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LL this month the fishing fleets of Normandy are sailing out to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. From

the mother ships men 'go out in little boots, sot and lay lines, and, in paril of fog, ice and sea traffic, they catch cod.

Pay: £3 a month,

A poesie de la

peche, monsieur,

ca c'est finie!"

the romance of fishing is

Hongkong Telegraph. gone.

WEDNESDAY, Manch 2, 1938,

LEAGUE STILL HAS FRIENDS

remembered in

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was wrong,

Truc, there are no schooners

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ST. JOHN'S

by D. Wilson

FRA

MacArthur

an

'The schoonermen receive advance of 3,850 francs (£36) Two men from the Pomone each season, of which 1,000

that may

It was 20 hours later that a

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in

St. Pierre or Miquelon, no

land.

marked by buoys with tall flag- and when all is ready once more seeks them out.

A hospital ship attends the So said the, director of La poles, the dories pull back, and it is dusk, and time to go out

and lay the lines,

flect, and since its inception this Morne Normande, the big the men turn in,

Once a month they put into service has saved more than 500 They may not sleep long. trawler-owning "company of

Miquelon, the lives. Fecamp, in Normandy. But he Suddenly comes a cry from the St. Pierre or

watch on deck-"Pique!"-and little island possession south of A regular cruiser patrol of of Newfoundland, the whole crew turns out in the Newfoundland that is all that the

France's North Greenland, Ireland and Spitz- There is always romance in bitter night to catch bait until, remains of

bergen is maintained, for police hardship and danger, in the at 3 a.m., it is time to haul the American empire.

carrying mails and struggle with elemental forces. lines.

There chasseurs-steamships work, In spite of all its failures and

Then the dorics go out again, to transport the cod-relieve fresh supplies, and bringing the hard words said against it, teft in Fecamp. Big, ocean- and

the back-breaking work them of their catches.

succour to the injured. France Casualties arc frequent. knows the necessity for protect- Jeven despite the latest blow to going steam trawlers, built begins. Hauling up foot by

its prestige delivered by Mr. mostly

have foot, from a depth of 40 to 60 Again and again fog comes ing her deepsea Ashers in far in Aberdeen, Neville Chamberlain, the League ousted them, and their catches fathoms, several miles of line, down while the dories are out, waters. of Nations still holds for many are so considerable that the with hooks every two yards and it may be days before they

themselves along it, and big cod on the are recovered. people the only promise of last- Newfoundlanders

whose homes look out upon the hooks, standing up in a tossing ing security. And oddly enough Banks, stay in harbour, unable cockleshell of a boat pirouetting were adrift thus from June 13 francs (£9 108.) is earmarked June 18, without food or for outfit, and 6 per cent. (44s.) it is among the nations, very to make a profit or even to pay in huge seus that break over to

constant shower of water her in a

or blankets, with only, goes to the Invalides. often, who have been most luke-expenses.

spray and spume, is no light la- light garments suitable for the. A further 29 francs (59. 6d.) warm towards the League in the

But if the Norman has indus- bour.

heavy labour of rowing, and are paid to the Oeuvres de mer, past that the strongest defence trialised the cod fishing, his

hauling the lines.

the society that maintains the is now discerned. In the United Breton cousin still clings to

The fog was succeeded by hospital ship, to which the Sleet or stinging hail, at best

terrific storm, during which owners also contribute 60 francs States, for instance, there is an tradition, and schooners sail

The cod- apparently growing tendency to from St. Malo and Paimpol and a bitter, driving drizzle, and their dory was almost swamped (118, Gd.) per mani. support League principles. And other ports-lovely craft, with spindrift whipped off the froth-

sky-raking masts and ing wave crests, anx fleets of a dozen times; and then came fisher can thus have £3 a month in spite of all its buffetings, the their

an emotion his eight months' voyage. they heard, with League's name still seems to be crowded with men, 30 to 40 in great bergs casting their chill more fog, and after four days to leave with his family during

be imagined, the breath upon the waters--that is normal North Atlantic weather; siren of a great liner. and the schooner dorics, heavy They hended for it des- But with the trawler, life has laden, have a freeboard of no perately, risking the danger of changed for the Norman fisher. and other of the so-called lesser

The fishing is done from more than six inches.

being run down or swamped by Machinery, tireless, can work states. China, too, clings to the

Then the dories row back to her wash; and those 50,000 tons 24 hours a day--and does. The dories, after the schooner has belief that the League's cause is reached the Banks and is hove the schooner, and are hauled on of luxury, of warm beds and trawlerman is lucky with seven just and sane and practical. to for work to commence. board; but there is no rest for rich food and creature comforts hours of sleep in 70; and since legendary to the codfishers, the enormous holds. can salt The dory is a narrow. flat- their crews. The fish must be at this stage, that Mr. Chamber-bottomed craft about 16ft. long, got below hatches as soon as rushed on through the fog, un- away the entire season's catch,

possible, and they set to work aware, making urgently for there are no more respites lain has not abandoned the with smooth, outward-sloping with gutting knife or chopper France. League ideal. He has merely sides, shaped like a child's boat reached the conclusion that made from a folded sheet of or scrubbing brush, while the

curing salt-crystals sting cuts Portuguese tramp sighted the longer any contact with the and bruises on raw, chapped dory and rescued her men, From the day she sails from the League, "ફ at present paper.

Towards dusk, the dories are hands and the schooner pitches famished, frost-bitten, barely Fecamp, the trawler is at sea into the steep conscious, and all but out of continuously, working from the constituted, is no longer a sure means of preserving inter-lowered over, two men to each, incessantly

Newfoundland Banks round by their minds.

Greenland After that the lines must be national law. He has left the and pull away in star formation broken seas.

and Iceland and. from the ship, two miles or

Spitzbergen, and finishing up in friends of the League with the

seven hours of work, coiling the impression that he has abant more. Then the lines are laid, rebalted, and this means other

tangle nently But the schoonermen are not the White Sea until, after eight immense doned only for the moment the

for hampers, baiting the hooks; left entirely to whatever fate months, she returns to port, peace-preserving machinery at left to work them out Geneva and that, when the time themselves. The theory seems Jis opportune, he will do what he beyond the range of present day polities. Thus an opposite can to put it into running order, theory has grown up that urges and possibly supply some of the division of Danubia amungst not It is essential parts of the mechanism the larger powers. which have been worn out or hard to guess where such a were lacking in efficiency from theory flourishes best. But the

conflicting interests of the am- Nm that the Government itself TOBODY knows-It is fairly cer- the beginning.

bitious nations are such that no doesn't know-how much we shall basis of foreign get for our money in the great arma- Not so long ago Count Ciano, permanent

be ments programme which

The one non-professional moral to the Italian Foreign Minister, spheres of influence can went to conference with Austria possible. Moreover, and recent been unfolded

At present it is ai best a chaotic almost be described as air-fanatics. be drawn from such conclusions is: They seem to have been taught Don't comfort yourselves with the and Hungary, It is reported events in Vienna are proving it world.

again, the Danubian nations masterpeice; It is impossible yet to

in war will at all events soon be over. that during that meeting he will

not always submit to ex-discover how for or in what way one that air-supremacy is now a decisive illusions that the agony of the next

military considreation, though

The only safe prophecy about the part in related strategically to an- recent months its special difficulties tried to obtain from these ternal dictation.

in transporting military supplies to next warns Captain Liddell Hurt neighbours a statement of policy

It appears, then, that the

But there have been one or two Spain must have given the Soviet points out in his book "Europe In-

a greater muddle than the last, that (which would "condemn"

upon those "collective concepts the Admiralty is going on building tion.

It is perhaps not without signifi- will begin in confusion and end

in clitos." cannot make up Its mind whether

One of the shrewdest things sald League. While it may be that search for stability falls back implications. For instance, though Government much food for reflec- Arms (Faber)-it that it will prove the importance of the Austro-which were crabraced in the ships at enormous cost because it

U.S.S.R. Jn Construction" remark- Hungarian refusal can easily be original idea of the League," it is safe or wise to build smaller cance that the Inst issue of "The

den of defence has increased while over-estimated, the solidarity however faltering and slow hug ships, It appears to have made up able piece of beautifully illustrated in this shrewd book is: The bur

lis mind definitely and firmly on the propagandist erature deals

naval the security afforded has decreased." neroplane verus battleship contro-tirely with the subject of

Applying

dictum which Czecho-Slovakia displays been their development.

naval towards the League, the fact remains that the only hope versy.

power.

strategy, Liddell Hart thinks wo can hesitancy of Poland to desert of lifting Danubian politics out

The admirally has proclaimed its That highly intelligent war critic, the sea; instead, we can do no more the League and the inability of of the military (and most dan- Italy to bring these nations into gerous) category lles in the conviction that the surface batile- Lieut-General Golovine, in the beat than refer to the conundrum of the

fect can beat off the battle-feet of book on air strategy I have read, ca. an anti-League grouping, spring freeing of international organi- the air. It is a view which appears disposes effectually of the common The conundrum, however, is ap- from a basic realisation of the nation from the onus of defend- to be founded, not on natural pre-assumption that the mass use of plicable to the whole field of war aeroplanes will necessarily bring strategy. Every nation is working requirements for a pacifc Da-ing the "vested rights" of peace judice, but on substantial data.

So exaggerated and alarming are future war to a rapid end-an on- furlously in the dark in the blind nube area. While the influence treatles. The best menna of

awful conundrum when the in recent years there has been a real tion of the means of Britain and France is still a approaching this problem, which the claims made for air power that sumption "founded on under-estima- hope that it will be the fleat to solve

of the efficiency time comes. to be reckoned with in is one for all Europe, is by co-danger test the country should be over-estimation power

weapon."

A sane world, a world not being naval power, with con- this sphere, it has waned per-operative effort to solve the stampeded into a contemptuous neg- of the new he disposes also in harried into self-destruction by the

Incidentally, haps more than that of the economic

governmental leet of troubles of South Europe. And sequences that would undoubtedly terms of simple arithmelle of the de- intolerant ambitions of a few reso Lengue.

be fatal if ever we were launched duction that London or any other lute megalomaniaca, would be con- It has often been said that South Europe, very largely into another mafor war.

large city could be totally destroyed tent to leave the conundrum for Europe'a

* south-eastern

pro-feola that the League offers the

or reduced to impotence in a larke- over unsolved and concentrate, alt blems would speedily resolve best instrument for this pur- -All - nations and all Governments scale war either try the use of Kani ita emorates on the more vital and

have become abnormally air-con-or by any other melliöd of air attack, pressing problems of peace. if the smaller nations were posc.

Ltd.

the

and

The

in

The Conundrums of War

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to

Ап astonished

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By A. J. CUMMINGS

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of defence and

hin

to

no longer speak of the command of