Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 15, 1940.
Courty
MAGAZINE PAGE
The 13.
A Totalitarian Eclipse Has Been Arranged!
Meet the
"ACID
by Paul Holt
THE odds are that one
name will come to the defeat the surface, to Navy's liking_for_re ticence and privacy, to take its place. when this war is over, with the Eng- lish names of Blake and Beatty, Nelson and Jelli-
COL.
It's a Welsh name-Phil-. lips. Christian name Tom. It belongs to a little admiral'
who doesn't sail the seas.
fest heard the name of Vice- Admiral Tom Spencer Vaughon Phillips mentioned by Winston Churchill at the Guildhali luncheon to the men of the Exeter and the Ajax on February 23.
CHURCHILL, that day, was talk- ing to the Navy. Not to civilians. There were phrases in his speech he rasped amid the longles of a one-sided neutrality" when he talked about the Cossack rescue of the Altmark men frem a Nor- wegian fjord-which were intended for the world,
ho
pald
But the bulk of his words were about for the Navy. He talked "your friend
the one you sank. the Graf Spec." And tribute, as the Navy would want him to do. to the men who made the River Plate victory posible. To Sir Henry Harwood and Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord.
But because I hadn't heard the name mentioned · before,' I pold more attention when he paid tri- bute to Vice-Admiral. Tom Phil- lips.
And now he has pald further tribute.
Navy's
DROP"
Lico brains with just- over a single brawn
He is, I'd
say from a sight of him, on the heavy side of a feather- weight. Say nine
stone dead. He has small feet, a grim little rat- trap of a mouth which turns up He probably has
at the corners.
A lot of secret jokes to himself that nobody, not even Churchill, knows about.
In his posed pictures he wears his hat at the Beatty tlit, but often forgets to keep that pose and puts it on dead straight.
I'm not suggesting that this is hls affectionate nickname, but somebody who sees him most days sumed him up to me as "The Aeld Drop." I. C. Ferraby, Daily Express naval repoșter, says cheer- lly "Why he's áll'bráins and no body, like me."
Put him up against the Olt. 4ths. bulk of Ironside at a War Counell meeting, and you'd say it was a new music-hall act. Jetsam and Clapham. But these two men are the brains of the Army, the brains of the Navy,
ADMIRAL Tom Phillips got to where he is to-day because, for. one period in hi, life, he had nothing to do. For three years of the last war he was commander of He has made Admiral Ton the cruiser Lancaster on the Pacific Phillips. Vice-Chief of the Naval
station. All he had to do was Staff. Before, he was deputy pace the Pacific. In case something chief. Now, it is clear from the Downing-street announcement of appointment, he takes on when Sir Dudley Pound leaves off. The announcement talks about twenty four-hour warfare. :
WHO is this Tom Phillips? No- body knots him. The lower deck don't know him. They haven't n nickname for him. They don't call him Ginger, which is the name they have for Admiral of the Flect the Earl of Cork and Orrery,
At the Admiralty he is well
turned up.
Fred Astaire sings: He joined the Nothing turned up. As
Navy, and what did he soc? He day the sea.
For three years, from 1916 to 1910, he kept cruising while the Admiralty from time to time, would promote him.. At decent -intervals, they would make him acting commander, commander, acting captain, to show that they hnd not forgotten Him. Com- mander Phillips spent those thirty- six months studying naval: strategy. and tactics. He worked-out now
crammed full of ideas, and it is quite clear that he could talk about them, for his subsequent carcer Ishows that he has been trained, step by step, for the past he holds 10-day.
His superior, Sir Dudley Pound,
"big ship man." He thinks In terms of battle cruisers. But Tom Phillips a Httle ship man. Light cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes are his speciality. The smaller the ship, the happier is Tom. He will only admit to one hobby. He likes sailing. i guess he'd be happlest in a 10ft. praen with a bamboo mast stepped in the fore seat and his leg over the tiler.
HE is afty-two, the son of an Army colonel and a grandson of one of Queen Victoria's admirals. He has served his time at the Admiralty in the Plans Depart ment, and has been head man of the destroyer force in home waters. lle is a mystery man, to his fellow admirats. All they know about him is that he is very clever. His only notable foible is that he runs a pencil through Thomas Spencer Vaughan, which are his Christian names, and substitutes Tom.
Why? Is it his joke? Does he mean Tom Thumb? Nobody knows. 'Nobody dare ask him.
Spotting The Rank
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
A Licut. Colonel takes executive command of a rogi- ment or battalion and is tho actual officer rasponsible for the discipling and fitness of his unit.
Ho is selected for this com- mand from the field officers of the regi». ment to which he belong. 1, though occa- sionally а Lieut.. Colonel from a n- other unit is appointed to command.—......
Tho titio dorivad from the fact
་་
WAS
that in
the old days of the Army the Colonel was usually a General holding post because there no pay attached to the rank of Ganoral ai such, and his amolumenta had therofora_ to be provided for by giving him a Colonelcy. He then ap- pointed a deputy (Lieut.- Colonol) at a lower rate of
“known by sight, but few know him...theories—evolved-new-plans-of-at-- "pay-to-carry-on-the-actual
to talk to. He is Ahorter than tack. Napoleon," who stood Bfl. Birim. I'd
ive him:Nelson's Bft. 4ins,
He came home from that long. vigil. In the man with his head
work of command.
£1,209 a year,
·Pay:
Next country on the list?
OR the first time since
For began the people of Jugo-Slavia are being told as openly as officials dare that they, too, may be drawn into the war..
Their papers are doing things they would not be allowed to do before the invasion of Scandinavia and the Lowlands, They are printing little notices dully saying "The enemy will rain down death from the skles. He will try to sabotage the army, blow up bridges, mine roud"
One paper come out with an officially. Inspired article saying that Jugo-Slavin must be pre- pared to fight an enemy five times her size and another three times her size-meaning Germany' and 'Italy.'
These are little things, but when is realised that five weeks ago they would have brought hot pro- tests from Germany regarding "infringement of neutrality and provocation to her great neigh- bours," you get some idea of the way Jugo-Slavia is facing danger before It is too late.
Not that Jugo-Slivia is strong enough_to_come_out_epenly_with her pro-Ailled feelings. The Ger man Firth Column is still strong, in spite of the fact that so far morę than two hundred have been asked to go!
home.
THEN the Crouts are still being whipped into unrest from outside. Vindko Matchek, their chief poll tician, who made peace with the Sarbs for the price of Cront nutn- nomy is being attacked-in-pam- phlets smuggled in from extreme Croats are being supported by Italy in a policy to separate Croatia.
Then there is the 000,000 Ger. man minority, who have announced that they have af last chosen na leader Dr. Josef Janko from Slo- venks, near the Austrian border.
The Serbs are not blind, but they cannot do much more than they are doing now until our policy in the Balkans becomes more de- Anite than it has been, until we chi
tell them: "If the Germans invade, we will send you so much help, and in such form, and in such time.".
They feel that they are in a much more dangerous situation than even Rumania. because the general opinion here is that, I Germany should invade Jugo- Slavia, Italy would try to seize Croatia and the Dalmutlan coast, in order
her to "protect"
in- terests.
DESPATCH FROM JUGO -SLAVIA BY SYDNEY MORRELL
How he know about the lendets or the police Inquiries he did not explain, but the fact is that the British have no printing press in
Jugo-Slavia. The French have, but it prints in Cyrillic letters." The leaflets were printed in Latin characters,
The Germans forgot this point," but the police still think it is a good joke.
• A Slavonie alphabet' (used by the Slavs of the Eastern Church) and ascribed to St. Cyril.
DID YOU
WONDER?
When Animated -Cartoons-Were-
Invented?:
What was probably the first one- real animated cartoon was drawn by Winsor McCay, the originator of "Little Nemo In Slumberland.' The animation concerned the ad- ventures of "Gertie, the Dinosaur": und It took McCay more than a year to make the, 10.000 pen-end- ink drawings that made up the Alla
"Gertle" appeared in 1809; and about the same time J. R. Bray also used up acres of white paper In producing an unimated cartoon which he sold to Pathe for $2,000, However, Bray saw that too many drawings had to be made for even a short cartoon to make' animation commercially profitable.
Bray made un carly stride lo- ward reducing the amount of nec- essary drawing by having the background and motionless parts of each, scene on one sheet of paper, and then drawing the figures and moving parts of the scene on trans- parent sheets of celluloid. Each successive movement of the charac- tors was drawn on separate cellu- loid sheets which were numbered in sequence. The celluloid sheets were pinced, one at a time, over the background and photographed In order; and when the resulting film WEB projected, the characters seemed to move.
These early figures could never pass in front of any background object. because the background pen lines would show through the figure. This difficulty was met by filing in the figure with opaque
black, and gray,
white, so the figure blotted out whatever back- ground lines it happened to cross. Then, too, by putting more than the sheet of celluloid over
JUGO-SLAVIA'S reaction to this has been to open her back door to Russia with on economie delegatlon to Moscow, but the hoped-for Ailled I help is still undefined. The Germans would object, but they object to everything
ing that tends to get Jugo-Slavia from their grasp.
The other day, in darkened cinemas, their agents showered down leaflets
one saying that Jugo- Slavia had better kow-tow to Ger- mony, or else...
This led to the Alercest anti- Germani demonstration Belgrade has known since the war - began. The police had hardly begun their inquiries before the German Press attache called on them' and com- plained that the leaflets were the latest manifestation of the British secret service.
background. became no longer
necessary to re-draw the entire figure when, for example, the only action was the waving of a hand. Just the movements of the hand were drawn on one series of cellu- loid sheels, the unmoving parts of the figure being drawn just once. on a single sheet of celluloid placed under the sheets with the hand unmation on them,
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