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Danger At Sca

THE WAR moves to a grimmer

stage with the indiscriminato

mining of shipping routes by

Nazi Germany.

an-

The Navy's Most

Dangerous Job

nounce the loss of H.M. destroyer Exmouth by the explosion of a German mine or torpedo. It is feared that all the crew have been lost. The next of kin of casualties have been in officers and men of the Royal trail; while big ocean-going craft

ON

N the

some

readiness of Shetlands to the Channel the thousands of submarines dropped a deadly

not killed outright they may be horribly mutilated and die of wounds and exposure in a wintry yen, or suffocate in the exploded fumes of a mine, or drift for hours on a piece of wreckage suffering the torments of the dumnell from injuries or tho freezing waters.

MINES are usually sown in fields a few hun-

formed and a casualty list Navy, fishermen and volunteers laid fields in the White Sea,, the dred at the entrance to some will be issued shortly."

from various walks of life ashore Bay of Biscay and off the coasts channel or harbour or, as in the

A naval officer looked over my to live that life, day in day out, of America, the South China last few days, in a part of the shoulder and read this message year in year out, depends your Sea, South Africa, Aden, India, open sea used by our own and in my hand. "Well," he said, existence in time of war, for New Zealand, Australia and neutral shipping on their lawful

without them you would starve, "that's another of them."

Ceylon,

in &

business..

Their destruction is not only a matter of courage and endur-

Already this campaign bas

A sixteen-inch gun or your Government would be brought to Germany a number: of formidable successes.

compelled to surrender on the battleship is as much good as

a penny whistle when it comes ance, but of scientific calculation -It-would-be foolish for us..to.

HOW many more times enemy's terms.

to cleaning the seas. of mines, and precision. close our eyes to that fact or to

will my colleagues

The most common method "is" It is now a commonplace that This is where the fishermen of attempt to minimise it in any and myself read such messages the Navy ultimately stands be- Britain came in literally to save shown in the accompanying -

during the war? During the way.

four years three months and tween this country and defeat our bacon and bread and butter lustration: A sweep wire is pass- and almost every kind of good ed between two sweeping ships. And it would be idle to deny seven days of the last our prede- in war. For unless the seas can on which the people of these which steam abreast. This is that the magnetic mine. intro-cessors printed an average of be kept open by the Fleet for islands depend.

kept in the water at a predeter- duces a weapon which it is one a week.

the merchantmen who bring our

mained depth by "kites" which In the beginning, this country weigh it down. Often the sweep food to these shores we cannot had a handful of old gunhonts wire has a serrated edge. This difficult to completely combat,

exist..

cuts the cable of a mine moored

as we have combated the U-Boat, This Indiscriminate mining of shipping routes, which already has claimed its greatest suCCESSES against neutral shipping, is of course absolutely opposed to international law.

But it was always foolish to expect that Nazi Germany would pay any respect to that--and few in Britain or France mado the mistake of thinking that it would.

Our naval experts and scientists have already found a counter to the magnetic mine.

But, just as in the last war, we must be prepared to face shipping losses until peace comes again.

1

Against the submarine we have so far been extremely successful. This murder weapon of the sea is more difficult to combat.

The British people, who have

been encouraged by the successes

of the Navy against the sub

KITE

KITE WIRE

and trawlers. In 1918 a fleet of 726 fully-equipped vessels was without the ships which keep every day to give safe passage by gun or rifle fire.

it to the surface to be destroyed

open the oceans for them, the to the merchantmen, men-of-war could not keep open

It is not so well realised that sweeping a 1,000-mile channel to the bed of the sea and brings

to

When the terrible danger was

Nothing can be seen-except

the way for the merchantmen fully realised fishing skippers the cold grey waste of the go about their business. and their crewa volunteered waters. Unlike a submarine, a Without these sweepers of the from every port to do this work, mine cannot be located by an seas the British Navy would be at first under the direction of apparatus. Blindly the sweepers..

steam ahead until a mine.is. B. Mine mooring entlo cut by Sweep, and in deadly peril of destruction trained naval men and then caught and brought up or until

A. Mine about to enter Sweep, Mino rising to surface where it will ba destroyed

every time it put out of its ports During that war the Germans and might very well be unable laid 43,636 mines, and at one to put out at all. period one sweeper was lost for every two mines swept up. Each time half the crew was killed r

drowned-not to mention

or

scalded hands and faces, severed

or broken limbs, nerves shatter- their

alone.

the hull is impaled upon one- In their ranks went some who of the leaden horns and the little had never previously set foot in vessel of probably not more than a rowing boat, let alone a sca- 250 tons is blown to fragments going.craft-some, astonishing. by an explosion which could ly enough, for the sake of destroy a Queen Mary or a Hood,

ON February 1, 1917, adventuresome because, al- the Germans started though they refused to take life, unrestricted submarine they were willing to risk losing

their own to save others. Among THAT was probably how the Exmouth met her ed by a bloody ordeal which campaign, attacking ships on then to the Quakers and those who survived it could not sight with torpedo and laying other Conscientious Objectors. end on Tuesday. Frequently a escape to the end of their days. mines in thousands in the open

minefield is only located when a And this is the work they ship is lost. seas. In 1014-1015 568 British, willingly and even eagerly under- Allier or neutral merchantmen took and which as you read this TWO hundred and four- were sent to the bottom. In thousands of their successors the sweepermen, knowing that communique was sent out by the down, in March 388 and in April

teen times such a February, 1917, 260 were sent are enduring now.

Admiralty and behind the for- mal phrases lay each time a

Thon into the sea of denth anil

every moment may be their last. Every day a channel clear of From the Admiralty may conc. mines must be kept open round communiques announcing briefly story of the courage and endur- On April 19, the worst day of the entire length of our coasts, the loss of one, or two, or three,. but in a few days the way la. ance of men which, could it have the worst month of the war, Every day now from unnamed safe again. been told, would have stirred eleven British morchantmen and ports sail converted trawlers

the heart of every Englishman.”

430.

which a few weeks ago were en-

We do not know how many

marino monace, will not be cast with which the Navy must work troyed. One out of every four hardhood of their crows in toll of life and material that will But because of the secrecy sight fighting craft were des- gaged in fishing. Epics of the mines are being laid now or tho down by any losses from mines. in war the story could not be ships that left these islands in peace-time have been written. be taken by them but whatever All-that they will ask is that told then. Because of the ro- that month nover returned. The Their war job is fantastically the peril and whatever the hard- there shall at no time be any ticence of those men to talk U-boat was bringing Britain to perilous.

ahip and suffering that may have about themselves it is even now the verge of starvation.."

to be endured to defeat them, fattempt to hide from them the only partly known,

There is not a second of any be assured that from the humbis real facts of the situation, how- In a rare moment of frank- There was hardly a harbour, in which they may not be more Britain will come nion to endure minute of any hour of any day cottages of the fisher-fólk of acss one of them once sald channel or headland round these than a hair's-breadth from being it until thero is not a mine left. over sorious.

only no dog has ever had to put mines at least once. "Minesweeping is a dog's life, coasts which was not sown with blown sky high and probably in the sea.

S. G.

We flourish best on the truth, whether it be good or M.

up with anything like it."

From the mover seen again. If they are.