FISHER AND VON
TIRPITZ.
The Triumph of the Navy,
"A.G.G," writes in the Daily News as follows-
Two events have taken place. this week which, when the his.
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is almost as iuviolate na the Ser British Navy has not only had all ponline. Over four months have the fraits of victory, but it is to page and not a German soldier day in a relatively stronger has landed on our shores, not an position than it was on the day enomy shell has fallen on our that war was declared, owing to soil. The specular raid to the enormously superior power of Yarmonth only served to show the building on which, in the cost inability of the German fleet tovareies of the past, this paper has make a real offensive stroke always insisted. We, in a word,
both eat the cake and have it. agriast this country.
The Two Men.
These invisible victories of the Fleet are the realities of warfare. !
But the failure of Garman They are destroying Germany tactics, after all, is only a tribute tory of the war comes to be wit-without a shot being fired. to British supremacy. For a ten, will stand out as decisive You take my life," said Shylock, dozen years two men have been landmarks in the struggle. With when you do take the means measuring themselves against the death of General Beyers the re-whereby I live." And it is the each other at sea and the war has bellion in South Africa has come to means whereby the lives that brought their relative genius to swift and utter collapse. It marks the British Navy is taking from the test. In all this vast conflict the end of one of the main hopes Germany. For an example take there is only one real personal upon which the caloniations of rahber. It is an 0980rtial in wrestle. It is that between Lord the Germans were based. It was modern warfare and the Navy bas Fisher and von Tirpitz. They believed that with the outbreak of taken it from har. The price of have watched each other's moven universal war the fabric of the rubber to-day in London is about for years, the one grimly and British Empire would fall into 2. lb; in Hamburg, I under-tudiously, after the Prussian dissolution. The failure of those ataud, it is 18a. Or oil. The hopes is the most significant Navy has just taken Bara in the event of the war so far, for it Persian Gall from the Turks brings into relief the conflict of The man in the street has not re- ideals behind the struggle and marked the fact. Yet Bisra is foreshadows more than anything the port for the Parsian oilfield. else has done the future of tho Its capture means what while history of the world. The Germany is without supplies of doctrine of German Imperialism, oil we are assured of an abundant the doctrine of a conquering supply from the Persisa oilfields, people imposing its iron rule upon of which the British Government Babject countries, has received ita is the principal owner. deathblow. The Liberal doctriae of an Empire based on. federation of free, salf-governing peoples has won its most con- spicuous, triumph. The shock has not broken the British Empire: it has revealed its strength. We know to-day, as we never knew
a con-
Von Tirpitz' Strategy. Meanwhile the German Grand Fleet lica idle in its harbours. In is not for us to complain, if vou Tirpitz yields us the fruits of victory without asking us for the encrifices of viotory. Bat it is not difficult to conceive the pro-
Promotes Men in All Parts
felanda bears testimony to the CHANGES IN U. S. wisdom of the battle craiser, which on not only throw the
CONSUL SERVICE. heaviest projectile the farthest distance but has the speed of the greyhound. It will show also, I President Wilson Transfers and think, the far-coing strategy which came back to the Admiralty when Lord Fisher, the youngest man of 73 in England to-day, resumed the control of the great instrument, that he forged during the sensational years when he was First Sea Lord.
There was one man, I am sure, who saw the announcement of his return with a sad heart. It was Admiral yon Tirpitz.
TURF CHATTER.
The Steeplechase Boom Continues,
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of the World.
These changes in the conanlar Washington, Dacember 14 service were made to-day by Pre- ar
the sarvio: sident Wilson in nominations to
Maryville, Tenn., Consul-General Edward S. Canningham of
at Singapore, transferred to Hankow.
These Consuls were transferred: Albert W. Pontius of St. Paul, Mine., from Nowabwang to Foo- chow,
Milton B. Kirk of Chicago, Ill., from St. John's, Quebec, to Orillia, Unt.
THE WAR AND THE
of paying for their uniforms! They are at reasont the only Fervants of the Sate that do have to pay for their own..
LOWER DECK.
Promotion From the Ranks
How Vacancies are Filled. To the mind of the average
Perhaps the sormat point of layman the Navy is a distinctly complaint on the lower deck at material service. When we write this juncture is the manner in or speak of a land battle we say which opportunities for promotion that the opposing armies consisted are being withheld from it. A very of so many thousands of men large number of commissions in action being anminarised in the agrountant branches have been but on anyone imagine feral the executive, siguemines, and
same terms? Take as an instanco granted to men who had never the unfortunate action. cf the before had the slightest experi of the month. The total German extent this was beyond question Chilean coast at the beginning nos of naval work. To a large
force comprised two armoured avoidable, as will be seen from and three small cruisers, while the fact that, besilee ommission- our own consisted of two armour-og every ship in the Reservo, ed cruisers and one small. In the Admiralty bave hired or pur- that form the opposing forcen chased over 600 shipa and trawl- will go down to history, and were from the merchant service. should probably raise our eyes if The grievance which the Navy we found anyone referring to the feals, bowover, ja that at least a battle as one between about 2,000 proportion of the vacancies for Fook C. Danison of Pittsford, British and 2,200, German »
offers should have been filled, na V., from Fernie to Prasoott, Oat,men. The curious thing is that they were in the Army, by pro
John Fowler of Boston, Mass., in spite of the general obliteration moting good men from the ranks. from Foochow to Rimonski, of the men, everyone realises and
The complaint is a legitimate Quebec.
admits that they, and not ships one, and well worth the attention and guns, are of the first import of the country. What has been ance. It may be perfectly true,
done in the cae of the accountant as Mr. Oher hill has told us more branch provides a trita illa- than once, that the Navy is tration of the whole. Among the stronger now then when the war chief petty officers of this bracch began. We have added to the there are literally scores of men Fleet more ships and better ships whose recorde for years past have than we have lost; but we have contained a strong recommends. certainly not replaced the 4,000 tion from their superior officers, men that we have lost to the executivo "and accountant, that enemy's cruisers in the Pacific, they should be promoted. But and to their mines and torpedoes she Admiralty regulations state in the North Sea.
that they cannot possibly be The Navy Estimates for this promoted above the rank of war-
151,000, and on August 5 the shall be allowed to rise su far; Government took permission to and so, whenever these recom raise another 67,000. Nothing mendations have been pressed, a has been said as to the progress many cases they have been, the of naval recruiting but assuming Admiralty have been able to reply that the additional numbere have with perfect truth that no vacan- been or will be recruited the total cies exist. man strength of the Fleet is ap proximately as follows:
Originally authorised,"
1014-15
151,000 Addition adthorised
Aug. 5
67,000 Royal Fleet Absorve 32,000 Royal Naval Reserve... 25,000 Royal Naval Volan-
·6,000
Carl F. Diechman of St. Joseph, M, from Nagsaki to Bombay.
Lucien Memminger of Charles tou, S. C., from Rouen to Madras, Lucien N. Sullivan of Lehigh, P., from Lapaz to Newcastle, New South Wales.
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E. Carleton Biker of Alameda, C., from Chungking to Nag
ataki.
James B. Gcolier of Utics, N.
before, that "the Empire is a found disappointment of Germany wake. Just when the hit Canal last, which was the second day Y., from Tahiti to Niagara Falls, year provided for a personnel of rant officer, and that only fifteen
reality, springing out of the sanctions of free communities, and bound together, not by canning material bonds but by spiritual sympathies and a common herit age of liberty. What more splendid tribute to the eternal trnth of the Liberal ideal could we have than this: that General Boths has saved Sath Africa to the British Empire? Had the Prussian ideal of Lord Miluer been followed, had the libertios &f Suth Africa been forfeited, wa know that to-day that great country would have fallen away from us almost without a struggle. Let us keep this in mind. It will illuminate much in this war, which, truly seen, is a straggle
for the soul of the world,
The Invisible Victories.
But leaving that subject for faller treatment, let us tara to the second event which is more instantand hardly less impressive. The striking victory off the Talk-
manner, the other with sardonic gaiaty after a manner for which I
(Our Special Vorrespondent) havs no parallel. Voa Tirpitz uns failed, not only because he
London, Dec. 18. The amazing boom in sport had the harder task, but becanue be has a heavier, more mechani under National Hunt rules oзn- cal mind. His evolutions are en- tinues. It would (our racing alosed by the large sweep and corespondent" Oratuur" writes) range of the other's imagination. have been remarkable enough in Von Tirpitz is governed by the normal circumstances, that is, in thing that is discovered: Fisher times of peace; but to find this is the discoverer, the man of free, state of things now is simplyamaz. adventurous mind, the great em- ing and nothing less. Last week pirio of the sea. He saw that the there was racing as Windsor and Navy was sterilised by tra lisions Gatwick, and we are assured on of the past which had no relevance the authority of the respective to new facts and having dorespect managers that the receipts were for authority, ho mais a revolu- substantially in excess of those Jose de Oliveras of St. Louis, tion. In that revolation von taken at the corresponding M., from Midras to Hamilton, Tirpitz was always paat ng in his meetings in 1913. On Saturday Oat. at his failure to challenge our was finished, Fisher at one troke of the Gatwick meeting, there aupremacy at sea. The German rendered it aseless for the pur- were no fewer than 81 etatters in navy was the peculiar pride of the poses of the Navy. He invented aix racas. In one of those raosa Kaiser. As Frederick the Great the all-big-gun ship sad pat she there were only six etorters, no had taught Prussia to maroh, so Kiel Osqui out of action for near that for the cther fire events the Kaiser's ambition was toly ten years until, indeed, it there was an average of 15. teach it to swim. And at the ead could be deepened to take ships, Among the winners was Lord of four months of war there is of the Dreadnought size. Taar Rosebery's Politian, who under not a square mile of the high seas blow paralysed von Tirpitz. Ee his penalty won the hurdle race where the Garman Fleet has dared could not build ships of the pre- for three-year-olds. So easily to sail free and defisat. ". Dreadnought type, for they might did this horas win that there can be obsolete; on the other hand, be no doubt as to which is the he could not bring hupeelt t best young hurdler so far seen build ships that would not go out. Lord Rosebery's interest in through the Canal. Taus, for a National Hunt Sport was quicken- Nelson T, Jolinson of Oklahoma your Germany stopped all its ad last "jumping" season when from Vice-Consal-Genera!
Shanghai to Consul at Chungking. Consul-General at Adis Abada, was named for Consal at Chem aitz, Germany."
This is the great, outstanding fact.of the struggle. The Garmin war machine on land has come to grief, but it is still formidable. The German war machine at sea
is locked up in an ignoble fear.building and when in feverish his horse Winek made a debut
On'.,
These promotions were made: Tomas D. Bowman of Pacifio, Mo.," from Vics-Uonzal at Nogales to Consul at Fernie, British Columbia.
Frederick M. Ryder of Con. uecticut, Consul at Rimouski to Consal-General at Singapore.
Albro L. Barnell of Portland, M. from Vice-Consul General at Rio de Janeiro to Casal at Rouen.
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It may be that the war came too haste it laid down eight Dread-over hurdles and promptly proved John Q Wood of Hawaii,
suddenly for von Turpitz to carry noughta it laid them down from out his strategy. Fuare is reason plans for which it had paid a to believe that the war lords great sum but which Lord Fisher forced the pace without regard would doubtless have been glad to the interests of the Navy, and to give to von Tirpitz for nothing, that von Tirpitz was sacrificed to for they were already obsulete. the need of rushing events on.
The Dreadnought Cruiser.
land. It is an interesting matter It was the break with the past, for speculation as to what would carried out so swiftly and silently
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of
Thomas B. L. Layton Louisians was nominated for Consul at Tahiti:
teers
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The Price of Efficiency."
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for
And while this is tras under the regulations (which the Ad- miralty could alter at once if they oose), the authorities go on en- tering toully inexperienced men trom outside the service not ag writers, bot
warrant writers, but as full-fledged as sistant paymasters. The chief himself a champion, Wrack
writer of sweaty or more years benefited greatly by the practice,
281,000 service, with excellent record and A Claim to Recognition.
repeated recommendations. for after ruauing second for the Liverpool Spring Cup he came
During the wars of the French advancement, is passed over for out and won the Newbury Uup.
Revolution and Empire, from Promotion because there are no Toeo at the end of the season be
1793 to 1815-the war with the vacancies, while at the same filled second place for the Liver-
United States being amper-me 150 commissiona have al- pool Autumn Cup and a few days
imposed from June, 1812, ready been granted in his own later won a nice handicap at may be gathered from the fact of the Flest reached ita maximam Admirally know, require to be
December, 1814-the personnel
branch to outsiders, who, as the lands has established in the have happened if the German Ad-be original Dreadnought was Derby. Politisa is a younger that he bought this horse in the figure in 1810, when the average not infrequently make a mess of popular mind, as nothing else bas miralissimo, instead of keeping bill a year that gave the horee, but he is a quick and middle of the year in order to number of officers and men borne
taught their bustness, and then done, the overwhelming supre- bis great feet intact, had distri- British Navy such an overwhelm active jumper and that, together ride in the race next March for for naval servide was 146,312. Int. Each of these ben coste the macy of the British Fleet. The buted a considerable portion of sing advaninge, not so much in with his speed, constitutes his the Grand Military Gold Cap at the year of Trafalgar, 114,012 was the country just one shilling a day country 10s, a day." It would cost failure of Germany on land has over the oceans of the world be the naaber of Dreadnoughts as facility for this game.
Sindowa Park. It is, however, the average been only relative: her failure at fore the outbreak of war for the in their quality, for while Ger There was no racing on Monday extremely doubtful whether there throughout the year..
number borne sea has been absolute. There purpose of commerce destruction. many was laying down large and Tuesday of this week conse will be any soldiers' steeplechas
to promote the chief writer to has been a disposition in the It would have meant of course
numbers of ships on an inferior quant on the Nottingham race- ing meeting at Sandown Pork or general view of the Navy as a
It is probably owing to the warrant rank in whion he would, public mind until now to overlook heavy losses to the German Navy; modol we were able to corect the course being requisitioned by the anywhere else in 1915. Mr. material force that we are, aen dum, be regarded ua fit in all under an Admiralty memoran the magnitude of that failare. but it could hardly have failed to discovered defects of ech ship in military. It is a reminder that Wernher bought Bruos in Ire nation, apt to overlook the sea respects to discharge the duties of This is very natural, We are produce impormat material results its succe sor. As to the wisdom the Newbury racecourse has been land from Me. Hubert Hartigap, man's general claim to recogni. impressed by visible results and and hardly leas important moral of the change, there is no doubt a prisoner's csmp ever sinus the who is acached as a lieutenant to tion. Before the war, and for would cost another Ze, a day to an ass.stant paymaster; and it ignore the much more important results. It would have been a after the battle off the Falkland war broke out. Now, however, the 9th Lancers. The horse is a some little time after it had be enter a man at the other end of invisible results. The achieve- serions challenge in the eyes which Lord Fisher applied in the authorities, as all the prisoners of doubt he bas & futars before him un, the possibility of a blue the suale to fill the gap caused by Islands. The great principles it is being returned to the civil beautiful jumper and there is no ment of the Emden bad that of the world to our mag- dramatic quality which arrests the tery of the seas, it would have Dreadnought were the uniformity war-have been transferred to because three-mile steeplechasers cognised by the State. There we are getting inefficient officers
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the chief writer's advancement,
The net result is, therefore, that
worth the notice of the Treasury.
jacket being married was not re- populer mind and assumed en gravely interfered for a time with of calibre in the guns, and the ships at south coast porie.
A of any note are few and far be was no naval equivalent to mar at 10s. a day, instead of, by importance which had no relation or overeene trade and it would union of striking power and high few miles of barbed wire have to twea to realities. They made exciting certainly have given the Germans speed. The latter principle has be removed, temporary buildings
riage "on the strength" in the reading in the newspapers, and a run for their money. The ship of his many contributions to the ad, and the stabling has to be who died this week, is something paration allowances was issued, cost of 33. a day. When we deserved promotion, getting ex- been perhaps the most important to be demolished and remov-well-known West End draper, statomont concerning Army se perienced and qualified ulicers at
Sir John Barker, Bart., the Army; and when the first official gave people who do not think an would have been rounded up in easy subject for their fears about the end; but the interruption philosophy of naval warfare. Ia disinfected, and in many other of a loss to the breeding world, the Government made the not are spending a million a day on the Navy hea
they would have caused to our
the old days the cruiser was the waye traces of the camp have to te devoted most of his attentions very happy remark that no sucha, a item of seven shillings a And all the time one of the trade would have been serions, vision of the Navy, but not its be obliterated. Thas the meeting as a breeder to polo ponies, and allowances were paid in, the csaray does not count for a great most wonderful things in history and the anxiety felt about the striking power: The battleship fixed for January will be cancell many were the prizes he secured the Navy because the men there deal; but it is of items ne email, was happening with hardly a trivial episodes of the Emden had power but not apeet. Lord ed, but it is hoped to resumes in at the Showe, but he also kept received good pay, out of which and smaller than this that the of remark from the public, The aggressive policy would havelements in one chip would much best National Haat fixture of mares, Esch year he turned out their families and dependents. Percival A. Hislam, in the word of comment in the Press or show how severo a blow such an Fisher saw that to unite the two March with what is almost the two or three thorough bred they were expected to provide for million is made up, and it is whole mercantile marine of Ger-struck at our confidence.
more than double its valus, and I the seaton,
a fairly good winner, and about We have been fold since that the Daily News. many was vanishing from the sens. The timid policy, adopted by think I am revealing no secret in There has been racing this three years ago it was thought he Admiralty intended all along to There is to-day on all the waters van Tirpitz, whether it was bisaying that he himself would weak at Lingfield Park in Sussex, bad got a high olase colt in Per-grant a naval separation allow of the earth not a trading ship to choice cr whether it was thrust on have built nothing but Dread. but owing to the recent heavy sism, by Persimmon. However, ance; but the fact remains that be seen carrying the German cr him by the rapid movement of aught craicers. But he had to rains the ground was in a very the horse was no
Japan and the Padama bastian flag. The shipping in-aveats, has been dienstrous yield something to the powerfal heavy state. The winner of the three-year old days. His last anon folention, and it was 201 It has been credited at à Onbinet
hia they firat they had no
Exposition. ! dustry of Germany is dead. Its failure. His ficot is in being traditions and warrod against the Steeplechase proved to be Bruse, to Mr. Henry Walter Gilbey, was good deal to say on the matter represent Japan at the opening opponents who stood, for the old Southern Counties Handicap winner, who, however, was leased until after the Press had had a Council that Admiral Dewa is to vessels have either been captured and in hiding-hat the seas are and sold, or interned in foreign ours. The policy of "attrition" ravages of his formidable broom. belonging to Mr. Wernher, son of Polygram, a son of Polymelns. that the allowance was granted, ceremony of the Pazama Ezbibi- ports, or lie uselesa balke in the is wrong for the weaker Power. And so we had. the Dreadnought the deceased South African mil This one was quite a fair perform What those of us who are interest-tion, to be held at San Francisco harbours of Hamburg and Bre- Any oboas player will understand battleship, the single onlibre ship lionaire. Mr. Wernher is at preer as a two-year-old in 1914 ed in the Fleet have to work for on the 21st proximo. Owing men Bill more wanderful, that. It is the player who has with an inferior speed but heavier, arnt in the 12th Lancers and is, Sir John was a great friend of Sir now is to make the marriage the change of plans as a resalt of hundreds of thousands of British the superiority in pieces who and the Dreadnought crater, the therefore, on sative service. He Walter Gilbay, who died a little allowance permanent. Perhaps the war, no warships will be sent. woldiers have been carried across can beat afford to play the game ingle oslibre ship with the is a fabulously wealthy young while ago, His daughter married who knows? we shall be suf- The Admiral is expected to leave the English Channel without the of attrition, What has been the maximum speed. It will be man, but that he is filled with Mr. Tresham Gilbey, second son foiently grateful to our bluejack Yokohama on the 18th instant for loesofa single life. The North Sea result of that game so far? The found I think that the Falkland praiseworthy sporting institute of the old baronete
ets to relieve them of the burden San Francisco by the Chiyo maru:
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