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NAVAL RESERVE
STRENGTH
In the defence discussions which have been taking place at Home recently, attention has been drawn to the necessity of
further regard being paid to the
Royal Naval Reserve and to the manning of the Merchant Navy Figures show that the Reserve,
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force of professional seamen drawn from the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets, now has an authorised establishment of about 7,000, which is a decline of some 12,000 compared with the strength in 1914. It is pointed out that in the event of any future hostilities at sea, hundreds of nuxiliary vessels from the Merchant Navy and the fishing fleets would still be required for naval purposes. These would include armed merchant cruisers, escort ships, armed boarding steamers, mine-sweepers, traw lers for patrol purposes, drifters, tugs, yachts, motor craft, and mány others. Obviously the Navy could not hope to man this concourse of vessels with its own resources, nor could the RN.R. with its present slender establish- ment.
states
In the Steps of ST. PAUL
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THIS FINE DRAWING FORMS THE GOVER DESIGN OF H. V. MORTON'S NEW BOOK.
HILE Boadicea was giving the young Imperial colony 01 Britain the scare of its life, an ageing missionary was preaching a new and revo- lutionary belief to a few fervent followers in the cellars of Rome.
For over thirty years he had tramped and sometimes ridder the highways' of what we now call the Near East, taking ship now and again, journeying al- ways farther and farther afield, suffering wreck and imprison- ment and mockery and sickness for the faith that was in him.
A fiercely enduring figure, ho had never ceased to exhort the brethren and to carry a startling and perplexing sense of sin to an indifferent world. And now, having fought a good fight, he was finishing his course. Saul of Tarsus, to be known thereafter as St. Paul.
He knew, as the first world- historian has said, that he had
found the Nazarenes with a spirit and a hope, and that he was leaving them Christians with the beginning of a creed.
But he could not know that the religion which owed its or- ganising genius to him more than to any other man would persist for century after-cen- tury, permeating the world, in- spiring love and hate, devotion and intolerance, persecution
To-day's Thought..................... I'LL put a girdle round the
earth.
FUCK.
a review by
ROGER PIPPETT
and martyrdom, beauty and ugliness, life and death, peace and war.
Some eighteen hundred and soventy years later an English- man stood in the office of a Turkish frontier station and answered the questions of a highly suspicious police official who wanted to know what he was doing there.
"I have come to see Targus," he said. The official wanted to know why. "Because I am writing a book about St. Paul," he answered, shattering. the Turk's morale. The book which he wrote is published to-day-- In the Steps of St. Paul, by H. V. Morton (Rich and Cowan, 75. Ud.).
"H. V. M." is the first author who has followed the great mis- sionary through all his recorded Journeyings. It took him two years, and he covered over ten thousand miles, so might evoke in imagination the world of The Acts of the Apostles and contrast the cities of St. Paul's time with their state to-day.
that he
His story appears as a com- panion volume to In the Steps of the Master, the wideness of whose appeal, Incidentally, may be measured by the fact that
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over a quarter of a million coples have been sold within two years.
From the very first para- graphs of the book you are made pleasantly aware of that talent for creating atmosphere which makes
such "H. V. M." friendly gulde.
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"I went on deck before sunrise. The storm bad backed to the north-west, the sky was clear and the ship rolled in long, sullen swell. I hoped to see the pin-prick of the lighthouse
Mount Carmel, but we were still too far from land,
on
"St. Paul must have known this moment: the grey light, the last star, the cold wind, the fusty cargo, the smell of beasts and tar, the smooth pressing forward and the rhythmic hiss of water run- ning back along the sides of the ship. It was good to stand on deck, thinking that this might be the Castor and Pollux.
"After all, the Mediterranean coaster has not changed much since Roman times. These ships still carry corn from Egypt and leave Cyprus In summer, heavy with pomegranates, the fruit of Aphrodite.
As they pass slowly
south from Alexandretta, which is now the port of Antioch, they stir old memories, and the ghosts of Tyre and Bidon beckon vainly as they pass."
Jerusalem... Damascus
Language
to correct pro-
nunciation from books. My advice
Edinburgh.
Whatever
foreign newspapers,
which are on sale
in
you. do, learn every
1hc
tram, and steamer, sight-seeing, cur- roncy, shopping, and..any aspect of the foreign life in which I am par- ticularly interested.
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Antioch Iconium Mity- lone... Philippl... Athens Corinth. Ephesus... Malta ... Rome. The traveller's sen- altive and sympathetic eye selects the significant feature the passing landscape- lizard-haunted ruins, thriving capitals, vast, weed-covered quays, busy bazaars, forgotten temples. and remembered plains.
in
Although the motor-car and the railway inévitably. faciit- tated 'H. V. M.'s" pligrimage. the Apostle had two great ad- vantages over a twentieth-cen- tury wayfarer in the Near East. He Journoyed always by an Imperial route-and he could be understood in one tongue, Greek, everywhere.
"What was to St. Paul a pro- gress along the bost-known roads of the Roman Empire, be- comes, to the modern travel- ler, a series of explorations from the beaten track. The har- bour of Antioch is desolate, and Ephesus is a nesting-place for the stork."
But the author's perseverance brought him-and his readers- a rich harvest not only in un- usual, and occasionally trying. experiences, but in provoking and cautionary glimpses of the "glories" of the past.
Antioch, for example. When St. Paul visited it the city was the third largest in the world. The main street was four and a half miles long, with a central. passage for horse traffic and charlots and two covered colon- nades for pedestrians.
Miles of marble-paved roads crossed it at right angles, after the fashion-of Alexandria. And its citizens enjoyed the ameni ties of swimming-pools, vast pleasure-gardens, central heat- Ing, plumbing-and flood-light-- ing.
read long language. And A naval correspondent DURING tamenting the fact that ti
"Something that we a550- is quite impossible stretches aloud over and over again.
with Venice in the- that the R.N.V.R. might the good intentions I formed about acquire a reasonably
Then I accumulate foreign 'cata-ciate lend a hand; but the 14,500 men this time last year were not carried is to take the elementary language inform myself of current usage. This in the nineteenth century and. logues and railway publications to eighteenth century, with Paris: of the Royal Fleet Reserve, sea-out. I resolved then to learn Span class at the Royal High School, and helps to correct the tendency to pro- with Hollywood to-day, with its men or stokers who have served Ish, provided myself with the neces- try to attend
end regularly. Not only i in the Navy on short or special sary elementary books, and might will you have a chance to master ceed along purely literary lines. As deification of youth and beauty,
my comprehension of the language have been heard on the deck of engagements, would probably be aberton car any morning or evening the pronunciation as illustrated by becomes more certain I tend to spe- distinguished Antioch then. It expert teachers, but you will soon clalise. First I master the food and was up to date, amusing,: required for the first-line fight-in August and September muttering learn enough grammar and vocabu- drink vocabularies, those essential for elegant and wicked, and its ing ships. Moreover, not all the strange counds, ad persevere lary to read simple books and por- Intelligent travelling by bus, car, opigrams could go a long way
the tions of 25,500 pensioners under the age I should now be able to follow on
to make or mar à reputation." of fifty-five and still available for wireless accounts of the Spanish number of civil war.
In these pages it is easy for us: service, would be suitable for
The year before I learned some
to imagine what St. Paul must seagoing vessels. It is clear that tallan, which, improved by atten- Be. Thorough
have met in such a scene-the- in the event of any future dance at the Continuation Classes
fury of the Pharisees, the zeal. national emergency the Merchant in the Royal High School and by
of the new bellevers, the Navy would be called upon to listening to the lessons broadcast word, phrase, and rule thoroughly,
Perhaps the first real difficulty the provide a substantial quota of from Rome, enabled me to get the as a careless habit, once formed,
beginner experiences is what I might tolerance of the sophisticated men for naval service. The fact the Abyssinian war.
gist of Italian news bulletins during hard to eradicate Foreigners are call "getting the wave-length of the Greeks and Romans to whom much more polite than we are, but language." Foreigners seem to speak he was merely the latest of remains, however, that not even The learning of a new langungo hear us talking like children of two a word here and there, and become
they must laugh inwardly when they so much faster than we do. We catch "those wandering god-makers."" the R.N.R. could be called out for general reading and conversa Keep a notebook of words and refer tongue-tied when a reply is expected ing virtue of this book the That, to me, is the outstand- without immobilising many difficult as most people suppose gender is
tional purposes Is not nearly su
and don't forget that Listen to the wireless and chant ships. The Merchant Navy Once one has acquired the pronun-
good gramophone records as often as you apparently artless fashion in literally has no man to spare. clation and the elements of grammar, As I have sold, I find the tramcar can, and don't worry if it all sounds which the writer calls up the The Dominions and some of the progress depends on regular, hard an excellent place in which to re-double-Dutch." After a few weeks past and, by quiet suggestion,
hearse what I
think
I have learned the seeming agglomerate of words Colonies, Hongkong amongst work. the number, have Naval Re-
disentangle themselves. You urges us to reflect on the signi In my opinion, unless one happens at home. In my own case, I spend wil to be an expert linguist and phone travelling to and from the office is equally important, you will ac-
an average of five hours a week will begin to understand, and, what ficance of those fallen civilisa- serves in one form or another, but they could never be expected-
enough time in itself, if employed quire correct Intonation. to supply more than a small close down for lack of raw
But, apart from that, there is fraction of the seamen who materials, and Britain would be would be required in war.
Don't be afraid of dipping into a are many more of them than you the continual entertainment of a So come isolated from the other novel written In the language you might suppose. They will be de- mind always ready to respond to far as the Merchant Navy is nations of the Empire. With are studying. You will find it be lighted to help you in return for the unexpectedness of things," to- concerned, a correspondent em- these facts in mind, the need for yend your complete comprehenaton your English, Join the French and see the humorous side of an awk--
Go to Leith docks ward situation and, above all, to phasises that it is a national an Immediate inquiry into the ut first, but with the aid of a dic-Spanish circles.
tionary you will be able to read and and interview sailors. And last, but service as well as an industry, strength.both of the Royal į enjoy a surprising number of pages, not least, make up your mind sense the character of men and
women from Saul of Tarsus-to- and its strength and officiency Naval Reserve and the Merchant Be wary of assuming that because a country which speaks the language. "E. V. M," her swaddled child to spend your next year's holiday in the the Arab mother who handed is every bit as important as the Navy becomes a matter of ur-word is spelt like on English one strength of the Navy which pro-gency. It is to be hoped that it carries the some meaning. When The anticipation will help you hold
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-That is why wo ahould all, what-- ever our creed or faith, follów him. }-In the Steps of St. Paul.