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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1952.

Did a woman think up drawers, pyjama

-troops for the use of..

D

BERNARD WICKSTEED

Korea.

a letter

EAR Mother: Well, writes I've got here, It's the same old place. They've put up a few more bridges and knocked down a few more houses, but the smell hasn't changed.

I noticed it as soon as I got out of the troop carrier that flow me from Japan. It smells like something that has been dead for 11 thousand years.“

It's nippy, too. Not that real sub-zero stuff yet, but cold enough. to send straight to the quarter-

home

from

Korea:

Outside there's

That's because the boys' But that's not all. used to complain that when the drawers, pyjoms,

another thing called trousers, they carried packs the string inner fleece. cut into their skin and gave them a sort of saddle sore.

It is only when he is thus at-

thut the well-dressed. tried

British soldier puts on his real me But it's the new line in trousers-trousers, outer com-

gent's

that bat.

underpants

its

Instruction One says: Lubri- cate zipper with lightly oiled cloth for free movement. After alling you can put it on, re- membering to tie the waistcord loosely before closing zipper.

For. added warmth both you tighten drawcord and cuffs, and for ventila Uon, that is to say when you are nearly cooked. you loosen the drawcords and stroke or open zipper closure.

'Keep cool. Don't overheat'

HE

THE

have

trick-room boys done such a fine job with their combat smock that they seem to fear the consequences Their of their own ingenuity, last instructions; printed in type twice ok large as the rest are:

"Keep cool, Don't vorheat,"" However, don't imagine from this that they have finished. There is sill the middle parka, with hood and crutch strap..

In colour this is the same olive drab as the other clothes, but In conception R is evenI more ambitious.

It is knee-length, fleece-lined, and if your hands are too cold to deal with the buttons, zippers, a wooden and cords, there's master's stores to draw my tickled me. The boys say Wearing three pairs

of ball on the zip that enables you trousers at the same time has to fusion it up with your teeth. drawbacks, as anyone can The hood has a wired exten- allows the guess, but at least you're warm, glen is one titat and if your knees shake. It soldier to wear it like a poke doesn't show.

bonnet, if he so desires.

It in called the middle parka because somewhere, in como hidden warehouse, there is an- other

winter kit. You should soe me when I've got it all on. The tubby hubby isn't in it. I look like an advertisement for Michelin tyres.

Starting from the inside and working outwards there is first of all the old string vest.-The Army has brought Lout an improved model of string vest this autumn.

they are the envy of all the other troops in the United Nations. The dear old Army calls them drawers, pyjama, front-line troops for the use of.

Couldn't make

her mind

up

Above the wa'st and over his flannel shirt the three-trouser fighting man has his combat Emock, a masterpiece of military equipment that is secured in place on the torso with buttons, and cords. In the event

zpe all three it can be

Instead of being all string AND that's a fair description tied on with ropes.

and holes, like an old fashioned shopping bag, it now has two natty knitted shoulder straps.

of them. They took as if the of them person who thought

her mind it couldn't make up The was going to make drawers or pyjama trousers, en she made them both in one.

The back-recm boys at the War Once have evidently given much thought to the canbat how to smock, and instructions use it are printed inside for the dullest soldier to understand,

The film star sub

had a hush-hush past

THE submarine

Sirdar

nosedived out of con- trol for more than" 380 feét and buried nearly 100 feet of her length in the mud bottom of the Firth of Clyde.

At that depth the pressure on

that small submarine was great er than the displacement weight of the line: Queen Mary. And the surface was more than the neight of St Paul's above.

Sirdar's nine-year revealed

recently

"Submerging

secret

for the

W. A. CRUMLEY

tells how 49-men won a battle with the mud

went down in the same way

W

in the Mediterrancon months ago. There the depth was more than 1,300ft., a depth

from which there is no return-

ng

Edward

secret weapon called the inner parka, but, like the atom bomb, it is being kept till all else, fails.

What the outer parka is, if such a thing can exist, I haven't yet found out.

Inner and outer gloves

all the soldiers'

Textremilles to cover. Under

the hood of the middle parka you wear the hood of the combat smuck B, peaked cap with car- flops C, and woollen. helmet. On the hands you have inner and outer gloves and woollen wristlets.

have got

For your feet they something new colled Boots Young took his C.W.W, which stands for cold,

wet weather.

- submarine Storm Aighting in

the Arctic and the Far East From above they look like 71,000 miles, 1,400 hpurs under ordinary black Army boots, but. water, the equivalent or 50 days underneath they have a rubber. and nights. His story, manly sole nearly an inch thick, and seammanlike, is the first inside there is on elsbornte classic by a British submarino drainage system to absorb the captain in war. He says:-

perspiration,

and

is a

"Every time there caster we hear on all sides well-meaning people demanding Five hundred feet is accepted more safety devices and better by submariners as the depth. methods of escape, is that their last-war boats were designed to withstand. But some subs did far more than that in war amcrgencies.

And the 1945 boats used to builom in the

first morning exercise (after leaving the Holy Loch). they found themselves for'ard,

unusually heavy

and went plunging

Irish Sea at 750M.

The French Navy sold

down out of control until they the nine-year-old British S

hit the bottom at some speed submarines were apt to

a fairly sharp angle.

heavy forward.

to rur-

*** MEN FAIL

and

'Their first attempts face were unsuccessful, and they realised they must be stuck in

mud, Finally, by pumping every-

the

So you can 600,- Mum, they don't mean us to be cold. Las winter they had plenty of warm clothing, but half of it was the

aize

To tall men and Wrong

couldn't get any- the fat ones "These demands never come thing to fit them. from the submariners, them- This year the stuff hus all selves. A submarine is a war been issued weeks before the machine, and though reasonable cold weather is due, and every-- safety devices are essential, and one has been fitted.

continually being Well, Mum, goodbye for now, indeed are that med

improved, they must take second hoping this finds you as warm place to fighting efficiency. as it leaves me, Fatal railway accidents could be abolished it all trains were

class

OMMANDER EDWARD YOUNG, the first Volunteti

thing out, going full astern on Reservist ever to ceramand 1 the motors, and blowing main British submarine, the survivar ballast tanks for all they were of a new submarine zarmed worth, they succeeded in extrl- and destroyed on her Arst night cating themselves."

at sea, s privileged to blame the man rather than the submarine He tells of Sow heavinesses caused by

NO RETURN

PORTY-NINE men came back frem that dark depth-how deep is si secret-by their own cold courage and skill, to "know the delirious joy of not being dead."

Sirdald

"Inadvertent error in cal- culating the trim."

"A vent open inadvertently and we got 400 gallons heavy for'ard, and sank to 270 feet before we pulled her up."

"Valce-pipo cock in the con- stout 1.5 Birkenhead

ning tower left open."

And make her, lived 10 "Bow cap tubes left open with-

10

men fight in the Far East and become the tragic film star

Morning Departure

Her sister-boat called Sibylle, all submarines. The difference between the British S and lent to the French Navy with foreign submarines is that it is three more of the same class, not designed to be dived under

ost my knowledge."

of Such errors are common to

"ONE OF QUR SUBMARINES,"

power.

All the probabilities are that

by Commander Edward Young the Sibylle was dived with her

D.S.C.. R.N.V. (5.) R.

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D.S.O.,

Ituport Hart-Davis, 18s.

Voigtländer

limited to a speed of five miles

an hour.

Your loving war correspondent, BERNARD

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