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BRITISH NAVY AND THE TRAFALGAR AND JUTLAND. WASHINGTON CONFERENCE,
3.183 SHIPS SORAPPED.
* [BY ARCHIBALD HUED)
A study of the American Press suggests that there is a widespread misunderstand. log in the United Stater of the course f which naval policy in this country is taking. The fast that the Two-Power Standard has been abandoned, and that we have declared that we shall be content in futuro with a One-Power Standard, has made little or no impression on the American public, of one may judge by statements in American newspapers. One of the most reputable and representative journals recently published an article on British. Fleet, Expansion." It was as- serted, in commenting on the four battle cruisers which are to be built here, that the decision of the British Government to expand its Fleet, somewhat stronger At the present time than the American Beat, signifies a purpose to keep abreast
LORD LEE ON NAVAL HISTORY.
Lord Lee of Fareham, First Lord of
INDO-CHINA
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION
the Admiralty, presiding at the Creigh STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
at King's College, on "Napoleon and the ton Lecture, given by Sir Julian Corbett,
British Navy aftor Trafalgar " said that | it sometimes seemed to him as if most
modern historians liked to throw cold
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· LOONGRANG. ES. 95th Nov 3 M. KORE
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TAI PHONG via Hurrow STRAITS & CALCUTTA SHANGHAI
BANGKOK vis SWATOW SANDAKAN
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LOKSANG ...Sat, "KWAISANG" ..Sit
28th Nov. 10,
28th Nov. 3 p.m.
"HOPSANG" Sau,
87th Nov, Dlights
CHUNSANG" Tues., 29th Nov., D'light. *HINSANG"
...FTI
2nd Deo, NoOLL
Singapore returning from Calanttd steamers prooood via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, ccssalonally calling at Shanghai. All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electris Light and Fans and carry fully-qualified
water on our most treasured traditions and suggest doubts about picturesque "in- cidents handed down to us by our fore- CALCUTTA LINE:-This line afforda regular sailings to Calenta, Feas 100 fathers. He believed implicitly in nearly He would all legends and traditions. call attention to an athairable and en thralling book called The Fighting at Jutland," by two naval officers so modest SHANGHAI LINE:Sal that they told nothing about themselves. It consisted of contemporary letters and personal yarns by people present at the MANILA fighting, and told exactly what they saw HAIPHONG
together with such admirable skill that they presented an almost complete pre- ture at any rate, an entirely convincing TIENTSIN
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LINE :-A, regular service is run from March to November between
Hongkong and Tientwin, calling at Welbalwed and Obefoo.
with the United States in sea power if of the business from their particular BURNEO limation of armaments is not agreed angie. These fragments had been pieced upon at the Washington Conference Such statements, of which scores could be quoted, indicate that the people of the United States are being led to belive that this country is forcing the pace, and the laying year is represented as conclusive proof of our guilt in this matter. No doubt when the British representatives reach Wash- ington they will be armed with the cor- rect facts and fgures, but in the mean time an atmosphere is leing, created throughout the United States which is inimical to the Conference.
down of four armoured ships this one-of the events of that memorable day. | BANGKOK I∙INEA weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok).
Despite the fact that Great Britain and Empire owed its continued existence to see power, there were few matters about which on the surface it appeared more indiferent. In only one of the univer sities-Cambridge did there exist any proper provision for the continuous study
NOT EXPANSION, BET CONTRACTION. Is it true that the British Fleet is a history. Eufore the war the somewhat stronger at the present time question of instituting a Chair of Naval than the American Flest!" A conclusive History in the University of London waa Buswer is supplied in White Paper 104 under consideration, and he hoped the (1921), in which full details are given of present ecctsion would serve as a remind the strength of the navics of the world, er on the subject. Many of the mistakes excluding battleships and battle cruisers made in the early years of the Great War over twenty years old. This return was might have been avoided if those charged prepared several monhs ago, and now re-with the direction of affairs had studied quires some correctiones, in view of the and applied the lessons learned by our progress which has been made in ship-ancestors in the naval wars of past. He building in America and Japan, and in did not refer murely to strategy and tac. scrapping in this country. If this ties, but also to such matters as the diplo courses adopted, it becomes trans-matic use of sea power, which often at- parent that in all the material elements tained greater ends than fighting did. of power, cxcept light cruisers, the United States has already outpaced this country. The disparity of strength be tween the two fleets is steadily increasing, as the ships under the American pro- gramme of 1916 are completed at a period when there are no vessels of any type on the slips in this country, though some light cruisers and torpedo-craft are com- pleting for sea. The relative position of the British and American Navies in large armoured ships is reflected in the follow-rest when he heard the speeches of the statement, in which B. 1 stands for Dominion representatives at the Confer- battleships mounting 14in. guns and ence in London. upwards, B. 3 for battleshipa with analler guns, B.C. 1. for battle-cruisers mounting 14in. guns and upwards, and B.C. 2 for
MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singapore, Penang, battle-cruisers with mailer guns:
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
SHIDZUOKA MARU!.!.
HAKONE MARU.
020
11
YOKOHAMA MARU
YOSHINO MARU
Thursday,
24th Nov,, at 11 am
Friday,
Friday,
Friday,
9th Dec., at 11 am. 23rd Dec., at 11 am. 8th Jan, at 11 p.m.
Wednesday, 23rd November.
HAMBURG, vis LONDON & ROTTERDAM.
MATSUYE MARU
LIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES,
KAMAKURA HABU
IM
+
***
Wednesday. 7th Dec.
14
4
20 28
GREAT BEITAIN. UNITED STATES. Built Bldg. Ttl. Built Bldg. Til. B. 1. 14
14 721 H.C. 1..... 4
B 6 B. 2....... B.C. 2....
Total... 30
How,in these circumstances, it can be cggested that the British Fleet is some what stronger than the American Fleet
20
40:33 53
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday it is difficult to understand. It may be
Island, Townsville & Brisbane.
TANGO MARU
NIKKO MARU
AKI MABU
J
NEW YORK, VIA PANAMA & CUBAN PORTS.
DELAGOA MARD ...
NEW YORK via SUEZ.
TSUYAMA MARU
BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS &
20th Dec, at 11 ajia. 17th Jan., at 11 am 14th Feb at 11 8.0.
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday,
Friday,
25th Nov.
End of December.
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replied that reference has been made only to capital ships, and that a navy consists of other classes. of vessels than armoured ships. If the comparison is carried stage further, it is still impossible to find material to support the general im pression which prevails on the other side of the Atlantic. It is true that we pos- sess more cruisers and light cruisers, but the British Fleet has only 188 effective destroyers, including flotilla leaders, to
BUENOS AIRES is CAPE. 318 under the American Aag, about fifty
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang and Colombo,
KAGA MABU
#1
214
Wednesday,
CALOUTTA vis Singapore, Penang & Bangoon.
440
7th Dec,
Thursday, S4th Nov.
Sunday,..
11th Dec.
NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
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TSUSHIMA MAEU.
NIKKO MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE
TSUYAMA MARU
KLEIST
MATSUMOTO MARU":
Friday,
YOKOHAMA.
Wednesday, Monday, Thursday
16th Dec, at 11 am.
23rd Nov.
28th Nov. at 11 am. Jab Dec.
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on or about 26th Nov."-
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of which may be eliminated as obsolescent. We possess eighty submarines and the Americane 149, including the craft pow under construction. Even when the four battle-cruisers, which are to be laid down in this country shortly, are completed in 1925 or 1928; the British Fleet will remain in a position of inferiority in relation to the navy of the United States in battle ships and battle-cruisers. I have seen it stried repeatedly in the American papers that these four vessels are replacing four older ones, whereas in point of fact they are substitutes for eight older ones, with the result that when they are placed in commission the number of guns in the British battle fleet will be smaller small er by forty or fifty guns-than it was at the beginning of the present year.
A POLICY OF REDUCTION..
A UNITED EMPIRE.
Mr.
Speaking at a Parliamentary luncheon at Wellington, on October 5th, Massey, the Prime Minister, said that whatever doubts he had as to the effect of the separate signing of the Treaty of Varsailles by New Zealand were set at
If it was suggested that any Dominion would refrain from war when the Empire declared war, his answer was that when the King was at war all his subjects were at war. The enemy would so regard it, if they did not. Since the war it was not a united kingdom, but a united Em- pire, speaking with one voice. The Im perial Conference did the work of a Cabinet and had the power of a Cabinet, because the various representatives had the opinion of their countries behind them. Yet nothing was done to interfere with Dominion autonomy, as the Parlia ments of the Empire would deal with expenditure for Empire matters, and he was sure that they would reach & satis- factory conclusion, as during the Great War, without difficulty,
It is not appareatly appreciated, eyen on this side of the Atlantic, that since the armistice was signed the Admiralty have carried out the following reductions:
2,074 ships have been sold;
070 others are on the disposal list for
sale;
69 have been disposed of by sinking,
by breaking up, or by gift. IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION.
If the Washington Conference is not to end in failure it must have behind it in the United States, and in Japan, as well as in this country, vigorous body of public opinion which is in favour of a limitation of armaments, and not merely Raval armaments, but military' arma menta. Our lead in that direction must not be ignored. Our Fleet fulfils a double Purpose. It not only serves the normal ends for which naval armaments are sup ported by other countries, acting as the rat line of defence of the British League 440,000,000, but it constitutes the essen- of Nations, with 2 population of
tial provision against the necessity of pro- viding conscript armies in the British Empire. Our Navy, as the experience of the Great Wat showed, is the antidote to invasion. The question of the reduc tion of armaments cannot be studied in two or even three water-tight compart ments by an island people like ourselves,
It may be questioned whether, the people even in these islands have any con- ception of the extent of the reduction in the British Navy, which has been carried out in the interests of public economy since the armistice was signed, for ships are expensive to maintain even in reserve, the one labelled "Navy" and the other The result of careful study of the Navy Army and a third "Air Power." List would come as something of a revela Our position to-day remains highly arti- tion to our own people, and certainly the ficial. Sometimes elaborate computations Americans have to idea of the radical are made of oversea trade, revenue, measures which have been taken to population, and coast line in relation to economise on the British Fleet I give naval power. But the Navy representa; below a remarkable statement of the ex- to us, as it does not represent to any tent to which the active flect has been cut other nation to anything like the same down, ships in reserve being given in parentheses:→→
Date of AOTICK. All in fall Commfaden
OCTOR, 1019. Avau, 1927. InCommission In Commission and Reserve, and Reserve.
38
Battleships ... 61. 20 Battlecruisers 86 Cruisers ... 38 2 Light Cruisers 110 Flotilla Leaders 28 14 payers.407 104
Carriers 9 Monitors 33 Submarines ...197 03
(21) Minelayers 1-1 (2) Eloops...
.126 Fatrol Boats118
2
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degree, our food, our freedom, and even our lives. Moreover, when we think of the responsibilities of the Fleet we cannot forget that it is also the first line of de- fence of every section of the widely- (3) 4 (4) the partnership which exists, but at pre- scattered British Empire... We speak of (4)
Bent it is an unequal partnership, so far (18) 32 (19)
as defence is concerned, because we bear. in these islands practically the whole (107) burden of protecting the ses interests, as well as in large measure the land in- (0)
terests, of every Dominion, Crown Colony, and Dependency, and also of India. In face of these heavy responsibilities, the Grand Army of 1916 has disappeared, and, in reliance upon the Fleet, we are maintaining smaller military forces than Lat-ang-period-since-this-century opened. Bimultaneously with a reduction « mili tary strength we have pared down the Flest Daily Telegraph:
42 (38)
20+ (2)
20
(48)
13 plus 66
C.M. Boats & 80 Mine-
wcepera
(17)
at foot of neat półu
(18)
via Swadow, by four steamers fitted with up-to-date passenger accommodation.
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