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Trestay, June 21 1938
Baffling Mystery of the
Fatal Order
ON Thursday, June 22, 1893,
the London season was at its height. A great deal was happening.
ably quite untrue
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GREAT SEA DRAMAS
By J. G. Lockhart
360 LIVES LOST WHEN
FLAGSHIP GOES DOWN
A A
A
A A
A A
was leading the port
the
told him to take the distance to the Camperdown.
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to the
John
Night after night in the House out certain manneuvres, First of all in the evidence which he gave to the to jump, and they rushed in swarms of Commons, before crowded the formation was changed into two court mariial,
up the sloping deck and tried to "Directly the signal come down struggle through the ports. galleries, Gladstone and Chami- column, te ahead. At this point
the position of the various ships is and the helm was put'over, the ships
Many of them succeeded in climb- berlain were fighting each other clear from the following diagram. · having swung about two points with through the financial clauses of camperdon 1.200 yards Victoria the helm extreme, I said to the Ad-through, and were actually seen clambering along the ship's bottom. the second Home Rule Bill. On
miral, We shall be very close to that Admiral Tryon who had been inst ship, meaning the Camperdown. I observed refusing the lifebelt which July 16, His Royal Highness the
then turned to Mr. Lawson, midship his stall-commander brought him, Duke of York was to marry the
man, who was my side-de camp, and went down with the ship. Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, and London was buzzing with
To the best of my recollection, It was a ghastly scene. Owing. the excitement of a royal wed-
It will thus be seen that the Cam- when I spoke to the Admiral he look perhaps to the attempt which had ding.
perdown, commanded by Admiral ed aft, but made no answer at all. been made to steam for the shore, The Austrailans had come over to Markhan, snatch the Ashes: (on Thursday they column, and Admiral Tryon's log After I spoke to Mr. Lanyon I again the engines were kept working un said, 'We had better do something. ll the ship sank; so that the engine ship the Victoria, the starboard We were destroying Kent at Gravesend).
shall be very close to the Cam- and furnace rooms were full of men this time we were who were trapped and died at their You might
Ko to see Mr. George column; and that between the two perdown.' All
columns there was distance of six turning.
posts. Alexander make 41 great it in
"I then sat to the Admiral re- Probably their death was merel- Pinero's new plece, "The Second Mrs, cables, or 1200 yards,
The Admiral then gave a very peen celving no answer. May I go astern fully swift. Marcover, on the ship Tanqueray:" or, if your tastes were
He signalled that when full speed with the port screw? 1. turned over, the racing screws were more classical, you might visit the Har order. Lyceum, where Mr. Henry Irving the squadron had passed the spot asked this question to the best of my forced above the surface, catching
where be
he proposed anchoring, the belief twice or three times quickly,
and mangling many unfortunate was playing Shylock to Miss Ellen
course was to be reversed by the two one after the other. At last he sald, men. Like some huge guillotine, the Terry's Portia.
lines turning Inwards in succession "Yes. The port telegraph was im- blades whirled round, shearing off There were the l
din (like partners in a country dance), mediately put full speed, and with- beads and arms and legs; so that, to danera, receptions; and, it may be
In its way the relative formation out further orders, very shortly after crown the horror of the sinking, the remembered, on that Thursday even-
wou would ur maintained when the I ordered both screws to be put full surrounding sea became red with Ing. Lady Tryon, wife of Sir George squadron returned to its anchorage, speed ustern."
blood. Tryon, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief Provided the distance between the In the Camperdown the same orders The Victoria continued to heel as of the Mediterranean squadron, was two colurons WAS suffelent, the had been given and enrried out. But she went down, until the water rush- At Home in her house Eaton-place ukanoeuvre, though unusual, wes it was too late. Slowly, inexorably, ed in at the funnels and reached the
Nume two hundred guests.
perfectly feasible. On the other hand, the two great ships drew near to fires. There was a loud explosion, Afterwards
curious tale wha if there was not enough distance, enh other; and with three and and with screws still racing furlous- whispered (though never conürmedi
is obvious, even to the lay mind, half to four minutes of the beginning ly the battleship disappeared in a about her party. Une or two of the
of the manoeuvre they met in a ter- foaming swirl. Ruests, it was sald, had seen enter that a collision was levilable.
Whn the order was given, the two rible impact.
The sen bolled and eddied for n the drawing-romm and puss through
The Camperdown crashed into the few moments round the spot where It the familiar figure of the user columns, as we have seen, were 1200
yards apart. The smallest turning bows of the Victoria, rending and she had sunit, the surface was dotted hushand, the Admiral.
chreles of both the Victorin and the grinding through the dogship's pro- with the heads of struggling men, Of course, it was impossible. All Camperdown were 800 yards: but tective armour. Below the water aud from the depths came iwo the world knew that the Admiral was their
heir normal *turning circles with his squadron in Mediterranean have been nearer 408.
must fine she worked an even more fatal muffled reports as the bollers burst.
mkchief; for waters, whence Lady Tryon had n
her great steel ram Nearly 300 men were pleked up When, rived only three weeks before. So, turned in towards each other, it was much as the tasks of an elephond tears spot.
therefore.
ships ripped its way into the other ship, by the beats which hurried
Among these, it is now in- HONGKONG SHOULD that was the story, and it la probs
clear that a point would be reuched out the vitals of its victim
teresting to recall, was the young when The circles,
under the mast By the
of the impact the commander, force
of the Victorio, GO TO WAR
favourable circumstances, would Victoria was heaved sideways bodily Hellieer, win when the accident While London was doing and dan- meet, and mure probably would in- for a distance of seventy feet, and is happened, war lying in his bunk, sick
In other cing its way through that June right, tersect. The time has come for 1100%" | already a dreadful thing had happen but the ninnoeuvre was carried out, she began to heel over to starboard.
assuming she fell away from the Camperdown with fever,
He rushed up on deck In his kong take stock of theed. The first rumours of it arrived as it was meant to be carried out. She had been mortally wounded. pyjamas, managed to secure a life- marcotic situation here, and very early on Friday morning with a cable practically simultaneously by both Yet on board the most perfect dis- belt, and won eventually taken into from the British Comul ut Tripoli in Ships, nothing could prevent à collie ripline prevailed. The sick were one of the boats. Twenty-one years seriously endeavour to combat Syru, and by eleven gelock, when stem at the point of contact or in- brought up on deck, the prisoners later he wYAS become Commander- an evil which is showing no on official wire reueled the Ad- tersection.
were reiensed from the guard-room, in-Chter of the Grand Fleet the signs of abating, but on the miralty, the news had become pretty Tryon was thrice drawn to the undue
Although the attention of Admiral and the crews were ordered to quar- Great. War.
ters. contrary thrives increasingly. 1ted circles.
pruxinuity of the Victoria and the The men moved as un purade, and and the loss of the Victoria was held has long been a thorn in the
Camperdown, he persisted in his in curried out their orders or stood in at Maita, and opened on July 17, tendon and flew the following signal: their ranks in absolute silence. Some under the presidency of Admiral Sir conscience of many British
"Second division alter course in of them were told off to place a col- Michael Culme-Seymour. people that the opium trade the previous afternoon, had collided succession sixteen points to star- liston mut over the gaping wound in After sitting for ten days and tak-
with another battleship, the Cam board, preserving the order of should ever
the the bows, and continued at their hope. ing good deal of evidence, the court have been coun- perdown, and had sunk with fearful feet; and the first division ulter less task until the water was up to found that the disaster had been tenanced. While there are some loss of life.
course in succession sixteen points their walats. They were then re- caused by the order of the Command- The latter reports only
er-in-Chief, to port, preserving the arder of the called and fell in with the others.
Vice-admiral who maintain that the habitual contrm the news. There had been
Tryon; fleet."
Admiral Tryon, his staff-command- that everything possible had been Use: of opium in small some strange, inexplicable disaster. In the Camperdown Admiral er, his flag-Beutenant and a midship- done to save the ship and the lives of
in which the Victoria had gone amounts is harmless, the bulk bottom, and with her, the Admiral, were quite at a loss to interpret the house.
the Markha and Captai Johnstone man were standing on the chart- the men in her; and that no blame
uttached to Captain Bourke. of evidence İs entirely con- twenty-two officers, and three hun order.
is all my fault," said the Ad- (tradictory, The opium habit dred and thirty-seven men hach "Its impossible," explained the miral sadly, as the ship began to keet
The court also expressed its regret perished.
Admiral to his log-lieutenant. "It is over, and he looked down on the that Admiral Morkham had not pro- inevitably gets out of control of
Although, during the weeks that an impractical manoeuvre,"
waiting ranks of his men. an individual, even more easily followed, and particularly from the
tested more strongly against the fatal As the Camperdown hesitated to
When the collision took place the manoeuvre, but considered that it the alcohol habit, and martial, it became clear how the ne
proceedings of the Inevitable court acknowledge the order, Admiral other ships in the
was not in the best interests of the Tryon sign
signalled: "What are you once made ready to launch their Service to censure him for obeying there is no denying the incident had happened, why it happen waiting for?" in his doubt Mark- boats. But presently the flagship the orders of his superior officer.
ed remained,
ham signalled and still remains, some
back that sidiousness
the order signalled "Annul sending boats.” It of either. The
Although the proceedings of the thine
of a a mystery,
was not understood, He then con-
Is believed that the Admiral then court established beyond reasonable ridiculous claim that opium, and Yet there is plenty of evidence sulted again with his caption, and to intended to steam toward the shore, doubt the sequence of events which its derivatives, can cure such for the e principal facts. On Thursday, ether they come for the concluant the end was too my far away; but led to the collision, they did iltre, if
June
the British Mediterraneon that the manoeuvre must be attempt- near.
to solve the mystory which things
anything, to AS tuberculosi and
Some ten minutes after the collision people found, and still find, most squadron, under the command of ed. venereal disense has tempted | Vice-admiral Sir George Tryon, teft "We have got to do it" said Mark- the Admiral turned to his staff-com- baffling about the whole affair. How thousands to use this dangerous the disaster took place, the
mander and said, "I hink she's go- was it that Admiral Tryon ever came Beyrout for Tripoll. Shortly before
Probably, they reasoned, the Com- Ing drug, to their complete undoing. which consisted of eleven Dattleships,
to give the fatal order? "Yes, sir. I think she is," was the mander-in-Chief had some plan
When we recall the facts, the pro- There is a great difference be the formation known as line abreast. and it was unthinkable that he was boats Iminediately, and noticing tion of being one of the most skilful
was steaming at about eight knots in which was not yet apparent. He was reply.
The Admiral then signalled "Send ever.
blem becomea more puzzling than and experienced tacticlan,
The admiral had the reputa- tween relief and cure. It is un- Before making the evening an intending to carry out an evolution ing by his side, he said. "Don't stop the thinkable
that the raidshipman was still stand tacticians and that
medical chorage the Admiral proposed to carry which must end in a collision. any practitioner would recommend liquor us cure for venereal diseases; and it is just as pre- posterous to assert that oplum
Chan
il
widely known in certain well-inform? –
The Victoria, the dagship of Ad- Indrat Sir George Tryoni, while munovuvring of the coast of Syria
to Serve
words.
to circle round his division, although
chief.
squadron had at
The court martial on the collision
a
experienced sailors in Royal Navy. He had held Afterwards Markham stated that there, youngster; to to a boat." But number
the
of important posts with going to put a stop to a dirty he thought Tryon might be meaning his che stayed and went down with credit. He belonged to the newer school of selentile sedmen. He hod, organised business.
the message certainly did not suggest T The men had fallen in with their for instance, recently reorganised The emergency is particularly such an interpretation. At any rate, bucks in the bulwarks, but on the our
whole system of constguard grave because of the increasing the order was understood, and the broke the ranks or tried to jump; court martial it was clear that he
the Comperdown signalled back that order "Right about turn" they turn signals,
ed and faced the sea. Not a man From the evidence given at the ly widespread use of heroin and two leaders began to turn inwards. other such drugs, much worse
near as was the end, the discipline enjoyed the entire confidence of the held.
officers under his command. To get down to cases, not a than opium. And heroin pills ship is best described by the cap- turning slowly right over as she did Admiral Markham that his chief could In fact, So the Victoria began to go down, it was largely the conviction of day goes by that Revenue are cheap. A few cents are suf- tain, the Honourable Maurice Bourke, 50. An officer shouted to the men not be contemplating the Officers, fighting a tireless cam-ficient to purchase enough of
is a specific for consumption. Such dreadful theories should be exploded.
in their effect upon the addict
theso deadly, little pink pills
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What followed on board the flag-
paign, do not discover some thoroughly to poison the system new branch of the narcotic in- and shatter the nerves. And it GRIN AND BEAR IT dustry in Hongkong. It is not does not take many such invest-
of
n far-fetched assumption to say ments to make a man or woman that hundreds of opium divans an addict. They do not know it, known to them during the past but the smokers of these pills! several years have been raided, are experimenting with a parti
cularly unpleasant but that other hundreds have death. It is just a question of
form never been discovered. It is not how long they can resist, untrue to say that in spite of There are cures-yes. Buti their aplendid labours the Re- this is not the time to talk of venue Officers are not sufficient-cures. This is the time to strike with all the force at the com- ly numerous to combat this
mand of the authorities to wipe growth effectively. And there out a disgusting growth which is a growth. The raiding squads is well on the way to making will be the first to admit it. this British Colony a horror- They know. They probably also hole like Mulden was-and pos- know, or guess, that they are up sibly still is, if eye-witness against something bigger than evidence given to the Opium Advisory Committee of the a few thousands of petty dis- League of Nations is to be be tributors of narcotics. The fact lieved. In Hongkong we cane a that they can raid a premises purse snatcher; but offenders one day, imprison the keeper, against the narcotic lawa are seize the stock of narcotica and treated with relativo Tenloncy. the paraphernalia of the dream Their punishment to fit their trade, and return to find the crime could be increased ten-1 place operating again a måtter fold. And while they are not of a few hours afterwards, in- the people whom the authorities dicates that the organisation is would like to reach, they are widespread and eficient. There the sorvanta of those hidden may be more than one big ring criminals who are causing so operating here, but it is a cer- much misery, and an example tainty that the arrest of the made of them might discourage. keepers of these divans is not their successors,
Cope, stať hy bailed Santoro Egudioala, Ind
By Lichty
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"Nice morning, Mhe Smith-followed by rain, late in the afternoon,"
manoeuvre
which the signal seemed to indiente that Induced him to comply with the order. Nor does the evidence in any way help to elucidate a problem which appeared to be largely psycho- logical.
It had transpired that Admiral Tryon was absent-minded or care- less or deaf, or subject to flis of mental aberration, an explanation might have been suggested,” But the evidence fatly contradicted any theory of the kind. It all served to show that the admiral was a Cool, well-balanced, efficient and experienced sailor.
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The mystery deepens when we consider what actually took place in the flagship. The officers principally concerned were the Admiral him- self, Captain Bourke, Captain How- kins Smith, the staff-commander, and Lord Gillford, the flag-lieutenant,
In the early afternoon, when the coming manoeuvres were being dẫn- cussed, both Bourke and Howking Smith suggested to the Admirol that the distance of six cables between the two columns was insufelent, and the Admiral seems to have agreed that it should be increased to eight.
The Staff-commander then went on deck, and shortly afterwards
the Admiral sent Tor Lord Gillford and gave him the definite order to be transmitted by signal to the squadron. While the order itself was verbal, the Admiral actually took the trouble to write the figure 6 on a plece
ece ot paper, which he handed to the Fing- Heutenant. Gillford then went off and showed the paper to the Stoff- commander, who insisted that there must have been some misunderstand- ing, since it had been agreed that the (Continued on Page 3)