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BRITISH AIR POWER-
The debate on British air power is the culmination of one of the most vigorous political campaigns of recent years. · And what is more, the Government can offer littlo de-
Lonce to the demand for a consider able strengthening of Britain's military air power, The unrest in Europe has brought the issue to a head, but there are other factors. which have played their part, in- |cluding the recent combined air and naval manoeuvres in the North Sea and the realisation that Britain land separated from the Continent can no longer regard itself as an is-
Air development has renewed all that.
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'a
plane beaten the warship? There is a growing school of thought fully convinced that this represents the truth of the situation, and ie natural that they should point to 300 torpado-carrying the fact that 500 planes, including machines,
could be constructed at the cost of one H.M.S.. Rodney. Expert opini- on ie that even a squadron of war- ships could not withstand the at- tacks of such a float. Hence yes terday's spirited debate. It is at once obvious that greater air power is essential to British defensive equanimity and that a large pro- gramme of naval building must be embarked on with the greatest cau-
A SCOTTISH STORY OF HIS LIFE
WHAT DID WE DO IN
THE GREAT WAR?
By Maj. Gen. Edward Kelly.
'SHUN!"
*N the University Library, Cam-and who became his attached IN
bridge, in housed an ancient follower, Scottish manuscript which, even our rhyming biographer terms it.
The next miracle, or "ferlic," as 66 94 though it has been included in the in which the Saint engaged was the publications of the Scottish Text restoration to lifo
We leapt smartly to of forty men Society since 1898, does not appear who, coming by sea to hear his attention, awaying slightly to be familiar to any except a doctrines, had been drowned in n from side to side until our tempest raised by the foul dend, small company of scholars. and their bodies cast on the shere, body had recovered from the
sudden shock, but we didn't Our hat fell off with the
care. Our hair was parted solidly, with grease and our fingers were stretched along the seams of our pants.
This document consists of a where they were restored by his momentum. apostles and is couched in rhymed Sailing to Achain, or Greece, the series of lives of the saints and prayers.
Scots of the fourteenth century, apostle--for he was the first who that older dialect which, with all had been called to that divine office by the Redeemer engaged in the its remoteness, bears a closer reconversion of its inhabitants, bap semblance to the modern Scottish tising, among others, the wife of a tongue than the later phrases of certain Egeas, who, in revenge, Dunbar or Douglas. It is mani-persecuted the converts Andrew had festly drawn from "The Golden made. Confronted by the Saint, he
We allowed a faint, cynical Was admonished and enjoined, to Legend," as its writer, admits, but give up the worship of idols, which smile to play along our lips. who that writer was, save that he are "bot dendis" of which man must Nothing ostentatious-just one' was an ecclesiastic and well stricken beware. The exhortation embraces of those smiles that make girls in years, internal or other evidence a touching and almost cloquent nc-fall for us. fails to enlighten us.
count of the Last Supper and the betrayal by Iscariot, which owes not a little of its sorene beauty to the simplicity of the old Scots in which it is couched.
But the individual polnit of in- terest is that the manuscript con- tains the only account of the legend of Saint Andrew, the patron Saint
of Scotland, which has como down all Saint Andrew's divinely inspired But Egeas was contumacious, and to us in the Scottish tongue. As
such it should be infinitely precious arguments falling to move him, he and a brief resume of the legendast the apostle into prison, whence it narrates may possibly induce the
he was taken for trial and was render to seek out the volumes con-,
| condemned to death, tnining it and peruse it in the original for himself a task not too difficult for anyone who has a smattering of Scots and a little Chaucerian lore, especially if he
He was bound to n cross with cords, and it is interesting to note, in view of the particular form of the -cress we now call a "Saint Andrew's" or decusente cross, that
Ah! This was LIFE Work- ing for our King and Country, Taking our part in the defence
Empire. Enduring the same-hard- system of our grand and glorious ships that our brave Tommies underwent in the Great War.
We are referring, of course, to the fact that we were at Fanling camp last week-end. ·
tlon. The aeroplane will certainly lean on the ample glossary provided its precise shape is not mentioned alt across our. features..
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by the learned editor.
We threw our shoulders back, and allowed another faint smile to In this Scottish account. At the descended from above and environ-routine, we felt a new man. Lot height of his agony a divino light Away from the irksome office ed him about, until he yielded up them the ghost.
A NAVAL FLAG.
We.
bring out Our enomics.
voice, "Wheresyer'at? Pickitup- "Private Kolly!!!" boomed a
man! Don't stand there moonlog.
warrior, we thought, and gave our- self a surreptitious scratch in the rearguard.
However, it's all in the life of a
at Nicen, to which he had retraced his exorcism of the demonine our neighbour.
his steps. These evil spirita haunt-hounds. ed a highway in the vicinity of the town, appearing in the form of
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"Quuu-e-e-o-ck MARCH!"
oust the submarine in importance in coastal defence schemes.
St. Andrew, says our anonymous author, whose rude rhymes scarcely HOLLAND AND LEAGUE
constitate even an attempt at toler able versifications, was the brother Holland for many years. has of St. Peter, and afer the disper- made itself the spokesman of the sion of the apostles, took his way continued to work miracles, protect
Even after his death the apostle smaller powers at all League of to Nischia or Nices, but was coming a certain bishop from the Advocates of closer Imperial land, for instance, that was the pro- Murgundy, a town of the anthro-of a fair lady.
Nations Conferences. It was Hol-manded by an angel to proceed to temptations of a demon in the form
like an ape. economic and trade relations tagonist of the League Covenant poplingi or man-eaters, for the pur-
An' wipe that allly during the Manchurian crisis. It
grin off your face." have an ardent supporter in Mr.is Holland that has always stood pose of relieving Saint Matthew.
We retrieved our hat, and re- Stanley Bruce, the High Com-out for real limitation and redue Boned there. Taking ship, he duly who had been blinded and impri-
It is, indeed, remarkable that this gained our atance, a little shaken. missioner for Australia in Lon- tion of armaments as an outcome of arrived in that country, to find that long poem of over 1,100 lines makes
"Feet pointing outwards to an don, who comes out with
the Disarmament Conference. It
Matthew's alght and liberty had no mention of Saint Andrew's as angle of 451" roared the, same strong plea for greater co- Tariff Truce and has always been
the obnoxious voice, and our feet was Holland that proposed the been miraculously restored to him. sociation with Scotland as
patron Saint, a circumstance that painfully described the requisite. operation than has resulted from a supporter of frear trade by the EVIL SPIRITS BANISHED.
could not fail to have been arc. * Ingrowing toenails and corag the Ottawa Conference. There flow of commerce. If it was also removal of artificial barriers to the
within the knowledge of its placed at strategic points did not His preaching of the Gospel incompiler. The national predilec-help.. is no denying the fact that the Holland that took the first step in Murgundy aroused the enmity of its tion for this Saint seems to Ottawa discussions and decisions the destruction of the Truce she barbarous inhabitants, who seized have been very much more ancient
cannot well be blamed after the
and scourged him well-nigh to than his official adoption as patron bave not turned out to be so complete failure of the World death. But the saint, through his of the Scottish Kingdom. In the advantageous as was anticipated, Ecunomic Conference.
piety and prayers, converted thou-Irish Book of Leinster he is com- due to a variety of circumstances
sands to the Christian faith. Thence pared with Saint Columba, and as which need not at the moment be
OUTSPOKEN COMMENT
he passed to Antioch,, where he his attributes are practically iden wrought many miracies, and even tical with those of that Saint, this with come discomforts. Our only After all, soldiers must put up outlined. Nor can it be doubted And that the Dutch Government the idol of the goddess Diana test! may account for his great popula- regret was that it would all end that, given the will, Britain, the does not speak for itself alone but fied to the efficacy of the faith herity with our fathers."
to-morrow. If only we could fight, Dominions and some of the shown by recent editorial comment but that Saint Androw would "help Scythia, and the Scots, or "Scuits. has the backing of the nation is inculcated, assuring her suppllants
Saint Andrew was the apostle of that she had no power to aid them,;
Our manly bosom Colonial Empire could achieve in the New Rotterdam Courier..
"Coooooommpan-y-y-yr-i-g-h-t un economic
them siccarly. "What must strike public opinion", union
were anclently confounded or so 'n!!"- which
it writes, "each time that impor
clated with the Scythian race. In We
tho would be productive of much tant questions are discussed, is the the anint's miraculous deeds was ed with the dog, which seems to a kindly kick on the ankle from
completed
difficult Perhaps the most notable among Germany he is symbolically connect-manoeuvre with dignity, thanks to mutual benefit all round. As stubborn egotism of certain nations, the casting out of seven fierce fiends throw some light on the legend of Mr. Bruce pointedly declares, and notably of the Great Powers, who prevent the conclusion of the the Mother Country possesses a very agreements whosa pressing valuable home market, great sup need they continually proclaim".
We stopped off briskly with our The decussate cross of Saint left foot, and, excepting that wo plies of capital and unrivalled This tendency the paper goes on to hounds, as did so many mediaval Androw, employed as an ensign, did dropped our rifle, trod on the heel. experience, while the Dominions Economic Conference "where every passers-by..
remark was manifest at the World demons, and attacking and slaying not come into general use until the of the fool in front. and had the and other parts of the overseas body knew exactly what his neigh-saint,
Confronted by the fifteenth century, when it was flown allly cow behind trod on ours, went they assumed Empire have the resources which bour ought to do which was pre- which surprised the onlookers, and, Many of the old views of the horsion.
a meekness almost entirely as a naval flag. through the evolution with preel- Britain herself lacks. Co-opera- dare to
claely that which they did not at his bidding, immediately vanish-bour of Leith represent it as shel- "Left Lef', Lef. Rr-a-i-gght, tive effort, well planned to meet Turning to Disarmament in a de-present.
undertake themselves!" ed, to the great edification of all tering vessels all of which fly the Left! Damyereyes, Kelly, pick up the needs of each and all, could Courier declares that "States aro
Saint Andrew's Cross. It is the your feet!" liciously cynical passage, the
popular as apart from the Royal undoubtedly produce results. alwaye ready to abolish those cate other elty he found that the banish-slightest proof exists that it is of
But when Andrew passed to an standard of Scotland, but not the monotonous.
The man's voice was growing
With world depression still gories of armaments which they do ed domone had gone there before older provenance than the lyon making its effects keenly felt, it not themselves possess. They are him, and had slain a young man of rampant, the legend of the Pictish is natural that there should be afraid to take risks and seem to the place, whom, out of his pity, King Hungus notwithstanding.
be entirely oblivious of having fore the Saint raised up from the dead, LEWIS SFENCE. this inclination to turn attention told that a failure of the Conference to the possibilities of closer and would produce disastrous resulta, more effective Imperial relation-
TRUE PRINCIPLES ships. The Times recently aug- gested that Britain could not wait indefinitely on the permis- sion of other nations to set her own house and the Empire in order, while General Smuts, in complete contrast to his address Home truths from small Powers at the opening of the World can sometimes be very salutary and we could do with more of them. Economic Conference, has since Those who have great riches And declared that progress might be it hard to see clearly. To the little easier, oven in respect of world nations, the League is definite co-operation, if, in the first in stands between them and absorp Hfe-ling of safety. Its Covenant stance, radical reforms were tion by bigger and stronger nations. begun in and confined to already Herein lies the strength of Geneve, and herein is a most salutary means existing economic units and re of keeping true principles con- gions. There is something instantly before, the Great Powers the contention that a start with- who are immediately prepared to them in face of in the Empire might, in course compromise on
unexpected developments.
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full of reformers who knew exactly "The fact is that the world -is what everybody else ought to do to make life happier and more secure. But they are mysteriously missing those principles to themselves." when there is any talk of applying
of time, be reflected in improved world trade generally, although the point must not be lost sight not be overlooked. There must of that, once real Empire became be something like central control an accomplished fact and show-of finance, so that money may be ed results, there would be a ten-directed into useful channels in- dency for it to become crystal- stead of being merely profitably lised into something like per- banks. In a word, State control employed for the benefit of the manency. If, however, the of banking would appear to be a movement is to be seriously con- necessity. Given that, and a sidered, something more than determination to secure maxi- mutual tariff concessions and mum results from co-operativo trade agreements will be neces effort, economic Imperialism sary. The financial factor can might easily be realised, to the
mutual benefit of all parties.
BUSINESS
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was happy together a Ilttis tiff now and then. But
I always, waited till she hit me first.!!!
After a time there were donio more rice paddies, followed by rico paddies.
Wo came to some rice paddies.
Our feet grew tired. War was brutal, and called forth all the baser
Instincta in Man. We wished..
"Lef' Lef—Lef'—~~~~~ R-a-i- gght, Lof'"
After an Indeterminable time. the Camp hove into sight. Wo crawled along, the stock of the rifle Jogging into our skinned shoulder with each step.
"Sq-u-a-a, 'ALTI!-
we
The rank steadied, and curled our toes up in our boots,
accking relief.from the burning
sensation.
Tha's all now, men. We'll do another route march this aftor. noon," said the same abominable Voice.
A shudder momentarily con- vulaed the ranks, and strong men, shuddered.
One unit looked up at theʻaky and hoped It would rain.
We were dismissed, and crawled. woarily away to our tonta.
"Old Boldieră Never Die- sang a raucous voice in a neigh- bouring tont.
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