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Nelson would have known, what some What the discontented forget, or da critics de not seem to know, that the Ger not know-those who reproach the Navy High Sea Fleet lies in a harbourfar not having token a bolder line at the beginning of the war, making a woo- which is enclosed by a great seawall and der strake for more effective than ang WOULD NELSON HAVE TAKEN THE is entered by locks. and is inaccessible sanguinary battle on the Yeer or the

OFFENSIVE?

By JOHN LEYSAND, › The distinguished writer on naval and international subjects.

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therefore, to destroyer and submarine Somme is thas all the projects and plans attack, while the whole coast and the of those days depended on the co-opera- isaads there are protected by extensive tion of armies, which did not then exist,

and are now otherwise employed. mine fields and the most powerful modern guns. Zeebrugge is hardly less forind jable,

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What would Naison have done it he had. had command of the Grand Fleet? If çoe may judge by what is said i some of the public printa, he would have acted very diferently both from Sir John Jellicoe and Sir David Beatty, He would have operated on a bold cfrasive and have kept it up remorselessly, instead of seating on a supine defensive. [by seaplane bombs, cannot touch.

Nelson said that the man was a fool who sert ships against fortifications. At Comics he insisted on the co-operation of troops. The Germans describe our new offensive in Flanders as a fight for their U-boat baser. The business is military, the place being fed by internal communications which the Navy, except

He would have ended the war long

THE HEALTH OF SHANGHAL.

SMALL POX AND SCARLET FEVER,

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Dr. Arthur Stanley, Municipal Health Officer at Shanghai, in his report for the last month again calls attention to pre cautions against smallpox. Two more cases among foreigners are reported for Inst week.

**The occurrence of a few eques of smallpox among Chinese and of a pro- portionately greater number foreigners indicates the need for immedi

among

since, instead of waiting for some ingentWe may be quite sure that Nelson, in cus American to discover a lethal remedy the North Sea, would have been the soul for, the submarine !'

of enterprise, perhaps even of desperate If we would imagine Nelson in com-hazard, yet always with a view to the ate attention to vaccination," says Dr. CAREON PAPER at $1.00 per dozen mand we must think rather of the quali- maintenance of the superiority of his Stanley. There are so many foreign feet. He would have risked nothing refugees in the Settlement that further ties of his mind and temperament and unduly. Numbers alone could annihi, provision for free vaccination of indigest bis experience than of the actual events late, he said. He would have gloried in foreigners appears called for. Free vac. in which he

our officers who recently swept the Bight cinstion for all is provided once weekly engaged. The object of bringing the war to znf Heligoland and the Jutland coast, at each of the 13 branch health offices end, if by Duval means that can be shelling destroyers and mine-trawlers and situated at strategic points throughout. bringing down a Zeppelin Let it be the Settlement, bat If there is a general achieved, or of very powerfully sealsting understood that our offensive is frequently desire for a special time and plaes for towards that object, la certainly immense, carried right up the enemy's sat line, foreigners only it can be provided during and would justify great enterprise and though we hear nothing of if unless there the Winter months. the incurring even, of zaiderable loss, should be a scrap.**.

I consider the destruction of the enemy's feet of so much consequence that I would gladly have half of mine burst to effect, their destruction," in well-known saying of Nelson.

For particulars apply to the above Hongkong, Nov. 7. 1917.

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PUBLIC WORKS. DEPARTMENT. MACAO.

NOTIFICATION.

But as to attacking the enemy's feet, that must obviously depend upon the will of the enemy. It takes two to make a battle. The Navy does not strike blows In the air. Of one thing we may be quite TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that on

sure. Nelson would never have reproach- the 20th, instant, at 3 FM at the Pestic Works Discántarat, and before

ed the Flect for acting on a supine

• committee presided by the Director ól Perhaps he would have end the name defensive, when it is the enemy who the Public

ablic Works and composed of at the aneray's submurices. We are-in-refuses to put the matter to the touch, three members sappointed by the Govern

ment, the Attorney General being curing low, as things are, for submarine

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TENDERS will be received for

the Construction of ONE BUILDING mine have put an end to five battle

"for the.“ Laboratorio Bactereologico abips, five cruisers and a dozen destroyers

The conditions of the tendering the within the last twelve month. Aperifications and the pians of the

bailding are open to the public at the

Puolie, Works Department where they

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am to

to gain or lose. It all.

WHAT THE DISCONTENTED FORGET,

Ibis doing a poce sarvice to the country, the Navy and the Allies to represent, the Fleet as failing in do what feet Dever thave done and have not been bait to do.

can be examined Lön All week daya. frow The question therefore, arises whether The spirit of the offensive is never.

when- and 30 p.m. to Neson, by some more vigorous or less quenched in the Fleet, in sec Many Public Works Department, pussly defensive use of the Fleet, would ever the eary ceases to be coy, Essen- Holly the Navy seized the initiative ab 1st November, 1917

have endeavoured: id get at the German" the very beginning of the war, and has High Sea Flest or to promote such opers kept it ever since. The eneżo 2200 tions as would have influenced powerfully stirred to dispute the commer

the ward ntpation, Including the destruc-

RAUL DE FARIA E MALA

Engineer Director. Nov. 14,1917.

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With respect to scarlet fever he says: *** Scarlet fover: continues to hover around but it is not exported to become so prevalent as during the past season The prevention of scarlet fever is fundo- meatally a matter of personal hygiene; and this will come through one route mainly, which is education by tesching and experience The attendance at the daily lectures to Chinese at the Branchr Bealth Offices is gratifying in some dis- Ficts and It is hoped to reach a large zumber in this and other wETE","

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