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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni

tations Ordinance, 1936. Buch news as bears the Indication "UP" la received in

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France's Case

Necessarily, much of the recent ly issued French Yellow Book,

February 13, 1940,

At Sea With The

welcomed us aboard. And "Bon jour, monsieur" was what he said.

You see, although these

notices I have quoted were really

FRENCH

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

NAVY

The British Fleet has service.

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 seas. marine was French and the "chain-belt crows" which Ger- made an excellent · beginning In the calm waters of a Broton Land's End was Finisterre.

many must find for the U-boat against the Admiral Graf Spee, inlet I transhipped from the but for this sort of work submarine to the sloop. The combination of speed, power submarine commander Bwore- and great rangé of action is (and that's the right word) that

that the French Fleet excels."

sloop since he had already sent Britain is building the ships her to the bottom with his un-

RUT make no mistake: essential, And it is here, surely, I had no business to board tho

the French Marine,

It was all very exciting: to fleet, stand on the conning tower as we sailed out into the Bay of Biscay; to dive and have lunch on the sea-bed, because it is much stendier down, there; to stalk an "enemy" sloop and launch a torpedo against her; for all its justifiabic.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 L dropped against us in return.

France has already had no right to come aboard Churchill; in the same speech he raiders. But it was only a mock en-

submarine and every man jack dealing with the march of events counter, and, except for the tyro warned us against exaggerated built them, c.g., the Dunkerque since he had already blown the

Here in France, and the Strasbourg. from Munich to the outbreak of perhaps, how much tamer than optimism;

aboard to blazes with his un- In England we are too prone failing depth charges. war, la of value for the

record the real thing. So, at a time ashore and afloat, I have heard rather than for the general when the real thing is happening the same warning note as that to think that French sea power

By this time no doubt the two But it contains docu-daily--as it might very well which was sounded the other ended with Trafalgar and that ments of historic importance, have happened to us-there is day by M. Paul Reynaud: "Let the contribution of our Ally to commanders have argued it out presenting familiar facts inno point in a long and detailed us beware of underestimating the war is limited to her. mag- in the bar at and I only hope

account of our cruise. Only a

the strength of our enemy. The nificent Army and Air Force. A they saw that notice in English. few impressions.

democracies will triumph, but glance at the map should be which begs "No Noise Please." only at the price of sacrifices." sufficient to correct that view. (But even if they did, what matter? In France, as in Bri- tain, I have discovered “sailors

render.

E new

greater detail and from ♦♦ | angle. · Its effect is to deepen the sinister Impression which those fnets had already left on all but the Nazi mind. No room for doubt

remains as to where the guilt for FIRST, the camaraderie aboard. That, I sup- plunging_Europe_into_war__must_ pose, is inevitable-in-a-sub- lic. War. It is made apparent, marine. It is not only the ever- was forced on the Allies as the present danger that draws

tendance of the French Marine? The grog, of course, goca with- out saying.

With all this camaraderie goes

By William Forrest don't care").

News Chronicle Special Correspondent,

a French flotilla in 1794 joined sent away to the rear of the battle with the British - and, convoy. although defeated, held the But, towards the end of the

APART from escorting Passage open for a great convoy day, up camo another U-boat,

the ocean

convoys,

Do You Know The

Next

lay behind the U-bont, hidden by the gathering dusk.. But to the look-out on the Sirocco the

U-boat was clearly visible, with

only alternative to ignominious everyone, offlcers and men, to-. The war at sea, unlike the The French have the second AS the sloop headed and irretrievable capitulation.gether, but the limitations of

war on land, has already begun, greatest Empire in the world

south a convoy with 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,

Admiral Raeder has no Grand fleet.

mander was prompted to tell me lost save honour," but that "all is Ours was one of the smaller Fleet with which to give battle

the story of the luckiest ship fost, nor even honour saved." It class, only 600 tons, with a com- on the high seas; he must rely Carnot, who organised the in the French Marine the des

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 ocean Revolution, had his counter mingled arrogance and duplicity | men-to say nothing of the dog, raiders, the pocket battleships,

The Sirocco had just sunk. which formed the warp and the who answered to the name of the battle cruisers, Scharnhorst Part in Jean Bon Saint-Andre,

who organised the navy which her first U-boat, and everyone woof of German policy. The ro- Tout Petit. Everyone aboard and Gnelsenau, 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 crufners, of

In So, In order to give the other maritime communications. 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 pleted. nima in which over-meticulous for better than the vin de l'in minds and distraction from the immediate business of winning the war.. One might as profitably

of wheat from

wakulking in the wake of the dispute as to what should be done

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

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

tubes. driven to that conclusion, the Allios exhausted every effort to I remember as we dived, reach a peaceful solution which looking round at the bewildering would not be a mere postponement mass of delicate machinery and of the clash, and a betrayal 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 reasonable accommodation, they were cheated and then fouted.one of the chain-belt productions

Its full oficial title is the Medal of has occurred. The late Commander' Desire for conciliation was affect which Germany is anid to be the Most Excellent Order of the r. R. Jolly, R. N., of the destroyer ed only as a cloak to the fulfilment turning out at the rate of two British Empire, but it is to be known Mohawk, was awarded the E.G. AL of ulterior designs, and not at all week. And as I watched the generally as the Empire Gallantry after his death, but it as a token of their abandonment, men, everyone an expert, mani-Medal; 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 EG. M. after their usually high honour because it was the French troops that the

name.

gazetted as "Modal of the Military British are leaving all the soon as its deceptive purpose had

Division of the OBE and Tow beon sorvad. Hitler was resolved

Only a few men have won it so far, people outside the Chancery of the fighting to them, he may be. -on war. Of the evidence given to The German Chancellor is describand, it is almost unknown even to order knew the importance of the tempted to vary the manoeuvre- the world by France, not the least odas.eapable of the worst members of the services.

by telling the British Navy that Interesting in the provision of the frenzies, the wildest exaltations The standard of gallantry required" It has been

It has been officially decided that in all the fighting in this war is. French Ambassador in Berlin-as and the most dolirious, exhibit the V. C.; but, unlike the Cross,,it may Order of the British Empire, shall being dono at sea and by tho....

decorations the nwarding haval early as May last of the possibility tions," at which times "he upsets be won by civilians. of litier, making a pact with nations, continents, geography and

regarded as next in importance to the British alone. "France fà pre Soviet Russia for the partitioning history like a domiurge in fond- So far, however, no man outdde the

awarded for service of high merit, bluejacket," etc., etc. of Poland, Assuredly, the vivid pes. The likonose fits in with services has qualified, for it ne civi- arder of the Bath, 10 will only be pared to fight to the last British

are rarely in circumstances When certain merchant navy, enp character sketch of Hitler, written the amazing features of that where they can show gallantry in the tains were recently made oneers of Poor Dr. Goebbels! If ho- by M. Francois-Poncet, In October, mountain fastness at Borchtos race of the enemy. Www Make the order, the intention oficially over, trics that line of talk, ho 1938, helps to explain much that is gadon which Hitler has made his A big air raid on the civil popula- was to mark the fact that their co will be telling it to the marines.. most perplexing In Nazi polley," homo,-

tion might, however, provide an duet was of outstanding bravery.

Medal To The V.C.?

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 The medal ranking next after, occasion for an air rald warden or aj

escort," said the sloop com- tho V. C. is a medal, that hardly civil policeman to quality.".

mander, and it was I who abouttho anybody has heard

Like the V. C, the E. G. M. can be ordered the Sirocco to the rear." He spoke with evident feeling..

F

Empire Gallantry Medal.

awarded to a man who has been Julled in action. This applies to no The official ranking of this medal other decoration. was made known last week.

to win it is almost as high as that for

So far, only one instance of this

honour.

was not:

•

W

WHEN Dr. Goebbels.

gots. tired of trying