Britain for fighting this sea war
about attacking a well-escorted convoy and shy of venturing near the coast. Bitter experience has told the German Admiralty what every destroyer man who has ever been on a sub hunt knows that the. destroyer has two replies to the U-boat which that marauder lurking in the dark, cannot ade- quately answer back. blood-hounds of the sea when the presence of U-boats is suspected the remorseless crossing and rew
The tenacious search of the
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