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The
of a
story
raider
Glossop) was doing 20 knots, and at
she sighted the
THE EMDEN was one of the ships forming the
The Emden had a landing party, German Far East squadron. fucke, busy demolishing the wire- under Lieutenant Commander von A vessel of 3,600 tons dis- less mast and cutting the cables, so placement, built in 1908,slie hoisted the recall, hove up her anchor and steamed to sen, taking with a speed of 241⁄2 knots, the approaching warship for H.M.S. and an armament of 10 4.1. Newcastle, a ship near her own size,
and intending to join action. inch guns, she slipped to sea from Tsingtao, the German To
say that the attention of the treaty port on the Chinese world is now focussed on the coast, on July 31, 1914, upon debate taking place in Congress on receipt of news from Ger- while present war in Europe is but to make many of the imminence of enemy's 41-Inch guns had a tange
American "Neutrality"
U.S. Neutrality in relation to the
a statement of fact. The final deel-war.
Great Britain and
and to Germany on the other.
The protagonists are Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who sponsors the Bill-called the Neutrality Ravi- sion Bill-which gives the President of the United States power to lift the Arms Embargo; and Senator opposes the Bill.
Both parties are agreed on one Issue to keep the United States out of war. But in regard to the best method of doing so, they are as wide apart as the poles. And the
There was a surprise in store for both ships, for the Emden suddenly realised that she was opposed to a heavier ship than the Newcastle, a us, with a speed of 251⁄2 knots, 5,400-tonner, mounting eight 6-inch-
the Sydney believing her
only of 8,500 yards, was unexpected- ty hit at 10,500 yards.
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and soon the Emden was in sore;
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"So if wo take our quarterly earrings and put it on the favourite in the fifth race, wo'd have a good chance to declare a dividend!"
FIRST YOU MUST
CATCH YOUR MAN
OSITIVELY the last found freedora and status have been. accompanied by grievous deteriora-
thing 1 should dream of doing would be to criticise the ladies.
From any such foolhardi- ness and vain conceit as
on both in the chanded of pubile manners and private cooking. Howe
wifery as a science is in its almost completo obsolescence in this Colony-
that; angels and ministers of We should do more to restore the
grace defend us.
national physique by mcking cook-boys than by encouraging our women to play bridge or mah-jongg. One decent plain cook is a better Yet there are moments, it
health factor in a home than a whole must be confessed, when trai legion of famale "socialites". Maybe, torous thoughts will keep on feminine psychology being what it weaying into one's mindy Bikes, we might solve this problem by boxers trying to get a knock-out giving the kitchen no glamorous un aura aa the club, Perhaps it might on the solar plexus. Moments be done
allowing cocks to wear when one asks oneself whether costume which displayed their after all our feminine divinities charms as adequately as a gym dress. As Mr. Shaw's waiter no portentously really have fect of clay.
observes, one never can tell.
sion of Congress is of the most vital On August 3, she cap- importance; to France, on one side of the conflict. tured the Russian steamer THE Sydney soon began hitting, Riasan and returned with straits, though the Sydney's shooting her to Tsingtao. About a was ragged, both range-finders being week later, she was detached to out of action and the guns engaged
In independent firing. operate in the Indian Ocean. The Emden's speed was dropping. She steamed toward the Bay so that the Sydney closed to some of Bengal, reaching the Colom-three miles. bo-Calcutta trade route; and hips, the Sydney's unused starboard In the turnings made by the two sank the steamers Indus, Lovat, battery came into action, upon which femining extremities are richly really clever at the prehistorie art of
In fact, even when those
One might expect women to be Killin, Diplomat, Trabboch, and the Emden's second and third fun- Clan Mathieson, as well as cap-nels come down,
decorated with purpledyed toe-captivating the male of the species. turing the Kabinga-all this be The enemy ship was heading for nails, the artistic camouflage But are they? The line of attack by tween September 9 and 14.
way of blood-red finger-nails, plucked. Sydney, belleving that she intended cannot quite conceal the common eve
eyebrows, exposed knee-caps, and The Emsden then steamed toward to pass on the far side of the island clay.
exaggerated hips does not greatly jas- Madras, arriving there on the night did not Intercept her. Seeing the It is now a long time since prees many masculine minds. If the of August 22. She opened fire on Emden firmly aground, the Sydney the elty, one shell passing through beaded away northerly toward u
Adam abdicated from his former hand that plucks the eyebrow is going to rule Britain, it looks a rather thin a large oil storage tank without ex-cloud of smoke ploding, upon which-a-small-battery sighted.
that had been monarchy, and sex equality was prospect for our future Imperial.
-by-law-proclaimed. Itook destiny.
William Borah, who
on
ability of Borah and Pittman to satisfy Congress will the main issue be decided.
North Keeling Island, and
the
of artillery ashore opened fire with She overtook the other ship at around in vain for the rare and only the Eden's gun flashes as tar- noon, Anding her to be the Buresk,
Americans may gets. The first salvo knocked out whose German crew had opened the refreshing fruits of that splen- still an Important phase of feminine
However much deplore it and however hard they try, they cannot be "neutral" in the strictest sense of the word. They have more monetary gold than o
one of the Emden's after guns, kill Ing 12 men, upon which she sheered away into the darkness.
stre did so.
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Kingston valves and abandoned her. Picking up the crew and firing four shells into hor, the Sydney returned to the Emden, arriving about 4 p.m. * K *
the rest of the world. They have TEAMING southward down the the greatest industrial set-up in the east coast of Ceylon, the Emden THE German ensign was still fly- world with potentially the greatest swept round Point 'de Galle
oning, so the Sydney signalled in output. They have the greatest September 25, and sank the steamers international code: "Will you sur-) store and widest range of row King
Lud. Tymeric, Gryfevale, render?" materials with the possible excop- the Buresk, carrying a full cargo of "What signal? No signal books," lo Ribern, and Foyle, besides capturing By Morse flags the reply came: tion of Soviet Russia, which is now coal. On October 16, the Eden which Glossop replied with Morse making her stocks available' to Nazi sank the steamers Clan Grant and flags: "Do you surrender?" Germany. Whatever they do, or Ben Mohr, as well as the dredger | No answer was given by the Em- dan't do, with their stupendous Ponrabbel, bound for Tasmania. den, so another signal was made; power, they cannot fall to swing the Trolius and the Chilkana and cop-
Two days later she sank the "Have you received my algnal7" world balance perceptibly one way ured the Exford with 5,500 tons of Emden
Sul no reply came, and as the or the other, whether they like it Welch coal, and the St. Egbert.
still had her torpedoes, a lucky hit with which might still give or not,
Holsting a dummy fourth funnel her a victory,
Glossop reluctantly They will be unneutral if they act to simulate a British "town" class was compelled' to fire two salvoes
cruiser, the Emden ran through the and they will be unneutral if they
from a range of two miles at the entrance to Penang Harbour at 5 funnels. do nothing whatever. Why is this n.in. on October 28. After torpedo- The German so? Let us examine Ahe position.
int the Russian cruiser Zemichug. down and a white sheet displayed ensign was hauled Should the United States adhere to stall French destroyer Mousquet as lives were taken by these salvocs.
she ran back to sea, sinking the from the quarter-deck. Some 20 the existing law and place an em→ bargo on munitions to both sides Steaming southward she took her zollern, an officer in the Emden, Prince Franz Joseph of Hohen- alike, it would not hurt Germany; last prize on October 30, the steamer naively calmed that the only Britain, France and their allies. Newburn, but released her
Emden to take never surrendered,. "for one can Germany could send her technicians the French survivors of the Mousquet only surrender with weapons.. to Russia to speed up munitions
to Sabang, production for herself, safely out of ranch of hostile planes, whereas the
The Germans complained of THE cruiser's career
rapidly approaching its end.
Glossop's action, yet on November 1, lents, would be cut off from outside On Noverber 8, 20 Australian eight days previously, the German sources of supply.
Transports were sleaming through cruiser, Nurnberg had fired in exact- the Indian Ocean in three lines y the same circumstances at the Thus would the American sabreast, followed by 18 New Zealand helpless Monmouth, which still kept called "neutrality" tend to affect transports in two lines abreast. her ensigns flying as she sank, but Great Britain and France adversely At 8.30 am. on November 9, the British did not complain, re- and benefit Nazidom. By doing several of the ships took in a wire-cognising the action as permissible.
from the Cocos Island less signal
The Sydney went back to pick up nothing-ns the present Neutrality station, "Strange warship approach-two of her boats which had been left Law demands-the United States in."
į to pick up some of the Bureak's Ger- would actually be taking the side of The senior officer of the warships man crew, being in ignorance of what Hitler. Do Americans wish to help escorting the convoy (Captain Sil-had happened at the Cocos wireless Hitler in this war which he and he signalled H.MAS. Sydney. "Ralso
ver,
H.M.A.S. Melbourne), station. alone started?
Captain Glossop sent one of hla steam for full speed and proceed to boats to the Emden, manned by the Taka the other view.Senator | Cocos."
Burosk's German prize crow, to asy Pittman and his supporters want to
At 7 am the Sydney (Captain he would return on the following sce" the-Neutrality Law revised so
morning, and headed for the wire- less station. that the President's hands may bogress would be extending to the freed and enable him to sell muni- tions in the United States under the
Anglo-French coalition, to all in-
嘛
sh
was now
Allies a helping hand.
the flag was hauled down because a wreck has no longer any right to fly it."
One need not go very far to find! "Cash and Carry proviso, Op out which side an average American ARLY next day he sent in two ponents say that this would be but would like to see win this war. But bonts to find the German land- and-out favouritism of Great Britain in the United States; and this fear schooner, the Ayesha, and had es the fear of involvement is a real one lng party had seized a three-masted and France; for, only they, and not may muddle the issue: In Congress, raped, the Germans, have the cash and the Nevertheless, Americans will have to Picking up the cable station's command of the sens to transport make up their minds on one point, medical officer, the Sydney returned what they buy from America to out-peace-minded this enemy Inpittable pl the wounded Europe. By revising this Law and Britain plight.
and France or the freeing the President's hands, Con- Fuchter?
wer-minded |:: Between 10 and 80 wounded, men
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find no convincing evidences did feminine apotheosis. I can
that it has added one lota to the wisdom or efficiency of our
contrary is the case. lives. If anything, quite the
Nor has lady yet made a really considerable figure in poli-
tical affairs. It is the same in the learned and other profes- sions, which were formerly cita- dels of male prerogative, but now for twenty years have been thrown wide open to insurgent petticoats. A few women have achleved a compotent mediocrity, but none has yet stood forth as a truly distinguished or great practitioner.
They tell me, moreover, that even in such vocations as the dressmaker's, and the chef's, which seem peculiar ly women's sphere, all the outstand- ing performers are men,
Yet husband-saring is evidently
activity. I have been reading a lady extremely popular with women. It Journalist's article in a Home paper headed "How to Catch Your Man"! Rather a shock, this sort of thing, to feminist high-brow and masculine misogynists. It conflicts so violently. With the Victorian theory voiced by the old king in Tennyson's "Princess." "Man is the hunter, woman is his game; these sicek and shining crea- fures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins"!
Rather a different outlook that from "How To Catch Your Man"!
do
But, of course, as the Shavian John Tanner knew so well, it is the Life Force that does the pursuing, and the Life Force is woman, lipsticked and eyebrow-moulted,
This lady Journalist's recipe for mancatching is engagingly frank and the even natve. With a shy man,
the date-making, lady must
phoning, and arranging. In fact she must "practically pop the question." But with the bold eggressive type. the man who "faneles himself," she must adopt ather tactics, make him think he means nothing in her young feminists that such failure is due 'phaning and billet-douxing to him. to male prejudice. But I fail to fʊe
With widowers, the cuslest matri- how this can be, seeing that women monial catches of all, the right tactics very substantially outnumber men in are a dinner invitation just when the England, for instance, and therefore club or restaurant cooking is getting constitute majority of popular
in their nerves. sentiment and opinion. Minority prejudices surely cannot count for
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IT IS sometimes argued by ardent life, break dates, and leave the
much.
stances.
BUT the common or garden fool- proof way of getting your man," writes this same charming authority, is by flattery. Virtually all men fall for this":
he
In spite of all the revolutionary changes in social conditions and po- pular outlook, marriage still remains the basic industry of women. It is also in the mass their predominant conspicuous success at this, it is not feminine psychologising. "Note this preoccupation. 'How far they are a This lady has one subtle touch of for an inveterato old bachelor to ex- one thing well: man want to press any opinion. But, If one may pritsed for what they are not. A Judge by what one hears and socs, self-made millionaire would rather and by the candid testimony of mar-, be thought a Clark Gable than ried men, event as wives and house- great financler," keepers they are not brilliantly suc
So there it is in cessful in a large proportion of In- post-War upper's vade mecum: If a nutshell. The
A learned Judge once confessed to with ideas of matrimony, I should I were a young man, and dallying me that in his experience of divorce make an attentive study of these re- nctions, which had been considerable, vealing feminine articles.
marringes were ruined by sound polley to rwat up the enemy's is woman's inefficiency than by man's favourite gambits, inconstancy. In fact in the matter of marital infidelity, the lawyer once more
If you ask me why, 1 refer you would fell us that nowadays it is the youthful Cleopatra stops her women's to G. B, S. When the women who are the chief delinquents. chatter, Cesar, bide her let them talk in order that she may learn. "What," asks the Egyptian Queen haughtily, "has Cleopatra to learn from her women!" "What they are answers Caesar succinctly,
mord
POSSIBLY it has rio sort of connec
tion with female entranchisement or sex equality, but it is a remark able. coincidence that women's new-
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