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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 7, 1940.

BALD PATCH

GRIN AND BEAR

By Lichty

251

NM Minesweeping rawler

LAUGHING WATER

Dearest Susic,

You know what they said about join the Navy and see life and all that.

Well, wait till I tell you, only excuse grease spots because I am writing this in the galley. I've got it to myself as the boss, we call him Chef, kind of folding; but that's not hla proper

MILITARY LAW IN THE B.E.F.

to tha chemy and mutiny are now the only three military crimes for which the soldier on netive service may be sentencesi

capitul to punishment. Cowardice and de- sertion under a more humane ad- ministration of the law no longer involves the firing squad. More- over, Field Punidiment No. 1 has been abolished; the soklier cannot nowadays suffer the humlllution of being led to a gunwheel.

TREACHERY, desertion

The British soklier when ጆሮ embarks for service in the eld tuices his own law with lin. So long as he is serving with his unlt he will not be tried before any foreign tribunal, and whether the offerice be trivial or serious he has u all times the fullest legal protection against the consequences of his own arts. In fact on sor" vice a man is in some, ways beiler protected and more tolerably treat- ed than if he were facing | ciyh Justice at home in peace tine.

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FOR instance, before a magia- trate's cours in England, once the prisoner's case has been heard mul Kurmary judgment delivered. there is ordinarily no further re- view, unless he makes an appeal in due form popular agitation arouses the interest of the Home Secretary. The case is closed und sentence must, be served. In the Army all enses teled by court- martial receive an automatic re- view increasing in scrutiny in pro- portion to the seriousners of the charge and the severity of the sentence. The soldier it he feels himself aggrieved can petition for justice or clemency.

Minor reginental-offences are

the com- usually dealt with by Inanding officer, who can indict up to 28 days field punishment T forfeiture of pay. Cases which the colonel considers exceed his own jurisdiction

are passed to the brigade, which deals with them by a field general court-martial com posed of three offers,

The findings and sentences of this Court; if the brigadier confirms them, are passed by the divisional general to the adjutant-general's staff at General Headquarters, and both these authorities can mitigate, the sentence. The proceedings are also examined by the Deputy Judge Advocate-General, legal nd- viser to the Commander-ki-thief. before being forwarded to the Judge Advocate-General at the War Office, where the case has a final review before being led away.

Advocate- The Deputy Judge General in the field and his assist- ant belong to the permanent staff of the War. Office, and have both been in practice at the Bar. The. Deputy Judge Advocate-General. has a staff which is being steadily reinforced by experienced mein- bers of the legal profession. One is attached to each corps and to the lines of communication head- quarters

consultant, while others are available to act as Judge Advocates in serious cases-not to vote but

advise to

the Court and to sum up the law and the evidence if necessary.

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All accused persons on trial, men as well ns officers, live the right to be represented by ofleet,

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INTERCEPTED

LETTER

BY.

BARTIMEUS

rating, ho's Leading Cook by rights-well he's gone to get his head down.

That means

•have a sleep.

Well, Susic, I been in action. Fancy! It wasn't a bit like the way I thought it would be. But you never can tell, can you.

We picked up the Convoy ut- last Monday-no Wednesday, you da lost count of days on this job, and no mistake. No end of ships there were, a lot of them neutrals.

They paint their flags on the alden of their ships pod wiith what Nationally they are in big letters. but I don't see what the sense of that is because they get torpedoed nt sight by the Germans, anyway, untess they join Convoy and then us chaps protect then. Pro- teel them fair treat, too.

Here, Susie, did you know that the Germans only sink one ship in "every five hundred ships convoyed, That was on the wireless, so you can take it for gospel. And its us chups the tour hundred and ninety- maine that l through have, got to Urank.

But I don't want no thanks. Be- in a Cook's Mate in the Navy cured me of expecting anyone to thank me for anything.

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Well, on the Thursday morning. I turned out at five-thirty to get the water boiling in the copper for the tea. Of course we're öfl-fired in our galley. We're up to date. Well, then, I had to I'll say that, have a cup of tea ready for the Chef when he turned out and a bit of teast, You try making toast

on oll-fired galley. Well, no

matter:

So then we had the breakfasts. Eggs and rashers, kippers, `sau- sagtes, no telling what they'll bring along. There's twenty messes in our ship and the range is unly about three by five so you've got a Job to please everybody

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TEN the Chef put me on sertab out the galley and before I was through the dinners started conlog in, roasts and stews and potiness and spudnets and fannies full of peas and everybody trying! to tell the Chef the way they liked thean done. They might have saved their breath because they never ate these dinners The alarm gongs started ringing before the last dinner was on the hot plate.

"Go on," said the Chef. "Fire" party, you."

So I went along and got the hose unrolled and then the guns started firing. One of the chippie chaps went on deck to have a look round and came back and said they'd sighted Nazi aircraft.

When diner time Cine the guns crows were still closed up and there was nobody to eat the linners. The Chef was inad and be put on his tin hat and went on the bridge to ask the Captain when he was going to pipe to dinner. The foremost guns fired just when he gut to the bridge and very near blew his eyebrows off.

"Pipe to dinner?" says the Cup- talu. "Day after to-morrow it we're lucky. Cut sandwiches, hun- dreds of them. Take em round to the screws, Hnt ten, too."

So back he come. "Drop that hose", he said to me. “You're a cook, not a fireman."

So Dusty brought us lins of corned beef and I opened them and the Chef and the flreparty cut the bread and made the sand- withes and when we had a trayful the Chef sald:

"Go on, take them round the

THE system instituted in last war of, suspended sentences, whereby a man sentenced to im- prisonment may be released on probation after serving only smalt part of his sentence, or even permitted to avoid punishment ul- together and rejoin his unit, so guns." long as he behaves, is now cm- Undied in the Army Act. This suspension cables a man who has lapsed to retrieve his character and earn remission, and, moreover, in active operations some wastngo of men-power is avalded.

In the army of a great de- moerney discipline rests not on fear and the threat of penalties but on confidence, loyalty and good. will. It can hardly be expected that there will be no black sheep not In a force which comprises only divisions of fighting troops but rapidly recruited organizations for other necessary works. But whether judged by personal obser vation or by cold statistien the Army in France can claim com parison in freedom from crime with Its grent, predecessor of 25 years ago,

SO 1 on with my tis hat and off I went on deck. We was ahead of the convoy and you could see them stretching nway behind and their smoke and all. A nice sunny day it was.

So I went along to the foremost gun with my tray of sorklwiches and no sooner got there than

"Here someone shouted:

they come!" And out of the sky three big bombing planes come diving atreight at us. The gums started Aring and the bombs bursting and I aloud there holding the sand- wides becatisa thero wasn't any- thing else. for me to de, -

crew

snld the

turned round and "Blimey! Sandwiches!" and next minute the tray was empty.

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"WHAT'S happened?" I said. "Have they sunk any ships?"

The gunlayer had his mouth full ol corned beef, "Sunk?" he shouted. "They haven't hit no- body, leave alone svok a ship. What d'you fancy we're here for? You nip below and git come more sandwiches and here Cookiel drop of hot tea,"

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So I spent the rest of the day cuttingg sandwiches till my anns nched, but the Chot says there's more ways than one of winning a war and I been in action anyhow.

Your lovin

Jimmy.

"Now don't try to fool me, dactor-I belong to three bridge clubs and I've heard enough about operations!"

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DID YOU EVER WONDER?İ

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serve

Rolling of a Ship?

ETL

A simple gyroscopie top will

to indicate how

ASTO- stabiliser works. Let us say that the top is spinning in the direction of the arrow about a vertical axis A B, as shown in the Hlustration.,

maving A forward, A

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M

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B

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M

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A push down at M, or up at N,

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So when it was all over I said,. turn, is controlled by: a "Have a sandwich," and the guna"

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