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There are indications that the situation in North China is apt to boll over again. Someone la 10. Het scalded. Just where the trou- ble will start, and why, it is still foo early to predlet, but the Mar- chukuo-Mongolin positior is full of potentialities of an explosivé Rature and the Sino-Japanese situation has become more con- plicated within the past two or three days. Yesterday we cussed the. North China position;" the tales of suspicions aroused by General Toda's allegedly threaten- ing statements of policy, and wo might have mentioned the re- luctance of the Japanese Govern- ment to dissociate itself from the military man's stand. That may or may not be significant. It la impassible to tell. What did stand PECIAL arrangements extend-out from the whole involved mud-

they Japanese authorities that internal affairs in any way. would not intervene in China's Now. however, it appears that General Tada, the commander of the

attempting to intervenc, at least to the extent of insisting upon Sino- Japanese co-operation in the ex- termination

the Communist menace in the North. China is loath to accede to his request, be- cause she fears that such surrender would merely give the Japanese the excuse they want for extending their influence in Chinese territory,

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and pouring troops into provinces which still remain under the fing 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 discuss Kuomintang affairs, is in reality for the purpose of reaching.& cision on Japanese polley,

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"Up

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In this article the writer con- fata life in the Home Fleet with

By LIEUT-COMMANDER

Life with the

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

for the Mediterranean).

woodwork

as

1

R.N. (Ret.)

through 180 degrees, moor head and stern between buoys hend- ing scaward. These turns have

to

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

the ly. Yet

Government Chinese reports from Shang-Nanking may have been encouraged the Mediterranean command water so crystal pure that one

The Mediterranean Fleet sets hai to the effect that the to believe that the League of embracing both Mediterranean can see every detail of the ship's

a standard unapproached else. Hongkong Government

Nations will support it against any and Red Sea, the East Indies bottom. has granted permission for Pan-Morever, the Nanking Government

Japanese

where. Far out at sea it pur- aggression. Station, and the China Station.

Much of the normal work of a aues 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 situation. There,

weather. Scrubbing executes a most difficult evolu- There has latterly been con- according to yesterday's reports.

homely, residential, merging into decks in pitch darkness on a win- tion under the eyes of thousands siderable confusion regarding there was severe tensium owing to

the town which scrambles about ter's morning in northern Scol- of knowledgeable critics. The the probable terminus of the the fact that Mongolia had defied its foot. The castern slopes are land is a hell of cokiness. Scrub big ships steam through the nar- DALMONTE TOTI—Splendon Le Sacre Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor further added to when Heng terms of the Changchun "ultima glacis to act as catchments for enn dawn is a refreshing duty bour, nose up to their buoys, and trans-Pacific service, This was Manchukuo, refusing to accept the a 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. As few cottages, housing the fisher- decks. the Pan-American

everyone. knows, Manchukuo is tender.backed by Japan and Mongolia by Catalan Bay.

men who wring a living from Subsequent statements indicated Russia. Japan, it is said, wants to Macno as the likely terminus, get a hand into Mongolia's affairs, But the unalogy is too severe AT the Jubilee Naval Review to be done "nt reat"—that is, MILIZA KORJUS-Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 including Hongkong in the Communism.

although the possibility of also extending its defenses ngalusi upon the lives of our sailors who the Mediterrancan Fleet without gathering head or stern

or Sovietism, The Little Ring (Chopin)

"go foreign." They may miss ships made their sisters of the way, for there is no room schedule was not altogether Russin, which over 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 clash ever comes. "Pompey" on a Saturday night: was no reflection on the Home ships the Barracca Gardens are the question is a

if the Russo-Japanese rivalry in they may yearn for a "Friday Fleet. somewhat

It was just the differ- black with people watching; only complicated one, in which the flares into the conflagration 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 narne 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, umple com--look-botter when not continually slow in getting the grass line on ly involved. The Inyman, 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 latter

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

no needs the nudge of a tug to help HOW MANY MEALS?

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 American Airways is a matter accepted without demur the theory whole months on end! They clear atmosphere keeps bright- which should be decided quite of a multitude of dietetic experts frequent "leaves" of ten days or with a greenish slime.

are worth all the week-ends and work bright. Spindrift conts it THE Mediterranean, moreover, is a sca of disappointments, separately from this other point, that he eats too much. The more

alarums, and excursions. One so which are the portion of those So far as we can understand the frugal he is the more assiduously do

who serve at home. Yes there ask, is the analogy of the Itock? beauty of Corfu or the gaiety of It sounds idyllic. Where, you may be well on one's way to the they seek to convict him of glut question, it is felt in some quar-tony. Ile is urged to cut down not are compensations attached to ters that Hongkong could not only the number of his meals, but foreign service, even to that in Where the sternness akin to the the Riviera when the wireless give landing rights to the avis also the number of courses in each the Red Sea or Persian Gulf in one great difference between have been finessing in and out rock-bound catchments? It lies speaks. Politics and diplomacy tion interests of one country, meal, to say nothing of the size of two naval resorts usually re- the Home and Mediterrancan of their own secret channels. and not to another, and' that if the individual courses,

Now,

garded as pestilential. two American ox- it becomes a matter of giving | however,

Fleets. The Home Fleet to-day One is not told the why or where- come perts have

forward with rights to all, the securing, of

is largely a training squadron, fore. One knows only the re- each ship carrying numbers. of sult-to alter course and steam British rights over China might

of rigorous curtailment is aliTHE Mediterrancan

boys whose training has to work away from anticipated delights, be jeopardised. If that is the

however, has much to com- position, then it would appear fewer but more meals-say, five amend it besides the leave to trained men in the ship's com- dead of night, and then to rush. definite syllabus. The possibly to fuel in a hurry at that 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 nothingy 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 Mediterranean cruise liners

that would be expected of a fully the compass. vantageous to British interests periods between meals are inimical

trained complement. are becoming ever more numer-

A week or more watching to obtain China flying rights, to efficiency, wellbeing, and hap

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

the average person as sixteen rate to Mediterranean shores for make the crews of ships of the the mirage and then sink back benefit of the Chinese aviation hours, five meals a day would mean months in every year. On its Home Fleet "flouting in the over the horizon; or rolling in corporation if, in return for such 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 here were granted. theorists contend, is the result of sought after resorts of the Old months seem However,

the ship at her and bidding farewell to `one's 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 eating 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 they reply that there are no indica- is literally overwhelmed with new blood. The life of the fleet. In our small view we have up with the Imperial. Airways tions that it needs a rest, or that hospitality. I remember an old Home Fleet, therefore, is one spent an unutterably boring and service without the necessity of it rests when empty. It is large French lady in Algiers whose one interminable training period and comfortless time. We are not flying over Chinese territory. meals, not frequent meals, that put ambition seemed to be to in- "shake down." In view of that fact, it does a burden upon digestion. That seem hard to understand why may

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

men for cream buns; a Greek aninor 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. can service-or to any other the land, who consider themselves and a Turk on Gallipoli who of commissioning, a ship is a Nor is Mediterranean weather every sense of the always the beautiful thing of already overburdened with routine presented us with chunks of "unit" in service, for the matter of that. duties that go on endlessly from shell, grisly souvenirs which word. We have consistently held the year to year, will

the brochures. Gregales, Lovun- have little en- view that Hongkong should, inthusiasm for a system that means

were his stock In trade,

It is because our Mediterran ters, Mistrals-unpleasant winds pursuance of making this Colony more preparing of food,

Between cruises Malta. ean Fleet is the largest of our the very names of which con- a big airport, welcome any and.

Plenty of work but an abundance "foreign" fleets that it carries jure up visions of interminable. every commercial aviation ser

of play. Racing, polo, golf, out many of the most important hours of "anchor watch"; of vice willing to come here. As has come when the Government tennis, hockey, rugger, soccer- exercises designed not only for great wire hawsers twanging we see it, there is not the should make a definite statement the Marsa and other sports training purposes, but carried like harp strings before they slightest necessity for Hongkong of its aviation policy, and we grounds cater for them all. out in order to investigate some snap: green seas rushing over to concern itself in the political hope that Unofficial members of Water-polo is played alongside strategical or tactical problem the gun turrets; destroyers out issues involved in connection Council and others interested the ships at many moorings, under war conditions. Days, of action through rolling their with flying rights over Chinn. will press for such a declaration while Tigne, St. Paul's Bay, and sometimes weeks, the Mediter circulator intakes out of water. It is the business of this Colony at the earliest possible moment. other pinces provide ident bath- rancan Fleet ships spend at sea, • to develop its nerial facilities and Further temporising may lose ing and picnicking sites, their crews at action stations The Mediterranean can put up.. to encourage aviation services to i us valuable connections with the

And when ships are on pas- and snatching what sleep they a sea of which the great oceank. make use of them. The time outside world.

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