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Show 10REIC.N DESERET EVENING NEWS. NEWS, NOCJETY NEWS SATURDAY SECTION THREE AlJUL 17 10-- LAKE CITY UTAH SALT 0 TH3 D3AHA. MLSIC; and LrrrnATtK: TEN PAGES Famous Figures in the Foreign News It Conan Doyle Commemoratei Callant Action Fought by Ship Named Alter Him Stride Preterit to Shipper William Addy at Souvenir cl a Hard Fought Battle With Cerman h of Air Aircraft Combine Plant Over Four Hourt, Finally Sinking Her With Hit Below Wat A FUhermen't Fight and Plucky Trawler Fought and Crvitert Torpedo-PlaneBattte of Real on t by Expedition Againtt Mad Mallah, Wayt at New Basit o I Imperial Detente Land and Sea Warfare Revolutionised by Sham Attack Super-Submari- U-bo- Net-Wor- Conntng-ToweeBriti$- at ne k -- the capital importance of the air l future are warfare can be eetimaled. One can visualise the conviction which it leading the Brilih empire, under cover f Aircraft Tranport and Travel, Ltd, to (el the ground work done end the nrcrary Tying enterprise Well devrlojcJ brfvrt the next war comes. quarter of tin CurrClxmJeuc.) ' The Finland. April , traw-of eBrjLkh plucky skipper tKi l named after t,r A ship i lU, Ur i Conn IViyle made even prouJi and hapman he than uly had pier been by unexpectedly receiving ,f t ,f from the Jwikiu cm Lor of Sherlock Holraea, a ejr bearing the fullewtng cigarette JDKripUon: "To Hipper William Add), D. 8. C- - from Arthur Conan lyte. In memory of June JO, ibta." 8tr Arthur, io hu turn, U soon to bo presented f by kipper Addy with an historic aouventr the ablp'a bell of the Conan Doyle," bearinr the honored name that li her and hit. No doubt this tell, recalling at it dm at (lowed a f.ght at perhaps ever mat pul up at aea, will have a place of honor among the many tnemenloet and rellra of erMcly differing Vmde which Sir Arthur takes. j,rde in show lug lodutinguikhed American and other vititors to W'indletham, his home at Crow-boroug- NV U : h, I . nd 142,000. Consn Doyle sanE In the which "The fight in the North look submarine German place (he tea on ihe 20th of June, 1918, the ekipper told "That was my second big affair with the In the first one I was less fortunate. on the 4Lh of April, 1916. I was coming was That 1 1 , ijAne. home from Iceland with my ship full up with fish for Good Friday, when we were sunk by a German submarine just off Scotland. Several of (he crew and myself were hauled onto the submarine, (the others being left in our boat) and kept m her deck while she went full jpeed after mother trawler which had 'come in sight and We had to cling on sunk her with shell-fir- e. from to being washed, off. keep tight to the rails to boat and left, and the back taken we were Then into Granlon taken and 'up eventually gdl picked on Good Friday morning, 1915. "Just another six hours and "we should have been home with our fish, but anyhow I never got a man scratched in that affair, so I thought we got off lucky, although it made 250 pounds differ- -. g ence to me. That time we had no guns nor to defend ourselves with, but June 20, 1918, Was better. I wouldnt have missed it for a thousand pounds, for you see we sort of got our own . back." . . Skipper Addy described the "Conan Doyles" one of the tussle with the biggest according to official opinion that the Germans had in commission with the modesty of a brave man with no overweening love for the limelight, and In the terse, technical language of true son of the sea. The affair can be described more effectively, I imagine, if we slick fairly closely to the official account of the fight, as recorded by Lieut. J. F. McCabe, of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was in command of the "Conan Doyle." At 6:30 a. rn, he says, "the convoy of trawlers was proceeding at 8 knots when an enemy submarine opened fire on the Conan Doyle from 7,000 yards. The Conan Doyle returned the fire at onciT and ihe engagement became general. The convoy took up line forma- lion, and the Conan Doyle led the line throughout the order of bailie being Conan Doyle, Emperor, Commander Holbrook, "Atlantic, Bridling--Io- n and 'Aisne,' all trawlers. The enemy steered a course parallel to the convoy, firing three guns -- . air-por- any-thin- . "life-and-de- J f compiny behaved magnificently. There was no excitement whatever and there was complete efficiency everywhere. To Mr. William Addy, Skipper R..N. R. T, of the Conan Doyle. is due the principal credit for the saving of the convoy from an enemy with superior speed and armament. He carried out my order to xlgtag with : consummate skill and ability, For the greater Oje At 8.45, the Conan Doyle had only fifteen portion of the action the Conan Doyle waa tbe rounds left, and preparations were made to hoist. enemy target, but the masterly manner in which , Ihe signal, Prepare to ram. Just previous to this ihe was handled by Slipper Addy outwitted the the Aisne got in a direct hit on the after part German. II is seamanlike Judgment of a shifting of the enemy. Conan Doyle also made a hit wind enabled the best possible use to be made below thd enemys forward gun, which disappeared of the smoke boxes. This was a fishermens fight, and wnthout after a burst of flame and smoke. The enemy then doubt 9 a. they putup a right stout one. I deem it after at fired his and gun until, ported to have been in command pf them." an honor another' direct forward made hit Doyle and .below the conning tower. BRITISH AIRCRAFT COMBINE. "The submarine was at once hidden in a dense cloud of steam and stnoke. wbich lasted about 45 The British F.nipire is already approaching seconds. When the vapor disappeared there was the task of transferring its vast defenses from , no sign of the submarine and the convoy resumed their ancient basis of British navalism to a new its Journey through increasing wind and sea. The and inevitable basis of British aerialism. Presubmarine was at least 300 feet long, in fact so liminary steps are being taken in private offices, large was her conning lower that there was located in a converted dwelling house at 27 Buckfirst as to whether it was a subuncertainly-a- t ingham Gate in the West End of London. Here are the offices of Aircraft Transport marine. She carried one gun forward and one aft, and Travel Lid, now the parent company of a and, also a' third and apparently smaller gun, which gave a peculiar double report. The enemys group of aerial enterprises, which is engaged in shooting was on the whole good. Conan Doyle laying the necessary ground work" for a worldwas straddled in Jhe first few rounds and all the wide network of and under 6hella fell very close indeed. Altogether the British imperial control. It is the purpose of this enemy fired 400 rounds, 100 of which. were shraporganization io establish a world system of British nel. , air traffic which shall duplicate the present world of British sea traffic and which shall be system A flSHER.ME.VS EIGHT. . . instantly convertible, on the outbreak of war, The ships of the convoy kept station well from civilian to military uses. throughout and the lead of the Conan Doyle wras The, urgency of the task which the British followed with skill and promptitude. The guns empire is thus tacitly beginning, can be,ppreci-ale- d were fought in a cool manner. There was no by those who know the, vast amount of hasty indiscriminate .firing. Thesmoke boxes ground work necessary to the organization of a were used with intelligence and markedly good truly imperial air wing. To leave thi undone effect. until the next war begins, military men say, would During this long and lining action, my ships be fatal. For military men have leaned their fued both shell and abVapnd, and about 8 a. m, the Aisne was hit several times, one man being killed and four wounded on this ship- - As lb action progressed, alteration of couraa brought the enemy more and more under the Conan Doyles starboard quarter and he used his superior speed with a view to closing with the con- - 142.910. M air-lan- ls , - alh ffimiii!!r.'iiiLtim.n:miiniiiiimiiim'i!n'ii;3iLiii;ffliiiiiiii!iiini:inmu:antiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmimnniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii,,!iiii:iiiunini:.iiriHimiitiiiij g ' . a direct hit forward and the enemy ceased fire for about ten minutes and increased speed to close in on convoys bow. but the Conan Doyle had altered- her course, keeping ihe submarine1 moreoFTess abeam SHELL AND SHRAPNEL. f. e froni all three guns at the Con'an Doyle.'' At 7 o'clock a thick rain storm came on anil hid the enemy for 23 minutes, hut when .the weather rlearedlhe submarine was sighted 7,000 yard off nd she at once opened fire wilJi shrapnel at lh Conan Doyle, and fired at the 'convoy generally. Honan Doyle and other vessels of the convoy used smoke boxes with useful effect. The submarine - - - TWO RECENT AERIAL LESSONS. . Two startling signs of the limes, which have proven sensational In their effect on military men fiere, have occurred lately. One was off Scapa , Flow, north of Scotland, and the other waa in Somaliland,' on the Red Sea. Both' point unmistakably to 27 Buckingham Gate in the West End -- . . of London. i The first was a maneuver carried out by the British navy, concerning which the British admiralty is doing no talking. I have breakable, how- ever, to secure the following details of iL An attacking fleet of battle cruisers, convoying trans- - ' ports with the aid of destroyers was detailed to effect a landing on Straps Flow, and a squadron of hupedo-plane- s, arling from an aerodrome on Siapa Flow, was detailed to oppose (lie landing. The attacking fleet was equipped with guns, hut with no planes. It was. assumed, apparently, that, planes from .carrier ships could easily bejountered by acout planes from the laud; it was deemed obvious that the preponderance of air force w6uld necessarily be al the command of the land power, and that the employment of the necessarily small number of planes which-coulbe conveyed in carrier ships would be irrelevant. What it was desired - to test, was "hcihfXLihe uni -a ire raft guns of fleet formed a sufficient defense against, "thoTor-j.edo-plan- es of the defensive force on the land. Impariial umpires were detailed to each shp and to each plane, anT''iif were marked probably" by the use of torpedoes with flour heads by the planes and flour shells by the entl-aircrguns. In the opinion of the umpires, the maneuver resulted in the "sinking of every pniMf tbe attacking naval force by the defending plane from the land I . The lessons to be drawn from this maneuver cannot be considered loo seriously. They teach us that, whatever may be the surface agitation in Britain and the Immnons for ihe construe- iion.fif fur!l)crcaDiULsbitA there is good ground believiig that Ihe future of the rapiUi ship is extremely doubtful. When.it is considered can be produced at the. that WO torpedo-plan- e cost of one capital, ship, and that against even a- afl aft - shell-fir- They say that lha next war will be won in24 hours, and that the It Power which I not prepared to destroy headenemys munition factories, docks, military quarter and other nerve centers by tbe in Uni use of large aerial fleet, w ill be hopelessly handii capped. To win the next war, they aay, ihe mobilization aummiyia must automatically convert bund- -, rede of aeroplanes and ,11 the necessary ground work for their operation, from commercial to military use. It mutt assemble them at aerodromes previously decided upon by the general staff, and the declaration of war must automatically put Into effect an aerial offensive against eucb vital enemy cenler as ha.ve also been previously decided upon by the general staff. No great war in the future, they iky, will ever last four years or anything like iL With the great ' military possibilities opened up by the aeroplane in the last war, military science hu come, to a point at which no nation will ever again be able to endure four years of.iU intensive application. The next war, they say, will be won before the armies and the navies are able to get into action. Destruction from the air will give a decisive lurn to the war in iU first 24 hours, and the ffrst hour of the 24 will be the hour. lessons well in the last war. anli-air-rr- , . TheencJy kept up continual rapid es - . EXAMm: IN LAM) WARFARE. bat the Scapa I low maneuver rUbheJ with respect to are warfare, Ihe recent cxpcdiftm aiaintl the Mad Mullah in boumliiaud has with repel to land warfare. The MaJ Mullah bad disturbed the British in SomaMaud for 17 year. Millions of money had been la fruitless expeditions to rapture him, an J hundreds of lives had been lost. Attacking Itm with the usual Vipeditionary force wa like ehang a hornet with a steam roller, but attacking him with an air force proved to be a sensational For the first Inn In hilry, a mililary operation has been commanded by an air officer, and haa achieved Its purpose within Jhric week at a cost of only Kjo.nix) and without a single casualty. The British Air Force uu I which was atsururj la break the Mad Mullahs power tin Nmialiland last December, consisted of 22 officers and 150 other ganke, Including a medical staff. Twelve de Haviland Ft were used, of which one was fitted at aa aerial ambulance. They left Egy pt lat December In H. M. 8. Ark Royal and were landed at Berbers on the Somaliland eot. there three WTfke were spent in the erection of aerodromes and other necessary preliminaries. The Mullahs headquarters were then reorted io be st Medishi. 200 miles east of BerbeiV On January 21, Med.slii was bombed and the fort stJedali was located and bombed, the machine descending to low heights and machine-gunnin- g the fleeing dervlshc and tbelr tlock. The attacke were repeated on the 22 nd attd 23rd and by the 2!lh all targets had disappeared and the mihUry forces then prepared to follow up a purek aerial success. On Ihe ?8Lh the army took Jedeli, where It was learned , that the Mulish had narrowly escaped being killed Jf the first bombardment. It wa learned ihert that the Mullah was fleeing eoulh ,wilh Ihe remnants of his followers, and on the morning of the 31st the Mullah and acmall parly were located by tbe Air Force east of Eil Apweina and disalarm. It became apparent then persed In that the kiailih waa making for Tale, which place was located,, photographed and bombed on 1. A few days later, it was learned that he had taken refuge In one of the forte at Tale, and thie place was taken by the' army on February II, when it became known that the Mullah had escaped wHb 70 horsemen in tbe direction of Itilian Somaliland. - Further pursuit followed and the whole of the dervish force accounted for except the Mullah and three devoted companion. These were found to have made for a water-hol- e, but found only aufficlent water for one man and one horse. It was given to the Mullah and his horse, and the Mullah was found to have moved on alone. At present, ft is unknown whether he perished in the desert or finally suc- ceeded in reaching Abyssinia WHAT IT MEAN'S TO AMERICA. ur-ce- sa. at jH tlr itil ea H vl tah-Itah- ed In Sussex. This esehange of eomplimenU between the distinguished autltor tnd the matter of Sir Arthur' maritime namesake u a aequel to an exceptionally lively Incident of (he star in which both the "Conan Doyle" end her aklpper covered them-elvwltT glory. It look the form of a fight tetwten the "Conan Doyle and a big Cerman ubmartne in tm bleb, after a running battle latl-p-g four hour, the trawler merged victorious, with all hand by means of a :nking (he direct hit Just below the conning tower. cleanA tjplcal "muter" bluff,' thick-se- t, shaven who baa sailed many seas In the course Of a lively careej. Skipper Addy was widely renowned even before Ihe war. Ilia fame then rested prineipallyon the fact that he bolds what it claimed as the world's record for a trawler catch, namely 153.050 made by the "Conan Doyle" In sliteen days fishing. Previous big figures fog single trips made by Ihs skipper were' 148,550, n, roin-mrr- pr. te bndn torpedo-pla- well-ground- ed ur t IC1 hfiplet, the t- Tk IHfkk Trawler, Xim Af(rr OmIw '( Vkmm Knia la tbe Strtk (tea ia Jaae, Htlan," W trh Saak a Oanaaa , 11. After a Battle lawtla Over Fear Havre. lapcr-SalMBart- ac , gat Feb-rua- ry s , Here is a lesson in warfare of the very highest importance. Aerial warfare has put an end in threo weeks to Somaliland; power which 17 years of foot warfare had failed to break, It is a lesson which strikes home to the United Stales. what degree are w prepared to apply aerial warfare, should it unfortunately become necessary for us finally to enter a cerlaiu country which lies across the Rio Grande from Texas? To what degree are we. prepared to keep (he peace in Hayti,- in sue! Cepfral American countries as wt find it necessary to enter for the purpose of preserving the peace and in the rc-- f ot oir numerous island possessions? British military . authorities, however, are not restricting the lessons of the Somaliland campaign to possible future campaigns in backward countries. They read in the Somaliland campaign a lesson which, applied on far broader lines, will determine the issue in the next European war. Nobody in Europe is advertising the fact, but it is conceded here by all men who know, that the future of both land and sea warfare lies in the air, and secretly every great Power in Europe ts straining every nerve to get the necessary ground w6rkdohe'ancfLfie"' necessary acroplanes engaged ' in commercial flying and ready for conversion to mililary usys the instant tbe mobilization order goes out--. In the British Empire, this vast program is being unobtrusively carried out here at 27 Buckingham Gate in the West End of London. Aircraft Transport and Travel, Ltd has gathered into its staff some of the best brains of the RoyI Air' Force. Chief Smong thfc former heads ol the R. A. F. who are now developing flying . on a world-wid- e scale," is Major General Sir W, Sffton Brancker, K, C, R.,. formerly conlroller-fo- r of general of equipment and later master-generM. British the air ministry. pcrsonnelin O'Gorman, C. B, D. Sc, who wa consulting en- To - : al LL-C- (conttaukd e tww) oL - |