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Loose Tongues

were in the front line of the war at sen last night,

Wherever, there was danger, With the there they were.

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

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

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

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

They'll be "baving a go at them" Aboard

speed of greyhounds and the - manoeuvring capabilities of a London taxicab, the destroyers will go on leading the Navy in these light, swift, heavily armed be sending their torpedoes crashing German Fleet to come out, and that the war at sea however long it craft, on-these "farrots_of_the_sca," into an enemy warship,

Britain's co-power ultimately de- They may be escorting convoys or a-Ro at them." may last.

standing-by prepared to enter baltio

now. with U-boats or Nazi planes lò pro- pends.

understand the tect minelayers.

cach destroyer will be to port and to about 175 men, each with his own The look-outs,

job to do manning 4.7-inch and I've been out in the North Sen with starboard, have the finest eyes in smaller guns, ready at the torpedoes, the Navy. They have to be the whipping up the engines full speed young, they're tough; quickest "spotters" in the Fleet to ahead, or ready to send their depth- They're In 1917, when there were 263 de- our destroyer patrols.

waters alone,

charges thundering through the sens stroyers in home

The men of the destroyers don't to smash a U-boat. Jellicoe told, the War Cabinet that they're lolly. They will laugh with see things clearly at high speed.

you as they tell you they are the

get "hard-lying" money, as they did maids-of-all-work.

Thero Is. pillow There is mechanical

the demands for destroyers ceeded the supply by 90 ships. He had taken into account those which had come to join us from the United States.

It's the same to-day-destroyers

the danger. whatever first,

Before you can ships you have to know the men.

They may be out in the war-zone On screening the battle feet. They may

HOW THEY GREW

E modern destroyer is 355IL In Length, costs £450,000 to bulid, mounts cight 4.7-inch guns, seven smaller runs, and four 21-inch torpedo tuber.

torpedo-hoat de- first The stroyer forerunner of the de stroyer of to-day--was built in 1893. She was only 180 feet *Tong and monated four ameli She carried one torpedo Kuns. tube.

At a moment's notice they must in the old days.

Some of the destroyers will be ventilation. be ready to dash off, at nearly 40 upholstery now. knots, to any emergency.

Still, you'll never get landlubber dashing through the lines of our comfort when you're the Rveliest battle fleet-forging ahead to search for the euemy, rattling their anti- lighting craft in the fleet.

Certainly, there was little com- aircraft guns at sky raiders, and pet- fort for the destroyer men met outing as links between the main feat -in-the-North Sea, when leleles hung and the advanced forces.

~They won't be coming back for a from the rigging, the decks were coated in ice, and the wind on the while-not while there's something doing. They won't have to. A do- bridge froze you to the bones.

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

'They don't fight shy of the storms across the

Year by year, ships to smanlı 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

econòmical at running speed our modem destroyers are capable of making a non-stop run of 6,000 miles.

Germany

When war started had only 22 destroyers against our 170. France had 59.

fly

"If you

fighters,

miles.

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

can stand up to anything. And themselves entering.

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

into French

turn

By GEORGE MILLAR

Forty

ย

back!'

In the last war, whenever there 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 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 sea, think of the men of the destroyers.

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

boys.

thead while the general spoke. They men, or manual workers, Others have had diabolic luck with the will have gone straight to aca as weather. In the last fifteen days Think of them all as volunteers. there has been only half a day of bad] There are no men in the Navy who Bying weather.

didn't ask to go into the Navy. At a time like this, when the

PARIS. our men. But six of our fighters in

The bluejackets who were con- of WHEN I come back to Paris I came scripted expressed a preference to thoughts of all men run in the

HAVE just come back from good tight formation will hold

back to a different world. They! Messerschmitts. Why? Be same direction, to ask people not

the 'destroyers. to discuss the war is to expect an advanced airfield of the cause our pliots, as well as being de sat in thousands on hot pavements aght at sea. Many of them are lo too much of human nature. In French Air Force. The young bons Francais, have all had at least and drank anything they wanted from Communist vodka to Fascist his home and at his work, in his pilots have their eyes almost nve years' training.

"We have taken from German Fernet Branca,

But, whoever they are, they will The people of Paris put on about! club or his hotel, in the street closed with sleeplessness.

Since Germany began total air bomber pilots German Staff orders

cause they are specially suited to one- and on the ferry, every man dis.

day we

shot confidence in their army, confidence of the hardest jobs in the Flest cusses the war and will continue 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 notillas be

averaged four hours' sleep in twenty-fighters. The other

down Dornier. This valuable that the first initial mistake was only Not one of them will be a "pas-. to discuss it; but he must never four. forget to guard his tongue.. They are fighting carnestly and machine, with a crew of three, was an isolated thing.

piloted by a youth of seventeen who But in Paris I listen to the anti-senger." No man goes out with the destroyer in wartime unless he is: 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 soma of thoroughly expert at his job.

the Ittle things I saw of war.

There can't be, a battle without cussion is tempted to contribute by one group-of-the-"Armeo de perlence."

them. I'Air." This army group in the last his crumb of knowledge or his Air."

two weeks has knocked down over morsel of expert opinion; and as 600 Nel warplanes. The man who often as not, because his know told me this is a tall, thin general, ledge is no more than a crumb who still files into air battles and air and his opinion so little expert, who is proving himself a great

strategist. "While we have eliminat- he does so without misgiving.

We have ed 600 enemy machines Gally oblivious of a notice actually increased our own material," warning him that the wall to he said. which it is pasted has cars, he HALF an hour before I arrived at will talk at large of his own the field a Dornier had been

miles away.. doings and speculate about those brought down twelve

of his friends. Although thou-The man who did it was a dark- haired young captain who looked sands of miles from the scene ofte Jack Dempsey In his prime. combat, he may be giving away This was his third victory secrets, of whose very existence days. he does not dream.

in six

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"We saw this Dornier up in the clouds over that tree," he said. In the last war the unexpected was sitting ready in my taxi, so 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 I was too surprise to the enemy. The We came face to face,

We both come! near to shoot at him 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 go a few rounds and he dropped in petual reminder of the care with flames. Nothing new." which the machine was kept

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

side-

man, with the pointed whiskers favoured by French pilots, showed us reports from his squadron leaders lie was an ace in the last war (twenty-five victorles), but he warfare is a business, with the Ger- mans sending over chasers in groups of thirty, fifty, sixty-

nothing, for a German agent, THE general; a stocky, strong-faced catching at a clue innocently offered in a scrap of loose talk, is said to have contrived to be present at the first tank's trials in 1016. The great "surprise" Baya that was child's play. Now air would have been a failure but for the accident that the spy's report was plgeon-holed in Berlin

The general said, "Our men ore and ignored. Could there be clearer proof that discretion is fulfilling their mission according to the lotter. Let me explain. Six of the better. part of security? my chaser pilots were ordered to This is only half the picture. patrol a certain danger spot for one half. Within fifteen

In these days of ensy com-hour and had four battles. munications, secrecy is both minutes they

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 sometimes be and they frightened off any Nazi left unconfirmed, baseless stories bombers that appeared.

The Germans ard good airmen will sometimes go for a time un- and they fulfil their mimion just like contradicted. When these things

happen, rumour flies abroad in tell of defeat and unnecessary. the most fantastic garb, and is disappointment after fictitious innocently but foolishly helped victory. It is overy man's duty on by the loose talkors. 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 refuso either kong Whore thosedale to believe or to repeat any-war originate nobody can say; but news which comes from "my "charwoman's sister's they do untold harm, causing aunt's unnecessary gloom-when-they

German

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