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THE FUEHRER: "What's going to happen if he stops dancing ?"

Hunting

Wednesday, January 17, 1940. SUBMARINES are

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20815

the

not easiest things to locate, when you consider how small

THE PHÔN “hneela) to the Telegraph". | they are and how big the seas se need be the "sanghang Telegraph to in which they do their deadly 1.ABA Tem which tụ trên một under the provisions of the Telecommani- work. With a surface ship you

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Shipping Meets a Threat

Will destruction of merchant ships in the present war exceed the ability of world shipyards to make good the losses, particularly If the Garman thrust with sub- marines, minos, and raiders is sharpened 7

During the Great War, German action accounted for the loss of 0,600 vessels, totalling some 12,- 800,000 tona, or about 25 per cont of the tonnage on hand prior to hostilities. The convoy system which cut British asses in the former conflict to about 5 per cent of the ships convoyed, can be count- ed on to-day to reduce losses sharp- ly, unless new weapons appear.

The shipyards of the world are launching an estimated 200,000

know what you are up against: know they must keep to certain areus, call at appointed rendezv ous to refuel; be in sight of some ship at some time, so that warnings and alarms can be spread.

their own time for attack; and

After all, there are sure to be platy of opportunities, the Nuzi arg., with these English using the high Ecos_as_it_they were their own!

The

by Captain FRANK H.

UNE

U-Boat

SHAW

How is it dono ? How does the U-Boat commander spot his How prey ↑ What does ho sce by means of the periscope? can ho tell whether a destroyer lurks behind the tramp ? What happens to Hitler's floating oil dopots? Captain Frank H. Shaw, the well-known naval writer, who has himself helped to hunt U-Boats, tells the full story hero.

mains. totally submerged, even with number have been wounded and his periscope below the surface, and submarine's wound is often mortal.

lics low. As I said: another chance' will offer.

an

JITH bis own engines stopped, even his dynamos closed down,

a

TAKING it. by and large, we are

not doing so badly. Long before September 3, Hitler's U-boats were dispatched to their

must make off on the surface-and It's speed is not sufficient to allow it to clude the chasers that are ins- tantly hot on ila trall..

WHEN the US. joined forces with W us in the last war they devised what they called the Splinter Flect- a large number of speedy small craft, each carrying a dozen depth charges and a gun. These little ships hunted In packs; and when their hydrophones detected the presence of a submarine they run a ring round it, sprinkling depth charges, as their commanding officer put it "Ike confetti at a wedding. Their success was con-

alderable.

Not so with the underwater lurker -le's secret as well as sinister. The biggest argument in his favour is that anything visible on the surface is a potential enemy to be treated ac- WIT cordingly. And as he can submerge

We have small craft, faster, more in 25 seconds, it doesn't give. the there is little for a hunter searching war stations. Depot ships for refuel. Powerful than the Solinter Fleet; and these wasplsh ships are capable of camest seekers too much of a chance for U-bonts to work upon. But the ing and restoring them were posted putting down such a barrage as will

even though his whirring.cngmes experience gained in the last war, at strategic points.

Anish any U-boat, if within its radius below the surface are easily audible coupled with twenty years of peace-

One of the first steps taken by of action. lo trained watchers in the hunung time experimenting, has taught our

naval craftsmen a deuse of a lot! the Royal Navy has been to root aut ships.

Many cases are cited in the last these depot ships old tankers bought war of merchantmen defeating a U- How much we have learnt is 'Germany's undersea, navy is no

wholesale by Hitler in anticipation of bont at its own game by dodging and negligible lactor. U-boats can choose evident from the datement boule this situation. Since the depot ships the wise use of engines; and the Red,

Prime Minister as to the possible

and are surface craft, and since we retain Ensign crowd leam quickly. The poked-up periscope shows that are number of enemy craft attacked and surface command of the seas, their Nazi may forget that he is not attack-

la obviously are risks in malung offensive action, destroyed, This

a destruction is inevitable in time. But the submarine can lie doggo until a understatement.

One reason for this such destruction is not advertised ing sheep any more-merchantmen more lavourable opportunny occurs, is that the Admiralty require more oh, no! Perlups when they are put it no armed vessel is available in have been taught how to, eludė him, evidence than the mere record of a

down, one of our armed vessels may spitcher him completely. smear of oil on the surface following lake post in place of its victim-50 attack on a submarine, before that the U-boat, denuded of fuel and admitting a successful action.

blunders into a trap. In the last war the commonest ruse Or, perhaps the Nazi, adopted by the enemy was, on being pleious, may try to carry on without THE periscope reflects a perfectly even remotely attacked, to discharge fuel and stores, and die of starvation, clear picture of a surface vessel oll from a vent, to give the impression The losses of U-boats are not always on the screen-table in the navigating of a mortul injury, thus causing the listed, one reason being that it is Silhouettes thus seen lave attacking stoop, destroyer or trawler; impossible to keep track of undersen tons of vessola n month, an amount ceruun characteristics: a merchan- to break off the light on the assump craft which meet with this dismal stead we have the 'planes of the almost equal to sinkings,

man is pretty well unmistakable, on that only a cracked submarine fate of simply vanishing.

RAF. and the Ficet Air Arm. These It is disclosing no secret to say are a weapon not much used in '14- Even assuming intensified sub-especially as the periscope prems could leak oil.

magnity considerably, and even show We submarine-hunters of the 1914- that the most effective weapon against 18. The aeroplane to-day is a

one 18 years had to bring incontrovertible a submarine marine activity and greater sink-whether the target is fitted with a

a depth-charge. weapons against submarines. There ings by mines which might jump

gun.

proof of a submarine's destruction Such a bomb, of 300lb. weight of was nothing wrong with the recent and the U-boat fitted with direc- before earning any credit. If there INT. exploding under water, dis- rescue of a torpedoed grew by two destruction by 50 per cent, new tional hydrophones (a kind of sub were no human survivors, a cap turbs anything within a considerable scaplanes and if at SOS had been construction is being accelerated merged telephone on the huil of a ribbon, a fragment of unmistakable radius.

delivered a little earlier the Nazi to meet the threat. The British ship) can tell from the heat of the debris, or a reliable photograph had If it doesn't crack the Nazi's hide must inevitably have perished.

propeller, transmitted through the to be produced. So that, if there is It Jolts him into right, when guns can Weighing up the facts, I would for Government is giving assistance to water and magnidad in the bydro- actual proof that a number of U-boats, puncture him to satisfactorily that rather be the captain of an unarmed. shipping concerns in an

un-phones, whether the visible vessel in have been dealt with so far, the safe his escape is an impossibility for a merchantman than of a U-boat-any precedented speed-up programme equipped with bona fide merchant assumption is that more than that punctured U-boat cannot dive; it day,

Iman's engines-the number of revo-

begun last spring. France has a million tons' more of ships than in 1914 and is hastening launchings.

Neutrals have doubled, and United States quadrupled, the 1914 tonnage. Unless building Is checked by affective air attacks or other means the shipping industry, It would appear, can be counted on to more than counterbalance sinkings with new launchings. It did so in 1914-18 and it is vastly more efficient now.

A Cheering Estimate

those stories full credence.

room.

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fullons differs a lot, as between Red Ensign and White,

A warship, too, has finer lines han. a freighter. if the U-boat com- mander gets a bow-on view of an approaching ship, he can tell at a glance whether she is the ordinary ball-nosed tramp or something turned: out from a Navy yard-speedy, arm- and equipped with wonderful de- vices for his detection and destruc- lion.

Definite prey!

Doctor

are

supplies, U- HERE'S a regular amada of anti-

Is

of the

submarine craft very much at

war with Fritz. In the last war we sed Q-boats to decoy the U-boat to its doom-but once their secret was disclosed their ulilly vanished. In

Old

School

UR doctor is by way of being arrived at the hillside cottage and be- dreading his visit, look forward to "character." He is a largė, įgan to make his examination, the old his arrival with great delight. Their untidy-looking man, who seldom miser interrupted him with:-"Noo. aches and palno tre forgotten once “ needs to carry the traditional black see here, doctor, store ye gang ony the old man is by their bedside, bag because of the capacious pockets faurer, let me tell ye this. Gin je spinning long, impossible yamas for which he favours in his old top-coat. Uhink he's not worth repairin", dinna their bencât, and promising them u that to deal satisfactorily with These always bulging with pit oal muckle expense on him." ride on Methuselah as soon as they the U-boat merace is anythin7, medicine bottles, boxes of pills. On another occasion he was called are well enough to get up. This is a but an easy job. The Nazi desires strange Instruments, and a supply of to a cottage which resembled a never-failing tone, for they love to action. He hears distant enginebeats "black bools," which the doctor sucks "midden" in its untidiness, to ex- trundle up the village street with the transmitted through his hydrophen swith great enjoyment as he goes on amine a small boy who was alling, doctor holding them Armly on his He counts them. A merchantman his rounds,

"I hope there's no' muckle wrang wi bicycle. The quieter the Front the Un gors hin periscope. A freighter's

"The doctor," as everybody calls anxiously.

oor Tam," said the slatternly mother, In winter the doctor's tasks is often more active the political speculator. allhouette is framed in the scret him, has no desire to career about the

In very hard one. He has to tramp The air is alive with rumours of But the ponderous beat of the countryside in a motor car, which, in "No, nothing much," said the doc-many miles up snow-clad braes to reach his outlying patients and to startling things that are about to tremp's propeller might deades or any case, would hop him jittle, nince tor gravely "I think some soap and minister to their needs, real or happen, and especially in

the Jam, the thinner beat of an escort's many of his patients live in outlying water would do him as much good as Imaginary.

cottages whose only approach is by anything." terew therefore the periscope

"Oh, doctor, what's the matter w internal affairs of Germany, but it is sweeps the visible horizon, in search hillito path. Instead he sticks lo "Mexly me," said she relieved not incumbent upon anyone to give of any suspicious smoke, if he orcs his old bicycle, which has been right- voice, that's clean medicine ma tongue?" asked an anxious wife

who was in the habit of "clashing thin hr understands that to attack ly named Methuselah by the villagers, I gie it to him afore or efter monis, with her neighbours.

"Nothing much," he replied, sooth It is refreshing to turn to what might be perilous. He therefore re- and which can be heard long before doctor?" an experienced and cool-headed

ingly "It's just needing a rest." Japanese Admiral has to say about have happened. The situation was pocket and a "black bool" bulging in sill, beside the inevitable geranium

* the European situation-especially changed at a stroko by the German his check, specding down the village plant, reposes a bottle of the doctor's spends his free hours studying plant

The doctor is a keen botanist, and when his estimate hanga heavily on Sovint agreement. Britain's naval street, with terrified hens Buttering medicine. The contents are harmless of all descriptions. This hobby of the nido of the Allies,

problem was instantly reduced to out of the way of Methuselah's enough. "It's the psychology that his amazes the villagers and is a grea Admiral Nakamura reminds us of meeting German guerrilla warfare ancient wheels

counts," says the old doctor with source of annoyance to old Mra Fortunately he has a sense of hum-chuckle. Ile knows only too well MTosh, who suffers from the "pains" the unpleasant fact that before the ta the North Soal

our, which stonds him in good stead that the goodwiven are never so and who is always calling him in a war Great Britain's potential Perhaps the Admiral sponks with when he is called out to some patient happy ha when discussing their unlikely hours. One day when h oncules wore Japan in the Pacific, the prejudice of a naval man when whose allments are entirely imagin-"complaints"; and a bottle from the arrived rather late to visit her, she Italy in the Mediterranean, and he says that Britain can now have and he has many pawky tales to doctor is thought to be a certain eure greeted him with "H'm," so.ye've

for all aliments. Indeed, should be condescendit to come at last. It's Germany in the North Sen, with absoluto confidence in her. victory.

prescribe anything else, his patienta peety handna teen a puddock-stool Spain able to provide bases for the and that the war will not be won fu

are most indignant and refuse to an ye wad ha'e been here first thing Axis Powers, Dat what at first the air. His final conclusion is not One of his favourites, which he pronounce themselves cured until har the mornin." ** came da a severe shock to the British in agreement with pravalant opin-relates with great gusto, concerns a has presented them with a bottle of The doctor lives in a big house al people turned out to be one of the lon. He thinks the war will be miserly old shepherd whose only son highly-coloured liquid.

untidy as himself, and is looked after/ became seriously iil one night. The most fortunate things that could over within a year.

PLEASE Tuin To. Para 9. doctor, was sent for, and when he

it is in sight.

We are used to a vision of the doc- for, a stethoscope protruding from his

tell of his experiences,

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The doctor is a great among the children who, far from