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[BY ADMIRAL MARK KERE, C,B., M.Va.] Memory in matters of war is very short in this country. It is proposed to expend nine and a half millions on making a base for big ships at Singapore. Let us think for a moment what our battleships did outside the North Sea during the late
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MACAO, NOTES. ·
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·TRE `CAMER: INTERRUPTION..
• cannot blockage the enemy's floch for fear of flotilla and miner, and if they meet with the battleship of the future, the enemy's projectiles, the" 21-inch torpe dots, will be hurled at them from a dis- - Owing to dredging operations thus to e- tanew of 90) mites, with a smoke serven graphic cable between Hongkong and to protect the aeroplane in the dual at Macao was broken.
tack, while their own guas cannot reach the attacking ship, nor can they so the aeroplanes which discharge the torpedoes |
of phant 1,000 yards.
These experiments have been carried out most successfully by a foreign nation. We have dabbird in the also with success. but was stop at the early, experimental
HORSE RACING!
For the first time in the history of Macao a rags meeting" fór, pant's is to
WHOSE MONEY?
"OWNERSHIP OF £m DISPUTED.
Apart-hear ense, occupied the atten tion of his Honour the Puisue Judge (Mr. Justies Gomperti) at the Summary Court yesterday afternoon, in which a seruan named Chan Chaissuing the Tung Shing Kwok Firm of No. 105, Des Voic Road West (deseribe as boarding-houso
from behind the smoke serven, as a range organized il Maene. The area to keepers, and stated by Mr. A. E Hall. used will be the site of the paddy fields their solicitor to have also acted us. rectly filled lü, not far from Flora letter carriers into the interior of China); Oshers of ponies in Hongkong and for the recovery of £20, being the money. Shanghai will be invited to send their paid to the defendants as agents for the ponies to help to make the affair a plaintiff for the purpose of paying sa snecess. It is intended to hold the meet. to the plaintiff's wife in or about the inouth of December, 1920, or January, ing some time in the Autumu,"
1941, which the defendants neglected to
atuge,
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A NEW DARAGE"
At the commencement, before the enemy had discovered the power of the submarine 12 an attacker and a minelayer, battle- ships patrolled in the Channel and iba Mediterranean, while troops were being transported across thous waters to the
Our battle fest at Soupa was of great seat of war. After the submarine had se in the last war, because of the geo- destroyed two or three ships, this patrol graphical position which places Great I am told that through the enterprise ting crased, and the battle Hects went into Britain between Germany and the ocean of the Hongkong Hotel a hew garage their harbours,
ways. The Grand Fleet" in being pre- is being established in Macas by Mesars. Taranto held the Italian and the British vented the High Sen Flevet from forcing Luz, Leitao & Co. and a number of battle fleets safe from enemy attack for exits and entrances for their battle Sindebaker motor-ears have niready been the remainder of the war. "Malta" and "praisers to take charge of the high sea | shippal to Macio, Toulan munde avèurn the French, Fleet, routes, and by sweeping away our light Pola was a safe refuge for the Austrians, cruisers allow their own vessels to ceni-
Mr. Manuel Salvado, whose stare was and as far as the war was eonetrard, and mand the lines of communication,
closed by the Authorities petitioned H. the influence that they exerted on it, all!
the Governor to be allowed to re-open it, these battleships might just as weil been
It was an expensive method, because it His Excellency, acceding to Mr. Salvado's I reposing at the bottom of the sen,
locked up millions of money, and thou-request has permitted the re-opening of the This strategy was a perfectly correct sands of men and guns, and also for its store. one, and only in one way could it have
"protection it took nearly one hundred been improved on. They should have copied the German plan after the Battle destroyers and many other small craft of Jutland hail been fought, and landed away from their proper business of hunt ing the enemy's submarines, and clearing their guns and their Dien
the waters for our own convoys and com- nshare.
munication. VI
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FAR-FLENG BASE.
Serve!
Supposing Singapore is made a bag for! capital ships. Are we going to knop a| flect of them stationed in the Far East? If not, are we going to send out battle ships escorted by flotillas taken from their proper duty of hunting submarines for the whole period of the voyage out, and the war!
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It will be a long, perilous journey round the Cape of Good Hope, and no peice until they get to Singapore, for every harbour of the way out is open to attack and every mis of the journey may con- tain a submarine or aircraft. If, on the way, they pass within 200 miles of the battleship of the future, that is to say, an aircraft carrier, they will be attacked from a distance far outside the range of their guns or the circle of their vision.
The remnant of the fleet that arrive Eninjured at Singapors will get inside the cloed harbour, like the battleships throughout the late war, and not put their poses outside again, for fear of being sunk, and also because there is nothing for them to do if they do go out..
They ashnot approach an enemy's coast for frar of the Rotillas of the air and the sea, and the peril of mines. They are too big and expensive, and consume too much fuel to be of any use in-hanting enciny's transport or supply ships, and as they always have an escort to protect them from submarines they are a positive hindrance to the work, which could mach better be done by their escorts, without the nuisance of having an extra bhip to
look After
MILLIONS LOCKED, UP..
CAMA MODEST. "
RECLAMATIONS,"
do.
Mr. W. B. Hind appeared for the plains. tip and Mr. A. E. Hal for the defends ants.
Whey the case was Best mentioned in Court some time ago Mr. Hind explained, that the enso would not take long, and yesterday Mr. Hall told His Lordship that, he hoped to fish the case within an hour. Yesterday's hearing exceeded the hour, and in the end it was decided to put the case back until Friday, 6th July, His Lordship describing the case as interminable":
The secre
Mr. Hird's submission was that the Work has been proceeding for nearly six money was not paid over to the plaintiff's mouths on the new reclamations in the wife at all whilst Mr. Hall's case was Inner Harbour near the wharf of the that, the defendants had met their obliga Hongkong, Cantor arid Macao Steamboat tions by paying the money over to 3 Co. Progress has been very slow. The person who produced a letter which give In our preparation for the last war our operations are using considerable ob him authority to receive it.
struction and residents in this district aretary of the Guild (The Tung Shing authorities had not taken into account the new pewers" of the air and under-complaining of the unpleasant odours in Kwok), he said, received the money from water which were coming into being. Wo addition to the blocking of the roadways. London and he was asked by letter to now know that mines, submarines and the air eat more effectually blockade coun- trie, inside the North Sea and English Chanel than any amount of mammoth ships with mammoth guna.
BOXER LESSON FORGOTTEN MR. DAVID FRASER'S VIEW OF
inform the plaintiff's relatives" in the country that he had received the remit tance. He wrote to the country" "stat ing that they had received the money from Chan Chai and advising them upon WHAT IS NEEDED.
reeipt of the letter to camo to Hongkong The battleship of the future will be an In his Diary of the affairs of China and collect it."On receipt of that letter aircraft carrying ships, with a secondary in the British Chamber of Commerce the plaintiff's wife together with her armament of guns for defener against Journal, Mr. David. Fraser (the Times sister-in-law came down to Hongkong ftillu attack. The ports of call along Correspondent at Peking) writes:--- armed with the letter and called for the the lines of sea communications will heAs a consequence of all that has gone money. On production of the letter the protected by flotillas of the sea and nir, before we have the Lincheng outrage, a Secretary handed over the money and which will make each of them into a sane deliberate attempt by brigands to use a they had a memorandum showing the tuary, with a circle of safety of about 300 batch of foreigners captured at random the money was paid in two instalments of miles radius into which no enemy can to put prezente on their own Government. $40 on the 13th February, and $9.66 [OR 1trate with safety for fear of mines The bandits, threaten to kill the foreigners the 17th February.
is they do not get what they want. Mr. Hull said the money was paid ta Fand Actillas.
Bandits have learned that the kidnapped a member of the family and he would foreigner is a trump card in dealing prove that a person named Cheung Si bad. with their own authorities, and they now received the money and the plaintiff's have a handful of trumps. And it is wife had received part of t perfectly plain that the Lintheng outrage The Manager of the Tung Shing Kwok will be repeated ad infinitum throughout Firm. evidene to the effect that the" Chine if we striking steji is tut taken money, was paid to a man named Wong by the foreigner himself to prove what Yuk Ping (who was later described as the there is behind him. Foreign Powers husband of the plaintiff, wife's sister)., showed their teeth during the Boxer I reply to Mr. Hind, the witness anid "Rebellion, and all China for years after he did not know that the man Wong Yuk wards remembered it. But new genera Ping had a claim against the fucaily and tious aro growing up who have forgotten that he used the money to settle the the lesson. It is necessary again for the
telaim. foreigner, to assert himself, or assureilly his position in this land will speedily bromo impossible.
"In and out of these sanctuaries the friendly craft will be passed by their own aircraft, who will know which exits and entrances are safe from attack and ob servation. Outside in the broad ocean the communication vessels will trust to ova son, which will almost invariably be resorted to in certain places where the a is narrow, or the enemy are being successful,
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Singapore will be very valuable as one of these sanctuaries. The docking acecaz. modation required will be for flotilla and vesacls of a convoy, and possibly for an
aircraft carrier. Floating docks are the most suitable because they can be moved The battleship then degenerates into a from one place to another, and also be floating barracks for 800 officers and men, cause they are les vulnerable than a who would be much better employed ingraving dock to attacks from the air, as vessels suitable for the work of keeping not only can their position he altered, but open the sea communications.
they can also be sunk for the time in the depths of the s
A pavy never bas, and never can, win a war. It lives for communications. The army never has won a war without the navy, for an army lives on its communi- cations.
NEW DAYS AND 'WAYS.''
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gave
The widow of a man named Cheung
Chek, who was described as a sister-in- law of the plaintiff, was next called. She. There is no need for any drastic said that, acting on the instructions of measures, for at present there is no the plaintiff's wife, she came to Houg evidence of any widespread anti-foreign kong and handed the letter to Wong Yuk feeling. The situation merely is that law
is in abeyance, rognery, rampant and the Ping (her elder brother) and he obtained, the money for her. She gave part to the Government unable to provide the protec tion for foreigners that it would gladly plaintiff wife and the rest of it was concede if it could. In these circum spent by her on religious ceremonies on The Committer of Imperial Defence stances it becomes necessary for the behalf of her dead husband who had die is supposed to be studying these forcigu Powers to convince the Tuchung in London. problems, but so far one has not and others who misrale this land that if Cross-examined by Mr. Hind the wit heard of anyone being on it, or question- they cannot maintain respect for foreign nes denied the suggestion that she had ed by it, who takes the point of view that treaties, life and property within their quarreled with the plaintiff's family oven But weapons have changed. The pre- sent type of battleship dare not blockade, the air and submarines have altered the borders they will have the foreigner the money. She also denied that the nor even cruise about the ocean, for fear methods of warfare. Unless some notice repeat his mursion of 1900. There is plaintiff's wife had told her that the of the night and day prsty that have come is taken of the new school of thought, and only one way to convince the Tuchans of money had been seat from London by her into being. This is the most important some of its protagonists are called in to their duty, and of the risk they run if husband for her own use point, and is crucial to the whole argu- give their opinions and be cross-examined, they fail to perform it, and, that is by His Lordship pointed out that it only ment. The defenders of the policy of the Committes of Imperial Defenes will imediately reinforcing the foreign appeared to be a question of authority as building these obsolete forms of capital be employed on the old and fruitless jub troops now in China, Another battalion to whom the money should be paid. After from each Power: now represented by further evidence had, boen called. His ship have been asked to give their reasons of flogging the dead horse,
armed forces will be sufficient for the Lordship adjourned the case to enable for this wasteful expenditure, but they
A COLOGNE INCIDENT,
present. It is the moral effect that in Mr. Hind to re-call the plaintiff's wifa. have never produced a single argument An incident which occurred in the wanted, proof that there is substantial from the country to give further evidenca
Cologne area within the last few days force behind should the occasion warrant on the matter.
There is, apart from Lintheng, a real surely gives the members of the Canet food for thought and makes them think crisis in the affairs of China, resulting IRRITATED & INFLAMED EYE a little more about what is meant by "the from the prevalent anarchy, the insolvency can be directly traced in many cases, id Command of the Air." It is to be hoped of the Government and the partial as the Sunday Motor trip and Goling. The dust from sections of the local toida The situation has long been loudly contain a decided eye irritant." A suga
that will hold water.
In strategy it is only advantageous for one side to fight a general engagement, The side that wishes to do so will be the one who is getting beaten in the war for
communications.
prescribing remedies. If they do not
Will that side send its buttle fleet across that they will recollect throughout their prsion of commerce End enterprise. an octah, knowing that the other side deliberations that London can be brolling for foreign attention, and it would will not allow its battle flext to leave the up and the factories round it destroyed be well if the Powers now tock advantage the windshield up and to use a pair of
for gretion these trips would be to keep. harbour, and that, on arriving within two by attack from the air before, a single of the present opportunity seriously to glasse Sun gisases of any pattern or three hundred miles of the enemy's sailor or soldier has had a sight of the inquire into the situation with a view to with either Crookes, Larfel, Tiguzal, coast, they will be attacked night and
enemy. day by all the pests which they ordinarily
When they think of this matter it should choose to move, they will sasuredly, have Amber Landon Smoke, wish to avoid file the devil, and against nur to them that nine and a half millions trouble of a far-reaching kind un their are obtainable at very mo which they have practically no defence?
expended on a big-ship base at Singapore hands in the near future. For the mo from The Hongkong What then, is the use of the present will be useful in kemping Chinese labour ment, however, the essential necesity in sore to Clark & Co. type of battle fect? It cannot hunt com-up an
the creation of a moral effect by the rein- in employment, but, as far as the British forcement of the Tientsin garrİBON.COM merer, or protect it. If it goes forth when
Empire is concerned, it would be better the enemy do not wish for general engagement, it will run into a hornet's spent on putting us safer in the air and nest, and get severely handled without reducing the number of the unemployed
in this country-Evening Standard. any prospect of doing good.
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