Overseas News of Interest

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 117, 10 April 1942, Page 5

Overseas News of Interest

LITTLE SHIP WAS TOO GOOD FOR THE U-BOAT. A little ship chugging along at only four knots, with one boiler out of action, challenged a U-boat, scored at least two hits on it, and left it in a sinking condition. The story was told by the Minister of Shipping. He said the ship sighted the U-boat on the surface at about 5,000 . yards. The master swung his stern round to bring his gun to bear. “The ship was making four knots on one boiler,” he said. “The U-boat was approaching at about 15 knots. At 2,000 yards the U-boat opened fire and there were some near misses. “But the little ship replied and her second shot scored a direct hit. There was some doubt about the third and fourth, but the fifth definitely hit again, and one or two other shots hit. “That was a grand piece of gunlaying. The report said they all did their duty well. Down by Stern. “The U-boat was last seen making off, beaten by the little ship,

with black and yellow smoke coming from her aft. She was badly down by the stern and the bow well up. “And the little ship plodded on successfuly at four knots, on one boiler.” The Minister said he looked forward with confidence to next year, when we should really have greatly increased strength at sea and in the air. “1 look forward to those large number of ships which I hope will be launched and completed in the United States, and which will so much fortify our position,” he said. * * * * WITCHES ARE AFTER ADOLF. (From John Walters, New York, in the “Daily Mirror.”) Solemn efforts to destroy Hitler by witchcraft are being made nightly by a group of men and women in Washington, District of Columbia. These ' people, all believers in the power of , sorcery, sit in a ring round a small cushion image of Hitler, sticking pins, needles and nails into it. At the same time they chant the following dreadful incantation: — “Instan, come and help us, we are

driving nails and needles. “We are driving pins and needles into Adolf Hitler’s heart. “We are driving nails and needles, we are driving pins and-nee-dles. “Cats will claw his heart in darkness, dogs will bite it in the night.” Leader of the group is Mr. Richard upper, who says that its women members make the best witches. Blood-Curdling. ; “They rasp out incantations that curdle your blood as they stick things into the doll’s vitals,” he said. The ritual of the anti-Hitler sessions was planned on the recommendation of William Seabrook, of New York world authority on witchcraft. Mr. Seabrook says that if Hitler hears about them he may worry himself into a bad spell, and perhaps into the grave. The history of witchcraft, he adds, 1 records many cases of people being ruined by the knowledge of attempts to cast a spell on them. And Mr. Tupper hopes that thousands of people all over the world will form similar witchcraft circles with •he great ideal of casting the worst possible spell on Adolf.