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FOR

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FOR SALE. A Cheap Price in the Hill District. Rural Build- ing Lot, containing over 48,003 sq feet with two six-roumed semi- detached houses, and levelled site upon which two more houses could be built. The houses are easily convertible into pae, and are suitable for a Private Hotel for Mesa Apply to "Linstead & Davis.

OUR NAVY OF THE FUTURE it to tini a training-ground.

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our obligations under the Coven ant of the League of Nations, wil LORD BEATTY'S POLICY OF retire that we be able to sup

SEA POWER.

port the policy of the League by jsou power, and this, no less than (BY GERARD FIENNES, our own safety, demands that the Navy shall remain adequate. It The building of the Hood or, should be in the future, as it has rather, the cost at which she was been in the past; the world's built-has been an "eye-opener" greatest peacemaker Other- to the public which seems likely wise, our debt to humanity is to have no small effect on naval undischarged.

What, then, is likely to be the policy of the Admiralty under the .professional guidance of Lord

Beatty?

policy in the future. Excepti It is desirable to emphasise under the stress of war, it is this point just now, for there are almost impossible to conceive an not wanting in ications that the Admiralty giving an order for a necessities of our position on land ship which would cost complete will tend to overshadow thuse of £6,000,000. It is not

twenty our naval position. and that the years since the figure of ona'economies which must needs he million as the cost of a battleship carried out will be at the expense was quoted with bated breath. of a Navy rather than of the No nation, except. perhaps, the Army. Of course, there is room United States, could afford to for both, but we must maintain keep a navy of thes: costly mast our sense of proportion. and odons and the United States will realise that we continue to be probably soon get tired of the first and foremost a Sea Power. game. Yet with the armament,

If we cannot wait," however, speed, and protection needed it is our bounden duty to

"gee." to-day, it is dificult to see how The lessons of the war have not any naval Power can take :1 as yet been thought out in regard backward step, if fleets of capital to all times and all places. The ships are still to be retained.

accidents have not been separat- Fortunately, we have sufficient ed from the substance and many heavy ships to see us through anf the lessons are us yet indica- transition stage in the present tions merely and not full-blown condition of the world's navies, realisations. Thorough and care- The United States alone have a ful research and experiment is of navy which anywhere approaches the Erst importance. The British ours, and. quite apart from the nation proved during the war ties which join us in friendship that it possessed scientific brains and in policy, geographical con as good as those of any other siderations prevent that fleet natico in the world. It has yet from being anything of a menace to prove its willingness to use to our security, at least in home them at a stretch as well as at a waters! In any case we cannot, pinch. base our naval policy on any Many problems with regard to thing so remote as the chance of submersibility, to protection, to rivalry with Uncle Sam.

speed and propulsion, to the use and design of air-craft lie before. Lord Beatty and his colleagues and advisers. The use of che air in conjunction with, and not Not, exactly wait and sce." apart from the sea is, perhaps, to drag that hard-worked phrase the widest of these. oace more out of its stable. We A strong man is needed at the cannot fold our hands. We must Admiralty just now to see that be fraga! in expenditure, but we the Air Force is not collared by. must be sure that our naval the War Office, or allowed to de- preparations einbody the latest velop independently onlines which and best thought and the most bear no thought-out relation to efficient appliances. There is a sea power. I believe that these multitude of counsellors whose considerations are very much in word demands respect, some, like Lord Beatty's mind, and he has Lord Fisher, insisting that the the great advantage of undimmed. future lies with the submarine, prestige in his task of enforcing or the submarine and aircraft the naval point of view in all fature combined: some prepared to stake arrangements for defence. The everything on the development strength of his will nobody doubts. of aircraft alone, who hold that The only thing which could ( the Navy-which-dies has altoge-possibly fail him is official exper-Į ther superseded the Navy-that-ience. That he will gain, if public floats. Others, again, hold that opinion will give him time by not the surface-ship still holds her running too fast ahead in pursuit. pride of place, but that we are of novelty and cheapness. back once more to the days which The necessary experiments will were, before the German menace cost money, but that should not compelled us to call home the be grudged for the purpose. A legions and concentrate our far greater sum might easily bel strength in the North Sea. expended-and wasted to boot-

That appears to be the safest on some "stunt" policy. If con- -foundation on which to start. It struction be almost entirely is also one which is in keeping suspended, as it safely may be for with our peaceful intentions. the present, and half the sum It makes the Navy once more a annually voted for the purpose police force and a link between before the W87 be devoted to the scattered peoples of the research and experiment, we shall Commonwealth. If we should try go ahead with sure steps when, to-day to apply Lord Fisher's in process of time, the equipment formula, "Train where you will which the war has left on our fight," we should be hard put to hands is no longer serviceable.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY

REVIVING THE INN.

COMFORT & FELLOWSHIP BT FIRE AND INGLE.

The revival of the country inn is one of the many works with which the Carlisle Control Board is dealing. And object lessons on a large and small scale respect- ively are to be found in Gracie's Banking, a: Annan. and the Mountsey Arms. Ave miles outside Carlisle.

Rockcliff is a hamlet where a busy open stream loops round the church and skirts the end of a long, low building before it dives beneath the rond. The building was once the village institute, and in three cottages in the neighbourhood beer was sold. The beerhouses have now been closed, and the Moantsey Arms, as the institute is called, takes their place.

You enter through a wide stone porch, with fat beer barrels lying on their sides at the farther end. Round the stonefagged parlour, with bright prints on the walls, are ranged huge armchairs that suggest churchwarden pipes and tankards. Beyond this room is a larger one that needs lamplight and company to make it cheerful. There is a billiard table bere, the institute library, brought up to date by the Liquor Control Board, and the old border land- lady, proud of her promotion from one of the beerhouses that have gone to relieve the housing short- age, and looking forward to the summer for cyclists in search of her famous teas. This is an attempt in miniature to bring back some of the joys of the countryside.

Gracie's Banking is a State venture on a larger scale. A narrow wynd leads out of the street of Annan and opens on a large garden, with a bowling- green and a court for quoits and a building on two sides of it. The side of the building overlooking the garden is all windows, open- ing On A wide. terrace of red sandstone, with deep benches for summer nights. At the angle of the building is a dining-room there any man may drink beer with his meal for the trouble of fetching it from the room next door, which leads again to the billiard and

ocial room.

The feature of the dinning-room is a great Scots ingle. built for the most part of old materiais. A great fire blazes on the flagged hearth, and large seats taken from an old public-house flank it The ingle with its cosy, low ceil ing, is almost a room in itself.

The whole place is decorated is primrose and scarlet and bright blue. Its cheerfulness at- tracts not only working men but teachers, doctors, and bank managers. The other wing of this people's ball contains a picture palace, with tip-up seats, and all the latest films. A room used in summeras a tea-room. with large windows opening on to the flagged terrace, is used at present by farmers and market men who want to transact their busines under cover. Every activity of this palace, both in winter and summer, is run by the State. It was erected to meet the needs of the Gretna workers, but it is pay- ing its way in every department, and providing for this dour, hard town centre of relaxation and fellowship.

It is already making its efforts felt in the life of the place.

GENERA NEWS.

POSTMANS XMAS BOX. There is a growing revolt among London postmen againet the practice of asking for Christ- mas boxes, writes a Daily Chronicle representative. The objection originated among the Ilford men, and now postmen from Waltham- stew, Rotherhithe, Camberwell. Hampstead and the Northern djstrict office have decided not to canvass the public for Christmas boxes this year, and in some cases bills have been issued ask- ing the public not to give. An officer of the Postmen's Federation explained the position to a Doily Chronicle representative.

"We

think it is degrading to us to go round every Christmas and cadge for money," he said. "It is ask- ing the public to pay for the Government, because whenever we demand increased pay the two things which are always thrown in our face are overtime and Christmas boxes," The system was started about 1865, when the pay of postmen was so bad that the Government was obliged to offer, some extra inducement," "Of course, those days there were homes built out of the Christmas boxes by some of the men, but that's all over. I have 20 years' service to my credit, and I expect to get about £5 this Christmas. I would sooner have a respectable Wage and do without it.'

1920.

NOTICES.

STOCKTAKING SALE

TUESDAY TUESDAY

JANUARY TO

27th

EVERYTHING FOR

FEBRUARY 3rd

MENS' WOMENS' & CHILDRENS'

WEAR

AT BARGAIN PRICES.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

A.

BY

WATSON'S

APPOINTMENT.

DRY GINGER-ALE.

FRAGRANT, "AROMATIC. DRY

Its "Dryness" is a feature which has helped to give this drink the popularity it so well deserves.

Pints

$1.25 Per Dozen

75

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READY

TO-WEAR DRESSES

AT..

WHITEAWAY'S SALE

A Lot of

Muslin and

Voile

Ready to

Wear Dresses

at

HALF

PRICE.

Usual Price $23.00 SPECIAL PRICE $11.50 Usual Price $33.00 SPECIAL PRICE $16,50 Usual Price $45.00 SPECIAL PRICE $22.50

These are Bargains.

These designs Bre

quite new and up-to- date, but are slightly ceased and crushed

through the case be- ing tampered with in transit. At the prices

we are offering them they are exceptionally cheap. Call and see

hem.

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