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FUTURE OF THE CAPITAL ANOTHER WAR THREATEN-

SHIP.

EXPERIENCES OF THE WAR.

{BY ARCHIBALD KURD.)

Lord Fisher was want to declare that reiteration is the secret of conviction. But there is another saying, to the effect that, while you may fool some of the people for some of the time, you cannot fool all the people all the time. In our country this adage has always exercised a healthy and restraining influence on the

activities of the manufacturer and trailer,

As well as on the political propagandist, But there is a large section of people who are always impressed by whatever is novel and arresting, and thas it happens, as an illustration, that no mean proportion of the persons living in this island have been led to accept the constantly reiterat

ING."

MR. RAMSAY MAŬDONALD'S

WARNING.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., »puäking at the annual gala of the Northumber and Miners' Association, held at Morpeth, last month, referrect to the danger or an other war. "You are threatened with mu other war," he said, "It will be war in the air, war with poison gas, and the hor- rors and sacrifices of, the last wat will which alone is fit to guvern gay gets up be a mere den-bite to it. The great party in the House of Commons, and with great self-confidence tells you you are going to fight again, and must, therefore, be pre- avert that war, and by the Grace of God,

know how to pares, We, and we alone, and with the workers standing behind us we will. (Cheers,) I do not know the contents of our Government's message to

lede statement that the battleship has been *** 47 it is in accordance with the

condemned to extinction by the aeroplane, with its bombs, and the submarine, with its torpedoes; they do not even question the assertion which has been dinned into their cars that, owing to the influence of these much-advertised agents of destrue tion, the Grand Fleet was afraid to lene the shelter of its defender! bases during the course of the Great War:

spirit of the answer Mr. Baldwin gave last week, then it is good ou the whole. All I say is this, that sending such a message, and making up our minds. that this country is going to take an active part in unravelling the entangle

of Europe. what the Labour meut» party asked for months ago, and what the Tory party rufused to acept, The our I have recently been privileged to study hope of Euro plowed by the British today is that the Labour leal shouk

be

seennent, and that we should raise high the clean baumer, not of self-seking, but of morality justice, and, fair play all round. (Cheers.)

n.series of charts of the North Sea, which ny become historic, and, in any event, have an important bearing upon current controversies. I have before me one of these charts as I write, and it presents a Mr. MacDonald announced that on the fascinating appearance, for it is unlike following day, in Loudon, the Labour any other chart which has ever been pre-party were meeting at an international pared. It is of the North Sea. It looks conference representative of the Belgian as though the aartographer had attempted and French Chambers of Deputies. the to imitate the web spun by an industrious Italian House of Commons, the Gorman apider, representing it graphically on this Reichstag, and our own House of Com- chart. Hundreds of thin lines ran in this mous, so that they guild talk matters over, direction and that in a confusing muże;]

understand ch other, and come to com they reach up towards the Arctic Circle,

1718 conclusions 02 international auri out many hundred miles neress the Atlantic, and down below the parallel of Heligoland in the North Sea. The whole of the chart of this enormous water area - is scared and counterscored with lines inj five colours—black, blue, red, yellow, and green, corresponding, as is stated, to the years, 14, 1015., 1916, 1917, hud 1918: respectively.

foreign offairs! (Cheers.) That, he added. was the way to dè business, "but the Inbour, pa ty nail act the Government were-ding it,

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BRITISH PRE-WAR PENSIONS.

PROPOSED INCREASE TO COSE £500,000:

What Jors this confusion of lines! A turther increase in pre-war bayal and signify? They represent the tracks taken! military peusions has been recommended by the fleet-flagship of the Grand Fleet by the Cabiflet. Committee which has heat during its cruises in and about the North considering them.

The increases are to range from 20 to 40 1r cent, of the 1920 increase.

This will mean that a man with a pre- ar pension of 1, which was increased

203. in 1920, will have a further intrsss. of 4x-that is, 40 per cent. of the 10%.

On the intermediate pension the amount

Sea during the Great War. Between In 1920 pensions were increased by 301 August 4th, 1011, and February 15th, 1917, per cent,, and it is proposed that the pre the Trum Duke was the fee-flagship, and out increases shall be graduated accord- thene the end of the war the Queening to the amount of the pension received, Elizabeth. It is, the movements of these two ships which are represented on the chart, and not merely their movements,¦ but the movements of all the battleships. | some with anti-submarine bulgys and some without: "For where the feet-flagship went, the other battleships wout also. Thej cruises which are traced on this chart, off the addition propose is 30 per cent, of course take no account of sigzagging, the 1920 increase and on the higher pen tactical exercises, firing practice, or other a 20 per cont, incidental praising when the ships might have been attacked; they refer morris to the war operating of the Grand Fleet.

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The proposal applies only to rank-and- le persiguers, The number of meu affected is about 110,000 and the additional cost is estimated at £300,000 a year.

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TRIPLE CIRCUIT OF THE WORLD. The register book of the engine room off the fron Duke has becu stadied in order the opinion of a-retired officer ou "new ascertain the distances which the problems, such those russel by thu battleships of the Grand Fleet steamed development of the submarine anự the during the first two and a half years of conquest of the air, must be regarded us the Great War, when it has been anidipinetiendly valueless No retired otheer that they were imprisoned by the menuce can, in the nature of things, keep in touch of the submarine, the neroplane, and the wat," the progress Gf reguarch, and experi- į airship. This investigation reveals that ment. "

during Lord Jellicoe's period in command The man in the street, desiring guide! "f the Grand Fleet the battleshipsaner, can do no other than accept" thu steaned 44,880 miles. After Lord Beattyrnings, of those who are, after all, res- bad succeeded to the command, the ponsible for the safety of the sea comma- battleships steved B further 14, 100 intentions of this country, which are its miles. Altogether, the many battleships arteries.

of the Grand Fleet covered" a distance! The whole case, agarost the bartleship! equivalent to cireling the globe twice over. ! rests upen assumptions which are either. with a liberal balance qyer, and if allowust proved or are demonstrably untrue. ance be made for tactical exercises and Amongst the latter, as I have shownu is! practice cruises, the distance could not the statement that the Grand Elect was have been less than three times round the bottled up** during the war. On the world. What targets they presented to contrary, the Grand Fleet, cruising in the the enemy They cruised repeatedly, North Sea, within enty striking distance month after month, within easy range of of the enemy's submarines and aireract, German submarines, German aeroplanes, constituted the main contribution to the and Cerman airships and during the victory of the Allied cause. That will he whole period not a single battleship or the verdict of history, as very student hatile-cruiser of the command was de of naval affairs, and, in particular, of the troyed by either of these agents.

history of naval operations during the; yests 1914-19, realises,

If any naval officers are in a position to express an cpinion as to the threat It is well for us that we can entertain which submarines, aeroplane, and air confidence as to the future of the capital ships offer to the battleship, it surely must ship, breause, if the capital ship were be Lord Jellicoe and the present First Seadoomed, the cruiser would be doomed also, Lord. Unlike the instructed critics of land, if the battleship and the cruiser were the hatleiship, these two officer, confront doomed. assuredly the merchant ship, ed the strategems and tactics of the which enables us to live, would also be enemy, with all his submarines and air-dloomard to extinction. Speed is the best craft. Lord Jellicce has placed it on re defence against the submarine, as well an M cord that "the capital ship that is, against air attack. The cruiser steams at the battelship or battle-cruiser" is still from twenty-five to thirty or more knots; the strongest Instrument of war which the battelship moves more lowly, but the operates on the seas." It is his opinion merchant vessels, which bring us our food that the wise, course to pursue is to and take back our manufactured goods continue to build capital ships "auti i and our coat, proceeds through the water. ever, it as been shown that some other at an average speed of not more than. weapon has been found which permanent about one-half that of the battleship. ly renders them inefficient." Lord Beatty, What "enemy with submarines or aero- with, as is known, the support of all the planes would trouble about the battleship experienced officers now serving on the or cruisers if he could sink well-laden nød Board of Admiralty, as well as the officers defenceless and glow cargo vessels, and associated with the Naval Staff, has re- thus bring us to our knee? pratedly affirmed his complete faith that Air-power, whatever its future may be, the capital ship remaing the backbone of can never ferd this country. It can be naval power All these. officers, with prophesied with complete assurance that scores of others, have confronted sub the time will never come when the aero- marines and aircraft at sen. They are plane or airship will be able to bring us unt conservative old at dogs, but active the fifty or sixty million tons of food and officers in the full prite of their intel. raw materials which we must have if we lectual efficiency, I am not aware of a are to live and work, or take out to the single officer, in any navy, British or markets of the world the hundred million Foreign, with sex experience during the tons of goods, very heavy goods, includ. war, who has lost faith in the value of ing coal, which we export in payment for the capital ship.

IF THE BATTLESHIP 18 DOOMED!.

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our imports Nature, as everyone who knows anything of specific gravity can tell us, has entered her implacable fat.

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(b) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunc- tion with any other bond fide meal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be rea- sonably made;

(c) any sale in accordance with the conditions of

his licence by the holder of a restaurant. adjunct licence..

-Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employé in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirma. tively that the sale was against his express orders and without his consent or connivance.

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