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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 15, 1940.

MAGAZINE

A Totalitarian Eclipse Has Been Arranged!

Meet the Navy's

ACID DROP"

by Paul Holt

re-

THE odds are that one name will come to the surface, to defeat-the- Navy's liking for ticence-and-privacy, -to- take its place when this war is over, with the Eng- lish names of Blake and Beatty, Nelson and Jelli-

coe.

It's a Welsh, name—Phil- lips. Christian name Tom. It belongs to a little admiral who doesn't sail the sens.

I first heard the name of Vice- Admiral Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips meatloned by Winston Churchill at the Guildhall luncheun to the men of the Exeter and the Ajax on February 23,

CHURCHILL, that day, was walk- ing to the Navy, Not to civillitis. There were phrases in his sprech

he resped "amid the tungles of onc-alded neutrality" when he talked about the Cossack rescue of the Altmark men from a Nor- wegian ford-which were intended for the workl

But the bulk of like words were for the Navy. He talked about your friend the one you. sank

Ute Grat Spee." And he paid tribute, as the Navy would want him to do. to the men who made the River Plate victory possible. To Sir Henry Harwood and Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord,

But because I hadn't heard the nume mentioned before, I paid more attention when he paid tri- bute to Vice-Admirol Tom Phil- lips.

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And now he has paid further tribule.

He humide admirul Tan --Phillips-Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff. Before, he Was deputy chief. Now, it is clear from the Downing-street announcement of his appointment, he takes on which Sir Dudley Pound leaves off:- The announcement talks about twenty- four-hour warfare.

WHO i

this Tom Phillips? No- body knows him. The lower deck don't know him. They haven't a nickname for him. They don't call him Ginger, which is the name they have for Admiral of the Flest the Eart of Cork and Orgery, Da

At the Admiralty he is well known by.sight, but few know him. to talk to. He is shorter than. Napoleon, who stood Bft. Bin d give him Nelson's Bft, 4ins.

two brains with just over a single brawn

He is, I'd sny frum a sight of him, on the heavy side of feather- weight. Say nine stone dead.

He has small feet, a grim little rat- trap of a mouth which turns up He probably has

at the corner,

a lot of secret jokes to himself that nobody, int even Churchill, knows about.

In his posed pictures he wears his hot at the Bealty tilt, but often forgets to keep that pose and puts it on dead straight.

I'm not suggesting that this is

his affectionate nickname, but somebody who sees him most days. Nummed him up to me as "The Aeld Drop." H. C. Ferraby, Daily Express naval reporter, says cheer- lly "Why he's all brains and no

ilke me." body

Put him up against the B1. 4ins. bulk of Ironside at a War Counci meeting, and you'd say was a new music-hali act. Jetsam and Clapham, But these two men are the brains of the Army, the brulas of the Navy.

ADMIRAL Tom Phillips got to where he is to-day because, for nothing to do. For three years of one period in his life, he had

the last war he was commander of the eruiter Lancaster on the Pacific aintion. All he had to do was pace the Pacific in case something turned up. Nothing turned up. As Navy, and what did he see Ho Fred Astaire aings; He joined the

the sch

For three years, from 1916, to 1010, he kept cruising while the Admiralty, from time to time, would promote him. At decent interval they would make him ucting

commander, commander,

hod

crammed full

of ideas, and li la quite clear that he could talk about them, for his subsequent career shows that he has been trained, step by step, for the post he holds to-day.

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Next country on the list?

OR the first time since

FOR

war began, the people of Jugo÷Slavia are being told as- openly, as officials dare that they, too, may be drawn. Into- the war

Their papers are doing things they would not be allowed to do before the invasion of Scandinavia and the Lowlands, They are printing little notices daily saying: "The enemy will rain down death from the skies. He will try to sabolage the army, blow, up bridges, mine ronds."

One paper cama, out with an officially inspired article asying that Jugo-Slavin must be pre- pared to fight an enemy ilva times her size and another three times her size-meaning Germany and Italy.

These are Wiltle things, but when it is realised that five weeks ago they would have brought hot pro- tesls from Germany regarding "infringement of neutrality and provocation to her great neigh- bours." you get some idea of the way Jugu-Slavka is facing danger before it is too late.

Not that Jugo-Slavia, is strong enough to come out openly with her Pro-Allied feelings. The Ger- man Fifth Column is still strong, In spite of the fact that so far more than two hundred have been asked to go home.

THEN the Croats are still being whipped into unrest from outside. Vindico Matchek, their chief pull- tlelan, who made peace with the Serbs for the price of Cront auto- nomy is being attacked in pam- phlets smuggled in from extreme Croats are being supported by Imly

in a policy to separate Croatia.

Then there is the 600,000 Ger- man minority, who have announced that they have at last chosen as leader Dr. Josef Junko from Slo- venia, near the Austrian border.

The Serbs ure not blind, bui they cannot do much more than they are doing now until 'our policy In the Balkans becomes more dc- finite than it has been, until we can tell them: "If the Germans invade, we will send you so much help, and in such form, and in such time."

They feel that they are in a much more dangerous situation than even Rumania, because the general opinion here is thal, i Germany should in vade Jugo- Slavia, Holy would try to seize Croatia and the Dalmatian coast.

His superior, Sir Dudley Pound, is "big ship man." He thinks in terms of battle cruisers. But Tom Philips a little ship man. Light cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes are his speciality. The smaller the ship, the happier Is Tom. He will_in_order___"protect”___her_in____ only admit to one hobby. He likes suliing 1 guess he'd be happiest in a 10ft, pram with a bamboo mast, nst stepped in the fore seat and his leg over the tiller.

HE is fifty-two. the son of an Army colonel and a grandson of one of Queen Victoria's admirals. He has served his time at the Admiralty In the Plans Depart- ment, and has been head man of the destroyer force in home waters, He is a mystery man to his fellow admlmly, All they know about him is that he is very clever. His only notable foible is that he runs pencil through Thomas Spencer Vaughan, which are his Christian names, and substitutes Tom,

Why? Is it his joke? Does he mean Tom Thumb? Nobody knows. Nobody dare ask him.

Spotting The Rank

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

A Ligut. Colonel takes executive command of a regi- ment or battalion and is the actual officer responsible for the discipline and fitness of his unit.

He is solected for this cam- mand from the field officers of the regi- to mont which ho bolong 3, though occa- sionally A Lou Colono l from other unit is appointed to command. |-----Th o--- titlo}------

darivad from the fact that in

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the old days of the Army the Colonel was usually a General holding past because thore was no pay attached to the rank of Gencial as such, and his emoluments had thorofora

acting captain, to show that they to be provided for by giving

not forgotten him. Com- mandor, Phillips spent those thirty-

film a Colonelcy. He then ap-

(Llaut. six months studying naval strategý

pointed a deputy and tactles. He worked out new Colonel) at a lower rate of theories, evolved new plans of nt-

pay to carry,, on the actual tock.

work of command, 19

Pay: £1,209 a your.

He came home from that long vigil in the sun with his head.

terests,

to

DESPATCH FROM JUGO -SLAVIA BY SYDNEY MORRELL

How he knew about the leaflets or the police inquiries he did not explain, but the fact is that the British have no printing press in Jugo-Slavia. The French have, but, it prints in Cyrille letters. The leaflets were pilnted in Latin characters.

The Germans forgot this point, but the police st think it is a good joke.

• A Slavonie alphabet (used by the Slave of the Eastern Church) and ascribed to St. Cyril.

DID YOU WONDER?,

When Animated Cartoons Were

Invented?"

What was probably the first one- reel animated cartoon was drawn by Winsor McCay, the originator of "Little Nemo In Slumberland." The animation concerned the ad- ventures of "Gertle, the Dinosaur";

and It took McCay more than a year to make the 10,000 pen-and- ink drawings that made up the film.

"Gertie appeared in 1000; and about the same the J. R. Bray also used up acres of white paper in producing an animated cartoon which he sold to Pathe for $2,000, However, Bray saw that too many drawings had be made for even

a short cartoon to make animation commercially profitable..

Bray made an early stride to- ward reducing the amount of nec- essary drawing by having the background und motionless parts of each scene on one sheet of paper, and then drawing the figures and moving parts of the scene on trans- of celluloid. Each parent sheels successive movement of the charge- ters was drawn on separate cellu- fold sheets which were numbered in sequence. The celluloid sheets were placed, one at a time, over the background and photographed in order; and when the resulting fim _was_projected.__the_ characters.

seemed to move.

_These early_figures could never pass in front of any background object, because Che background pen thes would show through the figure. This difficully was met by Alling in the figure with opaque the gray, bluck, and white, so figure blotied out whatever back- ground lines it happened to cross. Then, too, by pulling more than the

— JUGOSLAVIA'S reaction to this. has been to open her back door lo Russia with an economic delegation hoped-for Moscow, but the Allied help is still undefined. The Germans would object, but they object to everything that tends to gei Jugo-Slavia from their group.

The other day. in darkened cinemas, their agents showered down leafiels

onc saying that Jugo- Slavia had better kow-tow to Ger- many, or else...

This led to the fiercest anti- German demonstration Belgrade has known since the wa began. The police had hardly begun their Inquiries before the German Press attache called on them and com- plained that the leaflets were the latest manifestation of the Brlilsh secret service.

sheet of celluloid over background. It became no longer necessary to re-draw the entire figure when, for example, the only action was the waving of a hand. Just the movement of the hand were drawn on one series of cellu-

of jold sheets, the unmoving parts the figure being drawn just once on a single sheet of celluloid placed

the sheets under

with the hand animation on them.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

'Minus'says she hope you don't mind the arrangement

the fall asleep under the sun -lamp!”,

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