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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 2, 1940.

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Hitler's five "waves" " of Attack on our Ships

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WEEK 10 17 24 ENDING

SEPTEMBER

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OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

1ST WAVE-U-boats cause big losses during the weeks ending September 10th and 17th; then the attack declines.

OND WAVE-Surface Raiders

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fo join in, nad G-boats

aclive. during the weck ending Oct. 15th, this ware Con- flauing for another three weeks.

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DECEMBER

QED WAVE--The Magnelle Mine,

beginning in mid-November, causes the heaviest continuous losses of the war. It destroys 150,000 tons la five weeks, during which the U-boats Bink 93.000 tons.

SO THIS IS BEAUTY? Spotting The Rank

The dictionary definition of beauty is this: Combination

of qualities, as shape, proportion, colour, in human face, or ' form, or in other objects, that delights the sight. Now let's see what poets and writers have to say about it. FOR She

was

beauty made

beautiful her

The bright world din, and every-

thing beside.

Seemed like the #lecting image of a

shade.-Shelley.

As rich and purposeless ar is the

rose,

Thy sumple doom is to be beautiful.

-Stephen Philips.

The saying that beauty is but skin-deep is a skin-deep saying- Herbert Spencer,

Beauty is a good letter of intro- duction-German Proverb.

It is an extremely wretched thing to be over-handsome.-Plantus.

Thou has no faults, or I no faults

can spy.

Thou art ult beauty, or all blind-

ness -Christopher Codrington,

Her lovely body and angel face were but an attractive disguise for the soul of a vulture of vice- Marie Corelli.

And Bightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower.

TVO.

O, that her hand,

And sweet, red, splendid kissing

mouth. Swinburne,

The dew that on the violet lies Mock the dark lustre of thine

-eyes--Scait.

The flowers anew returning seasons

bring,

Beauty, faded, hus no second.

spring-Ambrose Phillips,

A daughter of the gods, divinely

all,

And most divinely fair.-Penny-

r

Beauty is the flower of virtue.-

Proverb.

And beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful!

as young

And soft

And gay as soft! And innocent as

gay!-Rev. E. Young.

•

I would that you were either less beautiful or Jess corrupt. Such perfout bunuty does not suit such inperfect morals.—Ovid.:

Beauty stands

In th' admiration only of weak

minds

Led captive,--Milton.

Her angel's face

In whose comparison all whites As the great eyes of heaven, shyned

are ink,

Writing their own

whose soft seizure

reproach,—to"

:

bright

“And nude a sunshine in the shudy

place;

The cygnet's down is harsh. Did never moral eye behold such

Shakespeare.

heavenly grace?~-Spenser.

ELEVEN o'clock

at night on

the

estuary of one of the west Scottish arms of the sea... A moon is trying to struggle through

the flying clouds.

REAR-ADMIRAL

Equivalent to the military rank of Major-General, the rank of Rear-Admiral origin- ally signified the flag officer in charge of the rear division of a fleet.

To-day an officer of this rank may be either ono or other of the junior flag of- ficers of a big fleet, the chief of staff to a Commander-in- Chief, or a Commander-in- Chicf on

one of the less prominent foreign stations. Various shore appointments are also held by Rear- Admirals.

On the active list there wero 28 Rear - Admirals when the present war be- gan, as compared with dou- ble this numbor in 1914. On the retired list there are about 150 Rear-Admirals.

A Cominodore of the First Class, who is for practical purposes equivalent to an acting Rear-Admiral, woars the same rank marks on his ̄cuff ̄ax ̄a ̄Rear-Admirat; but the shoulder-strap on his greatcoat differs in that the star is smallor.

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JANUARY

ATH WAVE-Torpedo cam

paigagainst

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neutrals develops in Januaryi but the mines again make the biggest badi. Air attacks are a long way behind.

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MARCH

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ACCIDENT WARD

·ILENCE

ITH WAVE –U-boats again become the main weapon In February, easily out stripping the mines. Atr attacks succeed only against

nculcats,

By Lichty

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A. Thought for To-day

PEACE-I leave with you, my peace. I give unto you: not. as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart- be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

---St. Johm 14. Verae 27.

And Four Germans

Up on the bridge of a merchant

ship stood the skipper and the pilot.

The ship was one of a number that had passed the patrol vessel farther below-and was now mak- ing its way upward through the narrow channel that leads to safely from U-bonts and floating mines,

Across the estuary the dark hulla of ships of war could be seen; other

private merchantmen, trawlers, yachts. But the skipper was not looking at anything but what was happening in the wake of his ship.

For in the dimness he saw the cunning lower pt a submarine, fly- ing the British flag, slip in between him and the following ship. A British submarine, he thought, com- ing in from the Atlantic patrol.

And then, a second thought struck the skipper. Supposing.....

He ordered his searchlight to be flashed un towards, the heavens, across the estuary, then down across the bows of the submarine. The British flag struck out sharply from her conning tower.

But the skipper was not looking at the British flag. He was looking at the bows. On the bows he saw number. The searchlight annpp- ed out. The night seemed blacker than ever.

nor

The skipper, whose name may not be yet mentioned,

the name of his slip, had his hand on list of identication names and numbers of naval vessels,

His Anger, under the cover of the dodger, traced that list. The num- ber he had seen on the bows of the submarine did not correspond with any on the list.

The U-boat Had Run Into A

Hornets' Nest

What happened after that was swiftly done.

From the stern of the ship come a mufflexi boom as her stern gun sent a challenging shell across the bows of the submarine. From the signalling apparatus went a chal- lenge asking for the code word.

*

THE submarine began

to sink out of sight. Down it weal, as fast as its diving gear would take it. Down went the British flag, into the black waters. The surface of the estuary smoothed out quickly.

But fast as the submarine ind been, the signalling light of the merchant ship had been faster,

Across the estuary it had sent a

Came up

message:

and from their sta- tions came

twa warships like reyhounds flushing gnals, to every ship within the es- tuary,

telllag

them what to do, telling them that the Aght was now in other hands,

For the sub- marine that had tried to get in- aldc the boom

Was

German

ה

U-boni.

Through the convoy, through defences, out Into the

wider

estuary raced the warships. Down went ther depth-charges in a straight line.

the

Back they cathe in a wide circle, dropping depth-charges all time. The estuary was swept by searchlights.

On the shores guns were being trained. Farther down the estuary Kun-crews were at their stations, More Naval vessels were already scouting.

The U-bont had run into a horneta' nest.

And then quietness came.

The warships ran up and down the convoy. Every ship was there. Nothing was damaged. The U- bunt had not hit back.

Somewhere under the surface it was lying, perhaps waiting for a chance to strike.

The warships signalled the con- voy to get through the defences to Anfety,

Half an hour passed, The searchlights had been extinguished. All was quiet on the estuary.

And then, suddenly, a search- light flashed out again. Something had appeared on the surface, and

had been spott- ed. The search-

Hight picked It out.

A warship moved like shadow towards

it, guns ready and trained, depth charges balanced for the drop.

But no Hun fred, No depth charge Was dis- charged.

The thing that had

come to the surface was not dangerous. It was a German seaman, wearing a life- saving apparatus,

And as this object was neared another came up; then a third, then a fourth, They noated strangely, stiffly, unnaturally.

No others came up. Not a mem- ber of that U-boat crew will ever tell what tragedy took place inside that U-boat.

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