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15 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

A MONSTER?

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escorts

EMPIRE'S FIRST DEFENCE LINE

The Very Ja

TO

Hauptmann Is to dio; unless his

BOGG'S MILLI ablo counsel, Mr. Edward Reilly

By Horatio (Diamond) succeeds in winning an appeal.

By ADMIRAL MARK KERR

Horatio Bogg is in Hauptmann has been found guilty by a jury of Now Jersey men and

(DEPUTY-CHIEF OF AIR STAFF, 1918) ly interested in the women whose Justice, throughout

in which the Rothi the history of the stato, has been THE Influence that aircraft will Consequently, many of our ships swift and, generally speaking, sure. have on the next war is not would be protected by escorte millions have been di Wa

will

never

know what went on sumciently understood by the people within a few hundred miles of of. The difference be in that jury room of Great Britain. This misunder their starting and finishing ports

sell below stairs standing is caused by bitter argu- and ports of call. Between these my late Lord's fortun prisoner

extremists, each points they would separate and his is represented by waiting to hear his fato. The jury menta between debated for more than cloven hours putting forward the claims of their tako different courses a long way bafore, they decided upon their favourite fighting Service to be apart, and meet again only at digits only. Neverth verdict, knowing that should they more important than the other two named places where they would Bogg is very much con find Hauptmann gullty he must die Forces.

find the escorts waiting to tako In the electric chair. It was an un- That type of argument is valuo- them through the danger zone. ed over the thought of pleasant task for men and women. less. The great warriors of the

It is in these danger areas that intestate, leaving his for The prosecution would have the world have always correctly estimat, the enemy submarines will work at the probable mercy world bellove that Hauptmann was ed the value of the different parts for the submarine has a very short 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 a monster. The defence declares of the Force under their command, range of vision, and a very small scheming claimants. man is innocent of any part in the the fighting Services of any country high seas. There the cruiaur is a actual crime. It was the porsession can be put in correct adjustment much greater menace to trade than of making a tremend of the ransom notes, which was with each other with regard to is the submarine, on account of its decision. Lond him an Hauptmann's undoing, and because strategic and tactien! USCB and

greater vision, superior speed, folk. the evidence against him is cir-practical economy.

(and larger radius of action. It is "An cumstantial, we shall never know,

army

Του marchies on its in these zonos near ports of depar

see us to-night in without a confession from the stomach."

tare, arrival, and call that air-library of our 20-roomed coul prisoner himself or some other con-

In tactics the outfianking of an craft will be most necessary.

residence, slumped in a nected with the kidnapping of the army used to be for one purpose

Information received from the loather upholstered chair befor Lindbergh baby, whether or not alone to cut the enemy's com- there has been a miscarriage of munications. With the coming of captains of submarines who have huge oscritoire, itself of mahog justice. That is the horror which aireraft a new and more powerful experienced bombing from the air smuggled in from British H show that this form of attack was duras, in the good old bucaneorf jury must face. It is one thing to threat to communications bas find a man guilty when the facts become an established fact, both on that when the submarines lying under the moon, with our hagga the most terrifying of any, and days. A prey to every emoti are clear. It is quite another to land and sea.

on the surface to watch for their face buried in our hands, condemn a man who, by some

It is quite obvious that if you prey saw air escort with a ship or mentally, conjure up the past, chance, however remote, may be in-destroyed all the munition factories convoy they retired.

A variety of papers and dock nocent. And there is a chance that and the sources of food supply of

This accounts for the fact that mente, some sealed and other Hinuptmann is the victim of an an enemy before war started the astounding set of circumstances: enemy could never begin the war. Wer not a single merchant ship bundles, litter the green balze during the whole of the Great done up with red tape into ned that

ho has been caught in the web In old days the barrier against of another's spinning and that be auch an attack was to be found on was sunk at sea which was escort-covered top of the desk, but fo

the sea: will pay a penalty entirely unmerit- the land or on

forts, ed by flying-boats, scaplanes, or all the significance they have to the momentous decision we are ed. Even though he accepted money, fortifications, and armies in the aeroplanes. knowing it to have been paid as ran- first case; and ships of war in the The submarine fears the aircraft about to take, they may as well not agonized som for a child already dead, he latter.

more than the surface-craft, bo have existed, for our could hardly be considered to have But in modern times aircraft cause the V-shaped track which thoughts are far, far away.

What is it that our unseoing 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 eyes seek beyond the circle of the massive invented more ghastly than that supply. At sen the aircraft great-air, but cannot be seen from sur- light thrown by the this trial must have inflicted. We ly extend the vision of the war- face craft; added to which it takes candelabra swinging overhead? have said it before, and we repeat, ships, and also are the most em- somo minutes for a surface craft What is there to be found in the that the bearing of the man has not clent

for protection to turn and get near the submarine further reccsses of the room, been that of a guilty person, unless, against attack by enemy sub- to drop its depth charges, while it where the darkness, stabbed by of course, wo belleve with the prose marines on the ships and convoys takes only the same number of the occasional flickering of a log cution that he is indeed a monster, bringing supplies to their mother-seconds for aircraft to drop bombs fire, appears only, the more pro- and his wife, who must know the country, through danger areas alongside the submerged enemy: found? Who knows? truth, another of the species.

near the coaling ports on the An argument used by certain 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; A new chapter in the relations of with regard to future wars the air the submarines always refused to stage and screen has been opened has become the first line of offence attack when they saw air escort. in Britain. says the Christian and defence. This fact does not With regard to Air Defence, Kim- Science Monitor, The London Film in any way detract from the neces-berley, 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 as

A Atting night for ghosts and "The Private Life of Henry VIII" and Army to carry out their most good harbours but no railways.

own ghosts are and

has necessary parts of the strategy of The air and naval base now at reverie! Our "Catherine the Great," ple.

the country.

Singapore should be moved to Kim-passing in melancholy procession over control of His Majesty's

With regard to the British Em-berley for its defence and for the before our mind's eyo, and as each of this party were known as Unionists, a title which merely Herbert Tree, and is perhaps the phe, the cruisers, 50 in number, supply of air and sea escorts to our spectre passes by, it points meant that they stood for the most magnificently appointed of all which we are allowed and do not ships passing to and from the Far accusing finger at us!

For fifteen years, they all seem Union between Britain and Ire- London's theatres. It Is the inten-yet possess, are not sufficient for East.

the 80,000 miles of communica Here is a lesson: In the Adria- to say, you have prospered as a land. With the creation of the tion of the film company to produce tions which we have to protect tic in 1917 the Leonardo da Vinél journalist beyond the bounds of Irish Free State, the

plays there and then make them in-

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 Fleet Lord Jellicoe Many other ships met the same fate. enormous fortune you have amuse- strangely enough, it is still fre-histories, theatre and films here be and ethers considered necessary. This treachery was easy, because ed is the sum total of the agony quently used and applied to Con- come avowed allies instead of But this fact makes it still more people from the Austrian-Adriatic you have imposed on readers of servatives generally. Even the rivals, both parties to the tran-essential that our Air service, and province, speaking perfect Italian, this column, and it has made of term Conservative hardly hits saction having obvious interest in those of the Dominions, should be joined up as Italian scaraon. The you a bloated capitalist in a world off the present-day concept of making each other-an-artistio and built un to a proper level, so that mixture of many faces and langung unreal and false, as it can be macinate and the cone with the assistance of aircraft ages at Singapore would render of your own creation. Taipans, members of that party, except quence of this union may have far- carriers and long-distance bomb- similar treachery easy. in the sense that it reflects the reaching effects. Some years agoing and torpedo planes the alr party's ideal of "conservation of the best", as distinct from an exaggerated idealism which would take little account of realities. In actual fact, how ever, under the influence of its younger members, the party nowadays leans distinctly more to the Left than ever before. Of the Labour Party, it can be said that the viewpoint of its more moderate section, which is it now. the screen may begin to supply-even if we were allowed the Arat line of defence, and aning of the bloodhounds as they still dominant, is more at their cent of the old radicalism of the over the stage through the opera Liberals, than of out-and-out tions of so important a theatre as 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 be chosen with some reference to its policies. It is this circumstance suitability for film treatment. The which has for all intents and screen favours full-blooded and adventure storlen, caring purposes wiped out the Liberal Party as an effective political discussion and psychological sub- little for political paratively unit. But however we may tloties. 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. cent years

ment there has been a

to proposes group marked growth of a progressive present at His Majesty's. If the apirit in politics, particularly in may imitate it, and the drama may policy is successful, other theatres Britain and the United States, once again rediscover the joy of and, what is even more signi- plays of plot and incident. ficant, that popular reaction to

CHANGETH Recent political trends suggest that the old party labels stand badly in need of revision. The of the Conservatives in Britain is an outstanding exam-

Case

For many years, members tatre,, which was built by Sir:

narne

aum up:

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

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Government servants and other hapless mortale aro as nothing to you who choose to trample their feelings underfoot in your mad scramble for riches.

Repent,

is too late.

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the expressionlat drama owed some- can take over more of the trade (1) The flight to Australia and thing to the influence of the screen, routes and release cruisers for the back, followed by the Congo flight, but on the whole it is the theatre work of protection farther from 34,000 miles altogether, with new engines not even "tuned up," shows that has moulded the film. Many of the ports:

This is made possible by the in-the reliability and enormous in- Bogg, repent and atone before it the most famous American screen

creased ranges of aircraft in the crease in radius of the modern stars gained their experience on the stage; of British film stars the last few years, which enables plane and its vital assistance in The fire in the hearth has died same may be said with considerably vessels, collecting to make a con- time of war. less qualification. Since the advent voy, to assemble farther from Innd (2). It lies with the people of down, but the night wind has not of the talkies the Alms have taken than was the case in the last war. this country to back the heads of It is impossible for as to have the Services and get a proper 858- over innumerable stage entertain. ments, often with the minimum of sufficient cruisers and small craft tem of defence started at once. fundamental technical alteration, to convoy our numerous vessels of The above facts prove the Air to be

this

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 againat 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 such 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 over, 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 new ter, Mr. R. B. Bennett, recently situation, and there is a general called, in a campaign speech, for disposition to try new ones, oven

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we have just a few minutes, more? We're right at the.

most exciting,

ceased to sough through the yew. tops. 1

Stay! There le now another sound-the deep full-throated bay-

us an idea.

kennels by the Gato; and it gives With the happy smile of a man who has now seen, his way over an obstacle, of one who has had a heavy load lifted from his con- science, we take up a massive quill, dip it into a massive ink- well, and with a aloglo stroke dir- poan of a massive fortune.

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

That night we slept the sleep of the just.

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of any potential enemy.

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

(4) Some people · autrest abolishing International · air-bomb- ing at sea. If this is done without making, the abolition also, of the aubmarine a condition it would. | place our Empire and country at the mercy of any foreign submarine Power.

(5). Whenever the weather is good enough for submarino attack, it is also suitable for aircraft at- tack

(6) The defences of London and oher cities in which are our prines cipal factories and supplies, are short of men, searchlights, and anti- aircraft guns. Firnis with Govern- ment contracts should be made to supply a percentage of men each year for training, on full pay, for defence purposes.

Our Air defences should be com pleted at once; they and a National Insurance