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Why Britain Builds
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HE LAUNCHING
last month, of the new battleship King
THE British troops in Palestine George V. was a first-class
are up against two hostile forces. One is the Arab rebellion. The other is what the War Ofee In an offelal atatement
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officers and men. "The character of the British soldier is too well known to need vindication." That tribute will be supported not only by his own countrymen but by the people of every land to which he has been sent, as well ns by his opponents in the field.
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The Forces in Palestine are not fighting a normal enemy. They are working to suppress sterism оп a national scale. Against them aro ranged not more than 1,000 to 1,500 permanent active rebols. But these form only the nucleus of armed angs, brought together often by ter- rorism and intimidation.
These bodies form, fight, and scatter-then reappear elsewhere. Their leaders quarrel among them- aclves. Rebels and peaceful citizens are "inextricably mixed." Every village, every house almost, must be suspected of harbouring -willingly or unwillingly-armed terrorists.
'British soldiers are subject to the most cowardly forms of attack. Their enemies are the lurking ambushor, the sniper, the gunman who Ares in the dark. It is heartbreaking work for trained fighting men, yet they are facing it with discipline and courage.
In the words of the official late- ment, there is "no alternative" to military action. Murder and outrage must be suppressed if the order is to be restored to country, and innocent civilians are to be allowed to live their lives in
peace.
The only possible method in a patient system of "check and search." The moans adopted to comb out rebola are well known to the inhabitants, and those who are caught in the machino have only themselves to blame.
Kid-glove, methods are useless against 'organised criminals, but It is possible to temper acverity with reason. That is being done In Palestine.
naval occasion.
She was the first battle- ship to take the water since 1925, when H.M. ships Nel- son and Rodney were launched, and she is the first of the five new battle- ships now under construc- tion to commission.
Though details of her design are secret, it is under- stood that she and her sister' ships will be of 35,000 tons displacement, 30 knots speed, and mounting 14-inch guns, heavy anti-aircraft batteries and 13,000 tons of
armour.
TWO FURTHER battleships, reported to be of 40,000 tons,
to meet suspected increases-in- the tonnage of new Japanese bat- tleships, were voted in the 1938 estimates, but these two ships have not yet apparently been ordered, a fact which may indi- cate doubts as to Japanese inten- tions, if not as to the desirability
of building battleships of Buch great individual tonnage and cost.
But the launch of the King George V, is more, than an im portant incident in Britain's re- armament programme; she is a symbol in the minds of naval officers and men, and of the general public, of the awakening of Britain from her maritime sleep.
Though throughout Britain's history sen power has proved her salvation, and though after every major war England has forgotten its lesson, seldom, if qver, has the country allowed itself to sink to such a dangerous points of naval unpreparedness as prevailed in 1935, a year in which the country came within an ace of what might have proved another world war.
Taking twenty years as the under-age limit of modern war- ships the under-age fleet of 1914 consisted of 79 battleships, 96 cruisers, 186 destroyers and 97 submarines..
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In 1935, with the world in a highly disturbed state,. in the East as well na the West, and with two of Britain's old allies the potential opponents, under-ago fleet had destroyers and 52 submarines, and even thie shrunken fleet included many new ships still under construction and old ships undergoing reconstruction. Furthermore, the fleet wne short of personnel and of esson- tial stores.
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BUT THAT is past history; and destroyers, and a great im- what of the present? provement in personnel and The building programme in stores. The present British and hand has as yet not greatly in- French fleets combined are, it is creased strength in ships over-true, superior to any possible the 1935 position, though there European combination in their is some improvement in cruisers major units.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
At the present moment the. British and French flects.com- bined include 25 battleships and 112 cruisers.
In the case of these heavier ships, therefore, it is clearly possible to divide the combined flect, and to institute an effective blockade in the North Sea and Mediterranean.
But in the absence of a suff- cient number of convoy escort vessels British merchant ships. are still insecure against sub- marine action in home waters and in the Mediterranean, and, indeed, in the seas and oceans of the world, in view of the great submarine fleets of other Eur- opean nations.
IF. HOWEVER, the Japanese Navy is included in a possi- bly hostile combination, the com- pletion of a part of the re-arma- ment programme must be await- ed before Britain can regard herself as secure, and a great deal more than the present building programme if sho wishes to be independent through her own sea supremacy..
During the next two years the Navy will be strengthened by two battleships, 24 deatro- yers, 14 submarines, four escort vessels and four large aircraft carriers.
By 1942, with the new battle- ships (including the two which, as recently announced, are part of the 1939 programme) coming into commission, and the com-- pletion of a large programme of other new construction to be laid down during this and next year, the nation may expect to be. prepared at sea against any con-
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Cape, 2018 by Vinic Fatire tradiesia, Zodi
"It was simply beautiful-I never saw so many people cry at`a wedding before."
But if the launching of the King George V is a symbol of the restoration of visible sea power, still more does it symbo- lise the re-birth of the national maritime spirit, and of the enthusiasm and keenness of the officern and seamen who man the flect.
NO LONGER need all but the favoured few look forward to retirement and oblivion at, or even before, the prime of life.. An expanding feet and a ten-" porary shortage of personnel is.. the sailors millennium, for in such circumstances every junior officer and man can, subject to his own exertions, be sure of promotion to posts of responsi- bility.
No longer are fleet exercises and gunnery practices a dull routine, ns for so many they have been liable to be. day there is alertness and enthusiasm afloat, arising from the knowledge that the times aro dangerous, and that tho Navy may be called upon, at a moment's notice, to prove itself again the nation's bulwarki
The high spirit and morale
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