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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1940.

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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 sub- British war of marines. They are the must 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 early 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 mains.

honour-re-

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

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ADMIRAL 5. S. Hall, who commanded the service for the greater part of the last war,

The men who

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

go under

Carr's book "By Guess and By Gad":

"For the period of the Great War (1914-18) and for sume years 'submarine' after the very word

was repugnant to us...Think of it! With the largest armada the world has ever seen at anchor In Scapa with an auxiliary patrol of some 4000 vessels specially equipped for anti-submarine patrols, and with the whole of the the assistance of world's navics excepting those of Germany and Austria, we stendity lost 130 vessels per month from enemy submarine action. In the nctive period of submarine warfore the average sinkings were six per dlem."

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

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IIIS bitterness would not find the same eause in the war against Nazism to-day but the hurt and injury to the men of his service still endures.

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

GRIN AND BEAR IT

473

By Lichty

"Two armed bandita broke in hore and escaped without

WHILE the

great war rages, another ruthles gocs on at home. I mean

war

buying a thing!"

The

the endless, desperate struggle

to keep up with the neigh- bours.

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

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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 f long na remember. know people who were doing it before I was born, and still

are.

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Most of them are extremely

would respectable. You

never think, looking at their curtained windows and their whitened door- steps, that a pair of malden sisters of my acquaintance were starving

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 hold in contempt the men in crews the enemy craft who bring loathing on a service which the British conduct with chivalry,

The Royal Navy musters one of the largest and most powerful

SHORT

THE

submarine commands in the world. From the Thames class of 1800 lons with a surface speed of 22 knots down to the 1918-built "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 ac

Acet-that is large company the

capital ships on reconnaissance or In action; (2) they explore enemy waters on patrol searching out and attacicing enemy surface ships, a task as dangerous as any in the world.

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

Small bands of ven steadfast and courageous, must have un- swerving loyalty and trust in their commander on whom alone the the ship sucerss and safety depends.

SHORT STORY

of

WHO

MAN SIDE-TRACKED

BRAIN

HIS

"I KNEW a case," said the

financier, "of n mun with the most brilliant brains, who had finance at his finger tips. "He was a man called Smoggs, 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. Ife just side-tracked them, ran them down a siding that led nowhere: and he might have been as big a financier as any of us.

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

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

of

Then, he joined a chess club,

kind and some

fascination seemed to come over him; some- thing like drink. or more likely poetry or masie; but, as I 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.

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"He became a good player, there. was no doubt of that, and he won a good many prizes. And the value of all the prizes he won in his life would have added up to about a hundred dollars. I've made thousand times as much in an hour. And more than once. But that is ull he ever got out of playing chess, Why! That man could have handled millions. He did dabble a bit in finance, as I dabbled a bl we started to- in chess; in fact gether in the same firm, as I told

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 nancier. They say it's no harder than chess, though chess leads to nothing, saw such brains so wasted."

never

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

a pity, but there are men just like it."

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

is the

The British submarine only ship of the Royal Navy which. cannot sail proudly under her own colours in home waters in time of war.

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

"We can't let a submarine move in our waters without a destroyer escort," an omeer confided to me, "They would be attacked at once without challenge if there was not surface vessel accompanying to give the recognition signal. A lone submarine to us is just another U-boat to be exterminated quickly as possibic."

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"The Trade," he added after a "Is a tricky business." Furthermore, the Navy know that it isn't only gunfire and depth charges that dent death to the men of the submarine service. The Poseidon, the M-2, the Thetis, All bear witness to the lurking danger of a service that takes its toll of life in peace-time as well as in war.

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But glory they have earned, and possess, though it is little known.

M * THE exploits of British submarines in the Dardanelles and the Sen of Marmors are famous to-day even if years passed before the gallant tales could be told.

Men such as lolbrook, Boyle, Naismith, took her ships and stout- hearted crews through the trea- cherous minefields of the Straits in the first few months of the last war to cripple Turkish naval and contraband traffic. Each comman- der received the Victorin 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 "The Trade."

INANITY FARE

Cable

Even if he was ablo Wouldn't bombard Lombard

Scandinavia Is

In

POPULATION

The News

Strictly speaking, there are 13,014,000 Scandinaviana, namely 3.735,000 Unnen; 0,207,000 Swedes; 2.805,000 Norgerlaria: 117,000 Icelanders. The Finns, who from many points of view might be consider- ed in belong to the same group, acd 3,810,000 to the number.

GEOGRAPHY

Geographically, the Scandinavian fanda are very large, but for the purpose of human habillation quite tiny, Sweden resembles a large Christmas stocking, with a little bit of canorway is a long In the too the candy is the people.

belt with a liny 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 big as Maine.

GULF STREAM

These are the most northern elviilsed countries in the world and they would be barren, white wastes of snow and Ico, were it not for the kindly Guit

Stream. The sweltering heat that Texas

In

and Louisiana experience

summer really heats up the Gulf Stream for Norway and Sweden.

BOOKS

Country Life in Norway-by Axel JL

Oxholm.

with The Gulf Stream credited enabling one-third of the people in 1s far-north, mountainous land to prosper on farms.

Farm-Labour Relations in Beandinavia

by Marquis W, Childs

Study of Scandinavian efforts to striko n balance between the standards of the farm and elty.

Social Problems and Potletes in Sweden In the Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Selence.

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

How the Scandinaviane Do It-by Mar-

qula W. Chlids.

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

£.s.d. of Swanking

themselves in order to keep up ap- pearances.

For years they starved a mold, loo, but she escaped in time to save her life, and now the old ladies do their own housework with the blinds down, and complain bitterly of the servant probleni, which they regard as the curse of the modern age.

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

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

Tho

between such

difference

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 class 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 casier to become rich than to ape the rich successfully.

If I had a son I should say to hien: "If you want to live no rich men do, the first thing to do is to moke money. For God's sake don't try to do it until you have the wherewithal to get away with . If you do try you will be found out sooner or later, and your fate will be dreadful."

He might argie:

"Bul why

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

I should reply: "Nothing would please me more than to ride in my son's elegant Limousine, smoking is cigars. If I could distribute the products of this earth, every- body would have motor-cars, cock tails, 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 nois contentment. I do not care which of the two you choose, but you can't have both.

"I think on the whole that con- teniment. is preferablo. Contented people cause other people little trouble. and have n protty good time themselves. But ambitious people suffer terribly and often cause others to suffer.

"Look at Hi-

Ier. the cx- batman.

any body aver aped the rich,

diti Не learned their ways in officers' messes, and made up his mind to step out of 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.

"Read Mein Kampf. it is a cry- baby book from beginning to end. It le a success story gone wrong.

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

H.W.S.

Ellmaurs, Supreme Court

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