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RULES OF WAR

Peace-Time Pacts And War-Time Weapons

BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELİ

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YOUNG GORDONS SHIP-SHORE

IN SMART CASTLE REVIEW

WIRELESS

MESSAGES

Edinburgh "Changing Post Office Rates To

Of The Guard”

Be Reduced

London, April 29.

London, April 25 Young Gordon Highlanders visit- The Postmaster-General, Major G. C. Tryon, announced Jast night, ed Edinburgh Castle yesterday for the first time when the 1şt Batta- at a dinner given by the South- Hon resumed the ceremonial ampton Chamber of Commerce, Changing of the Guard. They that a reduction in rates of the joined the battalion only a few Post Office's ship-shore wireless weeks ago in a draft from the de-service, would be brought into pot at Aberdeen,

effect on ard from July 1. He that the telephone also stated service between the mainland and the Channel Islands, which is at present carried on by means of. one submarine cable and one radio channel, as now to be improved by the installation of new radio sta tions, which would provide three additional channels of communi- cation.

Immediately the battalion was ordered to fall out, and they had nothing to do until the Old Guard was ready to join them for the march back to Redford Barracks, of the they made a quick tour

part of the Castle. historical Carrying their rifles, some of them the War found their way into Memorial where they walked round deeply im- slowly, and seemed pressed.

The battalion was making its Art appearance for the season, and its last until the summer

camp at Hundreds of people Stobe is over. turned out to watch.

In the days of my youth, when his memorable speech of March 21 He declared that Germany the Navy still carried out boarding fast. party drill and the Army was still would agree to universal prohibi- very annoyed at the abolition of tion of the submarine, and was side whiskers (neither of which re- quite ready to talk sympathetically in miniscences makes me nearly 50 about the Air Pact proposed patriarchal as impression might London at the beginning of Febru suggest), I often, in the course ofury last. It was, perhaps just my variegated reading, used to trifle inopportune that the Germa

declaration should come across the phrase. "according Chancellor's 10 the rules of civilized warfare."have come so immediately after I remember most of what I read the revelation that submarine when Queen Victoria was still on construction is going on so very the Throne just about as fully as briskly in his country, and that I have forgotten all that I read. before we had time to master his let me say, for a month before speech in the morning newspapers the Jubilee of King George V. And the trebling of the Royal Air Force I particularly remember that a rapidly as ever it can be done. phrase because my youthful ima- But these cynical coincidences will gination was considerably soothed happen, may be not without ser- by the thought that although war ving some useful purpose as re- seemed to be a pretty ter le bust-minders of realities. Still, it does ness yet it was nice to feel that it seem rather an anomalous way of

rate from 11d. a word to 3d. a was carried on in a civilized fas- | giving point to suggestions for res-

word. This new rate would cover messages to and from ships in all, hion, that barbarity was sheed badtricting the employment of certain manners, and that even if it were types of weapons to announce, the

parts of the world. Another im- not always possible to imitate the building of a lot more of them.

STIRRING SIGHT

portant item, for ships making behaviour of the French at Fon- And here is the real dificulty, as

distant voyages and not provided tenoy yet here, at any rate, was I have already indicated:

The Gordons marched, into the with wireless sets capable of trans- aircraft standard for guidance I was under weapons-British

Esplanade with futtering ribbons.mitting over long distances, was some misgiving on reading that German submarines certainly will shining bayonets, and the pipes the reduction, from is. 6d a word the great Zulu crescent which over- }"be bull, and, should war come: playing stirring march,

the ad- whelmed our

Isandhi-certainty will be used to the full commanding officer and troops at wana paused to enable the 24th extent of their capacity in helping jutant on horseback at the head Foot to open the battle. Bs to to win the war.

and the second-in-command, also whether these savages were not

mounted, at the rear. actually entitled to be considered as civilized!

CHEMICAL WARFARE.

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Major Tryon said that the chief item in the new tariff for the ship-shore wireless service would be the reductions of the standard

On

other

to 1s, a word, in the Rugby rate.

smalt This Rugby service met a but steady demand for communi- cating with distant ships otherwise out of touch with the shore.

little of Their entry was smart," and the The public knew too It is occasionally argued that precision with which they greeted these services and the men who

them on shore and THE "GENTLEMANLY BUSINESS" chemical warfare is actually more the Old Guard, waiting at the worked

humane than the traditional me- head of the Esplanade, completed board ship. There were 12. Post Having confessed to the growing thods, and the Americans. have the balance of perfection. The Office Coast Stations in the United tendency to imperfectly remember compiled à good many statistics crowd appreciated it. cameras Kingdom and Irish Free State, what I read last, I rather hesitate to demonstrate this. There

which these and are snapped the battalion from all through to express what is nevertheless forms of gas which merely incapa-angles--and recruiting sergeants services were given. In addition. conviction, that not for a very long citate men, and to disable a body moved among the young men who the Post Office stations, at Rugby special time past has any writer on the of troops by this means is undoubt- were watching.

and Baldock conducted subject of modern war used the edly more humane than killing or

ceremony lasted an hour. services with ships at sea. All words "rules" or "civilized" in crippling them by machine-guns General Sir Archibald Cameron, these stations were being increa- connection with it. Of course. It and rifles. But are combatants may be that the "gentlemanly bust going to restrict the use of che-.0.0-in-C., Scottish Command, singly used for transmission and Who is Constable of the Castle, reception of private and business ness" is taken for granted. Or it mical warfare either to the battle

arrived a few minutes before messages as well as for the special may be, which I am afraid is the areas or to the types of gas which

twelve o'clock and took the salute services. All of them could.com- real explanation, that science has only produce temporary disable-

ships within 300 miles of the shore, line.

and one of them-Portishead- ruthless and barbarous affair that situations, are they going to deny

could operate services with a range to perpetuate any suggestion of the sclves the possibility of sal-

that was 'world-wide. The British chivalrous humanity in connec-vation by recourse to any proven tion with the conduct of it is a potentialities? Inexorable necessity

Post Office handied through its const stations, more than twice as sheer, cynical anachronism.

is stronger than paper prohibitions

many messages as any European when a nation has its back to the

Last year the traffic wall Can anybody seriously sup- well. One of the cleverest satires pose, for example, that the amiable I have heard for a very long time efforts to "humanize" submarine was a little broadcast play by Mr. warfare by stultifying it are going du Garde Reach, in which two ta prove effective when strife countries were convinced that their comes? One-half of the great naval only prospect of salvation lay, in Powers are resolure in their refus- an unsuccessful war and the Ober- ed a little too fast in the directional to contemplate the abolition of

on was of the discovery in ne of "too much softness," but I am the submarine. This simply means late months of last year of two not going to moralize upon this. that they believe in the emcacy nuts in the

casing of the main What I am here concerned with of submarine warfare.

developed war into such a totally ment? In fact, in gravely-critical as the battalion marched past inmunicate by radio-telegraphy with

Let me at once make one point clear; that fault is with science. not with humanity. In their every- day lives men to-day would, not Lolerate what was all too-often done in the regular course of ex- istence even down to the end of last century. Maybe we have mov-

What rub

Is the undoubted growth of inter-rish it is to expect them to keep Bational feeling that the civilized the submarine. but abandon the instincts should arrest, and if pos- efficacy. I do not question the per- sible reverse, the barbaric course fect honesty of purpose of the gen of modern warfare, The trouble tlemen who get together in an en 1 that nothing is much more dif- vironment of amity and festivity ficult than to undo what has been and pledge their countries to rent effectively done.

raint should they unhappily be at But they are answering for The old German plea of "multi-war.

all ary necessity" recognizes no limita a Frankenstein which, as we tion of means in the effort to at- know, was such a wonderful crea tain the end. That end is to de- tion that its creator could feat the enemy and so force him control it to accept what the war has been fought to impose. The Germans- I am quoting them as the people

YOUTH AND WAR

That the horrors of war have

The battalion was commanded by Lleutenant-Colonel J, M. Hamil- ton, D.S.O.

motor.

THE FIRST CASE

The incident aboard the Royal Oak at Devonport first directed public attention towards the me- nace of interference with Royal Naval craft in English shipyards.

The representatives of depart- ments HIS and M.1.5 subsequently Interviewed numbers of workmen.

country. to nearly 5,000,000 amounted words.

Emergencies requiring the use of special services numbered 178 in 1935, or about one on every second medical day. There was also a service available to ships which do not carry a doctor. In the event. of serious illness or accident on board the master could obtain ad- vice from a coast station, and special code overcome the lan- guage difficulty. Navigation and meteorological warnings issued by the Admiralty and Air Ministry respectively amounted last year to 180,000 words.

the

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DERBY HOUSE OPENS ITS DOORS

London. April 27,

Referring to the improvements Electricians, attempting to trace in the telephone service with the a fault, removed a length of cable Channel Islands, Major Tryon said were in from a 6in. gun-fre control, Btrip- that new radio stations

оде la ping the lead cover from the cable, course of installation,

and the ather at they found that a brass pin had Guernsey been driven through its circum-Chaldon, in Dorsetshire, to provide ference.

additional channels, channels wİLE "So skillfully had the work been The first of these

nearly ready, and would probably who are reputed to "take war more contributed very materially to the performed that close examination be available for use within a fort- seriously" than any other race reluctance to resort to war is be- of the exterior failed to disclose night. There were at present two telephone circuits available for thought that he surprise use of yond question. Mr. Lloyd George, any evidence of tampering.

The cable was manufactured by extending connections from Guern- poison gas at the second Battle of in opening a rather ghastly exhibi- Yores would certainly open the tion of photographs in Regentan English firm at works near Lon- sey to Jersey, and a third was way to the Channel ports. They street. Just before Christmas, re-don, and was tested by a Govern-being added. thought that "frightfulness" in the marked that it was a duty to try ment representative before removal

to Devonport. shape of indiscriminate air raids and Instil into the young genera- and tip-and-run bombardments of flon a full knowledge of the ho- defenceless coastal towns would saptors of war. Apparently, it did not the morale of the British nation, occur to him that the logical result They hoped that the strenuous pur- of his idea would be a nation of and in some instances doesters Bult of unrestricted submarine passive resisters so totally unpre were dispatched for the perusal of

many pared to defend itself as to invite authorities in London. warfare. accentuated by eheer cold-blooded atrocities, would all comers to take their share of force us into "capitulation by fa- what has not inaptly been called mine. What they really did was to "the biggest packet of plunder" in Not that any propa- embitter as into retaliatory mea- the world. sures which we should have con- ganda about the horrors of modern aidered incredible before August, war is, of itself going to stop warlikely to cause disaffection, 1914. There was no attempt at On the other hand.. I do not be-

Workmen were dismissed early pretending that "civilized war Leve that any possible restoration fare" was being waged in the fero- of the old "civilized" code, any at this year, but it was authoritative

war the scene of notable hospit clous struggle for existence; science | tempt to make war a more "gentle ly denied that the reason was 10r

ality. The guests yesterday saw was pressed to do her, worst and manly profession," would have the complicity in the alleged sabotage,

unfortunate effect of rendering it Activities" of the agents ceased the famous ballroom transformed exhibiting the The extent to which the civilizmore popular. In the first place, almost completely about five weeks into a place for ea world has been, and is, prepar-it has become too fabulously costly; ago, and the general feeling of hundreds of presents which were ing for war conclusively dispels in the second place, it has become employees was that they had satis arranged round the walls, with the central ject in England, but when it the optimism which professes totoo clear that nobody can "get any-fed themselves with the situation books and jewellery on castles, and other antiquities of

tables. There were many anti: Scotland that are under the care comes to the antiquities of Scot- believe in universal readiness to thing out of it." During the height at the establishment.

of the Great War we used to re- Construction of the L54 was COMI• ques, particularly furniture and war altogether. But, of the Office of Works, writes a land he admits that he has not renounce correspondent. He has already the knowledge requisite for the beyond all question, there exists mark, not wholly without self-com- menced in 1918 under the emer-pictures, among the present.

The bride and bridegroom left a put into circulation two brochures task. He is desirous, however, of a general and perfectly sincere de- placency. "this is costing us 24-gency war programme of 1817, and

was completed at Devonport in few minutes earlier, than had been covering the North and the South completing a series that should be sire to "humanize war as far as 000,000 a day!" -"

No doubt any other great Power,

expected, and there was a short of England, and is preparing for most valuable to all interested in is possible, More particularly is

Ot the Admiralty saddle-tank interval between the first,recepi the vessel has an overall tion and the second at six o'clock circulation a third dealing with this particular study, and he this feeling directed towards the with much shorter shrift to pro- the Midlands and 'East Anglia. therefore proposes to approach the two newest forms of war, in the digal politicians and profterts, type,

same length of 235 feet and is equipped which was attended by nearly 300 Mr. Ormsby-Chote has written Becretary of State for Bcotland to air and underwater. Here Hitler would have managed the these booklets himself, as he is a have the matter put in hand as made a very definite contribution effort on £3,000,000 a day and then with one din gun, one machine- tenants, and employees from Lord

to this sentiment in the course of treated the Aghting men equally gun, and alx torpedo tubes of 21in, Derby's Lancashire estates. recognised authority on the sub- soon as possible.

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SCOTLAND'S ANTIQUITIES

London, Apr, 24, I hear that Mr Ormsby-Gore, First Commissioner of Works, 18 contemplating the production of a booklet describing and illustrating the ancient monuments, old

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did it.

LOCKERS SEARCHED · Lockers of workmen were also searched, presumably to ascertain whether they contained literature

1924.

So many were the guests at the wedding of Lord Derby's grand- daughter yesterday that Lady Derby decided to give two recep tions at Derby House in Stratford Place. This gave an opportunity for many younger friends to see the interior of this historie, Lon- don home, which was before the

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