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No War Talk With

Foreigners

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the planes were moving about so fast, and in all directions, that a bomb might have dropped on the tender at any moment. However, nothing untoward happened and the refugees were safely got on board. Thrilling? It was some- thing more than that something far more nerve wracking to a mo- ther whose daughter was exposed to such perli before her very eyes."" SPY SCARE

Speaking of conditions in Japan, our informant, who prefers to stay anonymous, because her business takes her to Japan periodically, said she had been most impressed by the youthful appearance of the Japanese troops she saw awaiting embarkation for China, both in Yokohama and Kobe.

"They looked mere boys, hardly out of their teens," she said.

The spy scare is worse than ever in Japan. It appears. The result is that all foreigners are treated with the greatest suspicion. Even ricksha pullers are not allowed to talk too much with foreigners, it

seems.

"No foreigner can get a word out of the Japanese about the war in China," said this lady. "They just will not discuss it."

ILLEGAL DISTILLERY Charged on four counts in con- nection with running a distillery, L Yee was sentenced by Mr. S.

The photograph depicts the blockhouse at Avenue Dubail and Route Zikawel, which covers three avenues of approach. (Photo, "N.C. Daily News ");

GUNS AND · TONS

Continued from Page 9.)

to put much faith in the possibility of successfully employing aerial spotting against fast-moving war- ships, which would naturally make it their business to stultify the process by a constant slight touch of the helm, so that a correction would be falsified before: it had been communicated to the particular ship concerned, taken in, passed on; and the next salvo discharged.

"

Frankly. what naval

tactician

F. Balfour to 12 months imprison-seriously contemplates beginning ment with hard labour with the option of a $1,100 fine when he ad- mitted the charges.

A woman Lel Ah-kam, who, was also charged, pleaded not gulity and, the prosecution accepted her plea and she was accordingly dia- charged. They were alleged. to have been running a distillery at No. 8 Wing Wa Terrace which was raided by Revenue Officers on Wednesday,

M.C.L. MAH JONGG DRIVE

The Police Branch of the Minis- tering League are holding their monthly whist and mahjonge

drive at the Police Recreation Club on Tuesday. Sept. 14, com- mehcing at 3 p.m. Admission $1 Including tea.

BUILDINGS TREMBLE 14 Shanghai, Sept. 10. Buildings in the Settlement and in the French Concession were shaken as Japanese warships and tombers vigorously and kun. derously shelled Pootung in a de- Lermined attempt to silence the clusive Chinese batteries which have been there since hostilities began. The Japanese claim that the Chinese opened fire with a shell which struck the Japanese hospital ship. America Maru, which had stopped near the Japanese Consulate. "The N.Y.K. wharf. which is nearby, and the flagship Idrumo were also targets, but they escaped damage although shells landed perilously close to them.

The Japanese started the day's

operations by shelling and bomb- Ing the Chinese positions on the Klangwan-Yangtszepoo, sector, and later concentrated their entire at- tention to Pootung. The Japanese claim to have advanced "accord- ing to schedule" in the Yangtsze- poc sector, but the Chinese assert that the Japanese have lost ground. In any case, it the

gains. Japanese have secured

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far they are negligible. It is now clear that it is the Japanese plan to advance very slowly and surely, as they cannot risk defeat for political reasons. The Japanese themselves are surprised at the strength of the Chinese resistance which appears to have far exceed- ed their anticipations.

NO IMPORTANT CHANGES The principal lines around Shanghai remain unchanged, while Paoshan and Lotien, on the Woo- sung peninsula are in Japanese hands, though the Chinese still hold Linha. The Japanese claim to have proot that "the Dare-to- Die" battalion had 500 women fighting with the Chinese. say that they have found some feminine clothes In vacated machine-gun positions.

and maintaining a battle with an enemy twenty miles away? The gunnery control officer likes to see what he is shootag at, knowing perfectly well that otherwise most of his ammunition will go into the sea. Therefore it seems to me that the case for the bigger gun, must rest upon something more than an. increase in what is already a sur-¡ plus range. Indeed, range is not necessarly a matter of size, at any rate in the bore of the weapon. The latest pattern German 11in. naval gun is credited with a range of 50,000 yards, which is probably not in the least exaggerated and, outdistances our own 15in. gun by at least 5,000 yards in its most extreme performance.

WHAT THE VERY BIG GUN

INVOLVES...

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Of course, the battle value of the much heavier projectile is quite another question. Nobody wili at- tempt to dispute that a 16in. pro- jectile will exercise far greater smashing power upon an armoured ship than an 11in. shell of little more than one-third the weight. This point, however, does TOE figure at all in the Tokio message which I have quoted. The argu- ment is that the United States and Japan favour the bigger gun simply for the sake of the longer range which they assume that the clarity of the Pacife atmosphere will enable them to employ in action.

The chief objection to the very big gun is that it involves the very

big ship. Our own Admiralty stres-

sed this objection at the last

designed to mount, but I imagine It is pretty safe to say that their "disposable" tonnage will not be absorbed by armament weight. How this probably will be used is in anti-aircraft armour.

THE PRIMARY FEATURE, The capacity for hard hitting is the primary feature of the capital ship. Her role is to "destroy the enemy." This boils down into preponderance of gun power. Yet there must be some reservation to this statment, too, for with a very large preponderance of gun power at Jutland it can scarcely be claimed that we effected even a relatively equal share of des- truction. We know that many of our projectiles were faulty. that the German capital ships were better armoured than our own, and that certain structurat de- fects cost us dear. So long as we. continue "to

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they must embody the principle of sledgehammer blows in assault and the maximum of resistance in defence. If the Japanese case for the 15in. gun in preference to the 14in. gyn had been put simply on these grounds it would be difficult. to answer. In fact the only way to answer it is by asserting that a halt must be called somewhere. atherwise competition on the plan of always "going one better" would lead to the production of guns as big as the Monument of London.

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It is rather interesting to reflect what a very small amount of heavy gunfire in action capital'ships.de- liver in the course of modern war: How many rounds apiece did the battleships of the Grand Fleet and the opportunity to discharge against the enemy from first to last? The traditional idea that it | Straits, Sandakan and Calcutta » Ls the business of the capital ship | Swatow...

Fort Bayard -.-. to "nght the decisive battle per- severes and must always govern the question of her armament. But since war rarely indeed produces an equal desire on both sides for the decisive test of a fleet battle, the great ship is mainly-one might say almost wholly-restric ted to blockading, or covering, or containing tactics.

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Landon Naval Conference, when Lord Monsell, on behalf of the Board, put forward the view that a 25,000-tons capital ship, with gun power "to match," was big enough for all the strategical of tactical purposes of sea warfare. But it will have been noted that the reduction from 16in. guns. (as mounted in the "Nelsons") to 14in.

Baigon London, Sept. 10.

Manila guns is saving nothing in the The insurgent blockade of Gijon British displacement of our new capital seems quite effective, ships, which, according to official

steamer trying to run the blockade details, are being built up to the having had to return to Bordeaux. Government declare the full treaty limit of 35,000 tons and The will therefore-average approxima-launching of a counter-attack on tely 1,500 tons mose, than their the northern-front while another 18in. gun predecessors. We do not cffensive is being made in horth yet know definitely how даму Madrid.- 14in. guns the new vessels are Reuter's Bulletin Service.

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The Chinese announce that more than ten Japanese planes in the Yangtszepoq airfield were destroy ed during a Chinese night air raid. Meanwhile the British, transport. Elephanta, has left for. Calcutta with about 900 Indians represent- ing one-third of the Shanghai In- -dlan-population----

The America Maru went down river. The shell which hit her was intended for the Japanese destroyer anchored almost im- mediately in front. The extent of the damage is not ascertainable

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