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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1919.
GERMANY'S LOST
· MONOPOLIES.
OUR VIER INDUSTRIAL-
PROGRESS,
The war had revealed with pitiless accuracy the defects in our industrial equipment, said Mr. Kellaway, in an address to the Industrial Reconstruction Council at the Hotel Metropole recently. Many of these defeats had now been overcome, and as a result of the war the United Kingdom was now first in the world in almost every sphere of industrial affort.
Mr. Kellaway dealt first with
we
have
the control which obtained over raw materials. Before the war Germany, by the aid of mics brought from India and other parts of the British Empire, had obtained a predomin- ant position in the electrical industry.
We now see that Germany gets none of it, and the supply in German East Africa is b. 5:05 s. 106/7 being worked by the Ministry of
Munitions.
Germany
owed her great superiority in munitions produc- tion in the earlier stages of the war to the success with which she had captured the industry of tungsten production. All that had been changed. We were now able to produce all the high speed steel heeded for our own indus- tries, and to export at a-reason- able price to our Allies.
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· · Sir Alfred Booth, Bart., chair- Here are the beginnings of B—BUYERS; N—NOMINAL man of the Canard Line, in peace, and they are more remin fartherance of his candidature iscent of Hans Andersen than of in the Liberal interests in the the days that passed in un- Wavertree Division of Liverpool, romantic procession before the
H. K. & S. Banks sa. addressed a large public meeting, war. The new world is to be a
MARINE INSURANCES. which was held in the Wavertree better world for women; it Cantons Town Hall, Mr. J. H. Rawson should produce more kindly North Chinas
housing and recover for children Unions Sir Alfred Booth, in the course some of the sunshine lost in the Yangizzes - of his address, said he wanted to time of our darkness. There Far Easterna make it perfectly clear that if should be high wages and real FIRE INSURANCES. À they were looking for a repre-
beer for workers, and a country-China Fires b sentative who would always vote side rich in food and in happy H. K. Fires
homes, All these things will exactly as he was told by any political party or group of parties happen, say the reconstruction Douglases they must rertainly not vote for experts. Well, we shall see. hirl. If, on the other band, they wanted a representative who would vote without fear or favour in accordance with his judgment at the time of what was best for the country, he could go on to ask them to consider whether he was the kind of man they RECONSTRUCTIONIST COOK.
In a country house in topsy- could trust in that way. The first and most important of turvy England a new cook arrived. all was the question of peace. She was pleasant and round al The very completeness of the smiling, as all good cooks should. victory imposed on them a won. For a few days she perform derful opportunity and a heavyed her duties with excellence. responsibility. They were ab-Then came sudden dissatisfaction solutely determined, and the Allies and au interview with the mis- were all united in this, that the tress of the house.
"What's the matter, Cook? peace should be a peace of free- : dom and justice. One of the pro- Aren't you happy here?" blems for the peace conference "It's a very comfortable place, was how far Germany and Aus-Mum, but I feel restless like. tria could be made to pay for Things are too settled here." "Mai" gasped in surprise. the damage they, had done. The devastation of Belgium, "Too settled?" she schoed France, Italy, Serbia and Poland | stupidly.
It's all right, Mum," Cook must be made good" as far as was
"I don't humanly possible, and they could replied soothingly. not let the German Mercantile want to upset you. It's having Marine go to sea again as if no been with the Army that's done it. I was cook in a military thing had happened. Applause. His view as to indemnity was hospital in Egypt last winter, and thatas far as possible they should then I was shifted to Sloaniker, make Germany pay in real assets and you never knew what was Now, it's which could be readily transfer.going to happen next. red to the Allies and disposed of very nice down here, but as far by them for cash, which would go as I can see, it'll be the same sort to Germany's account. First of all, of very nice in ten years time. there was a lot of geld in Germany and that won't do for me." which should be taken.
Then
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Green Islands Borneos China Light & P Providents Dairy Farms there were masses of machinery. So Cook left, and is seeking H. K. Electrics lathes, looms, which couli fresh adventures. The last Macao Electrics · b. be used to equip the stripped heard of her was that she was Ropes factories in Belgian and studying passage rates to BuenosTrams, Low Level b. Trams, Peak, old b. Northern Fränce, railway engines Ayres.
Trams, Peak, new b What are we to do in a world and railway equipment generally
Laundries b. which could be taken to the extent of in
cooks have
Steel Foundries д. leaving Germany with only just wintered in Egypt? How mast enough to keep herself going, we treat the gay and gallant Litchenmaid who has driven and, finally, there were the German and Austrise merchant lurries wildly round the moun- ships. They must not think that taius of Macedonia? How make he was suggesting that German suggestious to our children's ships should be given to British nurse when we know her to have shipowners. The idea was that seen service on Mediterranean these ships sboald be sold to the hospital ships? highest bidders under whatever conditions the Allies might think shall be afraid to make plans for fit to impose, and that the money a fortnight at Brighton or even realised should go into the com- month at Margate. Our ad- mon pot from which claims for veuturous, Womer are already damages would be met. If the thinking of a trip to Paris in indemnity question was drastic ex-bombing aeroplanes. ally dealt with somewhat un Topsy-turvy England! Ithink those lines, the result would we shall have to give you up to be that Germany would be the children, so that they may the country least well equipped find solutions for a world of for manniscture and trade. She fairyland problems too compli- would no longer be an immediate cotel for mere grown upe. menace on foreign trade, for she
I know that next saminer we
or 620, the
WINGARNIS
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would have to devote hersciffirst international trade; exactly the of all to the restoration of her same facilities for the foreigner own equipment. The third great as for the native by rail; problem for the peace conference
same rights of was embraced in the expression, access by rail to
the ports. "A League of Nations," That and the same treatment of all was the most important of all, flags in all ports. A policy of and also far and away the most flag discrimination, preferential difficult. It was a noble ideal to railway rates, or lower sim at. It would not be attained at dafies for goods carried in once. A League of Nations would national ships than would be: not have a chance unless they first imposed upon the some goods cleared away the causes that carried in foreign ships would were likely to lead to future lead to retaliation, which would wars. He should summarise ba just as dangerous and pro- those causes under three heads: vocative as the old tariff wars. (1) Military and autocracy; (2) Ho had great faith in the power the oppression of subject nation of economic boycott and blockade CHARACTER ARTISTE AND alities; (3) trade competition if exercised by the League in and the struggle for the world's complete and drastic fashion. It markets. England and
A CHELSEA PENSIONER.
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was
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to come.
LAST DAYS ATRUHLEBEN.
*FORGIVE AND FORGET."
The beginning of the and at Ruhleben was on November & When the guards heard that the were in soldiers and sailors possession of Berlin they deserted in a body to form their own soldiers' council, What became of the camp officers is not known, but some of them decampod with all the poultry from the military farm attached to the laager.
Immediately Englishmen began to escape to Berlin for the day. The camp council tried to stop it, but in vain. An attempt was made to establish some sort of check by issuing passes, but only the timid worried to get them.
Rumours for the next day of two were current that transport home had been arranged, but it was not until the Tuesday night that a notice came out that the first transport would leave on Friday (November 15), and the second on Sunday. The camp We felt more was not excited. like unjustly condemned criminals whose innocence had at length been demonstrated than prisoners. Deliverance had come at last.
During the last days the camp was more dead than it had ever
been before. Half the men were in Berlin enjoying themselves; the other half were packing. And how we fed! Everyone had stores of food sat back against a failure of the parcel supply, and no one wanted things to be wasted. Few
of them were.
On the next afternoon a mem- ber of the Reichstag and the new civil governor of Berlin paid a visit to the camp and addressed us. Their speeches were much the same. They said they know we had suffered, but they were Before the war we, imported 77
not to blame. It was the fault per cent. of our spelter (zinc), of the old regime that had Germany being the chief export-treated them as badly as it had er, but this essential raw material treated us. They had done every- was now developed, he hoped, thing they could for us, and they permanently in this country.
ZINC AND POTASH.
Remarkable progress had been made also in regard to the sup plies of potash, and while it was too soon to say that we should become entirely independent of outside supplies, we were a long way on the road, and we ought to reach the goal of complete inde- pendence in a comparatively
short time..
Machine tools presented an almost insoluable problem at the beginning of the war, but there was no sound reason why in a comparatively short time British manufacturers should not make this country entirely independent of outside supplies.
With regard to improvements in engineering methods, one of the greatest advances made had been the vast improvement in the machinery accuracy of work, and in efficiency.
Mr. Kellaway referred to the Sensational advance in regard to aircraft engines and suggested that it was not too much to hope that before long the power of the engine in horse-power would be the same as its weight in pounds. Our monthly output of magnetos at the beginning of the war was 100, but in October it was 18,000. Their quality was the highest in the world, and better than the latest sample on a captured Ger. man aeroplane.
OPTICAL GLASSES
asked us not to look back on
Germany with too much bitter-
ness.
That was the gist of it: we were to forgive and forget. They received a cool reception, I am
afraid.
The Workers' and Soldiers'
Council at Ruhleben went still further, giving a leaflet in Eng- lish to each man as he left the camp. In this they had the impudence to tell us that they had suffered more than we had. as they had been the slaves of the most barbarous system ever in- vented. They, too, asked us not to be too bitter.
After that they put us on board a train without light, without heating, and with most of the windows smashed, for a 24 hours? journey with the thermometer below freezing-point the whole
time. And in this train were men too ill to walk, who had to be carried on stretchers.
And now the last and longest quene that we shall ever stand in at Ruhleben begins to line up, waiting patiently for the big gates through which we have gazed so often to open once more. They swing back, and wa are out of one hand, Ruhleben, bag in passport in the other.
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10. Since the signing of the
SEA AJOUTS THAT SIVAL GERMAN armistica a North Sea ship has
ZEPPELISS.
de a light of 61h. 27 min., waich is a racord for a non-rigid, It is now possible to reveal the bed is believed to have been sur- develpment of British airsnips passed only by two performances during the war.
These crate of German Zeppelins. have worked alast eaurely win After the misfortune to the Navy, and tastr work first mayal airship no rigid was
Quietly we march along incasarily was been as hidden produced in Great Britain antil fron the public eye as the other Jecember 1916, so that this fours to the train, with its 32 coaches, get in, and wait. We operations or tus dilent service.wantry was for the first two are hours late already, and no AL (NE DELbrak of war the years of the was some 12 years one can say when we will start, Navy na sera sirsusps, all of beniad Germany in the can-
Un Ucwuer 1,struction of rigid airships. But suddenly the train gives a non-rigid 15p3. little jerk. Then, and only then, does a cheer fuciding rigid and nou-rigid.
We ara moving! 1918, the number was 103, By January 1918, however, toar British rigids were in com- four types of non-rigid air mission. No. 23, which has ships have been constructed recantly bean seen several times In Great Britain daring over London, is 540ft. long, and the war: Parsaval, sab.nariae aas a cubic capacity of approxi "I believe," Mr. Kellaway com- scouts, coastal and North 'das.tely a million feet. A more cluded, "that British production Small subnurine scops snips ware recent British and the demand for British labour first constructed in 1815 sad at capacity of 50 per cent. greater, rigid has a will reach a peak it never attain- ed in pre-war days." (Cheers.)
vncə provəd indig value.
waile others larger still are on L'ae coastal airships did most the stocks, Mr. Kellaway referred to Sir of the long distance patrols dur- The system of convoy" by air- Wilfred Stokes who presided, as
In scientific and optical glasses our output had increased at least twenty times, and we were now self-supporting, in fact, we looked to foreign markets for disposing 80 up a great cheer of thanks- The four of the balance of our home-produc- giving and happiness. ed supplies.
years' nightmare is at an end, The position, however, was at one time so serious that the Home Office was compelled to relax the stringent conditions with regard to the quality of the glass for miners safety lamps. It was a serious thing to do, but thero was no alternative. We were now producing such supplies that it was proposed to prohibit as from March 31 next the use of unapproved glasses.
one of the men who has reallying the last two years of the war, ship proved extremely successful. helped to win the war." Few and ware kirgely employed in No ship was ever suak while names, he added, thrilled the men convoying ships from beyond the ander escort from the air. This who had won great victories in the Scilly Jates up the Unannal work was very arduous and re- At the outbreak of war a con-field more than the name of Their work has been most satis-quired constant vigilance. equipped with gun sights ex- siderable part of our artillery was the inventor of that invaluable factory, bas they are now being Airships are not so independent clusively manufacturer mortar, the Stokes gun. (Cheers.) supplanted by an improved class of weather as are heavier than air wwwm known as the G. Coastal Star. craft, but it is interesting to note RECORD NON-RIGID FLIGHT. chat in 1918 up to the signing of The North Sea" type was the armistice there were only designed as a scout to get with nine days on which no Bying the Fleet, or to carry¡oat patrols | took place,
many. We now had a 'British
United States had always set an mobilised very quickly, and it For. particulars apply King was a triumph for British skill. the was a force which could be is now open for engagements.sight which was never exceeded excellent example in discrimina- would be extra-ordinarily effective Edward Hotel. tion in transport facilities in in a great many cases.
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