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Loose Tongues

At a time like this, when the thoughts of all meh run in the Babe direction,' to ask people not to discuss the war is to expect too much of human nature. In his home and at his work, in his club or his hotel, in the street and on the ferry, every man dis-

IT IS

UP THE

DESTROYERS"

UR men of the destroycra wore in the front line of the war at sea last night,

By A. J. McWHINNIE

Wherever there was danger, there they were. With the speed of greyhounds and the manoeuvring capabilities of a London taxicab, the destroyers will go on leading the Navy in these light, awift, heavily armed be sending their torpedoes crashing the war at sea however long it craft, on these "ferrets of the sen," fato an enemy warship.

Britain's co-power ultimately de- may last.

pends.

London Naval Correspondent who tells you about the men and the ships in the front line of the war that is raging at sea.

Whenever there is a war, when ever an emergency arises, someone always calls for more destroyers.

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ilies escorting convoys and search- Ing for submarines, quoting their slogan ng they went into battle: "It's up the destroyers.":

Somewhere out there are the de- stroyer men 1. talked to in a Ply- mouth tavern a few weeks ago.

They said then that their guns the and torpedoes were ready for they would give all they had to "have German Fleet to come out, and that

at them." They'll be "having a go at them"

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Aboard each destroyer will be about 175 men, each with his own

They may be escorting convoys or standing-by prepared to enter battle with U-boats or Nazi planes to pro- now. Before you can understand the

tect minelayers. ships you have to know the

The look-outs, to port and lo I've been out in the North Sea with starboard, have the finest eyes in job to do manning 4.7-inch and Navy. They have to be the smaller guns, ready at the torpedoes, tough, quickest spotters" in the Fleet to whipping up the engines full speed They're young, they're

chend, or ready to send their depth In 1917, when there were 203 de- our destroyer patrols, stroyers in home waters alone, Jellicoe told the War Cabbiet that they're jolly. They will laugh with see things clearly at high speed.

The men of the destroyers don't charges thundering through the seas you as they tell you they are the

get hard-lying"

money, as they did smash a U-boat. the demands for destroyers

pillow ceeded the supply by 00 ships. He malds-of-all-work.

At a moment's notice they must in the old days. There is had taken into account those which

Some of the destroyers will be ventilation. had come to join us from the United be ready to dash off, at nearly 40 upholstery now, There is mechanical

knots, to any emergency.

Still, you'll never get landlubbers dashing through the lines States.

They may be out in the war-zone It's the same to-day-destroyers

On screening the battle fleet. They may comfort when you're the liveliest battle fleet-forging ahead to search for the enemy, rattling their anti- danger.

fighting craft in the fleet. Arut,

whatever the

Certainly, there was little com- ercraft guns at sky raiders, and act fort for the destroyer men I met out ing as links between the main fleet

and the advanced forces. in the North Sea, when feicles hung They won't be coming back for a

THE

HOW THEY GREW

TUIE modern destroyer is 355ft. In length, costs £450,000 to build.

eight 4.7-inch mmis Kuns, ser nailer guns, and four 21-1 torpedo tubes.

The first torpedo-boat de- stroyer-forerunner of the de- stroyer of to-day-was built in 1893. She was only 180 feet. long and moanted four small

suna.

tube.

She carried one torpedo

of our

from the rigging, the decks

while not while there's something coated in ice, and the wind on the

doing. They won't have to. A de bridge froze you to the bones.

Just the same, they went on look- stroyer of the latest type can make -a non-stop trip for thousands of ing for adventure af top speed.

miles.

They don't night shy of the storms. across the

Year by year, ships to smash The torpedo-boats became bigger and bigger until to-day we have the Tribal class destroyers with their 44,000 h.p. engines.

Starting

with oil tanks full And

at running

Having talked to the men of the they have been having economical

destroyers since the war started. I North Sen. Their decks may be speed our modern destroyers áro

can imagine them in action-men of Awash, they may be pitching and capable of making a non-stop

steel, trained for the very battle they losing, but our modern destroyers

en stand up to anything.... run of 6,000 miles.

And themselves entering.

When war staried Germany had only 22 destroyers against our 179, France had 59.

"If you fly fighters,

I can imagine these men, who have patrolled thousands of North Sen

into French

back!"

turn

By GEORGE MILLAR

In the last war, whenever there was a dirty job to be done, someone. in authority always cald, "Send a 10-knotter."

The only difference in this war is that they'll go out and do the job at more than the speed they dreamed. of in the last war...

When you read the news of what the Navy is doing in this vital phase of the war at ses, think of the mem of the destroyers.

Some of them will have been clerks and professional men, fisher-

manual workers. Our

or

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head while the general spoice. They men, have had diabolic luck with the will have gone straight to sea as

boys.. weather. In the last Afteen day Think of them all as volunteers. there has been only half a day of bad There are no men In the Navy, wha flying weather.

didn't ask to go into the Navy..

The bluejackets who were con PARIS.

our men. But six of our fighters in HAVE it come back from good tight formation will hold ouWHEN I came back to Paris I came scripted expressed a preference to

forty Messerschmitts. Why? Be back to a different world. They (8 on advanced airfield of the cause our pilots, as well as being 'de sat in thousands on hot pavemente light at sen. Many of them are in

the destroyers. drank anything they wanted from Communist vodka to Fascist French Air Force. The young bors Francais, have all had at least and pilots have their eyes almost five years' training.

We have taken from German Fernet Branca,

But, whoever they are, they will The people of Paris put on about only be in the destroyer dotillas be- closed with sleeplessness.

Since Germany began total. air bomber pilots German Staff orders

shot confidence in their army, confidence of the hardest jobs in the Fleet. we cusses the war and will continue warfare those chaser pics have to turn and run if they see French the best mask there is, and they have cause they are specially suited to one

averaged four hours' sleep in

In twenty-fighters. The other day

down a Dornier, This valuable that the first initial mistake was only Not one of them will be a "pas four.

No man goes out with the senger." But in Paris I listen to the antidestroyer in wartime unless ho is They are fighting earnestly and machine, with a crew of three, was an isolated thing.

ploted by a youth at seventeen who cleverly against tremendous odds.

the little things I saw of war.

There can't be abalile...without. This airfield-in-the-forest is held had only fifty-two hours' flying ex-aircraft are. and remember some of thoroughly expert at his job. by one group of the "Armee de perience.

over-Turn to Page 9. Fifth Column them. 1'Air." This army group in the last two weeks has knocked down over 500 Nazi warplanes. The man who told me this is a tall, thin general, who still flies into air batiles and who is proving himself a great air strategist. "While we have eliminat-)

have ed 600 enemy machines we actually increased our own material," he said.

to discuss it; but he must never forget to guard his tongue,

Every now party to the dis- cussion is tempted to contribute his crumb of knowledge or his morsel of expert opinion; and as often as not, because his know- ledge is no more than a crumb and his opinion so little expert, he does so without misgiving.

Gaily oblivious of a notice warning him that the wall to which it is pasted has ears, he HALF an hour before I arrived at will talk at large of his own the field a. Dornier had been] doings and speculate about those brought down. twelve miles away. of his friends. Although thou-The man who did it was a dark- sands of miles from the scene of haired young captain who looked prime. like Jack Dempsey, in his combat, he may be giving away

This was his third victory in Eecrets of whose very existence days. he does not dream.

In the last war the unexpected appearance of a new British weapon in the shape of a land- ironclad came as a harassing surprise to the enemy. The strangely undescriptive word "tank," which has now passed into many languages, is a per- petual reminder of the care with which the machine was kept secret.

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"We saw this Dornier up in the clouds over that tree," he said. *I was sitting ready in my taxi, 20 I went off to stalic him. He slipped slipped in after into the clouds and him, but suddenly in a clear patch we came face to fac

face. I was too near to shoot at him. We both came out above the cloud. He dived in again and I followed. Then I began I let to sense him in front of me.

a few rounds and he dropped in flames. Nothing new."

This last phrase (rien de nouveau) Yet all the elaborate is the French aviators new slang for precautions were brought to "all's well."

nothing, for a German agent, THE general, a stocky, strong-faced catching at a clue innocently Tan with the pointed alde- offered in a scrap of loose talk, whiskers favoured by French pilots. is said to have contrived to be showed us reports from his squadron present at the first tank's trials leaders. He was an ace in the Inst in 1916. The great "surprise" war (twenty-five victories), but he says that was child's play. Now air would have been a failure but warfare is a business, with the Ger- for the accident that the spy's mans sending over chasers chasers

in Kroups report was pigeon-holed in Berlin of thirty, afty, and ignored. Could there be raining their mission according to The general said, "Our men are clearer proof that discretion, la the letter. Let me explain. Six of the better part of security? my chaser pllots were ordered to This is only half the picture. patrol a certain danger spot for one In these days of easy com-hour-and-a-half. Within Afteen they had four battles. munications, secrecy is both minutes

Their ammunition -wor Anished inore necessary and more difficult They stayed up over the danger than before. Truths half-known point for one hour thirty minutes to the public will sometimea be and they frightened off any. Nazi left unconfirmed, baseless stories bombers that appeared. will sometimes go for a time un- contradicted. When theas things happen, rumour filles abroad in tell of defont and unnecessary the most fantastic garb, and is disappointment after fictitious innocently but foolishly helped victory. It is avery man's duty on by the loose talkers. Un-to-day, remembering that story. bridled tongues have spread all of the Russian army in Britain sorts of fantastic tales in Hong- in the last war, to refuse either kong. Where these tale to believe or to repeat any war originate nobody can say but nows which comes from "my they do untold barm, causing aunt's charwoman's sister's unnecessary gloom-when-they son.

"The Germans are good airmen and they fulfil their mission just like!

German bombers droned

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