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GERMANY'S DEFEAT. ATTRIBUTED BY CAPT. PERSIUS.
TO LIES.
VON TIRPITZ FAILURE.
The great mass of the Germans people still stands astounded (writes Capt. L before the riddle of how it was possible Persius, Germany's foremost naval critic)
that the military collapse could come so suddenly, and particularly how it hap pened that the body blow that felled the ald regime was dealt by the navy.
There were any who, until quite re ently, harboured the hope that our high As fleet would fight a second Skagerak battle and that thereby the doom of Bri- tish domination of the seas would be sealed just as it was almost universally believed that our U-boats would, in a short time, force England to her knees."
All these hopeful ones were blinded by the lie--the lie which was one of the chief weapons of our warfare on land and sea. Lie and bluff celebrated veritable orgies, Particularly ander Tirpitz and Capelle.
"U"-BUATS IMPOTENT.
The innocent people did not know that for a year we could speak of our "high seas fleet only in a limited way; they did not know that actually the boat
HUNGKONG. DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1919.
TRZURU
NEW GERMAN WEAPON MACHINE-GUN THAT IS FIRED LIKE A RIFLE.
The latest German weapon is a sort of 'miniature machine gun. an automatic carbine, firing some thirty Actually it is or forty shots a magazine, but for all
the shoulder and extremely light and practical purposes it can be regarded as a light one man machine-gun, fired from handy for cluse quarter use.
BRITISH RAILWAYS FUTURE. GOVERNMENT ASPECTS OF
NATIONALIZATION,
Alr. Churchill's reusinder, in a specch correspondent of the London Daily News, delivered at Dundee, writes the Lobby that the Government had decided on the.
munition. But why the statement should nationalization of the railways, was no doubt a bit of election campaign am have surprised the public, or the City. is not clear, except that memories are short, and the world events have made them! shorter than usual,
That this was the policy of the Govern
The weapon was the standard German pistes animunition instead
of the usual rifle cartridge. Therefore it has not a very long range, and is neither as power- gue or automatic rifle. The barrel of November 10th last; but it was stated ful nor as dangerous as a real machine.ent was stated in the Daily News on the weapon is considerably longer than by Mr. Lloyd George, in effect, on March though it fires the same cartridge, this dressing a deputation from the Trades the regulation German Army pistols, and 20th last. The Prime Minister, then ad- extra barrel length gives it a range than the pistol and far greater le, said he was in complete sympathy Union Congress Parliamentary Commit- greater
with the general character of the pro It is probably 21 uful weapon at
posal for railway and canal nationali capable of being unpleasant at consider- ranges up to two hundred yards, andation put before him. ably longer distances. Even at close range its bullet pussessen little stopping power, and hardly a fifth of the penetra tive
power of the ordinary service rife bullet.
accuracy,
BETTER WAGES.
would enable them to pay lower in The credit of the State," he added, terest for borrowed capital, to pay better wages to railway workers, and to provide letter facilities to the travelling and the trading public"
squadrons were equal to the task that barather like those un our aeroplane dressing the Association of Chambers of
was set them only in the mouths of the leaders of ur fleet, never in reality; they did not know that the Prussian systèm had been long since sentenced to death and damnation.
and
They did not know that the soldiers and engineers, this magnificent human material, infinitely good-natured devoted, must finally be driven to despair by the wrong kind of treatment and other brielly alluded to in the frame of this All these things can be only article.
factors,
Those who knew the truth had their lips sealed by the censorship. Those who were honest and upright and whom the ardent love of their country and their people commanded to give against under-estimating the enemy and warning over-estimating Our OWN power were muzzled in every way,
short carbine of clobusy design.
In appearance the weapon is like n The is euensed in a perforated steel jacket. Lewis gun which fulfiis a double pur pose. It helps to cool the barrel and it prevents the firer burning his hand on the hot barrel of the weapon.
The most ingenious part of the device is the magazine. similar to the usual magazine in auto- This is a long slide matic pistols, but at the end it has a powerful spring which feeds the cart round drum containing an extremely
hold thirty to forty of the little pistol ridges to the chamber. The magazines cartridges, and fresh nangazines can be
Sir Albert Stanley, un April 9th, ad- Commerce, expressed himself against the
tinuance of the control of trader and industries after the war, with the excep believe," he tion of railways and canals. "I do not
said,
that it would be in and canals of this country should revert the national interest that the railways to the pre-war state."
polities during the war that the State It has, indeed, been a commonplace of
assumed, it would never be relinquished. control of our railways having once been Andra further matter, now over-laid in bat the firer has to do is to place the strong a movement for railway nationali "into place in a few seconds. All the public memory, is that there was so ger for each shot. weapon to his shoulder and pull the trig.zation, in the country and Parliament the swiftly as he can move his finger,
The arm fires a
year before the war, culminating in the prove to be the first step towards recon- have been taken if there had been no war. The new gun is interesting, and may Lorebarn, that by now this step would Royal Commission presided over by Lord sidering the design of all military rifles and ammunition.
Despite all the obstacles and the sharp restriction, this writer has unswervingly endeavoured to tell the truth, Naturally, this was possible most of the time only "between the lines," and thus much re- mained hidden to the eyes of those whose perspective was not properly set to look for the many tricks of deception.
QUINUMBERED BY ENGLAND. What are the facta? In November, 1914, we had a little over a million tons of naval shipping against the British 2,200,000 us. The German material was inferior to the British, thanks to the miswig-Holstein, Lakes of on Tirpitz. Our ships of the line, battleships and cruisers, were of aruller displacement than the British: they were less powerfully armed and pos- seased less speed.
:
Eight armed coast guards of the Aegir Roon, Yeinrich and Bismarck; five of and other cluasca, the armoured cruisers the Hanza class, Kaiserin, Augusta and finally the wall cruisere Strassburg (only fifteen other cruisers. launched September 4th, 1911), as weli ak
THE COST
GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
The
When that Commission was appointed, in October, 1813, Mr. (now Lord) Buxton, Meantime the material for G-boat con-
speaking as President of the Board of struction had become so scarce that, in Trade, said the step was required owing order to keep on building submarines, to the increasing friction between the ships of the line and other vessels bad railways and the traders of the country. to be takes to pieces. At the beginning The cost of a railway of 1918 the following vessels had thus scheme was much discussed in public in been put out of commission:-
nationalization Ships of the Line-Schlesien, Schlesthing like 150 members of Parliament the, autumn before the war, and some- (which had only been launched in 1910), Hanover, Deutchiand Lothringen,, Preussen, Hessen Elsase,
were ready to press the matter.
Duo estimate, which has recently been Braunschweig, Mecklenburg, Schwaben given, is that the purchase price, cal Wettin, Wittelsbach, Kaiser: Barbarossa,culated on the basis of pre-war market If one cotopares the strength of the
Karl der Grosse, Wilhelm der Grosse prices for the existing securities, would Kaiser Wilhelm II., Friedrich, Brandon nominal paid-up capital is to be reckon two fleets, and remembers that the Ruberg, Woerth, Wuerttemberg, and Baden,
be #
little over £848,006,000 sian Baltic fleet of 2,000,000 tons was, up to Russia's collapse, to be counted on
ed approximately at £1,160,725,000, and the enemy's side-the French naval forces
proximately £32,140,000 the income on the undertakings at ap- were for the greater part arrested in the Mediterranean by the Austrian, feet-it is clear that our fleet had slim chances.
In spite of this, the personnel of our navy has, as far as was possible with the deficient material and in the circum- stances, made an extraordinary record. With very few exceptions the officers and men stood the trying test brilliantly.
On nearly every occasion our defeats Were traceable to the Von Tirpi wrong- building policy. Think, for instance, of the duel between the Emden and the Sydney on November 9th, 1814, when the glorious raiding cruiser of Captain von Meller came to no end. vessels bad been built in the same year; Both the Sydney had 15.2-centimeter gans, the Ender only 10.5-centimeter guns, Sydney, with her one-third larger calibre The guns, naturally could fight the Emden down easily without even coming within the Emden's range. Similar conditions prevailed in the fight off the Falkland islands,
saved from disaster by three things:-
In the Skagerak battle our feet was (1)The clever leadership of Admiral Beheer.
(8)The clumsy handling of the Eng lish fleet by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.
(3)-The low visibility,
Had the weather boon clear and had the opponent had a determined leader, the outcome of that battle would have been, for us, destruction.
TREMENDOUS LOSSES.
The British guns, of so much more FRENCH LESSONS shot our feebly-armed vessels to cinders. powerful range than our own, would have But despite the fortune that smiled upon us, the losses which our fleet suffered were tremendous, and on June 1st, 1910, it was clear to everyone who knew the actual conditions that that battle would be and must remain the only one. This, in fact, had boun frankly admitted by the com petent authorities.
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Tirpitz drew no lessons from the events of the war. Cominandants of U-boats and torpedo boats were continually elamouring for bigger guns; vainly the airship
commanders complained that. their motors were constantly breaking down and that they must have better.ones manufactured by firms other than thos favoured by the marino administration. Vainly commanders urged that thoir grows were being criminally sont to their deathe.
TIRÞÍTZ STUBBORN. Tirpitz remained deaf, even in the face of Weddigen's great feat with the U-0. From all sides he was being besieged with. the demand to drop everything else to build only 7-bonts. He would not listen
With the putting out of commission of all the other creations of Von Tirpitz, it was thus admitted that these crea had built during his incumbency in offior, tions"--that is, all ships which Tirpitz
wore useless and incapable of fighting 1897 1916, at the cost of untold millions British ships.
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ENGLAND DID NOT STARVE. warfare on merchant ships was declared
Now as for the U-boat. and then unrestricted warfare, and the people were assured by imperial desres and other utterances that England must within the briefest span of time surron- der,
'starved into submission, But the weapon that would have been virtually non-existent. necessary for that sort of warfare was Nor was it created to any extent during the war. number of boats, Capelle, to built only a very limited would have been ready for action, in 1919 Those he ordered and 1820.
To complete a large U-boat of some 800 tons required at fret roughly 24 months,, Inter 30 months and more. The analler times completed within thirteen months. boats of between 127 tons were some But official utterances wore for ever alluding to the tremendous number of U-boats we were supposed to possess, and it was assorted the foes were many times replaced by new eraft That was got iruo losses and replacements, I cits in support As regards the of my assertion the figures of 1917."
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CANADIAN CORPS RECORD. ** NEVER LOST A GUN." Acknowledging a message of congres tulation from the Canadian Press Asso diation, representing the onttre Press of Canada, Liout.-General Sir A. W. Currie, Commanding the
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"The Canadian Corps warmly appre ciates the congratulations of the Cana- disn newspaper delegation. Tell the people of Canada that the corps is mere, inoró: than proud of its efforts to satisfy at home. In the last two years' strenu ous fighting the corps never lost a gun, never failed to take its objective, an hae nover boen driven from an inch of ground; after once it had been consoli To give a picture of our strength in runk and ale bear the smallest pordont dated while the casualtice among the
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