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Loose Tongues

At a time like this, when the

thoughts of all men run in the

IT IS

"UP THE

DESTROYERS"

UR men of the destroyers

war at sea last night.

Wherever there was danger, there they were. With the speed of greyhounds and the manoeuvring capabilities of a London taxicab, the destroyers"

By A. J. McWHINNIE

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

will go on leading the Navy in these light, swift, heavily armed be sending their torpedoes crashing the war at sea however long it craft, on these "ferrets of the sea," into an enemy warship.

Britain's sea-power ultimately de- They may be escorting convoys or may last.

standing-by prepared to enter battle pendis.

with U-boats or Nazi planes to pro- understand the teet minelnyers.

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

*

Before you ships you have

can

to know the men. I've been out in the North Sea with our destroyer patrols.

they're They're young,

There is

mites escorting convoys and search- Ing for submarines, quoling their slogan as they went into battle: "It' up the destroyers,"

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

They said then that their guna and torpedoes were ready for the German Fleet to come out, and that they would give all they had lo "have 2 Ro at them."

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

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

of our

The look-outs, to port and to

In job to do-manning 4.7-inch and starboard, have the finest eyes the Navy. They have to be the smaller guns, ready at the torpedoes, In 1917, when there were 283 de-

tough, quickest "spotters" in the Fleet to whipping up the engines full speed waters alone,

ahead, or ready to send their depth stroyers in home Seilleoo told the War Cabinet 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 res the demands for destroyers ex- you as they tell you they are the

get "hard-lying" money, as they did to smash a U-boat. eeeded the supply by 00 ships, He malds-of-all-work.

pillow At a moment's notice they must in the old days. had taken into account those which had come to join us from the United be ready to dash off, at nearly 40 upholstery now. There is mechanical

Some of the destroyers will be ventilation.. knots, to any emergency. States.

Still, you'll never get landlubbers' dashing through the lines It's the same to-day-destroyers They may be out in the war-zone

the danger. On screening the battle feet. They may comfort when you're, the liveliest battle feet-forging ahead to searc

for the enemy, rattling their ant- first, whatever

fighting craft in the ficet.

Certainly, there was little com- alrernft guns at sky rolders, and set- fort for the destroyer men I met out ing as links between the main feet. in the North Sea, when icicles hung and the advanced forces. from the rigging, the decks

They won't be coming back for a coated in ice, and the wind on the while-not while there's something. bridge froze you to the bones.

doing. They won't have to, A de Just the same, they went on lock- stroyer of the latest type can make ing for adventure at top speed. a non-stop trip for thousands of“

miles,

They don't fight shy of the storms

the-

HOW THEY GREW

THE modern destroyer is 365ft

in length, costs £450,000 to bulld, mounts eight 4.7-Inch kuna, seven smaller guns, and four 21-inch torpedo tubes.

The first torpodo-boat de- stroyer-forerunner of the do- stroyer of to-day--was bulit in 1893. She was only 180 feet long and mounted four mail guns, She carried one torpedo tube.

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

engines 1.p. Starting with and

running speed our modern destroyers aro capable of making a non-stop run of 6,000 miles.

oll tanks full economical

When war started Germany had only 22 destroyers against our 170. France had 50.

If you

fighters,

fly

were

across

Having talked to the men of the they have been having destroyers since the war started. I North Sea. Their decks may be can imagine them in action-men of awash, they may be pitching and steel, tralued for the very battle they tossing, but our modern destroyers-

can stand up to anything. and themselves entering,

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

of

into French

turn turn

By GEORGE MILLAR

PARIS. our men. But six of our fighters in

forty Messerschmitts. Why?

Be-

back!'

In the last war, whenever there I was a dirty job to be done, someone

in authority always said, "Send a. 30-knotter.

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

more

of in the last wary

When you read the news of what the Navy is doing in this vital phone of the war at sea, think of the men of the destroyers.

Some of them will have been clerks and professional men, fisher- or manual workers. Others.

head while the general, spoke. They men,

have had diabolic luck with the will have gone straight to sea as weather. In the last fifteen

days boys.

Think of them all as volunteer.. there has been only half a day of bad There are no men in the Navy who fying weather.

didn't ask to go into the Navy.

The bluejackets who were cof- WHEN I came back to Paris I came scripted expressed a preference to

same direction, to ask people not HAVE just come back from good tight formation will hold off back to a different world. The fight at sea. Many of them are in. to discuss the war is to expect, an advanced airfield of the cause our pilots, as well as being 'de sat in thousands on hot pavements the destroyers. too much of human nature. In French Air Force. The young bona Francals, have all had at least and dranic anything they wanted from Communist vodka to Fascist his home and at his work, in his pilots have their eyes almost five years' training.

Fernet Branca, "We have taken from German

But, whoever they are, they wIE club or his hotel, in the street closed with sleeplessness,

The people of Paris put on about Since Germany began total air bomber pilots German Staff orders and on the ferry, every man dis-

warfare those chaser pilots have to turn and run if they see French the best mask there is, and they have only be in the destroyer foulius be cusses the war and will continue averaged four hours sleep in twenty- Aghters. The other day we shot confidence in their army, confidence cause they are specially sulted to ose

valuable that the Arst initial mistake was only of the hardest jobs in the Fleet.

Not tenger of them will be a "p

No min goes out with the But in Paris I listen to the anti- destroyer in wartime unless he is. the little things I saw of war,

There can't be a battle without --

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

CARTOON

By Strube

down a Dornier. This They are fighting earnestly and machine, with a crew of three, was an isolated thing.

piloted by a youth of seventeen who cleverly against tremendous odds. Every new party to the dis-

This airfield in the forest is held had only fifty-two hours' flying ex-aircraft fire and remember some of thoroughly expert at his job. cussion is tempted to contribute by one group of the "Armee de perience."

German-bombers droned over Tum_to_Page_9,_Fifth_Columul them his crumb of knowledge or his 'Air." This army group in the last morsel of expert opinion; and as 400 Nazi warplanes. The man who two-weeks-has-lenacked-down-over often as not, because his know told me this is tall, thin general, ledge is no more than a crumb who sill files into air battles and and his opinion so little expert, who is proving himself a great air he does so without misgiving.

"While we have eliminat- strategist. ed 600 enemy machines we have Gally oblivious of a notice actually increased our own material;" warning him that the wall to the sald. which it is pasted has cars, he will talk at large of his own HALF on hour before I arrived at 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 combat, he may be giving away This was his third victory in six Ike Jack Dempsey in his prime.) eecrets of whose very existence days. he does not dream.

Was

"We saw this Dornier up in the clouds over that tree," he said. "I In the last war the unexpected

sitting ready in my taxi,' sa appearance of a new British I went off to stalk him. He slipped weapon in the shape of a land- into the clouds and I slipped in after ironclad came as a harassing him, but suddenly in a clear patch too surprise to the enemy. The we came face to face. I was

Hear to shoot at him. We both camel strangely undescriptive word out above the cloud. He dived in "tank which has now passed again and I followed. Then I began into many languages, is a per- to sense him in front of me. I let petual reminder of the care with go a few rounds and he dropped in

flames. Nothing new," which the maching was kept This last phrase (rien de nouveau) secret. Yet all the elaborate, the French aviators new slang for precautions were brought to "all's well,”

nothing, for a German agent, general, a stocky, strong-faced catching at a clue fnnocently T mon with the pointed side- offered in a scrap of loose talk, whiskers favoured by French pilots, 19 sald to have contrived to be showed us reports from his squadron present at the first tank's trials lenders. He was an aco in the last in 1916. The great surprise" war (twenty-five victories), but ho says that was child's play. Now air would have been a failure but warfare is a business, with the Ger- over chasers in groups

for the accident that the spy's mane sy, sixty.

The general said, "Our men are

report was pigeon-holed in Berlin of thirty, and ignored. Could there be fullling their mission according to

clearer proof that discretion is

the better part of security?

com-

11

to

the lotter. Let me explain. Six of my chaser pilots were ordered This is only half the picture. patrol a certain danger spot for one hour and hal. Within fifteen In these days of easy

minutes they had four battles munications, secrecy is both Their ammunition was unished inore necessary and more difficult Thoy slayed, up over the danger than before. Truths half-known point for one hour thirty minutes to the public will sometimes be and they frightened off any Nazi loft unconfirmed, baseless stories bombers that appeared. will sometimes go for a lime un- and they fulfil their mission just like are good alimen contradicted. When these things

"The Germans

happen, rumour flies abroad in toll of defeat and unnecessary the most fantastic garb, and is disappointment after fictitious innocently but foolishly helped victory. It is every man's duty on by the looks talkorg. ~ 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 koug Whore there baden to bellove or to repeat any war originate nobody can say, but nows which.. comes from "my sistor's they do untold harm, causing aunt's * charwoman's unnecessary gloom when they son."

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