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THEY told me they can usually tell when a chap has had a bad trip.

They can't stand tales that

"It a chap's had a lousy trip he give the impression they go out

geta a bit brassod-aff (cantankerous). a-hunting the Luftwaffe of a Probably squawks at lunch in the to mess about having to forage (go to morning-come gaily back lunch with half a dozen Messer- the big hotplate and fetch his own food). Nothing unusual about this. schmitta spitted 011 tooth. Don't think the boys are tempera- there's п mental: chiefly because picks...

mit to the amount of prima donna

Makes it very difficult for re- porters, because, broadly speak- Ing, that is the set-up,

stuff the C.O. can take.

"But it was the same in the last war. Chops home on leave were apt to make a rumpus because the break- fast coffee was cold, or something. it has to do with coming back safe A minor rebellion

Almost every day comes a report of our RAF. meeting numerically once more. stronger Lauftwaffe formations. Al- because everything isn't perfect"

STAFFORD SMITH. On Thursday, September 19, 1940, at Shek Ó, Lucy Kathleen, beloved wife of

Featonby Stafford Smith. Funeral

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of think Nowers.

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Thursday, September 19, 1940.

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Food In Europe

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Ervonusts and others are busily discussing the European food situa- Uion, a question which is naturally one of the first importance on ac- count of its bearing upon the probable length of the War. The Andings of such an exper! authority as Mr. John Black, consulting cronomist the United States Department of Agriculture, should help to form a tolerably clear picture of the food conditions in most of the countries of Europe. In a recent essuy he has suppiled detalled agures relative to the chief Juodstuffs in store or in of production in European lands, exclusive of Russia, which is an unknown quantity and not likely to gure largely in the present situa- Luni.

rouse

some praise,

ute

ONE "exactly-how-it's-done" story) from our Spitfire Patrol:-

THE VILLAGES OF ENGLAND

The villages of England havé slept for many a year - And dreamed among the hollyhocks and drowaed beneath

the trees,

They sent their sons to fight for us but little did they hear

Above the croon of woodpigeons and lullaby of bees.

The villages of England have wakened now indeed And thrust the poppica from the gate, the nightshade from

the porch,

And cach conceals his ancient name and where his wild lance?

lead,

For far-off days have handed on once more the flaming torch. Again the silent belfries wait to sound their loud alarms, And though around the casements the clematis is curled Bohind each cottage'window a yeoman stands to arms, For the cottages of England are the bastions of the World.

P.E. C. DUCE.

The

saga

dirty little

MEN

of coaster

TEN who took part in the the woodwork and metal around.

great Battle of the Convoy

Treadwell, male of the. Harry

them.

"Jonah." twenty-one-year-old in the English Channel told coaster came to the wheelhouse.. There were three of us, We were their stories of the fight which Splintern hissed around the helms-

about ten miles out at sea. Our!

having a high old time They're not. Heinitel straight ahead, } don'!! planes shot down-cried halt. the boy,

15

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the

The wheelhouse was lit And that's why they resent too ful-echelon leader was high up-in sight began in darkness and continued mon, twenty-year-old John Ward, a

of land. We were down in the mist, throughout the day until the gunner boy.

with the glare of another star shell. I suggests they

in sight of each other. I ROW Germans with sixty of their

Harry, Treadwell flung himself on shielding him from the Exaggerated praise mokes « Spilfire think he saw us, because he seemed

The attack began in early splinters. Two sharp means revent- lo be concentrating on our leader up)

The sky was black, ed that Treadwell had been hit. The morning dark. pilul say: "Aw, rot!" Theirs

The feller with me (on the There was no moon, and the men in gunner boy was unhurt serious job

of outakdir

The formation) weat

Men in other ships in the convoy Junk.

straight in, and I followed when the 490-ton "dirty little coaster“ could

scarcely see the other cargo ps were being wounded while the battle ahead of her and behind her in the was at its height. Harry Treadwell Jerry broke away.

and three wounds in his leg, aral a "His wheels came down. I fired convoy.

hod Q seared furrow He did o 5:x or seven seconda, stall turn to port, and

bard wad probably aloft.

So here is sume authentic back. ground on one of our Spititre stat- tions.

for

Suddenly there was a crash fur third

ממת!

•

Henry Nuhrenberg, the cook, star!-

1 few of ther up the line. Captain Guy, of across the knuckles of his hand. PUT twin brothers, my, In twe again into the mist. Gush. It was the coaster, sald, "What was that? specially picked suits. One with thick. He showed up again, though. A depth charge?" knife-like creases in his pants and a beeling off to some ships below.

gave him a few more seronds' Bring) buttonhole In the lapel; the other in and he turned for land

Backa, and pants like empty cont aleeves out at the elbows. Twin No.

In fact, it was a

1 Stabs Of Flame ed to buthe the wounds of Treadwell. German torpedo Treadwell said: "I can't bother now finding its mark. A moment later there's work to do." "Be couldn't make It. I saw him star shell fired from a German

the twins for the RAF. und the there was an almighty splash as he

went in."

With handkerchief knotted round

the

to the deck, and was hauled up to 1 is going, to feel a hundred per cent, in patch of sunlight that looked "E" boat fell in an are over the con- his hand, he crawled from the gniley

like a yellow searchlight through a voy, and guns opened fire. more able to face the world than hole in the mist. He was almost on From out of the blackness shells the bridge. Standing on one leg, he at the wheel. The Twin No. 2, isn't he? Well, change the sea. He did a gentle stall, a spat out. They struck the decks and took his turn

firing was getting hotter. Change hit of spray came up, then

pinged against steelwork. the suits for fighter planes.

The gunners on the coaster and the Aboard the British ships gunners ships they could see near them were ran to their posts and stoed peering, trying to get their eyes accustomed Bring back desperately against

one Germans, "Jonah" hung around and saw two to the blackness. First from

The coaster was now being attack- men get into a rubber bont. He sido, then from another-then from fred Very lights over the shipping ahead and then from behind the ed by a number of "E" boats-all con- to draw their attention to the Jerries, convoyed ships-comic Our Spitfire boys enjoy

spluttering ring at the same time.

Suddenly a torpedo sped towards fidence in themselves that the Luft- but, as he said, "They wouldn't take stabs of fame.

the the ship and missed by two yards.

The cook had come up on deck.

Luftwaffe. In Spires and Messer- schmitts (of any type) you have no almost perfect analogy.

all

they

ut back the darkness.

low-cut German tor- torpedo coming towards the ship.

In

heard above the fring. He raced is the wheelhouse.

iny notice. When they saw my Our gunners fired waffe pilots cannot have. And, any lights they probably said: "That's splashes of light in way, our boys have beller training all right, you can't frighten us. We They had no other guide to their He saw the white wake of a second

As one said to-day: "You get a know you're a Sptifret "

target. The pedo boats showed no silhouette The torpedo was fifty yards away. The cook was twelve yards from the good feeling when you've got two or "Jonah" went home when he was against the sky. three Me's on your tail

you running short of petrol. Nothing The men in the couster heard an- wheelhouse. His volee could not be just pull out the plug

and

The two Jerries other explosion ahead of them. shoot more he could do.

were washed ashore some days later

heard three. ahead! They can't touch you.”

in their boat. Dead.

cant that three British ships "I lost the race," he said. "Only the grace of God saved us. Before torpedoed. FOR these boys the war started on

Nothing sensational about "Jonah's" were

the I could warn the captain the torpedó the first few minutes After May 20.

of rst Nuzi. He just risked his life to Dunkirk. The days

Another shot was on us--and missed the stern by

moro than sco and the not a fraction

twelve waiting before that are a nightmare force that Heinkel to drop its bombs star shells went out to them. The group caplain (they in the sea instead of on the happily up, illuminating the

thought he convoy--but not the lurking torpedo inches.

boats as it floated down. call him "Groupers" or "The Old Ignorant shipping who

British escort ships, shepherded the

"George Smith, a deckhand, saved Man") tuid how one of his boys first was pulling their legs.

CULINARY footnote: If you have convoy and fought the attackers at the ship from the third torpedo. He any doubts about lining up in the the same time.

was the only one to see the white of Food's cai-more-oftal Captain Guy directed his

men streak of its propeller-wake, and to one of the poor blokes Ministry

to starboard, hear the "whoosh-whoosh" sound as stooging around looking for the odd campaign, they may be dispelled by "Hard to port, hard

two Spitfire boys I met at lunch in hard to port "as every other it sped towards the ship. Jerries who used to come over. They their mess. After soup, both ata a captain in the convoy was doing. "He burst on to the bridge, flung all got absolutely browned-off (bored plate of tripe and onions and went The men at the heavy hand-steer- himself on the wheel, and spun it

found the war.

"He was

ing gear sweated as they spun the over hard. The ship swerved on

f). Then it started. The RT. off on patrol.

10 my What's offal to you, is fuel for wheel over. Every one took his turn her course, and the torpedo shot (radio telephone) was be amee. He just about blew it wide Spitfire boys.

shouting: 'God Almightyl,

Wheat, if appears, is about seven hundred millions of bushels short. In the Balkans and Germany, crops are below average, while Italy and Spain will have enough and France nearly enough for next year's needs. kye, barley, and gals have been re- duced somewhat, but not so severely as wheat. Europe, although it has more cattle,

cattle, hogs and sheep than ali North America, normally imports large quantities of beef, mutton, butter, cheese, and lard. Hogs and beef cattle are now being slaughtered more rupidly than usual. Each country grows almost exactly the amount of potatoes that it consumes,

Tally-ho! There is a deficiency of fats and oils.

All this adds up to

show that went sailing in singing at the top of Europe may possibly manage to his voice." endure until the 1941 crop is harvest- ed. To achieve this, live-stock must be slaughtered freely, wheat and rye must be reserved for bread uses, and large quantities of barley, oats, and corn devoted to direct human use. It will be a close squecze, nowever, even assuming a much more equal distribution of the present 100d supplies than has prevailed in the pums; unviously a very large assump- 25 soldiers are pretty sure to fare better than industrial workers.

tion,

open

Hordes of them!' He FUNNY SIDE UP

The war had really started for the Spitüre boys...

Another came back after a fight, He was alone. On the camoußaged. latinac his squadron's intelligence) officer was waiting, but it was some minutes before he could get anything out of the fighter. He sat in his tight cockpit, eyes bright, gelnning, say-

"God, they're Ing:

easy! God,

In Mr. Back's opinion une total situat they're easy!" tion is that an effectively blockaded European continent will mcen

What a tale he told the Intelligence

that a great number of people in officer later. "I was over Dunkirk. some areas will suffer from want of Couldn't miss it. A food.

column of!

smoke came out of it as high as I The economists are not the only people in America that are talking could climb, nearly. Three Me's about the European food situation. came at me, but by the time I really. The friends of Germany in the United got flying I was after them. States have learned new tacticni pranged (smashed) 'em all. The method. They no longer dwell with Mahoney boys (A.A. men) were pop- pride

upan Germany's Invincible ping off at me. They made a few economie self-suficiency. Their favourite tople now is the evil plight

of the Danes, Dutch, Belgians and her most effective weapons, is an French, owing to the scarcity of food, ingenious one. There are dimculties, brought about of course, not by the however. One is that Germany has 'invading Germans, but by the British on impressive record of broken blockade. The story is that if Great pledges, and it would be extremely Britain can be induced to allow food duncult to devise an engagement that to enter Europe, the Germans are she would consider binding) :: An- prepared to give all kinds of under- others that the Americans are takings that it will reach the hungry themselves arming in all haste, to and distressed populations and will meet the danger of German not be appropriated to: the use of aggression on this continent. They the German army. Sna

know that the British Ricet is their first line of defence, and that I would „be dangerous in the extreme to re- duce the effectiveness of the blockade.

The proposal that Great Britain should relax... the severity of the blockade, thus, laying aside one. of

ut the wheel. Shells spattered on harmlessly by."

four hats this time, dear..

By Abner Dean pared ambush,

you're.bound to like.one!"

men.

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"We had rum into-a carefully pre- sakt another of the

"It seemed as if they knew where we should be, and at what time, and they were waiting for us with their engines silent. There was no way we could fight back. We couldn't see what we were fighting,"

"A ship in front of us had been torpedoed. We heard shouts for help, and flung lifebeits water, although we could see no one to pick them up."

into the

The rest of the convoy steamed on. It steamed On undeflected into more trouble. What they had been through was only the beginning of the battle.

The Nazi bombers swept down out of the sky ne morning care and on their talls came the fighter planes of the R.A.F.

The start of the battle could be seen from the shore,

A man who watched it through glasses said "I shall 'never see again such amazing flying as those RAF. boys put in. It was a lesson, to me, a revelation.

make rings

pumping

"'I„saw" one fighter

around

First

German he was chasing

on its tail

he was on

bullets into it.

Then, with a real circus stunt manoeuvre, be dived under it, came up in

in front of it and over It, fring all the time. The two of

*of them dir=

appeared into the cloud, with the German heading downwards."

Beneath the planes which twisted and, turned within view of this port there were over eighty Clërmatik) attackidig at that", time-thus convoy! was still ploughing its-way, forward

Satil an fts, course: vie