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Aegean there are many little land-locked harbours which are guarded at their narrow entrance by high rocky promontories. bright sunny day during the last war a British destroyer steamed between two of these headlands. She was met by a fusillade of rifle fire from Turks lying among the rocks only 50 yards away.
To the surprise of the enemy, they were replied to in kind. From the side of the
the destroyer from scuttles and from loop- holes, rifles were suddenly poked out. They opened fire. On the bridge of the
January 22, 1941.
ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW BROWNE CUNNINGHAM
THE MAN
mand, the Mediterranean Fleet. "Andrew B."-hard. to the slackers, loved by those who could work hard
but always a legend. Look at his qualifications: cour- age, experience, high res-. ponsibility he has always had the first, he learns from the second, he has never shirked, but has welcomed, the last.
When Collingwood was commanding the Mediter- ranean Fleet after Nelson's death he wrote to his wife:
"Tell me, how do the trees which I planted thrive? Is there shade under the three oaks for a comfortable sum- mer seat? Do the poplars grow at the walk, and does
WHO SMASHED THE
Tel. 27778-9 destroyer, determined to en- ter and find out for himself if this harbour were a sub- marine base, was a young naval officer with short hair.
Thongkong Telegraph. He was a commander. His
Wednesday, January 22, 1941.
DUCE'S
FLEET
on Mediterranean service at
"Andrew B'"-that was
the wall of the terrace stand firm?"
There is an 'old house in Hampshire. It looks out across a lawn at the ruins of the palace built in 1129 by King Stephen for his brother. Bishop Blois of
sacked and burned the vil-
name was Andrew Browne Cunningham; and his 'ship was the Scorpion.
One day at Gibraltar there the beginning of 1939 once name famous in the Navy. Winchester (the Danes had Indeed by the "longkong Telegraph" to was the final of the tug-of- described a singular experi- Some cursed it; others swore
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EVACUATION TEST CASE
war between two battleships, ence he had had on New by it: but all agreed that lage only a hundred years The captain of one of them Year's Day, 1939. He said there was no more efficient before). Henry II. sat there was sitting watching the he felt as if an electric shock officer in a Service where to discuss ways and means Richard Coeur de Lion had gone through the Medi- efficiency is hardly talked for the Third Crusade. His blue eyes struggle.
feasted there and celebrated affangerely or in part without previous twinkled and he turned to terranean Fleet. Even the about.
"Andrew B."-captain of his ransom while wondering the friend beside him. "That destroyers (the smallest.
units of a fleet in peacetime) a destroyer in the Dover how to pay back the Jews. tough, three from the end,
felt as if something had hap- Patrol; out in the Baltic in One day before he felt for was a stoker with me in a A woman who regards Hongkong light cruiser two years ago." pened. No signals had been 1920; in command of Home Agincourt Henry V. wrote made, nothing seemed to Fleet destroyer flotillas; in a letter there. William of as her domicile and who questioned He knew the name, the rate have happened, but some- 1926 flag captain on the Wykeham died there. Com- the nuthority of the local government and everything about men to evocuste her to another country whom he'd commanded two thing had. On January 1 North America and West monwealth Irregulars laid war regulations years or more before. That an admiral-still with the Indies Station; at the De- siege to it and a Heinkel, same short figure-had fence College; captain of the just the other day, dropped the captain with the blue eyes hoisted his flag as Comman- Rodney; Commodore of a bomb beside its fishpond. highest legal authority in the and hair slightly greying at der-in-Chief of the Mediter- Chatham Barracks; Rear- That house has been a part ranean Fleet. His hair was Admiral Commanding De- of our history. It still is. slightly greyer than when stroyers the Mediter- It is the home of Admiral
under emergency
Has hac her answer from
Colony. To the reasonable man the judgment of the Chief Justice does seem reasonable. It was his concern to call on the weight of nathorities going back hundreds of years and to dissertate on Mogna Carla and. Habeas Corpus.
One quotation to which he gave emphasis was that judge_cannot enter into the question of whether the regulations hove, or have not, any tendency to promote the safety and defence of the realm, that being the concern of the military and ad- ministrative authorities; and that the responsibility for giving power to these authorities rested with the representatives of the people in Parliament. The Chief Justice did not entirely agree with this authority and
regula- pointed out that a lu in Council which could not
the temples, who knew his men as if they were his own family, was Andrew Browne Cunningham.
we first met him and his ranean Fleet; Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cun- name was-Andrew Browne Commanding the Battle ningham, K.C.B., D.S.O.
Cruisers; Second in Com- The captain of a destroyer Cunningham.
RAIDS LESSEN CRIME
Number Lowest Since War
America
John Knott
Should Act
Now in Martinique
By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jnr., U.S.N. (retired)
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UNITED PRESS NAVAL EXPERT
President Roosevelt is said to be NEW YORK, Jau. 21 (UP),-~ We might find that, after a face- The number of serious crimes The situation involving the saving fight, to ensure the safety of planning a defence inspection trip
go to the West Indies. reported to Scotland Yard during Vichy-controlled island of Mar- relatives in France from reprisals by and it has been hinted that he might
Germany, the French would our-
If he does, it is conceivable that the tinique, in the West Indies, is render their vessels to be interned he might consult with Army and TWO DANCE ORCHESTRAS possibly aid in securing the defence the past three months is
Navy leaders in that area to outline of the realm, though issued under lowest since the war began. The one which the United States in U. S. ports.
Social conditions on Martinique, a plan whereby the Martinique situn- the Defence of the Realm Act, might blackout, increased street patrols cannot afford to ignore,
mander-in-Chief of the Army and DANCE HOSTESSES —
be ultra vires. The Defence (Entry and the danger of operating: Here is something, that will incidentally, are said to be in a bad lion will be cleared up. As Com- a revolt. Then America would have net in whatever manner he sees fit SURPRISES - VISIT PARADISE ! Restrictions) Regulations of 1940, he during air raids appear to have not improve if left alone. It fix. A little hunger might precipitate Navy, he is well within his rights to
determined, are not ultra vires and put the professional criminal out will grow steadily worse.
an unquestionable reason to inter- for the best interests of the defence
of the United States. TICKETS-FIVE DOLLARS
In Martinique are the aircraft vene. We coud not countenance a
The idea of our buying British Confidence tricksters and carrier Bearn, 100 American-bullt revolution there at a critical time Obtainable from: Hongkong Hotel
The plaintiff in this netion nuto-
and several French like this. The French ships might islands in the Western Hemisphere in case Britain's 'money resources are Poninsula Hotel
matically reverts to her former posi- other specialised crooks have warplanes,
We know that the French attempt to escape in event of a re drained; and the question of whether tion in which she was ordered by disappeared. Looting and pil- cruisers.
naval forces there are loyal to the volution. Our navy certainly should we are to continue help to Great- Government to leave the Colony. It | fering after air raide, carried
Britain seem, to me, far-fetched. Vichy government. We know only not allow that to happen. out mostly by youths, has; how-too well that the power in control
"ATTACHMENT" FOR DEBT lock, stock and barrel, to co-opera-
Are we not already Drastic mea- at Martinique-and at the nearby ever, increased.
the isle of Guadeloupe-will be Nazi, if One pessible course of action would tlon with Britain and the defent of Hitler? If so, then everything wo sures are being taken by
be the imposition of an "attachment" have should go into the pot. authorities and Scotland Yard to it is not already so. stamp out this war-time crime. There is undoubtedly a large fifth on the islands of Guadeloupe and Provincial crime has also reached column of Germans in those islands, Martinique, covering the warships,
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Government therefore wins the case brought against it.
Is believed that about dozen other women who have been awaiting the result of the hearing, will also have to leave the Colony. Meanwhile those British women and children who had not complied with the original order to evacuate when the Secretary of State cabled the Government not to compel any more of them to leave, may remain in the Colony at their own risk.
It la fairly safe to assume that the whole unhappy business of whether compulsion was legal and whether discrimination was Justinable Ja losing itself in a spirit of frustration. Many people with familles abroad want them to stay abroad; many people who encountered discrimina- tion are glad to be back or are glad that they never left.
The ugliness of war cuts across race and sentiment, and family ties must be severed as coully as purse One strings for the common causa.
wonders what the Hongkong Chinese thinks of it all. Have the sincere complaints, ventilated so freely in the Prens, left a deeper impression of sympathy and understanding than the Imprint of tactlesmess and in-
of business.
committed,
AID FOR BRITAIN
With the bases alrendy leased to
United States will
a low level. Scotland Yard's finger- German pilots conceivably could be planes, and $200,000,000 in gold print department, which before the smuggled into Martinique to man there, as surety for the Freneli debt us by Britain finally fortified and in war dealt with hundreds of provin- those American-built planes, which, to the United States. That debt was operation, the cial inquiries, daily. is now receiving used os divebombers, could commit considered more or less sate before have plenty of defence points, with- tain wins the war, most likely the week. number each only a small
fa fost unless we take action to United States and her great feet will Several senior detectives at Scattan great havoc upon the Panama Canal. Fránce fell to Germany, but now it out taking on new ones, And if Bel-
Three fast tankers are sold to have preserve It. Yard have been transferred to the statistical department to assist in been in Martinique recently. These
The "attachment" proceeding could compiling reports of London air probably were German. Martinique
is on ident base for German sub- not be settled in any court. It would marines. They may be, even now, on have to be honoured through phy- revelations their way to operate from there, and sical action by U. S. armed strength. Britain should go down in de-
raids.
these
efficiency which must undoubtedly have borne Info might corry plane pilots from Ger- their minds?
nor,
inany,
the
be conceded the right to make this
hemisphere safe.
It does not seern timely or appro- priate for 119 to demand British for colonies to insure being pald helping ourselves.
If
We should not allow either the feal, furthermore, surely her colo- planes or the gold to be taken away nier, like Canada. would join with by
Vichy-controlled French. the United States in fighting the war That gold has a purchasing value to a finish on this alde of the Atlan- to for war materials that would benefit tic,
not France but Germany.
MUST FACE THE ISSUE
NOW IS THE TIME It cannot be pretended that we are governed by the elected representa-
The time for the United States
But if we are to be so mercenary tives of the people of Hongkong act is immediately-right now.
sto object to saving our own hides without cutting adrift from
unless the money is on the barrel- If the American navy should de- authority could we protect ourselves,
head we could do this--place physically cr economically. It would mand surrender of the French ships
We must prepare a definite plan estimate on the monetary value of all-
it mentis British colonies in this hemisphere, Beem possible however, that the we must expect the French to fight.
The Bght might be only to the ex- for Martinique, oven if
Frenchmen's combat. As a peaceful nation wo and whatever the folal Home government could safely give tent of saving the
We make a memorandum that Britain is. local opinion a bigger say in un af-honour. We have enough warships are inclined to temporise, but fair which affects us so intimately and planes, together with our mar- must face the facts as they really good for that many million; or bil-
lion, dollars. oro. ince, to take the islands. az évacuation.
comer to