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ONE FOLD OF COMPASSION. may never truthfully say,The country: for which I have bled and suffered in the hour of her need cruelly neglected me and mine fu the hour of our necessity." (Cheers.)
PRINCE OF WALES AND WAR PENSIONS.
The Prince of Wales was the principal speaker at a special meeting of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation at the Local Government Board.
It is not within my competence to offer you advice as to how to go to work to form your committees, and to carry out your
There are others thate of the patriotic duties devolved upon us all by Parliament. here who can afford you advice, if ady içs I will only venture to inke a few general observations.
His Royal Highness, who was received is needed. with prolonged cheers, said:
May. I abortly remind you of the history of naval and military pensions, and of the connection of the Stato with this subjecs?
First, as regards widows and orphans, Unt the Trausvaal War the Bate made no provision for widows and dependents, Such provision as was made for them was the result of voluntary effort in the shape of various patriotic funda, with which members of my family have always been prominent and intitastely (Choors.)
associated.
That constituted the era. Then came the accond era in the history of peasions for the widows and dependents of our sailors and soldiers whom the State, after the Transvaal War, for the first time recogni ed the right of these claimants upon the nation's sympathy to a weekly pension granted out of the taxes of the country. These pensions, which have boen sinal in amount, have been supplemented consider- aby out of large funds voluntarily sub- scribed by the public and wisely adminis tered by your corperation, of which my uncle, the Duke of Connaught, has been the president since its establishment in 1903, ....
We have now reached the third ers in the evolution of this class of pensions, The greatest war the world bas ever seen, and the supreme struggle in which this Empire is, unhappily, engaged, has roused the spirit and enthusiasm of our whole people to such wu extent that it may almost be said that the Navy and the Army are the young manhood of the nation, and the young manhood of the nation is iden tical with the Navy and the Army. They are one and the name. Not only the rank and file, but also the officers, and oven the higher command, are now drawn from all classes of the community.
Under these new circumstances the State has been obliged to regard this problem-- both of the widow. anu dependent, and the still more difficult pioblem of the disabled, whether from wounds or disease-from different aspect. The debates in both Houses of Parliament show that more than over is the State alive to, and responsive to, the obligation to ensure some provision for those who are deprived by this cruel War of the help of husband or father or Bon-and for those who, though they have survived the ordeal of battle, are left maimed or marred through the remaining years of life, bearing the scars and marks of wounds, highly honourable, but too often diminishing the pleasure of life and the capacity for work and employment.
Parliament has therefore produced a policy to meet the national desire for a more siequate, gezerous, and compreheny sive treatment of those who have made, e will make, the noble sacrifice of suffering in order that the cause of Empire and the still greater cause of the world's liberty may prevail in this titanic struggle,
EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE,
It is the will of Parliament, expressing the will of the people, that pensions and allowances alike for widows and depen dents, and for the disabled, should be given upon a higher scale than in any previous: war, or any other of the European coun tries taking part in this war.
These pensions and allowances will be paid by the State as of right through the usual State departments. But Farlin ment has gono further; it has said that is not enough Beyond these State pensions, it will be necessary, if we are to adopt the rule of "equality of sacrifice," to supplement these pensions in some cases, and, if we are really is a nation to love and honour our stricken heroes, to see that they are provided not alone with pensions. but with some employment suited to their new, and perhaps painful, conditions, and if necessary that they receive a training to enable them to adapt themselves to these conditions,
INTENTIONS OF PARLIAMENY,
It never was intended by Parliament thar the statutory Commitiam: (monga ite approval, is required to any scheme for the tocat committee) should napose any nard: and fast itations of a ton charac er upoa tao various local authorities, Just as counties and boroughs and other populous areas differ in many essential particulars, so we shall expect their scenes toy this experimental work not to conform to any one pattern, but to present a considerable variety of features. After all, they can be remodelled it the light of a larger experienes.
Again, it was never intended by Partis incut that these supplemental pensic and chia patriotie provision for our sathees and soldiers training and employment should be wholly paid for out of State funds.
any grants which may be made to us from Live to true and ready the Chan cellor of the Exchequer has promised to ask-Parsawent for 21,000,000 to start us. on our way—W, i nope, be need in the wealthier areas, at all events to sup- plement and stimulate, Pent and suffocate, local effort and local
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THE DOVER PATROL-
SECRETS OF MONITORS,
Quite as interesting as the things said are the things only hinted at in the dis- patch of Vice-Admiral Bacon, with refer- ence to the attacks made by his squadron of the Dover patrol on the German posi- tions along the Belgian coast during last autumn, Apart from the fact that eight new men-of-war, hitherto unmentioned in_ any public document, figure in the dis- patch, there is the cryptic sentence in which the Admiral refers to the extreme accuracy of the gun-fire at long ranges which fully justifies the novel methods used."!
When Vice-Admiral Recon, who was on. the retired list, replaced Rear-Admiral Hood at Dover last. April, those who de vote some study to naval affairs realised. that the appointment must foreshadow im portant developments in the material of the squadron based on Dover, and were content to await results. For Vice-Admiral Bacon, when he retired from the navy, went to the Caventry Ordnance Works as managing director, and at that time Coven. try was deep in the perfection of a number of new devices in naval gunnery of first rate importance.
Admiral Bacon had five years' experience with that firm behind him when he return- cd to active service after the war broke out, The attacks on the Belgian coast called for all our latest devices both in ships and guns. What was more natural than that he saphould take charge of the fletilla into which these novelties were being in- troduced, especially in view of the feet that both officers and men needed thorough training in the use of instruments that were quite new in gunnery officers mentioned in the dispatch is proof
generosity. it is inly because of the agenude of the problem as cougared with any previous war, and because of the growing national consciousness, that the Stato hay lelt obliged to step in and secure that a national network of organisation shall be set up for this great national duty.
To realise the magnitude of the present problem and the dificulty of coping with it by any voluntary effort, compare for a moment the figures showing the relative havoc in human limb and human life caused by this war up to the present time with the figures of the South African War The total number of all ranks kiked in the South African War was................... The total number of all manka
killed in the present war is... 128,138 The total casualties in all rauks
in the South African war.
21,942
44,870
The total casualties in all ranks
in the present war are... 649,467 Formidable as is the problem when sur eyed ag a wavle and in the mass, it be coines light and easily manageable when it is realised that enca county and borough area will have only its own fraction to dea] with,
In conclusion, let me express my earnest hope that every county and overy locality
in which a cuidantice is esia IISIDE WILL
enter in a healthy and vigorous competa tion to secure, with the co-operation of the State, that, not only shall there be no avoid. ablo suffering in the households of sailors and soldiers living in their midst, but that every effort shall be made to compensate by the truest form of neighbourly kindness for any deprivations which have been caused by willingness on the part of these men to criace life, health, and happiness at the call of their honour, their King, and their God. (Loud cheers.)
The list of
enough that none but men who had made a special study of the art of naval gunuery were appointed to ships in the fatilla,
NEW WARSHIP AND HER COMMANDER. The dispatch contains some most interest- ing information in regard to the novelties in ships,
Seven of them are monitors-the Sir John Moore, Lord Olive, Prince Rupert, General Crauford, M 25, Marshal Ney, and Prince Bugene. There is an eighth ship, the Redoubtable, which you will not find mentioned in any Navy List published up to last January, when the Admiralty took to suppressing the names of our warships owing to the rapidity with which the fleet was growing. The Redoubtable is a note. worthy ship, about which it will be passible to write more in inter days; but a good many people will be able to deduce some of the points of interest about her from the fact that she was commissioned for service by Captain V. B. Molteno, He is one of our leading gunnery experts, and was for three years supervisor of all the gunnery fittings built into men of war constructed by the private shipbuilding yards of the country
The first date mentioned by Admiral Bacon in connection with these new ships is August 22nd last. This is of importance. It must be remembered that it was only after the river monitors built for Brazil, and purchased on the initiative of Mr. Churchill for the Royal Navy, had shown how useful that type could be in the at- tacks on the Belgian coast in October and November, 1914, that our shipbuilding vards were asked to put in hund a largo number of duplicates of and improvements on the desiga. Ten months later we find MR. DALFOES ON THE MAGNITUDE OF THE
the craft active off the Belgian coast and PROBLEM. IM
also at the Dardanelles, and that, mark Mr. Balfour said:-The Prince of Wales you, afer what Admiral Bacon describes na careful training in attention to details." has briefly recited the history of our at tempts in past times to deal with this The vessels must have been turned out by problem, and he has shown, what I fear has the builders at extraordinary spoed and it been the case, that, although there has would be interesting if the Admiralty could been a steady improvement up to the pre-see their way to make some public acknow rest day, we cannot look back with nu ledgment of the splendid work that wAR qualified satisfaction to the way our pre-done by the man in the various yards in docessors dealt with the wounded soldier order to achieve this result, I have heard or bis widow, big children, and others thirteen weeks mentioned as the period of dependent upon him. It is not only our building of one particular monitor, and growing sense of humanity, but it is the while I cannot endorse the statement from very magnitude of the problem with which my knowledge it is probably not far from we have to deal which has forced upon the mark. us the absolute necessity of devising some echome which will adequately deal with this great subject. Centralisation.... as we know well, has many merits, but it can.. not shake itself free from inevitable defects. What has been done has been so attempt to combine in one great system the advantages of a central organisation toge ther with all advantages of local adapta tion, and charitable assistance. It is only on thess broad lines, as I conceive it, that success is possible if the machinery which Parliament has set in motion and which GERMAN BARBARIC CHARACTER. you are going to perfect this afternoon is to be worked as it should be worked.
Another new plans of vessel figures in the dispatch, thres vessels being described as fleet messengers." They are a develop ment obviously of the old-time dispatch vessels, but that they are not only a sort of nautical telegraph boy is shown by the fact that Sub-Lieutenant Malcolm N, Eng- lish E.N.R. of Fleet Messenger 41, is com- mended for services in action,
A correspondent sends to a Rangoon ex- change the following spposite extract from Bir Walter Scott's The Talisman. "The Germans, though still possessing the. martial and frank character of their ances tors who subdued the Roman empire, had retained witha o slight tinge of their barbarism. The practices and principles of chivalry were not carried to such a nico pitch amongst them as amongst the French and English knights, nor were they strict observers of the prescribed rules of society, which among those nations were supposed to express the height of civilisation, Bit ting at the table of the archduke, Conrad was at once stunned and amused with the clang of Teatonic sounds assaulting his ears on all sides, notwithstanding the solemnity of a princely banquet."
Now to ensure that throughout · the United Kingdom the Government flat rates of pensions shall be supplemented in the cases where that flat rate would still leave the recipient in an intoleratty hard posi- tion; to ensure that grants or allowances should be made in deserving cases which for one reason or another are not eligible for any State assistance; and, further to ensure that provision will be systematical ly made for the health, training, and en. ployment of disabled oficer, and men after they have left the service, obviously re
It is a great task, it is a necessary task, quires the conjoint effort of the State, the local authorities, and of the voluntary it is a noble task, and, as the Prince has associations, and the setting in motion of indicated to you, it will require the a perfect network of machinery covering harmonious co-operation of all the avail- .able forces. Liberality in money, in the whole country and capable of working in harmony until, after many years, the
Labour, in time and effort, will be required if the scheme is to work, but something last victims of the war have ceased to need the aid of the Eation, and
more is required. That something more is determination not to allow merely local The scheme of Parliament is comprised feeling, which sometimes amounts almost in the Naval and Military War Pensions
to tocal prejudice, to interfere with the Act, 1915. It constitutes & Central Statu-smooth working of the scheme. It will be tory Committee, over which I have the
necessary that each part of the great or honour to preside, and I may say dare ganisation shall, within its own limits, use 17-11 not have attempted this onerous task had every effort to work in harmony with the
I not felt that the great local authorities central authority. would give me their utmost support in this, my first great public undertaking. Jonjoins on this statutory body na its first duty the formation of influential local an district committees for every county and county borcugh, and for every borough and urban district having a large population, by important and beneficial results. The In framing these committees Parliamen reproach has sometimes been made that our has specifically required that women and recognition of what is dus by the country representatives of labour should be into those who lay down their lives for her cluded, and that a substantial representa cause has, if adequate in degree, been tion of the Boldiers and Sailors Families'
belated in time I venture to think that Association and of the Soldiers and Bail-
in after years your Royal Highness will On the resolution being put to the meet ors Help Society shall be found upon gladly remember that you have to-day setting there were loud and continued cheers, said I each committee whereever practicable,
on foot a movement which anticipates the His Royal Highness, in reply, The scheme of Parliamenty in fact, ains -urgency of making generous provision for thank you for having passed the resolution, at bringing together into one fold of em the widows, children, and dependents of which is increased in its value by the fact passion and gratitude and practical our fallen soldiers, as well as for those of its being proposed by Mr. Balfour and philanthropy at our resource, both on- me themselves whose injuries incapaci seconded by Lord Kitchener, and we accept it as an encouragement to us for the faith- tional and local, in men, in women, and is tate them from remunerative employment: money, in order that in the years to come The task to which your committeo has to-ful discharging of our onerous duties in those who have brought uw victory and day got itself is weighty, for not only is the I the intereats of oldiers and sailors. (Loud peace by their courage and self-sacrifice number of soldiers engaged in this struggle cheers.)
ВЕРБОЛСЯ BARL KITCHENEB ON AN OLD REPROACH. Earl Kitchener said:-It is a great plea sure and privilege to be associated with the vote of thanks to your Royal Highness on an occasion which is likely to be marked
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