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THE

CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931.

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

HIYE MARU

HEIAN MAKU

YKLIN

N.

E

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING

FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO vio Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Wednesday, 13th May.

Wednesday, 27th May.

2nd June.

30th June.

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER vin Shanghai & Japan Ports.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Tuesday,

Tuesday,

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

10th May.

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

30th May.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

23rd May.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

27th June.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

† TOKIWA MARU

Wednesday.

27th May.

KAGA MARU

Thursday,

14th June.

SOUTH

AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, RAKUYO MARU

Saturday,

23rd May,

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Pamama.

† KUMA MARU

Monday,

26th May.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.

†TOYOOKA MARU

DAKAR MARU

Friday, Thursday,

15th May,

ith Jure.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Langoon,

* RANGOON MARU

Friday,

18th May.

† BENGAL MARU

Friday,

29th May.

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ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki direct)

4 GENDA MARU

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Sunday,

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NAVY TO-MORROW.

SELF-SUPPORTING AND SELF-

SUFFICIENT FLEET.

guna, a large fleet of small vessels being strategically and tactically superior to a small fleet of masto- dons which cannot be equipped with heavy guns which are superior, on balance, to the 13.6-inch gun,

and freedom of a vast Empire which can obtain true security and de fence by no other means.

A numerous Cruiser fleet has al- ways, as a matter of history, coin- eided with national prosperity and booming trade. Trade needs that

In my recently published book,

The armoured 'cruisers and un- **The Navies of To-day and To-armoured cruisers arc given a security which the Navy alone can morrow." I set out frankly to bury

speed relative to the battle-provide. anil not praise the naval doctrines ships, regardless of the speed

ar

to

that foreign nations may 80E #it to instal in their ships. Our battle feet is thus a carefully balanced fleet designed with a single eye to the Navy's main business- the decisive defeat of the enemy's main fleet.

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Friday, May 8. Cheong Shing. British atr., 1,089 tons, Capt. D. G. Burleigh, from Wel-hai-wei, buoy No. C4,

J. M. & Co. Poo Sek. French str., 1,219 tons. Capt. M. Paul, from Kwong Chow Wan, C.M.S.N. Wharf-Wo Hop & Co.

of Lord Fisher,

In doing so

careful I was avaid any suggestion of a vendetta. to deny that he Was Lowering. picturesque, and in many respects lovable man, writes Captain Bernard Acworth, R.N Ret.) in the Morning Post. Indeed,

Competitive speed has been die Tat were it not for his great per- carded. Though the main busi- sonality, and that alone, it is almost nows of the eruisers is to resist in inconceivable that his revolutionary the uction against the enemy's doctrine of sea-power could have battle fleck pending such an action carried the day and made mince they are required for blockade, and Col meat of the great traditional for the defence of convoys, and the doctrine of British sea-power which cruisers advocated are ideal for this had in 1904, raised the Royal Navy to a pinnacle of prestige unrivalled In the world's history, and never since attained.

purpose.

Great Sea-Keeping Capacity, We thus require no specialised vessels for trade defence or block-

we could have a fleet of the follow-

ing composition:

Battleships

25

Armoured Cruisers

38

Unarmoured Cruisers

112

Small Submarines Sloops (minesweepers) River Gun-boats Surveying Ships

160

38

18

9

335

Total

There is no space, nor is this ade purposes. We need, in the an occasion, for repeating the argu- coming years, a large number of ments in support of my contentions. simple, well-armed and well-armour- Rightly or wrongly. I have con-od vessels of moderate speed and denined the majority of very modern great sea-keeping capacity. On the ships and material, in all Navics, basis of our existing total tonnage and the doctrines of war of which this vast, and excessively costly, material is the expression.

Traditional Doctrine. That

of the adherents

Lord Fisher's school will continue, to leave my case unanswered, as at present, seems unlikely, but in the absence. so far, of any adverse criticism, I will make so bold as to set down the classes of ships which we shall require in the coming years Our present total is 310. when our traditional doctrine of

Owing to the simplicity of the Geapower is re-established, and ships advocated, and to the mode. when the country has recovered its rate spoed, installed, the personnel reliance on itself, and on the sea; needed for such a fleet would be np- for the maintenance of true peace proximately 95,000. Allowing 10,- as opposed to "peacetalk" and for 000 over and above those actually defence, in last extremity, manning the ships, men waiting for against a hostile world.

draft and under training, we should The ships that I have foreshadow- require a total personnel of 105,000 ed as the ships of the future are as in the Royal Navy, nearly 40,000 follows:

less than in 1914 before the out- Battleships-12,000 tons, coal-break of hostilities. burning, 17% knots, heavily It is not suggested for a moment armoured, and mounting six 13.5 that, in total tonnage, this fleet is inch guns only.

necessarily the fleet of the future. Armoured Cruisers 12,000 The size of the Navy must always tons, coal-burning 231⁄2 knots, be affected by the size of European armoured, and mounting six 9.2- navies. A two-power standard inch guns only.

should always be our minimum, Unarmoured Cruisers 4,000 though, in view of our world-wide Lons, coal-burning, 27 knots, responsibilities, there is a minimum

the

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Saturday, May 9. di Lana, Italian str., 3,709 tons, Capt, N. Suttora, from Shanghai, buoy No. All. Dodwell & Co. Hydrangea, British str., 561 tons,

Capt. P. W.. Grierson, from Swatow, Chiu On Wharf. Chiu On S.S. Co. Kum Sang. British str., 3,340

tons, Capt. J. H. Ferguson. from Amoy, Kowloon Wharf.

J. M. & Co.

Kwong Sang, British str., 1,428

tons, Capt. A. B. Osmond. from Canton, buoy No. B3,- J. M. & Co.

Nagato Maru. Japanese str., 3.285 tona, Capt. Nakata, from Sakito, Kowloon Wharf.-

N.Y.K.

Nagisan Maru. Japanese str., 2,615 tons, Capt. F. Matsubayashi, from Nagasaki, buoy No. A12. -M.B.K.

Rakuyo Maru, Japanese str., 5.679 tons, Capt. S. Kimura, from Moji, buoy No. A1-N.Y.K, Song Bo, French str. 720 Tons,, Cupt, Le Chevalier, from Can- ton, buoy No. 49-Sing K & Co. Soochow, British str., 1,594 tons,

Capt. W. T. Hodge, from Swa- tow, buoy No. B21.-B. & S. Tatsuta Maru, Japanese str., 16,975

tons, Capt. S. Ito, from Los Angeles, Kowloon Wharf. N.Y.K.. Theseus, British str., 4.282 tons, Captain C G. Carnon, from Glasgow and port, Holt's Wharf.-B. & S.

Tonkin, French str.. 906

tone, Capt, J. Bonnamour, from K. C. Wan, booy No. B2).— M. M. & Co.

tons, Capt. K. Izumi, from Hoihow, buny No. A10.- Hidaka & Co.

Sunday, May 10. Batavia Maru, Japanese str., 2,729

mounting six 6-inch guns only. in our cruiser needs which is un-Yei Maru, Japanese str., 1,849 These vessels form the battle affected by other nuvies. flect, and from the battle feet the Thus, take an extreme case, if torpedo is banished. Small sub-foreign navies were abolished we marines of 400 tons, for defence should still require a considerable against landing in force or protracted bombardment, river gun- boats, and minesweepers, are retain ed as auxiliary craft, but aircraft carriers, surface torpedo craft, and battle-cruisers disappear.

cruiser fleet if privateering and piracy are not once again to raise their heads on the High Sets.

I have been careful to emphasise that such a flect as I have fore- shadowed can only come into being gradually. Our existing fleet, ahorn right away of a few case of its more extravagant units, will in any ease become obsolete in the not dis-

tons, Cupt. N. Niide, from Tawan, buoy No. A7.-O.S.K. Glenogle, British m... 5,880 tons, Capt. W. E. Roberts, from Singapore, Kowloon Wharf.- J. M. & Co.

Hai

The land-machines now transport- ed in the aircraft carriers will be- come stout seaplanes carried, like aca-boats, in the ships of the fleet, the numbers carried, if desired, ex- tant future. If the argument in ceeding those now carried in the my book is sound, as Admiral Cus-Iyo aircraft carriers.

tance maintains, and our future

The battleships are of the least fleet, in its main outlines, the right tonnago that will ideally mount an one, annual replacements can, in the

gun armament of 13.5-inch ordinary course, produce it.

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Relative, Cheapness.

Ning, British str., 832 tons. Capt. A. H. Stewart, from Swatow, Douglas Wharf.- Douglas S.S. Co.

Maru, Japanese str., 3,249 tons, Capt. K. Uyeno, from Japan via Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.-N.Y.K.

Kojun Maru, Japanese str., 1,300 tons, Capt. H. Ikeda, from Canton, Yaumati Anchorage. -D.K.K.

The Navy, and the Navy alone, can decide whether such a fleet is,Kronviken, Norwegian str., 1,510

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tona, Capt. Kvamme, from Keclury. buoy No. 38.- Wallem & Co.

tons, Capt. R. Nagayama, from Swatow, buoy No. B- N.Y.K.

cheapness of construction and main-Lushan Maru, Japanese str., 1,507 tenance. Each individual ship is cheap owing to the exclusion of the most costly features of our later ships-extreme speed. Its main tenance will be relatively cheap, not only on account of its simplicity but because it will not require great shore establishments and a great shore personnel.

Being exclusively coal-burning, the annual coat of ita maintenance will be redistributed to the nation as a whole in work and wages. His material and fuel can be, and there- fore should be, exclusively British. Indeed, it is deserving of emphasis that a Navy that: is, nationally en- tirely self-supporting, and self-sulf- cient is not so great a drain on national resources as it has become the habit to assume.

It is true that the annual outlay on the Navy le, economically, unpro. ductive, as, Indoeil, is most other public expenditure, but it is equally true that this annual naval expandi- ture, if efficiently laid out, is not a high premium to pay for the Insur- ance of the productive activities

Sidajoe, Dutch str., 1,000 tons, Capt. De Groot, from Samarin- da, Yaumati Anchorage.—

J.C.J.L.

WARSHIPS IN port.

The following British, warships were in harbour to-day:--

Bruce-In dock. Cornwall-North arm. Hermes-West wall dock. Odin-In dock. Otue-In dock. Pandora-In Taikoo dock. Proteus In Talkoo dock. Sandwich-South wall. Sirder North wall. Somme South well. Sterling-North arm, Tamar-Baain. **** Tarantule-East wall. Thracian-North wall,

Foreign Man-of-War.' Argus-French gasboat.

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