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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 a.m. tho star-board company of round about 800 whaler was carried away by a heavy aca.""A north-easterly gale made it necessary for the In over nine months of war ship to heave to from the after- she had not had the luck to be in action. She had been one of noon of Monday until the fore noon of Wednesday, when the of the Northern ship regained her patrol line."- the ships Patrol of cruisers, armed mer- "Wind

8. north-west, force chant cruisers and trawlers Short heavy north-westerly swell which for week after week, and with rough sea thick fog." "Wind south-west force 9," month after month, have watch- ed the exits to the North Sea.

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And patrol ground; but for bad Storms of snow and hail.” weather and general inhospitali- so on and so forth. ty commend me to that wild For fully half the days at sea stretch of water to the north- it was impossible to pass along westward of the Orknoys, 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

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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.

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

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It gets all the bad weather that's going

crew to return to their ship.

the ruler and was hoisted at 6.30

merchant cruiser appeared in official Admiralty Communique,

an

THERE WOA, 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.

At about 3.30 p.m. on November 23, 1930, cruising to the south-east of Iceland, she sighted a German worship,

recognised as

Boon

the

pocket battleship “Deutschland”.

Course was altered to bring the

enemy

and drop and smoke-floats lit

into the sea to help the "Rawalpindi" to encape. Ber full

knots, and the "Deutschland's" more than twenty-six.

roum.

had ap

descend to the lower deck and round across the steamer's bows to speed was something over seventeen through a labyrinth of flats and enforce it. In one of this cruiser's reports passages and watertight doors.

Approaching nt high speed, the MEN on board her could be seen of proceedings I came across the

and warship signalled to the "Rawal- SCA the Sometimes they experienced Speaking of the Anglo-

throwing things into remark-Visibility mainly one that electrical phenomenon

pindi" to stop, and then, when the turning out the boats; but 5.5. p.m. summons was disregarded, American naval

fired treaty Just mile for a period of six days known as St. Elmo's Fire, when in the gathering dusk, she had stopped shot nerost her bows. The warning concluded Mr. Wickham Stead. Under a quarter of a mile in the signal halliards, rigging, and sturted to lower her boats. The was also rejected, and at 3.45 the in his weekly broadcast from snowstorms." There was ice mastheads and yardarms, even warship lowered a boat with board "Deutschland" opened fire with her Daventry on the progress of the about, too, icebergs whose un cap-peaks, the hair of duffle party, and ordered the German 11-inch guns at a range of 10,000 yards. The "Rawalpind!" replied war, last week, declared that en presence was manifest by coats, and the moustache of the they refused to do, or pretended not

EPA with her four starbqard 6-Inch "There is not only a naval and the sudden fall in the tempera- Captain of Marines, became to understand, to the Beliish party

A weapons.

military side to this arrange-

The "Deutschland's" third salvo put illuminated in a lambent bluish- boarded the vessel, to find that plates had been removed from the condenser white glare. Often they saw and the sencocks opened. She had out all the lights and smashed the ment, but a psychological side as The spray was freezing us i

Aurora Borealis in the been scuttled, and was making water efcelcke winches for the ammunition Herr Hitler and Dr.

fell to solidify the driven snow. the

supply. The fourth salvo shot_away the whole of the bridge and wireless "The temperature of the air northern sky, ita rays sweeping fast. As i was impossible to save Goebbels... must now suspect

Another never rose above freezing point over the horizon like search er, the boarding boat returned to

German ship That the United States would for this six days," says the same lights or hanging like a rippling um, by which time it was dark.

steamer's sinking was ac- pronched and was Aring from port not have entered into this Anglo report. "For one day the tem curtain of pale green and yellow,

The American Pact unless they were perature averaged 8"

Fahren- or a faint rosy pink. The Aurora celerated by a few rounds of gunfire, side. But the "Rawalpindi" fought until every one of her guns was out convinced that the British Com- heit."

was generally taken to be the and then there remained the task of

of netion, and the whole midship focating and pleking

up the harbinger of bad weather.

bouts containing the Germans. As portion of the ship was ablaze. For monwealth and her allies are

A photograph of the cruiser's This cruiser used to spend thirteen the wind was force 5, with a lumpy between thirty and forty minutes the not going to be beaten."

patrul sea and Intermittent snow forecastle at this time shows to fourteen days

squalls, unequal combat was continued. followed by perhaps six hours In this was a work of some difficulty. But the agreement goes still every deck fitting, rope and rail harbour and then off to men again. It was not until i p.m. that the laws A Few survivors managed to eccape enlarged to double or treble its Fair weather or foul they Inter- boat was picked up, and the whole in three boats, one of which Was deeper. It is one of the best normal size with a thick en- cepted merchant ships, boarding them of the fifty-seven German, officers waterlogged. The occupants of two

of them were examples of how democracy can crustation of solid ice. Boat's when the weather permitted, others and men were rescued.

picked up by the Germans, and some others by a British by means of negotiation, assure falls had to be unfrozen before wise sending them into harbour for

On this occasion, as on others, the worship which presently appeared on exantination Same were neutrals, German crew had made

previous the common good. It is further they would pass through the come Geunaa.

the

scene.

They were pitifully few. The "Rawalpindi" continued one version, they noticed a arrangements for acuttling the ship an indication of complete con- sheaves of the blocks. A ven-

burn until 8 p.m., when she copalzed British cruiser. Even their bags and fidence in the friendly intentions turous midshipman going aloft strange merchant ship at a distance and setting her on fire on sighting a

of twelve miles. She started to use

who remained ΟΤΕ board. Un- of the two nations who can even to secure a photograph had both her wireless, so the cruiser ordered sultenses were packed in readiness starboard and foundered with all

ears badly frostbitten.

"Stop using your

armoured and outranged, she had radio". "What for a hurried departure. at a moment like the present,

ahlu?" "Where bound?" Then the These ships with the armed mer- made a most gallant fight against I happened upon other terse stranger was seen to be disguised as chant cruisers and armed trawlers overwhelming odds, without a consider it not only feasible but

which showed remarks

the Russian,

disguise that

went was that operte with them, function out thought of surrender. She natural to make concessions of

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

seldom hours their names, for they A hundred years so important a nature,

ago a trigate 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,

On

out on

13,000,000 MILES

By An Air Correspondent

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to

or

may start out on a patrol or an attack Bruges, Ostend and Zeebrugge. At from Southern England one day. Ostend supply ships have been bit, Scotian the next.

the canal locks damaged, naval store- houses fred.

Ports Attacked HARBOUR objectives

The reconnoitring machines spot a

other craft in this harbour or that.

in the

I have just heard first-hand at the headquarters of Britain's sudden concentration of barges or Coastal Command the magnificent story that day by day, night by oral wireless silence if necessary French ports of Boulogne, Calais, Le night, is being written by the Royal Air Forco's first-line of defence

and offence—against Germany.

from Norway's Bergen to

It is a story that begins in the outs

France's Bordeaux.

a

day

The Coastal Command has flown every

Blenheims,

one

of them

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 noval and air bases at strategic points which can best defend the

mind of that remarkable man Western Hemisphere with

twenty-four hours Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick For particular emphasis оп the

Bowhill, is transmitted from his, Coastal Command patrols, in closest Panama Canal. Britain also Operations Room by inter-com- co-operation with the Navy and the benefits in the building of these munication signal or wireless to Feet Air Arm and equally with by reporting home in code, and it Havre, Brest have caught the full R.A.F. Bomber and Fighter Com-

in the South, and in the extreme. bases as they will not only form his Group chiefs, from them to mands, have their eyes open and their the bombers-Beauforts, Hudsons, hlast of Coastal Command's offensive North Norway's Stavanger aerodrome- a line of defence for American the operational stations who "do bombs ready over the seas.

They are creating havoc in Holland comes in for constant survey and The invasion, threat keeps those interests but also for British the job."

eyes still wider open, and the work where, on the testimony of an Ameri- assault. possessions in that part of the

The Job at the moment covers the of bombing German submarines and can official, "some of the larger ports Moantime, the pilots who keep their "eyes over the sea," have not spared world. Leases in Newfoundland watch over 4.000 miles of Britain's surface ships is now enormously are just a mass of ruing."

their explosives on U-boats. cpast-lines, the offensive patrol over augmented by incessant onslaughts

cross-Channel German-occupied The records of Coastal Caminand and elsewhere may likewise be the sans from Iceland to Gibraltar, on

Mines from Air regarded as a contribution to and from Britain's Western shores 000 ports, wherever it is found that suit tell you why.

miles into the Atlantic, the ceaseless able craft for invasion are being

FROM the air, too, mines have been Carrying a ceaseless and relentless laid outside Dutch, Danish, Belgian, bombing of assembled. wards the command interest of reconnaissance

Pilots of Coastal Command, who offensive Into Germany's laire, bombs and French harbours, and off the both nations in the same defence German coastal strongholds and hide-

since the war have in the aggregate have been rained ou concentrations Norwegian and German-Baitle conste, flown over thirteen million miles, are scheme.

The two greatest democratic Britain and the United States at present, on the average, covering of barges and tugs near Rotterdam, keeping the German mine-sweepers the Hudson squadrons have topped and Weest, many vessels being sunk movement of Nazi warships and other craft hazardous if not entirely countries in the world are thus are happily willing to pool their many hundreds of miles a day. Some and on the canals at Zwolle, Haten, constantly active and rendering the

or set on fire,'

battling them up. wisely drawing closer together.resources in the cause for which the millen mark.

It is quite possible for a Coastal Attacks, have been pressed home The bond between them has Democracy is fighting. always recognised as close, but Faced with a solidarity of squadron, either on reconnaissance or on the harbours of Wilhelmsoord, and. These mines are bigger than the bombing expeditions, to visit Ave Harlingen, on the aerodromes at largest bombs in common use. They 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 Germans, and now, being tired against have they had a closer alignment Herr Hitler in his speech a few week-Norway, Denmark, Holland, seaplane base at Texel.

them in widespread operations. than at present. Faced with days ago betrayed a sense of Belgium, Franco, and in addition

All these activities, and many, more the threat of ruthless aggression fuility and helpless fury, which

besides, you will and firecorded" at which President Roosevelt cannot have added confidence to

headquarters of Courtal Command, described some time ago as a his cause either in Germany or

In Belgium havoc has been wrought the youngest air: Command-the danger to civilization, Great in Italy.

are extremely mobile units. They on military objectives at Ghent, R.A.F ́s "Baby,"

and

Germany itself.

Very Mobile Units DRITAIN'S, air squadrons to-day

Off the Danish coast patrol vessels have been hit, and the Frisian; 'sen- plane bake at Norderney attacked.