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By

IRIS CARPENTER

land.

Iris Carpenter is a well- married, with two children. known Landon journalist. She and lives in south-east Eng- During the first phase of the air war against Britain she was at home when an air battle blazed into life above Despite the horror and noise of it all she recorded what she saw and felt. Hor description of the battle is as vivid as anything' that has s0 far been written by observors of war, 1940.

hor.

THE DESTROYERS COME TO SAVE”

By "Strategicus"

In the state of uneasy waiting into which the war has drifted the welcome addition of the re-conditioned de- troyers from the United States mark a significant change. They are of course old types; but very similar to one of the classes of British destroyers which has done excellent work. They are gunned sufficiently and have an anti-aircraft defence that will protect them against a menace which has arisen since they last saw active sor- vice. Their number can best be measured by the re- flection that they represent almost thirty per cent. of the destroyer strength with which Britain entered the war.

It is not so obvious, that this good, and the risks of invasion reinforcement will appreciably are to that extent increased. affect the military situation. The appreciation of this fact Clearly it must incrense the may drive Germany to chance dimeuitics of any attempted in her luck at once. In any case vasion; and this is the purpose the weather will begin to de- of Germany's present activity teriorate in a few weeks' time: against Britain.

and the prospect of the rein-

There is, however, apolher direc-

I've wondered so often what (it would all be like if the threat

The plethora of air-raids can have forcement of the destroyer force no other explanation. They attempt may persuade her to strike at {should ever materinlise to make

against the blue sky, in a long bombing its aerodromes

to destroy the Royal Air Force by once if she means to strike at the bit of sky above "our" bit drawn scream to earth.

und the all. aeroplane factories. Bu11 the de- {of the world black with menace,

struction of the Royal Air Force is The silence following the crash only a means to a further end, the tion in which the reinforcement will If Death should ride some moon- came sharp as the jolt with invasion and destruction of Britain. be even more welcome. The Service

bright which one falls off a cliff in a "our" dream. Silence broken almost before it fell by the same ghastly never mise again... and again...

and again.

light night

1940,

some

morning. sunny

over garden. Somehow I thought it would.

or

Therese Marla Vieira, upped 2 years, dearly beloved daughter of Never thought that with all Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Alves,its dread insistence this

Funeral will pass the Montinent

commanders do not fear the in- From the first Germany has been vasion; but it has to be admitted that under the arcessity of seeking at the lack of a sufficiency of smaller speedy decision and for some montis naval vessels has had an appreciable Khus been obylous that only the effect upon the shipping losses, destruction of Britain will yield it.. But there has recently risen above Figures for the eight weeks since

nens I had broken the rule of all the horizon u

fuctor, which the capitulation of France are now war honourable and law abiding makes the need of a decisión even available: and though those of the second four weeks show a decrease citizens without realising it. more impreative.

of thirteen per cent, in sinkings. remaining safely| Goebbels and Hiller have made it they are still too heavy for comfort. insignificant bits of my world under, cover. I found myself clear at the British air offensive. It **:1⌘

that of course, thevitable

Germany is like my little shopping area, my standing at the top of the steps which for so long they affected to livres should increase.

imore, is really injuring Germany in now 'in pussession of the Dutch, to the shelter. praterial as well as in nurale. bit of road, the fields and woods ending down

Belgian and French Atlantle ports Mother instinct, however, had]

the French fleet is no longer avall. To check this offensive. Hitler able

least (seemed so silly that anything so big could ever be so small ami personal.

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where my children play. I made me shut the shelter door reragnises he must defeat Britain, and the Italian feel at

He has found it impossible to force compels the Royal Navy to divide its forces. These factors were bound to Drama streaked towards me back the Royal Air Pince concen have their effect; and indeed it is

tration sameiently far from the from every part of the ABS coast to secure a chance of landing incredible that the losses have not

Prisen more. Right above my house a Spitfire an expeditionary force under cover

But that's the way it is.

and a Messerschmitt banked and of his "Air Force, cross-Channel guns During the lust four weeks the Today I've picked up scores dived and spat fire at one an- and small naval vessels; and in any weekly kings have twice been of machine gun bullets from my other in the first dog-fight I have e- he would have to deal with the over 70,000 tons; but on one occasion

Navy. lawn and among my roses.

Three other planes]

they A ever seen,

were as low as 39,007. Though Dornier bomber flew across my British or German it was im-been admitted that the surrender of shipping tonnage the losses ure and though Gloomy before, the outlook is how they naturally vary joined them in a flush-whether bears the Inalestion "Up is received in

almost completely forbidding. It has Britain is now in centrol of more linngkong on the date of publication by garden no higher than the trees passible to say, the United Press Autoelations, who re-

France gravely changed the naval break of the war, the losses are servo all rights and forbid repubileation. which fringe it. I could see

situation; and, even when the French Ferious in view of the wide and arrangement or in just without previous ech member of the crew clearly, The noise was deafening. Yet, capital ships were dealt with, the widening range of uses to which the

enough to distinguish features. however loud the roar of engines shortage of smaller craft remained a shipping has now to be put.

Thit and the scream of diving planes handicap.

steps effective

are being The first of the dozen bombs became, nothing seemed to cover IT is interesting to speculate on the dropped created a large center the sharp rattle of machine guns considerable extent iren made fall of thirteen per cent, in the last That shortage has now to bunds can be gathered from the taken to keep the sinkings within. possibilities of Hitler's grund diplo macy in Europe to-day for it gives behind our garden. The plane as burst after burst clattered us a glance at the enormous difficul- itself is spilt over the field from planes stretked away, smoke and then playing the gramo-be done the destroy

four weeks as compared with the over the sky. One, two, three

„preceding period. Little more could increase in apt to seem terrifying to us on the which earlier in the morning we pouring from them. Mustn't phone, unaware of all that had strength of the destroyer facee. Allied side if we allow the more bulk had gathered blackberries for think they'll all crash," I said, heen going on over their heads. of the pro-Axis or Axis-influenced our luncheon pic. world is dominate our thoughts.

AXIS-Round and Round

ties that He behind moves which are

Should Hitler's dream come true, Spało and Frønce will turn offensive when the sirens wailed.

pean nations about us with the

her.

ed from the entire Iberian Peninsula, were hungry.

There

Once

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The destroyers will also improve

Navy

particularly when

"They may be putting up a My son was indignant at being the situation in the Mediterranean. We had just served luncheon smoke screen to get away." kept "cooped up." "If this, is Capital ships owe their security very he said. bitterly attend them when they leave port: sminiler craft which largely to the weapons on the British Isles to make was nothing to tell us that the ning the roads, added to the in- "there might just as well not be that is

Dive bombers, machine-gun- going on. complete and hostile wall of Euro-warning-would-herald-anything-ferro and made me run quickly any raids at all

they Gwe their effective mobility-to-cruisers anct destroyers." exception of Portugal whose influence more exciting than previous down the steps of the shelter. on our behalf would be negligible ones had done. Twice we had got a good view from the bat door with a cup of tea. She has ability of bringing the elusive Italian

A friend came in from uext! Everyone recognises the desir with such powerful enemies behind heard distant gunfire. tom, with a margin of safety an electric kettle in her shelter means easy in so great a sea as the to battle; but this is by no nothing at all-not even the from behind the parapet of sand- and can accordingly provide hot Mediterranean, It may be that Spain has been drone of an airplane. promised the restoration of Portugal

bags with which the entrance to drinks there at any hour of the Italy, despite losses, still has a large to the old empire of Castille if that staunch little ally should prove anter of ten and a son of nine-

The children--I have a daugh. the shelter is protected..

Inumber of submarines at her dis- day or night.

posal. impediment to total warfare conduct-

There was a roar like thunder

We had just started gratefully behind me as a huge Dornier to drink it when a fresh fight

The great enemy of the sub- came slowly over the trees, fol- developed with the arrival of an-marine is the destroyer. With "Let's take lunch down to the lowing the railway line which other Dornier. Again it was its modern detecting apparatus on of Colonies until she is better shelter," they suggested. Each runs beside our garden. A Spit-only just above the trees, com- and great speed the destroyer equipped to share the race.

carrying a plate of roast beef fire screamed out of the sky in ing towards as and losing height can pick up and trace the sub- The actual effect of a successful and vegetables (yes, we still a four-hundred-mile-an-hour dive so rapidly it seemed that it must marine to its hiding place; and liter diplomney would put add have roast beef in Britain) and right over him. Fired a stac- crash into the garden. greatly to the weight of attack one of blackberry pie and cream cato burst, soared to engage a ally it came down about a quar-submarine's days are over.

Actu when that is accomplished the that Britain has to sustain. French ur Spanish troops would we walked through the garden Messerschmitt which had come ter of a mile away-in the black- The United States destroyers, in hardly fight with vigour against to our first underground meal. down after him to the bombers' berry field. It was the plane giving the Mediterranean flect the Allies because for one reason they don't want to fight anybody now

protection. Together these two which a platoon of Home Guards greater mobility, will greatly in- and secondly because their grievances went through the garden was cendo of noise away out of sight from their post a little way up Britain has any doubt about the re-

The drone of aircraft as we wheeled in a thrumming cres- brought down with rifle fire us a chance on bringin stinst The Allies are thore theoretical than real. Their deels very great, "Must be our craft over the trees. and air forces, are not considerable. (off to attack" we thought.

Germany already has all the buses little dreaming they were Ger-

If such a bargain, has not yet been struck, maybe it is because Germany: doesn't want to see another disposi

More Spitfires appeared

the road,

Italian fleet to uction. No une in

Isult of any such clash; and the effect of an Italian defeat would be immediately felt over the eastern

in France that she needs for tier raids mun plunes passing right over magnificent in their ruthless and All around ns to-day is strewn Mediterranean. on England. If she had Spanish help our heads in waves. We could spectacular tenacity as a shat- evidence of the price the Nazi Even apart from a defeat, any in- in launching an attack on Gibraltar, not see them. In a deep blue tering crump throbbed its way Air Force paid. One bomber crease of the British Navy in this and if that attack were successful, the cloudless sky they were at such up from the ground. British feet would

right wrecked itself and the peace of area especially in its faster units not greatly mind

will improve its patrolling power, being

in the Méditer height as to be invisible to the up through my bones to bump our churchyard. Another litters and to that extent increasingly re- "trapped" in ranean. They would still have to be naked eye,

my stomach, So far under- the gardens of the group of cot-strict the radius of netion and In- wiped out and neither Italian war-

ground that was the most I could tages in which our gardener duence of the Italian Navy. ships nor German bombers could We had settled with some feel physically of the concussion lives. There bring that to pass.

On paper this is a strong and re dozens of amusement to the intricacy of of the first bomb I heard fall on others within 11 few miles' clcient fighting force; and while it A battle of Infantry would have to balancing a plate on our knees my native land.

is und

undefeated and retains a certalu radius, be fought and a logical scene for such and were half way through the

amount of liberty every State which borders the Mediterranean must feci My greengrocer and the man its influence.

North

to prepare Gur plans.

The Balkans have long been

A dozen came down in quick

a battle-discounting an invasion of beef. The shelter door wis Grent Britain would be Africa. Happily we have had time open to give us fresh air as long succession. I experienced and who serves my meat captured, No one knows what Italy means as possible. The highest note ness for brave men who must the crew of one plane. They by her bullying of Greeco. Her sound I have ever heard, like a die, horror at the manner of showed me the phine's camera, anoeuvres in Syria are similarly a

matter of mere speculation. But her melting pot of policies, racial war fiddle string at breaking point, their dying, admiration for the When it was all over, my mind brond design is to break British fare and commercial Jugglery. The began in a whisper.

courage of the pilots in the was tense, packed with so-called adherence to the Axis of

nerve-rending excitement of air emotion to erente

now. Hitler has

into the Axis mould.

A

A

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The British naval hate. Hate much as I never dreamed that area is quite suffelent to deal with the Italian Navy. But with

valueless.

every power in the Near East-tration in Hungary and Rumania, the hesitation In far less than a second of combat. of Bulgaria and the trepidation of time it had become the most ear Yugo-Slavia need not worry us much splitting and horrifying noise These had cleared thought of I could experience for the things this new increase in strength it will

exposed their fundamental weaknesses; he will find have ever heard. I knew it in the dread purpose of it all, which that had been done in this little be able to forbid any hope of pront- It much more difficult to pour them jatinctively for what it was-a was to drop these monstrous district I call "home.". To peo-ing by the attempted seizure of ports plane hurling through the sky to missiles so as to harrow the soll ple I know. vehement, sear-in Greece and make a land offensive With Turkey and Russia standing destruction. It made me, in the and numb the heart; to hurt ng hate against the regime that It will have its effect even on the grimly expectant 011 the Reich's utter and complete meaning of people, ordinary people who have call cause these things to happen. East of Africa where the recent ad- artificial frontiers, Hitler must be that graphic American expres- done nothing to deserve it, to Insignificant, puny hate when Ivance in Kenya ahows that Ituly careful not to strain his new found sion, "sick in the stomach." allies. They represent so much dead

hurt them dreadfully, to break come to set it against the vast means to exploit her nuisance valtie

Ho the full. canvas of the war, but important weight and are likely to do so for

up their bodies and split open when I come to reflect how many Italy and its influence upon neutrola The effect upon the morale of some time. Greece In

Oddly, it didn't occur to me their homes. A different matter, but it is certainly unlikely that it could be an English plane,

other ordinary unimportant must also be taken into account. At that any ultimatum to this plucky I said: "Poor, poor beggar" and With the bombing over, every- women are hating too, Just as one stroke the war siluation every- little country will be necepted with "Oh God, how horrible," as I thing seemed to stop for a little vehemently.. and saying as where has been changed. Even would help to give the Axis a metallie saw him plunge-smoke pouring while. I went into the shelter I am; "No one is going to get where the change is alight it is signi

a fantastic feather plume to see how the children were, to away with this sort of thing."ant; and in several directions: IL

out a fight in which the British Navy and complete answer.

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