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Oh how the Russian sailors sing!

T

un

-WHEN THEY AREN'T DANCING

London, June 15. short time, They had to HAT little bit of arrange partles,

the called

Had there been mail for Винвіл cruiser Sverdloy did the crew at Spithead? No. not sent thoir thing They had extraordinary

their to address officers exact Her

the all though to homes, gangway

Soviet Union knew the ship was at Spithead.

yesterday. opened her visitors.

has been

No, Sverdlov had never been in another foreign port. They were happy to make this trip. Did he hope it would

not be the last?

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBURT LANCASTER

"Past, Comrade-you like a genuine signed photograph of Karl Marx, yes?"

then surrender"

and con-

to hear

lov stepped forward ducted a choir of 300.

It was a strange scene, on Not wide open-but still

morning, with the this sunlit

of so many nations a perceptible chink in the

Splihead, Spithead Iron Curtain.

voices. They sang the song which, Until now, except for off-

these magnificent bey told us, commemorates the cial Navy callers and Soviet

men of the cruker Varag which, Embassy men, the Sverdlov Captain Rudakov smiled.

Burrender in the Would the ship's company rather than a rigidly closed shop. One or two people be given English money to Russo-Japanese war, blew itself have tried-and have been by souvenirs ashore? Yes, up. The theme: "Better death

that was being arranged.

They sang "Kalusha," firmly turned back.

L

of the Then the party really which

one came alive. The captain, favourites. "Katusha" seems to

of Russian accompanied by a Russian be a

Market

And then the tour of the ship, The Sverdlov is a roomy ship below decken. You walk on a -compoeltion floor painted red, and decoration is in two shades of light blue. The messes high, roomy, and spotlessly clean. An ex-sailor in the party notked have

Yesterday the ban was re- laxed and eight journalists were allowed on board.

They were followed later by party taken dut by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth. and yes, the Red Dean himself with his wife and two daughters.

The newspaper party was met on the deck by the Gft. captain smiling.

hand-

Ho.

some O. V, Rudakov. was all charm and geniality. What would the visitors Jike?

He smiled...

THE CAPTAIN Rudakov's the name.

21

a song sallors'

"Lili

arc

that the Soviet saflors sheets for their American-style bunks slung on chains in two atcreya,

has a "ablet of Each mess

bulkhead. honour" hanging on

It contains the pictures of the sailors in Stakhanovlies, the that mess who have done the best work in a given period.

Also on the bulkheads-pic- lures of Stalin, Lenin, and Sverdley, the firs! President in Russia.

Still singing

N

one bulkhead the visitors

HIGH MOMENTS

OF THE HUNT"

A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT: by MILTON SHULMAN

T

two

HE periscope peering out of the waters off Stromboll revented

four Italian cruisers. seaplanes and eight destroyers. Tho 600-ton Aubmarine Unbroken brazen- ly decided to take on this armada single-handed.

It sent four torpedoes anaking towards the enemy. It took them two minutes. and 30 seconds to reach their targets and establish The an all-time record. Unbroken had destroyed two cruisers with one salva. It had never been done before.

ALASTAIR MARS

the crew

and water circulation systems. "What a moment that In the tense alience was !" writes Alastair can only listen.

in

mood of patient ven

Mars because he doliberately disobeyed orders. He was $0 miles off his allocated position when ho sighted his target,

Subsequently, in peace-time, Mars waa dismissed Lho Service because he failed to obey an Admiralty order to take up us appointment. When the fighting has stopped, -disciplino does not often take second place 10 success.

Alastair Mars, in his story of the Unbroken, has managed tie d.fficult task of making us feel sorry for a submarine. We havo been too much on the wrong end of their destructive

power to reakc

us warm towards these cold fish of naval warfare.

The cramped quarters not only bred camaraderie, but also boredom and impatience. In time a

man's most prayer would be: "Picass... let me be alone for Just, five minutes, and then let me seo a

fervent

IRRITATIONS

Mars, the Unbroken's com Above, the destroyers circle mander,

#171 exultant in મ whoop of prose. "Were we geance dropping depth charge change of face." capable of lyric poetry we'd after depth charge for hour after hour. Below, the boat shudders have composed a Psalm of beneath the impact of the explo- we felt as sions and the commander's prose Thanks, for boastful and

na strikes a more sombre note:- as proud

"My clothes were soaked in David must have felt that afternoon in the valley of sweat, the air in the boat was

thick and oily, and my nerves well. No cabbage because the Elah."

were in a wretched state. K only

we had been able to smell of it being boiled would ba back!

If only there had been three tiny washbasins 'made; it me movement

action to or act

more attractive to grow a beard tako

Cigarettes to bo shave. our minds from the agony than

B

TERROR

ND then there are the minor, A

discomforting irritations, na

overpowering. Queues for the

of the situation. But no. We tolerable had to have menthol

UT the reward for clation could only wait and pray, brood- crystals inserted in the end you

趁 submarine is usually

the tobacco terror Once its position has ng and exaggerating, picturing puffed, otherwise

was heavy with the foul air of teen revealed the hunter is a torn, smashed hull and a

bubbling, choking, lung-bursting the submarine. instantaneously converted into

death. the hunted.

For his audacious attack on the Lying some 80ft. below surface, K must await the the cruisers, vividly described in inevitable retaliation. There is his book "Unbroken" (Frederick nothing to do but be incon Muller, 12s. Od.), Alastair Mars

was awarded the D.S.O. spicuous.

:

tell-tale hum of It may have been prophetle the opportunity for his off the ventilation, refrigeration, greatest war-time feat came to

H, some questions! And

through an interpreter gentleman in a lounge suit

We guessed he was he answered them..

Yes, the Soviet sailors political officer led us to were enjoying their stay the fo'e'e'le. And the party They were most happy, began.

The captain addressed his

The saw a notice in Russian. The "The British people have

kind, unid the sailors by their Christian interpreter then asked the cap machinery is stilled by shutting that been 80

he tain for his translation. names. "Ivan, play," captain.

Did the Russian captain called in Russian, and Ivan translated what the captain cald. to be Foldier of the Socialist speak English? Ab, no, the Maklenko got busy with his It, was: "You are honoured and. Be a good servant of your ship had left unexpectedly. concertina. And first one is d

people." He had no time to learn. But sallor, then another, took

As the captain passed through the deck.

al- mess, accompanied some of his ship's company

There was plenty of lively each ho

the gentleman in the rays by. English, did speak

touching of ways movement,

it was noticed that lounge suit, agreed.

Would he permit his hands on the deck, shooting the first-name fraternising be- At fo'c's'le had been dropped. sailors to go ashore to take out of legs and whirling tween caplain and sailors on the

about.

each mess a leading hand called their liberty as they pleased

Star dancer of the day, re- in the streets of Portsmouth, called again and again by the his men smartly to attention like the sailors of other applause of his messinatee and and so they stood until he lett.

As we left the captain waved, the visitors, was a young lithe.

and up nations?

fellow called Petr Artamonov, the sailors. cheered, To the captain this was a bluejacket who had metal tips fur and the men were still sing- his shoes and went into. ing away lustily. It seems they difficult because, he said, on

who traditional dancing with a lively almost never stop. there were so many

tap routine.

wanted to go ashore, 60 And then the singing. Tho much to see and such a director of music in the SverC

Bernard Hall

THE COELACANTH FISH-

ARE THERE

It was a yard long. Ila sigma- Acance is that the larvae of the

conger eel, which grows to eight

or nine feet in length, are only

RELATIVES?

By J. W. Taylor

a

The South Kensington

Errol

anet

HOW ATOMIC IS TODAY'S WEATHER?

ance.

By GWILYM WILLIAMS

Insurance companies displayed a depressing optimism about the of. a submarino life expectancy officer. They glady offered to in

Mors for £1,000 at aure premium of £500 a year,” Since that was more than Mars's pay. as a naval Heutenant, the pany

lost his business com

*

In its record of 210 days at sea the Unbroken, at one time in 1942 the only operational Bridal submarine in the Western Mediterranean, had sailed 24,000 milos, been the target for oboub 400 depth charges, and sunk more than 30,000 tons of ship- ping.

LEFT BEHIND

ALMOST 3

nerve-racking "as waiting for the krrrump of depth charges to stop was land- Ing_secret agenta and Com mandes for speelal missions on the enemy coast,

For his first a

For his first auch job he was of the party would be 192 bloke called

NUGGEST to a scientist long-term effects on the world that atom and hydrogen around of atom and hydrogen

explosions. bombs are changing the If you are complacent about Churchill. He was decidedly weather and he will smile the massive strength of this relieved when he learned that it pityingly at your ignor- great big world just ink, was Captain Peter Churchill and

astronomer's view not the obvious one.

Mora effectively conveys tha mxlety. of a submarino crew waiting in an exposed positions In an open harbour for these desperadoes to retum: Twied ho was forced to leave them behind,

the sun.

TAX

moment, an of it. You

This globe, of which we are so a mere layman -

puny figure in the must not presume to in- proud, cuts

universe. Its size is contempi- trude your crude suspicions ible. It has always been and into the realm of pure always will be at the mercy of sclence, where only proved strong outside forces, Especially facts count.

Imagine cur globe as a tiny Scientists will assure ball one inch in diameter. In

Much more fun was picking gun in ♫ ball

off trains as they left a timel you that last January's proportion the disastrous floods in Britain nine

that pletare firmly in times, when, as usual, the tallan und Holland, the

dellcately-poised

trains were late, Mara contem- little body hurtling tornadoes in the U.S. and fragile elsewhere, and this freak through pace, it is easy to sinted smaller-moying pigeons. understand how, susceptible is

thought struck-- me,”*- ha spring of 1958 are all in the globe, with its Bellente buter writes, "that if the worst came the nature of things.: drust, to any change in the pull to the worst we could put in gunnery practica-on a outside or Inside some Nothing at all to do with A- of powerful,

at, bur dismissed it as sojne- forces. or H-bombs.

{what" barbaric”. Leave the atom and its my- steries in our capable hands, he would say. Your job is to provide us with cash to carry on with our experiments.

fierce across 330 yards away to cross a long 'vladuct. Some-

of

+

DUST BOWLS

small

He is less enthusiastic about We have seen how a com- Admiralty errors that sent him matter. Like off blindly searching for non- paratively

forests affects existent convoys, for moments Should we be reassured by cutting down Deputy

rebul? Should Buch a

we profoundly whole regions. North when through lack of Informa ex- African deserts used once to bothan he almost sank; our own assume that the brilliant Natural

for torpedoes whose fremhanism sent them backs like perimenters have everything the praiaries of Rome.

Without

trees they under strict control?

a boomerang te buzz about land Must we also believe that no desolate lands writhing under a

aro familiar threaten with destruction the precaution neglected to pitiless, run. Wo ensure that no harm is done by enough today with the dust Unbroken that had fired them. the big bangs to the thin crust bowls of America and. Asta

of the earth or its highly sus- where the climate has changed ceptible atmosphere?

AUDACIOUS

HILST learned pro- largely centre on the fact that Professor J. L. B. Smith, the ex- the nearest relation to the group Coelacanth prehistorie Ash find, batable point as to whether of fish from which the land now denies that he ever sald developed, Through that the Coelacanth would throw or not the Coelacanth pre- animals historic fish, said to have their examination of it, experts light on the origin of man,

hapo to be able to solve some adds that the description of the been extinct for seventy of the secrets of the dawn of ash as the missing Unk" has million years and recently lond life.

been invented. The professor

fish might

be " So far they have done well in agrees the caught in the Muzambique

reconstruction of its specialised sideline in the male their Channel, would throw light external appearance by studying lines of evolut that never on the origin of man, others fossil specimens, as is instanced gave rise to anything in itself," are discussing the chances in model in the South Kensing that the discovery may he ton Natural History Museum. followed by surprises of the The only important point on

which they went wrong was the Dr

White, same sort..

extent of the limb-ke projec Keeper of the Geology Depart

the British Recently, for instance, an gel tions from which the fins grow. ment of

that surmised

these History Museum, has already laren much too big to be the Thry, progeny of any known cel was growins were more embodied in ans

answered Professor Smith with found. Even in this carly slago the body,

an opinion: "The Coelacanth is not likely to shed much Ught on the story of the evolution of man, end to suggest that this fact is fossils a missing link and that it will

becausomoisture- profoundly five inches long, so that if the suggest that the seventy-million throw light on the origin of

retaining forests have been mystery larva grows to an cel of

O year-old

of ancestors

the man is, to put it bluntly, sheer

PUNY FIGURE stupidly eliminated proportionate size it should be Coelacanth

were much nonsense."

It is not fantastic therefore about 05 feet long-an outsize smaller than the recent capture,

Professor Smith, however, And that no radical change to suppose that letting loose

Man ever in sea serpents of the specics,

and the one of 1938. These

has been made in the rhythm fiercer phenomenon

had linawn-the are no more sharply delineated fossils have come from all parts thinks that Dr White's statement

in the movements of the glober the world

forced embraced than the Asdic or, the bydro- of the world and show that this that the most important branch

the Maybe the atomists have fundamental almost of the family from which emaliness was common

Coelacanth came-giving rise to already proved to themselves in atom and. hydrogen bombs phones. And the dialogue is the everywhere.

submarine going into A similar sensation of

animals living on land had died beyond all doubt that this earth may have a much greater in largely confined to the Jargon Indications Coelacanth and was created by

aro that the out long ago was too dogmatio, can take without hurt all they fluence on the world's climate of a

The atom men must hasten three-six-and-a-half," calls for the capture of the African lung. Coelacanth's surviving relatives Says Professor Smith: "That is have dealt out in the past and than the destruction of forests, three angle groen fish in 1841. Fossil lungfish had are confined to a comparatively going a bit too far. I do not propose to desi out in the

to clear themselves of the the snappy, retorten Aadle Bear been identified only three years mall area off Africa-probably tlak it is proved. I am quite future.

Perhaps ellies can be destroy nupicion that they have reing of target green four-two."

whose strength before. Next came the equal stir one reason why it had thus for prepared to believe they

But the

heart lungfish another

found escaped discovery. Moreover, it still surviving, in the son. It ed without prejudice to the leased forces

of the earth's they underestimated and whore

chfects are now. beyond the

their thumping tale of the Unbroken in tho Australian Murray lives normally in very deep water would be no more surprising to Integrity

structure?

can surmount afry kind of River in 1870. This was the or in rocity arons which are and them surviving in the sen

But one fears that no such control.

Chà podestrian writing."To a nation 'It was same lungfish as the one found dikult to it. The probability, than

ar for wor For better or arrangement can be kept. baye Coelacanthi” In fossil form, having only one is that other speelmens

landed by

After all, the atom men's world today is in the hollow of brought up on the villainy of lung. The Alrican lungfish has actually been

and. He adds that he would not go

main job is to exploit the ex- the eclentista hand Thoy, the submarine Alastair Mars two linige M

ignorant local fishermen

plosive and destructive pos- have immense and, up to now, has done a service by shifting consigned to the cooking so far as to say "The Coelacanth The scientists

been SDOTO 150

sibilities of their discoveries to uncontrolled power. The ques some of the balance of #ym- tion of the future is not the old patby.ile shows that the sco Interested in the internal organs pot, a rate the latest and narrow is not Hicely to shed much light

on the story of the evolution of tie very limit. of the Cocliconth fish than in ly escaped."htt

the one of Who shall guard the demands • odual courage.from astronomers. Meanwhile, the leaned pro- man, as Dr White had stated,

Let the its external appearance, which

te soith, the scientist7. j). enfolds. they already new fairly wall fessors debate what has been but he agreed that this was true meteorologists and the laymen guard? But Who shall be thoes It curries, and those it

----worry about the short-and- scientiste from fossil romains, Their proben said about the recent discovery," Pasdar as we know at present.”

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