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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 17, 1940.
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submarines
challenge the enemy in her own waters. Some do not come back.
Honour the men who go under the sea. Until the Norwegian invasion there has been little talk in this war .of British sub- marines. They are the most silent ships of the "Silent Service”----known among men of the Royal Navy as "the trade," In the last war they were rarely mentioned in of- ficial Press reports.
The service has been dub- bed "the Trade" since the early days when smart crews of surface ships chose this name to describe the gallant men in grease-stained overalls and grimy checks who manned . these "crazy" submersibles. The name now glowing with A tradition of honour-rC- mains.
But there is still reticence in naval circles when British submarines are spoken of.
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ADMIRAL S. S. Hall, who commanded the service for the greater part of the last war,
The men who
glves what la probably the best explana- tion. He says in a preface of William Guy
go under
Carr's book "By Guess and By God":
"For the period of the Great War (1914-10) and for some years
*submarine after the very word
was repugnant to us...Think of it! With the largest armada the world has ever seen at anchor in Seapa, with an auxiliary patrol of some 4000 vessels specially equipped for anti-submarine patrols, and with the assistance of the whole of the world's navies excepting those of Germany and Austria, we steadily lost 130 vessels per month from enciny submarine action. In the nctive period of submarine warfare the average sinkings were slx per diem."
That was the view of the man who was in charge of all British submarines expressed 12 years after the Great War had ended,
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HIS bitterness would not lind the same cause in the war against Nazlism to-day but the hurt and injury to the men of his service still endures.
Not one enemy or neutral civi- lian lost a life in the last war-nor so far in this war-as a result of hostile action by British sub- marine.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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the sea
The respect which exists be- tween the men of opposing surface ships, in time of war is not felt by the men of Royal Naval submarine service for their opposite numbers Our submarine in the U-boats. crews hold in contempt the men in the enemy craft who bring loathing British a service which the conduct with chivalry,
on
The Royal Navy musters one of the largest and most powerful
submarine commands in the world. From the Thames class of 1800 tons with a surface speed of 23 knots down to the 1918-built "H" class of a little over 400 tons with a cruising speed of 14 knots, there are over 70 vessels commissoned In the Trade."
The British submarines have two main activities. (1) They ac- company the fleet-that is large capital ships on reconnaissance or In action; (2) they exploro enemy waters on patrol searching out and attacking enemy surface ships, a task as dangerous, as any in the world,
THE submarine is a crea- ture of stealth, foremost in the line of fighting ships, al- ways alone.
un-
Small bands of men steadfast and courageous, must have swerving loyally and trust in their the commander on whom alone success and safety of the ship depends,
SHORT SHORT STORY
THE
WHO
MAN SIDE-TRACKED HIS BRAIN
"KNEW a case," said the financier, "of a man with the most brilliant brains, who
By Lichty had finance at his finger tips.
"Two armed bandita broko In hore and escaped without
WHILE the
great war rages, another
ruthless war goes on at
home, I mean
buying a thing!"
The
the endless, desperate struggle to keep up with the neigh- bours.
The casualties are fearful, and ought to be a warning to the rest of us.
"
I DON'T know how modern the vice of living beyond one's means may be, but I do know that it has been going on as. long as remember. And I know people who were doing it before I was born, and still
them Most of
are extremely would never respectable. You think, looking at their curtained windows and their whitened door- steps, that a pair of malden slaters of my acquaintance were starving
are.
"He was a man called Smogga, utterly unknown of course. And I say of course, because he never used his brains; or rather I should say he never made any use of them, which can be quite a different thing. He just side-tracked them, ran them down a siding that led nowhere; and he might have been as big a Onancier as any of us.
"Do you know what he did? Sit down and I'll tell you. He went and played chess. All the intellect that might have controlled, well, more than I can tell you, he wasted over a chessboard.
"It came gradually at first; he used to play chess with a man dur- ing the luncheon hour, when he and
I both worked for the same Orm. And after a while he began to beat the fellow, which he never could
at first.
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"Then he joined a chess club, and some kind of fascination scemed to come over him; some- thing like drink, or more likely
or music; but, as I poetry never addicted to any of the three, I can't say. Anyway it completely got hold of him and he began to lose interest in things.
WOS
"He became a good player, there was no doubt of that, and he won a good many prizes. And the value of all the prizes he won in his la would have added up to about a dollars. I've hundred
made # thousand times as much in an hour. And more than once. But that is all ho ever got out of playing chess. "Why That man could have handled millions. He did dabble a blt in finance, as I dabbled a bit In chess; in fact we started to- gether in the same firm, as I told
£.s.d.
themselves in order to keep up ap- peurances.
For years they starved a mald, too, but she escaped in time to suve her life, and now the old Indier do their own housework with the blinds down, and complain bliterly of the servant problem, which they regard as the curse of the modern age.
Their tragedy is, that they do not really keep up appearances. All they keep up a pretènco 50 transparent that their neighbours know all about ibem.
But for from looking down on them, the neighbours admire them for the brave show they make. After all, they do not lot the neigh- bourhood down by getting into the pollee couris.
between such
difference
The people as these and clerka who windle their employers in order to keep up appearances is that the old
of
indies are still trying to keep in the class they were born in, while the clerks are struggling to climb into n class above their own.
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PASSING from one class to another is a' full-time job. Nobody can do it and attend to business, too. It is much casler to become rich than to ape the rich successfully.
If I had a con I should say to him: "If you want to live as rich men do, the Brat thing to do is to make money. For God's sake don't try
to do it until you have the wherewithal to get away with it. If you do try you will be found out sooner or later, and your fate will be dreadful."
110 might argue: "But why
you; but we both left our dabblings and went our different ways.
"And his way led nowhere. He could have done it though; he could have been a financier. They say It's no harder than chess, though chess leads to nothing. I never saw such brains so wasted."
"Well," said the warder, "I can't sit listening to you nil day, but I see your point and I agree with it. There are men like that. It's
a plty, but there are men just like it."
He locked the financier up for the night, and hurried back to his work.
THE END
The British submarine is the only ship of the Royal Navy which cannot sall proudly under her own colours in home waters in time of
war,
I spent nome hours recently nboard a destroyer at work in the on the Dover English Channel Patrol.
"We can't let a submarine move in our waters without, a destroyer escort, an omcer confided to me. "They would be attacked at once without challenge if there was not a surface vessel accompanying to give the recognition signal. A lone submarine to us is just another exterminated 10 U-boat to be quickly as possible."
after a
pouse, "is a tricky
Furthermore, the Navy know that
"The Trade," ha fes."
it isn't only gunfire and depth charges that deal death to the men of the submarine service. The Poseidon, the M-2, the Thetis, all bear witness to the lurking danger of a service that takes a toll of Ute in peace-time as well as in war.
But glory they have carned, and posses, though it is little known.
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THE explolts of British submarines in the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora are famous to-day even if years passed before the gallant tales could be told.
Men such as Holbrook, Boyle, Naismith, took her ships and stout- hearted crews through the trea- cherous minefields of the Straits in the first few months of the last war to cripple Turkish naval and contraband traffle. Each comman- der received the Victoria Cross and decorations were distributed among most of the crews,
of the To-day the submarince Royal Navy are back once more at action stations. They are gloriously carrying the tradition of "The Trade."
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POPULATION
Strictly speaking, there are 13,014,000 Scandinavians, namely 3,733,000 Danes; 0,207.000 #wedes; 2,803,000 Norgerians; 117,000 Icelanders. The Finns, who trom many points of view might be consider. ed to belong to the same group, add 3,810,000 to the number.
GEOGRAPHY
Geographically, the Scandinavian lands are very large, but for the purpose of human habitation quite Bay, Sweden resembles a largo Christmas stocking. with a little bit of candy in the too; the candy is the people. Norway is a long belt with a Uny edge of lace on one side and end; at face is the people. They inhabit parts of the shore and a few of the valleys. Denmark is a little more than half as big an Maine. GULF STREAM
These are the most northern civilised countries in the world and they would be barred, white wastes of snow and ice, were it not for the kindly Gulf
Stream. The sweltering heat that Texas
and Louisiana experience in summer really heats up the Gulf Stream for Norway and Sweden.
BOOKS
Country Life in Norway-by Axel L
Oxholm.
The Gulf Biream credited with enabling one-third of the people in this far-north, mountainous land to prosper on farms. Farm-Labour Relations in ScandinavÍA
by Marquis W. Childs.
Study of Scandinavian efforts to strike a balance between the standarda of the form and city.
Social Problems and Follcles in Sweden
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Series of articles on Sweden's handi- Ing of a dozen or more social pro- bieras.
How the Neandinavians Do It—by Mar-
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In these northern European coun tries labour rulea democratically despite left and right critics and neighbouring dictatorships.
Swanking
shouldn't I have a motor-car, cock- tails, and cigars?"
I should reply: "Nothing would please me more than to ride in my son's elegant limousine, smoking is cigars. I could distributë the products of this earth, every body would have motor-cars, cock- tails, cigars, and everything they wanted in that line.
"There is surely no harm in wanting these things and trying to get them.
"Ambition is n good thing, and so is contentment. I do not care which of the two you choose, but you can't have bath.
"I think on the whole that con- tentment is preferable. Contented people cause other people Itle trouble, and have a pretty good time themselves. But ambitious people suffer terribly and often cause others to suffer:
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"Look at HIL ler, tho batmame I anybody ever sped the rich,
ho did. Ho
Icarned their
ways in officers' messes, and mado
up his mind to step out of his class, "If Hitler had realised where he belonged the world would have been spared much trouble. Because they made him paint houses in- slead of pictures his soul was filled with hatred.
"Read Mein Kampf. It is a cry- baby book from beginning to end. It is a success story gone wrong.
"It shows what may happen to man who tries to behave ko people richer and wiser than him- self instead of settling down com- fortably and having a family."
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