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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1960.

Some said the great Admiral was drunk, others that he was sick, others that he was out of his mind on

that fateful day but the truth will never be known....

Crucified-for another man's

JUST four weeks after the Court Martial, the Admiralty issued a Minute which made clear to all Naval officers, if only by implication, their intention never again to employ Rear-Admiral Markham in a sca-going post of any, responsibility.

Markham described it

as unfair. He was given no prior notice, nor was he officially informed of its publication. He read about it eventually in an old copy of The Times while cruising in the Mediterranean late in November.

Markham's Fing Captain alsa came in for attack from the Admiralty for rot "earrying out The orders which he had re- ceived with due rapidity eflictency and their Lordships tek rund, "to express regret that he fiel nol manifest the promptitude and decision which the exsision demanded for seeathy of his ship."

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Mimichur Was allowed ze: ve out the last few months of his appointment as second-in- command. He then went on to half-pay, and devoted much of his time lo Freemasonry. A: least he achieved distinction In the Musonle world, becoming the Grand Master for Malta und Inter the Founder and the Firs Master of the Navy Lodge.

No Doubt

But apart from a ferm as Commander-in-chief of the Nore, Markiram received

Hitte further encouragement from the Admiralty and finally retired in 1908.

The offer of his services was refused during the Boer War and in 1914 when he worked in his capacity of Treasurer of the Minesweepers' Fund.

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But although he married the age of 53 and had a daughter which provided him with much solace during his last years, Markhamn never recovered from the the distress and shame of

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Victoria collision. He died fortnight before the end of the Great War on October 18, 1915.

blunder

The great controversy rages on even to this day. But the Victoria and her most famous Admiral lie at the bottom of the Mediterranean. And the secret of the most tantalising order ever given in the Royal Navy lies buried with them

- for ever.

ADMIRALS IN COLLISION.

By Richard Hough

CONCLUSION ----

at

the

Lestified Martial that he was in perfect health.

It was common talk in club- had land, for example, that he was drunkt after a heavy lunch and that there was nothing unusual about this.

Did Sir George mean: "It was

all my fault. I have made ak appalling

miscalculation

this is the result"?

and

Or did he mean, "Markitom is a greater fool than I had be. But now imagined him to That my ship is lo slak ond many of my men are to die, shall die with them and it 18 beller that I should take blame?

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Or is the true interpretation something between these two extremes? Did he perhaps mena: "I have still not succeeded in insting sufficient initiative, in- telligence or imagination Into my second-in-command. I have again overestimated his powers, this time fatally, and as supreme Commander, I am therefore blame"?

Ny one will ever know.

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The impossible manœuvre Tryon was commonly sup. posed to have attempted".

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The maneuvre Markham

supposed Tryon intended.

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.The manœuvre as Tryon may have inunded it:

4.

The manœuvre as it was carried out.

MAN ŒUVRE

But none of these offers to afternoon of June 22. the salvage her was accepted and guiding brain that made him sa not even a diver descended to dear to Us Wes absent," explore the Victoria's secrets. Admiral of the Ficct Sir Sho lica today, broken and Geoffrey Phipps Hornby. mud-shrouded, with her en- "Have noi his countrymez. tombed admiral and bluejackets, been foo husty in altocking his Paradoxically 11 was

on the bed of the Mediterranean, memory? Is it not possible that Victoria herself which attracted And the judgment of posterity they may yet feel, ashamed of Court the greatest attention, even on the two men who played the what they have said or written morbid interest long after the leading parts in this the greatest about him?"-Sir William Laird collision, Her tanfallsing pro- peace-lime drama of the Royal Clowes. No one will, however, know ximity to the shore, her mere Navy:

REAR-ADMIRAL ALBERT for sure what Tryan's intentions ship's length from the surface,

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR

HASTINGS MARKHAM: were when he gave the order fascinated many people and

GEORGE TRYON:

"If I were Markham which resulted in the sinking of exercised the Ingenuity of hun-

"His brain must have failed never could hold up my head the Victoria.

dreds of amateur inventors.

him" - Admiral Sir Reginald Spain Admiral of the Flect Individual theories can start Over a hundred plans for

Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. is also no doubt that bout of Malta fever, and there-

"He was both officially and unofficially fore not in full control of his and end with the possible inter- locating and raising the Victoria Bacon.

crucified alive for "Everyone who knew and another man's blunder" - Ada efforts were successfully made senses and that he had given his pretations of those five words he were received by the Admiralty

Slr George mirat Lord Charles Beresford. to cast doubts on his general orders in complete forgetfulness. spuke on the chart house, which from various eccentele inventors, esteemed the late

reputable Tryon must feel that, though reputation and on his behaviour But Fleet Surgeon Ellis, who were heard by two ollieres: "It and even some from

bodily he 'was present on that on the fall afternoon.

had been attending him daily, was all my fault."

But while the Court Martial's verdict was Irveived with general satisfaction, it must be accepted that strong evidence in Sir George Tryon's favour was withheld or understated before, during and after the rouri. martal.

There

A fellow Admiral wrote that un the afternoon of the collision he was still suffering from

Know Your Dog

By IIM. HOWELL

THE FOX TERRIER (wire-haired)

TE breed, resembles the smooth-haired, variety in every

firms.

-The End-

Definitely NO blondes for this TV hero...

"ONE way and another," said the man who

invented Inspector James Bigglesworth of the Special Air Police (just Biggles to a multitude of men and boys spread across the world)... "one way and another I was able to get a lot of informa- tion about the Germans between the wars."

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"Will Messerschmitt told me "Ernst Udel... he shot down about his first order for 3,000 68 British machines and he shot Me109s' when we had a few me down too. He landed nens-" dozen Gladiators and Gauntlets, by, saluted my dead gunner, gat I didn't believe it. He said me to a doctor in the village "Come down and fy one ..." and said Bad luck. My turn

Biggles's croator, Captain W. E. Johns the fan mali still pours in.

by FRANK ENTWISLE

You are in a different world tomorrow. Poor fellow shot Suddenly I got a sack of mall "Some non-fiction, and thrillers when you enter this big Queen himself years later because Anne bolso behind a high wall didn't like Hitler."

he

off the busy Hampton Court It was into och a chivalrous Road. And it is not just the world as this that Biggles was white pillared drawing-room, or born in 1932 when Johns, editor the panelled walls. OT the or a flying magazine, created caryod re-places, or the subtler him because he could not com- proportions of another century mission authors to write enough that gives this impression. air stories.

There are, for instance, the. Today, more than 00 books

from Austrailon kids. The for the American market, and broadcasting people had run out some interplanetary stuff." of my stories.

About 120 of his books, All "They'd made Biggles take up опе bookcase near his desk. with a blonde. The boys said: But

fortune. Biggles is his Has Biggles gone soft?

Biggles and his world roving "I had to stop that of course. aldes Ginger and the monocled It wasn't Biggles. He wouldn't Bertie are read in 14 · other behave like that,

His fortune

fanguages as they foil a drug gang in London, solve a pearling mystery In Ceylon, or A paint taz world of commercial TV.

catch a murder in Arabia the texture of the coat the better. On no account should Captain W. E. Johns.

ing of a 1014-18 war air Aght Johns, musing over the park-

often with the help of Brissae of the dog look or feel woolly; and there should be no silky with the Bocho getting the land view from his gracefully

Iwo hair anywhere.

years the Faris Surete ("Ah Blagics- worst of it. from

"Anyway, after darling arched study window, in a Hutle

argument I've agreed to ITV, worth, you eld dog!"). The coat should not be too long so as to give the dog in |D14.

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fearful for his hero.

There's the money, of course.

After 30 years, of cool, un shaday appearance, but at the same time it should show a marked young man (Biggles) in flying

And I thought it might do the sentimental adventure with and distinct difference all over from the smooth species.

book sales good"

and Hurricane

purple, sunset A Granada TV handout says hardly a sidri in sight, the far write a mail stili pours In-froin France

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helmet and goggles grinning Gone soft?

the

In the earlier years of this Century there was probably no healthilly before a dog to universally popular as the fox terrier, alther wire-haired The colours are those of boys' or smooth. They are ready for any kind of sport; yet are at home book illustrations between in the house. Emtentially an alert type which should have the wars. Romantle. Nostalgie. "fire" typical of all torriarn.

Between the terrier of the streets and that of the show ring

there is a vast differepos, which is often most apparent in the So gallant

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"I was first approached by that Capt Johns enn the BBC ten years ago," he said. Biggies in a fortnight—which he (where Johns is the fourth big- "But I was too nervous. Biggies denies and that one book can gest selling author), from Ger- does many (although many of the means a lot to me. I know him earn £10,000—which ho

not dispute.

war-atory villains were Ger- intimately. shape of the head. Here the skull should be flat and moderately

"ilo's qulot unassuming "I suppose they earn that for mans), and from the Orient.

Among the fanmail on bla narrow, gradually, decreasing in width to the syes. The jawa And this is a world where fellow. Wasn't much 'good at someonis I don't really know, should be strong and muscular; the oare V-shaped and small; the joven, the enemy is oflen in school or sport. Not· elven. 10 I have had to turn myself imo dels during my visit, Capt W.E. Johns found the following en- rno bashing people on the Jaw a company that pays ayos 'dark, amait, and rather doap set, never baiting and pre- gentleman.. minent. Nook clean and muscular without throstiness; shoulders There was Daron von fuch- He's the reverto of the material falary. After all when you get tences: long and slopina; cheet deep and not broad, Baak short, straight ||thofen (the famous German see for mast thriller heroes. No income tax forma in Icelandia-- "Dear Sir... I tum à' Chinese

No thard liquor. and strong. Lain powerful and slightly arched. Hindquarters | known as the Red Baron in the; sex,

No well it nearly drove me round boy and I want to. grown up 110 wus/violence, strong, and musulat. Starn set on rather high, exrried daily but 1914-1ẞ wax). When

No coarse expletlycs. the bend”,

liko Diggles "I didn't want to see him

And .. "I am c Pakistan not over back. Front legs should be dead straight, strong In Vons, į slot. down every British 'squad"

Sixty-seven-year-old ex-RFC gir). I am 14. 1 live in Lalore, Fest round, compact and not large.

Iron In Fronice pent a wreath to vulgarised. If he did my slock When moving tage should be straight forelage swinging the funeral.

would go down. Bo would my uzptein' ; Johns-lockily built, and I am in love with Biggles. "And when one of our chaps brest and batter.

Iron-grey hair, and wearing two What can I do about 17" parallel to the aldas and hindings supplying propulsion, Tela: 00339, 01011.

since"

recent You re he's been on radio cardigans The wire-haired was at the top of the list from 1920 to 1926 was captured, the German18

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