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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 7, 1940.

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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 grenso spots because I am writing this in the galley. I've got it to myself as the boss, we call him Chof, kind of joking; at that's not his proper

MILITARY LAW IN THE B.E.F.

the enemy and mutiny are now the only three military crimes for which the soldier on active service may be sentenced to capital punishment. Cowardice and de- sertion under a more humane ad». ministration of the law no longer involves the Aring squad. More- over, Field Punishunent No, I has been abolished; the soldier cannot nowadays suffer the humillation' of being tied to a gunwheel.

TREACHERY, desertion to

The British soldier when he einbarks for service in the field takes his own law with him. So long as he is serving with his unit he will not be tried before any foreign tribunal, and whether the offence be trivial or serious he bas

all Unies the fullest legal nt protection against the consequences of his own nets. In fact on scr- vice a mun ly in some ways better protected and more tolerably trent- ed than if he were facing civil Justice at home in peace time."

FOR instance, before a magis- trate's court in England, once the prisoner's case has been heard and summary Judgment delivered, there is ordinarily no further re- view, unless he makes an appeal in due form or popular

agitation arouses the interest of the Home Secretary, The case is closed and sentence must, be served. In the Army all cases tried by court- martial receive un

automatic re- view increasing in scrutiny in pro- portion to the seriousness of the charge and the severity of the sentence. The soldier if he feels himself aggrieved can 'petition for justice or clemency.

INTERCEPTED LETTER

BY

BARTIMEUS

rating, he's Leading Cook by rights-well ho's gone to get his head down. That means have a sleep.

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

We picked up the Convdy at- last Monday-no Wednesday, you do lose 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 sides of their ships and wṛile what Nationality they are in big letters, bul I don't see what the sense of that is because they get torpedoed at sight by the Germans, anyway, unless they join Convoy and then us chaps protect them. Pro- tect them a fair treat, too,

Here, Suste, 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 chaps the four hundred and ninety- nine that get through have got to

thank.

DEMORATE BOEK BO

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

*

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 oil-fired in our galley. We're up to date, I'll say that. Well, then, I had to have a cup of tea ready for the Chef when he turned out and a bit of torst. You try making toast on a off-fred galley. Well, matter.

no

So then we had the breakfusis. Eggs and rushers, kippers, sau- sages, no telling what they'll bring Minor regimental offences

along. are

There's twenty messes in usually dealt with by the com-

our ship and the range is only munding officer, who can inflict up

about three by five so you've got to 28 days field punishment or

a job to please everybody. 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 officers.

The Andings and sentences. of this Court, if the brigadier confirms them, are passed by the divisional general to the

staff at Ceneral arters's

and

and

both these authorities can mitigate, the sentence. The proceedings are also examined by the Deputy Judge Advocate-General, legal ad- viser to the Comunander-m-Chief, before being forwarded to the Judge Advoente-General at the War Office, where the case has a finul

review before being filed nway.

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

consultant, RS

while others are available to act as Judge Advocates in serious cases--not to vole but to advise the Court and to sum up the law and the evidence if necessary.

All accused persons on trial, men as well as officers, have the __right_to_be represented by un

officer.

THE system Instituted in the Just war of suspended sentences, whereby a man sentenced to im prisonment may be released on

fer serving only

long

part of his sentence, or oven

to

avold punishment al- together and rejoin his unit, so

as he behaven, is now em bodied

in the Army Act This suspension enables

a man who has Inpsed to retrieve his character und earn remission, and, moreover, in active operations some wastage

of men-power is avoided.

on

In the army of o grent de- mocracy disciplino rests not fear and the threat of penalties but an confidence, loyalty and good will. It can hardly be expected that there will be no black sheep in a force which' comprises not only divisions of fighting, troops but rapidly-recruited organisations.

other, necessary works. But whether judged by personal obser vation or by cold statisifes, ila Army in France can claim.comTM parison in freedom from, crima with -- Its grent-predecessor, of 25 years ago!

*

THEN the Chet-put-mo-on-to- scrub out the galley and before I was through the dinners started coming In. roasts and stews and potmess and spudnets and faunies full of peas and everybody trying to tell the Chef the way they lifted them done. They might have saved their breath because they never ate those dinners. The alarm gonga 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 Bring. One of the chippie chaps went on deck to have a look round and came back and said they'd sighted Nazi aircraft.

When dinner

time came the guris' crews were still closed up und there was nobody to eat the ..dlaners.-The-Chef was mad and he 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 got to the brkige and very near blew his eyebrows off.

"Pipe to dinner?" says the Cap- iain. "Doy. after to-morrow if we're lucky, Cut sandwiches, hun- dreds of them, Take 'em round to the guns' crews. Hot tea, too."

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

So Dusty brought us tins of corned beef and I opened them and the Chef and the freparty cut the bread and made the sand- wlches and when we had a trayful the Chef said:

"Go on, take them round the

guns."

*

*

SO I on with my tin hat and off I went on deck. We was uhvad of the convoy and you could see tem stretching away behind and their smoke and all. A nice sunny day it wor

,

So I went along to the foremost guns with my tray of sandwiches and I no sooner got there than Bomeone shouted; "Here they come!" And out of the sky three big bombing planes came, diving straight at us. The guns started firing and the bombs, bursting and I stood there holding the sand- wiches because there wasn't any- thing else for me to do.

crew turned round and onld "Bilmey Sandwiches!" and the next minute the tray was empty.

*

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

The gunlayer had his mouth full of corned beef. "Sunk?” he shouted. "They haven't hit no- body, leave clone sunk a ship. What 'you fancy we're here for? You nip below and git some more sandwiches and here Cookie! a drop of hol tea?"

So I spent the rest of the day cutting sandwiches till my arms mehed, but the Clef says there's more ways than one of winning a war and I been in action anyhow.

Your loving

Jimmy.

Ulazy, Synrette Coverl

BALD PATCH

disappeared

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By Lichty

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thanks

"Now don't try to fool me, doctor-1 belong to three bridge clubs and I've heard enough about operations!"

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How a Gyrostabiliser Helps to Steady The

Rolling of a Ship?

A simple gyroscaple top will serve to indicate how a gyro- stabiliser works. Lel us say that the top is spinning in the direction of the arrow about a vertical axis A B us shown in the illustration..

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So when it was all over I said, turn, is controlled by a small and Have a sandwich," and the guns

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