WHAT IS THE NAVY DOING ?
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AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION PLEA FOR MORE PUBLICITY
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH. 1917.
COMMERCE, GERMANY'S BIG MUNITIONS REPARATION BEFORE PEACE
THE PERIL OF ENEMY INFLUENCE.
Suggestions for clarifying" British commerce of enemy influence after the war were embodied in a paper read by Mr. Wilfred Powell, formerly the Britian Con- sul General in Philadelphia, at a moet ing of the Royal Colonial Institute is mouth Sir Algernon Firth presided.
EFFORT
ACTIVITY IN SWITZERLAND
The special correspondent of the Jour nal at Zurich says: ----3-
TALK
RESOLUTION BY BELGIAN
SOCIALISTS:20
A resolution, passed at Brussels by the The effort which Germany is preparing Belgian Labour Party, which has recent ly been sent to My Emile Vandervelde, the Belgian Minister of Stato, at Hayre, 44 states has led her to increase the production of munitions in considerable quantities, Mr. Powell urged that in order to pre-it is notable that very important orders vent the British Empire from falling gradually back into the commercial
What we will on the seas olisition which obtained before the war it
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TBY THE TIMES NAVAL CORRESPONDENT-] Although it is not often publicly ex pressed, there exists an impression that the British Navy might do more in the war than it does. As in the early days
meeting at present with the Social- of the conflict, our great superiority in
The Belgian Labour Party are against material strength is porated to as afford
have been placed in Switzerland. Democrats of the Central Powers. He ing
us the means for doing practically
can be affirmed that a great number fore any attempt at reconciliation, they is effectively handled.
sometimes ask," What was necessary that we should purge our of workshops, employing more than 4,000 consider that France and Belgium German
selves of all German influence. From our hands, are working on behalf of the Ger should be evacuated. They further con well as is the Fleet doing There is some business Houses all Germans should be man Government. Captain Behraits, Asider that they cannot meet the German excuse for this attitude. It is born of eliminated. Only clerks of British birta tache to the German Embassy at Berne, Social-Democrats unless to demand an of secrecy in which so much of hould be employed, and they should is organizing the distribution of the work explanation of their attitude (1) As the Navy's work is enveloped. It is also educated in foreign languages. Greater assisted by the Allgemeitie Electricitats Tegards August 4th, 1914, and concerning attributable in part to the fact that in opportunities and encouragement must de Gesellschaft, which itself carrying on the ultimatum of August and and the the Fleat in. the Ple the Navy means given to students in all branches of sticneperations under cover of a Swiss com-violation of Belgium's neutrality; (2) an the eyes of many Sea. Such people site research. Capital and Labour must pany of electric appliances namely, the regards the atrocities committed in Bel
ggle Prothos Company. This company, which pull
commercial together in the
for the past three months has manifested renewed activity out of all proportion to the Germans could foment ing an immense amount of work in strife within the British Empirem tant branch inctory at Allsletten lien
would Certainly
do so,
and it advertised in the official apnoenumele ployers and employed were beguiled into Zürich, for the manufacture of fuses tid of the enemy na performing many stripe quarrel that would be the Germans grenades for the German military, autho deeds, but leave out of accounts ther marine activity, and it is in reality doing opportunity. If British masters and ties. A single firm at Schafhausen hits delivered to Germany 300 motors for sub nothing. The British Fleet is very rarely
marines mentioned in our official reports, yet it power, exerted in every sea, is the basic
the
agia
forget that under powerful forces of the Navy
of the Graud aro perform
Fleet in the northern mists many other which would follow the PALMA Aits
antecedents, 15 erecting an unspot equivocal declarations of the German
of the world. The German
which keeps the war going
factor, whi
ARDUOUS AND VARIED.
hil
Fleet to
glum amongst the unarmed civilian population.
The Belgian Labour Party regard the
Chancellor, as a franœnvie destined to propath precarious peace, favourable
the Central Powers; they, therefore, found it impossible to agree in
consider that any resolution on the part of International Socialista in favour of any industrial dispute, the Government should take over the management of the It is worthy of note that the Swiss pesce at the present time would be use business with a view to ascertaining the people who are working in these factories less and dangerous. The mistrust of the fundamental rights of the case, and thet are receiving very big salaries, and this Belgian Labour Party is all the more returning the business to the masters on constitutes for Germany an excellent justified, since at the present moment the understanding that it should be car means of propagands. In view, however, wholesale deportations of the workmen in ried on on the basis thus determined. We of the development of German industry Belgium-whether unemployed or not must purge ourselves of Germans in our in munitions in Switzerland, the German are taking place, and hundreds of thou- social as well as in our business life. Government is proposing to send to these sands of them are condemned without a factories her own subjects who are resid-trial to forced labour to the enemy's social as well as in our business life, and with this object no enemy subjecting in Switzerland. in conformity with profit, while the majority of the German should be allowed to land in any part of a special clause in the now in relazing Labour Party and syndicates do nothing the Empire, except by the special permis to compulsory national service more than express to the oppressors in
change Telegraph Company.
sion of the Foreign Office.
DESIGN OF SUBMARINES.
whose service they are a few vague and timid words of pity for their brethren (1), who ste reduced to the most adious slavery
Those who profess to be disappointed with our naval achievements ought also to be reminded of this fact. The Fleet might do much more if it had entire free dom to act according to its own desires without regard to other needs of the Allied cause How differently, glance, might our sos forces be utilized if there were not vast transport under Already German shipping firms were takings to safeguard; if military enter prises at Salonika, East Africa, and else preparing for a trade campaign after the whore had not to be supported if a strict war. Ona German shipping agency had commercial blockade of the enemy's costs sent out from the United States post- and ports had not to be exercised day and cards setting forth the names of 48 trade r prospective night, and if the largest morcantile contres, and neking their marine in the world did not need ships alints to place a mark opposite the same to protect it. A moment a reflection will of the country in which they were interest convince anyone at all acquainted with theed. It was apparent that the purpose of German submarine activity was not only matter that the Navy's work could scarce one of frightfulness and the block its use very much from that of the gun, 17 be more arduous and varied
In what Mr. Rudyard Kipling has call-ading of Great Britain, but of doing alway ed the Fringes of the Fisst there is an amount of unremitting tai karoid en Bhipping of the world's high-res Rand without conferring with and greet deavour, and successful achievement which would surprise everyone if it were made known. It is to be regretted that the Admiralty cannot see their way to reveal more particulars about this work
of
the auxiliary forces the trawlers, patrol boats, and the like which are the preation of the war. The men in the small craft of the Navy carry on the the sea trench warfare, as it were, of the sea fighting,
but there is no daily bulletin of sheir performances. Although they are continuously up against the barbed wire
ncident
ths minefields more deadly than any on land and are always exposed to sub- marine attack, added to which are the zards of the sea. It is only by Burdina ne
that the nature of their duties and the success which attends them, reach the public. A typical bat glorious incid was that of the rescue by a destroyer of the crew of the burning o'll stecurer Conch on the morning
December 8th, of
plied an about which little or nothing is that of the transport
which correspondent of The Times sap
Another phase of the work of the Navy
heard is
with as much as was possible of the should be carried on until we wore
position to obtain from Ger many an equivalent in tonnage to that of the shipping which had been sunk by her submarines; and after the war any vessel flying the German fing or connected in any way with German interests should be prohibited from coaling at any port in the British Empire without special per mission.
sion. The excellent warning given in The Times recently that to oust German trade from Portugal was to render but an ill-service to the Portuguese unless we were prepared to supply its place, and nothing as yet had been done in this direc tion," applied to every country with whom we would have commercial deal ...."
Submarines are armed with torpedoes and with guss. In regard to the torpedo, a peculiarity exists watch differentiates
The initial velocity of a projectile from
-power gun is 8,000ft. per
The Belgian Labour Party thank the Socialists of neutral countries, who at Copenhagen (1814) and The Hague (1818) proclaimed Belgium's right, but they challenge the impartiality and sincerity of those amongst the who did not hestitate to go to Belgium to inform themselves of the general situation beneath the aegis of the occupying Powers
The speed of the fastest ship, 15 ust over ing their comrades in distress, thus act 60ft. per second. As these two velocities ing with the evident intention of deceiv. are in the ratio of 50 to 1 a ship cannot ing international opinion, esespe from a projectile fired her. The Belgian Labour Party are glad to The greatest velocity of an automobile see Socialists of the Allied countries torpedo seldom exceeds about 40/miles an assembled once more to determine their hour, and this only for moderate ranges, position in the conflict Thoy ardently By reducing the speed to 30 miles or hope that the delegates will be unani. less an hour to compressed air in the mons in endeavouring to obtain and dask can drive the torpedo farther, but approving such measures as will be con such speeds, according to United ductive to the successful prosecution of States naval officer, Leptain W L this defensive war which canno, and Rodgers, are of the same order of magni- may not, and without the defeat of the They consider that, politi tudo as those of the target ship. Conse aggressors, quently, the direction and speed in which cally, a durable peace, cannot be surel the target ship is moving are most im in Europe excepting by the realization portent elements in deciding when she is of the legitimate nations aspirations of within range. Consider, for instance the oppressed or conquered pooples, but The Chairmen said steps were being 30-knot torpedo capable of running they resolutely declare themselves against taken to ensure the future co-operation of
10,000 yards If nred at a ship approach any annexation which, under the pre- capital and labour in the United Kinging at the rate of 20 knots there a text, would be contrary to the will of dom and to handle industrial problems chance of hitting it fred at a distance the peoples freely expressed The Bel- with mutual good will. ・・
over whereas if the target gian Labour Party give their entire sup. Mr. P. W. Wile said German commerce is withdrawing at vo knots the forpedo por la May Action which has de its
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Then there is Batin Vice Now! and beca supported by a combination of pri- any range above 3,300 yards. When sub-sanctions namely, commercial and finan-hadi If fow, you should be thankful {{
Jose, Buch as the torpedoing of the Ivernia, but such events are very rare. There have been fewer than a dozen serious mishaps to British Transports all through the way; yet the voyages undertaken must certainly into hundreds of thousands, seeing ran that about one-half of our entire total of merchant ships is on charter to the Gor- ernment. The
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vice affords a striking guarantee. A large QUEBEC PREMIER'S APPEAL FOR amount of additional work and anxiety was thrown on the officers engaged in these undertakings by the extension of the sub marine menace
wider areas,
to
· comumerce,
it been more successful than in con- quering or preventing biliousness. Preof of this we have from the thousands of people who have
vate enterprise and Government effort merged the submarine itself also is mal boycotting, and, if need be, recourse: If many, then you are entitled to sym- hitherto unknown in the British Islands, limited both in speed und radius-19 to force; (b) the preparation of pathy But sympathy won't cure or even In the midst of the present war Germany miles at most at 10 or 12 knots, 100 miles general disarmamentare relieve you of this trouble. And the had a Cabinet of eminent business men. preparing for the resumption of trade more or less at 5 or 6 knots. Thus when The Belgian Labour Party remain true trouble, no we know, arises through the submerged the submarine's area of action to the principles of the International faulty action of the liver. It is apparent resembles that of the torpedo which it favouring free trade, the autonomy of then, that to be free from Billousness or Billous Headaches you must keep this after peace should have been declared.
carries as its chief weapon. I cannot the Colonies, and the extension of fre important organ of the digestive system chase to advantage when submerged. A trade in new countries. At the same healthily active Through the many submarine cannot be given the highest time, whilst demanding, without delay, years that Mether Seigel's Syrup bas surface speed because of the beavily the lowering of the Customs bar been before the public, in no one thing built hull and the heavy storage batteries, which render the lot of workmen harder Such surface speed as can be given to aby the artificial high cost of living, they submarine is inadequate for the tactical believe that it is necessary to take requirements of battle. It may enable precautions against unfair competition, a fest anbmarine to assume a favourable land not to return to a regins of freur voluntarily teened to At a banquet (at Toronto last month) Position for submerging ahead of en competition until the ravaged countries Here is a case which will endorse what shows what Mother Seigel's Syrup did but
great enough to be satisfactory in the material their means of nothing is told of the result of the coun in honour of the delegates from Quebec approaching enemy, but it cannot he deprived of their machinery, their raw we have said. The statement not only ter-measures which must obviously haver Hearst, Premier of Ontario, in tactical approach, as is the cage with a and their labour hall have been re for this lady when she was prone to
extending an official welcome to the
it had on her digestive organs, Teen taken by the Navy. The public may guests, expressed the hope that she te torpedo host at 30 knots, which relies established in their normal state Biliousness, but also recorde the beneficial The Belgiss Labour Party propose credito Bourne, London Road, Нанье, have to wait until Mr. Kipling or
provinces would go forward shoulder to upon her great speed us a means of pro-
certified Noyes is commissioned to relate some of nouider, forming the basis of unite tection when charging upon the enemy, that Socialist action as regards peace
said: I am by profession s the stories associated with the under Unnada and an object lesson to the word As the sulanarine when submerged can shall not merely confine itself to political Blackwater, gear Camberley taking Good as these peries of articles In reply, Sir Loiner Gouis, Premier not hope to overtake its target it must and economic domains, but shall also midwife, and wish to add my testimony
fnd its aphere in the social domein
I Bup are, the Navy and the publie would be of Quebes, said:Mutual respect is able in wait for the target to come to it
They demand a systematic international to the excellent result which followed my ter appreciate extracts from the actual sol
solutely essential to our national perpe
pose I have taken, your Mother Seigel's diarutches of the officers engaged. These tustion. There must be a spirit of toler THE VULNERABILITY OF THE SUBMAR legislation, sanctioning the liberty of taking your remedy. On and off,
union action, protecting first would be more e teulated to bring home ance for religion, origin, and tongue, and Limited to moderate surface speed and childreus Women, and adulte, regulating Byrup for high on sweaty years. If to the people what really happening respect for ideas. We are destined by low submerged speed, and able to in the bours of work, and establishing the always had after o ting
With know- affoat than the selectie of incidents Providence, whether we like it or not, tree weight by the addition of armour extension and reciprocity of insurance ledge of what it did for me in tist
to form paper livet
together. Why not live
pappily
respect, I have since made it my | should
we not bend every energy to weld the submarine is obliged to rely upon Acts
hold remedy A BLOCKADE.
together in a nation the splendid elementa her faculty for concealment as her chief Another glass of work which is daily
Canadinus to day there means for employing her weapon, whe and hourly proceeding in the blocked in rests ormous responsibility. We are her mine or torpedo. But conceniment the North Sea in regard to which there in the fullto sense prig of a nation on she becomes blind, and if by the adoption
makers
of history: entail diaadvantages In hiding herself has not yet been a single official dispatch. We are weaving fabria
Let make its aper of the periscope she has recovere i hides this important undertaking from fectly harmonious whole, 1 every partial sight, she has sacrificed a cor the public been partly lifted, and that thing we have to contribute was when Bear Admiral Sir Dudley De appear, the energy of the Scotsman, the fore concealing herself to sink, the Chair, who commanded the Tenth Crni solid common sense of the Englishman, the submarine first must sight her enemy in ser (Blockade) Squadron until March 6th, many qualities of the Colt, combined with order to direct her attack To accom 1916, gave an interview to an America the good of the French, so that the harplish this to best advantage the must journalist A modern blockntle, sa the mony of the finished pattern shall not rise and search the horizon with maniral Admiral pointed thin sight
outs is not bring of suffer by the absence of admirable strade vision. Unfortunately when so doing
ht of each hips, steaming to enemy countries Our North Bes with which we are endowed for no blockade consists of the strategic placing purpose, but for imparting vigour
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also recommend it for bilionsues as that trouble has also had me in its toile have suffered the horrors of Bick headaches and vomiting for days on end, but this I never do now, having pat myself in condition with the aid of your very excellent remedy Mother Beigel's Byrup.
Feby one," said Mrs. Official memorials of soldiers and sailors
girly who have fallen in the war will soon be Flemington, al Guildford Road, Bag ready for their relatives. Bir Reginald shot, Surrey, on Decoraber 13th, 1015, 1 mittee, representative of both Houses of In after years 1 developed indigestion Brade is chairman of Generel Com was occasionally subject to biliousness. Parliamess and the Government Depart. This I am not surprised at, seeing (bat suffered from this com- submarine's difficulty in seeing has of a small plaque or tablet. Hitherto theThe effect of not taking the
liver getting of units of patrolling squadrons, all cut unison to our beloved country, and so we consequences which extend beyond the in-only official memorial has been the War in hand in time led to my of sight of each other, but within easy may best show the best impulses of our dividual ship In warfare there is a Ofice telegram sunouncing the loss, and out of order: I had pain and distress more right through from chest to back, between steaming dietanée-usually 30 miles spart gezeration and in patriotism resolve to combatant advantage in superior, num there is a desire for something the shoulder blades. Added to this &
king of this network of blockade contribute to the future greatness of our bers which is greater than the numericsi permanent
diploms is sent to had a fulness after meals, The working ships cannot fail to be attended with a Conferation Sir Lomer Gouin added ratio of the hostile forces (as may be In France a special
choking sensation in the throats crop of incidents which, if related, would There is not in the Dominion a province. mathematically shown). For this reason every French family which has lost a son by ificate how valuable and effective is the more thoroughly animated with the spirit it has always been reckoned great or relative in the way rounding to my parents had taken your rende
work
There is no point, both ashore and afloat, to bring homage and gratitude of the French I decided to try it too. There are other phases of the service of population moro loyal to the Crown, more superior forces to engage invaltaneously pation. Tate Cussy Be in that of to may the and an ocessional dese the British, sailor which are likewise attached to British institutions, or more upon the field of battles But the Lieut. Raymond Asquith, this diploma ocured closed book to people in general giving devoted to Canadian interests than the submarines imperfect vialou occasions, has been specially sent to British families now and then keeps me right today to ill-informed questions as to what good people of my own province. danger of interloring with friends when the Boxster, K.C., M.P. Your before getting relied, you will
Donald large submarine forces are cor the Navy is doing. When the people do mot see or hear of the events taking place.
for simultaneous concerted: one member of the General Committee stated derstand that I sin pleased to know the
committes supplied by the worth of your remedy, because I was con they cannot be expected to Funderstand
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with the very best results. has requested the Rhodes Government by stealth, but 1 most favourable artistically with giving the name and was told they had chronic, and perhaps Welcome It is all very well to speak
to ouact legislation providing for the com- opportunities occur in dispersed and regiment of the fallen soldier or ship of hereditary, indigestion, but they never pulsory registration of all males for the solitary action rather than in concen he alor. A report from the experts it suffer tow purpose of ascertaining the number rated and co-ordinated action-Enexpected in a few days, when the Geters)
gineering cligible for military servics,
Committee will make ie final decision.
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