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this iome of the strike leaders uro partially, the minds of his followers. It has found 13mm; 1912, at 9 o'clock P.M. Open to any comments TES responsiblu. Until the strike actually oc. the kar open expression because those curred there was a general feeling in the public men or publicists who supported one Navy that the purchase of one or two or other of the rival candidates for the Welsh collieries by the Admiralty would office had not cared to express their render the Fluat independent of industrial appreciation of Mr Law's inaugural moves leat they should be suspected of sycophaney uplicavals such as the present.
or of tering to the rising muu. The motive The speeches of one or two Labour is an honourable one, if it has been londors who have openly bossted that one liable to miscpaatruction. As a matter o of the first effects of the strike would be a fact the whole party is to-day perfectly nationalisation of coal mines, in order to satisfied that Mr Law, under the most koop the Navy going, have produced a difficult and delicate of conditions, has made no mistake and no single falso move, other result other than that anticipated by them. Nothing now will ever make the Navy sa regards the internal position of the party trust a Welsh collory. There is no more, or in his rolations to the Ministerial Front conservativo institution in the world than Bench.
In MrLes Ministers have struck a man of grim and invincible
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|--na-it- stood-against-the-water tube builor Discussing the obvious decline in the
and the turbine.
prestige of the Cabinet, the writer con- To-day all this is changed. From the tinues:- speeches of lenders-it is amply clear that The truth of the matter is that tho their iden of Admiralty colliorios is merely country is getting a little bit tired of son- means for forcing the pacent the expense &ations legislation and violent language- of the State, and incidentally also at the Nover much enamoured of the Newcastle expense of the Flect. A realisation of this
has made moro disciples for natar warships Programme, it will answer no mora to the in two days than two years' argument syren pipe of Limehouse unless the Tories could possibly have done. Every believer are so incredibly stupid as to give it the in eficiency in now convinced that the safe impression that nothing at the Lloyd-"} course lies in a Navy of the future with Georgian method can give it the gradual shia independent of coal altogether. In amelioration desires. Perhaps the other words, the Welsh collieries hare events of last July lave hadcmething to inado themselves a dying industry, and do with this change of mund. A univoreal played into the hands of the oil engine
but excluding Book Dabta.
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onthusiasts. Up till now. the policy of railway strike and the prospect of a war going slow" with mot r warships has with Germany all in 48 hours were enough" been strictly observed by the British to damp the most ardent adrecites of, an Admiralty.
For soine years Russia has exciting life. They were two sensational had motor gunbonte, Holland has put inoxtras not provided by the management, hrad numerous sunil const defence battle and they have rather glutted the public ships which aro motor driven, and Italy in appetite. Underneath this uneasiness lies busbling five more destroyers.
that old inretorate distrust of LiberalTF you can speak and write English MOTOR WARSHIys at once." foreigs policy which only Palmerston could correctly. If you can do neither you We have bad projects galore, but they quell, and that at the price of quarrelling should take lesams by the new method have not yet been translated into anything with bis Chancellor of the Exchequer ouço which ensures ability to speak the language further than one
or two experimental a week. In this matter acither the offcial in THREE MONTHS. motor destroyois (At least one motor Jáberal nor Unionist Press really rapresen's. croiser may now be expected sa a feature the public mind, which has no confidence A Reduction of 25% in of the next Naval Estimates, and not in Sir Edward Grey and his Mansion Impossibly a plunge will be made with a House' methods. The nation. las an in- muter Dreadnought. The British Navy is the stinctive fealing that a policy which lendo last force in the world to allow its efficiency ta proposals for a limitation of arcamente to be curtailed by any civil commotion hotween the wo countries one year and to whatever. Plans for motor battleships the recessity for a strong hands off perch exist. In the ordinary way it is in the next is conceived in just that kind of probable that there would have come along spirit which gets you into war by mistake for at least another three years, and and then gets you beaten" when you atO pessibly fire. Today, it is rumoured that in it."
they aro Icing immedintely considered. Recent events have totally destroyed the argument which has hitherto Leon most fatal against both oil-stoked steamera zud motor warships This argument was flat we prodused Welsh cul in our own islands, and were therefore certain of an staple apply; whereas wo' produce no kind of oil, and thaietary have to impyet it Tu day this argument is perfectly invalid, zinco what has happened now, tuny.evON, MOTO |
pivably happen at sumo lutym data, when even greater saver are involved,
It may be said that U16 Navy is now unanimously of opinion that coal ús fuel ¦ must be disponeed, with. A more or less exhausted. Welch coiffery may be purclused by the Admiralty with view to ensuring a regular" yapply of cond to existing ware ship, so longas y last, but it may he taken a mouclad bayoni nil evil ur retrue- -ion that the strike has killed. King Cul an-motiva ponge of future British car- ships. I the strike bis prolonged there in every reason to believe that the merchant service will follow auit
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