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IN MEMORIAM:

The

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933.

tragedy of the whole situation is that whilst Japan continues to argue the merits of the case, in face of world opinion, Chinese territory is being seized and cities laid waste. No-one denies that Japan has not bad some measure of grievance-the Lytton Report conceded so much but the right method of ad- justment is not to make war on China in breach of pledged un- dertakings to the contrary. It is this for which the world con- demas Japan. And nothing that she has yet said, or can say, dis- poses of this dominant fact.

De Valera Cautious

MY FRIENDS AT SEA

By JOAN GRIGSBY

[The writer, a young Englishwoman, is strikingly at koma among ships and sailor men. She has already published a book on the subject under the title "Longshore and Down Channel."J

and

The Very Idea!

A TAME AFFAIR

By Edward Sandow Kally,

As an authority on Ame- Quay in old Portsmouth that I went down to her, and waited on to-day to give you the low- It was down on the little Camber leg was properly mended, rican wrestling, we're here met my first love.

the quay beside her till morning down on Sunday's stoush. Sho was only a small coasting In the morning I got a job on her vessel, a tramp old and rust coat-na stand cd, but her skipper, was an undertake me when she sailed, so I between Mr. Tiger Bring Em by, but they couldn't We refer to the tete-a-tete standing man and he made no came on to this ship; but I shan't fuss about taking a small reefer rest until I get back into sail. I'm Back Alive Daula and Mr. Southampton over the gallant in turn, and I guess I'll get one of coated girl from Portsmouth to going to try all the grain fleet Joseph Alouysis Cross. sparkle of a wintry Solent.

It happened at the Kowloon Football Ground. They picked " that site as the most appropriate for rough, tactics.

them to take me before I've finish- He told, her of his Arst ship, a ed." tall white winged lady of "some The sequel to this story I found yet older day," and initiated her only a month, or two ago when into the mysteries of the connex-visiting Grace Harwar as she lay ion between wheel and compass; in Millwall Dock discharging a

Personally, although the law of and when in the glow of late after cargo of grain from Australia; for gravity get a serious knockout at noon the little ship drew into the the first person I met as I went on Sunday's seance, we think it was wooded mouth of Southampton board was Beb just descending too tame. They didn't have to all water, and finally berthed along-from doing a job of work aleft. side of a lordly Cunarder, she "Well, you've managed it," I the doctor until the end of the would not have exchanged the lit-said. "Aye, I heard she was in, match. the 1,000 ton tramp for all the so I didn't waste much time set- uxurious, 32,000 tons of the ting to her."

"Where were you when you beard?" I asked, quite by chance. "Manchester," was the reply.

Mauretania.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933.”

And no one assaulted the re- feree.

Tiger mado Joe Cross by taking It was a Duala to the death."

been shipmates for the last they'll still be there?" "Oh, they

"Then how on earth do you knowed.

years.

This collier was indeed the'll be there right enough," said happiest ship in which I have ever Bob, with all the trust of a born sailed. The crew were all Scots,vagabond in the folk that are left

at home. | and might almost have been called reformers." a crew of "food Their chief diet was brown bread, vegetables and fruit,

were hot or cold."

minutes.

the

f

Mr. de Valera has been cur- iously inactive outwardly since his dramatic triumph at the January elections, leading ene to the hope that increased strength in the Dail has brought with it circumspection. To carry out the policy to which he has pled-

My Happiest Ship Since then I have' added many HARRIS-To the dear and preciousged himself, Mr. de Valera has,

memory of my beloved husband if Labour fails him, a majority odd craft and many seafaring | "Then however did you get down his subject's bead in a powerful Sidney, who passed, on 28th of one-counting the vote of the men to my list of friends afloat. here?" I queried; suspecting the grip and twisting it this way and February 1923. Never forgotten.

Some months ago when I re-state of the boy's finances. "Oh that, stopping just short of screw Speaker. He is faced with the turned South from the Shetland I just wallked, and lorry-stepped. ing it right off. Then, just to certainty of considerable dis-Isles, I made the passage in a all the way. It took four days, location of economic life in the small collier; I was the only pas- and I'd worn my shoes right out show that he was in a playful"

mood, he transferred to senger, and the skipper gave up by the time I got here. But it was patient's torso.

Joseph warded off the vicious convert Free State dependence on a settee in the saloon. There they'll have the shock of their on the British market into what were twelve in the crew, and with lives when they see me at home, attacks by jumping on his friend's the exception of the fireman and a I've not written since I came corns. It appears that Joe wore The describes as a "reasonable" couple of deck hands they had all away."

hobnails and Tiger was barefoot- degree of self-sufficiency. He is

Then Tiger got peeved and ap-. confronted with the mounting

plied the leg theory. Muscles hostility of farmers, who must

strolled up and down his spine STILL ARGUING

change their entire methods if

as he lifted Joe off the mat and pelted him for a sixer outside the Confronted with the moral the country is to grow its own

Simple Faith

ring. The crowd hooted In condemnation of practically the wheat instead of buying it with

Superstition, they say dies hard characteristic style, Joe landed at sea, bat in the case of fishermen with the debonair indifference of whole world, Japan still con- the proceeds from stock and

The chief, owing to the fact that the beliefs that I have often en-a cat. He re-catered the ring and tinues to argue in defence of her dairy products. Furthermore, he had "something odd about his countered might more truthfally picking up his pal, swung him in actions in Manchuria, even to he is obliged to affront Britain insides," had to eat everything be described as "religious" rather the air and swalled him so hard the length of suggesting that while cutting or lengthening cold, and would sit down with than merely superstitious. Among and often on the mat that the whole the League of Nations should, the painter, and at the same time enjoyment to cold soup, cold meat the older generation of fishermen playing field rocked.

and vegetables and gravy, affirmat least there is a very firm belief Tiger objected to being swatted at this late stage, change its obtain her good offices towarding stoutly that "they were just as in some Higher Power which con- and bringing his 1,247 muscles mind. The submissions made bringing, about reconciliation good and nourishing whether they trols the elements, and through into action, resorted to body-line

them the fortunes of the fishing tactics. are mere reiterations of argu.with Ulster, which is the one None of the crew of that collier "In the name of the Lord!" He cleaned bowled Cross for 15 ments put forward long before point that all political parties in had ever been "in sail and the shouted a Lowestoft skipper from the League reached its decision. the Free State have in common.number of seamen to-day who have the bridge of a drifter in which I As they cover no new ground, For there is not the slightest rapidly becoming fewer; thus it and it was another East Coast day's play were: Duala, three

memories of sailing ship days are had gone to the herring Sshing, they cannot possibly induce the chance of Ulster's joining volun- seems extraordinary that the most fisherman, the owner of a small broken ribs, a bung nose, 23,000 League members to revise their tarily with the Free State. This enthusiastic sailing shipman shrimp boat, that offered up the strands of hair and swollen corne; judgment. One of the points again raises not only the treaty have ever met is not what the lands. strangest prayer that. I have ever Croes, six front teeth, two black

man delights to call "an aid shell-heard. advanced, however, calls for com-issue but the whole question of back," or an salt," but a boy of I was sitting at his side one appetite. ment. This is the contention the Free State's position in the nineteen with whom I was once morning learning to mend neta As you can see, it'was a tame that, in view of the disorganised Commonwealth. Then there is shipmates in a small tramp steam while we waited for the wind to affair.

change in order to get out of the state of China, the Nine-Power the matter of the £5,000,000 the

Six years ago "Bob" had run harbour. There seemed little

THAT ELUSIVE. STUD. Treaty and the other pacts da Free State used to pay Britain away from his home in Fort Lin- chance of its doing so when sud-

Apropos of the new collar not apply, and therefore, Japan in respect to land annuities, pen-coln; Australia, to join the Grace denly the old man turned to me.

Harwar, a steel full rigged ship in i "Do you mind if I pray, Mias 7" which is said to need no back stud, has not been guilty of any sions and so forth, and the agree the Finnish fleet of Capt. Gustav he inquired, in much the same we are hoping that some day when breach. The point to be kept in ment with the Cosgrave Govern Erikson. He stayed in her for tone of a man inquiring if he our scientists get tired of invent- ing aeroplanes and wireless. mind is that the Nine-Powerment, which de Valera has re-three voyages and then ran away might be allowed to smoke.

just for fun."

"Not a bit," I replied trying not gadgets, they will evolve a collar Treaty took full cognisance of fused to recognize. Such a list

"Are you glad you did?" to appear surprised at the some-stud that either cannot be lost, or China's unsettled state; indeed,

would-be-formidable enough, asked, and there was no hesitation what unusual nature of the re-elec will not stay lost.. it was purposely designed to apart from internal troubles, for in his reply: "I've been trying to quest...

The present collar stud auffers' a politician with a solid majority you've been in big sailing ships fellow faid very solemnly, but even years, it may lie quiescent;

get back into sall ever since; once permit China the opportunity of which Mr. de Valera has not, this steam business is a poor game, without the slightest trace of em- and, lulled into security, you Then, looking out to sea, the old from wanderlust. For months, bringing order out of chaos by There are signs, however, that Life in sail is three parts hell, but barassment, "Oh Lord, I'm not a fancy you have tamed it, until one specifically guaranteeing her Mr. de Valera-though perhaps the other part makes it all worth whining sort of immunity from outside inter- not a majority of his followers-it."

a chap, always day when you wake up late your asking for favours, but if you fingers will fumble, and you drop ference. Japan was a signatory already are finding that the re-

When he left. Grace Harwar could see fit to arrange for this it. Bob got jobs in steam in various wind to change within the next to that Treaty, which contained sponsibilities of office are not

capacities from A.B. to fireman. hour or so I should be very mitch a solemn undertaking not to in-Thus Mr. de Valera is no longer that bunch, and had to go into a compatible with extremism..

"I broke my leg in the last of obliged. John Pounds." fringe China's territorial, ad- an uncompromising Republican. London hospital," he told

In less than an hour old John ministrative or political integri"I would sacrifice much for the "Then one day. I heard that then fine following wind. We return me, and I were off to the fishing with ty. By no stretching of the unity of Ireland," he is reported Archibald Russell (a four-masted ed some hours later with a good provisions of that instrument to have said. He has gone on barque) was in, so I sneaked out of five and twenty gallons to show can any of the signatories claim record, too, as anxious to esta- the hospital one night before my for our day's work. the right to interfere in the in- Britain. Probably the next few blish friendly relations with, ternal affairs of the country, for months will determine what that the simple reason that respect means. for China's integrity was not

made in any way conditional An Abbey and a Garden The pledge was unencumbered by

"ifs" or "buts." The fear conjur- ed up by Japan that China may

Let those. whose equanimity become a Communistic State, and remained unruffled by Britain's thus threaten the peace of the ard or by the havoc wrought departure from the gold stand- East, is not warranted by the to English wickets by the Aus- facts. This much, at least, can tralian cricket team prepare be said that no other country now to lose their stoicism. Lon- considers the danger to be such down, but the monuments in don Bridge may not be falling as to justify interference: Westminster Abbey may be Japan wants the world to believe evicted and the Royal Opera that it will only be by Japanese House, Covent. Garden, is about control of Manchuria that a buff-to sing its swan song. The Lon- er against the spread of Com-don County Council, laudably in- munism can be created and the tent on "improvements," is re- peace of the Far East guaran-highway in the path of which ported as designing a broad teed. But what has Russia to the famous opera house stands, say of Japan's encroachments? while eight centuries of states- Already she has made her dis-men, peers and princes have so pleasure known, and it is obvious filled the Abbey with their monu- that Japanese expansion in Man-removal of some of them is ments and memorials that the churia is likely to lead to war deemed imperative. So much rather than to peace, Incidental-sudden change in conservative ly, the Russian allegations of the old London is a bit too much to state of unrest and insecurity of ask the world to accept. The life on the Russo-Manchurian next thing it will hear is that border conflict sharply with the plumed-helmeted mounted Japan's claim that an

sentinels at Whitehall Palaco- peace and good order has been neys are picking up their "ait- are to disappear and that cock- established in Manchukuo. The ches."

era of

er.

When business is slow, young feller, that's the very time.

you ought to be up and lookin' busy,"

Scores at the end of the first

eyes, a thick car and loss of

treacherous thing has been wait- This is the opportunity the

ing for. It is expressly designed so that when it hits the floor it soon as your eyes turn that way, fies off into one direction, then, as it doubles back and disappears.

It might appear that it couldn't hide itself for long in an ordinary bedroom, but short of pulling the house down, which is expensive, you will never find it again. You can see one in the British Museum which belonged to an ANCIENT Roman, found twenty feet below the surface of the earth.

We were talking about this to a man at the club the other day and he said that he had solved the problem. He had produced a stud with a clip which fastened on to the shirt, so that it was ' per- manently a prisoner, and the next day he sent us one to try.

In the morning, cold and grey, we arose full of ideas for good deeds we were going to perform, but all our good resolutions went wrong when we could not find our collar stud. It was not on the dressing-table, nor under it. It was not under the bed. We took the carpet up. We removed the gas stove.

We searched so thoroughly that the next-door neighbour said that he nearly telephoned the police.

He told us this when we had given up all hope, and called on him to see if he could lend us a spare one. He could, and did

And when we went to put it in the neck of our shirt we discovered why we had not been able to find our own. It was because it was still fastened in the hole, as good as gold, where we had naturally never thought of looking for it. At all events, we felt that a stud like that was too good to be true. We didn't trust it. We'got a apade, dug a deep hole in the garden and buried it,