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CUTTING DOWN THE NAVY.

DANGER OF HASTY OR DRASTIC ACTION.

CONSIGNEES

«NOȚICE TO CONSIGNEES,

T

PACIFIC MAIL SS. CO., LTD,

The Steamship

*LAKE FARMINGDALE" From CALCUTTA via BANGDON, PENANG &

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Economy is the first and indeed, the greatest, necessuy of the State, saya the naval cor- respondant of thế Daily Chronicle, There is so much to be done in alleviating the burdens of the

The above mentioned vessek) people, and there are so many having arrived from the above social problems to be solved, mantioned porss, Consignees al avery ona of them turning upon cargo are hereby informed that means and supplies that national they must take immediate deli- wasta must be utterly condemned.very of same from alongside, and The Navy has hastened upon all cargo impeding discharge will the path of economy. It is be landed at their risk into the preparing to sacrifice the In Pacifie Mail Steamship Com; domitable, and if the Indomitable, pany's Godowns at West Point, why not, within measurable time, and stored at Consignee's risk. others of the famous group of early Dreadnoughts, which lack gun-power ur speed? It has scrapped battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines in great numbers. It has closed bases and establishfhents, and is. contracting its dockyarla

Consignees of cargo are hereby. notified that they must produca an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports & Exports, Hongkong, before. Billa, of Lading can be countersigned..

All broken, chafed and dania- aged goods are to be left in the But what do we now sea? The godowns, where they will be Army and the Air Service to examinal. on March 16th, atļ gether are costing £150,000,000|10 a... and April 17th at this year, and, if anything should 10 am. go wrong in Mesopotamia or Palestine. India, Egypt or the Middle East, the charges are likely to reach a gute of £200,000,000.

INDEFINITE EASTERN DEMANDS, Confessedly the Secretary for War based his estimates on the possibility of with drawing 23,000- British and Indian troops. But we have entered upon an obscure policy of adventure in Perais, and no one can say what will yet be the demands of Mespotàmia, with its frontiers carried 300 miles from the sea into the fastnesses of Northerji Khurdistan, in the home of ferocious hostile tribes-

men.

All claims must be presented; within a week of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.

-No claim will be admitted-after the goods have left the godowns, and all goods remaining unde livered after April 19th. will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected."

Consignees are requested to

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The German pays has dis- appeared, but the future is full of menace, with its features hidden

Everything that embroils this country in warlike adventures on land is a danger to the State. Our business, as an is ad country | with 3 sex-bound Empire, is from view, with the sea. Armies can to a We shall be blind if we shut our large extent, be improvised but leges to the portents, and forget not so navies. Our Army must the cataclysmie be eut down as soon na possible to a reasonoble minimum, with a great potential reserve.

tumults that

surge through international politics and sometimes make the friends of today the enemies of to-morrow. The Navy is the national insurance, and we cannot

Before the war the military establishments cost only about one-quarter of the sum then in-run risks. evitably expended, upon the How many victories it has won Navy. Now the Army and the in the past, by forestalling dis Air Service demand, as a rs: astrous war without ever striking charge, £150,000,000, while there a blow, we cannot tell. seems to be no disguise about At a time when we bave so the intention of the Government, many distant enterprises on hand. unless wiser counsels prevail, to it should be remembered, in the cut down the forthcoming Navy words of Lord Fisher many years Estimates to a figure approxi-jago, that never does a soldier go mately of £60,000,000.

abroad but, a seaman carries him on his back.

THE FIGURE OF 30 YEARS ago.

If we estimate this at pre-war It will be time enough co rates. it may be equivalent to a think of reducing the Navy little over £26,000,000, which was Estimates to a low figure when the expenditure of 20 years ago. the League of Nations has when the Naval Defence Act of abated international rivalries, put of 1989 had reached its culrain-an end to the dangers in the ation.

Balkans and among the peoples

It has been argued that the two of the late dominions of Austria-| Battle Squadrons might be laid | Hungary, and setted affairs in up in reserve, and the power distant regions.

of the Empire and the protect- White Australia apprebenda ion of its commerce in every danger. Lord Je'licoe did not ocean be entrusted to forces of counsel unwise reduction. Other light cruisers and destroyers. nations are not abating their What people, who argue in this naval policies. way, forget is that light forces can never be of avail, unless heery striking forces lie ready bebind them.

Japan bas adopted a plan of creating a Beer of capital ships, none of them more than eight years in age, thus creating a As if to confound such argu-strong reserve of ships slightly meats, the First Battle Squadron older, with light cruisers, des- is at this very time at the Bos-troyers Bod submarines in phorus dominating the Turks. proportion, and is increasing her dockyard resources with that

WHAT THE FLEET MUST BE.

What is also forgotten is that, a object.

fleet must be complete in aliita The United States has built and parts, and that each part must be | is building 16 capital ships of the constantly training, and comos: powerful types, with many ordinating its work with that of other vessels, and the Navy other parts.

la other words, it General Board said in December mus: he an organic and living last that by 1925 "the United whole. If it be weakened by States should possess a Navy crippling and upwise parsimony second to none, other in the to stagnation, it will die,

world."

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