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NOTES OF THE DAY

STILL THUNDERING

SKIPPER'S STORY OF ATLANTIC GALE

By CAPTAIN J. G. BISSET R.N.R., (RTD.) the Commander of the Cunard-White Star liner Ascania, which has just arrived in New York after rescuing in mid-Atlantic, with mountainous seas running, nine survivors from the sinking British steamer Usworth.

The Daily Mail, which has been waging, almost alone, a tireless campaign for British re-armament in the air, or at least building programme which will keep the country somewhere within reach of equality with her immediate neigh- bours, was given ammunition for the & renewed offensive when French

Government recently an- nounced plans for the modernisa- tion and development of the French Air Force. Will nothing. rouse this country to the realisation that she is being left in a position HE great liner is outward which would be irremediable in time of war? Cannot British leaders soe that this country alone fa unprepared to defend itself of all the states of Europe? Cannot the people realleo that we are the sheep in the wilderness which may, at any moment, encounter the wolves? Why, we have not even Before her lles three thousand got a shepherd." The Daily Matt miles of trackless ocean, the most did not say this. What the Daily tempestuous stretch of water on Mail had to say WAS less far-the face of the globe. fetched.

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By now the wind has risen to bound from England to the gale force and the waves are runn- United States. She has just passing to a height of twenty feet. ed Bishop Rock Lighthouse (Scilly Every now and again the liner puta Islands) her last link with homeber bows under, and ships the top. and its friendly beams are rapid. of a sea which sweeps along the ly sinking below the horizon on hordecke in a foaming cascade. starboard quarter.

The Very Idea!

What a Wreck a Wreck

Made of Us

"Kelly! To-day's Thursday,” said. the Editor,

"Bo are wel" (Un). "Very idea?" (XIlm). "Awi Heck!" (Un). [66XX7E MANAGED to es-

cape this job for the [past two Fridays, but he fair cornered us yesterday. Said we had to do it or take the sack.

Ever since New Year's Eve we've felt a wreck. (Have you ever been wreck- The officers seek what shelter ed, Uncle Eddie?). Yes, my 1 time. We they can behind the dodgers, for love, many

were a boatswain from the law of the sea says, "No keep- Ing a look-out behind glass," mean- ing the heavy plate-glass windows "boat," meaning a boat, and of the warm, dry wheel-house."swain," which is Oxford Or High up on the bridge, seventy | They must be out in the open, Penk accent for "pig". Pro- feet above the water, the chief and where they can see everything nounced "boozin' on the 8.8. third officers, who are keeping the ahead and astern, alow and aloft.

|Pinky-Poo, when we were board- four to eight watch, stand peering

The captain joins them. "Scas ed by pirates. It was not the into the darkness ahead. Occasion As a great strategical authority ally they, focus their binoculars on rising," he remarks. "We'll have first time we had been boarded has said: "If dwarfs, lambs, pugs the lights of near-by vessels, and at to reduce soon. Don't want to do by pirates. We stayed in a well- known Hotel in Shanghai once, or goldfish were to hurt themselves times the course is altered alightly any damage," upon ginnts, wolves, mastiffs or to give a passing ship a wider

The wind and sen continue to and anyway, the food was rotten, pike, we might admire their nudn-berth.

increase rapidly, and heavy squalls, and they kept our baggage. (Get city,

but we should certainly have

by blinding rain, on with the wreck, Uncle.) But So far the weather has been accompanied to lament their and fate.'

Well, the red blood of the skip. this is the aufeldal strategy which normal and the ship has been scream over the ship. At 10 R.m. she takes a parler. "Half speed.” the British Air Force will have to slipping along at twenty-three barks the captain, shaking the salt per was, running down the acup- pera. And the fight was going knots. westerly breeze, has sprung up and water out of his eyes. She drops very hot and strong, so we threw raised a choppy sea, which starts down to afteon knots and rides away our sword, and, diving over- easier, but at intervals, plunges her pitching easily. Every few

We

Now a smart south-

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pursue if our Ministers have their way. It would be defensible if Ministers had made any serious at- tempt to fulfill their repeated pro- mises to give us the Air Force that minutes a wave slaps against the sickeningly, and, as the propellers board, we swam through starving

need. They began making bow and sends a cloud of spraybreak surface, she shudders in sharks Afteen feet leng. the forecastle every rivet. those promises in November last whipping across

By noon the glass has fallen to year; but they have allowed thir-hend, teen mouths to pass and have done

The captain, who has been

28 inches, and the log-book entry precious little. On July 19 Mr. snatching a series of ent-naps dur- reads, "Whole gale with hurricane Haldwin stated that the Govern-

Ship ing the night in the chart-room,qualls. Mountainous sea, ment could not "delay any longer rouses himself wearily and takes pitching, lurching, and labouring measures which will in the coura

look at long

the barometer.

heavily, and shipping large volumes of water fore and aft." of the next few years bring our "Falling rapidly" ke mutters to There is something intriguing Alr Force to a level more closely himself, and struggling into his in the prospect of two such approaching that of our nearest greaternt he steps out on to the

neighbours." That looked like bridge. dynamic personalities ns Lord action. Snowden and Mr. Lloyd George. both past the allotted span of three score years and ten. join- ing hands in a great crusade for national

BRITAIN?

SOOTHING SYRUP

"You there, Mr. Rankin enlls into the darkness.

And if that's not poetry as good as that stuff Bork had in thin column yesterday, we won't write another thing. When we landed on the strand, there was not helping hand, to grab us from the ocean's hungry maw. But with feeling strictly moral, we grabbed - a' piece of Coral (you enn't keep this poetry up); she was the love- Honour Hest girl we ever saw. being satisfied we will now get on with the tale.

We awoke next day on the beach us. We immediately started to with the hot sun burning down on

search the beach for Flotsam and

The engines are now running at slow speed, which is just sufficient he to give the whip steerage way, The sens have risen to forty feet from crest to trough and seem to "Aye, aye, sir." answers the chief be rushing at her like mighty foam officer, and the captain gropes his created mountains. As in all But four months later. on No way towards the voice. "Black as heavy gales, there are isolated reconstruction. Both vember 28, he administered a dose the Inside of a cow," he grunts as (groups of three or four abnormal. Jetsam, two of the crew who might

of Hoothing syrup. While confen-he rungen alongside and plants his ly high waves at frequent intervals, have receded somewhat from sing that "there is ground for very feet widely apart.

went on to he political prominence in latter grave anxiety,

"Yes," replies the chief. “It's. times, the one largely from assert that "there is no immediate

menace confronting us or anyone very black, but perfectly clear," frensons of health and advancing in Europe at this momentno The effect of

At that moment a heavy age, and the other because of actual emergency."

保障

probably piled up by the squalls.

organisation occasioned by pirates. have escaped the general die- They were not to be found. There These reach a height of over was a piano, an axe, and a pair of Rixty feet, and advance with furi-sparagus tongs, but not a drop sprayusly curling crests, their steep, of toothpaste was washed up.

black fronts laced with a myriad

By the way, if any of our girl

the marked differences which this was to suggest that the effort crashes over the bridge and they streaks of foam.. One of these readers want to find an easy way have sprung up within the Dolutely necessary for this coun-duck for shelter below the wooden breaks on board, on the fare part of getting washing-up done when

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WOMEN WARRIORS

dodger.

of the bridge, and, crashing on the

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About this time we discovered a footprint on the beach. This con- vinced us that there was someone else on the island with a foot. Carefully folding up the footprint. we wrapped it up in the piano and staggered into the jungle.

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Interval of about eight months.

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By now we have a beard which makes the juriglo look like a tennis court. In the centre of the island was a spring. We were winding it up when a herd of hotaytle natives rowed up in their entaracis or sampans or saucepans or what- ever the hell you call the things, and landed on the beach,

Hastily pulling our beard around us, we curled up and looked like a cocoanut.

We were discovered by one of the cannibals who turned out to be friendly. However, we cacaped.

It was then that we discovered the owner of the footprint. She was a small girl, so we called her Saturday, Saturday being only a half day.

try's security could safely be post- Liberal Party. Despite his age, poned. And it is being postponed,

"Heavy swell getting up since we boat deck, reduces three massive it's the amaha day off, get wreck- however, the Welsh Wizard, still The Government's plan, which is passed the Bishops," says the chief. lifeboats to fragments in the ed.

being exceuted with Indefensible

twinkling of an eye. retains unbounded energy, and dilatoriness, will only at the best

"Aye," ___ _rejoins the captain.

falling rapidly too. It The ship is slowly brought round it-is-apparent that he is pre-give Great Britain 300 additional "Glass pared to throw himself heart machines two years hence. And looks like dirty weather to me. till the sea is dead ahead, and the

the present Home Defence force is Make sure that everything is well log-book entry reads, "Hove to." and soul into the plans which ho quite Inadequate. It musters no secured round the decks," and with

Towards evening the glass is known to have been prepar- more than 192 first-class machines, that he secks the warmth and shelatendies at 27.60 and the sea be comes confused. The captain pre ing for many months past. The the majority of which are of types ter of the chart-room again.

more antiquated, slower, -and less most that can be expected of efficient than those in foreign air At 8 a.m. the sun appears above dicts an imminent change.. Sure Lord Snowden is that he will fleets, We are being not only out-a low bank to the eastward a enough at sunset, after a terrific occasionally lend his support on numbered but also outclassed in the brassy orb, presaging wind, and, in squall, the wind lulls moment

arily, then suddenly flies round to air while Ministers are talking of plenty of it.

the north-west, and begins to blow Mr. Lloyd what they will do in the future. the platform to

The two officers for the eight to with renewed violence. But the George; for him the hurley-

twelve watch arrive on the bridge centre of the storm has been pass- burley of political warfare muat

clad in oilskins and sea-boota, od, and it is only a question of having been warhed of the weather. hours till it blows itself out. remain largely a thing of the

The rotiring officers hand over past. The point which now

Some may have wondered why various details such as the course, arises is whether the Liberal the Italian dictator, ia militarising speed, leeway, revolutions of the Throughout the night the glass ex-Premier can stage a political the country's boyhood and man-engines, compass error, barometer rines steadily and the hurricane come-back. Without question, hood, has not laid down the law for movements, and so on, and dive squalls lose their intensity. As the the country's woman-power. The down to their quarters for a well-nen gradually subsides, the engine his personality could still be Duce has not overlooked so obvious earned bath and breakfast.

(Continued on Page 10.) made to count in the political a development of his plans for put- life of the nation, provided the ting Italy on a war footing. In right note were struck. It re-any case, he has been reminded by a Parliamentary Commission that mains, therefore, to be seen has been looking into the whole whether his "New Deal" question of the country's defensive possesses the essential ingre-resources that there are millions of dients. In spite of all the good women ready to obey the call. The things which the National Gov-Commission proclaims that the war ernment has done, the fact re-of to-morrow must find all citizens, without distinction of age or sex, mains that it has left the un-ready for its "hard and complex employment problem largely un-necessitios." Decrees bringing the solved, and, what is more, that feminine section of the Italian some aspects of its tariff and populace within Signor Mussolini's marketing board policies have great scheme may therefore be ex- unquestionably caused a rise in pected to make their appearance Boon, First of all, however, the living costs amongst those least 800

Duta will have to calculate their able to bear any additional bur- effect on that other important phase den. The purely domestic policy of Fascist policy-the increase of of the Government has been the number and the size of familios largely a failure. It is this in the land. The militarivation of circumstance which has caused Italian women must not be effected a revival of hopes amongst the at the expense of their domestica- lenders of the Labour Party and suggested the possibility of a return of that party to power at inspired by a determination to the next election. There can be make courageous attack on the no disputing the point that there nation's internal problems. If is a big bulk of political opinion Mr. Lloyd George's "New Deal" amongst the electorate which fills the bill adequately, it might favours a happy mean between easily attract a big following. Conservatiam, even with its Inasmuch as it la based on a modern drift towards progres-non-party approach to the big sive ideas and the extreme of issues of the times, it might Socialism. In other days, the take the wind out of the So Liberal Party bridged the gaps cialists' Bails and, by reason of but the fact has to be faced that its vigorous character, also spell official Liberalism is for all in the doom of the present National tents and purposes a spent Government... Once the scherze force. There is this a big is made known in great detall, chance for a new movement con- It will be possible to adressite ceived on progressive lines and real worth

tion.

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what happened to your storasch-the last time

the company's, expense account.

It was strange how we were rescued. Years and years · went by, and no sign of a bail. We wore standing one day of the beach with our thirty-five children, when we alghled a ship on the borizon. KVt were rescued. Hurray!

ля

But the worst was to come. Our rescue ship, we discovared

coming to Hongkong. We tried to jump overboard again and return to our Saturday, but the Editor insisted that it was Thurs- day, and, beeldes Chinese New Year is only a week or so of, and what we're going to do about next, month's pay has got us puzzled ? besides, it's nix o'clock, so we reckon wo've done a falṛ day's work, which reminds us that-

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