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SHIPS OF THE WORLD,

NAVAL AND MERCHANT TYPES.

BRASSEY'S NAVAL AND SHIPPING

ANNUAL REVIEWED.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DEFUMBER 25TH, 1926.

MR. BALDWIN AND RED PLOTS.

M.P.S' PLANS TO STOP THEM.

The closing stages of the English coal stoppage, which toscow financed to the tune of more than. £1,000,000 in order to strike a blow at British trade, were mark ed by redoubled activity on the part of Moscow propagandists in England.

and

These advocates of revolution misery are carrying out the arders of Zinoviev, laid down in his notorious letter published more than two years ago.

"The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, re- eently, in a committee room in the House of Commons presided over a meeting of Conservative M.P.s called to consider means to combat Communist propaganda in the constituencies.

In the preface to the issue for 1927 of Brustey's Naval and Shipping Annual, just published, it is remarked that far reaching changes in the application of physical science to sea transper as weil as sea defence are taking place. Atten tion is specially directed to the develop Anxiety has been expressed by Con ments in engineering, and it is pointed servative M. P.; at this new aspect of the ont that the naval authorities are incor- Red menace, and demands are once again porating their deductions tratu the experi; | theing made that all the' Moscow agents caces of the Great War in the designs of ¦ in England shall be cleared out bag and cruisors, destroyers, and abmarines baggage.

Everything concerned with ich affairs is undergoing a change which is anding expression in a variety of ways, and is, in particular, afecting the equipment of all types of ships. This movement is "revealed in the illustrations, diagrams, and profiles which are contained in this volume, abu ir paruvalar in the picture of the new British battleships felson and Rodney. A revolution is ocurring at sea. The steamer, having vanquished the sailer, has recently been challenged by the motor-ship, and now Sir, John Biles suggested that owing to the research of the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons the motor- ship may find a serious rival'a vessels fitted with high-pressure steam turbides of the type which is being tried experi- mentally in the Clyde pleasure steamer King George V.

Meanwhile other nations are taking drastic action against the Moscow plot- ter In Java, as stated in the Daily Press, the Dutch are latering all the leaders of the recent revolt. Pravda, the oficial Moscow newspaper, of Novem ber 7th stated: We are also worrying the British capitalists in Dutch India Here a new attack is being prepared

The revolt began on November 12h-five days after Pravda's accurate

forecast.

ZINOVIEV'S ORDERS.

The Admiralty is still maintaining almost complete silence as to the offen- sive an detensive powers of the IWO new battleships which will be commis-HOW, THEY ARE BEING CARRIED

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OUT.

aloned this year, but the editors. of Brussey's Annual declare that "these vessels represent as revolutionary a' deve-

The rank and file of the Conservative lopment of the capital ship as did the Party has long been alive to the extent original Dreadnought when she took the of the menace, caused to the nation by water twenty years ago." Commander Apermitting Communist propaganda to be Colquhoun Bell also foresees a recon- continued without check or counter. sideration of the cruiser problem in view of the varied uses to which such awift ships were put during the Great War. He considers the existing types as ill-suited to the probable demands of any future

A carefully thought-out campaign of political education has been planned by the Conservative organisers, and it is primarily for discussion of this that the meeting with the Prime Minister

WAS

During the past few weeks there have been signs that an increasing number of Cabinet Ministers realise tast in this matter the rank and üle of the party is right. Lord Birkenhead, Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, and, most recently, the Prime Minister have all made pointed references in' re- gard to the persistent efforts of Moscow's gents throughou: the Empire to under- mine its foundations and prosperity.

Sir George Thurston, the well-arranged. known naval architect, is, on his part, dissatisfied with the modern torpedo-not destroyers which are now passing into the fleets of the world, remarkable in fight ing power and speed as" these wessels are. He describes, with the aid of dia- grams, what he calls the gaperdestroyer, and contends that such a type, while not exceeding to any appreciate extent the cost of the presen: flotilla leader, would carry out all the work now done by de stroyer flotillas, and, owing to a more powerful torpedo armament, would be a greater menace to the capital ship; its better sea-keeping qualities and, even possibly, mine-laying and plane-carrying capabilities, would also reader it more efficient for scouting and other purposes than the destroyers which are tow being buift.

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State and Marchant Shipping. The outstanding feature of the section of Brassey's Annual which is devoted to merchant shipping is a contribution from Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P., the Presi- dent of the Chamber of Shipping. He deals trenchantly with the contention, which various Socialists have sponsored, that if shipping were nationalised losses would be converted into profits, and in disproof of this thesis points to the un- happy and ruinously costly experiments United States and other countries.

Trying to Stop Peace...

But the party as a whole is fearful lest its leaders, under the influence of the Foreign Orice, will again shrink, as they did last summer, from taking the cour agrous and obvious step of clearing out the Reds bag and baggage.

Zinoviev's orders to his servants in England were framed with the object of overcoming the inclinations to com- promise, which are embedded aming the majority of British workmen so that later it might be possible to count upon complete success of an armed insurrec- tion."

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TIRPITZ AND PRINCE LICHNOWSKY

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EX-AMBASSADOR SNUBS THE GRAND ADMIRAL

FINE

WISDOM OF "THE TIGER.'

M. CLEMENCEAU'S STUDY. OF

DEMOSTHENES.".

At the age of 84 the "Tiger" has given

35 Miles Per Imperial Gallon

Service Representative: Mr. A. AHWEE.

MOTOR

TOWARDS TELEVISION.

NORWEGIAN ENGINEER'S SUCCESS. FUL BROADCAST OF PICTURES.

of this kind which have been mide by the Communists have worked ceaselessly both Admiral Tirpitz has brought on himself which may perhays be discerned his re-engineer, Hermod Petersen, with every

DANGER OF EXTREMISTS IN TRADE UNIONS.

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The Prime Minister, in a letter to Mr. L. E. Gaunt, Conservative candidate at the Central Hull by-election:

Pictures were recently broadcast by the the world a study of Demosthenes in Norwegian Government's chief telegraph

splendoura carcer resembling that of flections on his own, carcer of storm and success.

orator failed, while M. Clemenceau saved

his country.

CARS

AN IRISH WOOING.

WHISKY THAT PAVED THE WAY.

NO LOVE IN IT.

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A bottle of whiskey played a prominent part in the hearing of an action for Seenes in the broadcasting programme breach of promise of murringe at Long- supplied with specially prepared paper Annie Kiernan, a farmer's daughter, on which the pictures were reproduced. sued Mr. Hugh Kiernan, & farmer, for Demosthenes" (by Georges Clemen- will also be applicable to the ordinary

The inventor claims that his invention 260 damages.j teau, translated by C. M. Thompson; crystal sets, which, with an attachment, introduced to her by

Miss Kiernan said Mr. Kiernan, was Bodder and Stoughton, 10s. ed.) is will be able to register pictures transmit Eugene Kiernan, who came with some man named short book, but in it there are many ted to them from the central broadcasting friends to match-make, bringing a bottle noble passages:-

of whisky with them.

station.

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Zinoviev pointed out the chances for accelerating this Bolshevising of British workpeople which would occur should ex- tensive strike action develop.

Throughout the past seven months the documents are not the only ones which Charges of misappropriating official hypropaganda and by money to support by his last book, says the Berlin corre Sir Westcot: Abell gives his usual in the coal stoppage despite the severe bard-spondent of the Daily Telegraph. He is Demosthenes except that the Athenian were transmitted to listeners who wereford (Leinster) recently in which Miss cžsive review of the progress of merchant ships it has imposed on all the workers shipping throughout the world, supply-in the country.

now accused of abusing the confidence of ing particularly interesting details of

private correspondence. the forward policy which is being pur

The book contains an interesting con. sued in Italy with the financial encour

fidential letter of December 26th, 1914, agement of Sigoor Mussolini, who has

in which Prince Lichnowsky urged on the declared that Italy's future lies on the

admiral that a crushing victory over sca." Mr. Cuthbert Maughan tells the

Great Britain was unlikely, and that melancholy story of the depression of

bomb open English towns and so generate therefore it was unwise to betibard or freights; Mr. John P. Taylor discusses the passenger ship as cargo carrier; while

spirit of embitterment which would impede the opening of peace negotia Mr. W. H. Clapham describes the not-

lions. able merchant ships of the year." It is

Berchtold's policy is then quoted.

A sarcastic

postscript about claimed that this annual, which was founded by the first Lord Bravey thirty-

In an open lette to the Berliner Tage- blatt the Prince now says he has no eight years ago, and has in the past few In the recent negotiations between years been greatly enlarged in scope as

reason to repudiate the view expressed the Trade Union Congress and the then by him that Germany would not be well as in size, is the only publication Aliners Federation we have seen ex of its kind either in the British Empire. perienced and well-tried Trade Union ly should seek an understanding with able to dictate peace, and consequent- or any foreign country." This challeng leaders, men who believe in peace and England, but he continues: "Hitherto it ing declaration; in view of the contents work for peace, openly fouted by men has been the custom to publish letters of the new issue, would be difficult to of extreme views. dispute.

There have been devoid both of an official and a busineas many other inuications of this tendency character only with the agreement of the which show only too clearly the dangers writer, and I should have given my con- that confront the country if this ex-sent with particular, pleasure, though I treme element is put in a position of should naturally have wished the omis authority.

sion of the glosing ironical remarks about

Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual. Edited by Sir Alexander Richardson and Archibald Hard. London: Cloves and "Sons. Price 25%.

CAVIARE FISHERIES.

MAN WHO WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY SOVIET

Surrounded by leading London chela at the Cookery and Food Exhibition at Olympia, Kensington, was a young man who has twice been sentenced to death by the Soviet in his quest for the rare delicsby caviare,

He was Mr. Damenez, whose father, owner of the Damenez caviare, fisheries at Astrakhan on the Volga River, claims. to have discovered how to keep caviare fresh. Neither father nor son now visita the fishery, where a Soviet manager is installed. They have to control it by meeting the manager outside Russia

Mr. Damenez, jun., told a Press repre-

sentative:

There are men in the Trade Union movement who are using, the unions not as legitimate weapons to secure the betterment of the working classes but as a means of promoting the revolu tionary doctrines based on a spirit of class hatred.

Human history is a planetary phenp Mr. J., L. Baird, a young Englishman, menon, the "natural miseries of which is the invertor of a system of television, man can redeem with incomparable that is, a moving picture of an event. bursts of greatness, whatever may be Mr. Baird hopes shortly to have hir his torment when he fails. Since the system developed, so that broadcasts of common lot is to sufter, call that man events as they, happen may be made, the happy who has laboured in a noble owner of a television set seeing as well cause and pity him who, having sought as hearing what is happening. nothing higher thun himself, has known

M. Belin, of Paris, is also perfecting a no more than the ashes of a selfish life, i system of television, vainly consumed. The sole effective Teason is taught by example..

It is not enough for a man to play hia part bravely in the feverish day of battle it he is, not strong enough of heart and soul to persevere.

STRONGER SEX "NONSENSE.”

Mr. Hugh Kiernan asked her to marry him, and on the question of dowry she said she would get £100.

£140 Reserve,

A kind of bargain sale, according to counsel, then took place, the, matek- makurs reserving the price at £140. The whisky, however, mellowed the item, and it was agreed to knock of £40.

A day was fixed to meet in Granard, when Mr. Kiernan was to buy the ring and Miss Kiernan was to pay over her

fortune, but he did not turn up and. she was at a loss of 25 paid for her trous

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one of Tirpitz's own letters also publish- and it seemed as though there would be Man, he said, was far more muscular than (Renewed laughter.)

WOMAN, His greater height depended Mr. Hugh Kiernan, who looked about

would marry her if he got the money. (Laughter.)

"The statement made by a recent woman swimmer of the "Channel that,' seau. At decisive hours oratory acts like a women are equal to, indeed surpass, men She saw defendant only three times" catapult that shatters the obstacle atin athletics, is just nonsense,' said Dr. altogether, and the first time she was. It is the duty of everyone who be a diplomatic friend which were not per

a single blow.

Harry Campbell, an emminent London only a half-an-hour in his company, when lieves in a democratic government, who tinent to the main question. T

"In these phrases we seem to bear the physician and author of many authorita. he put his arms around her and kissed takes pride in the national institutions The Prince then refers to a disparaging voice which in the terrible days when tive medical books, in the course of a her affectionately (laughter)--but there and traditions on which our prosperity judgment on his knowledge of men in the Germans were pushing towards Paris, lecture before the Institute of Hygiene.was not a word of love between them. rests and who prefers methods of con ciliation to the use of force, to resisted in the book, and says: Naturally nothing to stop them-rostored confid upon his longer nether limbs; hence 50, admitted kissing the girl, and said he this menace to our national safety. I am far from regarding the confidence ence and calm. The book is a fine one, women were bad runners. There was no

Secret Meeting.

which I have shown your Excellency on and as we read we feel more than ever such difference in swiftness and muscu various occasions as one of the grounds that this Demosthenes is really M.larity in the case of sub-human animais, for a charge of defective

of Clemenceau. powers judgment." Excellency must admit that my judgment The letter closes as follows: "Your

as to the course of the war the necessity A large hall at a hotel was booked, of peace by agreement, and especially as| ostensibly to hold a meeting of sections to the ruthless submarine campaign, 60 men and several women were present of the Fatherland party (Tirpitz'a crea of the railwaymen's unions. More than proved more correct than the programme and speeches were made by two promin- tian) which brought us to the Versailles ent London Communists.

Ample proof of the seriousness of Mr. Baldwin's warning is afforded by the following authenticated detail of secret meeting held last week in a south

coast town

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The complete faflure of the general strike was discussed for longer than an hour, and the chief speakers asked their followers not to be disheartened. They described the general strike as merely a preliminary canter Plans were maturing satisfactorily, they said, for the next general

We lost £94,000 as a remit of the revolution and then had to buy back our habery from the Soviet for £25,000.-1929. I was twice sentenced to death, and .although I was able to escape such a ridiculous penalty, have never consider: ed it advisable to go back.aka The caviare used at the exhibition was the autumn crop, In the spring the sturgeon, whose roei cariare, are caught in nets, but in the autumn they are harpooned through holes is the lee.

which had been fixed for

man who left his wife chargeable to Coventry Guardians, pleaded, when brought before the Coventry magistrates that when they were married the repre sented herself as 24 years of age, but he found she was 45 and old enough to be

his mother.

presse."

£670 FOR A KIPLING" FIRST EDITION.

NEW GAMING ACTS IN ENGLAND.

FIRST BOOKMAKER TO SUFFER.

Counsel: There was no love at all in it-Och, sorra much. if you got the money I'd hardly agree. The Judge: Would you marry her how with her now or she with me. (Loud laughter.)

after that.

Did you meet a lady with more money -No. I didn't need any of them

Counsel He is determined to keep

from the ladies in future. Defendant: Maybe I'd be just as Judge Wakely awarded £60 damages 'and 'costs.

lucky.

such as horses and dogs.

"Women," continued the doctor, "have smaller lungs and fewer blood cells than men-in the proportion of four to five. In women the vital Ere does not burn so quickly as in men. It is thus obvious that women are not adapted like men for a strenuous muscular life. Mentally men and women differ in the realm of feeling The first English bookmaker to have his rather than of intellect. Intellectually licence suspended under the new gaming men and women stand somewhat upon the acts was Alfred James Davis, 19, of same footing. While genius is more com- Woodbridge-street, Clerkenwell, who was mon in the male ex, so also is idiocy," at Bow street on November 8th fined £20 The subject of Dr. Campbell's address for loitering in Red Lion passage, W.C., Was Headache, and other Minor Ail for the purpose of betting and his book-ments," and he declared that headache maker's certificate, was suspended for 12 was a malady of civilisation It was cer- months.

tainly rare among uncivilised people. Undoubtedly the chief cause was an un- healthy state of the blood, engendered by an unhealthy mode of life, such as un- wholesome food, insuficient exercise in "Dancing itself is a healthy occupation, in 1994 the open, stuffy rooms and late hours. he added, "but late hours are bad. While not wishing to hamper healthy. frivolity, I feel convelled, ass, physi cian, to baa night clubs they cause more misory, than happines.

A copy of the rare original inue of the first edition of Kipling's earliest work

Schoolboy Lyrics recently fetched Davis denied that he was taking bets, 3,350 dollars (about 2870) at a sale of and said that he was merely paying out the American Art Galleries, New York. winnings on bets which he had taken

The poems included in the volume were legitimately earlier in the week, written while Kipling was at school, and The Magistrate, Mr. Graham Camp- printed through his parents in India in bell, pointed out that under the Act it 1881.

was just as much an offence to settle bets in, the street as to receive bets.

It was stated that Davis was convicted

·last month of a similar offence.

Only fifty sopies were issued, of which the first few were in white wrappers. The copy sold at the above price is one of the latter

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