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A GROUP OF "LIONS.
STRIKING ENCOUNTER BY HUNTER
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Mr. John Albion writes in the Sumlog alle, Vivienne de Watteville, of Berne, Pictorial: The announcement in the whose father, the big game bunter, was King's sperch that the Gavertinent pro-attacked, and killed by a lion in the pake to go on with the construction of the Belgian Congo while he was pursuing a projected new naval base at Singapore, white rhinoceros, gives further particu which was stopped by the MacDonald | Jars of the expedition which led to her Administration, has caused dismay among father's. tragic death in a letter just advocates of national economy.
recowed by her fanvils."
If this is the spirit in which the new Government ar gvtting to work, instead of reducing taxation they will have to increase it.
The official estiamted cost of the Singa pore base is £10.500,000. No, public work of this character has ever been carried out at Singapore except at an enormous increase on the original estimate, and it is probable that the cost will be not less than £20,000,000.
Mlle de Watteville's lotter quoted in the Tana River and gives a striking account Dailyk Lapwear was sent from Pampon of an encounter the bush with seven lions and, lionesses.
"Me had' a great adventure to-day,' she says. "We had just Snished break- fast when two excited natives rushed up and informed as that four lions" wert asleep in the long grass wear us. seized our rifles and some food, and spot, walking along the dry bed of.
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curring cost, for we shall have to keep a far larger white garrison at Singa- pore than in the past.
Major-General Siz. J. Davidson, a dis. tinguished member of Lord Haig's staff in the later stages of the Great War, said in the Singapore debate last March that there was absolutely no necessity to keep large: Jan force on the spot, because you can bring it there in sufficient time." How could be convey a British Army seven thousand miles and get there. in time"?
i saw the Russian Fleet draw up be Lore Port Arthur in 1904 shortly before the Japanese attacked it one dark night in February. The Russians had a mili. tary garrison of 47.000 men in Pors Arthur, but they were cut off and 30,000 surrendered. "We are going to make a Port Arthur at Singapore,
We are told in the resolution passed by the last Imperial Conference that the new naval base is intended to protect the territories and trade of the Em. pire in Eastern waters." But whom are we going to fight there?
There are only two naval Powers in the Pacific to-day, and they are Japan and the United States We could never; fight, either of these Powerful navies from a base at Singapore: Our naval domination of the Pacific passed long
ago.
Mr. Loopaid Amery, who was unce First Lord of the Admiralty, dis now Colonial Secretary, has urged that this base 'should be made because every year £1,000,000 worth of our traffic passes through these Eastern waters. He says that something like £160,000,000 of our ships and cargo are always afloat in that area, and Singapore is the only place from which they can be effer tively defended and protected,"
cot sering any sign of the beasts, decided to return to camp, when suddenly seven lions, and lionesses appeared in front of yards away. us out of the thick, high grass only fifteen
"I was so surprised that a lion walked a few yards before me and I did not even think of shooting at it, though my riffe was in my hands. It was u fascinat- ing and thrilling experiencs to be sur rounded by those large lions. Father shot and wounded a lion, which with five others promptly disappeared in the high grass, but the biggest beast with a black mane stood still, looking at us various ly.
Father had time to take careful aim and the lion, fell, but soon got up and bounded into the high grass.
"We found the two lions dead later, and the natives, carried their bodies to the camp, where there was much re- joicing that night. The black lion was 2 splendid specime and its skin will adorn the museum at Be according to father's wishes.
"It is a curious fact that none of the ions made an attempt to attack $19 though they were within springing dis
tance and in a way we were at their Mieres."
Me de Watteville's father was attack-
ed only a few days after her letter was written and die in his daughter's arms.
We are going to make this naval base, verge of the equazor, in one of the worst up a fever-baanted mud creek on the
climates in the world. A medical man who knows Singapore well tells me that the selected site is an absolute fever-
I am fairly familiar with Singa trap. pote myself, and say emphatically that It is no place for crowded super- battleships.
Moreover, the battleship is doomed nyway, and will soon be as obsolete as the ichthyosaurus. We are going to build these immerse tropical docka för a type This argument of Mr. Amery's is het fighting ship which will have disap- feeblest and most preposterous plea yot peared long before the docks are finish. advanced in defence of the Singapore. A battleship now-a-days is nothing proposal. It must be obvious that the hut a background for an admiral plas moment guna begin to shoot in the tered with gold Ince. Pacile the whole of that British trade would disappear. ·
If there is one thing more than an other which makes me profoundly dis trust the Singapore scheme it is that it bas received the fiery advocney of Mr. Leopold Amery. He may not have been its original anthor, but he forced it through.
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Mr. Amery's Intimates respect his talents and his energy, but they have long been aware that his judgment is almost invariably at fault. He is the most impetuous and hot-beaded man in his party, and it was largely owing to his incitement that Mr. Baldwin made the disastrous blunder of precipitating the General Election which let in the Socialists.
The next contention advanced in favour of the Singapore scheme is that. in some incomprehensible manner it is expected to protect Australia and New | Zenland." *Against whom It can only
be Japan.
The impoverished British taxpayer in to be invited to pour millions upon millions into the, seu for the supposed additional security, of his brethren at the Antipodes What share of the cost will be borne by the Dominions under the Southern, Cross 1
New Zealand, which clamours for the bace, has offered the munificent sum of £100,000 Australia has so far not pro- mised anything at all, and the Australian Labour Party has condemned they whale project. It is well known that Canada will not contribute one single penny, while South Africa refuzes even to look at the proposal. India gives no help whatever. P
What is worse is that the Australians
will not even take the most elementary and obvious step to protect themselves. Their rich Northern Territory lics empty and defenceless,;.ne bare as the paunch of the purser's sow," the Naboth's vine ard of the Empire, and alluring invita tion to the whole Eastern world.
They steadfastly neglect to build a strategic railway to the unpeopled North, although for twenty years they have wrangled about whether a line so im. peratively required should swerve aside to feed the rapacious maw of Sydney in stead of following the natural coursq
AGENTS duce north from Fort Augusta. Before We offer you our services as buying they ask us to find millions for their agents for British, or Continental good security they should set their own house Established in 1844 but thoroughly up-to-in order." date, our success is attained by making our Mr. Lloyd George, who (breaking out in a fresh place) seems likely to be the only sincere advocate of economy in the
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of goods giving our customers all the advantage of wide we are paying 2 in the £ on the in- experienne, and ensuring their requirements come-tax in respect of money advanced beingrightly supplied at lowest prices and to the Allies or borrowed for them." That is nearly half the income tax. Is this a time to engage in further mad and wasteful enterprises?
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At the last moment an absurd anti- climax has arisen. The Government have caused it to be announced through their journalistic henchmen that Holland, who has great Eastern possessions, views the Singapore scheme favourably, and that there is every prospect of an Anglo-Dutch naval entente!
Frodigious! The whale and the sprat will link fine. If this fatuous disclosure does not kill the Singapore scheme noi thing will
It ought to be explained that these doubtless severe criticisms are made in no spirit of general hostility to the Gov
rnment, but the Sunday Pictorial has condemned the suggested waste at Singa pore from the outset, just se it condemns waste in Mesopotamia, Palestine and at.
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