1940-03-01 — Page 13

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 1, 1940.

Another Article by Somerset Maugham on the War Effort of France In which he Tells of the Splendid Work of the French Navy

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by SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The

SPIRIT

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I SUPPOSE every of their passage of the Chan- Frenchman could roll off anel till their arrival long list of famous French French harbours.. generals, from Turenne and

French warships, on convoy duty

I was fortunate enough Conde, Napoleon and his to be able to go to sea in a marshals to Joffre, Gallieni French heavy cruiser and and Foch; but I doubt in a torpedo boat while whether one in a hundred they carried out certain could give you the name of routine exercises. I found and when they please on board,{ any admiral of his country's that the first difficulty con- during working hours and out 1 was afterwards taken we were with all lights out, trying through fleet but Suffren, and I am fronting the stranger in of them. not sure that even he could a French man-of-war is the tell you why exactly this mode of address.

- great sailor has achieved

renown.

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In the torpedo boat aboard which! We tore on through the night,

set first of all to net as a target to our glasses to get a glimpse of the were looking for. a shore battery. The guns aimed cruiser The food is extremely good. at us but their direction was de- Nothing could be seen of the rest of flected so that the shells fell six our flotilla. I had a sudden reali- Lunch is at noon and is a sub-hundred metres to the right of us.sation of the immense loneliness of sea and of its vastness. It stantial and well-cooked meal. Except for this their first shell the

an experience Ike that to I could not have eaten better would have sent us to the bottom. needs

Ninteen shots were fired and of make you feel how immense it is, IN the army you address in a first-class restaurant, and these five were direct hits and two and then you cannot wonder that For the French have a general as mon, general, aja patriotic bias shall not prevent others fell so close that we should with dozena of ships looking for badly damaged. If it her, a raider may escape delection. never taken the same in- major and a captain as mon me from saying that lunch in a have been

My commander was a big, vigor- terest nor taken the same commandant and mon capi- French torpedo boat is a vastly had been real warfare not many of pride in their navy.

taine respectively; but in the more palatable meal than any that crew would ever have seen ous, energetic man, and now as be stood on the bridge, his spirits rose have eaten in an admiral's their home again. It needed the determina- navy you say oui, amiral, to Flagship in the British navy. About four in the afternoon we with the excilement of the chase. put on steam to join a flotilla which His face was set and even in the tion of M. Leygues, Minister an admiral, and you address

Dinner, served according to was already on the way out to sea. darkness you could see the shining of Marine, inspired by the captains, commanders and circumstances between seven They were waiting for us twenty of his eyes.

lieutenant commanders as

We pounded on into the emoty and eight, is lighter but well miles away. We were to find and officer who is now Admiral Commandant; other officers cooked, and the quality of the attack a cruiser which had been

ordered to go from a certain point night and heavy seas swept over is as good. Messing is Commander in you address by their names. food Darlan,

un the mainland to a certain island, our bows. Then a wireless from I received the impression that paid for by the government

distance of a hundred and twenty one of the torpedo boats told us Chief, to induce the reluc- the officers' relations with one and this covers all drinks, 80 miles.

that the cruiser had been sighted; tant deputies to vote at last another were cordial and polite that there is no mess bill except When night had fallen a heavy and changed our course and sud- sufficient funds to reorganise without being intimate.

for cigarettes.

sex was running and with all our denly there was a cry from a dozen speed on we were rolling a good throats. The moon was favourable and showed 'as a vague black mass deal.

faintly silhouetted against the sky. Although it was only make-believe. it was a thrilling moment.

enthusiasm

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I WAS glad, standing on the bridge, to have a rail to cling The commander gave an order, to. "This is nothing." the we changed our course again to get commander told me, "sometimes position; a sudden crush of thun- der and we had fired our torpedoes. she rolls so that when you're hanging on to that rail your asked. feet-are-swept-away-from-under-don't-know-we-shali-hear-to--|-

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that had served him well, officers use the mess little ex- efficiency,

but it was not his home; cept for meals. As a rule they The French navy

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for spot an instrument under his hand, pointed strength or of the splendid

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It was strangely uncanny to mo with the warm feeling with to see the stealthy ease with which which the captain of old looked the heavy guns alowed round in jupon his sailing vessel.

[their great steel turreth. IT has sunk many Ger-

The officers I was fortunate monstera lurking in their caves for They were like huge primoval man submarines and seized hundreds of thousands of enough to meet appeared to me their pro

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