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U.S. AMBASSADOR'S LETTERS.
ENGLAND'S STOICISM.
A STRIKING TRIBUTE.
SHIPPING COMPETITION.
GREAT BRITAIN AND HER RIVALS.
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Bir Joseph Maclay, Tate Shipping Con- troller. prasided on December 2nd at the Readers of The "World's Work will turn twenty-sixth sanual dinner of the Insti almost instinctively to the further chaptate of Marine Engineers at the Hotel ter from The Life and Letters of Walter Cecil. There was a gathering of several H. Page," which figures in the December number of that magazine. The previous, instalments were so absorbing in their interest, so full of observation, so mas terly in their analysis of the men and events associated with the early stages of the gigantic struggle, that one turns with more than ordinary 'curiosiy to the new contribution, which deals with England under the stress of war.
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soch Jan, Noon. "FOOKBANG "Sat, Slat Jan, 3 Pe
Singapore; returning from Calcutta steamers procedia Strate
Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai.
Admiral Goodwin, replying to the toast of the Imperial Forces, spoke of the closer | CALUUITA "LINE-This Lane Pords regular sailings to Calentta, Penang and association that was being developed since the war between the Mercantile Marine and "the Royal Navy, particularly in respect to the Royal Naval Reserve, and said provision had been made now for reservists to be enlled up for training
arose before they were remembered.
SHANGHAI
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wookly
Mr. Pagi had one typically American annually instead of waiting, till trouble MANILA LINEA WOckly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good.
Rear-Admiral Suster, for the Air Force, HAIPHONG LINK.dation, sailings from both ports every Friday. aid Admiral Fisher was right in fore
for passengers and cargo, at Holhow when inducement offers. LINE-Fortnightly salling to and from MAUSANG" both steamers sesing in 1900 that the Navy' would re
HINSANG" and .. quire air forces as well as submarines in'
work.
characteristic-an inordinate capacity for During the months immediately following the outbreak of hostilities, the Embassies of the enemy' countries were
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handled over to the American Ambassador plenty, and he then started the Bayaj The extra work entailed upon him may Naval Air Service with himself (Admiral TIENTSIN be readily imagined, yet Mr. Page found Sueter) in charge, with one officer and time to send home his impressions and convictions.
There is striking proof of oos mechanic. But for the false economy BANGKOK his far-sighted wisdom in the views put of the Admiralty. they would have" had forward by him in a letter to Colonel rigid airships which on the day after House, written as far back as Septembar, 1914, when the war was not yet two Jutland, would probably have been ablo months old,
to account for most if not all, of the enemy "When the day of settlement comes, the ship that escaped. He urged that there settlement must make sure that the day should be a Ministry of Defence with of militarism is done and can come no
under-secretaries for the Navy, Army, more efficient and more more. If shoer brute force is to rate the and Air, as world, it will not be worth living in.
coonowica) than the present system. If German bureaucratic brute force could Sir Joseph Maclay, proposing The conquer Europe, presently it would try Shipbuilding and Engineering Industry." to conquer the United States," and we said that probably there was never in should all go back to the era of war as the history of those industries such man's chief industry, and back to the condition of things na existed at present- domination of kings by divine right. It After years of abounding prosperity they seems to me, therefore, that the Hoben- found themselves faced with a very seri zollera iden aust perish-be utterly ous position. After the Armistice the strangled in the making of peace. Just world seemed to lose its equilimriam, with how to do this, it is not easy to say. If the result that there had been a
collapse, the German defeat be emphatic snough | following the bursting of the bubble, that and dramatic enough, the question may | had gone on increasing for some time after Baswer itself-how's the beat way to be the end of the war, and even most "ex=" rid of the danger of the recurrence of a perierend chipowners had lost very military bureaucracy! But in any event heavily in that hurt. Now they had this thing must be killed for ever--some- the situation that the loss of shipping dur how.
ing the war had been overtaken, and the tonnage existing at the outbreak of the Mr. Pago writes with an abounding war had been greatly surpassed. With sympathy for England and her harassed a greatly increased tonnage and a vast people in those early days, and of his dimination of imports and exports they long and intimate talks with Sir Edward found an adequate reason for the condi- Grey, whom he saw almost every day. tions in the shipping world of to-day. There is something intensely, human in He was no pessimist, however, and there were bet his references to the British Foreign was no shadow of doubt there
ter times in store. It was no us being Minister, so bowed with care and respon
Britons loved sibility. He dwells with pride on theything but optimistic.
the sea; they were born to its and no success of volunteer and temporary aids, nation could step into an industry auch and points with admiration to the Un- stinted personal service giver day arxas shipping and make a success of it at night...
At that time he did not think once. He thought we had nothing to fear there would be need for conmription, and from any other nation in the shipping. gives incidents in support of the view.
RECRUITS' ENTBUSIAEN.
We were not a Government shipowning "I met the Dowager Countess of Dud- ley yesterday a woman of 5, as tall as nation, but there were many other States 1, and as erect, herself, as a soldier, who that were, and, though they did not
be taken might be for a womaa of 40, pre-always hear the truth about the profits maturely grey. I had five sons in the and losses, he thought they would all be Boer War. have three in war. I very glad to hand over the undertaking do not know where any one of them is. to private owners who knew something Mrs. Page's maid is talking of leaving about their business. (Laughter" and ber. My two brothers have goze to the cheers.) war, and perhaps I ought to help their The Countess and wives and children."
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manis, Zamboanga, Thursday the maid are of the same blood, each alike
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Wednesday 18th Jan, at 11 am. - Tuesday. 14th Feb, at £1 K90* KEW YORK, VIA PANAMA & CUBAN PORTS.
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NEW YORK via Suer.
Middle of Feb.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES vis CAPB.
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End of Mar.
BOMBAY 713 Singapore, Penang and Colombo,"
WAKASA MARU
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Monday, 30th Jan nis Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
Tuesday, 24th Jan.
TATSUNO MARU' NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
TANYO MARU
SHANGHAL. KOBE & TOKOHAMA.
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Wednesday, Friday. Wednesday
18th Jan
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unconquerable."
In a letter to his son Mr. Page gives a ...Mr. Page did not think with Lord fine picture of the social life of London as Kitchener that the war would last for it became in September, 1914. It is re- several years, but he admired theplete with sympathy and admiration. thoroughness of the English methods."
The English were slow in getting into This is the reason, they are going to full action, he writes, but now they never miss a trick" Or again:
he writes. To the President of the United States -he-imparts-bis views of English character is simple, direct terms:
The British are now going about the
Old Indies and gentlemen of the greas business of war as if they knew they world now begin by driving to my house would continue it indefinitely. The grim almost every morning while I am efficiency of their work, even in small breakfast. With many apologies for call. details. was illustrated to-day by the Goving so soon and with the fear that they erament's informing us that & German Interrupt me, they ask if I can make handyman whom the German Ambassador an inquiry in Germany for my son,* left at his Embassy, with the English or my nephew. he's among the mis- Government's consent, is a spy-that he sing. They never weep; their voices do sends yerbal messages to Germany by not falter they are brave and proud women who are permitted to go home, and and self-restrained. It geems n.sort of that they have found letters written by matter of matter of course to them. him sewed in some of these women's un- Sometimes when they get home they write. dergarments. This man has been at work
que polite notes thanking me for receiv- thore every day under the two very gooding them. This morning the first man men whom I have put in charge there, wat Sir Dighton Probyn of Queen and who have never snapected him. How Alexandra's household-so dignified and on earth they found this out, simply courteous that you'd hardly have guard passed my understanding "
his errand. And at interevala they come Proceeding to give further instances of all day. Not a tear have I seen yet. attention to every phase of activity, MrThey take it as a part of the price of great. Page continues:
ness and of empire. You guess at
their grief only by their reticecce. They use as few words as possible and then courte pusly take themselves away. It isn't an accident that these people own a fifth of the world. Utterly unwarlike, they out last anybody else when war comes. don't got a sense of fighting here only of endurance and of high resolve. Fight- ing is a sort of incident in the struggle to keep their world from German' douzination."
The Germans have far more than their match in mources and in shrewdness and in character. As the bloody drama un folds itself, the hollow pretence and essential harbarity of Prussian militarism become plainer and plainer: there is no doubt of that. And so does the invin- cibility of this race."
'EMOTIONAL. EXHAUSTION,
Despite his strength and endurance, those days of strain were not without effect on the American Ambassador:
Tou
That the war told on Mr. Page during the first three months is clearly seen from the letters written to his oldest and youngest sons. To the latter:
In fact, the strain on one's emotions, day in and day out, makes one wonder if the world in real-or is this a vast dream? From sheer emotional exhaus "The world all got itself so jumbled. tion I slept almost all day last Sunday, up that the bays are all promontories, although I had not for several days lost the mountains are all valleys, and earth sleep at all. Many persons tell me of quakea are necessary for our happiness their similar experiences. The universe We have disasters for breakfast, mined soems mued. There is a ghostly silence ships for luncheon, burned sities for dis in London (so it seema), and only dimper, trenched in our dreams, and bom. street lights are lighted at night. No ex-barded towns for our small talk.” perience seems normal."
indicative of Page, even in October, 1914, pronounced With almost prophetic instinct Mr. Mr. Page's fine character be refers in the world's ultimate judgment upon Gerr eulogistic terms, to our efforts on behalf many's action in Belgium: of Belgian refugees. to the work of Hoover in London, of Whitlock in Brat- "The devastation of Belgium defeats sels, of Herrick in Farin, and of 74 the Germans I don't mean in battle, but other fellow somewhere in Germany-o I mean in the after judgment of mankind. consul of whom I never heard tiff the They cannot recover from that half as other day
500% all he detects a quality economic losses of the war. The reducing as they may recover from the of these people to starvation-they will stick to damn them in history, whatever they win or whatever they lose."
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