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THE prex "Special to the Teingraph" la ured by the "Hongkong Talegraph" to indiente Rows which is stricity copyright under the provisions of the Telecommant- cations Ordinance, 14 Such news a bears the indicatión “UP”"" la received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who so serve a rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.
Two Wars-A Contrast
British ex-soldiers, commenting on the spirit of the army in the present war, have said that Its temper re- minds them of the British Army in 1917 rather than in 1814. At the be ginning of the Great War men rushed
"WHO SAID THIS WAS A PHONEY WAR?”
The French Have A Great Navy, Too
Six-Course Lunch The Sea Bed
On
Everybody has been asking this week about the French Navy. Below GEORGE MILLAR, London Correspondent,
a
a
describes week he spent aboard a French Warship
THE thin French admiral with the
pointed beard looked around the charm-
to join the Army with cheerful, zest- ing room where his wife and a sailor sér-
ful patriotism. With the slogan "Your King and Country Need You" ringing in their ears they flocked to the recruiting offees enger to "do their bit and confident that they would be marching In triumphs
to Berlin.
soon
But three years of war were sum- cient to bring disillusionment. The people no longer expected carly vic- tory. The
down men had settled patiently, resignedly, to what seemed like an interminable life-time of soldiering, giving and obeying orders and prepared for whatever duty might be imposed on them, but with- out any idea whatever that war was or could be glorious.
vant were handing people cups of China
tea
"We could not have had this security without that," he said, pointing through the window to the | great flagship that lay at anchor.
"What desolates our navy is that Britain is taking the first shock of the German sen attack. Look at the map. The Channel is virtually closed to the enemy. Our Allied blockade is beginning to grip the North Sea.
too.
"There are many French warships in the North Sen. But our main job is to hold other seas. Our force is a deterrent to other naval Powers siding against the Alles. So far we have lost only one small sitip, and that through accident. Take that as an evidence of com- petence and good fortune,"
DEMEMBER that the French *****
A have a great navy,
Take comfort from its strength and THE FREnch
its finess for whatever task lies ahead.
The young men in Britain who are Tel. 29352 in the forces to-day have inherited
For nearly a week I watched the the ideas, net of 1014, but of 1917-18, French Navy at work above, on, and Tel. 21270
when the war was abundantly known under the Atlantic. It in a navy for what it was. Behind them lies with stern discipline and deep tradi-
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of men who served,. and in the memory of the nation. They know that fighting is not an agreeable or profitable occupation.
no
From the start there was jubilant expectation of a walkover, or u quick march to Berlin--a lightning "war to end 'war"--but a quiet con-
fidence that in the long run victory Dunkel
SAILOR......
on
presents arms battleship Strasbourg.
were
Guard board the
We
There is no shortage in France of steel or guns. In one of the world's most modern building docks I saw un 8,000-ton cruiser taking shape. When the ship is ready for "waler the sea will be let into the dock, Time and money will not be wasted on slipways and launching gear. Another worship will join the Allled navica.
In A two-months-old 000-ton
As we cruised out over the sea at 1,000 feet you had to look at the men in the twin machine-gun turrets and the four rusty-yellow 180lb. bombs clipped to the wings to re- member that this was war. There
was a
spiritely little kitchen with a
The.
the
Ave
ammunition for machine-gun posts was held in nent little
cityman's attache cases made of arcy metal. For out on either side hung the shapes of the other flying bosts in our patrol. There were two
cheers, two pilots, two radio men and two engineers aboard. All of them had once been sailors. The commander showed me how, once he had sighted a submarine through the little window in the nose, a gyro would hold the ship direct on its
towe could scarcely miss," said the
omeer.
"A few days ago that aquare-shaped-fellow you met sighted-- a U-boat from a ship like this. The Germans did their best to crash- dive. The conning tower was near- ly await when the square man dropped his est bomb piùmb in the middle. That was the end of a sub- marine. Unfortunately we don't get many of them around here. But the patrolling must be done."
iz
【NDERWATER, France
much stronger than Ger- many, The French submarine fleet of ninely modern vessels would be a fearsome weapon against any naval Power that relied on surface vessels.
In French Bubmarines, too, I found hanglang on the bulkliends the sil- houettes of the Nazi pocket battle- ships. The commander of the 600- ton submarine 1 went to sea in is, like every other man in his service,
to launch desperately anxious
his "fish" at the German surface raiders. This submarine is the "baby" type of the French underwater fleet, but is three times the size of the Ger- man ship carried eleven big torpedoes, a "vest-pocket" U-boats, Our four-inch gun, and.
and two twin-bar- relled machine-gun mountings, She can stay thirty days at sen, doing ten knots with her Diesels on the surface and six with her electric motors underneath,
The commander, a tough young officer from Nice who spoke to all bis crew with the familiar "thou," but demanded and got the most utter obedience, dived, as soon as
so much more, comfortable
The French sailor, by the way,
month he serves in submarines, But they volunteer to serve in them. because the work appeals to them.
all the record experience of the lust tion fostered in the huge granito **
naval academy on the headland over war-recorded in books, in the talk me harbour and kept alive by its and the bugle calls, that you were in sloop, a low, fast, rakish ship with officers. Strangely enough the of the sites out was stul luxury, a huge range "The only thing we ficers themselves often call this Re- for the Strasbourg was built by the may run short of is wine for the same people and on the same slip crew," sold the captain-we swept public's navy. "The Royal."
as the Normandle.
a channel for out into the Atlantic They have a deep liking for the British Navy, and they enjoy work- There are thick carpets, panelling, to make sure that no mines lay be
fore a British convoy coming in the ing with it. In fact, the Frenchmen murals, deep leather sofas.
next day. sometimes got mixed up and talked might have been in Mayfair hotel
The twenty-knot sloops "Monsieur Nelsen" and moving at thirty knots. A junior
carry ontour Rodney."" and of "H.MS. officer showed me his big cabin. On multipic
machine
guns, Aring These officers come his bookshelves
an English armour-piercing and incendiary bui of Fronce. grammar and "Mutiny on the Boun- lets, one heavy gun, and secret depth all social classes would be won, and the hope not for But they have the same good man- ty. Hanging on the wall was a cap weapons. They are appearing at Ig the the rate of severni a week to answer highly pitched that a peace betterners as ours, the same effortless, hold band from H.M.S. Hermes.
on their than the last peace would result.
slight wardroom I saw an FL.M.S. same men, the
H.M.S. Rodney the U-boat, the mine, and the Nazi superiority complex when you talk ashtray,
fying boat. As we lowed the big But many British ex-soldiers who of the army or the air force...
But on the walls (for another know also the saldiers of to-day have
rushed past, almost burying her Because of the red bobbles on reason) were framed the silhouetter she sweeps a long three-funnelled gets 5s. 8d. extra-risk pay for each
bridge In the seas. It was the pointed out that in ene respect there their caps the French sailors are of German sen raiders and German
An Engilah naval Sirocco, the French destroyer that is difference between the troops of nicknamed "pompons rouges." The flying boats,
name is effeminate for such men. A officer on board, for liaison, said: "Ite sank two U-boats in three days. to-day and those who fought at any larger proportion of them are Bretons a magnificent ship. They did The Sirocco was led to its first victim period in the last war: that whereas and from Brittany come real shoot with the big boys the other by a French flying boat, many men then could scarcely have saflors. explained what the war was about, there are few to-day in the British Acniy, Navy, or Air Force who do not understand what sort of thing they are fighting against.
The conviction is almost universal
+
day it was equal to our best."
tho
below," he explained.
WE lunched under the sen
in a hull no wider than a tramcar holding fifty-three mén and. two 1,000 hp. Dlesci engines to say nothing of the other gear.
The lunch was perfectly cooked by in cighteen-year-old sailor. in
the menu;-
Oysters
Hors d'Exorca
A
FRENCH dying boats make endless patrols searching. THEY havo the officers, they... ON board one of the Terrible for submarines, convoying merchant
have the men, and they
class, a ship that did 45 men. At their bases, too, the yardı have the ships and the guns.
knots on trials, I felt the hull driving are busy. More workmen have been { Ships like the battleships Stras... through seas like a manageable taken on. Around them at night-three-foot-square galley. This, wan bourg and Dunkerque. They are bullet. In the long, narrow engine anti-aircraft guns are manned while of the welders wo out of the Ave ships in the room, a writhing mass of pipes and the purple Dames Allied navies which are both faster turbines,, functioned
100,000 dicker on the hangars and on the Bari a big type of mullet cooked in that the Nazi regime made war novi- and more powerfully gunned than home-power engine, that drives these Most formidable of the new flying white wine, skinned, and eaten cold). Luble, and that peace was not worth the Nazi pocket battleships. Very "contre-torpilleurs They are the having as long as its aggressions consoon there will be new and still more fariest and most heavily armed de boats are the six-engined Atlantic
stroyers in the world,
type.
They are twin-deckers fitted tinued.. Among the troops of to-day powerful arrivals in this class:
But it was still more Interesting with a secret armament of incredible, The Strasbourg's 13-inch ... guns there seems to be far less tolerance of could rapidly make a sleve out of to see two of these destroyer-kings power. On a smaller type fitted the idgn of war than in 1914, but the Deutschland. But down below, nearly completed by the shipyards with three 980 hp. ongines I saw there appears an absolute beitet in in the offcere, quarters, you would and swinging in the current of a how they work their dawn submarine
not know,
patrols. the justice of the cause
w, except for the uniforms river forty miles from salt water.
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