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Growth And Efficiency Of Royal Indian Navy
The Royal Indian Navy of today has a very long and disting- uished record of service behir it. For over three centuries, to one form or another. it has existed as one of the fighting services of Great Britain but long before the English went as traders to Ind'a in the end of the XVIth century Indian seamen bad guarded Indian interests at sea
Where trade muves at sea, it needs protection-in war against the country's enemies, in peace against pirates; and piracy has been one of the scourges of the Eastern seas until it was finally suppres- sed by the navy well into the XIXth century.
REGULATE SHIPMENTS OF CHEESE
IN CANADA
Shipments of cheese in Canada (process cheese, excepted) are re- gulated by an order of the Dairy Products Board, dated May 23, 1941, Only authorized shipments may be made into the Maritime
from
When in their turn the English men in those strenuous wars of Provinces, and likewise only au- arrived, they had to fight their the XVIIIth century a proportion thorized shipments may be made way into the coveted trade against of Indian ratings was employed into Ontario and Quebec the Portuguese who, not unnatur-rising to as high, in the latter British Columbia and the Frairie ally, wished to retain their mone-years, as a third of the whole; and Provinces. poly, So one of the first acts of from all the East India Company was to themselves well throughout.
accounts they quitted
The order reads as follows: (a) equip a squadron of fighting ships,
That no person shall ship Ched- But when the Royal Indian Navy dar cheese (process cheese exclud - which, under the command Captain Thomas Beat, fought were drawn from Indian sources Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Prince was established. all the ratings
ed) into the Provinces of New victorious three days' battle with as they had been in the Royal Edward Island, without authorisa the Forluguese off Surat in October Indian 1612; a battle to be followed three whose recruits were drawn almost Board.
Marine. Its predecessor, tion from the Dairy Products years later by another, fought by entirely from Ratnagiri, a district| Captain Nicholas Downton and re-to the southward of Bombay. sulting in an even greater victory.
BOMBAY MARINE
01
MORE CRAFT NEEDED
(b) That no person shall ship Chedder cheese (process cheese ex- cluded) from the Province of Bri That squadron was the parent of
There is, of course, no illusion tish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatche- the Royal Indian Navy of today. that India car undertake, by her wan, or Manitoba, Into the Fro Its headquarters were at Bombay,
own effort, her naval defence, any vince of Ontario or Quebec, with- where a dockyard was built which more than the Dominions of Aus out the authorisation from the sttil serves the needs of the Navy.
tralia, New Zealand, Canada or the Dairy Products Board. In 1686 this sea force was named Union of South Africa can do so. The Bombay Marine, and for about The Indian Navy, like those of tained from the Dairy Products sixty years after that date, unaid- the Dominions is a part of the Board, Ottawa, and must be sub- ed by any ships of the Royal Navy. Navy of the Empire, and if as yet mitted in triplicate, for approval I was the protector of the trade few in numbers and com- to the Dairy Products Board, un- of the Company in the Thridian posed of vessels of the lesser types less otherwise arranged. seas. It fought in the Persian Gulf, ita growth is certain and its us
on the coasts of India in suppres tar from negligible. The great de
sing piratical strongholds, in the Gulf of Aden and far away AP the China ses.
FOUGHT WITH DISTINCTION When the war of 1814 broke out the ships of the Marine were used as fighting units and its officers served in all the theatres of war
ith distinction.
mana today 15 for small craft; the cry is for more destroyers, sloops, corvettes and such like to deal with the submarine and even the
armed merchantmen which we are now seeing launched in numbers on our trade routes in the East.
Application forms may be ob
ISLANDS FOR RABBITS ONLY
Rabbits are to be allowed to breed unhindered on a group of
This force of small craft, man- uninhabited. unproductive islands ned by well disciplined and cap off the west coast of Scotland so After the war the question arose able crews is a real addition to that vast numbers can be killed of whether the service should be that greater body, the Royal Navy for food. restored to its old fighting service on which the fate of civilisation There is ample natural food for as its people with their long hia-so largely depends in these critical them on the islands, which tory of the old Marine greatly de-times.
stred. and in 1924 a committee set
are
too bleak to maintain other ani- mals.
Farming experts in the High-
1. Delhi which recommended "the SARDINES FROM ands are already making a sur-
reconstitution of the Royal Indian Marle as a combatant force, to
enable Endia to enter upon the
first stage of her own naval de- velopment and nitimately to under- take her own naval defence"
MODEST ROLF
ENGLISH LAKES
Britain is now maging ner own "sardines."
vey.
Actually they are tinned perch CONSIGNEES' NOTICES taken from Lake Windermere, writes a reporter.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
THE. S.S."
From LONDON AND STRAITS
In the early stages a modest role was laid down for the Navy; prin- Four hundred traps have caught elpally, its duty was to be to train 250,000 perch th 12 days. A Leeds the personnel, and above that to firm is canning them. undertake certain services required) In less than a month these by the Indian Government in the "home-grown sardines" will be un Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, the market in large numbers surveying, and the naval defence: Packed six or eight in a tin in of the ports of India, of which both tomato and oll, they should mine-sweeping is one of great im-be, in great demand, portance.
expected that in a Its size was small. Four sloops, months season 50 tons of good two patrol vessels and some smal-food will be taken from Winder-hazardous and/or extra hazardous ler craft were all: and at the mere outbreak of the present war it consisted of five escort vessels of from 1,200 tu 2,000 tons and al patrol vessel, the last named since sunk by enemy action. Since then additions have been made.
It is
two-CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby being landed at their risk info the informed that all Goods are
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 6 to 12 Aug. 1941.
HIGH WATER.
Days of
Days of
Height
Low WATE
Hong
Kong
Standard
Height.
Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, whence and/or from the wharves
e obtained.
may be c
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods
11th maining undelivered after the i
All Claims
1041, will be subject to rent. against the vessel must the undersigned on or 1941, or they will
presented to
be
before
LOL be
18th Aug
To
the General Bonded Regulations Consignees tinnst have a Revenue Officer in atten- 22 dance when damaged dutiable goods
examined.
0218 13 2
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15 53
1. Connaughn Road.
INDIANS TRAINED AS OFFICERS: S
Ships are one part of a navy. The men who man them are the other, and these must be, first and, foremost, competent seanen.
During the present war some of Wed.] & the young Indian officers have been serving on board vessels in the fleet in--Home waters, perform Fri. ing the duties of their rank and gaining experience in the best Sat. school, the waters of the North SCB.
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Kong
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1800
17
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5- 2
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