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August 29, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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I'VE GOT D'COOLEST SPOT IN TOWN!

Battle Of Atlantic Is A Foul Business But Navy Holds Aces

Once a U-boat has been truly "spotted" by our convoy escorts of Atlantic fighting-ships, he would be a brave man who laid longer odds than 2 to 1 about its chances of escape. In fact, those hard-bitten sub- marine smashers who have been my shipmates during the past few weeks would laugh at you if you voiced the opinion that a "found" U-boat had better than one chance in five of getting away.

That is the heartening news I bring you from far out in the Atlantic after a trip there in a British destroyer, writes ; a "News of the World" reporter.

Suddenly, there was a ring-buzzjsen death which were to be ladled apologised for brenicing off our talk on a handy 'phone. The officer out to Hitler's "error fleet." and took the receiver,

"Yes

you

Thanks. We'll

see to them! I heard him ray. He replaced the phone and turned to I must not give figures; but my me with a smile like the dawn of destroyer and our "pals" the vor-day. veltes brought safely into this coun-

try nearly 100 heavily laden mer- "You're going to have fun after chant ships-big ones at that--fromfall. A bunch of U-boats are can- the other alde of the ocean,

verging on the convoy!" he said.

"Any moment now," aliouted someone into my ear. And as he spoke we fred. A few moments of quiet; then the night smashed into depth charges exploded, amitling tumult of sound af our

Out To Destroy

Not a second to waste

More

depth charges heaved into position Out they went. A boiling One hundred ships, or thereabouts, Just that. "A bunch of D-bonts." en which seethed and writhed like and not one lol. Thousands of tons How and from what source the in- living thing Eerie foating of vital material for our war show, formation reached us I cannot, must to mark where the charges had been flores tossed bleakly on the waves and every ounce safely home. not, say. But within the space of 1

few deep breaths our destroyer was dropped. Have you ever colebrated a great full speed ahend, streaming her ocension with cups of coroa? I wake ncross the ocean as we raced have. And this is why

to meet the menace.

It was near sundown when the

Darkness enveloped un, and affair started. The shadows were throughout the entire ship there was lengthening across the wild waves, a bubbly feeling of excitement-a and we were hundreds of miles from sense of stirring things, to come. land.

Stand-by Depth Charges

waves lay the nest of U-boats. "De- Somewhere beneath the lashing

stroy or be destroyed" Vas our pennant that night. We were out to destroy.

It was dawn when we finished. My teeth were chattering with the cold and the reaction of the exclto- ment.

I winis on the bridge with our "asdie" offer. His job is the spot-: I groped my way dangerously ting of U-boats. Not so long ago he from the bridge in the dark, and across the ocean, we returned to the With our wake carving chalklines: played crickel for Oxford and covered the sea-lashed deck until I Hampshire .. Not so long ago. reached the shelter of the quarter-convoy which, all this time, had

His life now is very different. of depth charges and its group of escort we had left with it.

deck, with its sinister-looking loads under the watchful eyes of the been battling Its way, homewards But the Navy still has that typically coger men, telling stories and grin English cricket outlook" on life ning widely, half from the Jokes Some things are just not done. And and half from the tension of the It is that sense of things which are moment.

"not cricket," which gives the Navy

its bitter loathing of U-boats.

Suddenly, the destroyer made

streaks of day slashing the darkened And it was then, with the first

sky, that I drank steaming hot cocoa to celebrate the night that had gone. The sneaking up and stabbing in touching the wave-tops in the surge that thick, hot drlik from a chipped frightening swing; her masts almost could not have lasted so grand as Champagne in a Mayfair restaurant the back methods of Hitler's under of that fantastle angle. And as cup on the quarter-deck. sen pirates rub the Navy the wrong suddenly, the beat-beat of our high- way. And it is not prudent to make powered engines ceased.

the Navy angry.

"Bunch" Converging

The Battle of the Atlantic is a

speaking as one who has been in a

holds the aces.

There in the darkness we lay for real, vivid, and foul business; but, a while. Silent, listening, watchful. bit of it, I will say this: The Navy

Then an order crneked dut. "Stand As I was saying. I was standing by depth charges." And if you've) chatting with our "asdic" officer. never seen men happy at their jobs, Hitler can foam at the mouth Around us plodded the weighed you should have been with me about his U-boats and the destruc- down merchantmen, supreme in Those troops of ours-in the Navy tion he hopes they will wreak, but their indifference to everything that the sailors are all colled troops I would not like to be in the boots amelt of Boche. They have the laughed aloud in their delight as of any one of his submarine men in most complete faith in the Navy. they manned the canisters of deep-the Atlantic.

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No Government can exist that leaves Britain with slums at the end of this war, declared Mr Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, recently.

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