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BLOCKADE

GLANCE at the map will show you why Napoleon, more than a century ago, cursed the geogra- phical situation of Great Britain, why Hitler Curses that same in- escapable fact to-day.

The heavy lines show the sea routes by which in peace-time industrialised, urbanised Germany receives her main imports of iron ore, wool, oil, cotton, wheat, coffee, fruit, butter, coal, timber, copper and tin from the U.S.A., Argentine, Brazil, India, China and Japan..

NEWS

Fame

United States

FINLAND

MOLOCED

B.Ibao

100 100 100 100 134

SCALE IN MILES

SERHAL

FRANCE

ALGERIA

To reach Germany all the North and South Atlantic sea routes must converge into two main traffic lines, both dominated by the British Navy. The northern routes must pass somewhere between the 250-mile span greater storage space com- between Northern Scotland, Bined with a lower fuel and Southern Norway, the consumption than the naval southern routes must pass cruisers. The mercantile up the English Channel, personnel, too, were well

ased by the slangkong Telegraph to through the 20-mile Straits trained in spotting other

fews which is strictly copyright

estions Ordinance, 1918. Suchi news 23

Hongkong on the date of publication by

JATONA

LATVIA

RUNGJAY.

AUMANIA

REEL

Archangel

U. 3 S..A

TURKIY

Alerandria

LIBYA

EGYPT

inter the provisions of the Telecommunt of Dover. Those 270 miles merchant vessels, and any shipping for 30 or 40 miles neys. Immediately behind bears the indication " in received in control 85 per cent. of odd features about those in one direction, and then it, and in the Fair Island the United Press Associations, who r Germany's oversea trade vessels.

for a similar distance in the channel, hundreds of des-

direction. During troyers, These merchant cruisers reverse

patrol vessels,

serve all rights and forbid republication,

arrangement.

either wholly or in part without previou

The Military Moustache.

IT seems that, as a result of

routes, and those 270 miles

are controlled by Britain.

fitted with anti-

devices, were

CONTRABAND CONTROL

Further South, the great were armed with 6in. and the hours of darkness all trawlers and other small Mediterranean trade routes 3in. guns, and their fuelling ships would steam to the can also be controlled by the capacity enabled them to eastward, and during day- craft, Allied navies from several stay, at sea for periods light to the westward, thus submarine service in the army, the youth Gibraltar vessels

their being called up for bases. At Suez, Malta and varying up to 30 days, preventing vessels slipping constantly on patrol.

be Vessels were divided into through the cordon at night. can of Britain are showing an in-

patrols which covered the Ships nearer the ex- In the English Channel creused tendency to cultivate inspected for contraband.

whole area from Iceland tremity of the line would the blockade was a compa- the moustache. Not one of a HOW BLOCKADE WORKS very luxuriant variety;

to the Hebrides, and as ice maintain what was known ratively simple procedure. although the military authorities During the last war the prevents ships from passing as a cross patrol, steaming To-day, control stations are are not inclined to split hairs blockade of Germany was north of Iceland for several backwards and forwards in established at Weymouth, at this point, anything in the

10th months of the year it was line ahead, across the track Ramsgate and Lerwick (in nature of a "walrus" or a "sea-maintained by the

It Cruiser Squadron, At its only necessary to keep that of shipping; for a similar the Shetland Islands), lion" might be frowned on. is the dapper "tooth-brush" that maximum strength this in- section patrolled during the distance to the "in and out" these control stations all is the heir-apparent of those cluded 20 armed merchant summer months. In the map patrols. mighty beards that once waved cruisers, comprising ships above, the scored area re-

for,

at Balaklava and Lucknow-in

FIGURES OF SUCCESS

the days before the gas-mask of the Allan, White Star, presents the extent of the had come and left the unshaven Orient, Anchor P&O-ke-during-the-winter-Throughout-the-period-examination. chin bristling with difficulties.Union Castle, Royal Mail, months.

To

vessels suspected of carry- ing contraband to German ports are conducted for

this patrol was in operation, Prize Courts in the last. Perhaps there is some signi- Furness Withy, Elders & As a general rule ships only 4 per cent. of the mer- ficance to be seen in this evolu- Fyffes and other lines. tion of the military countenance.

were about 30 miles apart, chant ships crossing the At war were sitting from Sep- For the fierce aspect of the "old. These were commanded since visibility for the look lantic managed to avoid the tember, 1914, and did not conclude their work until moustache," and the rude, un- by naval officers, but other out in the crow's nest was blockade. During the long after the signature of couth appearance bestowed by a

wise the personnel

was usually about 15 miles. Zig- heaviest week recorded 156 shaggy mane, were once held,

always ships were boarded and 58 peace. Up to March 31, no doubt, to be symbols of the mainly R.N.R. (ex-mercan- zag courses were soldier's nature; but it is plain | tile). Experience during steered to guard against sent into port for examina- 1920, the amount which had that little of this earlier con- the first few months of the submarine attack, and the tion. Two armed raiders passed through the Registry rept of him lingers, if one may blockade foved these to be general rate of steaming succeeded in getting 912. Court

412; and up to March 31, indre from the lip-service it re-much better suited for such was 15 knots. In the centre through disguised as neutral 1938, £6,770,927 was paid

ceives.

Eros-Evacuee

2

was. £21,254,-

work than the old naval of the line what was known merchantmen, but two were

out to the Naval Prize Fund for distribution among the cruisers employed at the as an "in and out patrol" detected and sunk. One of London's most famous beginning. This procedure was maintained,

From May 1, 1918, the personnel of the Royal Navy figures recently appeared on the

Ships would steam in line blockade was maintained by and those who were attach- list of "evacuces, when the not only released naval men statue of Eros was removed for strictly naval duties, but abreast

(ie, on

parallel a huge minefield laid be- ed to it during the Gat from Piccadilly Circus. It was the merchant cruisers had courses) along the tracks of tween Norway and the Ork. War.

a very high compliment; for al- though His Majesty's Office of Works has sent James II into exile, taken away from the House of Commons a bust of Cromwell, and erected a scaf- fold for Charles I in Whitehall, this time to protect him, it has left the rest of London's statuca

tered.

The Allies

Were

up

Aryans

Once

the

German nationalist movement

Was

to stand their ground unshel-ONE of these days some one Icelandic and a host of others [ster in Britain, Baron Bunsen, taken theory the English had

took will ask Herren Goebbels among them.

the theory with got over it and the French were These languages are now call-enthusiasm and passed it on to laughing at de Gobineau and de The average Londoner takes and Streicher who introduced little exception to this since he the Aryan theory into Germany. ed Indo-European or Indo-Ger- his pupil, Max Muller, for many Lapouge. Unfortunately,

manic; but Sir William trans-years a professor at Oxford. In has always had a feeling that Then there will be a rumpus. "they'd none

The Aryan theory is the most lated the Sanscrit term quite France the Aryan race of them be

de jabsorbed it with a vengeance, romarkable—and, it has innocently by the word Arya-eventually identified by missed." But this does not op-

Lapouge with the Nordic group

Gustav || Kossinna, Prussian. CHANTECLER SWING DUO ply to Bros. Bros made a turned out, dangerous accident, and then the trouble began.

pleasant contrast to those for which we are not entirely A number of ethnologists and (originating near the Baltic).

nationalist, appointed himself Max Muller plugged the eminent gentlemen who "sleep blameless. The French invent- self-styled anthropologists got in dull, cold marble" all overed it; we made it popular, and hold of these Sanscrit researches Aryan theory for forty years, Aryan historian of the German London's squares, but who, introduced it to Germany; and and jumped to the conclusion and then at length realised that people and tried to prove that. wrapped in their frock coats, or there it was firmly planted in that if people speak similar ho had been barking up the "history was pre-eminently a national science," frogged tunica, are, in the Lon-patriotic minds by a Jewish languages you can say they be wrong tree.. Just fifty years German, doner's view, so far from being philosopher.

one could imagine long to one race."

ago he wrote: "I have declared though no sleeping beauties.

1855 Count Joseph de again and again that if I say why history should be a national Kossinna's fol- The city evidently recognised National Socialists, but quite, Gobineau, an enthusiastic and Aryans, I mean nolther blood science save

lowers. the fact: it would much rather quite true.

eccentric Frenchman, wrote anor bones, nor hair, nor skull; have seen the captains and the It all began like this. Not so book called "Essay on the In-I mean simply those who speak But clue to the national kings depart, not to mention the long ago we Europeans knew equality of the Human Races," an Aryan language." politicians, and it paid Eros a nothing about the languages of which, as the title suggests, And Yiddish has a good claim science appeared on the title- pago of the second edition.of his tribute that it seldom pays to India, and when Sir William tried to prove that one so-called to be considered an Aryan book. It was dated: "On the them it looked at him. He Jones, a celebrated philologist, race--the Aryan race was the language. That was why Moses day of general mobilisation,

Mondelssohn, conquered not only its attention, went to that country on Govern- greatest in the world.

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