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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 13, 1940.
AMERICAN FIGHTS FOR
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Friday, September 13, 1940.
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Warning From France
It is often pointed out that
excessive nationalism has pre- vented the reorganisation of
UNIT
American citizens in London have formed a
heavily armed mobile force-it is, in fact a unit of Great Britain's Home Guard-which for efficiency and military equipment compares favourably with any crack section of the regu- lar U.S. forces.
Its formation resulted in thousands of Inquiries from Americans in other parts of the world, by cable letter and telephone, asking to be al- lowed to come and join.
THE first unit is now com- pleting Ita training with fam- ous British regiments. It is commanded by Brigadier- General Wade H. Hayes, who served on General Pershing's staff in 1918.
It consists of many famous American personalities, pro- fessional and business men. Charlee Sweeny, Mr.
the golfer, was one of the first to joia,
The contingent is heavily armed. It Í to form [1 special mobile reserve which can be rushed to any point in It is a the defence яystem. "hard hitting" force, with a fleet of fast cars, each with a crew of four, armed with light machine-guns, rifles and side arms, BS well as hand
an
grenades. In addition, each car carries a receiving sot, while the staff cars are equip- ped with transmitters work- ing on a special wave-length.
With
enthusiasm, thoroughness and initiative so characteristic of the Ameri. can the unit has already proved its high efficiency and mobility and the General Officer Commanding the Lon. don area has agreed to have It under his direct command.
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SO great has been the res pоnse for recruitment in the force, particularly from the United States itself. that It may shortly be necessary to open a recruiting office in Canada. There is no ques- tion of anyone losing his American citizenship because he joins.
Originator and organiser of this London force is Mr. A. P. Buquor, of Washington.
M.T.B.
muadern Europe na it prevented By Taffrail, well-known British Naval writer.
the reorganisation of ancient Greece. The same evil has pro. dured another phenomenon that
is familiar to us from Greek history. Never since these days have the disintegrating forces within States been 30 strong: never has the class war been so conscious and so general. Pac- tion, in the old Greek sense, has been spreading with the econo- mic disorder that followed the Great War in every country in Europe. Hitler grasped a truth that was more evident to a man living in the tumult of revolu- tion than to Western statesmen living in countries where con- stitutional forms survived. This discovery inspired his plans. He determined to make his country strong by forcing it into a rigid mould and to make his neigh- bours weak by fomenting all the He disintegrating elements. used for his own
purpose the fears of the rich for their pro- perty in all countries, intriguing with the base, flattering and tricking the simple. The fall of France was the dramatic climax of a process that has left no nation untouched. An article
by Mr. George Peel in the "Con- temporary Review," "Why
France Fell," describes vividly a nation "eaten out and exhausted by its internal animosities" be- fore the war began.
The British people are united to-day by the pressure of danger. As the danger has come closer to Britain's shores the spirit of resistance and co-operation has "Liberty," stronger. grown said Hobhouse, without equa: lity is a name of noble sound and squalid result." That truth has come home to us in the post-war years when we found that re- forms that had seemed bold and vigorous had left us with a so- ciety in which for vast numbers of men and women calamity
navics
[AST motor torpedo-boats now figure in most of the world's The naval book of reference "Jane's Fighting Ships, mentions 25 such vessels in the British Navy, with an- other ten due to be constructed under pre-war programmes.
There are
also six motor the auxiliary to main engines anti-submarine boats. What can be accomplished in about additional fast motor-craft twenty-five seconds. may have been completed or laid down since the outbreak of war, it in impossible to
NBY.
M.T.B. No. 102, in which I was at sen before the war, may be taken as fairly typical of the boats built by one well- known firm. She is what is generally known as a "hard chine" boat. 68 feet long and built, as to skin and frames, of mahogany, with Canadian elm for timbers. hog. chine and house deck gunwale. Her and most of the deck-fittings are of stainless steel, and the fully-laden displacement about 28 tons on a draught of 38 inches.
Driven by three eighteen- cylinder engines each of 1,000 horse power, her fully-laden speed is over 40 knots. Like others of her class, she has two V. 8 engines which can be used to drive the wing shafts, and producing a speed of 8-9 knots.
The roar of the engines at full speed is like that of an
aeroplane, and as the noise might give away a night at-` tack, the auxiliary engines, noiseless outside the ship, would enable an M.T.B. to an enemy at creep up to night, to fire her torpedoes, and then to make off at full speed. The change over from
*The armament consists of
two 21-inch torpedo-tubes,
and a number of machine- guns. Depth charges could also be fitted for work against submarines.
My trip to sea was in mo- derate weather, and I was struck by the seaworthiness and habitability. Even at over forty knots, with her bows lifted well out of the water, there was very little
fuss or bow-wave.
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The accommodation sists of a roomy forecastle with comfortable air-cushion- ed lockers, a wardroom for the officers, a wireless cabinet, and a small galley and lavatory. There is a small duapod mast for signalling purposes and wireless for carrying the aerial; one set of engine con- trols with a wheel in the deck- house under cover, and others on deck,
Motor torpedo-boating is necessarily a young man's Job, and though comparative- ly little has been heard of the
D.C. His name is well-known in military circles as the in- ventor of much of the mobile equipment used by the U.S., Canadian and British armies,
now
It was he who first thought out' the idea of taking advan- tage of the U.S. Department of Justice ruling, and Americans all over the world. are flocking to his banner. He sought the advice and help of the general officer commanding the London area.
Mr. Buquor has himself made heavy personal contri. butions to tho посевзагу funds for equipment, etc, and with Mr. Charles Sweeny, who married the famous Bri- tish beauty Margaret Whig- ham, and Mr. Stuart Pearl undertook the work of bring- ing Americans together and pooling their resources in the common cause.
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Mr. Buquor told a remark- able story of the birth of this little American army in Lon- don.
help," he continued." "The thought of parachute troops was uppermost in our minds. We all know something of the disorder and havod they reaped behind the lines in Holland and Belgium,"
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THE following morning Mr. Buquor was on the tele- phone to Mr. Charles Sweeny." He told him that he had an. iden which might interest him. Would he come round to see him? Mr. Sweeny was round within a few minutes, and was the first recruit.
Cables were dispatched to America and within twenty- four hours the first shipment of arms, WES on its way to England, a personal gift from Mr. F. M. Small, president of a famous American firm, to Mr. Buquor.
These arms are already in use and others are waiting to be unpacked at the London docka. The unit was formed with true American. speed. Shooting practice was carried out on ranges, lectures and demonstrations given by Bri- Army units. Tactical exercises and were held in fast, camouflaged cars belonging to the group, decorated with the insignia of the contingent.
It was the capitulation of France, he said. quent development of war, leaving Great Britain to fight alone against the ag- gressor,
tish the subse- the
that stirred the minds of the many Americans living in the United King- dom: Mr. Buquor and a small party of friends talked the whole situation over one even- ing after dinner.
"We all wondered what there was
to we could do
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To watch them is to see the One making of a crack force. military correspondent who saw these men at work de- clared that he had never seen anything to equal their en- thusiasm or aptness.
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"He needs every vote he can get!"
19 knots speed, was roughly the same size as some of the M.T.B's. now in the Royal Navy. The little "Lightning" was really the ancestor of all our modern torpedo craft, in- cluding the large destroyers of to-day.
The British motor torpedo- boats may be out-numbered by those of foreign powers. But M.T.B.'s., like submar» ines, do not prey upon each
other. They seek farger tar- gets.
Unless they increase great- ly in size, they are essentially fair weather craft useful, in narrow waters. One can im- at agine surprise attacks night, or in low visibility. During daylight, however, they are vulnerable to fast, modern destroyers in any- thing but the most moderate weather.
work of British M.T.B.'s ALTMARK MEN GAVE TOO
since the war, it can be said that they have done arduous
all Barvice in
sorts of weathers with conspicuous
success.
MUCH FOR “GRATITUDE” GIFT
WHEN Maritime House, Clapham, new £100,000 headquar- ters of the National Union of Seamen, is opened by Mr. Arthur Greenwood the showpiece will be silver plate, bought by captives, from the Nazi "prison ship" Altmark.
As to what the future may bring in this typo of craft,
The inscription on the plate says: One man wanted to give £10, but OKO cannot predict; :but
"Presented to H.M.S. Cossack by a it was agreed the maximum subscrip M.T.B.'s of 60 knots with a number of British merchant seamen tion should be 2s. 6d. Even then,
as a token of gratitude for their there was so much money thist greatly extended range of ac- tion are by no means imposal-cuo from the German ship Altmark" bronze plaque was bought as well
After the rescue, in a Norwegian as the sliver plate. - could rob liberty-of all signifi- its fears and its passions the The first British torpedo-Bord In February the sallars, when The plaque will be placed in the
cant sense. Unless we can re- move the gross inequalities that divide our society a unity based
on liberty must be too unsub- atantial to bo secure. For the history of Europe shows that when once a State is ridden by bic. principles of Parliamentary gov-
crament seem to be "merely the boat ever built, the "Light- about raising funds for the presenta Cossack, and the plate will be used methods of a debating society."ning of 1877 of 84 tons and ton
in the wardroom-after the war,"
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