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British Experts Work On Novel Lines
Fleet Composed Of "Atom Raiders'
SEX STORIES
TOO POPULAR · London, Feb. 22.
British naval experts believe that behind the screen of recent Parliamentary storms and Government reticence on the apparent decline of the Royal Navy, Britain is working on a great blueprint by which she will again be- come mistress of the seas in the atomic age. Protests by the Opposition Conservative Party on recent decisions to scrap capital ships have been fierce
оп
The Government has con- turbines in Π deatroyer-thus sistently refused, however, to bringing jet propulsion from provide figures Britain's the air and innd to the water up far-reaching present naval strength and has and opening been equally aurretive about fu- possibilities of naval speed and
manoeuvrability, ture plane.
But The Navy," the maɣa. zine of the alert Navy League, self-appointed watchdog of Bri. Iain's seapower, published this estimate of the present naval
strength:
Battleships nil, aircraft car riera two, crubers 11, distroy- ers four with the Home Fleet, 24 to 32 in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, submarines 12. sloups four, frigates 10.
Theac estimates
are thought
to be fairly near the mark, ul-i though no official figures have bren available since 1939 when
"Return the official
of the Fleet" was last published.
Never Before
With the decision to serap the Battleships Nelson, Rodney, the Queen Elizabeth, Valiant and the battle-crutaer Renown, Bri. tain is actually left with five battleships-Vanguard, Duke of York, King George V, Anson and Howe. But none of these is in operational service and all are immobilised..
The last two are being used na training ships.
When the second World War
Such a development, applied | to an entire fleet, would remove the Navy's great dependence on oil-a headache in war, and a headache also in Britain's finan cial crisis of today, when oi); menns dollars.
Many senior haval officers aro believed to feel that the day of the battleship, as we know it, is gone and that HMS Van- Tuard will be the last of her type to be built,
New Navy
Tokyo, Feb. 22. THO Japanese Gavera- ment's
Paper Allocation Committee today, ruled that henceforth no paper, will be allocated to publishers books and magazines con- laining articles, of "an in- docent nature.”
of
A survey has indicated that newly mushroomed magazines since after the War carry sexy stories and pictures and have been com- manding large sales,
This has been regretted by some Japanese educators as reflecting the acute drop In Japanese morality since Japan's defeat in the war.— United Press,
Veteran
Generals
Optimism
Britain's Merchant Marine
London, Feb. 22. Britain's merchant fleet should be restored to its pre-war size within a few years if there are no more unforeseen de- lays or shortages, the British Chamber of Shipping declared in its annual report published tonight..
this
The report sildet, however, did not mean that the problems of reconstruction bad been solved. Th
and mounting costs of shipbuilding the slow rate of delivery were caus- ing grave concern among shipowner and had deterred many of them from placing orders for new ships.
the
"It is of vital importance to survival of this country that it should create all classes of its merchantile re-create
SHANGHAI, FEB. 22. marine and bring it at least up 10 VETERAN MANCHU-the pre-war tonnage."
.THE RIAN GENERALS, MA CHAN- The Chamber of Shipping said the SHAN, CHANG TSO-HSIANG. American Harriman Report's cri
AND CHANG dicima of the Marshall Plan proposals HERE for the construction of 15,000,000 ARRIVED
it diverted steel and other materials
In view of new Inventions. HAN FU-LING the study of atomie energy, and YUEN-FU experiments at present being YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BY deadweight tone of skipping by 1951 carried out, it would obviously PLANE FROM PEIPING AND in the Marshall Plan countries-that be a gigantic waste of money to WILL ENTRAIN FOR NAN- fens more essential requirements rebuild Britain's war-depletedKING TONIGHT FOR CON- overlooked the fact that in Britain navy in out-of-late specifica-FERENCES WITH GOVERN- tona.
MENT LEADERS.
Generals Ma and Chang told
Man-
Include
Dot # single keel of a pavenger ship was laid during the war-Reuter.
Observers belleve that this, Royal and the fact that the
entire reporters that the main purpose Communist changing its Navy is tactical procedure to answer the of their trip to the capital was
to discuss measures to deal with Party Claims atom bomb, is behind the off-
the critical situation In cial secrecy,
Some visualise the new Bri-churla. They said that their re
would commendations tish Navy, ultimately to emerge, measures to strengthen Local as a great fleet of super-fast, defence forces, reform the small and heavily armed ships
rency, speed up shipments to the land, able to operate over great dis-north-east of relief food supplies Hungary, Rumania and Albania, tances.
and simplify the administrative Moscow Radice said tonight.
Before the war, the Communist aparties of those countries had became General Mo, who
The radio gave the member- Communist
began, Britain had nine battle- They believe that the atom procedure.
ships, two battle-cruisera, four bomb has made impracticable
cur-
London, Feb. 22. 'There are how five million Communists in Yugoslavia, Po- Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,
aircraft carriers, 26 cruisers, the strategy of fighting sca national hero in 1932 for his about 100,000 members, it added.
70 destroyers and 39 sub- battles with big concentrations successful resistance against the marinen.
of ships and that Britain will Japanese in Manchuria, express-ship of the French fight any future war at sea with ed belief that the Manchurian Party as about a million as com- a great new fleet of lone "atom| situation was not hopeless-pared with 300,000 before the. raidors."-Reuter.
According to unofficial' esti- males, therefore, it is true to say that never before in modern times has the seagoing strength of the Royal Navy been brought Au low.
The Navy League goes fur- ther and declares angrily: "The British Navy today is complete. ly powerless to maintain the no. tional prestige, or to protect in any way the national home.”
Experiments
Last night, Vice-Admiral D. C. Ford, Engineer-in-Chief—of the Fleet, held a press confer- ince which received little atten.)
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Harry Pollitt's Words Of Doom
London, Feb. 22.
Only a "change in policy and a new government can save Britain from economic collapse," Mr. Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, told delegates at the second session of the party's annual congress here to- day.
He told correspondents of ex- pariments in Installing a gas! The Government's economic policy turbine engine in a motor gun could not solve the present problems, beat-making Biltain the only he said. They put increased produe country in the world with a ves-tion as the principal remedy "In or sel al sen incorporating the de-der to cover up their anti-working velopment and deelpred; "We class polley as a wholt."
"I say—and I challenge the Labour Party to deny it that the force most responsible for the production drive has been the Corpmunist. Party,”
Mr. W. Rust, a member of the Na
cannot tell where this invention Mr. Arthur Horner, Secretary of tional Executive and editor of the le going to lead but I feel it may the National Mineworkers Union, le Communist daily paper, the Daily
be the start of a new era, car-scribed as a "foul le" the allegation Worker, told the congress that when
that the party was opposed, to
In-hr gave evidence to the Royal Com tainly at sen."
informed mission on the press, he cressed production. The next step, it is under- "We shall
them that "in the opinion of the Com Bicod, will be to instal
gaston," he said.
munist Party, Mr. Churchill nothing but a bloodthirsty creature and warmonger No. 1."
not sabotage produe
ORDER OF THE DAY TO
THE SOVIET ARMY
London, Feb. 22.
| A Soviet Order of the Day, broadcast by the Mos- cow Radio tonight, on the eve of the 13th an- niversary of the Soviet Army, states:
So long as imperialism exists, there is a danger of our homeland being attacked. All ranks of the Soviet Army must be ready at all times, under all conditions and at any price to defend the
honour and interests of the Soviet Union."
The Order
all
WAS
The Commanists stood for the co existence of capitalism and socialism, but could not retreat - before
the threat of imperialism. That was why M. Molotov so often said "No" at International conferences.
"The congrens concludes tomorrow, -Reuter,
Coalition Invite To Dev
Cork, Feb. 28. signed by This polley is supported by Whe
Fianna Fail, the party of Mr. Marshal. Nikolai Bulganin, So friends of peace and freedom in Ramon de Valera, defeated in the recent Premiership election viet Minister of the Armed the whole world.
after 16-years of office, was to- Forces.
"Our arined forces stand on day Invited to join Eire's new It recalled that '30 years ago, guard over this policy, During Coalition Government by the "the leaders, of the Boshevik the post-war period our armed. Minister for Defence, Dr. "E, F. Party and the Soviet people, forces achieved considerable suc-[O'Higgins; | Lenin, and Stalin," won the cesses in furthering their milt-
The Coalition of the Fine Guel, greatest socialist révolution" and tary and political training. This,
Farmers, New Republicans, National the Soviet Army and Navy were however, should not be the cause Labour and Independents command created.
of Idiences and self-complacence 75 seats_in_the_new_Dail (Parlia Marchal Bulgonin ordered the in our ranks. We shalf, not spare ment) to the 68 seats held by Pisan anniversary to be marked by the any efforts to fulfil with dignity. Fail, with thres Independent suppor firing of 30 salvoes in Moscow, all obligations ·facing' un,”\
O'Higgins
all capitals of the Soviet. 'Re- Firework displays tonight it "What is the good of sulking and publics and several other towns.up the sky over. Moscow as Rus trying to undermine the foundations
Tha, Order said that the Soviet lang throughout the Soviet of the new. Ireland " Dr. Government "resolutely carried Union colebrated the eve of the asked Fienna Fall.
"A really National out, its peace-loving foreign po anniversary During the day has been formed and its strength lley and marches in the vanguard planes performed acrobatics ever does not depend on the dumber of and regimented,
Government
cf all the progressive forces | the capital," " parks" wére. Alles federthalies poft forma
Oghting for just and lasting with people listening to any but op the democratic peace and for the bands poeta reading their verats tion, the fumber of "Temprats repres vecurity of the nations, for and actors; their recitals. All wired, "and that whole hearted “dmire "Generalissimo a Stalin's just, Moscow theatres, tonight were, of tall sections lit the Government" to policy is supported by the coun" showing plays, dealing with the leave Ireland better than they found tries * of popular i dentocracy, Soviety Army-Eauter,
war, the Italian party as 2,283.- 000, compared with 15,000 be- fore the war and the Chinese Communist Party 05 2,700,000, compared with 100,000 before the war-Reuter,
GENERAL CLAY IN LONDON
London, Feb. 22. General Luctus. D. Clay, United States Miliary Governor in Ger- Air- many, landed at Northolt part today from Berlin,
He will take part in the three- power discussions
Western Germany which open here morrow-Reuter,
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