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ISN'T HE IN A BIG ENOUGH MESS?

-Strube in the "Daily Express".

Rotten bomb-makers, whoever

they

THOSE SIX WORDS

SUM

They can't sink the

Stooge

27

UP BRITAIN

-for Walter Davenport,

American journalist, star writer

for

"Collier's Weekly," U.S. 2,800,000 circulation magazine

are'

probably cat it and the bowler

100.

If this same pitcher were to let any one ar series of ones make as many as len runs off him in art innings he'd be sold to the nearest

lue factory.

And when I envision the St. Louis Cardinals, who, as far as 1 can see, approximate those West Indies boys in this cricket league, quitting in the middle of a batting rally for tea, ut four o'clock, everything becomes clear to me.

ND. there'd have been no spectator asleep in Ameri- ca as was a ruddy gentleman just behind me. And no baseball fan would have been doing crossword puzzles, nor reading a Life of Dou- glas Haig, nor fooling around with a pocket chess-board, stymied for by his Imaginary, op- ponent's Queen's gumbit attack.

All these things saw at Lord's. I also saw what I was informed was an appeal to the umpire about being hit by the ball.

If you're benned by the pitcher in the States, even on the leg, you get a free ride to first base. In

But i was the argument that re-

gently, almost The hitter spoke deferentially, to the umpire who

landslide might have been pre- A BRITISH battleship of 25, HAVING spent ten days was apologised to by a gentleman five hours

in the queue who merely brushed my 500 tons is laid up in Port- vented had the minds whichland Harbour.

in London I quite natur- arm. ally know precisely what In Ainerieu there wouldn't be directed Berlin and Vienna been

She has got a shell-hole below

At home, the gentleman would certain that Britain would be the water-line, and it was made England is going to do in queue; there'd be a riot.

have asked me to get the hell oft drawn into the mussed 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 asked him who the hell he was shoving; and four Germany refused to believe the

In spite of the shell-hole she is me after a week, which even cops would have answered us. cricket you're out. despatches of her able_represen-still affoot and could probably cross

the Aliantle-You-see,-she-is-un-an Englishman will agree is in London, tative

Prince sinkuble--but let me tell the tale nimble.

INSIDE the rounds or park veled the fate of England to me. It usually takes us American pale young men who needed hair- Lichnowsky, repeatedly warning her that the British Empire

journalists all of a fortnight to cuts lugging signs about telling us made a ruling. And that was that. discover all the secrets of the who was going to play for England could not be isolated, as the

moving Empire.

and who for the boys from the West have Indies. We always depart astonished at German war party hoped, from slowly in Her plates were streaked

There'd have been a teather general European conflict. broken sluip. She.bad no gun tur the ignorance of your Prime Minis Junged muy from Hell's Kitchen tell-

ter, Foreign Office. Air Ministry and ing us through a megaphone.

And the lads who were going to starboard side. A prim destroyer A day at Lord's watching a lot of

1

this way.

About eight o'clock one morning recently I woke up in GIU,, and gol

the fright of my life...

A British battleship wns

Her mainmast

with rust.

Was

rets. There were holes in ber

escorted her.

War Office,

there would have been no

In the States both teams would been pushing the umpire Bround, stepping on his feet (with spikes) and talking in loud voices about his personal alairto say nothing of certain peculiarities in his immediate ancestry,

And the crowd would have joined

of course, merely

THIS 13

It, In the States, a pitcher or Much better than our Stork Club She is the only ship of her kinda riot on Paric-avenue.

Nothing like that crowd at Lord's bowler were to hand his sweater at home or the Twenty-One, or for nine in the world: has been

would be tolerated in Amerien, I 10 be umpire, the umpire would Jack White's, or El Morocco, years.

The Admiralty enl: her a "target 1 bit more than

The indefiniteness of Britain's pledges, the division of opinion

A few minutes later I was at the husky white guys from Lancashire play would have been out there, in. Naval Inteligence Department with and other parts trying to subdue a tossing the ball around, Indulging in in the 1914 Cabinet, the sharp night's growth of whiskers on my West Indies gave me the fundamen other to lay off their biondes, who learned of England's future. There a sketch of what I have lot of coal-black, fellows from the batting practice and warning each

would have been sitting in the stands are certain things I found out to Internal strife over Home Kule, face, and un excited pulse.

"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. alt gave some colour to the hopes me. And so it was-shoi to bits for me the rest. Rosie's place would be vague.

I fell in love with Reste. of those Germans who believed the umpteenth time in an isolationist Britain. To- day Britain is a prey to internal strife (as caused by the I.R.A.) only to an infinitesimal degree compared with 1914; she has made not a vague Entente but ful fashion.

Once she was a battleship in the stripped |definite pledges on a wider scale Grand Fleet. Then they than ever before. Nor are here of everything except her engines, political lenders divided to-day

face

vessel She's that. The Navy, Arny and R.A.F.

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

They knock her about in a frishi-

cort, the Shikari.

ANN

where the big new

They put new-fangled car into in mind on the extent of her her, though, costing thousands, and responsibilities ON on theave her a permanent destroyer es- country's willingness to

Her job is to play tag with shells and bombs, with the help of Shikari. warfare if war should come. A complement of 270 take her to There can be no doubt, no chosen spots,

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

Centurion's captain gives the or- Yet voices are raised in der "Abandon shilp!" Shikari comes 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 Hiller begins to do, her stuff. iter screws turn and she cruises away at about sixteen knots.

to

can only be ingenious enough

She Is a robot ship. About three- to find A

to disguise quarters of a mile away is the Shi- way aggression as something else. karl, and abourd her is the Cen- has his hand onek Danzig, it is supposed, will turion's captain. He

Utt the Centurion'a controls voluntarily "come home to the moves them by remote control.

Although the shells used against Reich" on grounds of "self-her rip holes ten feet square in her, They're determination."

they cannot blow her up. Alled with salt, not high explosive.

It is interesting to converse That's to give them the required with Germans in Hongkong. weight.

How she keeps nãoat is n deep There is not one here who be-

secret. all the same. It's the thin lieves that war will como to that gets foreign spies into trouble. with cork. Europe. But all are equally Some say she is filled

Others say it's a complicated ar emphatic that Danzig will rangement of water-tight compart-

PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. return to Germany.

GRIN

AND BEAR IT

JIFFY

EXTERMINATES

By Lichty

Tege, 1919 hp Velled Freture Byudienta, Tar

CATEPHISTORY

"Whom do you wish to sod?"-

The whole attitude of that crowd ut Rosie's was something like that of the gentleman who, at the news-- rect of the homecoming of their Majesties, snt in utter and apparent. ly incurable silence unill-Just as they arrived inside, the courlyard of Buckingham Palace-the hat of one of the princesses blew off.

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

Arather revenjing. thing was the conment of the crowd in Piccadilly- elreus the morning after the latest bombings. Off-hand I recall most rendily the elderly, retired brigadier- looking

who sald: "Rotten bon-makers, whoever they are." That's all he said,

man

ND there was

the day 1

A the King and Queen riding down Fleet-street being wel comed by the City.

Out of the

inace

door of the Lord Mayor's couch, at a nice rakish an- Ele. was the great golden which he probably uces Guildhall windows with.

to open

I asked what it was. A. gentle- nan, noting probably that I was not an Englishman, helped me out. "Anw, just something to hang 'Is 'ot on when it gets 'ot.".

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

leaves from Waterloo.

train

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

There is some difference, of course. Like Tony Galento, who is about to be murdered-ond like it-we holler: "We can ikke them lugs." *

You lugs say it to yourselves.

A little more noise at Lord's and

a few more beers at Rosie's and I'd feel right at home God bless it.