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MARINE. COURT,
TICKET CANCELLED FOR BREACH OF RULES.
Rule of Road Offences.
THE NAVY OF TO-DAY.
were entertained on the lower deck by British petty officers.
It has boen said that Admirals AT SEA WITH THE FLEET.
make the best. Ambasandore. If The following extracts are from more were known about the offect a series of articles by a Special of these visits to foreign ports by Correspondent of the Observer his Majesty's ships, the nation who served in the Fleet years ago, would be better able to realize the At the Marine Court yesterday, and has lately had the privilege value of the pence-work of the before Lieut. Commdr: G. F. Hole, of spending some weeks in vessels Royal Navy in spreading through- there were a number of cases heard, of nearly every type now in com-out the world a spirit of good the majority of which dealt with mission-capital ships, cruisers, feeling and of understanding of infringements of the rule of the destroyers, submarines, a mine-us and of truths nowadays sadly obscured by hostile propaganda." road by steam launches and in one layer, and an aircraft carri case, the master, having been twice
Since it was obviously impos- I can write from recunt knowledge previously convicted, was not only Aned, but had his ticket cancelledsible for me to visit the whole of of France, Spain, and Portugal. The masters of the steam laun-our sengoing Navy in the time at The effect is the same in all coun- ches Cheung, Lee and Kwong Tal my disposal, it will be as well here cries with coasts and harbours were charged with failing to ch-to take note of the distribution of visited by the Navy, especially In serve the rule of the road in Vie-our different, classes of esaut the Far East. At the present.. toria Harbour on April 11 and about the world. Our capital moment about 84,000 of our naval April 18 respectively. The latter ships are now to be found only personnel are policing the seas
performing on pleaded not guilty, but the charger, home waters and in the Medund
foreign was substantiated in both cases.
There are no de-stations the diplomatic functions and defendants were severally fined $20 with the alternative of quate buses for them olsewhere, to which I have referred. Of those about 22,000 are in the Medi- three weeks' imprisonment with Although the sea is still all one,
DI the hard labour.
it is now, divided into spheres of terranean, about 6,200 The master of the s.. Fai Fat influente, it tonnage of capital China station, about 2,000 on the, ploaded not guilty to a similar fault ships, recently standardland, can East Indian, and 1,600 on the on April 11. Defendant's statement be taken as a measure of such Africa station. was obviously false, he giving his influence. The Western Atlantic position at the time of the and Eastern Pacific are the Ameri- Trigement as some 300 yards to the south of the O. S. K. Wharf, can spheres; the China seas the ashore in British and foreign which would have placed the Japanese. Tonnage of cruisers Ports after the day's work is over launch in the vicinity of Queen's has not been standardized." Oars and the privilege is very seldom Road. His Worship remarked are distributed, some with the abused. The authorities concern- that in view of the fact that there capital ships, others on indepen-ed (the Captain of the Fleet, if had been no typhoone recently, he dent missions on all stations, there is one) take a good deal of could not accept the excuse and Those with the capital-ships are
trouble on behalf of these "liberty fined accused $20 with the alterna about half the size of the new tive of three weeks' imprisonment
terranean.
да
with hard labour. Accused ad (10,000 ton) class, which other mitted two previous convictions Powers have, and are building for the same offence, and after In the operations which I have consideration, His Worship with-witnessed there has been drew his ticket.
obvious need. for cruiser-screens The master of the steam launch with battle aquadrons, and vessels Tong On pleaded guilty to being so employed cannot perform their under way in the harbour without functions if they are smaller (and a certificated coxswain en board" and was fined $20 with the alter-therefore slower in a sea-way) native of three weeks' imprison-than those of an opposing cruiser- screen. Cruisers on Independent Pleading guilty to dumping a missions in distant seas must quantity of ashes and refuse in either be strong enough to fight or the harbour without first having fast enough to avoid action. obtained permission of the au- thorities, the master of the steam
ment with hard labour.
launch Fong Foo was fined $10 with the alternative of 10 days' imprisonment with hard labour.
DOCTOR'S SUICIDE.
ONCE LAWYER IN WASHINGTON.
Plenty of leave is given to go
man."
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As an example I take a few points from a circular issued to ships' companies recently visiting a Spanish port, The water on shore is described therein as of excellent quality, perfectly safe to drink (many lives were lost, or constitutions ruined, in the old days for want of knowledge on this point, especially in the A warning is issued Levant).. against eating local shell-fish, especially oysters and barnacles (pereches). Lists of hotels, bars, and tea rooms are given, with a In the old days a voyage from Warning against low-class eating one port to another was a peace and drinking houses, and especially ful experience, affording a certain against accepting free drinks
local rum, amount of leisure. In these days therein, the of strict economy ample value in aguardiente, made from sugar training officers and men, and in cane, being "dangerous to health
and reason.". The address, of a. testing ships and weapons, is obtained for all fuel that is ex-good bank is given, with a cau- tion against the money exchanges, fpended. The work is incessant,
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by day and by night. Even when and finally those wanting enter In harbour there is little leisure tainment are told about tramcar Vienna, March 12.-Suicide Lime. To normal drills and train-routes into the country; and about has ended the varied career of ing there are then added social picture halls, and so forth. As Dr. Karl Hau, alias Stau, once a duties in foreign ports involving the result of all this, and of the lawyer of Washington, who was much organization. I have seen stamp of man now on the lower convicted in Germany in 1906 of as many as 400 people of a foreign decks, the harpies that used to ply liberty men with bad drink and the murder of his wife's mother. town attending an afternoon
rob them of their belongings and The Vienna police have establish- entertainment given by a
of their self-respect now find ed through comparison of finger-officer in a battleship, and I have themselves confronted with well- printa that a man who shot seen them all returning to the educated men (some of the boys. himself at Tivoli. Italy, on shore pleased with their expert join from secondary schools) February & was Hau.
ence, and better acquainted with taking an intelligent interest in Dr. Hau for a time
was the truth about our nation. I do the countries which they visit and professor of Roman law in George not write only of entertainments well fitted to uphold the reputa Washington University. His
by officers. At Algiers last year tion of the nation and the 'Service mother-in-law, Frau Molitor, was there were 14,000 landings of which they represent. And, lest murdered at Baden-Badon on "ratings" from the Fleet: Their
I should have conveyed an impres- November 5, 1306. Hau fled to behaviour on shore can be judged sion of softness and lack of virile England, but was oxtradited, from the fact that not a single force which marked the old Navy. convicted and sentenced to death, case of trouble of any kind was let me add that most of the men the sentence later being com-given to the police, and the Pre-have little use for the shore, muted to life imprisonment. feet paid a special call to express excepting for the healthy and was released in 1914, but was forbidden to write a book on his to the naval
strenuous competitive games and There sports, in which desperate keen prison experiences. This prohibi- admiration and thanks. tion he ignored, and an order for was practically no leave-breakingness and powers of endurance are
last Many friendship were made, and French soldiers and their wives
bis
arrest November.
issued Was
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authorities his
displayed.
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