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SHIPS AND MEN. VISIT TO A NAVAL BASE.
[BY J. BYERS MAXWELL.]
If the Germans were more careless they would find the British fires, They are tog careful of the High Sen feet to discover waore the economic pressure upto the enemy lies hidden." The only surprise of the
WAR PICTURES” AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR FOOD, GOADS PROBING INTO THE GERMAN NERVE,
Giengyis in rapid succession proves that The torpedoing of the Persia and the the clearance or enemy submarines in the Mediterranean has not been so complete
of
DEFENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.
GREAT SHIPBUILDING SCHEME.
A STRONGER ARMY.
18
THE WASTE OF BRAINS.
YOUNG SCIENTISTS IN THE FIGHTING LINE.
The Conference of Headmasters' Was beld at the Board of Education on Decem- The naval proposals are simple. They bur 2nd and 23rd. Among the resolutions party of British and beutral yours week or two ago. It is some time since ed as things stand to make the United the unwisdon of employing young students malists who visited the fleet somewhere near Lose marauders were able to effect any states the second naval Power of the of mathematical and scientific ability as there scewed grounds for hoprox only involve a five years' programme calculat adopted was one which called attention to the coast during week-ond was the ease thing at the Dardanelles, and they have with which they found the watchings of never been able to interfere seriously with world The United States has built or subalterns in Line battalions. the scas under direction. Yet the Ger the transport operations at Haloniks. maus have received quite as hearty an But some of them have avidently found battleships, 11 armoured cruisers. 14 the Headmaster of Cheltenham, moved :--- invitation ip make
is building 12 super-Dreadnoughts. 22 themselves better a base in another quarter of the Levant light cruisers, 82 destroyers, 13 for That in the opinion of this conference very Mr. Francis (Blundell's), seconded by sequnited with the working of he British from which to inaugurate a fresh pro bonts, and 30 subresrines. Navy, but they have oected to reverse the gramme of piracy. English policy of seeking out the enemy, that the sinking of the two un dont Daniels' scheme is adopted she will by grave log to the country is caused by the
No
If Mr. We had ust such a good show as is pro- outcomes of direct instructions from the of the first line, six battle cruisers, 25 tional mathematical and scientific ability liners is the 1921 hare built or building 87 battleships employment of young students of excep mised the foe, but within that naval base German Admiralty. The goockt announce- battleships of the second line, 10 armoured as subalterns in Line battalions. He said and there are others which we travers ment that Dutch lines were going to fratis oraisers, 13 light cruisers. 18 cruisers of there had been waste in contracts, ed were sea craft which many a nation for themselves to the Cape route suggests other types, 108 destroyers, might envy. Super-Dreadnoughts were that a friendly hint was given in that marines, 157 coast submarines, and an employinent of married mon. There has absent. Even of Dreadnoughts we saw quarter na to the forthcoming
sub-pay and allowances, and in the wholesale nong on this ouension. There were here The mockery with which the cruisers, torpedo-boats, submarines, and mission to President Wilson
work point in his scheme is, of students to the colours at a time when the Botilla leaders which will bear the brunt Ancona affair speaks for itself. Probably the Secretary puts forward the Prosi when officers were ready to hand in such sub-course, the lack of a mercantile marine hospital and medical staffs were depleted, of
the for use in time of war. In this connection and in giving commissions tu lads of 17 the attack when, if ever, the hostile the Central Empires are getting past dent's proposal for Government acquisi-units as, the public Schools Corps, bat navics meet
in this Armageddon. In many United States. Several an engagement on sea these craft have the countered German successes on land, but the final decision has to and the fate. fal issues cannot by concluded until the great battleships of the adversaries are locked in combat, and one site or the other has been vanquished, Germany holde ber battleships back, and unti; the two meet and fight it out von Tirpitz, or his un- known successor, can comfort himself with the conceit that the German Navy remains ntnot, though its power lies dormant. Within the base on the British coast the terrible instraponta of destruction and the smart, alert, koon officers and men visualize the actualities of
war. Here rest craft that prey upon the venturesome of the enemy, vessels, guard and watch the trade routes, and
various classes of smaller craft-light the Persia invests Aust their adequate number of auxiliary vessels. been waste. in calling young medical
ΥΠΟΥ
what their relations may be with | tion be conceived for
motive fazy cence of outrage: One would be to create the
present recrudes nervousness over the movement of our troops to and from Near Eastern ports, and perhaps, consequentially, to instigate an increase of precaution in the Mediter- ranean which would involve some other thing is that the Indian mail is ing of our grasp in the North Box An in an exceptional way typical of British dominion ful Gon and prostige, and some thought that its loss would produce a moral effect mind may have calculated throughout the East that was well worth attaining
and operation
were kept back by the commanding
cozish lind cost more potential officers oficer for the sake of the picturesque told, for example, that the Liverpool anachronism, a corps d'élite. He had been
timn could be raised by a normal Wool-
nj Budhurst catry.
wich
MEN REQUIRED. important recommendation concerns per sonucl
Apart from ships. Mr. Danios, most more men, 2,500 were apprentices, and The Navy, bo anys, needs 7,500 1,500 more, marines.
He also suggests to its reference to the ship purchase gallant soldier, no doubt, but a most large building plaats. Except in regard Government armour-plate factories and
The waste was still more serious in the case of young men of exceptional ability, scheme, the report is considered good as Precious masct of the country not to be far as it goes. The chief criticism is that gombed away lightly. The place for the net. It is pointed out with justice it is over-optimistic in regard to person. the main handicap of the Navy, even
anan of action was at the front, that for that The plan of tre
literary great
ability was elso. where. The place for the young man who was probably thint of giving the Germans dehciency exceeds 15,000. Mr. Daniels, is also be monderd of boy has
ne it exists, is the want of men. Accord- had ส But the object which counted for most ing to competent naval authorities thematics, of mechanics was in the laboratory. special gift for science, mathe-
trangle the Gorman nation. Some fresh exhibition of what they also attacked for not having followed up leaders of men. Many of them might have
Our school heroes, leadors he greatest enemy of the battleships and success. Initiative is for the time being in pressing for a central board of mill-
Are content to accept for "virility and the efforts of his predecessor, Mr. Meyer, been statesmen of the future, but they armoured ornisers in an engagement costly in the few quarters in which it is tary control. On the other hand, there is the subma
needed above all things a country to Impossible, and without ita dramatic satisfnotion cruisers, led by the Arethuen,
at the promptitude with adorn. But this was eminently a war of. engine power greater popular mind from brooding upon the of the war regarding the value of Dread-tifle ability of the country should be Than that of a Dreadnought, which have intimate discomforts of life. How long nought cruisers and submarine. It is already shown the Germans that gunnery the nation can hear up against the short pected and hoped that, in spite of the many letters from two Cambridge science can correct the enemy's advantage of a age of food, the drainage of man-powder great expense involved,
husbanded jealously Ho had received runaway start these are among the most and the depressing remoteness of say act upon his report to the extent at any manding officer in a Service battalion had aggressive ships of the Grand fleet, sea sign of peace, we need not attempt to rate, of something much better than the Congress will
scholars. They had been claimed for the Munitions Department, but their com stained and read for action. They hati lost the prettiness of their appearance into the national nerve, Better
refused to let them go. We wanted better co-ordination or rather more subordina-. action, and the light and heavy guns, the through Holland and Switzerland, of
than the constant
tion. If the war had taken place 80 years ago men might have read, "Died of dyson- ab- found in the letters taken upon German
Second Lieut. Alfred Tennyson, attached to the
Charles Darwin.
the bruto bullet broke through the brain that would think for the rest." have been haunted by the line. So that such a body. Many of those present must
not
Jestroyers, the most formidable enemies ills it is very difficult to keep the which he has accepted the main lessons science, and the mathematical and scien
in peace time. The decks are cleared for down. But all those goads are probing normal two-Dreadnought programme,
evidence
reporte
THE PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE,
"
anti-aerial guBs, the torpedo tubes, the food riots and demonstrations is to be so good, The United States, like Great Killed in A.M.C.." had there been
winches, and other impedimenta are. stacles to the unwary. Only the superb discipline and perfect knowledge possessed by every officer and man as to his precise part in this wonderful organism could enable the smaller craft to perform its functions When the visitors had jeft the vessel the decks assumed their orderly
THE INDUSTRIAL ALMAGEDDON.
deportment, and every man was at his eripples. and consump strangulation of the war had more than a superficial the war, the need 10 such men would be
Brvice. The
with
It might be said that with the end of less pressing, but the fact was that the present warfare in the field would be child's play to the grim commercial
ling our
its significance. The of
The prospect for Army reform is not Britain, has not trained to trust in its mist prisoners. You can't imagine the feet, the availability of which for national an epistle from Duisberg. Others speak advertised by the opening of the Panama misery that reigns hore," 18 of the impossibility of keeping body and Chan. Even Mr. Roosevelt, now the chief the wail of defence has in recent years been especially soul together on a basis of low wages and famine prices; of the lack of labour for the country in his own tillage; and of the ruthras calling up of while President to stake nearly every- advocate of military preparedness, taught
spectacular
way place with plenty of space for movement:
for military thing on the seas. Nor have the leasons LATEST TYPER OF SUBMARINES. Naturally, there was keen curiosity to
has begun, howev
long it may take to effect One sees that from the President's end it. And autocracy is no longer fights Messago and from the programme which see the latest types of submarines which ing the Allies alone it has to keep a
·wo were 'shown orst. Lying close by the sharp eye upon the forces of df coutente se his advisers have promurgas - struggle which the Germans with a for nother ship were one or two ot the famous within its own borders.
Panem
The program
is half-hearted and Led Gir the sanction E-class, which have already wrought bavos consta, was the old recipe for control of resident tried to base, it a policy. The gated concentration of purpose compel
any clear among the enemy feet and transports the Roman
on the Monroe
admiration were Two of them had penetrated inte Helige tro hot in plobe. The rulers, of Germany
Doctrine. But he did so by the vaguest trial Armageddon robbed of the most
already organis Land Bight within three hours of the out they will try to compensate for the short-car
a position to provide both, but
ing. Could we lightly face that indus of He did not make it break of war, and obtained by their cool
ress of food with a continuity of war
the ingenious and inventive braing of buit ness and daring information which greatly pictures." As long as they or maintala instrument of defence for the Panama a generation? One limited list before him assisted us in drawing the enemy ships signs of vigorous action, the docile Teuton ang territories of the Caribbean and this type killed and 30 suffering from
Can and out of the Bight in the first hatile on seu
for the neighbouring waters contained the names of 85 old boys of will be encouraged to try and forget that The Es (Lieut. Commander Max Horton)
Pacific or a doctrine of sent to the bottom the German light orui-
ho is hungry. There is an awkward pause fiability in regard to the whole hemi-startlingly different from the normal one. unlimited other casualties. The proportion was just now, since the German commanders sphere. He eschewed oven an indirect re- ser Hela and
bagged "the destroyer are not ready to attempt anything fresh ference to Canada; yet po E118. In the Batie the E boats are also
of one killed to five other casualties. but in the East and their attacks in Flanders, est convictions held by the average Ameri believed to have impeded the German Champagne and the Vosges prove an
the SUTODE
it would be rash to hazard a surmise of traffic, and demonstrated that sex-power abject failure. In their search for some-
can is that the United States would have supported the resolution. He would not figures, however, is not restricted by mine-strewn narrow
to interfere by force should Canada ever thing epirited." to fill the gap, over channels. What puny toys the first sub-
have troubled the conference with it but which a people without moral sense dan
be marines would appear by the side of these be taught to exult, the authorities have to a minimum the President has it is appealed to the War Office, and to the invaded by an extra-American foc. By for his failure elsewhere. He had written whale-like craft. The small earlier under-
reducing his proposals for Any coform a letter which appeared in The Times, betaken themselves to a renewal of sea boate wonderful vessels we thought thom-then sank into the sea with buck detected the difference between the various
of piracy. felt, served clear notice that the United deading men at Oxford and Cambridge, mic States still belongs to the Blue Water but though they had agreed there was some clear of everything but the Little conning-
school. tower and periscope. Everything outside
classes of destroyers, so wike were they in
step necessary they would take no respon was collapsibles Now the submarine gues
sibility. their war paint, down with high conning tower
A.I stand waiting for a-signal to dish out into ine ocean if the mounted by a bridge,"
enemy should venture forth. It was on amast, along the BBot-scarred Arethura that we had the Colonial service in the Philippines. CM21 Hil}); it was resolved that the con periscope tube, a gun emplacement on the best opportunity to see the men of action, Hawaii, and the Isthmian Zone have been
all rigid. These impedimenta are no inconvenience to the latest types of submarines, now equally serviceable for well the glorious traditions of the soldiers are left for the United States, oo well the glorious which have upheld dedpeted from it, not more than 50,000 under-sca or surface work and in the British Navy. The famed Arethusa is Again, making a deduction for fortress ovent of having to visit Father Neptune the envy of the greater part of British artillery and other immobile units one the boat could remain in the deep at naval oticers and men who are waiting gets a mohis force of less than 30,000 least three times as long as its prototype the object of their profession-to prove the opportunity for the consummation of without serious discomfort to the stew,
Be. The reserve of the Regular Aray which has increased in number even more
their skill, their power, their efficiency in Army: stands only 120,000 States Militia, is exactly 16 men. Behind the Regular than the
hotels below, they at least enable the arethusa bad
come of whose units are probably up to officers and men to rest where once it was lett Dae Wednesday in August, came round two years
Thok. a luxury to be seated without being again by Saturday. She bears proudy army of 260,000 men with an eventuall Her base, was in action and was back asked officially for an eventual standing. politely requested to more just as one
ago.
The General Staff has thought he had secured case at last. The rows of shining steel tubes, the casement of the torpedoes, are ranged row upon row in the storeshed on the whari. They are ready for the incoming war
Bur
THE ARMY PROPOSALS. of just over 100,800 men. Its ouster is The American Army ecosists on paper considerably less When troops in the
not like sel has in balk. If they are action, and to destroy Germany's decent British Territorial standards of
lington), seconded by Sir John McClure The resolution was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. Vaughan (Wel-
ference should consider the boot me and tunity of promoting simplicity of living reducing ember, should in thn to and that its members should seize the oppor- and industry in the English Public Schoola
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TO-MORROW the gus and tokens of the batte in
eigand Bight on August 2816.
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but a little doctoring left her stronger quate and carefully trained reserve than ever. Her historic part in that eu-officers. The President merely asked
of
for
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vessels save for the three feet of high gagement is described in the offesalan additional 40,000 Regular and the Thursday, 2nd. Marah zama
huse,"
During the
the action
says the
e to be
explosive which lie in the missing war- head, and is applied when wanted. At the
the moment when the torpedo is about, to be despatch, "had beca hit many times, and raised in increments of 183,000 a year and
formation of a Continenta me writer of
the
400,000 disciplined citigans #1 of run into its tube the war-head is attached, was considerably
damaged. the messenger of death and destruction is inch gun remained in action, all other guts those years.
Only one to be trained for short periods during sent to buil the object of its indignation and torpedo tubes having been temporari-
inte
than
energelt Nahe destroyer is not less ly disabled. Lient, Eric W. P. Westma
Her cott (signal officer) was killed at my eide
the submarine,
PUBLIC FEELING.
There can be little doubt that the Pre-
have been less brilliant during this action. I cannot refrain from sident has been politically wieg in his owing to the shyness of the enemy, but adding that he carried out his duties of late the crews of the destroyers hava calmly and collectedly, and was of the kept watch and ward over our islands, greatest assistance to me. A fire occurred our transports, and our trade Ceaseless opposite No. 2 gun port side, caused by ly they have borne the strenuous work a shell exploding some ammunition, result of patrolling the seas, though of late
late their ing in a terrific blaze for labours have been lightened somewhat
a abort the deck burning Th and leaving by the patrol vessels. Storm and gale they very promptly dealt with and
period, This was
modesty. He could not have asked, more without diupting his party and getting nothing; could not have asked for less without stirring up much discontent and giving the other sido an issue. Within certain limits preparedness is a popular movement. It represente all the nervous
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Botsie Ordens, Annual Flower and Vegetable Show In the
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0.30 p.m. The Angel lo the House," by the Hongkong. Austent Dramatic Clab, in aid of tine C, Fasd,
have faced and fought, but these have ed by Chief Petty Officer Ura extinguish heart-searchings caused by the President's form in times of peace. It may be doubted
Ün
B
velt
gasp, but the Germans gave an ironical last but not least, there is a rapidly just mention upon in thy i at their moozings in the roads, strain cheer as the Areth
like greyhounds at the leash, while
rushed up youth of the
of
block the way to even more modest re- never been permitted to hamper their task, Desember 25th, 1014, she was at Cuxhaven
way policy and by the humiliating talk of whether the shock of the European war have never be zeal and endur.theze, and again on January 24th was in
The Bryan school of turn the other will do more or even as much for the destroyers.
nce and indomitable courage have made the battle of the Dogger Bank and gave versal service; there are the professional even the President's scheme for a trained check pacificials. There are Mr. Rongi. United States ne the shock of the Boar anca
folowers who demand did for us. It is quite possible that and these swift sleuths the terror of enemy the coup de grdee to the Blücher with vessels and blockade runners Swinging torpedo. The Blucher was at her last soldiers with their obrious views; and, citi
citizenry will
the rocks I have growing movement among the healthy stance the very serious problem of finance
Thero Ja also On board the Arethus the guests received by Commodore Tyrwhitt volunteer training camp, and the mop. The exchequer is low, and the
the Ameri- new revenues is always difficult and deli
raising Batey-Donville, the este enough for a party just about to cruiser. In contact we felt the spirit large organization of people card-indexed to the country, even if it were only needed of the Navy, and realized the secret of its according to their military usefulness for the routine of the Government. In go success. Powerful' the Press party were taken round the but success lies with the officers and men, which obtained in England after the be probably been well advised in going before
ships and guns we have,
The situation, in fact, is not unlike that these circumstances, the President has fleet in patrol boats the real fighting cool in bearing with bright eves that ginning of the century. Mr. Roosevelt's Congress with an army programme which power of the assembled fleet was revealed reveal geniality on board, and fire 25 the same reasons that caused Lord Bo- the theory that be feels that so long as Back vessels, grey ships with guns pont-ness of
towards a friend, a quick conscriptionist agitation is foredoomed fois to frankly political as to encourage ng menacingly, vessels silent and still, the heart when the enemy appears, a firm berts warnings to pass unheeded. In the Navy is strong the Government can but rauly to spring into life were in front nesy of feature and bearing that denotes the United States, of us, behind us, to the right and left of enthusiasm. All show that the human antebellum England, careless provincia- eventual army policy on the anvil
even more than in allow the country to hammer out its us. Only a trained eye could have element of the Navy is all right.
lism, and selfish industrialism probably public debate fines.
lie alongside the wharves, they afford just as great a contrast between their fore Frans of, say, 15 years ago as do the present-day and type of the marine,
THB "! ALETITUSA."