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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 1926

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Naval circles here, writes the Tokro correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, are inclined to regard as premature the sudden growth of agita- tion for the abolition of submarines. Admiral Takarabo has authorised pub lication of the. statement that the quer tion constitutes a very grave matter of defence, on which opinions may not be ventured offhand. Generally speaking Japan's position on the question has not changed since the time of the Washing ton Conference, Japan lookes unon, sub- marines as an effective weapon in navn! warfare. "Humanity forbids, of course. their use against merchantmen; but they are not to be considered in the same category with poison gas. The proposi- tion say the naval authorities, may be Kiven

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WAR IN 2025 A.D. PROFESSOR LOW'S IMAGINATIVE FORECAST.

Fineula, the London University maga- aine, has an article by Professor A. M. Low "on

war a century hence, which, though only an imaginative forecast, has the authority behind it of scientife writer of reputation

The war of 2023 will not be localized heretofore. The first essential will be to have an efficient scheme for the rapid transport of all the paraphernalia of wat to every corner of the Empire, and, of course, the principal means will be by way of the air. Vast aeroplanes carrying troops and heavy artillery, will control leaser aircraft from a distance, and emul-, ate the largest battleships of to-day in destructive capacity.

Various forms of poison gas, infinitely more terrible than any at present, will be used, and the question of protection will become highly scientific. Cavaler will be obsolete, for boises can be electorcuted with far greater case than med

There is not the slightest doubt that a deciding factor will. be frightfulness" in an advanced form, and as wireless re-

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There will also be machinery for tun- nelling rapidly, as there will bo great activity underground, partly fer protection and partly because night will afford no cover when wireless sight, at present in its infancy, is perfected.

submarines. Unlike battleships, the un- dorses craft can he built quickly, so that their abolition by a few will co forceivers will be in every home, it will he impossible to prevent exceptionally clever nothing. if others are to build them in propaganda (which played such an in- emergencies. Besides, the international portant part in the Great War) from "rumour that situation to-day suggests the belief that reaching every citizen. Just, for exam-

ple, to broadcast the water supplies had been impregnated with abolition is premature.

Thus far the Naval Minister Naval typhoid germs, would seriously undermine the morale of any nation, and it would circles in general see in the British pro-be possible in many other ways to strike position the effect of a shock following terror into the home. There will also be armoured boats capable of diving under the f. disaster. Japan, too, has had water and flying in the air, combined and experiences with undersen boats, and tanks-submarine-aeroplanes. the problem of how to minimise sul marine mishaps is receiving much atten- tion. But the Imperial Navy does not consider submarines objectionable in themselves, though it is well aware that they make the most inhuman weapon of destruction when wrongfully used, as when the Germans attacked commercial vessels with submarines in the Great War. They contend that it sabmarines are to be ruled out, then torpedoes.should also be struck out of the list of approva ed implements of war. Moreover, the submarine is the only weapon of defence for countries of inferior naval strength. Abolition will, they say, only have the effect of aggrandising the sea-power of one or two countries possessing great fleets of surface ships. The object for which the abolition of submarines is now being sought will be better attained, they argue, by abolishing, capital ships alto gether. Naval giants will be safer when submarines are to be no more; but to make an end of submarines will be like wrenching off the arms of weaker

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The war of 2005 will naturally be a wireless war, for there is no end to the possibilities of this wonderful force, and wireless telephony, sight, beat, power and writing, may all play important parts. The wireless-controlled torpedo-equippe with wireless-sighted periscope will be a very asful factor. Th only means of de fence will be small travelling "jamming. stations, for by bringing the station within mile or so of the torpedo & sufficiently, powerful current could be released to

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of brief duration, for the strain will The war of 2025..or thereabouts, will be no less terrible than the methods of fighting, although every new method is followed closely by a defensive counter-

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Should you be inclined to technical probabilities you would do well to remember that you are the cave man of to-day, and that your grandfather would have called you & liar if you had told him that in 1923 an aeroplane could fy the Atlantic while remaining in tele- phonic communication with its base.

If such a paltry gap in "time can give so much, why should we imagine that Progress in methods of aggression has

ceased

On the subject of holding a second disarmament conference in Tokyo, official circles are absolutely silent; but there is reason to believe that they do not welcome the idea. The Imperial Gov- ! HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL, ernment is always willing to participate

in bona fide international endeavours

REGISTER.

to diminish occasions for war and to Hongkong Observatory, February 10th..

discuss means for promoting the peace

of the world, but Japan, as a nation.

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that she can successfully take the lead in

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space.

A number of prominent scientists have been following the work of Dr. Dayton Miller, the president of the American Physical Society, who claims that his success in measuring the motion and the

Dr. Miller performed his experiment direction of the earth and the solar with an instrument called "The Michel- system through space, which is technical-son-Morely interferometer." The experi ly known as an ether drift' threatens the absolute destruction of Einstein's was first tried at Cleveland, Ohio, forty years ago, but failed to show theory of relativity.

the ether, drift," and on this facte Einstein maintains that it is impos-Einstein based his theory. Dr. Miller: sible to detect the motion of the earth was never satisfied with the result of in the solar system, but Dr. Miller that experiment, and repeated it year claims that he has succeeded in measur after year, moving his apparatus to the ing this motion, thereby anaalling the Mount Wilson observatory in 1919.

Dr. Miller made a hundred thousand second postulate of Einstein."

Dr. Miller says that he has not only observations during the past year, walk- measured the drift, but that he has deing in all a hundred miles around-the termined the direction and size of the instrument. He says, "I am convinced 85 movements.

Hence for the first time in that the "ether drift exists. The re- 64 history, he asserts, it is possible to state sults show it clearly."

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the choosing of Tokyo as the place of Temperature meeting, but Japan must be prepared to Humidity propose her own scheme of making peace Wind Direction... maintainable without arms, and she has Force unfortunately no such scheme in hand. Weather.. This summarises official views. Besides, Rain

the Japanese people as a whole are as

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Japan. The newspapers do not under-

stand why Japan must be bound to the

5-5-3 ratio in capital ships, except that

its delegates were obliged to acquiesce at Washingtod owing to pressure brought to bear upon them. The Japanese will begin to feel insecurity if the same ratio is to be extended to cover all haval auxiliaries. Moreover, the Japanese, as a whole, are not yet persuaded that war will be swept from the face of earth by reducing armaments. Nor is that all for they are haunted by an idea that there is a possibility that Japan may be made the object of an international conspiracy" reduce her to a negligible quantity, little by little, it is true, but nevertheless steadily and irresistibly In short, not a small section of the country feels that to call a second dis armament conference to meet in Tokyo is, for Japan,, like digging her own

grave.

All these Japanese thoughts may be absurdly wrong, but there has, so far, many, leading men say, been nothing to convince the Japanese that such fears are entirely unfounded. On the con trary, it is asserted that the evidence available in the past few years has been Buth 38 would oaly.deepen such suspicion.

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