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SIR W. JOYNSON HICKS ON SLOW AND STEADY PROGRESS.

PUTTING ARMIES TO SLEEP.

HOW LONDON COULD BE GASSED.

It is a welcome air that the War Speaking at the monthly lansheon at Office is not pervaded th the bow-and- the Southampton Chamber of Commerce, arrow spirit, when a soldier of imagia- on February 28th. Sir William Joynson-stion such as Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, Hicks, M.P. (Secretary of the Overseas the well-known Chief of Staff in the Tank Department), spoke of a slow but steady is permitted (says the Daily Mai) to

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during the later stage of the war, progress in trade prospects, and referre publish such a thous" book $5! to the occupation of the Ruhr by France,

Sir W. Jaynson-Hicks maid that we were £300,000,000 down in our expert trade as compared with 1813, and we had got to got

that back in 1913 Germany was our most serious competitor in regard to shipping. She was the second greatest maritime power with about 5,000,000 tons siloat. By the Treaty of Versailles ahe was reduced to 400,000 tona of shipping.

She had already got 500,000 tons, and by the end of the present your the figure would probaby be 3,000,000 tons. People did not realise that Germany was not the poor country that some people were apt to imagine. Germany would soon be a very serious competitor in the shipping of the

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(Hutchinson, 16%). Ten or twenty years ago such ideas ho ventilates would have been sternly repressed by authority, though it is all to the advantage of the Army that they should be discussed.

will be totally different from the last; so His first point is that the war of the future.. different that, even if great nations go to war in 1950, the recent struggle will appear to those not-far-distant fighters aa a struggio between barbaric hordes, à saurian contest."

His second point is that the weapon of the future will be gas, probably used from air- craft

be able to destroy infantry.. like ver- The aeroplane with gas, he holds, will

There was no doubt, proceeded Bir Williant, from the figures that the revival of trule was showing signs of continuing. There was not going to be a boom like 1020 That boom was watisfactory. It was hectic, but the rebound was quite as great as the boom, because during it we were unable to supply our great Dominons, because of the inished.

demand for our products to repair the ravages in Europe.

America got a much greater proportion in our Colonial and Dominion trade than previously. He was convinced that we wanted, as far as possible, to bind together, from a trade point of view, those great Dominions with the Mother Country. The effect of the boom of 1920 was wearing off and we were getting back our position vir 20 à vis America in our own Dominion

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The outlook for the great cities within ragh of hostile aircraft is not a pleasant one. Colonel Fuller writes: I believe that great cities such as London will be attacked from the sir, and thas a fleet "I am able to tell you," he said, "that of, let us suppo10, 500 aeroplanes each the reviral which began in the autumn of

500 10lb. bombs of, let us suppose, 1922 is slowly and steadily progrossing,gas might cause 200,000 minor there are indications of a continuance of casualties and throw the whole city into a that revival, and we shall show this year a panic. Picture

if you can, what the result considerable improvement upon the Bgures will be: London for several days will be for 1922. (Cheers.)

ond vast raving Bedlam the hospitals will be stormed, traffic will cease, the homeless will shriek for help, the city will be in pandemonium.

TAXPAYERS' FARADISE.

Interesting figures concerning the fin ances of Victoria, Australia, were given by the Victorian Premier, Mr. H. 8. W. Lawson, at a luncheon in his honour in London last month.

Therefore the defending air force must be ready at once to strike. Any other course Colonel Fuller holds to be suicide.

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The revenue, said Mr. Lawson, is now Mr. Catholina Lambert, founder of the £12. 163, 3d par head of population, of silk industry at Paterson, New Jersey, which only £2. 65. 9d. is contributed by the "Lyons of America," died at his direct taxation. On an income, resulting home there on February 18th at the age from peractal exortions of £500 the of 87. He as born in poverty in York State income tar is £8. 56, (Load cheers.) shire, and began work in a mill of Appealing for British industry and rafesire. Walter Evans and Co. when 10 sonroos to develop the

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