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THE ATLANTIC RAIDER. and cut off commerce. But this country
'HOT DID SHE ESCAPE?
BY ARCHIBALS Eva in the Taily
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suffered sadly from the privateers which the Americans fitted anty thea 'com- marco destroyers broke out of porty crossed the Atlantic, and took heavy toll of British shipping of British and Irish "Wherever on the ocean the ports
INTIMATIONS
British merchantnien sailed, thither the A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION for
American "Privateers followel. The losses of vessels soon began to mount.up One can imagine the remark which and then, lodeed, the British people too will be made on reading the official ad- to alking: What is the Nary doing 1 nouncement that this German raider has. President Roosevelt has told the story of
the got to sea and succeeded in sinking fast-ailing and formidable American war on" British commence by these number of British merchant ships. Many vessels: persons; almost. cortainly, will ask, in The Irish Sea and the Irish Channel wonder. How ever did the Navy wore among their favourite cruising manage to let her slip through What arounds; they circled Scotland and In should be said is, "Well It is marvel town. The Chasseur, of
land; one of them ransomed a cottish Baltimore, com laus how the Fleet keeps such' » tight handed by Thomas Boyle, cruised for grip on the enemy, seeing that he has three months off the coast of England, many opportunities of breaking free sent in, to be posted at Lloyd's, a pro- taking prize after prize, and in derision with a ship now and again.” oy
clamation of blockade of the sea coast of the United Kingdom.
The late Lord Salisbury used to advise us to study large mapa; in this war we ought to discuas naval news with charts before us, then, we should understand better the significance of news such as the item which comes to hand
to-day. The conditions at sea are more favour able to the enemy of to-day for ordinary commerce raiding than they were for the enemy of a hundred years ago, and, in addition, the Germans have submarines. We may learn that she was disguised as an ordinary trading vessel, possibly with
a cargo of wood, that she sailed under a neutral flag, was officered and manned by nestrals, and that her war like character was well disguised in accordance with a scheme worked out months in advance by some enterprising young German Daval officer, who, with two or three companions, kept well out of sight until the danger area covered by our cruiser squadron to the north was passed
When she was well clear of the British cruisers the German commander, of course, took command threw a
of timber crerboard brought up his guns and mountings from their hiding places probally they were hidden under the load of wood-set all hadds to work to put the armament in position, and ther, well clear of our blockading forces, started on a career of commerce destruc- tion
Sometimes such a maneavie for clue ing the British blockade succeeds, as in the case of the Mouw if she did come from a German port-and, again, it fails a was illustrated by the fate of the Grie which
disguised, was slipping through the naval mesh when she was challenged and sunk. The Grief, it will be recalled, at the armed cruiser Alcantara in the fight which took place.
THE WORK OF THE BLOCKADERS.
In Septembar 1814, the merchants of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Bristol held meetings and complained bitterly to the British Government of the damages in- them The Liverpool meeting flicted on recited that some ports, particularly Milford, were under actual blockade.
The
rates of insurance room to The
an unprecedented height. Secretary of the Admirality, Mr Croker, was forced to admit the havoc wrought even in the Irish and Bristol channels, and could only respond that, if the mer- chantmen would never sail except under convoy of a suficient number of men-of- war (on which the Admiralty tried to insist), they would be safe. Soch a statemen: was equivalent to admission. that no unguarded ship could safely go from one British port to another, and it sufficed to explain why the rate of itsur anes on vessels had gradually risen to double the fat
fate which ha!" prevailed during the
France. great war with success of these frigates was blockade duty on the American coast & whon this country bad on force relatively much greater in pro portion to the opposing feet than wa possess to-day. The British Fleet was AD the zenith of its
it had had reputation about twenty year's experience in dealing with commerce raiders and yet week by week the toll of losses · TOSÉ – The depredations continued down to the end of the war. In those days the enemy had not the advantage of steam. It was the suggested in pre-war days that modern commerce destroyer would soon be driven by want of coal and food to abandon her career, and that steam was therefore no benefit to an enemy bent on commerca destruction. That theory has been exp
exploded by the Emden and other German ships, which filled their bunkers and larders from their victims, as no doubt this latest raider is doing. It is vessel will be run down, because she impossible to fix any, period when this will no doubt be active by turas
and
Un an-average the British Cruiser Aquatiron intercepts and boards eighty vessels a week. That is the work which the afficers and men of these compara- tively few ships carry out in all weathen lie perdue, once more getting on a thers, by night as by day. How they go trade route when it is known that the about the business, imprisoning German purtis is being conducted elsewhere. ships so successfully is a story that she has a big field, for nearly three must be told when the war is over: Fut quarters of the earth's surface is covered the fact that eighty vessels-which are by-water.
of course, all under neutral flags-are hauled up for fudgens every week beary testimony to the efficiency of the work.
Let it be remembered that if, there is
| a very narrow strait to the
only about twenty miles, mar00%, north
To
ward very different conditions exist. the north of Scotland lie the Orkneys and north again, the Shetland Islands, and between them and the Norwegian coust lie abx
about 300 miles of
of sea. And, then bear in mind, that for three miles of the opposite
posite coast lie territorial waters-over which
Norway asserts her sovereign
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valuables set to the Germans, particularly recently, under the auspices of the M. W. J. E. Biznis delivered the
enemy's submarines. Remember that fact, the large number of islands,
to the
Union of Democratic Control, and even
the extent of the water area to be tually, after the chairman had vainly guarded, and then recollect that storms appealed. for a vessation of the disturb darkness, and fog contribute to add to
the difficulties against which the British ance, the proceedings came to an abrupt cruisers have to contend. Nor is that end. All Some neutral skippers do not lay themselves out to amist the British i
presidential address to the Institution of Sanitary Engineers recently ab* Gaxton Hall on Sanitary Engineering In Ancient and Modern Times. The most important work in ancient times of which we had any explicit information was, he held, the water supply of Rome, and it was fortunate that there had been pre.. served in a Benedictine monastery near Home a record of this work drawn up by Frontinus, who held the office of water
Treading the M85. one could not but be
It was, he said, a disgrace to Waltham struck by the similarity between the
Force:
Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald and Mr on the contrary, they would prefer to Philip Snowden were the chief speakers, benefit the enemy, either by obstruction but, before even the, chairman was able or by dilatoriness in complying with the
to make an opening pronouncement, a officers, legitimate requirements of our perhaps because it
member of the audience protested against pay them. The development of the steam engine the Co-operative Hall being used for the commissioner in Rome in 97 AD. In has conferred no menu benefit on the purpose of a peace crank meeting weaker Power spzioes to break a block- ade. A stemn
sar vessel is not at the mercy
methods and thoughts of the ancient of the wind, s
„Is frigates worn the old stow.
This protester declared that he had two Bomans and those of to-day. For 400 days. At any moment, the frigate or
years from the foundation of the city privateer might experience a shift in the sons fighting for Mr. Macdonald," but wind, perhaps at a critical juncture, and woman rose and said she had three the Homans were content to use the water than ale might fall a victim to the ons fighting, and the endorsed the pur. drawn from the Tiber or from 'welle, but blockading fored. But now a vepose of the meeting..
pro- pelled by step is as certain in
This remark, was greeted with loud had been constructed, with gross length movements ass railway engine or a motor-car. The weather conditiona, if cheers and cries of "Order and Mrs. of about 286 miles. The largest, the
at the time of Frontinus tan aquednets
the good, and it comes out naturally Snowden was allowed to speak, being Apps, which had been in existence 400 when they are likely to saiat him. The interrupted, however, by someone in the years when described by Frontius, we Aw of neutral shipping to and from the hall, who asserted that she had gone to above the point of delivery in Rome and 61 miles in length, the springs were 900ft Northern Powe
adds to the work of the Americs to get money to start a peace a length of about seven miles was con blockaders, and offers to
the enemy agitation here. opportunities of passing. through the
structed on arches or masonry supers cordant under a carefully devised dis guise The German maider is favoured that," retorted Mrs. Snowden, and the structure. The Romans had no accurate bý many circumstances and yet only interrupter answered, Not wanted, two have got to sea is a period of over ma-lamaz... thirty months M
A PAGE OF HISTORY.
I will give you 10 if you prove
At this stage some soldiers entered the hall, and one of them, addressing him. The last blockade, conducted by the self to Mr. Macdonald, who was spec British Fleet was during the American ing, said,et him go and tak that War of 1812 The United States passed stuff over on the Somme." eda navy which the Kaiser would have
At a later stage some of the soldiers regarded as contemptibla; it was indood, very small wiertas the British stormed the platform and seizing is Fleet was exceedingly large British Macdonald carried Elm bodily out of the mea of war were able to blockade the building American coast for overwhelming fores
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testa for establishing the purity of water, but they judged it by its clarity. Yesuels had been found which suggested the ne of filters. The lecturer eoncluded by comparison between, the Bontan reservoirs. and modern constructions, the largest of which in England is that which supplies Liverpool, the aqueduct being designed to discharge 900,000,000 gallons a day.
1 THE WAR OF BEELZEBUB?
A second later the chairman was treated in the same way, but Mrs. Snowden man- aged to put away before the uproar Led reached its height..
the The soldiers then gained complete pos session of the platform, and, beating time with their canes gang Bule, Britan- the work of God or of Ferizabub TM, the
nia ” follow by ** Chad Cave the King,***
There were fros fights in all parts of the ball, and hate and umbrellas were thrown all over the places
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The Arbeiter Zeitung, the organ "of Austrian Social Democracy is puzzlesi about certain utterances in the "Reichs post, the organ of the Vienna Foreign Office. In an article headed the War Reichsbote,which is also the leading Monarchy quotes pactoral letter from Ultramontane
flawspaper of the Dual
the Austrian archbishape and bishops in which the following page cours
The war is first of sod's disciplinary whether guilty on humble themseÏVER: hand. It is therefor
fied puttams=nem;
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