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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1927.

GERMAN VIEW OF JUTLAND.

ADMIRAL SCHEER REPLIES.

"STRATEGIC LIMITATIONS OF LORD JELLICOE."

THE WORLD'S VITAL"

STATISTICS.

PROGNOSTICATION FOR 1941.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEDUCTIONS,

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BERLIN, Sept. 25th. "During the coming season The German point of view in the For the next fifteen years, until women's miodes for morning wear Jutland controversy is expressed in 1841, Australia and the United | will be modelled on the aristocratie the October number of the Fort States will continue to lead the elegance of English taste." This nightly Review by Admiral. Rein- world in the increase of their active, | quotation from a Berlia "fashion hard Scheer, the former Chief of wealth-producing population,

paper is an instance of the amazing' the German Admiralty and lander These statistics hare just been vague of things English in Berlin. of the German Fleet, at the Battle | compiled for and published by the of Jutland,

League of Nations as part of the Admiral Scheer's article is in re-data that will be used by the ply to the Harper report on the League's international economic hattle which was issued by the British Admiralty in June of this conference in May, 1928 in trying year. The article was submitted to to get the world back onto its feet the Board of Admiralty, who made economically. ne objection to its publication.

Referring to the reproachiul and critical disquisitions (of the report) regarding the course of ace tion adopted by the two leaders in the one great naval battle which took nlace during the entire World War," Admiral Scheer says,

trust. I may be pardoned for re-

marking that this British, criticism of the British leadership in this battle is scarcely compatible with the maintenance of the thesis, so widely promulgated at the time,

that Jutland was an English vic

tory.

"At the beginning of the Great War, not only England, hut the entire world, was convinced of the unmitigated superiority of the British Navy, and that it was in- evitable that any encounter between the British and the German flecta. would lead to the defeat of the lat

ter."

The view that the German Fleet desired to escape as quickly as pos- sible to its base Admiral Scheer describes as "

He cites myth.' his own action during the battle.

Battle Described.

"After I had received reports from my vanguard to the effect that the British Fleet had been sighted, I continued upon my easterly course. It was at this point that we should have put about and re- treated had we wished to avoid the cacounter. But no such thought entered my mind. We kept on our course towards the enemy, and thus

game within his encompassing.ac- tion.

taneous ......Nov. 8th, 6'an. Prez. Grant...... Nov. 8th, 6 pm. Pres. Lincola.....Nor, 14th, 8 p.m.

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This position, so unfavourable for the German artillery, a position which offered no prospects for a successful, flight, was avoided by the German Fleet making a simul

turn upon

1 westerly course. The British are ceased. Â pause took place the action. What was the next step to be? The idea of breaking off the action for good and of continuing upon this westerly course into the free North Sea, and thus rendering it difficult for the opponent to keep in touch in view of the impending darkness, was rejected.

"Other tactical possibilities, such as converting the "retion into a cireular one and thus getting the better position to windward, ap- peared inexpedient On the cas- trary, I determined to "mike an- other simultaneous turn upon an eastern course in the direction of! the English, which would enable me to send out the torpedo-boats fron aur van against the long-drawn

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THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION NO. 8 THERAPION NO. 2

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"Crossing The "

This turn, which brought our opponents into the favourable post- tion of being able to cross, the T,' has been designated as 'n tical error, but its success attests

tac-

the correctness of the manœuvre The superiority in the matter of gunfire enjoyed by the British. leaders in this position was sacrific- ed by then because of their anxiety in view of the probable losses through the attacks of the torpedo- Bonts...

The British failure to destroy the German Fléct ́at the battle of Int land, Admiral Scheer declares to be the result of the Admiralty's policy of accomplishing the destruc- tion of the enemy by an economic blockade. Hence the Commander- in-Chief of the British naval forces, in being ordered to oppose a renew. ed attack by the Germans, stood free to face with a 'task ́ ́ which diverged from his general strategic duty,

To the strategic limitations imposed upon Admiral Jellicce in the matter of avoiding losses in ships must be added the tactical

The statistics will be used in es- tablishing the future economic pos ibilities of all the leading nations of the world, as well as the future production of wide-world-wealth generally.

Against the heavy increases which Australia, the United States, Japan, Italy, Germany and Eng. land will make, France is the only country it is demonstrated that will show an actual decrease in her wealth-producing population.

The statistics gathered cover the population of each country, that is ot workable age, namely from 15 to 70 years, and show what this population was at a given period before the war namely 1010 and what it will be in 1941

Australia Leads. Australia, it is shown, will lead the world as far, na actual increase! in percentage of her working population is concerned. In 1910, this was 2,911,000 while in 1941 it will be 4,688,000 or an increase of 61 per cent.

The United States comfies next with a working population that in 1910 was 60,033,000 that had increas ed to 80,085,000 in 1920 that will be 81,740,000 in 1931 and that will ar rive at a total of 69,833,000 in 1941, an increase since 1010 of 50 per

cent.

The Berliner, to be really smart, English novels smoke English must wear English clothes, read cigarettes, play bridge, and drink Scotch whisky, The young man of smoking a briar pipe and to carry. discernment has even taken to

ing an umbrella in London fashion."

English habits and manners are considered "distinguished, or, as the Germans say, foudal. ** ** Conse- quently, to be taken for an English- man is the highest ambition of the Berlin beau.

One young German, who returned recently from London with an Eng lish motor car, made his friends freen with envy by driving shout the streets of Berlin with a Lon- den number-plate prominently,, dis- playing the mark. He was heart- broken when, after three months of bliss, police regulations compelled him to replace it with an ordinary Berlin number.

Diplomats' Dream.

A London appointment in the dream of the young diplomats in the Wilhelmstrasse, who have heard Wondrous tales of life in Half Mon-street.

the Berlin

English novels and English plays are the rage in Berlin, and every where in Germany. Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Noel Coward, and Edgar Wallace have all scored popular, successes on stage during the past twelve mouths. It is a common complaint theatre managers will only produce anong German dramatists that plays that have had a long run in London.

Berlin even has its own English The next country that will show theatre, where "English talking" the greatest percentage of increase German actors, as they style them- for the same period is Italy whose selves, net English plays to German workable population of 2,23,000 audiences.

in 1910 will be 31,037,000 in. 1011, | Perhaps the most astonishing

an increase of 38 per cent.

In metter of percentage of in- crease the other leading countries will be Sweden with 35 per cent; Germany with 34 per cent; Japan with 33 per cent and, England with 28 per cent.

feature of this English cult is the zest with which the hard-working German has adopted the week-end habit. Thousands of "Veekend. lers" leave Berlin every Saturday for the pleasant woods and lakes that lie within easy reach of the Against these nations with the city. There in kanu" and "wig- sure prospect of a steady increase, wam" they lead an open-air Life in their wealth-producing popula- more reminiscent perhaps of the tion, France stands alone with the wilds of Canada than of the un- equally sure prospect of a decrease. river joys of Maidenbend, where This of course is due to her heavy the scantiness of their attire would losses during the war.

certainly cause a sensation.

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