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OF THE

VICTORY OF

The victory of the Atlantic has been the outstanding naval event of the year and it has never been officially an- nounced.

Few details about it are known outside the Admiralty, and the world at large is hard- ly aware of what has happen- ed. Nevertheless that victory. has played a considerable part In shaping the events of the Immediate past and moulding the immediate future.

It was brought about by, the vigorous offensive of the Navy at the very start of the war against the German sub.. marine campaign. Rapidly though the Admiralty plans for establishing convoys work- ed, they would not by them- selves have defeated the U-boats.

The German expectation was that some two million tons of shipping would be destroyed in the first month. and this appalling loss must in their estimation completely wreck any plans we had for the prosecution of the war.

In the result, the U-boats were so harried and hunted by anti-submarine flotillas

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that it took all their atten-

tion looking after their own

a victory is the fleet's suc- cessful defiance of air power to interfere with its opera- tion.

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Not only the one dramatic encounter betwech: sen power and air power during the withdrawal from Dunkirk marks. this victory; scores of incidents, mostly already for- gotten by the general public, have piled up the evidence during the year that the fleet. though not untouchable, is un- breakable from the air.

It is necessary to emphasise these three aspects of the naval history of the past twelve months, for they have not the picturesque drama which imprints events on the public mind.

The year, indeed, has given us a striking illustration of That "daily silent pressure" of which Mahan wrote. The ex- citement of the Battle of the Plate, of the destroyer attacks at Narvik, of the stopping of the Altmark make "history" in the popular sense, but it has been the little-known, the almost unrecorded events at sea, that have really affected the course of events.

ATLANTIC FUNNY SIDE UP

There has been a heavy price in men and in ships to pay for the sen security that has been achieved,

Again there has not been, except in one or two instances, the visible drama of hundreds of victims in one disaster.

It has been among the fringes of the fleet that the price has been most heavily exacted 75 minesweepers and patrol vessels lost, 31 de- stroyers, 14 submarines are part of the toll among the smaller craft.

dozen

A casualty-list of a hore, of fifty there, perhaps of a hundred on occasion which would shock public feel- ing to the core in peace-time becomes, by some strange transmutation of values, but an item of news in war-time.

But at the end of a year of war we may surely pause for one moment to think upon not only the victorica that have been achieved, the enfety that has been ensured, but also upon those thousands who was in their deaths, as in their lives, the silent, unseen builders of both victory and security.

OE'S LUNCH

By Abner Dean

"I always carry a spare for such situations!”

safety, and they were unable RAIDER THOUGHT SCOTS WOULD REBEL

to concentrate on the mer-

chant ships.

The total damage they were able to inflict in this first mouth was

more than

no

184,241-tons-and-in-the- course of those operations we know from a statement in Parliament that they lost at least six or seven vessels in three weeks.

The actual total was prob. ably higher. In the next four weeks the hunting went on. There was one day on which three U-boats were destroyed, and by the end of three months of war it was clear, guarded though the official atatements were, that the total German loss was ap- proaching forty boats.

That meant that half the available craft had been re- moved, that between 1,500 and 2,000 trained officers and men were lost to Germany, and that we had shown be- yond all question that the U- boat menace was not likely, in this war, to approach the dimensions it reached in 1917.

Our

communications were to remain open, losses could be kept within the limit at which they could be re- placed by strenuous effort in the shipyards, and our world- wide sources of supply could not be cut off.

sen

It was a victory as import- ant to our future as any pitched battle ever fought bo- tween flects on the surface, and nothing that has happen- ed since has undermined Its significance.

A second important naval victory about which rather more is known publicly was nchiaved with the nullifying -of-the-effects of the magnetic

mine.

That goes to the credit of the scientists more than to the fighting fleet, but its im- portance in the war at sea la. just as great as a defeat of the enemy fleet, since it en- sured free movement for our worships as well as for our merchantmen..

A third naval development that may fairly be classed as..

Daily Express Staff Reporter

MR. NEWBY ("CHIPS") BURROUGHS, carpenter of the cargo steamer, King John, tells how his ship was waylaid and sunk off the West Indies by_a_disguised_German_raider, successor to the Graf Spee in attacking British merchant ships travelling alone in the Pacific Ocean.

The King John (5,228 tons, of Liverpool) was the second victim of this heavily armed raider.

The German ship is now running the gauntlet, seeking to evade British warships in- tent on dealing with her ag they dealt with the Graf Spee and her prison ship Altmark.

About nine in the morning of July 13 the captain of the King John-sighted- another ship on the horizon. "We all had a look at it when it came nearer," said "Chips" Bur- roughs, "because ninety per cent, of the ships on the sens these days seem to be British.

"But this one was a for- eigner. The cabin-boy next to me asked if she was carrying a gun, but all I could see was something square at the stern of the ship. It was one of four hidden six-inch guns.

"The raider was flying the Swedish flag, and had Swedish colours painted on her sides, Suddenly she opened fire, Four shells burst around us, send- ing red-hol, jagged shrapnel flying everywhere. Then there was another salvo of shells, and another. "With our ono small gun we had no chance of fighting back. The raider had come up on us, innocent- ly, had carefully fixed her gun sights and was firing at point-blank range.

CAPTAIN CAPTURED

A young Australian was at our gun, atripped to the waist, but he couldn't do anything. If he had fired back, he might have won fame for himself, but we should all have been blown to kingdom came. The captain gave the order by abandon ship.

"I ran to my quarters, grabbed some tobacco, and put my best suit under my arm. There were jugged holos where the shrapnel · had plorced, and; the canvas · hatch- cover was ablaze.

"I stopped to get a quick drink from the ship's pump-because I guessed rightly that we might, soon be suffering from thirst in an open

best boat-and I dropped my trousers, not once worn, and lost them.

"They were still Bring as wo lowered the boat. There were nineteen in my boat and forty-one in the boat on the other side of the ship. When we were nearly two miles away a motor-launch from the German ship fired a machine gun across our bows to make us stop. As they approached one of the officers shouted "Hands up."

aboard, The Nazis seemed to have the idea that Scotland was only walting the right moment to rebel against England, so they gave the Scotsmen à ration of elgarettes, and none to the Englishmen, so us to spread discontent!

"We cast off in our lifeboat, holsted the salls, and soon lost sight of the other bosts. Luckily for us our captain had whispered to us the course we should follow just before the Germans come alongside.

"His reckoning was dead right, though it look us four days and four nights to get to the inland he had told us about. The sun beat down on us during those four long

of days. The skin peeled to be

face and arms, and our lips were gracked.

"They took our captain and

board chief engineer on prisoners in the raider, and then they looked us over for souvenirs.

"One of the junior radio men had his savings of £25 in a cash- box on his lap. They took that. They took a shieath-kalfe from me.

WATER RATIONED

"Doll our lifeboats were brought alongside the raider, and the Ger mans launched a third one con- taining prisoners they had taken off the Davision, another British ship they had sunk just before us. The Davisian, 6,433 tons, was re- gistered at Liverpool.j

"The Davislan's crew were amused about the way the Gor-. mans favoured the Scotsmen

our

"We were rationed to a beaker- ful of water a day per man, and some of the men were getting desperate with thirst when the clouds broke and the rain come. We all opened our mouths to the sky, and sucked the water off our

arins.

"Then we saw land. It was a blessed sight. It was a tiny corul island, with no landing place ex- cept up an Iron, ladder up the cliffs. The only inhabitants were four lighthouse keepers,

"We were grateful for the food they gave us, and for the know- ledge that we were safe."

MUST NOT SACK C.O.s JUDGE APPEALS TO "PATRIOTS"

JUDGE-FRANKLAND, neling – chairman at Manchester Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, disagreed with, people who held that conscientious objectors should be dismissed.

"Much ma I disagree with con- have his name removed from the re

IT HAPPENED

IN A RAID

A German airman, whose ma- cbine was shot down by Spitfires in n North-East coast village, was unwise...enough_to__sneer_at_the clothes of a workman who ran across to challenge him..

"My mate,” said another work- man "promptly punched him on the nose and he didn't need tell- ing again to put his hands up."

A village baker in the South- East, who woke to find that a bomb had shattered his window, placed a new notice in front of his shop: "Don't let Hitler, spoil your appetite. Bread and cakes

usual."

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When a raid warning came dur- ing a pig sale in an Eastern Coun- tles market the auctioneer naked whether the company would like to adjcurn to shelters or carry on.

with the sale. The sole continued, but first a collection was taken for the local Spltüre fund, and opened by one of the buyers with a £500 cheque.

An

with air-raid,

Its assorted noises, had been disturbing a har- bour village for twenty minutes. As an old-age pensioner had not joined her neighbours, one of them went out in a lull to look for her. Sho Was -discovered halfway through a large meal, and ex- plained that she had stayed to keep the canary company, as it hud seemed nervous.

A woman woke to the sound of bomba dropping in open country near her house. Almost' at once she heard her maid knocking on the bedroom door, and announcing calmly: "Bombs, please, madam.

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During on evening's rald. on. London the window of a suburban was blown out. But sweet-shop the botiles remained on the shelves, and children ran in to buy sweets as soon as the rald ended.

scientious objectors, the inw ought gister in view of the grave situation Home Guards Shoot

to be obeyed by everybody, Including confronting the county.

the most patroltic,” he said..

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A Bacup man, who applied for the mixture of bad theology, muddle- exemption, said he was faced "with headedness and cowardice that wo the loss of his job in 28 days. got from most people." sald the down their first Nazi bomber. Their

Judge.

This was because workers in the

Rossendale Valley slipper industry "It is good that one young man has had decided that any worker alfould realised his duties and is prepared be dismissed within one month of to discharge them." appearing before the tribunal.

The man whose application was

In another case, it was announced granted, is. Maurice Thompson, aged that a Bolton applicant wished to 25,

success was announced in. the follow- ing, War Office notice: "During the raids on Sunday a few Home Guards in the South London arou were attacked by machine-gun fire from an onemy dive-bomber. They reialisted with rifle ore and after firing 180 rounds caused the enemy to crash."

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