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VICTORY

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 our anti-submarine flotillas that it took all their atten- tion looking after their own

October 18, 1940. Übark Supreme Couth By Walt Disney

WALT DISNEY.

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OF THE ATLANTIC FUNNY SIDE UP

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

Not only the one dramatic encounter between 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 sen, that have really affected the course of events.

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

Again there has not been, excopt 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 here, of fifty there, perhaps of a hundred on occasion which would shock public feel- ing to the core in peace-time becomes, by some stratige 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 victories that have been achieved, the safety that has been ensured, but also upon those thousands who was in their deaths, as. in their lives, the silent, unscen builders of both victory and security.

OE'S LUNCH

By Abner Dean

"I always carry k-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

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 month-was-no-more-than-West Indies by a disguised German raider, successor to the Graf Spee-in-

attacking British, merchant ships travelling alone in the Pacific Ocean.

184,241 tony, 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 statements 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-1 boat menace was not likely, in this war, to approach the dimensions it reached in 1917.

Our

sen 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.

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

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A second important naval victory about which rather moro is known publlely was achieved 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 is Just as great as a defeat of the enemy floot, since it on- sured free movement for our warships as well as for our

for ou merchantmen.

A third naval development that may fairly be classed as,

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 as they dealt with the Graf Spec 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 seas these days seem to be British.

"But this one was a for- eigner. The cabin-boy next to me naked if she was enrrying 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-hot, jagged shrapnel flying everywhere. Then there was another salvo of shells, and another. "With our one small gun we had no chance of fighting back. Tho, raider had come up on us, innocent- ly, had carefully fixed her gun sights and was firing at point blank range.

CAPTAIN CAPTURED

"I stopped to get a quick drink from the ship's pump-because I guessed rightly that we might soon be auffering from thirst in an oper boat-and. I dropped my best trousers, not once worn, and lost them..

were

"They were still fring as we the boat. There lowered 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."

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"They took our captain und chief engineer on board to 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 sheath-knife from me.

WATER RATIONED

"Boll our lifeboats were brought alongside the raider, and the Ger mana launched a third one con- taining prisoners they had taken off the Davislan, another British ship they had sunk just before us. The Davislan, 0,433 tons, was re- gistered at Liverpool.]

"The Division's crow were armused about the way the Ger-

favoured

Scotsmen the ៣០ថ

aboard. The Nazis seemed to have the idea that Scotland was only waiting the right moment to rebel against England, so they gave the Scotsmen rution of cigarettes. and none to the Englishmen, 50 us to sprend discontenti

"We cast off. in our lifeboat, hoisted the sails, and soon Idst sight of the other boats. Luckily for us our captain had whispered to us the course we should follow

the Germans Just before

alongside.

came

"His reckoning was dend right, though it took us four days and four nights to get to the island he had told us about. The sun beat down on us during those four long days. The skin peeled off our face and arms, and our lips were cracked.

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

arins,

"Then we saw land. It was a blessed sight. It was a tiny coral island, with no landing place ex- cept up an iron ladder up the clits. 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, acting chairman at Manchester Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, disagreed with people who held that conscientious objectors should be dismissed.

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

IT HAPPENED

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A German birman, whose ma- chine was abot down by Spitfires in a North-East const village, was unwise-enough-to- Encernt-the- clothes of 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 shaltered his window, placed a new notice in front of his shop: "Don't let Hitler spoil your

and cakes appelite. Bread usual."

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When a raid warning came dur- Ing a pig sale in an Eastern Coun- ties market the auctioneer asked whether the comparty would like to adjourn to shelters or carry on with the sale. The sale continued, but first a collection was taken for the local Spitfire fund, and opened by one of the buyers with a £500 cheque, •

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An air-raid, with 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. She

discovered halfway Was through a large meal, and ex- plained that she had stayed to keep the canary company, as it had seemed nervous.

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A woman woke to the sound of bombs 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."

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

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A young Australian was at our scientious objectors, the law ought gister in view of the grave situation Home Guards Shoot gun, atripped to the waist, but he to be obeyed by everybody, including confronting the county.

couldn't do anything. If he had fred back, he might have won fame for himself, but we should all have been blown to kingdom come. The captain gave the order to abandon ship.

* ran to my quarters, grabbed some tobacco, and put my best sult under my arm. There were tagged holes where the shrapnel had pierced, and the danvas hatch- cover was, ablaze.

the most patrolle," he said."

"It is a mget pleasing change from

A Bacup man, who applied for the mixture of bad theology, muddle- exemption, said he was faced with headedness and cowardlee that we get from most people," said the Judge. the loss of his job in 28 days.

This was because workers in the

"It is good that one young man has Rossendale Valley slipper industry had decided that any worker should realised his duties and is prepared

bo 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 20, n' Jolner.

Down Bomber

The Home Guards have brought down their first Nazi bomber. Their success was announced in the follow- ng War Office notice: "During the

wero in the South London aren raids on Sunday a few Home Guards attdeked by machine-gun fire from an enemy dive-bomber. They retaliated with rifle fire and after Aring 180 rounds caused the enemy to crush."

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