1938-02-19 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1938.

RUSSIAN

WARSHIP

BUILDING

Capital Ship Construction Cannot Begin For 2 years

Purchases Of Presses

In Britain

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books and magazines containing de- CANADA TO

scriptions of American manufactur- ing and shipbuilding methods have questioned frequently the

and CUBB FASCISTS

American retired naval officer and AND COMMUNISTS

American retired army officer who

oldest battleships. New York, dur-communists, the commission visited one of the ing the activities of fascists and

recently the Russian assistant naval

The Russian Government's attempts to have have been retained by Mr. Wolf as battleships constructed in America or to purchase technical advisers.

Ottawa, February 8. The Canadian Government will guns, armour plate and fabricated parts have met

On one occasion some members of open a country-wide inquiry regard- with little or no success after almost a year of effort.

the Minister of Jus- ing American Legion Week and tice, Mr. E. Lapointe, declared to- Apparently reconciled to failure of its at-inspected her upper decks. More day. tempts to acquire its battleships abroad, Russia has attache to the Embassy in Washing military exercises are illegal, he All organisations out turned to purchasing machinery abroad, which will ton, or his assistant, visited the declared, and will be closely watch- enable her eventually, but probably not for at least new 10,000 ton, six-inch-gunned ed. two to four years, to commence capitalship con- Navy Yard, but saw little. In some

Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Mr. Adrien Arcand, head of the Canadian Fascist Party, replied to struction in Russia.

quarters the impression has gained this announcement by Acting through the Amtorg Trading Corpora- credence recently that the Russian that he would lead his "Blue Shirts" tion and not the Carp Export and Import Com-commisson was interested primarily ally were, but nobody has taken him pany, which was the American corporation es-cated parts, but in learning how to seriously. Fascist or Nazi organisa- pecially formed to handle the battleship purchases build them...

Montreal, but their influen arge the Soviet Government recently contracted in Sheffield, England, with a British concern to buy a carp company 15,000-ton armour plate press, valued roughly at $1,500,000.

buying battleships or fabri-

CREDIT FUNDS

A

asserting

to Ottawa to show what they re-

tions have their headquarters in

is

remain

greatly limited because the majority of Canadians strongly attached to the democratic ideal.

However, it was learned that the had considerable funds to its credit deposited in New York bank; it has made arma- ment purchases, other than battle-st the law, which would permit the Many Canadians protested again- At the same time it was learned developed as shipbuilding centres.

ships, and its officers have held con suppression of communist publica- that Amtorg was in the market in

But in constructing lighter ves-ferences with the two

principal tions and the searching of the America or abroad for a 10,000-ton sels, such as flotilla leaders and light American steel companies capable houses of suspected persons, since straightening press and rolls, heavy cruisers, which virtually are unproof manufacturing Class A armor they believe that the law is con- and powerful machinery necessary tected by armor and which

plate and 16-inch guns, as trary to individual liberty. for the manufacture of heavy armor light armament, Russia has been

well as with the New York Ship- plate.

carry

faced with none of the problems of building Company and other con- ANTI-SEMITIC MOVE

cerns.

GROWS IN ITALY

modern battleship construction.

She is not believed to be equip-

At one time, it was reported, al- ped in any sense for such construc-though not confirmed, that the tion, as she does not possess the Russians were discussing tentatively New Magazine Launched massive and expensive machinery the possible purchase of the New To Foster Campaign needed to roll and fabricate heavy York Shipbuilding Company, par- armor from six to eighteen inches ticularly of the Camden yards, in thickness, or to bore or rifle which had done much warship cons- major calibre gurs from eleven to truction and which had been faced, sixteen inches in diameter.

until the recent allotment to that

The first issue of "Il Giornalis- yard of two navy contracts, with simo," a weekly magazine, appear- the discharge of 5,000 workmen anded to-day as the official organ of an- the closing of the yards,

START OF EFFORT

Rome, February 10. A growing anti-semitic feeling is noticable in Italy to day.

THREE YEARS Experts who have watched the

pro- gress of the attempted Russian negotiations have concluded that Russia largely has abandoned at- tempts to have battleship con structed in toto, or in piecemeal, here is indeed she ever was seri- ous about it--and now is attempt ing to equip her own shipyards and steel plants with machinery and installations capable of turning Moreover, she is not equipped, it out 35,000-ton capital ships, armed is thought, to manufacture, in her with 16-inch guns.

steel mills, the extremely heavy and

The Carp corporation also sought large plates and castings, such as

to buy a few test armor plates from stern posts, needed in heavy ship steel companies but so far as could construction nor is she believed able be learned, all of its battleship The leader of the movement to produce high quality case-harden- negotiations have been fruitless.

Sig. Roberto Farinacci, a member of ed steel for armor plating.

Despite the issuance sast Septem-the Fascist Grand Council. Thus, her recent interest in ber by the National Munitions Con- In its first number. “Il Giorna- armor plate machinery is held to trol Board of export licenses, which lissimo" published a lengthy inter- be the start of an effort-long|would permit the export to Russia view with Sig. Giovanni Preziosi, predicted to equip Russian of about $5,275,100 worth of naval notorious anti-Semite, concerning plants and yards to build heavy |guns and armor plate, it was learned the problem of Jews in Italy "for ships.

again as it was ascertained at the wherever there

are Jews there is It was not learned whether the time, that this equipment had never the Jewish question.”

The same experts said that it probably would be three years, even after Russia had received the neces- sary machinery, before she could be ready to start the construction of a capital ship.

The Russian shipbuilding indus- try has been expanded considerably since the war, but marked progress has not been noted until compara- tively recently.

Battleships were 'built in Russia under the Czarist regime, and fair- ly heavy armor plate — for those

ti-semitism, a sentiment already re- vealed in the papers representing extreme Fascism, such as “Il Tevere"

Regime Fascista.”

example, the Roman idea.”

a

Carp Export and Import Company, been shipped (far less manufac- The magazine presents Italy as a headed by an American citizen, tured), so far as authorities knew, great anti-Jewish force. days--was manufactured there, but Samuel Carp, brother-in-law of the and that neither the Bethlehem Steel Anti-Semitism never reveals no large-men-of-war have been built Russian Premier, Vyacheslaff

M. Company nor the Midvale Company, self," the paper stated, "until in Russia for more than twenty Molotoff, would be affected by the principal. manufacturers of armor Jewish anti-imperial and anti-fascist years, and even those built in Czarist apparent change in policy. It was plate and large naval guns, had will is opposed an imperial will of times were distinguished for their learned, however, that the Carp signed any contracts with the Carp universal character. This is, for poor design, the poor quality of company, which has offices in the commany.

eir armor plate and their general rooms of Morris Wolf, attorney, of ifferiority to the men-of-war

220 Fifth Avenue, still was being mjor sea powers!

"advised by some members of a Russian technical commission which has been in America for months in-during the period of negotiations crea the strength of her sub- looking toward battleship construc- marin fleet recently and is reputed tion.

150. SUBMARINES Ahough Russia has vastly

of

:

me-

to hay perhaps, the world's largest STUDY AMERICAN METHODS fleet onundersen boats, numbering, accordi to some estimate, 100 to time including a few Russian na-

Many of these

experts, at one

150 shit she has never built any val officers, have made it their busi- thing he ier than flotilla leaders ness to learn as much as possible or light chasers so far as is known. about American- production

With the help of Italian experts thods and American she is repu to be building flotilla and shipbuilding machinery. They leaders o light cruisers at have visited some industrial plants Kronstadt, le Nikolaev, on the and have obtained permission, occa- Black Sea, a Komsomolsk on the sionally, to inspect certain machines Amur and Nievak on the Sea of in which they were interested. Okhotsk in th ar East are being They have studied many text

shipbuilding

Those who know.

Insist on

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