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f f It Seems to Me HtVWOOD BROUN WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 I could start this by saving: "It is learned on Rood authority.” Instead I might as well admit that the predictions with tthich I wish o play around arc largely guesswork. Most of the guessing comes from an exceedingly well-informed Washington correspondent, and, naturally, I have taken a few fliers on my own account. There are a number of other members of the supporting cast, but all will be nameless. First of all, Franklin D. Roosevelt will be re-

elected in 1936. He will win easily, unless A1 Smith can be persuaded to make a sacrifice run with the backing of the Liberty League and its associates. It is extremely unlikely that Smith will consent. Unless he does there will be no ticket in the field representing the conservative Democrats. John W. Davis and others who have been sharply critical of the New Deal will climb on the bandwagon and give at least lip service to Franklin Roosevelt. If you can get odds as good as 3 to 1, it might not be a bad idea to bet that William Randolph Hearst will yet come

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out in favor of Roosevelt. Roosvelt’s campaign will be strengthened by the activities of the Townsendites. This group will make no nomination for the presidency, but it will invade many congressional districts and support either Republican or Democratic candidates who agree to further the Townsend plan in its present form or with slight modifications. The Townsendites have a good organization and are gaining strength. They have picked up the remains oi Huey Longs empire and made deep inroads into the followers of Father Coughlin. nan A Hard Run far G. 0. V. * I ''HP. Republican candidate for the presidency may A find it extremely difficult to preach a baianced budget and rigid economy in the face of the fact that many of the party's congressional candidates are likely to be committed to the S2OO-a-mon h payment to the 60-year-olders. Although Roosevelt is almost, certain to veto any bonus bill, the i.ssue on the whole will be helpful to him. The bill is sure to be passed over his veto, so the Legionnaires will not be very sore, and in the meantime candidates for the Republican nomination will be forced into the position taken by Frank Knox that they are both for a balanced budget and the bonus at one and the same time. The Republican candidate for the presidency who runs on an economy platform will have to note all kinds of exceptions all along the line. The issue of amending the Constitution will not be raised by Roosevelt in the 1936 campaign unless the Supreme Court hands down a sweepinglv adverse decision against the AAA. If the Administration receive only a partial rebuff the issue of constitutional revision will be allowed to lie dormant. ana Thai Second Term of F. I). R.’s Washington observers already are beginning A to speculate beyond 1936 and to guess what Roosevelt s second term will be like. One very wellinformed newspaper man (Ed. note—l agree but obviously, I am quoting somebody else) told me: ‘ Ihe history of American politics and American economics during the next few years depends largely upon the success or failure of the John L. Lewis campaign for industrial unionism. President Roosevelt may have reservations, but on the whole his sympathies lie with the Lews drive. Naturally, he will make no public indication of this fact, but he has felt that many of the criticisms which hold him guilty of a vacillating policy in regard to labor are unfair. It is his notion that he could have taken no stronger labor position because of the weakness of the labor movement itself. "It may be pointed out that the A. F. of L. vacillated just as much in certain situations as the President himself and that it was impossible for him to get out very far ahead of his support. My guess is that Roosevelt’s progress to the left in his second Administration will be in almost precise proportion to the increase of trades union members and the perfecting of organization. In other words, nobody can tell what Roosevelt is going to do without having some idea of what Lewis is likely to accomplish.”

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

NOT so many years ago a craze for bran, or horse food, swept the country. Newspapers and magazines were full of recipes for making bran biscuits, bran muffins, bran gems, bran patties, and otherwise disguising this coarse and, to many people, unappetizing material. Now, the only real reason for bran in the di<*t is the fact that it supplies a good deal of what is called roughage. As foods have become more and more sophisticated, there is a greater tendency to make them easier to eat. They are softened by removal of fibrous materials and cellulose, which give the bowels something to catch on to. According to the promoters of the roughage idea, it is necessary to load the bowels with all kinds of indigestible and unassimilable substances, so that they will be filled with an irritating bulk. The bowels then are stimulated to empty, and as a result, they say, constipation and phlegmatic habits will be overcome. U ft tt A CERTAIN amount of indigestible residue is always necessary to normal action of the bowels, but this is a long, step from violently loading a weak bowel with a large mass of unnecessary work. It is a long step. also, from taking roughage or bulk in the form of substances which will irritate the tissues and set up a reaction which may eventually lead to colitis, or inflammation of the large bowel. There are many ways in whicjji " phlegmatic bowel may be stimulated to action, nil sorts of food products have been developed which* can provide the necessary bulk without irritation. Furthermore, once a colitis is produced by an excess of the bran or roughage habit, it is exceedingly difficult to bring it under control. Many months of carefully chosen diets may be necessary to permit healing. a a a CERTAIN food combinations are known as low residue diets because they provide very small amounts of indigestible material. These are foods, for example, such as lean meat, rice, white bread, cooked and strained cereals, cooked eggs, butter, cream, fruit juices, the puffed cereals, lamb, chicken, oysters, liver, w'hite potato, pureed beans, peas, lentils, artichoke hearts, and the various strained foods that are made especially for infants and invalids. Strained vegetables, cottage cheese, ice cream, and gelatin may also be used in the diet of those who should not take roughage. To provide these people with suitable amounts of non-irntating bulk, it is possible to provide fyiy of the various Japanese seaw'eed or agar preparations which have the faculty of collecting fluid in the bowel and developting bulk without irritation.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

UNANSWERED questions stare the scientist in the face on every side. A. W. Haslett, a brilliant British journalist, has taken advantage of this fact to write a book entitled “Unsolved Problems of Science.” Knowledge has sometimes been compared to a spot of light in a field of darkness. Enlarge the spot of light end you also enlarge the circumference of darkness around it. And so it seems reasonable to suppose that there will always be more to be learned than is known and such books as that of Mr. Haslett’s will always be in order. It would be a mistake to think of Mr. Haslett’s book as a mere catalogue of ignorance. It is very much more than that. It is a discussion of scientific frontiers. In discussing the big questions before the world of science, he also manages to tell us a great deal of the current knowledge in the field.

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Homesteaders Are Denied Good Things Grown on Own Farms

How are the farmer and the laborer faring In Adolf Hiller's "New Germany?" Frazier Hunt, noted magazine and newspaper correspondent, investigated this angle of National Socialism, and tells what he found out in the article below. BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright. 1935. NEA Serv.ce. Inc.) TAERLIN (via London), Dec. 9.—lt is difficult to decide whether Hitler’s Germany followed America, or vica versa, in the whole matter of crops and price control, land settlement and subsistence homesteads. Hitler came into power on Jan. 30, 1933, and Rosevelt five weeks later. They each hurriedly embarked on an agriculture and land s e 111 e ment

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decree. Now, two years after the plans had been formulated, I drove out from Berlin to visit one of the finished products of the “New Farmers” program. Here in the tiny village of Brusendorf an old estate of some 600 acres, with a potato distillery plant near the manor house, had been taken over by the government and subdivided into 18 small farms, ranging from 37 to 25 acres in size. Four great barns had been rebuilt into eight dwelling houses, with barns attached, and 10 new combination dwelling-barns had been erected. The new farmer had been furnished four cows, a litter of pigs, and machinery and horse equipment to run his place. Over all Germany more than 10,000 such farm outfits had been established, and within the next 15 years 85,000 families are to be settled on these little self-contained farms. a a a ' I 'HE new German farmers A must have a capital of SI2OO to start with. In America the families we sent

Certain Only Force Can Stop Her Course in Far East, Japan Will Pay Little, If Any, Attention to America's Veiled Warning

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripns-Howard Foreign Kditor VITASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The ’ ’ more or less veiled warnings to Japan uttered by the British foreign minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, and the American Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, wall fall on deaf ears. This writer has confirmed first hand, from Japanese sources in China and Manchu officials north of the great wall, that, despite foreign office denials at Tokyo, Emperor Pu Yi of Manchukuo, will eventually extend his sway to the five northern provinces “if asked.” Just how long it will be before these five North China provinces achieve “autonomy,” it is said, depends on circumstances. One thing is certain. Japan does not wish a repetition of the large-scale fighting required to bring about the “independence” of Manchuria. Agents of the Japanese, therefore, are expected to continue their systematic under-cover pressure on Chinese war lords within the affected area so that when autonomy is declared it will have at least the surface appearance of spontaneity. a a a T A.TER on, after the region has been organized sufficiently, the next move would likely be another “spontaneous” request from the people to the heir to China's dragon throne to return to ancient Peking. If military aid is needed in the process, this, too, would be given only “at the request of the Chinese.” The United States. Great Britain and other Occidental powers are not entirely unacquainted

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Today's Contract Problem South opened the bidding with one diamond and rebid diamonds twice. The bidding finally got up to seven spades by North. Should East double, with the following hand? EAST AJ9 S 5 2 V 10 7 4 10 3 2 *842 Solution in next issue. 2

Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League IS there any set rule governing time to take a finesse? This is a natural question often asked of every expert. One sound rule to remember is —do not take a finesse that, if it should fail, will cost you your contract, when you can find another way to play the hand. A finesse has only a 50 per cent chance of winning. However, the bidding or distribution of a hand often will give you information regarding the lay of the outstanding high cards.

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to our new farm and homestead colonies like those at Reedsville, W. Va., and Dyess, Ark., financially had been completely broken on the wheel of the depression; they came penniless—with free tftnsportation in government trucks; everything except their barest household goods were furnished them. Here in harsher and more disciplined Germany there was no such sentimental paternalism. And in the general handling of the crops and price control for all Germany, no part in the decision is left to the individual farmer.

with the process. The United States has sent troops to Cuba, Nicaragua and other Latin-Amer-ican countries “at the request” of their governments. Britain’s soldiers are now safeguarding the “independence” of Egypt “at the request’ ’of King Fuad I. Japan pretends to a Monroe Doctrine of her own in Eastern Asia. And to this doctrine she gives special interpretation. The chain of events in Manchuria. Jehol and south of the Great Wall since 1931 indicates its nature. a a a JAPAN is even less likely than ** Italy to scrap her program as a result of warnings from London, Washington or Geneva. Britain alone can strangle Italy by closing Gibraltar and the Red Sea to Mussolini’s ships. t It would require the combined." efforts of the entire British and American fleets U defeat Japan, experts deTHREATENED RAILROAD STRIKE IS CALLED OFF Company Agrees to Employ Two Men in Diesel Cabs. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 9.—A threatened strike of 170 C enginemen of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad, scheduled to start tonight, was settled at a conference called by Judge James W. Carmalt of the National Railway Mediation Board. The railroad agreed to employ two men in the cabs of Diesel passenger engines, but not in Diesel switch engines. The Union originally had demanded that all Diesel engines be operated by two men.

Today’s hand is a good example on this point. Against South’s four-spade contract, West opened the four of clubs, and the three was played from dummy. Now there is a rather general rule quoted by beginners—never finesse your partner's lead, third hand high. Well, of course, if East plays the ace of clubs, declarer will have no difficulty in making his contract. as the losing heart could be discarded on dummy’s good king of clubs. East’s proper play is the nine of clubs. South winning with the queen. Declarer now’ cashes the ace of spades and West shows out, discarding the deuce of clubs. South now knows that he has a losing spade, diamond and club and therefore must try not to lose a heart trick. At- this point the king of diamonds is led. West winning with the ace and immediately returning the eight of clubs. The ten is played from dummy and East's jack wins the trick. The ace of clubs is now trumped by declarer. He now has West marked with five clubs. The queen and jack of diamonds are cashed and this practically marks West with four diamonds. As West opened clubs, declarer

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Combination house-and-barns like the building pictured above are a striking feature of “New Germany’s” agricultural land settlement program. More than 10.000 such farm outfits already have been established throughout the country. . . . The girl pictured at the left is not, as you might suppose, a German peasant. She is a Berlin stenographer who was sent to a farm by the Nazi government as a part of its educational program.

Prices are set, acreage decreed, and every detail regimented. It is planned agriculture with a vengeance. In one other respect, too, it differs 100 per cent from America’s AAA; here every, acre of land and every tiller of the soil is pushed to the supreme limit to produce • all that was possible, rather than to curtail production. German farmers have been granted, as a pleasant sop, excellent prices. But they have been bothered by a mass of petty regulations. And now within the past few weeks they have had taken away from them even the right' to live well off their own farms. ana TODAY no German farmer can keep one single pint of milk for his own use. All must go to the neighborhood creamery. He can make no butter—except as he churns from his own bootleg milk. \ • In place of killing three or four fat pigs for his beloved sausages and headcheese, he must deliver all his pigs to the regular agencies, A part of Germany’s food shortage is to be made up by taking all but the barest necessities from the farmer’s own table. In many ways the city workmen fared better at the hands of the dictatorship. As 90 per cent of the

clare, and there is little likelihood of any such combination. In a recent poll of the British electorate, three out of four voted to apply armed force if force is needed to check an aggressor nation. The London government is aware of this support in case of military pressure against II Duce. But that Britain would thus go to w r ar with Japan is a horse of another color. No matter how deeply she may feel about it, Britain would not dare strip European waters of all her warships and concentrate them in the Far WIFE TOSSES BRICK; MAN ASKS DIVORCE Ben Thomas Escapes Missile, but Complains of ‘Mental Shock’ Divorce complaint of Ben Thomas, 1202 N. LaSalle-st, against Mildred Thomas, on file in Circuit Court, accuses the wife of hurling ‘‘a hard substance, commonly known as a brick,” at her husband. Poor aim, the document continues, saved the husband from bodily harm, but he suffered mental and nervous shock.” In another paragraph it is alleged the wife’s wielding of a broom was more effective than the brick tossin, the husband complaining of “bruises and abrasions.” Noblesville Bank Pays §36,000 Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 9.—An early Christmas gift of $36,000 is being distributed today among depositors of the Citizens State Bank, now in receivership. A similar 10 per cent dividend was paid in September.

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has the right to feel that West does not hold a four card suit headed by a queen, or that suit might have been opened. A small heart must be led and the finesse refused, going right up with the ace. A spade is played and the finesse taken. Now the king of spades is led and East thrown in the lead with the last spade. This forces East to lead from his queen-nine of hearts, declarer thereby making four odd. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service. Ine,).

old Communists were factory workers, there has been a. determined effort made to win over many of the political disgruntled. The “Labor Front” has time and again proved that it is definitely on the side of the worker. While no strikes are allowed, neither are lockouts. a a a IF a group of workers feel they should have an increase in wages, the matter is taken up by their factory representative with the company directors. If*the increase is not granted it is referred to the head office in Berlin, and an economic advisor is sent to the factory. If the profits warrant a raise, the men get it. If not, the refusal stands. Factory profits are carefully watched, and all above 6 per cent on the capital stock must be put into government bonds or paid out in increased wages. Fully as important in the minds of the workers is the matter of special holidays, arranged by the Labor Front. It is possible now for a workman to have a specially arranged low priced summer holiday trip to points as far away as Norway or Sweden. He is given a three weeks’ holiday on full pay and the state

East. And without such concentration, mere words are unlikely to have any effect on Nippon except to make that power more careful. a a a The United States government recently has become convinced that any foreign adventure would 63 ARELISTEO ON HONOR ROLL Scholastic Records Bring Recognition to Broad Ripple Pupils. Scholastic honor roll of Broad Ripple High School carries the names of the following 63 pupils: Dorothy Steck, Virginia Menikheim, Magnolia De Hart, Irene Westervelt, Armand Mauk, Maxine Roberts, Rebecca Irwin, Phyllis Pennington, Martha Jones, Frances O'Connor, Mary Anne Blessing, Clara June Bossom, Arthur Gemmer, Jack George, Margaret McAnally, Tom Hines, Jack Noon, Lucia Burrows. Evelyn Hawkins Helen Clickner, James Chizler, Violet Ploughe, Chris Specker, Dorothy McCleaster, Mary Jane Rosasco, Gladys Anoskey, Thelma Claffey, George Clark, Dorothy Cuddy, Euseba Grimme, Phyllis Hyde. Kathleen McClintic, Juanita Robinson, Mary Esther Stahl, Frederick Steinmeier, Clara Hughey, Doris Haupt, Gretchen Huetter, Ella Newburg, Jean Fightmaster, Teressa Herrmann. Isabelle Ross, Paul Billhymer, Billy Lobdell, Robert Perkins, Donn Rudd, Edna Thixton, Richard Grimes, Ralph Kelly, Bernice Kopp, Frederick Kurman, Aldine Palmer, Murray Rudd, Frank Reese, Madora Clifton, Thelma Hughey, Roberta Bathurst, Betty Applegate, Reid Chapman. Robert Claffey, Jean MaGee, Robert Schenk and Roy Thomas. CONTROL BOARD SETS KOKOMO MILK PRICES Stabilizing Action Taken After Emergency Is Declared. The State Milk Control Board has stabilized the milk price situation in Kokomo by fixing milk prices of 10 cents a quart, retail, and 8 cents, wholesale. The board declared an emergency existed in the Kokomo marketing area after the price fell to 6 cents a quart, retail. Approximately 200 producers are to be affected by the new order, effective Wednesday. Other prices fixed for the area are 6 cents, retail, and 5 cents wholesale for pints and 50 cents a pound for butterfat in Class I milk.

helps him on this undreamed-of journey. This whole vacation and sports program is called the “strength through joy movement.” ana T>UT with good housewives " standing in long lines for two hours to buy one-quarter pound of butter, and with fats almost impossible to get, it is little wonder that there still is widespread complaint and dissatisfaction. But except for the Communists I doubt if it is more than vocal. The Socialist part of Hitler’s National Socialism has substance and reality. It would level off much of the old class distinctions and curtail the power of great industry and wealth. For all this the average workman is grateful. It may be thgit the workmen hold the key to Hitler’s future. If the boycott against Germany continues and trade does not improve, it is in the cards that unemployment will come within a year or two. Then the lowly factory hand may show where he stands. My guess is that most of them will stand by Hitler.

be extremely unpopular with the American people. The demand is for strict neutrality, even in comparatively nearby Europe. As for warlike moves to prevent Asiatic territory changing masters, opposition would almost certainly increase with every mile of the distance involved. Tokyo is aware of these factors. She was a bit doubtful in September, 1931, in Manchuria. At that time she advanced a little, protested that she intended to withdraw as soon as the “bandits” were put down, and waited to see what happened in Europe and America. Only verbal protests followed, and she barged on. Today, Japan believes she knows her way. Only superior force can stop her, and none such is in sight —unless Soviet Russia decides to take up the challenge. CONDEMNATION (CASE APPEAL INDICATED South Side Residents Lose Fight to Re-Open Alley. Victory of the city in resisting the setting aside of a condemnation case result in appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court, it is indicated by plaintiff’s counsel. Isaac Regenstreif, South Side Baking Cos. president, and his wife, Mrs. Alice Regenstreif, sought in Superior Court to set aside proceedings by which part of an alley in the rear of their home, 715 Union-st, was closed to permit building an addition to the Acme Mattress Cos. plant. Judge Joseph T. Markey in a ruling Saturday upheld the condemnation. Jackiel W. Joseph was counsel for the Regenstreifs. LEASE NEGOTIATED FOR CIVIC CENTER HERE President of Citizen’s Fraternity Selects North Side Site. Tentative arrangements have been completed for leasing a twostory brick building at 40th-st and Capitol-av for use as a North Side community center, George C. Reeves, Citizen’s Fraternity president, announced today. Mr. Reeves appeared before the park board last week asking aid in acquiring the property, but was told funds for next year had been budgeted. Board members, however, indicated action might be taken in 1937 and suggested the lease as a holdover arrangement. SLUM BID ANNOUNCED Evansville Firm Low on Project of $68,400 in Home City. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The Public Works Administration slum clearance and low-cost housing division today anriounced that the Pioneer Contracting Cos. of Evansville, Ind., was the low bidder on a $68,400 project there.

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Entered aa Clatt Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis, lnd.

Fair Enough msimS holer ROME. Dec. 9.—ln Genoa there was a big. tall civilian who went bounding through the gloomy lobby of an all but deserted hotel several times a day. always in a thundering hurry and obviously a man of some standing, because Jhe concierge and the bell boy invariably brought tneir heels together with a crack and tossed him no ordinary flip of a fin, but a correct Fascist salute. The hotel, incidentally, was in a sad condition, with only a few guests under the roof. There was

room for about 500. The theater, swimming pool and ballroom, now closed, were blocked off. Even the dining room was closed to save heat. The staff of 22 waiters had been reduced to three, and meals were being served to half a dozen solemn customers in a little room which was built for the library. War had driven out the tourists. Americans. British, Germans and all, and yet there was no war. I felt that I had met the big man before, but it was not until I saw him again on a train for Rome that I recognized in him the suave and graceful master of bottles who

had officiated in a white jacket as head barman on the Rex. He was off for Rome to complete the business of joining the army as a captain of a machine gun company. He wore in his lapel two enameled shields, one signifying he was an army officer and the other containing a summary of decorations and service medals he was awarded for two years’ duty in the "war to end war." But across the strip of enamel which signified that he possessed a complimentary service medal which the British issued to their late Allies, he had fixed a narrow band of tin to obliterate it from view. ana Why, the Nasty Frenchman! CAPT. MARCELLO ROSETTI was very angry at the English, and he explained that no Italian soldier or sailor today would think of wearing the British medal decoration. He was impatient to get into his army uniform, but would have to make one more trip to New York on the big boat first. After that she might be laid up because the prestige which she confers on the Italian nation was an expensive luxury in such times. In fact, on our voyage to Genoa the Rex had suffered a remarkable embarrassment owing to the obstinacy of a French passenger who insisted on being delivered to Villefranche, on the French Riviera, in accordance with the terms of his ticket, although the two other passengers who had booked to Villefranche were willing to leave the boat at Genoa and proceed the rest of the way by train at the expense of the Italian government. This attitude of the French passenger made it necessary for the Italians to keep the 52,000-ton ship and crew of 900 at sea for nine hours longer than they otherwise would have, and the expense of complying with the little paragraph of fine type on the steamship ticket had amounted to approximately S4OOO. a a a Well, Maybe Americans Are Nuts! CAPT. ROSETTI, soon to be on his way to Africa with his machine guns, was impatient to see his little boy of 8, who had been ill of typhus for three months, but was now in good health again and resuming his exercises with his little Ballila gun His what? His Ballila gun. The Ballila are the baby army. They drill with a little imitation of the regulation army rifle equipped with a blunt, but otherwise credible, miniature of a regulation army bayonet. I had seen them in a store in Genoa and looked at them over the shoulders of little boys who stood there gazing a long time in childish enchantment not only at the muskets, but at the little imitation automatic pistols, just like those the officers carry, except that they shoot blank cartridges instead of bullets. Oh, sure, Capt. Rosetti’s little boy, so recently recovered from typhus, is a Ballila and expert in the manual of arms and squads east. In a few years more he will be old enough and big enough to pack a real rifle and fight the English or any one else and possibly be killed gloriously for the great new Italy. That would be a beautiful tragedy. But it’s a trial and worry to bring up a child through the perils of sickness and accident until he reaches the age when he is ready to receive in his hands a real gun with a real bayonet and march away to glorious wars. I have been trying to puzzle this out: Are Americans crazy or are they decadent in their belief that It’s more beautiful to die in automobile accidents than in bed?

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CERTAINLY the most concise and, all things considered, the most objective description of the Battle of Jutland appears in anew book from E. P. Dutton & Cos. The author is Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. The book is the second volume of his memoirs. He calls it “Scapa Flow to the Dover Straits, 1916-1918.” It is primarily a technical history, but if the lay reader can span the wide gaps of tactical discussion, he will find much of interest. The Labor government to the Admiral is always the “Socialist Government.” The London Naval Treaty is “this suicidalTolicy.” Naval defense is the alpha and omega of his philosophy. The Admiral states with the most emphatic conviction that as recently as the fall of 1934, a substantial part of a huge British loan to be spent entirely on increasing the British navy could have been floated in the United States He says: “Even Americans said they would subscribe to such an excellent investment, as a strong British navy was the best guaran'ee for the peace of the world.” Perish the thought, eh, Admiral, of the British war debt? n n o IT is on the bridge of his warship that the Admiral appears most estimable. Concluding his description of Jutland, he says: “The German navy may well be proud of their wonderfully constructed ships. Their system of subdivision made their vessels almost unsinkable and limited the effect of mine or torpedo explosion, and the penetration of shells on the water line, to a minimum. Their magazines were well protected against plunging fire and they had arrangements which safeguarded their magazines if they were hit in a turrent. Their propellant was far safer than our highly inflammable and explosive cordite, which was responsible for the destruction of our ships, when their insufficiently armored turrents were penetrated. Four British turrents were penetrated and three ships blew up, a fate narrowly averted by the four (the Lion). Os the more heavily armoured German turrets, nine were penetrated by British shells which exploded inside. In eight cases fires were caused, but no ship was blown up. “Every one in our service is ready to give th Germans full credit for being a very brave enemy and for having skillfully extricated themselves from an exceedingly dangerous position, in which they might well have been overwhelmed by our vastly superior forces. But surely they are lacking in a sense of humor when they claim a flight to escape annihilation as a great victory.” Sir Roger gives a most complete (with diagrams! explanation of the little-publicised blockading of Zeebrugge and Ostend. and a bloody description that is. Officers with hands shot off waving their men on, another with a leg gone, directing his men while lying upon the deck. That was warfare, and that is what Sir Roger knows best. (By Robert Horton).

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