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THE CHINA MATE

NAVAL POWER IN THE PACIFIC

The restoring

the Pacific Ocean will prove as powerful factor in demonstr

OCEANC

not necessary immediately to provide served. They recognised that Bri. Sloops: 2 Destroyer:

and prestige in the

to the world the unity of the peo docks and repairing facilities for tish power had to be restored the German Navy and the growth

ples of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

them at Singapore..>

X.

Pacific Ocean

Subsequently the expansion of A "GO SLOW" POLICY heavy though the cost would be, if of the fleets of France, Italy, and The policy may be traced back to the decision to convert Sings "go slow" policy was in the the interests of the widely dis Russia threatened the supremar circumstances not only justifiable, tributed dominions, colonies, and of the British Fleet in the North pore into a first-class naval base, but inevitable, but operations were dependencies subject to the one Sea, the Altantic, and the Mediter

and the West, with provision

a half-way house between the East docking and repairing and supply ing ships of the largest type. At

Lord Fisher, who had become First Ses Lord of the Ad-

never completely arrested. Year by throne were not to be left at the agean year the plans slowly took shape mercy of an enemy. for making Singapore one of the SHIPS IN THE PACIFIC IN 1900 miralty, insisted that the ships in greatest of all the bases in It is forgotten by the present generation that throughout the era the provision of

the

one time it looked as though the British Empire, with good dockings

...

acommodation, and repair facilities, Victorian

By Sir Archibald Hurd

the outer seas should be recalled, that expenditure on the maintenan- ce of the more distant bases should be reduced, and that every effort should be made to secure against successful attack the heart of the Empire and the focal points of the trade routes. Under his insistent

money which was being spent on this development might have to be regarded as wasted, since provi- sion was being made for building few men-of-war beyond a meagre - provision for the squadrons based on British ports and on Malta. large detachments of aircraft, a naval forces in the Pacific on pressure, reinforced by the states-

Under the influence of the dis- stronger garrison than in the past, something more than a two-Power manship of King Edward VII, who...* armament movement, the naval an- and great stores of oil fuel and standard was regarded as essential foresaw better than most of his advisers the trend of events, "the thorities had to concentrate on the other naval supplies. Very slowly to the security of the Empire.

Before the passing of the first legions were called home. That protection of the heart of the Em- the character of Singapore has thus pire and the defence of merchant been changed, and no one who was Naval Act by Germany, the only was the phrase applied to this po- shipping at the focal points of the familiar with it 20 years or so ago countries which kept fleets of con- hey by those, who, in pessimistic principal trade routes. For the would recognise it to-day. It has siderable size in Pacific waters mood, recalled the parallel provid- into a well- were France and Russia, for the ed by the history of the Roman Em- time being, the needs of the outer been transformed seas had to be practically ignored, defended and well-supplied place squadrons of the United States and pire. They protested that the new The White policy was the beginning of the for the simple reason that ships of refreshment for the naval forces. Japan were small.

Once the legions were call- were not available over and above of the Commonwealth, while the Ensign was as supreme in the end.

Hong Kong, Pacific as in European waters. In ed home, they would never be seen those required in what are usually establishment at termed "the near seas.” Work at though under the Washington 1900 the squadrons immediately again in he outer seas.

RESTORATION OF NAVAL Singapore was slowed down and it Treaty it could not be strengthen available in case of trouble in any the

STRENGTH an part of the Pacific included was urged in influential quarters ed, has been maintained in

following vessels:-

The pessimists have been that the whole scheme should be efficient condition. abandoned and the expenditure al- Thus two bases, in addition to: China Squadron: Battleships: founded by events owing to the far- Barfleur, reaching vision of the naval ready incurred written off as a loss, Aden and Bombay, will in future Goliath, Centurion, and a further contribution to the re- be at the disposal of the naval Ist-Class Cruisers: Orlando, Un- authorities in London which led duction of naval armaments. - commanders-in-chief of the British daunted, Aurora, Endymion, and them, not to tear up, but merely to Knowing 2nd-class Cruisers: pigeonbole their plans. The sea lords of the Admiralty, naval forces "east of Suez." The Terrible,

»

con-

in view of the then current opin- requirements of the strategy of the Bonaventure, Hermione, and Pique, something of history, they were iors at Westminster and in the Commonwealth will thus be met, in 3rd-Class Cruisers: Alacrity and satisfied that the British peoples British constituencies, could do accordance with the plans elabor- Brisk. Sloops, etc 14 (including 4 would, in due course, regain their strategical sense, recognising that little, but as a result of their insist- ated by the sea lords of the Ad- river gunboats). Destroyers: 5. ence year by year modest sums miralty immediately after the close East Indies: 2rd-Class Cruiser though on political and economic Cruisers grounds European waters had for were provided in the Navy Estim- of the Great War, when it wassap Highflyer 3rd-Class ates. Their action was the inevit- parent to them that the axis of the Marathon, Cossack, and Pomone. the time first claim on the naval able sequel to the cutting down Empire would have to be moved Sloops: 3. Torpedo Gunboats: 2 (1-resources of the Commonwealth, its Coast Defence Ships: security would require a return to of the strength of the Royal Navy, from Malta to a point farther east in reserve).

re the traditional policy of policing since, if ships were not to be built if the unity of the Empire in mat- Magdala and Abyssinia (in

of defence was to be pre- serve).

not merely the seas in the western for duty in the outer seas, it was ters

Australian Station 1st Class hemisphere, but also those of the Events have Cruiser Royal Arthur 3rd-Class eastern hemisphere. Cruisers Katoomba (Sydney re fulfilled their faith in the good The serves), Mildu Ringarooma, sense of the British peoples. Tauranga, Wallaroo, Mohawk, Por- Singapore scheme is approaching poise, and Pulades Sloops and completion and the new shipbuild- Gunboats: 3. Torpedo-Gunboat: ing programme, the most ambi-

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GALE CAUSE OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' PLANE DISASTER Balance Upset By Sudden Gust After Take-Off SIR JOHN SALMOND'S BRITISH

RIGHT COLLARBONE

BROKEN

London, To-day.

There was a wind of gale velocity when Im- perial Airways flyingboat Cygnus, which crashed at Brindisi yesterday, left her moorings, according to an eye witness.

cil

ARMAMENT PROGRESS

ment pr

tion to demands in the Ho

real what progress has been ma -Trans-Ocean."

After an unusually long run, the Cygnus just Commons that the Governmen managed to leave the water when a sudden gust of wind upset the balance of the machine, which crash- ed in a gigantic cloud of spray.

The nose of the hull appeared to have crumbled up like cardboard.

SIR EDWIN LUTYEN'S SON

is now stated that the Austra lian passenger, who with the steward! was one of the two drowned, was Captain Macdonald Falconer, who was travelling from Charleville, Aus- tralia.

It was also revealed last night that Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond, another of the passengers, in addi- tion to a cut shoulder, also had his right collarbone broken. His con- dition is stated to be not serious.

ME. Robert Lutyens, one of thei passengers not seriously injured, is the son of Sir Edwin Lutyens, the architect.-Reuter

CANTON BOYCOTT DECISION

Canton, To-day. “Japanese goods will be taken off the markets as from this morning for an indefinite period,””- reads a proclamation issued by the Canton Merchants Association this

morning.

This means that even old stock will not be sold in the city.—Our "Own Correspondent.

FATAL ACCIDENT

NAVAL POWER IN

COL. AND MRS.

LINDBERGH ON VISIT TO US.

Buited States since residence in England

Complete s secrecy marked their voyage on the "President Harding,” and the famous flying couple dis- embarked from the third class gangway.

THE PACIFIC OCEAN It is understood that their child-

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ren are remaining in England.

The Lindberghs appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs. Gregor and remained in their

which they mingled

trous ever undertaken, is making rapid headway. By the end of suite until the vessel left Queens this year, the shipyards in the ush Isles will have in hand m of-war of 550,000 tons disp Further orders, includ

of battleships, in

five now under const

be placed in the year

Col

ork

they

dela

At one time it was feared. shortage of steel m

gress and that

ply of skilled

available Those fears

A fatal accident occurred yesterdispelled by a careful

H.K. MAIL ON BOARÐ

day afternoon when Nam Min-kau, a coolie, fell off lorry No. 2385, in The Hong Kong office of Imperial Des Voeux Road West: The lorry Airways announced this morning was laden with baskets of vegetables that, in all probability, mails for and deceased was seated on top. Home from Hong Kong were Some of the baskets fell and aboard the Cygnus.

deceased was thrown to the ground. The mail involved would have He received injuries to the head and been that which left Hong Kong on died on the way to Queen Mary Saturday, November 27.

Hospital.

MANILA DECLARES RUSSO-JAPANESE

tion of existing Iterial and labour, while

for the making facture of guns tand the preparation

been completed drew up a schedule dates for the contracts began to place early in so far progress has

rapid than even they expected.

This expansion of the Royal Navy will not only make it possible to a

WAR; IT WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED inforce the squadrons in European

waters, but will enable the naval authorities, in association with the

The grandaddy of all. Marila țin a down town cafe. Anyway, Governments of New Zealand and rumours, the one which mushroom-rumour became fact Fact became Australia, to re-establish British od to greatest size on the least of la thing one was ashamed to admit naval prestige in the Pacific Ocean. foundation, came to the city with he hadn't heard two hours before which for upwards of a quarter of the dawn last week, burst in full from the most rehable sources, in- a century has been dominated by flower at eight o'clock in the morn-cluding the Mikado and Joseph the fleets of the United States and

Japan. ing, and reached top mouth-to Stalia

mouth momentum at the coffee At ten o'clock there was a rash club hour, around ten thirty am for gas masks, and binoculars tol With the first rosy streaks of scan the skies for marauding bomb- sunrise there was as

ers. The telephone, gained possibly from new per the worst sufferer stories current for several

jammed the fines to det that Russia and Japan were at low-down on the latest internation Ids over some diplomatic matter, conflagration.

calls

to

FLYING DOWN TO RIO

sengers.

fused to talk to esterday, but the

to spend

States had

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which normal healthy, tries every minute of organs, muscles, fibres the body.

At the Canadian Chinese Club's ember meeting on Friday, the

amme includeż preview of the land. China National Aviation Corporation's first travelogue film, "Flying Down to Fills

mi to Rio de Janeiro on the luxurions com Clipper ships.

me

this hour it was confined to Finally, around even o'clock, early risers and late celebrants. when nothing happened in the way Sixty minutes later it reached a of authentic confirmation, scept- couple of breakfast tables and icism took the place of belief, and gamed the stage of an out-and-out the town began to settle down impasse between the two nations, more normal rumours, like a dollar Rio which depicts the trip from Mia sugar

By the time people began going drop in the price of gold and fa- to work the rumour was running vourable congressional action on im- up and down the Escolta with the mediate Philippine independence. throttle open and it looked as The source of the war Tumou Russia and Japan might declare remained a mystery. Fast war on each other if somebody to news centres in Shanghai, didn't step in. Evidently somebody and New York brought wo stepped in It may have been a nobody had thought couple of stock brokers, or

phone

radio

tween Japan and Russia.

of Manila's on good war

Mr. Philip Delany, the Pan-America Traffic Manager for China, gave a short introductory address and disclosed the welcomed informat on that there were

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of response. The objectives view fails to mark any inclina- tion in Japan except to further conquest and any disposition among responsible leaders in China except to resistance.

It is something of a tribute to Britain, taking the ethical ap- |proach of the tory to the crisis, that the view should be express- Hong Kong, Monday, December 6, 1937 ed that Tokyo would prefer Brit-

JAPAN AND ITALY

lain to be mediator, if mediator there is to be. The Japanese Government, says the commen tator, does not share newspaper One of the notable features hostility to British policy. This, marked by recent developments presumably, on the assumption in Pacific high-tension politics is that the Japanese Government is the difference in interpretation sufficiently fair-minded to at- of Berlin and Bome of their tribute the motive of British individual responsibilities under policy as self-preservation. Apart the Anti-Comintern Pact with from that, Japanese diplomacy is Japan. With or without pros-a keen student of history, and pect of achievement, Herr Hit-the country has felt bitterly in ler resolutely pursues the path the past the falseness of friendly of peace, striving, through un-professions by European Powers. official channels, to discover wheIt was the Continent, which stul- ther there is common ground tified Japan's victory over China upon which China and Japan can in 1894-5, and Britain which be brought together. Desire to came to the rescue with the keep on good terms with Japan | Chinese loan whereby China was does not, by any means, exclude enabled to pay Japan an indem- friendship for China, and were nity. Again, after the Russo there the remotest chance Japanese war in 1904-5, only mutual accommodation at

this Britain and the United States. stage, Germany's peculiar posi-saved Japan from losing the prize tion in the scheme of things, of victory.

adroitly maintained in highly de- If Russia be irrevocably Jap

licate circumstances, would fit

ber, above others, to be the med an's enemy the view of the "an- ium for initial negotiations- It i-Communist front how

can

is probably true that Germany their statesmen serve the Japan reckons without her anti-Cominese people's welfare by antagon- term ally, and believes that Japan, ising in the Pacific Britain and the United States as well? There more genuinely anxious for peace to-day than China, would sur can be no other outcome of the render sufficient of her ambitions failure of the Brussels Confer- to permit Chinese consideration ence, the deliberate defiance of of the balance as a basis for an world feeling, the refusal to state Farmistice. But while this may a case for mediation and such be at variance with hints, off- examples of militarism-gone-mad cial and semi-official in Tokyo, of as the provocative Settlement what constitues the Japanese march. Japan is involved in a minimum, Germany's sincere de desperate game. Mr. E. M. Gull commentator) sire to be hepful and to end the (an informed

before Japan wrecks her pointed out in a recent issue of f as well as China can scarce."Nineteenth Century" that, of the

ions in Japan's peace- mlitary

ishment, five Italy, on the other hand, at lively

rages Japan- in berlare on service to-day in Manchu- aggression, -- antagonises China kno, six are in North China, and bitterly and nunecessarily by four in Shanghai. Since that formally recognising Manchukuo, time at least three more divisio and cynically invites Nanking to have been sent to Shangh accept, subjection to Japan as an and two to Manchuria, and historical Tiecessity !

magnitude of Japanese financi

effort There must be a reason for appropriations for the this divergence in attitude and suggests that new divisions there is only one which suggests being raised and equipped – for itself. The Italian action, if not active service. As an outspoken deliberately mischievous, must critic in the Tokyo "Oriental be read as an effort to thwart, Econo Anglo-American attempts to re concile the parties. If the Ital

wrote recently ap ions for the present up to date amount to “much the

ian purpose is that British diplo- 2,600 milliond yen half

acy shall be obstructed in what-again as the Tever it many attempt-in revenge whole Russian for British policy at Geneva which did against the Italian conquest of hon yen After Abyssinia-then the new essay former was

in opposition fits easily into place can capital

1,700

the

with obstruction at the Non-in-Japan financially. When tervention Committee in London, to Italy for advice and

manoeuvres in the of aid, Japan might

and the agitation themselves wh

anti-British feeling

"Britain brought

ited States the com-

.one friendship.