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SCAPA Flow is that land- Importance. Long before the out roomy comfort, locked sheet of water in the break of war in 1914 it was used by the fleet as a practice and exercising long-lived southern part of the Orkney defended; but as soon as hosilitics and

At that time it was un- ground. Islands which served as the started, it was gradually made secure main base of the Grand Flect against attacic by hostile submarines.. during the war of 1914-18, Batteries were erected and the en- trances blocked by sinking old ships, and is being used again to- ut barred by mines and booms. A

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Monday, July 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015 THE predy "Special to the Telegraph" ised by the longkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1836. Buch bows bears the indication *U* is received in Hongkong on the data of pubilestion by uns United Press Association, who re

serva all rights and forbid republication,

1919.

Bmall

cloven battleships, five battle- When this present war storted, cruisers, eight light cruisers and Scapa Flow had more or less re- Bfty destroyers was interned in lapsed into a state of peaceful tran- November 1918, and was sunk quillity. It was subjected to cheny

Air-raids within a few days of hob by its own crews on June 21, tilldes starting, and these still con- tinue spasioucally, though with n- ligible results. On Octuber 14, 1930, Many of these ex-German the battlesh'n "Royal Oak" was sunk Enj ships have since been salved, with heavy loss of life by

U-Fou towed upside-down to a dock which penetrated into the Flow.

First Lord of yard, and there converted into As the

the Ad

Admiralty scrap metal. The non-ferrous said in the House of Commons on November :-"The long and formed metals, like brass, bronze, and immunity which Senpa Flow copper, were always valuable for its currents and defences had gained in the last war. re-smelting. The

had led to steel armour- plate could bo sold for conver- sion into cutlery.' It is strange to think that some.

of the armour

by. TAFFRAIL

A too

ensy valuation of

which

the dangers

That

were present.

hus

posidon

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

ats

"Novor mind the walter—he's overheard so many of our deals, our company made him a vice president!"

DICING

WITH DEATH

on the

IT was an East, Coast port, body wriggled into lifebelts and tied the the tapes very carefully, without once handled now been rectised, that had

were Three of us there Scapa Flow is herring harvest, but it might comment. adequately defend-have been any port in Britain, bridge besides the signalman. The ed and is used by because it was pitch dark and Reserve Lieutenant had swept mines actually found its way back to the ships of the Flect.

the only reminder of the all through the last war and had been Being cut off from the mainland

had had commanded his own ships, exported to Britain and all over are not much frequented by tourists of fah.

ocean-going cargo ships, but he had the world in the form of scissors in time at peace.

The wharf was slippery with thrown that up and--for a sallora Hoy,

come back and biggish as has been said, is the high-ice and heaped with the para teach youngsters a

salary to

trick or two at and safety-razor blades.

est and most conspicuous of all the phernalia of minesweeping, dan the old game. There wasn't much be Orkney Islands, dominated as it is

either wholly or in part without previous | Germany, whence it was. re and rather inaccessible, the Orkneva herrings was a lingering smell blown up three times. Since then he

arrangement

Doves At Doorn

There are a good many people like Germany's ex-Kaiser. He has been living in a quiet spot in the Netherlands. Now that the Nazis are there, one of his grandsons speaks for him: "So far as Grandpa is concerned, all he desires is to be left. in peace on his little Dutch estate."

big

by the bold mass of Ward Hill, 1,505 buoys, sinkers and coils of wire, could teach his skipper though, an THE main anchorage of Scapu feet above sea level, with other hills From the edge of the wharf I old minsweeper of the last war like looked down on the decks of invisible himself. Thirty odd years he had trawlers: gleams of light from shaded fished the North Sea, following the

forecastle doorways cod and the herring off Iceland and. lanterna d

Faroes

trawling soles showed nothing but a winch-drum or the a boiler room casing and the forms amongst the sandbanks of the East estuaries. The Lieutenant over the of men shrouded in duffle conts or Coast oilskins moved momentarily through took a bearing and bent

chart. The skip-

1,000 feet.

The Pentand Firth, that seven-

4

If

an

by- BARTIMEUS

the

world. in many of the higher gullies until the trawler and intro-

no

ant

per snorted" con-

thy,

charts

The

can't tell

me anything in- side

Flow is a great expanse of deep of over a thousand feet. water some eleven miles long, cast

WHAT names some of them and west, and seven miles wide. north

the enjoy! Ward Hill is understand and south. It is bounded on north by the large island of Pomona, nble, but who christened Cullags, or Mainland; to the east and north the Knap of Trowieglen, Withi

these little pools of eust by the smaller islands of Burray Gill and Sky Fea?

But the Orkneys abound in strange lundination.

and and South Ronaldsay; to the west and Though this quaint epilogue to southwest by the island of Hoy, which sounding topographical names, most vanished again into

of them of Norse origin. The name the darkness. the tragedy of 1914-18 is some- the highest island in the whole of the islands-Flotto, North and they spoke at all thing of an anti-climax, Wilhelm

the torty- II's present wish to preserve his group with hills running up to nearly South Ronaldsay, Shapinsny, Ronay, it was int

fathom linc. Westray and so forth-usually ter- undertone. own peace is more understand-

minate in "n" or "ay," which is the The dawn came

They're mostly able than some of his earlier.

The south-western part of the Flow Norse "ty." meaning "Island,"

wrong Drag impulses. But, of course, it is divided into several Sounds, avail- Islets are called "holms," Isolated slowly. From the

deck of one of these trawlers i saw a trawl over inshore soundings all should not be confused with able for destroyers and smaller craft, rocks "skerries," and tidal currents the sky in the eastward lighten and your life. Te'll not have great re-

"roosis." peaceful thinking.

by the smaller islands of Cava, Risa,

the confusion of shrouds and railines gard for the chart." The uplands of Hoy are wild and was like a gigantic spider's web, Fara and Flotta. There are three desolate, heather-covered moorland glistening with hear frost. All round HE turned his face to wind- The experience of small

entrances, Hoy Sound to the west for the most part, with a few stunted us were trawlers crowded in the ward and sniffed the bitter wind. nations in Europe, whose chlef opening into the Atlantic; Hoxa trees struggling for existence and basin ns sheep are herded in a pen: Ho had a fur lining to his hope seemed to be that they too Sound to the south, leading into the caning well away from the prevail the smoke from their funnels role leather coat, wisps of grey hair would be left in peace, is Pentland Firth; and Holm Sound to ing westerly winds. There are pat-away in sooty clouds against providing an object lesson for the cast, opening into the North Sea, ches of bush and furze and stany growing light. Through the stoke stuck out round his peaked cap. screes on some of the steeper hill hold exhausts came sounds, shovels His shrewd old eyes and ears the rest of the world. One of

sides, with

innumerable tiny

lochs scraping on metal and the clang of 2 ragged with frostbite, all gave the fallacies of recent decades mile stretch of water which separates and tarns, little streams tumbling furnace door. The Reserve Lieutena suggestion of a scarred old fox, has been the supposition that as

of the slopes, ant who was in command of a und wise in a thousand intuitions and noisily down the Orkney Islands from the north and many patches of beggy ground of minesweeping trawlers

Gome

climbed long as a country wasn't too am-

coast of Scotland, has one of the in the depressions, Snow lles deep heavily inboard, cumbered with experiences, The Lieutenant bitious, it was safe; as long as

worst reputations in the it didn't want anything, it would When the tide is. at its strongest it late in the spring.

He called the skipper who straightened up from the chart

table. be able to keep out of trouble. rushes through the Firth at seven Even in summer the highlands are duced us. In the dim light n wea-

"Ye'd not have the schooling to A shepherd ther besten face peered into mine Much has been written on

knots, and the eddles and whirlpools lonely and deserted. the technique through which are uncertain and dangerous. Even my climb their steep escarpments in with shrewd eyes. As they turned read it Jock, may be." All day they Holland kept out of the World great battleships, for no apparent search of one of his flock, while in away I heard him say to the Lieuten- maintained a half-affectionate, half- acidulated give and, take of repartee. the latter half of August one may

"Schooling! I "Is yon man releegtous?"

was top of my War. The Dutch simply armed reason, have suddenly been swirled sometimes hear the popping of guns themselves thoroughly for de- through

"I don't know. What's the odds?" class when your mither was wring- right-angle

Otherwin, few .Dr mare amid the heather.

"Well, times I swear awfu"," ing out your wes napples, man.". It fence of the Netherlands propef, out of their course. When a strong folks visit the hills of Hoy. Shroud-

was the swift retort of the fisherman and sustained with whatever gale is blowing against the tide it ed in mist as often as not, unilvable

in during winter, there are THEY climbed up onto the to the deep-sea-sallor, not the bacic- grace they could muster the raises a dangerous perpendicular sea habitations, no cultivation. The hills bridge and their voices died chat of a Patrol Skipper to his Unit

Commander. God made insults and injuries that small which may cause damage to even a are as

them

softly away.

We renetet at length the channel neutral trading nations must full-powered steamship.

rounded, sometimes gaunt and rug- I was about to follow when-where magnetic mines were suspect- expect on world highways in

ged; but always unspoiled and lovely During the las! war a battleship in later summer with their munties an unfamiliar object caught my ed. The masts of a cargo ship stuck wartime.

punching her way westward against of deep purple heather. Their all-eye. I walked nearer to inves- up out of the water inshore where Americans, and people in other a gale had her bridge, boats and crustle of the wind driving in from Christmas tree, right aft in the sea. Was it a solitary mine or were they had tried to beach her after the ence is only disturbed by the shriek tigate and saw that it was a explosion that ripped her open to the countries, were inclined to read other nttings smashed, and

many or

the open into the Dutch experience in the men injured. Some hundreds of tons rills and little waterfalls, the mourn-staff steeped.

Atlantic, the splashing of stern where normally the ensign there more of them lying hidden World War a lesson on how to water found their way below. ful crying of plover and curlew, with

along the path of constwise shipping? keep out of all wars: "Mind

It was not long since Christmas, We chould know presently. It was on the Pentland Skerries, the occasional distinctive call of

but I felt somehow that it was Our companion sweeper

tume your own business, promise to in the eastern end of the Firth, grouse or snipe.

symbolic of something, besides being plunging up on our quarter as we make some trouble if anyone during a violent gale and a blinding

It slowed down. We veered grass actually attacks your own roost, snowstorin in January 1918, that two the Orkneys lies in the clearness was perhaps a little shy about it and sheckled a wire to it. This we hated

THE chief claim to beauty of a reminder of recent festivity.

occurred to me that the old skipper line astern and she picked it up and and don't talk back when outside destroyers crashed on the rocks with of the atmosphere, and the was wondering whether I suspected Intjourd, connected it to our. your own backyard." That was the loss of all but one of their crews. coloration of land and sea. him of being releeglous'; and while wire and paid it out again. As the the prescription. But now what? The solitary survivor, washed ashore

winch released it and it slidastern I stood

the syren there ruminating And besides, is the desire to through the boiling turf and clusters more magnificent sea frontages than way stern first out of the jam. I to it at intervals and finally che tooled and we began to elbow our various contraptions were shuckled. keep out of war necessarily of sharp-fanged rods, managed to the twelve-mile wall of clit which found my way up onto the bridge trawlers started off abeam of each synonymous with a desire for claw his way to the top of a spray- forms the west coast of Hoy. In genuine peace? The Kaiser has swept rocky islet. Its gullies filled places they rise perpendicularly out and as we passed other bridges a few other, the submerged sweep "towing

away, hard-bitten faces between them not hitherto been considered with driven snow. Bruised, cut and of the sea to heights of between nine grinned at us out of balaclava hel- The trawlers pitched and rolled. hundred and twelvo hundred feet. much of a pacifist.

bleeding he kept himself alive with The tallest, scacliffs in Britain, the inets and duffle cowls "Good luck" and the icy spray drifted over the men working the wire. The man at snow and limpels taken from

the present a solid buttress to the fury they sald.

Good luck!" said we, another day checking its outward surge to a foot the winch controlled it:miraculously, rocks at low. water. He was rescued of the westerly and north-westerly dawning. "Good luck!" two days later.

gales beating home with all the

Another day of rattling the dlce- when it was necessary to shackle on might of jeague upon league of the box with Death. "Good luck!" One same appendage. He had the lives open Atlantic Dropping aheer, to ON the west coast of Pomona, the water's edge, the cliffs are mostly by one they warped clear out into of everybody on that heaving deck satisfaction of shipping accommoda- near Marwick Hend, a granite of old sandstone, battered, trotted the harbour and formed up ustern of in his hands a score of times during tion, and strongly resent criticle, tower marks another great and weatherbenten by the process of us. The old skipper grinned and the day. They worked with bare. while

It gashes and streaked pendant flying at our cross tree, observers are strong in their

equally responsible tragedy of the last war. It is time, and varying in colour for the nudged me, jerking his head at the hands scurred all

con- the memorial to that great brightest terra-cotta to orange and is flown by men-of-war manocavring, new ones. There were scarcely any

the demnation, especially where it in

amber, yellow. Alleviated here and by battleships and cruisers and undertones. There were tinter when arserted that British women and soldier Lord Kitchener, and the there by harrow crags and grassy destroyers. It signifles children were unnecessarily crowded officers and men of the cruiser ledger which, afford lodgement for assumed guide of the Fleet." He the wires behaved like mad

and were rather more dangerous. in native steerage quarters. So con- "Hampshire", who lost their innumerable seabirds they are for was very proud of that peace But nobody got in anybody's

sured and tunnelled by centuries of

way fleting are these reports, that it is lives when that ship struck frost and gales,

It was full daylight when we

loss in any 'emergency, felt that no good purpose would be mine and sank off this spot dur-

reached open aca. A grey day with was at a The Orkneys possens only two a wind out, of the Northeast sharp Those trawlers crews had handled served at the present juncture publishing them. That the facts calling a heavy gale on June 6, 1916. sizeable towns both on the main and cruel na broken glass. The little wires from childhood; they liew Island-Kirkwall, to the cast and trawlers lifted their heels to the exactly what to do without being Scapa Flow and its neighbourhood Stromness with its greystone houses North Sea awell and threw the spray told, and did it. is, a place of many memories and narrow paved streets, to the over their broad shoulders. Oc-

west,

FROM Most of the scattered islandn|casionally a wave flopped Inboard The well-cheltered anchorage Turn to Pago. 3, Seventh Column and sluiced across the deck. Every Turn to Page 3, Sixth Column: FROM a spectator's point of

The Evacuation

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other

for ofteini investigation is evident.

and it is to ba fioned that conclusions arrived 'at, should there be an official

enquiry, will; in due course, be made.

available to the public.

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