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ROYAL NAVY

AFRICA STATION

after 11 H.M.S. Bridgewater, rent at Simonstown, has left for cru.se or the three months' West Coast of" Africa, under the command of Captain Q. D. Graham. who has been appointed" to succeed Captain H. J. Egerton.

H.M.S. Penzance, Commander A. W. Clarke, recently employed in training classes of R.N.V.R. ratings at Port Elizabeth and Durban, left Simonstown on March 15 on her withdrawal from the station. Her

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RETURN OF THE DUNDEE H.M.S. Dundee, Captain St. J Curzon-Howe, M.V.O., arrived at Portsmouth on March 14 on the com- conclusion of her second

submarines, trawlers, drifters, and other small vessels.

But there was an economical distance to bombing, and an ali force was far more vulnerable in NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

its rearward administration than The following appointments have been made by the Admiralty: the Army: also it would be no Payr. Cdra-E. D. T. Churcher, more immune for bombing than to Argus (April 6); K. W. Jantes. was the Army. The modern alr Its actual could operate from lent to N.2. Div. for three years force was wonderful so long as it bases, but it was tied to its shops: its material, and everything be- hind it, The theory of the pure

(April 14).

י,

Lt.-Cars.-W. L. M. Brown, ta Warspite (March 23); W. 1. Far quharson, to President, as Naval Asst. to Hydrographer (April 1).

Lis.-I. W. T. Beloe, to Foxhound; J. W. Rylands, to Brilliant; J. T. B. Birch, to Firedtake; A. J. Cobham, to Barham; M. R. E. Faning, to

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air offensive. was not now advanc- ed with the same insistence formrely. There was no strategy in sport or war which did not have a defensive. In any case the

place will be taken by the London- walpole; C. T. B. Tibbits, to Echo: theory was ruled out for us. We derry, from the Red Sea Division. Johnson, to Achates; G. Loffered a far more tempting tar- the latter being relieved by the

Farnfield, to Electra (April 4: E. get to an enemy than an enemy Fleetwood, from home

J. O'Shea, to Eclipse <April 5); R. offered to us, and it would be folly Dyer and E R. C. Morris (F/Lt, not to devote some of our best R.A.F.), to Malaya (April 8); R. brains to the defence of this coun- 3. N. Hicks. to Pembroke for try RN.B. (April 19); F. J. Cartwright, te St. Vincent (April 22); K. L Elder, to Viscount (April 25); W. H. G. Saunt, to Blanche (May 4) M. C. Hoskin (F/O., R.A.F.), to Warspite candated).

mission on the America and West Indies Station. Her present ship's company joined in October. 1935 She will be refitted and recom- missioned Hermuca. COMPLETION OF THE BITTERN

Bittern The escort-vessel

returning before

to

Was

L. Wood,

to

PREVENTING PANIC

of troops The danger

were.

being

сп

landed from aeroplanes was small, and they could not be landed as a fully armed force. The real dan-

attack drst an gers Payr. Lt.-E. F Burkitt to moral. There should be definite Arid April 10).

areas marked out all over the Sub-Lts-R. D. Wall, to Adven-country with persons in charge. handed over to the Navy on March are: C. J. Bateman to Folkes-and having mobile forces at their 15 by Messrs. J. S. White and Gone: C. G. H. Brown, to Thracian; disposal, so that order would be The sight of a hu- . T. Mannooch, to Penelope (April maintained. at Cowes, and will be commissioned 2: A. P. Calmer, to Suffolk; D. J. man being who had not lost his at Portsmouth by Commander W.

Sandwich; D. N. head was the only hope of stop- J. Yendell for service in the 1st Forbes, to Grimsby (April 4): P. J. ping panic. It was essential to Anti-Sibmarine Flotilla.

(April have disciplined people, and the Morgan, to Southampton The Bittern is the third of the 201; D. H Swift, to Lupin; B. E. best would be soldiers. class Uriginally called

convoy Coomrs, to Boyne: B. M'Anson, The lecturer went on to discuss sloops, but differs in armament Bittera; D. M. Ldoyd, to Cher-the view that air control was suf- from her predecessors, although ofwell; J. W. White, to Coine; Cncient for the Empire. He point the same tonnage and speed. The Hutchinson, to Doon (April 21); Jed out the circumstances in which first, H.M.S. Enchantress, was fitted. F. Brackenbury. A. R. Daniell. It was difficult. if not impossible. for service as Admiralty yacht in J. P. Eustace, D. W. Leggatt. K. W. for the air arm to operate, and peace time, and has four 4.7in M. Meyrick, F E Macvie... E. described

the difficulties which Kuns: and the second, H.M.S.

Newstead. S. A. Porter, R. P. Webb. would face the Army of taking up Stork," for surveying service.

Sir G. P. G. Muntz. Br.. M. L. C. a situation which had wholly or with one small gun

Crawford, H. R. W. Twynam, "to partly deteriorated. On the ques The Bittern has six in. guns on Dolphin for course (April 25).

tion of a reserve of troops, he said highsngle mountings

Bosn.-A. W. Anderson, to Sar-that England was the best initial donyx (March 21,

training ground, but whenever he RETIREMENT

tried to find places where he coul Shipt. Lt.-W. H. Royall. MBE.. train his gunners he was told placed on the Retd. List Marchefther that a particular place w 1211.

a beauty spot or it was too popu- lous.

ENGINEER CAPTAIN BARRY

The retirement took effect from March 45 at his own request, of Engineer Captain G. J.B. Barry, Ficet Engineer Officer in the Re- serve Fleet,

OFFICERS' MESS TRAPS

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ARMY AND HOME

DEFENCE

SIR EDMUND IRONSIDE ON

THE AIR OFFENSIVE

A new Order in Council states THE that it is destrable, in view of the fluctuations in the number of officers 111

mess, that 0

the allowance for the care of mess traps in ward room, gun room, and warrant officers' messes should be The last of the series of lectures assessed quarterly according to on "The Army aspect of military the daily average number of off affairs from 1899 to the present cers victualled in the mess during day" was given recently by Gen- the quarter. New scales of off-eral Sir Edmund Ircr.side at cers' mess traps have been ap-King's College. The subject was proved to come into operation "The future

gradually as ships recommission Sir Edmund Ironside argued in

no

He urged that there should be a "thinking body." to obviate any of those hazardous plans and brain waves which had

relation whatever to administration, and to prevent the Government be- ing "rushed."

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Squadron Leader H. C. Parker, a day) while borne in establish- promoted on February 1, has been ment vacancies as crews of air Thorney Island, Emsworth, is now from April 1, 1938. In these scales favour of corps of gunners res appointed to command: No. 40 Craft. In the event of a mate or in commission. No. 22 Torpedo

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tains of destroyer flotillas. The naval stations and for anti-air- Find light tombers at Abingdon, pay he may continue to draw, in the has arrived there. The station gradation of the scales for ward craft defence being under the in succession to Squadron Leader addition, duty pay as mate or tor-equipment includes hangars large

room.

and

of the Army. gun room,

warrant control

On the AH. H. MacDonald. officers' messes is altered. Ward question of attack from the air he room scales are substituted for said that there were no means of Whatever the the special scales for cicers' mes- stopping raiders. ses in leaders and destroyers, and conditions some would certainly new scales are

introduced in get through.

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