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Behind the bridge is the trig-

In front of the captain's eyes, on a little brass plate, is printed

THE "VERY IDEA"

KELLY GETS LOWDOWN

ON CANTON

By General Eddie Kelly

GIRLS, you will be sorry to hear that we are at the moment in Canton.

It's a Shameen the way we've had to leave you alone this week-end.

We don't know what we've done wrong to de- serve this.

Even Mr. Blunt, the British Consul General, raised his eyebrows and said, "Hello, what are you doing here?"

The water up here has a atrange taste, they tell But the rum isn't bad.

us.

The air raiders were so thick last night that we had to draw our mosquito net.

George was bitten twice. Once by a mosquito and once when he was given $9.90 Canton currency change for a Hongkong $10 note by a ricksha boy.

We tried to keep our arrival but the In Canton a secret, newspaperE must have heard about it, for wo were met on arrival by about 0,000 ricksha coolles, 2,000 people who want- ed to carry our luggage, 1,500 touts who offered to show various dens of iniquity 2,300 beggars.

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FRIENDLY RICKSHAS When we gave our rickaho coolie six coppers for taking us from the railway station to- Shameen, he was so pleased that he danced up and down in front of us. It was pathetic the way that man clung to us afterwards. Fellowed us wherever we went, several Chinese policemen as a great- hearted foreign devil. He will probably be down to the train to see us off on our return journey. We didn't get much sleep last night. It wasn't George's fault. We always seem to get into a room next one that has a baby in it cutting its teeth.

MODERN destroyer is stores, sports, and much more.

the fastest ship in the A big job for a young man.

His responsibilities are at the injunction, "Remember the Navy, and perhaps its least as great as those of general next astern."

So from time to time à flag! life is the most exciting of manager of a largish business all of them. It is a small ashore. In a big ship at 28 he flutters up on the mast of the ship, about 1,500 tons, with would still be but a small cog in ship in front. The ever-obser- vant yeoman will look through! the wheel.' seven officers and 150 men

All the destroyer's forces of his telescope and say, "Echo Its job in or thereabouts.

destruction are worked from an signalling 14 knots, sir." The life is to protect the big ship array of controls in or near the captain will alter speed accord-

ingly. from submarine and surface bridge.

and pointed us out to An intermittent flashing from torpedo attacks and to at-

ger for firing the destroyer's an adjoining ship means that tack enemy ships.

The yeoman It must do this whatever the torpedoes. The torpedoes them- she is signalling by search-

selves are fired from four paral- lights in morse. cost and without regard to its lel tubes like big drain-pipes, reads this through his telescope. own safety. The big ships are each one perhaps, as long as six the things that really count in men laid end to end. sea power, and 'the destroyer's motto is: "The big ships must get through." The destroyer has changed very much since the deck behind the funnels. They gunnery director position, a re- War. It is faster. It dashes are on a revolving turntable so volving tower which looks rather

a tank. From here the! through the water at 42 knots that they can be pointed in any like

ship's gunnery officer directa the instead of the old 35.

It can operate over a much Just behind the captain are firing of the ship's 4.7 inch guns larger area. The old destroyer two brass levers like the hand- by the pulling of one trigger.

In front of the captain is the could carry only sufficient provi- brakes on a car. These release

When he presses The the depth sions for 48 hours at sea,

charges. Depth alarm bell. modern ones, through refriger- charges are for submarine at- this it brings everyone to “action ation, can stay at sen 21 days. tacks. A depth charge has ter- stations.”

Notice that it is marked During the Italian crisis a rific power. It looks exactly

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS

four tubes are on the

The

direction.

"Fury requests permission to pass ahead of you, sir."

"Make a signal, 'Approved,'" says the captain.

Just above the captain is the

We think this baby must be doing it with a circular saw. We like children, but they should be kept in one of these bomb-proof cellars they have up here, and fed through a chate, or have anti-aircraft guns loaded with porridge, or whatever they eat, fired at them.

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ALL PROPHETS ARE NOT FOOLS Prophets, according to the meaning of the word, are divinely inspired. But there are false prophets whose inspira- tion is anything but divine and others, who might like to be known to their contemporaries as having uttered deep and far- seeing truths, who are no more than fools.. It is so easy to build a reputation on prognostication, when dealing with the gullible. As Professor Leacock once re- marked: I tell you that in one hundred years we shall have reached a point of mechanical perfection where one presses a button and one's breakfast leaps out at one; and another, and one's bath comes trundling into the room; and another, and there

Once it wus "a is a ready-made baby; and I ex-flotilla of destroyers secretly like a cylinder of road tar, and "Press hard." pect you to say, "What vision" went non-stop from England to it wrecks everything within more delicate affair, and the cap- Professor Leacock may have Haifa, in Palestine, in eight days, scores of yards above, below or tain of at least one ship, loung- been making fun of certain of and perhaps averted a war. That around it when its four hundred ing against it in a leisured mo his acquaintances who, at that would have been impossible in pounds of high explosive blow ment was surprised to find he had let loose a storm of activity

Just ahead a dark object looms. time, were predicting the com-

The destroyer's gunnery has It is so powerful that a de from the stem to stern of the up. The destroyer captain sees and economic been improved and the comfort stroyer has to be doing at least ship.

it, but he probably cannot be This is how a destroyer is con- seen himself-he, hopes not- collapse of civilisation. But of the crew's quarters consider 20 knots before it can drop a

trolled. A flotilla of them owing to his small sizo. then there is no knowing, very ably increased.

depth charge, otherwise its own

It has been proved in practice often, just what Professor

The officers of a destroyer are stern will be blown up. The ship (nine) manoeuvring is a magni-

ficent sight. They even if the

are. small, that the destroyer can creep up Leacock is poking fun at. Ita race of men apart. In many is shaken

but as agile as mila

a fly-weight to within 500 yards of a battle- may be himself; or his students. ways they are almost as different charge explodes half a

boxer, and they manoeuvre like ship and remain unseen. soldiers on a parade gound. In any event he had not very from the big ship officers as a away.

Is it the enemy that the cap- Depth charges can either be much use for prophets.

Much of a destroyer's soldier is from a policeman.

war- tain sees? Now is the crucial dropped over the stern by the release levers situated on the time work and peace-time prac- moment. They love their cramped quar-bridge, or they can be fired out tice is in night attacks. These the most ters. They revel in hard work. to either side by a pair of attacks are among

breath-taking experiences in the Navy.

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But there are predictions, from clear-thinking men which are worthy of consideration. In

This gives 1858 Sir Richard Owen express-I know from 'my own observa- howitzers. cd the hope and confidence that tion that they often work on maximum possibility of hitting the new trans-Atlantic telegraph deck and in their cabins sixteen the submarines. and other "applications of pure hours a day. : science" would tend to abolish

flotilla, by flag or otherwise.

It is

WORKING IN THE DARK

Six war correspondents gathered downstairs, waiting for us to join them in a friendly. round of drinks.

If we ever get back to Hong- kong, we'll give you the low. down" on this war. Won't that be fun!

The captain says, "Signal to tually mishaps seldom occur. away.

There was one, however, in a

recent manoeuvre. Two de-

"Make the challenge," he says. A searchlight flashes out some code word. There is no satis- factory reply. Now for it. The ship makes straight for the dark CONTACT WITH OTHER UNITS You are dashing along at 42 object. It grows bigger.

Just as they are drawing close The great attraction of a de- On the captain's right in the knots in the pitch darkness wars all over the earth. And instroyer is that you get a big job corner of the bridge stands his with no navigation lights and the coxswain puts the wireel over 1899 Michael Foster said that when you are young.

yeoman of signals, a petty offi- every other light out twisting as hard as he can. The decks the very greatness "of modern

A man of 28 can be the first cer or leading signalman hither and thither. You have are awash, the vessel heels over. power of destruction is already lieutenant of a destroyer, run-

For a moment he straightens the but the It is through the yeoman that nothing to guide you

ship up and she runs parallel becoming a bar to its use and ning the whole ship under the the captain aces and sends mes- faint white wake of the destroy- bids fair

with the enemy ship, wholly to put an captain, its gunnery practice, sages to other ships in his er in front of you.

In end to it."

that moment torpedoes. You would think accidents Looking at the world to-day

a fascinating thing to were inevitable for it is rather lollop over the side with a dull one wonders, and is inclined to

Foster's predictions have to watch orders pass to and fro on like driving a series of cars in a roar. Then over with the wheel busy road without lights. Ac again, and, if she has escaped 16th MARCHthe belief that these men were

Bome extent come true. It is the bridge.

detection, the destroyer darts misled, perhaps. And yet there not a fact that the horror of are accomplishments which tend war has made collisions im- Echo 'Am opening fire on enemy

FIRING OF TORPEDOES to support Six Richard's view, possible. But at least the at 6,000 yards.*"*

The four torpedoes-£6,000 -- There is no question but im-realisation of its, destructiveness The yeoman looks this up in stroyers collided with a loud worth of engineering-are.' proved communications, due to is a deterrent. There have been the code book and perhaps finds crash-broadside-on, fortunate- whizzing through the sea toward natural science, have been episodes and incidents in the it is sent by the flags "C.T.I." and leaped apart as though their objective at 30 m.p.h., instrumental in drawing to past few months which a con- He shouts to the signalman; they were on springs.

driven by compressed air motors. The doors of the night-attack- gether the member-states of the tury, indeed twenty years ago, "Hoist Charlie Thomas Isaac."

They are each on a slightly British Empire, and so, as would have precipitated conflict.

The Navy had this system being destroyers are so fitted that different course to increase the

the lights are modern commentator points out, And it is sure that masses of fore telephone girls were born or

automatically probability of a hit, having been in spite of other centrifugal in people to-day have a repugnance thought of. Sometimes, of switched off inside when they fired from a moving turntable. fluences, saving its integrity,

As soon as the torpedoes are to the idea of warfare and are course, the captain knows the open. The portholes have steel

covers. Tinder instead of mat fired a searchlight which has : And that is not all. It is safe far less ready to plunge into signals by heart,

used for to say that relations between battle than wore, their fathers "Haul down George," he will ches is

lighting been burning brightly all the cigarettes. The gun station's timo behind a stool shutter in the United States and Great and grandfathers. Britain, and the United States

the, destroyer is suddenly open- So, when some idealistid Nobody laughs at this odd lights are dim blue.

The alarm bell has been prese- ed. The searchlight is trained and the British Dominions, and person comes forward to say that speech. They are used to it. All are such that war between them save the world, and that the ceiving messages from his such as is never felt on any other. It has been found that the the United States themselves, the League of Nations may yet day the captain is giving and reed. All the watertight doors on to the bridge of the enemy

closed. There is an atmosphere ship. cannot be imagined. And that British Empire's present-day re- yeoman. circle of countries which may be lations with its neighbours may When destroyers are steaming occasion.

TASK OF THE CAPTAIN counted upon to live at peace be un object lesson in diplomacy in Indian file the destroyer in with one another can be widened and statesmanship, this prophet front must signal before making The captain on the bridge is to include France and many of may not be such a fool as the a change of speed, otherwise straining his eyes into the dark the smaller European nations.

collisions would take place. man who laughs at him.

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