NAVY DOINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 May 1915, Page 4

NAVY DOINGS.

What is happening in the Navy or rather, what has happened in the Navy:" "Every day," says a writer in "Navy and Army," "I get a fresh shock as it develops itself in its new guise. Our men refuse to get exhausted or worn out. They do the watching, they do the coaling and the cleaning en route hack, to the ileet, and when it is all over, they have the hand on the upper deck for an evening's dance to the North Sea swell, drink hot coffee in the night watches, and after eight months of strenuous life, and nearly all winter weather, they are happier and healthier than when they started. They have even found time to enter into the field of journalism, and quit- a number of ships are now regularly producing thenown newspapers." The pioneer in the new journalism seems to have been the armoured cruiser Natal, in which the "Natal News Letter" has been published regularly for nearly two years. H.M.S. Good Hope which was sunk off the Chilian coast on November Ist, had her own journal. The old cruiser Talbot is another school of journalism, and produces "The Talbot Observer," which claims a guaranteed circulation. But the most ambitious publication is the "North Sea Times," printed and published on hoard H.M.S. King Edward VII. It is well printed on superfine paper. foolscap size, and illustrated, and costs fourpence per copy. The Ninth Destroyer Flotilla also runs its own journal, but bow a paper is produced on board a destroyer in winter in the North Sea, only the "handy man" knows. The editor of the "Talbot Observer" announces that all proceeds from the sale of the paper go to the Belgium Fund, and that "quite ;, decent amount has already been sent."