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The Air War

UR

IT

August 21, 1940.

IS "UP THE DESTROYERS”

men of the destroyers are in the front line of the war

at sea.

Wherever there was dan- ger, there they were.

With the speed of greyhounds and the manœuvring capabilities of a London taxicab, the destroyers will go on leading the Navy in the war at sea however long it may last

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

La 1917, when there were 203 do- stroyers in home waters alone, Jellicoo told the War Cabinet that the demands for destroyers ex- cecded the supply by 90 ships. Ho had taken into account those which had come to join us from the United States.

It's the same to-day-destroyera first, whatever the danger. On these light, swift, heavily armed craft, on these "ferrets of the

By A. J. McWHINNIE

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

sea."

Britain's sea-power uill- mately depends..

Before you can understand the ships you have to know the men,

been out I've

In the North Bea with our destroyer patrols.

They're young, they're tough, „they're jolly, They will laugh with you as they tell you they are the maids-of-all-work,

At a moment's notice they must be ready to dash off, at nearly 40 knets, to any emergency,

They may be out in the war- zone screening the battle fleet. They may be sending their tor- pedoes crashing into an enemy warship.

They may be escorting convoys or standing-by prepared to enter battie with U-boats or Nazi planes to protect minelayers.

The look-outs, to port and to

HOW THEY

THE modern destroyer Sa 358X1. In length, coste £450,000 to bulid, mounts eight 4,7-Jach runs, seven smaller guns, and four 21-inch torpedo Lubes.

The first torpedo-boat destroyer-forerunner, of the destroyer of lo-day--was built In 1833. She was only 180 feet long and mounted four small guns. She carried one torpedo tube.

Indies are

Important

to U.S.A.

By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent

AMERICA'S stake in Nether

AS THE results of last week's Gerlands India, whose future muan ale raids on Britain come to be fate the entire world is watch- sununed up by neutral observers, ing since the conquest of Hol- becomes increasingly evident that one land by Nazi Germany has been of the most important victories of the entire war has gone to the Royal Air an ever-growing one for years The Nazi Jesses have been past, according to the Institute so staggering that doubts have been of Pacific Relations.

Force.

cast on the authenticity of the AirA complete survey of Ameri- Ministry reports These, I

however,

have been confirmed in unmistakable can interests there recently com fashion. The initial stages of thepleted by the Institute reveals aerial blitzkrieg has seen victory won that as a source of vital raw by mornic, by endurance and energy materials for the United States, and will power, and defeat sustained

by mass force. It would be idle to the Netherlands India has pretend that the German air attack worked up from fifteenth place have yet attained full proportion, or in 1933 to eighth place in 1938 that the defeat sustained by the and seven place in 1939. Germung in last week's series of raids

Our

is final. Nevertheless, the results of At the present time, the Institute those encounters give every reason

revented. Americun oll companies for

epilmism.

Experience of many

now control 40 per cent of the oil and dangerous struggles and most re-

interests of the islands through the cently of the breaking-point of Ger. Standard Oil Companies of New many in 1918 ssures us that

Jersey, and Califoriku, and occupy initial successes in the air last week

fourth pince among holders of rub are a happy augury for the outcome

ber Investments in the Indies of the war.

through the U. S. Goodyear Co., Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. entrance of the American

The percentage of destruction of Nazi machines is much heavier than was expected. Co-operation between rubber Interests in the islands was our fighters and anti-aircraft guns for the purpose, of freeing them- has clearly reached a high pitch of selves from dependence on foreign emciency, The discipline and com.

mon-sense of the people in the dis-sources, according to spokesmen.

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tricts attacked has been, by ull accounts, admirable. Britain ins many an attack to beat off yet, and

the people at Home must be prepared for raids on a larger scale and the certainty that a large proportion of

GREW

Year by year, ships to nmanlı 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 oll tanks full and running at economicat speed our modern destroyers are capable of making a non-itop Fun of 6,000 miles,

When war started Germany had only 22 destroyers against

our 179.

HULLO!

HULLO!

ITS

HULLO

A

DIFFERENT

·Tantivy,'

starboard, have the finest eyes in the Navy. They have to be the quickest "spotters" in the Fleet to see things clearly at high speed. The men of the destroyers don't get hard-lying" money, as they dia the old days.

An

There is There is pillow upholstery now. mechanical ventilation,

Still, you'll never get landlubbers' comfort when you're the liveliest fighting craft in the fleet.

Certainly, there was little com- fort for the destroyer men I met out in the North Sea, when icicles hung from the rigging, the decks wore coated in ice, and the wind on the bridge froze you to the bones.

Just the same, they wont on looking for adventuro at top speed.

Having talked to the men of the destroyers since the war starica, I can imaging them in action of the Norwegian coast-men of steel, trained for the very battle they find themselves entering.

can imagine these mon, who have patrolled thousands of North Sea mlles escorting convoys and searching for submarines, quoting their slogan as they went into battle: "It's up the destroyers."

Somewhere out there off the European conat are the destroyer

AGA

TO THE SHELTER

TANTIVY TANTIVY

JARDENS.

ROLL OUT TIE V

THEREL

ALWAYS BE A

Warn us with music.

WE

MUST GO

SHELTER

men I talked to in a Plymouth. tavern a fow WICKS BEO,

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

Thoy'll bo "having a HO nt them" now.

Aboard each destroyer will be about 175 men, each with his own job to do-monning 4.7-inch and smaller guns, ready at the tor- pedoes, whipping up the ongines full speed ahead, or ready to send their depth charges thundering

boot. through the seas to smash a D

Some of the destroyers will be dashing through the lines of our battis fleet-forging ahead to search for the enemy, rattling their anti-aircraft guns at sky raldera,

and

noting

links between the main fleet and the advanced forces.

They won't be coming back for a

zome- while-not while there's thing doing. They won't have to. A destroyer of the latest type can mako a non-stop trip for thousands of miles.

They don't fight 'shy of the storms they have been having Their across the North Sea. decks may be awash, they may be pitching

and tossing, but our modern destroyers can stand up to anything.

In the last war, whenever there was a dirty job to be done, some- ono in, authority always said,

Bend 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.

Italian Hospital And Church To Keep Open

Two Italian institutions in London,

at any rate, hope to be able to keep their doors open throughout the war.

Even if all the Italians in London are interned there are sufficient Irish men and women employed there to see the war..through..

The two institutions are the Italian Hospital, in Queen's-square, and St. Peter's Italian Church, in Clerken- well-road. Both are carrying on as usual,

The house surgeon of the Italian Hospital is an Italian, but most of the nurses are Irish, as very few Italian girls in England take up nursing.

The hospital iz visited by several famous Harley-street specialista,

Of the Italian church's two priests. one is an Irishman, the Rev. R. Ken- nedy. Many of the congregation, though Talian by birth. are naturalised.

Father Kennedy sald: '

"Things will go on as usual here.... In this district most of the Italian people are disgusted with Mussolini's action. They have lived here for many years and are really English."

THE PARASHOTS SHOULD HAVE GRENADES

H"

staff have about 100 days)

the Nazi bombers will get rough. FITLER and his general There are several purposes in Ger- man air raids besides the definite military objectives of nerodromes and stores and factories. They are de signed and this will become increns- ingly evident-to terrorise and to re- duce efficiency of production through fatigue and nerve strain. That at- tack every man and woman in the United Kingdom will undoubtedly do their part in beating off by refusing to be flustered.

No one should think of the äir war as a series of raids on Britain. Our Air Force is taking the offensive. Every bomb exploding among the faclorles of the Ruhr and the Rhineland Impairs the German war machine. A single successful raid on oil stores and oil-producing plant---- and

to go to crack this hard nut of Britain. The same as Napo-

our positions in France for fine thing later), nor his revolver, nor leon's disastrous time from El- months waiting for him to start. I folding bike. It is his terrorism. ba to Waterloo.

believe he delayed it for the express purpose of allowing his sples and Fifth Columnists to report com- pletely on our preparations.

Wo once said, individually the

or Brilon, because he

By O. D. GALLAGHER

In about 100'

days his most trustworthy ally gets cold, wet feet;

Ποιν

bombed and machine-gunned a nimi- ber of times, and hardly ever did the right thing, which was to take cover. That was all right in those WATI. Not this one. It's all-in. A thou- sand times more dangerous.

If it starts and you've no cover

the ally without whom his wheeled German soldier isn't so good as a Give the Parashola sub-machine- Ideas

and tractored columns could not Frencliman

have rushed deep into all those eight| Iacks initiative, Scrap that,

the Naxi parachutists.

countries from Poland to France. examine

know Hitler's methods · now, When be began his biltzkrieg wo' didn't,

Zller let us slow impatiently in

· pent by, for heaven's 'sake get as close to the ground as possible. Lle to deal with

these down wherever you are. In a de. raurderers? Give the pression, a

a gutter if there's nothing Parashota heavy hand-grenades, else.

about dignity. · may prevent runs as soon as sufficient numbers you doing this. There were thou can be produced. Untli then hand-sands of civilians in Holland, Bel- Cades. Strange thing to say, but glam, and France who would tell you schoolboys can use them, too, because the unimportance of that frayed self. who handles a cricket ball more na- importance.if they could speak this turally than they?

day, About the parachutist's gun. It

FIFTH you

UFTI COLUMNISTS, Səles.

have reasonable

can't quote my infermanis, because they 'are

and numerous French WHAT have we to face in WHAT

Dutch soldiers who have fought these 100 days? We against them.

But parachutists are anything but Isn't a tommy" gun, as so fregnent the supermen that they have been ly reported. It is made by Skoda, suspicions about a man or woman, made out to be by defeat-drooling It carries two ellos of sixteen 3.8 report them.

They can do tremendous damage Fifth Columnists. If they are met cartridges. They are fired together by determined definders the moment with two hammers. The gum is in to the armed forces who fight for there have been many- Oil supplies are drawn from resources they try to go into action on the accurate, but more deadly for close you France was (and ls), Fkidiod

ground they are defeated, because range butchering than the gangster's with them. diminishes the power of Germany to beyond the reach of Germany. On they cannot be landed in such great, Thompson gun KOŠE NE know of one BAF-squadro strike. Britain's own production of the home front Britain fights the air compact numbers as to become m A shower of heavy hand-grenades which moved, to a new airfield dur- aircraft has recently risen beyond war with the national stubbornness, mediately a powerful and established would silence. Chem. Consideringing the withdrawal from": "north- their destructive power against-hu-eastern France. The plates and men' optimistic expectation by better dia- the practical genius which bullt up fighting unit.

† ruan; beings, they are probably the had been installed about two hours tribution of craftsmen and above all her industries and the daring enter-

parachutist's most clieapest weapon to produce.ne when the Luftwaffe bombers came. by the devoted work which hos prise which established: the British

'powerful weapon is not yielded a much larger output per Empire. Nazidom challenged Britain his belt of hand-grenados (explosive

Po Unfortunately, that was not an ex- ABOUT air raids. head. More and more "planes, are in the air. Britain has taken up the and incendiary), nor his koda A lived" through three wars eptional cases packs hak eta p going over from the New World, challenge and Britain shall'win, - machtaegum (of which I'll say some-l'as a civilian, "As reporter, I've been Turn to Page 7, Fifth Column

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