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THE NEW CRUISERS. EXPEDIENT IMPOSED BY THE

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BY AIR HERBERT: KUSSELL]

| yonel is suitable to both purposes. Honce the new rivalry in cruiser construction.

POTENTIAL" "JUDGES.

STATUTORY QUALIFICATIONS,

It is very unlikely that when the Wachington" onference framed its agree

Amongst the clauses of the Adminîs- ment it foresaw just where that agreement tration of Justice Act, 1995, which comes would lead. The real purpose of the into force on October 1st, is one (4) stat- Conference was to restrict naval arming the qualifications required in those The decision of the Admiralty to build nerts altogether. It has only been sus filling High Court Judgeships, and a two distinct types of cruiser under the cessful in diverting the growth of them schedule indicating thom who are eligible programine of five years' replacements is Had there been more foresight fie for various high legal appointments, most probably an expedient imposed by the limits of cruiser displacement would the necessity for economy, I imagine have been set lower. But probably this there can be very little question that had would have resulted merely in the cabin this country to fill all judicial and the Board heen unfettered by any other striction of larger numbers Anyhow, consideration than that of the highest it is significant that Great Britutu, standard of tactical efficiency they would France, Italy Japan, and the United hava plumped for all Class A ships,States are building up to the fullest limits which we know to be vessels of 10,000 in tons and gaus, and bus for the tons, armed with sin, guns, and probably Washington restrictions this competition good for 35 knots. In the alternative they must have resulted already in a growth have elected to maintain numbers at the which by now would have equalled the expense of uniformity of fighting value. biggest prewar armoured cruiser type, The general impression is that the Class The British Ashniralty are being forced B cruisers will be vessels of ahout inte reaction from this maxinium, bail 7,300 tons, but exactly what detailed lossing. I say forect because it cannot of sea-keeping and combative: qualities he a matter of pare choice. A big cruiser

It is the established and logical practice

high legal offices frour the ranks of the Bar. and the solicitor profession, 25 000- taining those best fitted by training and. pursuit for such positions. Solicitors have an old standing grievance that the appointments open to them are too few, especially in what may be regarded na the minor legal appointinents, and there has been a long succession of references in the annual reports of the Law Society to complaints that have been made of the filling of departmental legal positions so called "solicitorships-by larris-

this reduction of displacement by per cassio All that a small cruiser can do, anders, when solicitors might have been cent will catall must remain conjectural a great deal more: a small cruiser cannot thought as well qualified, and to have I do not believe that this partial rever compete with star when it comes to gunequal, if not better, claim. Some years sion to the system of graded cruisers power, sea-keeping endurance, and. (save ago the Law Society at one of its annual which existed until the cruiser was praat n serious relative sacrifice) speed. On provincial meetings passed a resolution tically evolved out of existence by the the score of fighting efficiency the Ad condemning the practice. Later than battle-cruiser is deliberate, but I do be miralty would have preferred that the that, when two members of the Bar Were lieve that it can be adequataly justiñed."

new programme should consist wholly of appointed, respectively, to the posts of

A cruisers.

solicitor and assistant solicitor of the Warship design stands as the material Class

Ministry of Labour, a further protest embodiment of current tactical ideas. At The conditions which produced such a the present day tactical ideas of naval wide variety of cruiser types between. the way made, and the Lord Chancellor de warfare are probably simpler and more passing of the Great Naval Defence Actclared in reply that the custom of ap concrete than they have ever been since in 1880, and the advent of the three pointing barristers to Government posts the advent of steam. The Great War is Invincibles" in 1003, have been largely daties of solicitor had become too fre bearing the name and involving the now sufficiently remote to permit of u

dissipated. As I have said before, clear, judicial perspective. The strategical tactical ideas are how much simpler and queat, and expressed his inclination to deprecate its further extension. There situation has been greatly simplifed by are concrete. The principle of using the fact that there are now only three sledge hammer for a butterfy is always are, however, to-day "solicitorships", sen Powers in the first-class category as to be avoided, hut we no longer admit filled by barristers against seven before the war. The pro- that the best way to avoid it is to build position before the Admiralty is that we are called upon to maintain a nomina! equality with the United States Navy and

In fact there are amongst the high a special type of cruiser for every coulegat offices only three to which solicitors ceivable character of work. The system exclusively may attain, namely, Chancery which produced the 1st Class, 2nd Class, Masterships, Taxing Masterships, and the post of Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court; and before he becomes eligible for any of these the new Act specifica that the candidate must have practised his profession not less than ten years.

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a 30 per cent, superiority of strength and 3rd Class cruiser with plenty of over the Japanese Navy. This is the variety in each class-was even more simple meaning of the formula wasteful than the airge hammer threaten agreed upon at the Washington Confered to be. euce. The other naval Powers havr

More than three-fiths of our voluntarily taken up a purely passive attitude; their role is reduced to one of cruisers (counting the five laid down, dur-There are: besides, two offices for which national defence only, as expressed by ening last year) will be of the 19.000-ton sulieitors are eligible equally with barris suring the security of territorial waters, type. It is always possible to foreseeters, Registrar in Bankruptry of the Therefore we have no cause for active tactical probabilities with sufficient cer. High Court, and Legal Adviser in concern in the policy of the other, naval tainty to provide for meeting them in the Lunacy, and here again, in both ranks, Powers.

sense of determining where the big ships ten years' actual practice is the qualifien Our Fleet sweating out and needs and the lesser ships may be disposed totion,

best advantage. By keeping the Class For all judgeships, barristers alone replacement. We can only measure the cruisers within more limited are eligible. So also is it with regard extent and character of this requisite relius of action they should prove of just to the high legal ofices o! Permanent placcheat by reference to what the other

as much value, under a similarity of con- Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and two first-class Powers are doing. The question of friendly reintions has ditions, as the bigger ships, always pro- Clerk to the Crown, Masterships of the GORJISTAN nothing to do with the Admiralty viewviding that speed and gun calibres are King's Bench Division, the office of maintained. They are not intended, to Ufficial Referee, and Mästerships in

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they will have suficient mobility to qualification is required of ten yeara TISALAK the 3-3-3 ratio, shall not become i

actual practice at the Bar. And before TJIBODAN meaningless formula. There is no imdeny action. plied thrent anybody in the principle But is seems to me that we shall pass he can become a Lord Justina of Appeal, IJITARDEM JAPAN of keeping fit," A nation must keep through a long transition period during Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, fit quite as much as an athlete if it hopes which the British Navy will again possessor President of the Probate, Divorce, and to maintain an authoritative voice in the three classes of cruiser. We shall have Admiralty Division, the Act, requires the A" Class, in which may be in that the aspirant must have practised for counsels of the world.

cinded the Harbin group; the "B" fifteen years. Class, in which may be included the Enterprise and the Emerald now com

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I think we may define the present tacti cal perind as the cruiser eta. There is considerable diversity of opinion as to thepleting, and the "C" Class, comprising the Act effects a number of important precise value of the capital ship there is none regarding the cruiser. The the effective list. History is repeating it-manent abolition of any size town, "B emergence of the Pacific zone, into the self, not through design, but through the proposal which has been included in more

At Bordesley Green, Birmingham, re strategie vision of naval thought gives n

exigencies of economy. As the light that one scheme of legal reform, it em- new aspect to our traditional conception raiser, cinas dies out it is difficult to be powers the Lord Chief Justice, with the cently a young man climbed a telegraph of war at sea. Heretofore we have en-here it will be repeated. Ships of 5,00% concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, to pole and made his way hand over hand vironed European waters as the decisive tons, with din. guns, were perfectly

direct the suspension of any particular along the wires... Aize when the small amount of business A fire-brigade escape was summoned, area: the Narrow Seas in the foreground adequate for service on the remote foreign astifies such a course being taken. It but before it arrived. Mr. Fred Green; a und the Mediterranean as the ultimate stations all the time that limit. Fighting beyond this area we have objectives remained in European waters. also practically restores the right to trial policeman's son, ascended and got the looked upon as episodical, and as likely But now, that foreign 10,000-ton cruisers, by jury to the position as it was before man down. He was removed to the local to amount to only a small collective factor, with Sin. guns are appearing on those re-war legislation greatly curtailed it. in the Anal issue."

mote stations they are clearly outclassed The Blue Water School has been revived by changed strategical conditions, and we can no longer be satisfied to build with

our main

But now this is all changed. And the change brings us to the prospect of ocean warfare, in its widest sense. The tactics which always presuppose a base within a a view to maintaining the Admiralty of day or two's steaming are rather in the the Atlantic which really meant the melting pot, and the type of warship boundary of the Western Approaches and essentially designed to materalize this the grand junction of the Middle Sea conception is rather in the melting pot Varal ond Military Record.. with them. Tactics must necessarily be governed by geographical ideas. Some day we may find ourselves back at the base operations principle. For a good many years ahead, as far as it is humanly possible to foresee, wo are very much at sea. And therefore we want the type of warship, which will best enable us to keep at sea.

SERVICE IN SUBMARINES.

NEW ADMIRALTY ORDER.

The Admiralty have just issued an order on the subject of service in submarines which is especially interesting in view All the great sea Powers are likewise of the intimation contained in a recent great maritime Fowers in the commercial Fleet Order that any naval man may be sense. The one follows the other: selected for service in these vessels whe nation with no trade interests worth ther he volunteers or not. The new order speaking about at sea is not going to the consists of one paragraph only, which expense of keeping-up a big Navy, Let is to be substituted for one in a former us take this as an elementary strategical order, and from this it is evident that, thesis. A country possessing a great although any officer or rating in liable for sea-borne trade can be struck most service in submarines, care will continue effectively through that trade. Grost to be exercised in order to ensure Britain and Japan could be speedily remedical fitness for auch service. duced to submission by an effectual With this object the order directs that blockade, assuming such a thing were officers and men selected for service in possible to establish. The United States submarines are to be of good physique is self-supporting, but the destruction of and capable of sustaining a considerable her ocean commerce would be a blow amount of bodily strain. In the medical under which, cren with all her colossal examination care is to be taken that the wealth, she would stogger very heavily candidates are in good health and free indeed.

► Liam any organic or functional cardiac or Commerce destruction-or capture, pulmonary disease, that they suffer from which has the same result figures more, no active constitutional complaints and prominently in the present-day scheme show no signs of disease of the ear or of naval warfare than ever it did before. nose, defectve vision, or skin affection, Unquestionably this is due to the effect that there is no history of fits of any of the German - submarine campaign, kind, and that they are not addicted to which, in spite of our dominance of the aleahol in excess; that there should be sea's surface, came perilously meat to no hernia or tendency thereto, and no starving us into capitalation The signs of arterial degeneration. It is also doctrine of destruction automatically im to be ascertained that the officers and poses the obligation of protection, and in men selected have a good standard of the case of commerse a similar type of dental átness,

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