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been decided, cannot be allowed to weigh against the major risk. Each arm has its duties, for the traditional attack which Britain has to meet in war is twofold- the direct attack against her

Hong Kong Wednesday, April 7, 1937. shores by invasion (modernly by

air bombardment too), and the attack on her vital sea routes. BRITAIN REARMING The province of the air arm is to

encounter the enemy's air forces. The British Government's new To place upon that arm the res- programme for heavy increases ponsibility also of engaging an in all arms, when it is brought enemy's naval fleet and of so closely to Hong Kong as to sweeping the trade routes of provide for fortification on a raiders is out of the question. scale almost incredible, seems to Moreover, the extreme effective draw attention alarmingly to the range for aeroplanes is about 500 grave danger of war. Partly, miles (which means at least this is a fair estimation of the 1,000 miles there and back); and facts. But there must also be beyond a range of 500 miles taken into account the ending of what is to safeguard the sea the treaty periods of the lanes except the Navy, especially Treaty of Washington and the in the Mediterranean and the Treaty of London which were Pacific? An enemy which could for a "naval and fortifications starve Britain at sea could bring holiday.' For some years the her to terms whatever the Admiralty and the best naval supremacy of Britain in the air. critics in England have been For the increased cost of the giving warning that after 1936 modern battleship £8,000,000 there would be no resource but each will be the cost of the new to rebuild the fast-ageing British British units - the enormous battleship fleet. The London engine-power demanded to drive Treaty particularly bound the these monsters at 30 knots, the signatory Powers Britain, increased hitting power, and the United States, and Japan → but increased⠀⠀ protection overhead not France, Germany, and Italy, and underwater, are largely res- to abstain from new battleship/ponsible. The air offensive has construction till the end of 1936. added to these cares. Vast as is During the period France built the expenditure demanded, its or started building four battle-mammoth figures are still small ships, Italy two, and Germany compared with the cost of wag- two. The Royal naval review of ing another first-class war. If June, 1985, disclosed to expert the Empire's determined arma_ eyes the numerical reduction and ment can dissuade other Powers the ageing condition of the from such temptation, the outlay fighting fleet.

may be considered worth while. Of the 15 battleships, oniy But that poses another question. three are of post-war construc- tion, and the average age of 13 The Clannish Scots of them is 20 years. Of the 18 cruisers in that review only eight

were

The Scots have been at it

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of modern design: Last again. For four days the Edin- year the Mediterranean crisis burgh courts tried recently a case concentrated -- British naval involving the succession to a clan strength in those waters, and it chieftainship; and Sassenachs presented an imposing front, but and other foreigners, who can only at the cost of denuding never understand what the clan every foreign station of service business is all about, are now able ships and gravely depleting more puzzled than ever. It was the home fleet.

hardly the intricacies of the case

At the beginning of this year, under trial which puzzled them, the Empire had to face the fact but the terrific earth tremors that the British Navy was which the case has-set up all strong enough only to hold its through the Highlands. own in European waters. It could Most people regard the clans not possibly have spared any of as social clubs, which usually that strength to uphold the Em-seem to locate themselves in pire's interests in the Pacific as Glasgow, with chiefs who live in well The battleship fleet would London or New York and mem- have to be replaced apart from bers who are scattered more or

over the world. any need to increase its num-less all

There bers. The orders recently an- seems to be nothing very earth- nounced will give the fleet five shaking in that, but what a ter- new battleships of the largest rific business it is to the Scot! size, 14 new cruisers, and four Perhaps the Sassenach's difficul- new large aircraft carriers. In ty is that he doesn't care much both these other departments about family ties, anyway. If he Britain is far behind, other naval is a Smith of a Brown, he is not Powers in modern craft. Unless particularly interested in other those other Powers agree to Smiths or Browns. some new limitation of naval But how different are the armaments, it can be taken as Macleans, the Macphersons, the certain that Britain will go on Mackenzies and the McNeills. laying down new ships in all Give them their clan society in classes in the next two or three Glasgow, their bit of Scottish years also. The Chancellor of land with an ancestral castle o the Exchequer expressly refrain- it and a chief to lead them, a

and ed from naming any particular they make of family ties one of Power, but said the country had the prondest

mast to prepare to meet any of several romantic institutions that sur- emergencies. One Power de- vive.

on