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BAFFLING THE U-BOATS.

THE YARROW SMOKE SYSTEM

A PROUD RECORD,

The

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN

REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE BETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN.

STEAMEI:S

FROM

EXPECTED ON OR ABOUT

WILL LEAVE

FOR

ON OR ABOUT

new generally recognised that

18 ARCHIBALS2 HURD.]

the

specific remedy for the sub With a candour wisel is most mitractive marine menace, but that ultimante saverss and a generaly which has characterised be found in the collective effect of

different methods of dealing with the direction of the American naval ser

problem Of the worst unportsaren, of; vrce since the United States came into the war, the Savy Department at Washington furse, are satisfactory appliances for dis has permitted some arresting facts as towering the presence of the submarine, „the balance of gavai, power to be published very valuable also are satisfactory

Thean for presenting day submarine from TJILIWONG Eight un the other side of the Atlantic.

disevering its gaarry 1 the latter TJIKINI naritime Powers, great and small, have, intervened at the struggle, and t

the Yarrow

TJIPANAS

suline

TJIMANOEK

#Jie F

perhaps, hardly understood in Europe uke system has been trast favourably generally, any more than in Great Boriel upute, and should take a logh: tain, how barge a proportion of the workplace.

Every seafarer whether on hankiness or at en is still being done by British naval

plasare best, will be aware of the way officers and men with fine competency.

in which another stramer makes 18 pri Sunt rises quite maturally from the

etice known by the lung trm of smoke Seenery which must presumably be still

even her sallest must is much.

THIS observed as to the strength of the vars the huizen before the ship bradf or fores and their dispositions, though, infest sign of the whereabouts of tiew of the superiority of the Allies is chant steamer has been made use of by sea over the enemy, the knowledge of the the man raiders and submarines to number ad units opposed to the Centrala v large extent, as the published se Power wantd depress rather thau eleinte

exts and journals of their nehnevements the Gerlands and Austre Hungarians.enl An example is furnished by The Americans however, have not Komutenant Aum, of the Karlsruhe, who, So far as that, but have given the pro

proveeddings says on one We spre fuck tensiun portion of fores in small craft supplied

e sich may to the common poul. The wondering in what direction the first statements are interesting, they are can

sinuke vient would appear 180 soltag, and they may prove illuminating

We were

dum neust per to the Allies Europe as well as Best Junta

yo Jeuve the having to

FRUCTISIN

THE ULIER KATILE FLEETF

141

Nothing is resealed as to the relativ? strength in the larger ons battleships battle cruses, and cruisers strate the pricipal fleets, becatise, pre

which on

an

Journal of

R

Lasie, when var hok out

JAVA

KOBE

SHANGHAIJ

SHANGHAI

10th Dec.

20th Dec

21 Dec.

ist Jan.

241b Dee.

22nd Dec.

25th Dec

4th Jan.

SAIGON

MACASSAN

BATAVIA

BATAVIA

Wireless Telegraphy.

The 8tra are all átted throughout with Electric Light and have acconmylation for a limited namber of Baloon Passengers. All steamers carry a duly qualified sargeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all pocis in Netherlands India and Australia.

For Particulare of Freight and Passage apply to the

York Building, 1st Floor.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

Telephone No. 1874.

JAVA-PACIFIC LINE

OF THE

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

MONTHLY SERVIOR BETWEEN

smoke four points in the port NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO

Inis, and our ship intumedtated, insened:

the tibt® ༢

་ Ar, the Varrow appliance the smoke can be nitted though she sides of the ship, and this is the edg nation of the fell tale black 'column thei

to duce

view day die smoke from

aumably, there can be little witnes}}} over. | guage of vistbility to the ruety is re

1 may not,

on on that store.

out of place, before passing.

of

recall what the standing of the Alles in a stenushig, can be seen at a distance Drenelsoughts and day only Thread Carr 17 miles, and the risk of in heig

was on the outbreak oferind by noughts want

a submarine extends to AVAT inding ships building

Brin

t:

United States Italy

No. 94

Displacement. Tons. CH.000 200

151 R

this

50 square miles Assam however, that, as is the case with

system, the smoke rese higher then the bridge, the dialane at which the Shap

could be seen on a clear day would 3,600 & uttle over id miles, and the risk 160.000/

Fratil of being bersed It may be assured, see it takes about would only extend to an area of about three years to design and build a battle 320 square miles. The danger area with:

that there has been little appres the anti-sabronzin stroke MOR IN

[24 third aide altention in the armoured ship equs dared to about

Clearly there 1100 sure August, 1914. sequently, fare there is a great advantage in using ady several standard steamers even if it be admitted that the whole of it, and givenyth the devier

have the United States ના

benefit to be engaged in the Apart from the MAN JOUS

There is derived from adopting the system, the

The nudein units

war, we are

and of greater

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are, directly "ish parent than the fact that there are no ravnities or charges |

other three movies cùn

combined

paid for

It is well of that kind to i

for its use should make its adoption general, for the common cause that we possessed #lely to

the SAMe was fittest considerable margin, since the Russian Thirty years ago fleet is now no longes available to assist as, and a number of its fine units have fallen into the hands of the Germans. For the pan enemy maritine Powers own ed, at the outbreak of war, twenty four perfectos. Now it is patriotically placed. Dreadnoughts 559.000 TONN

a

displacement

by Yarrow & Co. to a torpedabout, and since then, as the result of much experi menting land and of experience in

Vte at sea, it has fet de

has been developed and

of] by Mr Alfred Yarrow, at the disposal of It must be natural causa cha

unch British and their Alies to make what

of pride to us that we are in a position

if they like The only financial

to bear the main burden in this respect, interest Fir Alfred retains in the water

a guarantee of is that he pays out of his own pocket for

and give to that that the inspectors who go round to see that .

safety against the

Power of the world, throwing the weis of it is properly fitted. mur strength over the United States, France, Italy, and at the Allied

utarties who shares 至

vashed by the have not hausted the past and shall not boast tan

This turday. of

sea

matter.

or of the fortunate circumstance that we

throw. in I to

Wets

The

Ametaan troops on their passage aerogs: the Atlantic Thete agam, our burden is beavy. The British Fleet provides 70 per i sept. of the gamedian forces, the Ameri-

struggle seventy-seven rien, of 532.000 cans 25 per eout, and the French 3 per

compared with twenty-two crut

Papers, of 199.000 tons, wich were then, By in the American dag. twelve, of 125,01030 tons, belonging to Franes, and eleven, of 55.000 tons, to Taly

DE ANTI-SUBMARISE EFFORT,

All that is merely by way of intredus tion to the very remarkable figures which have reached the from the United States The statistics I have quitted show the pro- portion of the burden we bear in the

war on the surface, while the American statistics deal with the submarine war.

war Without the protection, which the big ships give, the small craft could not fight the Lonts, they would be driven off the BRLF hat is a point which there is tendency to overlook, rice we hear little of the doings of the Grand Pient, though

rome motion or it is never at

WILLERBILDREN BLUSH!

8.9. BILLITON"

... On December 22nd.

The Steamers are sil fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon -passengers.

All Beamers carry a duly qualified surgeon.

Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading all Overland Poiate to the United Babe of America and Canada.

For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the-

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avarz deserip.

But there are other navad doties to l performed in such a war as this, Since the emy is employing long-distance subs maries und now and again is putting out a surface raider. Wherever we have r

in Salonika Palestine, and troops, as Mesujiamin, the sen lines of extatunica- tion have also to be protected, and, in

British naval forces sharing that duty addition, the Pacific has to be paralledi, with the Americans and Japanese

Owing to the publicity given in the United States, we are able to form some conception of the enormous responsibility which still rests on the officers and men of the British Fleet in of the in- tervention

of seven other maritime Powers)

And on the side of the Allied caus

Mon

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China and Japan, Agents. Talegraphic TAIKOODOCK." Telephone 21N

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is always on the mRONG Let there be ne then, over and above all that We are error That great force under Sir David the sea carriers of the Allies, in virage Beatty, reinforced by American battle of our good fortune in

possessing fr , holds the

key to the world seas, mute inerchont connage than all our other insuring the Allied su

trabe, bosides

combined-15 per cent. of friends safeguarding all the armies,

whether

they world's steam tonnage, to be exact, was be fighting in Europe. or Africa, In the light of that solid core is ours at the opening of the war, as com- the pot sourer of the strength of the pared with 4.6 per cent, belonging to the

United States, 4.2 per cent. Lo

FFRO Allies by sea and by land, what part are per cent, to Japan, and 3.4 per cent. our naval forces taking in Sighting the to Italy. If the British Fleet has beca submarine, convoring transports and father to the Allied cause, protecting merchant ships, and generally policing Allied interests against the enemy's main the water areas affected directly by the forces, as well as against the submarine ebony's submarine activities? The

mercantile marino the British menace, American figures take no necount of the has been its mother, moving troops

by assistance given

iven by the small craft of hundreds of thousands,

"the civi Greece, Portugal, or Brazil, for the simple tions nad stores,

civil reason that, welcome as in their help, it nor

excluding populations--not

the barriod What peoples with food and other necesBETJUS is uecessarily on a small seale

les of Belgium, Montenegro, and revealed is the proportion of strength, indicated in percentages, contributed by to supp

to supplement their restricted resources, the navies of each of the principal mari and, over and above all that, as the Conf time Po

Powers:

Controller has reminded us, keeping the British Waters and Eastern Atlantic.home fires and the furnaces of the muni Eighty per rent. of the destroyers are tion factories burning. And when thin British. 78 per cent of the submarines, startling conception of our naval burdens 88 per cent. of the patrol oraft, made up is formed, it is still incomplete, because

and playing munt!

of yachta, motor boats, etc.: the United it takes no serpunt of the work performed States percentages are 14, 5, and 3 respec-in our naval dorkyards and private

and the French 6, 17, and 11. Mediterranean. Twenty-seven por cent

yards, at home and in the Mediterranean,

ship

in docking and repairing the ships of of the dextroyers are British, 13 per cent. Allies too far removed to do these duties of the submarines, and 23 per cent of the for themselves. patrol craft. In these waters four other

We are playing our part as the grant

All men of the Mercantile Marino, H.M.navie, in addition to Greece, Portugal. traditional wa-Power of the world. re- and Brazil, rendering good service minded by our insular and Imperial hin- Navy and Army are welcome to use the France supplice 38 per cent of the tory that the sea controls the land. But destroyers, do per cent. of the submarines, is that all? And such survey should not and per cent of the patrol craft, whifon

recent statement of Lord ignore the corresponding Italian úgures are 90 Henverbrook, that in proportion to our per cent., 60 cont, and 4 per cents

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respectivolt. Then United States 52 or Holation we have placed more man in fighting line than any other ecuntry, cent, of the destroyers and # per cent. of besitles acting ля

the munitioner the patrol craft, while Japan is repre Europe of the Allies, When the story sented by 7 per cent, of the destroyur of the British peoplo's share in the war force operating in these waters.

comes to be written, perhaps efter all,

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This in an interesting picture, but it in spite of the prankings of our own. in incomplete, because it ignores the con-mugwumps in street and drawing-room, voy work, the ensuring of the anfoly off our descendants will not have much caug

to blush for us-Daily Pelegraph, (Continued at foot of neat column.)

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