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Britain Drops Out

BRITISH NAVY, Army and

has a shabby

front door

L

by

NORMAN HILLSON

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

OFFICE

COLONIAL

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 four 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 far 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 the most part he is responsible other "Dominions

on the 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- Air Force chiefs are meeting social centre of the territory toed by the two Secretaries of

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.

Following last month's an- nouncement that an American steamship line, aided by State subsidy, is to build three vessels at £2,000,000 apiece for the trans-Pacific service, come re-

which he is appointed.

In certain colonies, like Gibral- tar, Malta, Aden, Kenya, and Jamaica, he also holds important military as well as administra-

tive powers.

State.

As you approach the stairs your path is almost blocked by great piles of brown paper par cols. The high walls were once painted in a bright creamy In places like Borneo his power colour, but to-day they are drab is chiefly dependent on the wis-and dreary through the ac- dom with which he governs the cumulation of years of dirt. natives and the ability of the various Residents who are sta-jority of the rooms and corridors And that applies to the ma- tioned in the more remote places. in the part of the building occu-T A certain glamour attaches to pied by Colonial Office staff. such positions, although they

onerous.

The Dust Of Months

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Poster

"Why, Margie! 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.

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Suicide Of

A Navy

O-DAY is the twentieth anniver-to consider briefly the circumstances

the bottom by After a stay of a day or two in the The sinking of the German Fleet tul Inspection was made, the units of Firth of Forth, during which a care-

and

sary of the greatest destruction jpf their internment. As part of the of marine power, in one day, known terms of the Armistice it was agreed may be most monotonous and ground floor and the main en-nighting ships, some large, some small; our Grand Fleet; and this great sur-

The staircase climbs to the throughout the ages.

that the German High Sens Fleet The toll of that day was fifty modern should surrender, unconditionally, to trance from the yard of the dreadnought Sometimes he receives a very Foreign Office. Here is a wide crukers, cruisers, torpedo-boat des. 1910.

battleships, battle render took place on November 21, ports from Tokyo of yet two comfortable salary. For example passage completely devoid of troyers gone to more Japanese ships of 27,000- the Governor of Nigeria is paid any decoration except a model voluntary action. tous each. Only three days ago £6,500 a year. In Jamaica the of an old liner and a reproduc-at-Scapa Flow, in the Orlancys, has le surrendered German Fleet pro- a Japanese ship gained the Blue salary of the Governor is £5,500 tion of Scott's Discovery both been brought before the publle from seeded under escort to what was to

and in Trinidad even more. But half hidden in shadow. Riband, previously held by a the Governor of such a pictures-

time by the of reports dealing with the salvage ofrove to be their lust anchorage. The Canadian liner, for the trans-que island as St. Helena has to

these vessels,

ships

were interned in the capa tively isolated anchorage at Pacifle crossing.

be content with a miserly £1-

Owing to international and other Flow, in the barren, treeless, ABOVE is another stair- reasons, no active steps were taken bleak Orkney Islands, the Base from In the Pacific we are cutting | 000.

case and underneath it in regard to salvaging the scuttled which Admiral Jellicoe took his Fleet a sarry picture in both air and But no matter what their a faded model of the College of feet until the Spring of 1924. An to meet these same ships at the Battle sea services. Most of our pas- salaries or the amenities attach-Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, arge German floating dry dock, de-

enterprising firm then acquired alot Jutland. senger ships to England and to ing to the various appointments, and a table piled high with files, 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. 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- vessels. Only the Canadian 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 officers and men On the other side is a table by the sunken, ships; some of them were not allowed to land. Before the The British air service to Hong-British Empire, which includes where lies a book in which many had their upper works visible, and surrender took place the mutiny in

The the High Seas Fleet and the revolu grent battle-cruiser Hindenburg modern planes placed on this face..

women who work in this desolate settled down on her keel, in an up- tered all efficiency and naval dis- route by American, French and The picture we have been look-atmosphere-have to sign their right position, her masts and funnels cipline, and although the interned Chinese lines, Down in the ing at is one in which glamour, numes on arrival in the morning. salvage to be anything but a simple mand of Admiral von Reuter, he had

showing:

but events proved her feet was nominally under the com southern Pacific, Americans are social status, the dignity of rank, This is the environment of the matter.

little After one or two failures this great Supreme Sailors' Soviet which was in practical authority over the running test flights between the the pomp of ceremony play a oflice of our great Empire. If United States and Canada be

you explore the upper floors you ship was finally raised and towed, virtual control, although, of course, part.

as were other salvaged ships, to the the leaders of this Sailors' Soviet had will find rooms with completely dockyard at Rosyth for breaking up, neither the knowledge nor the ability Where Is It? fore Britain even thinks of the

inadequate lighting and very Other great Pacific as something worth fly-

battlestilps were lying to administer or navigate the little ventilation. The furnish on their side, some fully, and others ship, much less a fleet. ing over,

AND now look at

London headquarters ing are almost universally of a of our Colonial Empire, a head-quality which would be rejected quarters in environment well-by a common lodging-house. nigh incredible in its shabbiness. Officials complain, but say that Most people know that the they can do nothing. It is all a Colonial Office is somewhere in matter, they will tell you, of Whitehall. Yet although it is something mysterious called the hub of the greatest Empire "the establishment.” Then, The long months of arduous work, in the world, it is impossible to again, there are dark references extending over many years, connected point out to the stranger exactly to the activities of Treasury off with the raising of regarded as one considerable diffletity in keeping the Admiral von Beuter experienced where the office is situated. It cials, who scrutinise every haif- ono .of.the world's greatest salvage factions in his undisciplined seat. certainly come to be as one peace between the rival political Three hundred officials, as It From time to time we have Quarrels, even blows between the Red

kong compares terribly with the one-quarter of the world's sur-of the 300 officials-the men and some were totally submerged. had tion in Germany hud completely shat-

Surely Britain will be goaded to action in the face of all this subsidised competition in the air and on the sen,

British security and British prestige are surely worth some- thing. H.M.S. Hongkong

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THE SINCERE CO., LTD.Type crufsors, H.M.S. Fiji, rambles in a mysterious way penny of expenditure..

hns among the corridors of a huge

ICE FOLLIES OF 1939 Y CRAWFORD

Joan

JAMES STEWART

LEW AYRES LEWIS STONE MERE INTERNATIONAL ICK FOLLIES”.

SHOPETAB

sented a problem in itself. In the partly, submerged. Each ship pre-

single

A week or two later German trans-

case of some of them, notably the ports arrived to remove the officers. light-cruiser Bremse and the battle- and men surplus to those permitted ship Kaiser, the ships, after being Scapa Flow to the Firth of Forth. raised, were towed upside-down from

But

will

by the terms of the Armistice-to remain on board. Much bickering took place as to who should stay and who should go, but finally the matter was decided and the transports called, leaving behind two hundred men for each of the smaller ships.

1 short notice in the Press, or been launched and will shortly be building, which also contains the say, are crowded into these neg-glaced at a picture of one of these Guard and a White Guard formed commissioned. Fiji and her four Foreign Office, the India Office, lected rooms. When the crisis precinting the patience, endurance mon. If these quarrels led to blood-...

loviathane in tow.

ow.of tugs, without ap- among the loyal sallors, were com sisters--Mauritius, Konya, Nigeria and the Home Office.

camo last September it WBE and skill of those directing operations; shed it would mean British and Trinidad--are a sort of half-

guardis The Colonial Office finds ac-found that the foundations were or the hardships, even dangers, en-being placed on board. This at all way house between the big South-commodation where it can. It weak and that they would not

such countered in

work.

costs, von Reuter felt, must be avoided. ampton on China Station and the does not seem to have any be- possibly support the fabric of selves how these German ships cume Reds became

many will have asked them. The violence grow, the undisciplined little Didos.

uncontrollable; von 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 rain-hung by a thread, until, much again! offices have been evacuated so

ing them, all due for completion early next the roof.

his will, he appealed to the British The material recovered yielded Squadron which acted as watch-dog year

Even the rooms have no re-that the space could be made in-steels of shipbuilding and engineering over the interned ships, Now why isn't Hongkong in-gular numerical order. After to a reinforced A.R.P. shelter, qualities, lead, copper, and cluded when the choice of names visiting Number 98 you suddenly now slowly approaching comple-ships which do not deteriorate by stred that if an emergency, arose the Properly constituted authority must materials used in the construction of be upheld, and von Reuter was as for, warships named after Colonles find yourself knocking at a room tion. was considered. This great for next door numbered 298, or the

submersion. The principal markets The officials, released from found for these materials were in our Reds would be confined in a British tress has nover been represented in

alifp. This mild threat had de the Navy List. Yet we subscribe like. The official explanation is their dungeon-like surroundings, own country, In the United Statesired effect, and the mischief-makers

even in Germany, the country more to Imperial Defence than any that these rooms once belonged had to squeeze in as best they which the ships find their birth. among the men kept comparatively

quict. other Colony and are numbered as to the Home Office and that the could in the already overcrowded one of the Empire's, major. naval higher numbers were just taken regions in the upper floors..

over. The rest of this strangė PLEASE Turn To Page 5.

bases.

other

| How was it that this feet came to be lying on the sea bottom at Scapa Flow?

It is necessary, in the first place,

Meanwhile the Peace terms were being discussed between reprsente-

PLEASE Turn To Pago

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