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October 30, 1939.

Beating

ERMANY is waging inten

sive aubmarine warfare in an attempt to blockade Britain's coasts. The Athenia was sunk without warning. A number of other merchant ships have been destroyed. That is one side of the picture..

Now look at the other side. The liner Arandora Star, steam- ing at full speed on a zig-zag course, outwitted nine U-boats in the Atlantic and reached port in anfety.

the U-Boats

"Now I am dropping off to sleep. My book falls from my hands. But although my eyes are closed, I can- not sicep, for to my trained ears.

weird nolues of the some all the heart of the ocean. A big fish swims by with swishing sound. Then 1 like an echo hear a distant boom from far off; that is a gun or a depth. charge, exploding. Sound travels a

long way under the sen.

"A last I sleep."

Sometimes what appears to be a hannless tramp steamer is really a Qship, an armed vessel disguised ns submarines within a decoy to lure range of its guns. Copt, Hashagen was more fortunate than many a U-boat skipper in the following en- counter with a Q ship.

It should be remembered that a

"It was still dark when my ser- versel can outdistance, a submerged submarine by steaming at 10 knots or vant awoke me, 1 pulled on my leather jacket, elimbed the iron lad- mare. True, a speed of about 29 der to the conning-tower, and gave knots is needed to elude a submarine the order to surface. on the surface, but the U-boots dare not remain long above water.

the

"There was nothing in, aight, a we had coffee and cigarettes. The first that The Prime Minister has disclosed grey light of morning showed that the U-boats are constantly at- we were alone on the ocean. The tacked and that successes have been eky was clear and all looked quiet.

"At 11.30 am, a funnel and two achieved. There. will be more sue- cesses. You may not bear of them.masta were alghted straight over our Germany will be left to find out be- bows. I watched them approach for latedly that one after another of the a few minutes. Suddenly they dis- trade routes has been made safe for appeared. Five minutes later

came into view Stubby Rd. peaceful shipping, Remember, too, funnel and masts

that submarines cannot be replaced as again, but after another five minutes 1 knew they vanished once more. quickly us guns and airplanes.

that the ship was zig-zagging across the ocean. Her true direction was What may prove to be the death-towards me, however, so I submerged meet the knell of the U-boat us a major wear and moved slowly to Fon of naval wurfare is the rapid

periscope showed me development of the airplane since stronger. As she came nearer, the 1918. A submarine has no effective about 2,000 tons.

nirplane and way of attacking an

"For some time I kept close to the only one mears of defence-Its ballast tanks. But even submersion is only shly, uncertain whether to attack as she continued lo a partial defence, for an airplane her. As long zooming at 300 miles an hour or inora zig-zast, the chances were against my

LARSON-Mrs. Rose Richey Larson. of Peniel Mission, passed away nt 6. um. Monday, Oct. 30th at the Matilda Hospital. Funeral will pass the Monument Tuesday, Oct. 31st, 11 am,

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Into the centre of my torpedo sights,

"I gave the command 'Les. The

spot it at a considerable depth in petly officer standing next to me in reasonably clear water and can ad- the conning tower pressed the electrle vise nearby destroyers and submarine button. U62 quivered as a torpedo chasers,

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Siegfried: Can

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by such distance os will prevent How strong ls. the Siegfried Line? more than one at a time being taken From the first day that the Ger- under concentrated fire of attacking necessitate would me man's begun building their "West artillery. This

left the tube and bored through the water. Ten seconds later my boni It is a terrifying experience for

gave a heavy lurch as the torpedo hit and his men

There was U-boat cumaunder

the vessel astern. when a submarine chaser gets wind deafening roar na her bollers ex- of her whereabouts and begins to ploded. Then all was quiet again. drop depth charges. The submarine

"I raced the submarine a few hun- submerges as deeply as it can with safely and begins to run the gauntlet,dred yards farther away. Then I had another look through the peri- The U-boat moves dend slow, with rope. What t sion of German nationalism the boom of exploding depth charges The defenceless tramp had been Wall," Intelligence agents, particu- that the attacker bring his own and National Socialist racialism all round. The submarine rocks and completely transformed. She bristied larly of the French, have sought artillery forward after capturing one rolls and quivers with each concus- with guns and the decks were clear- the answer. The fact that answers

have not been divulged in the press position before being able to attack sion. A clase explosion spins the ed for action. start of the Allied plan to end boat completely around and men are: "Very slowly, very cautiously, and that the character and equip the next.

From the Swiss border near Chater Road

brought U62 closer to have a better ment of the German line remains Naziism and the rejection of throws off their feet. ****** | Hitler's peace moves. But they

Still more to be dreaded is a sub- view of this phenomenon, leaving a mystery to the public does not Basle to Karlsruhe, the Rhino ver Is the frontier between France and marine net, fortified with mines and my periscope in view. Immediately mean that the Allied command is of shells all ignorant of the major outline of the The there was a fusilinde

Germany. Here the Rhine Valley is can find more lasting grounds guarded by surface vessels,

But my torpedo had Naz! fortifications,

wide trench mode for encouragement in the pages U-bant which is careless or unlucky round me.

But at the same time there are the bottom of

when rocks collapsed in ages past. of "Mein Kampf." For in-agh to become enmeshed will broken. the ship in two, and 20

stand no more chance than a fly in minutes, inter I saw the crew taking many things that cannot be found was the trench are sheer, nigh. out without the exploration of pre- Heavily wooded plateaux slope away stance: "The lack of a great, a spider's web. Even if the sub-to the boats."

liminary combat. This, to a large! marine is not destroyed by mines or new, creative idea means at all times a limitation of the fight ing power." Herr Hitler is right. In the long run it is ideas which prevail. And the lack of ideas limits power.

Where is such lack, most evident to-day? The author of "Mein Kampf" says the secret of the French Revolution'a Buc- cess was great, new idea. And history tella of the remarkablo military results of that idea when France'a neighbours at- tacked. They even carried over into Napoleon's counter åttack. But it was an idea of freedom, not of conquest and oppression of other peoples. And ultim- ately it did not support Iconic ambitions.

depth charges, it may be usable to The U-boats which Germany has degree, explains the "delay" in the from the crests. These form the clear the obstruction before the air built in recent years are capable of offensive on the Western Front... supply is exhausted.

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TERM A MISNOMER

05

Black Forest In Germany facing the Vosges Mountains In France. Here is a frontier ident for, defer.ce. operating anywhere in the Atlantic Finally, there is the constant na-or Mediterranean, but if the Ger-

For it must be understood that! ALMOST INVINCIBLE lural danger of hidden-rocka, which moas-should-succeed in establishing

The allies are often unknown to chart makers refuelling bases the cruising range of the term "ne" is, in itself, some-

to-day, operating modern so far as the submarines and the length of thing of a misnomer. The position

weapons, would and are quite harmless

a line of forts, pillboxes, against ordinary surface shipping is concern- time they could remain away from as not

from would be increased e-trenches, and the like. It is a zone have as little chance to success in ed. But the U-boat, gliding slowly, heme part

of varying width and probably any attnek launched cas! almost noiselessly, along the sea bed wordingly.

bock. as much 30 this part of the Maginot Line against at a depth of perhaps 130 feet, may

One method is to have a floating reaching

from the frontier at some the commanding crest of this huge ram an unsuspected crag which rises unsc-on oll tanker which cruises miles starkly from the ocean floor.

about at a pre-arranged meeting points. It extends from the Swiss bastion across the river as the Ger running north mans would have had in 1914 at place in some unfrequented part of border near Basle,

Germany bought a num-along the frontier on the cast bank tocking west,

We know that the Germans not of the Rhine River loward Karls-: One of the most important methods the ocean. of combating the submarine menace ber of old tankers not long ngo.

this part of France in the is the convoy system, the escorting of The biggest ocean-going U-boats ruhe, paralleling the French Magi- only made no serious attempt to

the fronting

and French World War but moreover did not. groups of merchant vessels by n ring have a cruising radius up to 12,000 notino. At this point, and still attack of warships, which not only fight of miles.'

line, it leaves the river traversing dislodge the French, who had ad- the undersea raiders but are at hand

Whatever the size or range may the upland region to the west of vanced rapidly cast in the early

where to help in rescue work if the defence be, you can be sure of one thing, the Saar,

It strikes the days of the war, pushing their lines is penetrated.

Britain will sweep them from the Moselle River at the Luxemburg forward through Alsace to the river. border. From here it is out of It was not that the Germans had The convoy system was not estab-sena.

contact

the Maginot Line, Insufficient confidence in the ability with of the last war, but this time the ished efficiently until the latter half

with Luxemburg and Belgium of their heavy artillery to crush the teparating then. Then it wings French forts around Belfort but they Napo-Admiralty has been prepared from

north once more, paralleling the realised that the topography, placed cast Luxemburg and Belgian fron- all the odds against them and too tiers, a total distance of some 350 strongly favoured a protracted and slubborn defence by field fortifica- mties.

tions.

the outset.

flects a forest of masts and funnels

To dive beneath the outer ring of

mathematical ac-

Found Her Child After 7 Years

t

border

HASTE IN BUILDING

laid out and the works in it con- on the Rhine and the Luxemburg

bombs.

The military value of such

Its

_compensa-

If National Socialism had a

Picture the mixed feelings of a U-bent commander DB the criss- creative iden, it applied to in-crossed mirror of his periscope re-

Between the north end of the ternal unity and revival. In so

maving across the horizon. He bas A MOTHER and her 15-

It is known that the position was Vosges Mountains near Karlsruhe far as it gave Germans a new

a splendid choice of targets, but his year-old daughter who sense of self-respect, assurance danger is increased correspondingly. had not heard of each other

structed in relative haste. In o border near the Moselle River les and freedom from war penalties

tho Lor- as complete in detail of organisa- in military language it operated powerfully. But how warships and bring the periscope to for seven years were re-probability the Siegfried Line is not the region frequently referred to the surface again before aiming at a united at Lambeth juvenile on as the Maginot Line, to which raine Gateway. At the west end of far beyond that can it carry? merchontman is a hazardous bust court recently.

the French devoted several years of this line is the Boar Basin, over 700 Intensive

study and square miles in area and one of the Can it be turned into an instru-ness, calling for

richest mining and industrial regions curacy, personal courage and perfect

The girl, who had been found thorough exec ment for nationalistic conquest co-operation with the engine room

If reports are correct of a short-in Europe. Awarded by the Ver- to Franco to be of cement in Germany, the milles Treaty and the domination of other staff. Then, after firing a torpedo, wandering in the streets of

the submarine must dive deeply and Brixton, was said to be in need construction work may not be of exploited for 15 years peoples? Its most dynamic con-

creep away under the escort vessels of care and protection. It was cumcient strength to withstand the tlon for French coal mines destroyed cept is one of race, and that is which by this time will be searching stated that she had run away pounding of heavy artillery and air by German forces in the war, it was restored to Germany in 1935 after n from a nursing school. self-limiting. The inclusion of for it and dropping depth charges.

a "plebiscite."

city. Ix. largest Captain Ernst Hashagen, U-boat The girl then heard for the position depends on several factors. Baarbrucken, near which was fought other races (declared inferior and unmixable) contains the

nee of the last war, commanded U02. first time this story of her early important among them is readiness the first battle of the French-Prus for defence, shelters, ammunition sian War of 1070, should forecasters seeds of defeat for any such He has described with dramalle sim-fe, told by her mother:

plicity what it means to serve in a

and food, telephonie communica- be seeking a parient. idea.

U-boat, hunting merchant ships and "When my baby was born I was tions, and traps to ward off attacks.

RUGGED REGION In a struggle of ideas demo- dodging mines, nets and hostile war- destitule and was sent to the work- In addition, it should have protec

tive and thetical wire barriers to This entire region strongly re- cracy's concepts are by National ships. Here is Captain Hashagen's house.

small protect

posts from being sembles the Ardennes to a west life in U-bont which

'very uneven, and rugged, "My daughter was taken away rushed at short range or bombed by being

densely wooded, with small streams ground. They are supported

Whether the Siegfried Line has cutting up the upland country In also by the natural idea of self- "It is night-time and U02 ta asleep. and then to another. I heard about:

all directions, rendering cross-coun try travel arduous. Roads of neces-.- defence and defence of liberty, in the control room the affeer of her from time to time over a num- all of these is surmise.

the watch stands in charge. On one ber of years and then lost all trace

ally are forced to the valleys. home, and family. But this is side is the man controlling the depth of her. That was seven years ago,

The French will probably find that.... It is Improbable that the land- much more than an ideological manometer; on the other side, the I did not see or hear of her unti struggle. Other ideas chal- helmanan. In the engine room all is a few days ago."

quiet. We ate travelling dead slow. A welfare worker and the girt scape is checker-boarded with con-portion of the Siegfried Line be- longed by National Socialiam Rearly all the 'engine room stam are had beeri in various homes all over sealed guns and troop positions, ween Karlsruhe, and and Bakr not..

tremities named. In other words, are those which look to a peace-sleep...

the country and could hardly re-but there are certain to be not one 10 thoroughly organised at the ex-

but several positiona

all the topographically weak parts of het member her mother.. ful world order and the co-

These successive positions, "In my cabin I take up a book' The girl asked the magistrates if operation of many races and before going to sleep. By a coin- she could relucts to her mother, and generally parallel to one another, this section of the Line may be con- 50 Ings ploreed. In it by the Thing, and. nations in the building of acidence it is Twenty Thousand Lea- the woman pleaded. " have a hus- with switch poallions running from eldered as being the natural. open- higher, civilisation. As against gues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo's band now and a home, and I want parallel to parallel, will follow,

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posalble, the features of the Mosella River Valleys, which may well prove to be the heaviest fortified Moreover, they will be separated sections. It will be noted from re-.

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