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in રી closer and an endur- ing co-operation when peace returns.. A not unimportant step in this direction is to be seen in the Anglo-French trade agreements concluded between the President of the Board of Trade and the French Minister of Commerce. The effect of them is to relax considerably the measures of prohibition and restriction which had to be im- posed on the outbreak of war. They are, in fact, the logical sequel to the financial agree- ments between the two countries which were concluded last De- cember; and they lead the way to the establishment of similar arrangements between other parts of the British and French Empires. Such reciprocity, whose consequence must be a growing inter-dependence, is of The happiest augury.
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HOPE: "Dare I risk plucking that 'one again?"
FRANCE
Something To HAS HER
Cling
All
To-That's They Asked
HOSE Nazi airmen
TH
who murdered the
the men in
East Dudgeon lightship would be furious to learn that they have indirectly done the best turn of the war to Britain's merchant seamen.
-by- TREVOR EVANS
DORANS
-And has given twice as many do- corations as we have
SOME of our very gallant allies,
the Alers of the French Armee de l'Air, are not being |heard of quite enough in this.
queer war.
The fault is not theirs.
They have their Dorans too. In
the fitting of lifeboats and other fact, the French Government so far
appliances.
Trude
The excellent Board of specifications met most contingencies at sea in peace time, he anys.
ns our
hus awarded its airmen more than → twice as
many decorations R.A.F. men have received
Some people belleve that the French system of decorations is more truly democratic than the British.
for
Most passenger ships were well In many Cases whole
hole crews of equipped, but the cargo ships-occun French bomber reconnaissance
machines are belag decorated and constwise - need overhauling working together as a team. now, especially those more than ten The captain, his radio operator, years old.
gunners and navigator nearly always. receive the same decoration--general-
mention In ly a
Army Orders and the Croix de Guerre,
The only time the British show the- same impartiality is when they leave whole crews undecorated.
What happened to that defenceless
to protect property," he said, "ifeboats, leak badly when faunched, lightship crew has turned Authority's little could be spared to save our spotlight on the need for greater safety measures for men of the sea.
Mr. Winston Church has an-
lives."
the further-out lightships are to be however small, however old, has a was impossible to get the rowlocks Sergeant Pierre Lacaille and Corporat
replaced by light floats without
crews,
Gays this pt
In many of these oldish ships the
Some of the boats suffer from over- zealous painting. He-made-two-suggestions,—AT- -|-~"One-I-examined," he said, "would.) nounced that crews are to be taken range for a slow-slow convoy," he have been impossible to use for life-
said, "and scc that every ship, saving. It was so painted up that iti
Meet some of the Allied heroes....... off the further-out lightships. And
N.C.O. Pliet Pierre Frebillot, Chief raft slung to her deck, quickly into the gunwale fittings."
Pierre Martelliere øre bomber crew detachable in time of trouble....
who have all won Army Orders men- you'll cut your losses of He at sea
When a ship is mined or torpedoed tion and the Croix de Guerre. it seldom sinks on anything like an The omelal by half."
report even keel. Mr. H. says it is often them: "A
worthy and gallant crew.
two of the four possible Iffeboats. impossible to lower away more than During a photographic reconnaissance they were attacked at great height by
fighters. They fought as their continued to carry out. sugges-mission. Although both machine gun- tions:-
ners were wounded and one engine That at least two lifebouts, one vre and shooting they managed to put out of action, by skilfui manocu- forward on the port side, one aft on get back to their base with important the starboard, should be fitted with information." a petrol or paraffin engine-giving a cost of
No more will we risk men whose whole working life has been spent helping the vessels of all ttttons, sioning of these rafts, with sealed
He added that the special provi German included.
lockers containing food, water, spirits But if the seas are unsafe for and Cores, could be economically lightship men, what of the crews of provided.
fishing trawlers and the alow, old This story was told to me ten days tramps which would normally belago. There is a footnote. Since then bound for the scrap-yard, but are every member of that crew has gone now of greater value to the nation back to sea. then they have ever been before?
disquieting tales, these men of the next month. tramps, on their return from recent voyages.
HE makes these
they
enemy
N.C.O. Pliot Antoine Mercy has won the Military Medal as well as They have been telling strange, Douglas himself hopes to go back range of 100 miles-at
the Croix de Guerre with Palm, От £150 boat.
photographic reconnaissance he wns attacked by three Messerschmitts. That each ship stiould carry at The official report says:- ROBERT STANLEY was the least four life-rafts, fitted with man
"Thanks
to tria sang-froid he- second steward of a ship ropes and calcium flares, similar to succeeded, in spite of grave burns, CAVIN DOUGLAS, Scottish that sunk off the west coast last the Carley flouts used by Navy ships, in bringing his flaming machine back The French liners, his machine novelist, has just ended a
That' when ships enter dunger gunner killed at
his post. He thus voyage as a deck-hand.
It was Robert Stanley's job to slow zones all lifeboats should be swung enabled his observer to jump by Ilis ship was so old and so slow away, bottles of brandy in the life-out on the davits,
parachute into French
territory with that she could not join a convoy, bouts at the beginning of the voyage.
valuable photographs. In these con- But she is useful enough to bring After he and his mates had been 10,000 tons of iron-ore to this country] floundering round in the cold waters) each trip she makes.
of the bay for some hours they were
month.
of
Douglas is bliter, but he is going hauled aboard one of their own life-100 to 120 degrees. Few of them
to sea again.
bouts,
They sat there shivering in the stern when Stanley suddenly re- membered the brandy.
He called to the offleer la charge They looked at their lifeboats as-"Pass, the brandy, sir." the ship creaked and groaned through the danger zones, and they had mor- bld discussion on the number of ways
It is also satisfactory to know
difficulties in the way of the parallel development of French and British export trade have been examined, and that the dis- cussions between the Federation of British Industries and the equivalent organisation in France have been approved. Such a move might easily even- tuate in something very like an industrial alliance. For the im- There were times on that last trip mediate moment the announce. when he and his shipmates were ment that will be most convinced that they were just plain, welcomed, however, is the agreed fool suicides. intention to simplify to the greatest possible extent the existing formalities relating to the control of external trade, the movement of private per- sons, and communications by post, telegraph and telephone. These formalities have proved not only unduly restrictive but positively vexatious. Trade be- In their hours off duly they formed tween Britain and France, has | ittle informal discussion groups, been forced, as it were into a strait waistcoat, and healthy activity has been made impossi- blo. No better foundation could
boration between the two coun- tries which, it is hoped, will be a potent factor in post-war | economics than this declaion to. give business interchanges the freedom to function.
There was a shocked silence,
Then the officer spoke.
to
He makes another proposal for dillons he showed a magnificent spirit fremen on coal-burning ships.
of sacrifice worthy of the highest praise," Antoine Mercy's sacrifice They work in an atmosphere was the supreme, one.
ever provide themselves with warm clothing. When their ship goes down they suffer terribly from exposure.'
"Why not provide these men with warm 'duffle coats?" says Mr. H.
mentions like this, dozens of them:
Then there are the simple, brief:
"Sergeant Pilot Michel Marías, bril- worth on his first fight in Hant fighter pilot. He proved his action, Attacked by two Messerschmitts, he If shipowners ore ordered to fit out of action."
shot one down and forced the other ships with motor lifeboats, or t Young Lieutenant Tissier was on
| existing Ilfeboats with engines, and a photographle reconnaissance when "Don't life-rafts, he adds, arrangements can bis nachine was disabled by anti- aircraft firo. Then came three. Mes- they could go down without the life you remember?" he said. "We drank be made in every main port to com- serschmitt Every man in the bom
plete the job in forty-eight hours.
boats being the tiniest scrap of use. The crew were concerned about the
Inch of safely.
it all our Christmas party.”
ber was
wounded. The machine was. In dames. It fought its way back When Stanley saw me he made
PASSED all these sugges to the base. Lieutenant Tissler had: one suggestion.
tions on to a member of saved the photographs. "There ought to be a law," be the Advisory Committee to the Minis netlons for which decorations are be
Nearly 00 per cent, of these gallant suid, making it an offence to open try of Shipping.
ing given took place over German the seal of any locker. In a lifeboat He telephoned me.
territory. The French
taking _are ned to leave, add spars lying about doned,"
One or two of them actually plan- or on a raft before a ship is uban-
the initiative. "We have done quite a lot along
The fliers of the Armee de l'Air in the scuppers in the hope that. If
the lines you suggest," he says, Spitfires, Hurricanes and Wellington may not be lucky enough to have. the strip went down there would be
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That was all they asked. Some- thing to cling to,
Stanley hasn't walted for his law."but now the whole business is to bombers. But they have plenty of
He went to sċa again last week
FR. H. in an expert on M
marine life-saving equip-
be speeded up for every one."
"Why the sudden spurt?" I asked. "That East Dudgeon lightship affair.
That's how those Nazi sirmen have
When Gavin Douglas came to see ment. For years he was in charge was the last straw," he said. me he was not angry. 'Simply of Hner lifeboats. puzzled. "If we can spend money Now he has a shore job organising helped British seamen.
that without which, all the Eplifres in the world would be useless, They are brave and gay.
The DAF. on the Western Front: have worthy comindes to fly with.
Sydney Smith