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tion. He takes the life of some parson in authority. The pity of It is that, frequently, the reaction is more disastrous than anything the oppressed people have over contemplated or imagined. The wages of an assassin' must be dreadful indeed when his act re- sults in the deaths of thousands of innocents. Surely the warning has been plainly written across the pages of modern history. The

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COME back from my three days At Spithead ninety-six of our Mr.

in Rodney and Nelson and their destroyers were five years over picket boats, after hours of talk aroundkap melak with great naval officers, pattyAt the end of 1938 these war- officers and bluejackets, and this is ships will all be due for replace.

sim at the whole nation and the 12 battleships and battle whole Empire, which does not sus cruisers; 27 cruisers; 96 des- post that tragic truth about the troyers; 20 sul Royal Navy.

naval

I take my motto from the gold noble of Edward IV., which bears It is on this rotten foundation the legend -~-

that the Anglo-German

But the Four things our Noble showeth agreement is based.

German ships will all be new, and unto me; King Ship, and Sword, and nearly all our ships will be old, NE

Power of the Sea After every war in our history we have let the Navy decay. It repeated itself during the post-war period of seventeen years.

This is not the worst. It will] take years to replace the old ships. They can't be built in a year, or two years, or three years, even if

man who fired the fatal shots at /is an old English custom. History we floated a huge national loan to

pay for them, as we ought to do. Sarajevo In 1914 bears a part of

Our old boast was this: "We've the responsibility for the catas The Navy to-day in out of date, got the ships, we've got the men, trophe which all but demolished It will soon be an unsure shield, we've got the money too." To-day Europe's civilisation and most cer- Its ships and its men have been it runs: "We haven't got the tainly set back for a century the crippled by parsimony masquerad-ships, we haven't got the men and

ing as disarmament."

we haven't got the money.". A Prices HK$50 to $180.progress of the combatants.

When Stead wrote "The Truth Europe knows this. Spain knows mad-man killed a King of Jugo- About the Navy Jacky Fisher it. If you doubt mb, digest the Slavia, and Europe trembled on loaded his guns. Jacky made the appalling story of Captain Kane, the brink

of international Grand Fleet and chose Jellicoo to my Ulster follow-country man, as A tribesman slew command it. It just saved us-ho has told it in the Daily Express. mobilisation. an Italian native soldier, and the only just. In Rosebery's words, Rub the Spanish onion into your It was "glorious but inadequate."", blind eyes and weep! (Capt. Kane

was imprisoned on what many de League of Nations came face to to face with the greatest crisis

clare was an absurd charge and In 1935 the Navy is stili glorino effort of the British Govern in its history. And, in a remola corner of China, four young men,ous, but it is infinitely more than ment, has yet brought about his the wrong against their country inadequate for its job. "He that release-even on bail.)

commands the sea," wrote Bacon, Now for something which ought rankling, shoot and kill an officer is at great liberty; he may take to scare you stiff. Where are the administering the Luantung Zone, as much and as little of the war, skilled craftsmen who will be

Japanese gendarme who as he will." "Whoever commands needed to blind the new Navy

tho sea commands the battle," Where are the riveters?

Raleigh; "whoever wrote

com- are all the men who used to build mands the trade commands the our mercantile marine? On the riches of the world, and conse-dolol quently the world itself."

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HISTORY

Kelly Captures HK. For The British

By Capt, Eddie Kelly Mr. Kelly thinks it a pity that a contemporary stopped Its Old Hongkong" series." Lately he's been burrowing into the Government ar- chives and has discovered a document which isap- parently the original report of Captain Elliott, who took possession of Hongkong, to the Lords of the Admiralty.

The document has been translated from the Oxford by Mr. Kelly at great personal expense-

Eddie's Note: Yes, what about advancing 850 for expenses?

Editor's Note: Remember, Kelly, this is my part of the "Very Idea." Keep outi

--and purports to tell the true story of the dis- covery of this fair Colony. Now read on.

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My Lorda-Pursuant to my instructions, I brought LM. China Squadron safely to Heung Keung, which is native parlance

and a

for "Isle of Fragrant Streams. We anchored opposite in the fine sought to arrest them because it

China harbour, into which the WAS

his duty. Already Pelping

Sea empties, opposite a position marked on contempororious charts is ringing with rumours of new

They, too, have been starved to as "Central Market," where Japanese demands for the reorgan- isation of the administration of We have lost our command of death. They beg their bread, in of the fragrant streams in ques-

streets. Can we resurrect tion, termed by the natives the five northern provinces of the sea and the narrow sea. We our

"ullah," runa down from the stand in grave jeopardy. The blue them by an 5.0.8.7 Nol. China. Already the Japanese

water of the Channel gave me that We have starved our fishermen mountain, Army, through its Chief of Staff warning as I stood on the quarter as well as our shipbuilders. Where

As we slowly steamed into tho are we to get the crews for our harbour from Lyemoon, we were in North China, has issued à state-deck of Nelson and Rodney.

Rodney's crest is an eagle. Hor minesweepers? The King honoured impressed with the native hut- ment which many will interpret as warning of

ultimatum. motto is: "Eagles Don't Breed the old trawler seadogs by calling ments lining the shore, ons cun- Patriotism is so spt to lend men grimly said to me, "That's telling Albort

Dovea." As Commander Madden them on board the Victoria andningly-built matshed, in course of into rash acts whose consequences" There's irony for youl

Where shall we get the younged, the central joss house where, erection, being, we were inform- are clouded to unbalanced reason,

upon completion, the native popu Patriotism can become a disease,

lation will house all their gold like any obsession. It is a fine

and silver treasures. stimulant, but a poor diet. It co often makes man blind.

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We have bred doves and we seadogs we shall bitterly need for need eagles. Here goes, thent our new drifters and trawlers I'll tell you the truth, the whole God only knows! truth, and nothing but the truh.

Crisis will come in 1930, when

was not

WEDNESDAY, Auc, 7, 1935.

THE LEAGUE AND ABYSSINIA Critics of the League of Nations-the smaller Powers naturally most vocal-are again making their opinions known. The suggestion is that in its handling of the Italo-Abyssinian crisis, the interests of a small

Our actual landing nation have been subordinated

the Washington and London Hero is a hard fact to bite on. without incident. As I stepped to those of the major Powers.

Treaties of 1922 and 1930 expire. Nelson and Rodney have about ashore from my barge, a headman This, however, is hardly true.

That is the "replacement point 40,000-horse-power engines. The approached and asked me if I had All that has actually occurred

for the navies of the five great newest Italian battleships have anything to declare. I informed naval Powers, Britain, the United over 120,000-horse-power! How him that I had to declare this is that Italy's consent has been Every motorist will be interested States, Japan, France, and Italy, can ans-power cope with horse-spot British territory in the name secured to a compromise, under in a discussion that has arisen

In 1980, twelve of our fifteen power?

of King George. He tapped his Another shock for you! The forehead in salutation and backed the terms of which the Concilia-concerning the rieke of metering capital ships will be over twenty backbone

years old. Even Nelson, Rodney,

of the Navy are the way into the throng. tion Commission, with the addi- in a thunderstorm. Are they more and Hood are over ten years old. petty officers and warrant officers. tion of a fifth representative, or less than normal? A meteore They cost eight millions cach, and They teach the boys and turn them Planting the flag was a matter into seamen. They, too, are grow-of, some difficulty, a the native will resume its deliberations on logist says there is no reason for they are dying..

roadways here are built of a sub- the Unlual incident in an fear. He believes that a modern The Washington Treaty Axes ing old and vanishing.

Who is training the boys I saw | stance strangely resembling effort to reach a decision by motor car, owing to its relatively twenty years as the life-limit of mixed with the leading seamen stone; but at the cost of a tot of

a captal ship, By low construction, has very little 1936-four-fifths of our battleships Rodney? The

the close of and able seamen in Nelson and rum, a native directed us to a September-1,- and, in any event attracting power for lightning, and and battle cruisers

meval officers | Targe open space covered with the League Council will again therefore there is practically no solete next year,

will be obThey are taking

on the job as lawns and containing over the meet on September 4 for a

The Hawkins well as their own job, bless them! doorway of the matshed the let- more risk of the car being struck class were completed 1917-21. I saw 150 raw boys in Rodney. ters "K.C.C." general examination of the vari-than of the ground which ItThey are doomed to be scrapped They could hardly too the line at inhabitants

Dozens of the of this matshed ous aspects of Italo-Ethopian covers.

next year, though they are fine divisions! What a danger signal! danced around us The car itself adds little ships. They will be "treatied" to It takes as long to train a seaman striding to the centre of the lawn, with joy as, relations. In the meantime, or nothing to the risk. If the car death unless we say no! British, French and Italian de- is struck its occupants are in little

as it does to build battleship, I had my men dig a hole and plant Remember Coronel! The men and soon we shall be short of the the flagpole. legates are to meet and start danger from the discharge, for the who died fighting in that awful trainors as they are pensioned off. negotiations under the 1906 metal body is almost a completo massacre were sent to their doom

Why, even the Jubilee fleste siderations was to find a camping Naturally one of my first con- because "Faraday Treaty, with the objective of

cogo," into

were obcould not have put to sea without place for the night, Crossing the electrical forces cannot penetrate. them and slaughtered them like dering about our towns workless native quarters once more and, at

solete. facilitating

The Germana out-ranged grizzled reservists who were wan harbour to the island I entered the a solution of the dispute. The position was cor-thunderstorm is advised

The motorist who is caught in a sheep. rectly summed up in one news drive too fast.

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SHOWY ONICS

and despairing!

native caravanserai known, I be- ilove, as the Heung Keung Hostel. The drinking supply here is ex- cellent, nor shall we want for food, which is also available in largo quantities. Another feature of this site, is the hot and cold water springe

.con- most ingeniously trolled so as to flow in and out of basins,

not to Remember Pegasus, Defence, This is a stark and ghastly story. the expense of a few more tots of Another opinion and Black Prince, despatch stating that the com- is that of an observant motorist, the war by superior German guns!

sunk during The nation would hot sleep quietly rum, we were guided to a huge

(Continued on Page 4.) promise reached amounts to a who expresses postponement of the issue, with construction of a car obviates risk. an obligation on the League to Even the fron plates covering man- |· act if arbitration fails. The holes have been frequently struck, Abyssinian delegate has de- and the low altitude of man and beast in the open field does not finitely stated that his country prevent accidents. The reason why will accept without reservation motorista should drive slowly in a the decision of the Commission, thunderstorm, it is explained, is but so far there is no definite that the current of air induced by assurance that Italy will do like a fast-moving car acts as a con- wise. So far as Abyssinia is ductor for lightning. Upon the concerned, she being the weaker whole the motorist does not get of the two nations who are any quite definite guidance from parties to the dispute, the post-the discussion. He has this satis- tion is not by any

faction, however, So far as one reassuring. Some days before observer knows no direct hit of a the compromise was attained, car has been recorded, though cars have been struck by a side stroke It was reported that Britain would demand that Italy should

means

or splash from a house or a tree.

" make no attack while negotia

tions are proceeding, but that been removed from the handa demand has obviously been of the League. As Mr. Eden dropped in the effort to prevent has asserted, if the negotiationa an immediate crisis. What is fail, the League Council will more, as a French commentator have to discharge its obligations points out, no one has dared to under the Covenant. There can, demand from Italy the slightest says the chief British delegate, ongagement as to the cessation be no shirking of responsibility, of military preparations. Ac nor any acquiescence. In dilatory, tually, the postponement of manoeuvres. Thus, the matter the problem for a month is all boiled down to its essentials, the in Italy's favour, as by that time major points in dispute between the wet season so difficult for the two countries will have to be operations, will have faced in September. Whether an end. None the less, they

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An observation of the curious sight-seers who crowded around us at our camping site convinces me that this part of China must have at one time been a trading. centre for the ald European civili sation. Many of the inhabitants: are startingly fair to gaze upon, the Nordic type - predominating. Like other indigenes met helse- where in my voyages, they cisim to have come originally from the Great White Mother over the saRE.

I have nude saveral excursions into the country, and one occasion penetrated across the island to« small Inlet which I have named “ Repulse Bay, bestowing this name upon the site because I suffered Indernity at the hands of a blonde native, woman whom I captured: I also ventured to the top of the mountain where the natives never seem to go" to "sleep, but and out of their cave day and by nicht.70/11 paint themselves with "and: thay, make mai maimon, which out of similar stran

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