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April 30, 1941.

By Walt Disney

CORVETTE convoys

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British merchant shipping losses have been getting smaller. Why? The corvette, Britain's new type of warship, now being built on mass production lines, is part of the answer. Here A. J. McWhinnie tells you about life in these tiny saviours of the convoys.

THE

HE Atlantic outlook is

brightening.

For a fortnight I have been sailing thousands of miles out there, investigating the dan- gers, assessing the possibili- ties for the immediate future, and observing changes and developments in our unceasing fight against the U-boats across the biggest battlefront of all.

Things have been moving rapidly since my last Atlantic trip with a destroyer in De, cember.

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Outstanding are these facts, gathered with our Northern patrols and later with the vital

the convoys from Americas.

British escort forces out there to-day are steadily being strengthened.

Ships may still be torpedoed at times. But the chances of convoys getting through are better than they were at the beginning of the winter.

There are several develop- ments which, if even hinted at, would be of vital value to the enemy.

The ships of this particular convey had their hokis stacked with foodstuffs and war sup- plies and planes from America.

lost Not a ship was Throughout the run. But there is a crippled U-boat out there somewhere. A corvetle did that one of the toughest little warships in the world.

I am the first Naval Corres- pondent to sail in these new anti-submarine ships, testing their endurance and fighting efficiency in Northern bliz- zards, howling gales, and head-on to the Atlantic rollers,

Rushed To Sea

These long-funnelled, whale-. catcher type of warships, smaller than destroyers, were the answer to Britain's prayer when the Atlantic outlook was blackest, when France had caved in and we had to fight alone.

There was no time to build destroyers to beat the new in- tensive U-boat Blitz.

So crisis decisions were taken.

Many slipways must be used to rush out corvettes. Organ- isation between builders and sub-contractors must be such that mass production methods could be used. Corvettes must be rushed out to sea or chain-belt principles.

And to-day you find corvette groups operating alongside the destroyers and sloops with the convoys.

Their advantages are these: (1.) They can fight U-boata in the foulest weather..

(2.) They can be built rea- sonably quickly--I look for- ward to the time when, from 1., a single,alipway.cone:corvetto

can be put to sea every month. Shipyards in the Dominions as well as at home are building them:

(3.) A corvette costs only a fraction of the cost of a des- troyer. Numbers count in screening a convoy from U- bonts, so the cost of escort craft comes down;

(4.) The range of these tiny warships is a secret, but they are fitted with the same efficient anti-submarine gear as the crack destroyers. And submarine protection has been recently further improved;

(5.) While not

fast as destroyers, they are fast enough to pursue the U-boats, und that's all the speed they need for the job for which they are being built.

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(6.) They need only 50 men a third of a ship's company of a destroyer.

(7) A corvette. is in herself only a tiny target, whether she is being attacked from the air or on, or under, the sea.

"Lively" Ships

1. see no reason why we should not have two or three hundreds of these corvette warships anti submarine sooner than most people might think, That number would be a first class insurance against U-boats.

They are lively in seaway. The men who sail in them

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suffer discomfort in even the slightest swell.

And when they are battling through the winter gales, their broad beams roll with the sickening movement of a fat goldfish flicking its tail to jerk over on its side when somebody bungs its bowl,

I have sailed more than 25,000 miles covering the war at sea, mainly in destroyers, but I've never known anything like the roll you get in these corvettes.

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"Hand-Picked"

The corvette men have been hand-picked for their endurance. And, when they prove they can take it, they say they wouldn't change. They are proud of their tusk.

They had to be on this trip, what with gales and blizzards, squalis and storms, and three days ving

on hard tack.

They certainly cam their "hard- lying money."..Outside the sub- marines there isn't a tougher job aДost.

Commanding officer of the cor- vette in which I salled is an RN. commander who likes being a small skip man while his son la in the biggest warship of all-the Hood.

The first lieutenant was a luxury liner officer in peacetime. He was RN.R. and found himself in the . doomed armed merchant, cruiser Patroclus. He clung to a tiny raft for seven and a half hours before a destroyer picked him up.

The navigator has been seven times round the world in tramp The ships. He Is only 27 now. sub-lleutenant (R.N.V.R.) In 21- year-old baronet.

Down on the mess deck they yarn about their adventures darlier in the-war Most-of-them-have-been- "over the side." Most of them have had their baptism of fire at sen.

I'd back these corvette mer; in a fight against any U-boat.

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Continued progress was made by the Hongkong Eugenics League dur- ing the past year, according to the fifth annual report, which will bo presented at the yearly meeting to be held at the Gloucester Hotel on:

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report, signed by Mrs Selwyn- Clarke, Hon. Secretary, states in part: The number of patients has in- ereased in all the Clinics by nearly cent, and the improvement in 100 per the numbers of those returning for re-examination has been maintained.

Home Policy Followed The League in co-operation with the Medical Department is pursuing the same polley advocated by the Ministry of Health in Great Britain. Health Centres have been established where mothers can attend ante-natal clinics; after the birth of the baby, they return to the Centre for advice on intent welfare and Gynaecologie Clinics for post-natal care have

include advice on arranged which

that is, how to

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children for the sake of the health and the well-being of the An increase in this service is family. urgently needed.

The

League has been succosatul in obtaining regular supplies of appll- ances from New York; but unless there is incrènsed Anancial support during the next year, the League will be forced to discontinue this help to poor patients.

The League has been able to res- pond to requests for appliances from and Shanghai, Kweiyang, Hainan other centres. Assistance has also been given to mothers · proceeding to the interior.

Social Welfare Worker

The Executive Committee has re- tained the services of social welfare worker, who assists in the four. Clinics and pays home visits to the mothers who attend the Clinics. The Committee

that this follow- considers

“ዩ up work is of the greatest importance

Is most and therefore

tost anxious to engage a second welfare worker since it is impossible for one worker to follow up the cases of all four Clinics. The educational work of the

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operation of

Chinese educated women, who, with their knowledge of the

customs language,

and

problems of patients could talk with them on the advantages of family planning far more effectively than

women. Tho European

League wishes to form a Committee of Chi- nese voluntary helpers to take over the publicity and educational work of the League,

Referring to parents who are un- able to give their children sufficiently good feeding from birth and unable their full part in the com- play

the report states that this is

to

t-evident in Hongkong where starvation diseases such as Beri-beri, Pellagra and Tuberculosis are on the increase and where education is only avaliable to a a very small proportion of the population.

The Committee therefore hope that in the coming year they may have more active co-operation froin Chi- nese women so that the services of the League may be developed where they are most needed,

Miss Constance Lam, the Hon. Treasurer,

submits a report on the -prevent and League's objectives: to cure. Its function is to help families, particularly of the submerged class, to plan and to space the size of their family around their earning capacity, so that each child can have a decent and healthy chance of survival It was a flush-

growth, she states. deck vessel, berque rigged, with one tier of guns either on the upper or main deck.

The term "corvette" now being used to de-

applied to a vessel of burden..

1781signate the new Navy convey boat was originally

The corvette of 1781 was, in addition to its specified duties, made to do the odd jobs. It had, for instance, to do convoy work, to look for smugglers and chase privatcers.

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The only relationship the patrol corvette of

1941 1941 bears to the corvette of 1731 is that it, too,

da May has to do the odd jobs. Its design is based on that of whale catchers in the Antarctic-it will do the same work in the wintry North Atlantic as the destroyers of the con- voy escortsThe corvette carries a supply of depth charges, and its complement generally consists of three officers and about sixty, ratings. It has already proved successful against the U-boata

Gift For Schools

The Director of Medical Services acknowledges gratefully the gift of $500 from the General · Chinese Charities Fund Committee through the kindness of the Hon. Mr R. A, C. North, for the schools-established for the children transferred from the Po Leung Kuk to the Government camps.

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