1939-12-20 — Page 28

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December 20, 1939,

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SEAS CLEAR

By A. J. StoWhinnie

"Daily Herald" Naval Correspondent

FROM the rain-swept bridge of a mine-sweeper out at sea

I have just watched speeding destroyers and anti-submarine patrols "on the hunt" after the U-boat.

Overhead, a flying-boat roared.

An enemy submarine lind been

LORD GORT TALKS detected overnight in certain waters Spotlight on Germany

OF HIS TASK

towards which we were ordered.

Through the early morning mists Jour long line of minesweepers went

War Zone Lectures By out to drag the seas for any minefield

Corps Commanders

PARIS, Nov, 20. There is now no aspect of the work being performed by the British Army in the field with which the Ministers of the British Dominions who are visiting France are not fully famillar.

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the U-boat might have laid in the darkness.

If mything goes wrong," a ship's offleer warned me, "Just grab a belt and conver the side as fast as you enn.

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To the perit from exploding mines there was added the possibility of torpedo attack at any moment.

But the very able seamen I talked to on the lower deck are proud of the risks they are toking.

Blockade is

Hitting Nazis

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From CEDRIC SALTER," Dally Mail Special Correspondent.

Budapest, Nov. 15. TO-DAY I was given proof of the fact that, whatever her radio and Press may say to the con. To- MORROW trary, Germany is already acutely suffering from the effects For 1 Day Only

This of the Allied blockade. proof was given to me by a 60- years-old German engineer who arrived here this morning from Vienna to stay with a mutual |Hungarian friend.

To-night they have completed two strenuous days of visits, talks and

Emergency Call travel which enabled them to see for

They told me how until this sum themselves a great part of the British ner they were men of the trawler front.

learn from the corps, fishing Geet. divisional and brigade commanders

Till then they fished for food in the plans on which they are basing

Now, every day peaceful waters. their preparations, and to form thelr

the works men of the R.N.R., they scour the own opinion on which has already been done by the Seas for danger.

Soda the ship's radio burred out a He had brought with him official B.E.F. since It took over its peclor on rapid series of calls.

printed instructions.about the ration- Out of the mist, lo starboard, un-ing of certain food arildes which three have just circulated in Austria and

Czecho-Slovakia,

the Allled front.

The political representatives of thestroyers streaked past us ni Dominions are each accompanied bytes our speed one senior military adviser. All are

The flying boat zoomed overhead.} In Austria an adult is tow.limited agreed that the work performed in An emergency call had gone out. to one egg and 1011⁄2 oz. of fresh few short weeks is prodigious.

They are impressed by the spirit The destroyers were after a U-boat. ment and 54 ozs. of butter weekly."

But the men of the mine-sweeping | Coffee and sugar are rarely obtain- which animates the British Army flotilla went stolidly on with the job able at all except in minute quanti. from the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. of searching for mines. Theirs is ties.

In Line Abreast

Viscount Cort; and the corps CONT- manders down to the guardsmen and no job of spectacular speed. private soldiers whom they have Acen engaged on digging revetting. and generally developing the des fensive system of pillboxes, forts and strong points taken over from the

French.

Liaison With the French Yesterday the Dominions Ministers were received by Lord Cort, with whom they lunched before being given a full statement by the Com- mander-in-Chief on the nature of the task entrusted by Gen. Gomel to the British forces,

Their later afternoon was spent in a visit to the headquarters of the British Army co-operation aircraft. where the commanding officer, with the ald of mups explained the precise functions of the air units under his control.

The sweepers in line abreast were linked together

by wire hawsers, dragged through sea channels at varying depths to catch the mooring rope of any possible mines.

Danger Point

RATIONING in Germany itself, he pointed out, was slightly less strin- gent, but had reduced most of the essential

foodstuffs to a quantity dangerously near the point when health begins to suffer.

He also showed me a roli of bread The towing strain tears the mine given to him yesterday in a Vienna from its anchorage and sends it restaurant. I had catea many of its oating to the surface to be destroyed exact counterparts in Barcelona dur- by gunire,

ing the last month of the Civil War. From the flotilla flagship came a It dark khaki in colour, is com- flashed lustruction. We

were to posed of ground nutshells mixed with n certain coutre for sole a little maize and tastes of rubber. follow sweeping.

It contains no wheat and its nutri- The sweeps to be used looked like ment value is about nil. grey painted torpedocs.

Once overboard, with fog markers

Munich Reactions

their backs, they ride the seas the day of the attempt upon Hitler's se glant harpooned fish.

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Topes

THE German was in Munich on

it 15 ilte, and told me that there commonly realised by all; except the Below the surface wire

fanatically Nazi group, that this was Before dinner there was first connect them to heavy "kites" like a further example of the Reichstag meeting with the chief French Army an outsize in farm harrows.

fire technique. Baison officer with G.H.Q.

Mine zweeping is dangerous. But The French forces link up with the spells adventure. There is no lack British at two points, and the Domin- of volunteers. ion representatives, straight from The one thing the Germans want the event to be possible in a country their inspiring talks with Gen. to know is where our mine-sweeping as strictly censored as Germany un- Gamelin and M. Daladier, were fleets are working--and how they're less special instructions denoting pre- that this doing. That's why can no more vious knowledge of the event had

reveal where we have been sweepingren issued.

obviously well satisfed iinison is fully established.

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TO -

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then, was made far too rapidly after

On the morning of their departure then I can give details of our "catch." As in the Reichstag fire, however,

from Paris the visitors had been roused from their beds before 5 a.m. by an air rald warning, and on! arrival at G.HQ. they were salated! by a second.

Last night the entire party dined) with Lord Gort and several of his chief staff officers and remained talk- ing until a inte hour.

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The engineer admitted number of times when such stimu- lus can be administered is limited. Raids On Britain --THE-German-public, he assured me, were convinced that the bombing

This morning was sent in the AN interesting wedding was raids against Scole, success First Army Corps area after

held at the Registry yester-had been an overwhelming success. a tremendous and had preduced Corps Commander. Lt.-Gen.

All John Dill, in his headquarters, had day when Mr. William George effect upon the British morale.

brief lecture alded with Maycock married

Eva news of German losses in these al- Miss Helena Laing before Mr. T. S. tacks had been suppressed. Whyte-Smith, Registrar.

given

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mups.

A close inspection was made of af French pillbox while the divisional

The bride is the daughter of commander and his staff and brigade commander explained the tactical Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Laing, and basis on which these strong points sister of the well-known Dr. and supporting defences have been Douglas Laing. She wore a smart planned.

outfit of white sharkskin. Her Anti-tank obstacles suficiently for silver veil was held in place by midable to give an impressive sense

orange blossoms. of security were inspected at close quarters when a move was made to Candytuft composed her bouquet,

The bridesmaids were the Misses. sce guardsmen and sappers, aided by mechanical diggers, completing other Constanco Sully, Clasy Abbass and obstacles

Gertle Laing, Miss Sully wore orange to the advance of mechanised army over Bat country. tafeta irimmed with brown, and her There followed a visit to a howitzer brown vell was caught to her head battery situated in a pleasant little by orange flowers. The other brides- lavender taffeta with orchard further concealed by arti-maids wore

a coronot

ficial camouflage, after which an-purple and blue ribbon belts, Laven- other drive of some length brought der flowers held their blue veils in the cavalcade to the rendezvous with place. Each carried a posy of mixed the Second Corps Commander, Li-flowers. Gen. Alan F, Brooke.

The bridegroom is the son of Mr. Here a plenle meal was eaten by and Mrs. J. H. Maycock, and was: the roadside.

educated at the Central British School. He is

18 now a partner of Walk In Mud

Messrs. A. Dransfield & Co., Manu- facturers Representatives and Im- Immediately after, the Second porters and Exporters. Corps Commander conducted his Mr. R. K. Liang gave his daughter visitors to a high palat and with the away in marriage, and Mr. J. H. ald of maps pointed out the general | Maycock, Jr., attended his brother scheme for the defence of his fronts. as best man

The next divisional ceramander was met at the foot of a famous old fort, to whose summit the parly scrambled for a further interesting exposition of the part which his troops will be expected to perform.

After the ceremony a reception followed by a dance, was held at the Gloucester Hotel,

When Mrs. Maycock left for the honeymoon, which is being spent at Repulse Bay, she wore an orange coloured dress with brown felt hat and accessories, and fur cape 10

In the next two hours the entire party alternately walked and motor- ed considerable distances, slipping match. and sliding through mud and slush

to Inspect at close quarters further

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natural and arildcial tank obstacles, ther supplies from home in this or concrete forts and trench Hines,

that direction? the Worm tributes were paid to work done in their sector by a battal some confidener,

Mr. Eden, with

gave assurances

ion of Foot Guards, whose trenches that such things were on thele way. and breast-works, constructed under accompanied by the Duke of Glouces

Throughout the day the party was conditions of no little difficulty owing to the state of ground und ter, who is now fully familiar with weather, had a thoroughly satisface every inch of the British front and

back arcos. tory look.

Lord Gort, however, left to the Duke of Gloucester As Guide respective Corps Commanders the duties of the day and did not join The Dominions Ministers plied the party until dinner-time, with questions' all the officers with After the long tour of the front the whom they came into contact. In Dominions visitors were taken to a their turn, senior commanders had further meeting with the French in questions to ask Mr. Eden, Dominions a neighbouring town of considerable Secretary.

[importance, where'ten and refresh- What finor, opportunity could pre-menta were taken with their French Kent for stressing the need for furs [bosta.

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