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*Drinks Must Be Paid Immediately"

"No Noise Please. By Order It is Strictly Forbidden to Sing."

CRIZI

*ZIALE

I sometimes sing in the morn- ing (who dosen't), but that morning, no. I was far too ex- cited and nervous. For I was about to make my first trip in a submarine.

Half an hour later the com- mandler, a little man with his hat set at the Beauty angle,

February 13, 1940.

At Sea With The

RSS | welcomed us aboard. And "Bon

jour, monsieur" was what he anid,

You

see, although these

Thongkong Telegraph.notices I have quoted were really

Tuesday, February 13, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"

In used by the longkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is sizietly "copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommual

estions Ordinance, 1916. Auch news as bears the Indicatión "UTTM la received in Hongkong on the date of publication by

FRENCH

It was all very exciting: to fleet. stand on the conning tower as we salled out into the Bay of

the United Press Associations, who Biseny; to dive and have lunch

serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

Here are two French destroyers on patrol. The French Navy is doing its full share of the work of keeping the sear clear for Allied commerce

NAVY

written in English (and I am appreciate the force of Mr. German surface raiders off the is fulfilling the same essential still wondering why) the sub- Churchill's comment on the scis. The British Fleet has service. marine was French and the "chain-belt crews" which Ger- made an excellent beginning In the calm waters of a Breton many must find for the U-boat against the Admiral Graf Spee, inlet I transhipped from the Land's End was Finisterre.

but for this sort of work a submarine to the sloop. The combination of speed, power submarine commander swore- and great range of action is (and that's the right word) that

on the sea-bed, because it is

RUT make no mistake essential, And it is here, surely, I had no business to board the that the French Fleet excels. sloop since he had already sent much steadier down there; to

the French Marine, stalk an "enemy" sloop and

Britain is building the ships her to the bottom with his un-. France's Case

launch a torpedo against her; for all its justifiable confidence, and to have depth charges is not scoffing at the enemy. (e.g., the King George V. class) erring torpedo. The sloop com- Neither, for that matter, is Mr. that can cope with the Nazi mander swore (equally) that I Necessarily, much of the recent-dropped against us in return.

Churchill; in the same speech he raidos. France has already had no right to come aboard ly issued French Yellow Book,

But it was only a mock en- dealing with the march of events counter, and, except for the tyro warned us against exaggerated built them, e.g., the Dunkerque since he had already blown the submarine and every man jack Here in France, and the Strasbourg. from Munich to the outbreak of perhaps, how much tamer than optimism.

aboard to blazes with his un- war, is of value for the record the real thing. So, at a time ashore and afloat, I have heard In England we are too prons failing depth charges. rather, than for the general when the real thing is happening the same warning note as that to think that French sea power render. But it contains docu-daily-as. it might very well which was sounded the other ended with Trafalgar and that By this time no doubt the two monts of historic Importance, have happened to us-there is day by M. Paul Reymud: "Let the contribution of our Ally to commanders have argued it out familiar facta in no point in a long and detailed us beware of underestimating the war is limited to her mag. in the bar atand I only hope greater detail and from, a now account of our cruise. Only & the strength of our enemy. The nificent Army and Air Force. A they saw that notice in English. angle. Its effect is to deepen the few impressions.

democracies will triumph, but glance at the map should be which begs "No Noise Please." sinister impression which those

only at the price of sacrifices." sufficient to correct that view. (But even if they did, what. facts had already left on all but

matter? In France, as in Bri-- the Nazi mind. No room for doubt

tain, I have discovered "snilors remains as to where the guilt for

FIRST, the camaraderie aboard. That, I sup- plunging Europe into war must

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The war at sea, unlike the The French have the second

Admiral Raeder has no Grand fleet; -

मैं

S the sloop headed. A$

south a convoy with.

and irretrievable capitulation.gether, but the limitations of war on land, has already begun, greatest Empire in the world Had they shrunk from the fateful space compel them to be good but it is only in its beginning, and such an Empire could not escorts passed to, starboard, challenge they would have had to mixers. There is no quarter- Less fortunate than Tirpitz, survive without a powerful nearing journey's end. The com- confess, not merely that "all is deck in a submarine.

mander was prompted to tell me lost suve honour," but that "all is

the story of the luckiest ship. Ours was one of the smaller Fleet with which to give battle

Carnot, who organised the in the French Marine the des lost, nor even honour saved." 1t

class, only 600 tons, with a com- on the high seas; he must rely victorious armies of the French troyer Sirocco. is difficult to exaggerate the plement of three officers and 40 on his U-boats and on his occan Revolution, had his counter- mingled arrogance and duplicity men--to say nothing of the dog, raiders, the pocket battleships, part in Jean Bon Saint-Andre, The Sirocco had just sunk which formed the warp and the who answered to the name of the battle cruisers, Scharnhorst who organised the navy which her first U-boat, and everyone woof of German policy. The re-Tout Petit. Everyone aboard and Gneisenau, and the new assured the freedom of France's aboard was feeling cock-a-hoop. velation of that unconscionable was "tu" to the commander. 10,000-ton heavy cruisers, of

maritime communications. In So, in order to give the other blend is alone sufficient to make Food (and such food!) was the which two, the Admiral Hipper these same waters off Finisterre, destroyers in the escort. their irrelevant and futile the self-same for officers and men alike, and the Blucher, are now com where our submarine disported, chance of a kill, the Sirocco was Interrogation as to the Allies' war And the wine-who could wish ploted. alms in which over-meticulous minda find distraction from the

although defeated, held the But, towards the end of the immediate business of winning the War, One might as

APART from escorting passage open for a great convoy day, up came another U-boat, profitably

of wheat from Amerles,

skulking in the wake of the dispute us to what should be done With all this camaraderie goes the chief task of the Allied

To-day, with the co-operation convoy and waiting for the with a jungle beast about to spring a perfect discipline. When the Navies now, is to chase these of the British, the French Fleet moment to strike.. The Sirocco or a cobra roady colled to strike warning cry, "Nous allons plon- at its victim.

ger," passed round the ship Britain and France had, and every man sprang to his ap- still have, as this Yellow Book pointed station. Even the shown, only one possibo resort for steward who was setting the aelf-preservation, as well as for table for lunch dropped the cut- honour to confront and ond the lery and ran aft to stand by one imminent perli. Before they were of the innumerable speaking-

driven to that conclusion, the

for better than the vin de l'i tendance of the French Marine? The grog, of course, goes with- out saying.

tubes.

the ocean

convoys,

a French flotilla in 1794 joined sent away to the rear of the battle with the British and, convoy.

Do You Know The Next

Medal To The V.C.?

The medal ranking next after occasion for an air raid warden or the V, C. fa a medal that hardly civil policeman to quality. anybody

heard about the Like the V. C., the E. G. M. can be Empiro Gallantry Medal.

awarded to a man who has been killed in action. This applies to no

Allies exhausted every effort to I remember, as we dived, roach a peaceful solution which looking round at the bowildering would not be a mero postponement ¦ mass of delicate machinery and of the clash, and a botrayal of the thanking. Providence that this tranquillity and liberty of Europe. vessel in which I was making When they attempted to reach my first ocean descent was not was made known last week. reasonable accommodation, they one of the chain-belt productions

The official ranking of this medal other decoration.

So far, only one Instance of this

Its full official title is the Medal of has occurred. The Inte Commander

were cheated and then fouted. which Germany is said to be the Most Excellent Order of the F. R. Jolly, R. N., of the destroyer Dosira for concillation.was affect- es only as a cloak to the fulfilment turning out at the rate of two British Empire, but it is to be known Mohawks, was awarded the E. G.M. of ulterior designo, and not at all a week. And as I watched the generally as the Empire Gallantry after his death, but it was not

name.

lay behind the U-boat, hidden. by the gathering dusk. But to the look-out on the Sirocco the U-boat was clearly visible, with her silhouette against the set- ting sun-and the guns of the destroyer made short work of the raider.

"I was in command of that: a escort," said the sloop com mander, "and it was. I who ordered the Sirocco to the rear.

He spoke with evident feeling..

WHEN Dr. Goebbels

geta tired of trying-

Razetted as "Medal of the Milltary British are leaving all the- Division of the O.B.E.," and fow

honour.

the

as a token of their abandonment, men, everyone an expert, mani-Medial, and those who win it will generally realized that it was an un- to divide the Allies by telling and the cloak was thrown off as pulating their machines I could put the initials E. G. M. after their usually high honour because it was the French troops that the soon as ita doceptive purpose had boon sorved. Hitler was resolved on war. Of the evidenco given to The German Chancellor is describ- and It. is almost unknown even to order knew the importance of the tempted to vary the manoeuvre Only a few men have won it so for people outside the Chancery of the fighting to them, he may be the world by France, not the leasted as "capable of, the worst members of the services.

by telling the British Navy that Interesting is the provision of the frenzies, the wildest exaltations The standard of gallantry required it ba

It has been officially decided that in all the fighting in this war is French Ambassador fa Berlin as and the most delirious exhibi- to win it la almost as high as that for awarding naval decorations early as May last of the possibility tione," at which times he upsole be won by clvillans.

the V.

but, unlike the Cross, it may Order of the British Empire shall be being done at sea and by the of Hitler making a pact with nations, continents, geography and Soviet Russla for the partitioning history like a domiurge in mad-

So far, however, no man outalde the Order of the Bath. It will only be pared to fight to the last British regarded as next in importance to the British alone. "France in pre- of Poland Assuredly the vivid Boss. The likenesskits in with area has qualified for it, as civ awarded far service of high merit bluejacket," ötc., etc.?; character-aketch of Hitler, written tho amazing features of that where they can show gallantry in the tains were recently made officers of rarely in circumstances When certain merchant navy copy by M. Francois-Poncet in October, mountain fastness at Berchtes face of the enemy NE

Poor Dr. Goebbels! If ho 1938, helps to explain much that is gadon which Hitler har minde his

the order, the intention, officially ever tries that lino of talk, ho. A big air raid on the civil popula-was to mark the fact that their con-will be telling it to the marines. -most perplexing in Nazi'policy. homo.,

flon might, however, provide "an'duct was of outstanding bravery.