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ISN'T HE IN A BIG ENOUGH MESS?

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-Strube in the “Daily Expresa”.

bomb-makers,

whoever they are?

THOSE SIX WORDS

SUM

They can't sink the "Stooge

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BRITISH battleship of 25,- 500 tons is laid up in Port-

Harbour.

She has got a shell-hole below

the water-line, and it was made

this way

UP BRITAIN

-for Walter Davenport,

for

American journalist, star

"Collier's writer

Weekly," U.S. 2,800,000 circulation magazine

probably ent

Loo.

and the bowler

If this same pitcher were to let any one or series of ones make ns many as ten runs off him in on innings he'd be sold to the neurest glue factory.

And when I envision the St. Louis Cardinals, who, as far as I can see, approximate those West Indica boys in this cricket Tengue, quitting in the middle of a batting rally for ten at four o'clock, everything becomes clear to me,

AND there'd have been no spectator asloep in Ameri- en us was a ruddy gentleman just

And

fan behind me.

no baseball would have been doing crossword puzzles, nor reading a Life of Dou- glas Haig, nor fooling around with

pocket chese-board, siymled for two hours by his Imaginary op- ponent's Queen's gambit attack.

In

[AVING spent ten days was apologised to by a gentleman HAV

in the queue who merely brushed my in London I quite natur- arm.

All these Rings I saw at Lord's. In America there wouldn't be a I also saw what I was informed was ally know precisely what

an appeal to the umpire about being At home, the gentleman would hit by the ball. certain that Britain would be

England is going to do in queue: there'd be a riot.

If you're beaned by the pitcher have asked me to get the hell of

to first base. drawn into the massed combat, by one of our own Navy's big-the next six months or so.

gest guns.

It all became apparent to his foot and I'd have used him who in the States, even on the leg, you

the hell he was shoving; and four get a free ride

cricket you're out. Germany refused to believe the In spite of the shell-hole she is me after a week, which even cops would have answered us.

But it was the argument that re- despatches of her able represen-still-afont and could probably cross

the Atlantic. You see, she is un-an Englishman-will-agree-is

NSIDE the grounds, or pack vealed the fate of England to me,... The litter spoke gently, almost me tell the tale nimble. Prince sinkable-but let

there would have been no Lative in London,

umpire who It usually takes us American pale young men who needed hair- deferentially, to the Lichnowsky, repeatedly warning About eight o'clock one morang

In the Stoles both teams would been pushing the umpire her that the British Empire recently woke up in Gib., and got journalists all of a fortnight to cuts lugging signs about telling us made a ruling. And that, was that,

the fright of my ilfe:...

discover all the secrets of the who was going to play for England

and who for the boys from the West have Empire.

around, stepping on his feet (with Indies. could not be isolated, as the

spikes) and talking in loud⚫votees We always depart Astonished at There'd have been. leather- German war party hoped, from

nothing of certain peculiarities in ter, Foreign Office, Air Ministry and ing us through a megaphone.

ls immediate ancestry, a general European conflict. broken slump. She had no gun tur- norance of your Prime Minis lunged guy from Hell's Kitchen tell about his personal affairs-to say

rets. There

ber War Office.

And the lads who were going to

And the crowd would have joined A day at Lord's watching a lot of The indefiniteness of Britain's starboard side. A prim destroyer

escorted her.

This is of course, merely pledges, the division of opinion

A few minutes later I was at the husky white guys from Lancashire play would have been

a sketch of what I have lot of cual-black fellows from the batting practice and warning each Naval Intelligence Department with and other parts trying to subdue a tossing the ball around, indulging in a night's growth of whiskers en my. West Indies gave me the fundamen- other, to lay off their blondes, who learned of England's future. There

would have been sitting in the stands are certain things I found face, and an excited pulse.

I fell in love with Rosie.

A British battleship was slowly In. Her plates were Her mainmust with rust.

moving

streaked

was a

were hales in

out there

in.

out to

in the 1914 Cabinet, the sharp internal strife over Home Rule,

"It's the old Centurion," they told tal low-down.

An evening in Rosie's bar gave eating hot dogs and looking blondely reveal. But it's a swell place, and all gave some colour to the hopes me. And so it was shot to bits for

me the rest. Rosie's place would be vaguer

If in the States, a pitcher or Much better than our Stork Club his sweater at home or the Twenty-One, or of those Germans who believed the umpteenth time

She is the only ship of her kinda riot on Park-avenue,

Nothing like that crowd at Lord's bowler were to hand for nine

umpire, the umpire would Jack Whlio's, or El Morocco. In the world; has been

would be tolerated in America. I to the years.

or

on

than bit more that. The Navy, Army and R.A.F.

have got a soft spot for her. She is a stooge for all three Services.

They knock her about in a fright- ful fashion.

Once she was a battleship in the Grand Fleet. Then they stripped her of everything except her engines.

gear into

in an isolationist Britain. To- day Britain is a prey to internal The Admiralty call her a "target strife (as caused by the I.R.A.) vessel." She's a only to an infinitesimal degree compared with 1014; she has made not a vague Entente but delinite pledges on a wider scale than ever before. Nor are her political leaders divided to-day

They put new-fangled in mind on the extent of her her, though, costing thousands, and the gave her a permanent destroyer es- responsibilities

cort, the Shiitari.

Her job is to play tag with shells country's willingness to face

and bombs, with the help of Shikari, warfare if war should come. A complement of 270 take ber to big new There can be no doubt, no chosen spots, where the

waiting for guns of the Fleet are ambiguity, no misunderstanding. her.

Centurion's captain gives the or- are raised in der "Abandon ab'p" Shikari comes Yet voices

that alongside and takes off every living Germany

proclaim

And, creature, including the cat, Britain's pledges of action will without a soul on board, Centurion never be fulfilled if Herr Hitler begins to do her stuff. Her screws turn and she cruises away at about can only be ingenious enough sixteen knols.

She is a robot ship. About three- to find

way to disguise quarters of a mile away is de Shi- and aboard her in the Cen- aggression as something else. karl,

has his hand Danzig, it is supposed, will turlon's captain. He

the Centurion's controls on voluntarily "come home to the moves them by remote control.

Although die shells used against Reich" on grounds of "self-her rim holes ten feet square in her, they cannot blow her up. They're determination."

IL is interesting to converse filled with salt, not high explosive, That's to give them the required with Gernians in Hongkong, weight. There is not one here who be

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to

and

How she keeps afloat is n deep secret, all the same. It's the thing

lieves that war will come to that geta foreign spies, into trouble.

Europe. But all are equally

Danzig

will emphatic that return to Germany.

Some say she is filled with cork. Others say It's a complicated ar rangement of water-tight compart- PLEASE Turn To Page 7.

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The whole attitude of that crowd at Rosle's wus something like that of the gentleman who, at the news- ruel

of their of the homecoming Majesties, sat in utter and apparent- ly incurable silence untilJust as they arrived inside the courtyard of Buckingham Palace the hat of one of the princesses blew off,

He stroked his moustache twice. and, turning to his lady, said: "See that m'dear; rather good, what?"

Another revealing thing was the comment of the crowd in Pleendilly- circus the morning after the latest I recall most bombings. Oll-hand readily the elderly, retired brigadier- man who said: "Rotten looking bomb-makers, whoever they are." That's all he said.

ND there was the day 1 saw the King and Queen rkling down Fleet-street being wel- comed by the City.

mace

Out of the door of the Lord Mayor's coach, at a nice rakish an-

lo. was the great golden which ho probably uses to open Guildhall windows with.

A gentle- I asited what it was man, noting probably that I was not an Englishman, helped me out. "Aow, just something to hang 'is 'at on when it gets 'ot."

This is not all there is to my ob- servations, but I've got to get back to Rosie's before the bost

leaves from Waterloo.

train

After all, there's not a great deal of important difference between you English and us Yankees,

There is some difference, of course. Like Tony Galento, who in about to be murdered-and like two holler: "We can lick them Jugs."

You lugs say it to yourselves.

A little more noise at Lord's and

a few more beers at Rosie's art I'd feel right at home-Ood bless it.