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ACTION FOUGHT BY BLIND MEN.
STEEL MOUNTAINS CHARGED WITH DEATH.
NIGHT BATTLE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
"LIKE CRYSTAL PALACE ON FIREWORK NIGHT!"
[The following graphic account of a mimic night action "fought by the British Fleet in the Mediterranean was written for the "Dally Express" by Mr. H. V.Morton.]
Wako me when the battle be
Very good, sir:"
My Marine servant never em ployed the naval "Aye-aye, sir.' Whether this was a personal pecu- liarity or a Marine tradition I never knew.
I went on deck It was 1 p.m. and saw the Fleet ploughing dark waters by the light of a half-moon. Destroyers chaperoned us on port and starboard: and we swung be- tween them with a hiss of water like grey mammoths. Gun crews were sleeping at action stations. Miles away the enemy fleet was advancing in the same formation under the same queer little half-moon. A
pretty night to play at death.
I went below and, dipping my |head te clear the hammocked mid
shipmen strung up like sausages in a delicatessen store, gained my cubia.
Mystic Noises,
the
ton
General Quarters,
thirty. Below decks and in steel The normal stairways are shut. turrets over thirteen hundred men work in blind obedience. All they I climb through steci manholes like know of action is a voice on the those used by sewage experts in telephone, a cail down a speaking pavements. I grope my way in pitch tube, the dicker of an arrDW Over darkness to the deck. The mocn has gone. The vast ship is washed dial. The men locked up in the in a faint green light of stars. It steel gun turrets load their
shells into
gigantic steel is cold Ghostly groups stand aile mouths but they do not fire them! round anti-aircraft guns. The hig
They make an electric signal that grey gun turrets revolve with an
their guns are loaded, and the guns cily soft motion and inside I can
are äred from a remote spot. The sot crews crouched before luminous dials in the light of one ominous gunners do not know whether they have hit or missed! All they know is that they must train their gung blue electric balb. The thing is
at a certain angle, load them, and unrent It is like some uncanny I look over
Below the water-line the report. host story of the sen. the starlit waters. The Fleet is torpedo crews stand in the same steaming in pitch darkness. Ahead mathematical obedience. I can see the grey bulk of the flag- ship. Astern rises a thing Hike a grey cathedral with a thin spire: the shadow of our next in line. Away on our bows ride distant shapes, low in the water, moving stealthily like a darker part of the sea-our destroyers.
I plugged my ears to cut out the incidental noises of a battleship. A There is nothing more sinister, liner creaks and shakes. Her wood- more full of fearful potentiality work is always in protest. A bat-than a feet darkened for action tleship just ploughs ahead with a forging on with grim persistence steady part of propellers. But in into the night. What on earth stead of the creaking of woodwork would some nascent merchant ship you have awful metallic interrup- I think to find herself suddenly among tions. Things bang, tick and clang these unlit mountains? And the The tinned air makes a rushing guns are never still! Their tremen- sound day and night. Vaat tinned dous fingers bore, round the sky voices megaphone themselves; bei sink, rise again, and grope blindly lowing orders to gun crews and for something. settling at last with beat crews, through loud speakers. deliberate, cold-blooded certainty And if the engines stop you can on some part of the night. hear the tramp of the Marine sentry pacing through the lonely Fatches between the festooned midshipmen; A relic of the eighteenth century when officers had to be protected from the fury of their seamen..!
I climbed into bed and read Mr.
A Naval Centże.
But the bridge is a nerve centre. Messengers come and go.
Men speak in jerky, unfinished sentences as they peer out through night glasses. Ferie voices come up from the depths in speaking tubes. And all round in the darkness queer instruments which seem to have a fe of their own tick monotonous- ly. Moonlike luminous compasses goggle and grin.
"Destroyer action ahead, sir." is a glow of light and a star shell.
On the extreme edge of the sea
watch intently.
The muted forms on the bridge
Cruisers in action on the port bow n
The same glow and more fre works. Ther the voice of a mid- On the Bridge.
chipman, a treble public school Come along ... things are voice, very urgent and important happening! Follow me!*
from the darkness:
A muffled form dives at me from the shadow of a turret, and we Hedfield Farthing's excellent go swaying doubtfully in the dark- ness. The ship, which seems 50 new book on gardening strange dead, is terribly alive. In steel book to read in a battleship and turrets men are speaking down (Forgive me, Mr. Farthing) fel!, tubes, repeating orders, reading asleep.
Bang-bang-bang! **Sirf "
"Who's that?"
The lights are on in my cabin I see my servant with a gas mask swinging against his chest:
Call to action stations, sir?" (And I was dreaming roses!)
What time is it?" "Three ack ema, sir.
1 fing clothes on and go out to watch night battle, The great ship has changed since I went to bed. It has been "darkened" for action
dials.
We come to darkened laddera They lead to the bridge.
If you cannot endure suspense keep away from the bridge of a battleship in a night action! Here £7,000,000 worth of steel. All the tre the eyes and braing of
nerves of the ship are gathered in this high platform. One word from this spot, and nine tons of death can be flung at the horizon. One word, and the mammoth can, slow down o leap ahead.
The few men on the bridge, and on the still higher foreton, are the only men who see anything of a naval battle. Perhaps there are
Diary of Coming
To-day. (May 14.)
Garrison Rifle Meeting, Kowloon City Range, 3.15 am.
China Bugar Refining Co. Ltd. (in Voluntary Liquidation) Extra- ordinary general meeting, Mears. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, Board Room, noon,
Sanitary Board meeting, 4.35 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "No other Woman."
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World Theatre. "The Patey." At 30, and 7.16, Chinese Pictura "Yang Kwei Foo."
Star Theatre: "The "Danger Gir
Tea Danote: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula, Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
European Maile:Ontward: Europe via Maraeilles (Hector), 4.30 p.m.; Europe vid Vancouver, B.C., 5 p.m.; and via Biberia; 8 p.m. (Empress of Asia).
wednesday. (May 15.) Garrison Rifle Meeting, Kowloon City Range, 9.30 am.
Queen's Theatre: * No Other Woman."
World Theatre: "Let WornAT Alond." At 2.80 and 7.15, Chinese Picture Yang Kwei Foo."
Star Theatre: Becky,"
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
European Mail: Outward: Europe vid San Francisco (Siberia Maru), 8.30 a. 31.
Thursday, (May 18.) Property Auction: (31-39, Austin Road, Kowloon) Mesars. Lammert Bros., Auction Rootha, 3 p.m.
Opening of New Billiard Room, Chinese Sports Club, King's Build- ing, 6.30 p.z.
Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacks." World Theatre: "Let Women Alone." At 230 and 115, Chinese Picture" Yang Kwei Foo."
Star Theatre: Becky," Tea Danoes: HK Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Danes: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
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Friday, (May 18.) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am
B.K. Jockey Club: Half yearly general meeting, H.K, Club annex, 5.10 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacker." World Theatre: "The Street Angel"
Star Theatre: "A Kiss. for Cinderella."
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Suspicious object on our star- board bow, sir!"
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I gaze out but can see nothing. No one pays any attention! Then the public school voice again, even. more urgently...
Suspicious object on our star- board how, sir!"
No answer. I can see nothing but the smooth motion of the sea, but I wish some one would verify the midshipman! After all, young eyes, you know! His voice, again; this time tense with excitement:
"There They Are!! "Suspicious object, on our star- board bow, sir!
The dark senior forms against the stars at last pay attention:
Who is that idiot?'' growle one. "Suspicious object be damned !" growls another. It's one of our own destroyers!".
(Continued on Page 9.)
Events.
Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.
Saturday:
(May 17.) Happy Valley..
Extra Race Meeting,
Fifth
Golf: Whitsuntide Meeting, Fan- ling.
Lawn Bowls:-Division I.: Kow- toon Docks v. Civil Service, Crai- gengower v. Recreio, Police v. Kow Icon C.C., Taikoo . Kowloon Bowl- ing Green. Division II. Recreio 7. Craigengover, Civil Service v. H.K. Electric, Kowloon Bowling Groen. Taikoo.
Division:
Lawn Tennis:--"A" M.B.K.. Chinese R.C., Craigan. gower". H.K.C.C. Kowloon Č.C. 1. Recreio, South China 7. Univer- sity. "B" Division: Kowloon C.C. R.E. and RS., Recreio v. Hong Kong C.C., University. Nippon, Y.M.C.A.. South China, Indian R.C... Chinese R.C. "C" Divi- sion: R.AO.C. . H.K.C.C., Re creio e, Craigongower, Chinese R.C. . South China, Civil Service e. Indian R.C.
Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacks." World Theatre: The
"Street Angel.".
Star Theatre: "A Kisa for Cinderella."
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and 'Peninsula Hotel 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p..
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