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small groups because, as the blackboard on the road told them, the climb is all the way under observation from the enemy; and sometimes he lashes off with machine-guns.

his

I climbed up to the wood and to its hidden outposts to-day- the first of all the war corres- pondents out here to be allowed to pay a visit to our men who are in constant contact with the

enemy.

THE real "front" lies some miles beyond our reserve line; and to reach it you must drive along exposed roads, and through deep forests where snow still lies on the ground.

You drive through several villages where human beings no longer live, and come finally to the blackboard on the road. Beyond this point no vehicle may travel, no man may walk with more than one companion

ts used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright | head, under the provisions 118. Such news is of the Telecommuni- calon Ordinance, bears the indication Hupe is received in

Plum trees line the road that

Hungkong on the date of publication by leads up to the wood on the the United Press Associations, who re-

serve all rights and forbid republication.

hill's summit; and fields from

March 20, 1940."

THE MAGINOT

By PHILIP JORDAN

News Chronicle

Correspondent with the B.E.F.

LINE

Other men the machine-- gunners-live in their scienti- fically-sited posts; but these are not so comfortable as: "The 'Ritz." "You cannot sit upright. in these sandbagged log cabins: you have to lie down all the time on the warm straw that covers ⠀ the hard earth below.

All these, as it wore, inverted dugouts He close to the firing: positions. Most of the firing positions and observation posts. are tiny sandbagged: fortresses, so placed that they enjoy the maximum security and combine it with the maximum effective-- ness whenever it is necessary for the men inside to use their Bren and other quick-firing weapons.

Powerful telescopes help the- sentrica in these posts to pass. long hours of duty without great. strain on their eyes..

* AL

LL the men I found up

there this morning are well and cheerful. And, like all. their comrades elsawhoro, are more concerned with their com ing leave than with the enemy they face. When their turn: comes some may go with a rib.. bon on their chests, for in the valley below them all the decors- tions of this war have so far been won, for those valleys and all land around the outposts are the battlefields of this strangé. conflict.

Not that they underrate the enemy's skill. They do not.. They will tell you that he has been trained to the last hairz and that what he does not know about patrol work is not worth knowing. But that is about all they do say of him.”

J'

BY the time these words

at his side: and no man may that the world is populated by armchairs and a double bed! venture unless he has a tin hat more than the quiet men in our The kitchen adjoins; and from perched uncomfortably on his outposts and the huge black here hot meals, carried up the hill in huge vacuum flask con- birds that fly ceaselessly across the cold, disputed land.

tainers, are served out at the proper time.

get to London those Tea came up while I was there will have picked their way across. men will have been relieved; and which last year's harvest was

to-day. Two men wheeled it up the trip wires and all the empty SOME of those quiet in never fully gathered, roll across

ornate old- tyreless ting that they have laid around Pawns of The Political Game a wide valley bordered by woods

men live in "The perambulator that they had them; and will have marched. into whose depths enemy night

It has sandbag walls; "scrounged" from somewhere. back to rest. When they come patrols occasionally penetrate. but it has a door, chintz cur- Bread, margarine in huge yellow out of the line they will have tains, a stove that everybody tins, raspberry jam, cheese, tea, of modern warfare: patience,. learned the first three lessons. Beyond the valley and on the wishes would not sometimes take and water for making it. That patience, and then more patience summit of its enclosing ridge it into its head to smoke, two was this evening's meal,

either wholly or in part without previous arrangemekl“

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· YESTERDAY'S report that three-Power agreement between Germany, Italy, and Russia e Im- minent provides a big temptation for Jesting comment, and is cortala to revive the jokes about Russia be-

the German machine gunners

coming the immutable enemy of lie waiting for parties sufficient- the Comintern, which were prevalently large to make it worth their when the Soviet and Nazi Germany while to fire. effected their rapprochement. At

from which our men watch, and with their sometimes check machine-guns, the daily move- ments of the enemy.

the same time it is foolish to over- When you are through the look the serious aspect of a three-wire beyond the wood, you are Power political pactins envisaged in but-a-few-yards-from-positions the news despatches. Its effectua- tion would entail a considerable-loss of "face" by the two anti-Comintern States, hitherto sworn enemies of the Soviet and all things which the Russian system represents, but more important would be the political changes it would bring about in southeastern Europe and the Near FROM these positions Enst, The Balkons, already har-

can sweep the assed by the close proximity of whole range of hills opposite Greater Germany and Russia, would through powerful glasses and bring it within a comparatively few yards of your eyes.

find it difficult to resist`n trl-Power

diplomatic "Blitzkreig" even though the Allies were to make counter guarantees of equal dimension,

Balkana; Italy to have two strong

may

you

Ritz."

an

still. .-'...

MEN OF THE Q-SHIPS

The opening of.... another ruthless some of the most magnificent feats of German submarine campaign recalls

there was the Gien, which encounter- ed a submarine and began her play- acting as terrorised

the Great Wan those of the R-ships. Luring Submarines the panie party for ready to lower the

to Destruction

The ships' activities ceased in 1918,

boat. The enemy drew within 200 but the deeds of their crews have

yards, and, seeing the "alarm” came lived on to record annals of courage

(nearer still, to within about 80 yards.. and self-sacrifice that cannot be sur- passed.

Then the Glen opened arc, and: members of the panic party were all shell after shell crashed into the sub- These ships went to sea with the drilled into exactly what answers to marine's hull. In fact she was riddi- marines to attack them, and Lieuten- asked questions, so that detalls were doom. Shortly afterwards another- ont-Commander E. Keble Chatterton pat about the destination of the ship, submarine appeared and attempted to has told how the officers and men cargo, and so on.

fight the Glen, but gave up the task serving in them-they consisted of If the submarine did dive and hope towards dusk, finding the Q-boat

to come up later the men on the Q-crew too tough. armoured colliers, tramps, liners, cross-Channel packets, &c, were ship effected the most incredible drawn from every category of the changes during the time that clapsed A Hot Combat

the the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Funnels were repainted and Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Re-marks of another shipping company The first prize brought in during serve, and Royal Fleet Reserve, were put on, even the hull was the war was the German schooner In his words, "They came from sometimes gone over, a mast would Else, appropriately renamed the Prize: battleships and little ships, from be laken down, fnise deck-houses and and she became a Q-boat. She worst- barracks, offices, and cab ranks. fishing vessels, sailing craft, yachts, other deck features were likewise ed the U-boat No. 93 after an eple

deliberate intention of luring sub-give if the submarine commander ed and by diving sealed her own.

every

altered.

disciplined, they were Concealed Guns

they were fitted out with guns and

dummy deck.

removed

Aght Trawler Skipper Prewer and six men abandoned the old "conster with every evidence of panie, and the submarine commander thought he

her and caused casualties, but ther

Lip-

The

Below is a deserted red-roofed It is quite obvious that the pro-

village, where pigs, abandoned posed rapprochement is not based on any single purpose. All three coun- by their former owners in the tries would enter the pact with hour of evacuation, roam at will individual ulterior motives; Germany and flourish until such times as to gain economic control of the either a British or a German

one volunteers for what could supporters for her natural aspira patrol ventures into the deserted but weeks of boredom tions" in Northeast Africa and the streets and captures one for excitement, ending probably in death. den on the decks. In some cases they men lay low. The submarine came suddenly enlivened by the fiercest The guns were very cleverly hid had an eary prey. He fired shells at Suez, and Russia for the protection fresh meat.

For their captains the responsibilities were disguised by a dummy boat within 70 yards, and her commander of her illegal, conquests in Poland

were enormous. First-class seaman- that had been sawn in halves and lost all suspicion. and Finland. This factor of in-

ship, exceptional coolness, immense could be

instantly. In

It was the critical moment. - The dividual and separate alma is the

patience, considerable Imagination others a gun was concealed by what weak point of any political past be-

FARTHER down the and quite unusual Initiative

were appeared to be a life-belt locker. order flashed: "Down screees!

Sometimes tarpaulin screens con-White Ensignt Opez

Aret" tween Germany, Russia and Italy.

valley lics another demanded.” The partners become independent empty village. Reports have The ships were of all types, and cealed them, and these dropped at a Prize fred on, although the sub-

touch,

marine answered to the last, and instead of Interdependent, a position which

well bring about a long said that the Germans kept depth charges which were cleverly the signalman would drop the Red amazing thing was the survivors on At the critical moment for action went down burning fiercely: Yet the quicker disruption

behind of the partnership a permanent observation postconcealed

Ensign and run up the White Ensign, to regain the surface, and under board managed to quell the fire and than any militaristic or economic

so informing the enemy of the real Lieutenant Ziegler she reached port, action by the Allied Powers or the there; but one regiment, when houses, boats, &c. threatened Balkan States.

status of the ship. Almost always a marvellous performance. Hitler's assertion that he does not it was on duty in the outposts, The Panic Party

the engagement was short and sharp want the European conflict to be had an idea that the reports

-the submarine was holed at a vital) · One of the finest feats of all was: The crews would entice the enemy point and sank or the Q-ship went to that of the Lowestoft lahing mack,. were not quite true. To satisfy to close quarters by making a show her doom.

Telenia, She was, trawling 35 miles: feelings, but the accompanying theory themselves, they sent out a day of abandoning ship. No effort was Scores of stories could be told of south of that pert, and had guns on that a three-Power agreement would light patrol, found that the spared to give the operations of the the gallant Oghts put up and the board. It was about noon when the

"panie

every semblance of hard to swallow. The more obvious Gormans --had gone, and ranis lyes of the ship and her crewmmortal in the history of the British Per's amazement it. fired a torped?,

reality,

ess of the ruse and names of many of the Q-ships are submarine appeared, and to the skip- effect would be to force the Allies the church bells just to tell the depended on the submarine come Navy. One of the earliest was the King opponent. The Teles fet fro coating kundreds of pounds, of ite Into extending the war, if only to

Come Prince Charles, and experience with prevent Germany from acquiring so enemy where they were! mander being taken in by the apher did much to infuence the evolu- straight away there was nothing

parent haste of the man to pull away on of the Q-ship. She was collier

fier else to do. Fortunately the missile During the day, the Germans by such studied detalls of a bird and came up against the submarine missed the smack's bows by about. make themselves scarce. Only a in its cage, the cook straight from U-30. The commander of the U-Se four feet, and then this enemy dived. tum to events which is probably in few were visible this morning; a miscellany of uniforins. Often the party tumbled into the boats. The reappeared and hoped to finish off the

his galley, the unkempt skipper, and begn

began to shell and the collier's

panic Half an hour later the enemy fluencing Hitler to seek Italy's poll tive aid in the war against the de- and when they had gone into ruse was completely successful and U-boat closed in when suddenly her job and fred another torpedo male mocracies, · To. bring about the woods on their side of No though the Q-ships did not emerge deck of the Prince Charles clearing full of mirit She got in two per- Aubmarines were sunk, al- crew were, amazed to see men on the missed and the Telesis answered, back many

from the campaign without suffering tarpaulins. Shells pumped Mitler must have the political mo- | Man's Land tha" country was heavy losses, but not work and the submarino attempted; to dive fect shots and holed the subenarine.

spread to the Balkans and the Near East may be a true reflection of his

guarantee peace in those areas is

casily the economie war weapons

which she so badly needs.

It is realisation of this possible

economic conquest of the Balkans

port of Italy and Russia:" to guar-immobile for some hours. antee that conquest against Allied "Interference"" he "needs the « armed support of at least Italy, und, it he

:

party"

for the success

o the occasional rattle of the minutest detail, so that the suplungo she went to the bottoms, "jand make off, for à. third shot would...”

can get it, of Russia. Thus, once machine-guns on our flanks and again, the little Balkan States be the almost perpetual dull thud the pawns in the political game of of artillery fire made it clear

great ratione,

U-boat thought it wiser to dive- The Everything had to be rehearsed to but was holed too badly. With a

have been fatal. So rapidly, did she. would not be aroused. If this Wald saffing vessel of about 310 tons, gallant smack had the Sopour of ap-<! picions of the submarine commander

Another was the Hellgoland, a dive that her propeller showed. This happen the submarine would dive which, made things, hot for the Upearing in the Naval Torfew during and come up scain unawares durior boats, and a time and regainsho King George V's Silver

Jubilee. the night and sink its opponent. The escaped only miraculously,

Then