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Short Story
Saturday, MARCH 23, 1940:
by "Bartimeus
(The Famous British Naval Writer)
THE men of the forenoon watch came streaming .
from the hatchways leading to the mess deck, pull- ing on their gauntlet gloves, adjusting mufflers and balnelava helmets and the cowls of their duffle jackets.
Some still chewed on the last mouthful of breakfast as they moved off to lookout and gun positions.
The morning watch- the men who had been at their posts since 4 a.m.- were stiff with cold and as hungry as ravens.
They exchanged few words with the reliefs but went clumping off below, to the grateful warmth of the mess deck and hot tea and food. The guns crews, huddled in what protection from the bit- ter wind the shields afforded, lit cigarettes and began yurning.
WARDENS OF THE CONVOY
They talked about food and football and cinema-stars and the leave due to them in about four months' time.. One man began to outline his first day of leisure, leading his listeners from publie house to public house consuming imaginary pints of beer and recalling the charms of Plymouth barmaids. After a bit i made the crew thirsty and restive and they changed the conversation to breeding canaries. One broke into a little step-dance to warm himself.
"Forgotten War"
THE war
in
the Far}
Bust
with
Kocs on, neither
side able to end
it by military The
means.
Chinese
are
now employing well-organised
The
Chongkong Telegraph.
Saturday, March 23, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 20815-
and fairly well armed troops in considerable bodies; their guerrillas are active every- where, including the districts which the Japanese describe as “occupied" and those which fic behind the forces of "occcupation."
The new me- thod is that after Wang Ching-wel has been estab- lished 'at the Central Gavern- memut by realy with Japan he should
Invite Chlang to take office under him,
The plau simplicity Itself. Chlang surrenders and becomes, 4with Wang, Japan's instrument in establishing her "new order in East Asla The only dificulty is that the plan, seems to have no parilcu- Iar relation to the facis,
Japan feels the strain, no one quite knows how much. Offelally and unoficially, she is determined to establish the "new trder" at any cost. But the cost grows. It is wald that not all classes of society in Japan are as resolute as the Army to force on China a policy of thorough." Business men, it Is sold, and even kome official
wondering persons are about the drain of the Japan's resources. the growing economie difficulties, and the end- lessness of all. One political to raise a leader has ventured or.
voice in the Diet: he
visited with
a di- grace whileh shows cither that his feelings are not yet widely shared among his kind or that they are too dangerous to express,
From time to time the Japanese military reports claim large successes, but even if these are actually won they bring the end no nearer. It is probably true that in Japan they no longer expect victory, either throngh battle through seizure of territory. Their hope is that China will fall to them at last by sheer exhaustion and disunity.
The sufferings of China are. certainly immense and may be worse. Millions of Chinese have been uprooted and have fled towards the west. They have experienced ther wörst terrors of a military invasion and they may yet undergo those of flood, famine, and disease.
Nevertheless, so greatly are the rulers and the people changed since the days when they were the tools of any strong
unscrupolous foreign Power, their essential unity persists in spite of every-. thing that the Japanese can do.
and
to
What arms have not accom- pilshed the Japanese think achlove
state-craft. by
Rather more than a year ago this Govern- ment declared that it would not negotiate with the Government of Generalissimo Chilang Kal-slick. Nor does it now.
quemptly
war on
thin nodded. He'h close it as soon as of Thorsonn at a head of steara
The look-outs on the bridge were on her. divorced frum conversation. They
The mist was forming into ow were in pairs, one watching the sta tying clouds with glapses of pule and the other the sky.
"Serve him right,” said the cook. "None of it's worth latening to 'cept the gardening talks. 1 like them."
blue beyond. The Navigator of the There were four pairs, each within the sear pushed back his cap THE roar of the alarm gongs
and lit negarette-"Ideal day for un drowned his words. and sky to air attack" he said. quadrant of sen observe. They remained motion-
"We shall get one presently" re to scrub out the mess deck, went The watch below, who had began less, staring through glasses.
lied the Sib-lieutenant. He stared towards a shadow in the haze to star- Past the galley door in a rush of board that was the East Coast of jostling humanity and clattered pell THE Captain of the rear des- England.
melf up the steel Indders to their There's a hotel near. the beach guns. The cook's mate went with troyer on the quarter of the convoy had been on the bridge over there" he said in a low voice, then, ung of the fire party, with egg
if speaking to himself. stopped about his lips. The cook fell all night.
there once for a cup of tea. Before washing his plate and knife, listen- He stood by the compass with his the war. I was on my way to dine ing to the concussion of the guns
overhead that made the pana clatter; hands in his pockets staring ahel, with an aunt. There
there having tea. She was all on the range. Most of his faculties were concen refer me was Beatrix-no, trated on listening. Every few Sorry, Thelm. We went and bathed
About noon the first olinck by minates somebody made a report together after tea. She had green Heinkel bombers come out of the sun. A look-out would report an object eyes...i mean really, green, like a watery sun partly
Was B
obscured
to
by
boinbs,
on the water; it might be a tin or area's ... i never got to my nunt's'-- clouds, They dived in an arrow- broom-handle, ar a signalman would "Listen!" Everybody on the bridge head formation through a blaze of
message flashed back leaned back against the call, their punire and dropped their interpret a from one of the destroyers ahead of glasses raised to the clouds. Bang! The sen leaped into columns of foam them, or a wireless message would One of the escort sloops leading the where they fell among the abips of he passed to the bridge and read cavus had opened fire with her anti- the convoy. aloud, giving the position of patrols aircraft gums. A cloud eight miles
away became pitted with shell bursts, They banked steeply and sped ahead.
"A reconnaissance plane," said the south eastward pursued by bursting "Very good," was his invariable sub-lieutenant, She's out of range. shell. One machine suddenly dived reply.
We shall have some fun presently.” seaward trailing smoke. The others His steward brought him hot ten
vanished. which he
towards He glanced once more and bacon sandwiches
the land, a wifi valedictory glanes The destroyer munched mechanically, his eyes on the convoy strung out ahead of him. He had no idea what meal he was cating. Its steward fed him at in- tervals, but the meals had no names.
On
the quarter
that bade farewell to many things, moved up the line hailing cuck ship "That's
right" he murmured, as and pussed. "Thelma. I
she's for- BUPPOSE gotten all about It"
*
☆
"No hits, no casualties," game the answer each time,
The captain of the destroyer, stand-
Time was divided into the hours of darkness and the hours of light. Life Itself was resolved into two THE cook on board the escort ing by the compass with his hands in divisions. sleeping and being sloop at the head of the his pockets, dictated a signal to the awake. Life was composed of one convoy was taking in the or officer of the escort, at the
heud of the convoy. duty, the safety of the convoy: it dinners handed through the A recent estimate by a
perfect happiness,
There is a good deal to rouse criticism.
"Near.
good authority is that the war in China, without any large-scale offensive, is costing Japan 25,000 men a month, or 300,000 in a
There Наб
been a shortage of the Indispensable rlee In Japan
and had to be Korea, and rice ordered from abroad. This means an unexpected drain on foreign exchange. It has also meant an -additional consumption of the moya bean crop la Manchukuo, on which Japan normally relies for export sales and a supply of foreign ex- change.
These things do not in the icant show that Japan is wavering in her resolve somehow to get her way. In China. But they explain her con- centration on Wang Ching-wel. A Japanese newspaper calls him "the saviour of China." He is certainly
Intended to be the saviour of Japan.
Agreement would show Japan us aiming at the domination of China, "making of her a Japanese protec- torate in all but name.". Mr. Wang has yet to show that he could hold office for a day on the merits of his scheme without Japanese support.
held one rare
sloep,
course.
to the
doorway.
His steward appeared with a plate of sandwiches which he ate mechani-
cally, watching a sister destroyer moving off at full speed to investigate the wreckage of the Heinkel.
The
Still munching, he bent
He opened the oven door and shot volce pipe and gave an order to alter them into the oven one after the
The rear ship of the convoy had other and shut the door with a slut. guns' crews and look-outs were also
He had only just finished there out breakfast and before he could out of mugs brought round by the troyer ranged alongside and
through get his galley scrubbed out they'd be cooks, their eyes on the clouds. were shouts exchanged
wanting hot tea. His mate sat on megaphones.
The sound of firing out at neu had The ship was a Norwegian and the the preparing table eating a tricu attracted little crowds of people along | Captain explained that chief egg off a plate on his lap. He was the coast.
The ships were invisible Engineer had allowed steam to drop. round faced and curly haired and in the sea haze but they gathered in
his
the
Ile said what he thought about Wad staring at nothing while he ate clusters on headlands and beaches, the chief engineer too, but as he the egg delicately off a knife blade, staring seaward for some tidings of spoke only Norwegian it left the "Did you hear Lord Haw-Haw on the fight, just where their forbears
night?" He en had stood and stared through Captain of the destroyer none the the wireless last wiser on that point.
quired suddenly.
centuries of history.
The cook replied that he had some- thing better to do.
THE two seamen grinned at each other and waved their arms in brotherly accord.
The destroyer captain pointed at the gap in the convoy with his megaphone, and the Norwegian cap-
The cook and his mate on board the escort sloop, were cutting Band- lad. withes us if for a wager.
"He's a scream,”. said the
"I reckon ships in a convoy are "You'd laugh fit to bust yourself.""
He scraped the plate with The safer than blokes ushore, very near," knife and look a long drink of tea, said the mute taking a bite out of a "I see in the paper a chap in Ger- sandwich and putting it on one side. many got three years in quod for "There's never yet been one sunk by listening to an English broadcast," "bomb.
TO-DAY THE "TELEGRAPH" STARTS YET ANOTHER INTERESTING NEW FEATURE— "THEY SAID OF HONGKONG"-BEING A SERIES OF EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS AND LET- TERS BY IMPORTANT PEOPLE ABOUT THIS COLONY OF OURS.
THE CAPTURE OF HONGKONG
Extracts from a despatch from Viscount Palmorston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Queen Victoria, 10th April, 1841. Captain Elliot, after capturing the Chinese position at the mouth of the West River, concluded a preliminary treaty with the Chinese Government, which did not, satisfy the Chinese, and which was strongly disapproved of by the British Ministry, as containing no mention of the opium traffic which Britain sought to sco maintained, and which had been the cause of the war with China: Elliot was accordingly recalled, and succeeded by Sir Henry Pottinger, who became first Governor of Hongkong.
The treaty signed by Elliot provided for the cession of Hongkong to Britain, with paymont of an indemnity of $6,000,- 000, with provision for commercial facilities and collection of customs.
Foreign Office, 10th April, 1841. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has the honour to submit the accompanying letters, which he received yesterday, about the operation in China, and which have just been returned to him by Viscount Melbourne, whose letter he also transmits.
Viscount Palmerston has felt greatly mortified and dis- appointed at this result of the expedition to China, and he much fears that the sequel of the negotintion, which was to follow the conclusion of these preliminary conditions, will not tend to render the arrangement less objectionable.
Captain Elliot seems to have wholly disregarded the in- structions which had been sent to him, and even whon, by the entire success of the operations of the Fleet, he was in a con- dition to dictate his own terms, he seems to have agreed to very
Inadequate conditions. The amount of compensation for the opium surrendered falls short of the value of that opium, and nothing has been obtained for the expenses of the expedition, nor for the debts of the bankrupt Hong merchants. The securities which the plenipotentinrich were expressly ordered to obtain for British residents in China have been abandoned; and the island of Chusan (Formosa) which they were special- ly informed was to be retained till the whole of the pecuniary compensation should have been paid, has been hastily and Vis- creditably evacuated. Even the cession of Hongkong has been coupled with a condition about the payment of duties, which would render that island not a possession of the British Crown, like Macno, but a settlement held by sufferance in the territory of the Crown of China.
Viscount Palmerston has sent a snill map of the Canton River, which your Majesty may like to keep for futura reference.
"Leuve off eating the sandwiches and never mind the convoy," retoried the cook. "Cutting sandwiches is your jub, so gel on with it. All them nice hot dinners spolling," he added gloomily.
On the edge of the clf to the northward a green eyed girl stood looking out to the sea. "I wonder it. you are in that fight," she said "and if you ever remember
"As the treacherous English have not replaced the light- ship we bombed last week, I am afraid, Herr Kapitan, we are aground." -