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WARSHIP BUILDING IN

1919

PROGRESS OF THE PRINCIPAL NAVIES SINCE THE ARMISTICE.

(BY H. C. FERRABY)

Telephone 29,

The First Lord's statement gave

41 destroyers completed since the Armistice was signed. He does not, however, give the number launched in the same period. My calculation is that 26 have been put into the water, and many of them have also been commissioned. Mr. Long's figure of 16 still to be completed is not borne out by the detailed Navy Estimates, where only 12 are shown as unfinished, and one or two of these have run their trials in the last few days.

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We are on the verge of a period in warship construcation that appears likely to be as near stagnation as has beer known for a hundred years past. The, programme of submarines The crescendo" of effort 1900 to built and still to be completed offers 1914 and the subsequent molto only two features of any particular agitato of 1914-1918 must, by the interest. These are the M class, of law of averages, have a compensating which M2 and M3 have yet to be period of slackness. It seems pro finished. The Admiralty is entirely bable that the next few reviews of silent on the subject of the design. a year's warship building will easily The displacement and speed are be dismissed in a paragraph or two. official secrets, and even the fact During 1919, however, there was a tha: M1 mounts a 12-rich gun in certain amount of activity, particu- special turret is not admitted K36 larly in the completion of ships is another boat about which there ordered at the time of the armistice, is silence. She is building at Vickers, and in the United States progress but beyond that, absolutely nothing has also been made with previously is admitted about her. There are authorised programmes. There is a seven-boats of the L class still build- certain historic as well as a practical ing. which are interesting in that interest in the work that has been they mount two 4-inch guns each, done in the shipyards on fighting instead of a single piece, which has ships since Nov. 11, 1918, and I have sufficed for all our previous sub endeavoured to comple, with the marines. The alteration involved assistance of official sources as far as an increase of 70 tons in the dis- possible, a complete survey of the placement. activities of the past thirteen months

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE INCREASE IN RAIL-. EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

WAY RATES,

GENERAL PERSHING'S

NAME".

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

FROM CAIRO TO THE CAPE.

the

Though we may all regret that an increase in rates Eas become inevit able, the sooner we recognise that Frailway transport is affected by

LONDON, Bech 8th.” changes af life in just the same way

The Air Ministry innocpoos that the as all other commodities we pur- Silver Queen has reached. Bulawayo. chase, the better it will be for us.

BULAWAYO, March 8th. in recent years we have had an all

The Silver Queen crashed to round fncrease in wages. Starting Brand, were slightly injured,

ground. The pilots, van Ryneveld and. with raw materials, other conditidus

LONDON, March 6th. remaining the same, the added The South African High Commissioner cost of the miner's wage is passed states that there is a possibility of van on to the buyer of the coal or Ryneveld.continuing his fight to the Cape ore. This in turn, together within another muchins from the Union. the rise in wages of the steel'

worker, is passed to the manufacturer. PORTUGUESE GABINET RESIGNS. The finished product bas to carry the cumulative effect not only of the higher labour charge of its own industry, but of all the preliminary industries which are accessory to 1.

INTERESTING PHILOLOGICAL

RESEARCH.

X

"New York, January 26-Generat Pershing is a "Peach" in the philological exploration of a good American name, according to a writer in the "New York Sun" who Jays:

The name is of French orgin, and is found in the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which have been in French and then in German territory

according to the fortunes, or mis- fortunes, of war. The people of these districts are French in language and customs.

MAURID, March 6th. Families named Pershing arrived According to the latest reports from in Eastern Pennsylvania from 1710 Fortugal the Cubinet has resigned owing to 1752 having been French Hugo- to the Chamber's opposition to the pro-nots who left Alsace and Lorraine posed dismissal of the strikers. Tho

It is necessary for each to show some Doznocratic leader. Maria Silva, "there- Pon the revocation of the edict of i

profit under the new conditions, or the industry will not survive. It is the same with transport as it is with razors or any other necessary of life.. The railway companies exist to sell transport and for that purpose only. In any ordinary industry there is no question, except under emergency conditions or excise, of interfering, in this country, with the selling price of any home-produced commodities. In the case of -semi public services we have come to acknowledge the Government's right to laterfere, within limits, but inas much as the rallways have been built up by private enterprise under certain well-defined condition, which were formerly regarded as permanent, it

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CRISIS IN TURKEY.

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tern Fennsylvania, including ances tors of General Pershing.

In 1875 the Democratic candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania against General John F. Hartranft or the Republican ticket, the latter having been a candidate then for a second term, and being re-elected, was Cyrus. L. Pershing, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County. ile was born near Pittsing burg. nomination. in the Democratic State At the time of Judge Fershing's

Democratic the

LONDON, March 6th. The Daily Telegraph states that in view decided to order British military and of the grave situation the Government has

a forces to eccnpy Constantinople. The French and the Italian Govern-convention held in Erie, Pa., the ments are invited to participate, and it result was shown on bulletin boards is anticipated that they will agree to

in this city. Some politicians, accustomed to co-operate.

Pennsylvania Dutch language-a mongre? tongue with English words! -announced:

"Now hen mir pferschea"!"

have peaches!"

They meant thereby: "Now we

"FEACH" OF A COMMANDER. In German a peach is pfirsche (pronounced with f silent)' the plural being as if written Perschen of Pershing. According to this, General Pershing is surely a peach" of a commander.

HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED..

The report for presentation at the thirty-sixth oroinary general meet- on March 18 says

Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of accounts made up to December 31, 1919.

The balance of Credit of Profit and Loss Account after allowing for the laterim Dividend of $60,000.00 paid in August last and including the Balance of $50,570.43 brought forward from 1918, is $141,540,70 which it is proposed to appropriate as follows: To place to Reserve Fund.

To place to Investment Depreciation Account............ To pay a final Dividend of $1 per share ..................... To pay a bonus to staff.vouser

$10,000.00

10.000,00

60,000,00

**** 10,928.81

and to carry forward to the cred of next year's account.......... 50,611.89 Consulting Committee.-Me.ors. HP. White and A. 0. Lang resigned on leaving the Colony, and Messrs. G. W. Barton and J. W. C. Bonnar were invited to take their places on the Consulting Committee. In accordance with the Articles of Association Messrs. G. W. Barton, J. H. Wallace and J. w. C. Bonnar retire, but offer themselves re-election..

Auditors. The accounts have been audited by Messrs. F. Maitland and H. Percy Smith who are eligible for re-appointment..

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

+

The French for peach (peche) is STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER

31, 1919. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1919. Consulting Committee's fees

is recognised that changes in these It is stated that ample forces are avail ordered by the Government requireable for the occupation.

LONDON, March 8th. some quid pro quo.

I is officially stated that there will, During the recent years the latter probably, be no need to send troops from has taken the form of the subsidy England to Constantinople, but thero is which, however, is not a satisfactory an ample force available of troops station- expedient. A subsidy helps the rail-led nearer Turkish territory. ways out of their difficulty at the The note from the Allies dispatched to general expense of the taxpayers. It the Turkish Government to day, the terma is not only the railways, but the of which have not been disclosed is said traders who are subsidised, the latter, to be drastic, and it is stated that it and through them the buyer, bene-will be followed by drastic action, should

the necessity arise. fitting by cheap rales at the expense

CALCUTTA, March 6th. of the taxpayer.

The fat Conferenca has passed a Such being the facts, the present resolution in favour of final messages to very much like the first syllable of revision of rates need cause no great the Viceroy and the King-Emperor stat- the General's name in pronunciation. alarm for the moment, though it will ing that they will sever their connection It is form the Latin persicum doubtless cause some outery among with the British Government if Mohan Persian apple, being attributed to the trading community. Its effectmedan feeling with reference to Turkey Persia. will merely be to shift the burden of is not respectedi the present subsidy from the shoulders of the taxpayer very largely on to So much interest attaches to the the consumer, for it is not to be future of oating aerodromes that expected that, where possible, the the aircraft carriers Eagle and Hermes trader will not fail to pass on the The First Lord of the Admiralty can hardly be classed as auxiliaries,extra charge. In this way the actual recently made public a statistical | more particularly in view of the

consumer will shoulder the addition, abstract of the vessels completed for nature of the armament given to the result not altogether undesirable the British Navy since the Armistice latter. Both vessels have been ad- was signed. The table showed the vanced towards completion during following figures for the principal the year, and the following details types of fighting ship -

GREAT BRITAIN.

Light Cruisers.................... Flotilla Leaders.......

S

4

Destroyers...

............ 41

Submarines

20.

about them are interesting —

Eagle-Length, 625 feet; displace- ment. 25,000 tons; horse power, 55,000; speed, 24 knots.

spread, and will result even in a con- tribution from the favoured class of wage earners.-Engineering,

as the incidence will be more wide-

Hermes-Length, 548 feet; discruisers of the 7,600-ton class have still unsettled. Four more light

There remained to be completed placement, 10,400 tons; horsepower, been contracted for: but as far as

the following:

Battle Cruiser

Light Cruisers..

9

Flotilia Leaders................

3

19

20 2

Destroyers.

Submarines

Aircraft Carriers

The light cruisers completed fall under three classes-the "Hawkins;" the Cairo. Calcutta, Carlisle, Co- lombo; the Delhi, Dauntless, and Dunedin.

Those of the type remaining to be completed are of four classes the Effingham, Frobisher, and Raleigh; the Cape Town; the Despatch, Diomede, and Durban; the Emerald and Enterprise.

40,000; speed, 25 knots; armament, ten 6-inch and four 4-inch A.A.

The Eagle was launched in June, 1918, a: Eiswick, but it is stated that she will be towed to Portsmouth for completion. The Hermes, which is also an Armstrong boat, was launched on September 11th, 1919, and will Cowed to Devonport for completion.

UNITED STATES.

America "is steadily pushing on with her authorised programmes. There is no sign of any intention to curtail the work in band, or to delay (except for technical reasons) the work projected..

During 1918 there was completed for the United States Navy the bat tleship, Idaho, one the turbine. driven vessels of the New Mexico type. She was laid down in January, 1915, and took four years and two months to deliver.

The battle cruiser to be completed is the Hood, about which so much is already known that it need only be added that she was due to start on her trials on January 9th.

The Hawkins was built at Chatham Definite figures of the completion Dockyard, and although laid down of small craft are difficult to come in June, 1916, was not commissioned by; but, in consequence of the vast uuti! July 24th, 1919. The other war-time programme which was still,, three ships of her type have been under way when the Armistice was even more delayed. The Raleigh, signed, deliveries have been abnormal. laid down at Beardmore's yard on Approximately 95 new destroyers the Clyde in October, 1916, was only and 40 new submarines have been launched on August 29th, 1919, while added to the United States Navy the Effingham, laid down at Ports since November, 1918. mouth in April, 1917, and the Frobis. There are six more battleships her, laid down at Devonport in building: The "Tenessee" (launched August, 1915, are still on the stocks. April, 1919) and "California" (laid All four were believed to be aban down October, 1916); the "Mary- doned at one time, but it appears to land" (laid down April, 1917), be the intention of the Admiralty"Colorado" (laid lown May 29, now to put them into service. 1919), "Washington" (laid down

Only one of the "C" class light June 30, 1919), and "West Virginia' cruisers, the Cape Town, now remains (laid down 1919). The first two are to be completed, the rest of the type 33,000-ton ships, mounting twelve having gone into service during the 14-inch guns each. The other four past year. She was laid down at are 33,500-ton ships, carrying eight Birkenhead, in February, 1918, 16-inch guns each. Three new light launched on June 28th 1919, and will cruisers, which as yet have no names, probably be completed at Portsmouth. have laid down in the period under Two "D" type light cruisers were to review. They are understood to be the Baltic on active service as soon 7,600 ton vessels, with a designed as they were finished. The three speed of 35 knots, and armed with that have yet to be completed are to eight 6inch guns. They appear to be be towed from the contractors' to the equivalent of our Enterprise the Royal yards. Details may be class. There are, further, about 70 tabulated thus:

destroyers and some 25 submarines still to be delivered under the war

int Buliders down faunched Completed at

1914 1919 Dotch Fuziek Zely, Boyt 24 ChaÜNK Dioxele Vicker Inne Apt. Patanguth.

Seat. Jas, May 20 Devonport

Darton

• Crea

programme.

my information gees, had not been laid down at the end of 1919; while there are projected-destroyer and submarine programmes of 12 and 10 respectively, contracts for which have not yet been placed.

J

JAPAN..

following

The programme of Japan, though less ambitious than that of United States, has been pushed on with equal steadiness. The vessels have been launched since the Armistice, or will be launched very shortly:

Battleship: "Nagato." Light Cruisers:

Tama."

Kuma" and

First Class Destroyers: "Sawakaje," Minekaje," Okikaje," and "Yakaje."

Second Class Destroyers: "Momi," "Kaya," "Nashi," "Take," and "Kaki."

Ships laid down since the Armis tice, or to be laid down shortly,

are:-

Battleships: "Tosa" and "Kaka." Battle-Crusers: *Akagi 2nd

"Amagi."

Light Cruisers: “Kitakami”

Kiso," and "Ohi.” First Class Destoryers: "Shiokaje," ""Yukaje," "Hokaje." "Akikaje," "Tachikaje," "Shimakaje," "Na- dakaje," and "Hakaje." Second Class Destroyer: "Nire,” |

“Kuri," "Kiku,” “ Aci," "Hagi,” "Susuki" and "Fuji."

FRANCE.

Little or no work has been done in thei French yards since the war ended. One gunboat has been com pleted. There are still under con- struction some thirty, sloops, five gunboats, and seven submarines; ; and, as far as can be foreseen, the only new ships to be put in hand in the approaching months are six light cruisers of the Lamotte-Picquet type and six destroyers.

ITALY.

Four destroyers and two scouts, with three of the queer mobile: batteries," carrying a 15-inch gua cach, have been completed for the Italian Navy. It is stated that work is now proceeding on the battle-

Nor does that complete the tale of the American Navy's projects. There cruiser Caracciolo, which was laid

are still to be laid down six new down In October, 1914. When Lwas The Enterprise was launched on battleships of the Massachusetts last in the Ansaldo Yard, in Gecoa, December 23rd, 1919.

class, authorised in 1917, while the in the autumn of 1918, the bull of The flotilla leaders completed much-delayed battle cruisers of the the Cristofor Colombo, was still on 'during the year are the Campell, Constellation class have not yet been the stocks, but there is little like- Mackay, Stuart, and Wallace. Those officially abandoned. They were lihood that this battle cruiser will be remaining to be delivered are the authorised in batches between 1916 built. Some more scouts are likely Malcolm, which was launched on and 1918, but none of them have been to be proceeded with during this May 29th 1918, and the Képpel, and begun, the design having undergone year, but otherwise Italy's naval ship Rooke, which are not yet in the at least three official revisions, and building is 23 stagnant 25 that of

in the autumn of 1855 year it was France. Hampshire Telegraph & Post

medan boycott of British piece goods.

A further resolution urged a Meham-

THE STRIKE IN JAPAN.

TOKYO, March S. Work has been partially resumed at Yawata.

[The workmen at the Japanese Governmen: steel works at Yawata have been on strike for over a month. They came out originally, we believe, on a demand for, higher wages, but fater formulated several other de mands, among them being that in Falure the foremen of all workshops shall be selected from among the werkers only, that bonuses to the workers be given twice each year in- stead of 'bace, a year, that on the three bik national holidays and other special holidays wages be paid, and that the workers must not be examined by guards at the entrance to the gates of the Foundry. Another factor in the dispute concerns advances made at low rates of interest to the town of Yawata from the 'deposits and relief funds of the Foundry operatives, with- out consulting them.ED.]

CENTENARIES OF 1920.

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The two most noteworthy centen- aries of this year are those of the birth of William T. Sherman on February 8. 1820, and the death of Daniel Boone on September 26, 1820. Of all the persons whose names grace the panels of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, these are the only ones whose birth or death occurred in 1820. Sherman is one of five full generals of whom the. United States is proud to boast, The deeds of Boone, who emigrated to Missouri, then a Spanish possession, are known to ever schoolboy.

On February 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony was born. The work begun by her will be consummated in the Nineteenth Amendment to the Con- stitution, On March 22, - 1820, Stephen Decatur was filled in a duel with James Barron. Only a few years before he had forced the Dey of Algiers to renounce tribute from the United States.

In England, on April 27, 1820, was born the synthetic philosopher, Herbert Spencer. At Florence, in May 1820, was born the famous nurse,, Florence Nightingale. In Iré- land, on August 21, 1820 occurred sicist, John Tyndall. In Sweden, on the birth of the distinguished phy-

famous singer, First saw the light. October 6, 1820, Jenny Lind, the

Memorable eyerits one, two, and three centuries ago from this year are the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower in 17.20; the South Sea Bubble, which collapsed in 1720, causing distress, throughout Ingland; and the «Misscart Compromise of 1820379ka penale.

WAL

Blakd

IS LONDON ON THE DECLINE?

MR. BELLOO'S VISION OF DEPARTING GLORY.

Auditors' fees..*111** Depreciation for 1919

Balance, Profit for the year.....

Dividends from Investments

Interest .....kusniherrykorn my......... Exchange Balance of Working Account ............ est.

Mr. Hilaire Belloc prophesied the future décline of London in a lecture to the Royal Society of Acts.." When the topographical reasons for a site disappear," he said, "the value of the site declines.TM

up... The forces at work to cause the Reserve Fund........ declise of London Mr. Belloc summed | Sundry Creditors. up as follows:-

Investment Depreciation a/c London is no longer at the head of Since added... sea.borne traffic. Tilbury is.

BALANCE SHEET DECEMBER 31, 1919. LIABILITIES..

Capital 60,000 shares at $10 each fully paid

41

Tunnels are destroying the charac ter of London as the lowest land crossing.

London is becoming a congested point, and everyone tries to avoid It

travelling.

The economic centre of gravity is shifting. The centre of production and of export in this island is now in the North.

་་

"The great topographical "causes, London's greatness," he added “have already passed."

Exping the why, and where fore of London Bridge, Mr. Belloe said that the Thames, in its double character of a highway and an obstacle, had made London. All the great Roman roads used London Bridge for crossing from north to. south London Bridge was in its present position for four reasons

Its at nearly the highest point where sea-going boats could tranship gooća.

Less Depreciation

...$ 4,000.00

700.00 6,500.00 150,970.27

$ 162,170,27

$ 17,171.04

6.441.41 37.78

--139,520.04

$ 162,170.27

50,000.00 23,025.67

$ 600,000.00

-9.215.25 20,000.00

29,215.25

19,514 14

9,701.11

Brought forward from 1918..... Profit for the year 1919

50,570.43

150,970.27

201.540.70

Less Interim Dividend....

60,000.00 141,540.70

$824,267.48

Profit and Loss Account.

Land (140,584 Square feet) Less Dépreciation

Factory, Machinery, &c. ......

Less Depreciation ...

ASSETS.

15,000.00

1,000.00 $14,000,00

75,000.00 5,500.00

69,500,00

69,097,69

19,474.52

136,2849€

6,609,67

Rope and Hemp in Factory, Valued at ..... Stores, Oil, Fuel, Gunnies and Spare Gear, "

valued at...... Rope on consignment, valued at... ffinexpired premia on policies Sundry Debtors ................. Investment as per last account

Since added...

It is the spot where an outcrop of gravel on the northern bank is opposite only a small deposit of alluvial mud on the southern bank. At Erith, Gravesend, and Tilbury the "hard" on one bank is opposite vast fields of alluvial mud on the other, and as the river is broader Cash :- the difficulties in the way of bridge | construction were greater."

Less Depreciation

Market value at 31st December, 1919.

At Bank

H

At Bank (fixed deposit)... At Factory ...

A

In Hand

The bluff of the City, though amall, offered in early times a fine strategic position for defence London, alone of the European towns, has not suffered from war for nine centuries, and has never J. H. WALLACE undergone a siege since the barbaric J. W. C. BONNAR age.

DIVORCE AND

REMARRIAGE.

43,968.84

204.159.87 736.20

204,896.08

19,514.14

185,381.94

129,649,57 150,000.00

50.00

-250 29 279,949.86

$ 824,267,48

Member of Consulting Committer.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, March 8, 1920.

person. Such marriages have taken place in the diocese, but not with his

THE BISHOPS MOST DIFFICULT authority or consent.

PROBLEM..

Unfortunately, as the Evening Stan dard representative was informed a Lambeth Palace," what is reasonabl and right in this matter of divero and remarriage is so obscure that som Bishope hold far les stringent view, than others.

"Scarcely, a day passes but an ap plication for his sanction is made. by a divorced person. He is overwhelm The Bishop of Rochester's refusal ed with problems of different "kinds,

But on the question of the diver to grant a Bromley, man permission to but tims is the most difficult of them be married in church after he had all

gence of State and Church, the Pri divorced his wife, for infidelity raises The Archbishop of Canterbury has mate speaks with no uncertain voice anow the whole question of the diver- laid it down that it is essential-for." It would surel" he says, gence between Church and State law the well being of the nation that, the intolerable to expect that a clergyma on, this question... Male marriage law should be grounded on will be ready to adapt his conscientiou The Bishop of London," an Evenza deliberate sense of what is reason, and solemn ministration to whateve Ing Standard, representative was told able and right. If it is made a merely changed conditions the Houses of Par of Fulham Palace, never has sincúbitary law which does not appeal lament, looking simply to the sup tioned and never will be likely to to men's reason, its authority must poseti expediency of the case, may sanction, the marringe of a divorced be grievously impaired

any time prescribo.