THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1939,
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Gangsterism
THE British troops in Palestine
are up against two hostile.. forces. One is the Arab rebellion. The other is what the War
An Office in
YE OLDE TREASURY
JOINT
BRITISH NAVY.
Staithe
WITH APOLOGIES Toy
THE OTHER POPEYE: "HI! MATE,THROW US THE TINS TO SCRAPE!"
Why
HE LAUNCHING last month, of the new battleship King George V. was a first-class naval occasion.
She was the first battle- official statement ship to take the water since 1925, when H.M. ships Nel- son and Rodney were
recently called a "campaign of lying and exaggerated propa-
ganda” directed against them by launched, and she is the
"persons and organisations un- friendly to this.country."
Firat came a complete exonera- tion for the conduct of British ollicers and men. "The character of the British soldier is too well known Lo need vindication." That tribute will be supported not only by his own countrymen but
by the people of every land to which he has heen sent, as well as by his opponents in the field.
The Forces in Palestine are not fighting a normal enemy. They are_working_to_suppress_gang- sterism
national On A
acale. Against them are, ranged not: more than 1,000 to 1,500 permanent active rebels. But these form only the nucleus of armed gangs, hrought together often by ter- rorism and intimidation.
These bodies form, fight, and scatter then reappear elsewhere. Their leaders quarrel among them- selves. Rebels and peaceful citizens are "inextricably mixed." Every village, every house almost, must be suspected of harbouring -willingly or unwillingly-armed
terrorists.
British soldiers are subject to the most cowardly forms of the | attack. Their enemies are
lurking ambusher, the sniper, the gunman who fires in the dark. It is heartbreaking work for trained fighting mon, yet they are facing it with discipline and courage.
In the words of the official state- ment, there is "no alternative" to military action. Murder and outrago must be suppressed' if i order in to be restored to the country, and innocent civilians are to be allowed to live their lives in
peace..
The only possible method is a patient system of "check and search." The means adopted to comb out rebels are well known to the Inhabitants, and those who are caught in the machine have only themselves to blame.
Kid-glove methods are useless against organised criminals, but it is possible to tempor severity with reason. That la boing done in Palestine.
first of the five new battle- ships now under construc- tion to commission.
Though details of her design are secret, it is under- -stood that she and her sister ships will be of 35,000 tons displacement, 30 knots speed, and mounting 14-inch guns, heavy anti-aircraft batteries and 13,000 tons of
armour.
TWO FURTHER battleships,
reported to be of 40,000 tons,
to meet suspected increases in the tonnage of new Japanese bat- tleships, were voted in the 1938 estimates, but these two ships have not yet apparently been ordered, a fact which may indi- cate doubts as to Japanese inten- tions, if not as to the desirability
of building battleships of such great individual tonnage and cost.
POPEYE
Britain Builds
A
Big Ships
by
CAPT. B. ACWORTH
COPYRIGHT
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At the present moment the British and French fleets.com- bined include 26 battleships and 112 cruisers.
In the case of Chese heavier ships, therefore, it is clearly possible to divide the combined flect, ami to institute an effective blockade in the North Sea and Mediterranean.
But in the absence of a suffi- cient number of convoy escort vessels. British merchant ships are still insecure against sub- marine action in home waters and in the Mediterranean, and, indeed, in the seas and oceans of the world, in view of the great submarine flects of other Eur opean nations.
IF, HOWEVER, the Japanese Navy is included in n possi- bly hostile combination, the com- pletion of a part of the re-arma- ment programme must be await- ed before Britain can regard herself as secure, and a great deal more than the present building programme if she wishes to be independent through her own sea supremacy.
During the next two years the Navy will be strengthened by two battleships, 24 deatro- yers, 14 submarines, four. escort vessels and four large aircraft carriers.
By 1942, with the new battle:
BUT THAT is past history; and destroyers, and a great im- ships (including the two which, what of the present? provement in personnel and as recently announced, are part The building programme in stores. The present British and of the 1999 programme) coming hand has as yet not greatly in-French fleets combined are, it is into commission, and the com- But the launch of the King creased strength in ships over true, superior to any possible pletion of a large programme of George V, is more than an im- the 1935 position, though there European combination in their other new construction to be laid portant incident in Britain's re- is some improvement in cruisers major units. armament programme; she is a symbol in the minds of naval officers and men, and of the general public, of the awakening
of Britain from her maritime sleep.
Though throughout Britain's. history sea power has proved her salvation, and though after every major war England has forgotten its lasson, seldom, if ever, has the country allowed itself to sink to such a dangerous points of naval unpreparedness as prevailed in 1936, a year in which the country came within an ace of what might have proved another world war.
Taking twenty years as tho under-age limit of modern war- ships the under-age fleet of 1914 consisted of 70 battleships, 96 cruisers, 186 destroyers and 97 submarines.
In 1985, with the world in a highly disturbed state, in the East as well as the West, and with two.of Britain's old allies
as
potential opponents, the under-age fleet had destroyers and 52 submarines, and even this shrunken flect included many new shipsst under construction and old ships undergoing raconstruction. Furthermore, the fleet was short of personnel and of essen- tial stores.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
down during this and next year, the nation may expect to be. prepared ut sen against any con--
By Lichtyeivable attack,
Cope, 1929 by United Featura Byadšiais, lat,
"It' was 'simply beautiful-I never saw so many people cry at a wedding before.",
But if the launching of the King George V is a symbol of tho restoration of visible' sea power, still more does it symbo lise the re-birth of the national maritime spirit, and of the enthusiasm and keenness of the officers and seamen who man the fleet.
*
NO LONGER need all but the favoured few look forward to retirement and oblivion at, or even before, the prime of life. An expanding fleet and a'tem- porary shortage of personnel is the sailors millenniuta, for in such circumstances every junior cficer and man can, subject to his own exertions, be sure of promotion to posts of responsi- bility.
No longer are fleet exorcisen and gunnery practices a dull. routine, as for so many:yenra they have been liable to be. To day there is alertness and enthusiasm afloat, arising from the knowledge that the times are dangerous, and that the Navy may be called upon, at a moment's notice, to prove itself again the nation's bulwark.
The high spirit and moralo of:
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