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BRITISH NAVY AND ITS WORK
GERMANY'S MARCH TO THE
SEA.
BY ARCHIBALD HURD,
Germany
SIR J. SIMONS ON THE WAR
IMPORTANCE OF UNITY Major Sir J. Simon, M.P addressing a meeting at Walthamstow recently,
said ho returned from France the provious week to undertake some duty
THE HALIFAX DISASTER. VIVID DESCRIPTION BY A HONGKONG MAN
The following extract from a letter from a Hongkong man formerly at the Diocesan School and now ut Halifax,
FREIGHT RATES. Messre Snowman & Co., ship and freight brokers, of Hongkong, in their circular dated April 13th, state ---
We lost reported on the 30th ult. Since then a certain amount of trip chartering
tribute to the effective character of the this country. He hoped they would describes the recent terrible explosion at business has been put through, and the
Tho
paying involuntary
po
social ferment may cease to reveal itself on the surface; but the cause of both the strikes and the talk of the coming offen sive, not by sea, but by land, will remain and increase in menace,will remain
that port:-
demand for vessels on time charter re- On the morning of December 6th maing strong and rates firm. was cook of the mess. That mea SALGON/HONGKONG $1.00 per pient galley and serve it out, and when every-shortly afterwards it strengthened to that I had to get the breakfast frora the was the rate when we last reported, but
body was through I had to wash the 31.70 with the fixture of a medium- dishes and scrub the table and stools sized coaster, and then again further
•
medium-sized coaster was fixed at this rate, improving yet again by a further two cents with the fixture of another. similar-sized vessel.
work of the British Navy. On this one posing as a military critic. There acquit him altogether of the absurdity
hand, we have seen strikes, due to poli- were far too many amateur strategists a tical and economic unrest, and, on the
it was (hear bear) and no one know other, the inspired references to a springbetter than he that a few months service offensive on the Western front a march at a respectable distance behind the front to the sen. - The two are closely associated time in France did not quality any man strikers have been dragooned back to for pronouncing startling conclusions in their workshops, and for the time the regard to the difficult matter of military everybody in the mess takes turns to do strengthened to $1,80, when another. what has had learned during his time at a day's cooking. This meant that it was strategy. If, however, they asked him the frost, ho would reply by saying, about a quarter to nine before I whe have learned that I have an increasing admiration, if increased admiration is through, and 1 did not get up to the possible, for the courage and the cheer In the general use of the word, Gerfulness of the British soldier: an increas bridge before 5 minutes to 9. A soon as many is starving, because she will noting detestation of the borror of war, and I got on the forecastle head I saw a ship face a naval battle. She still hopes that in an ever-increasing
on Are, and there was a crowd of a she may evade the consequence of the of mankind for peace. (longing (Hear, hear.) blockade by one final battle by land. It When three years ago, we entered inta couple of hundred men on our forecastle may not bring victory, it is tacitly ad the terrible war, we did so because there watching it. You may have read the mitted, but it will give time. It is calen- wis no other way in which the wrong lated that as the weeks pass the German done to Belgiuni could be righted, and in details of the collision and fro which population will be supported in the belief the detestable dobirise obtained from enused the explosion, But in ense you
which security could ed. Hold on, is the watchword which right. (Hear, hears) If these were good didn't, I will just go over it again.. the Imperial Government presses on the reasons, then our experience of the
About a quarter to nine on December methods of German militarism did not suffering Germans. In the meantime the make them soy less good reasons now. 6th the French munition ship Mont working classes in the Entente countries, The British people wore deeply attached Blane with 4,000 tons of tri-nitro- $70,000, it is thought, may tire of the war and to peace, and he did not believe there declare for any kind of peace so long as it means an end of economie troubles, ing an innocent and
was any other object than that of defend persecuted com The last occasion of march to the sea was during the American Civil War When that struggle opened the South had no naval power, and the North possessed only a feeble navy for the blockade of the Confederate coast. one-third of the merchant fleet of the We were pursuing the struggle, and that Worth, was requisitioned, and the con- as long as it was clear thoar obirete could Basin through tha" Narrows." Through straction of 208 new men-of-war was not be attained by other means that the some misunderstanding of each other's undertaken hurriedly. What happened ↑ British democracy would desist from the Gradually, during a period of four years, struggle. (Hear hear.) The doubt, syren signals, the Mont Blane got into review, with no further fixture report- the economic life of the Southern States uarters was as to Pressed in some the Imo's course, and before the latter
however, which was
So
exist
tuluol--the deadliest explosive in o munity to whom we were pledges and and 6 and 12" shells in her holds, of resisting unbridled military aggression and a deck-load of benzine, passed our which could have swept the British ship on her way up to Bedford Basin democracy into war. He would never
believe that, as long as those objects were At the same time the Imo, a Belgian clearly defined as the objects for which Relief Ship, was coming out of Bedford
the objects
It then weakened
to $1.65 with the fixing of a medium and a small-sized coaster. However, shortly afterwards our market showed renewed buoyancy, and a medium-sized coaster was fixed at $1.75 and another medium sized coaster1-15 $1.82 for 3 trips, followed by the closing of a medium-sized coaster for 3 round trips on a lump-sum basis of Hongkong
The market then showed u decided
weakening, when two small-sized consters were successfully negotiated for 2 trips and 1 trip respectively at $1.40 per picul
which figure a medium-sized outsider was The rate then increased to $1.72, at fixed for 8 trips, and it remained at 81.72 till the end of the period under
a slightly firmer figure.
EXPORTS OF RIct. From Saigon from 1st January to 4th March amounted to 188,107 tons, as compared with 101,993
was strangled, until at length their troops ware practically starving Thon began were now seeking really were the could check her speed she rammed thed, but with enquiries in the market at the ever famous march to the sout whether everything possible was really Frenchman on a level with her forchöld,
objects for which wo
wo entered the war, and hanger march which was to prove the being doing to secure these objects with when she immediately burst into flames. last incident in a war dominated by naval out further unlimited bloodshed. (Hear, fore, though, as has been pointed out, bear) The securing of our aims depend “No sooner had the Imo backed Away improvised naval force. Perhaps the moated upon unity, and no groter damage than the crew of the munition ship significant sentence in Lieut-General could be done to the cause of unity Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven's De by creating patriotic and liberty loan deserted her in the boats, and she drifted tons for the same period last year. Qua- ductions from the World-War, which men who expressed their anxieties about into Richmond's shipbuilding yards-atation for No. 2 White round sifted rice Constables have just issued for English the situation and dosired to be assured
stands at $3.50 per picul, fob, for readers, is his admission that the that the Government was steering the best mes of Hames from ber foremast for Southern States finally succumbed to the course, as if they were to many Bolos, ward--and it was shortly afterwards that
April/May shipment. blockade." That statement any he aseo (Hor hear.) He trusted that the next I went up to the bridge. I borrowed a ciated with his confession it almost of war ni
nime would be made in amounts to that--that we have resorted conjunction
President Wilson telescope from the chief yeoman, and was to submarine warfare as a means of self- Diplomacy and military effort Taust Toxing at the ship when the Captain defence, in order to evade defest by that the war must be ended with the help came up on the bridge. I handed him
advance side by side. We must recognise EMERA land as well as by sea. History supplica
agreed principles. These principles were
SAIGON/PHILIPPINES. Nothing to re-
port
BANGKOK/HONGKONG. This rule stood at 81.50/81.40 for inside/outside the r loading, respectively, when we Inst
us with amplo testimony as, to the real of discussion, but discussion must be on the glass and, after looking at the burn advised, but offers were then made of
purpose of Gormany's much-advertised march to the sen, at a moment when she fails to extract consolation, comfort, or food from the war map which was once exhibited to the world with so much prido,
| FIGHT OR STARVE
fixed and our war aims must at varying ship for a few minutes, hə remarked: according to our military prospects, if any of that oil gets loose it will set
the harbour on fire. He handed me
81.70/$1.00, but with no fixtures report
ed
Sea power has always been the compelled, however restricted the supplies and the time, and the Captain, the chief sized outsider Japan/Hongkong at Yen
COAL-There is little or no change in stopped. Germany gambled on her army back the glass and then left me. I was our market since our last report, and the and therefore the troops have to be amply on the starboard side of the bridge at only fixture reported way a medium- population behind the lines Germany yeoman, who were attending on him, had however grievous the sufferings of the bus become the victim of her military just reached the head of the ladder lead system. The larger the army, the greater
The port
side
15.50 per ton. As regards local business
the market is dull and no fixtures are reported.
the number of munition workers as a ing to the conning tower on the
odsary consequence. These two groups when the ship blew up. The captain, have a prior claim on the country's food resources; first come the men in the yeoman and chief were piled on top of field grey condly, the industrial war. each other at the foot of the ladder.
my behind the lines, and list, the Owing to my elevated position as I was ashore with hears to check the fire before civilian population the ordinary men, still on the starboard side of the bridge, it reached the Magazine, while another women, and children. Germany darn not
The Captain sent a party of men
ling influence to peace in any struggle between maritime States, though it has seldom given the "knock-out blow The stronger fleet blockades the weaker the latter must either fight against heavy odds or surrender the right to use the sea for economic and military purposes suffered increasingly the lenger the war on land laste, Napoleon chose, after some delay, the former alternative, thinking that with concentrated forces numerically superior he would win but he lost, and allot estricted supplies by any other where I was looking at the ship through party was sent to remove the big doom was sealed. Germany has chosen inney
because she has "placed all her the glass-I was blown clean off my feet tion from the Magazine, most of the the latter alternative, and for three years army would mean the end of every or so has been divorced from her maritime thing. Not only must soldiers and rouni. bridge, n distance of about 30 feet. Soin was with the ammunition communications her own food, raw mateкn Workers be supported, but condd feree was the concussion that although and you can take it from me that it isn't rials, and other things being slowly ex- enpo in the army's ability to achieve hausted. Tirpitz in the memorandum to.
ammuni
from the day of the Battle of Trafalgar diet on the army, and starvation of and dung against the after-rails of the buildings of which had their roofs blown.
SUPPORTING GERMAN HOPES,
party,
the German Navy Act of 1900 declared,cory must be maintained.
our ship was a good half-mile from the very easy work to carry a six-inch thell An unsuccessful naval war of the Hanes there rises from the inspired font Blanc, I was stunned by it and did that weights 121 lbs., on your shoulder duration of even only a year would newspapers the strident boast that the not hear the roar of the explosion, I down a slippery path to the water's edge, destroy Germany's sea trade, and would rer to the sea in the spring will com- was only unconscious for 2 or 3 minutes, where it was safe from the fire. As a
bring about most disastrona conditions, first, in her economie, and be any the dificulties which cafronts, when I picked myself up, the smoke matter of fact, the fire party was able to then, as an immediate consequence of rate men who control German policy pay from the explosion was just clesting that, in her social life
tribute to the work of the British Navy. Quite apart from the consequences of First, it was to be challenged by the Highway, while splinters that had been blown the possible peace conditions, the destructa Fleet; discretion was regarded as into the air were still coming down like tion of our own trade during the war the better part of naval valeur. Then, rain. Although I vas still dazed, I had splinters. could not, even at the close of it, be made it was to be defeated in six months at good within measurable time, and would this nad to the sacrifices of the war 4 serious economic depression,
the most, according to the German Navy sense enough to get under cover, as if Staff, by the sink-at-sight policy. Now, any of the splinters had bit me it would niter twelve months, the U-boat no longer have been all up. You will have an idea
offers the best and only means to a vic
but
yards of the Magazine. It is estimated check the fire before it got within 20 that about 1,500 men and women and children were killed, and 600 wounded, of whom 400 were blinded by glass
people in the devastated ners, and some “We also sent a party of relief ashore
of the tales they told were simply awful. to see what they could do for
Men, women and children were found with every vestige of clothes blown off
This war has lasted not one year only, but over three and a half years. The full torious ending of the war, so there is to of the force of the explosion when I tell pressure of sea power has been only be a march to the sea. In all of which you that nearly every house within them and more or less injured. Our gradually exerted, owing to political con- we have reminders that it is our se radius of a mile from the ship was blown party gave away every piece of clothing siderations. But since last spring, when power, supported by our military power, the United States intervened, it has been which is winning the war for us. We are down, while those that were not blown they could spare off their backe; indeed, possible to make the blockade fully effee warned to take every precaution, in the down were burnt by the fires which tive. That means that, in continastion allocation of our man-power against g
some of them returned to the ship with of our former efforts which brought weakening the two primary forces of this started immediately afterwards. Every Germany very low, for six or nine months country-the fighting foot and the compane of glass in the city was shattered, she has been cut off from all oversea mercial feat. supplies, both of food and raw materials, The war has become an economic Nearly everybody on the upper deck of situation, and then Russie was to have-sea communications our victory la as the Caraca were killed. The Highflyer Roumania was to have saved the coonomic struggle, and as long as we control the theme, Picton, Middleham Castle, and proved Germany's salvation those hopes sured. It is a contest of the meal-table, lost 48 men, while our ship had 13 illed have not been realised. Weck by week and if the mass of the workers of this the strength of Germany is waning, and country realise how little they have had and 15 missing. Of the 15 missing, most she is confronted today with the ironichi to suffer, and how great is the strain on wore believed to have been drowned. fruits of her deliberately adopted military Germany, we can confront the future g policy-the antidote, as she declared, to with, hopes of a speedy improvement in As I mentioned earlier in this letter, our own supplies. Even as things are, about 200 men were on the forecastle we are being better fed than any other
navalism
just their fannels and pants on, having given away their coat, jumper, sweater and, in some cases, boots and socks. homeless by the explosion, and they had There were about 10,000 rendered.
further added to by one of the worst live in tents put up esticcially for them
blizzards Halifax had seen in years. It on the Commons. Their sufferings were
started the morning after the explosion and lasted for 24 hours with the tempe rature at zero
The Mont Blane had four-inch gun
mounted on the stern, and after the es plosion the gob with its moautings and The adoption of universal military service in Germany, as in other countries nation in Europe, and to exaggerate our head watching the ship just before the part of the ship's deck plate were found increased the value of sea power which present inconveniences is to encourage blew up; some of these men were blown tom the explosion, while a part of her 14 working more rapidly in this than in the enemy. It is true that if we had into the water, while others took panic anchor was found in the exhibition intact in wood in Dartmouth 2 miles any former war. Conscription resulted adopted a wise shipbuilding policy three in the calling up of practically all Geryears, or even two years ago, we should and jumped overboard. As you will see grounds in Halifax about 1 miles away many's man-power, with the result that have an ample supplies today as in by the accompanying rough sketch of thing that occurred that day I would be all her industries except those contri peace. But, even as tattere are, we
If I keep on writing about every- buting more or less directly to the pro have little cause of complaint, and by Halifax harbour at the time of the explo kept writing all night, so I will switch secution of the war, were slowed down dwelling on the present shortage we dir sion, the Magazine is just off our bow. I passed for Leading Signalman on and then stopped Agriculture suffered courage ourselves and our neighbours, and shortly after the explosion the fires inost, and as the comb worked through and give the German Government excuse were spreading so fast that it was feared January 8th, and I was then given a the rural districts, so the harvests de for crying to the starving people on the that the Magazine would also blow up. class of men to train for siguals. I had creased -1915, 1016, and 1917. By various other side of the North Sea Hold on A pame was started in the city, and to give them exercises during working means the best and most virile workers of and we shall yet triumpa, for the British everybody left their homes and offices and hours and correct them in my own time, all classes were called up, and instead with a lower standard of patriotism collected on the Commons the Parks, of being food or wealth producers, they than ours, will auccumb under economic and, in fact, everywhere out in the open. became food and wealth consumers. At troubles les serious than those which we ad they were safer in the open than in a the same time oversea supplies were have faced unflinchingly for two years,
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Daily Telegraph.
building.
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off
that some nights it was nine and ten 'clock before I was through for the day. was kept at this till two days ago, when I was seat on board another sup to re- lieve another man who has gone back to the ship to pasɔ" higher rating.