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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.

BEGINNING: HALF-FORGOTTEN HEROES

U

Then Hudson “S”

Leader

from 200

--570 wallowed in tho

Atlantic gale like Squadron, piloted by Squadron

H. Thompson, atriken killer whale. over the patrol.

took and continued Kapita nleutnant circling the area. At 10.50 a.m. Hans Rahmlow stood in the Rahmlow decided

to surface. Thompson spotted V-570 us her jean gray shape broke surface and he put the Hudson intu shallow dive,

conning tower, watching the signal lamp flickering a mes

from the British Bage trawler Northern Chief:

.

The jubilant Thompson radio ed to Inno, asiting for ships to come and lake off the German crew. Immediately C.-C. Western Approaches,

signalled two destroyers and three drawl- ers to ebeam at full speed for

-570's reported poaltion.

Weather

www

By noon the Hahmlow climbed up into the appalling, with a full gale blow- conning tower just in time fo in Thorson's Hudson circled "If you make any attempt spot the plane and immediately until 1.48 . when a Catalina of 200 Squadron erdem

flying boul for shouted down scuttlo or abandon your crash

Thompson signalled: dive. But the

patient arrived. ship I will save no one and Thompson was too quick-four "Look after our sub, which has open fire on your boats and depth charges dropped from the sun while Ong." The Catal rafts."

to

Rahmlow, on the third day of His first operational poteval as a U-bont comnunder. Cashed back to the trawler: "I cannot abandon l soittle. Navi 125 tomorrow pleasp." ŚCITITOW

U-boat packs

Those Iwo signals helped forge one of the Royal Navy

ngairest the greatest wenpons

Alleed convoys as they crossed the A1 lantic they meant Beitra Ikul captured its fest -

laid bare

pecrets.

Hitler's

zabranite

When the new 300-ton U-bol was commoned in June, 1981 Adrukrul Tenutz wan scraTANK the bottom of the Kriegsmarine barrel for Mubinau DE CROWS CH 510' crew of 43 only fun trand done a wat cruise a V boat

After a few "working up cruises in the sheltered Katlegat and Skagerruk U-670 went ferias to Norway, such on the night of August 24, 1941. Italumlow tow his best out of Lails Fjoust her Arm war patroł

The weather Was bad. As the spray-swept U-470 pulched 41716 rolled her way towards her Ai lanke huntingt gevound,

and then rekkeri

became volently

Tarest case

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crew

F

39 of the 43 it was the test taste of life in J small U boat heavy wealthies

A latter taste thuit lo no appetite for

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Chaos Below

JUS

JUST after dawn on August 27

Rahunlow decided to dive to

three hours to give the crew rest becau

umorulu

it

was very Iow Water flowshed inle the bal- last tanks and U-570 mutamerged

a swirl of water

The time Coastal Commund Hudson om leelum

was 0.30 am -und

spotted that swirl

down und

The plane dived dropped stroke floats, radioing a sighting report le 24 base, The Spilot flew

for ruutu

another hour, urching for a trace of U-570. "Vision was very limited the pilal owing 10 non-squial, reported later,

Hudson's bồnù bays,

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He reported: "The U-bout was completely enveloped the explosions and shortly after wards submerged completely

Two minutes later U-570 shot to the surface again out of con- trol at 10 or 12 of its crew, wearing yellow lifejackets, ap- peared in the conning tower and came down on dock.

[tt

was joined by other plants,

But the outs were speeding by and the gale continued un- abated. Orders went out the gunding pans. If it appears to reach surfnce eral) unable punition before dark, after giv ing die wartung you should sink the U-bont."

However, Me RAF Cometal

in brought L'ommand There had been chaos below during those Iwo alikut planer to

an all-night

more

AFTER BOFFINS HAD PROBED HER SECRETS THE NAVY USED U-570 TO HUNT HER FORMER SISTER SHIPS

THE

OF

batten vers ante

A

bulinst strument husi been damagent The electric lights went init small amount 11 chlorine Kas from the batteries serpent the engine-room and DC LAT ad, refusing to return to duty

unles

Thampi vaught his Hudson Potunel agard and his Klainers

prned fire from the East

357ኀ . Kuns

Germans belly

ged back into the shelter o

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HARRIN Cracklest thear

2141 We watched

Concluding: Adventure On A Shoestring

THE FEAST IN THE STREETS

By Cliff Hanley

FTER

the

Pingaro in the middle of the street, and climb, the Cunningham- we sat down there to eat. Melnes Himalayan Ex- "Everybody in town gathered

The sight pedition was more or round to watch us. 1css finished with of white men eating in public.

with long especially

cating Climbing. But they bad a way to back to New Zea fingers, must have been a real entertainment, We ato with land.

as we had been doing

Much of their time in Nepal our fine."

they had spent on the forbidden for Nepal-Tibet border, They had

no

business

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possiblo

their

This was the welcome home

in Nejual, to Mother Iradio, and no highly-

thet

having recolved no official per- organised expedition ever had u better. All the climbers had to mission to enter.

they do now was find their way to It 19 wander across into Tibet during some money and to New Zealari.

mountains. But,

their four months among the Tough and Lean

Cunningham

would know?

and

U-570 surrendors to a RAF Hudson: the captain's dress shirt (arrowed) was used as a white flag.

CAPTURE

U-570

By DUDLEY POPE

patrol, using dates, and pos wiresaff Nufled a warning fo

"Yout (tainless

11111 Premi slay mustered on deck bught antal be shown all night

N 1. 1. Kaight, rammanding the trawler Northern Chief, signalled that oche but sugated -170 Through

Northern night the

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Pave Chip tought the westerly gale

To kump close to the subtharine

By the time the Hudson depen e third 2426 KO Lite E-li Surender signal was being waved from the conning lower it was the raplami clown the starched

and

Frilleret lightly To avoid uny 1111-

board Winte

tanelerstanding th was put on deck,

U-570 had capitulated to Un Hudson its demora kusech, S= sicht crew bad and eastagh

Leading reporters the world over have spontane

ously acclamed the amazing accuracy of automatic winding on a ball-bearing! It is to watchmaking

what jet propusun is to aviation"

By daylight oldar strips atsived the

Burwell tientenjers

atul Nugara. Winderme

Agate At 7:20

and the trawlers

and

Tht ships wanted

pm when the wind cased a bit and the Kangston Agate man- Deuvred so that she could drift a Carley let down to U-570

fixt Ett 1:34

W***** Lacul 11

Identenant Sub Campbeli Waghmom and two ratings, when scramblest aboard the *lil marine and organised the trans fer of the five wounded men to safely Within a equple of hertirs all the German erise of 43 bad been tranfgrted to the destroy er Niagara

Kingat Great Secrecy

Winder -

were so big that the mere steamed to windward and pumped rut l

to calm them, H Chief managed to get HALF an hour later the North

At the same time a Jarie passert to the Burwell. Jardi.

The first self-winding watch on a ball-bearing'

ETERNA MATIC

banishes the last weak spot

in the automatic watch

The arch-enemy of any mechanism is wear. Until now the "staff" of an auto- matic watch was regarded as its danger-spot because of the friction it caused. Eterna has brilliantly eliminated this source of danger by fitting a smooth- running near-microscopic ball-bearing in place of the staff". But this Eterna-Matic ball-bearing with its 5 unbreakable steel balls so tiny that a thimble would hold 30,000 has not only removed harmful friction: its easy action enables the rotor that automatically winds the watch to respond to the slightest movement of your wrist so hat it quickly and soundlessly stores up a power-reserve of 44 hours. Moreover, so smoothly does the Eterna-Matic ball-bearing work that it enables every component of the movement to function with a steady rhythm that is the secret of the amazing accuracy of this self-winding watch.

LOOK FOR THIS STERNA SY400

WHS

If by using radio durevlon - finding F), the position of the U-boat could be found as he transmitted the signal other Alhed convoys could be routed ground!

NIXIt the danger escorte could attack the parks"

The Ilunt

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and

Jahn

Ican John

In however. after their

Tough points out, who

had Cunningham

Buce shed Di his originally light The classical conception

of stone

months in frontiers, with striped barriers weight during four

immigration the Himalayas Cunningham and lynx cyed

Hamish McInnes arrived officials, soems funny when the

looking. Bombay line drawn on the inap rwis Through blizzards and glaciers reasonably vilised

down through India, no human journey gullys where

Their only worry was money. being has over den.

ef which they had almost none ut all. But they had £150 in

The

some bankin frightening ex- the kitty, must

agent in Now perience of the trip had nothing Bombay. An to do with climbing, glaciers, Zealand had handled this for At 3 52 pm Marriott gave the

omitted to say and guns or drug-runnere. In both them, but had urder to close the contact

Cunningham and which bank in Bombay, where went up to the kiosk and sealed dhections, himself at the periscope. A few Meluns had to cross big rivers, there are many banks,

they 11.

55 mules northeas1

Cape

hydrophone reported a contact ahead at long range.

Ortegal when the rating di the "Real Fright"

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Before their few rupees ran

A helpful clerk suggested one

he spotteck munches later enemy--a U-boat,

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usic "wolf

the On the

Khost by out they telephoned to the big- negotiated the Sun

The river wus in test and most likely bank in the He reported later:

which bank was "A heavydugou,

boiling tc, and the dugouts city, asking Only thu running.

of pat swell

kely to handle much had only an luch or tower conning

*ransmotion. wund

freeboard. any's

"This was my first rend fright,” Heen, though this with coneldor able clearness for a second. was painted bright pren, which Cuningham declares. "I wanted such bank, which suggested an-

ito sereni

It's quite different other, which suggested another. and the sin, shone in

it up-tom rock climbing.

Faced with a staggering list of disuppenzone of on," to be roughly beam peared

"On the way out, we followed bunks and

went to fur Then came the moment

a different route, farther cast, rush balance, they

hostet tid Army This Salvation months of training and out this didn't spare us. which

hoophality for planning ad prepared them. tume it was the Dhud Kho, in found generous

with Mar- Everything rested

from suveral days till they could dis- spate with melting snow

ouver where their money was mott as, forward in the torpedo Everest.

don't evesi "They

consider a Bombay. POUT, men waited for the onder

The Salvation boats using

un it--it would wash to fire.

The showed away. Then Marriott, his eyes press-the Queen Mary

way

two

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Army people

no

suspicion and

4 had

no for bed and and thin time Bombay

camo

THERE was, however,

"but High-frequency radio direction-finding (R: F 1/F) had been developed in 1930 but

wel very successful

WAR

ly 1940 the Admiralty tried crat new set called the FH 3

vorited

ed to the rubber-padded eye-lerrymen had a rope stretched. haste to be paid piece of the periscope, gave the but not lightly mouth, from one lourd, but Cunningham order to fire. At 4.50 p.m. for bank to the other, and we had McInnes

wandering

roland the to cross by this rope. from korpedors

"I know It was coming, and 1 penniless till the answ Chraph's bow tubes.

tried to make myself weigh halt from New Zealand.

It was to the effect that their a pound, te minus hulf a pound, or float in the air like a rope- deposit was with the Best bank

But trick buy.

hadn't got the they had approached.

End of Danger trick of it.

in two destroyers. But the set Explosions

only gave directions, not range. By the end of 1941 another set. the M 4. was produced This gave a cathode ray presentation which allowed the operator see if the range was less than 50 miles.

But the tow line to the submarine and

ships, by Ute other escrcteri

Then we captured W-570. shaped a course for Iceland. Be-

As soon as possible she wus cause she was leaking slightly

the "boffin" -370 was beached for examina- ptzt to sea and

with her radio experimented Ton and repairs. and then

From her signals Royal Navy steaming crew under transmiters.

sailed Lt Colvin

her, with the scientists altered the FH 4 the White Ensign Aying to Eng- sot zo that it could give

accurate ranges. And those new at Barrow on latid, arriving

sels were atted to the CUNYOY escorte fighting the Battle of the Atlantic.

October 3.

Imunediately.

secrecy,

amii poreal

take

tr>

4571

she WEIN Vicker's yard and Kiven ordinary Job number. Then the

the Admiralty

"all" Turla

stel-

arrived. Stadily they winkled every secret there was out of the U-boat and then the radio experts had u

more

While the "bons" were al work the Admiralty developed other plans for U-670-she WAN to sea under the White Beshin. And her job was to hunt her former sister U-boats

g

cof

U-570 was renamed HM Sub- marine Graph. and Lt. I. B. The Navy's great problems in Marriott, a 29-year-old veteran fighting the Battle of the submariner, was given the com- No essential alterations Atlantic was, naturally, in find- mand. ing out where the U-boats were. were made in the boat's They did have one chance of struction,

The day inpohting them; whenever U-boat sighted a convoy it sent Graph to sail for her first war a radio message-u sigghlang re- patrol under the White Ensign, port This enabled other U-boats and Mario11 took her into the to join in to form a pack.

Bay of Biscay. He was cruising

came

for HMS

CID Arrive

STOP watches were storted,

From this point, danger and men walled, stiff with tension.

"I touched the water in the ulscomfort end in the Himalaya They counted the seconds........

One ex-iddle of the rope, and i didn't story. Within four days on the then the minutes. plosion, then, 16 seconds later, breathe till I was well over to boat to Australia, Cunningham

his lost pounds, and the other alde. If I had come regained unother.

These two were followed by all the rope, I would have been the two of them ate their way within three solidly through everything the ten mile away prolonged explosion and

including a offer, I don't like taking risks ship could seconds

this."

constant diet of ice cream be-

El

hor

11 The apes. hydrophone operator reported like

Jubing, where they tween all meals. From grond assortiment of all kinds

Once in Australia, they still their nex the river, of metallic noises"

way back to lasting for

LOWS

ol size was Jaynagar, had to find their two ininutes.

New Zealand, where Cunning-- where they run into trouble. Marriott

8.30

ham had £80 deposited with police there were There The Indian

the Government as un carpest passionately interested in then

waited until p.m. and then surfaced.

wis no sign of the U-boat, nor cause they had no record of of his good faith as a sponsored was there any wreckage. HMS

any such climbers having left Graph's first operation was com-

India at that point for Nepal. pleted.

"Wo Welc

Laking our first Note: Later in the war Graph

months," Says attacked a couple of enemy debutha

"Baths! Cunningham.

A tuo stroyers. Marriott was awarded

with a cold water tap above it, thu DSO for "great courage, You sit in the tub and turn the

water on to your head.

"I WIL

ski and determination" while in command of her,

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NEXT SATURDAY:

Tito boats the "Knight's Move."

ROMANTIC BALMORAL

By JAMES TAYLOR

WHAT h

romantic rumours, Balmoral Castle has been very much

i11

becomes more Axext in this dear

had

many

HAT with Royal birth year my heart

Paradise,"

hay The Castle links with Hoyal romances,

Queen George

and Mary, and although it is not a

it

posed to the Princess.

until the following year.

Mor-

for.

inmigrant, but this couldn't be collected till he actually landed in New Zealand.

finances and They juggled sold their camera to get him home to collect the cash so that McInnes could be rescued

Hamish Meinnes is still in the doing nobody can the Antipodes,

sitting under shower when the CID arrived, guess what from day to day. He dkin't want to have anything has tried his hand at gold pros- to do with them. I played stupid, pocting, and once took on a und referred them to Hamish, contract to clar bushland for Christchurch County Council, 1 think now he had referred

while,

them to me in the first place. Big Stuff We kept them going for a

John Cunningham, the Glas- but they were enormously polite gow joiner, is back in Scotland, B mountain

and perfectly unshakable.

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"didn' produce mora

"They wanted to know every- Instructor. He declares that ho thing, and we could see prison is disappointed that the expedi

us while ton bars closing around they took us through the whole d

the did manage to get to Nepal But when they had finished, and climb the big stuff

story.

to the

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dramatic results, but happy that

tho

they changed quite suddenly, How do Cunningham and and gave uts the rod carpet Mclares measurO Up personally treatment. They evin invited to the famous Himalayan elim

bers? plain lieutenant Philip Mount-us to the pictures,

There seems to be no batten until his marriage, pro- Ham And Eggs doubt among Scottish climbers that they aro, better on rock "The pictures Joynagar

than many

of celebrated Earlier Prince Philip bad first are a fabulous experience. We Himalayan adventurery. sought the King's permission were in the balcony, as honoured "It is

believed the limelight of late, particularly since the reign of to marry his daughter, but the guests. From time to

anottur dilmbe sumong particularly since

has King

King felt that Elizabeth was too somebody would shout above

member of the Craig Dhu club the pictura reached

told пе "that to becoma an amiversary of axed tradition, there are plenty young to make up her mind the sound track, its own -- its centenary.

of precedents for the announcing quickly and asked him to wait would stop, and the lights woud member of one of the big expedi

up while a water-carrier emb of a Royal engagement from

tions, you have to know the attended

shouting Balmoral.

Almost

bo 4 Princess

rather than 31

right people customer..

crack climber as such, garot's birthdays have been

Would you like some ban "Not long ago a very famous celebrated, as this year, at Bal- moral

egg? our hosts asked us climber indeed had to be taken during

Royal the

thing!'. The programme off a rock climb in

In the Lake the Family's holidays, and most of Sure Queen

table laid and District a climb that dozens o when the rumours of romance which was stopped, a Although have beset her since she reached ham and agra were brought to unknown club climbers could do a qumpner residence for himselfgagement was announced the age of 21 have assumed 18.before the film could go on any week-end."

from Buckingham Palace in tover-peak on Deeside.

"After the show, the CID men This may or may not be an wouldn't let us go. They had exaggerated picture. Climbers July 1947, it is believed that it was at à Balmoral house party

It was during her 21st birth-arranged a banquet for us, and in Scotland certainly feel that during the previous summer day celebrations at Balmoral we were quite willing to try it. Cunningham and Melnzes: have

of Edinburgh, that

Peter Giroub Captain

"When we asked where it shown Writing of Balmoral, where that the Duke

biz expeditio her happiest times were spent, then known as Prince Philip of Townsend was on duty as her was, they pointed, to the main something,

atrect. A tablo was being laid Queen Victorin vald: "Every Greece and Inter. to become father's equerry.

It was in 1055 that the turreted, groy granite baronial castle

of Balmoral (which means in Gaello "the majestic dwelling"), built to the Prince

played Consort's own design to replace romance of the the smaller original home on Princess Elizabeth. the estate that he had bought as

and hin adoring "Vickey" (Queen Victoria), was first oc- cupled.

It

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MANDRAKE The magiciaŃ

THIS TOURIST FROM THE YEAR 5055 HAD A WEAPON ITE CALLED/ A MOLECULAR DISPLACER--IT- MADE HOLES THAT DISAPPEAREQ←

Y-YEST

THAT'S HOW THEY GOT INTO THE | VAULTS--WITHOUT LEAVING

CLUES, HE ALSO HAD PILLS THAT MAKE YOU TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER-- FOR ONE WEEK

HOWEVER, WARDENS FROM HIS OWN TIME SEARCHED THROUGH. TEN CENTURIES FOR HIM, AND TOOK HIM BACK.

IS THAT SOT

and

By Lee Falk and Phil Davia'

YOU SEE, HE BROKE THEM RULES,

HE SHOULD HAVE OBSERVED** NOT REVEALED HIMSELF.

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