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THE HỌNGEONG DAILI PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28RD, 1918.

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"ETTESBURGH PERFECTTM Calvanised

COST OF THE, NAVY. LORD FISHER'S CRITICISM,,

The following was. Lord Fisher's letter to the Times on September 2nd-

"The two millions a day we are spend ing more than our income will not be

It is in saved by tries or hy trifling. credible-it is uncalled for it is ruinous Waste

that the cost of the Fleet is now. 140 millions A year! (In 1904 it was 34 raillions!)

So the whole national exe ponditure before the war was only a third more than the present Navy Estimates. Then a huge anti-German fleet had to be feet ready to strike! Now that Certuan

Yes! Thank is at the bottom of the sea God our pre-war Fleet was instantly ready, and was efficiently. to strike!

ready to But it didn't! It was the Lord that Napoleon no struck Thore Nelson, po Sedan, no Trafalgar! It was the Angel of the Lord went forth, and the German fleet were

* dead corpses

was no

sa

the eleventh

in the maraing la Sennacheriby when that armistice (which unnacher

nihilated Ger- many) was proclaimed t hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 Imagine! Here we are, getting on for a year ago, and yet spend ing this prodigious excess of two millions beyond

Our

income!

I have to say from severe experience and great obloquy that Departmental Committees or Cabinet Committees or even

Prime Ministers are no use in such an extremity, You must turn out the whole spendthrift crew neck and crop. who are responsible for this ruinous waste of money. You must be ruthless, relentless. and remorseless! Sack the lot! Those fearful souls who always shudder tes

Shoot at "sight

to Think in oceans mus

ins must take courage.

We are wast ing money on half the Navy, because it obsolete already by the immense development of big, fast ships and huge guns (the last light cruiser Jnutched has mora horse-power than the Lusitania, and the public saw recently in the Thames the monster, 18in. Navy gun used in the war. and the 20in. gun was ready to be built when

I left the Admirnity on Mag end.. 1915), 20

so ball the Navy wants scrapping the other half will

and

in a very few years because of the internal combustion engine and oil!

"Let us all pray that Sir William Watson (our great poet) will not appeal in vain to his countrymen. in his won- drous poem The Doom, to retrench

f

the nation don't sack the spendthrift,

Then is. the day, of crumbling not far off."

HOW THE U-BOATS MET THEIR DOOM.

DRAMATIC STORIES TOLD IN THE PRIZE COURT.

The story of the destruction of nine German submarines was told in the Prize Court before Lord Sterndale,

M.S.

To the first case, it was stated, Ariel chased a submarine twelve miles, from Bishop Rock Lighthouse on December 8th, 1910. The heat apbmer ged, but the dried followed her track, and swept over her with the high-speed sub- marine sweeper, and destroyed her. This was the 2, with a crew of 23, nane of wbom survived. His Lordship awarded £115.

Whilst cruising off the south coast of Iseland on April 15th., 1915, H.M.S. feinaming observed the German sub- marine to which she promptly attack- ed and destroyed. Only one of the crew of 40 was saved $200 awarded.

A Botilin of destroyers, consisting of fitne, Miranda and Mentor, sighted an enemy submarine off the mouth of the Thames on May 9th, 1917. The helm of the Vine was put hard over, and the submarine rammed amidship. The U-boat sank, and the Miranda and Mru- tor dropped depth charge. £10 award-

ed.

A seaplane operating off Lowestoft sighted a submarine on May 20th, 1917, and at once chased and attacked it. Fombs were dropped, two of which struck the submarine and she was observed to sink. This was the 6, with a crew of 25, none of whom survived. £125 awarded. Whilst cruising in the North Sea on July 19th. last year.

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H.M.S. Garry countered the B110. The commander put his helm over, rammed the submarine amidships, and repeated the maneuvre. chemy vessel was ripped open and sank. Out of a crew of 36 möne survived. £180 Awarded.

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The British submarino, 14, cruising in the Adriatic on May 23rd, 1915 came up with the German submarine Baz. She promptly fired two torpedoes, which struck the enemy vessel, causing her to break in twe and sink. The lieutenant- commander and the quartermaster of the enemy boat were rescued out of a crew of 34 £170 awarded.

In the North Bea on March 10th., 1917, the British submarine (FI) torpedoed and sank the German submarine UC43. £145

dwaterman submarine UC47

The

was

chased and rammed in the North Sen on November 18th, 1917, "by His Majesty's vessel F67. The submarine sank, and depth charges were dropped over ber Them were no survivors of the crew of

9. £145 awarded,

The last success related occurred off the Norwegian coast on October 18th. last The British submarine 13, encountered the German 7830. A fight ensued, and the enemy vessel was sunk. There were no survivors of a crew of, 27.

£185 was awarded

WOMEN LESS MORAL?

While there was a great falling-off in general litigation, during 1917, divorce actions again showed a marked tendency to increase.

The increase was almost wholly accounted for by husbands, petitions. those of wives showing a remarkable de clipe Does this mean that women are

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The official figures "how a decline of 200,000 general actions during the year under review.

-London and Middlesex provided a very large proportion of the matrimonial "etuse-1.11, or an increase of no less than 3 per cent, compared with previous

years..

It is interesting to note that five-sixths of the applications by "poor persons." were in respect of divorce proceedinga.

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