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A NIGHT ATTACK.
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EXERCISES.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on Septem- ber 23, the, Nelson and the Rodney left their temporary anchorage off fleimsdale, writes the Times special correspondent aboard H.M.S. Rod- hey, from. Doronoch Firth. Three! hours later, when bugles wore Objection is also taken to the
sounding and officers and men wore United States Shipping Board's
hurrying to their stations for night general policy of encouraging
action, we weru steaming south- heavy shipbuilding operations in Angeles Steamship Company and westward towards the Cromarty spite of the big excess of tonnage the Matson Navigation Company Firth at about 13 knots with Tarbet now existing, and the world-wide through a pooling of the securi Neas light winking far on the star- depression in ocean transporta- ties of the two concerns was an board bow and Covesea light near tion..
nounced to-day, by, officials of Lossiemouth to port. Ships were The New York Journal of Com- both lines. The financial details darkened, and when I left the bril- the Government of the merger were not revealed. liantly lit wardroom it was a matter of permitting a desire for politi The Mataon Company operates of some difficulty to find one's way) cal prestige to take precedence a fleet of 22 ships between the forward and up the ladders to the over economic considerations. It Pacific Coast and Hawaii, the compass platform high up in the criticises the Shipping Board's South Seas and Australia. This octopoidal structure, with nothing boast that sixty-eight American company is also joint owner, with but the dimmest of blue lights to ships of more than 700,000 gross the American-Hawaiian Steam-show the way. tona are now under construction ship Company, of the Oceanic- The Nelson and the Rodney were or projected as unwarranted by Oriental Navigation Company, steaming in company, and close the trade outlook. It declares operating freight steamships to ahead I could see the squat, black that the Board is actuated merely Oriental and Philippines ports. by a desire "to get ahead of the
The Los Angeles Steamship faint blue stern light just illuminat
shape of the Flagahip, with her other fellow regardless of ex- Company operates between Losing her phosphorescent wash. Far- Angeles and Hawaii, also touch-ther ahead, at a distance of perhaps ing San Francisco United 2 miles, were Vice-Admiral Press.
Pounds's three battle cruisers, their hulls clearly visible, through glasses. Farther ahead again, spread out in Hne abreast, were the ships of the Second Cruiser Squadron, with the Hawkins apparently on the star- board wing. A mile or so. astern
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Manila, Nov. 1. The Chinese -steamer Hua Tong, which has been in the
In describing the new giant limelight for the past several of the Rodney I could see the hulla liner which is to be built at St. weeks due to consignments of Land bow waves of the three battle- Nazaire for the Cie. General opium allegedly brought to the ships of the Second Division- Transatlantique, the Paris Cor-Islands by this steamer and con- Warspite, Barham, and Malaya-in respondent of the Daily Tele-fiscated by customs secret service line ahead, graph stated, that "all vessels agents, last Thursday yielded an- flying the French colours are other case of goods, which has available in time of war for use been declared contraband for be- as transport ships, aircraft caring neither manifested nor de- riers, or munition ships."
The night was dark, with dense clouds banked up on the horizon, which gradually blotted out the stars overhead, as time went on. clared in the ship's store list. There was a shrewd breeze on the The case contained 4986 combs port bow, which just caused the several of which were in bad little seat to break in splutters of order. The case bore the mark foam. Visibility, however, was good "PL-Penang, for Export." No- body claimed it after it was found bureau of customs in the crew's by secret service agents of the
naval quarters of the ship. As it did not appear in the manifest of the ship nor in the ship's store list, it was seized as contraband.
I am now able, writes that paper's naval correspondent, to add that one of the conditions on which the French Government is contributing two-thirds of the Thursday, 20th November. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porte the designs shall be submitted to total cost of the new liner is that 18th Novemuer.. and approved by the
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It is something of an anomaly that Great Britain' should now be The seizure of the case of the only great maritime Power combs on the s.s. Hua Tong re- which does not exercise State flected unfavourably on the off on the starboard bow. The enemy appeared to be steaming at a supervision over the plans of new cers of the ship, according to a
moderate speed on much the same merchant vessels., Even in Ger- high customs official.
course as the Ficet, and the firing many, where Government sub- sence of unmanifested cargo on sidies are no longer paid for new board ships manned by Filipino of star shell showed that they were
being engaged. mercantile construction, there is crew substantiate revelations
Ten minutes later a solitary de- understood to exist a close liaison made recently that Filipino off- between shipowners, marine cers engage in business transac-stroyer was suddenly sighted about architects, and the Berlin Ad- tions in the performance of their 300 yards on the Nelson's starboard easy target, they were pomptly
for the close-rangeßre of our 6-in. miralty.
duties, he said.-Manila Bulletin. bow and apparently crossing ahead. engaged, and for a few minutes our
The Flagship promptly put her helm 4.7's pumped star shell into the guns before they turned away under The relative value of the mer- departments.chantman, and especially of the and passed the designs of the two Rodney did the same. Some star ward was punctuated with slowly any
over and swerved to port, while the heavens, until the sky to the north-a heavy amoke screen. In case, an attack from fast liner, as a potential naval | 60,000-ton .and. the two shell were
fired and I should falling globes of light ke brilliant the, quarter-if it WAS auxiliary has been greatly in 32,000-ton, linera which are to be imagine that the destroyer was Chinese lanterns and marked with attack and they were not merely creased by the London Naval laid down for the United States "gunk at point-blank range by the the smoky trails of the Illuminants shadowing our movements..does Treaty, with its drastic limitation Lines. It is safe inference that
Flagship's 6-in, guns.
was This Anlah-In the parachutes. The sea on the number of regular cruisers these four ships will incorporate ed, we resumed our course.
not stand the same chances of suc- The bathed in a. bluish-white glare, in cess as one delivered from ahead on which the signatory Powers may special protective features which next incident occurred at 11. o'clock, which the destroyers stood out as an opposite course. Shortly after maintain in the future. As the render them less vulnerable than when a long line of destroyers were silhouettes. As a spectacle it was this the Exercise, was negatived by number of such vessels would be the ordinary liner to gunfire or sighted on our starboard quarter. magnificent.
the Commander-in-Chief, naviga- wholly inadequate in the face of a submarine attack. Their decks
Whether or not these destroyeration lights were shown, ships were serious emergency--the British are to be made extraordinarily They were at a distance of no more LONDOX, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore Empire, for example, would have strong, to support the six-inch than about 1,500 yards, steaming at sighted us before we saw them I do undarkened, and bugles sounded the
only fifty cruisers, all told, with guns with which they would be moderate speed on much the same not know. Personally I doubt it. "Secure." We anchored in Dornoch. which to serve the battle fleet and armed in war time.
course as ourselves. Offering an But they fired no torpedoes and Firth half an hour after midnight. guard our 80,000 miles of trade Another American high-speed routes-there is a natural and liner, the Maiolo, recently com- universal tendency to consider pleted for the San Francisco able tonnage and high speed as a Hawaii service, was designed and potential cruiser or aircraft car-built for eventual service as a war Įrier.
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It may be accepted as a fact that all the numerous liners and fast freighters now under con struction or projected in the The last British liners to, be United States have been designed built under Admiralty supervi- under naval supervision. slon were the Mauretania and Formidable Cruisers." Lusitania. Thin was done in con- A similar policy is being fol
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the Government, under the terms the latter country, ship-owners of which the two ships were and ship-builders are working in earmarked for naval service in close touch with the Ministry of the event of war. Actually, Marine, whose experts pass judg neither was ever used in a naval ment on the plans of every new capacity as they were considered merchant vessel of importance. to be too valuable for other pur from the point of view of its poses. For the past thirty-three naval utility. Gradually, there years, therefore, the Admiralty fore, there are being created has had no jurisdiction over the abroad whole flects of new mer- designs of any British merchant-cantile ships which would be men, and to the best of my know available as armed cruisers in an
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