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Herbert Marshall in “MAKE WAY FORA LADY”?

TOO AMBITIOUS SEAMAN DISMISSED THE NAVY AT TAMAR COURT-MARTIAL

How a young naval Able Seaman, in his zeal for advancement, had made himself so unpopular with his shipmates that he had be- come the butt for their jokes and had got into such a state of mind that it culminated in him striking a superior officer, was re- lated at a court martial on H.M.S. Tamar this morning,

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AB. Henry Mercer, of H.M.S. May and June, a section on Folkestone, the accused, was mess deck never left me in peace. sentenced to four months' impri- There were many small and un- sonment and dismissed His Ma-pleasant passages. I sensed that jesty's Service.

despite my misfortune other sea-

The court consisted, of Capt. men were still up against me, and I A. E. M. B. Cunningham-came to brooding over trivialities Graham, president, Capt. E. G. N. and to imagining that the small re- Rushbrooke, Comdr. Wauchope, verses of daily life wère deliberate- Comdr. Hayter and Comdr. R. A. ly planned for my discomfiture. B. Edwards.

Such was my condition when Capt. Dundas was prosecuting struck Petty Officer Ablitt. officer, while accused's “friend”

I have been under discipline since was Pay. Lt. Comdr. S. A. Jolliffe. childhood, and fully realise the Deputy Judge Advocate was Pay gravity of my Comdr. Oswin.

The charge was as follows:-

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offence. I ask the

HIGHLY-CONCEITED

Court to believe that I shall take in a proper spirit such punishment On June 27, 1937, at noon, an in-as they see fit to awar vestigation was being conducted by Lieutenant Charles Eustace Audley Cree, Royal Navy, on the quarter deck of H.M. Folkestone at which After various witnesses were call- the Accused and Acting Petty Of-ed to give evidence regarding ficer William Herbert Ablitt, were cused, Capt. Dundas, Mercer's present. While the charges were manding officer w

was called. He being read by Lieutenant Cree, ac-¡stated that, as a seaman, accused cused started forward and struck was very good indeed, but witness Acting Petty Officer Ablitt in the had formed the opinion that he was [face.

entirely unused to all superior au- Prisoner pleaded guilty and Pay.thority. He knew himself to be Lt. Comdr. Jolliffe, in mitigation, very unpopular with his mess-mates. read a long statement in which ac- He was a man with high ambi- Įcused said:—

tions and had given witness the idea

reason.

For so flagrant a breach of dis-that he was highly conceited. To cipline, there must be a

assist him, witness had had several The answer lies not in the investi-interviews with him and had ex- gation which preceded my act, nor pressed views similar to those he in my relations with Petty Officer was then expressing. This proved Ablitt, but in the treatment I have of no avail. Accused could not be been accorded in H.M.S. Folkestone assured that it was for him to show during the past five months.

a change of manner in the lower deck before he could hope to ac- After a long statement regarding quire the confidence of his ship- a minor incident on board, the mates. statement continued:-But I was thoroughly unpopular with some of the seamen in the ship and, to lesser degree, with one of my of ficers, Lieutenant Mountfield, And not without reason — for I see now move these grievances. that I was very self-centred and, in my anxiety for advancement, too full of my own capabilities and too owned to in his statement, would he, critical of others. I was too ready in your opinion, be an asset to an- to show other men how I would go other ship's company?—Yes. about a job, and not always was I tactful.

I had volunteered to recommis- sion H.M.S.. Folkestone. -I did so because I thought that knowing the ship, I stood a better chance of ad- vancement and, if I failed to at- tain this before my first period ex- pired in June, 1938 well, I would. "take my twelve” out here and try for the Shanghai Police. But, I have since learnt, I was turned over by the old ship's company to the new as a man who wanted tak ing down a peg or two. And this some were only too ready to do.

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On this point he was particularly stubborn and he generally felt he had grievances against the people on the ship, * It was with great re-

gret that witness was unable to re-

Pay.

Comdr. Jolliffe: "If

couldve the weaknesses he had

After accused's service record was read, sentence was passed as stated.

ACCUSED AGAIN

REMANDED

The Sincere Co. Murder" was again recalled this morning at the Kowloon Police Court when Ko Wah-tak and Leung Wong, charged with being concerned in *On March 30, solely on Lieuten- the murder of the late Mr. ant Mountifield's opinion of the David Chen Se (Chen Lai-tsun), tone in which I shouted to the Off-Managing Director of Sincere cer of the Watch, I was deprived Company, Limited, were both re of two good conduct badges.

manded for a week by Mr. K. M. The deprivation of my badges de A. Barnett. pressed me. Then it became known

Mr. Peter H. Sîn, legal repre- that Depot authority for my ad- sentative for the first accused, vancement had been received in requested permission for his “Folkestone,” and that consequent client's mother to be allowed to on the loss of my badges, it had been see her son. This was granted [returned. Certain of the beamen as Detective Inspector taunted me with this. During April, | Carey raised no objection.

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