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was six

HE time

o'clock in the morn ing and the place a seaport somewhere in the direction of Land's End. In the sailors' bar where I was having an early cup of coffee there were notices on the Wall which said:

"Drinks Must Be Paid

Immediately”

"No Noisy Please. By Order It is Strictly Forbidden to Sing."

I sometimes sing in the morn- ing (who dosen't), but that morning, no. I was far too ex- cited and nervous. For I-wns about to make my first trip in a submarine.

IIalf an hour later the com- mander, a little man with his

hat set at the Beauty angle,

February 13, 1940.

At Sea With The

ERSALDEKASSER | welcomed us aboard. And "Bon

jour, monsieur" was what he said.

You sec, although

Hongkong Telegraph. notices I have quoted were really

Tuesday, February 13, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

TIE pronx "Special to the Telegraph" la used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni arcars the Indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Frous Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication either wholly or in part without previous

cations Ordinance, 1938. Budhi nOWE KE

arrangement

France's Case

Necessarily, much of the recent- ly issued French Yellow Book,

FRENCH

Here are two French destroyers on patrol. The French Navy is doing its full share of the work of keeping the seas clear for Allied comIRCTCO

NAVY

.

written in English (and I am appreciate the force of Mr. German surface raiders off the is fullling the same essential. still wondering why) the sub- Churchill's comment on the sens. The British Fleet has service. marine was French and the "chain-belt crews" which Ger- made an excellent beginning In the calm waters of a Breton Land's End was Finisterre.

many must find for the U-boat against the Admiral Graf Spec, inlet I transhipped from the but for this sort of work a submarine to the sloop. The combination of speed, power submarine commander swore and great range of action is (and that's the right word) that.

that the French Fleet excels.

sloop since he had already sent Britain is building the ships her to the bottom with his un-

It was all very exciting: to fleet. stand on the conning tower as we sailed out into the Bay of Biscar; to dive and have lunch on the sen-bed, because it is much stendier down there; to

BUT make no mistake: essential. And it is here, surely, I had no business to board the

the French Marine, stalk an "enemy" sloop and for all its justifiable confidence, launch a torpedo against her; and to have depth charges is not scoffing at the enemy, (eg, the King George V. class) erring torpedo. The sloop com- Neither, for that matter, is Mr. that can cope with the Nazi mander swore (equally) that I dropped against us in return.

Churchill; in the same speech he raiders: France has already had no right to come aboard But it was only a mock en- dealing with the march of events counter, and, except for the tyro warned us against exaggerated built them, eg, the Dunkerque since he had already blown the submarine and every man jack from Munich to the outbreak of perhaps, how much tamer than optimism. Here in France, and the Strasbourg."

aboard to blazes with his un- war, is of value for the record the real thing. So, at a time ashore and afloat, I have heard

In England we are too prone failing depth charges. rather than for the general when the real thing is happening the same warning note as that to think that French sea power reader. But it contains docu-daily as it might very well which was sounded the other ended with Trafalgar and that By this time no doubt the two ments of historic importance, have happened to us there is day by M. Paul Reynaud: "Let the contribution of our Ally to commanders have argued it out. presenting familiar facts inno point in a long and detailed us, beware of underestimating the war is limited to her mag. in the bar at—and I only hope greater detall and

new account of our cruise. Only a the strength of our enemy. The nificent Army and Air Force. A they saw that notice in English angle. Its effect is to deepen the few impressionu.

democracies will triumph, but glance at the map should be which begs "No Noise Please." only at the price of sacrifices." sufficient to correct that view. (But even if they did, what matter? In France, as in. Bri-

from

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sinister impression which those facts had already left on all but the Nazi mind. No room for doubt

FIRST, the camaraderie remains as to where the guilt for

aboard. That, I sup- plunging Europe into war must

pose, is inevitable_in_a_sub- lie. War, it is made apparent, inarine. It is not only the ever- was forced on the Allies as the present danger that

draws

By William Forrest tain, I have discovered "sailors

News Chronicle Special Correspondent,

don't care.")

As the loop headed

only alternative to ignominious everyone, officers and men, to- The war at sea, unlike the The French have the second and irretrievable capitulation.gether, but the limitations of Had they shrunk from the fateful space compel them to be good but it is only in its beginning. and such an Empire could not escorts passed to starboard, south a convoy with war on land, has already begun, greatest Empire in the world challenge they would have had to mixers. There is no quarter- Less fortunate than Tirpitz, survive without a powerful nearing journey's end. The com- confess, not merely that "all is deck in a submarine.

Admiral Raeder has no Grand fleet; }

mander was prompted to tell me lost save honour,” but that "all is Ours was one of the smaller Fleet with which to give battle

the story of the luckiest ship. lost, nor oven henour saved." It class, only 600 tons, with a com- on the high seas; he must rely victorious armies of the French trayer Sirocco.

Carnot, who organised the in the French Marine-the des is difficult to exaggerato the plement of three officers and 40 on his U-boats and on his ocean Revolution, had his counter- mingled arrogance and duplicity men-to say nothing of the dog, raiders, the pocket battleships, part in Jean Bon Saint-Andre, The Sirocco had just sunk which formed the warp and the who answered to the name of the battle cruisers, Scharnhorat who organised the navy which her first U-boat, and everyone woof of German policy. The re- Tout Petit. Everyone aboard and Gneisenau, and the new blend is alone sufficient to make Food (and such food!) was the which two, the Admiral Hipper these same waters off Finisterre, destroyers in the escort their velation of that unconscionable was "tu" to the commander. 10,000-ton heavy cruisers, of assured the freedom of France's aboard was feeling cock-a-hoop. maritime communications. In So, in order to give the other irrelevant and futile the self- same for officers and men alike, and the Blucher, are now com- where our submaring disported, chance of a kill, the Sirocco was interrogation as to the Allies' war And the wine-who could wish pleted. aims In which over-meticulous for better than the vin de l'in- minds find distraction ́ from thefendance of the French Marine? immediate business of winning the The grog, of course, goes with-

out saying. as `profitably

war.

Ono might

a French flotilla in 1794 joined nent away to the rear of the battle with the British and, convoy.

although defeated, held the But, towards the end of the PART from escorting passage open for a great convoy day, up came another U-bont, AP

of wheat from America.

skulking in the wake of the dispute as to what should be done} With all this camaraderie goes the, chief task of the Allied To-day, with the co-operation convoy and waiting for the or a cobra roady coiled to strike warning cry, "Nous allons plon Navies now is to chase these of the British; the French Fleet moment to strike. The Sirocco

with a jungle beast about to spring a perfect discipline. When the

at its victim,

Dosire for conciliation was affect-

the ocean

convoys,

Iny behind the Ubost, hidden by the gathering dusk. But..to the look-out on the Sirocoo the.

Do You Know The Next U-boat was clearly visible, with

Medal To The V.C.?

So far, only one instance of this

her silhouette against the set- ting sun-and the guns of the destroyer made short work of the raidor.

"I was in command of that escort," said the sloop com- mander, "and it was I who ordered the Sirocco to the rear." He spoke with evident fooling.

ger," passed round the ship Britain and Franco had, and every man sprang to his ap- still have, as this Yollow Book pointed station. Even the shows, only one possibo resort for steward who was setting the self-preservation, as well as for table for lunch dropped the cut- honour--to confront and ond the lery and ran aft to stand by one of the innumerable speaking- imminent poril. Before they were

tubes. driven to that conclusion, the Allies exhausted overy effort to I remember, as we dived, The medal ranking next after occasion for an air raid warden or n roach a peaceful solution which looking round at the bewildering fite. V. C. is a medal that hardly civil policeman to qualify.

anybody has heard about the would not be a mero postponement mass of delicato machinery and

'Like' the V. C., the E. G. M. can be Empire. Gallantry Medal.

nwarded to a man who has been)' of the clash, and a betrayal of the thanking Providence that this

This applies to no killed in action. tranquillity and liberty of Europe. vessel in which I was making The official ranking of this medal other decoration. When they attempted to reach a my first ocean descent was not was made known last week. ronsonable accommodation, they one of the chain-belt productions were cheated and then floutod. which Germany is said to be the Most Excellent Order of the F. R. Jolly, R.N., of the destroyer It's full official title is the Medal of has occurred. The late Commander ed only as a cloak to the fulfilment turning out at the rate of two British Empire, but it is to be known Mohawit, was awarded the E. G. M. of ulterior designs, and not at all 4 week. And as I watched the generally as the Empire Gellantry after his death, but it was not as a token of their abandonment, men, everyone an export, mani- Medal, and those who win it will generally realized that it was an un to divide the Allies by telling and the cloak was thrown off as pulating their machines I could put the inluals E. G. M. after their usually high honour because it was the French troops that the gazetted as "Medal of the Military British are leaving all the Boon as its deceptivo.purpose had

Division of the O.B.E and fow boon sorved. Hitler was resolved

Only a few men have won it so far, people outside the Chancery of the fighting to them, ho may be on war. Of the ovidenco given to The German Chancellor is describ- and it is almost unknown even to order. knew the importance of the tempted to vary the manoeuvre the world by Franco, not the leasted as "capable of the worst members of the services.

by telling the British Navy that interesting is the provision of the frenzies, the wildest exaltations The standard gallantry required It has been officially decided that in all the fighting in this war is French Ambassador in Berlin as and the most delirious exhibi- to win It is almost as high as that for awarding naval decorations the being done at sea and by tho carly as May last of the possibility tions." at which times the upsets V. C. but, unlike the Cross, it may Order of the British Empire shall be British alone. "France is pre- of Hitler making a pact with nations, continents, geography and be won by civilians: Studio ww regarded as next in importance to the Soviet Russia for the partitioning | history liko & dotnlurgo in, mad- So far, however, no man outalde the Order of the Bath. It will only be pared to fight to the last British of Poland, Assuredly the vividness." The likendes its in with rvices has qualined for it, as civi- awarded for service of highs merit bluejacket," otc, etc. character-sketch of Hitler, written the amazing features of that where they can show gallantry in

where they can how trans tsins were recently made officers of Poor Dr. Goobbela! If he by M. Francoln-Poncot In October,' mountain fastness at Borchtos-fabe of the enemy.

the order, the Intention, officially, ever tries that line of talk, he 1988, helps to explain much that is gadon which Hitler has made his big air raid on the civil populn was to mark the fact that their con will be telling it to the marinos most porplexing" in Naxi" policy. home...

tion might, however, provide an duct was of outstanding bravery,

name,

honour.

When certain merchant navy, cap-|

WHEN Dr.

Goebbels

gets tired of trying