Immediate
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The Navy
BRITAIN'S POVERTY IN BIG SHIPS
GERMAN-ARMS
MENACE
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1905.
larger and more powerful ships. And at that time the British Em- pire will possess only one under- ago battle-cruiser,
months, and of our 15 capital ships two at least are always in dockyards undergoing extensive repairs.or "modernisation.”
even
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It is announced by Mr. Wm. Anderson, local Secretary of the
It is against ocean trade routes In cruisors the situation is also that the "pocket battleships" one of extreme gravity. Not only would be most dangerous and did the London Treaty limit our the ocean trade routes are the cruiser forces to 50 ships Instend most vulnerable part of the British of the 70 which our strategists Empire, Germany's latest move agreed to be the irreduciblo It has been authoritatively an- Trinity College of Music, that affect the security of the Empire clauses of building submarines must also minimun" for accurity, but special nounced in Belfast that the well- Master Leo Kwok-wel, son of Mr. were inserted in the known shipyard of Workman-Clark Lee Yick-lee, of the Chinese most deeply, for our anti-submar Treaty to ensure that we shall Ltd, has been acquired by National Government Salt Rovenue Service, ine, cruiser, and destroyer forces have to keep obsolete ships in Shipbuilding Securities Ltd., under has been awarded a local Exhibi- are utterly inadequate in the light commission to attain this the achome for closing down re- tion value £6 for having obtained of yet another submarine Power number.
dundant shipyards. The matter the highest marks for plano in Europe..
We have at present under 30 has been the subject of long playing in the Senior Division at modern cruisers In commission, negotiations, and, although some the practical Examinations hold in and two of these have to be scrap details have yet to be settled, the Hongkong in 1934. ped next year under yet another main lines of the agreement are special provision of the Trenty,
Master Lee is a pupil of Miss settled, and the name of the firm Much the same obtains in our will disappear from the list of Joan Braga, and is to be congra- destroyer flotillas, more than half British shipbuilders within
shorttulated on his success, of which are old and worn out by time. strenuous war service.
CORONEL FORGOTTEN
The time has, in fact, come when the British Navy feels most sin- cerely that it cannot continue to In consequence of the large discharge its duty of giving even naval building programmes of
a modicum of security to the Em- foreign nations, and especially ofpire unless immediate steps are Germany, the Government are bo- ing pressed to invoke the "Escala- taken to rectify the position." tor clause" of the London Naval the utmost gravity. During the The present position is one of Treaty,
The "Escalator clause" provides past 13 years the British Navy
The works are not, however, to Wolft's, and others have found become entirely derelict. The work on the Clyde or Tyne, while
The Workman-Clark firm waa
If real emergency arose all these portion of the firm's property on yet others are already signing the an honourable way out of Treaty has been reduced by more than old ships would have to put to sea the south side of the river has been unemployment registers. limitations and entanglements to 1,000,000 tons of warships. And in an endeavour to protect the acquired by Harland & Wolff, and a nation whose security is "mater- this reduction has been effected Empire and its vital trade routes. will be utilised mainly in the ex-red in 1897, and rapidly became lally affected" by the naval build- bolow and beyond the natural That they would engage the tension of their engine shops.
"peace- Ing of any Power other than the post-war roductions to a British Empire, the United States, time security" standard. and Japan.
By invoking the "Escalator
TREATY SACRIFICES
enemy more closely" is implicit
one of the most important firms in in the personnel, but it would be It is hoped that the site of the the industry. They built boats for murder none the less. The British North Shipyard may be secured by such well-known shipowners as the natión appears to have forgotten a company now being formed for Allan Line, Lamport & Holt, Elder clause," the British Empire would i The Arst step in these reductions the lessons of Coronel.
the building of aeroplanes. This & Fyffes, the Ellermans, and Alfred be bound to give notice to the was the Washington Treaty. In face of these uncomfortable will be an entirely new industry for Holt & Company. In 1909 they othor two algnatory Powers of any Under this Treaty Britain scrap-facts the immediato invoking of the North of Ireland, and its had the distinction of turning out Increase considered necessary, and|ped 20 capital ships; America the "Escalator clause" becomes a establishment is looked forward to more new tonnage than any other would be immediately entitled to scrapped 16, and Japan 10. More matter of the utmost importance. with great interest. The new com- firm in the world, and they built make such increase,
over, when America completed two A minimum of two batile cruisers pany has an influential backing, the first ocean-going turbine vessel, The clause was Inserted in the ships of the "West Virginia" class is an immediate necessity in order and it is thought that the site is the Victoria, for the Allan Line. Trenty to meet just such a altun in 1922 she had to scrap only two to meet the threat of the fast and peculiarly suitable for the produc- At one time they employed over tion as has arisen as a conse- ships; whereas, when Britain powerful German ship More tion of aircraft of all kinds. The 9,000 hands. Among their more quence of German rearmament, for built the Nelson and Rodney, we cruisers are also essential, la promoters belleve that this in- recent achievements was the con the terme of the Treaty were en had to scrap four shipa.
also an increase in the rate of dustry must grow to a great extent struction for Norwegian owners of tered on the tacit understanding
replacement of torpedo and anti-during the next few years, and that two floating oil factories for the submarine craft.
it promises to find work for an in- Antarctic whale Osheries. creasing number of operativos for years to come, as well as to bring more work to the Ulster linen manufacturers.
that the international altuation would not be complicated by the rise of another naval Power,
The invoking of the clause can also save ships from the scrap heap to which they are consigned under the terms of the Treaty,
RECENT DEPRESSION
The Washington Treaty allowed for the gradual replacement of obsolete capital ships. But this process had only just begun when THREAT TO TRADE ROUTES the London Treaty was signed. The necessity of invoking this Under this Treaty the British Em- clause without further delay Isipire again bore the brunt of sneri- Notably, the four cruisers of the Immediate. Not only is Germany fiec. We scrapped five capital Hawkins class must be reprieved. claiming a naval strength equal ships without replacement; Amer-Two of these ships are well under
While general regret is felt_at to 35 per cent. of the total strength les scrapped three, and Japan one, the age limit.
the coming disappearance of such a of the British Empire, but she has The Treaty declared a battleship At least half n dozen older famous firm of shipbuilders as built and is bullding ships which buliding holiday, This reacted cruisers could also be saved. Workman-Clark, the immediato threaten this Empire in a very far more unfavourably upon the While these would be little use effect on employment in Belfast particular degree.
British Empire than upon either with the feet, and would certainly will not be very great. The firm of the other Powers concerned, be no match for the recent con-have not, hnd a ship on the stocks The result is that at the present struction of other Powers, they for alx months, and the staff has time Britain possesses 15 capital would still be of great value for been gradually reduced as work in ships. All but three of these are cost defence and for convoy hand has been finished. Many of obsolete, or will be within a few duties.
the men have gone to Harland &
Germany's "pocket battleships" can only be dealt with by battle- cruisers. In two or three years Germany will have three of these ships at least, as well as two far
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