Word: dockyards
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...Commodore's pennant fluttering from her yardarm, her khaki sides glistening with new paint, the Yawuz Sultan Selim, flagship and only battle cruiser of the Turkish Navy, steamed into the Golden Horn last week after a trial cruise and battle practice. Two hundred and fifty French engineers and dockyard foremen prepared to leave the comfortable homes they have occupied at Ismid on the Sea of Marmora and go home...
...tale begins in London, at a Thamesside dockyard where a cruiser is being launched. It is May, 1900; the Boer War is on. The first character in the book is Bolt, a loud dockyard foreman, a Kiplingesque sort of character, a type of England in her glory. At the end he is a doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar...
...orders nine columns long to the German Communist Party: Frau Ruth Fischer, its leader, is to be deposed. Thus she follows Rosa Luxemburg* and Klara Zetkin† into limbo. The reason given for the Communist order was the growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight to the North Pole. He announced that Roald Amundsen would not be invited...
Four Chinese dockyard workmen assaulted a coolie as a conclusion to interchange of insults such as "A plague upon your grandmother." The four assaulters, taken to prison, were followed by a dockyard mob. Police fired, killed two, wounded several...
...PEDLAR'S PACK?Rowland Kenney ?Seltzer ($2.00). Despite its troubadour-like title, this is no pretty-gypsy tale of wanderings amid the birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy...