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·CONTRABAND CONTROL
for a similar distance in the channel, hundreds of des routes, and those 270 miles
direction. During troyers,
patrol These merchant cruisers reverse
vessels, are controlled by Britain.
Further South, the great were armed with Gin, and the hours of darkness all
.with anti- Mediterranean trade routes 3in. guns, and their fuelling ships would steam to the trawlers and other small can also be controlled by the capacity enabled them to eastward, and during day- craft, fitted
devices, were IT seems that, as a result of Allied navies from several say, t
sea for periods light to the westward, thus submarine their being called up for bases. At Suez, Malta and varying up to 30 days. preventing vessels slipping constantly on patrol.
Vessels were divided into through the cordon at night. patrols which covered the Ships nearer the ex: In the English Channel whole area from Iceland tremity of the line would the blockade was a compa- to the Hebrides, and as ice maintain what was known ratively simple procedure. 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, at this point, anything in the maintained by the 10th months of the year it was line ahead, across the track Ramsgate and Lerwick (in lion" might be frowned on. It Cruiser Squadron. At its only necessary to keep that of shipping; for a similar the Shetland Islands).. To 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-
the moustache. Not one of al HOW BLOCKADE WORKS`· very luxuriant variety; for, although the military authorities
nature of a "walrus" or a "sea-
at Balaklava and Lucknow-in
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vessels suspected of carry-.
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the days before the gas-mast of the Allan, White Star, presents the extent of the had come and left the unshaven Orient, Anchor, P. & O., ice during-the-winter Throughout the period examination. chin bristling with difficulties. Union Castle,. Royal Mail, months.
Perhaps there is some signi- Furness Withy, Elders & fiennce to be seen in this evolu- Fyffes and other lines. tion of the military countenance. For the fierce aspect of the "old)
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this patrol was in operation, Prize Courts in the last As a general rule ships only 4 per cent. of the mer- were about 30 miles apart, chant ships crossing the At War were sitting from Sep- were commanded since visibility for the look lantic managed to avoid the tember, 1914, and did not moustache," and the rude, un-iby naval officers, but other out in the crow's nest was blockade. During the conclude their work until shaggy mane, were once held, wise the personnel was usually about 15 miles. Zig- heaviest week recorded 156 long after the signature of March 31, no doubt, to be symbols of the mainly R.N.R. (ex-mercan- zag courses were always ships were boarded and 58 peace. Up to soldier's nature; but it is plain tile). Experience during steered to guard against sent into port for examina- 1920, the amount which had that little of this earlier con- the first few months of the submarine attack, and the tion. Two armed raiders passed through the Registry of the Court was £21,254,- cet of him lingers, if one niny blockade proved these to be general rate of steaming succeeded in getting
to March 31, judge from the lip-service it re-much better suited for such was 15 knots. In the centre through disguised as neutral 412; and up
1988, £6,770,927 was paid work than the old naval of the line what was known merchantmen, but two were
out to the Naval Prize Fund cruisers employed at the as an "in and out patrol" detected and sunk.
for distribution among the One of London's most famous beginning. This procedure was maintained.
From May 1, 1918, the personnel of the Royal Navy figures recently appeared on the not only released naval men Ships would steam in line blockade was maintained by and those who were attach- list of "evacuees," when the statue of Eros. was removed for strictly naval duties, but abreast (1.e. on parallel a huge minefield laid be- ed to it during the Great from Piccadilly Circus. It was the merchant cruisers had courses) along the tracks of tween Norway and the Ork- War.
ceives.
Eros-Evacuee
a very high compliment; for al though His Majesty's Omice of Works has sent James II into exile, taken away from the House of Commons a bust of Cromwell, and erected a seaf- fold for Charles I in Whitchell, this time to protect him, it has left the rest of London's statues
tered.
The Allies
Were
Aryans Once
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 Goebbela jamong them.
took up the theory with got over it and the French were These languages are now call-enthusiasm and passed it on to laughing at de Gobineau and de The average Londoner takes and Streicher who introduced little exception to this since he the Aryan theory into Germany. et Indo-European or Indo-Ger- his pupil, Max. Muller, for many Lapouge. Unfortunately,
Then there will be a rumpus. has always had a feeling that
manic; but Sir William trans-years à professor at Oxford. In "they'd hone of them
The Aryan theory is the most lated the Sanscrit term quite Franco the Aryan race was bel
the
German nationalist movement
missed." But this does not ap- remarkable—and, as it has innocently by the word Arya eventually identified by de absorbed it with a vengeance, ply to Eros. Bros made a turned out, dangerous-accident, and then the trouble began. Lapouge with the Nordic group Gustav Kossinna, Prussian pleasant contrast to those for which we are not entirely} A number of ethnologists and (originating near the Baltic). nationalist, appointed himself eminent gentlemen who "sleep blameless. The French invent-adf-styled anthropologists got Max Muller plugged the in dull, cold marble" all over introduced it to Germany; and and jumped to the conclusion and then at length realised that people and tried to prove that ed 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, wrapped in their frock coats, or there it was firmly planted in that if people apeak similar he had been barking up the "history was pre-eminently a frogged tunics, are, in the Lon-patriotic minds by a Jewish languages you can say they bo-wrong tree. Just, fifty years German national science," doner's viety, so far from being philosopher.
long to one race."
ago he wrote: "I have declared though no one could imagine"! sleeping beautics.
That is awkward for the In 1855 Count Joseph de again and again that if I say why history should be a national Kossiana's fol- The city evidently recognized National Socialists, but quite, Gobineau, an enthusiastic and Aryans, I mean neither blood science save the fact it would much rather quito true.
eccontric Frenchman, wrote a nor bones, nor hair, nor akull; lowers. have seen the captains and the It all began like this. Not so book called "Essay on the In-I mens simply those who speak But clue to the national kings depart, not to mention the long ago we Europeans know equality of the Human Races," an Aryan language."
science: appeared on the title- politicians, and it pald Eros a nothing about the languages of which, as the title suggests, And Yiddish has a good claim page of the second edition of his tribute that it seldom pays to India, and when Sir William tried to prove that one so-called to be considered an Aryan book. It was dated:On the them it looked at him. Ho Jones, a celebrated philologist, race the Aryan race-was the language. That was why Moser day of general moblication. conquered not only its attention, went to that country on Govern greatest in the world.
Mendelssohn, Jewish-German 1914.2
but its affection; and although ment busincas he took the The book caused much discus- philosopher, took up the Ary when pence returns, the Stuarts trouble to learn Sanscrit, which sion in France and England. It theory and Introduced may enjoy another Restoration, gave him the clue to the origin was very nice for every one to Gerruan scholars. they will hardly receive such an of a big group of European think that he belonged to the By the time, the German 1) a.ovation as will conquering Fros linguages English, Germann, chosen face. The Prussian Mint várniti got hold of the th
on the same