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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1940.

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‣RITISH submarines challenge the enemy in her own waters. Some, do not come back.

Honour the men who go under the sea. Until the Norwegian invasion there has been little talk in this war of British marinos.

sub-

The men who

gives what is probably the best explana- tion. He says in a preface of William Guy

go under

Carr's book "By Guess and By

God": They are the most silent ships of the "Silent Service”-known among men of the Royal Navy as "the trade," In the last war they were rarely mentioned in of- ficial Press reports.

The service has been dub- bed "the Trade" since the carly days when smart crews of surface ships chose this name to describe the gallant men in grease-stained overalls and grimy checks who manned these "crazy" submersibles. The name--now glowing with a tradition of honour-re- mains.

But there is still reticence in naval circles when British submarines are spoken of.

ADMIRAL S. S. Hall, who commanded the service for the greater part of the last war,

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"For the period of the Great War (1914-18) and for sume years after the very word 'submarine' was repugnant to us...Think of it! With the largest armada the world has ever seen at anchor in Scaph, with an auxiliary patrol of some 4000 vessels specially equipped for anti-submarine patrols, and with the assistance of the whole of the world's navies excepting those of Germany and Austria, we stendily lost 130 vessels per month from In the enemy submarine action. nctive perlod of submarine warfare the average sinkings were six per dlem."

That was the -view of the man who was in charge of all British 12 yours submarines expressed after the Great War had ended.

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HIS bitterness would not find the same cause in the war against Naziism to-day but the hurt and injury to the men of his service still endures.

Not one enemy or neutral civi- Jian lost a life in the last war-nor so far in this war as a result of hostile action by a British sub- marine,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

197

By Lichty

1/6

"Two armed bandits broke in here and escaped without

WHILE the

great war rages, another

ruthless war goes on at

home. I mean

buying a thing!"

the sea

be-

The respect which exists tween the men of opposing surface ships in time of war is not felt by the men of Royal Naval submarine service for their opposite numbers in the U-boats. Our submarine crews hold in contempt the men in the enemy craft who bring loathing. ofi

a service which the British conduct with chivalry.

The Royal Navy musters one of the largest and most powerful

submarine commanda in the world. From the Thames class of 1800 tons with a surface speed of 22 knots down to the 1918-bull "H" class of a little over 400 tons with a cruising speed of 14 knots, there are over 70 vessels commissoned in "the Trade."

The British submarines have two main activities. (1) They c company the fleet-that is large capital ships on reconnaissance or in action; (2) they explore enemy waters on patrol searching out and attacking enemy surface ships, a task as dangerous as any in tho world.

THE submarine is a crea- ture of stealth, foremost in the line of fighting ships, al- ways alone,

un-

Small bands of men steadfast and courageous, must have swerving loyalty and trust in their the commander on whom alone success and safety of the ship depends.

SHORT SHORT STORY

THE

WHO

MAN SIDE-TRACKED

BRAIN

HIS

"I KNEW a case," said the

financier, "of a man with the most brilliant brains, who had finance at his finger tips.

"He was a man called Smogga, 'utterly unknown of course. And I say 'of course, because he never used his brains; or rather I should say he never made any use of them, which can be quite a different thing. He just side-tracked then. ran them down a siding that led nowhere; and he might have been as big financier as any of us.

"Do you know what he did? Sit down and I'll tell you. He went and played chess. All the intellect that might have controlled, well, more than I can tell you, he-wasted- over a chessboard,

"It came gradually at first; he used to play chess with a man dur- ing the luncheon hour, when he und I both worked for the same firm. And after a while he began to beat the fellow, which he never could do at

first.

"Then he joined a chess club,

kind and some

of fascination seemed to come over him; some- thing like drink, or more likely poetry or music; but, as I was never addicted to any of the three, I can't say. Anyway it completely got hold of him and he began to lose Interest in things.

"He became a

good player, there was no doubt of that, and he won n good many prizes. And the value

prizes the of

he won in his le would have added up to about hundred

dollars. I've made thousand times as much in an hour. And more than once. But that is nil he ever got out of playing chess. "Why! That man could have handled millions. He did dabble a b in Anance, as I dabbled a bit In chess; in fnct we started to- gether in the same firm, as I told

The £.s.d. of

the endless, desperate struggle

bours.

to keep o

The casualties are fearful, and ought to be a warning to the rest of us.

with the neigh-

I-DON'T know how modern the vice of living beyond one's means may be, but I do know that it has been going on as And I long as remember.

know people who were doing it before I was born, and still nrc.

are extremely Most of them

You would never respectable. think, looking at their curtained windows and their whitened door. steps, that a pair of malden sinters of my nequaintance were starving

themselves in order to keep up ap- pearances.

For years they starved a maid, too, but she escaped in time to save her life, and now the old ladles do their

own housework with the blinds down, and complain bitterly of the servant problem, which they regard as the curse of the modern #ge.

Their tragedy is it they do not really keep up appearances. All they keep up is a pretenco so transparent that their neighbours know all about them.

But far from looking down an them, the neighbours némire them for the brave show they make. After all, they do not let the neigh- bourhood down by getting into the police courts.

The difference between such people as these and clerks who swindle their employers in order to keep up appearances is that the old

ladies are still trying to keep in the. class they were born in, while the clerks are struggling to climb into. a cluse above their own.

PASSING from one class to another is a full-time job. Nobody can do it and attend to business, too. It is much easier to become rich than to upe the rich successfully.

If I had a son I should my to hn: "If you want to live as rich men do, the frnt thing to do is to make money. For God's sake don't try to do it until you have the wherewithal to get away with 1. try you will be found If you do out cooner or later, and your fate will be dreadful."

He might argue: "But why

you; but we both left our dabblings and went our different ways.

"And his way led nowhere. He could have done it though; he could have been a financier. They say it's no harder than chess, though leads to nothing. I never chess saw such brains so wasted."

"Well," suld the warder, "I can't sit listening to you all day, but I see your point and I agree with There are men like that. It's but there are men just like

it.

it.

pity,

He locked the financier up for the night, and hurried back to his work. THE END

is the

The British submarine anly ship of the Royal Navy which cannot all proudly under, her own coloura in home waters in time of

war.

I spent some hours recently aboard a destroyer at work in the English Channel on the Dover Patrol.

"We can't let n submarine move in our waters without a destroyer escort," an officer confided to me. "They would be attacked at once without challenge If there was not n.surface vessel accompanying to filve the recognition signal. A Jone submarine to us is just another U-boat to bo exterminated as quickly on possible."

"The Trade," he added after a pause, is a tricky business."

Furthermore, the Navy know that It isn't only gunfire and depth charges

that

deal death to the men

of the submarine service. The Posoldon, the M-2, the Thetis, all bear witness to the lurking danger of a service that takes its toll of life

peace-time as well as in war. But glory they have earned, and possess, though it is Hilo known. * * *

in

THE exploits of British submarines in the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora are Famous to-day even if years passed before the gallant tales could be told.

Men such as Holbrook, Boyle, Naismith, took her ships and stout- hearted crews through the trea cherous rainefields of the Stralis In the first few months of the last and naval war to cripple Turkish contraband traffic. Each comman der received the Victoria Cross and decorations were distributed among most of the crews,

To-day the submarines of the Royal Navy are back once more at action stations. They are gloriously carrying the tradition of "Tho Trade"

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Strictly speaking, there are 13,014,000 Scandinavians, namely 3.733.000 Danes; 0.207.000 Swedes; 2,895,000 Norstegians; 117,000 Icelanders. The Finns, who from many points of view might be consider- ed to belong to the same group, add 3.810,000 to the number.

GEOGRAPHY

Geographically, the Scandinavian lands are very large, but for the purpose of human habitation quite liny, Sweden resembles a large Christmas stocking, with a little bit of candy in the toe; the candy is the people. Norway is a long belt with a tiny edge of lace on one side and end: that lace is the people. They Inhabit parts of the shore and a few of the valleys. Denmark is a little more than half as bly as Maino.

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Country Life In Norway-by Axel L

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The Gulf Stream credited with enabling one-third of the people in this far-north, mountainous land to prosper on farena.

Farm-Labour Relations in Bcandina VÍK

by Marquis W. Childs.

efforts to Bludy of Scandinavian strike a balance between the standards of the farm and city.

Social Problems and Policles in Sweden in the Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Series of articles on Sweden's hindi. ing of a dozen or more social pro- blems.

How the Scandinavians Do It-by Mar-

quia W., Chlida

In these northern European coun trics labour rules democratically despite left and right critics and neighbouring dictatorships.

Swanking

"

shouldn't I have a motor-car, cock- tails, and cignts?"

I should reply: "Nothing would please me more than to ride in my non's elegant limousine, smoking his cigars. It I could distribute the products of this earth, every- body would have motor-cars, cock- tail, cigars, and everything they wanted in that line.

"There is surely no harm in wanting these things and trying to get them.

"Ambition is a good thing, and so is contentment. I do not care which of the two you choose, but you can't have both.

"I think on the whole that con- tentment is preferable. Contented people cause other people little trouble, and have a pretty good time themselves. But ambitious often people suffer terribly and enuse others to suffer.

"Look at Int- Ier, the batman.

CX-

anybody over

aped the rich, Its did.

Ho thetr

ways in officers' messes, and made up his mind to step out of his class. "If Hitler had realised where he belonged

the world would have been spared much trouble. Because they made him paint houses In- stead of pictures his soul was filled with hatred,

"Rend Meln Kampf. It is a cry- baby book from beginning to end. It is a success story gone wrong?"

"It shows what may happen to A man who tries to behave like people richer and wiser than him-- selt instead of settling down com. fortably and having a family."

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