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THE HONGKONG ... · TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1935.

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NOTES OF THE DAY

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BRITAIN'S FIRST AIR ARMY

By RUSSELL STANNARD In the Daily Mail'

The Very Idea

GUSH AND MUSH

Being A Collection Fron

Kelly's Scrap Book.

Edited By Eddle

STUDEBAKER not define the phrase "power poli-T anniversary of the first con-aware that they wore taking part EDWARD Kelly believes that n

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The

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TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1935.

ANTI-PIRACY PATROLS

Fower politics or a collective pence system? Such are the alter- natives facing the world, according to Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's Minister for League of Nationa Affairs, in a striking speech in London recently. Mr. Eden week is the twenty-firat | carpenters; most of them were fully

centration camp of a British army in a great military experiment. If man should work more than thre ̧ of the air.

Visiting their tents at night days a week during the summei

months. A hard-hearted Editor, lik all Editors, maintains that journalists should work at least eight days a week. effected for the "Very Idea" Mr.

A compromise ha been. Kelly has consented to lightly dash off

tics," but he undoubtedly meant it to convey condemnation of the use of armed force, or a threat of arm- ed force, to gain a political ent regardless of the rights either of the case in dispute or of other peo- pic. It is on the moral side that power politics mainly differs from a collective peace system. For, as Air. Eden indiented, a collective peace system involves building up "an overwhelming potential force" as "the only sure defence against war." The only practical form in

which such a system exists to-day,

he went on, is the League of Na- tions. Membership of that body he regards as "a privilege each nation should be proud to assume," adding that if any nation fears for its security, then "its best course and thereby obtain the benefit of

In June 1914 The Daily Mail found some of these working out sent me to Salisbury Plain, where, new ideas or making model aero- remember that there in sight of Stonehenge, the scene planes,

was one ambitious private who was of ancient sacrifice, were the eighty aeroplanes, one hundred pilots, and busy with an instrument which he about three hundred mechanics, hoped would register am currents. who largely constituted, with the exception of a small number of machines attached to the Navy, our sole air force, then known as the Royal Flying Corps.

These pioneer men and machines, brought together for the first time. were in numbers grossly inferior to the German and French flying ser- vices.

who thought seriously about the The only people in this country

Here are some of the orders for the day which indicate that the Royal Flying Corps, however small in numbers, were at any rate well Prepared for war conditions so far as it was possible to anticipato them in those vague times:

Taking

from photographa machine of objects beneath.

Flying over bodies of troops to obtain a record of their numbers, mitting the Information by wire- less to headquarters.

a

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column of witticisms on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. While he in rchiceoperating on Tues days and Thursdays he expects hla countless supporters to assist in GT- ing un both Mr. Kelly and the "Verg Idea" column.

Mr. Kelly's iden is that anyone whe is foolish enough to give up his valuable time in order to sit down and sweat over something humorou for this column will be silly enough: to accept his offer to allow them to sign the chlt at the hotel as sufficient payment for their contribution.

"After all, it's not orery man who a Kelly," Mr. Kelly said yesterday. "Why, even Their Excellenetes the Oficer Administering the Govern ment, the Commander-in-Chief and the General meer Commanding have not had that

privilege

is to take its place in the League imminent possibility of air war description, and position, and trums- | gets the opportunity to drink with

collective security."

OBLICATIONS

fare, and indeed of any kind of war involving huge armies in world conflict, were a handful of so-called alarmints. The Daily Mail then, na now, repeatedly warned the nation that our unpreparedness for war was a menace to peace,

It

In his little tent we discussed the possibilities of war in the air. all seemed highly Imaginative and unreal. There had never been an happen when two fighting in the air. What would airmen began.

Searching the const for secret

convoys.

Speeding after a balloon that had been sent off and lost to alght a short while previously.

Reconnoitring the country. Searching for named objects. One day several machines went

Speaking of the General Officer Commanding reminds us (writes Mr. Kelly) of the story, probably apocryphal, told of Inspector Roylance, affectionately known to his many frlenda f "Ginger."

the

late

The story goes back to the good old days of Hongkong history,

One night, just as the car was about to move out of the station. a military officer rushed up and appealed to "Ginger" to hang around for a few seconds. "Can't be done. Orders is orders." "Sorry, sir," anid "Ginger,"

"But, hang it all, my deah man;'

Mr. Eden's thesis that there must

AR. most of Mr. Kelly's corres be an overwhelming potential force

pondence is thrown into the w.p.b. any

immediately upo

upon receipt Cowing to behind the law to restrain potential law-breaker is an axiom

Within two months of my visit

Mr. Kelly's fear of the underhand that bases every national police that little air force was in France

methods employed by his creditors to force and civilised government. and Belgium, flying over the ad-up and dropped dummy bombs.contributors should not use envelopes get in touch with him), Intending Every citizen has a wider obligation vanec bodies of the mightiest army This was the first mock air raid on

with the chops of prominent firms than merely to submit himself, and the world had over wen, and that | England. We thought it rather a printed on the covers, his own quartels to proper pro-nucleus of young British airmen joke.

in the same year; on cesses of how. If the and necessity was destinel to grow, even while it Christmas Eve a German bomb hit | ORDERS IS ORDERS should arise, lie is also charged with | fought, into incomparably the finest England! the duty of preventing others from air power in the world war. When seeking to be a law unto them-pence came it was reduced to a

I had first-hand experiences of selves. Thus it is the collectivity position of hopeless inferiority in of citizens and not merely their numbers.

our unpreparedness for air warfare at home during the first few delegates, the police and armed 1 was received with exceptional months following August 4, 1914, forces, who in the last resort are cordiality, because the newspaper when the bulk of that little band responsible for law and order.represented was the only powerfu!of pilots and machines Wha in Two questions inevitably arise out advocate the flying pioneers had in France. of Mr. Eden's call for a collective these days. In command was At an East Coast port where when the dollar was only ten- peace system:: Is the league pre- type of officer new to meat Eng-was stationed The question of the utility ofpared to listen to complaints and ish man of science in uniform,mander of a naval air station and pence, everybody had plenty of

rang up the com- the British naval anti-piracy to remedy any that are found to be tall, patrols in the Bias Bay region justified?

distinguished, unassuming, told him that there was news of everything, and "Ginger" was And if so, are the com- with the face of a thinker. He was Zeppelin on its way. was raised in a special article plainants ready to accept

The dan-brakesman on the Peak Trams. the thirty years of age.

Kern of attacks from airships were which appeared in yesterday's | League's decision if it goes against

not taken seriously by many people Telegraph setting forth the cost their preconceived ideas of what

What chance would those huge, un- of the service and its relative that decision ought to be? To both

wieldy gasbags have against our ineffectiveness under the exist-questions, the answer to-day is in

gunfire and our aeroplanes? ing scheme of organisation. The not mean that the world should sit the negative. This of course does

That commander was not of that main facts set out in the article back wringing its hands and refuse shouting at each other with pistols, opinion. Incidentally he was ex- were that during a period of to get on with the job of organis-rifles, machine-guns, or any weapon him up.. Agitatedly... would I it'll only be a couple of seconds.

tremely obliged to me for ringing seven years the patrols haveing a collective peace system. On that was handiest in those condi-please let him have any further Got some ladies coming along." cost well over £20,000; that in the contrary, it is time for re- tions?

"The intelligence or orders." over thirty piracies occurring doubled efforts, for ny Mr. Eden -

ganisation at this time during that time the pirates were justly remarks, the only sure way What would mappen when two limited that The Daily Mail fre able to land their loot and escape to prevent it.". But to provide opposing forces met in the air with quently had news of the movements who I am?"

#cores of machines involved? What of enemy, aircraft before our own formation would "They adopt?authorities could inform the various What reliance could corps comman-defences. The commander ders place on reports and photo-ceeded to tell me In bitter accents brought in by the airmen", graphs of enemy movements that he would not be able to do any

thing if the Zepp did arrive. Nobody knew.

It could spend all day over the |

When war began on the western town. His seaplanes were of not front there was not one neroplane the slightest use.... Fortunately, fitted with a machine-gun, although | the-- Zepp-did-not come until -six- we had been experimenting with mouths after." them. When our men met the

Later I was sent to another port away with whatever weapon they where there were bodies of tronps enemy, pilots and observers fired of greater strategic importance,

shotguns, and even hand grenades. phone at my bedside in an hotel, happened to have, including pistols, as well as warships. I had a tele- Likewise the Germans,

so that the London office could give This officer with whom I talked is me immediate warning of any newя now Major-General Sir Frederick of enemy aircraft. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff in I promised one of the military 1918, the following year Controller-offers in command there to give General of Civil Aviation, and sub-him warning during the night He married the daughter of Mr. Jan air attack, so that he could take sequently Governor of Bombay. should there be any possibility of Bonar Law

some precautions to protect his The rank and file were drawn men ..That was what our pre- from the skilled trades-motor paredness was like in the early engineers, chauffeurs, tinsmiths, months of the war.

capture; and that circumstances are such, both in regard to re- sistance by pirated vessels and in the matter of the vexed ques tion as to when action by patroll- ing warships is justified, as to throw serious doubt on the value

of

of keeping out of a great war is overwhelming potential force" on the side of peace is only one half of war prevention. The other haif

is unerring potential justice for every dispute, present and future that disturbs the harmony which should be normal in all human rela-

At the moment, when France is

of ker

the present service. The|tionships. main item. of cost incurred is that relating to fuel consump | SUPREME COURT OF TASTE tion, caused by the fact that the vessels engaged in the service celebrating the three-hundredth have to keep up a daily patrol anniversary over an eighty-mile area; and it Academy, it is not surprising that renowned is contended, with some show of the question should have been rais- reason, that this money mighted whether Britain would not do be put to better purpose if the well to establish an institution for patrol ships were to anchor in herself, which, like the Academy, some convenient bay, there to be

would elect into membership the ready for emergency calls when forty most eminent contemporary they happen to be sent out. The and judgment in matters of lan- writers, to act as arbilers of taste distance of Hongkong from the guage and literature. The idea of extreme limits of the piracy żone a national Academy in England would make It imprudent for is not, of course, new. A proposal warships assigned to anti-piracy for one in London was seriously work to remain moored in our considered in 1616, when Ben Jon- barbour, since the time factor son, the dramatist friend of Shake- would be important in the event

spuure, and Michael Drayton, the of an 8.0.S. being received from poet, were suggested at two of the original members. Kat the plan a point far removed from the came to nothing. In the eighteenth Colony. A thought which a- century academies were set up in turally suggests itself is that, Boston and Philadelphia. There even were these craft stationed i have also been acaulemies in other in the heart of the zone, the old | European countries, but, famous as problem would remain of what some of then became, none has nchieved anything like the celebrity action should be taken when a pirated ship is encountered. of the great French Academy, This, in view of past threats by celebrated. Opponents of

whose tercentenary is now being the pirates in control of such a

Academy are fond of insisting that vessel, is a ticklish question: yet many famuus writers, including it can hardly be doubted that Rousseau, Balzac and Moliere, the presence of warships within never succeeded in gaining election the zone must exercise I re- to it, deducing therefrom that it is straining effect on the pirates. 14 conservative and slow-moving A matter of more immediate body. But, as Matthew Arnold concern is the ban which is at keeping the French language pure long aga recognised, its services in present placed on the landing of and logical, largely through its armed parties on Chinese terri- great dietionary, and in setting up tory. The Chinese authorities standard of taste and good breed- have on many occasions express- |ing, have had an excellent effect ed their desire for co-operation upon the general body of French In anti-piracy work, and it does literature, preserving it from ex- seem that steps of real practical, travagance and vulgarity. Whet value could be taken if they her the individualistic Anglo-Saxon temperament, which has always would consent to an arrange ment under which pursuit of de- well suited to such an Academy's preferred genius to correctness, is camping pirates by British land-influence is still another matter. ing parties were permitted. The

very fact, which must be well

known to the pirates, that under employed and that a more effec- present conditions they need tve system of defence aboard fear no such action, of itself on- coasting vessels should be de- the commission of vised. In view of the facts dis- courages |piratical acts, On the question closed, it would appear desirable of the better use of the money that the whole question be once spent on fuel consumption, opin- again overhauled, with special lons may differ, but something reference to the value or other- can be said for the suggestions wise of the existing system of

........................ that a better type of guard be patrols.

news?

“Oh, you are too! You're just as important as any man in the world."

но

pro-

"Sorry, sir, but orders

"Dammit, man; don't you know

"No, sir."

Γ

"I'm the acting G.O.C.” "Can't help it, sir, even you're the acting G.O.D.," retort- ed "Ging,"

Pitiful plight of Edward Kelly. The well known philanderer, When he told hin Peak girl friend (the blonde one) that Peak girls weren't half as wide awake as the Kowloon once, she chased him over the Peak steepers.

+

A spot (can't get away from that word!) of verse:

Last night 1 held a little hand,

So dainty and so sweet;

I thought my heart would surely

breuk,

So wildly did it bent.

No other hand in all the world. Could greater solace bring Than that sweet hund I held last.

night

Four aces and a king.

S. O. 5. YOUR OLD MAN

Edward Kelly is going to get out his lil old morse flash lamp to-night and signal to the Mid Level cutie who's been'disturbing Star Ferry passengers o' nights lately with her dots and dashes to someone on the other side of the harbour. On Sunday night couple of score Star Ferry pas- sengers, with not a bit of romance in their souls, crowded the rails, and conjectured as they watched the flashing lamp.

"Might be sples," said one, "wonder what he's saying now."

"Probably the police or naval people carrying out some experl- ments," said another.

"D'you know, the Army has the whole of the Colony connected up with morse lamps in trouble," said a third.

Case

of

Edward Kelly, the brilliant tole- graphist, deciphered the message for them:

"S-08-W-E-E-TO-Fˆ ---- Y-O-U T-O — T-H«I«N«K — O·F — M-E

·D-E-A-R,"÷ho, read.".