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December 29, 1939.
BLOCKADE NEWS
A
GLANCE at the map will show you why Napoleon, more than a century ago, cursed the geogra phical situation of Great Britain,
why
Hitler
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To reach Germany all the North and South Atlantic routes must converge into two main traffic lines, **** | both dominated by the
sea
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The Military Moustache
a lower fuel between Northern Scotland Bined with and Southern Norway, the consumption than the naval The mercantile southern routes must pass cruisers.
well the English Channel, personnel, too, were through the 20-mile Straits trained in spotting ́other.
up
Archangel
US S. R
TDA KEY
LIBYA
EGYPT
SYRIA
of Dover. Those 270 miles merchant vessels, and any shipping for 30 or 40 miles neys. Immediately behind. control 85 per cent of odd features about those in one direction, and then it, and in the Fair Island for a similar distance in the channel, hundreds of des- oversea trade vessels. Germany's
direction. During troyers, patrol vessels, routes, and those 270 miles
These merchant cruisers reverse are controlled by Britain.
fitted with anti- Further South, the great were armed with 6in. and the hours of darkness all trawlers and other small devices, were Mediterranean trade routes 3in. guns, and their fuelling ships would steam to the can also be controlled by the capacity enabled them to eastward, and during day craft, seems that, as a result of Allied navies from several stay at sea for periods light to the westward, thus submarine
to 30 days. preventing vessels slipping constantly on patrol.
CONTRABAND CONTROL their being called up for bases. At Suez, Malta and varying up
can be Vessels were divided into through the cordon at night. the ex- Ships nearer
In the English Channel service in the army, the youth Gibraltar vessels
patrols which covered the of Britain are showing an in- creased tendency to cultivate inspected for contraband.
whole area from Iceland tremity of the line would the blockade was the moustache. Not one of a
HOW BLOCKADE WORKS to the Hebrides, and as ice maintain what was known ratively simple procedure. very Juxuriant variety; for, although the military authorities & During the last war the prevents ships from passing as a cross patrol, steaming To-day, control stations are are not inclined to split hairs blockade of Germany was north of Iceland for several backwards and forwards in established at Weymouth, 10th months of the year it was line ahead, across the track Ramsgate and Lerwick (in at this point, anything in the
maintained by the nature of a "walrus" or a "sen-.
At its only necessary to keep that of shipping; for a similar the Shetland Islands). lion" might be frowned or. It Cruiser Squadron. is the dapper "tooth-brush" that maximum strength this in- section patrolled during the distance to the "in and out" these control stations all is the heir-apparent. of those cluded 20 armed merchant summer months. In the map patrols. mighty beards that once waved cruisers, comprising ships above, the scored area re al-Balaklava-and-Lucknow-in.
FIGURES OF SUCCESS
a compa-
To
vessels suspected of carry- ing contraband to German are conducted for ports
March 31,
during the "winter Throughout the period examination.- the days before the gas-mask of the Allan; White-Star, presents the extent of the had come and left the unshaven Orient, Anchor, P. & O., ice
this patrol was in operation, Prize Courts in the last chin bristling with difficulties. Union Castle, Royal Mail, months.
Perhaps there is some signi- Furness Withy, Elders & As a general rule ships only 4 per cent. of the mer- ficance to be seen in this evolu- Fyffes and other lines.
were about 30 miles apart, chant ships crossing the At war were sitting from Sep- conclude their work until tion of the military countenance. For the fierce aspect of the "old
These were commanded since visibility for the look- lantic managed to avoid the tember, 1914, and did not moustache," and the rude, an- by naval officers, but other out in the crow's nest was blockade. During the couth appearance bestowed by a
usually about 15 miles. Zig- heaviest week recorded 156 long after the signature of the wise personnel was shaggy mane,
were always ships were boarded and 58 peace. Up to were once held, no doubt, to be symbols of the mainly R.N.R. (ex-mercan- zag courses
Experience during steered to guard against sent into port for examina- 1920, the amount which had soldier's nature; but it is plain tile).
was £21,254,- that little of this carlier con- the first few months of the submarine attack, and the tion. Two armed raiders passed through the Registry cept of him lingers, if one may blockade proved these to be general rate of steaming succeeded in getting 412; and up to March 31, 1938, £6,770,927 was paid judge from the lip-service it re-much better suited for such was 15 knots. In the centre through disguised as neutral
work than the old naval of the line what was known merchantmen; but two were out to the Naval Prize Fund for distribution among the cruisers employed at the as an "in and out patrol" detected and sunk.
From May 1, 1918, the personnel of the Royal Navy beginning. This procedure was maintained. not only released naval men Ships would steam in line blockade was maintained by and those who were attach- (i.e. on parallel a huge minefleld laid be- ed to it during the Great the merchant cruisers had courses) along the tracks of tween Norway and the Ork- War.
ceives.
Eros-Evacuee
One of London's most famous figures recently appeared on the list of "evacuees," when the statue of Eros was removed from Piccadilly Circus. It was a very high compliment; for al- though is Majesty's Olice of Works has sent James II into exile, taken away from the House of Commons a bust of Cromwell, and erected a scaf- fold for Charles in Whitehall, this time to protect him, it has left the rest of London's statues
tered.
for strictly naval duties, but abreast
The Allies
of the Court
Were
Aryans
Once
took up tho theory with got over it and the French were to stand their ground unshel-ONE of these days some one Icelandic and a host of others (ster in Britain, Baron Bunsen, taken theory the English had
will ask Herren Goebbels [among them.
These languages are now call-enthusinam and passed It on to laughing at de Gobinenú and de and Streicher who introduced The average Londoner takes the Aryan theory into Germany.ed Indo-European or Indo-Ger- his pupil, Max Muller, for many Lapouge. Unfortunately, little exception to this since heThen there will be a rumpus. manie; but Sir William trans-years a professor at Oxford. In
Was
the
German nationalist movement. has always had a feeling, that
The Aryan theory is the most lated the Sanscrit term quite France the Aryan race
identified by de absorbed it with a vengeance. of
bel "they'd none
them
remarkable-and, as it has innocently by the word Arya-eventually
Lapouge with the Nordic group Gustav Kossinna, Prussian missed." But this does not ap-¡
Eros made a turned out, dangerous-accident, and then the trouble began. ply to Eros.
A number of othnologiste and (originating near the Baltic). for which we are not entirely those to pleasant contrast
Max Muller plugged the nationallet, appointed himself eminent gentlemen who "sleep blameless. The French invent self-styled anthropologists got in dull, cold marble" all over od it; we made it popular, and hold of these Sanscrit researches Aryan theory for forty years, Aryan historian of the German London's squares,, but who, introduced it to Germany; and and jumped to the conclusion and then at length realised that people and tried to prove that national science," wrapped in their frock conts, or there it was firmly planted in that if people speak similar he had been barking up the "history was pre-eminently a ono could imagine frogged tunics, are, in the Lan-patriotic minds by a Jewish languages you can say they be wrong tree. Just fifty years German
"I have declared though no long to one race.”
ago he wrote: doner's view, so far from being philosopher.
That is awkward for the In 1865 Count Joseph de again and again that if I say why history should be a national sleeping beautics.
The city evidently recognised National Socialists, but quite, Gobineau, an enthusiastic and Aryans, I mean neither blood scienco savo Kossinna's fol-
eccentric Frenchman, wrote anor bonos, nor hair, nor akull; lowers.
But clue to the national the fact: it would much rather quite true.
It all began like this. Not so book called "Essay on the In-I mean almply those who speak
science appeared on the title- have seen the captains and the
And Yiddish has a good claim
pago of the second edition of his kings dopart, not to mention the long ago we Europeans know equality of the Human Racca," an Aryan language."
be considered an Aryan book. It was dated: "On the politicians, and it paid Eros anothing about the languages of which, as the title suggests, tribute that it seldont pays to India, and when Sir William tried to prove that one so-called to
Jewish-German 1914." them it looked at him. He Jones, a celebrated philologist, race the Aryan race was the language. That was why Moses day of general mobilisation,
Mendelssohn, conquered not only its attention, went to that country on Govern-greatest in the world.
The book caused much discus- philosopher, took up the Aryan
And on the samo day a group but its affection; and although mont business he took the
of young Prussiang formed a when peice returns, the Stuarts trouble to learn Sanscrit, which sion in France and England. It theory and introduced it to
By the time the German unt-corps with a new standard-the may enjoy another Restoration, gave him the clue to the origin was very nice for every one to German scholars. they will hardly receive such an of a big group of European think that he belonged to the
German, lotioson race. The Prussian Mini-iversities got hold of tho mis swastika. ovation as will conquering Eros. languages-English,