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Britain Drops Out

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RITISH NAVY, Army and Air Force chiefs are meeting in Singapore this week to dis- cuss defence in the Pacific.

One thing they've forgotten to put on their Agenda is British shipping.

While Britain dithers, America and Japan build liners to drive the British flag out of the

Pacific.

An-

has a shabby

front door

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-by-

NORMAN HILLSON

TO-MORROW THEY'RE GOING TO TALK IN PARLIAMENT ABOUT THE MONEY SPENT BY THE COLONIAL OFFICE

OOK on the picture of the Governor of a Colony sitting on the verandah of his official residence. That morning he has perhaps reviewed the native

garrison,

If he happens to be Governor of Hongkong he may have seen three battalions line up on the drill ground with their colours and drums. If he is stationed at Malta he may have made a tour of the Fleet in the grand harbour of Valetta.

Or perhaps he has just returned from a session of the Exe- cutive Council or a meeting of the Legislature where his casting vote has given emphasis to his already wide powers. He has driven to the council in his official car or in an open carriage escorted by cavalry or native police.

He is entitled to a salute of organisation seems to be on simi- guns. He must be accorded lar lines. every dignity by foreign mis- sions or ships visiting his capi-. tal. For he is the representa- |

A Forlorn Staircase

tive of the King in an outpost of NEARLY opposite the Privy Council Office in the great British Empire.

Downing-street there is a low Within his own particular door. On one side is a plate governorship he is ruler. For "Colonial Office" and on the the most part he is responsible other "Dominions Office." It only to the Crown and the home gives entry to a dingy basement Government as typified in the and a bleak, forlorn stone stair- Colonial Office. Government case.

House is the political as well as It is the entrance most favour- social centre of the territory toed by the two Secretaries of

which he is appointed.

State.

In certain colonies, like Gibral-

As you approach the stairs tar, Malta, Aden, Kenya, and your path is almost blocked by Jamaica, he also holds important great piles of brown paper par- military as well as administra-cels. The high walls were once. painted in a bright creamy

tive powers.

In the Pacific we are cutting 000.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

5-201

mák, te katted Puslars Arunloade. Bea

"Why, Margia! I hardly recognized you-you're doing your mouth up different, aren't you?"

TO-DAY marks the twentieth anniversary of the scuttling of the German Fleet off the Orkney Islands. In this article Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper, the author of "The Truth About Jutland," &c., recalls the drama of the intern- ment and "honourable suicide” of this vast fleet.

Suicide Of A Navy

in

great battle-cruiser Hindenburg hadtion in Gaye completely shat-

all

the

In places like Borneo his power colour, but to-day they are drab is chiefly dependent on the wise and dreary through the ne dom with which he governs, the cumulation of years of dirt. natives and the ability of the And that applies to the ma-' Following last month's

various Residents who are sta-jority of the rooms and corridors nouncement that an American tioned in the more remote places. in the part of the building occu-TO-DAY is the twentieth anniver- to consider briefly the circumstances steamship line, aided by State such positions, although they

A certain glamour attaches to pied by Colonial Office staff.

sory of the greatest destruction of their internment. As part of the of marine power, in one day, known terms of the Armistice it was agreed subsidy, is to build three vessels may be most

The staircase climbs to the throughout the ages.

that the German High Seas Fleet monotonous and ground floor and the main en- at £2,000,000 apiece for the onerous.

The toll of that day was fifty modern should surrender, unconditionally, to trans-Pacific service, come re-

trance from the yard of the fighting ships, some large, some small; our Grand Fleet; and this great sur- Sometimes he receives a very Foreign Office. Here is a wide cruisers, cruisers, torpedo-bout des-1918.

dreadnought battlestilps, battle-render took place on November 21, ports from Tokyo of yet two comfortable salary. For example passage completely devoid of troyers gone to the botton by more Japanese ships of 27,000- the Governor of Nigeria is paid any decoration except a model or ne

After a stay of a day or two in the tons each. Only three days ago £6,500 a year. In Jamaica the of an old liner and a reproduc-at Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, has the surrendered German Ficet pro- Firth of Forth..during which a care-. -sinking of the German Fleet ful inspection was made, the units of a Japanese ship gained the Blue salary of the Governor is £5,500 tion of Scott's Discovery both been brought before the public from ceeded under escort to what was to Riband, previously held by a the Governor of such a pictures-

and in Trinidad even more. But half hidden in shadow.

time to time by the publication of

The Canadian liner, for the trans-que island as St. Helena has to

The Dust Of Months

reports dealing with the salvage of Prove to be their last anchorage. these vessels.

ships were interned In the compara- Pacific crossing.

tively isolated anchorage at Scapa be content with a miserly £1,- ABOVE is another stair-

Owing to international and other Flow, in the barren, treeless, and case and underneath it in regard to salvaging the scuttled which Admiral Jellicoe took his Fleet reasons, no active sleps were taken bleak Orkney Islands, the Base from a sorry picture in both air and But no

matter what their a faded model of the College of fleet until the Spring of 1924. An to meet these same ships at the Battie sea services. Most of our pas-salaries or the amenities attach-Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, farge German floating dry dock, de-

enterprising Arm then acquired of Jutland.·. senger ships to England and to ing to the various appointments, and a table piled high with filles, signed for submarine repair and test- Australia are .old worn-out each Governor of a Colony has heavy in dust and dirt, which ing work, which poved adaptable to

wide powers. vessels. Only the Canadian

He is the repre- have not been disturbed for In no case was the depth of water tween the ships, but no ship was al- the peculiar salvage work in prospect. Communication was permitted be- liners are modern and speedy. position is symbolic of the great

sentative of the King. His months.

very great in the positions occupied lowed to move and ofleers and men The British air service to Hong British Empire, which includes where lies a book in which many

On the other side. is a table by the sunken ships; some of them were not allowed to land. Before the had their upper works visible, and surrender took place the mutiny in kong compares terribly with the one-quarter of the world's sur- of the 300 oficials-the men and grea

some were totally submerged. The the High Seas Fleet and the revolu modern plantes placed on this face.

women who work in this desolate, settled down on her keel, in an up-

had had all route by American, French and The picture we have been look-atmosphere-have to sign their right position, her masts and funnels

and-navol dis Chinese lines. Down in the ing at is one in which glamour, names on arrival in the morning. salvage to be anything but a simple

the interned and although showing; but events proved her was nominally under the com- southern Pacific, Americans are social status, the dignity of rank,

This is the environment of the matter.

of Admiral von Reuter, he had running test flights between the the pomp of ceremony play a office of our great Empire. If

little practical nuthority over After one or two failures this great Supreme Sallors Soviet which was in United States and Canada be- part.

you explore the upper floors you ship was finally raised and towed, virtual control, although, of course, fore Britain even thinks of the

will find rooms with completely dockyard at Rosyth for breaking up neither the knowledge nor the ability as were other salvaged ships, to the the leaders of this Sailors' Soviet had Pacific as something worth fly-

Inadequate lighting and very Other great battleships were lying to administer or navigate a single ing over.

AND now look at the little ventilation. The furnish-on their side, some fully, and others ship, much less a fleet,

London headquarters ing are almost universally of a sented a problem in itself. In the partly, submerged. Each ship pro- Surely Britain will be goaded of our Colonial Empire, a head-quality which would be rejected case of some of them, notably

A week or two later German trans- to action in the face of all this quarters in environment

the ports arrived to remove the officers well-by a common lodging-house. light-cruiser Bremse and the battle-and men surplus to those permitted subsidised competition in the air nigh incredible in its shabbiness. Officials complain, but say that ship Kaiser, the ships, after being by the terms of the Armistice to and on the sea,

Most people know that the they can do nothing. It is all a Scapa Flow to the Firth of Forth.

raised, were towed upside-down from remain on board. Much bickering British security and British Colonial Office is somewhere in matter, they will tell you, of

took place as to who should stay and who should go, but anally the matter prestige are surely worth some-Whitehall. Yet although it is something mysterious called

was decided and the transports salled, thing.

the hub of the greatest Empire "the establishment." Then,

leaving behind two hundred men for in the world, it is impossible to again, there are dark references extending over many years, connected

The long months of arduous work, each of the smaller ships. point out to the stranger exactly to the activities of Treasury off with the raising of these ships, will Admiral von Reuter experienced.

type cruisers, H.M.S. Fiji, has among the corridors of a huge

one the world's greatest salvage peace between the way penny of expenditure.

feats.

From time to time we have factions in his undisciplined fleet. Three hundred officials, as I read a short notice in the Press, or Quarrels, even blows between the Red commissioned. Fiji and her four Foreign Office, the India Omce, lected rooms. cor launched und will shortly be building, which also contains the say, are crowded into these neg-placed at a picture of one of these Guard, and a White Guard formed slators-Mauritius, Kenya, Nigeria and the Honie Office.

When the crisis leviathans in tow of tugs, without ap- among the loyal sailors, were com

precioling the patience, cadurance mon. If these quarrels led to blood- and Trinidad-are a sort of half-

came last September it WAS and skill of those directing operations; ahed it would mean British guards way house between the big South- The Colonial Office finds ac-found that the foundations were or the hardships, even dangers, en-being placed on board. This nt all ampton on China Station and the commodation where it can. It weak and that, they would not countered in such work.

costs; von Reuter felt, must be avoided. does not seem to have any be- possibly support the fabric of selves how these German ships came Reds became uncontrollable; von

But many will have asked them- The violence grew,

the undisciplined: of 8,000-tons displacement, they ginning; and it ends up some the heavy building above. In to be lying on the bottom of a British Reuter's efforts, to regain control will carry 6-inch guns. They are where in an upper floor under consequence, all the basement harbour and, what is gained by rals hung by a thread, until, much against all due for completion carly next the roof.

offices have been evacuated sog .them.

his will, he appealed to the British Even the rooms have no re-that the space could be made in-steels of shipbuilding and engineering over the interned ships,

recovered yielded Squadron which acted as watch-dog The material Now why isn't Hongkong in-gular numerical order. After to a reinforced A.R.P. shelter, qualities, lend, copper, and cluded when the choice of names visiting Number 98 you suddenly now slowly approaching comple-ships which do not deteriorate by upheld, and von Reuter was de for warships named after Colonfes Tind yourself knocking at a room tion.

materials used in the construction of Properly constituted authority must submersion. The principal markets Reds would be confined in a British

sured

that if an emergency arose the was considered. This great for next door numbered 208, or the The officials, released from found for these materials were in our tress has never been represented in the Navy List. Yet we subscribe like. The official explanation is their dungeon-like surroundings, own country, in the United States ship. This mild threat had the de- moro to Imperial Defence, than any that these rooms once belonged had to squeeze in as best they which the ships had their birth, among the men kept comparatively sired effect, and the mischief-makers even in Germany, the country in other Colony and are numbered as to the Home Office and that the could in the already overcrowded How was it that this dect came to quiet one of the Empire's major naval, higher numbers were just takon regions in the upper floora. be lying on the sea bottom at Scopn

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