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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MARCH 27, 1940.

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BRITISH . Ministers have again and again insisted that the present alliance in arms between Britain and France. with its inevitable ceonomic corollary,

well may

result In a closer and an endur- ing co-operation when peace returns. A not unimportant step in this direction is to be seen in the Anglo-French trade agreements concluded between the President of the Board of Trade and the French Minister of Commerce. The effect of them is to relax considerably the measures of prohibition and restriction which had to be im- posed on the outbreak of war. They are, in fact, the logical sequel to the financial agree- ments between the two countries which were concluded last De- cember; and they lead the way to the establishment of similar arrangements between other parts of the British and French Empires. Such reciprocity, whose consequence, must be a growing inter-dependence, is of the happiest augury.

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HOPE "Dare I risk plucking that one again?"

To

FRANCE

Something TO HAS HER

Cling

All

T

the

To-That's They Asked

THOSE Nazi airmen who. murdered the men in

East Dudgeon lightship would be furious to learn that they have indirectly done the best turn of the war to Britain's merchant seamen.

What happened to that defenceless

-by TREVOR EVANS

DORANS

—And has given twice as many

de-

corations as we

have...

SOME of our very gallant allies,

the fliers of the French- Armee de l'Air, aro not being heard of quite enough in this.

queer war.

The fault is not theirs.

the fitting of Heboats and other fact, the French Government so for

appliances.

The excellent Board

of Trace specifications met most contingencies at sea in pence time, he says.

Most passenger ships were well equipped, but the cargo ships-ocean ant coastwise need overhauling now, especially those more than ten years old.

In many of these oldish ships the lightship crew has turned Authority's little could be spared to save nur Some of the boats suffer from over- to protect property," he said, "lifeboats leak badly when launched. spotlight on the need for greater lives."

safety measures for men of the sea.

Mr. Winston Churchill has an-

nounced that crews are to be taken off the further-out lightships. And

the further-out lightships are to be replaced by light - floats without

crews.

No more will we risk men whose whole working fe has been spent helping the vessels of all nations, German included.

But if the seas

said, "and see that

every

zealous painting.

They have their Dorans too, In

has awarded its airmen more than twice us

decorations 34 our !ility R.A.F. men have received

Some people believe that The French system of decorations is more truly democratte than the British,

In many chees whole crews of French bomber reconnaissance working together as a team. mnėlines are being decorated

for

The captain, his radio operator, gunners and navigator nearly always ly a mention in Army Orders and receive the same decoration-general- the Croix. de Guerre.

The only time the British show the same impartiality is when they leave whole crews undecorated...

He made two suggestions"A"One I examined," he said, "would range for a slow-slow. convoy," he have been Impossible to use for life-

ship, saving.

It was so painted up that it

Meet some of the Allied heroes... however small, wever old, has a was impossible to get the rowlocks Sergeant Pierre Lacaille and Corporni N.C.O. Pot Pierre Frebillot, Chief raft slung to her deck, quickly into the gunwale fittings." detachable in time of Irouble

Pierre Martelliere are a bomber crew you'll cut your losses of life ut sea

When a ship is mined or torpedoedition and the Croix de Guerre.

who have ail won Army Orders men- by half,"

it seldom sinks on anything like an

The

official

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sioning of these rofts, with sealed two of the four possible lifeboats.

He added that the special provi-impossible to lower way more than During a photographic reconnaissance

even keel. Mr. H. says it is often them. At Buys this

worthy and galiant crew. they were attacked at great height lockers containing food, water, spirits

by enemy fighters. They fought as they continued to carry out their mission. Although both machine gun- tiona:

ners were wounded and one engine That at least two lifeboats, one the starboard, should be fitted with information."

put out of action, 'by skilful manocu- forward on the port side, one aft on get back to their base with important vre and shooting they managed to

.

lightship men, what of the crews of provided.

ure unsafe for and flares, could be economically fishing trawlers and the slow, old

This story was told to me ten days; tramps which would normally be bound for the semp-yard. but are every member of that crew has gone ago. There is a footnote. Since then now of greater value to the nation back to sea. then they have ever been before?

HE makes Wiese

£150 a boat.

sugges-

On

a petrol or paraffin engine-giving won the Military Medal a well 45 N.C.O. Pilot Antoine Mercy has They have been telling strange, Douglas himself hopes to go back range of 100 miles-at D cost of the Croix de Guerre with Palm. disquieting tales, these men of the next month.

photographic reconnaissance he was tramps, on their return from recent

attacked by three Messerschmitts. That each ship should carry at DOBERT STANLEY was the least four life-rafts, fitted with man voyages.

Ro

The oficial report says: second steward of a ship ropes and calcium flares, "similar to succeeded, in spite of

Thanks to bis sang-frold

ht

Brave

burns,

GAVIN DOUGLAS, Scottish that sank off the west coast last the Carley floats used by Navy ships. In brieuring his faming machine back

novelist, has just ended a voyage as a'deek-hand.

month..

to the French liners, his

machine That when ships enter danger Runner killed at his post. He thus. It was Robert Stanley's jub to stow zones all Bfeboats should be swungt enabled his observer to away bottles of brandy in the life-out on the davits.

Jump by parachute into French territory with boats at the beginning of the voyage,

valuable photographs. In these con firemen on coal-burning ships,

He makes another proposal for dillons he showed a magnificent spirit of sacrifice worthy of the highest praise," Antoine Mercy's sacrifice wrs the supreme one.

His ship was so old and so slow that she could not join a convoy, But she is useful enough to bring After he and his mates had been 10,000 tons of iron-ore to this country floundering round in the cold waters cach. trip she makes.

of the bay for some hours they were Douglas is bitter, but he is going hauled aboard one of their own life- to sea again,

There were times on that last trip

boats.

They sat there shivering in the stern, when Stanley suddenly re- membered the brandy,

It is also satisfactory to know

difficulties in the way of the parallel development of French and British export trade have been examined, and that the dis- cussions between the Federation of British Industries and the equivalent organisation in France have been approved. Such a move might easily even- tuate in Homething very like an industrial alliance. For the im- mediate moment the announce. when he and his shipmates were ment that will be most convinced that they were just plain, welcomed, however, is the agreed fool suleides. Intention to simplify to the grentest possible extent existing formalities relating to the control of external trade. the movement of private per- song, and communications by post, telegraph and telephone. These formalities have proved not only unduly restrictive but positively vexatious. Trade be-

In their hours off duty they formed tween Britain and France has little informal discussion groups. been forced, as it were into a strait waistcoat, and healthy. ned, to leave odd spars lying about toned."

One or two of them actually plan-or on a raft before a ship is uban- activity has been made impossi- in the scuppers in the hope that if ble. No better foundation could

They looked at their lifebouts us the the ship creaked and groaned through

the danger zones, and they had mor bid discussion on the number of ways

He called to the ofleer in charge "Pass the brundy, alr.“

There was a shocked silence.

Then

mentions like this, dozens of them: Then there are the simple, briet

"Sergeant Pilot Michel Marias, bril worth on its first fight in action. Hant fighter pilot. He proved his

Attacked by two Messerschmitts, he out of action." thot one down and forced the other

They work in an atmosphere of 100 to 120 degrees. Few of them ever provide themselves with warm clothing. When their ship goes down they suffer terribly from exposure.

"Why not provide these men with warm 'dulle' coats?" says Mr. H. If shipowners are ordered to ships with motor lifebonts, or t Young Lieutenant Tissler was on existing lifeboats with engines, and, photographie reconnaissance when aircraft are. Then came three Mes- serschmitts, Every man in the bom his machine was disabled by anti-

the officer spoke. "Don't life-rafis, he adds, arrangements con they could go down without the life you remember?" he said. "We drank be made in every main port to com plete the job in forty-eight hours."

boals being the tiniest scrap of use.,

The crew were concerned about the Inck of safety,

the strip went down there would be.

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boration between the two coun- trios which, it is hoped, will be That was all they asked. Some- npotent factor in post-war thing to cling to.. economics than this decision to give business interchanges theme ho, was, not angry.

When Gavin Douglas came to see freedom to function.

Simply puzzled. "If we can spend money

It all at our Christmas party."

When Stanley saw me he made one suggestion.

PASSED all these sugges- llons on to a member of

ber was wounded. The machine was to the base. Lleutenant Tissler had in flames. It fought its way back saved the photographs.

"There ought to be a law," he the Advisory Committee to the Minis-actions for which decorations are be- |said, "making it an offence to open try of Shipping.

the seal of any locker In lifeboat Me telephoned me.

Stanley hasn't waited for his law. He went to sea again last week

M

MR. HL is an expert im

marine life-saving equip-

Nearly 30 per cent, of these gallant ing given took place, over German territory. The French are taking the intiative.

"We have done quite a lot along

The flera of the Armee..de l'Air the lines you suggest," he says, Spires. Hurricanes and Wellington but now the whole business is to bombers. But they have plenty of may not be lucky enough to have

be speeded up for every one." that without which all the Splitres.

in the world would be useless. They are brave, and gay.

"Why the sudden spurt?" I asked.

That East Dudgeon lightship affair ment. For years he was in charge was the last straw," he said. of liner Hfeboats.

That's how those Nazi airmen have Now he has a shore job organising helped British seamen,

The B.A.F. on the Western Front: hava

worthy comrades to fly with

Sydney Smith