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and pouring troops into provinces

which still remain under the lag of the Republic. It is suggested in cabled reports from well-in- formed quarters that the meeting of Chinese Ministers in Nanking at present, ostensibly to discurs Kuomintang atlairs, is in reality

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By LIEUT-COMMANDER

Life with the

that in the Mediterranean Fleet. K. EDWARDS, Mediterranean Fleet ("Up the Straits" in sailor parlance

for the Mediterranedu)..

R.N. (Ret.)

IBRALTAR is not only a often stopped in the dog wat a problem, involves close co- UT rock. It forms the land- ches,' a boat is lowered and operation with another arm. for the purpose of reaching a de-mark of a dividing line. West "hands to bathe" is piped. That Not so long ago the six-inch gun cision of Japanese policy,

of Gibraltar lie watery leagues is perhaps the greatest joy of battery of a Mediterranean bat- of Atlantic Ocean, which the the Mediterranean. No one tleship was converted into a Admiralty, apportioning the whose bathing experience has stable for army mules. The globe with no less arbitrariness been confined to a coast or a sailors enjoyed holsting in the Some sources even go so far as than did Pope Alexander VI. in swimming bath can know the squealing animals on a derrick, to suggest that China is deciding 1493, consigns to the care of the joy of a bathe with hundreds of but the task of restoring that whether the time is ripe for force-Home Fleet. East of Gibraltar fathoms of sen beneath one and battery to its pristine cleanliness AVIATION POLICY ful resistance. It seems, unlike-

the sailor's world is all "foreign" no land in sight anywhere, in was hardly appreciated. ly. Yet.

Government at

The Mediterranean Fleet sets, Chinese reports from Shang-Nanking may have been encouraged the Mediterranean command water so crystal pure that one hai to the effect that the to believe

that the League of embracing both Mediterranean can see every detail of the ship's

standard unapproached else- Hongkong

and Red Sea, the East Indies bottom.`- Nations will support it against any Government has

where. Far out at sen it pur-.. granted permission for Pan-Morever, the Nanking Government.

further Japanese aggression.Station, and the China Station.

Much of the normal work of a sues efficiency relentlessly; and American Airways planes to may have an eye on the Manchu itself. The western slopes are ranean

There is analogy in the Rock ship is made lighter by Mediter when it returns to Malta It land here prove to be erroneous. kuo-Mongolia altuation. There,

weather, Scrubbing executes a most difficult evolu- There has latterly been con- according to

homely, residential, merging into decks in pitch darkness on a win- tion under the eyes of thousands yesterday's reports, siderable confusion regarding there was revere tension owing to the town which scrambles about ter's morning in northern Scot- of knowledgeable critics. The the probable terminus of the the fact that Mongolia had defied its foot. The eastern slopes are land is a hell of coldness. Scrub- big ships steam through the nar terms of the Changchun "alima- glacis to act as catchments for can dawn is a refreshing duty bour, nose up to their buoys, and trans-Pacific service. This was Manchukuo, refusing to accept the n place apart-great geometrical bing decks in a soft Mediterran- row entrance to the Grand Har- kong was mentioned in con-

tum" which has to do with the rain water, and beneath these a after the atmosphere of the mess then, turning their vast bulks nection with the acceptance of delineation of the frontier. A few cottages, housing the fisher- decks. the

through 180 degrees, moor head everyone knows, Manchukuo is Pan-American tender. backed by Japan and Mongolia by Catalan Bay.

men who wring à living from

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not altogether Russin, which ever name is pre- the noisy rain-soaked streets of Home Fleet look. dingy. That spare. And high above the ruled out. It would appear that ferred. If that hush ever comes. "Pompey" on a Saturday night; was no reflection on the Home ships the Barracca Gardens are the question is a somewhat o-fapanese narration they may yearn for a "Friday Fleet.

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complicated one, in which the so often threatened in the past. while which is the sailor's ence made by prevailing weather, too ready to note that the matter of British flying-rights there will be China's opportunity name-for-a-long-week-end-Paint and enamel last longer-and-"snotty-of-one-ship's-cutter-is- over China is said to be indirect-to attempt to shake off the yoke There are, however, ample com- look better when not continually slow in getting the grass line on ly involved. The layman, how-which foreign armies have placed pensations. A two-year com- buffeted by wind and rain and to the stern buoy, or disgrace ever, will have difficulty in upon her long-suffering shoulders.mission on a foreign station driving spray. Sunshine bleaches irretrievable that one ship appreciating why this intter

woodwork brings two months "foreign ser- scrubbed issue should be brought in, and

no needs the nudge of a tug to help vice leave" when one gets home. amount of holystone, lime, or her round. will doubtless argue that the

Two months! Think of it! Two sand and sharkskin can. A granting of permission to Pan- For years the ordinary man has whole months on end! They clear atmosphere keeps bright- American Airways is a matter accepted without demur the theory

are worth all the week-ends and work bright, Spindrift coats it THE Mediterranean, moreover, which should be decided quite of multitude of dietetic experts

is a sea of disappointments, alarums, and excursions. One separately from this other point, that he cats too much. The more frequent "leavea" of ten days or with a greenish slime. So far as we can understand the they seek to convict him of gint- who serve at home. Yes there ask, is the analogy of the Rock? beauty of Corfu or the galety of

so which are the portion of those frugal he is the more assiduously do

It sounds idyllic: Where, you may be well on one's way to the question, it is felt in some quartony. He is urged to cut down not

are compensations attached to Where the sternness akin to the the Riviera when the wireless ters that Hongkong could not only the number of his meals, but foreign service, even to that in rock-bound catchments? It lies speaks. Politics and diplomacy give landing rights to the avia- also the number of courses in each the Red Sea or Persian Gulf in one great difference between have been finessing in and out tion interests of one country, meal, to say nothing of the size of two naval resorts usually re- the Home and Mediterranean of their own, secret channels.

individual and not to another, and that if the

coursca. Now,

garded as pestilential. two American Ex-

Fleets. The Home Fleet to-duy One is not told the why or where- come forward with

is largely a training squadron, fore. One knows only the re- each ship carrying numbers of sult-to alter course and steam proper boys whose training has to work away from anticipated delighta, a definite syllabus. The possibly to fuel in a hurry at the leave to trained men in the ship's com- dead of night, and then to rush

It becomes a matter of giving however, rights to all, the securing of perts have British rights over China might the announcement that this policy

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be jeopardised. If that is the of rigorous curtailment is all THE Mediterranean

wrong. What Wo need is not however, has much to com-

position, then it would appear fewer but more meals any, five amend it besides

that

average person

to

it is China's indecision day instead of three or four. The which one. looks .forward. which is holding up the whole investigations of these experts After all, it is not for nothing any are not sufficient to do all off to some undesired point of issue. Admittedly, it would be ad- | have tended to show that long that Mediterrancan cruise liners that would be expected of a fully the compass. vantageous to British interests periods between meals are inimical

trained complement.

A week or more watching to obtain China flying rights, to efficiency, wellbeing, and hap-are becoming ever more numer

Moreover, drafting difliculties some palm trees rise slowly in but it would be equally to the piness. Taking the waking day of ous, or that the fortunates mig-

the

as sixteen rate to Mediterranean shores for make the crews of ships of the the mirage and then sink back. benelit of the Chinese aviation corporation if, in return for such hours, five meals a day would mean months in every year. On its Home Fleet "floating" in the over the horizon; or rolling in. sitting down at table every three cruises the Mediterranean Fleet metaphorical as well as the an endless swell, with, an, even. rights, permission to land its hours. The three-meals system, ships visit many of the most literal sense. Every three chance of dragging an anchor planes hore were granted, theorists contend, is the result of sought after resorts of the Old months sees the ship at her and bidding farewell to one's However, the experimental domestic convenience rather than World-and their crews get paid home port and men carrying prospects on a jagged reef. flights from Penang to Hong-of physiological needs. To those for going there.

their bags and hammocks down And then, having missed the kong have made it clear that who say that with all this enting this Colony can easily be linked the stomach would not have a rest, And there are times when one the gangway, to be replaced by "joy cruise," back to rejoin the up with the Imperial Airways they reply that there are no indica is literally overwhelmed with new blood. The life of the fleet. In our small view we have service without the necessity of tions that it needs a rest, or that hospitality. I remember an old Home Fleet, therefore, is one spent an unutterably boring and flying over Chinese territory. meals, net frequent meals, that put ambition seemed to be to in- "shake down." Abroad, on the told the inwardness of it all-

it rests when empty. It is large French lady in Algiers whose one interminable training period and comfortless time. We are not In view of that fact, it does a burden "upon digestion.. That seem hard to understand why may bc. But

crease the capacity of midship other hand, apart from a few that diplomacy has triumphed domestic con- this Colony should longer post-venience, after all, is not a con-

men for cream buns; a Greek minor changes, a ship's company and that it has been our reluct- pone a decision on the granting sideration that can

be lightly peasant at Samos who refused remains the same throughout a ant sojourn which has tipped the of landing rights to the Ameri-brushed aside. The housewives of payment for a quantity of olives; commission. Within six months scales.

service or to any other the land, who consider themselves and a Turk on Gallipoli who of commissioning, a ship is a service, for the matter of that. already overburdened with routine presented us with chunks of "unit" in every sense of the always the beautiful. thing of We have consistently held the year to year, will have little en-

duties that go on endlessly from shell, grisly souvenirs which word. view that Hongkong should, inthusiasm for a system that means

were his stock in trade. pursuance of making this Colony more preparing of food.

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a big airport, welcome any and every commercial aviation ser-

vice willing to come here. As has come when the Government we see it, there is not the should make a definite statement slightest necessity for Hongkong of its aviation policy, and we to concern itself in the political hope that Unofficial members of Issues involved in connection Council and others interested with flying rights over China. will press for such a declaration It is the business of this Colony at the earliest possible moment. to develop its aerial facilities and Further temporising may lose to encourage aviation services to us valuable connections with the make use of them. "The time outside world.

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Nor is Mediterranean weather

the brochures. -Gregales, Levan- It is because our Mediterran- ters, Mistrals-unpleasant winds Between cruises- Malta. ean Fleet is the largest of our, the very names of which con- Plenty of work but an abundance "foreign" fleets that it carries jure up visions of interminable of play. Racing, polo, golf, out many of the most important hours of "anchor watch"; of tennis, hockey, rugger, soccer- exercises designed not only for great wire hawsers twanging the Marsa and other sports training purposes, but carried like harp strings before they grounds cater for them all. out in order to investigate some snap: green sons rushing over Water-polo is played-alongside-strategical or tactical problem the gun turrets; destroyers out the ships at many moorings, under war, conditions. Days, of action through rolling their while Tigne, St. Paul's Bay, and sometimes weeks, the Mediter circulator intakes out of water. other places provide ideal bath- ranean Fleet ships spend at aea,:. ing and picnicking sites.

their crews at action stations. The Mediterranean can put up And when ships are on pas- and snatching what sleep they a sea of which the great oceans. sage and time permits they are may at their guns. Frequently would be proud.

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