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YEAR OF CONTRASTS.
COLONIAL STRAITS SECRETARY'S REVIEW,
The at of the Colonial Se- retary the Straits Bottlenwats for 1920 cent ins the fullwing illuminat- ing obervations in this part of the port, extraordinarly wear. It
Ti - vol Kebo was not earnt- ful in es prendiary local setor, but? ip wall was be remembered for its; bright beginning and its gloomy end. Singapo e, as the meeting place of the Fastor merce of all nations, is aaturile very sensitive to work! condits of trade. The brisk def mand to apening morly and the ulonens falvery of goods caused i Bount to unprecedented | prices heights and tempted traders to in- avertraueng A Andher Firinchi qulustrial i risi- in Japan and the general restriction of lit by lake by all parts of the world nited and led on the falling price est rule stal t. When the large chantres of god onderved in thei Patty worked the soat began tourriva NETV ders were unable to take them Wok holes were formed
to se da pe tines from the more walk of a few months Me and enwit beanies feated scaner from June to Theout vel anxiety increasei. Nol tmoney was available for any new beal| industavs There was also a cott arimide decime in American and Japanese countedition and a ansieri
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Thur 1919 had been one of re- The world was busy reiting home in ander and the all euntries was to return as speedily as possilde to normal pre-war conditions Social and economic life had-bear every where unraveled and in many places broken by war re- striction und war conditions. At the putect of 1920 hoges man as high as prices. No hope seemed too ex- fmvagant and no price too high. An era of exampled prosperity appeared to have ser it. The golden years had returned Throughout the British Empire manufacturers found the world at their feet, and the Straits Settlement, standing at the gates of the Far East with a hinterland pro- ! Aucing a large portion of two itaportant
materials in and ribber med destined for no nean share of the penem! prosperity. Local pro- nce was in great demand and any article imported could be solti in- mediately at handsome profit. British manufacturers at home could not keep pare with the demand and large orders for iron and sterl goods and matur-cats were placed with American and Japanese firms. De
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But in June the tide herau to turn General depression followed upon #nancial stringency and drepeurd to station at the close of the year. Ustalle political conditions Europe still kept closed'some of the chief markers, and enormously in- <reased carts of production together | with largely diminished parchasing | powers slowly but surely emphasised the necessary virtue of ectomy. Fantastic as the visions of February, 1920, may now appear, the disillu
onument of October was tone the Jess profound. The cari mest is tropical in its intensity. Six months of unrestrained optimism were fol lowed by six of growing and intense depression. but the ombre
colouring of the second is ro trace ndication than the unnatural brilli auce of the first. The problem is simple het world-wide. The will to create a new Heaven and a new Earth can only take effect through a medium of hard times and hard work. It is easy to point the moral and it were idle to adorn the tale with local illus- tration.
The part of this Colony is perforce that of a deeply interested spectator. The raw materials of the country, the tin and rubber and copra," await| the certainty of industrial recovery in Europe and it is for us to conserve ur resources in confident expectation and to be ready to rise on the flood- tide of a world revival.
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the control of her own gyro-compass, the effect of which is exactly the same as if she had a helmsman at her wheel steering by compass.
The controlled ship can also be stopped from the controlling ship by means of a long sigual of about ten seconds' duration, which by operating a special relay scruates a pneumatic valve and shuts off the various oil fuel and water-feed puraps, thus with automatically cutting off the genera- aerial attack on warships. Numer ting power and so stopping the ship. ous targets have been provided, In case the receiving apparatus on which, in addition to ex-German sub- board the controlled ship becomes marines, and destroyers, include the cut of gear, a safety device is Ostfriesland and provided in the shape of a time battleships
se clock, which, after a certais interval Iowa." The experiments initiated by a comparative trial be- bas elapsed since no signals have tween destroyer attack on the sub- been received, automatically shuts marine by gunfire, and aerial attack, down everything and brings the also OTI
It is ship to rest. submarine. a
This is, of course, not the first reported that as a result of this trial aircraft sank the ex-German occasion on which wireless contro: submarine U117 in 16 minutes, using has been used, but, as science ad- 12 bombs whereas five destroyers, vances, it opens out great possibilities attacking a smaller submarine, took 24 minutes to sink her, firing 40 rounds. The targets were, of course, stationary.
In the attack on the ex-German battleship "Ostfriesland" and light cruiser Frankfurt," the Army Aviation Services is co-operating with the Navy. Bombs up to two then. sand pounds in weight are being used against these two vessels, and it is the intention to continue the attack until the ships-which will be stationary in deep water-are sunk.
"THE FOUL ANCHOR."
STONE AGE KITCHEN,
HOT FLINTS TO BOIL WATER.
A Stone Age "communal kitchen " has been discovered in Buckenham Totts Park, Norfolk.
Excavation revealed a
mass of
thousands of the flints known as
pot-bailers." The sun-baked earth- enware of our ancestors would not
stand fire, so heated Bints bad to be thrown into the water to raise it to boiling point.
No such "communal kitchen" has been examined in England before, but Nina F. Layard," who com municates the discovery to Nature, states that the accumulation is sup posed to mark the site of a large cooking-hearth for boiling the flesh of big game.
in the realm of realistic experiment. lamp on the Judge's table glowa
the gathering dusk like One thing, however, will always be in lacking the intangible factor of the binnacle light; the raised bench with human element, in attack or defecce, its oaken steps suggests the quarter. "old timer," and one on the other side. Especially in deck of an aerial attack under peace conditions almost expects to see a wheel in the is it difficult to estimate the effect of witneses-box were it not that the outgoing witness, who is being "re an active defence.
*ieved" in more senses than one, is so obviously an engineer, despite bis shore-going slops" for he de scends the steps as if they were those of the ladder in the engine room hatch, nervously wiping his gnarled fingers with an imaginary piece of cotton-waste. Below the Bench rests in its brackets the Sittver Oar, official symbol of Admiralty jurisdiction, and, facing it, a sloping Board marked with the marinera" compass and having upon it two diminutive model ships indicating the position, as adduced in evidence, of the vessels whose collision is the subject of the action.
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The obsalele battleship "Alabama" SEAMEN IN THE ROYAL COURTS is also being harded over to the Army as a target.
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The greatest interest naturally centres round the attack on the
"Five steps and overboard" Back 'Iowa". The programme arrang. and forth along a corridor in the Law ed was most comprehensive, and Courts, writes a correspondent in the realistic. The "Iowa" is fitted for Times, they pace in a rhythmic tramp wireless control and was to have through the buzzing crowd of bewigg manœuvred at bigh speed during the ed barristers, solicitors' clerks and attack. The experiments were to the squalid medley of litiganta i have commenced with a search pro- cases before the Divorce Court next blem, having as its object the locating door, gazing at but beyond it all as of the "lowa," which, starting from a though out to the healthy sal point well to seaward of the Virginia herizons of their accustomed element. coast, was to steam shorewards. What are they doing in this galley? in the blue and gold uniform of Aurships and seaplanes were detailed Two seafaring mes; foremast hands, Elder, Brethren of the Trinity House, for the search. When located the sturdy and broad of beam, square whose faces bear as visible an imprint "Iowa" was to be attacked by special rigged in pilotjackets and wide of their calling as that of the incoming bombing planes using dummy bombs trousers; the golden rings in witness: three sailors marooned enly, as she is required for further their
eary; and with peaked in a court full of landsmen. The experiments.
caps too small for their close burly "shellback" Is piloted to the cropped bullet-heads. From faces box by the little usher, like a 5,000- cloured like East India teak look out
tons freighter in tow of a Mersey
WIRELESS CONTROL.
Judge and counsel vary in appear. ance not at all with those in other Courts, but by his Lordship's side_sit his two naval assessors, resplendent
seas. man
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The method by which the "Iowa" is controlled is most ingenicus. A the clear, inscrutable eyes of the sea tug. After a quick look round, as at few men are left on board to start the man. puckered round with a network his next astern or to make quick engine running slowly, after doing of wrinkled ridges graven by con- diagnosis of the weather, he repenta a deep-sea bass which they leave the ship, which start peering ahead through the the oath then comes under the control of an sunglare of the tropics or the baze more used to hall the Ipok-out wrack of northerly
the for'ard in
chaiza -officer on board the controlling ship. and Wirelets signals sent out by the con. Back and forth before the doors than to answer the suave though the Court they pass, trolling ship are intercepted by the of
in highly technical questions of learned: an-burried rolling walk, counsel. Recently, a witness of thi "Iowa's" aerials, and fum thence pass to the receiver bé. The many steps each way, as though type smusingly emphasised the nature of the signals sent determine keeping a watch on the bridge with exclusive jurisdiction of the Court by the operation performed automatically a tilt of the lead at the turn, as it misreading the initial words of the on board the "lowa." Amplifiers are were, for a momentary glance over-nath. "I swear by the Admiralty a reflective ex: Gawd he declaimed in a voice fitted which increase the strength of side, and perhaps
are witnesses capable of being heard as far as the signals received and relay them pectoration.
to give evidence in the Blackwall Reach. in sufficient strength to operate the waiting Beccesary machinery. To work up Admiralty Cour-"the Sign of the
signal is relayed in suficient strength to operate a sensitive twitch, which in its turn operates a larger switch
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And so the case proceeds, and some
to full speed, for instance, the Foul Anchor, so called in fo'c'sies such scene may be witressed at say throughout the seven seas from the time in the Admiralty Division, where official emblem of the brass anchor casea of but little interest to a sensi- | with its length of twisted cable tion-loving public, but which involve The latter closes an electric circuit heb hargs above the Judge's great interests and vast sums of which actuates a valve and admits chair. compressed air to the throttle control
IN COURT.
money, are daily decided by a tribun al whose decisions are respected nad upheld in every port and ocean where the Red Ensign files.
of the main engines, opening the Watch one of them as he is throttle, and by admitting steam summered to Court. The cold allows the vessel to work ip to full Chic formality of the place seem speeds The steering mechaniaze is to have become permeated by an controlled by a commutator which it armorphere of salt and seaweed" also actuated by the relayed signals 7 An enlarged chart "bangs upon the by this mesos it is possible to swing wall; tre acrdegs, by which the tall the ship to port or starboard. If it wind was opened and closed in Cole, sed Errho. Remedy should
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