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August 19, 1940.

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THE preix "Special to the Telegraph" Ised by the "Itongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- ** rations Ordinance, 1936. Buch news beare the indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Avoriations, who re- serye al rielite and forbid republication. eller wholly or in part without previous atrangement,

Law-Makers

I am not trying optimistically to minimise the dangers of air raids. I am not trying to gloss over the number of deaths that have resulled

and will result.

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Hitler tries out his speedboats

BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL, K.BE

The eminent naval writer

URING the last few days we have read a lot about German motor torpedo-boats, which have been darting about the coasts of Belgium and Northern France.

Two or three of them have been sunk, but we have yet to hear of any success on their part.

Any suggestion that the Germans have produced a new type of naval craft is quite wrong.

During the fighting in Holland British motor torpedo-boats But, after days in which it seemed But when the thing we had that the planes were trying to get penetrated into the Zuider Zee, They can be run by a very small feared finally happened--well, me, personally and particularly, and with their light guns did complement. for most of us it was almost an can say that the damage is never so useful work.

great as you expect it to be. anti-climax.

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With a swarm of British warcraft

The fact is that the destroyer las I have heard scores of terrific ex-strung out between Boulogne and entirely outgrown her original func- Zeebrugge, all fitted with the deadly tion. She has developed from a tor- submarine-detector devlees, the U

They

Before I managed to escape to England, I had experienced at least plosions In a few minutes. a hundred air-rakis, big and small, have been so near,

glasses have been bounced off the Filtler's I have sheltered from

table in the room where: 1 sat. All bombers in strong cellors, in ordin- the windows have been mushed to I have mithereens. The house itself has ary houses, and in ditches. been in crowded areas strafed by rocked as if in an earthquake. and big bombs, little bumbs,

For A.R.P.-Cigarettes machine-gun fire.

And Jumpers

BO loud, that boats are keeping clear of Urone Pedo craft into a smdi, very mobile,

light cruiser. waters.

Our destroyers of the Tribal" Possibly the German High Naval class curry just twice as many 4.7in. Command hopes that these high guns as they do torpedo tubes. They speed torpedo-boats may have more carry fewer torpedo tubes than any luck than their submarines have cruiser in service on the outbreak of

the present war. met with.

And I can honestly say that I was

When It was over, we went out ex- more frightened before the bombers

was when they pecting to and death and disaster came than I ever

all round the town in which we had were overhead.

been caught.

Their one asset is speed. They are virtually hydroplanes.

was known

she that

The gun, in short, is their primary weapon and their chlet work is con- voy escort, submarine hunting, and Down to the time when Germany the sort of Jobs they did so splen- information on didly at Narvik and in unding-up ceased giving any her naval building programmes. It the Altmark, and are now doing at

the Channel ports. possessed

The motor torpedo bont offered a Instead, we found that nobody seventeen of these boats, all of the

"S" class, ranging between 40 tons simple and practicable means of re- verting to the original conception of had been hurt-unless you

Be- cut by flying and 70 tons, with a credited speed which the destroyer was born.

of 35 knots and armed with one two people slightly

cause of her extraordinary speed. the one pampom I was not alone in this attitude. glass-and that not a single build-heavy machine gun,

motor torpedo boat might co-operate and two torpedo tubes.

with the seaplane; she would cer tainly form a very clusive target for any bomber,

Fear Followed

fear

By Heroic Rescue

very

count

the

In

To the German navai mind, con- The Royal Navy possesses m.t.bs. which have exceeded 50 knots on sistent through the years in plotting trade of "all out" trints, so we may conclude to destroy the maritime that the latest German bunts in this Britain, the type appeals as possess category will not be interior to our ing qualifications for piracy of the

popular Naz! sort. own in motor power.

What Is the war value of such

but

Nearly everybody with me experi- ing had been directly hit.

This was a miracle, of course. But enced the same feelings.

One man was almost fainting with it was also in a town with no air- warning raid shelters, no anti-aircraft guns, when the Arsl

no balloon barruge.

That experience, added to all my sounded. Yet in the midst of a ter- rifle raid he ran out into the blazing others; encourages me to say that street to bring into safety some chil- the odds against any single person

But the follure of the U-boat in London getting killed, even in dren who had lost their mother.

of Germoti naval Another man, in a cellar with my really big air raid on the capital craft? They are manifestly designed campaign has resulted in a steady

purely for torpedo attack. Finshing deterioration through the water in a smother of policy. Provided that is, that everybody spray they might count upon get- Motor torpedo boats dashed about Having disposed temporarily self and six women,, talked wittily must be at least 10,000 to one,

out inta ting torpedo home against a big in the Kattegat when Nazi troops of the evacuation flood it seems all the time the bombs were falling

the street, I must reduce the odds adversary and escaping from her were being transported to Norway,

gunfire by violent manoeuvring.

that destroyers reported nur of considerably. Most that the newspapers are now tolle kept everybody laughing. His stays indoors, if you go

calm was amazing.

speed exhibitions were all set their No naval man would try to be the vent of another torrent of

But I had seen him before the bodies I saw in Belgium were

a limit to the possibilities of such devoted to keeping out of their way. The Germans used motor torpedo public bewilderment, criticism

bombers came, and then he had the open.

A final word. Even though bombs extraordinary speed, aven't so terrifying us your imagina- The British Adiniralty experi- bouts during the Great War. They little batch of these craft, and complaint on another prob-been trembling uncontrollably.

con- bulli

the controlled from electrically lem presented to us by the Even if the house in which you tion may paint them, the noise of mented with the type for a

siderable time before adopting it us War Taxation. are sheltering falls down or catches an air raid can be nerve-shattering a definite naval unit. For the past shore, and capable of travelling some Government

As an air-raid veteran, 1 would four years the 1st

Motor Torpedo ten miles. if fact, that anybody's Boat Flotilla has been attached to

These were sel loose against the Not, let it be stressed, upon there have had both these experi- tnx itself, which is accepted as ences-you are so busy saving your morule cracks under the strain, the the Mediterranean Fleet and, in the British monitors patrolling the Bel- language of commerce. hoa given ginn coast and causing extreme in- than the "complete satisfaction."

convenience to the right flank of the necessary, but upon the con.self and others that you have no indescribable din, rather

danger, will be responsible.

The little

vessels have proved German Army with their ponderous struction of the Ordinance-which room in your mind for fear,

So I am not being brave-when-1-1-prescribe-n-little-cotton--want themselves excellent stabonts. They guns.

have a very respectable-cruising- air raid in the cars.

radius ut economic speed, although has been drafted presumably by

starrn sounded while I was writing That, and perhaps a cigarelle to their fuel consumption is high when much relieved by watching

"all out." the best legal brains at the say that, if yet another Government's command, and in this, I would be less nervous than smoke, or a Jumper to kuit, now being read in two or three would be if, say, I were sitting in---- different ways by their brethren a dentist's waiting-room, next of the local Bar. Why this the list of patients. should be so would pass compre- hension but for the fact that the train

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on

One terrible night in

cured me uf

a refugee anticipating

same thing happens to almost dangers, and of letting my imagina- tion picture all kinds of approach-) ing torments.

every

Bullets And Bombs

Cure Hysteria

drafted- Ordinance chiefly, of course, because of but circumstances changing painfully often because of imper. fect phraseology, an overdose of erudition and verbosity, scrupulous regard for writing Men were sweating and cursing--ali

The carriages were packed, Babies were crying, women were fainting.

afraid of air raids.

things that mean something Dut when finally

To a

an

We

were

else as well, and an inability to machine-gunned again and again, foresee all contingencies that when our own shrapnel was falling any new departure will evoke, upon us, when every carriage had! The present Ordinance is to be its casualties from bullets or flying the amended, we are told, in order to glass-well, then nearly ali

And when we make it clearer to the public hysteriu vanished.

came to count our casualiles, we that they will not have to pay what they should not pay.

cumvent this fecund theme with layman reading the Ordinance it

the reservation to include it in well might

seem that

our war aims, to return to a plea economy of words would effect that Hongkong laws made (not financial economy 118 well-of the people, by the people), but saving paper, Legislators' time for (or against) the people, (about which one must not be should seek to present their Barcastic these days) and law. objects clearly to lawyers at yers. One is tempted to go into a least-if not to the framers tirade here on the crying need thereof and the sufferers there Until the proposed for simplifying the English law under. so drastically that the man in amendment of the Taxation the street could himself learn Ordinance is created it would be where he stood in the simple playing with words to comment routine of business life without on the alleged Inequities con- plunging into the respectable tained, In the present Ordinance, but expensive maws of Ordnance for the ambigulty at the moment analysers to assure himself that is such that the responsible every innocuous step was not a people concerned are quite fatal one. We reluctantly clr-, divided on what they mean.

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