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Nazi Super-Man

MURDER BEFORE

BREAKFAST

'ACK

SANDERS has gone home. He doesn't want to. work in a lightship any more.. He wants a job where he gets a gun.

And this is why:—

It was early on a starmy, misérable North Sea morning.

. You read a week ago of Gorman air raids along a 400- mila line off the oast coast of Britain. One of the victims was the East Dudgeon lightship. At the time, the attack on this defenceless craft was told in a fow words. Road, to-day, the dramatic story of the only man in a crow of oight, who escaped

as

told to ---

The East Dudgeon_lightship was riding a swollen, swelling sea. Jack Sonderu, Bít. Bins, and 12st. Olbs., had just come up on deck to take hi-turn In keeping watch with young drink of water, but the bung had George Jackson.

ANTHONY COTTERELL

got knocked out of the keg and the water had all run away.

They were great friends these two, After a few minutes they heard alrplane engines, Then down out of

They didn't feel much like eating: the clouds came a Heinkel bomber they were too busy watching the und swooped just over their mast- horizon. by alarmed, for Nazis had sometimes head. Even then they weren't terri-

flown over their ship before and waved a greeting..

It began to get dark. Harry Davis took Jack Sanders's place at the oar. It was the first brenk for Sanders that day. He begun to nod,

But when it circled round they run for cover under the after-part But after twenty minutes Davis of the deckhouse. George Jackson had to give up; he was too tired and and arce others of the crew had frozen to go on. Sanders sald, "Well, seen this happen before. They fcnew get back, old chup," gave him a clap what was probably coming.

on the back and he fell back into the water on the floor of the boat.

AND sure enough there came

burst of machine-gun fire. The German came over a third time and dropped a bomb.

Seeing the way it fell the crew made for shelter in the bows.

One of them. Bell, was a sick man, but the skipper had to order him to get dressed and stand by.

The plane circled round and drop- ped another bomb, then a salvo of four.

It was murder, crouching there in the bows with not even a shotgun to defend themselves with.

darkness.

seemed to this cruelly batiered man lo be great mountains of black rock. The pleasure bench was a savage windswept shore.

His seven friends crawled a low yards up the shore and went to sleep. They were found next morning in n sad quarter-mile line ́along the sands -dead.

But something drove Jack Sanders on to get help. He dragged himself. through gaps in the dunes, down across 200 yards of rough wind- slashed ground, through a gate, up a patch and round a corner out of reach of the wind.

I traced his path a few mornings "You could hear the chaps shouting later. How he had the strength is a to each other. One man had bold miracle. of the back of my life-belt. Next minute a wave came and lifted him right over the top of me.

Next: "I fell forward. My hands went through a window. I couldn' feel the cuts. I pulled more glase. "ALL 1 could do was dog away with my hands and slumped

paddle. My legs were down." dead. All I was thinking was to keep my back to the surf, otherwise you got a swamping mouthful every time a wave broke,

"The others were gradually drift ing away from me. I could just see black dots for their heads, but the night was too dark to see more than a few yards.

DUT it was only an out- Dhouse. He fell back in o faint. If he had slept then he would keeping his neck strung up so that live dled. But his lifebelt was he couldn't sleep.

He staggered across the path and rattled a gate... then on to and up some steps, and threw himselt in a fast effort ngainst the door af the

"It seemed an hour and a half we THEY went on pulling the Wee an houry top of them.

worst thing of all was the like three-quarters of an hour, Time

seems so long when you're suffering. And by a tremendous, stroke of They were beginning to reach their Then I felt my knees touch some used for storing blunkels. Far gone luck he found himself in a room limit. They had been rowing In thing (I couldn't feel anything with as he was, he struggled for more heavy seas all day and most of the my feet). I was on my hands and than an hour to get out of his night. The skipper ordered them to knees in the water, but I couldn't clothes; then buried himself in blun put the anchor over. They did; it realise I'd struck shore. touched bottom, and they knew they

kets and slept atfully until 7.30 am., must be somewhere near lund.

They should have been warned by the sound of the breakers, but these were drowned by the heavy surf which had been chasing them al day long.

.

And these white tops were to be And the German Way getting their ruin. A cross current cought nearer. His seventh 'dropped not them and three great waves came much more than ten yards from smacking down. Dr. Ley, the leader of the Nazi the ship. The eighth smashed right Labour Front, repeats what he hased under the stern.

through the port lifeboat and explod. often said before, that Poles and

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She jumped almost 'cieun out of the sea, and as sho wallowed back they found themselves waist deep in swirling, ley water.

The deck rail went overboard and all the glass in the big lantern started badly to starboard. rattling back. The ship was Ilsting

THEY stuck it for half an hour, and it was obviously no use trying to stay any longer.

They run for the remaining boat and put off.

to

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Then they pulled back and young Apostles,"

went inboard by Oswald Dutch, George Jackson

get the lifeboat equipment box and describing the character and ex-emergency stores. ploits of the chiefs of the clique They were wet and freezingly cold, which Hitler has gathered round but very hopeful. They didn't talk

They jumped to right the boat tor the first one. "Start balling out," shouted the skipper.

"I crawled forward out of the sea when through the window he shout- and up the sund. I wanted to get ed to young Wally Turfift. as much distance between me and the water as possible. I wanted to Threadgold, retired pork butchere, Turfitt roused Mr. and Mrs. George lose the sound of the surf,

whose house it was.

"I yelled, shouting 'Hello' all the time. The others yelled too, but the local Dally Expresa man, arrived,

At 10 am, when Jack Manning,. after a bit I couldn't hear then.

Sanders was talking freely, but was

"I thought I was on one of the still dazed. bird sanctuary islands where no one goes but once a year.

The docter allowed him bacon and eggs. Then Police Sergeant Conner

"I carried on crawling till I saw took him to the police station, where two beach huts. I was too done in Mrs. Conner has been looking after to find the door but I know I was

him

ever since. somewhere,"

He is still very weak. He can't use his swollen fingers properly yet.

CTUALLY he Wus at n A small east coast town. But

"But before we could move the second one struck us," says Sunders, "We're on a shoal, skipper. I heard young George Jackson shout. Then the third one simply upped the boat on that night the sand dunes where "It'll be a long time before I can and threw us all out into the water. "crowds flock to watch the sunsets" atop thinking of those, seven men."

But the main trouble in mental;

£4000 A MINUTE

Cost of

War

The

Totalitarian

notable scheine, whereby. every per son should contribute a percentage of his Income for loan purposes, This, lid estimates, would bring in about. four hundred millions

year. It would serve a double purpose; the restriction of expenditure resulting

a

The Nazis circled round three or four times to make sure they weren't Chancellor's revelation that the going back to the ship, and made off | war is costing this country at In a northerly direction.

least £0,000,000 a day-just over £4,000 a minute is sufficiently im- pressive proof of the enormous burden twentieth century totalitarian hos- titles place on the belligerents.

Actually that is not the end of the millions, Taxation will raise about upon higher wages, thus creating de- story, because when Britain is fully 2005,000,000 this year. This proves mand and forcing up prices, so leading into her war stride the cost will most that so far the Government is only to the pitfall of inflation; and the probably rise to half as much again. taking in taxation about 16 per cent putting away of money which would. Some one storted singing, "Roll As a measure of the extent of the Although taxation seems heavy en-be released after the war, when there This Ley. nick-named "the out the barrel and some one else, national effort £0,000,000 is

moro augh, before the close of the Great will occur the Inevitable slump. The Jailer of the German Workers" told him to shut up.

dramatle than final. For, although War nearly 30 per cent. was being money so taken would help to pay expressed in sterling of present day when German working men were THE

HE skipper, Mr. George, purchasing power, It is actually great- taken in taxation to finance the for the war and afterwards when re-

tough, compactly built man er than the dally expenditure in the struggle." atill free to speak their minds, is of about fifty-four, was at the tiller. latter days of the Great War. It

turned assist the wage-earner over the Industrial depression. ucknowledged to be the champion His plan was to run for the Humber, represents a materially smaller frac-f Infiction Came.

him.

much.

loper of the Party.. "He is out and his job was a difficult one; for tion of the national income than 21. These figures are further proof that as the Great War, nobody can tell,

with the seas that were running years ago. found in the ale-house from which they were in much danger of being swamped if she got broadside on to

the loudest laughter issues, but if them. is also common knowledge in the Party that when Loy la urgently wanted all that is necessary to

produce him is to ring up his

favourite taverns.

elent evidence of this,

+

Tho

said

thousand tion of

of our

the same or

One hundred millions to-day would last little more than a fortnight, and

Whether this war will cost as much Britain has by no means reached the duration.. An exact calculation of its as this will entirely depend on its A well-known economist, Mr. Colin maximum, of her Clark, now Government statistician in national income is, bound to increase, The day after the declaration of war war effort. The cost to Great Britain is impossible. Queensland, estimates that in 1918 As it was, two men were kept Great Britain was devoting to war and, as Sir Walter, Layton has pointed the Government obtained from Parlia bailing all the time.

purposes 60 per cent, of the current out, if by nancial mismanagement Nobody realised then this would be ment.a vote of credit of £100,000,000, national income. Se for in the war uncontrolled inflation sets in, it would Sanders and Bert Rumsby were only about 40 per cent, is being de-rise to astronomical figures with the 20, and the other day, lecturing on the a mere drop in an ocean, but it was Furthermore and dar

danger pulling, and the other three were voted to them,

of terrible collapse as in Ger- up in the bows.

this is greatly in our favour-he many after the war. Whatever hap- Shieras, Professor of Economics until war potential of Britain, Professor' reckons that the procent productive pens, some rise in prices and wages Bell was too l to do anything copacity of British industry is hall us is inevitable, and economists believe recently at the University of Bombay, "Although he is married, and, Ho had been seasick ever since he large again as it was in 1910. There- that the national income will rise to to sever

thit If the national income rises came aboard the previous Thursday, fore the expenditure on the present between seven thousand millions and Government takes as an organiser of the Gorman Sanders didn't even know his name Labour Front is busy day in and until the police told him afterwardsale could be continued for a num- eight thousand millions..

ber of years without undue burdens.

expenditure

us in

Just any out, he is hardly ever to be

"They were a very nice crowd," The Tax-payer's Load

If the cost of the Great War

reach a la war, we shall be able to anything to go by the Government

maximian war effort of at least three found at home in the evening or.

says Jack Sanders,

will require well over three thousand hundred millions a month, whicla This policy, however, would drag millions for war purposes, and in all gives us dally expenditure of over early hours of the night; ho is

"Herbert Rumsby, very quiet but out the conflict. Dritain's aim is to it will very probably expend four the nine millions estimated by come very nice. About forty-five, I sup-throw the whole weight of her re- thousand millions. Much remains to financiers. always at some inn or another. It to be a

sources into the struggle to bring it be decided and planned out before the Nazis Financial Weakness has repeatedly happened that not

est men you could wish to be with, to a.speedy conclusion, and it is plain nation is fully girded for war a man nearly fifty. I'd been ship that 20,000,000 a day by no means large number of unemployed la sum- only has Ley, had to be brought mates with him before-nine years represents our maximum effort. home dend drunk in his service Boulton too, he was a nice chap, I've been in lightships and Bardolph

The financial side of the present To quote Sir Walter Layton:-Up in the end the War Governments of car, but also he has even attended about forty-four, I think.

war very much resembles that of the to the present we are a very long way 1914-1918 had to spend the huge sim Great War. The upward sweep of short of our 'maximum important Party

meetings not

Then Dick Norton, he was a good expenditure is following much the How quickly the peak can be rench-

war effort. of 20,417,000,000. old sort, must have been about fifty-suns course. In September it was ed, how far it should be financed by Allies, and ourselves borrow from the entirely sober. Since, however, in five. I lived alongside him, home in £6,250,000 a day, and it will soon be taxation or by internal borrowing, the United States. It says much for the We had to lend huge sums to the the Party drinking is a peculiarity Yarmouth, for two years."

25 per cent, greater than that.

proportion to be spent on the three enormously strong financial position which, even if it is carried to TT was about two hours before-It is interesting to

the fighting services and civil defence of Britain, that had we not been com- they lost sight of the ship. expenditure curves of the Great War the decision must be governed by the Franco, Italy, Rumania, Portugal, and exccas, does not in any case cast a They were glad to do that, for it and the present

respectively, and the extent to which pelled to make loans to Russia, slur on the offender, Dr. Lay's love meant they were getting somewhere, striking resemblances, which are like means of buying overseas these are have been able to Anance our efforts. war. They show amount of imports which we have the sundry other countries we would. of beer and wine has aided rather Shortly after that they sightedly to continue. The seven million all major questions that need to be a been than injured his reputation." trawler. A. wave of life swept over mark will soon be passed, hnd in the answered before it is possible to drawi

And as for his other qualities, them. They tied a blanket to on seven millions may reach

course of little more than a year the up a national war plan."*"

We can take courage from the fact eight they are much the same as those.

mullons, and even nine millions a day. The People's Savings.

that wheraps waard this time;nD-- of most of the notorious twelve. They burned some flares, hoping Most fat-sighted economists hope,

svhere, near the peak of our war When Loy destroyed the German they would see the smoke, Pathelle for the sake of posterity, that we shall the public to the new issue of National shalled practically her full economic

The enthusiastle reception given by effort, Germany, has · "already mar Trade Unions and established the did not see them and passed on.

ally Uney shouted. But the trawler be able to raise a larger proportion Savings Certificates and Defence Labour Front in their place, 'ho did

of this out of the current,taxotlon{ Bonds is striking evidence that the effort and cannot' make greater When

she'd gone it look a bit than we did before, if not the next British public is anxious and willing book ("Nazi Germany, Can't Win"). so with the uttaget violonce and of the go out of in' says Sanders, generation, will be faced with crippling to contribute towards the cast of the Dr. Necker, himself a former German shamoleannons. The "brutal, fist.[/

burdona.

war, juven

officer, declares the Nazi, doctrine, of: and the point of the bayonotbeef and biscuit.

They got out their sations, bully The country's total income at the

selfuumelency has created new`wenk- made his success possible.

present time is calculated by financial Mr. J. M. Keynes, the eminent nepass, both moral and economic, ;-

•Bell," the sick, man, asked for a experts to boo,about six thousand econombat, has come forward with 'n

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oar and holsted-it.

compare

*(Mr. Colin Clark), and in his