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way under observation from the enemy; and sometimes

off with he lashes

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 rond. Beyond this point no vehicle may travel, no man may walk with more than one companion ·

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March 20, 1940.

THE MAGINOT

By PHILIP JORDAN

News Chronicle Correspondent with the B.E.F.

LINE

Other men the machino- gunners-live in their scienti- fically-aited posts; but these are: not ao comfortablo as "The- Ritz." You cannot alt 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 were, inverted dugouts lo 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 effectivo-- ness whenever it is necessary for the mon inside to use their Bren and other quick-firing" weapons,

Powerful telescopes help the Bentrics in these posts to pass. long hours of duty without great. strain on their oyes.

ALL the men I found up-

there this morning are well and cheerful. And, like all! their comrades elsewhere, 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 chesta, for In the valley below them all the decora- tlons of this war have so far been won, for those valleys and all land around the outposts are the battlefields of this strange conflict.

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

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 head,

birds that fly ceaselessly across hill in huge vacuum flask con- tainers, are served out at the

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YESTERDAY'S report three-Power agreement between Germany, Italy and Russia is im- minent provides a big temptation for Jesting comment, and is certain to revive the jokes about Russla be- coming the immutable

спету

Ritz,

SOME of those quiet in un ornate old tyreless ting that they have laid around. men live in "The perambulator that they had them; and will have marched It has sandbag walls; "scrounged" from somewhere, back to rest. When they come into whose depths chemy night but it has a door, chintz cur- Bread, margarine in huge yellow out of the line they will have patrols occasionally penetrate.

learned the first three lessons. tains, a stove that everybody tins, raspberry jam, cheese, tea, of modern warfare: patience,. 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.

the German machine gunners

of lie waiting for parties sufficient-

When you are through the wire beyond the wood, you are but a few yards from positions from which our men watch, and their cheek with sometimes machine-guns, the daily move ments of the enemy.

the Comintern, which were prevalently large to make it worth their when the Soviet and Nazi Germany while to fire. effected their rapprochement. At the same time it is foolish to over- look the serious aspect of a three- Power political pact as envisaged in the news despatches. Its effectua tion would entall a considerable loss of "face" by the two anti-Comintern States, hitherto sworn enemies of the Soviet and all things which the Russinn system represents, but more important would be the political changes I would bring about southeastern Europe and the Near East. The Balkans, already har-

you

can sweep the

still.

MEN OF THE Q-SHIPS

The opening of another ruthless German submarine campaign recalls one of the most magnificent feats of the Great War-those of the Q-ships. The ships activities ceased in 1918, but the deeds of their crews have

lived on to record annals of courege and self-sacrifice that cannot be sur passed,

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

Luring Submarines the panie porty got ready to lower the

to Destruction

own.

assed by the close proximity of whole range of hills opposite lant-Commander E. Keble Chatterton pat about the destination of the ship nght the Glen, but gave up the task.

Greater Germany and Russia, would find it difficult to resist a tri-Power diplomatie "Blitzkreig" even though the Allies were to make counter guaranices of equal dimension.

-

(boat. The enemy drew within 200 yards, and, secing the "alarm" came ncarer still, to within about 80 yards.. Then the Glen opened fire, and members of the panle 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 riddl-

submarine commandered and by diving scaled her FROM these positions deliberate intention of luring sub-give it the

Shortly afterwards another marines to attack them, and Lieuten- asked questions, so that details were doorn.

submarine appeared and attempted to has told how the officers and men cargo, and so on.

towards dunks, finding, the Q-boat. If the submarine did dive and hope crew too tough. serving in them-they consisted of

cross-Channel packets, armoured colliers, tramps, liners to come up later the men on the

&were ship effected the most incredible drawn from every category of the changes during the time that clapsed. A Hot Combat sen-the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Funnels

the were repainted and Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Remarks of another shipping company The first prize brought in during: serve, and Rayal 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 remarned the Prize.

other deck features were likewise ed the U-boat No. 93 after en battleships and little ships, from be taken down, false deck-houses and and she became a Q-boat. She worst- fishing vessels, sailing craft, yachts, altered,

Oght. Trawler Skipper Prewer barracks, offices, and cub ranks.

Jaix men abandoned the old "co

with every evi

evidence of panic, and the Hand-picked, disciplined, they were Concealed Guns

ho submarine commander thought

through powerful glasses and bring it within a comparatively few yards of your eyes.

eple-

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 supporters for her "natural aspira-patrol ventures into the deserted tions" in Northeast Africa and the streets and captures one for suddenly enlivened by the life den on the decks. In some cases they men lay low. The submarine came

Balkans; Italy to have two strong

Suez, and Russin for the protection fresh meat.

of her illegal conquests in Poland

and Finland, This factor of in- dividual and separate alms is the weak point of any political pact bes tween Germany, Russia and Italy.

a

FARTHER down

the valley lies another

The partners become independent empty village. Reports have instead of interdependent, a position long said that the Germans kept which may well bring about quicker disruption of the partnership a permanent observation post than any militaristic or economic action by the Allied Fowers or the there; but one regiment, when threatened Balkan States,

every one volunteers for what could

be nothing but weeks of boredom

cxellement, ending probably in death.

had an easy prey. Ife fred shells at F The guns were very cleverly hid her and caused casualties, but the

For their captains the responsibilities were disguised by a dummy boat within 70 yards, and her commander

The Panic Party

its:

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

be removed Instantly. In ship, exceptional coolness, immense could

It was the critical moment. The others a gun was concealed by what imagination patience, considerable

Up and quite unusual initiative were appeared to be a life-belt locker, order fashed: "Down screenst

fire!" The Ensign! Open Sometimes tarpaulin screens con- White demanded."

The ships were of all types, and touch.

cealed them, and these dropped at a Prize fired on, although the sub- marine answered to the last, and they were Atted out with guns and depth chartes which were cleverly

At the critical moment for action went down burning fercely. Yet the behind dummy deck the signalman would drop the Red amazing thing was the survivors on concealed

Ensign and run up the White Ensign, board managed to quell the fire and houses, boats, &c.

to regain the surface, and under so informing the enemy of the status of the ship. Almost always Lieutenant Ziegler she reached port, the

engagement was short and sharp a marvellous performance. Hitler's assertion that he does not it was on duty in the outposts,

-the submarine was holed at a vital One of the finest fests of all was: want the European conflict to be had an idea that, the reports

The crews would entice the chemy point and sank or the Q-ship went to that of the Lowestoft Oshing smack, spread to the Balkans and the Near were not quite true. To satisfy to close quarters by making a show her doom.

Telesia. She was trawling 35 miles Eust be a May

a true reflection of his

Scores of stories could be told of south of that port, and had guns on feelings.

but

the accompanying theory themselves, they sent out a day-of abandoning ship. No effort was that a three-Power agreement would light patrol, found that the spared to give the operations of the the gallant fights put up and the board. It was about noon when the-

"panie party"

semblance of every

of names of many of the Q-ships are submarine appeared, and to the skip.. guarantee pence in those areas is hard to swallow, The more obvious Germans had gone, and rang reality, for the success of the ruze und Immortal in the history of the British per's amazement it fired a torpedo,

the lives of the chip and her crew Navy, One of the earliest was coating hundreds of pounds,

submarine com Prince Charles, and experience

any opponent. The Teles let fro war, if only to

straight away-liero was nothing: reander being taken in parent haste of the men to pull away tion of the Q-ship. She was a colller

by such studied details of a bird and came up against the submarine missed the smack's bows by about: It is realisation of this possible make themselves scarce. Only at its cage, the cook straight from U-38. The commander of the U-30 four feet, and then the enemy, dived, Half an hour later the enemy" turn to events which is probably in-fow were visible this morning; his galley, the unkempt skipper, and began to shell and the colller's panic

a miscellany of uniforms. Often the party tumbled into the boats. The reappeared and hoped to finish off the fluencing Hitler to seek Italy's post- 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 fired another torpedo. Thils. many submarines were Kunk, al- crew were amazed to see men on the missed and the Telesia answered back- mocracles. To bring about hl the woods on their alde of No though the Q-ships did not emerge deck of the Prince Charles clearing full of spirit. She got in two per- economie conquest of the Balkans

Shells pumped forth,tart Hiller must have the political sup- Man's Land the country was from the campaign without suffering tarpaulins. port of Italy and Russia; to guar-immobile for some hours.

heavy losses.

and the submarine attempted to dive fect shots and holed the zubinarine. witer to dive The U-boat thought antee that conquest against Allied

Everyuing had to be rehearsed to but was holed too badly With a and make off, for a third shot would interference he needs the armed Only the occasional rattle of the minutest detall, so that the sus plunge she went to the bottom.

have been fatal. So rapidly did abu- support of at least Italy, and, if he machine-guns on our flanks and Pould not be around. If this did sailing vessel of about 310 tons, gollant smack had the honour of ap

picions of the submarine commander Another was the Heligoland, a dive that her propeller showed. Thlas again, the little Balkan Staten be the almost perpetual dull thudhappens the submarine would dive which made things hot for the U-pearing in the Naval Iteview during come pawns in the political game of of artillery fire made it clear and come up again unawares during boats; and time and egala she King George Vs Silver Jubileo.

the night and slak its opponent. The escaped only' miraculously. Then

C. Lealle Johnstone.

effect would be to force the Allies the church bells just to tell the depended on the B by the, ap-/her did much to Influence the evo else to do. Fortunately the missio into extending the prevent Germany from acquiring so enemy where they were! enslly the economle war weapons During the day the Germans

which she so badly needs.

can get it, of Russia. Thus, once

the great natione,