THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, FEBRUÁRY, 14, 1959.
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...the armada that sailed round the world...into annihilation
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"I ran below again, followed by the bo'sun, who had nearly reached the bottom of the ladder when he fall back. I'm shot-- my bands are affl
"I turned to help him, but
another shell burst, tearing away the flesh of my, left arm." The Crane was taking the brunt of the fire, shell after shelt striking home,
DAYLIGHT...
T
Joseph Alfred Smith, the skipper's son, was asleep when the guns storied flring, and shot came through the fo'c'sic, extinguishing the light above his head.
When he rushce up on deck he imagined it was daylight. The boat's engineer, John Nixon, was staring at Almond, who had been hit again, in the head this time.
Young Smith's father WAS already dead, lying across the deck headless, and the third hand had similarly beca de- capitaled
Most of the rest
of the crow had
been wounded, and there was blood all
over the wet fo'c'sle
of the Crane,
The
WI 5
Arst
mate frantically waving a red lamp with one hand and trying to launch the other, trawler's boat with the-
Rescue under Are: Fishermen from the Gull come to the aid of the crew
of the sinking Crane. An artist's impression.
ANXIETY
IN DOWNING-ST.
COSENÍS AND GOING OF MINISTERR
DRFTINGTM
*HQ DRIFT
UNSATISFACTORY REPORT
FROM RUSSIA.
The Brest auto of the dut." To
dos bot to shop the 4
How the
BRITISH SHIPS FIRED ON
"
BY
RUSSIAN FLEET.
EXTRAORDINARY, OUTRAGĖ IN THE NORTH SEA.
HULL FISHING STEAMERS RAKED BY THE BALTIC FLEET WITH SHOT AND SHELL WITHOUT WARNING
"
· Ons Trawler Sunk, ánother Hissing, and others Damaa with Loss of Life~Many Wounded-Amaiing Actio apparently Due to Fear of Attack by Japanese Riddled Flest Returns to Hall with s Dead-Statements_by_Sa
FIGHT UNTIL
DEATH"
HOW RUSSIAN ADMIRAL WOULD HAVE HIT THE BESTUSI
THE DAMAGED SHIPT *Extern". Beaded Companion ;)
The Aww byly squadron qu Abrar Dan Jake and parts
tattoo
CONFLICT
OF
MINISTERS
STRANGE POSITION
THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL
ADMIRALTY HOLDBA
THE CZAR BUCH SHOCKED BY THE NEWS OF THE DISASTER.
JAUSSIAN SURPRI
CENSOR. WITHHELI THE TRUTH OF THE STORY.
#PITMATI Kator, eyes. The of 2001ately the
How to sproperty
The wrath of Britain is aroused: Same of the newspaper headlines that followed the attack of the Russian Fleet
on the British fishing · trawlers.
War fever sweeps Britain -Vengeance is the cry
But the winch had been riddled by shellarc and the trawler was already sinking.
The barrage died only when the Russian gunners thought they recognised a more serious for advancing on them-in fact their own cruisers-though the 12-pounder and six-pounder fre sill remained heavy of the and Mino Moulmein,
Gull, steamed towards the stricken Crane in an attempt to take oft the wounded and the dead before she sank.
In the cruisers
stuff had been busy.
A hit or two had been inevit- able at the close range and both ships had been struck in the upper works.
pleased
beneath the
denize
with its performance, It had been a hectic night.
From vantage points all along the south coast of England ag far west as Shoreham, small, In the Aurora a gunner had curious crowds gathered, watch- Chaplaining the fleet steaming down been injured, and
mortally wounded Channel "by 45mm. shell which black cloud of its own smoke, through the priest's lugging the three-mile limit as from reassurance cabin and through the priest if seeking
Britannia's night. Then did In it."
not know that these ships hod Comprehension of the double almost embroiled their country
in a war..
Afanasy the medical
The Uryol alone had fred over 500 shells and there had been sevun big ships in the line, ul One time all firing on the cruisers Aurora and Donskoy.
• BY
WAY
THE •
By Beachcomber
PROFESSOR of the
Uni-
versity of Prophetstown,
Illinois, has completed
A
went
blunder they
were committing carme slowly to the Russlan squadron. The torpedo boats which they Imagined had mixed- In with the shing boats had clearly been drives off, and only scattering of badly battered trawlers was milling about like doomed moths in the glare of the searchlights.
1
INDIGNATION
At the same time, on
huddled on the quay when sho come alongside,
Like any fishing port, Hull Was Accustomed Lo sudden death; but this was a new sort of disaster that for the mament
no one understood. The wayo of indignation gathered momentum slowly. That night a depulation of Hull fishermen representing the Gamecock Fleet was taken to London on the night mall by the local M.P., Sir Henry Seymour King, and soon after breakfast Towards midday the second they presented themselves al division of battleships Halted the Foreign Office. opposite Erighton's new Palace Pier beside à pair of walting colllers and took on coal. For two and a half hours the tower- ing superstructures
and heavy gun turrets,
dark the stocky silhouettes of the bigger ships were clearly visible and drew several thousands to the pier and the beach and the railings of the Marine Parade.
In the afternoon the Suvoroff, the followed by her three sister
treatise on "D. II. Lawrenee's bridge of the Suvoroft the ships, hove to of Rotting- Use Of The Comma."
of
signals from the confused and dean. But still only the fisher- thoroughly frightened Enkvist, men of the Gamecock Fleet The reviewer who is at a loss who had been returning the hail know of the night attack in the for something to say can asseri
Aro with equal "wild en North Sca. confidently that "This wil be thusiasm, were at last recognis the sub-ed as
Tabulevitch, a system ject, worthy of a place on the used only In the Russian Navy, shelf beside 'Kufka's Syllables.
the standard work on
Fossilized food
vegetables
Five hours after the last bat-
over tleship disappeared
the horizon down Channel the
Use of and Rozhestvensky ordered the Moulmein, with her fly at half
bugler to sound the ceasefire.
mast, led the damaged trawlers injo Hull harbour.
There were no further alarms. The feet did no more than curry The news of the disaster had
PEOPLE who complain that away the trawls of the next preceded her, the wounded hav- fossilised by fishing fleet through which it ing been landed from a hospi- freezing have no taste may live curved its way at four o'clock tal ship cartier in the afernoon, there wero groups of to sigh for the days when food and continued south-west neros and tasted
of nothing. Thu cam-
the North Sea, a shade unlasy enxious relatives and friends, but on the whole and a scattering of reporters,
paign of the scientists and Perhaps.
new-
chemists against food is in its infancy, and one day units of eating personnel will be con- fronted with irradiated battery- eggs which will remain laid for 10 years, retaining the subtle taste of scorched rubber, For the word "menu" substitute "body-fuet intake."
Another "deterrent"
WITH a delicacy unmatched
of
in the annala of germ- warfare preparation the selen- tists at the Chemical Defence Experimental Station have been rather quiet about reports their latest triumph; a deter- rent germ which can be cheaply produced, will polson food and water, and will destroy the population of a whole country in a few hours. Now if is up to somebody to say that the new "deterrent" will be used only for peaceful purposes. Anyhow, If every country can afford this germ, "parity"" will soon reached.
Aceglamourampireltes
CRICKETERS
must.
have
WEEKEND Friell
INTOLERABLE
The Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, was away, and it was left to two of his officials to ask for evidence of the at- tack that was already head- lined in every morning news- paper In Europe.
splinters
from
their pockets,
and that seemed to satisfy the Foreign Office,
For the British people the Incident" con- "Dogger Bank tained gredients
all the necessary in- for a national feast of furious outrage.
very
mind of the
Government, liko Lord Charles Beresford, with the mind of the nation, is made his flag on the Caesar, hod un- up." stated The Times. Justice der his command the Victorious, Jupivor was demanded-immediate jus-, Hannibal, Illustrious, Ilme, brcked up by all the power Magnificent, Majestic, and Mars, as formidable as they sounded of the Empire.
and cach more than a match for
In the evening the war fever the Suvoroff. mounted with an Admiralty
statement announcing that. "After the receipt of the
Ammunition chambers, stores. bunkers were quickly and the cruisers
nows and
of the tragedy in the North Sen, replenished
and
preliminary orders for mutual Theseus, Endymion, Doris
Hermes detached to shadow the support and co-operation were, Russian feet. "Situation criti-
06
A measure of precaution, cal," was the Admiral's fore- issued by the Admiralty to the well message." "Good luck."
Mediterranean, Channel and Hoche Flects."
THE LESSONS
Gibraltar was put on n war
This was received everywhore There
were deputations to
with satisfaction In the know- members of Parliament, to
ledge that the Royal Navy was Downing Street, and the Ad- miralty. The NAVY
must ready, aye ready-great, grey footing and the dozen battle- deal with this wretched Rus-men-of-war slipping silently to ships and 44 supporting cruisers, gunboats were sca heading for their secret destroyers, and sian admiral fellow....
visits to Italian rendezvous lu battle formation, recalled from decks cleared for action, live and Austrian ports. Now was the time to 5cc
By the evening of October 20 shells in the breeches, British come return for the millions Lars alert for the enemy: this there were in all 28 balticships spent un ironclads...."Jackie" Fisher
would teach 'em, he'd wis the very stuff of jingalam, a with steam up or already at sen
and to intercept late' autumn harvest of heroics.
destroy the bal madman and have tradl stop
Second Puclfic Squadron at a shot ns him
a.murderer. "Is Nor was reality so very word from Whitehall. wretched Baltic
Fleet different from
this romantic to be permitted to tinue Its operation?" the Standard, "with inemetent commanders, drafts of row landsmen, blundering navigators, and incompetent engineers;
110 a country at the peak of its power and wealtli, with ancient maritime flons, dependent on the sea for
its trade, possessing the greatest merchant and naval flects the world had ever known, the at- tack was intolerable.
this
THE
Rozhestvensky was now "the, con pleture. From all sideg the ham of a strategic sandwich" as asked massive strength of the Royal
A
satisfied correspondent to
its Navy closed in on the bally Tho Times put it. But the its scurrying down Channel.
Thunderer's opposite number fri Its
St. Petersburg "considered that The Home Flect under Vice- "th lessone of the first days Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson with of the war have not been wast- cight battleships and four cd, and the new and treacher- cruisers left at once for Port- ous attack by the Japanese has
in reserve were brought to a pitiless eye of our Admiral and state of readiness.
the straight dre of our guns."
BRINK... land, and the eight battleships been met by the vigilant and
There was little fear of Rus- sia in Britain at the turn of the century; but like any noisy, marouding, predatory beast, the bear had to be kept in order. That it should dare to are on and sink British trawlers" ön their lawful occasions and kill innocent fisherfolk, Was an affront to national pride.
On the morning of October 25, Trafalgar Square was Alled Britain became suddenly aware with protesting crowds that that the incident had developed evening, and the Russian Am- into a serious crisis, and that in brasador was booed as he left fact the country was on the brink of war with Russia. "The
"It's up at Hull," one of the nahermen told them: "Two headless trunks," They were able to produce some shell his embassy.
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"I'm not patrolling in that fog again.
I've been cautioned twice already by Constable Clotby,"
ASINO
MIES GORDON?:
read with mixed feelings the news that girls are to be treed as umpires. Those who, agonising take the gamu with seriousness will wonder how a bowler will keep his mind on the garne with a giggling, wide- long-glancing umpireite so close to him--and Ja backless whzito gown! And many à captain will have to request aquaro leg to remove his arm from the second umpiretto's waist. Only a bateman with a heart of stone will be able to control his
notion when
melodious volcs answers an appeal with n
smile, and two litt
whispered vörde;:"Not out”
· London Rochessa Bervice.
FRANCIPALITY
OF MOMAIG
Parliament Suspended kkorder from Rangier
"You may
call it a paloca colip, Adrion. I think
may be a coup de Grace.
BRICK. BRADFORD
-POLICE-OFFICERE, MISS PARKER, THRY ARE PROM THE BUR
QOFF
WHO I
BY HOKEY OLD CREEP AINT KIDDING. HERE COMES THE LAYY, AND \THEY'RE LOOKIN' IN MY/
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WHICH IS A STROKE OF
| LUCK FÖR JONES..
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