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A Return of Navy losses, both Treasure, hunters are at present cuncentrating their energies chief-ships of the regular service and ly on the salvage of the craftsunk auxiliary vessels, which was ask- by enemy action in the course of ed for by Lieutenant-Colonel the war, but once the fleets of Alan Burgoyne, M.P., on August the world have been restored 19. has been published as Sufficiently to meet the ordinary Parliamentary paper (200). The demands of commerce there is Return is arranged in two parts: reason to believe that exploition the first giving a list of all war- will launch out ir many other ships lost between August 4. 1914. direction. The rich deposits of arranged according to the year the guano islands in the South of loss and the class of vessel; Atlantic and Pacific, for example, and the second a list of auxiliaries have through a long round of on Admiralty service los: between years exercised an exceedingly the same dates. The total number Strong lure, and speculators with of warships lost was 254, and of an adventurous bent are under-auxiliaries $15, or 1.063 vessels stood, to be already turning an altogether. interested eye on the strange

The summary of warship losses

islets whose desolation has been shows that, as might have been converted by the

into abounding opulence.

the wonderful

chapters

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birds expected. the largest proportion

Of all was among destroyers, of which in 64 were sunk. The next highest

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the history of these islands there total lost was the 64 submarines. is none so charged with romance including the seven destroyed at avoid capture. as the one dealing with the ad-Helsingfors to ventures of Captain Thomas There were also 18 sloops and 17 Caradoć Kerry, who under the armed merchant cruisers lost, and seal of the late King Edward was in four other classes 13 was the number-battleships. granted a licence to gather guano unlucky from Inacessible. Nightingale, and feruisers, armed boarding steam- and coastal motor-boats. Gough Islands, all lying not so er,

were 12 light crusers very farfrom Tristan d'Acunha,and There also to hunt for whales and seals. [destroyed. but this included thei For the purpose of his enter-six old vessels used for blocking | at Zeebrugge and prise Captain Kerry purchased purposes the yacht Pandora from Mr. Ostend. The remaining losses were Costes, the Paisley thread king, in torpedo boats (11); monitors and to whom he paid £4.000. the deal torpedo gunboats (five each): involving a fourth transition in battle cruisers, flotilla, leaders, the career of the famous, little and aircraft carriers (three each); ship. When she left the builder's river gunboats, patrol boats, ani first-class minelayers (two each), and one yard she British gunboat, with the name of coast defence ship.

A valuable feature in the Re- Newport, and soon afterwards she participated in the opening of the turn is an analysis of the causes!

of losses. This shows that sub Suez Canal, as one of the re- presentatives of the Fleet. After-marines claimed the biggest haul, wards she was strengthened foaccounting for 62 out of the 254 service amid the ire and was used vessels destroyed. On the other an one of the Polar expeditions: hand, 31 of their victims, or just then Mr. Coates onverted leone-half, were confined to the into a yacht, and finally she was slower and more vulnerable types. turned over to the pursuit of guano. They also sank five battleships, As for Captain Kerry, he is one five cruisers, three-light cruisers. of those men in whose life fact and seven destroyers, as well as has equalled if not eclipsed the four submarines. Although it Setting was well known that under-water most thrilling fiction. forth when a mere south, he craft had sunk opposing vessels -spent several years in exploration of the same kind, this is the first of the unknown. He was the first time details have been made white man to reach the interior known of the British submarines of New Guinea. On one occasion lost in this way. E.20 was sunk he was completely hemmed in by a submarine in the Dardanelles off one of the islands by a on November 6, 1915; E22 in the horde of savages in their war North Ses on April 25, 1916; C.34 canoes, and on another he was off the Shetlands on July 11, 1917:1 actually captured by cannibals and D.6 off the north coast of

and subjected to all the torture Ireland on June 28, 1918. Next

of watching the preparations for a ghastly feast Before his turn for execution came, however, he succeeded in breaking his bonds and saving his life. Some years

to enemy submarines, mines and

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Ouled from action scored about equally, claiming 44 and 42 victims.

In the second part of the Re- turn it is shown that the losses .out its long arm, treated him to composed of hired trawlers (246), colliers (244), and hired drifters a great surprise.

The gross tonnage of this Wrecked on one of the South (130). Sea islands, he and his four. large number was no less than companions were sorely beset by 1.125,743, in addition to 3,900 tons savages and one of the party, a in vessels réckoned in displace- man named Scott, went off in ment tons.

after this, coincidence, stretching in auxiliary craft were 815, chiefly

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quest of help, but never returned.

T. C. Kerry Seven years afterwards Captain revealed the name

on a engraved upon it. It was Kerry's Kerry, when engaged certain expedition organised own knife, one that he had lent by the Royal Geographical to Scott so many years before, and Society, had occasion to land presumably the bones were those

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Sir Henry Jones, the cobbler who rose by the force of his own ability to be Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow Univer- sity, is also one of our most enthusiastic educationists, and a scheme he has just instituted bears within it the prospect of completely revolutionising the life of Wales during the course of a very few years.

Sir Heary, who is 70 years of age unfolded his proposals during the recent national Eisteddfod at Corwen, and it has just been definitely endorsed by a thorough Ir representative gathering of. leaders of life and thought in the Principality.

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He points out that there is no education system in the world more near to the heart of the people than the University colleges of Wales, and suggests that by his scheme these colleges would be brought within the reach of all. The churches are there, with their machineryin readiness, and through that machinery he proposes to organise continuation classes for the adult population of all classes,

"In every small town and village." he said to me, ** it should be and Iam perfectly sure is. possible to get say, twenty or more people to attend a continu- ous course of lectures for a period of three years in the humanities and the scientific subjects."

There has been a remarkable response to Sir Henry's call. Sir Henry will start presently on a tour of the Principality to ex- pound and arouse interest in his proposals, and to take steps to establish the classes..

the The people cannot go colleges, but the colleges can go to the people, he says, and if the learning and culture of the ages is taken to the Welsh democracy, then the University of Wales will earn the title of the first real People's University.

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