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Fair-Weather School BY saying to ourselves as we go the morning, "It's going to be fine to-day" we can doubtless keep our spirits up for

out In

before being appointed to a sub- be forbidden.

marine. Also, he must have an The number of men allowed exceptionally high level of intel- on the bridge depends on cir- ligence, for the modern sub- cumstances. In war-time more marine is one of the most intri- than two men were. never ente and delicate masses of allowed up, sometimes none. machinery, in the world, and One might have to dive hur- requires not only careful handl- riedly, and time would be lost ing. but intelligent understand- in getting them inside. Strange ing.

ly, one does not feel the need of

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It is a service in which quick a smoke in diving. wits and steady nerves are. When diving, as few men as essential, for one falsé move or possible are on active duty.! one hurried or "panicky" move. The rest remain in their bunka ment on the part of one man sleeping or reading. The reason may mean the loss of the lives is that a resting man uses less of everyone on board.

oxygen.

It seems to be established that the American submarine,

Squalus was lost through the COOKING is also practically failure of a valve; yet this may

confined to the times one is not have been a mechanical on the surface. During dives failure; a failure of personnel we live on "submariners' com-

forts"-tinned foods, Meat goes! the mistake of one man could bad in submarines. have had exactly the sume effect.

... Fritz Kreisler the moment; but it might beWHEN the submarine service Benno Moiseiwitsch more serviceable in the long run

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* Good morning, sunshine 1* "Go to blazes 1;"! "Now, now temper | That's not like mummy's little blue- eyed boy."

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"Oh, go and climb a tree. I hope "you get a thick head like mine."

Teach you to jeer." "Thank you, I can jeer perfectly- well- I don't need any lessons. As for the thick head so long. as I stick to 'Gimlets or have a ̈ stifk: glass of Rose's lime juice, before I-glide beneath my mos ́ ́quito net — I'll never get one.”-

"You'll get one now if you don't clear out.Pause.] What did you say about lime juice ?" "My dear fellow-the path- ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol content falls rapidly after ad- ministration of "Rose's Lime Juice the stomach..."

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the

The British Government have now joined

Fair-Weather School. They bid us east off the "jitters"-though they were the only and original "Jitter bugs." In the words of a song popular a few years back, we are moved to

nak-

How in the------

Can the old folks tell

I ain't gonna rain no more?

One-of-the-solid facts-making

for peace is undoubtedly British rearmament. A second fact which cases the situation for the time being is that the aggressive- minded States are having a bad time economically.

For the time being Italy and Germany have to go slow. But their economic difficulties afford no ground for long-term optimism. If these difficulties become really acute, the dictators might hold

I remember an incident in the China seas. The petty officers' mess spent all its savings on buying a gigantic ham. Two days out I had to order it to be "buried at sea."

The newer types of sub-

have marines

refrigerators.

was first started in 1902, the "spit and polish" snobs of the quarter-deck contemptuously referred to it as "The trade." Thoy should add materially to The submariner rarely looked the comforts of the men. beautiful in frock., coat and sword; more usually he was in dirty dungarees,

In those

days submarines,

Submarines do not carry a supply of air for breathing. The compressed air carried is for "blowing the tanks." There is tiny little affairs, were, driven breathing, since the diving en- no need, indeed, to carry air for by an ordinary petrol engine. durance of a submarine depends Petrol was a chancy thing to not on the length of time the air have about, particularly in 4 will last, but upon the capacity confined space with electrical of the electric apparatus. machinery which might give off sparks at any moment.

Living quarters are naturally

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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"I don't want a nap---my marcel cost plenty, and I'm not going to have it mussed!"

The

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By NOEL

Marseilles.

MONKS

"beat." leaving Eastern waters to the Royal Navy,

Britons As "Foreigners"

small, but they are no smaller SITTING at case in one of the Most of the serious accidents than formerly, for while in- famous Canneblere sidewalk in those days were due to petrol numerable new gadgets have cafes I scrawled in my work-a-day dlary: "Finisited Mediterranean

ENERAL IRONSIDE, by the explosions. _Men __could only been introduced, and though the job. All quiet these parts."

XX way, raised the merry dickens watch the engines for a few machinery is more complex and It gave me great pleasure to write over the German nursemaid who hours at a time, and even then larger, the size of the sub-that, because last time I was in these gate-crashed the flock last week they finished their duty in a marine has correspondingly in-waters state of intoxication

from creased, fumes.

Hence the introduction of

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white mice by which to measure THE modern submarine is the pollution of the atmosphere. entirely different proposition, But the men made pets of the both for attack and defence, little "benstics," put them as far from the old-even from those as possible from the engines and we used in the last war. a defeated their object.

I wrote in that diary: without even showing her passport, "Bombed at a.m. Ship rocked on I'd hate to be the next person to try her beam ends, Chart-room door to fool the port authorities. blown in on Danish observer and

At Gibraltar now, even Britons are self, but neither of us hurt much."

classed as "foreigners."

Native-born I was aboard the British tramp Gibraltarians only have the right of sicamer Humsterley then, and we citizenship. And there are no more were off Tarragona, in Spanish Re loyal citizens under the Crown than pubilean waters. There was a war the Gibraltarinus, in spite of their on. Bombs were falling thick in termed "Reds" by Fascists and "anti- those parts. There were for heal- British" by the "Reds." That's just little class war that goes on in any After all, it was only three or thier spots than Mare Nostrum. All Was Peaceful four years before the war that

Over in was recognised that sub- BUT to-day, after my peaceful there is much talk of war, but 50 and were not merely of use marines had an offensive value, journey up from Gibraltar in there is in Hyde Park on Sundays.

to the Pond 0, liner Strathaird, the Undoubtedly there's a spot of arms defend ports.

outlook

seems much more normal. smuggling going on in the Spanish To-day, our latest sub- Now that the Spanish war is ended, Zone, but into the French 70 as "discharged dead." The re- marines can sail half round the Balearics are open again, and we

the regular shipping lanes Inside the arms are pouring quite openly--so

there's Another factor making for sult was that, judged by the world without the need of re-cut several hours off our passage.

your safety-valve. The Moors who fought for Franco pence is the firm stand official mortality of mice, sub- fuelling. In the last war they was sunbathing on the deck as against Spaniards (their natural

war-to-be-tho only way out-

us not to exaggerate the change

The great story is of the Irish priest who kindly took these mice from the men and agreed to look after them. They were accounted for on the store lists

Ismail Timotion in the bazaars,

pirate" submarines. No mines.. in your face. No bombs. No English, anyhow.

again.

taken on the democratic sido by marine air was always too foul were often at sea for ten or we steamed past Majorca. I raised enemies) aren't going to fight against myself on my elbow and looked over. their brothers In the International American statesmen; they, how-to support human life!

twelve days, operating away By Instinct, I strained my cars. Zone if they can help it. ever, would be the first to advise

from their ship. To-day it is Could hear nothing.

There are roughly 25,000 Moors nothing unusual for them to be

Then

over in the direction living peacefully and happily in the looked out in American policy.

TO-DAY there are

no white in peace-time exercises.

at sea seven or eight days even of Valencia, where night after night Tangler Zone.As far as I could and I used to lay awake listening-listen out, their main grievance was that didn't show himself The end of the Spanish war is

Ing for the raiders from Majorca, the Sultan mice, but the scientific au-

It is on these occasions that Nearly always I'd fall asleep, to be among them often enough. I think ground for optimism. No doubt thorities are always worried the men are trained in emer-wakened by the crash of bombs, the Administration has something General Franco will soon catab-about the air in submarines.

gencies.

shricks of humans, the boom of A.-A there. They should take it up with lish his rule over all Spain, but allowed when diving. Actually, Smoking, naturally, is not

A submarine rarely puts to us. Majorca's death squadron had, the Sultan. sea without a that may be the beginning of after a dive of a few hours there,

"crash dive." come again."

But all was peaceful as we came The Lights Are On Again The men do not know when it past this time. It was healthy there trouble rather than the end. would not be enough oxygen to is coming.

IF trouble comes to Morocco I In the blue Mediterranean, with the don't, think the Moors will start Apart from these factors, there keep a cigarette alight. Yet The commander breaks the hot sun on your back and the breeze it--not against tho French and has been no fundamental change there is no sensation or discom- switch and presses the hooters. In the European aituation. Herr fort unless one is diving. for a All lights go out. The sub- Hitler has never retracted one of very long time. In that case, marine dives. Then he leaves one gets a bit warm and short the men to sort things out as the aims in "Mein Kampf." At

best they can-timing them by of breath, present the Nazis are keeping Normally a submarine, under a stopwatch. It is an invaluable quiet while their Ally in the Farwar conditions, or carrying out training. Enat sets the pace,

exercises, dives just as dawn is Optimiam is justified by the coming up and goes to the sur

dark. factors we have mentioned. But face as soon as it ia

vances in naval construction. it should be kept within reason-During the war, submarines and science, no one can say the operating in the far north in submarine is a pleasant service. the summer often had to dive It never can be. A man's first It would almost certainly be more than eighteen hours a duty is his ship. There can be ed helter-skelter to Gibraltar two no one really knows much

The 14 French warships that rush-t but ready for anything.

in across the Straits,

Spain, found that the trained exports of day,"

except no hard and fast roster on a months ago have departed without that the war has officially ended the Foreign Office, do not share Even at the end of a long dive, submarine. If a thing is wrong even an official farewell. They just with Franco's long-delayed - victory the blithe confidence of No. 10. the atmosphere in a submarine it must be put right. A 24- steamed out to sea one day and didn't march. After two and a half years

come back, Gibraltar misses up the value remains crystal clear; but as hour duty is by no means un cheery "matelets," with their pom-

ckout, the lights have gone up. In trying to bump

coast, from of their stock by bucket-shop soon as she comes to the surface common.

pon caps. and nice manners.

Seville to methods the Government are in and the hatch is opened so that Nor can quarters be really

But they'll be back again if the Suld one of the Strathaird's navi- the atmosphere inside comes in comfortable. There is no room. Rock's Governor, General Sir Ed-gation officers: "I a darned good. danger of magnifying the almum contact with the air outside, a Yet it is wonderful how com- mund Ironside; thinks he needs them. thinks to see them again." which will inevitably follow,

In any case, the Western Mediter-・・ Mare Nostrum seem lier, old seif ́donse,white fog riscs from tho PLEASE Tum To Pago 5; 14

ranean 'lf: now the French-Navy's] ngsin. *-

able bounds.

It is the anti-democracy foreign Mare Nostrum stems her old self clement in the International Zone who are playing at powder monkeys. Sara enough, all's quiet from And they are liable to get hurt. Gibraltar to Maraeilles. I'll admit Eighteen years ago the Riffs mas- some Franco soldiers and prisoners sacred 18,000 Spanish soldiers, ambled down to the Neutral Ground, A hundred and fifty years ago a few hundred yards from the British son sald: "It Tangler doesn't belong sentry-past, and started digging, dit- to England, then no one Power must ches the day before I left the Rock ever own it." Wise words.

But I took my cue from the Tom- Over in the French Zone General EVEN to-day, with all the ad- mies. I spoke with at the frontier, Noques is putting his men through

and. amiled:

They paid: "It we some light manoeuvres. I received really hud to take Algeciras, a few an invitation to witness them, but long was unable to accept. The French

wouldn't hold

tho

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