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EFFICIENCY OF HUNS AS MODEL
RUTHLESS DISCIPLINE, IS ESSENTIAL THROUGHOUT THE ARMY IF WE ARE TO BEAT THE HUNS, WHOSE ARMY MUST BE TAKEN AS THE ONLY "YARDSTICK” OF EFFICIENCY WORTH WHILE. {
Lieutenant-General H. E. Franklyn, who has recently taken command of the British troops in Northern Ireland, expressed this view as military exercises were held in Ulster.
"The German fighting|
machine is experienced, SAILOR
self-confident
and well
led," he said. "The Ger- GUNS A
man soldiers are hard,
ruthless and determined; TOWN
they fight at 100 per cent. up to breaking-point and then crack suddenly.
A sailor, drunk, opened | fire on the town of Peel, Isle of Man, with a Lewis gun m
mounted on a fishing vessel.
At Peel, Henry
McLeod GII-
"On the whole he represents pretty tough proposition, and we have to be a pretty tough proposi. tion to take him on successfully.
"We must achieve a standard of discipline where nothing but the best is good enough. What mour, 40, of Cross Street, Fleet- ever the conditions. the faults, wood, Lancs, was gaoled for two the carelessness and the slackness months and fined £10 for "being on the training ground, they will, in possession of a loaded firearm." be reproduced with tragic fidelity on the battlefeld.
"Entirely Ruthless"
no
"There must be
second. best. Discipline must be entirely ru'hless, but to obtain the most valuable form of discipline cheerful discipline-the reason for this ruthlessness must be explain- ed to all ranks and kept well in forefront of their minds."
A lieutenant attached to the Fascist detention camp at Peci said he was fishing from the breakwater when Gilmour open- ed fire, sending some bullets into the water and others over the town.
AUTOMATIC FIRE BOMB ALARM NOW
An automatic elec- trical device has been designed which gives warning of an incen- diary bomb before the bomb can set fire to protected premises.
The device is intend- ed for
use in houses and small industrial premises.
Wires
forming a
closed circuit cross the area to be protected and
give warning
when broken.
THE
GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE
IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY NORTHCOTE WILL MAKE THEIR OFFICIAL FARE- WELLS AT QUEEN'S PIER AT "Now they are all finished: no, 9.30 AM. TO-MORROW WHEN there must be some more," Gil-THEY WILL ALSO BE GLAD TO mour shouted.
SEE ANY FRIENDS NOT OTH- Nathan Smith, the skipper, said¦ERWISE I VITED. ALL ARE He gave this example of the he left the gun ammunition in an ASKED TO BE AT THE PIER
box when he highest form of discipline: "Last unlocked
went NOT LATER THAN 9.25 A.M. Gilmour had been drink- May when my division was being ashore,
His Excellency and Lady North- hard-pressed on the Ypres-Com-ing and went to the gun to see if cote will leave Government House mines Cunal. I was given a bat- it was working.
shortly before 9.30 a.m. and pro- talion of the Grenadier Guards asį The magistrates expressed con- ceed to the Pier via Garden Road, a reserve.
cern that a vessel with guns and | Queen's Road, Jackson Road and ammunition had been left unpro- | Connaught Road. They will be tected.
preceded by motor cycle escort of the Hong Kong Police; the route will be temporarily closed to Vehicular Traffic by the Police. On arrival at Queen's Pier, will inspect a Guard of Honour provided by the Middlesex Regiment.
They Won Through
"After marching over twenty miles on a very hot day they arrived at my headquarters at 7 p.m.
An hour and a quarter later they were put Into a vita! counter-attack in the half-dark. over unknown ground. They advanced as efficiently as if on a field day at Pribright, Surrey; --and their efforts were com pletely successful."
FIVE IN A BED IN His Excellency
GERMAN PRISON
After the inspection, His Ex- cellengy and Lady Northcote will say farewell to those assembled Conditions at Stalag 21 D (pri- on Queen's Pier and then embark soners of war camp) in Germany on the Governor's Barge. As the were again discussed in the Com-Barge leaves, a salute of 17 guns General Franklyn made these mons when Sir Alfred Knox re- will be fired from H.M.S. "Tamar.” points about training:
ferred to a letter from an officer which said that five officers had to
sleep in a single bed..
V
THE SOLUTION
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PHYSICAL FITNESS. We must concentrate on speed across
The Minister of War said that country. Speed and dash.. hoth physical and mental, are essential, in spite of improvements there ALERTNESS. Always be on was little doubt that the accom- the look-out. We must encourage modation was not. in accordance found a solution to the queue pro- the suspicious attitude among the with the Prisoners of War Con-blam by posting up in his window most unsuspicious, people in the vention, and a protest had been the following notice: "The first
six in queue will not be served."
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OFFENSIVE SPIRIT.-There is a real desire to get to grips with the enemy. In the lessons from
.
Crete occurs the phrase: "The Germans, as ever, showed unwill ingness to face the bayonet." Here is a trump card for us, but we must be fully prepared to play it.
U.S. WRITERS JOIN UP
One of the best written and best informed columny in the United States Press, will disappear, at Icast temporarily following the publication in the New York "Herald-Tribune" and other news papers of a farewell article by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Both these writers have decided that the present – situation calls for action rather than words, and have been accepted for service in the Naval Reserve and Army respectively.
sent to Germany,
The Honour Of
A Crook
SELF-CONFESSED ring-leader of trouble in Dartmoor Prison last January, Jack Lorraine, house- breaker, appealed from the dock at Devon Assizes on behalf of a fellow convict, Ronald Holdsworth, gunman, who was charged with him,
it has been said In this court that there is a certain amount of honour among thieves.) · That is partly true of men in Dart moor. It is more true: of them
Lorraine and Holdsworth had been found guilty of attacking another convict named Mauri with a razor. Lorraine was sentenced to twenty months imprisonment and Holdsworth to eighteen months.
"I am the ring-leader and Holdsworth, was not declared Lorraine, spy to you, as God is my maker, that if it had not been for me he would not have been where he is. Cheapthan of men outside.".
"His position is due to his screening of me," That is what is done in convict prisons.
"Honour Among®
Thieves"
"If a prisoner has a pal in prison and in any way lots him down he is likely to be snubbed by all the other prisoners.
Holdsworth was convicted in Canada for attempted suicide, shooting with intent to maim, and attempted murder while in pos- session of a revolver. He is now serving three years, forarglary and larceny font di
Lorraine is serving five years on sixty-two charges (of house- breaking