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BRAVEST FISHERMEN
OF THE
SEA
NEWFOUNDLAND
ALL this month the fishing floats of Normandy are sailing out to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, From
the mother ships men go out in little
boats, set and lay lines, and, in peril of fog, ice and sea traffic, they catch cod. Pay: £3 a month.
A poesic de la
L peche, monsieur,
--ca c'est finie!"
-the romance of fishing is
Hongkong Telegraph. gone.
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1938.
LEAGUE STILL HAS FRIENDS
was wrong.
company
by D.
ST. JOHN'S
Wilson MacArthur
the
marked by buoys with tall flag, and when all is ready once more seeks them out. So said the director of La poles, the dories pull back, and it is dusk, and time to go out A hospital ship attends
the Morue Normande,
big the men turn in.
and lay the lines...
fleet, and since its inception this They may not sleep long. of trawler-owning
Once a month they put into service has saved more than 500 Fecamp, in Normandy. But he Suddenly comes a cry from the St. Pierre or Miquelon, the lives.
watch on deck-"Pique!"—and Ittle island possession south of A regular cruiser patrol of of Newfoundland, the whole crew turns out in the Newfoundland that is all that thes There is always romance in bitter night to catch bait until, remains of France's North Greenland, Ireland, and Spitz- hardship and danger, in the at 3 am, it is time to haul the American empire.
bergen is maintained, for police malls and carrying struggle with elemental forces. lines.
There chasseurs-steamships work, In spite of all its failures and
Then the dories go out again, to transport the cod-relleve fresh supplies, and bringing True, there are no schooners
succour to the injured. France the hard words said against it, left in Fecamp. Big, ocean and the back-breaking work them of their catches.
Casualties even despite the latest blow to going steam
are frequent. knows the necessity for protect-- trawlers, built begins. Hauling up foot by its prestige delivered by Mr.mostly in Aberdeen,
have foot, from a depth of 40 to 60 Again and again fog comes ing her deepsea fishers in far Neville Chamberlain, the League ousted them, and their catches fathoms, several miles of line, down while the dories are out, waters.
The schoonermen receive an of Nations still holds for many are so considerable that the with hooks every two yards and it may be days before they
advance of 3,850 francs (£36) themselves along it, and big cod on the are recovered. people the only promise of last-Newfoundlanders
Two men from the Pomone each season, of which 1,000 (£9 10s.) is earmarked ing security. And oddly enough whose homes look out upon the hooks, standing up in a tossing
Banks, stay in harbour, unable cockleshell of a boat pirouetting were adrift thus from June 13 francs it is among the nations, very to make a profit or even to pay in huge seas that break over to June 18, without food or for outfit, and 6 per cent. (44s.)
her in a constant shower of water 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 (5s. 6d.) warm towards the League in the
But if the Norman has indus- bour.
heavy Inbour 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 States, for instance, there is an tradition, and schooners sail Sleet or stinging hall, at best a terrific storm, during which owners also contribute 60 francs:
The cod- bitter, driving drizzle, and their dory was almost swamped (11s. 6d.) per man. apparently growing tendency to from St. Malo and Paimpol and a support League principles. And other ports lovely craft, with spindrift whipped off the froth a dozen times; and then came fisher can thus have £3 a month in spite of all its buffetings, the their sky-raking masts and ing wave crests, and fleets of
they heard, with an emotion his eight months' voyage. 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
each crew.
breath upon the waters-that is that may be imagined, the remembered in Austria and
normal North Atlantic weather; siren of a great liner. Hungary, Poland and Rumania
and the schooner dories, heavy They headed 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. more than six-inches.
being run down or swamped by Machinery, tireless, can work- Then the dories row back to her wash; and those 50,000 tons 24 hours a day-and does. The the schooner, and are hauled on of luxury, of warm beds and trawlerman is lucky with seven board; but there is no rest for rich food and creature comforts hours of sleep in 70; and since their crews. The fish must be
to the codfishers, the enormous holds can legendary
salt. It would be as well to recall,
The dory is a narrow, flat- got below hatches as soon as at this stage, that Mr. Chamber-bottomed craft about 15ft, lorg possible, and they set to work rushed on through the fog, un- away the entire season's catch, for there are no more respites in Inin has not abandoned the with smooth, outward-sloping
St. Pierre or Miquelon, League ideal. He has merely sides, shaped like a child's boat with gutting knife or chopper aware, making urgently
It was 20 hours later that a longer any contact with the reached the conclusion that made from a folded sheet of or scrubbing brush, while the
curing salt-crystals sting cuts Portuguese tramp, sighted the land. the League,
and bruises on raw, chapped dory and rescued her men, present paper.
From the day she sails from Towards dusk, the dories are hands and the schooner pitches famished, frost-bitten, barely Fecamp, the trawler is at sen
into the steep conscious, and all but' out of
continuously, working from the constituted, is no longer a sure means of preserving inter-flowered over, two men to each, incessantly
their minds.
Newfoundland Banks round by national law. He has left the and pull away in star formation broken seas.
After that the lines must be
Greenland and Iceland and. Spitzbergen, and finishing up in seven hours of work, colling the
tangle immense
neatly in But the schoonermen are not the White Sea until, after eight. hampers, baiting the hooks; left entirely to whatever fate months, she returns to port.
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The fishing is done from states. China, too, clings to the belief that the League's cause is dories, after the schooner has reached the Banks and is hove just and sane and practical,
ay
at
to for work to commence.
or
friends of the League with the from the ship, two miles
Then the lines are laid, rebaited, and this means other
more.
France.
The Conundrums of
other.
to
War
By A. J. CUMMINGS
scious. The Soviet people might
no
impression that he has aban- doned only for the moment the
to work them out for peace-preserving machinery at left Geneva and that, when the time themselves. The theory seems is opportune, he will do what he beyond the range of present day politics. 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 amongst essential parts of the mechanism the larger powers. It is not to guess where such a which have been worn out. or hard were lacking in efficiency from theory flourishes best. But the
conflicting interests of the am- NOBODY knows-it is fairly cer
tain that the Government itself the beginning.
bitious nations are such that no docen't know-how much we shall
basis of foreign get for our money in the great arma Not so long ago Count Ciano, permanent ·
сли be ments programme which has justi
natonished
The one non-professionul moral to the Italian Foreign Minister, spheres of influence
world. went to conference with Austria possible. Moreover, and recent been unfolded
events in Vienna are proving it
At present it is at best a chaotic almost be described as uir-fanatica. be drawn from such conclusions is: They seem to have been taught Don't comfort yourselves with the and Hungary. It is reported again, the Danubian nations masterpelce; it is impossible yet to that air-supremacy is now a decisive illusion that events soon be over that during that meeting he will not always submit to ex-discover how far or in what way one military consdreation, though in war will at all events soon be over Is related strategically to an- recent months its special difficulties The only sale prophecy about the tried
part to obtain from these ternal dictation.
in transporting military supplies to next war-as Captain Liddell Horl 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" the search for stability falls back simplifications. For instance, though Government much took for refice- Arms" (Faber) is that it will prove
League. While it may be that upon those "collective concepts big ships at enormous cost because it
It is perhaps not without algnin- will begin in confusion and eng
in chaos" the importance of the Austro- which were embraced in the cannot minke up ita mind whether cance that the last issue of The
One of the shrewdest things said "it is safe or wise to build smaller U.S.S.R. in Construction" remark- Hungarian refusal can easily be original idea of the League,' over-estimated, the solidarity however faltering and slow has ships, it appears to have made up able piece of beautifully illustrated in this shrewd book is: "The bur its mind definitely and firmly on the
en den of defence has increased while tirely with the subject of naval the security afforded has decreased.
Applying โปร dictum to naval towards the League, the fact remains that the only hope versy.
power.
strategy, Liddell Ifort thinks we cat! *
t hesitancy of Poland to desert of lifting Danubian politics_out
no longer speak of the command of The admiralty 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 lies in the conviction that the surface ball Licut.-General Golovine, in the best than re'er to the conundrum of the
fleet can beat off the battle-fleet of book on air. strategy I have read, sch, 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 op- from a basic realisation of the nation from the onus of defend to be founded, not on natural pre- nasumption that the mase use of plicable to the whole field of war requirements for a pacific Da-ing the "vested rights" of peace judice, but on substantial data. neroplanes will necessarily bring strategy. Every nation is working of So exaggerated and alarming are future war to a rapid end-an as- furiously in the dark in the blind' nube area. While the influence treatico. The best means of Britain and France is still a approaching this problem, which the claims made for air power that sumption "founded on under-estime hope that it will bo the Arst to solve in recent years there has been a real tion of the means of defence and the awful conundrum when the
should be over-estimation of the efficiency time comes.
A sane world, a world not being this aphere, it has waned per-operative effort to solve the stampeded into n
and governmental leet of naval power, with con-
Incidentally, he disposes also in harried into self-destruction by the haps more than that of the economie
troubles of South Europe. And aequences that would undoubtedly terms of simple arithmetic of the de- Intolerant ambitions of a few rose- Lengue..
It has often been said that South Europe, very largely, into the r we were launched duction that London or any other fute megalomanies, would be con- large city could be totally destroyed tent to leave the conundrum for south-eastern Europe's pro fecla that the League offers the
or reduced to impotence in a large- ever unsolved and concentrato all All nations and ill Governments scale war either by the use of gas ta energies on the more vital and blems would speedily resolve bost Instrument for this pur-
have become abnormally air-con or by any other method of air attack pressing problems of peace... If the smaller nationa. were pose.
the Admiralty is going on building tion.
which Czecho-Slovakia displays been their development. The aeroplane versus battleship contro propagandist literature-deals
power
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to be reckoned with it is one for all Europe, is by co- danger lest the coumptuous neg of the new wennon."
into another major war.
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