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'Phone 26615 April 3, 1939
Gangsterism
THE British troops in Palestine
are up against two hostile forces. One is the Arab rebellion. The other is what the War Office in an oficial statement recently called a "campaign of lying and exaggerated propa- ganda" directed against them by "persons and organisations un- friendly to this country."
First came a complete exonera- tion for the conduct of British officers and men. "The character
YE OLDE TREASURY
JOINT
BRITISH NAVY.
Stai WITH APOLOGICS TO POPEYE
THE OTHER POPEYE: "HII MATE,THROW US THE TINS TO SCRAPE!"-
Why
T
HE LAUNCHING last month, of the new battleship King George V. was a first-class naval occasion.
She was the first battle- ship to take the water since 1925, when H.M. ships Nel- son and Rodney were launched, and she is the first of the five new battle- ships now under construc- tion to commission:
Though details of her design are secret, it is under- stood that she and her sister
of the British soldier is too well ships will be of 35,000 tons
known to nced vindication."
That tribute will be supported not
only by his own countrymen but by the peoplo of every land to which he has been sent, na well
as by his opponents in the field.
“The Forces in Palestine"are"not"
displacement, 30 knots speed, and mounting 14-inch guns, heavy anti-aircraft batteries and 13,000 tons of
armour.
fighting a normal enemy. They TWO FURTHER battleships,
are working to
sterism
Against them
suppress
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gang- scale.
are ranged not more than 1,000 to 1,500 permanent active rebels. But these form only the nucleus of armed SANER, brought together often by ter rorism and intimidation.
These bodies form, fight, and scatter then reappear elsewhere. Their lenders quarrel among them- selves. Rebels and peaceful citizens are "inextricably mixed." Every village, every house almost, must be suspected of harbouring -willingly or unwillingly-armed
terrorists.
British soldiers are subject to the most cowardly forms of attack. Their enemies, are the Jurking ambusher, the sniper, the gunman who fires in the dark. It ig heartbreaking work for trained fighting men, yet they are facing it with discipline and courage...
In the words of the official state. ment, there is "no alternative" to military action, Murder and outrago must be suppressed if order is to be restored to the country, and innocent civilians are to be allowed to live their lives in
peace,
The only possible method is n patient system of "check and search." The means adopted to comb out rebels are well known to the inhabitanta, and those who are caught in the machine have only themselves to blame.
Kid-glove methods are useless! against organised criminals, but it is possible to temper severity with reason: That is being done
in Palestino.
reported to be of 40,000 tons,
to meet suspected increases in the tonnage of new Japanese bat- tleships, were voted in the 1938 estimates, but these two ships have not yet apparently been ordered, a fact which may indi- cate doubts as to Japanese inten- tions, if not as to the desirability of building battleships of such great individual tonnage and cost.
Britain Builds
Y
Big Ships
by
CAPT. B. ACWORTH COPYRIGHT
provement
BUT THAT is past history; and destroyers, and a great im-
what of the present?
in personnel and The building programme in stores. The present British and hand has as yet not greatly in- French fleets combined are, it is But the launch of the King creased strength in ships over true, superior to any possible George V, is more than an im- the 1935 position, though there European combination in their portant incident in Britain's re- is some improvement in cruisers major units. armament programme; she is a symbol in the minds of naval officers and men, and of the general public, of the awakening of Britain from her maritime sleep.
Though throughout Britain'a history sea power, has proved her salvation, and though after every major war England has forgotten its lesson, seldom, if ever, has the country allowed itself to sink to such a dangerous points of nava' unpreparedness as prevailed in 1935, a year in which the country came within an ace of what might have proved another world war, ko
Taking twenty years as the under-age limit of modern war- ships the under-nge fleet of 1914 consisted of 70 battleships, 96 cruisers, 186 destroyers and 97 submarines.
In 1935, with the world' in 'a highly disturbed state, in the East is well as the West, and with two of Britain's old allies
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potential opponents, the and 62 submarines, and even under-age fleet had destroyers
this shrunken, fleet included many now ships still under construction and old ships Furthermore, the fleat undergoing raconstruction.
Was short of personnel and of essen- tial stores.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
At the present moment the British and French flects com- bined include 26 battleships and 112 cruisers.
In the case of these heavier ahips, therefore, it is clearly possible to divide the combined. fleet, and to institute an effective blockade in the North Sea and. Mediterranean.
But in the absence of a suffl- cient number of convoy escort. vessels British merchant ships nre still insecure against sub- marine action in home waters and in the Mediterranean, and, indeed, in the seas and oceans of the world, in view of the great
submarine fleets of other Eur-
opean nations.
如
IF, HOWEVER, the Japanese Navy is included in a possi- bly hostile combination, the com- pletion of a part of the re-arma-- ment programme must be await- ed before Britain can regard herself as secure, and a great deal more than the present building programme if she wishes to be independent through. her own aca supremacy."
During the next two years. the Navy will be strengthened by two battleships, 24 destro- yers, 14 submarines, four escort: vessels and four large aircraft. carriers.
By 1942, with the new battle- ships (including the two which, as recently announced, are part. of the 1939 programme) coming: into commission, and the com-
pletion of a large programme of other new construction to be laid down during his and next year, the nation may expect to be prepared at. sen ngainst any con-
By Lichty ceivable attack,
1020 by teked Tydlove Synkleste, Jai.
"It was simply beautiful-1 never saw so many people cry at
wedding before!
But if the launching of the King George V is a symbol of the restoration of visible sen power, still more does it symbo lise the re-birth of the national maritime spirit, and of the.. enthusiasm and keenness of the officers and seamen who minn the
fleet,
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NO LONGER need all but the
favoured few look forward to retirement and oblivion at, or evon before, the prime of life.. An expanding fleet and a tom- porary shortage of personnel is the sailors millennium, for in such circumstances every Junior officer and man can, subject to his own exertions, be sure of promotion to posts of responsi- bility.
No longer are fleet exercises- and gunnery practices a "dull routine, as for so many years. they havo been liable to be. To day there is alertness and. enthusiasm aflont, arising from the knowledge that the times are dangerous, and that the Navy may be called upon, at a moment's notice, to prova itself again the nation's bulwark. S
The high spirit and morale of
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