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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937
Naval Appointments
The following appointments have been nude by the Admiralty:-
Cdr.-8. F. Galsford St. Law rence, to Verner för course. (Jan. 27).
Lt-Cdra. (E).-J. H. Jerkins, to Dolphin (Jan. 13), and 8, V. Jack- man, to Mohawk (Feb. 1).
Payr, Lt.-Cdr.-Y. E. Rusby, President for duty in N.I.D., Ad- miralty (Feb. 25).
Lits-A D Lenox-Coningham, to Folkestone (undated); C. W. W. H Paine, to Woolston (Jan. 14); W. A. M. Batten, to Pembroke for R.N.B. (Jan. 41; C. W. B. Milner, to Courageous, and -. C. J. T. Stephens, to Furious (Jan. 18); and
Aircraft Carrier For
China
HMS. Eagle, hitherto in reserve nt Devonport, will complete dock- ing there about the middle of this month, and will subsequently com-
UNLIMITED
PACIFISM
Lord Russell's New Book
MR. SOMERSET FITZROY
(Continued from Pare 1)
"Mr. Fitzroy was called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple in January, 1910. During However one may disagree with | the War, he rejoined as “an omcer bim, Lord Russell is always good in the Royal Navy, and served on reading If only for his limpid style the Admiralty War Staff, re- and the manner, at the same time
ceiving the special thanks of my
miralty in 1918. Mr. Fitzroy is not a stranger to practising in the Far East, as he is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, to which he was admitted on July 7, 1924. While in Hong Kong, he held the appointment of Fublie Prosecutor, and Assistant Attorney General in the Colony of Hong Kong from 1937 to 1932. He has also been admitted, as a member of the Bar of the Colony of Jamaica in 1938.
mission for service or the China | Provocative and stimulating, in Lords Commissioners of the Ad- Station in place of the Hermes, this which he elaborates his arguments In "Which Way to Peace?" by commission of which expires at Bertrand Russell (Michael Joseph. the end of April. The Eagle will).79: P1.), his contribution to the leave for the Far East late in Feb ruary.
L. A. Wright, to &L Omar, in Commissioning, after a year at the man to discuss the various policies. mand (Jan, 18)..
Lleuts. (E)-I C. Howden, to Titania (Jan. 1); 8. M. Terry, to Lucia (Jan. 12); and R. L. W. Clark, to St. Angelo (Jan. 29).
Surgn, Lieut-D. Ewart, M.B.. transferred to Emergency List
(Jan., 12).
Pay. L-H. P. J. L Appleyard.
to Eagle (Jan. 27),
Sub-LM. A. M. Bruce to Havock (Jan. 20).
Cd. Elect.-W. Hough, to Vernon (Jan. 13).
Gunner (T).-F. A. Cobb, to Icarus (Jan. 11).
Bosn.-C. Lace, to Victory. Wt. Engr.-R. D. Glenn, to I. 26 (Jan. 9).
Wa Fects-F. G. Anderson, to Birmingham (Jan. 15); and A. F. Cavell, to London (Jan. 15).
Retirement
Lt-G. V. Armstrong, placed on the Retd. List (Jan. 10).
Royal Naval Reserve Lt. (Retd.).-R. T. C. Stephens, promoted to L.-Cdr. (Retd.) (seny. Dec. 30, 1938).
Sub-Lt.. L. Dunkley, promoted to Lt (seny. Dec. 19, 1936).
Mid.-F. P. Monckton. promoted to Act. Sub-Lt. (seny, Dec. 30. 1935). Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Surgh. Lts.-W S. Miller. M.E. and R. V. Jones, M.B., commissions terminated on transfer to RN,
To
(Jan. 794.
COMMAND OF THE CURACOA
Captain E. D B. McCarthy is assume commander of HM.S. Curaçca, gunnery and torpedo school cruiser at Portsmouth, in succession to Captain R. 8. G. Nicholson, DB.C. He comes from the command of the aircraft car-
causa of peace, after briefly ex- pressing himself as to the immin- Captain Clement Moody assumes
ent danger of war and surveying command of the Eagle on recom: the nature of such war, he goes perial Defence College. Up to Jan- by which it is hoped that Great uary, 1936, he commanded HMS. Britain will be able to avoid parti Curacos, gunnery
torpetto
cipation or at least ensure being school cruiser at Portsmouth.
on the Wining side. Commander· R. Oliver-Bellasis, from the staff course, has joined the Eagle in command until she recommissions, when he will be-
and
come executive officer with Cap tain Moody. The Eagle has al- ready served one commission in China, in 1933-34. COMMANDERS FOR ADMIRALTY
Commander P. F. Cooper, late
Assistant to the Maintenance Cap- tain at Malta, is appointed to, the Intelligence Division, Admiralty. Commander G. F. Renwick, pro- moted in June last, while borne in the Nelson, additional for duty with No. 1 Gunnery Cooperation Fight. RAF.. is to join the Naval Air Division; and Commander J. G. Roper, from the staff cours Joins
the Plans Division.
These are set down as isolation ism, collective security, alliances, and "expedients," and in none of them does he perceive aught but objections. For one reason ht.
Your Lordship has before you the documents in support of Mr. Fitzroy's application:-his pass- Fort: his certificate of call to the
like many others he cites the Bar of England; a certificate by "Army, Navy, and Air Force Ga- the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong that Mr. Fitzroy is "zette" on severni occasions has no
an the roll of the Court and is a belief in the power of navies to
fit and proper person to practice withstand attack from the air. Ar
there; a certificate by the Registrar
Curious Effect
of the Supreme Court of Jamaica that Mr. Fitzroy is a member of the Bar of that Court in good
mentions the American experiment with the Ostfriesland, which was sent to the bottom of the sea "by aircraft (near missiles from misses) which had not even touch-standing; and a certificate by the Attorney General of Jamaica, dated ed her." He continues wittily:-
October 6, 1936, that he is well ac- quainted with Mr. Fitzroy" for n year during which he was practis- "The effect of this discovery uping in Jamaica and that he is of on British policy has been curious. good moral character and aft It has not led to a discontinuance and proper person to be enrolled of battleship construction; on the
as a member of the Law Society of contrary, we are still spending for
British Columbia. more on naval building than on new aeroplanes. A battleship, after air, has its uses: It gives work to the unemployed, profits to a num cession to her sister-ship theber of capitalists, pleasure to ad- Delhi, Captain C. Farquhar-Smith. mirals, and pain only to tax- R.AN. The Delhi had been there payers. since the departure of the Valiant: But the real purpose of the au- or November 4, and has now left for Malta...
DUTY IN PALESTINE ELM.S. Despatch. Captain W. L. Jackson. D.8.0.. has arrived at Hallo to take over the charge of paval duties in Palestine, in suc-
AMERICA STATION CRUISES H.M.8. York, flagship of Admiral the Hon. Sir Matthew Best on the América and West Indies Station, is to leave Trinidad, and for the next two months will be cruising off the East Coast of South Am erica. HMS Apollo leaves Nas- sau for Great Inagua Island and, Kingston, Jamaica, H.M.S. Dragon will leave Bermuds for ports in rier Pegasus at the Nore, in which Jamaica, and from January 23 to he also succeeded Captain Nichol- 29 will visit the Cayman Islands son. Although she will shortly The sloops Dundee, and Scar- enter ber twentieth year of service, borough are at Kingston, Jamaica, the Curagoa still performs useful until January 11 and 18 respec- training work. In 1918, command-Lively.
ed by Captain (now" Admiral Bir} Barry Domile she was the fingship of Rear-Admiral Tyrwhitt in the Harwich Force.
SERVICE CONDITIONS
thor, which is developed in the latter portion of the book, is to ad- vocate absolute refusal to fight at all on the grounds that the worst that could happen to us in such circumstances would be pre- ferable to what would certainly happen to us in the event of parti cipating in war, even if we weze ultimately victorious. As a mat ter of fact, he is optimistic as to the results of such unlimited pack- fim. making great play with the instance of Denmark, whose very he contends. defencelessness is. her best protection against an- nexation by Germany.
Many Inconsistencies
"I trust that your Lordship will be entirely satisfied, as the Crown Advocate is in presenting Mr. Fitzroy to you through myself, that
Mr. Fitzroy is. both professionally and personally. eminently quall- ned for admission to practice as a member of the Bar of this Court." "Mr. Fitzroy," said Judge Grant- Jones. "I have much pleasure in admitting you to practice in this Court and I wish you success in the further prosecution of your dis- tinguished career. I observe with pleasure that you are a member of the same Honourable Society as myself.”
Mr. Fitzroy then signed the roll.
SPANISH CIVIL. WAR ACTIVITY
Madrid, Jan. 25.
The chief activity of the cfvi? war over the week-end, it is re-
capital..
But this argument completely ignores the fact that the real pio- The Admiralty have now
retection of Denmark, just as of ported belatedly, consisted of aerial. ceived reviews of service conditions Holland and Belgium, are the arm-and artillery bombardments of the from a number of commands. Coned forces of the great nations, who Captain McCarthy was promoted sideration of them is being begun would make such annexation a Insurgent planes have been busy, In June, 1935, when executive as they are received, but no de- casus belli with Germany. In 1864, also, raiding eastern coast towns. officer のぎ the aircraft carrier cisions can be given until the re- when such condition did not ob-
The Government claims that a Furious. He served in torpedo views in all commands have been tain, Germany had no scruples raid by insurgent planes over craft throughout the War, in completed and examined Full in- about helping herself to a portion Madrid on Sunday was repulsed torpedo-boat No. 17, the destroyers vestigation of all the requests will of Danish territory, and just as by anti-aircraft guns and that Contest. Ferret, and Lurcher, and necessarily require some time, and much as she thought could safely Government planes, pursuing the the Botilla leader Montrose. He since it may prove possible to be appropriated.
enemy, brought down one of the has attended courses at both the reach decisions on some of them Naval and Military Staff Colleges.
at an esiller date than on others, their lordships propose to pro- mulgate their decíalons by instal- Inents and then finally to capitulate them in a single order"
BELGIAN PIT STRIKE
Brussels, Jan. 25. Work was resumed at most of the Belgian pit heads to-day. Reports from the Charlerols and Borinage districts, however, show that there was some communist agitation and this has succeeded In prolonging the strike among certain sections of thé miners.— Transocean News Service.,
COMMUNIST CAUGHT WITH JEWELLERY
Paris, Jan. 25. French Customs officers at the railway station in the Franco- Catalonian frontier, to-day arrest ed a spanian communist who was in possession of jewellery valued at one million franes Transocean News Serince.
FRENCH TROOPS
IN SPAIN?:
Toledo, Jan. 25, A report issued from the head- quarters of the Nationalist Troops states that the French Regulars, belonging to Regiment Nos, 4 and 140, had been observed among the Red forces operating on the Bilbao front
Trantorena News Servlów
MORE FOREIGNERS LEAVE SIAN
י
Mr. Karl Hill Shortly To
Depart For Saiyuan
In other respects Lord Russell is raiders- inconsistent. For example: "The | British Wirden. Spanish rebels are a brutal military oligarchy, supported by savage Moorish and foreign mercenariés,
Finally, the author is quite frank: attempting to suppress by force a legally-constituted Government." about the fact that his own atti- But elsewhere, when debating at tude is not actuated by any high some length the principle of obedi- | moral principles. It is, he thinks ence to law, he writes "Obedience merely stupid to fight in a hopeless to law must have its limits;" "AJ- most all great advances have in volved Megality:" and that "No ane can maintain an absolute principle of obedience to constitut- ed authority."
cause. Nor is he a believer gener- ally in the doctrine of non-resis tance. His belier in absolute pa- cifism; is limited to the present time and depends upon the des tructiveness of air warfare."
African Chiefs
Chiefs And The Coronation
Another batch of foreigners consisting of six Italians, one Spaniard and one Briton, lett Sian on Thursday by a Eurasia nero- plane, according to the "North China Daily News" of January 23. Taking of at 11.10 a.m. they ar- rived in Nanking at 5.45 p.m. the same day. DURANGA JES
The 15 foreigners who arrived in Shanghai early on Thursday It is officially acknowledged chiefs stand much where they did morning after baving been that my statement that no Afri- then, but, their status in every
} evacuated from Slan, are by now can chiefs have been invited to other respect is much superior. and it is absurd to pretend that settled in various parts of the the Coronation is true, writes a
ty, some of them making per- London correspondent. The rea- native rulers of the quality of Sir parations to leave for home, and son given for not inviting them is Ofori Atta, of the Gold Coast others simply waiting here until that the King is following the Tshakedi Khams, of Bechuana- conditions in Blan permit them to precedent set by his father at his land, and King David, of Uganda. travel there once again.
Coronation. In 1911- Then no are not good enough to stand be African chiefs were invited. add, nay, chiete from Malaya who Precedent naturally and pro- are coming to the Coronation! What seems to clinch the cale perly governs much in the Corona
The leader of the party, Mr. Karl HL is staying at the New Asia Hotel for a week or so, and is then leaving for Bulyman, where tion, but those people who know for inviting the African chiefs is his family is situated. He is used the African native races and their that they themselves, or some of to enduring hardships, as he was chiefs best believe it would be a them, want to come to London member of the expedition into serious blunder to allow the pre- and there is no evidence that they the Gobi Desert taking place from cedent of 1911 to apply auto- did want to come in 1911. When matically to-day, and strong the King knows this he, we may 1933 to 1935,
efforts wir be made in Parliament be sure, will want them to come, t get the decision reversed too. That seems to have hap
pened la that the Colonial once Labouring a Precedent The position is not what it was has just anreflectingly accepted.
1911 Constitutionally the the 1911 precedent
The foreigners who arrived here on Thursday Included British. American, Italian, French, Nor- wegian, Swedish, Russian. Danish. and German nationals.
In