STOUT FELLER
"Where are you going with that * axe ?
"I'm going to do a little deforesta- tion, Bertie. There's a tree outside I've taken a dislike to. I shall fell it with one fell swoop,"
"Rather early in the morning for tree felling, isn't it?"
"The early troodcutter gets the first tree, you know. Besides - it's on ugly tree. There is something, offensive about that tres, Come to think of it it rather reminds me of you, Bertie."
"Well I must confess I didn't expect to see you chopping trees this morning and smoking a
§.
whacking big black cheroot. Not after last night ..........
"I don't like the way you tay" not after last night. I detect a certain envy in the tone — a certain under- -current of bitterness. You ought-to- be overjoyed to see me absolutely bristling with joi-de-vivre.”
"I merely marvel at your powers of recovery."
1
"You needn't, Bertie. It's all due·· to Rose's Lime Juice, you know. Prevents mornings after the night before. Just the thing before you go to bed. And now, Bertie, with your permission I'll step out and deal oir unsuspecting arboreal friend a couple of shrewd cracks with my little axe."
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THE prodx "Special to the Telegraph" 1. Red by the "longkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Prdinauce, 1936. Such nowE LE bears the indication "UT** is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Ampelations, who re-
elther wholly or in part without previous attansient.
June 5, 1941.
Coastal Command
has flown
MY visit to the great hive of activity which comprises the ad- ministrative and operational side of the Coastal Command was an illuminating experience,
I saw harmonious and efficient co-operation be- tween the Command and the Admiralty.
A place in this headquarters Is also allotted to the Army, for liaison duties, which will become really active if we have to repel or undertake an irivasion.
At the head of the Command is Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, hardy ex- and an artist in the handling of naval officer and sailing-muster.
men and affairs.
He has reaped to the full the reward of all the hard work he put into the preparation of his Command for war. We all re member with gratitude how in- stantly and perfectly the Coastal Command went into action in September, 1939.
It had to meet the first of the phases into which this war divided itselfand, to those who have studied these changes, it has been satisfying to observe how quickly and thoroughly euch new plinse has been dealt with.
25 million
war miles
The work of the Coastal Command aircraft never ceases,
THE NEW RAF-No. 5
BY AIR-COMMODORE
P. F. M. FELLOWES
move of our active and often enter the great To
new courageous enemy. central room and to see on its
establish_themselves in Norway, to maintaiz wireless silence to The third phase, when the prevent the enemy from know- enemy overran Holland, Belgium ing they are in their vicinity. and France, added to our dim. This means that their dead culties enormously.
reckoning and astronomical
From now on, it was quite im- navigational standards must be possible to cover closely all the very hight. enemy's sea exits to the At- lantic.
Fourth Phase
Greatest Problem
The greatest problem the command has to deal with is the
The fourth phase, which is convoy problent. To be able to To realise how hard this now in being, is of course the cope with it they have to know walls the vast mass of informa- thinking organisation must have most difficult of all, because the exactly where each ship is and tion which springs to the eye, is been worked, it is only neces- ganised his bases of operation is
enemy has established and or where each of our submarines to understand how closely and sary to recall how, phase by throughout the whole western
The same applies to the with what supreme efficiency phase, the war from the
trolled.
with. Vast Sweep
our whole, great sea plan is con- point of view has steadily be. coast of Europe with the excep- enemy submarines, if possible. It is one long fight-between the come more difficult for us to deal tion of Spain and Portugal.
Looking back on the history air-backed by the Navy-and: This difficulty has been caused of the war, it is most remark the enemy U-boat,
The main purpose of the The area of this plan, which by the gradual increase of Admiralty and the Coastal Com. Coastal Command is more to in-
able how, without dismay, the extends from the northernmost coastal areas in Europe held by mand have accepted in their form the Navy of the position serve all rights and forbid republications, extremities of Norway to the the enemy.
Straits of Gibraltar, vividly
stride the increasing difficulty of the enemy U-boat than netu- brings home the vast sweep of enemy was confined to the pre have been faced,
In the first phase, when the of the situation with which they ally to attempt itself to destroy the enemy-although in many air power.
war German frontiers, their Movements of ships and air only sea exits were from the functions: to assist the Admir
This command has three main cases it has successfully. gone craft-British. Allied, neutral Heligoland Bight and the en-alty in the blockade of the vides the information, and the
into action.
Normally, the Air Force pro- and enemy-are plotted.
Constant consultations take During this period we were enemy; to defeat the enemy by Navy the bite. place on the steps which may be able to control the exits and en-blockade us; and to safeguard countering their attempt to
In actual fact, the coastal air- to deal with any trances, not only of their sub- this country from surprise in craft had carried out by the end
marines, but also of their sur- vasion.
of 1940 over 198 attacks on U- The planning is done in each face ships. case by expert members of the services.
GLANCE AT SYRIA
THERE seems to be no doubt that the next phase of military operations will decide the fate of Syria, the French-controlled Arab state which breaks the Allied front in the cast-situation. ern Mediterranean,
Turkey, whose own destiny is in- timately wrapped up with this anti- cipated action is making appeals for Britain to move which sound almost désperate. Well
Turks know the that if, the Nazis establish them. selves in Syrin as they have already dope on the former Turkish-Graeco Burder Turkey is likely to become an. other Sweden-a country with nominal Independence only until such time as Hitler has time or the elination to asseri full sovereignty Lover-lb
Considering that
necessary
家
trances to the Baltic.
Raiders Foiled
To enable them to achieve boats, having sighted and re- these needs, the command is ported them 274 times.
During the same period they. It almost made one sorry for I believe it to be a fact that divided into groups correspond- our enemy to see the toils of the Germans made a number of ing and working closely with the had carried out 104 attacks on enemy warships, and 277 attacks thinking intelligence -
ma- attempts to get out surface naval commands.
on enemy merchant vessels. chine enmeshing him in its raiders but were foiled by the. It has also a training group,
To do this they had to fly destructive grip.
vigilance of the Coastal Com- because its specialised and 161,000 hours, which represents On the staff of the Coastal mund, working in every instance diversified duties require An distance of about 25,000,000 Command are experienced sub- in conjunction with the Navy. training which is additional to miles, or nearly a third of the marine commanders and active The second phase of the war that normally given by the distance to the sun. sea officers from surface ships, came when the Germans took Royal Air Force.
During this time they have all taking their. part and colla over Denmark and invaded Nor- These groups control stations convoyed over 2,000 convoys, borating in the planning and way.
which are located all round the containing more than 40,000 thinking brain of the Constal This phase, although giving coasts of England and Scotland, ships and totalling about 200,- Command.
them much wider sea entrances Northern Ireland, the Western 000,000 tons.. They are continuously think to the Atlantic, still remained Isles, Shetlands, Iceland and A
J variation from the as recently using up and devising fresh very much under our control Gibraltar.
U-boat menace, the Germans 634 AD. Syrin was pad of the schemes to defeat each fresh until they had started really to The duties of this ring of are now more and more inten-
stations entail convoy protec sively developing the use of: tion, sea reconnaissance, enemy their Focke-Wulf Condor long-. harbour reconnaissance, anti- range bombers for attacking submarine patrols by day and our shipping. {night, aircraft patrols for
At present these bombers are enemy alrcraft, attacks on not such a serious threat as the enemy shipping and naval land U-boat because they are not used targets, photography, both over in very large numbers, but they the sea and over the land near could easily become so if un-. the sea, protection of the fishing countered.
Roman Empire it is surprising that
Italy has not already made claims Private Life of a Private
to incorporate the territory. For
four centuries until the end of the Great War the country was part of the Ottoman Empire. It was then handed over to French mandate and, following Great Britain's example when Independence was granted Iraq, the French, concluded a treaty with the Syrian and Lebanese re- publics in 1938 under which full-in dependence would be granted to the Arab states in three years.
The Meaning Of “Jankers"
1
fleets and lightships from air at- Our Life-Line
Dozy's dropping.
tack, mine-laying, and torpedo
The defeat of these craft is a
and
Another instalment of one confined to barracids. of the most popular and wide- got five days now. ly-copied features in wartime "And for ton days after that aircraft the Sunderland, the engaging the thinking brain of They employ all types of boat problem which is very actively Syria, however, is not. a homo-journalism. The author, a he loses his privileges can't be Lerwick and the Stranraer; the Coastal Command, and no geneous ethnic state, the population writer now in the Army, gives out after ten o'clock.
long-range bombers, such as the doubt they will be more including Arabs, Turks, Armenians readers intimate glimpses of
"Then begain old Dozy'll do drills American Hudson; and various more efficiently countered as and Christian Lebanese. The French life in the ranks to-day. in marching order, every afternoon. divided the country into five regions
"He'll be inspected by the officer, other types of bombers and time goes on... toughly according to racial borders.
and if he
There is always a counter to Isn't property cleaned up fighters, for special jobs. Christian
W mornings ago, when and dug out, he'll be for it.
Reveille sounded, an
They are now being reinforced every form of offence,......... "You see, it just won't pay him to
In our Bomber Command we extraordinary thing happened. be idle. He'll have to liven his ideas by the American P.B.Y. flying- leapt out of bed with a muffled don't enre: Say 'e simply keeps on
The youth whom we call Dozy up or he'll be in trouble all the time." boats and Flying Fortresses. cannot operate under conditions
But," said the Lad, "Just say 'C
of widespread fog, but In the Coastal Command the need for; shriek, and dragged on his fati- taking it, and
These were madic Jebel
Lebanon, the Druse.
the coastal territory of Lato- kla and the Senjok of Alexandretta.
the
French who had siderable opposition
out all
all Syria.
missing
parades.
Ingue overalls; crammed his boots any on parade just
The Arab world has no love for
the French and, it must be admitted,
tion
real honest-to-Gert chasings on
day, no
Web-Footed
The last named had also a special status with its important position the border
der of Turkey and its mixed population. Full Independence
One of the most important convoying and for reconnais- 1040 would have left the former chockful of feet; slapped a cap What "ap
functions of the Command sance nover ceases, and the re-i Ottoman Empire colony divided into on his head, and was out of the
"What
said the Ser. Headquarters is to appraise the sult has been that the Coastal four, separate republics, but thehut like streak.
"Why if he keeps on being standard of navigational train. Command has had to operate in trenty was never fulfilled because
ide, and insubordinate, and dirtying, and seamanship which its all-weathers. France feared to
to lose her hold in tlie Middle East.
Now Dozy is a man whom Glass House for twenty-eight days.hem to take a part; in nctual only for seven hours on one day why then, he'll probably go to the personnel reach before it allows believe it to be true that An early problem was that of the nothing seems to arouse. He Sanjak of Alexandretta now called can sleep like a two-toed sloth.
alnce the war started!' has no sistence, was ceded to her just before eleven o'clock; when soup the Good Boy from Godalming, Hathy, which, thanks to Turkish per- His brain scarcely functions be that where people live who operations.
musin'i "throw stonca asked They have to be experts in Coastal aircraft bon air-borne. the special subjects of coding, This gives some measure of fore, the outbreak of wrienced con is served.
It's the Military Prison," said the ship recognition and visual the service our active flying to their man
mandate:
Dozy 18 what Sergeants call Sergeant, there for deten signalling, besides the widest personnel are giving their coun thereas indeed, they have through-| an: Idle Man Be
"You get hard work, dirty fallgues, possible knowledge of seaman. try, and also of the strain on not only the Gin-C but all his the ship in all its forms.
Staff. WE looked at one another. Square several hours 0
"They have also to be picked Yet to meet any of these men A bugle sounded and you for their endurance because, of is to realise that they are thriv is much brighter, especially of re faulters; dise
seen soldiers go in the Glass the length of their patrols, ing on, and enjoying their test- cerit, years and brutality, Intolerance and pride have never marted our
and come-out and
like which may extend up to 12 to
ing and very fruitful illyes. relations with the Arabs. Syria has
die bruinary run
15 hours As long as you been ruled by decree ainee duty,j
As they put it in the Com-
If our life-line,; the Atlantic Ben route, were to be cut, we designed simply to When the Arab President of
youko C.30 en mand:They must become should be defeated. Therefore, possibility of forming a stable gov- phant, and Castle said: Ain't shope. But i
Then the Lad from the Ele
#You.” Zairi sily. to the requires/Web-footed.kara
I no enggeration to say that ernment while the Fri
| you card ?^ "E's got." Jankoral' you break.ou don't bend-why, An interesting sidelight -0W on their effcléncy and endurance; the strenuous job of the dying, rests, the continuity of the trenty was unfulfilled.
The Germans may well offer Byria Jänkers is, an armý Vöri Nou then, Ginger, got them personnel. of this commiandigeftish Empire
blankets straight or you'll drop a bl-that they regard the ferrying complete Independence over Vichy's which moare Confinement" to one an Room Inspection!" Hend on condition of their co-opera- Barracks ENER
of new bombers across the tion against
leaders, would fall The Toll Boy from Sunder- INGER rétranges als blankets; Atlantic adia pleasant fest, les
GING move by Bri-land sald to Sergeant none of us that his greatest confidence in the mayle boll
and Dozy returns,
The command must have the in now
niny Well paticipate the "Exnyuctly what hayuppens enemy's plans before
when you get? C.B.N° 36 to unloaden pres are • Hille brighter-gating skill of its personnel) as fructify, and thús keep clean, whet
ford work the eyes or a man who
·will chherwise be a very bloody Daze
"Nothing much," said the Sar-e islaning, expecting something he normally the boots...DZBB Bar geant.It.mɛnna.to say you're dames.nol.m]
planes when out on patrol hav
Hittle for the Turks. Britain's rec
1930
record
im
Franco-Syrian
V pritain but.ii.
ik doubt-
car
do
You can be a Defaulter crything of the double,
long as you licer
naine."
In these qualities we can have fall-confidence?
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