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ANOTHER STORY OF BRITAIN

AT WAR

BY

September 12, 1940.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"TAFFRAIL

SECRET MAP,

THE FAMOUS NAVAL WRITER

1

I lately spent some time on box crammed with machinery board a British cruiser in which was their ship. northern waters. Where I join HERE ́are a few entries ed her, where we went and chosen at random-"During

•

VAUXHALL precisely what we did the censor the day the weather became

14 SIX

ship does not permit me to say steadily worse, and the swell But she was a modern cruiser of increased from the south-west 10,000 tons odd, with a ship's At 3.15 am, the star-board company of round about 800 whaler was carried away by a officers and men.

heavy Bca.""A north-easterly galo made it necessary for the In over nine months of war Manufacturing schedules were she had not had the luck to be ship to heave to from the after- noon of Wednesday, when the trebled to catch up with the in action. She had been one of noon of Monday until the fore- demand for this livellor, bigger, the ships of the Northern ship regained her patrol line."

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THE perak "apecial to the Telegraph" is used by the "tongkong Telegraph" to Indicats news which is inclly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. fatione Ordinanes Iwas, much news a

bears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, where peren kit rights and forbid republican, etiker wholly or in part without previous Arrangement

of

with rough sea thick fog." which for week after week, and Short heavy north-westerly swell month after month, huve watch- Wind south-west force ed the exits to the North Sea. followed a little later by the "Weather very bad. One cannot specify her exact entry patrol ground; but for bad Storms of snow and hail." And weather and general inhospitali so on and so forth.

For fully half the days at sca ty commend me to that wild stretch of water to the north- it was impossible to pass along westward of the Orkneys, the upper deck without running Shetland and the Faroes, to as the risk of being washed over- far as Iceland and the Denmark board. Indeed, a man was lost which lie between in this manner. To find their Straits, Iceland and Greenland, In all way forward or aft men had to it approximates to 800 miles af sea.

It is summer. now, and in those high northern latitudes there is daylight practically all through the twenty-hours, with twilight and the sun only just below the horizon at midnight.

In winter it in the very oppo- site, with the sun rising at ten in

on

the morning and setting at three. For the intervening hours there is darkness, except those rara occasions when there may be a moon and a cloudless sky in which to see it.

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"Could you use a good spy ?"

NORTHERN

PATROL

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It gets all the

bad

weather that's going

merchant cruiser

appeared in oficial Admiralty Communique.

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THERE was, of course, the ex- P. and O. liner "Rawalpindi", Captain E. C. Kennedy, Royal Navy, manned by merchant seamen, reservists and pensioners of the Royal Navy, and by men of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

WILE

descend to the lower deck and round across the steamer's bown to speed was something over seventeen

through a labyrinth of flats and enforce it. passages and watertight doors.

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At about 3.80 p.m. on November 23, 1939, cruising to the south-east of Iceland,

she sighted a German warship, goon recognised as the

battleship pocket

"Deutschland", Coured

altered to bring the enemy astern, and smoke-Boats lit and dropped into the sen to help the "Rawalpindi" to escape. Her full knots, and the "Deutschland's" more than twenty-six.

speed, the A Democratic "Axis"

In one of this cruiser's reports

Approaching at high MEN on board her could be seen

signalled to the "Rawal- of proceedings I came across the

the sea Sometimes they experienced

and warship throwing things into

pindi" to stop, and then, when the Speaking

the Anglo-

remark-"Visibility mainly one that

phenomenon electrical

turning out the boats; but at 5.5, p.m. summons was disregarded, fred a American naval treaty just mile for a period of six days known as St. Elmo's Fire, when in the gathering dusk, she had stopped shot across her bows. This warning WAS also rejected, and at 3.45 the concluded Mr. Wickham Steed, Under a quarter of a mile in the signal halliarda, rigging, and started to lower her boats. The in his weekly broadcast from snowstorms." There was ice mastheade and yardarms, even wanhip lowered a boat with board "Deutschland" opened fire with her crew to return to their ship. This yards. The "Rawalpindi" replied Daventry on the progress of the about, too. icebergs whose un cap-peaks, the hair of duffle en party, and ordered the Gen 11-inch guns at a range of 10,000 ber four starboard 6-inch war, last week, declared that seen presence was manifest by conts, and the moustache of the they refused to do, or pretended not with

ind that plates "There is not only a naval and the sudden fall in the tempera- Captain of Marines, became to understand, so the British party weapons.

The "Deutschland's" third salvo put Lure of the water.

illuminated in a lambent bluish- boarded the vessel, to ind

had been removed from the condenser mary side to this arrange-

Often they saw and the statecks opened. She had out all the lights and smashed the ment, but a psychological side as The spray was freezing as it white glare. Aurora the

Borealis in the been scuttled, and was making water electric winches for the ammunition As it was impossible to save supply. The fourth salvo shot away well. Herr Hitler and Dr. fell to solidify the driven snow.

"The temperature of the air northern sky, its rays sweeping fast. Goebbelss. .must now suspect

the cruiser and was hoisted at 0,30

Another never rose above freezing point over the horizon like search her, the hoarding boat returned to the whole of the brkige and wireless German ship had op- that the United States would for this six days," says the same lights or hanging like a rippling m., by which time it was dark. proached and was firing from port side. But the "Rawalpindi" Lought not have entered into this Anglo-report. "For one day the tem- curtain of pale green and yellow,

Lask of American Pact unless they were perature averaged 8° Fahren- or a faint rosy pink. The Aurora celerated by a few rounds of gunfire; until every one of her guns was out

was generally taken to be the and then there remained the

and picking up the four of action, and the whole faldship Jocating

Germans. As portion of the ship was ablaze. For harbinger of bad weather.

boats containing the A photograph of the cruiser's This cruiser used to spend thirteen the wind was force 6, with a lumpy between thirty and forty minutes the

us patrol set and intermittent snow squalls, unequal combat was continued, forecastle at this time shows to fourteen days out

six hours In this was a work of some difficulty.

A Few survivors managed to eccape every deck atting, rope and rail followed by perhaps

Fair weather or foul they inter- boat was picked up, and the whole in three boats, one of which was acers waterlogged. The occupants of two enlarged to double or treble its bour and then off to sea again. I was not until 11 p.m. that the last normal size with a thick en- cepted merchant ships, boarding them of the Ofty-seven German

them were picked up by tho

convinced that the British Cam-heit." monwealth and her allies are not going to be beaten."

a

The

WHA stesnier's sinking

room.

of

But the agreement goes still deeper. It is one of the best examples of how democracy can crustation of solid ice. Boat's when the weather permitted, otour and men were rescued.

On this occasion, as on others, the Germans and some others by a British neutrals, by means of negotiation, assure falls had to be unfrozen before wire sending them into harbour for

examination. Soine were

German xrew had made previous warship which presently appeared on the common good. It is further they would pass through the some Gerinan.

arrangements for scuttling the ship the scene. They were pitifully few. The "Rawalpind continued to On one occasion, they noticed

burn until 8 p.m., when she capsized un indication of complete con- sheaves of the blocks. A ven-

British cruiser. Even theft bugs and o! twelve miles. She started to usc

who

remained

board Un- fidence in the friendly intentions turous midshipman going aloft strange merchant ship at a distance and setting her on fire on sighting a

for u hurried departure. "What

armoured and outranged, she bad of the two nations who can even to secure a photograph had both her wireless, so the cruiser ordered suitcases were packed in readiness to starboard and foundered with all

ears badly frostbitten.

your radio". "Stop using

These ships with the armed mer- made a most gallant fight against ship?"--"Where bound?" Then the

odds, without I happened upon other terse atranger was seen to be disguised as a chant cruisers and armed trowlers overwhelming

of

She went Surrender. which

disguise the Russian, showed

was that operate with them, function out thought remarka

She of sight and largely out of mind. One down with her colours still flying. severity of the weather; but amateurish and unconvincing.

seldom hears their names, for they A hundred years ogo a frigate give little real idea of what that was a German without any doubt.

"Stop your engines instantly!" the rarely have the luck to be in action. might surrender to a line-of-battle weather really meant to the 800 cruiser commanded, and then, when On very few occasions since the war ship without loss of prestige people living in that long steel the order was not obeyed, fred a began has the name of an armed dignity, War at sea is different now.

ni a moment like the present, consider it not only feasible bui natural to make concessions of so important a nature,

Western

Hemisphere

that

13,000,000

MILES

By An Air Correspondent

по

may start out on a patrol or an attack Bruges, Ostend and Zeebrugge. At from Southern England one day, Ostend supply ships have been hit, the canal locks damaged, naval store- Scotland the next.

houses fred.

The reconnottring machines spot a

Porta Attacked HARBOUR objectives iri

the

I have just heard first-hand at the headquarters of Britain's sudden concentration of bargce or Coastal Command the magnificent story that day by day, night by other craft in this harbour or that, night, is being written by the Royal Air Force's first-line of defence break wireless silence if necessary French ports of Boulogne, Calais, Le -and offenco-against Germany.

from

4

to

The Coastal Command has

day

Great Britain's Navy has been strengthened by the addition of 50 destroyers which, as Mr. Churchill pointed out "will bridge the gap which inevitably intervenes before our consider- able wartime programme now under construction comes into service." The United States on the other hand receives naval and air bases at strategic points

Norway's Bergen which can best defend the It is a story that begins in the ouls

with mind of that remarkable man France's Bordeaux.

flown For twenty-four hours

every one of them Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick particular emphasis 04 the Bowhill, is transmitted from his Coastal Command patrols. In clasest Panama Canal Britain also Operations Room by inter-com- Ficet Air Arm and equally with by reporting home in code, and must Havre, Brest have caught the fue benefits in the building of these munication signal or wireless to R.AF. Bamber and Fighter Cam go the bombers Beauforts, Hudsons, blast of Coastal Command's offensive in the South, and in the extreme North Norway's Stavanger: aerodrome bases as they will not only form his Group chiefs, from them to mande, have their eyes open and their Blenheims.

They are creating havoc in Holland comes in for constant survey and a line of defence for American the operational stations who "do bombs ready over the seas,

The invasion threat keeps those the job." interests. but also for British

eyes still wider open, and the work where, on the testimony of an Ameri- ussault. The job at the moment covers the of banblog German submarines and can official, some of the larger ports. Meantime, the plots who keep their "eyes over the saá," have not spared possessions in that part of the

watch over 4,000 miles of Britain's surface ships is now enormously

their explosives on U-bonte. " world. Leases in Newfoundland | coast-lines, the offensive patrol over augmented by incessant onalnughts are just a mass of ruina.".

The records of Coastal Command

Mines from "Air the seas from Iceland to Gibraltar, o cross-Channel German-occupied and from Britain's Western shores 600 ports wherever it is found that suit- tell you why.

FROM the air, too, mines have been miles into the Atlantic, the ceaseless ablo craft for Invasion are being

Carrying a ceaseless and relentless inid outside Dutch, Danish, Belgian, and bombing of assembled. reconnaissance

Pilots of Coastal Command, who ofensive into Germany's Inlrs, bombs and French harbours, and off the since the war have in the aggregate have been ruined on concentrations Norwegian and German-Baltic coasts, German Coastal strongholds and hide.

down over thirteen million miles, are of barges and tugs near Rotterdam, keeping the German mine-sweepers at present, on the average, covering

craft, hazardous l not entirely A or set on fire, muny hundreds of miles a day. Some and an the canals at Zwolle, Haten, constantly active and rendering

the Hudson squadrons have topped. and Weest, many vessels being sunk movement of Nazi warships and other

and elsewhere may likewise be regarded as a contribution to- wards the command interest of both nations in the same defence scheme.

co-operation with the Navy and the

the million

*

It is quite posable for a Coastal Attacks, have been pressed home bottling them up.

These mines are

bigger than the

The two greatest democratic Britain and the United States countries in the world are thus are happily willing to pool their wisely drawing closer together. resources in the cause for which

Democracy is fighting. The bond between them has

at largest bombs in common use. They Faced with a solidarity of squadron, either on reconnalearice or on the harbours of Wilhelmsoord, and

bombing expeditions, to visit Ave Harlingen, on the aerodromes always recognised as close, but

Clermons, and now, being used against never before in their history purpose, it is not surprising that German-occupied countries In one Flushing and Wallhaven, and on the are a weapon, first employed by the have they had a closer alignment Herr Hitler in his speech a few week-Norway, Denmark, Holland, seaplane bare at Texel them in widespread operationis than at present. Faced with days ago betrayed a sense of Belgium, France, and in addition, the throat of ruthless aggression futility and helpless fury, which Germany Itali. which President Roosevelt cannot have added confidence to described some time ago as a his cause either in Germany or danger to civilization, Great in Italy.

of Off the Danish coast patrol vessels mak Very Mobile Units

plane, basa at Norderney attacked, besides, you will had recorded at bases headquarters of Coastal Command, Command the BRITAIN'S air squadrons to-day In Belgium havoc has been wrought the youngest air are extremely mobile unlis." They on military objectives at Ghent, RAM/t “Baby

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