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"THE" GOVERNMENT AND MAN-POWER.

LUY BIT HEDLEY LE BAS.] The spirit and strength of Britain are never so fully revealed as in a time of

And thend is not yet. The gravity of the prescrisis cannot be exaggerated As Mr. Asquith told the House of Coin- stons, never since the war began has the country had to face a situation that has | been so grave n menace to the Empire and to the fortunes of liberty and humanity, It will be met, of course, as other crises have been met. Nothing that is neces sary to maintain our fighting forces and to turn the tide of battle will be withheld The last thing the nation will accept is defeat.

was

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3RD, 1918.

AMERICA'S SHIPPING. OUTPUT THAT EQUALS ALMOST REST OF WORLD.

STANDARD SHIPBUILDING. “FABRICATED" VESSELS

A paper on Modern Shipbuilding and

A striking analysis of the entire ship- Economy in Materiul " was read by Mr. ping situation was given recently, by MrJW. Isherwood, the inventor of the Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the Isherwood longitudinal system of ship United States Shipping Board, address construction, before the members of the ing the National Marine League of the Society of Engineers recently. United States of Amorica

Ho stated that the vessels already built or

system had an aggregate dead-weight now under construction on the Isherwood

carrying capacity of 7,500,000 tons, while probably 99 per cent., if not 100 per cent. (exclusive of the Government standard vessels being converted into tankers), of the total oil tank tonnage under construc- tion throughout the world was on this

rica awoke to the vital need of ships. We It is only recently, he said, that Ame

were faced with the necessity of creating un entirely new industry. We had to undertake a job that would have daunted anyone but America.

Je took Germany 10 years to build up her military machine. In less than eight months we have built up a shipbuilding machine which, when it gets full swing, will defeat the military machine of Gor

mony.

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sytem.

building, Mr. Isherwood said it had for Referring to the standarisation of ship

with builders specialising in general some time past been a common practice cargo vessels to adopt a ship of given dimensions and size, and make it a The total amount of our steel construc-standard design; but the Government sys- tion on March 1st was 8,203, 709 dead tern of standardisation had sors 001- all this weight tons. This was made up of

nside and insisted on the 5,180,300 tons dead-weight under constructing vessels to the design of the Ad- tract with the Emergency Flect Corpor design of the Deputy Controller of Auxi visory Committee, and afterwards to the tion, and 304,508 dead weight tons of re quisition vessels. Of this total steel confiary Shipbuilding This was a serious struction, 1,121,568 dead weight tons,

mistake the result of which was to bo approximately 28 per cent, have been found in the recently-published figures to building our big new yards, we haveing steel and increasing dead weight completed. That means that, in addition showing an alarming falling off in the

The facilities afforded for also been building ships. That is, the carrying capacity were the outstanding programme for steel ships has advanced features of the Isherwood aystem; its re

per cent, towards completion. Of the amount of steel ships under con by the Government department most im

sults had been determined and admitted tract and requisition, 56 dead weight mediately concerned, and he confessed tox tous, or, approximately, & per cent, were actually completed and in service on which in one breath gravely warned the a feeling of wonderment at departments March 1st this year. In yards which we which are nearing completion progress effect a substantin, saving of the ore and live already completed and in those country of a shortage of steel and ton- and in the next breath declined to will be cumulative from this time on:

Nearly as much tonnage has been con equally substantial increase in the structed in American waters during the other Japan was building on the Isher- past three months as by all other mari good system 50 por cent in excess of the time nations of the world combined:

total of the British standard ship pro- inke advantage of a saving of over $5,000 gramme; but the conservatism and pro- judice of our Government refused to their own vessels in American waters they would be able to prevent us using them ons of steel and 200,000 tons of raw But American ingenuity and resourceful-

material to manufacture this steel. ness gave answer by restoring these ves

Another phase of standardisation which With an expenditure the lecturer warmly advoented was the of little less than $8,000,000, we have idea being to press into the shipbuilders

production of fabricated "

ships, the eceded in placing in ours and the Allies' var service 113 first cinse German-Aus- service the organisation and resource f

vessele, representing

bridge-building works and kindred plants, capacity elected dirt which might do Dus maximum unglint to

fashioning and riveting together of parts At the outset the 27 old steel yards to be afterwards erected and completed began increasing their capacity, until now in the shipyards. This method, he said, they have 195 ways, as against 182 cight was adopted in America on a much larger months ago Other parts of their plants

scale than here. Mr. Isherwood lo have been mcreased proportionately. We urged the construction of unsinkable then made provision for additional new said, to take a week or two longer in ships. I would much prefer," he steal yards, sorte of which have been given building a chip that would have a sport- financial assistance

Emergency Thirty additional

chance of getting home after being.

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

AN OFFICER'S STORY. Writing from Odessa in Desember last to a friend in England, an officer of what was once the Russian army, gives the fol- national crisis. That is what the Govern lowing intimate account of the revolution ment are always ready to tell us Thyns it affected him personally, his family. gra now laying so much stress on dhe and his military carcer:-- fact that one is tempted to wonder whic It is difficult to give you in a letter an ther they welcome a crisly as something iden of all the tribulations we went of a god-send--something that enables through during this black year. I will, them the more easily to accomplish their however, try to follow the main line of purposes, and to divert attention from what happened to us. Just about a year events upon, which it would be gravely go I left Petrograd for the Roumanian inconvenient to have the public mina front, laving, with the utmost difficulty, centred But be that as it may, it 3 provided my wife and the children with true that Britain is never so splendid in ronis at an hotel in Petrogend. On her spirits and her deeds as when she is January 1st I was appointed commander most severely tested and tried. Of this of a Siberian tifle regiment, with which the war is for the moment the living wit-1 fought rather successfully in the south ness. We are laying on the altar of and round Galatz. In March the revolu- liberty, without stint and without regret, tion cams. My wife and children had a that which is of the very essence of a ma- very anxious time, because the hotel was attacked and sacked. They fled under tion's life.

protection of British officers, and for several weeks had to camp in the draw. ing rooms of more fortunate friends of ours while the hotel was put in a fit state to be inhabited. to adapt my regiment to the new order Meanwhile 1, at the front, was trying of things, and to stem the tide of demoral isation, disintegration, and disorganis tion which set in with the first news of the revolution. All the world knows at present to what this wave of undigested If there is hesitation

idens of liberty and its application springs not from doubt as to the end brought the Russion Army Knowing my in view, but from lack of confidence in people, and knowing the army, was it. The Prime Minister has told us that was often much reproved and criticised the capacity of the Government to achieve most pessimistig from the beginning, and the essence of the present situation is for my lukewarm attitude towards the man-power. Nobody doubts it. But one inauguration of this glorious era How of the primary things Mr. Lloyd George ever, I managed to keep my men in band undertook to do when he assumed office so well that we were repeatedly held up was to deal effectively with the problem as an example, and that up to the first of man-power, · All the resources of the days of September 1 hnd no sering country wore to be thoroughly orguntad trouble, such as the killing or arresting for the purposes of the war. Ivery omer of allicers, wholesale desertions, and so gency was to be anticipated and provided forth. So it went on during March and Then I happened to coine to panic legislation. Yet these things from

on some official business. we were to be saved are inst thirige

that bare overtaken us. The rebus almost at the end of her tether both sources of the country have not been fully tur nerves and for money. Our rooms Energencies have not been that in 1914 hind cost, bevno roubles fifty, for. We have been taken un. | had risen to twenty roubles. P awares. And now, as a desperate men It was in teen oublia longer in sure, the military age has been raised to Petrograd, and so, séance tenants,” we limit which a year ago would have been decided to move to Odessa to find a bat regarded as impossible.

ter climate, better lodgings, and cheaper What the gain of the New Military Serrates of living. Moreover, Odesan was vice Act will be when measured in the near to the Houranian front, where terms of fighting strength no one can tell, then meant to stay after my time of The Government, by its own confession, regimental duty was over. So to Odessi is as ignorant on this point as everyoneve came, found a llnt, but no the vans else. It may field an addition to the containing our furniture and all our not yield more than half that number. Lom House in Petrograd, with hardly any new steel But one thing is certain Be these men hope of moving them, owing to the con

orected, with a total of 23 shipbuilding the attentions of an enemy submarine....

no probability of returning if she received many or fow, they can obtained only gration of at an immense cost to, the nation and flat with fic, we had to camp in the ways. Thus we now have, in the aggre camp beds and a few borrowed gate, 67 steel shipyards, cither wholly or

In a disenssion which followed, more they spent the summar partly engaged in Fleet Corporation opinion that Mr. Isherwood had under- than one of the speakers expressed the gravest of economic problems. A cor

somehow, while

work. tain disorganisation of industry

and did some more desultory fighting evitable. Mang businesses will have to be May, June, und July, and had sonic very has been increased, until we now have ages of his system, closed down altogether the output serious and responsible work in August 81 wooden shipbuilding yards, with ang vital national importance will be seriously Mackenson's advance, and thus say have 521 more berths than Sar Strin others that are rightly regarded as of when the 1st Roumanian army stopped ways, completed or nearing completion. With these wood and steel ways, we shall hampered. As 4 consequence overseas what is left of Roumania and Russia & trade will be limited to the detriment of military reputation. But in the railitary Geddes, in his recent speech, siated Eng our own dealings with neutral countries, sense things were begnining to look hopland has at the present time. and at home there will be a substantias not only to the, who never had a

VIRTUALLY CONCLUDED. reduction of revenue. Less trade means glimpse of hope since March, but to all The proposal to build ships of concrete lew taxation, and less taxation means a reasonable military people. depleted national exchequer. To obscure and international andis launched from the yards of the San Fran Shanghai that the Chinese Cabinet a few

Socialisin was at first regarded as a fascinating Last night (says the Y. Daly Xtire.

absurdity. On March 14th there was of June 201) news was received in these facts in a must of patriotian would rife, and the boredom disgust f bå foolish; to talk of them as if by any three years fighting were telling more

Cisco Company the first concrete steam chines they could result in an inere

vessel, which the builders christened days ago passed a resolution to the effect of the sum total of the available national

Faith effort for the conduct of the war would

In 1916 there were lower than 45,000 transferred from the control of the We hope she will exemplify her that the Finghuangshan iron minar he The builders believe she will," be worse than foolish

inen employed in all the shipyards of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce country. On March 2nd, 1018, we had to the Ministry of War, and the latter increased this number to 238,003

The Germans thought that by crippling

SIXTY-SEVEN STEEL SHIPYARDS:

for, and thus we were to be saved Fread my wife still at the hotelsels to efficiency.

the

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front line forces of 100,000 men. It matvarthly belongings, were still at the Cus. Flert Cop hipyards are thus being torpedoed than build one that would have

under conditions that will raise the chairs! Howeveturned to the front,The capacity for wooden shipbuilding rated rather than overrated the advant

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HOPE OF PROMOTION.CO

At that time my term for commanding ury regument expired, and I was to merive a. Stan appointment, and be made a gen- cral. I went to Petrograd. The now Chief of the General Staff and the new

ship

nace.

CONCRETE SÓIPS.

THE NANKING IRON MINES- MORTGAGE TO THE JAPANESE

tenance of the economie intercats of "the War Minister offered me a very big place. Island, onais) are in reality assembling nine will be worked by the Chinese and T

been

my

is now

"THE OXURA. LOAN.

Patriotism will not fail. The men to tween 42 and 51, who have been hearing the heavy burden involved in the man

Our three fabricating eliipyards at Hog immediately came to an agreement with country,

know what is at stake, and no excepted it on their representation that (Pennsyl

Newark Bay, and

the Japanese Government whereunder thes Bristol one can doubt that they will do their the centro

gravity of duty, now with the self-sacrifica and the of the army was in Petrograd, as un yards These three yards, with their 50 steel b manufactured by the Chinese determination that have distinguished outer one of

it was. About the middle of wad is at Bristol, will produce in a single 20,000,000 to carry out the work.

Island, as at Newark Bay, and Japanese, the latter providing Yan them through the whole course of the war, But patriotism can be strained to the with typhoid, an daughters fell ill and 12 st.

which

year more ships than England, the breaking point. As a matter of fact, it prevalent in mest places, owing to

greatest maritime natior in the world, In the time of President Yoan Shi has ever been able to turn out in the same kai, Messrs. Okura & Co, lent a Chinese the uncertainty into which the business lining sanitary so in Odessa, in a house 1s being strained to that point now by crowd of military hospitals and the de

condition of every town lengths of time. this Mr. Lloyd George and the Goversattle better than a bivouac, y ale production is finally reached the magni- ment; four successive Ministers of Com-

ommunity has been planged. And for in Russia.

syndicate $1,000,000 to develop the Feng- AMERICA'S SKA DESTINY, When the high point in the curve of was never ratified by the Chinese Govern

huangshan mine. This loan agreement ment cannot escape responsibility. Je nursed her with the they have not actually trifled with the patience, and fortitude, and pulled her tune of America's shipbuilding pro merce and Agriculturo, Chou Tze-chi,

Frenlest pluck, problem of man-power, they have shown through against tremendous odds.

gramme will be realised. a lamentablo lack of resolution and courteen days late), and found the patient and launching.

down on receiving a telegram continuous performance of production Wen-lich all refused to ratify the trap- It will be a Chang Kuo-kan Ku Chung-hsiu and Tien are in dealing with it. Last numbers f young men who could have been spared evering, but another daughter down

Our first need now is for a great mer-Government repeatedly offered to return enetion. On the other hand the Chinese military service have been allowed to with the same illness in a most severe for ship construction will pince us in a the money to the Japanese, but the latter

chaut marine. Our gigantic programme continue in Civil Service and in munitions

non-essential trades, in the form.

returned to Petrograd, and was in the position where we can rely on our native were unwilling to accept it, hoping that dustries

Where they might have throes of the October. Bolshevik" feet of our competitors, as it has been recognized by China Even the present resources rather than be dependent on the the loan agreement would ultimately be called up

in bundrede the volution. I was arrested, together with have been called up in tens and twenties my chief, but extricated myself without or largely in the past. No nation can Government has refused to ratify the And now, to recover the leeway due to much difficulty, and went on trying to be great commercially unless it has its agreement, but now the Ministry of War their blundering, the Government are reason with the leaders of the new re- own manufacturing and shipping, and has taken the matter up as & war men compelled to fall back on the older menolation. It looked as if we were going is the goal that will be passed in sure and agreed to participate with the men who are of least military value time I got a telegram (ugain a fortnight to be one of the leading shipbuilding Chinese alone will be permitted to take who are the sinews of business and the to-provent the final smash Just at that Peace if we can reach it in war.

There is no doubt that we

Japanese in the erection of a steel plant To plead surprise as an excuse for this as soon as my state, of semi prisoner nations of the world. We shall have the the ore out of the mine.

late) of my daughter's death.

ure destined at Fenghuangshan on condition that the I left nécessity is absurd. There has been go real surprise. It was known that unim allowed me to, and came to Odesin for a number of shipyards, material and mense reluforcement of our

the funeral. military

On the evening of the

labour, and when our shipbuliding plants. power this year was essential Russia funeral my wife, who was holding her-

are completed and well organised on self

by sheer nervous strength until I had

cheaply and rapidly, we shall months ago Sir Auckland Geddes let it he, too, bad typhoid. I had her trans furnishing transportation at reasonable Ministries of War. The Japanese “Want land in a few days it became clear that leader in the commerce of the world by new military measures between the two

produce

enough ships to become the affair assumes the form of one of the be known, presumably with the authority ported to the best hospital at Odessa, na rates, thereby performing a service to the to participate in both the mining and the of the War Cabinet, that this mean a transference of more than a milur improvised household could not be rest of the world, but we shall build ships strel works, but the Chinese are not will lion and a half of troops from the Eastern sual to a third patient, especially to the Western front. Sir Williammes when the procuring of sugar or

in such large numbers and at such fairing to agree to that, and negotiations on Robertson at the same time was insistent rood or milk is each time a struggle with prices that we shall become the Mecca of on the things that ought to be done

problemation issue. In this hospital

the shipbuilding trade of the work!. mect this melnice. But the sential he is very comfortable. The illness was things were not done. Instead we had completely out of the wood, and going to

in a rather mild form, and now she is s Mr. Lloyd George's speech,

Versailles, and the dismissal though it passed under get up to-morrow for the first time. another name of Sir Willism Robertson:

am staying in

in Odessa indefinitely, as zy chief in Petrograd was again at rest not see work, and all the

Government entirely disorganised. At the moment I do not know whether I am hold- 10g my appointment or am retired, or whether I may be arrested for conturacy five drawn my pay for Inst. month here sasa, but whether I will draw it National Commissioners, officers and question, as, by decree of the

(Continued at Jost of nezt Column)

Messra Okura & Co are understood $1,000,000 and handed over their interests to have abandoned their claim to the

collapsed as a fighting force a year ago arrived and everything was over, fell business lines, 80s to produce to the Japanese Government, so that the

in his dealings with the engineers

the Government waited and did

LD:

in

censed to

not

this point still continue. The Japanese Government has offered to lend Yen: 20,000,000 to Chins for oposing the mine, soldiers are levelled in rank, and are to

and erecting the necessary plant LARGEST DEPOSIT IN CHINA, month. My promotion to receive indiscriminately 7 roubles 50 per largest single deposit of ore that has been The Fenghuangshan mine containg the orad Kalendas Græcas, as there are

general is:

off,

discovered in China, and the ore is most,

In relation to the things that mattered, ed The General Staff hases are decorations due for the battles in Augusttions of war as it contains less sulphur

Now they have acted too latone. What

Barprise There has been has been lacking has been efficient ad ministration, and efficiency is the first Inw for a Government as for an army We have not an efficient Government is plainly the duty of Parliament 10 only to demand it, but to see that get it, and a heavy responsibility-will rest upon it if it shirks this duty.

again

present

no ranks in the New Army. Four of my suitable for the manufacture of musi Légion d'Honneur, are off; there are no this country. It is estimated that there one Bussian, two Roumanian, and the than any other ure so far discovered in to be oxpected from the Allies just at hitherto successive Ministries of Agricul decorations in the New Army, and none are 80,000,000 tons of ore available, and has been wrecked, and I do not see the tained a tight, grip on the property con present. In short, my military carcer ture and Commerce in China have main test for any self-respecting man sidering it to be a most important factor to stay in such an army in the immediate future-Daily Telegraph.

in the industrial development of the Yangiste Valley.