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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MAGAZINE SENT

HITLER

May 28, 1940,"

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NAZI GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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

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 O, D., CALLACHER_

They go

sea

the

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 clamped a plees of brass in a vice. He and his shipmates were making last preparations.

That night they must sail out in the dark under their thirty-year- old commander, a lieutenant.

To

the enemy mineflekis off Heligo- Or To Skagerrak? land Bight? north of Bergen? Only the young conrunandler knew.

I saw no special fluster in those cramped compartments. Each mon at his appointed post, Looking a -bit-bored, actually, will-the-sucant. look you see on the face of a 'hus driver when he's pulled up at a stop.

were

Four Days' Supplies

Tlicy

bringing supplies -down,-lowering them through the hatch. 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 fifth day onwards they all cat out of tins, and ship's biscuit replaces bread.

In the wardroom I net tlie young confider. There were bunks on three sides of a table play no bigger than one you cards on-the cating, living and sleeping quarters of the Ave officers. It was the only part of the submarine not packed with shining machinery. Submarine designers begrudge эрисе to human beings,

I watched her leave that night. Half a dozen docklands Have 11 cheer

in

under

ships

READY TO ̄CO ̈

recharged. They surface to let the chlorine gas escape.

Leaving the empty berth, I came to a dry dock. A baby submarine lay in the dry dock, supported by wooden props. She had come back to overhauled. It's a day and night job getting her ready for the sen again.

Reveting machines made terrifie noise, Plates were removed and dropped with a clutter 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 cigarelles or pipes in their mouths until the inst hour before they go out again to do their part in ensuring safety for our convoys.

There is a big German pro- paganda drive in

Turkey. That,

the

and direct explonage, are main occupations of such Germans as remain here,,

The stocky gentleman who was Inspecting my luggage so closely in the hall of the Ankara 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 thic Skagerrak with another English- man, this mysterious individual would sit down to read a newe- When I was paper within earshot. sending telegrams from the post office he was handing one in by my side.

Turkey was by way of becoming almost a German colony unill-Hil~- ler falsified his own assurances that he coveted no region that was not inhabited by Germans, and, in annexing Czecho-Slovakia, reveal- his purpose of plundering every country that was not strong enough to resist him.

ed

The seizure of Prague opened the eyes of the Turks. Their shrewd political Instinci recogniset il as the first step in a deliberate German advance to the Black Sea or beyond. At once they changed their political and economic orientation. All the patient spadework that Germany had done in Turkey went for nothing Britons displaced Ger- mans as the closest associated DÍ“ the Turk.

The thousands of Germans who had come to Turkey on a variety of pretexts gradually vanished. The Turkish police, who are umbug the most eltelent and unobstrusive in the world, quietly put some of The rest them across the frontier. recognise that their game is up.

German goods used to fill the Turkish shops. Now they are rare that you cannot even buy genuine packet of German aspirins. The ban on Imports from Germany has stopped them.

Talk In Whispers Now

st

FEW months ago three Germans talking in this place would have made so much noise that you could hardly have heurd yourself speak," said the Turk who was seeing me off in the lofty marble stations at Ankara, "Now they talk in whispers."

He nodded lowards a group of them,

conversing earnestly with their heads together like conspira- tors. A Turkish newspaper_boy_ was ridding to their self-conscious- ness by offering them the Turkish weekly "Knekkatur", with a large caloured conte cartoon of an Im- mensely obese Goring on the cover. It is not enough to send out lend- ing business mun to do big deals Government. the Turkish

were

with They sign their contracts and go. Even the engineers who come aut with Brish-built machinery stay only long.coough to explain its working to the Turks,

The Germans

more Bred stayed; thorough. They

icarned their among the Turks: 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 tu 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?

us she east off. A reply How the Crew of a Submarine Gets Air

came back through the dark, from the men in the conning tower and

those on deck watch.

Last Daytime Smoke Routine had alrendy taken charge

of the men down below.

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

They had all had their last day- time smoke, too. Submarine mea cannot afford to contaminate the air when they are below the sur- face. The rat thing most of them do when she stelkes the surface at duak is to light up cigarettes und pipes.

There would not be even a night smoke for the men to look forward to if the balleries hnd not to be

PEPSODENT

TOOTH

PASTE

POWDER

CONTAIN TRIUM

FOR GREATER CLEANSING

POWER

When the Boat is Under Water?

that Alexander the it is suld Great visualized a bon! that could be made to submerge and travel beneath the surface, Aristotle

writes of a submarine which he declares to have been used in the slege 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- tor part of the 19 century that the submarine became an accom- plished fact of practical importance. One of the principal problems in submarine work is that of pro-

carbon dioride

OXYGEN

sulphurke

| adid

water. vapor

nitric

acid

argor

Helium

xenon

azone

Moon

NITROGEN

kruplan Some of the gases and chemicals

* found in ordinary etmaneric air_

viding nir for the crew to breathe. Air suitable for this purpose should he made up clstofly of oxygen and nitrogen mixed (not chemically combined) in the proportion about one part of oxygen to four of nitrogen. The nitrogen is of no Use for breathing purpose except

of

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

In breathing, our lungs make use of or absorb oxygen from the alr but do not affect the niirogen. which is given out again unchang- ed, but the oxygen is changed to carbon dioxide or carbonic acid gas. The presence of carbon dio xkie In the air, even in very small tends to render alr percentages, unft to breathe.

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PARACHUTE

POINTS

over

VERY time a plane rours

England

or France through the dusk or dawning it carries with it the menace of parachute troops, well-armed and desperate Germans who may be disintised and who drift soundlessly to earth. Parachute troops con create new fighting front anywhere on the instant. And parachute troops are brave

They drop in bad

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

Al

parachute All men chosen as

nerve troops have not got the

We have needed for the job. liard stories of soldiers found shot near-where-landings have beca

made.

The signs elcurly 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.

BUT all parachute soldiers need

a ng training. The impael, when u lnden soldier hits the ground, Is, I am told, something like the shock of jumping from a 20ft. wall on to hard ground.

In training, when troops leap

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

arc

In acilon, a parachute soldier

any may drop on anything or 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- tlon, portable wireless set, explo

and alves for demolition worke

other things. They are fully many trained in the use of everything they have with them.

Usually they expect to be helped by Fifth Column men in the aren where they fall. Pictures have been published of elvilians in invaded territory helping parachute troops

after to assemble their cycles landing.

H

FL

TITLER seems to have learned all about parachute troops from the Russians. During Soviet man- acuvres more than three years ago 1,200

Russians fully equipped

acroplanes. were dropped from They landed, it was sold at the time very succesfully one hundred miles behind the "enemy lines."

This display was watched by ex- peris from the German War Office. Pholographs taken of this Rus- sian display show as many as 100 parachutes in the air at once, all swaying slightly na the men they carried steered them by pulling on the cords. It is possible to alter the course of parachutes by this method. with

The problem in a submarine la to get rid of the carbon dioxide One and obtain more oxygen, way to do this is carry steel con- tainers or cylinders filled compressed air, sometimes at a pressure of as much as 2,500 pounds per square inch-In-this-way--D great many cubic feet of air can be carried in a small space. This com- pressed air is released as needed and the impure air, ke the ex- haust, gyry, Is driven from the ship.

In some, submarines chemicals which have a great affinity for car- bon dioxide are used to help keep the air it to breathe. However, these chemicals, such as line water and courtle soda, take away the carbonic acid gas ns a whole, oxy- ken and all. So to prevent the re- moval of the carbon dioxide from resulting in a lack of oxygen, pure Oxygen or oxygen mixed with air is carried, compressed in cylinders and released as needed-W. P... Keasbey..

THE

Soviet planes dropping a unit of ..

parachute soldiers,

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

on

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

They know all strong points that can be known-they know just how to reach the power-slations, rallway junctions, waterworks, and other things which are their ob- Jectives.

The real objective of parachute troops is to wreck all communica- tion and so paralyse a country. The Germans were successful in

this In accomplishing

Poland, Holland and Belgiura, but hieved few results in Norway. perhaps because of the nature of the country.

ac-

In Poland, many noidlers in dis- gulse were dropped in twos and THE Germans have much im-

threes or singly to commit acts of proved on Russia's Ideas of parachute tralaing. The Russians-sabotage, such as destroying_rall

Others had ways and bridges. of para- made an entertainment

with them portable wireless trans- chute drops over a distance of 180

mitters and gave constani Informa- feet and set up towers for this

on of the movements of Polisti purpose on sports grounds in Mos-

troops. cow.

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

IKE the Russians, the Germans drop supplies by parachute to There is men already dropped. nothing now 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 may carry to a country, parachute" troops are not feared in England. Arrangements to receive them IB German parachute troops, have been made.

are the equivalent of the storm Most of troops of the last war.

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