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A SOLDIER'S VIEW OF PEACE.

PLAIN WORDS BY SIR

HUBERT GOUGH.

It has been said that the soldier is the real pacifist. He knows all that there is to know about war-he knows it in all its terror and horror. His ideas on the subject are apt to be clearer and more definite than those of others who merely watch from a distance and are not acquainted with the reality. And especially is he concerned with the business of mak ing an end of the conflict when once

the issue has been decided.

Telephone 29.

OUR RUSSIAN POLICY.

LAWN TENNIS,

IMPORTANT DECISIONS.

1)

THE CHINA MAIL.

Important decisions were come to at the recent meeting of

International's Lawn the

Tean's

Federation in Paris. Representatives of Belgium, the British Ieles,

CAN U.S. AS SHIPBUILDERS COMPETE WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

U.S. SHIPBUILDER'S VIEWS.

Denmark, France, Holland, South' Mr. J. H. Mull, the pioneer and

to

are now

A NEW WARSHIP.

.LANT TO BE LAUNCHED TOR

YEARS..

The launch of the light cruiser Frobisher" at Devonport Dockyard will be of more than usual interest from several points of view. Firstly. she will probably be the last warship of any size to leave the ways in this

her launch will be the first cere monia: "show" In a dockyard since 1914; and, thirdly, she will leave the slip clear for the laying down of a large all tanker, the first merchant ship ever to be commenced in one of the Royal Dockyarda...

The Royal Oak was also buil: at Devonport, but she was launched efter the outbreak of hostilities, the fanc-f tion, which was private, being per- formed by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe.

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Africa, Spain, and Switzerland were general manager of the Cramp ship-country for several years; secondly, building Company, one of the oldest present.

The statement of the United States lehipbuilding concerns in the United Lawn Tennis Association that they States, has an article in the "New were prepared to take up men York Journal of Commerce" discuss bership of the federation subjecting the ability of the United States certain to compete with. British shipyards. the acceptance of proposals made by them was met Mr. Mall writes:~~ by a resolution that the International In normal times we may, under- The new ship has been built on Lawn Tennis Federation were unable laws favourable to production, be No. 3 slip at the south yard, and the to consider any terms as being condtable to cope with great Britain. In usual arrangements observed in pre- tions precedent to a nation joining shipbuilding. At first sight this may war launches are being carried out. the federation, but would be very appear to be optimistic, but we must in connection with this ceremony. pleased to consider any terms when remember that raw material for shipThe last public launch at the yard was brought forward by that nation when building is lower in price in this that of the "Warspite," which took it had become affiliated.

country than in Great Britain; that place in November, 1913, when the As regards the attitude to be labour-saving methods and tools are christening ceremony was performed adopted by the federation on the more quickly developed and applied by Mrs. Austen Chamberlain. This subject of players taking part in in this country than in the shipbuild battleship, as is well known, gave a tournaments held in neutral countries, ing districts there; and that the fine account of herself under Rear-

of independent means. The char "I have been travelling about two resolutions were passed unani labour narest in Great Britain is far Admiral Sir Eugh Evan-Thomas

during the war, and had a miraculous}

woman loudly, proclaims that in The first was that the more serious than in this country: Europe a good deal since the warmously.

The cost of production la greater escape at Jutland, when her steering

future she will be a lady with ser ended," General Gough continued, association of the neutral countries

vants of her own. At his luncheon- and I have seen something of the that are keeping relations with the in Great Britain than at any time in gear jammed.

rooms Mr: John Smith is told that tragedy and the misery of it all. Central Powers must forward every the past. The price of labour has

the restaurant will close within a week There is Batoum, for instance, with its year, before March 15 (this year bean advanced in all branches of pro-

because all the waiters and cooks have given notice. But worse fol great docks and wharves and ware before May 15), to the secretary of duction furnishing material for ship houses all empty. There were to the International Federation a list of building, as well as in the trades

lows, for when he returns to Upper (By P. E. Roberts.) ships in the harbour except British tournaments exclusively reserved to directly concerned in building. This

Tooting he ands that all the servants ships of war. At Novorossiysk the the Allied and neutral players, and a tends somewhat to even up the

The "Frobisher" is the name-chip

There has been recently a tendency have given notice, that the trades only stores of any kind in the place list of the tournaments open to all situation. *

It is to be noted that this state of a class of four light cruisers, one of in certain quarters to question the men have announced their intention were supplies sent by us to Denikin, players, without any distinction of whe had not the staff to organize country. The second resolution en ment is for normal times. The con- which, the "Hawkins," was launched validity of the economic law that one of giving up business, and Mrs. John at Chatham and commissioned in of the results of an inflated currency Smith is in despair. The devastat the use of them. Great factories this point was tha: each association ditions under which we

of the Entente Powers may remain working, both in regard to the aum July of last year as the flagship of is a rise in prices. Since very serious ing process continues, and it is soo were idle and deserted.

Then there is Riga, with the free, after receiving the above men.ber of shipyards in operation, the Vice Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, K.C.B.. results would follow, if this heresy seen that the foundations of the same story to tell. There again the tioned list, to take whatever measures number of men employed in ship- Commander-in-Chief of the China were widely accepted, it may be of economic world are overthrown Because of the many some use to examine the problem The char-woman and the clerk ar docks were empty, and gross was they think fit as regards their own building, and the high cost relatively Station,

of raw material, are not normal. I improvements that have been intro-here.

the next to be disillusioned. No on that in You go to war, and you win. growing between the stones on the players.

normal times duced in this class for the greater At the beginning of the war, in will enter their service or even sel Then, in the view of the soldier, wharves. Think of it! All that It was unanimously agreed that the assume the war should be over. That it place which ought to be busy with International Lawn Tennis Federation a large number of the emer convenience and comfort of officers order to get essential work done, the them bread. Why should a man wit should be allowed to drag on and trade, serving the needs of the world, should have the power to alter the gency shipyards wherein were built and crew, they have been described Government willingly and without £100,000 be a butler or a baker? N models of the post-war stint paid the bighest scale of wages one, in tact, will produce commodi on is to him the intolerable thing. and it was empty and idle and grown laws of the game, and the British fabricated" vessels, will be closed, as the

and supplemented them with allow ties or render services, and the worl And he is apt to be impatient of the with grass. Babylon and Nineveh delegates were requested to report thus freeing a large number of men navy.

now engaged in shipbuilding. The Although described as a "light" ances and bonuses of all kinds. Tais is soon in danger of actual starva people who contemplate with seem- must have begun to go in the same to the Lawn Tennis Association sus majority of these men constitute cruiser, the" Frobisher" displaces involved a very large issue of paper tion.

gesting certain modifications in the

Now why has this happened ing indifference the prolongation of way;

i suppose we are working to- conditions put forward by them. It unkilled labour, or at best men of 9,750 tons, and is 805 ft. long over all. money, and it is generally accepted any struggle beyond the point of decision. Such were the views ex- wards a more sensible Russian policy was agreed unanimously that it was very limited training, but a con. The ength between perpendiculars that the Government, feeling that the Simply because, though the amoun pressed to me (writes a represent now, but even get people in this most desirable that the foot-fault siderable number of them are good is 565ft the beam at water line 58ft, country was in a desperate position, of real wealth in the world (that i ative of the Observer) by General country do not realize how desperate rule should be modified, and a sub-mechanics who have served their and over "bulges 65ft.; the meas printed all the notes it required, with commodities) has not been increase Sir Hubert Gough, who has seen by necessary a better policy is. We committee, consisting of Messrs. F. time at their trades. The closing draf: is 17it. 3in., and the maximum out much. if any, regard for those an immerse number of demand note more than most people of the troubl- allowed ourselves to be persuaded by de Borman, A. H. Gobert, and H. H. down of unnecessary yards will draft 20ft. 6in. Geared turbines of severely prudential restraints which on that wealth have been dealt out ed: areas

of Europe since the all sorts of Russians who, object to Monckten, were appointed to go inte enable the well established yards to Brown Curtis type will develop 70,000 should always regulate the output of and they cannot be honoured. To

exercise greater care in the selection shaft horse power, and the speed will inconvertible paper.

economic anarchy will not be ended Armistice.

the Russian revelation because it the matter.

Twelve Yarrow These notes, rightly considered; and no remedy, will be found, till The modifications of the Davis of their men, for there will be a exceed 31 knots. "People seem to have forgotten does not suit them personally, and that we really did win the war," he so we set about supporting the Cup regulations, suggested by the better grade to choose from, thereby (small tube) boilers, eight of them were simply stamped and sealed pro- sadder and wiser world. agrees t We fought, and won, and Whites, never realizing that the real United States, have been agreed to increasing the efficiency of the oil fired, supply the steam, whilst the mises that the holders of them should, commit the luckless, notes, to th that should be the end of it. Now Russia would never tolerate them. by the British Isles, and it was organisation and the output of the fuel capacity will be 1,000 tons of on presentation, have the right to flames and reum to the old I

coal, plus 1,600 tons of oil.

claim certain commodities, and again. that it is over we ought to settle We aided all the little border States resolved that the matter should be yard.

An essential thing in the industry The armament comprises seven services from their fellow citizens. Of course in such a parable th down to be friends again.

to fight against Soviet Russia and gone into further, during the cham-

is to continue and extend the train 7.5in. guns of a new model, with At the same time, owing to the reasoning has been pushed to expected them to be friendly to the pionship meeting at Wimbledon.

The World's Covered Court Chaming of men engaged in shipbuilding very high velocity, and mounted to exigencies of war, production was logical extremity, but it is val Whites. That was the most amazepionships were allotted to Denmark by educational courses in the art of give a big angle of elevation, six limited, and the available mass of against those who hold that a Go ing thing of all.

for 1920, and will take place in shipbuilding; in other words, to trans-12-pounders, four 3in. anti-aircraft, commodities was seriously diminish

without limitation. However modifle "Fer in their moments of ex-October. These events will be played form our partly skilled labour into and some minor pieces. Four above ed. Thus an increasing number of rament can issue inconvertible pape him. That is not our English way pansiveness the Whites made very in the British Isles in 1921. It was skilled labour as rapidly as possible. water and two submerged tubes demand notes was issued against and disguised it may be, this tendenc of doing things. It has always been plain what they would do to those unanimously agreed that ladies' I believe that the average intelligence comprise a powerful torpedo equip-rapidly decreasing bulk of assets. towards a rise of prices has begu

By the normal operation of the law States if they got back into power. doubles should be regarded as world's of the American workman is higher ment.

The armour protection of high of supply and demand the prices of the moment that the issue of ince vertible paper money in the lea There would have been a very speedy championships on hard and covered than that of the British workman, end to the independence of the little courts, just as the ladies doubles and that with labour-saving devices tensile and nickel steel is very com commodities and services rapidly exceeds the actual monetary requir

set event at Wimbledon is recognised as and improved methods of building, plete, although of no great thickness, rose. The law was illustrated that ments of the people. nations which have been

together with the training of men in whilst all bulkheads beneath the level any excessive issue of paper money

LIVING ON INCOME. "I suppose I fought the Germans free. Success for the Whites a world's championship.

The meeting decided unanimously special branches of shipbuilding, the of the lower deck are unpierced. It beyond the natural money require- as hard as anybody. had seen, would

All this, of course, is abysmal against the proposal recently put result will be to bring down the cost is calculated that the bulges and the ments of the people must cause a rise too, that the war wat coming. up

elementary, but there is only to Years ago I knew that it bound which Tsarism stood, not in Russia forward by the United States for an per ton of ships in this country to a minute sub-division of the ship will in prices.

£100,000 PAPER MONEY GIFTS. much evidence that the point to come, and I did my best to get alone, but in all those border coun international competition for women marked degree. As conditions are keep her afloat even if all three

These general economic laws are generally misunderstood. The voi ready for it. But it is over now, tries which were once oppressed by on the lines of the Davis Cop. The at the present time the wage and boilerrooms and both engine-rooms

often difficult to apprehend in the of the economist is that of or and I cannot. tell you how strongly Russia. Luckily that danger is now affiliated association will be requested piece work rates on the Clyde are become flooded.

not to participate in a competition of about 40 per cent. lower than our I feel that it is our business now passed.

own. We are, to this extent, bandi- The ships of this class were com- abstract, but they become compara. Crying in the wilderness. No scien to settle down and be friends again, "But Soviet Russia is in great this kind. We want to make an end of all the necessity. Before the country car The British delegates were request capped in labour. On the other hand, henced under the Emergency War tively simple if concrete examples has ever won sa little recognitio bad blood, the bitter, revengeful get back to anything like prosperity ed to submit a scheme for the Pro- as stated, the price of raw material Programme, being designed in the are taken, and if they are relentlessly from the world at large; the lesso she must have many things. There fessional Championship of the World is lower here and this goes in a the summer of 1915, and ordered in thought out in terms of actual life.it inculcates do not seem, like the measure to offect the lower rate of the following winter. They were in this way, I think, it can be shows of other sciences, to become part that theoretically the issue of paper the inherited knowledge of t is the matter of the railways. Thou- Daily Telegraph.

labour abroad. -

planned to meet possible improve money can be carried to a point world. Every generation has sands of engines are standing idle in

I believe that our shipyards are ments in enemy light cruiser types, which renders all services and com. learn them afresh by sad experienc laid out more efficiently than those and also for hunting enemy commodities not merely terribly expen create these floating credits a abroad; that is, they are so arranged merce raiders in the Atlantic, hence sive, but practically unprocurable. The popular manager of the that the material is received in the their large fuel capacities. As oil

..said...

If two men have a row and get to fighting, they go on till one of them is beaten, and then it is all over. When you have knocked a man down you don't start,kicking

our way to shake hands and forget

about the trouble. And surely that ought to be the way between raticns, just as much as between men.

feelings.

"It is a pitiful thing, but there is a very dangerous imperialistic spirit abroad in Europe at present.

POLICY OF THE WHITES.

have meant the setting

of again

everything

for

Some Kussia to-day because some parts

of the nations have Leas of conquest of them are worn out, and there are

and domination which will be no duplicates to be had, if we mean

"

KINEMA NOTES.

A WAR-TIME PRODUCT.

We must at all costs cease

positively deadly if they are allowed well towards Russia we must make Caronét Kinema Theatre did another yard and passes successively through | fuel would not be obtainable at somia This is certainly not always recognis. begin once more to live within oj ed. Sir Lynden Macasser, in the national income. Ambitious schem of social amelioration (however ha not believe for a minute, that those her in all friendliness to aid herself. when he engaged for his patrons, the embodiment in the ship, with less given four small coal-burning boilers, declares that perfectly honest work till that end is achieved. Politicia to direct international action. I do haste to supply her needs and to aid good turn for local picture goers. the operations necessary for its distant naval stations, they were Edinburgh Review for April 1919, of social admit, this) must w ideas have any real power in England. And if those missionaries of the services of the Royal Hawaiian interruption, rehandling, and with sufficient to provide steam for people have said to him: If there but I cannot help seeing that we Whites who have been persuading Quartette,

bave too long lent themselves to t are passing more direct routing than is secured cruising speeds. The" Hawkins" bas are not suficient profits in industry fatal notion that womehow or obl have allowed our policy to be shaped this country and France to sup- through. on their way to in many of the foreign yards. Our already proven herself an excellent to pay as the wages we ask, then all by the people who cherish those port the fighting against the Soviets England, where they are book yards as a rule have given greater sea boat, and the all-round design of the Government has to do is to create it is possible by adroit political

really care for their country, the best ed for extensive seasons with attention to crane and truck service, the ship seems to be excellent It is the necessary paper money and to pedients to shift the burden of t thing that they car. do is to go back some of the leading London theatres. and other transportation facilities. worthy of note that the "Cavendish,"

bage war loss from one, class

ideas.

HITTING A MAN WHEN HE

IS DOWN."

"There is the. Peace Treaty, for instance, I am afraid people in 'Eng.

Iand have not begun yet to realize

who

another, till it is, so to sper

"THE TERRIBLE. DANGER,"

to it and serve it as good citizens." There was a full house at the five and atheter ape in this country of a fifth vessel of this class, which use that."

I have generally found it best to shouldered off into infinity. To EUROPE MUST BE UNITED." o'clock show yesterday, when these labour saving devices puts as in a was in hand by Harland and Wolff General Gough paused for first class musicians gave several better position to meet high labour at Belfast, was accelerated in build combat this habit of mind, which is put their money (or perhape minute Europe needs peace," selections on their steel guitars to a

ing and completed as an aeroplane by no means uncommon even in ought to say their notes of hand) a better England."Now Wo what a thoroughly un-English thing he went on, prerently. "We have very appreciative audience. Their costs than the average British plant.

To compete, however, with Great carrier under the name of Vin- educated circles, by a reductio ad

absurdam. If it be true that there desire that is it really does consist of had these years of war, and now singing too, was excellent, and the Britain on equal terms means that dictive."

a better. England but. bitting a man when he is down and there is so much to be done. And blending of voices very effective. we must select and train our men to At one time there was considerable is no limit to the amount of paper pecessary preliminary in a solve hitting him in a pretty murderous it cannot be done without friend- These talented artists will again the best advantage. We must have doubt as to whether the construction money that a Government can pro England. To complete solvency fashion. It is no excuse to say that ship between the nations. Thou- perform to-night, supported by a on the part of the men loyalty to the of the "Frobisher" would be proceeded fitably issue, why should it not render shall not attain till our curren if Germany had won her terms to us sands of years ago the family was fine superproduction picture go work in which they are engaged, with. She had not reached a very all its subjects permanently happy system is once more established or would have been far harder. Germany the unit which had to hold together gramme. As their season is a short Simpler methods of management and advanced stage when the Armistice and prosperous by pesting to the gold basis, and our paper money did not win, and what she might for self-defence. Then it became the one, music lovers should not fail to construction must be striven for and was signed, and for some time her one morning £100,000 in banknotes? everywhere and always convertible have done has nothing to do with it. village, and then the tribe. After a book their seats carly. Don't miss use made of systematic organisation fate was in doubt. Few workmen Really it may be said in passing one I believe the Treaty will be while it was the nation which had this opportunity to listen for the, and labour saving devices that will were employed on her, and the Ad-almest wonders that Mr. Lloyd George revised, but I wish I could hope that to organize itself for security and first time to the haunting Hawaiian be most efficient. If the American miralty debated seriously the alterna has not already adopted this brilliant The American economist, F it will be revised soon. That is an now it is becoming a matter of cas melodies played on the moaning sisipworker is to continue to see our tives of carrying on work or dismant scheme; it would be thoroughly in Walker, was supposed to be distin aim that we ought to set before our tinents. 1f Europe is. to be secure guitars, the fame of which had, up yards. filled with orders. he must ling her on the stocks. Eventually accord with his impulsive generosity ly heterodox in his contention ti selves, for until it is revised it will in the future, Europe must be united. to now, been only a tradition here. reset certain tendencies which have and ne-doubt because of the mooted and his heroic determination not to under careful regulation an inc vertible paper currency could, for be hard to get friendliness back to "There are perils enough from the It is a novelty to Hongkong, and a influenced the labour unions in the idea of budding merchant ships submit to cramping economic laws.

time at least, fulfil all the mon Europe. And there is that absurd outside, without making any more very popular one, judging from the past. The hampering of individual at Flymouth-they decided that work A NEW ERA OF "NO WORK... clamour for the punishment of war for ourselves by harbouring jealousien enthusiasm exhibited by yesterday's Initiative, the restriction of output, should proceed. But, judging from

Unfortunately, though political functions; yet he felt so strongly criminals. It is even worse than and the spirit of revenge. All the audiences.

terrible danger of over-issue a dismal science, the levelling of all men to a rigid the new Navy Estimates, it is not economy is the

the irresistible temptation absurditis wicked. If you come European peoples have to hang to

wage scale and the prevention of likely that much work will be carried the consequences of ignoring its laws to think of it the real criminals in gether and to work together if Germany ате punished already. civilization is to endure in the world. And where will peace he if we allow any recognition of individual ability, out on her during the next twelve are more dismal still. Let us try to threw in the way of the stat Where are the people to-day who We are trustees for the world. We ourselves to be guided by people who are policies under which no industry months, From the time her first work out what would be the actual man, that he wrote. "It is

can prosper. It is to workingmen keel plate was laid, in August, 1916, concrete results of the expedient firm belief that the issue, of inci were really responsible for the war? have a common inheritance, and we are dreaming of revenge all the time of independent convictions, and not the Frobisher has been under the suggested. We can picture the sur-vertible paper money is never a soc We have broken their power utterly must defend it in common. United and planning hardships for those

dominated by any misguided labour care of three constructive managers, prise and delight of that typical Bri-measure of finance, no matter wi and for ever, and isn't that punish we can do it,, but if we are divided who are beaten? We did not do our leaders, that we must look in great This is unique in the annals of the tish citizen, Mr. John Smith, when, the stress of the national exiged ment enough? And where is the we shall be lost.

fighting by halves, and we must not

pon arriving at his office, he opens the may be. I believe it to be as sur point of demanding the trial of men

have any half-measures about our part for the drive that is to put the Western Dockyard.

American shipyard in the lead.

The christening ceremony is oficial envelope that awaits him, and 4 mistaken policy as the report who, after-alt-only obeyed the orders The war made an end of many peace making

to be performed by Countess For reads the letter from the Chancellor the athlete to the brandy bottle. of those whom we have broken? evil things in the world, but it has Imperialistic dreams, the desire

tescue, wife of the Lord Lieutenant of the Exchequer begging his accept means mischief always. If there Isuppose you could make out a left us with the duty of putting better for domination over others these

of the county of Devon, who laun-ance of the sum enclosed. But his ever a time when a nation needs full collected vigour, with a stes case for punishing some of them, but things in their place. And we can are deadly things. It has seemed to

ched the Temaraire," another famous delight is short-lived. A that is not the point. The point as not do that unless we first of all get me that our people do not realize I see it is that all this business of rid of the bitterness and hatred which how deadly they are, or to what an THIS disease is so dangerous and so battleship at the same yard on as he sits in blissful contemplation pulse, a calm cutlook, a firm he

Epid in its development that every August 24, 1907. N

of his newly acquired wealth his and a brain undisturbed by punishment looks more like revenge some people seem to delight in chert extent they are working on the Con- mother of young children should be

head clerk enters and respectfully fumes of this alcohol of commerce than anything else, and that is shing. We cannot hope for a better tinent, and especially in. France at prepared for it. It is very risky to wait poisonous. We don't want revenge world all the time we persist in bully present. But if we have any, real unte in, sttack of cryup appears and A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME. Intimates that he desires to leave his paper money it is when called to We want friendliness. We want a ing a beaten Germany ur curving a care for the future of the world, we flinn send for modigizo and let the child it its ruls of your home to always employer's service, Acked for his force Daily Graphics real League of Nations, with Germany reformed Russia. We have to help must realize the fact of them, and suffer until it can be obtained. Oham-keep on and a bottle of Chamber- reason, he explains that he has come barkin's Cough Remedy is prompt and Jain's Colic and Diarrhoes Remedy as into a fortune and intends to retire in it, and Austria, and Soviet Rusia one another, and to feel kindly make an effectual protest. Other effectual and has never been known to mfeguard against bowal complaints to en-estate in the country. The Ive new Launches are being b as well. And we want an end at once towards one another.

wise peace can be nothing but a fall in any case. Always have bottle always cures promptly and no bourshold to all the fighting that we have What did we fight for if it was sham, and a new beginning of war in the home. For sale by all Chemists in sale without its For sale by all office boy gives notice, for he means

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