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"Sixth

The Labour party has done a servies to honest thinking about the war by publishing a documented exposure of Communist Inconsis- tencies.

A little twopenny pamphlet. "Stalin's Men--'About Tyrn,'" is an admirable record, presented fairly, of what the Communista, bere and In Russia, sald about the Nazi menace to Europe, what they said about Finland, and what they are now saying,

WHY DO MINES EXPLODE

AT CHEUNG CHAU

MANY of the public are under the impression that according to international law amine which comes adrift from its moorings must auto- matically be rendered harm- less, and they cannot under. stand why, if that is so, drift- ing mines should have been exploding on the shores of Cheungchau and elsewhere in Hongkong.

What are the facts? Article

3 of the Hague Convention of 1907 (to which Great Britain rubscribed) provided that-

"When anchored automatic contact mines are employed, every possible precaution must be taken for the safely of peaceful navigation."

contact

British mines conform with this provision. If they break adrift, a switch (operated by a powerful spring) is broken as soon as the strain is taken of the mooring! rope, After that a ship has noth- Ing to fear; the mine cannot be ex- ploded by

with the projecting horns. There is in fact no case, in this or in the last war, of a ship under way being seriously damaged by a drifting British mine. Thus in the words of the Hagee Convention "penceful navigation" faces no dangers from such mines.

WHY, then, do the mines some- times explode on reaching shore- on the Cheungchau benches for example?

and

There is still a large explosive charge in the mine. The electrical Airing device actuated by the horns has been put out of action and contact with u navigating ship will not fire the charge. But repeated wounding on the shore by the action of wind and wave may, in fact sometimes does, as we know from experiences at Cheungehou.

Similar explosions have occurred in many parts of the world besides Hongkong; there have been reports of drifting mines exploding on the coasts of Denmark, Holland, Great Britain, and indeed of all countries adjacent to minefields of any nationality.

The publle may rest assured of two things; Arzt that the mines of the Royal Navy are emelently and carefully laid; second that every possible precaution to safeguard peaceful navigation is inken.

Saturday, MAY 4, 1940.

BRITAIN'S SURE SHIELD OF EMPIRE

IN

IN the whole of Britain's

long history the func tion of the Royal Navy has never altered.

The advent of submarines and aircraft has in no way Impaired the supreme potency of Sea Power to a nation with vast interests and responsi bilities all over the world.

Eachpo

altucks pon trade routes, has become casler still in the case of submarines, which can travel submerged,

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THE German pocket battleships "Admiral Graf Spee" and "Deutsch- land" both managed to escape from the North Sea and to inflet damage · upon British shipping. The des truction of the "Graf Spré" oft Montevideo is still fresh in the memory.

However, the question may be asked if it is possible for an enemy raider to attack an Isolated, and Possibly poorly defended, British colony.

The answer is that the

so long as British Sea Power in unimpaired.

In war it is still.the main task of the British Fleet to oblbin effective control of the sea by destroying or Fomobilising the naval forces of ne enemy. In so doing, it ensures our seaborne the protection of trade and the destruction of thint of the enemy, and cun ensure free, movement by sea to any part of the Empire and the world of our essential supplies and military and

titis air forces, while denying vantage to the enemy. In modern however, there can be naval war,

no

such thing as absolute command of the sea, If by that is meant the complete exclusion of enemy vessels from the ocean.

No matter to what extent British naval forces may preponderate, no matter how rigorous the watch, a

immunity

never be aranteed.

Fogs,

nights, uncertain dark weather, difficulties in navigation, and the circumstances of sea war fare in general, will always alford opportunities for small squadrons or single raiders to escape un- observed, and to make sporacle

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every enemy raider depends upon evasion. Like the "Wolf" in 1917, which laid mines off the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand in

a cruise lasting fifteen

ralder might under again. mines ponsibly

ut darkness, in areas where trade is thickest. But anything in the nature of a landing raid upon. or a bombardiment of, some isolated outpost of Empire is

im- very probuble indeed..

No island

or territory now lacks communication with the outside

cover

world,

On a gun being fired, or a mun landed, the ralder at once advertises her presence, the first thing she wishër to avoid. Tout- tempt aggression ngulist any out- Jying possession would at once bring the hunting forers down upon her,

WHILE the Royal Navy, with the potent aid of the Royal Air Forez. cannot prevent losses to the

Column Column" erent Navy through

The record was worth making because, although the Communists are few, they are avlsy, and herause there are in the Labour and trade uolno movements 2 Food many gullible people who respond like automatens to such slogans 隐发 "Down with the Imperialist war!" cr. it would be truer to say, have not the courage to withstand and question Diem.

The best reply to the "Com- munazis." as they are known in France, is to convict them out of their own mouths. No intelligent man, however great his sympathy with the Marxian analysis of his affection for the Sovlet experiment, can read without an ironical grin the. sequence of heroles of the Com- munist International and (in Eng- land) the "Dally Worker"-the violent inėitements to war against Germany up to the middle of Sep- tember, the hasty adaptation when Russia became aggressionist too. and latterly the quile equivocal treatment of the war, a treatment which can only be described as direct support of the German arnis and whitewashing of filer.

The texts are all in the Labour pamphlet, and it is hard to resist Its conclusion that "the object of the Communist party in this coun- -dry-as-In-others, Is-to-net-u-all-

Instrument of Soviet foreign pelley. It is the 'Sixth Column' operating abroad on behalf of Soviet Im- perialism and power politics.' It is

a discreditable and dishonest part. and the less decent people have to do with it the better.

·HAV

e action of encin

submarines

craft; it may be point- ed out that about 1,000 ships of every Jype urrive at, pr sail from, the ports of the United

Kingdom every seven days. Many of these ships are engaged in trade with the Dominions and Colonies. On February 13, 1940, the British mercantile losses alne the war started totalled 148 shilpa of 633,- 123 tons. This loss sounds large, Lut when it is considered in conjunction with accretions through

-by- "TAFFRAIL"

new construction or purchase, the set-loss works out at less than the one-hundred-and fiftleth part of the tonnage available,

Up to February 7, the number of ships escorted in British Con- voys since the war began was 0,284, The number lost in convoy through enemy action was 18, which works Gnt of roughly one in every 500.. These last figures provide a strik- ing tribute to the eficacy of the Convoy System in spite of the enemy U-boat and aircraft attacks,

The losses in German submarines, by this time probably amount to one-half of the 70 in existence at the beginning of the way.

At the same time, the German U-boat building programmo is not coming up to her expectations. With such severe lossen there must niso be difficulty in providing new crows. The service is highly specialised. It takes at least Ave years to train an efficient sub- marine captain,

MOST of the Geiman merchant- men in the outer oceans have taken refuge in neutral waters. Some few may have slipped through the British watching squadrons und have reached home. Others have been captured, or have scuttled themselves on sighting British cruisers.

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British Seu Power predominates the German. by many times over Moreover, with the huge building programme of war-vessels entered into before the outbreak of war, and the many ships ordered since. there will be a large increase in all types in the course of the next few

months. This particularly applies to escort and anti-submarine craft. At present, the Germans are con- centrating the venom of their U- boat attack upon defenceless neu- trals, and Isolated ships at that.

If there is a crudescence

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of submarine activity against the British convoyn, the enemy es will be all the greater.

The things you do

[AVE you ever noticed the funny way in which people are apt

to pride themselves particularly on their faults? And not because they've nothing else to pride them-

selves on either.

You

know; somebody who is clever, generous; honourable and unsel8sh thinks nothing of all that but says with qulet satisfaction:

"Of course, you know my dread- ful temper. I can't help going off Just Be freworks,"

Then there's

Vagueness. "My dear, of course was late-you know me and then naturally I'd forgotten the address, Hex had to ring up all London for it, then I'd lost the tickets, and after all it was the wrong day! So like

} always do that."

m.e.

And pride's the worst of the fol Next time someone boasts to you of being proud, ask him politely what of?

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Just as people sometimes make deliberate affectations at their faults bistend of trying to check them. so do plenty of people star Just the wrong points for beauty,

Haven't you ever met the hand- some girl with the heavy underlip, to whom a young man once snid- after o quarrel: "Oh, I do love you when you sulk!**

So now she goes about frowning and sticking out that Habsburg lip and glowering halefully at people. Honestly, forbidding is a mild word for it.

Then there's mad hair.

She once come in from a country walk looking very windswept and untidy and sweet, and everyone thought her charming. Now she goes about London all mussed up, looking as though she'd had fun in a taxi, when she hasn't.

Exotle eyebrows is another benu- ty affectation, it all comes along of Miss Murlene Dietrich

She's not really sulky

sho's just

making this face because she thinks it spits ber, it's one of the beauty affectations that make THEODORA BENSON "long to have half-

■ brick." Her words-not ours!

Oh, that upward slant where no real eyebrow could grow, with your plucked out natural line protesting visibly below IL

Slit or pop eyes-don't please go in for them. Forever narrowing your nice almond shaped eyes at people and peering through a chini. Or stretching your big round eyes or any or no. provocalion till they seem to come out Itko snail's eyes on stalks.

A word on untidiness. That day when he said in an excess of tenderness, "There you are like a baby with a jam mear on your dear little face," he didn't inean he'd prefer you ever after- wards to have holen in your stock- Ings and crumbs in your hair.

He can put up with a little of that sort of thing-so far. Nobody also cares for it at all. Don't take

with

your face

the line that it's just absolutely you!

The slouch is an affectation often adopted by tall people who want o look shorter and who don't realśc that it increnses the effect of height.

It is also adapted by people who want to look sophisticated and non- chulant-and who don't realise that it spoils their shape, which is hord- ly a sophisticated procedure.

Terrifically long, very bright_red claws are another rather sad affec- tition.

Not only because the nature-red- In-tooth-and-claw suggestion is a bit repellent, but because they make other people feel uneasy- they look so very inconvenient!

Bel my own unfavourite of alt beauty affectations is the baby poul, the little mottel

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find it so boring to see a mouth continually being pursed into 'a rosebud button at ine, that I long. to benve ball a brick at it.

Fortunately, I have never yet had the half-brick handy.