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An American paper says:" What have wo A Portsmouth correspondent states that the to do with abroad is an historic question Tho enly battleship included in this year's shipswer is easy; of course, and it will be easier
propounded by the Home Marketers. building programme will be laid down at Parts- mouth Dockyard in October next, and it is bopot to have the reesel completed and at sea by the time Parliament is called upon to discuss the Naxy Estimates for 1907. In other worer saya the Daily Telegraph, this vessel, the largest and most powerful in ottenco ad defendo over-battleground o constructed, will be built from the laying of the keel plates to the hoisting of the pennant in a porial of sixtece months: thirty to thirty-six months is the average time devoted at present to the building of battleships of smaller sizo. This rapidity will result in a
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still after a little study of the statistics of our trads with Chins during the year 100-1 Although China has not been at war for a con- Manchuria, has lately proved the greatest siderable period, its principal northern province, of recent times, and in spito of trade and *EGE]= the consequent disturbance marce the bustness of the empire, as a whole. with the other nations of the world has notably ingreased. The war, indeed, has had a stimulat. ing effect upon Clung, which begins to see that can no longer slumber while its neighbours aro pressing forward for the world premog and ite cousin nation, Japan, is showing so civilization of the progressive West.
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MANUFACTURERS three-quarters and two mitions stort he wonderfully. Its capacity to nesimilate the
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So heavily will this vessel be armed will be equal to any two battleships now afloat, and her striking power at much a range as that ut which the engagement opened in the battle of the Sea of Japan will be as great as any the battleships of the ordinary typo. This, my informant remarks, is stating the case very
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In 1904 China's foreign truda. exceeded the regard of any previous year, and the arseunt of business the country transected with the United Statos was likewise larger than that of any former twelve-mouth. The total value of the imports inte Chiva was $240,800,000, and of exports from the empire 3168 000,000, the gains. avor. 1903 being five ant twolvo per esot, respectively; China's total trade with the United States amounted to 839 375,000, a suall gain over the previous year, and the irnpoets from this country reached $20,426,000, or thirteen por vent. more than the imports for 1903 If to these figures be added those for Hongkong, which is a British port, but the shipping and resolving point for a large portion of the commerce of the empire, it will be found that wo transacted in 1994 no less than seronty million dolars worth of business with China, of which nearly forty millions was in the form of exports. And the significant fact is that this total of forty millious repre Mr.sented a gain of fifty four per cent. over the
figures for 1903.
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The displacement will be about 18,000 tons, In the design full advantage has been taken of the lessons deduced from the events in the Far East, and it is possible that some further changes may be made after the report has been received of Captain Pakenham, the British Naval Attache at Tokyo. This officer, who will arrive hoyna waxt month had mrcial frailities for watching the result of the action of gun and various types of men of war. He wts favoured in virtue of the close relations between this comtry and Japan. Apart from any minor modifications which may be made, this Dread nought, as this man of war will bo christened. be remarkable for a number of novelties in will design. She has been designed by Philip Watte, the Director of Naval Con trnetion, with the approval of the Committee fa hot this trude worth keeping and expand- of Designs, and the mounting of ten 12ining Is it not desirable that the open door guna
of the latest type, throwing three 3501 should stay open and our opportunities to do Shells overy two minutes, with it musto velocity business with China remain equal with the of upwards of 2,500ft a second, is admittedly a spportunities of every other nation? most sensational departure from the storeotyped needs cotton cloth, kerosene, locomotives, steel practice of the Great Powors. The vessel will rails, agricultural machinery and a thousand Ins driven by turbines and will be able to atzam
other commodities which wesupply. And weneed at upwards of twenty knots an hour, a remark.
China'a money. When the war is over thote is able achievement in engineering in view of her sure to be a grant impetus given to industry in,
the weight of her guns nad armour, and Bizo,
China and the demands upon our producers will be correspondingly increased. If the Russian the great beam which it will be necessary to give her in order to ensure the provision of a menace in Mongolia should become more serionts nipple gan platform, and to reduce the draught and lead to a partition of the empira after all so as to enable the vessel to pass through the the efforts that have been made by the intelligent statesmanship of Mr. Hay to keep it intact. It Suez Canal if necessity should arise.
world be sorry day for us for there would be no surety of the permanence of the open door.
The Dreadnought in regarded as a triumph in design, which reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Watts and all concerned. She will carry no seccadary armament. The elimin ation of the Gin guns, borne by practically. all the battleships of the world hitherto, is one of the main lessons deduced from the long range Botions which have been fought in the Far Fast. The essential feature of a battleship in modern conditions, it is now realised, must be the ability to deliver stunning blows ata distance of five or six miles, and this the Dreadnought, with her ton great guns, will be able to do with terrific effect. No battleship has hitherto mounted more than four of these weapons, and as the new type of British man-of-war will have a particularly heavy armoured belt, lied with this tremendous striking power, there will be nothing aflent which will be able to stand up against her in a sea action The remarkably character of the armament. of the Dreadnought may be illustrated by contrast- ing her with the latest battleships now being built by rival Powers:
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15,90 14:34 in. 12 Bie. Admiral Togo's tactics in the battle of the Sea of Japan illustmtod the virtue of great spead, and the Dreadnought will have the advantage of two knots over any of the German, French, or American ships; the Italian battle: ships belong to a class apart, as sustifices have been made to enable these vessels to attain high rate of steaming.
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THE AMERICAN BANK AT MANILA.
VIOLENT COMMENTS. The receiver of the American Bank my that ita depoultors will receive at least 40 per cent of the money they pot in that filed institution. At Maybe they will get back a little more. the most they cannot expert half the sarings thoy entrusted to Mulford, the scamp who ran
the bank.
Half a loaf is better then no bread and as most of the depositors were poor misa, smell merchants, government employees, mechanics and soldiers, the percentage paid back to them will be welcome indeed. The statement of the receiver would show that Mulford either stile the money deposited or loaned it to strangers. who deny having gotten it from hizi,
Ho may have taken the deposits to buy stock in his bank for himself or he may have spent it inbigh living. Anyhow it's gone, and men and women who can ill afford to lose a dollur uro confronted with the certainty that they will not see more than half their hard-earned savings again at the most,
The authorities should make an example of this, smooth-tongued frond He disgraced the nation whose name he so fauntingly pak above the door of his rotten institution, and which Le oananingly planned ae- a trap for patriotic Americans in the Philippines.
Mulford deserves no sympathy The-bonest merchants of Manik who are making for the fature greatness of this city are entitled to protection against his class, and the sound financial cozoerus bers should not be menaced by these fucncial traps.
Lat the punishment of Mulford be exemplary so that when crooks come here to start cheating establishments the fete of the man who made the name **Americah a byword in these
It is understood that the Japanoss, profiting islands shall be a forceful deterrent,➡Cablenews.“ by their own experiences, ara about to give out orders for additional battleships which will resemble the Dreadnought in fighting power.
SECRECY IN WAK ·
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A LESSON FROM JAPAN.
Lord Eilenborough has set down the follow. ing notico in the orders of the House of Lords for some unnsried day: Fo ask the First word of the Admiralty whether, considering the fact that we expand millions of pounds every year on
the maintenance of cavalry for land service, and scouts and cruisers for ses service, whose chief business during war would be to ascertain what he doing, it is not desirable to the enemy may sonsider the question of our having to undergo othe some national inconvenience as
48 regards dissemination of news, in case of war or grave Ewergency
for the purpose of concealing our own warlike proceedings; and whether, con- eidering the success that has hitherto attended the Japanese system of keeping secret the movements of their land forces, and the state and whereabeats of their flents, he will cause the laws and proclamations of Japan, bearing on the subject of dissemination of news, to be translated and presented to both Houses of Parliament, together with some other documents on this subject, so to sulle the public in general to study the question as to whether our laws require alteration.
COTTON AS CONTRABAND.
20,000 MILE RACE.
EXCITING OCEAN VOYAGE FROM AUSTRALIA,
One of the most remarkable sailing races on record ended one day last month, according to mail papers received yestaring.
The competitors were thres clipper barqnes, the race was from Molbourne to Queenstown, and the distance covered was between 15,000 and 20,000 miles.
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heir anchors within vary ahort time of each other. The barques that took part in the contest are the Iredale, of Liverpool Captain Roberts, 1,173 tons; the Inverurie, of Abordeen, Captain Charleston, 1,309 tons, and the Este, of Ham burg. Captein Carlstern. 1,350 tons The Este arrived in Qunsustown first, the Iredalz secund, | Navy and the Inverterie third.
The excitement on the boats as they saw anch other making for Queenstown was intense, each crew being confident of victory. The Germsti vessel, herreros, just managed to get into har- bour first.
After dropping their Bachors the thuge cap- tains went on shore, and a wager which had been made was handed over to Captain Carlstera.
Daring the voyage hurricanes were encoun tored. The Este received some heavy sous on board, and two or three of her boats were shattered, while the furerurie had some of her sails toru to shreds.
THE RUSSIAN NAVY,
STRIKING PRESS COMMENT.
ACTION OF JAPANESE SPINNERS. On May 27th last the Japan Cotton Spinners Association addressed a memorial to the Japanese Foreign Office asking that measures be taken to induce Russts to exclude raw cotton from ber list of contraband articles. Now that the Russian fleet in the Far East has been almost entirely destroyed, the Foreign Ofco
There has been some very plain speaking in considers that the question of contraband is no the Russian Press with regard to the unsatis ...fonger a practical one and consequently sets factory state of the Navy, The Busskoye Viedo- necessity for the subjent being made a diplomatic most, in discussing the Japanese victory in the
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