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Aegean there are many little land-locked harbours which are guarded at their narrow entrance by high rocky promontories. One 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 destroyer from the scuttles and from loop- holes, rifles were suddenly poked out. They opened fire. On the bridge of the
January 22, 1941.
ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW DROWNE CUNNINGHAM
THE MAN
WHO SMASHED
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.
Hongkong Telegraph. He was a commander. His
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EVACUATION TEST CASE
name was Andrew Browne Cunningham; and his ship was the Scorpion.
"
DUCE'S
FLEET
on Mediterranean service at
"Andrew B."-that was a
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 onks for a comfortable sum- mer seat? Do the poplars grow at the walk, and does
THE
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 Winchester (the Danes had
One day at Gibraltar there the beginning of 1939 once name famous in the Navy. sacked and burned the vil was the final of the tug-of. described a singular experi- Some cursed it; others swore war between two battleships. ence he had had on New by it: but all agreed that lage only a hundred years Year's Day, 1939. He said there was no more efficient before). Henry II. sat there The captain of one of them was sitting watching the he felt as if an electric shock officer in a Service where to discuss ways and means
had
Richard Coeur de Lion gone through the Medi- efficiency is hardly talked for the Third Crusade. struggle. His blue eyes-terranean Fleet. Even the about.
feasted there and celebrated twinkled and he turned to
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 pened. No signals had been 1970; in command of Home Agincourt Henry V. wrote A woman who regards Hongkong light cruiser two years ago." made, nothing seemed to Flect 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 authority of the local government and everything about men thing had. On January 1 North America and West monwealth Irregulars laid to evacuate her to another country whom he'd commanded two under emergency 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. the and hair slightly greying at der-in-Chief of the Mediter- Chatham Barracks; Rear- That house has been a part Colony. To the reasonable znan the temples, who knew his
ranean Fleet. His hair was Admiral Commanding De- of our history. It still is. men as if they were his own slightly greyer than when stroyers -the Mediter. It is the home of Admiral family, was Andrew Browne
we first met him and his ranean Fleet; Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cun- Cunningham.
name was-Andrew Browne Commanding the Battle ningham, K.C.B., D.S.Q. The captain of a destroyer Cunningham.
.Cruisers; Second in Com-
has had her answer from highest legal authority in
concern
the Judgment of the Chief Justice does seem reasonable, I was his
to call on the weight of authorities going back hundreds of years and to disseriate on Magan Caria and Habeas Corpus.
One quotation to which he gave emphasis was that a judge cannot enter into the question of whether |-the-regulations-have,-or-have-nöt, any tendency to promote the safely and defence of the realm, that being the concern of the military and ad- ministrative outhorities; 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 pointed out that M regula- tion in Council which
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could not
TWO DANCE ORCHESTRAS possibly ald in securing the defence of the realm, though issued under the Defence of the Realm Act, might DANCE HOSTESSES —
be ultra vires. The Defence (Entry SURPRISES - VISIT PARADISE ! Restrictions) Regulations of 1940, he determined, are not ultra vires and TICKETS-FIVE DOLLARS
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RAIDS LESSEN CRIME
Number Lowest Since War
Should
John Knott
Act
America
Now in Martinique
By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jnr., U.S.N. [(retired)'
UNITED PRESS NAVAL EXPERT
Germany, the French would sur-
go to the West Indies.
We might and that, after a face- President Roosevelt is said to be NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UP).— The number of serious crimes] The situation involving the saving fight to ensure the cafety of planning a defence Inspection trip reported to Scotland Yard during Vichy-controlled island of Mar. relatives in France from reprisals by and it has been hinted that he might the past three months is the tinique, in, the West Indies, is render their vessels to be interned, If he does, it is conceivable that he might consult with Army and Navy leaders in that area to outline lowest since the war began. The one which the United States in U. S. ports.
Social conditions on Martinique, plan whereby the Martinique silua- blackout, increased street patrols cannot afford to ignore. and the danger of operating Here is something that will incidentally, are said to be in a bad tien will be cleared up. As Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army and It fix. A little hunger might precipitate Navy, he is well within his rights to during air raids appear to have not improve if left alone. a revolt. Then America would have act in whatever manner he sees t 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. of business.
the aircraft vene. We coud not countenance a In Murtinique are
The idea of our buying British Confidence tricksters and carrier Bearn, 100 American-built revolution there at a critical time
and several French like this. The French ships might Islands in the Western Hemisphere in mutically reverts to her former posi- other specialised crooks have warplanes,
case Britain's money resources are Looting and pil-cruisers. 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.
Great Government to leave the Colony. Ifering after air raids, carried naval forces there are loyal to the volution. Our navy certainly should we are to continue help to
Vichy government. We know only not allow that to happen.
Britain seem, to me, far-fetched. 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 committed, Drastic mea- at Martinique-and at the nearby ever, incrensed.- sures are being taken by the tale of Guadeloupe-will be Nazi, if nuthorities and Scotland Yard to it is not already so.
to
Is believed that about a dozen other women, who have been awaiting the result of the hearing, will also have leave the Colony. Meanwhile those British women and children who had not compiled with the original order to evacuate when the Secretary of Stale cabled the Government not to compel any more of them to leave, may remain in the Colony at their own risk.
It is fairly ante to assume that the whole unhappy business of whether compulsion was legal and whether discrimination Was justifiable is
Tosing itself in a spirit of frustration. Iraka. Many people with families abroad
One possible course of action would tion with Britain and the defeat of be the imposition of an "attachments Hitler? If so, then everything wa
have should go into the pot stamp out this war-time crime. There is undoubtedly a large fifth on the islands of Guadeloupe and
AID FOR BRITAIN Provincial crime has also reached column of Germans in those Islands. Martinique, covering the warships,
With the bases already leased to a low level. Scotland Yord's Anger-German pliots conceivably could be planes, and $200,000,000 in gold
man there, as surety for the French debt us by Britain finally fortified and in United States will print department, which before the smugled. Into Marinique to war dealt with hundreds of provin- those American-built planes, which, to the United States. That debt was uperation, the cial inquiries daily, is now recelving used as divebombers, could commit considered more or less sate before have plenty of defence points, with- tain wins the war, most likely the week great havoc upon the Panama Canal. France fell to Germany, but now it out taking on new ones. And if Bri- only a small number cach
in lost unless we take action to United States and her great feet will Several senior detectives at Scotland
be conceded the right to make this Three fast tankers are said to have preserve it. Yurd have been transferred to the
hemisphere safe. statistical department to assist in been in Martinique recently. These
The "altachment" proceeding could It does not seem Umely or appro- compiling reports of London air probably were German. Martinique
DA priate for to demand British is an ideal base for German sub- not be settled in any court. It would
for marines. They may be, oven now, on have to be honoured through phy- colonies to insure being paid efficiency which these revelations their way to operate from there, and sical action by U. S, armed strength, helping ourselves.
If Britain should go down in de- must undoubtedly have borne into might carry plane pilots from Ger-
We should not allow either the feat, furthermore, murely her colo- mony. their mindst
planes or the gold to be taken away nies, like Canada. would join with by the Vichy-controlled French. the United States in Aghting the war It cannot be pretended that we are! The ugliness' of war cuts across governed by the elected representa-
The time for the United States to That gold has a purchasing value to a finish on this side of the Atlan
for war materials that would benefit tle. race and sentiment, and family testives of the people of Hongkongi net is immediately-right now. -
not France but Germany. must be severed an easily as purse- nor, without cutting adrift. from
MUST FACE THE ISSUE strings for the common cause. One authority could we protect ourselves, If the American navy should de- wonders what the Hongkong Chinese physically or economically. It would mand surrender of the French slaps
We must prepare a definite we must expect the French to fight. thinks of it all. Have the sincere
seem possible however, that the Tho fight might be only to the ex- for Martinique, even if it
Frenchmen's combat. As a peaceful nation Home guvernment could safely give tent of saving the complaints, ventilated so freely in the Press, left a deeper impression of local opinion a bigger say in an af henour. We have enough warships are inclined to temporise, but sympathy and understanding than 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- the imprint of tactlessness and in-
'as evacuation.
... Ines, to take the lalonia.
want them to stay abroad; many people who encountered discrimina- tion are glad to be back or are glad that they never left.
NOW IS THE TIME
are.
an
But if we are to bo to mercenary his to object to saving our own hides.. unless the money is on the barrel- head wo could do this-place plan estimate on the monetary value of all means British colonies in this hemisphere, we and whatever the total": comes to we make a memorandum that Britain is
lion dollars.
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