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A MONSTER?

Hauptmann is to die; unless his ablo counsel, Mr. Edward Reilly succeeds in winning an appeal. Hauptmann has been found guilty by a jury of New Jersey men and women whose justice, throughout

FEBRUARY 15, 1985.

EMPIRE'S FIRST DEFENCE LINE

By ADMIRAL MARK KERR (DEPUTY-CHIEF OF AIR STAFF, 1918)

The Very Sden!

BOGG'S MILLIONS By Horatio (Diamond) Borg Horatio Bogg is immense--

ly interested in the manner in which the Rothermere:

It is in these danger arons that intestate, leaving his fortune the enemy submarines will work at the probable mercy of for the submarine has a very short

claimants. We

the history of the state, has been THE influence that aircraft will: Consequently, many of our ships swift and generally speaking, auro, have on the next war is not would be protected by escorts millions have been disposed We will never know what want on suelently understood by the people within a few hundred miles of of. The difference between in that jury room, while the of Great Britain. This misunder their starting and finishing ports Dracher Lay in a coll' below stairs standing is caused by bitter argu- and ports of call. Between those my late Lord's fortune and prisoner. waiting to hear his fate. The jury mente between extremists, each points they would separate and his is represented by seven debated for more than eleven hours putting forward the claims of their take different courace a long way booted they decided upon their favourite Aghting Service to be apart, and meci gain only digite only. Nevertheless, verdict, knowing that should they more important than the other two named places where they would Bogg is very much concern-

dio Forces.

And the escorts waiting to take ed over the thought of dying And Hauptmann guilty he must

That type of argument is value them through the danger, zone. in the electric chair. It was an un pleasant task for men and women. less. The great warriors of the The prosecution would have the world have always correctly catimat world bellova that Hauptmann was ed the value of the different parts a monster. The defence declares of the Force under their command, range of vision, and a very small scheming that it is convinced the condemned and it is only by doing this that chance of making a "bag" on the see him therefore on the eve man is innocent of any part in the the fighting Services of any country high sens. There the trade than of making a tremendous actual crime. It was the possesalon can be put in correct adjustment much greater menace to trade than of the ransom notes which was with each other with regard to is the submarine, on account of its decision. Lend him an ear, Hauptmann's undoing, and because strategic and tactical uses and greater vision, superior speed, folk. the evidence against him is cir- practical economy,

and larger radius of action. It is "An army marches on its in these zones near ports of depar You se us to-night in the cumstantial, we shall never know,

a confession from the stomach." without

turo, arrival, and call that air-brary of our 20-roomed country In tactics the outflanking of an craft will be most necessary.

residence, slumped in a roomy prisoner himself or some other con- nocted with the kidnapping of the army used to be for one purpose

Information received from the leather-upholstered chair before a comTM the enemy's Lindbergh baby, whether or not along to cut

captains of submarines who have huge escritoire, Itself of mahogany there has been a miscarriage of munications. With the coming of experienced bombing from the air smuggled in from British Hon- justice. That is the horror which aircraft a new and more powerful show that this form of attack was duras, in the good old bucaneering

to comthunications a jury must face. It is one thing to threat

has the most terrifying of any, and days. A prey to every emotion find man guilty when the facts become an established fact, both on that whan the submarines lying under the moon, with our haggard are clear. It is quite another to land and sea. condemn man who, by some It is quite obvious that if you on the surface to watch for their face buried in our hands, we A variety of papers and docu- convoy they retired. chance, however remote, may be in-destroyed all the munition factories prey saw air cacort with a ship or mentally conjure up the past.

chance that and the sources of food supply of nocent. And there is

This accounts for the fact that ments, some souled and others Hauptmann is the victim of an an enemy before a war started the during the whole of the Grant done up with red tape lato nost astounding net of circumstances: enemy could never begin the war. Was not a single merchant shly bundles, litter the green balze-

old days the barrier against that he has been caught in the web In

covered top of the desk, but for all the significance they have to the momentous decision wo агр about to tako, they may as well not agonized have existed, for our thoughts are far, far away.

What is it that our unscoing eyes seek beyond the circle of the light thrown by the massive candelabra swinging overhead? What is there to be found in the further recesses of the room, where the darkness, stabbed by log the occasional flickering of are, appears only the more pro- found? Who knows?

of another's spinning and that he such an attack was to be found on was sunk at sea which was escort- unmerit the land or on the son: forts, ed by flying-bonta, scaplanes, or will pay a penalty chanted money, fortifications, and armies in the lacroplanes. ed. Even though he

The submarine fears the aircraft knowing it to have been paid as ran-first ease; and ships of war in the

more than the surface-craft, be- som for a child already dead, ho lettor could hardly be considered to have But in modern times aircraft cause the V-shaped track which deserved death. And if he were in- can fly over the fortifications and the periscope makes directly it comes nocent, what torture could have been strike directly at the sources of above water is easily seen from the invented more ghastly than that supply. At sea the aircraft great-air, but cannot be seen from sur this trial must have inflicted. Woly extend the vision of the war-face craft: added to which it takes have said it before, and we repeat, ships, and also are the most eff-some minutes for a surface craft

escorts that the bearing of the man has not cient

to turn and get near the submarino protection been that of a gulity person, unless, against attack by enemy sub-to drop its depth charges, while it same number of of course, we believe with the prose-marines on the ships and convoys takes only the cution that he is indeed a monster, bringing supplies to their mother-seconds for aircraft to drop bombs and his wife, who must know the country, through danger areas alongside the submerged enemy. truth, another of the species.

An argument used by certain ncar the coaling ports on the routes, and within some 300 or 400 people against aircraft is that they STAGE AND SCREEN

miles of their home ports.

destroyed few submarines during It is no exaggeration to say that the war. The reason is obvious; with regard to future wars the air the submarines always refused to has become the first line of offence attack when they saw air escort. and defence. This fact does not With regard to Air Defence, Kim-

The

Recent political trends suggest that the old party labels stand badly in need of revision. The enge of the Conservatives in Britain is an outstanding exam- ple. For many years, members of this party were known as Unionists, a title which merely meant that they stood for the Union between Britain and Ire-

tlon land. With the creation of the Irish Free State, the namo

to

Anancial success.._And_the_conse.

for

The butler, after noiselessly. bringing in the tray, has as noise- lessly rotired, and the only sounds, apart from a falling log in the hearth, now heard, if at all in our is the night prosent condition, wind soughing through the yew tops along the drive.

A fitting night for ghosts and reverie! Our own ghosts are passing in melancholy procession before our mlod's eye, and as each→ spectre passes by, it points an accusing finger at us!

hapless mortale are as nothing to you who choose to trample their feelinge underfoot in your mad Repent. scramble for riches. Bogg, repent and atone before it

A new chapter in the relations of stage and screen has been opened in Britain, says the Christian Science Monitor. The London Film

in any way detract from the neces- borley, on the north-west coast of Company, which was responsible

aity of having an efficient Navy Australia, is very valuable, with for such successful pictures and Army to carry out their mest good harbours but no railways.

Private Life of Henry VIII" and "Catherine the Great, has the country.

necessary parts of the strategy of The air and naval base now at Singapore should be moved to Kim- taken over control of His Majesty's

With regard to the British Em- barley for its defence and for the Theatre, which was built by Sir pire, the cruisers, 50 in number, supply of air and sea escorts to our Herbert Tree, and in perhaps the most magnificently appointed of all which we are allowed and do not ships passing to and from the Far

For fifteen years, they all seem Here is a leason: In the Adria- to say, you have prospered as a London's theatree. It is the inten-yet nossens, are not sufficient for East.

the 80,000 miles of communica- of the Alm com

company to rodine tions which we have to protect.

produce

tie in 1917 the Leonardo da Vinci journalist beyond the bounds of plays there and then

Seventy was the number which was blown up close to my flagship decency and self-respect. The to pictures with identical costs. lost its significance. although, Perhaps for the first time in their Admiral of the Floot Lord Jellicoe Many other ships met the same fate, enormous fortune you have amass- necessary. This treachery was cary, because eď in the sum total of the agony strangely enough, it is still fre-histories, theatre and films here be, and others considered ill more people from the Austrian-Adriatic you, have imposed on readers of

But this fact makes it quently used and applied to Con- come avowed allies instead of essential that our Air service, and province, speaking perfect Italian, this column, and it has made of servatives generally. Even the rivals, both parties to the tran those of the Dominions, should be joined up as Italian seamen, The you a bloated capitalist in a world as unreal and false as it can bo term Conservative hardly hite anction having obvious interest in off the present-day concept of making each other an artistic and built up to a proper level, so that mixture of many faces and langu-

of your own creation. Talpans, with the assistance of aircraft ages at Singapore would render

Government-servants-and-other- members of that party, except,

То sum up: in the sense that it reflects the quence of this union may have far- Farriers and long-distance bomb similar treachery-easy.

renching effects. Some years ago ing and torpedo 'planes the alr

(1) The flight to Australia and party's ideal of "conservation of the expressionist drama owed Rome- can take over more of the trade the best", as distinct from an thing to the influence of the screen, routes and release cruisers for the back, followed by the Congo flight, exaggerated idealism which but on the whole it is the theatro work of protection farther from 34,000 miles altogether, with now engines not even "tuned up." shows would take little account of that has moulded the film. Many of the ports.

This is made possible by the in- the reliability and enormous in is too late. the most famous American screen realities. In actual fact, how stars gained their experience on creased ranges of aircraft in the crease in radius

The are in the hearth has died ever, under the influence of its the stage; of British film stars the last few years, which enables plane and its vital nsalatanco in younger members, the party same may be said with considerably vessels, collecting to make a con- time of war.

(2) It lies with the people of down, but the night wind has not nowadays leans distinctly more less qualification. Since the advent oy, to assemble farther from Innd to the Left than ever before. of the talkies the films have taken than was the case In the last war. this country to back the heads of censed to sough through the yew It is impossible for as, to have the Services and get a proper eye- Stay! There is now another Of the Labour Party, it can be over innumerable stage entertain- said that the viewpoint of its ments, often with the minimum of auflicient cruisers and small craft tem of defenen started at once.

fundamental technical alteration.

to convoy our numerous vessels of The above facts prove the Air to be more moderate section, which is But now the screen may begin to supply-even if we were allowed the first line of defence, and an still dominant, is more reminis exert a more powerful influence sufficient cruleere to do it as the essential Service to preserve our cent of the old radicalism of the over the stage through the opera expense would be too great for our communications and attack those

(Continued on next column) Liberals, than of out-and-out tions of so important a theatre as National Exchequer. Socialism, except insofar as His Majesty's. Doubtless the sort. trade union influence plays a of play to be presented there will vital part in the party's domestic bo chosen with some reference to its policies. It is this circumstance suitability for Alm treatment. The screen favours full-blooded and which has for all intents and exciting adventure stories, caring purposes wiped out the Liberal comparatively little for political Party s an effective political discussion and psychological' sub. unit. But however We may tleties. The opening ventures of designate given parties, the out the London Film Company suggest standing fact is that within re that this is the kind of entertain-

ment. this

proposes to group there has been a

policy is successful, other theatres present at His Majesty's. If the may imitate it, and the drama may once again rediscover the joy of plays of plot and incident.

cent years marked growth of a progressive spirit in politics, particularly in Britain and the United States, and, what is even more signi- ficant, that popular reaction to the change is all in its favour. happiness of Canadian citizens." In President Roosevelt's recent His plans to achieve this end in- speech to Congress, he outlined volved unemployment insurance, plans for a network of old age a revised old age pension plan, pensions, unemployment insur-insurance schemes against sick- ance schemes, the collective use ness and accident, new income of certain natural resources, and tax laws to correct the unequal the addition of more than three distribution of wealth, and a million men to the Federal pay-system of minimum wage and roll. Had auch a programme maximum hour laws for work- been advanced half a dozen years ers. Such a programme would ago, it would have sent shivers have been considered startlingly down the backs of most Ameri-radical ten years ago; to-day it cans. Coming when it did, how is not. What has happened, in ever, it was generally accepted the instances cited, is that the as a "middle of the road" ven-peoples' viewpoint has changed ture; many people even saw in under the impact of the blows it a swing to the Right. An- dealt by the depression. In other example can be taken from other words, old methods have Canada, where the Prime Minis been found unequal to the, now ter Mr. R. B. Bennett, recently situation, and there is a general called, in a campaign speech, for disposition to try new ones, even an end to the reckless exploits though, by former standarda, tion of human resources and the these might appear dangerously trafficking in the heath and experimental:

of the modern

"Can't we have just a few minutes mora? We're right at the most exciting part."

tops,

•

sound the deep full-throated bay-

atrain at their chains in their konnels by the Gate; and It gives.

ing of the bloodhounds as they

us on idea.

With the happy smile of a man who has now soon his way over an obstacle, of one who has had a heavy load 1fted from his con- science, we take up a massive quill, dip it into a massive ink- well, and with a single stroke dis pose of a massive fortune.

This shall be our atonement: We leave everything to the palatial Home for the Dogs, but not a sou to any movement designed for the comfort or happiness of suffering humanity.

That night we slept the sleep ofi the just.

of any potential enemy.

(3) We import three-fifths of our food, and if our communications. are entirely cut, lu a little over two months we starve.

(4) Some ⚫people suggest abolishing international air-bomb- Ing at sea. If this is done without making the abolition also of the submarine acondition: It would: place our Empiro and country at the, mercy of any foreign submarine Power...

(5) Whenover tho wonther Is good enough, for submarino attack It is also suitable for alreraft "at- tack.

(6) The defences of London and oher cities in which are our prin- cipal factorion and supplies, are short of men, searchlights, and anti- aircraft guns. Firms with Goverti« ment contracts, should be made to aupply a percentage of men ench year for training, on full pay, fo defence purposes. gleda Our Air defences should be come plated at once; they are a National Insurance.