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THE UNDERSIGNED beg to notify the proposed aale by private Tender of the Hull of the shove-named Stusmer so she now los stranded on the Enst Font of NAUCHAU ISLAND, bont twenty-five miles from Ewan Chaa
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1) The vessel is offered for sale as sho now lies, with her Engines, Boilers, Anchors and Chains and such other equipment as may be on board, (but, no Cargo is to be considered in the Tender).
(3) The vessel is now guarded by the
French authorities
(2) All Tanders should reach the Office the Undersigned on or before Noon, SATURDAY, the ath Febru ary, 1918.
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DOES AMERICA' HELP MORE THAN RUSSIA HINDERS?
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Lastly, the enemy has the worst befors him or, to pat it in another way, the [108 chances of the near future mean for him
not an alternative between victory and diffoult defensive as they do with us-
imarediste" front. These two rules of
if they are not attioily, accurate, serve of war. Thero can, and will be a common well enough for an approximate judgment direction, dependent upon a singlu motive where, before there had been no more maintained by the United Every man
than the resultant of separate commerial States, upon, French soll moans some air forces. An example of this is the pro- tune of shipping to maintain him--this gramme of shipbuilding. You would ojenlated, of course, In gross tonnags, over have had such a programme and not in tonnage of displacement, Further, you never could have had it, with the
United States still neutral, of two man thus supported upon the
The last point in our favour is as European aide, we must not count upon definite, but to be noted, none the loser. more than one being present in an is the advantage which Anserion gives organised fighting unik upon theus in what may be called "Special Sor vices," that is, in the factor of brains and mechanical skill a distinguished bub an alternative between victory and thumb, in car filigent at the position, trein mers quantity of production. How complete disaster. That is a point which
onco bow severe are the far this factor is increased by the fact the length of the war with its consequent limitations imposed. Export differ, and that the Crited States je ub was iss dailing of initiative has obscured. People published estimates will differ slap is to question which cannot be answered forgot that an invasion of German soil, the number of month in which could accurately, bocanso there is no way of aven a serious disturbance through arisi be provided quite apart from the making certainly. Is largely increased. Those measuring these moral forces, bas it 100 work of security behind the German lines, good of lose tenaga autficient for elements which do not require vary great would be something novel and productive the maintenance of one million men. It sumber in comparison with the whole of an intense strain upes the enemy. enough to say that such a force cannot say are now specially at the service of The Allie hare koor such things and be aimed at until very far into the fighting the difficulties of communication. This the Allies, and are little hampered by sesson of 1918 and more probably towards is true of the Medical Service and num its close; while in this calculation-which berless other auxiliary elementa, and it would mean bat half a million men is partly true of this Air Servico, though, diganised in fighting units, or way, not of courie, the proportion of this to the whole is now-a-daye considerable, and the
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TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, &c., and Lason ASSORTMENT OF ESTRUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS. As follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card Tables, &e, Bad- room Furniturn, comprising Double and Single Bra and Brass-counted Bed- stands, and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Wagguns, Extension Dining Tables and Chaira, Tes and Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Clans Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery Toilet Bets, &c, Eath Room Utensils Boll-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Plated Ware -
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bave known they if not at their worst, at any rate, an now familiar trials.
This summary of the points that are against him at his "moment does not, it is true, counter-balance the points more than double the German troops problem of anapors enters into it very
actually engaged the other day in front of Cambrai we are eliminating an anknown factor of loss at sea. We must strictly find ourselves by these limiting conditions under pain of letting our judgment go
jimmediately in his favour. These weigh heavily upon our regard for the faters; we should be foolish to undervalue them, but the truth is that our present tendency ¦ is rather, if anything, to over-value them.
The great factor remaining in our faronswildly astray. is, the advent of America. Let us see what it means.
.
Of the main numerical proposition no one is ignorant. There is a tendency. precisely because it is so well known, to misread it altogether, precisely though for very different reasons, as the Russian
the outbreak of the war. position was misread for a fall year after America has
On the other hand, there are factors in our favour which a calculation of this sort does not cover ›
The Srst of these factor is the con tizimi power of replacement enjoyed by our bew Ally.
largely.
We shall not forget, in conclusion (for the popular Fress has made everybody familiar with 1) the exceedingly import- ant element of blockade.
."
During all the criticism of the Foreign Ofice, English' erities omitted the en- tial point that the United States was n neutral. This was the great governing dithealty in the whole afair. It was treated patiently and skillfully, and partly, of devices each of which in turn tended but only partly, overcome by a number
to provoke friction, and nearly all of Suppose, for the sake of argument, six which had to be modified after they had million toner of shipping are availagle, aboen put into practice. But the 'moinent corresponding million of men at presentcensed the nature of the blockade went that the neatrality of the United States |
a reserve of men which quite over-shadows in Europe with half that number engaged through a revolution in our favour, the exhausted forces of Entope. She sun upon the tghting line. That amours of became a Darly as possible, sbsolute, certainly take part in this war for two tonnage presupposes the power not only and what every member of our Adminis years without approaching the exhaustion of maintaining the force statically, but tration had desired it to be from the even of those specially selected drafts also dyanmically, that is, the perpetual would seem to be the main points for and heginning. Such, in a brief summary, which form so comparatively a small pro-streamt of recruitment to repair wastage against us in this very critical moment portion of her total mobilisable power. can go on pretty well indefinitely, the when the enemy has found so much new On the material side, she has, resources reservoir of man-power behind it being.strength through the anarchy in Russia in fuel and minerals and in skilled labour for the purposes of this war, inerha-and the Allies are awaiting the devalop far superior to that of the whole enemystible. In other words, though the ment of American aid. combination, while in the not 'mensurable constant of one million may be muin.
factor of mechanical inventive capacity tained, the actual numbers employed
and mechanical development, she is the throughout a given period served by no PATELL & CO.
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Further, and perhaps most important of all, she enters the lists quita fresh, far oven those of the belligerents who have not lost men upon the scale of the originally mobilised Powers, have suffered the terrible strain of more than three
mare tennage will be, according to the length of the period, a million and a half or three-quarters or two million and so forth. It is an important point, simple as it is, because when people fest hear of the limitations imposed upon American numbers in Europe, they nearly always. regard this as a fixed sigara independenti of the element of time,
The next factor to our advantage is the fact that the advent of the United States gives us (subject again to the power of carrying) an additional material adrac
What, then, are the imitations to so formidable an asset upon our side? They are almost entirely contained in the one word Communications. There was indeed for some months, and will continue for tage. a few months more, the limitation of
Here comes in a criticism which I bare but only partially true. often heard made, and which is partially, Men will say
(and the enemy Press has been saying it for a long time pasty that the material
training the building up of an army out Tel 1332 of very small beginnings but the mare formidable and permanent limitation is the limitation of supply. And supply is resources of the United States were
function of communication.
already at the disposal of the Allies in the they could draw, and that, therefore, the ahape of a neutral market from which
industrial effort our new Ally could make in our favour wond not be much more than the same efort which he might bave
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The limitations of an American force to be maintained in Western Europe upon the present line of fighting proceed from these three things:-First, that all the
tande as a commercial client whose set-
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ME LI HUN FAN, Chioses gradante retsed in tary supply, but food and indeed every- This criticism is a useful reminder to Oficials and Merebance in this Colony for Lan years. thing. Next, that the main commanicx-those who argue as though the Alliance
He has a good method of training Expopsins to
pars is the Chinese cateciating, had a podtions are maritime; and lastly, that both at in material what it would mean in the case of a doubtful European
of a drycraze oursideata na a cuinare teacher, Ha
234 And a good mowledge of Menda kad Hakkes, the main communications and the last neutral, and as though forces hitherto
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