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BIG SHIPS

NOTES OF THE DAY

WISE AND UNWISE EATING

The appointment of an Advisory | Committee on Det, which will endeavour to produce order out of the present chaos of opinion on

same.

JUNE 26, 1935.

PLAY STRAIGHT WITH GERMANY

By VISCOUNT SNOWDEN

war.

now.

Ота

Allied

The Very Idea!

SAILORS DON'T CARE

By Admiral Edward Kelly; Half-Nelson

"YO, HO, HO, and a bottle of Black and White whisky", he whim- pered, hoping that Dodwell's taipan would see this frea advertisement.

TAUROPE is drifting into war., have kept "the door open for her questions of nutrition, will be The international policies return" without giving any assur

ance of different treatment if she generally welcomed. There never which led to the outbreak of war was a time when the British people in 1914 are being actively pursued | did return.

by the European nations were treated to so much free coun-

the contrary, the sel on what they ought to eat, but The result must inovitably be the

Powers have lost no opportunity much of it is conflicting and con-

In the name of peace the nations of putting Germany in the wrong tradictory, where it is not too arc preparing for

Arma and Inciting public opinion against

With all these Chinese technical for general comprehen- menta are being increased beyond her.

In the White Paper, Germany warships swarming into slon, and the conclusion has been all precodent. Military agreements justified that the experts do not, and pacts of "mutual assistance" alone was singled out as guilty of Hongkong, and all sorts of know their own minds. The first are being made which are a pro-iñereasing her armaments. There rumours flying around, we

was no mention of Italy's "million bayonets,"

of

Russia's think it's about time we enormous armies, nor of the vast broke the news that we were military expenditure of France and once an Admiral ourself. her anteilite States,

vocation of war.

nor

The League of Nations, which essential of a real advance on this sector of the health front is co-was to establish collective security ordination of knowledge. The and bring peace appears to have public lave become food-conscious: become the servile instrument of

At Stress Britain's acquiescence An old sea dog we were. the Big Powers for the enforce- they are anxious to give the "inner ment of their will.

in the French demand for the ar-We started our sea career at man" what may be called a fair The Kellogg Pact, by which the raignment of Germany before the deal; but they do not know how to nations renounced war na an in- League Council was further evid-the age of 17, being. then go about it: The Committee will strument of national polley, has ence of the "complete agreement of known as a cadet. A cadette is

or relegated to the Powers on the various matters a young cad. have a great opportunity to sound been forgotten

limbo.

discussed"!

Our first ship was called the the evangel of rational feeding, A disarmament Conference has

The vote of censure on Germany wnick must be at least as important been' in existence for over three passed by the League Council wil Zamboanga Maid, because it had

a coppered bottom. to human well-being as plentitude | years and all it has done is to prove surely take its place in history

Shortly afterwards we became of sunshine and fresh air. The that the nations have no intention the greatest act of unctuous hypo-

a lieutenant, all the other ten- experts who are to advise will, it of reducing their armaments or of erisy in diplomatic history.

Loped, achieve something like relying upon the collective security

Though her policles might be de-ants beating it and leaving us to her face the landlord. After that unanimity, otherwise we shall be promised in the Covenant of the plored as giving excuses to

ancient enemies, Germany, by defy- we weren't very keen on land- nu further forward. Equally im-Lengue.

Since the end of the war the ing the Treaty of Versailles, has lords, so we took to the sea, the portant is it that they should state

no moral obligation. A only sealords in those days be- their conclusions in simple tangu- victorious Powers have not adopt-broken

Rigned in the face ofing the kind of sharks that swim. age, in the terms of daily life, of ed nay change in their internation-Trenty

have binding Our skill at Crown and Anchor the larder and the cooking stove, al polley. The old, bad mistakes | buyonets can

quality in it, moral or juridical. кооп earned The housewife is not fascinated by are still being made.

Un promotion and The Germans had no part in within a few weeks they had. made vitamins as such, nor by calories

framing it, and signed it anderus captain. We captained the Zam- protest and because they were told bonnga Maid's Crown and Anchor that if they did not do ao the team so efficiently that wo French would march into Germany covered that we had won the entire in three days.

feet in less than two years.

frut

dia-

We thereupon promoted ourself to Admiral, skipping the position of Commodore because we didn't like the name.

By this time we were cover- ed with so much braid that. we were able to retire shortly before our navy rebelled. So we started a haberdashery store, selling all our braid within a very short time to the Hongkong Volunteer Naval Reservists.

money

that We

Kight Russian Fairy Taien Nos. 1, 2 and 4 Landon Symphony Orch. of proud patriotism that hailed Ition to diet. But first the Com- Allies kept her in a postion ofcreased their armaments, and are idiosyncrasies, which we kept in a

(Lindo!).

D.1811

Non. 3 and 5. D-1812 Right Russian Fairy Tales Now. 6. 7 and 8.

The Musical Box (Lindel) D-1928 "Mefisto" Waltz No. 1 Pris 1 and 2,

London Symphony Orchestra. Loka Symphony Orchestra.

CONNOISSEUR RECORDS DB-4427-29 Quartetto di Roma in E Minor (Verdi) Album 209 Concerto in A minor (Schumann) Piano Solo Album 210 Quartet in C minor (Faure) Album 211 Quartet in D major (Borodin) Album 212 Symphony No. 1 Szostakowiez

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When

the launching of the Queen Mary has, in these circles, become a grunt of scepticism. Some people appear to have suddenly discovered that big ships are undesirable, because they are Alfred Cortot, costly and possibly uneconomic, and that three lesser vessels are to be preferred to one large one Leopold Stokowski Philadelphin. Orchestra. any day. On the economic side,

it is much too early to pronounce classes, is now anything from four ornaments Conference prepared to British taxpayer is paying is. 6 rebellion; We captured the crui

If Britain had had a spokesman internal affairs of other countries. of courage at

that gathering he would have reminded Litvinolf of Russia's repudiations and inter- ferences, and of the fact that the

We hate the navy so much, in fact, that ever since the Chinese hours on the Praya, poking our Warships arrived, we have spent tongue out at them.

With the close of the war a great and other units of food value. opportunity came for the pacifica- Those units must be translated into tion of Europe. The millions who promised the nouns of the market-place, the fought and died were grocery store, or the fish shop. Sir this. What will history have to Frank Smith, secretary of the De-relats of the blunders which have partment

of Scientific and In denied this to the dead and the dustrial Reservel, referred recently living and are rausing the tide of

The Versailles Tronty was itself to the steady improvement in panic to rise to-day?

A series of vindictive "Treaties"a flagrant breach of obligations the national health, and to the In- dividual's increased expectation of wore inngsed upon the vanquished | accepted by the Allied Powers, on fe. He added that this had come which were seen at the time to be the strength of which Germany about, not by taking better care of full of the seeds of war, and which surrendered. The armistice terms It is not without interest to [irsdives,

through better left the Continental victors fright-were based on Wilson's fourteen M. Ivogon. Hongkong na

a shipping port hygiene, better water supplies, and ened and insecure, knowing that points. Almost all these pledges M. Ivngon.

greater skill in surgery. How wrongs imposed by force will be were repudiated.

From the date of the Treaty the Sir Harry Lauder, that coincident with the record-

many more years may be added to endured by the sufferers only so Sir Harry Lauder.breaking trans-Atlantic trips of the average duration of life when long as they are powerless to right Powers have pursued a policy at variance with an important condi- Sir Harry Lauder. DL-4027 Mr. John Mackay

tion of the Treaty, which was that I've Something in the battle for the morning.Sir Hoerg Lauder the giant French liner Norman-we begin in earnest to take care of them.

on the day after to-mororw, is a

We made enough Instead of using the post-war Germany's disarmament should be a preliminary to general disarma- C-2651 Medley of Popular Classics Prts., 1 and 2. Organ Solo S. Gustard. die there should have arisen in ourselves, as we always intend to do .. M. Hambourg. certain quarters an outburst of fascinating subject of speculation.

way to retire in comfort. ment. C-2645 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14. Piano Solo

criticism against this and all And since many graves are prover-years to right the wrongs of the

Since then the Continental were, in fact, a self-made man, like an Edward Kelly. such super-ships as may yet takeially dug with teeth, we might do Treaty of Versailles, and to bring

worse than begin our programme Germany as quickly as possible Powers who gave that undertaking taipan or the sea. Seemingly, the chorus of self-reform with greater atten into the family of nations, the to disarm have continuously in Like these people we had our little

small bowl in the dining-room. making military arrangements mittee appointed by the Minister of humiliating inferiority

great nation could be expected to with the

Shortly after we retired we at- Health must let us see the light.

encircling purpose of

tempted to buy the naval canteen endure.

Germany. At last the national pride and

In the intrigues Russia plays from Commodore Elliot, but he re- POCKET-MONEY spirit found expression in a new her sluister game. It was a sight jected our application. Since then

lender. The youth of the nation for the gods to ace

Litvinoff we have become a Pacifist, and can A week or two ago Mr. St. John responded with enthusiasm. Ervine started a discussion on the this happened the Allies were tou unctuously posing as the defender never stand the mention of war.

of treaty obligations and condemn- question of children's pocket-blind to see the implication of this, ing outside interference with the

er too bitter in their anti-German? money, whether it is markedly larger than it was, say, a genera- bias to acknowledge it and realise its possible consequences. They tion ago. From that discussion he

sre wholly responsible for Hitler has discovered That the pocket- money given to children, especially is..

The Germans attended the Dis of the working and lower-middle

to twelve times as large na it was in his childhood. From this he infers the falsity of propagandists assertions that the mass of the people are poor and becoming poorer. That side of the question might be debate the elitical without overcoming chief maritime honours will

prejudices of the antagonists of naturally go to the nation that capitalism. But what is to many has the best of them all. Also, thoughtful people a much more interesting and practical question it is inevitable and justifiables whether the child with a lot of that a country with the seafar-pocket-money is happier than the Mr. ing and shipbuilding traditions child with little or

Ervine has no doubt. He favours of Great Britain should not be little money. There is one very content with a back seat in this important moral consideration. intensive competition. There is, The 'chikt of to-day, given a large amount of pocket-money, buys its therefore, no reason whatever to entertainments, whereas a child of apologise for the Queen Mary.forty years agò, given very little Her owners believe that she will money, made its entertainment. be able to pay her way, and there The child of to-day is becoming dangerously dependent on outside can be little doubt that she will sources of amusement. As Mr. abundantly justify her existence, Ervine says, a boy who can get a Meanwhile, it may be noted that shillingsworth of fun out

penny

have a great on her trips both ways across the advantage over one who can only Atlantic the Normandie's fine get a pennyworth of fun out of a

shilling. performances were achieved with something to spare. How. ever, the Queen Mary will be still TO-DAY'S MOTORING TIP

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disarm to the last man and the last machine-gun" if other nations would do the same.

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more powerful, and it may there- fore be that the palm for speed may not be very long in French keeping. That, however, re- mains to be seen. One thing is certain, namely, that the Nor- mandie's feats have added piquancy to the expected early appearance on the high seas of Britain's mammoth liner, whose efforts to create a fresh record will be followed by Britons everywhere with the keenest possible interest. Economists and accountants mily argue about the arithmetic of the case to their heart's content, but he must be a poor-spirited Briton

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of a

Years ago no motorist would. ever think of going off for a run without carrying innumerable spare parts. This is not neces sury to-day, since the various unite and components are so reliable that it in seldom a spare one is required on the road. A spare wheel is carried, of course, to save mending punctures en route, but this is about all the average owner-

driver ever takes.

There are a few things, however, which should be packed. One is a first-class electric torch. If an adjustment has to be made after dark or if anything goes with the electrical system a good light is essential.

wrong

Two additions to the tool kit are also invaluable at times. One la a noon plug tester with which a in a few moments. The other is misfiring cylinder can be located

one or two spare plugs.

Where the devil were we? Oh, yes, our career.

Well do we remember our first

in the £ of income tax on Itussin'ssers Glasling and Pingpong and sending all the sailors ashore, re- The Leagon's censure and the placed them with sailor's sweet- They accepted a proposal which British Prime Minister's recent arts. These sweethearts consist

ed chiefly of beautiful women who would give them a large measure attack on Germany in his own did not turn up their noses at the of quality in five years. When broadsheet make cordial negotinoid saying "War in war". this was altered to eight years and tions difficult indeed. What mun

hedged about by conditions which or nation could be kicked into co-devil of a row when we put them Naturally the sailors kicked up a amounted in effect to indefinite operation?

ashore and before long they had I began by saying that Europe the whole navy out after us. postponement of equality, Germany took the self-respecting course of is drifting into war.

withdrawing from the conference of international polley can avert morals

A change In order to preserve the

and resigning from the League of it. Nations. Her action was endorsed by a practically unanimous vote of the Gerinan people,

This action was hypocritically. deplored by the Great Powers, who i

Britain holds the key to peace. She can lead the nations in the (Continued on Page 10).

"You surely remember Madrid. That's where we run into

the Watsons and had that; onion soup.”.

Editor's note: Shouldn't that be morale?

Eddie's note: You don't know us.

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... morals of our brave-hearted girls we issued a gin-bell order. One gin-sling at one bell, two gin- slinga at two bells, and so on up to eight bells.

It wasn't long, however, before the girls became discontented, They sent a deputation to us from the crews' quarters and complained that there weren't enough men to go around,

But it wasn't for nothing that we had become an Admiral, and we won the ringleaders over to our side by promising to tattoo their names on our chest the very first time we touched port. As we never drink port, our constitution standing nothing but rum, we thought we were pretty safe in making this promise.

In celebration of our victory over the malcontents, we gave an order for sixteen bells instead of eight.

This was a most unfortunate thing, because the extra empty gin our wake, bottles left a trail in which was speedily picked up by Lour wrathful pursuers.

Our girls were all for stopping the ship when they saw the smoke on the horizon, but we put them off that idea by telling them that the pursuing warships were manned by our Hongkong girl friends. Fear- ing that they would have to share us with andther couple of hundred females, our rebels hastily set all sall and as the wind whiffled' through the stays (we are talking about the ship now, not the girls). we sped merrily on our way.

Then came the storm. Whim- pering alightly, Mabel crept into. (Continued on.Page 11.).