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RECONSTRUCTING THE NAVY

Big-Scale Improvements On Major Units Of The Fleet

In addition to the extensive single huge smokestack, uncom- building programmes now in pro- promisingly straight pole masts, gress,.. big-scale developments are and the Inevitable pantechnicon taking place by way of reconstruct | hangar and 'thwartship catapult. ing all the Navy's major ships, ex- cept the Nelson and Rodney, writes

Home correspondent.

It was well enough known-for the former First Lord of the Ad- miralty had emphasised It-what the general line of reconstruction would be. The most important as fect was increased anti-serial de- fance, both in the static form of armour and the dynamic form of increased or improved anti-aircraft At the same time the num- ber of shipborne aircraft was to be Increased and the form of catapult improved.

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During the crisis of October 1935 the Admiralty decided to convert the old class cruisers Coventry and Curlew to "anti-aircraft ships," that is, having for main armament only "HA." guns. Their five e-in.. weapons were taken out and re- placed 70 din. “HA" weapons, mounted wherever space could be found for them.

The editor of a German naval annual has been unkind enough to suggest that they will "remain in the Fleet' lists as, classic products of embarrassment." If that be a fair description we are to have 17. more such products, for the First

What has been done in the way of Increased or altered armour dis-Lord has stated that all over-age- tribution must be a speculation, for cruisers are to be thus converted no official detalls have been or are for convoy work. likely to be published on the sub-

AIRCRAFT CARHIËRS

POSITION VACANT ject.. but what has been done in Although not part of the general regard to guns can be traced scheme, aircraft carriers have not clearly enough.

escaped the epidemic of "large re- The

Admiralty developed arst pairs and alterations." The Glori- the two-pounder pompom and then the multiple-barrelled ma-

ous has had her quarter-deck built up and the flight deck extended chine-gun for anti-aircraft work. right aft to the stern, while the The latter is being fitted to every Courageous has got a rather comic sort of craft down to motor torpedo looking little tripod mast with A boats, and the Admiralty now re-

top very reminiscent of those in fer to it obliquely by classifying all mediaeval galleys from which other anti-craft weapons as "H.A." fights of arrows, and possibly boll- Instead of "A.A." With regard to ing oll, descended upon the enemy. the "H.A." weapons, the develop- ment has been that of twin mount ing to increase rate and volume of fre..

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The standard equipment of capital ships and modern cruisers has hitherto been four 4in. "A.A." Weapons; it is now being generally doubled, not only in new but in the existing ships, and as indicated above it generally takes the form of twin mounting. So far three battleships, one battle cruiser, and County" class cruiser have been thus treated, and two older "County" Class cruisers have been given six guns.

one

SHIPBORNE AIRCRAFT

As regards aircraft, formerly it

In conclusion, some reference may be made to the 20 trawlers purchased for Admiralty use in 1935. Although of two or more dis- tinct types, all have one notable characteristic-they have a deep stern and submerged rudder, and are fitted with a formidable rack full of depth charges in the stern.

EARTH'S DRIFT THROUGH THE

ETHER

was exceptional for a ship to carry New Light On

more than one; now three or four are aimed at, necessitating the building of hangars. The old "Counties" have been given a hangar like a huge pantechnicon. while in the battleship Malaya has been built-in round the funnel. necessitating the disappearance of the familiar "coffee. box" search-'

light controls. It is similarly built round the fore funnel in the newly completed Southampton class cruisers.

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Einstein Theory

National Laboratory

Achievement

Considerable interest has been

aroused by a report of the latest test of Einstein's theory of rela-

tivity, undertaken at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.

The test, made with two pendu- lums, was, in effect, 2. new and more accurate version" of the Michaelson - Morley experiment, which WAS carried out by two American scientists in 1885, and constituted one of the essential foundations of Einstein's relativity

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The Colonial Secretary (Han. Mr. R. A. C. North), at the meeting of the Legislative Council this after- noon, will move that the report of the Finance Committee (No. 3) dated April 14, 1937, be adopted.

The Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie) will move the follow- ing resolutions:--

That this Council approves under Séction 3 (2) of the Hong Kong Dollar Loan Ordinance, No. 11 of 1934 the following transfers in the Schedule:-

Shing Mun Valley Water Scheme to be reduced from $10,443,530 to $8,941,877.98.

Vehicular Ferry to be reduced from $1,030,000 to $1,915,603.80.

New Gaol at Stanley to be re- duced from $4,500,000 to $4,000,000. Tytam Tuk Catchwaters to be re- duced from $720,000 to $689,386.55.

Air Port Development to be in- creased from $975.486 to $1,007.- 485.92.

Other Public Works to be Increas- ed from €10,338 to $1,025,900..

At the same time the old fore and aft catapult has been univer- sally replaced by a new athwart- ships type, and the development in catapult practice may be judged from the fact that while the older types launched aircraft at 45 miles per hour with a travel of 34 feet, the latest types do it at 57 miles per hour with a travel of 50 feet.

In each ease the object was to No two of the battleships have been treated quite alike, for while in the show the extent of the earth's Malaya the conspicuous feature is drift through the ether. Accord-specified below during the financial the hangar and crane, the Warspite ing to Einstein's theory, it should has acquired a "tower bridge" of in no circumstances be possible to a modified form, and the Repulse detect, any such effect, a private aerodrome to house four aircraft.

ly named."tinciada."

theory.

SHING MUN SCHEMES That this Council approves the expenditure of $1,398,731,37 on the various items of Loan Works as

year 1937, which sum shall be met from surplus balances pending the

Issue of the remainder of the Loan authorised under Ordinance No. 11 Since the National Physical of 1934. Laboratory workers should have Shing Mun Valley Water been able to detect a movement schemes. 100 times as small as that which would be expected, the result of the test is strongly in favour of Elristein's theory,

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-CRUISER RECONSTRUCTION

Among cruisers the Exeter has the distinction of carrying two catapulta, but the most sensational alteration is to the original batch

SPEED OF LIGHT of "County" class cruisers. They were our firat attempt to realise the "In contrast with the National Washington Treaty limit of 10,000 Physical Laboratory test, the tons, and because, though twice the Michaelson - Morley experiment size of our existing cruisers, they consisted essentially in a compari- were given no side armour, they son of the speed of light in two and the whole genus were unkind- | directions at right angles to one another. If the earth were mov- Whether the appellation was just ing through a sea of invisible or not, it is no longer accurate, for ether, it would be natural to sup the class is now being fitted with pose that light would travel with a considerable patch of armour slightly different speeds in dif- over the engine and boiler rooms, } ferent directions-according and to compensate for the added whether it was travelling with or weight the quarterdeck has been against the ether drift. As a re- cut down to maindeck level. sult of the Michaelson-Morley ex- Those fine-looking cruisers, the periment, it was generally conclud- Hawkins class, are to have sin, guns ed that no such difference in the substituted for their 7.5 in. The speed of light was to be found. 75 in guns were carried three on

Not all scientists, however, have the centre line, one on each beam, been fully satisfied. It has been and two superfring. If anticipa pointed out, for example, that tions are correct, the new arma,

what Michaelson and Morley or ment will number nine guna. Beven ginally held was not that there

"A Bill to amend the Deportation of these will be mounted in the old was no ether drift, but that the

(British Bubjects) Ordinance, 1938." positions, but the extra two will drift, if any, was smaller than

"A Bill to amend the Advertise- be superfring over the existing they had expected. Morley later ments Regulation Ordinance, 1912." superposed guns, a triple tier of attempted to prove that there was. "A Bill to amend the Public guns with a pagoda-like effect,**** a real, though small, "ather drift," Health (Sanitation)

At the same time the graceful Professor D. C. Millen of Cleve-| 1935.""" contour of these ships, with their land. Qalo, carried out an ela raking masts and funnels, will be borate series of experiments with to poisons and the registration of ruined by the substitution of a the same object.

The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. G. G. Alabaster) will move the First reading of;-

"A Bill to amend the Currency Ordinance, 1835, as amended by the Currency Amendment Ordinance, 1936, and the Currency (No. 2) | Amendment Ordinance, 1936.”

The Attorney General will move the Becond reading of:-

Ordinance,

"A Bill to amend the law relating

pharmaceutical chemists."

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