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NOTES OF THE DAY
BLIND PATRIOTS
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AUGUST 7. 1935.
TRUTH ABOUT THE
BRITISH NAVY
By JAMES DOUGLAS
The Very Idea!
PAGE IN HISTORY
COME back from my three days At Spithead ninety-six of our Mr. Kelly Captures H.K.
I take my motto from the gold noble of Edward IV., which bears the legend:---
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naval
tho
It is on this rottan foundation that the Anglo-German Four things our Noble showeth agreement is based. But
German ships will all be now, and unto me; King, Ship, and Sword, and nearly all our ships will be old,
Power of the Sea. After every war in our history we have let the Navy decay. It is an old English custom. History repented itself during the post-war period of seventeen years.
The Navy to-day in out of date. It will soon be an unsure shield. Ita ships and its men have been crippled by parsimony masquerad- ing as disarmament.
When Stead wrote "The Truth About the Navy" Jacky Flater loaded his guns, Jacky made the Grand Fleet and chose Jellicon to command it. It just saved us only just. In Rosebery's words, it was "glorious but inadequate."
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This is not the worst. It will take years to replace the old ships. They can't be built in a year, or two years, or three years, even if we floated a huge national loan to pay for them, as we ought to do.
Our old boast was this: "We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." To-day it runs. "We haven't got the ships, we haven't got the men and
we haven't got the money."
Europe knows this. Spain knows it. If you doubt me, digest the appalling story of Captain Kane, my Ulster follow-country man, as he has told it in the Daily Express. Rub the Spanish onion into your. | blind eyes and weep! (Capt. Kana was imprisoned on what many de elaro was an absurd charge and no effort of, the British Govern- ment has yet brought about his release even on ball.)
Now for something which ought to scare you stiff. Where are the craftsmen who will be skilled
For The British
By Capt. Eddie Kelly Mr. Kelly thinks it a pity that a contemporary stopped its "Old Hongkong" series. Lately he's been burrowing into the Covernment ar- chives and has discovered a document which is ap- parently the original report of Captain Elliott, who took possession of Hongkong, to the Lords of the Admiralty.
The document has been translated from the Oxford by Mr. Kelly at great. personal expense-
Eddie's Note: Yes, what about advancing $50 for expensen?
Editor's Note: Remember, Kelly, this is my part of the "Very Iden." Keep out!
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---and purports to tell the true story of the dis- covery of this fair Colony. Now read on.
Every now and, then some mie guided man, motivated by what might be termed perverted patriotism, attempts to avenge the
in Rodney and Nelson and their destroyers were five years over injustices and insults, 'real or im- picket boats, after hours of talk age!
At the end of 1086 these war- aginary, which some alleged op- with great naval officers, potty
officers and bluejackets, and this is | ships will all be 'due for replace- pressor has heaped upon his na-the broadside I feel it my duty to ment:- tion. He takes the life of some aim at the whole nation and the 12 battleships and battle person in authority. The pity of whole Empire, which does not sus cruisors; 27. crufsers; 00 des- It is that, frequently, the reaction pect that tragic truth about the troyers: 20 submarines.
Royal Navy. is more disastrous than anything the oppressed people have ever contemplated or intagined. The wages
of an assassin must bo dreadful indcod when his act re- sults in the deaths of thousands of innocents. Surely, the warning has been plainly written across the pages of modern history. The man who fired the fatal shots at Sarajevo in 1914 bears a part of the responsibility for the catas trophe which all but demolished Europe's civilisation and most cer- tainly set back for a century the progress of the combatants. mad-man killed a King of Jugo- Slavia, and Europe trembled on the brink of International A. tribesman slow mobilisation. on Italian native soldier, and the League of Nations came face to to face with the greatest crisis
In 1936 the Navy is still glori- in its history. And, in a remote corner of China, four young men,ous, but it is infinitely more than Inadequate for its job. "He that
My Lords,Pursuant to my the wrong against their country commands the sen," wrote Bacon,
instructions, 1 brought .M. rankling, shoot and kill an officer "a at great liberty; he may take
China Squadron safely to Heung Keung, which is native parlance administering the Luantung Zone, as much and as little of the war and a
Japanese gendarme who as he will." "Whoever commands needed to blind the new Navy? for "Tele of Fragrant Streams." the sea contmands the battle," Where are the riveters? Where We anchored opposite in the fine wrote Raleigh; "whoever com are all the men who used to build harbour, into which the China his duty. Already Pelping manda the trade commands the our mercantile marine? On the Sea empties, opposite a position marked on contempororious charts is ringing with rumours of now riches of the world, and consé-dola! Japanese demands for the reorgan-quently the world Itself."
They, too, have been starved to a "Central Market," where isation
We have lost our command of death. They beg their bread in of the fragrant streams in ques- of the administration of
streets. Can WO resurrect tiun, termed by the nativos the five northern provinces of the mea and the narrow sea. We our
Not
"Dullah." runa down from the stand in grave jeopardy. The blue them by an 8.0.8.7 Chinn. Already the Japanese
water of the Channel gave me that We have starved our fishermen mountain. Army, through its Chief of Staff warning as I stood on the quarter-as well as our shipbuilders. Where Critics of the League of in North China, has issued a stato deck of Nelson and, Rodney. are we to get the crows for our Nations-the smaller
Powers ment which many will interpret na Rodney's creat la an eagle. Her minesweepers? The King honoured
ultimatum. motto is: "Eagles Don't Breed the old trawler seadogs by calling } ments. lining the shore, ono cun- naturally most vocal-are again Patriotism is so apt to lead men grimly said to me. "That's telling Albert
of an warning
Doves." As Commander Madden them on board the Victoria and making their opinions known. into rash acts whose consequences us!" There's irony for you!
Where shall we get the young The suggestion is that in its tire clouded to unbalanced rosson. We have bred doves and we seadogs we shall bitterly need for then our new drifters and trawlers? handling of the Italo-Abyssinian Patriotism can become a disease, need eagles. Here goes, crisis, the interests of a small stimulant, but a poor diet.
like any obsession. It is a fine I'll tell you the truth, the whole God only known!
truth, and nothing but the truh. It so nation have been subordinated often makes man blind.
Crisis will come in 1936, when
Our actual landing Here is a hard fact to bite on.without incident. As I stopped the Washington and London! to those of the major Powers.
Treaties of 1922 and 1930 expire. Nelson and Rodney have about ashore from my barge, a headman This, however, is hardly true.
That is the "replacement" point 40,000-horse-power engines.
approached and asked me if I had All that has actually occurred
for the navies of the five great newest Italinn battleships have anything to declare.. I informed How him that I had to declare this is that Italy's consent has been
naval Fowers, Britain, the United over 120,000-horse-power! secured to a compromise; under in a discussion
Every motorist will be interested | States, Japan, France, and Italy, cun ans-power cope with horse-spot British territory in the name
that has arisen. In 1936 twelve of our fifteen power?
of King George. He tupped his the terms of which the Concilia- concerning the risks of motoring years old. Even Nelson, Rodney,
capital ships will be over twenty Another shock for you! The forehead in salutation and backed
hackbone of the Navy are the away into the throng. tion Commission, with the addi-in a thunderstorm. Are they more and Hood are over ten years old. Pelty officers and warrant officers. tion' qf a fifth representative, or less than normal? A meteoro They cost eight millions cach, and They teach the boys and turn them Planting the flog was a matter into seamen. They, too, are grow-of some difficulty, as the native roadways here are built of a sub- the Unlual incident in fear. He believes that a modern The Washington Treaty fixes ing old and vanishing.
Who is training the boys I saw stanco strangely resembling effort to reach a decision by motor car, owing to its relatively twenty years as the life-limit of mixed with the leading seamen stone; but at the cost of a lot of
a capiat ship. By September 1, and, in any event, attracting power for lightning, and and battle cruisers will be ob- They are taking
the close of and able seamen in Nelson and rum, a native directed us to s has very little 1936 four-fifths of our battleships Rodney? The naval officers! large open space covered with the League Council will again therefore there is practically no solete next year.
on the job as lawns and containing over
the The Hawkins meet on September. 4 for a
well as their own job, bless them! doorway of the matslied the let more risk of the car being struck class were completed 1917-21. general examination of the vari-
I saw 150 raw boys in Rodney, tera "K.C.C." Dozens of the of the ground which it next year, though they are fine divisions! What a danger signall danced around us
They are doomed to be scrapped They could hardly toe the line at inhabitants of this matshed ous aspects of Italo-Ethopian
covers. The car itself'adde little ships. They will be "treatied" to It takes as long to train a seaman striding to the centre of the lawn, with joy as, relations. In the mftantime, or nothing to the risk. If the car death unless we say no! British, French and Italian de- is struck its occupants are in little
as it does to build a battleship, I had my men dig a hole and plant Remember Coronel! The men and soon we shall be short of the the flagpole. legates are to meet and start danger from the discharge, for the who died fighting in that awful, trainers as they are pensioned off. negotiations under
Why, the 1906 metal body in almost a complete massacre were sent to their doom
Naturally one of my first con- even the Jubilee flesta Treaty, with the objective of "Faraday cage,"
our cruisers Into which
wore ob could not have put to sen without alderations was to find a camping electrical forces ennnot penetrate. them and alaughtered them like dering about our towns workless harbour to the island I entered the The Germans out-ranged grizzled reservists who were wan-place for the night. Crossing the facilitating a solution of the
The motorist who is caught in a sheep. dispute. The position was cor-
and despairing!
I native-quartors once more and, at thunderstorm is advised not to rectly summed up in one news drive too fast.
Remember Pegasus, Defence, This is a stark and ghastly story. the expense of a few more tots of Another opinion and Black Prince, sunk during The nation would not sleep quietly run, we were guided to a huge despatch stating that the com- is that of an observant motorial, the war by superior German guns! (Continued on Page 7.)
WEDNESDAY, AUG, 7, 1935.
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make no attack while negotia- tions are proceeding, but that been removed from the hands demand has obviously been of the League. As Mr. Eden dropped in the effort to prevent has asserted, if the negotiations an immediato crisia, What is fail, the League Council will more, as a French commentator have to discharge its obligations points out, no one has dared to under the Covenant. There can, demand from Italy the slightest says the chief British delegatë, engagement as to the cessation be no shirking of responsibility of military preparations. Ac-nor any acquiescence in dilatory tually, the postponement of manoeuvres. Thus, the matter the problem for a month is all boiled down to Its essentials, the in Italy's favour, as by that time major points in dispute between the wet season; so difficult for the two countries will have to be
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As we slowly steamed into the harbour from Lyemoon, we were impressed with the native hut- ningly-built matshed, in course of erection, being, we were inform- ed, the central joss house where, upon completion, the native popu lation will house all their gold- and silver treasures.
was not
native caravanserad known, I be lieve, as the Heung Keung Hostel. The drinking supply here is ex- cellent, nor shall wo want for food, which is also available in large quantities. Another feature of this site, is the hot and cold water con- springs most ingeniously trolled so as to flow in and out of basins.
An observation of the curious sight-seers who crowded around us, at our camping site convinces, me that this part of China `must · have at one time been s trading- centre for the old European civilf [satión. › Many of the inhabitants are, startingly fair to gaze upon, the Nordic type predominating. Like other indigenes met else- where in my voyages, they claim to hava come originally from the Great White Mother over the seas
I have made several excursions Into the country, and one occasion. penetrated across the island 'to a: small inlot which I have named... Repulse Bay, bestowing this name upon the site because I suffered Indignity at the hands of a blonde native woman whom I captured. I also ventured to the top of the. mountain where the natives never. seem to go to sleep, but do go' in• and out of their cave dwellings by day and by night. The females. paint themselves with great skill, and they make merry, living on salmon, which they fish cunningly out of tin hiding places, and other. similar native foods, and, also s strange liquid called a ginsling very poletut, and I have had to keep my", crows from imbibing it. maintaining a privy, auj mine own. I got the rec ngle (Continued, on Fags