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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1939.

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Pseudo-Dictators

France has biggest light

cruiser force

by

LIEUT.-COMMANDER

KENNETH EDWARDS, R. N.

PEOPLE are talking about the naval power of the rival nations in the Mediter- ranean; but in all this discussion little has been said of the French Navy.

The general attitude`in Britain—even among usually well-informed people-has been to evade the issue with an insular shrug of the shoulders.

It is perfectly true that for generations the French Navy was starved for the benefit of the French

Army

for France has been

HITLER turns the war scare pre-eminently u

on and off like a tap.

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At his command, the propa-

Worse, to Bri- tish eyes, the gandist war drums beat and the

French Navy rumours of impending disaster

did not measure multiply, spreading fear among

to up

British the peoples of the world. Then, standards on a nod from the Fuehrer, the ing the spit- dark clouds that seen so and polish era our Royal the skies und the nations Navy. When the French breathe freely again.

Let us keep firmly fixed in our sailors washed minds the conviction that the their clothes German Leader does not mean they were hung up to dry in the Lo fight. It is his plan, pursued consistently up to this moment, to win victories for his nation by political and 'diplomatic means. --We-quite-recognise that, in his threats to foreign countries, he may become so deeply in- volved one day that he is plunged into battle. But that is not his intention. If he gets there it will be an accident.

We should therefore see to it

commonsense

way and without

The chart on the right shows the comparative strengths of the navies of the four great Europ- can Powers in ships whoso con- struction

completed_by February this

year. Note France's preponderance of light cruisers and Italy's submarine strength.

AND BELOW IS-

A modern French cruiser of the Suf- iren class, with eight 8in. gune, Derricks on either side of ship are for lifting cul- sur's two scaplanes aboard.

waiting to "follow the move-could both overtake and destroy ments of the flagship." Thus the German "pocket battleships" the French ships carned among or the German battle-cruisers British_sailors the rather con- Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

These were the three British temptuous nickname of “laundry ships."

buttle-cruisers Hood, Renown, The pressure of modern con- and Repulse, and the Renown,' ditions and development has, is undergoing reconstruction and however, led to far greater ap-will not be ready for sea for

of the essential several months. preciation

Exceptionally Fast

French realism among the offi The addition of these two cers and men of the British French ships to the resources of Navy.

the European democracies is that we are not disturbed in

Now the French Navy has at therefore exceedingly important. mind by this man and his

last become a force to be reckon-France also has five old battle- devices. So long as our Governed with and one which is bound ships. ment stands up to Hitler he will to play a very important part, atay in his mountain retreat at particularly in the Mediterran-

he ean. Berchtesgaden, to where retired on Saturday.

Hitler's bluff has been called, and Britain should now turn her attention to the bluff of these other pseudo-Hitlers in the Far East.

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People who leave the brake off

CRIME may be defined as

an act where the indivi- dual's desire for personal gain is greater than his respect for the laws of society.

by ANTHONY ·

WEYMOUTH

own age who are much better blessed with this world's goods? And, what proportion of these slip into a life

Now, where this distinction is rec cognized by the criminal himself, he may be said to be comisant of his acts, and to have chosen the first of of crime? these alternatives.

-ity

At the other extreme comes the

The templation to spend money

man who is insane and who is totally freely may encourage extravagance, unconscious of the criminal act and but it does not lead to crime in a constituted Individual. consequences. Let us suppose normally that such a one suiters from delusions. There must be a force which urges He hears a voice which tells him that an individual to crime by lowering the world would a better place if the inhibitions which every normal person possesses-and this force is a certain person died.

Being Insane, he is unable to dis-generated in his unconscious mind.

In other words, he is conscious of tingulli between what is moral and what is not. His molive (as he sees its results but not of its origin. And 1) is good although the great ma- this blinds him to the real consc- jority of his fellows see it as bad. The quences. verdict of society is that he is "in- Paycho-therapeutic treatment is capable of pleading."

used to explore his unconscious mind and bring to his conscious mind the origins of his acts.

In between these two extremes comes a class of offender whose mo- tives for crime seem, to the ordinary Perhaps an example will make the Inan, to be inadequate. He is, judged clearer. A man I once knew felt by ordinary standards, sane. He is faint every time he arrived at a cer- examined-by-medical-experts-as-intain station.--He couldn't.account for the case of the ex-Sandhurst cadet this queer feeling. He searched his convicted this week of two charges memory to find an explanation, but of false preteners who report that with no success. So he consulted n they can find no signs of insanity, psychologist and was analysed.

In this instance the accused had all

His past history was discussed in to gain and nothing to lose by keep- detail, and after several hours of pa- ing the right side of the law. The lent investigation it was discovered reason given by the medical officer at that during the Great War he had Brixton Prison for his behaviour was been blown up, and the last thing be that, while at Sandhurst, the accused experienced before losing conscious- had acquired "social hablis abuve hisness was the smell of lar. And the normal standards."

Money Temptation

particular railway station where he always Jeli faint smelt strongly of tar. It is Interesting to record that once the burled memory had been restored RUT this is an inadequate rea-and the smell-stimulus brought into son to account fully for re-the conscious mind the patient was FRANCE has no aircraft-pented crimes. Are there not hund-able to use this station with impunity! This will give some indication of reds of boys and young men who, by renson of scholarships, and them-the manner in which psycho-thera-

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

carriers of modern de-

While other maritime Powers have been pursuing disarma- ment, the realism of France has sign, although two ships of this selves mixing with others of them resulted in the building-up of a type are projected. very strong Fleet.

First, the personnel of the French Navy has been improved So far, they have had things out of all knowledge, and has pretty well their

way. been given a greater faith in it- The fact that they have chosen self and its Service. a time when Britain's attention has had to be divided has given them a superiority complex they

do not deserve.

Recent experience of the men

The French cruiser forces, however, are very powerful and composed of types peculiarly suitable for war in the Mediter-

can. France has seven mo- dern cruisers of the heavy type mounting 8in. guns-Italy also has seven of this type of ship. coming under training at the In Gin. gun cruisers France Ecole Navale at Brest shows has 11 modern ships opposed to that they are of the very best the 12 of similar class possessed type.

by Italy. On the other hand, In their glee at the fact that

The material strength of the France has 32 ships of approxi- they have twisted the lion's tail French, Navy has become of the mately 2,500-tons displacement so often they have come to be greatest importance during re- and armed with five 6,6-in. guns lieve that the lion is genuinely cent years. This is due in part in addition to an extensive anti- scared; that all they have to do to the completion of the now aircraft and torpedo armament. is to keep on twisting until they French battle-cruisers Dunker- These ships are all exception-

que and Etrasbourg, ships of ally fast. get their demands.

forget that They

Great 26,500 tons, mounting eight

They are classed by France as Britain in war is, with all due 13in. guns, and which, on trials, contre-torpilleurs, but by the de- respect to the fighting qualities have reached a speed of 31% finitions of warship categories which have been accepted by of our friendly neighbours, a knots, vastly different proposition to Until these two French ships most of the maritime Powers China. British armaments to were completed there were in the they are light cruisers. day are the most powerful in the world only three ships which world, and the fighting qualities

Certainly they are far more powerful than any destroyers at the disposal of the Italian Navy. of the British Tommy have been teated by sword and fire with with China, à country whose Their exceptional speed und much more satisfying results arms, compared with western power might well make them a than have those of the Japanese standards, are dreadfully declsive factor in a Mediterran- ferior. She should also remem- | Tooldier.

Italy is certainly superior to Japan should ponder on the ber how a previous war with France in the number of des- fact that the longest and most China ended, and not forget that troyers at her disposal, but a disastrous war in her history is the West is quite capablo again smaller proportion of the French

of intervening.

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can war.

By Lichty

"Go ahead and call the polico-wo have five drivor's licences to your onel"

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