THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1913.
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Baron von Bowitz, Chamberlain of the Grand Ducal Court of Mecklenburg, Strelit, contributes a very interesting article on the Gorman Emperer to th current Murey," According to thin authority no monarch of modern times. has been so much misimlerstood. One statement about him-that he is a bard marker is true. With true Prussian punctiliousness he gets up at nix o'clock. sharp every morning, rain or shine. The only exception to this iron rule is when hê. rires ut four Yolock, or even earlior. to attend a military review or similar funtion, and when he travels by rail, the rising hour then being set for seven 'clock. The Kaiser has twelve valen for his military wardrobe, which is the laggest in the world, and tan ralets for his civil attire, so it does it take him long to get dressed. Immediately after
frugal breakfast. he go work,
THE EMPERON AND THE NEW STAVERS. Before the Imperial Chanowilor and his Ministers make their law-bilden calls his Majoy has already pat in more than
solid hour's reading of the principal German and foreign newspapers. In are dir not to miss anything of vital interest he has ir many years maintained a smail' taff of trail rembes, who operate lu reven Inhgunges, imler the searching eye of a Prussian otheer, with instructions to
cut and clip the essential news apper taining to questions and issues in which the monarch is specially interested. [hown cuttings are pasted a large cards and inserted in a lonar-leaf portfolio of increce leather,, hearing the Imperial army. At precisely seven o'clock the officer present the portfolio, from which the Kaiser proceeds to draw informa tion, making blue-pencil remarks in the margins ne he goes along,
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Name
Alacrity Atlas Bramble
Clan.
daspatol vessel Admiralty tug
Tona Guna (HR.
Commander.
1700
· 19: 2000
Comdr. U. In Lambe Mastor W, West
river gunboat
710
900
Lt. Comdr, B. S.. Prichardi
Britoroart
river gunboat
710
900
Lieut. Camdr, W. H. Dirwall
Cadmus
aloop
LOTO
'8 £400
Commr. E. P. E. T. Williama:
Cherub
water tank and, tug
300.
900.
Master H. Smith.
Clio
sloop
1070
1400
Comadr, Colis Mackensie, D SO..
Famo
torpedo boat destroyes
380
5700
Lieut. Camdr, Wilkinson
Hong]
Flor
orzziser, Ind. olans
4360
10 7000
Capt. C. F. Corbett, M.V.Q.
The World
Hampshire Handy
cruiser, lab clase
10,8V1
10 20,500
Capt. Cathbert E. Humber. -
torpedo boat destroyer
STU
6
Ja
torpedo boat destroyer
990
4000
9900
Lt. Comdr. Brickenden - Le Comdr. Boddem. Whetham
Hongkon Hongkong
cruiser, læt class
river amboat
loop
9000
#16
1040
* 22,000 Capt. &. T. Hunt, G.S.I.
12003. Comdr. H. D. Marrgab
Capt. F. 0. 0. Pasco:
Hongkong
cruiser, let class
14,600
--27,060
9600
22,000
180
4
4800
13 93,000
.
859
.240
350
A -4900
690
750G
980
1400
800
Capt. G. C. Caylay
Capt. B.. X. F. Barthelot
L-Cam. Alan Dixon
Capt Frederick A Powlati Lieut-Com Malcolm Murray
Lt. Comdr. E. T. R. Chambers. Lt.-Cemdr. J. G. Mackinnon
Lt-Comdr. N. EL Archdale
Hongkong
Yokohama
Shanghal
85
240
Lt Comdr: Nish
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river gunbost
25
9
240
Lt. Com. I. A. S. Hutson.
river gunboat
85
2
240
Lt. Comdr. Maurice B. Lealīs
torpede boat destroyer
350
6. 8500
Gunner W. H. Byder
Hongkong
Tamax
reosiving ship
4850
8
river grabost
180
2
800
Thistle Lisk
river gunbost
720
2
900
Commodore F. H. Anstruther, Q.M.G.Hongkong
Lt. Comdr. Hon. G. Stopford Upper Yazgbanë It-Com.. H. R. N. Cottrell-Dormer Yangtsee
torpedo-bost destroyer
690
-
7500
JA.-Cendr. Maxwell
Hongkong
tarpedo bost destroyar
355
A $300
Lieut. Com. H. D. Adair Hall
Hongkout
Wolland
torpedo boat destroye
580
7500
Comdr. Seymour
Bongkong
Whiting
torpedo boat destroyer
360
8
5000
Lt.-Comdr. R. Noville
Hongkong
Widgeon
river gunbost
195
SOU
Lt-Com J. C. F. Borrett
Upper Tang
Woodcock Woodlark
river gunboat
150
B00
Lt-Com. M. Blackwood
· river gunbosi”
150
500
Lt.-Comdr. Lloyd
C.36
0.37
submarine
submarine
su braarine
Lt. C. Godfrey Harbert
Lt. Comdr. A. A. L. Fenner
Lt. Comdr. J. R. A. Codrington
Shanghal Hough Hongkong
Hongkong
forpedo boat
torpedo boat
torpedo boat
Lt. Comdr. Handley
Lt. Comdr. Stileman
Lt. Comdr. Nicol
torpedo boat
Hongkong
Hongkong
West Rive Hongkon
Otter Ribble Rosario Robin
Taku
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THE KING, THE EMPIRE, AND THE NAVY.
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His Majesty has once more shown his abiding interest in the Navy, and bas paid a well-merited compliment to the .035 dominious over the seas, by his visit of inspection to the battle-cruiser New Zet- land. This ship towards left for the
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river gumboab
Lt. Comdr. E. W. Seymour'
*Flagship of Admiral Alfred L. Winslce, E.C.B., C.V.C., C.M.0., Commander-in-Chir^-
Name
Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station.
-Fag and deuription Kaiser Frans Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser
Dupleix t
Wilhelma T is not only the greatest traveller among rulers, but also the mist voluminous respondent. A letter of State is a very imposing document, and the cost of its transmission must be tre. mendous. Of course, postage is never minion of New Zealand on a voyage used, no the missive must be dried and during which she will erreumnavigate the delivered by exarier. Only officers, and world. The battle-cruiser in the gift to preferably nobles, ary entrusted with the Navy of the Duminica, whoso states. courier service. The messenger travels nan have further shown their grasp of by automobile from the Imperial palace the principles of strategy by agreeing to this to the train, on which he occupies athas the cruiser shall special enr. and then by boat or automo country, and be placed at the dispal 501 bile, as required, until the message is
of the Admiralty, to be utilised as naval delivered. 3 letter of State is hand. circumstances may demand. The cruiser written on the finest quality of parch is a handsome gift, being of 18,800 tons ment, to which are attached the Royal displacement, adequately armoured, fitted and Imperial scale in sightean-carat gold with eight 12-in. and sixteen 4-in. guns, and having turbine machinery of 44,000 plaques. The Kaiser's personal station.
ebalt horsepower, giving a speed of ha. ery, on the other hand, is very simple.
tween 95 and 20 knots. She was built A POOR MAN!
by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engi Until a few years ago, according toeering Company, of Govan, Glasg. Klober Baron von Dewtz, the Kaiser's official Moreover, the Minister of Defence of the Decidée income was Exori at fifteen million marks New Zealand Government, the Fon. per annum, the larger share of this Juanos Allen, is in this country, to confér
Argus amount cog out of the Prusian ex
with the Admiralty regarding further Vigilante chequer. He found it necessary to ask contributions. Such display of the duty
Paiho for an increase of five million marks, and loyalty of the Dominions to the Em. which was instantly granted; but even pirs is at once significant and gratifying Dondard de Lagres with this mumificent apparage of four. The sistership Australia, for the Austra- million dollars annually it is understood lian Navy, built by Mosers. John Brown that he has some difficulty in meeting and Co., Limited, of Clydebank, is prc Lynx his expenses. During the it decade paring for her steam trials. The battlo has sold some his many chateaus, ship Matay, of the Queen Elizabeth elma, which represented the larger part of his has just been ordered from Sir W. G. Styr private fortune. No one who knows him Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, rende would, we are assured, be surprised if and will be built in the Low yard at he should die comparatively poor Walker, the expense of the Malay Therville monarch. "The German people do not Stutes. South Africs is als completing Pistolet grumble at the fact that twenty million a scheme for contributing to the Imperial marks glide through the fingers of the Kaiser every year; it is all spent in the servico the Vaterland."
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Tona. Guna, H.P.
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4000 48 8000
Capt. H. Nauta
Zout report Shanghai
French armoured cruiser 10,014 French armoured cruisar
30
9700
20,000
12 19,600
Capt. Versos
Shanghal
Capt. Geuts
Hongkong
French gunboat
10
7500
Lieut. Vandier
Badger
French river gunboat
180
8
570
Lient. Dorist
Cantor
French gunbost
129
7
500
Lieut. de fervillier
French gunbost
180
Liont. Collin
Franch gun bost
"Lieut. Dapur Datompe
Tongka Tehong-Als
French emb-marine
Lieut. Bolaix
Baigon
French sub-marine
Saigon
French armoured gunboat 1788, French destroyer
$50
10 1700
303
Lieut. Guillaume-Louis
Balgon
Lieut. Auzillme
Baigon
French destroyer
Capt. de Frigate Rouisen
-
+ Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillia, Commander-in-Chist, the French Chins Station.
Navy more liberally than in the past, or Mousquet
Manche
French destroyer
French destroyer
Franch murveying-ship
300. Comdr. de Marquessar
1907
307
1625
10 9000
006
Camdr. Vaisin
+ Flagship of Capt. (Commodora Boncicaut, Commanding iba local defense Tudo Obine
for building a feet to protect the sea routes to the Union of South Africa, while Canada will no doubt complete her According to a London wire dated scheme for the building in this country Hmden February 21, it in stated on trustworthy of three battleships for the use of the Gnaisena suthority from Rio de Janeiro that British Admiralty, if not also for the Iltis Government has decided to reduce the construction in Canads of vessois capable
of protecting tho sta mouton to the Domni. Jaguar export duty on rubber by ten per cent on. It was therefore fitting that this Leipzig Experimental stations for the cultivation
cew spirit of empire should be signalised Lachs of Manicobs and Mangabiera trees have by His Majesty's visit, and it was further Nürnberg just been established in the Amazonas, appropriate that this incident in the his- Otter Para, Matto Grosco, Planby, Bahia, tory of the Navy should be associated Scharnhorst and Mine. Gernes. Similar stations will with our premier dockyard, not sly bes, 20 be established in Acre territory. The reduction of export duty at Rio de Janeiro cause of its historical associations with
Taka
on rubber will be effective in 1914 and will the Navy, but because of the efficiency Tiger
be gradually continued until the limit of fifty per cent. is reached,
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which has been displayed in recent years in commection with the building, of new ships and the maintenance of the ships The third congress of the Far Eastern of the Floot in a thorough fighting cmdi- Association of Tropical Medicine is to be tion. His Majesty visited also the King held at Saigon from November 8 to 15 George V., thus Istort completed ship of next. Over a thousand invitations have the establishment. Sho was commission Adamastor boon ixaned. The first congress was held td in one year and ten months from the Macao at Manila in 1910 and the second in Hong. laying of the keel. The cost of the bull Patria
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German cruiser
$600 22 13,500 Germas armoured cruiser 11,800 38 28,000 900 12 1900 German ganbost "German gunboat
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12 1300
$250
24 11,000
Capf v. Restorff Captain Bruninghaus Comdr. v. Gohren Comdr. Vanssłow Capt. Boincks
Leinstan Stanghal
German gunboat German cruiser
900
10 1360
9400
22 13,200
German river gunbost
Capt. Lánt. Firls
Geyman fiagabip
11,800
38 26,000
Capt. Röring
German torpedo-boat
400
8
8600
Capt. Lient, Berrenberg
Guzman torpedo-boat.
280
8000
Oblt. z. E. Classen
German gunboat
900
10
1360
Comdr. Böcker
German river gunboat
1800
Capt. Ft. Fihr. Speth v. Schulzburg Can
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ferman river gunboat
223
600
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Shanghai
· 91,45
Comdr. Bommi Piestandi
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Portuguese cruiser
1757
Capt. Aníbal de 8. Dias
Macao
Portuguese gunboat
Capt. Marting
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700
Captain José de Carvalho Crate
Maona
Ensign J. MoO. Murray
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U. B. protected cruiser U.A.tarpeda-bostdestruyer 0.2.torpedo-bostdestroyer $20 243 UB gunboat
3430
7800
Com, M. La Bristol:
8000
Bariga H. A. Jones
8000
Lient. R. Hill
250
Basign W. L. Halberg
U.B.torpedo-bost destroyer U.E protected cruiser
420 3183 420
* 8000
Lieut. 9. J. Fletcher
11 $10,000
Comdr. §. 5. Robinson
78000
Lieut. C. Ax Woodrazit
Issat. B. H. Groun
600
Là. Comdr, S. Gaanan
7988
Comdr, G. R. Marroll
5100
Lient RV Lowe
3000
LE. P. Svar
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the congress, the Governor-General has and the total is below that of the contract.
built ships of the same design, notwith- A.2 promised on behalf of the Government of standing the keen competition of builders 4 Indo-China a sum of 5,000 pisstres, and to secure the work. The King als visit- the Goverunr of Cochin-China is alluit og
A-6, 4,000 pisstres, while the sum of 2,000 ed the Queen Elizabeth, which was laid plastres in to be relegated to the fund by down on Trafalgar Day (October 21)
Albany tha Resident Superior of Cambodia in the the sarco bartis sa had boon vacated bina next budget.
days previously by the Iron Duke Since Bainbridge then over 9,000 tons of material havo Barry, been built into the structure. A visit Callao... · was also paid to the Iron Duke, which Chauncey was laid down on January 15, 1912, and Cincinnati. Launched on October 127 rapid progress padá. haa hasa mado with this vessel in the
Decatur úkking-out basta. The King alaɔ went
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