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real trouble with the Soviet.
So too are the French and the Swedes, but in both Moscow and Berlin it is Britain which is especially singled out for threats,
BOTH: "Caught you redhanded, you old rascal!”
The sailor's war is developing
BY COMMANDER H. PURSEY, R.N.
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now, the Alcantara had a heary
OTH Germany's imports hit was badly on Are and almost in- and her exports are now, ceased are and
visible in the clouds of smoka. She
abandon liable to seizure by the having been ordered, the survivors abip "
French and British navies. took to the boats. The Allies' two-way blockade of Germany is well under way.
How is this new stranglehold on German trade being operated?
It will add to the already heavy task of those responsible for the Allies' close watchi on all European overseas trade.
list and had to erase fire. As she w obviously sinking, ker captain also gave the order "abandon ship," and in a short while she turned over on her
beam ends and ank
as paval auxillary vessels literally Thu, two peaceful linera fitted out fought themselves to a finish. Other British ships came on the scene and rescued the survivors.
This aid is going to Finland as part of the League of Nations movement to help her resist aggression, but Russia knows the arms and planes come
from London and Paris, not Goneva. Giraits, Gibraltar, Malta and Port the crews of the Alcantara and Rawal
Reports the last few days have shown a considerable amount of help going to Finland from Britain and France.
Right at the start Britain sent between twenty and thirty fight- ing planes. France has shipped thirty of her newest planes and in addition, anti-tank guns and ammunition,
Britain is sending a second and much larger shipment of planes and dipping into much. needed stores of anti-aircraft equipment and gasoline to help the Finns. Sweden is sending volunteers and
arms and affording transit for the Allied supplies.
These sentinels are now more watchful than ever at the gate- ways of the sea routes-the British
at the Orkney Islands, Dover The courage and devotion to duty of
said, and the French at Dunkirk, Le Havre, Marseilles and Oran. -
Neutrale engaged in bona-fide non-onemy trade can reduce to a minimum the inconvenienco to their ships by two methods:- (1) by sending on copies of the man
fest of the cargo to the Ministry of Economie. Warfare in advance of the slup, or
(2) by declaring the eargo to a British consular authority in the neutral country and obtaining a naviccrt. This is equivalent to a commercial passport which carries genuine neutral. goods through the control stations with the minimum formalitics,
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Though certain neutrals may com- plain about what they consider inter- ference with their legitimate trade, they prefer our method of examination and Prize Court, which has caused no damage to a single ship or person, to the German sink at sight" policy and its loss of innocent are
women and children.
Those who have convinced themselves that nation wholly selfish in anything they do may try to say that helping the Finns is only self-protection. Undoubtedly for all the nations which cherish freedom and order interests as well as ideals are involved in Finland's gallant stand. That is true even for America. But let acknowledge that much of the effort in every country to help the Finns springs from unselfish admiration for courage and decency.
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Surely in the generosity which is providing aid there should be room for the appreciation of good motives. Certainly Ameri- cans can see that they risk little compared with the Allies.
Britain and France, might easily say, "Sorry; but one war at a time is enough." Not only are they facing the possibility of drawing Russia's attack; they can I afford to give up any war supplies.
They are atraining to got planes for their own defence. They do not know what they may need should Germany open up full force in the Spring. Every bit of assistance they give the Finns is a real sacrifice. Let us pay tribute to it as to the widow's mite-though it is no mito in Finnish eyes, or Russian.
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Under this policy, Germany in the Great War destroyed 1,700 neutral ships, often with no warning, and over 2,000 lives.
The most important part of the blockade is the interception of ships at sea, and the most hazardous taak ja that carried out by our Northern Patroi that large, tempestuous area of some 200,000 square milles, bounded by the 770 miles from Scotland to Nor way and the 600 miles between Scot land and Iceland.
Pursuing sigzag courses to reduce the chances of being torpedoed by submarines, the patrol of cruisers and armod merchant cruisers steam in a line some 30 miles apart-the visible distance from the crow's nest of each ahip being about 15 miles in fine weather.
It was a unit of the Northern Patrpl which in the Great War fought a clas ato duel with the first raider to be dla cavered attempting to run the gauntlet of the blockade.
The RMB. Alcantara, on February 20, 1910, sighted a strange ship and pursued her, the crow being ordered to "naiton stations" precaution. Flying Norwegian colours, the stranger claimed to be the sa, Roan from Bouth America with a cargo of coffed.
Buddenly the Rena's enelyn statt dropped, her steering box opened to reveal a gun, flaps on her sides fell to unmask other, guna, and she opened fire.
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Realising the was a disguised Ger man ralder the Alcantara immediately retailated, and, though her steering gear was disabled, hotly 'ofgaged the Rena in n duel that lasted for a quarter of an hour,
By this timo tas Rona, repeatedly
pindi are typical of those who man the Northern Patrol. Their work, as the Inte Lord Balfour, a First Lord of the Admiralty, said, was * more com- tinuous, more important and more suð- cessful than that of any other branch of His Majesty's naval forces." many's exports-ton
The now measures against. Ger- months intensive lockade of her
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imports are bound to have a tremen dous influence on the Nazis' power to carry on the war. German oversena export trade should now be almost en- Lirely cut off.
In the Great War the blockade re- duced Germany's foreign trade from £1,180,000,000 in 1913 to £100,000,000 in 1910-a mere ono-soventh of its original volume.
Last year the total value of tier- many's overseas exporta was about £100,000,000. During war sha' will naturally divert as much of those exporta as possible to neighbouring countries, and this will reduce her normaal seaborne exports,
Nevertheless, it is estimated that she, will loso £45,000,000 as the result of the Ailled blockade.
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Police are packing their scarlet coats in moth balls to join the first division.
'AMPOLSKY, Quovadis, famous Royal Canadian Mounted
Costello and Zorn - they'll be swinging a kilt down Piccadilly soon. For In spite of their names, they will be among the Seaforth High landers of Canada who will shortly be leaving for England with the first overseas division from the Dominion.
Of course, there are all kinds of Macs, from MacAdam to McVeigh, in this regiment, But then you would expect Macs-particularly exiled Macs-to join a Highland unit. And you might expect them to want to fight for the "Old Country."
But it's Yampolsky, Quaradís, Costello and Zorn who represent the spirit of that great part of Canada which is made up of so many different European peoples.
Bealdes Yampolsky, Quovadla, Costello and Zorn, there are Binith, Archambeault, Brown and Legault,
For the first overseas division is entirely representative of all the Canadas, upper and lower, English and French,
It includes smart lads from Van- couver Island, where the Pacide laps, gunners from Moose Jaw on the rolling prairies, riflemen from St. Jean in old French Quebec, and engineers from Halifax on the Atlantic seaboard.
But they will have some tough nursemaids to watch over them, for their Arctic outposts, the
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"If you had 'mannars, "Selma," you'd stop interrupting mo with your troubles while I'm telling you mino!”.
For every Canadian soldier, re- ceives six shillings a day, hosides. £0 a month separation allowance- for his wife, and S3 a month for each child.
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Out of the backwoods the fron- tieramen are coming down to the big cities. Harry Hooper, just from. the wilds of the Cariboo, looketi as big as a bear in his hand-sewn moose-akin suit with its beaver tall trimmings, and moved na silently as any in his mocassini shoes.
"Let me at 'em," he roared at me In a voice that would have shaken.
the Rockles, "I'm so tough they'd have to muzzle me to give a grizzly a chance."
(But Harry Hooper wasn't 80- tough when he talked about his friends-his horses and his dops- which he had to shoot before leav.. ing to enlist.j
They hadn't fitted "Tex "Lebere with a uniform, and he still wore als ten-gallon hat as he lounged on the rifle range. When it came to his turn to shoot, he missed the target completely at 100 und 209 yards, but clipped the bull at 500- yards. His fellow soldiers couldn't. understand it.
"Wal, it's this a-ways, fellahs," · said "Tex," giving his trousers a hitch. "Back in Texas wo jest throw stones at anything 100 or 200 yards away."
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Liko Highlanders Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zorn, most. Canadians join Scottish regimenta from choice rather than ancestry.. It's the uniform that gets them.
So when the Canadian Army- adopted the new British over-all |batile-dress I went down to the | Seaforth Armories at Vancouver.
In the great hall I bumped Into a. | tall Highlander. His kilts hung in smart pleats, his knees were not too bong, and his calves under the- check stockings were shapely.
"What do you think of this new- uniform?" I neked him,'
From a haughty, far-away look of a warrior thinking of battle="" folda
oversens his expression changed to one of worried bowild- orment.
"Listen, bud," the Highlander- #ajd, speaking in broad Gaelic accent. "Wo don't have to TO traipsing around 'in' dem garage- men's suits, do we?"
"Say, bud," he went on, a High- land regiment can't parado, in.. those monkey-ducks⠀⠀ Why, we'd look like the bolermen's union on/ a picnic,"
As I left, he followed me with: pleading eyes.
Peter Stursberg.
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