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CAPITAL SHIPS.

Sir Percy Scott on Their

Uselessness."

Admiral Sir Percy Scott writes to the Ties as follows:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LABOUR OBJECTION TO

FREEMASONRY.

No Politics in the Craft. In recent years a determined etfort has been made on more

EXCHANGE.

¡Opening Rose: dosing Rate in Page 1). SELLING

In your issue of this morning) than one occasion by a seotion of Jemand

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30 dia I see that my friend. Admiral) the Labour Party to inhibit any of its members, who happen to be Waymouth has a Let them all come! I do not Freemasons, from holding any know why the gallant Admiral official position in the party! B% branch secretary, singles me out for attack. There even are plenty of other officers who treasurer, or member of a com consider that the battleship is mittee. The recent attempt to ohelete. But I regard his kit ack enforce thus restriction as compliment.

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NOTE my arguments are only desine-[by bour, whether mental or

7.45 tive, that they are without any phy-8al, and were in extupartex MacES

or reasoned line, and with its aims, to become members that they only bring ridicule at the Labove Party, as many of Demand, Paris

range, b-bops, clergymen. This is upon I

quite all mild in comparison with flawyers, authors, journaliste, and aunty others, some of whom are also what was said of me a bafore the war commenced, when] Freemasons, have dane.

proper

It is dithealt to fathom the rea I ventured. 10 explain what the

a for this opposition, even] Subinatire could and would do. 1 was retarded as inad, and everyļautang a minor section of Labour. |

the style of abuse was heaped upan writes a correspondeat in

The

idea underlying in bu am still alive and able!Times. to laugh at my friend Admiral) Freemasonry throughout all its ceremonies is work. From whic'. Waymouth's attack.

It has connec People are sometimes annoyed none is exempt when they cannot answer a question with, or descent from, the t.on, and that is the position of a medieval building corporations. great many now, including their the members of which, of course. Lordships the Commissioners were Catholics, and, like them,

religious character. A of the Admirally. They cannot bas a tell us, or at any rate have not lodge, when it is in session, is told us, what useful tole the two described technically as being a It surely can proposed battleships will play in wors pr at labour.

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ls Haiphong m I do not know, and neither do Ito Freemasonry on the part of a know where we can hide them in small minores of the Labour On Saigon

Parts as two ballots have prov-On Bangkot I believe only eight reasons ed the objector to beatises Sovereiga have bean put forward for building from the fact that the craft is an to lawlessness and these two battleships. Hora they opposition-

and under them are y autocracy and requires from each replies. I have come out into the of its members an obligation tha open, as Admiral Waymouth he shall patiently submit to the suggests I should. I am offering duly constituted civil mutuneity. myself as bis or any one else's and bey and support the laws of "Aunt Sally. They can all have the country in which he lives. a cascaut if they knock me over. Inside the toiee the political The night reasons urged 39 tojopinions, as well as the religions why it is necessary to build two bias, of the members are dormant more battleships and my answers and there is nothing in Free masonry to clash with the poli

to them are :-***

OF

(1) That if we do not baitical views of Radical, Liberal.

Coalitionist these two ship we shall lose Conservative.

There is nothing even to inter Why should wehu prction, fere with the views of Social s

pratige.

I not building a plusa of color

H this political committee were not haval experts and they were not-their opinion an carry no weight. In the last year and a half the method of attacking ships has beer greatly developed.

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Republican who the lodge. t many distingu stod navaje de cers have pronounced to be 15 work in a parti manner for the realization of his teal and That the ~ vetruction bf, who regards the monarch 4*

hip was recommended symbol of the government of the! politica committee cne country. No master of a Indze and a half yeara ngo.

any more than the soverein ofis the country, can be an autocrat. is acts are croumscribed and

An anticyclone is central over he can only rule the lodge through

the Sea of Japan and a depression its reason and consent.

Freemasonry is not a secre: over the N. Chiba Ses. society, if that be the objection. beyond the fact that, like mangap. (3) That the battleship is still other organizations-the Peace the hackbone of a fighting fleet Conference at Versailles and the If this is so, why can no one business meetings of churches tell the country what useful and chapels included-it condu ats they will play if we go to war its affairs behind closed doors. with a European Power, or ans Its secrets are useful to ita mem other Power? Surely the back. bere, but are of no use to anyone uutside. It has no mundane bone must play some part.

(4) That a battleship can de-aims ard exists primarily for the ford herself against air attack! promotion of brotherly love, relief

and truth. Ey use anti-air guns.

This is statement that can only be argued by artillery et

Berta,

I think that they would ridiculous. If any one can ad a battleship, bevance more reasons for building reply that reason of her unsteady pissform. battleship. I shall be delighted toi would have little or no chance hear of them..

of busing an aeroplane.

(3) That only a battleship can sink a battleship.

During the late war fourteen battleships were sunk, but no one of them by a battleship.

(6) That battleships will play the same ride in the future tha:! they have played in the past.

It must be admitted that it

My attention has been called i to two statements that have been " made--

(1) The building of the tw› proposed battleships will impose i rigid economy on and arresti

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of naval development, among

them som& branches which many think rf more im- portance than battle-bioN.

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(2) If we do lud the proposed two ta kips, but ing fast

the last war our concern was not so much as to what battleships would play as where we could put thein t

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(7) That battleships can b given a reasonable protection! against all known Form of al sack, not only present, but what Luture developments a

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(8) Lord Selborne has stated have sent that did not believe that way." Aitter ift or submarines

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I thank Admiral Waymouth

would drive battleships feel for his suggestion as regards! clearing the cobwebs out of my Chakra.

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