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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 July 15, 1939
Germany's submarines are
worrying the Admiralty
by LP-COMMANDER KENNETH EDWARDS, R.n.
who served for many years in submarines,
HE British Ad-
miralty's pre-occupa-
submarine building by Germany is reflected by the great increase in the building of anti-submarine and trade protection vessels this year.
Last year not one destroyer or escort vessel was included in the British naval building pro- gramine; whereas this year two flotills of destroyers (16), and 22 escort vessels are to be built. Germany's subnurine strength is one of the most disquieting factors in the world situation to-day. By the terms of the 1935 DESPITE THE dramatic surdenness Anglo-German Naval Agreement with which the news hus beer Germany was allowed to build made public, the proposals for Com-submarines up to 45 per cent, of pulsory Service in Hongkang nee not the submarine tonnage of the an outcome of the present tension British Empire, between Britain' and Japan but are
Conscription
the culmination of plans first envi- Baged some considerable time ago.
Until that time. Geraiany was absolutely forbidden by treaty to build submarines.
Before the Anglo-German
COULD THESE
The proposed Ordinance, which is Naval Agreement was concluded LESSEN THE anti-aircraft gu
category, it is believed that not more than 500 persons will be affected They may be called up, at the discre- tien of the military authorities, to
in June 1935, however, it became clear that Germany was break-
U-BOAT MENACE?
The othor side- of submarino service...
Twice
UNDER The Equator
THIRTY British Navy men
who can claim to hold a world's record ay navigators are back home now.
They have crossed the Line twice without being initiated by Neptune and his Court.
They are members of the crew of the submarine Thames, which cruised 12,000 miles round Afri- ca, and each time it came to the Line disappeared under water and only surfaced again when it wns past the Neptune "danger zone."
This cruise is the longest un- accompanied trip ever under- taken by a British submarine.
She had no special preparation for it. She was simply detached from the Mediterranean Fleet and told to go round Africa as though it were a walk round Hyde Park.
Throughout the trip she had no trouble that her own engine room hands could not cope with, Ithough while she was in Simons- town they got the dockyard to do two small jobs.
She had no doctor on board, but apart from two cases of malaria no one needed a doctor. "One or two tummy pains and a boil or two" were dealt with by the captain.
Thousands of people who had
This is one of Britain's new motor never seen a submurine before went on board at the different torpedo boots. They carry depths
ports. Altogether this small charges, torpedoes, and a quick-firing
Their greatest use vessel, in which normally fifty- will probably be to form a fast-six men and five officers live, moving striking force for the protec-hal 23,000 visitors in nine ports. tion of a coastal base against enemy They passed them through at attack. They carry a crew of about the rate of 100 an hour. This eight and travel at around 43pknots, was twice the number that the- twice the speed of a fast veran tiner fofficers had calculated they could
handle.
Certainly. anti submarine
In addition the Thames was
expected to take its Third Reading in the Legislative Conficil on Thursday week and thereafter become law, has ing her treaty Obligations and been carefully drafted and planned. building subnurlies. Even ac- It provides, briefly, for the enrol-cording to the official records she ment of all European-born British launched a submarine three days men in a new Defence Reserve, which before the conclusion of the
It should be noted, too, that will consist of three categories treaty which allowed her, to
oflicers and men of the various | combatant service, key post service, build these craft. She was, of
course, building them in secret. these modern "coastal" sub. methods of attack have increas-shown and explained to 792 and essential services, in the Arst
The Admiralty tried to set a marines have operated in Span- el enormously in efficiency.
In November 1918 the total branches of the Naval Volunteer number of British vessels engag- Reserve in, South Africa, Kenyn, limit to German naval building ish waters and in the western by the 1935 Agreement. Their Mediterraneau..
Germany is also producing a ed on anti-submarine duties and Gambia and the Gold Coast.
Parties of these men were also. attempts have proved futile, be- cause the Agreement has been so-called "sea-going" type of the defence of trade was 3,253,
British warships practice, among them some Afri- undergo training with the Hongkong denounced befors Germany could submarine of 500 tons, and an At the present moment the total taken out for cruises and diving likely to be available for anti-can seamen at Mombasa, tó Volunteer Defence Corps and the build-up-to-the tonnage allow "ucean-going" type of 750 tons. number of
-What-are-ull-these-for-
Not very long ago I discussed submarine duties and the pro-whom all the orders-had-to-be. and will be subject to all the proviance permitted her by that sions of any enactment relating to treaty.
And Swahili is not rich in the Before the actual treaty went submarine warfare in general tection of trade is only about translated into Swahili, members of such forces. In times of
Development in anti- sub proper terms for "Flood No. 2 by the board Germany decided to with some German submarine 240.
after-tank," "Up periscope," increase her submarine tonnage. officers.
They were entirely convinced marine warfare cannot be said
to bridge this gap. The training of the Merchant Navy have Last December she possessed 64 submarines. This was a larger of two things:
1. Germany lost the Great of Merchant Navy officers and undergone defence courses. The object of the proposed Ordin number than that possessed ance is definitely to aid the defence by the British Empire (54). War because her unrestricted men to act in their own defence of the Colony. But the BI pro- The German craft were submarine campaign began too vides a loop-hole for the compulsory smaller than the British, so late. Mobilisation of certain man-power. | that
Hongkong Naval Volunteer Forces,
emergency, therefore, members of the Defence Reserve may be mobilised to take their places in the trenches alongside the Volunteers.
21
advan- numerical
There is no doubt also that is an important step taken by
the anti-submarine and patrol the Admiralty, and already) nearly 10,000 officers and men "Stop both. Group down. Thirty 2. In the event of future
had to talk of "steam" when feet."
There is even no word for notably persons drafted to the Hong-tage could be attained while war between Germany and the vessel strength of the Navy kong Naval Volunteer Force, for still keeping within the existing British Empire the whole Ger- would, in the event of war, be electricity, and the interpreter
PLEASE Turn To Page 5. service in any part of the
PLEASE Turn To Page 5. British 45 per cent. tonnage allowance. man resources would be devoted Empire. It is not the Intention of Before the end of last year from the very beginning to the present Administration, we fully Germany had built right up to achieving the paralysia of utilized for any purpose but the de- her treaty allowance in sub. British maritime trade. fence of the Colony, but Administra-marines, and it was clear that tlons are often over-ridden by those she would either have to stop "higher-up" in another part of the building these craft or enter world.
believe, that the Ordinance should be
Reserve Of Parts
THE whole of German into negotiations which, although
naval strategy is based A second objection exlats in the not infringing the letter of the fact that there is no guarantee to the Agreement, were a clear breach on the creation of an intolerable threat against the weakest point conscript-however ugly the word, of its spirit. the fact still remains that the mem- She chose the latter course, in the armour of a potential bers of the proposed Defence Reserve and a delegation from the British enemy. will be conscripts-that his services Admiralty was forced to fly to
The British Empire is utterly
will not be used for purposes not Berlin to hear Germany's pre- dependent on the maintenance of related to the actual defence of the posals for breaking the spirit of its maritime communications. It Colony. The Ordinance contains no what was, to the British Empire, ls against these, therefore, that provision rendering it impossible for the most important part of the Germany is creating her great-
Naval Agree- est threat..
Reservists to be called out to quell
elvil disorders an omission in the Anglo- German Conscription Aut In the Uniter ment. Kingdom which was subsequently rectified.
The first phase of Compulsory Ser-
vice provided for in the Ordinance
40
Already Germany has in com- mission nearly three times us In Five Months many submarines as she had in August 1914. She Is building IN the past five months them very fast, and there is no Germany has built some doubt that she has accumulated
is compulsory medical examination 40 submarines, so that she now
for all European-born and Dominion has in service more than 100 a large reserve of parta which can be hastily assembled Into
burn British males between the ages
of 18 and 55. The second phase is underwater craft,
appearance before
These submarines are of three complete U-boats in case of need. A Compulsory
infancy;; yet in November 1917 Service tribunal. The third place, types. Germany, when she first In 1914 the submarine was in its the actual calling up of Reservists for wanted to build submarines, Germany had available 178. military training, will not be applied said they were necessary for the while a further 207 were under untess elreuinstances are belloved to defence of her coasts. So sho construction.
be such na to ronder such training built a large number of small
necessary.
struggling
Germany was submarines of 250 tons. These We believed that there should be were called "constal " Bub under blockade, yet she was no delay in the application of the marines, but their "constal" launching more than 100 sub- third phase. A soldier cannot be quailties may be assessed from marines a month. trained in a few hours, and conscripthe fact that the majority of the tion of combatant recruits would de-
What is the situation to-day?
fent its own object in times of emer- U-boats which did such damage Government spokesmen assure Include during the Great War were of us that the submarine is not the gency unless service is to
monaco that it was 25 years ago, the anime tonnage.
immediate training.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
1615-69
"You beast! If you have to read, why can't you read the papor instead of the cook-book?"