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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1930
ROYAL
NEW PATROL
FLEET
NAVY'S LOCAL SHARES
SINCE THE WAR began Britain has acquired a new Fleet, the Auxiliary Patrol Service. In the "China Mail" last week some account was given of the ways in which merchant sailors have turned their hands to fighting, in the Royal Naval Reserve or in defence of their own ships, against U-boats and 'planes. The story of the Patrol Service intro- duces another type of recruit to war service at sea.
When war broke out a number of fishing craft were taken over by the Admiralty as patrol vessels as part of our submarine defences. These were reinforced by yachts which their owners placed at the disposal of the Navy.
KING'S FATHER HAD AN IDEA
The King and Queen recently
heard how a suggestion made by
King George V helped to defeat the Germans in 1918.
In a heavy artillery school in the Northern Command a lieu- tenant-colonel of the Royal En-
gineers told how on August 0, 1918, King George the Fifth camé to a 14-inch naval gun position: on
a railway near Arras and gave | orders .for the first shot to be ' fired on Douai railway junction. Among these was the 200-ton
After the shot King George told Campeador V, sunk by an enemy mand of the battery that he had the lieutenant-colonel in com- mine in June. Her owner, Mr. Vernon Macandrew, handed her just come from the Fourth Army, over to the Admiralty, served in which was launching its attack her and went
down with her. on Amiens. Most of her crew were yachtsmen
"You can be perfecly sure that from South Devon, and included the Germans will have to rush a retired Surgeon Rear-Admiral.
their reinforcements from Ypres In recent months
through Douai," said King George the Patrol Service has been strengthened
V. "Why not keep up a harassing until now it forms a cordon round fire on the railway junction??? The following account our shores from Wick round the of how Britain is standing the West Coast as far
East and South Coasts and the German air attack, and Liverpool.
INVASION THREAT MAY BE REVERSED
up
as Larne In the
waters near these shores the boats of the
"We dropped 120 tons of high explosives on the railway junc- tion," the colonel told the King.
"Afterwards an English lady that there were 400 in 7 German troop
told me casualties
written by William Mc-Patrol maintain a ceaseless watch Gaffin, of the "Associated in any sort of weather conditions train on our first day's firing."
that come along.
small
Press" staff in London, was published
From The R.N.V.R. in Amer- ican newspapers recent-motor yacht is a second hand, an
The average crew of a Ty:-
| engineer, and two ordinary sea-
men. Most of the officers drawn from the Royal Naval Vo- lunteer Reserve, and there is
:
are
The gun, nicknamed the "Boche Buster," and sister gun, known as the "Scene Shifter," are soon to be in action against the Hun again.
usually one officer to six yachts. SUSPECT
SHOT
After Secret Service and C.I.D.I officers had spy from Guildford through Lon- chased a suspected don and Northampton to Shrews- bury, he was killed in a field on Port the point of capture.
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Whatever "surprises" the Axis dictators may have prepared for Britain at their meeting on the Brenner Pass, military circles in
In the case of trawlers and. London are looking to a rapidly-drifters there is one officer to two approaching winter with what or four vessels, with skippers in they cautiously term "reasonable charge of the others. confidence," and a feeling that the men who man
The fisher- the trawlers are worst of the air onslaught is over. specially enlisted for the duration
By the spring they expect to of hostilities only. see Britain So much stronger With the Auxiliary Patrol has that the invasion threat will also been incorporated the have been completely, reversed. of London Authority River Emer-[ leaving the Nazis much
He was John Vincent Cain, a concerned over how to repel anfon
more gency Service, whose "beat" is 33-year-old lance-corporalina
the Thames invasion rather than
from Tower London regiment, who, it was how to Bridge to Hole Haven, The fam- alleged, had a criminal record. make one.. The air, attack, supposed to M.P., is in the Thames Patrol, and ous barge of Mr. A. P. Herbert, knock out London, was unleashed when she was taken into the ser- against the city exactly in Sep-vice her owner continued to serve tember...
in her as a petty officer.
Allied vessels are also on pa- trol duty, and among units on the south-west coast are trawlers The citizen, his wife and chil-manned by Poles. dren, have found themselves sud- denly pitched into the front line without the means of fighting back, Nazi raiders have destroy- ed the citizen's home. They have bombed hospitals and schools, set dre to churches, and machine-Joseph Conrad, Polish
It is a thousand pities that gunned 'streets.:
Battered But Unbowed
The Poles have Impressed British naval men as extraor- dinarily fine seamen, who keep their ships in first-rate condition.
circumstances of Cain's death. It There is deep, mystery, in the has not been established whether he took his own life, as was at first stated.
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Inquiries showed, it was alleged, and as there was reason to believe that Cain was a known criminal, he was carrying out espionage the them that it was safe, for them to
When a special constable told; Kowloon
Loudon cfficers who had picked up his come out, one, aged seventy-nine, Every description of "Banking" and trail Arst. at Guildford chased asked calmly, "Will you have a Exchange business transacted. Lwana Cain to London and thence to cup of coffee? I think the gas Northampton.
• Here they missed him by only a few minutes. Right along the master road that led to Holyhead the They have flattened whole
mariner and master, too, of En- chase went on till, near Shrews- blocks of
glish prose, did not survive to tell bury, Cain took to a field, where tenements, the story of his countrymen's high la he was found shot, smashed up Central London office adventure in remote waters. buildings
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Yet London still stands, batter- ed but unbowed-"business as. usual,"
Great secrecy was observed at the preliminary inquest on Cain, Tale Still To Be Told and neither Press nor public were
allowed to attend. But, even were there a Conrad
For the last fortnight special Neutral correspondents and or a Herman Melville to immor-branch officers have been inves- military experts agree that atalise the exploits of the Auxiliary | tigating Cain's movemen's and month of Blitzkrieg, such us no Patrol, the tale would have to be connections during the past few people in the world has ever be-deferred, The fewer details months. When he died he had fore had to endure did not impair available to the enemy of its work been absent from his regiment Britain's war effort by more than and of the exact areas in which for some time.
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It operates, the better for the ef-
Authoritative "circles frankly ficiency of the service and the
admit that a month's "Blitz" has safety of its members.
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Then read this:-
confronted Britain with some This much can be said that EXHAUSTED BY FEVER? staggering problems, but those danger has become a matter same circles believe that British, routine with these fishermen and morale is tough enough to bear yachtsmen, of whom few, except any threats.
the Royal Naval Reserve gun- layers, have naval training.
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You are not out of danger when "May Sue For Peace' Many of their boats are such as, fever has subsided. The weakness
for peaceful purposes, would be The British are counting on the considered fair-weather craft, and it leaves behind exposes you to re- R.A.F., whose brilliant day-time cannot be fuelled for long trips; lapse or fresh infection. You must victories are already axiomatie, Generally speaking, four-day tours rebuild your worn-out. body im- growing ever stronger from Inces of duty are carried out by traw-mediately and quickly. sant acceleration of aircraft pro-lers, and the small boats are used duction here and in the United for shorter. spells. »
The way to do this is to find a Haiphong States.
It can also be said that some of food that soothes the enfeebled Hamburg They are counting on the wear the boats are in action every day stomach and provides all the nu- which will soon hand against enemy aircraft, but the trition, value of big, solid meals. enough to cause the German ma- full story of their exploits is one The food very many doctors chines to ice over if they try to that the future historian of the go above the range of the balloon Patrol will have the greatest dif- choose for their fever patients is barrage and A.A. guns.
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"These chapo are so uced to night bombing before the winter
action that they don't bother ends.
to report unless they have casualties."
ther.
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