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THE WEAKNESS OF THE
BRITISH FLEET
Influence Of Naval Treaties
Ruinous Cost of Modernisation
What this process of putting new wine into old bottles. in- volves in expense is illustrated
for the whole Empire-is 36 ves- sels in comparison with 84 under the "American flag. 66 belonging to Japan, 46 of the Italian Navy and a notula of no less than 100
dustriously building - up.
CHAPTER OF THE GARTER
First To Be Held Since 1913
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, April 8, It is understood that the King has appointed June 17-the Mon- day of Ascot Week for the holding
INDIAN CIVIL
SERVANTS
An Address To M.P.S.
(Special Air Mail Service).
London April 18. Mr. J. C. French, L.C.B. (retired), described as an accredited repres sentative of the ICS. (Bengal)
by the case of the battleship Ma- which the French have been in of a Chapter of the Most Noble On Association in England, "addressed
to
der of the Garter at St. George's Chapel, Windsor,
meeting of Conservative supper
ters of the Government of both Houses of Parlament yesterday The Marquess of Salisbury presid- ed.
Race in the Designs of Shipa
It will take place in the morning. Never since the Spanish Arma-probably at 11 o'clock, and will be da was defeated has the strength accompanied by the stately and Mr. French explained that, as of the British Fleet in war-worthy dignified ritual which has charac-
spokesman for and a representa ships been as low as it is to-day, terised the traditions of the Order tive of Indian Civil Servants, he and yet, owing
the course
during its 588 years of existence.
was prevented by the rules of the
Service from The Court will have gone into), Civil
expressing which, ship design has taken, the cost in the financial year 1935-6 residence at the Castle a few days publicly views on political mat- wil be £80,050,000,- The trend of | before the date chosen for the | ters. design is reflected in the latest Chapter; thus it is probable that a cruisers, for no battleships have
procession of the knights will take been laid down in a British ship-place from the robing apartment to yard for ten years. The cruiser the chapel. The King and all the tons displace- Royal Princes are members of the Dublin..01 5.400 ment, carrying eight 6. In. guns Order and the Queen is the Lady and steaming 25.5 knots which of the Garter, and all are expected it would be improper for bim to bem
was completed in 1913, cost to be present on this occasion. £324,789, or very little more than
Chapters of the Order are of very a destroyer of the latest type. The cruiser Galatea, of 5.200 rare occurrence, only three or four having been held in the last 50 toes, carrying six 6 in. and four
years. The last was in 1913 and was carried out at St George's
jaya. When the modernisation of this man-of-war is completed. no less than £1.377.748 will have been spent in bringing her up to date. Her original cost when she. was first commissioned in 1916 was £2,945,700, so that when she
White again hoists the
Ensign she will represent. with other in- cidental repairs which have since been carried out and her "mo- dernisation." an outlay, of about £5,000,000 for which the Boset will, when all is said, be an old ship. What is true of the Mala- ya will be true of all the other 14 capital ships of the Fleet. On each unit. expenditure on a fa- bulous scale is being made cause under the Naval Treaties new units cannot be built. The race in new Construction has been checked, but that in mo- dernisation has been encouraged. When It is said that the race in new construction has been checked. It should be added that that statement applies only in full measure to the British, Americans and Japanese. Under the influence of the action of the Germans, with their "pocket bat-
tleships," the French and Italians
have begun to rebuild their bat- tle fleets. Four units. larger than
the German vessels, are now be-
pro-
5 in. A. A. guns and "steaming
Chapel.
32.25 knots, which is to be com pleted this year, is estimated to cost £1.225.354, her machinery
In due course the King's stad. alone at £329,939, representing which is inmediately under the more than the whole cost of the organ gällery, will be prepared for Dublin. The cost of the Dublin the ceremony. A canopy of purple works out at about £60 per tor, velvet fringed with gold will be while the Galatea comes to ap-affixed above the stall, gyer which proximately £236 per ton. nearly
four times as much. Construc- on costs have, of course, not risen to anything like this extent
bangs the banner of the sovereign.
His Majesty will wear full robes and the queen will attend also wearing full robes of the Order and the insignia. Her Majesty's in- signia have a special interest; as the Garter, which she wears on the arm, is set in diamonds and is the gift to her of the Mary's of the Kingdom at her coronation. Her Majesty's seat will be immediately on the right of-the King's stall,
ing built in French and Italian
and the excessively heavy ex- shipyards and, when there
penditure on present-day ships is grammes have been completed,
to be attributed to the demand these two countries. which have
for higher speed and the great already built a large number of variety of complicated "gadgets" cruisers and torpedo craft, will
which are now regarded, mis possess the most modern navies takenly or not, as essential. The under any flag, even though In
Dublin obtained her speed with tonnage they will be smaller than
machinery developing 25.000 the British. American and Japan-horse-power. while the machinery
The Oldest Order ese Navies. The. British Navy, is
of the Galatea develops. 64,000 limited to 50 cruisers, but when horse-power. Thus in two vessels
Founded in 1349, by King Ed- the London Naval Treaty expires of almost identical displacement, is said to rank indisputably as the ward 14., the Order of the Garter 14 of these will be over age.
the pre-War ship required just first and oldest Order in the world. Similarly the destroyer flotilla
under 1,000 horse-power per knot The King is Bovereign of the Order, under the White Ensign number of speed, while the modern ship which is limited to 25 Knights 151 units, but 117 of these will be requires 2000 horse power. For Companions, but there are a num- upwards of 12 years old, the age Hmit of the Treaty. The United States has 227 destroyers, Japan 93, France 82 and Italy 91 while Soviet Russla possesses no fewer than 53. The weakness of the British Fleet in submarines com- pletes the picture of the effect of The the repeated naval gestures. British total-that is the total
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an increase of speed of about 264 ber of Extra Knights (Members of per cent. the horse-power has the Royal Family) foreign rulers had to be increased by 156 per and dignitaries who have been na cent, in spite of remarkable demitted by Statute. velopments in engineering science
He must. therefore, confine his remarks, entirely to the printed Memorial which had already been received by the Secretary of State, He begged his fearers not to ask him to deal with matters which
spent on at that meeting.
He pointed out that the Memorial was supported by the
IC.S. Association for All India and by the Indian Police.
CIVIL AVIATION IN MALAYA
Interesting Report Issued
Singapore, April 25. An illuminating document on" the future of civil aviation: In Malaga was issued by the Colonial, Secretary last night.
"It is A Report on Civil Aviation
by Major R. L. Nunn, Deputy Director of Public Works, 3.5, who, following his return from an aerial tour of 38,000 milles, lucidly sums up the results of his expert- ence and endeavours to embody them in recommendations appli- cable to Malaya.`q
he de The time has come, clares, to co-ordinate, all efforts into one Malayan scheme under a central directorate of civil aviation.
With reference to Singapore, he observes that as soon as the civil aerodrome is completed, it will be
the
centre of civil aviation in Malaya, and Indeed.
may well * Croydon of the
become the Ext"
t
e' report, which is profusely rated, covers 83 ́pages," The. is taken on an aerial tour Kong through Japan, the
States: Africa the Con-
Association of the single Provine tinent, Great Britain, India, and
The rena why the 1.C.B.U..
of Bengal should have taken upon back to Malaya. themselves to submit such a The Anal chapter deals with. Memorial was to be found in the civil aviation in Malaya in a moșt fact of the Terrorist Revolutionary thorough manner. Following are Movement, which was particularly extracts from this chapter: bad in Bengal.
In their Memorial they state that:
as "Dangerous and arduous has been the work of the two chief services in Bengal in the past, it will be doubly so in the future. These services are the ICS, and Indian Police),
NOT IN THE' BILL
3 At Alor Star
Already very great progress has been made by the several Govern- ments. of Malaya in the provision of ground facilities for civil avia- tion.
One of the most valuable con- tributions has been the establish- ment of a landing ground at Alor Star by the Kedah Government: other landing grounds have been Mr. French then examined cer-made or are under construction at tain requests presented in the Sungei Patan!, Penang, Taiping, Memorial, which had not been Kuala Lumpur, Port Swettenham, inserted in the bill. Two of the Batu Pahat and Singapore. most important of these
A meteorological service was set first, the request that the existing up in 1929, under the Survey De statutory proportion of one-thirdpartment, and has made good of the High Court Judges, being headway towards the goal aimed I.C.S., should be continued in the at by the Superintendent of this present Act. This request had branch. The Survey Department been refused. In this connection has also shown Initiative in pro- the Memorialists remarked:
ducing air maps of Malays.
were,
* While ·We recognise that appointments are made by his Flying Chibs
Flying clubs are well established Majesty, we presume that the usual constitutional practice wand actively operated at Penang, be followed, namely, that his Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and Majesty will make such appoint proposals are under consideration ments on the advice of Ministers for the development of internal in this case Indian Ministers alr services. Regular services to who may well be swayed more Europe have been operated by by, the Influences we have men- British and Dutch lines for some service to Australia tioned than by a strict regard time and a for the administration of
has recently been inaugurated; undoubtedly the time is not fart Justice"
distant when these services will be Secondly, "Mr. French drew attention to the request of the of daily instead of weekly occur- Memorialists that the pay, and provident fund of the Civil Service |
1
rence.
Second to None
in the Intervening years, Gen- Membership has, with few ex Lerally it may be said that the ceptions, been confined to those of Naval Treaties, while limiting the the peerage. The only commoner number and size of men-of-war in the present list is Bir Austen of the various classes, has er Chamberlain, upon whom the Gar couraged a race in design which
ter was conferred by the King for is being pursued with little regard his work in connection with the to the enormous sums involved.
Locarno Treaty. The expenditure on battleships
A Knight of the Garter, when in- before the war worked out at £78 vested, is given a stall in St. per standard too, and it had George's Chapel for his lifetime, risen to 178 in 1927 when the and his sword; helmet with crest, last British-vessels, the "Nelson his panner er arms and 's plate be fixed at the rate of the Rupee As soon as the Singapore Civil and Rodney, were built. Again, bearing his arms and titles are at 18 6d. He pointed out the | Aerodrome is completed it will be cruisers under the 1913-14 pro-fixed over. it. The investiture of a hardship that would be incurred the centre of civil aviation in gramme were completed at £71 | new Knight does not entail new by Civil Servants who had to meet Malaya and indeed, may well per fon," a figure which had in- insignia, as these are held by a | educational and cther family become the "Croydon of the East.” creased to £229 in 1932-33, 'but |Knight only during his lifetime, charges in England it the value Unlike sG many city airports has since dropped to about £200. | At his death the heir returns the of the Rupee depreciated.
situated miles away. from the The average cost of destroyers insignia to the King, who bestowa In reply to questions whether cities they are Intended to serve,
as advanced from £168 per tan them upon a new Knight,
the Bervices would not be adverse- | this, airport is being- constructed to £210. in. one instance(the
ly affected by such a fixture if the within the confines of the city Fearless), and as much as £215
vatue of the Ruper appreciated and will cater for both land and In the case of the Escapade and
Mr. French stated that the Sex-| marine aircraft with a layout and Escort. As to submarines, they
vices were perfectly ready to run equipment second to none. The were being built before the war
that risk
expenditure may be heavy but the at £132 per ton, but the cost of
future will assuredly acknowledge the latest vessels of the type has
the courage and foresight of those come out at from £251 in the
who initiated this scheme. case of the Clyde and about £353
A RAT FROM JAPAN
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, April 18. Mr. H, D. Sparrow, veterinary
SCALE OF PENSIONS
Other points were the request that pensions payable outside
case of default, that invalid pen-
in that of the Shark; the Sealion ) surgeon, of Rochford, near South India should be safeguarded in
and Salmon were bullt at the
tively. Sloops, on
which £106
end, is recovering from rat-bite
rate of 2341 and 2348 respec-fever, & Japanese disease previous alons should be on the same scale NO "ALTERNATIVE TO BILL" was spent six or seven years ago, ly non-existent in this country that half of the public Service possible in India to-day was that
as proportionate pensions, and
The only form of government
now range. In cost from £123 to It is believed to have been commissioners should be men of based on Federal lines, said 8tr £150 per ton, the last gure ap-caused by a bite from a cat which official experience...
Stanley Reed, speaking at the plying to the Grimaby and Leith, he had been called in to destroy. Mr, French, was asked several | Memorial Hall: E.C., yesterday.
The cat, it is believed, was infect-questions by members present." "The Hindus, however, strongly ed by eating a rat that came off a One' was whether the existing object to the Federal des," he
L
TIN MAN
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, April, 18. ^ One of the five men who have now joined the board of the Anglo Oriental Mining Company is Mr. Oliver Lyttleton
Mr. Lyttleton is an example of mau trained to an entirely ́dif- ferent life achieving success in business. He is a member of the famous cricketing family went to Eton and Trinity Cambridge, where he won a golf blus, and ro caired a commission in the Grena- dier Guarda in 1814
He spent nearly four years in France, winning the D.8.0.. and the M.U.
After the way he tried, the City. He joined the staff of Sir Ceoil Budd's British Metal Corporation and in a few years became one of its joint managing directop
CRUISER FOR CHINA
barge in the River Crouch. And Civil Servants in India approved went on," "because they wish to the rat, it is supposed, came from the Government of India Bill Mr. see the Indian States gradually a ship which had arrived from † French replied that it would not submerged. Everybody sees. this Japán
be proper for him to answer such question from a different angle a question at that meeting
owing to its terrific dimensions, Mr. French was also asked but nobody produces an alterna whether the Becretary of State tive to the scheme now before had received him and the other Parliament representatives from Bengal, as The English people stood on the (Special Air Mail Service)
requested In the Memorial.Mr threshold of the greatest oppor French replied that the Secretarytunity that had ever been given London, April 18. of State had not received any of to any nation in the hust HM.S. Dorsetshire, which was the gentlemen mentioned, but had the world. Having established in recommissioned at Plymouth 25 received representatives of the India's rule of law and a common cently by Captain A. J. L. Murray, All-India Association instead. He language, they had set 0.B.E, D.8.0 for service in had every conndence that they out generously to put the China, will complete reatting on had presented the case very this great work by hand April 27. She is expected to Irave
ably, kto for the Far East about May 1 to replace the Cumberland, which has At the end of the meeting Lord returned to Chatham for large re Salisbury said that he felt sure
A that everyone present, Irrespective If the present India Bm were pairs, res
The next cruiser to return from of their views on the Indian pro scrapped we should have to begin Land all-over again on exactly the China for large repairs will be the blem would appreciate Buffolk which is to leave for Eng-sympathise with the burden that same lines. There was no alter-
would be thrown upon the LO.8. land in mid-June
the control of these destinies that were bound to play such a mighty part in the history of Asia,
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