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MODERN destroyer is A

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

big job for a young man. His responsibilities are at the injunction, "Remember the

the fastest ship in the least as great as those of general next astern." Navy, and perhaps its manager of a largish business

So from time to time a flag

The

ALL PROPHETS

life is the most exciting of ashore., In a big ship at 28.he flutters up on the mast of the all of them. It is a small would still be but a small cog in ship in front. The ever-obser- ARE NOT FOOLS

vant yeoman will look through! ship, about 1,500 tons, with the wheel.

and say, "Echo All the destroyer's forces of his telescope Prophets, according to the seven officers and 160 men destruction are worked from an signalling 14 knots, sir." meaning of the word, are or thereabouts. Its job in array of controls in or near the captain will alter speed accord-

ingly. divinely inspired. But there life is to protect the big ship bridge.

Behind the bridge is the trig- An intermittent flashing from are false prophets whose inspira- from submarine and surface

for firing the destroyer's an adjoining ship means that tion is anything but divine and torpedo attacks and to at- ger

torpedoes. The torpedoes them. she is signalling by search- The yeoman others, who might like to be tack enemy ships.

selves are fired from four paral- lights in morse. known to their contemporaries It must do this whatever the lel tubes like big drain-pipes, reads this through his telescope. as having uttered deep and far-coat and without regard to its each one perhaps as long as six

seeing truths, who are no more

than fools. It is so easy to build

own safety. The big ships are men laid end to end.

the things that really count in

sea power, and the destroyer's

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS

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

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

Just above the captain is the

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. us. strange taste, they tell But the rum isn't bad.

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, Newspapers must have heard about it, for we were met on arrival by about 6,000 ricksha coolles, 2,009 people who want- ed to carry our luggage. 1,500 touts who offered to show us various dens of inlyalty 2,300 beggars.

and

ricksha

FRIENDLY RICKSHAS When we gave our coolie six coppers for taking us from the rallway slation 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. Followed us wherever we went, several and pointed us out to 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 laat 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.

We think this baby must be doing it with a circular saw. We like children, but they ahould be kept in one of these bomb-proof collars they have up, here, and fed through n chute, or have anti-aircraft gons fonded with porridge, or whatever they eat, fired at them.

Six war correspondents are gathered downstairs, waiting for a friendly us to join them in 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!

a reputation on prognostication, motto is: "The big ships must The four tubes are on the when dealing with the gullible. get through." The destroyer deck behind the funnels. They gunnery director position, a re-| As Professor Leacock once re-has changed very much since the are on a revolving turntable so volving tower which looks rather the a tank. From here marked: I tell you that in one War. It is faster. It dashes that they can be pointed in any like

ship's gunnery officer directs the hundred years we shall have through the water at 42 knots direction.

Just behind the captain are firing of the ship's 4.7 inch guns reached a point of mechanical instead of the old 35.

It can operate over a much two brass levers like the hand- by the pulling of one trigger. perfection where one presses a

larger area. The old destroyer brakes on a car. These release In front of the captain is the button and one's breakfast leaps could carry only sufficient provi- the depth charges. Depth alarm bell.. When he presses out at one; and another, and sions for 48 hours at sea. The charges are for, submarine at- this it brings everyone to "action one's bath comes trundling into modern ones, through refriger- tacks. A depth charge has ter- stations."

rific power. the room; and another, and there ation, can stay at sen 21 days.

It looks exactly Notice that it is marked Once it was a During the Italian crisis is a ready-made baby; and I ex-

like a cylinder of road tar, and "Press hard."

wrecks everything within more delicate affair, and the cap- pect you to say, "What vision!" flotilla of destroyers secretly it

went non-stop from England to scores of yards above, below or tain of at least one ship, loung- Professor Leacock may have Haifa, in Palestine, in eight days, around it when its four hundred ing against it in a leisured mo been making fun of certain of and perhaps averted a war. That pounds of high explosive blow ment was surprised to find he his acquaintances who, at that would have been impossible in up.

had let loose a storm of activity time, were predicting the com- 1918.

it, but he probably cannot be This is how a destroyer is con- But been improved and the comfort 20 knots before it can drop a

geen

himself-he hopes not- collapse of civilisation.

of them owing to his small size. of the crew's quarters consider depth charge, otherwise its own trolled. A flotilla then there is no knowing, very ably increased."

It has been proved in practice stern will be blown up. The ship (nine) manoeuvring 'is a magni- often, just what Professor The officers of a destroyer are is shaken

ficent sight. They depth even if the

are small, that the destroyer can creep up Lencock is poking fun' at. It a race of men apart. In many charge explodes half

but as agile as fly-weight to within 500 yards of a battle- boxer, and they manoeuvre like ship and remain unseen. may be himself; or his students. ways they are almost as different In any event he had not very from the big ship officers as a

Depth charges can either be soldiers on a parade gound.

Is it the enemy that the cap- soldier is from a policeman. much use for prophets.

Much of a destroyer's war- tain sees? Now is the crucial dropped over the stern by the time work and peace-time prac moment.. release lovers situated on the bridge, or they can be fired out attacks are among

tice is in night attacks. These the most either side by a pair of breath-taking experiences in the howitzers. This gives the Navy. maximum possibility of hitting the submarines.

It is so powerful that a de- from the stem to stern of the up.

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CONTACT WITH OTHER UNITS

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WORKING IN THE DARK

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Just ahead a dark object looms The destroyer captain sees

The decks

THE MEN IN DESTROYERS

"Make the challenge," he says. They love their cramped quar-

A searchlight flashes out some. code word. There is no satis are worthy of consideration. In ters. They rovel in hard work. 1858 Sir Richard Owen express- I know from my own observa-

factory reply. Now for it. The ed the hope and confidence that tion that they often work

ship makes straight for the dark the new trans-Atlantic telegraph deck and in their cabins sixteen and other "appilcations of pure hours a day.

You are dashing along at 42 object. It grows bigger. science" would tend to abolish

Just as they are drawing close. The great attraction of a de-

the pitch darkness wars all over the earth.

And in stroyer is that you get a big job corner of the bridge stands his every other light out twisting as hard as he can.

On the captain's right in the with no navigation lights and the coxswain puts the wheel over 1899 Michael Foster said that when you are young. the very grantness "of modern A man of 28 can be the first yeoman of signals, a petty of hither and thither. You have are awash, the vessel heels over.

cer or leading signalman power of destruction is already lieutenant of a destroyer, run-

nothing to guide you but the For a moment he straightens the parallel becoming a bar to its use and ning the whole ship under the the captain sees and sends mes- er in front of you.

It is through the yeoman that faint white wake of the destroy ship up and she runs

with the enemy ship. wholly to put an captain, its gunnery practice, sages to other ships in his 2nd to it,"

You would think accidents In that moment torpedoes flotilla, by flag or otherwise. were inevitable for it is rather lollop over the side with a dull sailing

Looking at the world to-day

It is a fascinating thing to like driving a series of cars in a roar. Then over with the wheel one wonders, and is inclined to

Foster's predictions have to watch orders pass to and fro on busy road without lights. Ac- again, and, if she has escaped. 16th MARCH the belief that these men were some extent come true. It is the bridge.

tually mishaps seldom occur.“ detection, the destroyer darts. misled, perhaps. And yet there not a fact that the horror of The captain says, "Signal to There was one, however, in a away. are accomplishments which tend war has made collisions im-Echo Am opening fire on enemy recent manoeuvre. Two

Firing of TORPEDOES- to support Sir Richard's view. possible. But at least the at 6,000 yards.'”

stroyers collided with a loud The four torpedoes-£6,000 There is no question but im-realisation of its destructiveness The yeoman looks this up in crash-broadside-on, fortunate worth of engineering-are proved communications, due to is a deterrent. There have been the code book and perhaps finds lyand leaped apart as though whizzing through the sea toward natural science, have been episodes and incidents in the it is sent by the flags "C.T.L." they were on springs.

their objective at 30 m.p... instrumental in drawing to past few months which a cen-He shouts to the signalman,

The doors of the night-attack- driven by compressed air motora. gether the member states of the tury, indeed twenty years ago, "Hoist Charlie Thomas Isahe." ing destroyers are so fitted that They are each, on a slightly British Empire, and so, as would have precipitated conflict. The Navy had this system be- the lights

automatically different course to increase the modern commentator points out, And it is sure that masses of fore telephone girls were born or switched off inside when they probability of a hit, having been. in spite of other centrifugal in-people to day have a repugnance thought" of Sometimes, fluences, saving its integrity. to the idea of warfare and are course, the captain knows the covers. Tinder instead of mat-

of open. The portholes have steel fired from a moving turntable.

As soon as the torpedoes are And that is not all. It is sufo far less ready to plungo into signals by heart.

ches is

fired a searchlight which has lighting battle than were their fathers to say that relations between

"Haul down George," he will cigarettes. The gun station's been burning brightly all the and grandfathers.

time behind a steel shutter in the United States and Great

lights are dim blue. Britain, and the United States So, when

Nobody laughs at idealistic Bomo

this odd The alarm bell has been press the destroyer is suddenly open- and the British Dominions, and person comes forward to say that speech. They are used to it. All ed. All the watertight doors ed. The searchlight is trained the United States themselves, the Loague of Nations may yet day the captain is giving and re- closed. There is an atmosphere on to the bridge of the enemy' are such that war between them save the world, and that the

ceiving messages from his such as is never felt on any other ship. cannot be imagined. And that British Empire's present-day re-

When destroyers are steaming

occasion. circle of countries which may be lations with its neighboura may counted upon to live at pance be an 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 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

collisiona would take place. man who laughs at him. the smaller European nations.

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