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Is It France?

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July 9, 1940.

The

Destroyer's Message

BRITISH destroyers were zard; but according to schemes

fore the war.

at sea on an independent invented and tried out long be- search for German sub- marines.

The weather was typical for THE thudding detonations of the time of year-a shrewd wind those massive canisters about from the north-north-east caus- seemed to squeeze the air, and ing the little sens to break on top caused the sea momentarily to of a heavy swell from the south shimmer as if beaten by heavy westward, The sky was grey rain.

and overcast with a low cloud Exploding at various depths below celling. Occasional squalls of water, they shook the ships from rain blotted out the horizon and which they were projected, and rals- shut down the visibility to about ed huge mushroom-shaped domes of seven miles.

white water which burst upwards in the size of ordinary dustbins Down below in a wireless gouts of spray tinged grey by the cabinet a young man in the carly high explosive. twenties stiffened and sat for- The explosions died away. There ward in his chair as a faint come the inevitable suspense na to, crackling started to come whether the attack had been success. through his earphones. His ful. Many eyes searched the sea for hand moved to a knob on the in- the signs of a submarine breaking strument board in front of him, up from the depths. But for the time surface, or oil or wreckage floating and the sound became intensifi- nothing appeared, ed. Listening, he started to write.

A German submarine had→→→

been reported some distance to the

southward.

The destroyer left behind to pick

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"It's for you!"

Southampton,

Wonder Dock

THE successful war effort of the modern area and will take a

up the survivors of the sunken ship Britain has depended largely vessel up to 100,000 tons.

come racing to the upon sea transport, which in

-by- TAFFRAIL

al full turn is rellant entirely

scene speed. Three men, she reported,

efficient docks.

enters

It is 1,200 ft. long and 135 ft. wide, upon The 73,000 ton Queen Mary

the dock with the greatest

of east, leaving plenty of room for a much

had been killed The major work of transporting bigger vessel.

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war

She had

tor-m

when the steamer Britain's overseas army to the various ******wn a torpedoed. | theatres of

has been done pedoed a neutral steamer, and Twenty-two others had been rescued, through the

The port also has the distinction of port the crew were taking to their

of Southampton owning the world's largest floating boats.

Collecting his flocks, the senior and quays, new and old.

with its wonderful network of docks dock, capable of lifting a vessel with officer ordered another attack.

a displacement weight of over 60,000 Future historians when writing)

Within a few minutes the des- more the depth charges were dropped

toris completely out of the water In The South of England port, with under four hours. Thia. mammoth. history of the war, will feature the troyers, were steaming in the according round up of the French fleet as one direction indicated at something success.

to plan-this time with its wonder docks, is the world's floating dry dock covers three and a of the most significant events in the

greatest romance of modern dock- quarter acres and was built on the building. Yet, although It has been record of hostilities. This action by over thirty, knots.

River Tyne, About half-a-mile astern of one of a port from ancient times, and it was the British hose probably changed the whole course of events and

the destroyers the conning-tower and from here in 1820 that the little 180- which make the port their British If seven of the world's super liners changed them to the disadvantage

long hull of a submarine suddenly tons sailing ship Mayflower set sail home were to berth at the jetty in the IT took them some time to broke surface bow first in a swirl of for America with the Pilgrim Fathers, mile and a quarter of quay. Their of Germany. the desperate gume

modern docks they would occupy of chess that is being played on the reach the reported position, under water whooat's stern was still it is only during the last thirty years total weight would be round about

of the world, Britain, by her marked for all the world to see under when her conning-tower that the port has enjoyed prompt and effefent action. has by three boatloads of survivors lid opened, and men started to tumble national reputation, from the

a distinct check to

to Germany. and a litter of floating wreckage up on deck. She might have a sting when it becarne a terminal port of of a good-sized town. France's position in the war game į goes for nothing, She sold out with tumbling about in the grey sea. left. Nobody was to know if she in-call for the largest the signing of the armistice by Marshal Petain and his government detailed to rescue the men, the And while one destroyer was

tended to surrender and risks could The fleet was no longer a

a French It. became a German arm and

rm and others passed on ahead and then inust be so regarded. To call it slowed down and started to

ineer..

French

In

Is misleading and unwise, as quarter the sea according to

It gives colour to the German

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the

not be taken.

rana-Atlantic,

Iners.

No port in the world has grown fast or mado such material prow gress during the

dozen years.

!

an inter- 350,000 tons, and they would

carry

time over 30,000 passengers, the population

by

SPITHEAD

BUT it was a case of surren- He plan.--They were well-avera France could still have called hundred miles from the nearest der. Some of the U-boat's crew Bucks

have land; but an aircraft bad sighted could be seen to be leaping over-site of 400 acres of tidal mud-land, ger, and cargo.

been balit

tha

own. Petain had

One of the most complex factors in modern commerce ig the science of distribution, 80 dockland has to be equipped with "every "modern ap-

flect her

The modern pliance for dealing expeditiously with given flect

оп the every type of sea-born traffic, passen- pletely when he'

he recognised rule in the occupied territories of tower of a U-boat, and had has their hands. Her bows started land and creating on it the finest

ised German what was probably the conning board. Others were holding up the home of seagulls, Over £10,000,- France. That the fleet was not to

090 have been spent reclaiming this be used by either Germany or Italy tened to report it after dropping to lift as the stern slowly went

dock was a story that would not deceive a bomb or two.

under.

were

by Berlin, and French Trendy, Extra lookouts were on went astern

orc

to check their

the world, providing an additional 16,000 lineal feet of berthing. Twenty BRITAIN'S wonder

fillon tens of mud was involved in

concrete

資您

em-

whilst the

port,

a child. French indignation is Ger- The destroyers' guns man Indignation. Germany speaks manned and their depth charges through France. French

Destroyers approached, stopped, and the dredging operations, half of which thanks to far-sighted planning from *Berlin; are Instigated

is easily as efficiently equipped way, was pumped behind the bridge, and the ships' com- Boats were lowered. They rescued bankments for reclamation purposes. as any great port in the world, reported to have taken the form of panics keyed up to the idea of the entire crew, some from the water, gravel, and re-used as

Of the residue 3,000,000 tons a raid upon Gibraltar, was com- action. They all knew what was rome from

We and possesses one great natural a concrete the submarine. herself. aggregate, manded by Berlin. Probably

remaining advantage over them all. planes. that took part in this

the in the wind. Though it was They were described as youngish men 7,000,000 tons of soft mud was taken raid

Nature has conspired to make afternoon, and those who had and beard, some still self-possessed: out to sea and dumped in the Chan Southampton a great port by giving were manned by Germans. Accord ing to Mr. Churchill, 400 German kept watches the night before but others obviously shaken by their nel.

her the practically unique gift of airmen were released under the might reasonably have been ordeal. They were well cared for The modern docks are approached double tides which, in co-operation armistice conditions. What could be better than to give them French asleep, there were few men on by their rescuers, who gave them by a newly dredged channel, 2 miles with six miles of sheltered estuary, planes to operate, against Britain? the mess-decks.

Navy rum and warm clothing.

long and 600 ft. wide, running from glyes It is necessary at this time, when

the old occun dock to the end of the sides complete and easy access to the and new docks in all weathers the most crucial events in the some time nothing happened, had happened inside the submarine been the dredging operations that the and cargo traffle are thus completely Those U-boat men described what new quay wall. So auccessful have and at any state of the tide. Liner world's history are taking place. to Then, quite suddenly,, a realise clearly the difference between hoisted by one of the destroyers then, after an interval, the sound of at all states of the tide.

flag flest the bombs from the aircraft, and bull, can arrive or leave the decks time of the day and night, thus saving largest ships afloat, or likely to be free to make or leave port at any German-France and the Frenchmen whose pride of race, independence indicated that the scent had been the hunting destroyers' propellers be-

much time and expense. of character and bravery in war Live picked up. The deadly Asdics coming louder and louder. Next the them the right to demand our res were at work. The remorseless budding detonation of the first depth pect and affection. That Marshal hunt began... Petain thought fit to surrender his

The search continued. For

charges, closer, closer all the time.

sá

on

Judgment, must be suspended. Apart from the throwers-not hapha-, her leak, There came a short respite, mummoth liners. is enclosed in, they berth as gracefully as small ferru

from the lesson it teaches, it is, at

marks of Nazi censorship.

the next voyage,

Lu

The double tides in Southampton Water make it possible for passenger THE largest graving dock, in train coming into a station, and

super liners to dock as easily country into the ruthless hands of Depth charge after depth. Germany is a matter upon which charge was dropped or projected damage to their submarine and made

The Arst attack caused serious the world-King George V Dock time. The Queen Mary and the -capable of berthing the Normandie glide into the dock and steamers at a river 'pier, and except the moment, immaterial. The point

during which the, propeller sounds

for fog are never late. Once berthed, to be remembered in that Nazi paganda, under the guise of pro- country bears the unmistakeable could be heard receding. Men Soon there was only enough pressure the pent-up passengers race for the

two invasions begin in real earnest indignation, must be discounted.

breathed again, persuading them-left to blow, the tanks, and come to waiting trains, and hundreds of work France is suffering and will suffer The position of the French colonies the chase.

selves that the hunters had given up the surface to give the crew a chance men and cleaners jump aboard more.

Frenchmen who are being is not a happy one. On the one subjected to terrifle propaganda, are hand the greater number of French|

for their lives, which the commander make the Uner pick and span for Vain, hope. Unseen impalpable decided to do, cruel predicament. All the officials and business houses .* more so, as in the confusion of the faced with ruin should they refuse neath the waters.

ure fingers were soon groping again be- The rest of the story's, been fold. All classes of maritime traffic, and moment, they are unable to see to acknowledge Pelain-the Fuehrer

every type of ship from glant liner The propeller Shortly after the rescue of her crew to fussy coaster pre to be found in the clearly and might be persuaded even of France while, on the other hand, sounds became louder again, then that submarine flung her bows verti-docks. Since the Great War against their inner convictions, that to accept German rule must be more depth charges--close, frightfully enlly into the air, and sank stern volume of shipping using Southamp their old

enemy has suddenly and wormwood and gall to + brave close. unaccountably become their friend. people.

first in flutter of whitened water ton has more than doubled itself But not for long. To-day. in spite

and an ever-widening patch of iride- now amounts to nearly 20,000,000 scent all spreading over the surface per annum. More than half a million

a million. of the sen,

passengers

ngers use the port each year, and It is joke locally amongst the dock "Attack successful" said the wire-workers, who take

"Twenty-three survivors res- their port, that here if pride in is possible to buy a ticket to anywhere in the world, These cheery dockland.

In a

of confusion of thought, France is the days to come, when the

by no means willing sacrifice on called may be much startled by so-

"French"

action.hgainst

THAT second attack put, out

Hitler's Eltor. Straws indicate the Britain, it will be necessary to per wind and the order put out by the calve clearly the truth of this capitu- lights, shattered delicate Instru- less. Petain Government forbidding of-lation and to know that whatever ments, and caused worse flood-cued." deers to wear British decorations is Petain and his colleagues think, wise,

the

the

and

A hundred and. Afty miles away workers, when watching hundreds of

in an office ashore British officer passengers passing up the gangways.

A

an indication of the opinion of the is not necessarily the opinion of the ing country. I would be unnecessary vast majority of French people. The to issue such orders the anti-difficulty he is experiencing in chang-Very soon the U-boat's stern was wearing the gold stripes of an Ad into the big liners can be heard British feeling were as strong as Germans would The ordered have us belleve. constitution is further proof of this, in through the pipes and rivet holes ere's the 'position, sir," said hils

ing the form of government and the full of water, which came spurting miral Icant over a chart spread out shouting: "All aboard for anywhere."

on a table, of such dauntless if proof were needed. Without doubt writers as "Pertinax Mine. To when the day comes when Britain in the bulkhead. She developed a

Men of all types have pooled their bols. M. Henri de Karcilla and M. succeeds in freeing the world from heavy list. More water started to Chief of Staff, dabbing with a pencil, alfis of brain muscle and worked un Emile Bure is a further indication German aggression, amongst the first seep into the interior through the "The boys are surpassing them- port the rival of all others, and they greasingly, day and night, to make this that France is now, as the "New to welcome and honour our exploit damaged conning-tower.. York Herald Tribuno puts it, no will be, our old comrade in arms

selves, the Commander-in-Chief have succeeded. These docks are longer free, and that news from that Franco.:

answered. "That's the third this owned and controlled by the Soutrem

Railway.

The compressed air was leaking. week."