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HITLER

HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH May 28, 1940.

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SENT NAZI GRIN AND BEAR it

NURSES TO TURKEY

-by-

G. WARD PRICE

ISTANBUL

THE shabby individual who pushed into my hand

a little pro-German pamphlet can scarcely have been a

There is a big German pro- paganda drive in Turkey, That, the and discreet espionage, are main occupations of such Germans an remain here,

The stocky gentleman. who was Inspecting my luggage so closely in the hall of the Arktura Palace Hotel last night would not have attracted my attention had he not been so constantly in the neighbourhood during my stay. If I discussed the British Fleet's action In the Skagerrak with apolher English-

Nazi. He was one of those extraordinary mixtures of man, this mysterious individual every race known to the Mediterranean which fill the sordid streets Galata, where the Golden Horn juts into the Bosphorus.

I

But I have no doubt he is being paid 50 kurush, or about eighteen pence, a day by the German Embassy to deliver these Nazi tracts to passengers landing from the Haidar-Pasha ferry, which brings travellers from Ankara.

SECRETS OF THE HOME FRONT By War Reporter 0. D. GALLACHER,

They the

go sea in

WE stood in the torpedo compartment of his Majes- ty's submarine Shark. the last few minutes be- fore she slid out silently to sea.

The man next to me clumped a plece of bruss in a vice. He and his shipmates were making last preparations.

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That night they must sail out in the dark under their, thirty-year- eld commander, n Beutenant. To the enemy ninefields off Heligo- land Bight? To Skagerrak? Or north of Bergen? -commander knew.

Only the young

I saw no special fluster in those cramped compartments. Each man at his appointed post. Looking A bit bored, netually, with the vacant look you see on the face of a bus driver when he's pulled up at a stop.

were

Four Days' Supplies

They

bringing supplies down, lowering them through the hatelt. Four days' meat for the whole establishment. That went to the galley to be cooked imme diately, as it keeps edible longer that way. Four days' bread, and four days vegetables. From the Ofth day unwards they all cat out of tins, and ship's biscult replaces bread.

In the wardroom I met the young commander. There were bunks on three sides of a table no bigger than one you play cards on the eating, Hying and the five sleeping quarters of officers. It was the only part of the submarine not packed with shining machinery, Submarine designer begrudge space to human beings.

I watched her leave that night. Half a dozen dockhunds gave a cheer Do Bhe east off. A reply came back through the dark, from the men in the conning tower and those on deck watch.

Last Daytime Smoke Routine had already taken charge of the men down below.

ke

Most likely they were not even wondering when they would daylight again, for that is some- thing unpredictable. Their sub- marine would dive with next day's dawn, and return to the surface only when the sun and set. Un- less, that is, they had to surface to challenge the enemy.

They had all hnd their last day- time smoke, too. Submarine men cannot afford to contaminate the air when they are below the sur- face. The first thing most of them do when she strikes the surface' at dusk is to light up eigurettes and pipes."

There would not be even a night smoke for the men to look forward to If the batteries had not to be

PEPSODENT

TOOTH

PASTE

AN

POWDER

CONTAIN IRIUM'

FOR GREATER CLEANSING

POWER

under

ships

READY TO CO

regharged. They surface to let the chlorine gas eœmpe.

Leaving the emply berth, 1 came to a dry dock. A baby submarine lay in the dry dock, supported by wooden props. She had come back, In be overhauled. It's a day and night job getting her ready for the sca gain.

Reveting nacirines made terrifle noise. Plates were removed and dropped with a clatter on the stone basin. Men shouted. But not a The glimmer of light escaped. flame of the oxy-acetylene welders was shrouded by heavy tarpaulins.

And while the men work, the crew live ashore near by, and keep normal watches.

They will have their cigarettes or pipes in their mouths until the last hour before they go out again to do their part in ensuring safety for our convoys, ...

would sit down to read a news- paper within cn-hot. When I was sending telegrams from the post olce he was handing one in by my side.

Turkey was by way of becoming almost a German colony until Hit

his ler falsified

own assurances that he coveted no region that was not inhabited by Germons, and, in annexing Czecho-Slovakia, reveal- ed his purpose of plundering every country that was not strong enough to resist him.

The seizure of Prague opened the eyes of the Turks. Their shrewd political instinct recognisel it as the first step in a deliberate German advance to the Black Sea or

At once they changed their poll.

economic orientation. All the spadework that Germany

had done in Turkey went for nothing. Britons displaced Ger- mans as the closest associates of the Turks,

The thousands of Germans who had come to Turkey on a variety of pretexts gradually vanished. The Turkish police,

who

are among

the most cleient and unobstrusive

mos in

the world, quietly put some of them across the frontier. The rest recognise that their game is up.

'German goods used to All the Turkish shops. Now they are rare that you cannot even buy a genuine packet of German aspiring. The ban un imports from Germany Ins stopped therm.

Talk In Whispers Now

A

im-

EXPECTOR

PERSONNEL

Lehtes

IT

By Lichty

"Sorry, Endicott—we've decided we need a married man

for the job!"

PARACHUTE

POINTS

TVERY time a plane roars over England or France through carries the dysk or dawning it with it the menace of parachute troops, well-armed and desperate Germans who may be disguised and who drift soundlessly to earth, Parachute troops can create new dighting front anywhere on the Instant. And parachute troops are brave men.

bad They drop in light, carrying a great weight of fighting equipment, right into the heart of enemy country.

All

nerve

All men chosen as parachute

not got the troops have needed for the job. We have heard stories of soldiers found shol near where landings have been made.

The signs clearly were that these men were afraid to make the jump when the time came and had been shot and pushed out of the plane by their officers for hesitating.

FEW months ago three Germans talking in this place would have made so much noise that you could hardly have heard yourself speak," said

the Turk who was seeing me off in the lofty marble station at Ankara. "Now they talk in whispers."

He nodded towards a

Hroup of them, converaing carnestly "with their heads together the conspira

A Turkish newspaper boy tars. was adding to their self-conscious- ness by offering them the Turkish -weekly "Karikatur", with a laryo-

culoured comic cartoon of an mensely obese Goring on the cover. It is not enough to send out lead- ing business men to do big deals

Turkish with

Government. ith the

PUT all parachute soldiers need They sign their contracts and go.

Da long training. The impact, Ever the engineers who come out with-British-built machinery-stay-When a laden soldier hits the am told, something" only long enough to explain its working to the Turks,

The Germans were more

They thorough,

ilved stayed; tmong the Turks; learned their language; made themselves useful In many ways. The result is that though Turkey dislikes and dis- trusts the Germans, she does not despise them.

"We know that the British Em- pire will never threaten Turkish interests," said a Turk to me, "whereas the empire the Germans are trying to build would certainly do so. That is why we prefer you to them."

DID YOU EVER WONDER?

How the Crew of a Submarine Gets Air

When the Boat is Under Water?

It is said that Alexander the Great visualized a boat that could be made to submerge and travel benenth the surface. Aristotle writes of a submarine which he declares to have been used in the siege of Tyre, an ancient maritime city of Phoenicia, and of diving apparatus in which the diver drew his supply of air from above the surface through a hose or tube re- sembling the trunk of an elephant. It was not, however, until the lat- ter part of the 19th century that the submarine became an accom- plished fact of practical Importance.

xide in the air, even in very small to dilute the oxygen.

In breathing, our lungs make use al nr absorb oxygen from, the air but do not affect the nitrogen. which is given out again unchang- ed, but the oxygen is changed to carbon dioxide or carbonle acid gas. The presence of carbon dio- xide in the air, even in very small

percentages, tends to render air. unfit to breathe.

The problem in a submarine in to get rid of the carbon dioxide One and obtains more oxygen, way to do this is carry steel con- tainers or cylinders filled with

One of the principal problems -in-submarine work is that of pro-ompressed air, sometimes at a

cation OXYGEN twater-

dlorida

sulphuric

neul

ozone

AIR

vopar

mitric meld

argon

helium

xenon

NITROGEN

krupton Some of the gases and chemicals found in ordinary) atmospheric air_

viding air for the crew to breathe. Air suitable for this purpose should he rnado up chiefly of oxygen and nitrogen mixel (not chemically combinedy is the proportion

about ono part of oxygen to four of nitrogen. The nitrogen is of no use for breathing purpose except

pressure of as much on 3,000 pounds per square inch. In this way a great many cuble feet of air can be. carried in a small space. This con- pressed air is released as needed and the impure air, like the ex- haust gases, Iş driven from the, ship.

At

In some submarines chemicals which have a great affinity for car- bon dioxide are used to help keep the alr

to breathe. However, these chemicals, such as lime water and caustic soda, take away the carbonic neid gas as a whole, oxy- Ren und uil. So to prevent the re moval of the carbon dioxide fron

caulting in a lack of exyeCN BUTT oxygen or oxygen mixed with nir Is carried, compressed in cylinders and released a. needed,W. F. Ketubey,

ground, is,

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like the shock of jumping from a 20ft. wall on to hard ground.

In training, when troops leap down from heights which gradually increased-they do this. before they ever see a parachute- the landings are on soft ground or sand.

In action. a parachute soddler may drop on anything or any. where; the percentage of sprained ankles and broken limbs is high. It is easy to fall awkwardly when carrying heavy equipment.

Parachute soldiers from Germany carry a water-bottle, tent, cycle, automatic rifle, a pistol, ammuni tion, portable wireless set, explo sives for demolition work and many other things. They are fully trained in the use of everything they have with them.

Usually they expect to be helped by Fifth Column men in the area where they fail. Pictures have been published of civilians in invaded territory helping parachute troops to assemble their cycles after a landing.

TITLER seems to have learned

all about parachute troops from the Russians. During Soviel man- ocuvres more than three years age 1,200 fully equipped Russian were dropped from aeroplanei, They landed, it was said at the time very succesfully one hundred

lincs, miles behind the "enemy This display was watched by ex- perts from the German War Office. Photogtaphs taken of this Rus stan display show as many as 100 parachutes in the air at once, ali swaying slightly as the men they carried steered them by pulling of the cords. It is possible to alter the course of parachutes by thi method.

Soviet planes dropping a unit of parachute soldiers.

them speak fluently the language of the country in which they are dropped.

They have been trained on large-scale models of the particular section of country they are going lo attack.

They know all strong points that can be known--they know just how to reach the power-stations, railway junctions, waterworks, and other things which are their ab jectives.

The real objective of parachute troops is to wreck all communica- tions and so paralyse a country. The Germans were successful in accomplishing this In Poland. Holland and Belgium, but ac- hieved few results in Norway, perhaps because of the nature of the country,

In Poland, many soldiers in dis- THE Germans have much Im-free were dropped-in-twos-and-

threes or singly to commit acts of proved on Russia's ideas of

sabotage, such as destroying rail- The Russlan parachute training.

Others had of part ways and bridges. made an entertainment

with them portable wireless trans- chute drops over a distance of 100 feet and set up towers for this mitters and gave constant informa- tion of the movements of Polish purpose on sports grounds in Moe-

troops.

cow.

People made the jump by the hundred as a new thrill; queues of would-be parachutists waited to try the game. Floodlights had to he installed to cope with the rush, All that was three years ago, and the result is that Russia has hun dreds of young men who do not fear a parachute drop. and, in fact, regard it as an honour to ko chaian to do.one.

THE

E German parachute troops are the equivalent of the storm troops of the last war. Most of

IKE the Russians, the Germans drop supplies by parachute to There is men already dropped. nothing new in the sending down of food and ammunition in this way. The R.A.F. In the East have done it for years; they did it in the last war.

But in spite of all the risks they muy carry to a country, parachute troops are not feared in England. Arrangementa to receive them have been mado.

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