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...Gibraltar last week Bandmaster Barnacle became the star witness at the celebrated court-martial of two officers charged with having complained, "in a manner subversive of discipline," against the alleged insulting conduct and awful oaths of their superior, peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, April 9). The two court-martialed officers are Captain Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Commander Henry M. Daniel. In support of their contentions Bandmaster Barnacle took the stand, braced himself and testified that he personally had been called a series of unprintable names by Rear Admiral Collard. The names, it appeared, all began with...
...civilian it was clear that both the accused had acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active commands and to go on half pay until the Admiralty shall see fit to order them once more to active service. Cried the Telegraph: "We must...
...glittering pageant of an Admiralty Court-martial unfolded, last week, upon His Majesty's aircraft carrier Eagle as she rode at anchor, huge, grim and ominous, in the harbor of Gibraltar...
Citizens of the U. S. learned with interest that the defense of Commander Daniel would be carried out by onetime Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts Day Kimball. Last week he, not yet accustomed to the heavy wig worn by British barristers, sweated excessively in the balmy air of Gibraltar...
Many people thought Author Tarkington was exaggeratedly ironic when he made Mr. Tinker cry, "What an ad!" upon seeing the Rock of Gibraltar; when he made Mr. Tinker cry out upon the sewers of Algiers and say: "Why, the United States Army ought to come over here and clean it up!" Mr. Tinker boasted how much finer his home town was than oldtime Timgad. Mr. Tinker rode through Africa on a camel, like a barbaric Roman potentate, "raining money like some great careless thundercloud charged with silver and gold and pouring them down...