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The

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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 June 21, 1939

Britain Drops Out BRITISH 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.

Our

Empire has a shabby

front door

L

-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 jorganisation 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-

|tive of the King in an outpost of

the great British Empire.

A Forlorn Staircase

NEARLY opposite the

Privy Council Office in 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 Omce." 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 which he is appointed. social centre of the territory to

In certain colonies, like Gibral- |

It is the entrance most favour- ed by the two Secretaries of State.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Why, Margio! 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

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

In places like Borneo his power colour, but to-day they are drab painted in a bright creamy 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 stu-jority of the rooms and corridors And that applies to the ma- Following last month's an- nouncement that an American A certain glamour attaches to pied by Colonial Office staff.

Lioned 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 subsidy, is to build three vessels may be most monotonous and ground floor and the main en- The staircase climbs to the at £2,000,000 apiece for the onerous.

trance from the yard of the trans-Pacific service. come re- Sometimes he receives a very Foreign Office. Here is a wide ports from Tokyo of yet two comfortable salary. For example passage completely devoid of more Japanese ships-of-27,000- the Governor of Nigeria-is paid any-decoration-except a model tons each. Only three days ago 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

£6,500 a year. In Jamaica the of an old liner and a reproduc- a Japanese ship gained the Blue and in Trinidad even more. But half hidden in shadow. Riband, previously held by a the Governor of such a pictures- Canadian liner, for the trans-que island as St. Helena has to Pacific crossing.

be content with a miserly £1,-1 000.

In the Pacific, we are cutting

worn-out

route by American, French and The picture we have been look Chinese lines. Down in the ing at is one in which glamour, southern Pacific, Americans are social status, the dignity of rank, running test flights between the the pomp of ceremony play a

sary 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 fighting ships, some large, some small; our Grand Fleet; and this great su throughout the ages.

that the German High Seas Fleet The toll of that day was fifty modern should surrender, unconditionally, to dreadnought

baltic render took pluce on November 21, battleships, cruisers, cruisers, torpedo-boat des- 1910. troyers-gone to the bottom by After a stay of a day or two in thê voluntary action

Firth of Forth, during which" a "care~~ The sinking of the German Fleet ful Inspection was made, the units of Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, has the surrendered German Fleet pro- time to time by the publication of prove to be their last anchorage. The reports dealing with the salvage of ships were interned in the compara- Lively Isolated anchorage at Scapa Owing to international and other Flow, in the barren, treeless, and. reasons, no active steps were taken bleak Orkney Islands, the Base front in regard to salvaging the scuttled which Adiniral Jellicoe took his Fleet fleet until the Spring of 1924. An to meet these same ships at the Battle

at

these vessels.

the

The Dust Of Months

ABOVE is another stair

case and underneath it a sorry picture in both air and But no matter what their faded model of the College of sen services. Most of our pas salaries or the amenities attach- Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, large German festing dry dock, de-

enterprising firm then acquired a of Jullund, 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

each Governor of a Colony has heavy in dust and dirt, which ing work, which poved adaptable to vessels.

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-

peculiar salvage work in

Communication was permitted be- in prospect. Only the Canadian sentative of the King. His months. liners are modern and speedy. position is symbolic of the great

very great in the positions occupied lowed to move and officers and men On the other side is a table by the sunkon ships; come 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 look place the mutiny in kong compares terribly with the one-quarter of the world's aur-jof the 300 officials-the men and great

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

great battle-cruiser Hindenburg hadtion in Germany had completely shat- women who work in this desolate settled down on her keel, in an up- tered all emeleney and naval dis atmosphere-have to sign their right position, her masts and funnels.

cipline, and alt

although the interned names on arrival in the morning. showing; but events proved her feet was nominally under the com- salvage to be anything but a simple mand of Admiral von Reuter, he had This is the environment of the matter.

Ile practical authority over the office of our great Empire. If After one or two failures this great Supreme Sailors' Soviet which was in you explore the upper floors you ship was finally raised and towed, virtual control, although, of course, will find rooms with completely as were other salvaged ships, to the the leaders of this Sailors' Soviet had dockyard at Rosyth for breaking up. neither the knowledge nor the ability inadequate lighting and very Other great battleships were lying AND now look at the little ventilation. The furnish on their side, some fully, and others to administer or navigate a single

aeroj ship, much less a fleet,, London headquarters ing are almost universally of a sented a problem in itself. In the submerged. Each ship pro- partly,

A week or two later German trans- Surely Britain will be goaded of our Colonial Empire, a head-quality which would be rejected case of some of them, notably the ports arrived to remove the officers to action in the face of all this quarters in environment 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 sca.

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 prestige are surely worth some: the hub of the greatest Empire "the

Whitehall. Yet although it is something mysterious called

establishment." thing.

Then, H.M.S. Hongkong

United States and Canada be- fore Britain even thinks of the Pacific as something worth fly- ing over.

part.

Where Is It?

all

took place as to who should stay and who should go, but finally the matter was decided and the transports sailed, leaving behind two hundred men for The long months of arduous work, each of the smaller ships. in the world, it is impossible to again, there are dark references extending over many years, connected

Admiral von Reuter experienced point out to the stranger exactly to the activities of Treasury off with the raising of these ships, will where the office is situated. It cials, who scrutinise every half-certo the world's greatest salvage peace between the rival political certainly come to be regarded as one considerable difficulty in keeping the THE SINCERE CO., LTD. type cruisers, H..Says now-rambles in a mysterious way penny of expenditure.

feats. From time to time we have factions in his undisciplined fleet. typo cruisers, H.M.S.. Fiji, has among the corridors of a huge Three hundred officials, as I ended at a pleture of one of these Guard and a White Guard formed read a short notice in the Press or Quarrels, even blows between the Red bron launched and will shortly be building, which also contains the say, are crowded into these negleviathans in tow of tugs, without op-among the loyal saltors, were com commissioned. Fiji and her four Foreign Office, the India' Omce, lected rooms. When the crisis precinting the patience, endurance mon, If these quarrels led to blood- sisters--Mauritius, Kenya, Nigorin and the Home Office..

came last September it was and skill of those directing operations; shed it would mean British guards and Trinidad-are a sort of half- 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 at

countered In such work.

costs, von Reuter felt, must be avoided, ampton on China Station and the commodation where it can. Itweak and that they would not

But many will have asked them- The violence grew, the undisciplined little-Didos.

does not seem to have any be- possibly support the fabric of selves how these German ships came Reds became uncontrollable: von or 8,000-tona' displacement, they ginning; and it ends up some-the heavy bullding above. In to be lying on the bottom of a Brillah Reuter's efforts to regain control a thread, until, much against will carry 6-Inch guns. They are where in an upper floor under consequence, all the basement harbour and what is gained by rala-hung by

will, he appealed to the British all duu for completion early next the roof..

offices have been evacuated so 1

The material recovered yielded Squadron which acted on watch-dog. Even the rooms have no re- that the space could be made in-steels of shipbuilding and engineering over the Interned ships, |~~Now whyishi't Hongkong in-gular numerical order. After to a reinforced" "AR.P, shelter, quantes lead, copper, and other Properly constituted authority must-

materials used in the construction of for warships. named after Colonies find yourself knocking at a room tion.... cluded when the choice of names visiting Number 98 you suddenly now slowly approaching comple-hips which do not deteriorate by be upheld, and von Reuter was as

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 298, or the The officials, released from found for these materials were in our ship. This mild threat had the de tress has never been represented in like. The official explanation is their dungeon-like surroundings, own country, in the United States sired effect, and the mischief-makers the Navy List. Yet we subscribe

even In Germany, the country in

among the men kept comparatively more to Imperial Defence than any that these rooms once belonged had to squeeze in as best they which the ships had their birth... 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'a major navat higher numbers were just taken regions in the upper fidors.

ba-lying-on-the-sea-bottom-at-ScaphMeanwhile the Peace terms were

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