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By J. G. Lockhart

LIVES LOST WHEN FLAGSHIP GOES DOWN

Night after night in the House out certain manoeuvres. First of all in the evidence which he gave to the to jump, and they rushed in swarms of Commons, before crowded the formation was changed into two court murtial,

up the sloping deelt and tried to columns, line ahead. At this point "Directly the signal came down struggle through the ports, galleries, Gladstone and Chan- the position of the various ships 18 and the helm was put over, the ships Many of them succeeded in climb- berlain were fighting each other clear from the following diagrain. having swung about two points with Ing through, and were actually seen through the financial clauses of Camperdown 1,200 yards Vietoria the helm extreme, I said to the Ad-. clamber von who had been Inst along the ship's bottom. miral, 'We shall be very close to that Admiral ship, meaning the Camperdown. I observed refusing the lifebelt which then turned to Mr. Lawson, midship his staff-commander man, who was my aide-de camp, and went down with the ship. told him to take the distance to the Camperdown.

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ever

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brought him,

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and London was buzzing with

To the best of my recollection, It was a ghostly scene. Owing, the excitement of a royal wed- It will thus be seen that the Cam when I spoke to the Admiral he look perhaps to the attempt which had

perdown, commanded by Admiral

but made no answer at all. been made to steam for the shore, was leading the port After I spoke to Mr. Lanyon I again the engines were kept working un- The Australians had come over to Markham, anatch the Ashes, ton Thursday they column, and Admiral Tryon's ng said, 'We had better do something. til the ship sank; so that the engine

Victoria, the starboard

We shall be very close to the Cam- and furnace rooms were full of men were destroying Kent at Gravesend). ship the

this time we were who were trapped and died at their

posta.

You might go to see Mr. George chun; and that between the two perdown. All

columns there was a distance of EIX turing.

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from the British Consul at Tripoll

The Victoria, the figship of Ad-

men

tiva

columns

was

of the

blood.

When the order was given, the two rible oeuvre they met inter- forming swirl.

sixteen

to the

the

Alexander make a great hit in cables, or 1200 yards.

"I then said to the Admiral re- Probably their death was inercl- Pinera's new plece, "The Second Mrs.

The Admiral then gave a very pecu- celving no answer, May I go astern fully swift. Moreover, as the ship Tanqueray:" or, if your taster were more classical, you might visit the far order. He signalled that when full speed with the port screw? I turned over, the racing screws were Lyceum, where Mr. Henry Irving the squadron had passed the spot asked this question to the best of my forced above the surface, catching mangling many unfortunate was playing: Shylock to Miss Ellen where he proposed anchoring, the belief twice or three times quickly, and

course was to be reversed by the two one after the other. At last he said, men. Like some huge guillotine, the Terry's Portio,

lines turning inwards in succession "Yes," The port telegraph was im- blades whirled round, shearing off to There

were the usual

dinners (like partners in a country dance). mediately put full speed, and with heads and arms and legs; so that dances recepilons; and, it may be in this way the relative formation out further orders, very shortly after crown the horror of the sinking, the remembered, on that Thursday even- would be maintained when the I ordered both screws to be put full surrounding sen became red with

. Lady Tryon, wife of Sir George squadron returned to its anchorage, speed astern." Tryon, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chiet

Provided the distance between the In the Camperdown the same orders The Victoria continued to heel as Tel. 27778-9, of the Mediterranean squadron, was

sumelent, the had been given and carried out. But she went down, until the water rush- At Home In her house at Eaton-plate

manoeuvre, though unusual, Was it was too late. Slowly, inexorably, ed in at the funnels and reached the to come two hundred

guests

perfectly feasible. On the other hand, the two great ships drew near to fires. There was a loud explosion, Afterwards a curious lale was If there was not enough distance, each other; and within three and n and with screws still racing furious- whispered though never confirmed) is obvious, even to the lay mind, hair to four minutes of the beginning by the battleship disappeared in a about he

her party. One or two of the that collision was inevitable, guests. it was said, had seen enter

The sen bolled and ediled for a the drawing-room and pass through columns, as we have seen, were 1200 The Camperdown crashed into the few moments round the spot where it the famillor Agure of the hostess's yards apart. The smallest turning bows of the Victuria, rending and she had sunk, the surface was dotted husband, the Admiral.

circles

of both the Victoria and the grinding through the flagship's pro- with the heals of struggling men, Of course, it was impossible. All Camperdown were 800 yards; but tective armour. Below the water and from the depths come two the world knew tint the Admiral was their normal turning circles must line she worked an even more fatal muffled reports as the bollers burst. with his squadron in Mediterranean have been nearer 800.

mischief; for her great

eat steel ram Nearly 300 men were picked up waters, whence Lady Tryon had ar- rived only three weeks before. Still, who, therefore, the two ships ripped its way into the other ship, by the boats which hurric

In towards each other, it was much as the tusk of an elephant tears spot. Among these, It is now in- at was the story, and it in prob- clear that a point would be renched uut the vitals of its victim.

teresting to recall, was the young ubly quite untrue.

when the circles, under the mast By the force of the Impact the cummander of the Victoria, John favourable circumstances,

when the accident would Victoria was heaved sideways bodily Jellicoe, who, While London was diting and dan meel, and more probably would in- for a distance of seventy feet; and as happened, was tying in his bunk, sick

tersect

In other words, assuming she fell away from the Camperdown with fever, The time has come for Hong.ing its way through that June that the manoeuvre was carried out, she began to heel over to starboard. He rushed up on deck in his

nirendy a dreadful thing had happen- kong TO take stock of the ed.

pyjumus, managed to secure a life- The Brst rumours of L arrived its was meant to be carried out, She had been mortally wounded.

Yet on board the most perfect dis belt, and was eventually talcen into narcotic situation here, and very early on Friday morning with a cable practically simultaneously by both

Kick ships, nothing could prevent a colli- cipline prevalled. The

were one of the boats. Twenty-one years seriously endeavour to combat Syria; and by eleven o'clock, when son at the pobal of contact or in- brought up on deck, the prisoners later he was to become Commander- an evil which is showing non

affelal wire reached the Ad- tersection.

were released from the guard-room, in-Chief of the Grand Fleet signs of abating, but 4711

Although the attention of Admiral and the crews were ordered to quar- Great War. miralty, the news had become pretty the

The court martial on the collision. widely known in certain well-inform. Tryon was thrice drawn to the undue ters. contrary thrives increasingly. It¦ed circles.

proximity of the Victoria and the The men moved us on parade, and and the loss of the Victorin was held has long been a thorn in the

Camperdown, he persisted in his in carried out their orders or stood in at Maita, and opened on July 17. miral Sir George Tryon, while

and flew the following signal: their ranks in absolute silence. Some under the presidency of Admtről Sie conscience of many British manoeuvring off the coast of Syria "Second division

alter course in of them were told off to pince a col- Michael Culme-Seymour. people that

points to star- lision mat over the gaping wound in After sitting for ten days and tak- the opium trade the previous afternoon, had collided succession

good deal of evidence, the court should

have been

with another battleship, the Cam- board, preserving the order of the the bows, and continued at their hope ing

had been coun-perdown, and had sunk with fearful fleet, and the first division alter less task until the water was up to found that the disaster tenanced. While there are some loss of life.

course in succession sixteen points their walsts. They were then re- caused by the order of the Command- Tryon; er-in-Chief, Vice-admiral lo pori, preserving the order of the called and fell in with the others. The latter reports only serve to who maintain that the habitual)

confirm the news. There had been neet."

Admiral Tryon, his stoff-command- that everything possible, had been Use of opium in small some strange, inexplicable disaster, in the Camperdown Admiral er, his flag-ileutenant and a midship- done to save the ship and the lives of and Captain in which the Victoris had gone to the Markhum amounts is harmless. the bulk bottom, and with her, the Admiral, were quite at a loss to interpret the house.

Johnstone man were standing on the chart- the men in her; and that no blame

attached to Capinin Bourke.

#k

* It is all my fault," said the Ad-

* of evidence is entirely con-twenty-two officers, and three hun- order. tradictory.

thirty-seven

hnd "It is impossible," excluined the miral sadly, as the ship began to keel The opium habit dred und

The court also expressed its regret perished.

Admiral to his fag-Heutenant. "It is over, and he looked down on the that Admiral Markham had not pro- inevitably gets out of control of

waiting ranks of his men. Although, during the weeks that an Impractical manoeuvre."

When the collision took place the manoeuvre, but considered that it tested more strongly against the fatal an individual, even more easily followed, and particularly from the As the Camperdown hesitated to

the order, proceedings of the inevitable court acknowledge than the

Admiral other ships in the squadron bad at was not in the best interests of the alcohol habit.

and murtul, it became clear how the ac- Tryon signalled: "What are you once made ready to launch their Service to censure him for obeying there is

the flagship the orders of his superior offleer. no denying the incident had happened, why ti happen waiting for?" In his doubt Mark- bouts. But presently sidiousness

either. of

The

ed remained, and still remains, some ham signalled back that the order signalled "Annul sending boats,"

Although the proceedings of the thing of mystery.

was not understood. He then con- is believed that the Admiral then court established beyond reasonable ridiculous claim that opium, and Yet there is plenty of evidence sulted again with his caption, and to intended to steam toward the shore, doubt the sequence of events which its derivatives, can cure such for the principal facts. On Thursday, gether they came to the conclusion which was not very far away; but led to the collision, they did little, it

June 22, the Brush Mediterranean

that the manoeuvre must be attempt- the end was too near

solve the mystery which things as tuberculosis and

el, squadron, under the Tommynd of

Some ten minutes after the collision anything, to

people found, and still find, most venereal disease has tempted | Vice-odmiral Sir George Tryon, left "We have got to do it," said Mark- the Admiral turned to his staff-com- balling about the whole affair. How mander and said, "I hink she's go was it that Admiral Tryon ever came thousands to use this dangerous the disaster took place, the squadron,

Beyrout for Tripoll. Shortly before Probably, they rensoned, the Com- ing

to give the fatal order? drug, to their complete undoing, which consisted of eleven battleships, which was not yet apporent. He was rep

mander-in-Chief had Rome

"Yes, sir, I think she is," was the plan

When we recall the fuels, the pro- There is a great difference be the formation known as line abreast. and it was unthinkable that he was that the midshipman was still stand tacticians and experienced sailors in

was steaming at about eight knots in

The Admiral then signalled "Send ever.

blem becomes more puzzling than a skilful and experienced tactician.

The admiral had the reputa- boats immediately." tween relief and cure. It is un-

and noticing tion of being one Before making the evening an-

of the most skilful thinkable

medical/chorage the Admiral proposed to carry intending to carry out an evolution Ing by his side, he said. "Don't stop the that any

which

must end in a collision

Royal Navy. He had held a practitioner would recommend.

Afterwards Markham stated that there, youngster: go to a boat." But mu

number of important posts with cure for venereal] going to put a stop to a dirty to circle round his divisioning the boy stayed and went down with credit. He belonged to the newe quor' as a

he thought Tryon might be

his chief. although

school of scientific scomen. He had, discuses; and it is just as pre-organised business.

the message certainly did not suggest

The men had fallen in with their for instance, recently reorganised

whole system of posterous to assert that opium The emergency is particularly such an interpretation. At any rate, bucks in the bulwarks, but on the sur

coastguard the Camperdown signalled back that order "Right about turn" they turn signals. is a specific for consumption, I grave because of the increasing the order was understood, and the broke the ranks or tried to jump; court murilal it was clear that he ed and faced the sen. Not a man From the evidence given at the Such dreadful theories should widespread use of heroin and two leaders begun to turn inwards.

other such drugs, much worse

near as was the end, the discipline enjoyed the entire confidence of the be exploded.

in their effect upon the addict

held.

officers under his command. In fact, What followed on board the flog- To get down to cases, not a than opium. And heroin pills ship is best described by the cap- turning slowly right over as she did Admiral Markham that his chief could So the Victoria began to go down, it was largely the conviction of day goes by that Revenue are cheap. A few cents are suf-tain, the Honourable Maurice Bourke, so, An officer shouted to the men not be contemplating the manoeuvre Officers, fighting a tireless cam-ficient to purchase enough of these deadly, little pink pills paign, do not discover some thoroughly to poison the system new branch of the narcotic in-and shatter the nerves. And it dustry in Hongkong. It is not does not take many such invest- a far-fetched assumption to say ments to make a man or woman that hundreds of opium divans an addict. They do not know it, known to them during the past but the smokers of these pills several yours have been raided, are experimenting with a purti- cularly unpleasant form of but that other hundreds have death. It is just a question of never been discovered. It is not how long they can resist. untrue to say that in spite of

There are eures-yes. their splendid laboura the Re- this is not the time to talk of venue Officers are not aufficient cures. This is the time to strike with all the force at the com- ly numerous to combat this

mand of the authorities to wipe growth effectively. And there out a disgusting growth which is a growth. The raiding squads is well on the way to making will be the first to admit it. this. British Colony a horror- They know. They probably also hole like Mukden wus-and pos know, or guess, that they are up sibly still is, if eye-witness against something bigger than evidence given to the Opium

Advisory

exham.

But

of the

Committee a few thousands of petty dis-League of Nations is to be be- tributors of narcotics. The fact lieved. In Hongkong we cane a that they can raid a premises purse snatcher; but offendera one day, imprison the keeper, against the narcotic laws are seize the stock of narcotica and treated with relative leniency. the paraphernalia of the dream Their punishment to fit their. trade, and return to find the crime could be increased ten- place operating again a matter fold. And while they are not of a few hours afterwards, in- the people whom the authorities| dicates that the organisation is would like to reach, they are widespread and efllclent. There the servants of those hidden may be more than one big ring criminals who are causing so operating here, but it is a cor- much misery, and an example tainty that the arrest of the made of them might discourage keepers of these divans is not their successoTH,

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

Cope, 1ral by talked g'onlara Kymäento, Im

It

which the signal seemed to indicate that induced him to comply with the order. Nor does the evidence in any way help to elucidate a problem

By Lichty which appeared to be largely psycho-

U.S. WEATHER BUREAU

<EF FORECASTER

5.30

"Nice morning, Miss Smith-followed by rain Jate in the afternoon? |

Jogical.

If

It had transpired that Admiral Tryon was absent-minded or care- less or deaf, or subject to fits of mental aberration, an explanation might have been suggested. But the evidence flatly contradicted nny theory of the kind. It all served to show that the admiral was a

and cool. well-balanced, cfcient experienced sailor.

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The mystery deepens when we consider what netually took place in the flagship. The officers principally concerned were the Admiral him- self, Captain Bourke, Captain Haw- king Smith, the staff-commander, and Lord Gilford, the ng-lieutenant.

In the early afternoon, when the coming manoeuvres were being dis- cussed, both Bourke and Hawkins Smith suggested to the Admiral that the distance of six cables between the two columns was insufficient, and the Admiral seems to have agreed that it should be increased to eight,

The Staff-commander then went on deck,

the and shortly afterwards Admiral sent for Lord Gilford and gave him the definite order to be transmitted by signal to the squadron. While the order itself was verbal, the Admiral actually took the troubic to write the figure on a piece of. paper, which he handed to the Flag- Ileutenant. Gilford then went off and showed the paper to the Staff- commander, who insisted that there must have been some misunderstand- ing, sinem. It had been 'agreed that the (Continued on Page 5.)