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日期廿月正年卯丁

"ENGLAND'S CRUISER

PROBLEM.

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 1st, 1927.

DUST CAUSES TYPHOID AND 'FLUE.

或者日登月叁的七廿百九传登英

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ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW "B" CLASS.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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9.49 11.04 12.34 1.9 3.5 5,09 6.04 7.55

9.53 11.68 12.138

10.08 11.18 12.46 2,08 9.07 10.07 11.92 12.52 207

8.45 9.1510.18 11.9812.38 203

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the cruiser London is now being typhoid fever and influenza in the David's Society Annual Dia-|

city.

This statement is contained in a report of Dr. A. Ejersite to the director of the Philipp Healthy Service dated February 5th, states the Manila Timer. Dr. Ejercito

built is clear the first of the "B" class of cruisers is to be laid down upon it. Beyond the fact that these ships are to be of a displacement of rather under 8,000 tons nothing is generally known regarding them. saya that in the month of January 30 cases of typhoid It may be taken for granted, how-there were ever, that they will be as fast as which he investigated in different the 10,000-ton ships, because the local hospitals Admiralty nowadays attach primary The patients were divided as fol importance to speed for cruiser, lows: 18 were in the Philippine and very rightly so. Where they General Hospital, 5 in the San will probably show to disadvantage Lazaro Hospital, were at the in comparison with the "Devon- Chinese hospital and 3 at:San Juan shire" class will be in cruising en- ¦ de Dios. After investigation, it was durance. Of course, the designers found that five of the patients had will gain something in the saving of Influenza instead of typhoid ..... habitability, since there will be fewer officers and men to provide for, and space means tonnage. A's to protective qualities, these are limited to the bare minimum in the 10,000-ton crfisers, and it is very'un likely that there will be any curtail- ment in this direction in the smaller ships. Gun positions, magazines, and the conning station will, it is believed, be fairly adequately ann oured in the "Devonshire" class. For the rest the ship must take her chance in action A cruiser is not in the armoured category strictly speaking, and her inclusion in during the progress of development

has tended to complicate her legiti- mate rôle..

Dr. Ejercito attributer the rapid spread of the diseases to the dust. Director Jacobo Fajardo of the Philippine Health Service" also re- greta the presence, of so much das in the city.

In four days there were six deaths due to typhoid in the city. Cases numbered 12.

Water Sprinkles Needed. While Mayer Remusides, the city engineer and other high officials favour the purchase of motor prick ling machines to water famila stroets, the majority the dem bers of the Municipal Bou, au still strong in the beat at equipment is hot needed by the city

at present.

The committee on purchase re- commendations recently appointed by the major turned down an offer of a local motor-car dealer to sell

Size and Fighting Power, o There appears to be a large schoot of opinion in favour of the "to the city a modern sprinkling class, as against the 10,000-ton type, machine on the ground that it is too expensive. At the meeting held Da the grounds that they are quite

yesterday morning, however, it was big enough for all cruiser functions, decided to recommend the purchase and that the smaller we build the of cheaper detachable motor trail individual ship the more of them we'

ers such as those recently acquired can afford to construct. If it can be shown that the B" type is by the city for P5,000 each. virtually capable of doing all that the "Devonshire" class can do we

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Star Theatre: "Lazybones." Principal mails:—Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Angkor), 1.30 p.m.

Wednesday,

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Annual Race Meeting (3rd day), H.K. Hotel tea dance, 430 p.m. Hotel Savoy tes dansant, 4.30

Cricket: Volunteers. Royal Navy,

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Hockey Club lat XI. Pun-

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Hotel Savoy, 9 y:m.

H.M.S., Titania Carnival Dance,

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Annual "At Home" United Ber- vices Recreation Clab..

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H.K. Philharmonie Society re- hearsal (H. M.S. Pinafore), City Hall, 8.45 p.m.

H.M.S. Ambrose Dance, Hotel Savoy, 9 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Beverley of Graustark."

World Theatre: Wild Horse

chine offered for sale to the city is valued at P22,500. The committee Captain C. Alcid, City Treasure: Mesa. is composed of Judge A Roldan,

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think this is a perfectly sound view: Ia bygone days it was an article of faith in our naval policy that Rutu- hers count." Nelson himself said that numbers alone can annihi Mayor Romualdez déclared that late. But the rapid growth of dishe would follow the recommendarid Siberia (Macedonia), 5 p.m. placement has almost killed this tion of the committee. but that he doctrine by rendering it impractic feared funds could not be obtained, able. That a big ship has a definite City Engineer Artiaga, however, seagoing advantage over a small stated that out of the P90,000 de- is, of course, beyond argument, stined in the 1927 budget for public ship and, a Navy accustomed to Queen works, P30,000 can be spent for the Elizabeths would not like to go purchase of the needed machines. back to Majestics. But the sub- Councillors Manuel de la Fuente, ject cannot be viewed singly from Jose Guevara, Segando Agustin, the standpoint of comfort and con- Ruperto del Castillo, Marcelo Elo- venience. The real question is what riagi, and Francisco Beeck declared is the minimum of displacement for that the city did not need the P each individual class of warship machines at present. There are upon which a necessary standard of more important public works which constant efficiency can be attain need. immediate attention, they ed?..

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Extraordinary general meetings, Union Insurance Society of Canton British Traders Insurance Co.; and China Fire Insurance Co., Union Building, at noon, 12.15 p.in, and 12.30 p.m. respectively.

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.20 p.m. Hotel Savoy ten dansant, 4.30

Organ recital, St. John's Cathe- dral, by Mr. F. Masco, .45 p.m.

H.M.S. Danae Dance Bank con- cert, Seamen's Institute.

Mr. S. R. Lee's dance party, Hotel Savoy, 9 p.m.

Masked Ball, City Hall, p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Beverley of Graustark."

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Saturday. Annual Race Meeting concluded. Football and Cricket: Details ir Saturday's issue,

The Disability of Size. Admittedly, the foregoing ques- tion is very much easier to ask than to answer. Growth in ships and weapons is the result of

The defect of mere size is that it compati

World Theatre: "Wild, Horsee tion, and the necessary standard"

engenders an idea of the properesa." must obviously be one which will tionate fighting powers-We an in Star Theatre: **The Shock enable the products of this com- a very tragic manner. at Coronel Funch." petition to be met on reasonable how the Good Hope, of 14,100 tons,

Principal MailsOutward: Aus- terms of equality. In the capital and the Monmouth, of 9,800 tons, tralia and New Zealand, ete. ship this is a very dificult problem were no match for Von Spee's two (Tanda), 230 p.m. to reconcile with any reaction in cruisers of 8,000 tons. The Germans size, and the only way in which it always conserved displacement as is feasible would be by reducing the far as possible, and, what is more, number (pot the size) of the big they got better value out of it than guns, and compromising with the

Jur own designers. Their little ponderous broadside armour which, inch gun cruisers were a pretty in these days of overhead and good match for our 6-inch gun crui underwater attack, has been rather sers. They concentrated upon deve shorn of its protective value. But loping the efficiency of individual in the cruiser classes it is not such features. We concentrated upon difficult problem, and it is with the development of displacement. cruisers that we are just now con. It may be true to say that the one cerned. Indeed, it has been laid principle involves the other, but not down that size, beyond what is in such leaps as marked the growth absolutely necessary in order to of our ships from the beginning of attain a given standard, is a dis the Dreadnought Fera, The two Boxing: 8th Tournament of the ability to craisers, and the example" Powerfuls" marked the apex of Royal, 3 p.m.

" class is cited protected cruiser growth. In point

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by way of illustration. These ves of fighting value they were very annual entertainment. sela represented very poor value for Title, if indeed actually any, better their displacement of 9,800 tona than the Edgar class of about Their speed was only 22 kpots-half their tonnage. Therefore, their which we regard as very slow these extra size was merely a disability, days their armament 6-inch guns, both economically and tactically, and their armour little more than in the sense that it produced an an encumberance, since it was not impression of their value which was heavy enough to be effective.

altogether in excess of the reality- Naval and Military Record,

(Continued on next column).

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Star Theatre: "The Shock

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