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March. 1, 1940.

Another Article by Somerset Maugham on the War Effort of France In which he Tells of the Splendid Work of the French Navy

by SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The

SPIRIT

of the

NAVY

I SUPPOSE every of their passage of the Chan- Frenchman could roll off a nel till their arrival in long list of famous French French harbours.

French warships on convoy duty

In the torpedo boat aboard which We tore on through the night,

generals, from Turenne and I was fortunate enough Conde, Napoleon and his to be able to go to sea in a marshals to Joffre, Gallieni French heavy cruiser and and Foch; but I doubt in a torpedo boat while whether one in a hundred they carried out certain could give you the name of routine exercises. I found and when they please on board,] any admiral of his country's that the first difficulty con- during working hours and out fleet but Suffren, and I am fronting the stranger in of them. not sure that even he could a French man-of-war is the The food is extremely good. at us but their direction was de- Nothing could be seen of the rest of tell you why exactly this mode of address. great sailor has achieved

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I was afterwards taken we were with all lights out, trying through a shore battery. The guna nimed cruiser were looking for. flected so that the shells fell six our flotilla. I had a sudden reall- Lunch is at noon and is a sub-hundred metres to the right of us.sation of the immense loneliness of sea and of its vastness. It stantial and well-cooked meal. Except for this their first shell the

an experience like that to I could not have eaten better would have sent us to the bottom. needs

Ninteen shots were fired and of make you feel how Immense It is, IN the army you address in a first-class restaurant, and these five were direct hits and two and then you cannot wonder that

dza Kichel Lipstick in.... French have a general as mon general, a a patriotic bias shall not prevent others fell so close that we should with dozens of ships looking for badly damaged. If it her, a raider may escape detection. major and a captain as mon me from saying that lunch in a have been

My commander was a big, vigor terest nor taken the same commandant and mon capi- French torpedo boat is a vastly had been real warfare not many of pride in their navy.

taine respectively; but in the more palatable meal than any that crew would ever have seen ous, energetic man, and now us he stood on the bridge, his spirits rose About four in the afternoon we with the excitement of the chase. It needed the determina- navy you say oui, amiral, to Flagship in the British navy. put on steam to join a lotilin which is faco was set and even in the tion of M. Leygues, Minister an admiral, and you address

Dinner, served according to was already on the way out to sea. darkness you could see; the shining circumstances between seven They were waiting for us twenty of his eyes. of Marine, inspired by the captains, commanders and lieutenant commanders as

We were to find and

We pounded an into the cmnty and eight, is lighter but well miles away. of a young

alluck n cruiser which had been officer who is now Admiral Commandant; other officers cooked, and the quality of the fuck from a certain point night and heavy seas swept over

good. Messing is in you address by their names. food Darlan, Commander

on the mainland to a certain Island, our bows. Then a wireless from I received the impression that paid for by the government a distance of a hundred and twenty one of the torpedo boats told us that the cruiser had been sighted; Chief, to induce the reluc- the officers' relations with one and this covers all drinks, so miles.

and changed our course and Aud- tant deputies to vote at last another were cordial and polite that there is no mess bill except sufficient funds to reorganise without being intimate, for cigarettes.

denly there was a cry from a dozen throats. The moon was favourable and showed us a vague block ranss faintly silhouetted against the sky. Although it was only make-belleve, it was a thrilling moment.

enthusiasm

the French navy and thus

is as

A division of French Cruisers at sea

I am told that in some ships The commander was proud of. in due course bring it to its his ship, as a racing motorist bridge in normal circumstances but might be proud of the car is played after dinner, of that had present high state

served him well, officers use the mess little ex- but it was not his home; cept for meals. As a rule they efficiency.

The French navy goes his home was the house at Brest turn in early. about its job modestly and or Toulon where his wife and children walted for him. And;

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discreetly, with the result perhaps it is natural that the IT was splendid to steam out! that the public, both in naval officer of to-day, a highly of harbour in a heavy cruiser France and in England, has trained specialist, should look passing through the little notion either of its upon the modern battleship as in the mine fields to the ap spot for gunnery strength or of the splendid an instrument under his hand, pointed work it has been doing dura delicate, powerful but inanim- practice. ing the war.

ate instrument, rather than It was strangely uncanny to me with the warm feeling with to aco the stealthy ease with which which the captain of old looked the heavy guns alowed round in

their great steel turrets. upon his sailing vessel.

They were like huge primeval The officers I was fortunate monsters lurking in their caves for

IT has sunk many Ger- man submarines and seized enough to meet appeared to me their prey. hundreds of thousands of clover, keen and able. Promo- With powerful glasses one could. tons of German goods. It tion is automatic up to the rank see quite well the great fountain has made the Mediterranean of commander; after that it is of water that was thrown up when as safe as the Lake of by merit. Lucerne.

I seemed to discern that, wide of its mark and the stagger- though discipline was perfect, Ing of the target when there was a

in shell fell a triflo short or

trillo

It has protected the great thoro was the same pleasantly direct hit

The gunnery was wonderfully Atlantic ports in France and democratic feeling in the French accurate. We spent the day In Morocco and has transported navy, as I had found in the various exercises, we were attacked vast numbers of troops to French army. The sailor when by a flotilla of torpedo boats, and practised with anti-aircraft and from French Colonies.ho is speaking to an officer does

not say monsieur to him, but machine guns. It was beautiful to It convoyed the British addresses him by his rank. see the shells speed through the troopships on the latter part officers and men smoke where air like a flight of red-hot horncts.

When night had fallen a heavy sea was running and with all our speed on we were rolling a good deal.

I WAS glad, standing on the

The commander gave an order, bridge, to have a rail to cling to. "This is nothing," the we changed our course again to get commander told me, "sometimes position; a sudden crash of thun- der and we had fired aur torpedoes. she rolls so that when you're

"D'you think you got her?" I hanging on to that rail your asked. feet are swept away from under! "I don't know, we shall hear to-

Imorrow," he said.

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