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HERE THERE.

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THURSDAY, MARCH

FORCEFUL HAND OF LORD FISHER

EARLY WAR DAYS AT

THE ADMIRALTY

MEMOIRS OF AN ADMIRAL

Colonel Robert McCormick, pro- prietor and editore of the "Chicago Tribune, has decided to spell his name M Cormile as a practical contribution to simplified English." He has also decreed that his paper shall drop the final "se" from such words as catalogue- and monologue,| This is the first, of a series of smust have heard, remarked, "Now the second from "advertise-extracts from, Sir Roger Keyer's we know exactly how long he has ment,definitely" and so on, and book of memoirs,atta

to liver! I laughed, and I suppose

until

(By Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes)

the second. "I

words like Sir Roger was Commodore of looked incredulous," controlled and cancelled.” Submarinei at Harwich in the early | It seemed absurd; we had not Phantom will be written "fantom," days of the War, at the time of his been able to wring submarines out and hockey shocky."

meeting with Lord Fisher with which of. Vickers and ~ Gatham Dockyard Spelling reforms, like so many this narrative opens.

under two and a half year: Ho other reforma, are all right

fixed me with a ferocious glare," they are into practice.

When Lord Fisher's appoint-and said, "If anyone thwarts me, Colonel Cormik's sub-editors ment, in October, 1914, to succeed he had better commit karo-kiri, will soon find themselves, out of Prince Louis of Battenberg as too." their depth.

First Sea Lord was announced, the By that time I felt pretty belli-

felt pretty and whole Service knew that there gerent, too, and the same evening

would be an upheaval. He was a(Nov. 3) handed him a paper com

whom him well, some of had rather fallen by the way, and good appointments must be found for them all

What about

"vogue”?

In these matters one must go the wonderful friend to all who had mencing thus:

served whole hogue,

:

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"First Sea Lord. In view of your remarks this morning as to the vital importance of provid- ing as many submarines as pos sible in the shortest possible time, regardless of cost and de- partmental restrictions, I submit as a first action that every en- deavour should be made to acco lerate the completion of sube marines under construction and

·recently ordered."

"Basic English" America is temperamentally "Those who had ever dared to more sympathetle to spelling, re-differ from him must, of course, form than other country.

be eliminated. He made no accret She is in a hurry, and she has of his dislikes, and took pride in a contempt for the superfous. his ruthless vindictiveness, in The word "midnite" appears on fact boasted that no one who fell many cinema-posters on Broadway. foul of him ever escaped. "Thru" for "through" and "BOX" He was very bitter against Vice- for "socks" are recognised usages. Admiral Sturdee, Chief of the Ad-

Then followed the action I pro These spontaneous growths, miralty War Staff. I do not know posed. I enclosed a lost of the having their origin in convenience why, but it was a long-standing vessels building, and their dates of alone, are likely to prove more fend; he had every reason to dis- completion under the existing pro enduring than elaborate philologi-approve of me, after I had the cedure; a list of all the submarines. men to whom the destinies of the cal panaceas like "Basic English," temerity to give, him my views which had come into the 'service country will in any case be en-whose founders * (for whom about submarines.

Iduring the four years I. had been. trusted. A critical attitude. Professor Gilbert Murray has ex- So Sturdee and I were to be got in command, which only amounted Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 22, 1934. apparently not, associated with pressed "worm. simpathy") claim rid of at once. But he reckened to twenty-one, in spite of all our any large ambitions of his own, that It brings "ordr into the without the First Lord, then Mr. efforts to overcome the monopoly is expressed in the letter, in prezent confuzion by jeneralizeng|Winston Churchill, who was not and other restrictions; and a paper which Lord Lymington has an- the moste comon of the egzisting disposed; to let him have a free on the development of the Sub.. nounced his retirement from speling vaerients."

hand to wreak" "his vengeance, or marine Service which I had had. Parliament. His lordship 'has

get rid of his victims, at any rate printed for my successor, and the discovered that to be uncompro- The Vatican And An1 Opera until suitable appointments, could new. Third Sen Lord, when I was That Parliamentary Govern-mising in opinion is "to be un-

about to leave to join the Tiger, ment is on its trial has be-able to adapt oneself to party disapproval by the Vatican of Res-Would Make His Wife A Widow"

The trouble in Rome over the be found for them.

By paper was, in fact, a reitera. come almost an axiom of public politics,” even when the politica

Lord Fisher dealt with my case tion' and amplification of the an- life, especially in view of the are those of a National Govern Pighi's new opera, "La Flamme,”

with characteristic vigour. Direct-swer I had given Lord Fisher less manner in which so much of the ment, which is necessarily based may be far-reaching...

The first performance was atly he arrived he gave orders. that than four months before, when he world is turning to dictatorship on a large measure of compro- tended by the King and Queen and a certain officer, commanding asked me why we had not bullt In all countries there is an immise. In such circumstances by Signor Mussolint. The Duce cruiser in the North Sea was to store submarines. pulse to national unity and con- Lord Lymington who feel that a personal friend of the composer come to the Admiralty, without know he gave out that I had centration. The method of a they cannot put their energies and has long sought to establish waiting for his relief. He made made a great mess of the. Sub- proach differs. Russia has into the common effort at a time him as a sort of Roman Wagner. no secret that this officer was to marine Service, and I wanted to passed through a revolution that like the present do right to hold

His "Fountains of Rome" bangs succeed me, directly. I could bolgot show him that I was not in the has upheaved the whole fabric aloof.

least repentant of anything I had. They may still serve as

the Nationalistic drum very loud; rid of. In the meantime he ap of the State. Italy and Ger- stimulating critics. The part of but it is not so popular in Britain pointed him to be one of his naval done, that I stood to my guns, and was quite ready to go down with many have found salvation in the Government is so to conduct as his arrangement of some Ros. assistants, Individual dicts*orship, and affairs as to confound such sini in the form of the popular bal A couple of days later. Lord my colours flying. It may not have Austria. with more travail, is criticism.

let, "La Boutique Fantasque." Fisher arranged a meeting over been tactful, but when one is seeking the same remedy for its

There seems little in the plot of which he presided. I was sum unhappily involved into my mind: troubles. The United States,

"La Flamma" to which exception moned from Harwich to attend, and I would be ashamed of my can be taken, particularly in view and told to sit at the opposite end self now if I had met Lord Fisher's: stitution, are placing the largest

of the fact that the Vatican did not of the able with Addison, my tech- onslaught otherwise. „ measure of confidence in

protest against Wolf-Ferrari's Thnical assistant, beside me. On Green Ink Against Red vigorous leadership of one man,

Of course, It only made him at Through long years British Jewels of the Madonna." This tells either side of the table were all France and Great Britain strive industrialists have been. ex of a Neapolitan who steals jewels the principal Admiralty officials all the more determined to get rid to overcome their perplexities herted, admonished, and chided from a statue of the Virgin to give He opened the meeting by tell- of me, but the First Lord, would by abandoning the forms of us to their shortcomings by to a disreputable woman.

us his intentions as to future not allow me to be interfered with, submarine party government and within public mon and instructed as, to

construction and so far as the sea-going side of my, the Parliamentary fabric itself, their duties. They have made

turning to the Superintendent of appointment was concerned, and I. endeavouring to utilise the little answer but that of practi

Contracts, he said that he would went back to Harwich to await The statement made by a police make his wire a widow and his events. stronger elements of all parties. [cal achievement. Steadily they divisional surgeon that the aver The rise of dictators has have built up new and important age human pulse rate is getting paper work or red tape into the engagement was fought over my

· house" a dunghill if he brought Meanwhile for about a week an been spectacular. Can it be manufactures, have revolutionis faster sounds plausible and rather business; he wanted submarines, future so I was told by the First honestly Bald that it has ed methods of work, invented nattering. anywhere

followed by machinery and adapted it to

not contracta.

Lord's secretary and two of the materia success that has fresh processes, brought art and gratification in registering the eight months; if he did not get mine. To one of the latter of Most people find a perverse He meant to have them built in Fisher's men, who were friends of attended Britain's experiment in research into the factory, and effects of that paychologist's bogy, them in eight months he would com- Lord Fisher declared: "If that national reconstruction? There learned the secrets of marketing the Strain of Modern Life.

[mithara-kiri. "Addison, 15 in "an young man who writes minutes in.

(Continued on Pagi 18).

without asanult upon their con

haon

the

This action is natural. Men like

British Industry's Vindication.

Your Pulse And Mine

AN ENGINE BACKFIRED, AND

is not in the world to-day a coun- In short, they have done, silently A medical man is disappointing aside which I think Lord Fisher try that may not be envious and without fuse, all the things ly sceptical about it. The pulse alike of Britain's material pro- they were supposed to neglect rate is not going up, he says. The sperity and ordering of her The outcome was recently seen internal affairs With a balance at the British Industries Fair, an age is still 72 although thía la ed Budget, Improving trade, the exhibition on such a scale-and

not a hard-and-fast fgure. Most prospect of lighter taxation and with such a variety as no other people vary between 70 and 80. a considered programme of so country has produced. It de Athletes, or men who regularly cial amelioration, Great Britain monstrates conclusively that take violent exercise, usually have is making progress while main those who have disparaged low pulse-rate, somewhere round taining peace among its citizens British manufacturing achieve- 65

Facts You Did Not Know.

Less than one half the

and the ordered movement of its ments have been ignorant of But, on the whole, pulses - have national life. It can be argued what was going forward in the not been infected by the craze for that the countries that have turn-factory and the designingTMTMroom.

[speed: ed to dictatorship are relatively Every, obvious new demand has better off than they were. Re-been met. Nor has there been latively they are worse off than inability to arouse new desires the home country. The large to be satisfied. The proper fest success in improving national of auch exhibitions is to ask: how Life in Great Britain has been many of the products shown achieved without assault on the could have been produced at liberties of the people, and with twenty-five year freedom of speech to whatever that question has rec opposition there be. The con- surprising answer trast is not unfavourable to her may further Institutions or her methods, and what rema the people are justified thair anything bellef that the Paris itary for laystem is

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