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STOUT FELLER

"Where are you going with that axe ?"

*

"I'm going to do a little deforesta- tion, Bertie, There's a tree outside I've taken a dislike to. I shall fell it with one fell swoop."

**Rather early in the morning for tree felling, isn't it?"

"The early woodcutter get the first tree, you know, Besides — it's an ngly tree. There is something offensive about that tree, Come to Think of it, it rather reminds me of you, Bertie."

** Well-1 must confess I didn't expect to see you chopping trees this morning and smoking a

whacking big black cheroot. Not after last night...."

"I don't like the way you say 'not -after last night. I detect a certain envy in the time — a certain under- current of bitterness. You ought to be overjoyed to see me absolutely bristling with joi-de-vivre.” '--

I merely marvel at your powers of recovery."

"You needn't, Derție. It's all due to Rose's Lime Juice, you know. Prevents mornings after the night before. Just the thing before you go to bed. And now, Bertie, with your permission I'll step out and deal our unsuspecting arboreal friend a couple of shreted cracks with my

little axe."

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THE prodx "Special to the Telegraph te used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommnal- cattons Ordinance, 1916, Such news a tears the tndicatión U is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Trans Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

GLANCE AT SYRIA

THERE seems to be no doubt that the next phase of military operations

June 5, 1941:

Coastal Command

has flown

MY visit to the great, hive of activity which comprises the ad- ministrative and operational side of the Coastal Command was an illuminating experience.

I saw harmonious and efficient co-operation be- tween the Command and the Admiralty.

A place in this, headquarters is also allotted to the Army, for liaison duties, which will become really active if we have to repel or undertake an invasion,

At the head of the Command is. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, a hardy 'ex- naval officer and sailing-master, and an artist in the handling of men and affairs.

...

He has reaped to the full the -reward of all the hard work he put into the preparation of his Command for war. We all re- member with gratitude how in- stantly and perfvetly the Constal Comniand went into action in September, 1939,

25

million

war miles

The work of the Coastal Command aircraft never ceases.

THE NEW RAF-No. 5 BY AIR-COMMODORE

It had to nicct the first of the phases into. which this war divided itself-and, to those who have studied these changes, it has been satisfying to observe how quickly and thoroughly each new phase has been dealt .with.

move of our active and often Το enter the great new courageous enemy.

trolled.

P. F. M. FELLOWES

with. Vast Sweep

establish themselves in Norway, to maintain a wireless silence to The third phase, when the prevent the enemy from know- enemy overran Holland, Belgium ing they are in their vicinity. and France, added to our dim- This means that their dead cultles enormously.

reckoning ant astronomical' From now on, it was quite im. navigational standards must be possible to cover closely all the very high. enomy's sea exits to the At- Greatest Problem

The greatest problem the command has to deal with is the

lantic.

Fourth Phase

The fourth phase, which is convoy problem. To be able to central room and to see on lis To realise how hard this now in being, is of course the cope with it they have to know. walls the vast mass of informa- thinking organisation must have most difficult of all, because the exactly where each ship is and tion which springs to the eye, is been, worked, it is only neces- enemy has established and or- where each of our submarines to understand how closely and sary to recall how, phase by Iganised his bases of operation is, The with what supreme efficiency phase, the war from the sen throughout the whole western

same applies to the our whole great sen plan is con- point of view has steadily be- coast of Europe with the excep enemy submarines, if possible. It is one long fight between the tion of Spain and Portugal. come more difficult for us to deal

Looking back on the history air-backed by the Navy-and This difficulty has been caused able how, without dismay, the

of the war, it is most remark the enemy U-boat.

The main purpose of the The area of this plan, which by the gradual increase of Admiralty and the Coastal Com- Coastal Command is more to in- extends from the northernmost coastal areas in Europe held by mand have accepted in their form the Navy of the position extremities of Norway to the the enemy. Straits of Gibraltar, vividly-

stride the increasing difficulty of the enemy U-boat than netu- brings home the vast sweep of enemy was confined to the pre- have been faced.

In the first phase, when the of the situation with which they ally to attempt itself to destroy the enemy although in many air power.

Movements of ships and air only sca exits were from the functions: to assist the Admir

German frontiers, their This command has three main cases it has successfully gone craft-British, Allied, neutral Heligoland Bight and the culty in the blockade of the vides the Information, and the

into action.

Normally, the Air Force pro- and enemy-are plotted.

Constant consultations take place on the steps which may be able to control the exits and en- blockade us; and to safeguard craft had carried out by the end

During this period we were enemy; to defeat the enemy by Navy the bite.

countering their attempt to any trances, not only of their sub- this country from surprise in-

marines, but also of their survasion.

necessary to deal with

will decide the fate of Syria, the French-controlled Arab state which breaks the Allied front in the cast-situation. ern Mediterranean.

war

trances to the Baltic.

In actual fact, the coastal air-

of 1940 over 198 attacks on U- To enable them to achieve boats, having sighted and re- During the same period they

enemy,warships,' and 277 attacks on enemy merchant vessels.

To do this they had to fly vigilance of the Coastal Com because its specialised and 161,000 hours, which represents On the staff of the Coastal mand, working in every instance diversified duties require Command are experienced sub- in conjunction with the Navy.

a a distance of about 25,000,000 training, which is, additional to miles, or nearly a third of the marine commanders and active The second phase of the war that normally given by the distance to the sun. sea oflicers from surface ships, came when the Germans took Royal Air Force. all taking their part and collu- over Denmark and invaded Nor-

During this time they have These groups control stations convoyed over 2,000 convoys, borating in the planning and way.

which are located all round the containing more than 40,000 thinking brain of the Coastal This phase, although giving coasts of England and Scotland, ships and totalling about 200,-

The planning is done in each,face ships. Turkey, whose own destiny is in- case by expert members of the timately wrapped up with this anti-services. cippted action is malting appeals for Britain to move which sound almost desperate. Well the Turks know that if the Nazis establish them- selves la Syria as they have already done on the former Turkish-Grocco border Turkey is likely to become an other Sweden-u country .with nominal Independence only

until

Raiders Foiled these needs, the command. is ported them 274 times.

It almost made one sorry for I believe it to be a fact that divided into groups correspond- our enemy to see the toils of the Germans made a number of ing and working closely with the had carried out 104 attacks on intelligence thinking ma- attempts to get out surface naval commands. chine enmeshing him in its raiders but were foiled by the

It has also a training group, destructive grip.

such time as Hitler has time or the Inclination to assert full sovereignty

over it..

of

Command.

them much wider sea entrances Northern Ireland, the Western 000,000 tons.. They are continuously think to the Atlantic, still remained Isles, Shetlands, Iceland and Considering that as recently asing up-and-dovising fresh-very-much-under our control-Gibraltar.

Ана variation from the 034 AD..Syria was part the schemes to defeat each fresh until they had started really to

U-boat menace, the Germans The duties of this ring of are now more and more inten- Roman Empire It is surprising that

stations entail convoy protec- sively developing the use of tion, sea reconnaissance, enemy their Focke-Wulf Condor long- harbour reconnaissance, anti- range bombers for attacking submarine patrols by day and our shipping.

Italy has not already made claims

10 intcorporate the territory. For four centuries until the end of the Great War the country was part of the Ottoman Empire. It was then handed over to French mandate and, following Great Britain's example when Independence was granted Iraq, the French concluded a treaty

Private Life of a Private

The Meaning

"Jankers"

and

ho isn't

Of

night, aircraft. patrols for At present these bombers are enemy aircraft, attacks on not such a serious threat as the enemy shipping and naval land U-boat because they are not used targets, photography, both over in very large numbers, but they the sea and over the land near could easily become, so if un- the sea, protection of the fishing countered. flects and lightships from air at-

tack, mine-laying,, and. torpedo Our Life-Line

Web-Footed

with the Syrian and Lebanese re- Another instalment of one confined to barracks. Dozy's dropping. publies in 1936 under which full in- of the most popular and wide- got five days now.

The defent of these craft is a dependence would be granted to the|ly-copied features in wartime

They employ all types of boat problem which is very actively Arab states in three years.

"And for ten days after that aircraft-the Sunderland, the engaging the thinking brain of Syria, however; is not a homo-

journalism. The author, a he loses his privileges-can't be Lerwick and the Stranraer; the Coastal Command, and no geneous clinic state, the population writer now in the Army, gives out after ten o'clock. including Arabs, Turks, Armenians readers intimate glimpses of "Then begain old Dozy'll do drills American Hudson; and various more efficiently countered as long-range bombers, such as the doubt they will be more and and Christian Lebanese, The French life in the ranks to-day. In marching order, every afternoon, other types of bombers and time goes on. divided the country into five regions

"He'll be Inspected by the office fighters for special jobs. roughly according to racial borders.

cleaned up property

There is always a counter to These were Arab-Syria, Christian

TWO mornings ago, when and dug out, he'll be for sty Lebanon, the semi-nomade Jebel

Reveille sounded, an "You see, it just won't pay him to by the American P.B.Y. flying-

They are now being reinforced every form of offence. Druse, the coastal territory of Lata- extraordinary thing happened. be idle. He'll have to liven his ideas bonts and Flying Fortresses.

In our Bomber Command we kia and the Sanjak of Alexandretta, The last named liad also a special leapt out of bed with a muffled don't care. Say 'e simply keeps on

cannot operato under conditions The youth whom we call Dozy up or he'll be in trouble all the time." "But," said the Lad, "Just say 'e

of widespread fog, but in the status with its important position on shriek, and dragged on his fati- taking it, and coming on parade just the border of Turkey and

and its mixed

Coastal Command the need for population. Full Independence in gue overalls; crammed his boots any old ow, and missing parades, functions

One of the most important convoying and for reconnais- 1040 would have left the former chockful of feet; slapped a cap What "ap-pens?"

of the Command sance never ceases, and the re- Ottoman Empire colony divided into

on his head, and was out of the "What happens?" said the four separate republics, but the hut like streak.

Ser-Headquarters is to appraise the sult has been that the Coastal Keant. "Why if he keeps on being standard of navigational train. Command has had to operate în treaty was never fulfilled because

ide, and insubordinate, and dirtying and seamanship which its all weathers. France fented to lose her hold in the Middle East.

Now Dozy is

whom why, then, he'll probably go to the personnel reach before it allows

Glass House for twenty-eight days."

I believe it to be true that An early problem was that of the nothing seems to arouse. He

them to take a part in actual only for seven hours on one day Sanjak of Alexandretta now called can sleep like a two-toed sloth.

since the war started has no. Hatay, which, thanks to Turkish per- His brain scarcely functions be "Is that where people live who operations. sistence, was ceded to her just before eleven o'clock, when soup the Good Boy from Godalming.

mustn't throw stones?" asked. They have to be experts in Coastal aircraft been air-borne. This gives some measure of the outbreak of war

by the is served.

Ithe special subjects of coding, French who had experienced con-

"It's the Military Prison," said the ship recognition and visual the service. our active flying. siderable opposition to their mandate Dozy is what Sergeants call Sergeant. "You go there for deten signalling. besides the widest personnel are giving their coun- there as indeed they have through an Idle Man.

You get hard work, dirty fatigues, possible knowledge of seaman not only the C.-In-C. but all hig try, and also of the strain on real honest-to-God chasings on the ship in all its forms, WE looked at one another, Square several hours day, no

They have also to be picked

do everything at the double.

forn

out all Syria.

the French and, it must be admitted,

The Arab world has no love for

litle for the Turks, Britain's record

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A bugle sounded De amoking, no time to yourself, and you for their endurance because of Yet to meet any of these men nuch brighter, especially of re-faulters: cent years and brutality, intolerance. You, can be a Defaulter as House like lions and come out like which may extend up to 12 to ing and very fruitful lives."

"I've seen soldiers go in the Glass the length of their patrols, is to realise that they are thriv

ing on, and enjoying, their test- and pride have never marred our long as you like. relations with the Arabs.

Byrla has been ruled by decree since July:

As long as you answer your of things, are designed simply to

"Punishments, in the ordinary run As they put It in the Com. If our life-line, the Atlantic 1039, when the Arab President of name..

mand; Syrin resigned because of the Im-

"They must become sen route, wore to be cut, wo Ilven you up-like CB-to bond

should be defeated. Therefore Then the Lad from the Ele- you, fairly gently, to the required web-footed.” possibility of forming a stable gov plant and Castle said: "Ain't shope. But if you don't bend why, An Interesting sidelight on crament, while the

it is no exaggeration to say that the Franco-Syrion trenly was unfulfilled.

you 'oard? 'E's got Jankers!" you break....

the strenuous job of the flying on their efficiency and endurance The Germans may well offer Syria

rests the continulty of the complete Independence over Vichy's which means Confinement to one on Rooms Inspection!!"

Jankers. is an army word blankets straight or you'il drop a big personnel of this command is British Empire.

that they regard the ferrying In those qualities we can have head on condition of their co-opera- Barracks.

of now bombers across the full confidence. tion against Britain but it is doubt-

if the Arab leaders would fall The Tall Boy from Sunder- INGER rearranges his blankets; Atlantic as a pleasant rest. for this gulle, A bold move by Bri- Innd Bald to a Sergeant: and Dozy returns.

The command must have the tain now may well anticipate the "Exayuctly

what

It seems to some of tie that his greatest confidence in the navi hayuppens enemy's plans before they

loaden eyes are a little brighter- fructify and thus keep clean what

"Now, then, Ginger, got them

can when you get 0:3,?” EN Moré alert-the øyes of a man who gating skill of Its personnel, as will otherwise be a very bloody panggeant... "It means to any you're dares not mies..

"Nothing much," said the Sor is listening, expecting something he normally the boats or nero kt. Syria's history.

planes when out on patrol have

To-Morrow-

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