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WHAT THE NAVY NEEDS
Next Monday, naval and diplomatic exports from Britain, the United States and Japan, with observers from Franco, Gormany, Italy and Soviet Russia, will meet in London to try and formulate a new pact to replace the Washington Troaty. denounced by Japan, and expiring on December 31 noxt year. What happens in London next week will be of the greatest Importance to Hongkong, bound by Article XIX of the Treaty, which forbids defence extensions in this Colony,
declared
policy of the Government, WHAT does the
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CROWN COLONIES'
FUTURE
Sir William Peel, in refer- ence to the suggestion that the Crown Colonies should be placed under the mandate system, has outspokenly declared that he could conceive nothing more mis- [chievous, and rightly added 'that the idea would be entirely re- pugnant to the inhabitants of these territories. This proposal is an outcome of the discussion which has taken place, in con- nection with the Italo-Ethiopian the question of dispute. on making the
of the sources world's raw materials more generally available, Italy com- plains that she needs room for
world's territory is at present held by other nations, notably Great Britain. There is point in the issue raised, and Britain his indicated her willingness to dis-
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Once this has been achieved, whether by a victory in battle or without it, our own supplies of food, raw materials, and. munitions from overseas, to- gether with those of our allies, are free from interruption; our military and air forces can be sent and can act wherever strategy requires; and a stranglehold is placed on our enemies which, in the long rùn, will so weaken' their powers of resistance as to induce them to sue for peace.
COMMAND of the sea in war
What' has to be done?
is thus vital to our own Our cruiser force consists of of attack; while till the Far Finally, the Fleet Air Arm national and Imperial existence, 51 cruisers of all sorts plus 10 Eastern, basa at Singapore is should be increased by fifty per a most powerful weapon against now in course of construction. completed we have no means of cent. or half a dozen, more an enemy, and an essential ele Of these nearly one-half are effectively defending our wide squadrons. ment in any scheme of collective War-time ships, over 15 years spread interest in that quarter. In default of some new agree- security for the enforcement of old, weakly gunned; incomplete- of the globe.
ment at the forthcoming Nuval peace by sanctions, economic or ly armoured, and slow by From this it is clear how Conference as to general limita- armed.
present-day standards.
much the Navy, our first line of tion of new building, this is No Government can, there-
defence, stands in need of re- what reconditioning of the fore, afford to neglect the
conditioning.
Navy will involve. eight. aircraft- efficiency of the Navy to fulfil WE have
The cost can only be very this all-important role, and it carriers only--and this at First of all the battle fleet roughly estimated. is because doubt has now arisen time when the value of air- needs to be strengthened, for it £100,000,000 for new construc- Perhaps as to whether our Navy is, in craft as the Fleet's eyes is con- is the foundation of the whole tion to replace out-of-date ships, fact, in a position to carry it stantly assuming greater im- structure of naval strategy. It and £30,000,000 to bring up must be too strong for any our cruiser strength to what is out, that its wholesale récondi- portance.
Our flotilla craft consist of enemy to beat, or even to risk required say. tioning is so urgently necessary.
£150,000,000 161 flotilla lenders and des- fighting.
in all, including the cost of WHAT is required for this? troyers (with 26 building) and
work on the defended ports, and A Navy comprises three 51 submarines (with nine build- OUR cruisers arc lamentably the necessary additions to the elements; the battle fleet, the ing). Here again half the insufficient for the many Fleet Air Arm, may cover it. cruiser squadrons, and the leaders and destroyers date calls upon them, for in war time.
from the Great War; about 40 they would have to act as the can be spread over a period of This expenditure, of course, small-craft flotilla.
of them are old vessels of only eyes of the battle fleet, to safe years, in the same manner as between 760 and 905 tons dis- guard our manifold trade inter- the outlay of £100,000,000 for The majority of osts all over the world, to do the Government's new five-year placement. the submarines are of post-war convoy duty, and to hunt down road reconstruction programme.
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Our battle fleet consists of 12 battleships and three battle cruisers, to which, of course, will be added in the event of war such smaller cruisers, design. lotilla elements, and aircraft- All these various vessels re- On them, too, will fall con- carriers as may be necessary, quire 91,000 personnel to man tinuous and onerous duties in IT is to be hoped that the Naval
Of these 15 capital ships only them, with 60,000 reserves for the event of any armed nétion
will bo 80 three are of post-war design; new vessels or to replace losses in the cause of collective successful in its results as to
security. a few, but a fow only, of the in time of war.
Here again our make this expenditure un- others have been reconditioned A comparison with our situa- eruiser construction is at pre- necessary. for better protection against tion in 1914 shows that our sent limited by naval treaties. But should it fail in this, the capital ships now number 15 But we badly need more of necessary cost of naval torpedo and air atinck.
as against 69 at that time, our them. At least half as many supremacy which, as, we all [cruisers 57 as against 108, our again as we now have would be know, and as history may serve small craft flotilla 161 as against hardly adequate for all our to teach us, is synonymous with
51 us against 74.
existing vessels (certainly all have to be faced by the country. Our total tonnage of all types those that have not
If we have to do so, we shall speed of stood in 1914 at över 2,000,000 30-knots or are more than fif- again build up the British Flect, tons; now it is a little over half teen years old) are due for re-that essential factor in
national security and in any that figure; while personnel and placement. 300,000 to 150,000. reserves have shrunk from
system of collective security SOME 110 new destroyers and that even the most internation- The state of our coast de-
flotilla leaders, too, should ally-minded of us can devise, to
euss the problem salsed. But NOTES OF THE DAY 216 ships, and our submarines needs, and a full half of the bur national existence, will
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the danger of private ownership of in. dustries vital to a country's defence, and is essential to aggression, s seen in the report from Rome of an agreement between a subsidiary fences also at Malta and Gibral- be built in place of older craft, a condition of fitness to do its of the Standard Oll Company of tar is not such as to give real and the oldest submarines ought work in the preservation of New Jersey and the Italian Gov-security against modern scales to be similarly dealt with.. ernment. In brief, the allegation, which is denied, is that the Govern- ment of Italy has received a guar- antee that the company will-supply all the oil Italy needs for her Ethiopian campaign and for home consumption in return for A "Youth"
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is not the best or, the wisest method. It certainly cannot be seriously argued that the British Colonies are administered in such a way as to shut out other nations—a fact which is clearly demonstrated here in Hongkong. Socialist leaders at Home, in their campaign against so-called Imperialism, have, none the less, been demanding that Britain should abandon all the Crown Colonies and hand them over to the League of Nations, by which they would in future be control- led. This demand has been promptly answered by the Em-thirty-year monopoly in Italy; the pire Industries Association, which points out that the 000 to make the sale of its com- UST we all die?" naked a young open mind, and with Ok! such a out. In his sermon published in the
modity to the Italian Army possi-"M" subjects of His Majesty theble. The danger, of course, in any
woman of 20 in the Telegraph longing to find a ray of light through Telegraph on Monday he advocated on Tuesday, and her vivid article the perplexities which adorn the very prayer that war may be averted,” King are not chattels to be dis- auch arrangenient. is multifold. struck a more tragic note than any fundamentals of living.
and, in the event of that prayer re- posed of by the Socialist Party First, there is the risk that such of the War-lorror documents which And what does Youth find? A maining undnswered, further prayer and transferred to another flag." an arrangement would render com- have been pincel before the public in Tower of Babel! The politician, that God will "Scatter the Nations Moreover, as the Association pletely abortive any League cm-the cause of peace.
enten up with Nationalism, has as that want war". bargo against Italy, unless the
better
relion states, the, inhabitants of no
Folutions: bir Her's was the cry of Youth to-day, his
The Bishop of London bigger und League attempted a blockade.
hir Crown Colony have expressed
forces to entirely on the efficacy of the League A of somebody puzzled, bewildered and armies, navies and any desire to be driven out of
blackade would almost certainly disillusioned by the contradictions, eliminate war; bigger and bigger of Nations. The late Rev. Studdart- the Empire. Accordingly, the
cause a war. Thus we would ex-paradoxes, falsehoods, and smug com- tariff barriers to stimulate trade; Kennedy Implored for a religious and directly by the action of a private politics, diplomacy, industry, funnce of the world shall remain in London, reads thut and finishes feeling like perience a catastrophe, precipitated placency of the world's leaders in Independent monetary systems to en- social revolution.
sure that the gold, or silver, or credit
And Youth listens to thin and concern seeking to extend its trade
and religion. and swell its profits. Would the
We d not want to know anything New York, Paris or any other such somebody taking his first flight and
capitul.
being put through all the stunts and company be the loser? Not at all; more about war, she says, and in so
The -economist doing speaks on behalf of Youth.
is torn between contortions known to dying science. at least, not very likely. Suppose Youth does not want to know any rationals, technocracy, national knows he is being cheated and bam- it had sold a few million barrels more about war. Youth is fully cialism, the
company would even lend 1,000,000,-
.:
so-
Youth resents it. He feels and
of oll to Italy, and leut a billion alive to its implications and results, ing capitalistic aystem in ita entirety, she needs,
as an the creation of bigger armed forces and defeated by League Powers in alternative! To whom and where because it creates
lira, and that Italy were blockaded But what is Youth offered
boozled. He, knows what the world but cannot find a single leader of fixing his idenis and policy
more work or
to a first-class major war, with plentycan Youth turn among the nations of alternatively the abolition of armies armaments one pr
War a
and
Association strongly opposes this "attempt to dissolve the Colonial Empire in efforts to placate the aggressive demands of foreign Powers." It is to be recalled that in the early days of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, there was a tentative proposal that, in an effort to secure a
and
Ho finds antions indulging in settlement, Britain should give of dead and plenty of money spent the wad to this of the past or other of his many economie synterne military and coenomic war and is up a strip of Somaliland to Italy on both sides. Very well; the com-ever likely to he
are adopted there will be no need to told that these are due to human but the suggestion was made pany could write off the Italian debt {
nature or circumstances. He knows Call Youth cynient and fatalistic, sustain armies and armaments. without the authority of the as a loss. But think of the profit if you like, but who and what is
that is a lie. He knows that daily, The delegate to Geneva points to those who control the destinies of House of Commons, and was that would accrue to it through responsible for that state of mind? the League of Nations as the world's nations, murder the
the truth." He sales of its very vital community to in there a single sword op de sur une quibbling about sovereights kno promptly condemned. If there sales of its very vital commodity to Is there
system or single only
spend
nture which known "It is
is not human nature were any indication that Britain-
war, but nationalistic "Rights", and national boundaries, of tradition alelishness and hatred, born
nation- avarice, fear, the other side! And how priceh peleges" and "Patriotism" either and prestige and of a dozen and one jealousy. He knows that the "eir
Encumbered by had shown herself incapable of
of would rise! A gamble of a billion ruling the smaller Colonies, or lira or so la only peanuts to a really striving after, or making any con- other things which have been hum cumstances", which so slibly explain was unmindful of the interests big concern.
tribution to, the establishment of bugging the world from time im-
the
world's economic distresses world pence of, a world economic, memorial.
away of the peoples of these terri-
So are of the Anancial, social and industrial entity?
Youth turns it
to the modern that they never have, nor tories, there might be some
thin. writers for encouragement, and on ever become, uncontrollable and un- they Youth is searching for ground for advancing the pro-
Youth reads, with almost fearsome lightenment, ha discovers Shaw adjustable. posal that these possessions be We do not say these things are eagerness, the manifestos of politi- creating lttle states from his own placed under League of Nations likely to occur, or oven that the clans, the speeches of Genova dele- imagination, far removed from realle knows, too, that the answer to control. Britain's colonising Star Oll Company's subsidiary enter, the pronouncements of the lies, and. Wells, dealing in gigantic in thought. Ideals, education find
d many of the systems
which are seem a dangerous piece of business, triallals and Onancialists, the writ The churches he finds split from paralysing the universe...
of ancient And modern econom end to end in the consciousness of The story from Rome may be no
But that answer in finding no echo the more than a rumour; n piece of pro-and Mussolini,
lives of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler their own inability to take a decided in the hearts, actions and pronounce
the "revelations", stand and their policy of substitut ments of national leaders to-day, dnd paganda deliberately spread by the of Herbert Hoover, the sarcasm of ing abstracts for realities. Mal Youth turns away dismayed; and Italian Government to intimidate Shaw and the theories of Wella. The Catholic Archbishop of West- sick, and carries on waiting for the
(Continued on "Page" 5.) SA All of this is absorbed, with on minster sees prayer as the only way inevitable: Nomenis, categ
record stands proof ùgainst any such charges. That fact of it- self is sufficient to place the pro- posal in the category of ideas which are not deserving of seri- ous consideration......
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