DOINGS OF THE VAN LOONS
Father took too much for granted
HOW SUBS WERE
FOILED IS M
BEING TOLD |
Camouflage and Big Convoys
Used to Make Our Ship
ping Safe.
DETAILS ARE ffiADt PUBLIC
Official of United States Shipping
Board Describes Convoy's Activity
From Time It Left
New York.
New York.—With the need of se
crecy ended by the cessation of fight
ing "on land, on sea and In the air"
the methods used to baffle the Hun
submarines have been revealed by (ft
fleers of the United States shipping
board. They made public the details
of convoy management and the proper
camouflaging of grouped ships to make
their destruction by undersea craft
difficult.
One of the officers begins his de
scription of a convoy's activity from
the time It left the port of New York.
"Once we were out In the stream."
he says, "we headed down the chan
nel for the lightship, beyond which
our convoy and escorts were watting
for us. All were slowly under way
when we rcached them. The ships of
different columns took their places,
and after a few minutes' confusion,
and lively work on the signal halyards
the other ships of the convoy got Into
plac«.
"Guarded above by dirigibles, hydro
planes and anchored balloons, and on
the surface by a fleet of patrol boats
as well as our ocean escort, we pro
ceeded. and America soon dropped be
low the western horizon. At sunset
we were well out to sea.
Back to Primitive Methods.
"As In the army we have turned
bark to medieval helmets and armor,
•o on the water we have turned to
medieval naval tactics; but Instead of
convoys of Spanish galleons and fri
gates of the seventeenth century from
the new world to the old, our convoys
were American transports and de
stroyers.
"Even the old sallmaker nhoard on*
ship, who had been on the ocean ever
since he shipped as cabin boy on board
a down East blue noser 50 years ago,
admitted the convoy game was a new
one on him. and hung over the rail
watching our many war-colored neigh
bors.
"It Is not hard to see why the con
voy system was effective. Take the
case of a convoy of 25 ships (72 Is the
largest number I've heard of In one
convoy; our mate told me of being
caught in a 72-ship convoy In a sail
ing ship in the Bay of Biscay). When 1
these ships went in convoy Instead of I
there being 25 different units scattered '
all over the 'zone' for the U-boats to j
find, there was only one. That Is, the I
Hun had only one chance of meeting j
a ship where he had 25 before. And
If he did meet the convoy he found
It usually with a naval escort, whose
sole business was sinking submarines.
He found, too, 25 lookouts on watch
for him, 25 sets of puns ready for him,
where there were but one each before.
If the Hun showed himself to a con
voy and Its escort, the odds were that
he was due for u quick trip to the bot
tom.
'The usual convoy tormauon was in \
columns in a rough square. This was
the most compact, and the Inside ships
were practically immune from attack.
The escorts circled the convoy, If
necessary, and the outside ships con
centrated their Are on any submarine
that appeared.
"Convoys were made up at different
speeds, and even the rustiest old
tramps were provided for In a six-knot
class.
"In spite of this, some captains' im
agination always tacked u couple of
knots to their ship's speed. There
seemed to be a nautical version of
'Home, Sweet Home'—'be It ever so
humble, there's no ship like mine,' and
vessels making nine knots on Broad
way make a bare seven off Fire Island.
"It was remarkable what a snappy
escort commander could do with his
charges. After a day or two together
he had them maneuvering In position
like a second grand fleet; zigzagging
'dark' through a black night, not a ray
of light showing anywhere If they
were in the dancer zone or a tin fish
was reported near.
Color Schemes Are Bizarre.
"The war brought no stranger spec
tacle than that of a convoy of steam
ships plowing along through the mid
dle of the ocean streaked and beepot
ted Indiscriminately with every color
of the rainbow In a way more bizarre
than the wildest dreams of .a sailor's
first night ashore.
"The effect of good camouflage was
remarkable. I have often looked at a
fellow ship in the convoy on our
quarter on exactly the same courses
we were, but on account of her camou
flage she appeared to be making right
Pet em Matiyaahcrfcih, who re
cently paid a Yisit to a friend- on
Goldstrtam, cam certify th*t the
boars that lnftet that district are
becoming civiltzB<j and resent any
Intrusion of their domain. Pete
was on hla way down Nugget creek
and bting tired from his climb off
Hater Dome, decided! hg needed a
smoke and snow being on the
ground, refp&ired to a bunch of old
catbins on the lower end of the
cijeek. H© entered ome of these
cajbins, and reaching for the "mak
ings" proceeded towards a bunk in
one corner. Prom the dark corner
a hu^e bear adfvanced' toward him
Returning Army to Civil Life
Brings Problems Unlike
Those in U. S.
WORKSHOPS ARE WIPED OUT
Labor Readjustment Is Subject of
Greater Importance In France
Than In Any Other Bel
ligerent Country.
France Is cultivated Intensively, leav
ing none for reclamation by demobil
ized soldiers. And it Is calculated,
that few will want to leave their own
country for the purpose of colonisa
tion.
O. H. Roberts, British minister of
labor, recently discussed thla subject
before an audience of British soldiers
at the British Army and Navy Leave
club In Paris;
The British minister said temporar
ily unemployment difficulties of demo
bilized soldiers would be- met by a
free out-of-work donation covering a
period of 12 months after discbarge.
This will be additional to the month's
furlough given each man on his dis
charge, during which time pay and al
lowances are to be continued.
The skilled workman among British
soldiers, Roberts said. Is safeguarded
by the munitions of war act, giving
him the assurance of reinstatement In
employment. Committees, he said,
would establish employment agencies
In all cities and everything possibly
would be done to make labor resettle
ment as speedy and smooth as possi
ble.
arms outspre&a ana s, wuu
"g r r h." He stood p&r»ly*e<I fbr
asecond and from another corner
came another bear in & hostile at
titude. Conidjeying that h« tad
intruded at an Inatyjpdclorifl moment
Petebeat a retreat, and looking ba<clc
■ward saw on© of tJ«a brute# look
ing oot of the window to see that
ho was {ring in the right direc
tion, and the other coming out the
door »o sere that he kept going.
After runming sever^ miles Pet©
discovered he pretty warm
and saya that he wag hot as
the middle of July wittv no ther
mometer. Pete In figuring on
hanrinr some calling cards printed!
before he cMls at anr more bear
o&btns.
ror us on a coufSe at least fbrty-flre
degrees different from the on* ahe was
actually steering.
'"the deception was remarkahle efea
under such conditions as these, and of
course b U-boar, with Its hasty limited
observation, was much mote likely to
be fooled. - " •'
"Each nation seemed to harafcchar
acteristic type of camouflage and aft
er a little practice you could usually
spot a ship's nationality by her style
of camouflage long before you could
nitVe out her ensign.''
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Paris.—Readjustment of labor after
demobilization looms as the biggest
after-the-war question in France.
A committee of members of the
French chamber of deputies has offi
cially asked the government what
steps toward labor reconstruction are
to be taken.
Appointment of a commission to
study the question has Just been an
nounced.
Labor readjustment is a subject of
greater importance in France than in j
any other belligerent country—outside
of Belgium, perhaps—because so many
factories and commercial enterprises
have been destroyed by the war.
Workshop* Are Wiped Out.
When the soldiers are demobilized
a great number will not be able to
return to the work in which they were
engaged before the war. Their work
shop* have been wiped out.
Many others who Save Been em
ployed on war work In munitions
plants will be thrown put of employ
ment. For such concerns will have to
shut down while they adapt them
selves, many of them slowly, to a
peace-time line of manufacture.
Another class of men, who have
been away at the front four years,
wtll find no places open because they
have been replaced by other, labor
women, In numerous cases. i
The government faces the problems
of having more men on Its hands than
It has Jobs. A quick solution is Im
perative, according to the view of
prominent labor leaders.
"Every other country except France
has thought about this matter," said
Emmanuel Brousse, a French deputy
and a member of the newly appointed
labor adjustment commission.
"Britain has been working on the
labor question for a long time. Twen
ty-five commissions composed of spe
cialists in various lines have prepared
a solution.
| "Germany had its after-war program
definitely mapped out. First the men
: who In civil life were engaged in such
occupations as technical, commercial,
Industrial, financial and transport
were to be freed from army service.
Other kinds of workmen were to be !
! demobilized successively.
"France must not lose a moment In
mapping out Its labor readjustment
plan. Otherwise there will be a social
Catastrophe."
Labor leaders In France point also 1
to the preparations in America for
distributing farming land to demobil
ised soldiers. But they remark that
tills method of finding something for
the ex-soldier to do Is closed to the
French. t,... j
Land Cultivated Intensively.
France has no vast unoccupied lands
ta the United States has, except In Its
northern African colonies. All of
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100 able-bodied aphis. The army of
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the mountains at an altitude of about
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