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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ONDAY, NOVEMBER

29,-

1937.

To-day's Drama of the

High Seas

S

UBMARINE

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silent, invisible slaughter, piracy....

True enough, but pity the mon who carry out the piratical alaughter. For all we know, forly or ntiyhte slowly suffo- eating hundreds of feet down en the bed of the Mediter- ranean after having attacked the British destroyer, Basilisk,

Even the officers of Basilisk and the other destroyers called to the scene to shatter the pirate do not know for certain whether their attack on the

has under-water craft ceeded.

suc-

Bubmarines, their peril to ship- plug, the inhuman, cowardly form of attack that gives so little time and chance for reprisals, are one of the main problems of all navies of to-day.

This is what happens when a submarine attacks 1 destroyer carrying the equipment Installed In the Basilisk.

On

First sign of the attack is gener- ally

wake of the torpedo, or the the sight very dificult to locate-of

periscope in the water.

tip Immediately. operators Bounding gear begin to listen for sounds of the submarine carried through the water. The hydro- phone of the last war was effective. but the new apparatus is infinitely more accurate,

It can obtain the direction of the submarine, its approximate dis- tance and its direction of travel. Like direction-finding wireless, or the nose of a pointing dog, It can and immediately the accurate direction of the submarinc.

Normally, two or perhaps three destroyers search for the under- water foc. As soon as Its motors are heard, all three "focus" their direction-finding equipment

her.

or

Rapid signals between the ships three are exchanged, and the separate direction lines are laid on a chart, which give the precise position of the enemy.

Then, while the centre ship of the three destroyers stays in poal- tlon, the two outside ships steam. in towards the direction of the sound. As they reach the point, a signal is given and depth charges --3001b, drums of high explosive-

---To-day's 'Thought

PROGRESSING even more rapidly than civilisation itself are the implements for breaking up civillaation,

-MERRICK.

A British destroyer in the Mediterranean racing to help in the search for a submaro,

Chasing Submarines

are dropped over the sides, timed to explode at different depths.

Berious damage to the submarine is always obvious-patches of ol on the water or air bubbles rising from her torn sides. This, though, is never conclusive.

It is not necessary for the depth charge actually to strike the vessel As the charge ex- to sink her.

plodes, it sets up terrifle pressure waves in the sea, and these. striking the submarine, may do minor damage which will be just effective as ripping open her sides.

AS

One hundred feet below the surface of the ocean, the pressure on the sides of the submarine is terrific, and. if the explosion of a deptli charge starts rivets slightly backles her platen, the water is going to pour into the hull at tremendous pressure.

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Dr

most Greatest dancer and dreadful death-cornes from the sea water reaching the submarine's batteries. Under-water power for the ship is electrical, and an enor- mous part of the hull space is taken up with huge accumulators.

Once the salt water reaches the sulphurie neld of the accumulators. It gives all chlorine, which means dreadful death to the crew.

The effectiveness of the new depth charges used in another of the Admiralty's secrets. Damage. though, is almost sure to result if- the submarine is within between 40 and 100 yards of the explosion.

Between her work at the studio, Carole Lombard. screen star, Is living a healthy 11to at her ranch in

This article takes you aboard H.M.S. Basilisk, tells you how she would chase the mystery sub- murine which' attacked her off the Spanish Coast.

Whether that damage will be sufficient in disable the craft is largely a matter of luck.

Apart from dropping the charge in the correct position, it must be timed to explode at the correct depth.

cast-iron So far there is no method of estimating the sub- marine's depths; that depends on the intelligence and observance of the officers.

First of all, when the submarine ts sighted, or when it fires its tor- nedo, it must necessarily be prac- tically on the surface-at periscope level, at least.

From that one known fact and a knowledge of the rough speed at which the craft can submerge, the officer commanding the destroyer can estimate the depths the sub- inarine will have reached by the time he lets go his depth charges.

the In certain waters--not Mediterranean-he is helped by a knowledge of the depth of the sen bed. The Mediterranean is so deep that it hardly helps. -----Afuse-at-tho-and of the depth

charge-a heavy tank similar in appearance to a 10-

affair?

Lin Ben, President of the Chinese Republic, is not Sorth Cailfornia, where ahe Lakes, keen interest in often mentioned during the war but he remains an im- horses, cows, clilckens, pigs and rerse. The picture

hows the actress making preparations for a ride.

portant figure in the affairs of the country.

gallon oll-drum-can be set to exelede the 300lb. of N.T. at the required depth.

The usual "attack 'from a de- dejh charges stroyer is five dropped to form a nei "pattern" round the submarine.

Generally five chams in all are dropped, three from he ship it- self and two which al thrown out some distance on elter side by a small trench-mortar.flair.

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ARLY last month Briga- dier-General Lewin and his wife set out to fly over the African jungle from Khur- toum to Malakal.

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One hundred and fifty miles from. the nearest white settlement, in the heart of the Start country, their single engine failed.

There was a sudden allence cx- cept for the throbbing of taut wires; the patchwork of pale and dark green came nearer and nearer, show- ing rushes, virid mosses, and swamp; a quick choice of landing ground; sound again-a breaking, tearing sound,

Then silence. Complete silence. And a desolate country unknown to

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TEC next nine days show emeleney and the Impotency of our civilisation. General Lewin and his wife were discovered by airplanes within a few hours; food was drop- ned from day to day; even a message was picked up suspended a yard or two from the ground.

How tantalising it must have been to have seen so clearly the pilot's encouraging but futile smile! Then to be alone again-quite along, ex- cept for encircling vultures lugh In a gunmetal sky.

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Only defence the somarine has is silence. She is enpletely in- visible to the searchig destroyers. and they must

their ro on

They If a can keep scientific ears, absolute silence, shemay not be located.

But her dangers are still tre- mendouts. If she puts off her motors she can be ure that the destroyers already have some good Iden of her position.

Besides. even with her engines cut out, there

stsounds from the submerged prien" that can be picked up by the shsitive sound detectors on the destroyers.

are

The hydroplanes ich control her angle in the watt can seldom be kept absolutely sti, and, when they move they abost always squeaki

Engineers have woted for years sub. to make the contro of marine absolutely sint so that she can, when necessy, lle quiet, but they have not ye succeeded

Even the voices of he crew can be heard under good bnditions by the modern equipmat; and the slightest sound may lean certain death to the crew of fly.

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the embodied souls of their ances- fors; men who can kill a tíon single- handed their only weapon a made spear.

have peacefully For ages they

entle in those watched over their

There endless marshes of the Sud. you can see thein-standing on one leg-silhouettes on the horizon, tall Such, and still as the barren trees.

is this primitive race-kindly, brave. and beautiful-that for the first time in our history became front page

news.

"WE are dying of hunger

we have reache:' the worst

scarcely does some one die than he is devoured during the night by the survivors."

These despairing words are from

and the diary of Gessi-explorer. soldier of Gordon. They were writ

The submarines a helped in their escupe by theliown hydro-ion in 1880. phones. If they heathe search- ing destroyers movin, away from them, they will kee stationary. and then, quietly andgently, turn on their motors andcreep away.

Should the sound oftheir move- ments result in an change of direction of the defroyers they will again attempt o le silent until the search agaiṛmoves away from them,

This system of crape, which needs the anest degee of judg- ment from the Gubmrine officers, has been used by British sub- marines in recent pactice man- occalon has re- @uvres and on sulted in the quarrysscaping her hunters..

Once an attack pas started, though, the chances are heavily against the invisible hip. In the recent Mediterraneai attack, the submarine, after frin; the torpedo at destroyer Basilisk hd, however,

good chance of escție.

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Baallisk was operaing on her own, which put hef at an im- mediate disadvantage in securing

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position.

Not until the oth destroyers arrived was it possibl for them to secure a cross line bering of any kind.

This open sea pirey is one of the most unpleasant, bhuman and treacherous forms ofwartare; but spare a thought for the poor souls who, in cramped digomfort, can expect, hour by hoy, the worst

form of death.

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

To-day you can make this journey up the Bahr-el-Chazal river in safe- ty, though after the first day you will probably wish you had never started.

For even now the discomfort is almost Intolerable: the heat is of on oven. but dump. At night, if you wish to avoid malaria, you must wear long boots and gloves, and sleep In what looks like a meat safe on the upper deck.

Not that you will get much sleep, for so narrow is this channel that Frass brushes constantly papyrus against the mosquito netting and at cach hairpin corner the cockleshell steamer shudders from bank to bank.

which

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URING four days you are enclared by green walls overhang the deck. During four days you creep through floating Islands of papyrus, sheets of pale blue

lotus flowers, and a tangled mass of rotting weeds.

be-

Frequently further progress

seems comes impossible: the boat hopelessly stranded. Then the crew must wade through the tepid water dive beneath the keel to tear away with their hands an accumulation of the sodden vegetation.

But

beyond these high walls of green le ve hundred miles of un- explored country-islands of weed that Boat in a swamp. This is the country which is known as the Sud..

THOUGH ill unexplored It

is no longer undiscovered; you can look down on it from the secure comfort of an Imperial Alc- ways liner.

But however excellent your lunch, however baffling the clues in your detective novel, you can but be con- scious of the thinness of this part- tlon (It is about an eighth of an inch of corrugated steel) which separates your banal comforts from a life that has hardly changed since the world. began.

Richard

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ACROSS

1 Suitable dwelling for Australian

cricket fans?

5 This helps sailor to weigh. D Just round about.

10 On this the orator speaks over

the heads of his audience.

11 This in a ring is splitting. 12 Imitating a sharp sound. 13 The end of this famous vessel is

not final,

16 One of the possible connections between a sailor and the cca. 17 This animal heartless means a

TOW.

Is Warm material for a girl to be

in.

20 A wordy tome.

23 Something to talk aboul, 20 Only half a rescue. 27 Able with favourite heart.

31 The kingdom of an actual num-

ber.

32 A bit of dinner, 33 Stamp.

34 Correct stort of 12 across from

the Zoo.

35 Very much. 30 Genuine.

ACROSS

1 Everything in the Gardener's

friend makes for stability.

2 Moving name for the monarch

of, extinct birds?

3 I call ore." (anag)

4 A small barrel.

5 Should a sick porker ever be

this?

6 Did this Turk-once have a heart

of fre?

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7 Trunks.

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- "Lame run" (anag.)

14 Tradesmen are trained to sing

about this.

15 Vehicle.

18 Cross.

10 The period following the biggest

atrike.

20 Self-inflicted feline defest,

21 This act is rather a blow.

22 This had to be put in, although

it isn't! 24 Soothe.

25 A joint affair with teeth in His

hood.

20 Trec.

20 Ten is the middle of what is to

bc.

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