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NEW BRITISH FLEET “A MATTER
OF LIFE AND DEATH”
FIRST LORD'S GRAVE WARNING OF
"STARVATION IN SIX WEEKS
London. July 11.
Sir Samuel Hoare. First Lord of the Admiralty, disclosed this after- noon that Britain is to have “virtually a new" Fleet ... strong enough to go anywhere and carry out its duties in any conditions.”
He added this grave warning: I our sen" communications are
six cut... within
weeks we should be dead of starvation." He spoke at Bouthampton.
We have delayed so long in the rebuilding of our Fleet that, We are now faced with the pro- blem of building what virtually amounts to a new fleet," he said.
possible exort will be made to
MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT NO. 1
First Of Six For The Navy
SPEED MORE THAN 40 KNOTS
London, July 13. Motor Torpedo Boat Number 1. in which His Majesty made a trip to Spithead in rough weather dur- Tuesday last, is the first of six similar craft building, or to be built for the Royal Navy by the British Power Boat Company of Hythe, Southampton.``
The first two of the type are now in commission. Their con-
ROADS— YESTERDAY TO TO-MORROW
FIT FOR MODERN TRANSPORT
London, July 15.
The task of making roads fit for modern transport is in the first place a matter of engineering. But it soon becomes much more. In the countryside it presents one,
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complicated group of problems FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1996
farmlilar to those who would `pre- serve the amenities of rural dis tricts. In the big cities it presents others, not less complex, calling for the experience of many experts and for breadth of vision and to coordinate expert opinion.
These are illustrated by the con- troversy now going on in London en exit which must soon be cut densely bulit-up through old. suburbs obstructing traffic on 1 way to the broad arterial roads
beyond.
"That this new fleet should ing his visit to Portsmouth on concerning a “proposed new west- bullt upon the right lines is a matter of life and death to us. and I can assure you that every avall ourselves of the teachings of practical experience, of the dis-i
Most old cities are familiar with covertes, and inventions of science.
the problem in a greater or less and of the lessons of actual ex- periment to ensure the best destruction was announced by Lord degree. Around the inrier kernel Monsell in February last when he
of the city is a zone covered with signs and the soundest methods
introduced. the Supplementary valuable properties and threaded of construction.
Navy Estimates
1935, and by streets inadequate to the ever- stated that. order to keep growing burden of road transport abreast of modern development, itTo cut broad avenues through such had been decided that these ves- areas is much more than an en- sels should be acquired for expert-gineering question." mental purposes.
seas
"LEAST POSSIBLE DELAY"
"As our life, depends upon free
the seven passage through of the world, the fleet must be strong enough
anywhere to go and to carry out its duties in any conditions. It is our determina- tion to have such a fleet and to build it with the least possible delay."
Sir Samuel said that the "new and formidable threat" of al power had made what was once the most secure Island in the world "the mast vulnerable society in Europe."
It was with the determination to reach at the earliest possible date air parity with the strongest Power within range of our shores that new squadrons were being created and new machines pro- duced.
In
for
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A QUANTITY OF
HOUSEHOLD VALUABLE
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Comprising
Teak Bed Boom And Drawing Boom Furniture, Black Wood Ware, Office and Dining Room Furniture, Ornaments, Pictures, Curtains, Linen, Brass & E. P. Ware, Porcelain and Glass & Ware, Typewriters, Gramo- phone and Records, Radios, Film Projector, Sewing Machines, Clocks, Piano, Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Cutlery, Filters, Electric Fans and Lamps, etc., etc."
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ROYAL ENTRY LEADS IN KING'S
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There is, frst, the obvious neces- Designed by "Mr. Scott Paine, the M.TBS have a length of 60 sity of considering the varying values of the property to be de- feet, and carry a couple of 18-in. torpedoes besides a number of molished. There is the architec- machine guns. Driven by three tural problem not only of making engines, each of 500 horse-power, the new route seemly but also of developed by the designer from preserving the nobler old houses engines used in aircraft. the little and other buildings which are part ships are said to have a speed of of the city's heritage from the is the further. more than forty knots. Manned past. And there
planning these by two officers and six or eight question of so ratings, their cost works out at avenues that they will meet the slightly more than £23,000 aplece. needs of the future as well as the which means that about fourteen present. It may be that the needs of them could be constructed for will best be met by the complete the price of one modern destroyer. reconstruction of unsightly areas; or by building an overhead road over an existing road or railway.
Inquiries of this kind, whether
London, July 15. well or ill-conducted, are apt to be prolonged over many years,
Piloted by its designer, Captain until, before they are completed NW. Percival, a new Mew Gull some of the problem has already entered by the Duke of Kent, put changed. This has happened in put up the highest speed of the London. The scheme for the day averaging 171.75 miles an particular route now under dis-hour in the eliminating contest
Arst Wa
considered or the King's Cup air race yester- "If our sea communications are the
twenty-five years ago; and the day. cut, we have. a supply of raw Ostend, they were also successful-authorities now have before them First off at the start, he led materials that will only last ourly used for laying smoke screens plans worked out in the utmost continuously throughout the race industries for three months. But Both off the Belgian Coast and in detall which some of the critics and anished at Hatfield half an that supply would be more than the "post-War operations in the declare to be already obsolete.hour before the next competitor, we abould need, for within ax
Baltic, their "torpedoes were used weeks we should need, for within
Moreover, some areas scheduled winning the £50 prize for his with effect. On August 19, 1919, a
Flight-Lieutenant Rose, last flotilla carried out a particularly for demolition contain roads and class, gallant and daring attack upon houses of historic memory and
Mra. Amy Mollison, the only wo- vessels-of-war in Kronstadt har- great intrinsic beauty which it year's winner, was fourth to arrive,
would
to destroy. Improper But the CM.B.s of the Great Some of the distinguished archi- man competitor in the race, met with bad luck in the afternoon, and was forced to retire. ence felt in modern British life are able only for work in the Enest weather. Their endurance was insisting that co-ordinating de- very limited, and in August, 1918, .partment should be set up staffed when a flotilla was taken into the with men of the highest qualiāca-
"THE CMBS OF THE WAR Coastal, motor boats, or CM,B3, as they were usually called, were "Let us remember the funda-employed in considerable numbers during the Great War. Varying mental fact," he added, "that. length from 40 to 70 feet, and while we wish to see all possible
of from 30 to 37 with speeds progress made in the air and upon knots, they were armed with the land, it is upon the sea that Lewis guns and "depth charges this country and this Empire deand could carry either a mine, or pend for their existence.
oire or two 18-in, torpedoes. In raids од Zeebrugge and
six weeks we should be dead of
starvation."
Later in his speech Sir Samuel sald;
bour.
cussion
be
. It is the fashion, in certain War were small, fragile craft, soft-tects who are making their infus
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The following fourteen competi
The Duke of Kent's Percival Mer tora qualified for to-day's final:-
Bald- quarters to disparage Mr. win's leadership and to belittle the National Government that he did so much to bring into being. Let 13 not be deluded by the Heligoland Bight for a reconnais- ] tions giving all their time to the Guli, pilot E. W. Percival (171.75 partisan criticisms of
op- sance inside the minefields, it was study of such matters. Experts.p.h.); Lord Wakefield's TK2, ponents...
Humble's Miles attacked by German, aircraft with are more than ever necessary. But Pilot R. J. Waight (162 m.p.h); W. Hawk (181.50 "If Mr. Baldwin needs an ans-machine-guna. Three vessels were the mere experts are not enough mph); Bir C. Guthrie's Fercival wer let us compare the England sunk or set on Ere. while others. They must be controlled by men
Vegar Gull, pilot Charlies Gardner. to-day with the England that was badly damaged, limped into Dutch trained to think "in terms of the (180.75 mph). left by the Bocialists who opposed territorial waters and were intern-whole-the local arca, and the the formation of the National ed. Government in 1931. If Mr. Bald- The new M.T.B.s are faster than win needs a reply it is suticlent their predecessors. In addition to to imagine the state of this coun- which they are much more habit- try if at this critical moment the able and seaworthy, and keep the Socialist leaders of the Opposition sea" for longer periods. Better were once again in office.
armed, they could also give a good themselves against account of
aircraft, and being low-flying. small and handy are practically immune from bombing
"More than any man in this Country the Prime Minister standa for a contented England"
Fast motor torpedo-boats of one sort or another figure in other
GERMAN MENACE navies The French have nine
TO JOURNALISTS
London, July 16.
"Vedettes Torpilleurs a Moteurs," with displacements of between
Ave and
country--to-day, and past and fu- ture."
MRS. RUDYARD KIPLING IS ILL
IN HOSPITAL WHERE HER HUSBAND DIED
London, July 16,
To-day she was visited by her
daughter, Mrs. George Bambridge,
and an "Evening News repre- sentative was told at the hospital that her condition was "quite com- fortable."
Lady Wakefield's Miles Hawk. pilot Fight-Lieutenant Rose (180.- 50 m.p.h; The Marquis of Lon- donderry's Percival Gull, piict Ar- thur Reginald Falk (180.50 m.p.h.); C. W. A Beott's Miles Falcon (158.50 m.p.h.) P. H. Maxwell's Muêsparrow Hawk (155.75 m.p.h.); Lord Willoughby de Broke's B.A.4. Double Bigle, pliot Right-Lleuten- "ant Wilson (150 m.p.h.).
Captalh G.“ De Havilland's D‚H. 90 Dragon Fly (138.35 mph); W. L. Hope's Comper Swift, pilot E. J. Wilson (133.50 m.p.h.); Flight- Lieutenant A. E. Clouston's Miles (130,50 m.ph); Flight-
HAILE SELASSIE FOR AMERICA
The "Evening "News" learns that! Falcon nineteen tons, armed with small guns and torpedoes. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the 70- Lieutenant D. W. F. Bonham- Hawk (126.25 The newest, designed for 46 knots, year-old widow of the poet, is in Carter's Miles
Middlesex Hospital with an illness m.p.h.); T. H. O. Richardson's are said to have dona 52-55 an
Comper Swift (120 m.ph.).. If British subjects are liable to trial. Germany has fifteen that has not yet been diagnosed. arrest on the mere suspicion of "Schnellboote." "averaging 50 tons having contributed to British displacement, reputed to periodicals in a manner the Ger speeds of about 40 knots, and man police consider unfavourable armed with two 19.7-Inch for (Miss Wiskemann, incidentally, ap- pedoes in tubes and one 1-poun- pears to have been in England; dx anti-aircraft gun
Mrs. Kipling, is in the Woolaving. when the article was written), then Italy alsó possesses a number of no one who writes about Germany craft known as "Motoseran Anti-ton wing of the hospital on the same floor as that in which her with any objectivity is safe as a Sommergibil," or "MAB,,“ vary- visitor there. And if the German ing in size from twelve to thirty husband died last January police condescended to release Miss tons, and with speeds up to about With her daughter, she kept vigil They are variously over her husband's bedside daring Wiskemann merely in the interest 40 knots. of Anglo-German relations there armed with light or machine his liness, and since then she has
and depth not been in the best of health. would seem to be a threat that guns,torpedoes.
such arrests may be repeated and charges. The latest British cficial may lead to long detention or im- return quotes the number bullt as prisonment when the Olympic 42, with one more under construc
the type is Games are over or when Germany, tion. However, as for some reason or other, attaches known to be viewed with great lexs value to the esteem of this favour in the Italian navy, and country. Such actions and such such small craft can be built with menaces ought not to pass without great rapidity, it is probable that representations to the German by now this total has been cona Government."
derably exceeded.
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London, July 18 Unless Haile Selassie decides to return to Abyssinia, I understand that he will probably go to Ameri- ca, with a handsome platform contract, writes a correspondent.
When he first arrived he spurned such... vulgar suggestions⠀⠀ with dignity. Now, somewhat chasten ed by lack of European hospitality Three days ago her condition be and financial support from Gene- came worse, and she was advised, he is open to any offers which to go to hospital immediately, may enlarge his exchequer.
Princess Trabal ass already en- larged it by her platform appea
ances in England and Scotland. ought in about 215- For the Ethiopian cause.
BECAME WORSE
She went there from her horne. in Burwash, Bulsex, and is being attended by Sir Alfred Webb Johnson, the surgeon whe Mr. Kipling.
nded