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LAY LIEUT COMMANDER J.M. KENWORTHY IN THE WORLD."]
LONDON, August 15th
By the naval programme passed by the British House of Commons on July 29th a definita lead is given by Britain in ship construction to the whole world Prior to this programme the building of the new type of 10,000-ton cruiser by the various Powers was as follows:
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The war ended with the obliteration of the German Navy as a fighting force. The Admiralty was at a loss for some years as to what policy to pursue. There were those who' pointed" to the strength of the American feet greatly enlarged during the war, and pointed to America as a convenient power against which to build warships. But this was too much even for the somewhat ill-informed and credulous British to stomach...
Also the wealth of America after the war and the comparative poverty of Bri- tain made it clear that a race embarked on by the British Empire and the United States in ship construction could only end in three ways, viz: The outbuilding of Engined by América, or the bank- ruptcy of Britain, or war." It is impon sible to say what would have happened. if the Washington Conference had not been called and resulted in the rationing of the battle fleets of the principal naval Powers.
To this must be added two cruisers building for the Australian Government Fire of the new type 10,000 ton cruisers
"During the few years of bewilderment actually building for Great Britain now in the Admiralty Office following the war, were hid down by Mr. Ramsay Mac- the civiliana "and the Treasury, managed Donald's Labour Government. When the to hold the Sea Lords in check; and many new programme is put in hand, which it vessels in process of construction were will be during the present financial year scrapped and a new war vessels com ending March, 1928, the British Admiralty menced. But already at the time of the will have building nine cruisers, tind summoning of the Washington Confer proposes to lay down three more in cachence a substantial programme of battle. of the next four years up till the end of ship building had been decided upon. the financial year of: 1929, 70-5
BIG NAVY SCHOOL
At first sight it might appear that Great Britain is deliberately aiming at were not satished with America as a con- The majority of the big navy school naval hegemony. This is not really the ventional rival and they turned their case. The alleged continuity of policy of the Labour Government in continuing to gaze from the West to the East Japan add to the fleet is explained by the had a strong navy." And the Japanese Labour leaders themselves, who say therent language. Japan therefore became were a strange people, speaking a differ- assumed office when the estimates were the convenient bogey to be used to nlready in draft, that they were raw and frighten the reluctant inexperienced, were faced with strong
taxpayer into demands from the British Admiralty and Faying the bills for naval shipbuikling. the Naval War Staff, had not an indepen- across the North Sea the English were When be German menace appeared dent majority in the House of Commons content to withdraw their battle squadron and feared a doubtful attitude on the from the Pacific and to leave only a few part of the Liberals.
cruisers to maintain British prestige and security in the Far East.
"RACE" NOT DELIBERATE But though it is a fact that, by the victory of the naval chicla over the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a new race in naval construction has been initiated, this is not deliberate. Great surprise and indignation will presently be expressed; and it will be perfectly genuine, by the Blue Water school, known popularly as the Blue Fank" school, when other nations follows suit and embark on, a large programme of cruiser construction in their turn
To-day the Naval Staff declares the centre of naval power has shifted to the Pacific. Hence the decision to construct a great naval dockyard and base at Singapore. Herce the original demands of the Admiralty hot to lay down the comparatively modest programme three to four cruisers a year as at pre- sent, but the nine or ten a year which were seriously, promised by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, just before the general election of 1993
of
It was true the Washington Conference The real policy pursued is very simple, had limited the construction of battle. It is the result of a continued contest ships. But no limit was placed to: the between the naval chiefs. the permanent number of cruisers. Only their size and officials of the Admiralty and their poll the calibre of their guns were limited, tical supporters on the one hand, and the This new type of cruiser of the limit of Cabinet as a whole, including the Chan- size and power permitted by the Wash- cellor of the Exchequer, in particular, onington Treaty has become the standard the other hand,
of naval strength. The forward school The Navy Department always demands old vessels, wishes to maintain the pre at the Admiralty, by nominally replacing the greatest possible shipbuilding pro-seat proportion of modern cruisers on the gramme it can wring from a reluctant navy lists of the five principa! Fowers. Treasury. The Chancellor, of the Ex-These are:
ehequer and the Treasury chiefs resist these demands to the utupst and attempt to get off as lightly as possible. This struggle goes on behind the scenes every year, no matter what Government is is power in Britain.
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If the other Powers began building afso, as well they may, it is obvious that to maintain this standard would impose
Occasionally the civilians and the Treasury win, and, as for example, in the middle of the 19th century, the Navy was reduced considerably in strength. a strain on the British Exchequer which At one period, some 70 years ago, the British Fleet had less effective strength in sea-going vessels. than the French Navy of that day. And at that time France was the hereditary-and apparently per- manent enemy of Great Britain.
ALWAYS A REACTION..
ne country could stand. For these now craisers will cost more that $10,000,000 each, and when in commission $1,000,000 a year to maintain.
tive. It is partly instinctive and partly Nor is this policy deliberately provoca the result of a long-standing tradition. The more modem school excuses itself On these occasions there is always conference for the limitation of arma by sayng there probably will be another reaction on British public opinion. The ments and it is an advantage to go into British have the sea acuse developed | such a conference with strong cards in more than any other nation. Their En- the hand; in other words with a defined pire is scattered over the world and is building programme of great extent which held together by the oceans. Every year, can be abandoned at a gesture in order with an increasing population and the to agree to limitations. progressive decay of agriculture, Britain becomes more and more dependent on schools of hig navyites reckon without But both the forward and moderate seahome supplies. of foodstuffs and raw public opinion. This is seriously alarm- material. This dependency has been in ed. Even the Conservative Party with tensified in the present century by the its traditional support of the Davy is greater need of mineral oils, rubber, and uneasy. There is a feeling "among the nitrates which cannot be produced at pro-mass of the people that no war is pos sent within the country.
When these reactions come the pen dulum swings in an opposite direction. Thus we had the Naval Defence Act, when fixed programme of construction was decided upon for a series of years in the latter part of the nineteenth cen tury, and which at the time when the Boer War broke out had placed the Bri tish Fleet in a position of unchallenged supremacy as against the rest of the world.
CONVENIENT POTENTIAL ENEMY.
sible for five years, or probable for ten, while taxation is heavy and one of the canacs of trade depression. We may well see a return to the policy of the Con- servative Party after the fali Napoleon.
OLD-TIME DRINKS. THE EPICURE'S RECIPE FOR JULEP.
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Among a number of forgotten drinks Conquest recalls the time when julep was The Adiniralty cannot be blamed. Its in favour. function is to prepare as strong a Beet: This was a favourite drink of as possible. As it happens the Admiralty master of advanture stories, Captain drink of that is the most doeply entrenched of all the Marryat, who introduced it into Eng- Government departments. A threat of land from the Southern States of Ame resignation by the Board of Admirals can rica. He gave the following recipe for usually be relied on to create a panica mint julep:
apple. As the ice melts you drink."
and bring recalcitrant ministers to sul Put into a tumbler about a dozen mission. There may be a small minority sprigs of tender shoots of mint. (spear- of naval officers who desire war. Menmint); upon them put spoonful of trained all their lives to the use of a white sugar, and equal proportions of certain weapon seek opportunities of peach and common brandy so as to ill making use of their knowledge and skill it up one-third or a little less. Then It used to be an old toast, in naval take rasped or pounded ice and fill up messes: "Here's to a bloody war and a the tumbler. Epicures rub the lips of sickly climate," the idea being that the the tumbler with a piece of fresh pine promotion lists would be cleared by death and the survivors henefit accordingly. Syllabub was also a very refreshing The serious and responsible chiefs cer drink for hot weather: It dates from tainly do not want war. But they find the time of pastoral poetry-the middle it convenient to have a potential enemy of the eighteenth century, when Watteau Up to the commencement of the twentieth painted his charming shepherdcases. In century this enemy was France who, in those days no pienie was complete with her tur, had taken the place of Holland out, a syllabub, which was made of milk and Spain With the increase of power as it was milked from the cow. One old of the German Empire and the construe recipe anys: Place in a bowl a quart tion of the German fleet, Germany as the of ale or beer, grate into this a little next strongest Power stepped into the nutmeg and sweeten with gar; milk place of France. Only the student of his the cow rapidly into the bowl, forcing tory in years to come will be able as the milk as strongly as possible into the curately to appraise the importance of ale and against the sides of the bowl, the construction of the German Blect an to raise a good froth. Let it stand an a cause of the great war.
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