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|ODOWNS_Nos. 7, 8 and 10, and the Top Floor of No. 3, (Tang Lap Ting's Godowan East Point).

Immediate Possession, Rent exceptionally. moderata..

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No. 107. Wellington Street, behind the Stag Hotel or Keeper of

No. 6, Godoya on the Spot. 797

Hongkong, 28th May, 1909.

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INONE GODOWN.

N.No. 6, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,

In No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Victoriu Builling, Rooms suitable for Offices.

ROOMS in College Chambors No. 31 Wyndham Street,

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KING'S BUILDINGS.

FFICES facing the Harbour from about October at presont in occupation of Mesars JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD.

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NTOWN, Twe. Extensive Two-Storied

20 and 21, PRAYA, KENNEDY

Semi-Detached Godowns; Ground Surface of Cement Concrete,

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TTO. 2, ELLIOTT CRESCENT, ROBIN.. SÓN ROAD, Six Roomed House, with Outhouse, Commanding a Flas View of the Harbour.

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NOS. 52 and 69, CAINE ROAD,

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HOUSE in Wong Nei Chong Road.

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES To Lor, No. 2, Connaught Road, 3rd Floor.

No. 3, CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit;

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30TH, 1909.

NAPIER JOHNSTONES'

NAVAL POSITION IN SHIPS

AND MEN.

"SQUARE BOTTLE (BY THE NAVAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE

WHISKY.

BEWARE OF

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UNVARIED FOR

THE SAME TO-DAY

AS

150. YEARS.

IMITATIONS,

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"DAILY TELEGRAFIĻ.")"

repair ships, converted merchant vessels, or any other auxiliaries; vassols of less than 1,000 tons, except torpedo craft; torpedo craft of less than fifty tons.

Consequently these statistics refer only to the fgkting feet and to the modern fighting fleet, ships over twenty years old boing excluded.

Tassels

States,

A CONTRAST OF TONNAOE.

Bearing in mind the British prepondermice in Dreadnoughts, completed and comploting, over any twe Powers, the figures are not autis- factory. They show very clearly that in battle- ships, armoured cruisers, protestet cruisers, and destroyers the British Navy is above the Two- Power Standart, Including Dreadnoughts we have now under the ponnant fifty-six armoured sifty-three belonging to Germany and the United t to be in the line, as compared with

nud forty-three possessed by Germany ud France--and the British ships are larger, swifter, and more powerful. The superiority

British vessels is enggested-possibly somo what exaggerated by the aggregate tonange of the battleships and battleship praisers of the oral fleets, including those building, but ex- eluding those authorised and not technically building, thus failing to take into account the four contingent British ships, two American two German, and three Italian battleships, which have not actually been laid down:-

tho

There are statistios-and statistics. They may be manipulated to prove or disprove almost anything. In the study of figures bearing on political or semi-political issues it is essential to remember that their valne depends largely on the authority behind them, and the bias of the person who prepared them. Do they repro sont the truth or only a half-trath? For the instance, it was recently stated that in the two years ending in December, Germany will have Launchel nino Dreadnought-cruisers, while in the same period only five vessols will have beou put afloat for the British Empire. This is literally true, and yet on oxemiantion it points to the nativity and virility of the British

naval or ganisation, and not to the reverse, might be supposed. Germany will have launch ed so many men-of-war in the past two years becanks she could not Innach. thom before, Her naval progress was retarded temporarily by the appearance of the first Dreadnought. She launched only two battleships in 1906, and did not bunch a single one in 1907, this year was barren, and since then she has been attempting to overtake arrears. On the other.

No, band, in the same two years, when two additions Eagload ...56 only were made to the German armoured feet, Germany... .26 England, owing to greater initiative and celer United States...27 ity in construction, put into the water no fewer France than nine ships-the Lord Nelson, Agamem Japan non, Dreadnought, Superb, Temeraire, Bollero-

Russia phon, Invincible, Indomitable, sud Inflexible Italy...

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., All those vessels are in commission, and bodause Altstrin

and from ALL WING MERCHANTS. 52 they were completed so, rapidly they do not figure in launching statistics for the past two

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BRITISH LEAD IN DREADNOUGHTS.

In contrast with the half-truth, the whole truth is this:

Built

of

Building

(tons). No. (tons), ... 840,200 : ... 191,000 318,424... 9 ... 183,000 366,146... 4 ... 83,650 216,270 6 108,180 186,498...4... 76,000 5 62,600 ...8... 150,600 ...10 .. 122,600... 1

... 18,000 31,500 ... 3. 43,500 The figures are interesting and misleading. They represent the tonnage of all the qualities. incorporated in these vessels, and this tends to. the British preponderance. British skips

carry large reserves of coal and ammunition, and as a rale are swifter than foreign ships, and speed means more boilors and haavior engines. Under all cironmat ances these qualities would not necessarily be trans- latable into fighting power. In a battle off the Thames, for instance, the British ships might gain no advantage from their large radias of action, tire-cudurance, or speed, and yet those represent some of the weight shown in the These factors in naval design ahove statistica are essential, because England is a world Power have to send her main Fleet far away and may in search of the enemy. Consequently figures of aggregate tonnage, like those of shipa build- England has also under constraction, or on ing, to which reference has already been made, the eve of building, sight armored corsels, need to be employed with extreme cantion, while Germany has fire, either on the stocks owing to their tendency to mislead. But, or about to be put ou the stocks, of which one making dus allowance for this weakness in such will be launched before the end of the year. a statistical method, the comparison shown at At present England has twenty Dread-least that Britannia still holds the trident, and nought ships, built or building, to thirteen holds it firmly, and that when the four contin for Germany,

gent battleships are laid down-active pre-

England has launched and coraplate for ses seren all-big-gan ships, and the Lord Nelson and Agamemnon, of 16,500 tons, half- sisters to the Dreadnoughts, while Germany has completed only two battleships of over 13,000 tons.

England has, in addition, launched, and is now completing, five more Dreadnought ships, three of which will join the Flept before the ond of the financial year; Germany has ectuélly launched six corresponding ships, of which two will join the High Sea Fleet in the

early summer.

have fewer ships under construction than

The progress of Germany is not a thing which can be ignored. In the opening finan cial year her natal expenditure, apart from the outlay on the Kiel Canal of about u million sterling, will amount to nearly. £22,000,000, and she will lay down four more large armoured ships, two second-class cruisers, twelve forpedo-boat destroyers, and about a dozen submarines. She is making a hold bid

for commanding naval power.

On the other

It may be very properly observed that even parations are already well advanced-the im on this showing, while we have ben Dread-mediate outlook will not be unfavourable, nonghts complete or nearly complete, and though the more distant outlook is extremely Germany only four, the latter country has black. under construction only one less than we have --and four of our ships will not be commenced until April next. It la not, however, the ships building, but the chips built, that govern rola- tive naval power in other words, its the period of construction on which all calculations of future uaval strength must be based. We build our largest battleships in two years that is the contract time and, therefore, we always

Germany, which takes near and about three years to complete a similar man-of-war. The British Vanguard, which on her trials has shows herself the swiftest battleship in the world, with a speed of 22.4 knots, was not laid down by Mesars. Vickers, Sous, and Maxima until April 2, 1908, and long before that date next year she will be flying the pesnart. All the Admiralty contracts are being made under this time-limit-completion in two years. This swiftness of construction is the fundamental factor in sitempting to estimate the British naval position next year, the year after, and in 1912. As the Navy Department of the United States observes, inising its latest statistics of warships building for the great fleete of the world. In making compari. of- auval strength, and particularly of naval increase, the fact should be taken into consideration that the rapidity of constraction racies materially in different countries. In England, Germany, and Japan, battleships and armoured crnisers are completed in two to three years; in the United States in three yeara ; and in France, Italy, and Busais, not less than four youre are required."

STRENGTH OF THE FLEETS,

side of the Atlantic, no less than in the United Kingdom, there is no doubt as to her rapid expansion She is outstripping the American Navy. England still, however, holds her traditional position, but she holds it vis-à- vis te Germany and France, or Germany and the United States, instead of vis-à-vis to Franeo and Enasio, os in the past. She can maintain her standing, however, only by further deter- mined effort in the coming your, when the keela of thirty more vessels for the German fest will go down, in accordance with the immutable Naval Act.

OFFICERS AND MEN. One word may be added as to the number of officers and man surving in the various fleets. On this point there is some confusion, and the official figures from Washington aro particularly welcomo, as showing that, in personnel, as în ships, the British Navy is still-as it should be, and must romain-above a two-Power standard, The figures are singularly complete.

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Wednesday Saturday

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313

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260 296

207

201

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585

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2,308 606 99,300 49,312 47;467 43,490

457

104 334 1.415 20,991 (a)

9,112

128,522 54,174 54,067 55,548

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