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It is necessary to have a strong stomach to read without a feeling of

of the revelations

Nazi nausea cruelty and brutality contained in the "Papers concerning the Treat- ment of German Nationals in Ger- many 1939-1930," a copy of which has just been received in Hongkong. It would have been thought incredi ble that such naked savagery could

In this exist

among century civilised people who boast of their Kultur." But the evidence is both circumstantial and accredited by his Majesty's Consuls in various German cities, as well as by reputable wit- nesses of the foul deeds of which the they have themselves been victims. So horrible are these dis- closures of the spirit that actuates the Nazi creed that the Foreign Office have been reluctant to publish therm, for fear of emblitering, re- lations. That reluctance has been overcome, however, by the scrupulous propaganda which the German Government are spreading here and abroad, making against this Empire outrageously false charges of atrocities. After reading of what those who make. those charges are themselves capablo-actions miniscent of the darkest ages in the history of man"-public opinion, the world over, will be able to judge for itself. The documents now publish- ed all relate to the events of last year or this, and they show, there

THE

GLORY ZEEBRUGGE

THOSE who recall High Wood upon the Somme--and they must bo many, as it was after the battles

easily of 1916-may figure to themselves the decks of HAM.S. Vindictive as she lies to- day, a stark, black proble against the sea haze of the har. bour, amid the atripped, trim shapes of the fighting shipa which throng these waters. That wilderness of debris, that litter of the used and broken toola of war, that lavish ruin and that prodigal evidence of death and battle, are as obvious and plenti- ful here as there. The ruined tank nosing at the stout tree which stopped it has its parallel in the flame-thrower hut at the port wing of Vindictive's bridge, its iron sides freckled with ronts from machine-gun bullets and shell-splinters; the tall white choss which commemorates the martyrdom of the Londoners Is sister to the dingy, pierced White Ensign which floated. over the fight of the Zeebrugge Mole.

.

are

Looking aft from the chaos of her wrecked bridge, one secs. snug against their wharf, the heroic bourgeois shapes of the two Liverpool ferry-boats (their Atilf captains* quartera laboiled "Ladies Only") Iria and

shared which

with Deffodil, Vindictive the honours and ardours of the fight. The spic of their achievement shapes itself in the light of that view across the scarred and littered docks, in that environment of grey water and great still ships. the Their objectives avere cap of Zeebrugge and the entrance to the harbour of Ostend-their, and those of five other veteran and obsolete crui- sers and a mosquito fleet of des- and troyers, motor-launches costal motor-boats. Three of the cruisers, Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis, each duly packed with concrete and with mines attached to her boltem for the purpose of sinking her, Merri- mac-fashion, in the neck of the ennal, were aimed at Zeebrugge; two others. similarly prepared, were directed at Ostend. The function of Vindictive, with her ferry-boats, was to attack Mole half-moon the

Kreat which guards the Zeebrugge Canal, land bluejackota and marines upon it, destroy what stores, guns, and Germans she could find, und generally create

а

diversion while the block- ehlps ran in and sank them- selves in their appointed place. Vice-Admiral Keyes, in the des- troyer Warwick, commanded the operation.

There had been two previous attempts at the attack, capable of being pushed homo if wea- ther and other conditions had served. The night of the 22nd offered nearly all the required conditions, and at some fifteen miles off Zeebrugge the ships took up their formation for the attack. Vindictive, which had been towing Iris and Daffodil, cast them off to follow under their

steam: Intrepid.

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fore, that neither the consolidation Iphigenia, and Thetis slowed

of

of the regime nor the passage time has in any way mitigated the savagery."

down to give the first three time to get alongside the Mole; Sirius and Brilliant shifted their course for Ostend; and the great swarm of destroyers and motor craft sowed them- selves abroad upon their multi- farious particular duties. The night was overcast and there was a drift of haze;, down the const a great adurchlight swung ils beams to and fro; there was a small wind and a short

Most of these reports and testi- -monies-relate-to-the-conditions-en- dured in the concentration camp ut Buchenwald, near Welmar, where the august Goethe sleeps. In this camp have been herded thousands of Jews and non-Jews, guarded by S.S. men and overseered by professional criminals. The unhappy creatures condemned to this camp have found themselves subjected to a system of deliberato lorture of mind and body, from which the only deliverance has been death. This barbarous usage has not been the mere sadistle caprico -of-individuals; it-has-been-the-treat- ment ordered by the highest authori- ties, who have apparently experi- enced a fiendish delight in Inflicting ignominy and suffering on their captives. Ingenuity has been strain- ed to invent tortures. The elemen- tary decencien of Life have been

is the peril that now overshadows tho denied; impossibly arduous tasks civilized world. Such is the destiny have been imposed; punishments, of of every free people who fall under which flogging is the least severe, this fell, Infernal sway. One ex- have been multiplied,

prisoner in the Buchenwald comp

From Vindictivo's bridge, ne she headed in towards the Molo with her faithful-ferry-bonta at her heels, there was scarcely a glimmer of light to be seen shorewards. Ahead of her, as she drove through the water,

No wonder that one of these offcial falls of how, after his release, he witnesses, who has lived among the was interviewed in Berlin by a group police Germans for eight years and, who of officials of the regular had been thinking that he understood force, and how his story of what he Such thera, confesses that recent ex-had endured shocked them, periences have shown him, a facet conditions, they sald, were revolting of the German character which he and a scandal, which

shows that had not suspected. No wonder, as there are still in Germany people of another witness writes. "In present-decent, humano instincts. But such day Germany no word stilkes greater people are not in control. It is the terror in people's hearts than the authore and devisers of the Buchen name Buchenwald." Nor were the wald barbarities who rule the roost conditions any less horrible in the now in Germany. What is done is If done not only with their convent, concentration camp at Dachau.

such bestial cruelty had been actunted but by their express orders; and the by the passions of a bitter war It black infamy of which they bear the could never be palliated. But what guilt will never be effaced in living is to be said of such an organised memory." The outside world has ority of inhumanity, against fellow only to read these papers to realise countrymen whó have offered no that it is not merely democracy of stake in realstance or provocation, in a time political liberty that is. not of defeat or even of struggle, but the prozent struggle. It is civilisa of bloodless triumph? Such is the tion itself. It is the very dignity of vito, and evil heart of Naxldom. Such the human race.

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THE ADMIRALTY announced on Wednesday that British warships, pro- ceeding in the face of intense fire, had succeeded in entering Zeebrugge harbour and had blocked the main channel with concrete block ships.

The true story of this exploit, which parallels the Epic of Zeebrugge in the last war, probably will not be told for some months. Here is the story of the first attack on Zeebrugge --one of the most daring naval actions of the World War.

made; it is marvellous that any occupant of it should have Bur- vived a minute, eo riddled and shattered is it. Officers of Iris,

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oven.

"made his tour. The crew of

tho howitzer

Was which mounted forward had all been. killed; a second crow waży. destroyed ikowiso; and then a third crow was taking*. over the gun, In the stern cabin a rework expert, who. had never been to won before- one of Captain Brock's

firing ployees was steadily great illuminating rockets out. of a scuttle to show up the lighthouse on the end of the Mole to the block ships and their escort.

one

The Daffodil, after aiding to berth Vindictive, should have proceeded to land her own men, but now Commander Carpenter ordered her to reunaia as sho was, with her bowa against Vindictive's quarter, pressing the latter ship into the Mole. Normally, Daffodil's boilers de- volop eighty pounds' pressure of steam per inch; but now, for this particular task, Artificer Engineer Sutton, in charge of hundred them. maintained a and sixty pounds for the whole porlod that aho was holding Her Vindictive to the Mole. dasualties, owing to her position during the fight, were small

man killed and

eight wounded, among them hér

'H Commander, Lieutenant Campbell, who was struck in the right eye by a shell splinter. Jris had troubles of her own. Her first attempts to make fast to: the-Mole ahead of Vindic- tivo failed, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the parapet. Two officers, Lieut.- Brexiford an d Courmander

climbed Lieutenant Hawkins,

the ashore and ant

tho parapet trying to grapnels fast till each was killed and fell down between Com- the ship and the wall. mander Valentine Gibbs had both legs shot away and died noxt morning. Lieutenant Spencer, R.NR., though wound.. ed, took command and refused to be relieved.

astrido make

last to. Iris was obliged t change her position and fall in astern of Vindictive, and suffer- ed, very heavily from the fire.. A single big shell plunged through the upper dock and burst below at a point where fifty-six marines were waiting the order to go to the gangways. Forty-nine were killed and the ramaining seven wounded, Another shell in the ward-room, which was serving as sick bay, killed four officers and twenty-

six men, describo Captain "handling her

rolled the smoke-screen, her cloak of Invisibllity, wrapped about her by the small craft. This was a device of Wing- Commander Brock, R.N.A.S.--which-was-in trouble ahead of "without which," acknowledges the Admiral in Command, "the operation could not have been The north-east conducted." wind moved the volume of it shorewards ahead of the ships; beyond it, the distant town and its defenders wore unsuspici- ous; and it was not 'Vin- dictive, with her bluejackėta and marines standing ready for the landing, was close upon the Mole that the wind Tulled and came away again from the southwest, sweeping back the smoke-screen and laying her bare to the eyes that looked Bearward.

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Her total casualties were oight officers and sixty- nina men killed and throo officers and aundred and two men wounded.

The storming and demolition parties upon the Mole met with no resistance from the Goritams, other than the intense und un- romitting fire. The geography: of the great Mole, with its rail- Avay line and its many build- ings, hangars, and store-sheds, was already well-known, and'. the demolition parties moved to their appointed work in perfect - order. One after another the buildings burst into flames or tho. split and crumpled as dynamite went off.

It

A bombing party, working up towards the Kole extension - in search of the enemy, destroyed several machine-gun emplace menta, but not a single prisoner rowarded them.

appears that upon the approach of the the decks.. The same shall that

ships, and with the opening of killed Colonel Elliot also did

the are, the enemy simply re- fearful execution in the forward.

tired and contented themselves Stokes 'Mortar Battery.

with bringing machine-guns to- The man were magnificent."the shore end of the Mole. And Every officer beare testimony.

Same

Vindictive, Carpenter like picket-boat."

Vindictive was fitted along the port side with a high false deck, whence ran the eighteen brows, or gangways, by which the storming and demolition The men parties were to land. were gathered in readiness on the main and lower decks, while Colonel Elliot, who was to lead the Marines, walted on the false deck just abaft the bridge, and who Captain H. C. Halahan, commanded the bluejackets, was amidships. The gangways were lowered, and scraped and rebounded upon the high para- Д moment im- There was

pet of the Mole as Vindictive mediately afterwards when it

rolled; and the word for the seemed to those In the ships

assault had not yet been given as if the dim const and the

when both leaders were killed, hidden harbour exploded into

and shell Colonel Elliot by a light. A star shell soared

tho Captain Halaban by score of star aloft, then

machine-gun firo which awept shells; the wavering beams of the searchlights swung round and settled to a glare; the wildfire of gun flasher leaped against the sky; strings of shot luminous green beads

tho aloft, hung and sank; and the

The mer landing darkness of the night was Bur

on the Mole was d perilous planted by the nightmare day- light of battlo Arca Guns-and-

business: it involved-a-passago across the crashing, splintering machine-guns along the Mole

tho and batteries ashore woke to

a drop over gangways, life, and it wan in a galo of

parapet into the field of fire of shelling that Vindlellvo laid

the German machine-guns which her nose against the thirty-foot

swept fbs leirgth, and a further 'drop of some sixteen feet to high concrete side of the Mole,

the surface of the Mole itself let go an anchor, and signed to

more Many were killed and Daffodil to shove her stern in.

were wounded as they crowded. Iris wont ahead and endeavour-

but gangways; up to the ed to get alongside likewise.

nothing hindered the orderly The fire, from the account

and speedy landing by every

· Hangwiny. of everybody concerned, intense. While she plunged. and rolled beside the Mole, in Lieutenant H. T. C: Walker an unexpected end of sea, had his arm carried away by Vindictive with her greater a shell on the upper deck and Atorming parties trod him draught jarring against the Iny in the darkness while the under. He was recognised and every plunge, they were swept foundation of the Mole with diagonally by machine-gun fre dragged aside. by the. Com

thander. He raised his remain." from both ends of the Mols and

"Good. Ing arm in greeting. heavy batteries nahore, by Commander A. F. U. Carpenter duck to you," he called, uks the (now Captain) conned. Vindic-rest of the stormare hastened

by good luck." Alve from her, open bridge till hor stern was laid in, when he took up his position in the flamethrower hut on tho port alde. It to this hut that referenco has already been

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The lower deck was a sham- bless tho Commander toedd the rounds. of his ship; yet those wounded and dying rais- ed themselves to cheer as he

while they worked and des troyed, the covering party below tho parpot could see in the harbour,by-the light at the German star shells, the shapes: of the block whips stealing In and out of heir own smoke and' making for the mouth of the canal.

Thetis came first, steaming- into a tornado of shell from the great batteries ashore. All her crow, save a remnant who 'ro-. mained to steam hor in and slak her, had already been taken off her by the ubiquitous motor · launches, but the romant epared hands enough to keep her four guns going. It was here to show the road. to:

and Iphigenia, who followed. Intrepid

She cleared the string of armed barges which defends the channel from the tip of the Mole, but had the ill-fortune-to- foul one of her propellers upon the net defence which, flanks it on the shore side. The propeller gathered in the net and renderod her practically unmanngonble: the shore batteries found her and pounded her unremittingly: Turn to Page 9, Third Columm