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June 7, 1940.
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Dearest Susic,
You know what they said about join the Navy and see life and all that.
Well, wait till I tell you, only excuse grease spots because I am writing this in the galley. I've got it to myself as the boss, we call him "Chef, kind of joking; but that's not his proper
MILITARY LAW IN THE B.E.F.
the enemy and mutiny are now the only three military crimes for which the soldier on active service
TREACHERY, desertion to
may be sentenced tu capital punishment. Cowardice and de- sertion under a more humane ad- ministration of the law no longer involves the firing squad. More- over, Field Punishment No. 1 has been abolished; the soldier cannot nowadays suffer the humiliation of being tied to a gunwheel.
The British soldier when he embarks for service in the fold takes s
law will own
him. So long as he is serving with his unit he will not be riet before any foreign tribunol, and whether the offence be trivid or serious he hug at all times the fullest legal protection againet, the consequences of his own nets. In fact on ser- vice a man is in some ways belter protected and more tolalily treat- ed than if he were facing: rivil Justlee at home in peace time.
FOR instance, before a magis- trate's court in England, once the prisoner's case has been heard and
delivered, judgment
sutary them is ordinarily no further re- view, unless he makes un appeal in duc form or popular agitation arouses the interest of the Home Secretary. The case is closed and sentence must, be served." "In the Army all cutes tried by court- martial receive on autoriatic re- view increasing in scrutiny in pro- portion to the seriousness of the charge and the severity of the sentence. The solder if he feels lmselt aggrieved can petition for justice or elemency.
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Minor regimental offences usually dealt with by the com- pnding officer, who can inflict up to 28 days feld punishinent or forfeiture of pay. Cases which the colonel considers exceed bis own jurisdiction are passed to the brigade, which deals with them by a field general court-martial con posed of three officers,
The Bndings and gentences of this* Court, it the brigadier conflems them, are passed by the divisional to the adftant-general's general to Staff at General Headquarters, and bath these authorities can mitigate, the sentence. The proceedings are atst
by the Deputy Judge Advocate-General, legat nd- viser to the Communier-in-Chief, the before being forwarded to Judge Advocate-General at the War Ofee, where the case has a final review before being led away.
examined
The Deputy Judge Advocate- General in the flekt and his nusist- ont belong to the permanent stal of the War Offee, and have both been in practice at the Bar. The Deputy Judge Advocate-General has a stall which is steadily
being reinforced by experienced mem- bers of the legal profession. One ly attached to each corps and to the lines of communication head- quarters 03 consulinni, while others are available to act as Judge Advocates in serious cases--not to vote but to advise the Court and to sum up the law and the evidence it necessary.
All accused persons on trial, men as well as officers, have the right to be represented by officer..
INTERCEPTED
LETTER
BY
BARTIMEUS
rating, he's Leading Cook by rights well he's gone to get his head down. have a sleep.
That means
Well, Susle, I been in action. Fancy! It wasn't a bit like the way I thought it would be. But you never can tell, can you.
We pleked up the Convoy at- last Monday--no Wednesday, you do lose count of days or this job, and no mistake. No end of lips there were, a lot of them neutrals.
They paint their flugs on the sides of their ships and write what Nationality they are in big letters, but don't see what the sense of flint is because they get torpedoed" at sight by the Germans, anyway, unless, they join a Convoy and then us chaps protect them. teft them a fair treat, too.
Pro-
Bere, Susie, did you know that the Germans only sink one ship in every ave hundred ships convoyed. That was on the wireless, so you can take it for gospel. chaps the four hundred and ninety- nine that got through have got to thank.
And its us
But don't want no thanks. Be- im Cook's Mate in
the Nuvy eured me of expecting anyone to thank me for anythi
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Well, on the Thursday morning I turned out at ive-thirty to get the water bolling in the copper for the law. Of course we're oil-fired in our galley, We're up to date, Tsay that. Well, then, 1 had to have a cup of ten ready, for the Chef when he turned out and a bit of toast. You try making toast on a oil-fired galley. Well, bu matter.
So then we had the breakfasts. Eggs and rashers, kippets, rau- sages, no telling what they bring along.
There's twenty messes in our ship and the range is only about three by live so you've got a job to please everybody.
THEN the Chef_put_mg_un_le Berub out the galley and before ! was through the dinners started Coming in roasts and stews any potress and spadnets and fanales full of peas and everybody trying to tell the Chef the way they liked them done. They
might have saved their breath becating they never ate those dinners. The alarm gongs started ringing before the last dinner was on the hot plate,
"Go on," said the Chef, "Fire party, you."
So I went along and got the Buse unrolled and then the guns started firing One of the chipple chaps went on deck have a look * round and came back and sald they'd sighted Nazi aircraft,
When dinner inc cine the guns crews were still closed up and there was nobody to eat the dinners. The Chef was-mad- and-- he put on his tin hat and went an the bridge to ask the Captain when be was going to pipe to dinner. The foremost guns fired just when he got to the bridge and very near blew his eyebrows off.
"Pipe to dinner?" says the Cap- tain. "Day after to-morrow it we're lucky. Cut sandwiches, hun- dreds of them. Take 'em round f the guns crews, flot tea, too."
So back he come. "Drop thal anose", he said to me. "You're a
cook, not a frenan."
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THE system instituted. In lost war of suspended sentences, whereby a man sentenced, to in- prisomment may be released on probation after serving only small part of his sentence, or
even zermitted to avoid punishment al- together and rejoin his unit, so long as he behaves, is now cm- bodicct in the Arme Act. This suspension enables a man who has lapsed to retrieve his character and eurn remission, and, moreover, in active operations wine wastage of men-power la avoided.
not
troops
In the army of a great de- mocracy discipline tests not fear and the threat of penulties but on confidence, loyalty and good will.
It can hardly be expected that there will be no bluck sheep In a force which comprises
of Oghting only divisions but rapidly-recruited organisations Dut for other necessary, works. whether judged by
personal obser- vation or by cold stallstics the. Army in Franco, can claim: com. parison in freedom from crime with its great predecessor of 23 years ago.
So Dusty brought us tints of cornett beet and I opened them and the Chief and the reparty cut the bread and made the sand- wiches and when we had a troyful the Chef said:
"Go on, take them round the
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SO I on with my tin hot and off I went on deck. We was ahend of the convoy end you could see Them stretching away behind and their smoke and all. A nice sunny day I was.
So I went along to the foremost guns with my tray of sandwiches and I no sooner got there than soincone shouted:
"Here tirey And out of the sky three Comel" bly bombing planes came diving straight at us. The guna · started fring and the bombs bursting and I stood there holding the sand- wiches because there wasn't any thing else. for me to do..
So when it was all over, I said,: "Have a condwich, and the, guns
crew
turnedl round and said "Blimey! Sandwiches!" and the next minute the tray was empty.
WHAT'S happened?" I said. "Have they sunk any nhip?"
The gunlayer huil his mouth full of corned beef. "Sunic?" he shouted. "They haven't hit no- body, leave alone simk u ship. What d'you fancy we're here for? You nip below and gil some more sandwiches and here Cookie a drop of hot ten."
So I spent the rest of the day cutting sandwiches till my orris nched, but the Chef says there's more vaya than one of winning a war and I been in action anyhow.
Your loving
Jimmy.
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THE perind from 1754 to 1806 was perhaps the most stirring time in the growth of America. She was at war with England, at war with France, and at way with her- self.
While these wider issues settled theneselves, the "tougher tot-the frontiersane-intermarried with the daugliters of the aristocratic South,
DID YOU EVER WONDER?
How a Gyrostabiliser Helps to Steady The
Rolling of a Ship?
will A simple roscaple top serve to Indieate how a gyro- Stabiliser works. Let us say that the top is spinning in the direction of the arrow about a vertical axi A B. as shows in the illustration.
moving forward, A. exerts a downward force on the retor et "M"
M
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M
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A push down at M, or up at N, will cause A to move toward the render and B to récede, instead of moving the Wheel in the direction of the force applied. This action of the gyroscope is known as "pre- Lession."
Experiment with the top will ulso show that a force tending to move A forward and B boek re- suits in a force pushing down hi M and up at N; and a force push- B ind back on A and forward on results in a downward push at N und upward at M. These fucla ure utilised in the modern netive type of ship's stabliiser.
When the gyroscope was first applied to the inalter of reducing the ceiling of a ship, it was found that if the rotor was large enough to provide the desired stablikking the wave effect, ils response to motion was no sluggish that the roll of the ship would get well under way before the gyroscope began to exact itstabilising effect. To overcome this difficulty, the gyrostabiliser is actuated by an electric
motor, motor, The
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Within
fraction of a second after the ship starts to roll, the control gyro sets the electric motor to moving the big stabiliser rotor by means of precession geurs, selling up forces in the stablitser which check the roll.
The first gyrostabilised express ship was the Italian, liner Conte di Savoin. The Savoin is equipped with three rofors, each of which is
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The use of stabilisers not only
gers but saves on power as "well."
There were those, like Jane Pey- ton, who found it difficult to forget the life of dignity and elegance of the Southern states, and when the War of Independence came these families found themselves divided in their loyalties-with what re percussions we ree in this story of the lives of June Peyton and Mathew Howard.
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MY PART IN GERMANY'S FIGHT, by Dr. Goebbels (Hurst and Blackett, 7s. 6d.).
DR. GOEBBELS keeps a diary, and we are able to read in this book his daily Juttings from January 1, 1932, to May 1, 1933,
-The-picture-we-get-of. Dr. Cocu- bels is very much what we had already imagined him One has no beller.
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wish to know him
He deals only with his pubile life-s
ils speeches,
plots, schemes and endless propaganda-
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THE OTHER SORT, by M.
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IN this, her second book, the Author fulfils the promise that "Catherine Dewfall" led one to expect. The writer approaches modern sockl problems with much understanding and cominon sense,
The central igures are Nan, who comes from a slum home in Happy Hollow, and David, a wealthy
increases the comfort of pussen-young idealist (with a remarkably
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Experiments indicate that a liner loses about 1 per cent. of the effer- tive power of its engines for cach degree that the ship rolls. storm, a ship rolling 25 per cent. may waste a fourth of its power. The use of gyrostabilisers, which may hold a 25 degrees roll to a three degrees, would save more than 80 per cent. of the power otherwise lost in uscless rolling.
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SILVER LININGS
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Keep your heart prepared for God. coming of your Many times le comes Ands no answer, for our hearts are full of minor thoughts and problems and we do not realise its
presence.
We cannot all make great gifts ...or do great good. But each one of us can endeavour to be kind to those around us and make their tot carter by our chicer- Juiness.
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A home is not only built of bricks and mortar. Ita founda- tions are laid with love with- in your heart.
Do not fear the end, for it is Roft and melting and fulfils itself. Life flows into death with the same · beauty-
and "majesty as the great river: last. mingles, at
with the ocean.
patient father).
Nan is deterinined to put her slum life behind her, and David hus socialistic ideas, so their paths chance to meet-but, fortunately for both, they do not merge in one though at one time it looks as if they will.
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THIS is an original and up-to- date story. Annetze do Stuer Ands her eattle complicated and thinks a new experience might help, so she becomes an air hostess on le Royal Dutch Line-and u very good life it appears to be. With her we may visit many cherming cities,
THE LOVE STORY OF GIL- BERT BRIGHT, by Frank Tilsley (Collins, 8s. 3d.).
1 SHALL be very surprised it this book does nol join the best sellers. The theme of the story must make a wide appeal-and it Is brilliantly told.
Gilbert Bright had two am- bitions in life; to be recognised by the work for the great artist lie knew himself to be and to bring up his small son to a glorious manhood,
Fame sume to kim after years of bitter struggle inade bearable by his own humour and the com- panionship of his little son, whose Jullied adoration he lived to can
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