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A LUCID SURVEY

THE CHINA, MAIL. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950,

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK

Thursday, May 22, was a day of uncertainty and suspense. In the North Sea all was unbroken cloud and rain. In spite of theso conditions a naval altcraft from Hatston. (Orkney) penetrated Into Bergen Flord and forced home

determined reconnais- A sance in the teath of heavy Are. The two enemy warships were no longer there!

A

this

When at 8 pm.

news reached Admiral Tovey he at once set forth in the King George The American Secretary of V, with the Victorious, four cru- State's speech tempts us to isers and seven destroyers, to take turn from the sorrows of local up companies amid present pro- sperity, to the prospects of averting still sadder things beyond the hazy horizon of the egocentric view. For it

is a

very important speech, and if and when it evokes the response due to it, perhaps a decisive speech. Britain's de- cisions about China bespeak the absence, or at least the inutility of mere prejudice. Mr. Acheson indicates he is not far behind in this,

Mr. Dean Acheson re-stated some time ago the first prin- ciples of American policy in the Far East, At San Fran- cisco he came down to detail in one of the most lucid ex- positions any statesman has made for a very long time. When there is little to do, the next best thing is rightly to say what can be done when the chance comes.

central position to the Westward so as to support his cruiser patrols whichever side of Iceland the enemy might choose. The Repulse joined him at sen

the

following morning. The Admirally judged it probable that the enemy would pass through the Denmark Strait.

That evening, within

ŠITUATION. AT 3.08.a.m.May 25

BISMARCK FISAPPEARS

REVENGE

few

THE

THE GRAND ALLIANCE

Chasing the Bismarck

the quarry was in view; and all our forces moved accordingly,

By Winston Churchill

· condi-

Let

Morning!

tus now

pray for our hard-hit capitalista, especially those forced to charge the lowest. rates in the world for hotel rooms. of her 10 14-inch guns were un-

It was indeed tear-jerking; to 800 serviceable,

it was

yesterday's highly by

report that doubtful whether in this

operating hotels in the Colony, In tion she was a match for the now almost a dead loss. Smelling Bismarck, Admiral

Wake- salts had to be administered to Walker therefore decided not to shareholders of Our biggest renew the action, but to hold the company when it was announcect enemy under observation, this he was indisputably,right."

In they would have to get by, with a nét profit of less than two and

quarter million,

The Commander-in-Chief turned to the Westward and in- creased his speed. The Hood and the Prince of Wales shaped their course to Intercept the enemy at daylight the next mor- ning west of Iceland. The Ad- Norfolk and Suffolk, with great miralty called Admiral Somer-skill, shadowed the enemy, dos- ville, with Forco H. (Renown,pite the weather and his efforts

The Bismarck would indeed Ark Royal and the cruiser She- to shake them off, and all through have been wise to rest content

Nobles obliget Meld), Northward at high speed the night their, signals showed | with what amounted by itself to a to protect the troop convoy, now

the exact positions of friend and resounding triumph,

Describing the Filipino priest's Sho more than half-way down the foe. As the Arctic twilight grew destroyed in a few minutes one of wedding annulled,

had application to have his shotgun Irish const, or join in the battle, into day the Bismarck could be the finest ships in

report the Royal said the question was "whether Admiral Somerville's ships, seen 12 miles to the South on a Navy, and could go home to already under steam, left Gibral- Southerly course. Soon there Germany with a major success,

Philippines counts tar at 2 am, on the 24th. They

Church courts." was smoke on the Norfolk's port Her prestige and potential strik- carried with them, as it turned bow. The Hood and Prince of ing pawer would rise immensely, out,, the Bismarck's fate.

Wales were in sight, und_mortal | in circumstances difficult for us condict was at hand. In the to méazure or explain. Hood as day was dawning tho Moreover, as we now know, she enemy was discerned

17 miles had been seriously injured by to the North West.

the Prince of Wales, and oll was leaking from her heavily. How then could she hope to discharge her mission of commerce des- truction in the Atlantie ? She

Anxious week-end.

I went to Chequers on Friday afternoon (23rd). Averell Har- riman and Generals lamay and Pownall were to be with me till Monday.

With the battle of Crete at its height it was likely

SUFFOLK

BISMARCK LOST

0 190 200 300 400 300

Appegring jy, Sente For Miter

Bismarck,

The essence of his statement of policy is Its positive ap- proach. No other will see us through to the vindication of a cause and a course of policy} to which the West is irrevo- cably committed in Asia. The people of Asia seek freedom, | and it is not, and cannot be, denied them. They seek to modernise and industrialise minutes of receiving the report, their countries, as in the past I telegraphed to the President century the United States, Germany, Latin-America, Japan, and Australia have been industrialised. It essential for their progress and prosperity-it is essential for our own. They cannot support their teeming and in- creasing populations without this constructive revolution. The alternative to it is beg- gary and dissolution into in- credible chaos.

is

Yesterday, 31st, Prinz Eugen, and eight mer- chant ships located in Bergen. Low clouds prevented air uttack. Tonight [we And] they have sailed. We have

#t

once

NORFOLK

| PRINCE OF WALES

VICTORIOUS

4 CRUISEAS

KING GEORGE VI REPULSE

ROOKLY

RAMILLIES

EDINBURGH

SITUATION AT 1030.a.m,May 20 BISMARCK FOUND BY FLYING-BOAT

TROOP CONVOY

The British ships -- -turned to engage, and the Hood opened fire at 5.52.a.m. at a range of The BB- yards. about 23,000 marck replied, and almost at once the Hood suffered a hit which

started a fire in the battery. The fire spread with

REPULSE

(To Newfoundland --- For Fuel).

RAMILLIES trejoining convoy),

*00 200 100 100 200 を

at the

RENOWN ARK ROYAL

SHEFFIELD

had the choice of returning home victorious, with all the options of

Of four-lich further enterprises open, of

going on to almost certain des truction. Only the extreme exaltation of her Admiral or the Imperious orders, by which he "was" "bound" con expirin, the de-

perate decision which 'he took.

PRINCE OF WALES GALATEA AURORA

VICTORIOUS

KENYA

To legland for fuck)

SUFFOLK

Great comfort

500

recognise

"The Waterworks Office," anya a local writer, "does not have enough staff to go around to every home and look all the time under doors for miscreants."

Then there is the possibility- that the miscreants mighta't be under the doors anyway.

Whether or not we get captured ships back depends on whether the Nationalists can be mollerfted.

Attending that new Technicolor musical the other night, I found _very_liilo-material for criticism- In the chorus girls' costumes,

Incidentally, although the atomic scientist thinks he's so ruddy wonderful, It takes A ballerina to do Ite splits properly.

"As a host," said a bloke to me the other night, "Smith tries to make you feel at home-and wishes you were."

I hind to read for very long hours each day to keep abreast of the ceaseless flow of military, Foreign Office and Secret Service telegrams, which streamed in by private_telephone and despatch- riders. This was a great comfort, because as long as one is doing something the mind is saturated "British government refuses tu and cannot worry. Nevertheless, send probing commission to Hong only one scene riveted my back- | Kong.”

*

ground thoughts: this tremendous Leading citizens may Blainarek, 45,000 tons, perhaps breathe freely again.

almost invulnerable to gun-fire,

rushing Southwards towards our

איסת

Myrtle's grandfather says the

convoys, with the Eugen as her only ones who collect wages of

scout.

Then I thought of these con- voys. Their battleships had left them during the hunt, There was the troop convoy, with all its precious men on board, now well to the South of Ireland, withT

1

sin are the divorce lawyers.

"I hate the country."

"But you've never been in the country, so how do you know?"

"I've never been In the

*

•

Admiral Somerville closing it at government, but I know 1 don't full speed, and presently to be like it." between it and peril. I ques-

"So far as the wife is concerned, tioned the Duty Captain about it's just a case of mind over times and distances. His reports

matter. Sho doesn't mind and I don't matter."

HORFOLK

EDINBURGH

RÖDNEY KING GEORGE V.

BISMARCK

-10.30a.m.

TROOP CONVOY

PLAN I

RENOWN ARK ROYAL SHEFFIELD

DORSETSHIRE

alarming speed, unul it engulfed and whole midship part. All the ships were now in full action, and the Bismarck too was hit.

At

reason to believe, that a form!- dable Atlantic raid is intended. Should we fall to catch them going out, your Navy should surely be able to mark them down for

us. King George V, Prince of Wales, Hood, Repulse, and aircraft-carrier Victorious, with ancillary vessels, will bo on their track. Give us the news and we will finish the job. The instrumentality!

The Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen

had in fact left Bergen through which the various

nearly 24 hours before, and were peoples of this Continent may now to the North East of Iceland, seek this, their sole, salvation heading for the Denmark Strait. may differ here and there. Here the pack-ice had narrowed-

the strait only 80 Fashions in

miles, mostly politics and shrouded in dense mist. Towards ideology come and go in so evening on the 23rd first the febrile an environment, and Buffolk and then the Norfolk under such intense and un- from the North, skirting the edge, sighted two ships approaching exampled pressures-so dif- of the ice in a patch of clear) ferent from the leisurely in-weather. The Norfolk's sighting dustrialisation of older na-report was received first in the

and was Admiralty, tions like Britain. But the broadcast in secret code to all goals are well defined, and the concerned. The hunt was on purpose clear beyond a doubt. Within that broad frame-

to be an anxious weekend. I had of course'a most complete service work we can, and shall, con- perverted the real democratic of secretaries in the house, and tribute our full quota, in due revolution that has been going also direct telephone connections

Captain be on all over the world-long Admiralty and other key depart course. Patience

with the Duty may necessary for quite a time to before Communism as a worldments, The Admiralty expected

Sudden disaster come, but a thousand million conspiracy had been thought the Bismarck and the Prinz Eu-

Suddenly came disaster, people have their eyes fixed of. The old, fumbling Im-gen to come through the Den-

mark Strait in the early dawn, six o'clock, after the Bismarck on the dual purpose. The perialisms are child's play and that the Prince of Wales and had fired her afth salvo, the Hood West must march in step with compared with the peril that the Hood, with two or three

was rent in twain by a mighty them-it cannot and should has to be resisted.

cruisers, would being them to explosion. A few minutes later the she had vanished beneath not march against them. At

Unlike the Kremlin, the free ing towards the scene in accord- waves

battle. All our ships were may-

amidst a vast pall of present there is a deep and democracies have no desire to ance with the general plan. We smoke. All but three of her sometimes bitter feeling of dictate to other people what spent an anxious evening, and valiant company, more than 1,500 including Vice-Admiral frustration. It is a difficult and their political or economic did not go to bed until two or men

three o'clock.

Lancelot Holland and Captain dangerous period, because Institutions should be. Nor is At about seven I was awakened Ralph Kerr, perished. nothing is so enraging as a there any desire to stop the to hear formidable news. The The Prince of Wales quickly feeling of futility. The more flow of trade, though, as Mood, our largest and also our altered her course to avoid the ignorant the politician, the Acheson said, "decisions do fastest capital ship. had blown wreckage of the Hood and con- -unequal fight. more Berserk he becomes. In not lle entirely with us". Although somewhat lightly tinued the now

constructed, she carried eight 15- Very soon the Bismarck's dro the depths of an armed war, Standards of security and de- Inch guns, and was one of our began to tell upon her. Within a

few minutes sho most cherished naval possessions, such people often give way to cency must be observed. In er loss was a bitter grief, but hits from 15-inch shells, one of received four despair. In the kind of peace the stalemate which we con- knowing of all the ships that which wrecked the bridge, killing call the cold war, "they front today even straws of were converging towards the or wounding nearly all upon it. would defy the lightnings, or comfort are to be noted. The Blamarck I felt sure we should At the same time the ship was revert to the most cynical in- State trading organisations, turned North and went home.

get her before long, unless she holed under water art. Captain ILeuch, one of the few survivors tolerance, and put the just while seizing the mechanism went straight to Harriman's room from the bridge, decided to break and far-sighted to the stake of trade, show a manifest at the end of the corridor, and, off the action for the moment, while creating a bubble re eagerness to keep open the according to him, sald The and turned away under a smoke-

Hood has blown up, but we have screen, He had putation for themselves. channels of trade with the got the Bismarck for certain." flicted damage on the Bismarck

Mr. Acheson identified the West, and not to let every- I then returned to my room, which reduced her speed.

The command" now passed to twin purposes of the peoples thing go the way Manchuria's and was so well tired out that I of Asia with those for which products are going. huif-past eight my principal his bridge in the Cruiser Norfolk. went to sleep again. At about Rear-Admiral-Wako-Walker - on the United States has always Mr. Acheson's approach to private secretary, Martin, came: It was for him to decide whether stood. The basic objective of China was positive in prin- into the room in his dressing to renor the fight at imce or hold American policy. (and of Bri- ciple, but action awalts a re-wn with a strained look on his on to the emory till the Com- uscetic, clear-cut facé... “Have |mander-in-Chief; - should arrive tish policy too) is to make pos- sponse that may be tardy, we got has ? *T* naked, "No, with the King George V and the sible a world in which all There is due restraint, but and the Prince of Wales - has aircraft-carrier Victorious peop peoples, Including those of nothing of resignation. In a sharp disappointment. Had state of the Prince of Wales. broken off the action." This was A: dominant factor was the Asin, can work. In their own South East Aala, however, then the Bismarck furned North This ship had only recently been way toward a better life. The action is possible and needed; and gone home?. Here was my commissioned, 1, and scarcely C spread of Communism is op- and here the polley laid down at fear. We now know what week had passed since Captain

happened." A posed because Soviet Im- is positive not only in prin.

KULAM Lasch-had; been "able to report. *Alsthat night :: (23rd-24th); her...? At for - battle,”--- Sha had perialism has distorted and ciple but in the line of action. I amidst driving rain and snow, the been severely mauled, and two

we

however, in-

were reassuring. Although the convoy only made about 12 knots and the Bismarck could, so far as we know, do 25, there was.a lot of salt water between them. Besides, as long as we could hold fast to the Bismarck we could dog her to her doom. But what I lost touch in the night? Shq had a wide choice, and we were vulnerable almost everywhere.

We

The House of Commons, too, might be in no good temper wher we met on Tuesday. They had been blown out of their chamber on May 10 and were now cram- med into the. Church House not far away. This was indeed port in a storm, but there were no conveniences. Writing-rooms. smoking-rooms, dining-rooms, all

customary facilities. were Improvised and primitive. - The air-raid alarms were frequent and means for ¡members getting about scarce.

(To be continued)

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