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0.5. and Britbin are to approve š Molotov's disarmament suggestions subject to one small improvement.-

LOWS RUMOVA DEAT

HAPPY FATHER (?)

Low

GERMAN NAVAL

SECRETS

by

PETER LOVEGROVE

TAKE my demob hat off to Mine- the men of the sweeping Service. Over 25,000 of them con-

stantly risked their lives in one ve

of the most hazardous yet un-

Why I Left The Liberal Party

By T. L. HORABIN, MIP

Of the 300 Liberal candi- at the inst moment, campaigned on

dates ut the last General the official policy. Many found re- Election, only 10 were returned fuge in the advocacy of free trade or older forms of Liberal economic to the House of Commons.

polley which enabled them to attack controls.

The country was determined to give the Socialist Party, which had been the official Opposition for nearly twenty-seven years, It

chance.

The Liberal Party programme at the General Election therefore 20- ceived very little attention from the electorate. It received equally little attention from many Liberals. Ind that programme made greater im- pact on publie opinion. It would have been realised how radical the Liberal Party had become,

WE

to

Yet every active Liberal should have been aware of the implications of the policies adopted by the party for fighting the general election.

XHEN the new House of Commons WHEN the newer appointed me Chief Whip. What was to do? From the King's Speech It was

said!

the

carly

measures we were

that obvious envisaged in our Manifesto

out by the going to be carried Socialist Government.

In my view-and I believe in that Clement Davies-we could

I E went to the country pledged of Mr

follow the policy which carry out the Beveridge only policy of "Full employment in a free advocated at the Liberal candidates that the meeting held at that time. I then meant soclely." Thla Liberal Party was pledged to work for a planned economy in the new

"In the

stages of this It meant the Parliament tho task nt the House of Commans. socialisation of demand and, where Parliamentary Party will not he necessary, of production.

because casy

the Labour Party To make Its position plain, the asked for and received a mandato

in Liberal Party in

radicul and not a manifesto to carry out u

the came down definitely in favour of socialist programme, which is

logical consequence of the reforms nationalising coal power and trans-

of the Liberal Government of 1000.. port,

It is a programme designed to pro- vide houses, jobs, social security. adequate health services

Any unprejudiced observer could detect, from the point of view of

Band

standard of living for the

the legislation to be brought before. The Parliamentary Party

the new House of Commons, very little difference between the Liberal

the

до

Party's declaration of polley and the must of necessity give full support

an independent party to Socialist Party's "Let us face the

long Labour Government future."

Obviously the Whig element in the political freedom is protected and the Government carries out ita Liberal Party must have been sur-immediate tasks with courage and

the resolution."

prised and embarrassed by official programme. At any rate, not all the 390 Liberal candidates, many of them rushed into the bottle contacts as Chief Whip with

of

the

AT that meeting, and in

my

no

So great was the pressure against me that I felt in all conscience it

was my duty to resign as Chier

spectacular and least publicised School, rendered it safe within 12 certain number of hours or only detonating mines by contact, and happened was that I had stood pat

tasks of World War II.

have

the party organisation outside the House, it was clear to me that the

House had of party outside the Blege engine"-during

following the policy Antwerp in 1885. Charles the First Intention of

which in my view was the only Kare his Master of the Ordnance a

the warrant for "the making of divers honest one, having regard to

which we appealed. water-mines, water-petards and boats platform on

Prince Rupert to the clectors. to blow up And then 'n wiched-looking 1,200

tried

Blake's flagship and oyster mines, all of which were to go under water."

with one in Cromwell's time, and even more difeilt to detect and lbs. of mischief with spokes all over it dropped on the sonds

then improved versions of all of

a clockwork mine in 1655, though Whip. Shoeburyness, Essex, on the night of these, equipped with delay devices, the Marquis of Worcester Invented

22, 1030; volunteer and electric clocks running for over there is no evidence that it was ever It was said that this was my officers

from H. M. S. 200 days, and which can be fixed to used. It was an American in the method of leaving the Liberal Party Vernon, the Torpedo and Mining complete the firing circuit after 18th century who evolved the idea and going Socialist. What actually hours; in another dozen hours it when a given number of ships ve he experimented on British frigates

passed over. They're all at the the Connecticut river. Another on my clection pledges, while the

small ground mine-containing a an "explosive carcass" to Napoleon. In hard Hving and continual vigilance | before Mr Churchill, then First Ln Selance Museum now, together with American went to France and offered abandoned its position.

an attempt to establish its mere 500 lbs. of high explosive of This did not appeal to the chivalry position as an independent parts, it

the party organi the type we used to successfully in of the French naval officers, so he seems to me thing a pulley of op-

Danube and the Kiel and crossed the Channel, and in due sation is following Dortmund-Emms Canals. It is course we used it against the French position to the Government known that no less than one million fleet off Boulogne.

This leads them to be grudging in Government tons of shipping were held up in

It was not a success, however, their support of the

of radient those the Kiel canal by a few of these

measures inventor was discouraged.

social reform mines skilfully placed by Bomber Lord St. Vincent announced publicly economic

and

is · · as that "Pitt in the greatest fool that which the Liberal Party Command.

ever existed to encourage a mode of committed as the Labour Party. Its war which they who command the propaganda has become a stream of

and which it higgling` criticism against did not want, successful would deprive them of Government over these very men- becomesures. The Admiralty hes

enlightened since.

For six years their lot was one of

seen

#

had been stripped and the secrets of the magnetic mine were pineed

the in stormy seas in all climates, and of the Admiralty. Soon after they bore at all times the strain of antidele was discovered. A new evolved, its principle unseen danger, And their job didn't sweep was

to create a magnetic feld even cease when Doenitz surrender being ed--there was still the clearing of which would activate the needle of be undertaken. the mine, and the sweepers again to be und enemy minefields

h35

began to achieve most satisfactory late war And the deace of a lot of mines. It has not results. yet

been possible to estimate the number the enemy laid, but it known that we laid 203,000, 77 per cent of which were buoyant, and the remainder ground mines. The latter

was

the British

shipsation was responsible

almost all the 1,041 enemy and 33 U-boats which fell to British mines. Another 511 enemy vessels were damaged.

for

0

the

in

and

BOD

the

Liberal

Party

organisation

had

to

the

For ship's direct protection, the "de- is Royal Navy produced the

Yet, although the enemy strewed gaussing girdle," named Ironically their mines indiscriminately, and in enough after a German scientist; a large numbers along unsuspected were responsible for the sinking or simple but effective device which routes, over 2,000 British ships were fitted to vessels of all sizes. Fly at sen every day, and between 100

Degaussing

By UK. harbours along-thanks to the minimising the danger from magnetic vigliance of the Minesweepers.

18,000 mines in respect of some vessels, The maintenance of these in a satisfactory condition ships involved the magnetic measurement COME people may Imagine that the of some 500 ships day, and at one naval mine is a 20th, century time, 1,200 miles of wire cable, were refinement. In actual fact, it is the being used weekly to fit the vessels. product of four centuries of human

After the their

magnetic mine

Dutch came ingenuity. The

have fresh engines of destruction: the doubtful credit of having been the as a weapon of offence was fully antenna electro-chemical, acoustic arst, to uso n "ship-destroying realised.

and 150 moved daily in and out of mohe middle of the last century, TF in the House of Commons I give

of

Buoyant mines were chiefly used In our own waters for protecting the convoy lanes, and their success is measured not by the number

the eremy ships sunk, but by

of our own vessels which number were saved from attack by deterrent effect.

LONDONERS these days are being

given an opportunity of seeing for themselves just what these un- seen dangers were and the comple- xity of the dreaded weapons which have been called д "scientist's At the Selence Museum paradise.

It

mony

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

the

is an Admirally exhibition of re- presentative German and British

There is a time and place for South was understandably afraid to mines and degaussing material used

four-notrump conventions, and other inquire for kings, because five no during the late war,

situations that clearly call for more trump would nutomatically push the being makes no

slam no protence of

invitations. Consider

contract to o slam, and though complete. Some material which has direct

North might have an exocilent hand, not been compromised by use against to-day's deal. the enemy la not on view, and any-

South, dealer.

the partnership could still easily be way there were so many varieties

mines and so

actuation

North-Southi vulnerable.

"off" to two spade tricks. Thus, systems-for instance we used no

the laydown small slam was missed. fewer

hundred different Bring circulls that it was impossible

A "kibitzer" suggested that it to accommodate them all.

would have been shrewder for But

South to bid four diamonds instead of four no trump. But, alas, the kibitzer was wrong. With his sug gestion the bidding probably would have gone:

than

there is more than enough on view ta convinco the Icast mecky-minded and impres-

such

correspondent. of the

skill

and

as your London tremendous regrettable Ingenuity which were devoted to perfecting the submarine mine, und of the diabolical threat to shipping that it represents...

D

URING World War mines, almost without exception, had to be struck by the target in order to produce an explosion. During the uneasy years of peace, both sides evolved some effective machinery increase the range

of detection.

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And at the same time, other groups. When South bid four no trump, of scientists developed other types Blackwood, and received the in- of mines which w were even more subtle

NANCY

Now South, still In completc darkness concerning the spade situation, could bid no more than 've hearts, and North, feeling that.

had done this

duty, would

The best bid for South on the second round was a direct jump to ave hearts-clearly, a request that North bld six. if, with his other values, he could control the apades!"

Just Too Much

than those employed in 1914-formation that North had one ace, 18 and would be harder to sweep.

The Admiralty exhibition shows these. fairly recent refinements--the Anished

products,

Interior mechanism and models showing they work. The prize exhibit German parachute be recovered

how

15

the

firat

magnetle mine to complete in Britain,

This was the weapon on which Hitler had relled way back in 1930 to destroy the British merchant flect

It had been Invented eight years previously and since then the cloverent German brains had failed to find the antidote.' It did

con- alderable damage in the early months of the war, and it certainly looked us if merchant traffle! would be paralysed unless the remedy could be found 'quietly. The men In the sweepers did all they could but they were powerless against I this weapon, new to their expérience,

LET'S TRY. OUR LIE DETECTOR ON · -JOE--- HE'S. THE BIGGEST LIAR IN

SEVEN COUNTIES

I MUST TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED

TO ME

FOIST PUT DIS ON YER ARM--- I'LL EXPLAIN LATER

the Socialist Government the every

naval

power had its submarine mines, but

they were

considered support it should receive from me then purely ng a weapon of defence. as a radical Liberal I embarrass the The Germans used them to protect Parliamentary party in its relations Kiel against the Danish fleet in 1848: with the party organisation.

mined In the At the same time I contradict and Sebastopol

the come into sharp conflict with Crimean War, and Port Arthur. in the Russo-Japanese War. It was propaganda put out by the party.

Therefore, to avoid this altuation, not until 1914 that their potentiality

I have left the Liberal Party to be- come an independent Liberal,

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