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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

BRITISH AIRSHIP

POLICY.

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

feasible. We know what happen-; ed then, in the way of improve- monts. The second crisis occurred

enco.

DAY BY. DAY

GAMBLING

ON

CHANGE IS RESPECTABLE ENOUGH,

BY THOUSANDS BUT PITCH AND TOSS FOR HALFTENCE IN THE STREET IS LOW, AND MUST LE DEALT WITH BY THE POLICE. ***** Edward Carpenter.

Our Peril on the Seas.

By Captain Bernard Acworth, R.N. (Ret.).

When, under the above title, Marine, the oll reserve fell to n Fis Excellency the Governor has pubile attention was first drawn in six weeks' supply, and was only Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese has drifted, owing to the now com- ple facts they are, can it fairly be appointed Mr. A., E. Wood to be Chlaf the Morning Post to the perilous finally saved by convoy.

position into which our Country In face of theso facts, for sim- Affairs.

at

pleto substitution of foreign oll maintained that there is not a defor British coal as the motive crisis in the nation's affairs for power of the Royal Navy, criteism sea?

at was silent, and remains 80. Our

Bondage is admitted, nshore and Let us now turn from tho strate- afloat.

gical to the material aspect of the It in notified that the Hon. Mr. The case for an early return to question. Is there suficient F. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E., resumed the use of coal in the Navy has ground for maintaining that Bri- duty as Secretary for Chinese Affairs the support, tacit If not explicit,tish men-of-war will be material- on 11th May.

of many officers on the Active List,ly handicapped by a return to the It is notified that in the matter of the Press of distinguished

and it has received the advocacy in coal firing of their bollora? [ the Russo-Asiatic Bartk

flag have endeavoured in a supple

previous mentary dividend of $1.16 per cent. officers and civilians whose dinin-articles to show that an extra has been declared,

terestedness no one disputes.

knot or two of speed, achieved As the Board of Admiralty has only by extravagant horse-power

with His Excellency the Governor has consented, appointed Mr. V. C. Branson, M.C fairness and magnanimity, to rely with ceal or oil,

sharacteristle and which can be obtained equal- while very

on the docialon to make a demon- stration to the Imperial Confer

Thus the R.101, which was begun as an experiment, was taken In hand until the experiment was quickened into an adventure. The haste displayed to sat the ship out on her voyage, which had such a trngle ending, is well known, it has even been stated that If sho had waited to receive the evening

Nine pages of the Gazette are weather forecast, it is doubtful if voted to revised dietary scales she would ever have started out prisoners undergoing sentences

Victorin Gaol., for, India. The last entry of eno of the officers runa:-We all feat that the future of airships very largely depends on what sort of a show we put up. There are many unknown factors, and I feel that that thing called 'Luck' will figure | rather conspicuously in our flight. Let's hope for good luck and do our best." It has well been anid that this was magnificent, but it was not alrship research. If the R.101 had returned from Indiu to receive the plaudits of the Imperial Con- ference, the political results might have been most gratifying, but, in the words of one commentator, the selentile position would not have been notably advanced. One flight, however spectacular, does not make n scientists's summer.

Spain's Troubles,

to be Sreand Lieutenant in the Hongceive a representative deputation rarely of any strategical value, is kong Volunteer Defence Corps, charged with the responsibility of never of any fighting value, but laying the case for a return to the rather a source of fighting weak- His Excellency the Governor han use of coal before their Lordships, neas. re-appointed Mr. Benjamin Wylle to it may not be out of place if 1 To illustrate this point I will cation for a further perlod be a Member of the Board of Edu- summarise, briefly, the outstand-make no apology for once again two ing points of the case that has to comparing existing coal-burkers years.

be presented for consideration. with oil-burners.

Mr. Cho Yin Kwan, LL.B., London, obtained second class honours at the examination of candidates for admin slon on the roll of solicitors of the Supreme Court.

It

of three months the

world.

news of the sudden

and

ollfelde

which

H.P.

Guns,

coal-burner.

H.M.S.

H.M.S.

Emperor

Royal

of India..

Oak.

20,250

29,150

20,000

3,200 tons 21

10 13.6in.

108,000

4,900*

30+

40,000

3,400 tons

21.

8 15in.

in the

12,000 112,000

4,250

81.5

6 in. 813.Bir. £2,038,000 £3,000,000 al- 1) Tiger's fuel is now more

In the first place, therefore, is of the the present dependence Royal Navy upon foreign Power In Tonnage reality u national danger, or is Fuel the danger of such admitted de

Speed Names given to thoroughfares ad-pendence a myth? jacent to the new Praya include Sugari Without vast and steady Cost £2,000,000 £2,500,000 Street, Church Street, Factory Street, stream of oil from overacas, As to the future, (1 setms prob- Oil Street, Bont Street, Glass Street, mainly from foreign and possibly ing Ships this ship can carry, in 1) According to "Jane's Fight- able that experts will concentrate Link Road and Cotton Path.

hostile lands, the mechanised addition to her 3,250 tons of coal. on two points. The first is the

Army is immobilised; the Air 1.600 tons of oll in emergency.] liin Excellency the Governor ap Force cannot fly: one-third, and 1(1) Designed for 23 knots. question of substituting helium for painted the following officers to be

of but, according to "Jane's Fighting two of his Honorary Aidea-de-Camp. A ever-growing proportion, hydrogen; the second is the ad-Second Lieutenant I. G. Moon, South move and the transport and in-trial.]

Itho Merchant Marine cunnot Shipa." achieved only 21% knots on visability of increasing the opera-Somerhough, Royal Air Force.

Wales Borderers: Flying Officer A.G.C.dustry of the country are to n Thus the coal-burning Emperor tional height, for it has been sug-

great and growing extent brouch of India, with a reduced tonnage of gested that the dive which wrecked

notified that at the expiration to a a standstill.

2,900 tons, a reduced horse-power Far Eastern Against such a catastrophe the of 11,000, and a reduced cast of the R.101 might not have been dis Advertising Company (Hongkong), Navy, and the Navy alone can be £500,000, carries astrous if she had had several thou-Limited will, unless cause is shewn reliable insurance policy, and gun-armament, a greater supply of more powerful to the contrary, be struck off the re- yet the Navy is itself dependent fuel, and has a radius of action of sand feet of heavier air to fall gister and the company will be dis- for its movement in execution of 7,700 miles. The complement of through before reaching carth, solved.

Its duties upon the very sub-this coal-burner is, according to Above all. political gestures should

stance the supply of which it is Brassey, the same as Royal Oak, His Excellency the Governor has now its most urgent duty to en-notwithstanding that there are two not be mixed up with airship deve-appointed Mr. C. G. S. Mackie u sui'2. lopment, for science and politics are during the absence of Mr. Owen financial control, can be cut off at

Imember of the Legistative Council But foreign oil, regardless of extra heavy guns to man apt to be puor bedfellows.

Hughes, and Mr. W. II. Bell a member its source, and Persian suring the absence of Sir Henry There will be general agreement

In the War her unbulged slater Pollack,

are a long way off, that the British Government has

If, on the other hand, the coun- torpedoed abreast the boiler rooms, ship. H.M.S. Marlborough, was The Lukun a wise decision by adopting

death try has sunk into a state of men- but continued fighting in the battle 1 x obvious now that Spain's came as a distinct abnek to the many maudlin sentimentality,

of Mr. T. H. U. Aldrige in London lothargy, moral cowardice, a policy of fratina lente in regard days of trouble are far from ter-friends in Shanghai of the late Chief prevents

or for some hours. The great coal- bunkers almost certainly saved her, to airship policy. The tragic hapninated: If the Republican leaders Engineer and General Manager of the the risk of the drying up of its it from facing squarely

H.M.S. H.M.S. pening in October inst, when the imagined that Alfonso's ready compartment. Identified for many years immediately shoulder the burden H.P.

Shanghai Municipal Electricity Defe-blood at its

Tiger. Repulse. al its source, it must Tonnage

28,000 R.101 came to grief, was bound to pliance with the will of the people with the electrical growth of Shang- of increasing its cruiser feet be- Fuel have a decided effect on the future had granted them plain sailing, they hat, and being largely responsible for cause tankers, like food ships, will Speed programme; by deciding to build are now thoroughly disillusioned. the development of the Electricity need convoy, and the stream

Guns further airships at least for In this realisation, they are already at the time when it was purchased vital oil stream. The only

of Department to its very high efficiency food seldom synchronises with the Cost three or four years, and, in thmaking mistakes. The decision to by the Shanghial Power Company, the ternative is to accept for England than half oil.] meantime, to utilise the R.100 for seize Alfonso's property has been late Mr. Aldridge's death removes ♫ purely experimental purposes, the harder into enemies people to whone

taken on a flimsy pretext and will prominent figure from the electrical position of abject dependence ) Tiger obtains within 1 knot of her full speed on 85,000 h.p, and apon the will of foreign nationa. Government has found an eminent-they might have turned as friends,

The Admiralty has admitted Repulse does not obtain her legend The Health Bulletin of Eastern suxiety about fuel reserves, speed at full power.] ly satisfactory way out of the Wholesale arrests may provide a

Porta for the week ending May 9,justifiable anxiety when it is con- Thus H.M.S. Tiger, with a redue- difficulties of the situation. It is temporary check to their onnoncntatious diseases and deaths therefrom: estimated that we might require h.p. of 4,000, and a reduced cost of shows the following cases of infec-sidered that the late Admiral Sladeed tonnage of 3,100 tons, a reduced not to be implied, of course, that and this project is being carried out Plague, Baghdad 7 cases 3 deaths. 50,000,000 tons of oil per annum nearly £1,000,000, carries a more Britala has finished with wirship ruthlessly, the rule of justice hay Bombay 5 eases & deaths, Rangoon in the event of war.

1 case death, Colombo 1 enge 1

Any reserve, powerful gun armament, and has a construction for good and alling little bearing upon the actions death. Cholera, Calcutta 72 cases as we maintain is at the mercy of speed at 85,900 h.p. little short of blockade from ashore, without the H.M.S. Repulso at 112,000 h.p. Her The position is that no undue risks taken. Another error, the full con- deaths, Chittagong 18 casca

deaths, intervention Madras 16 cases 7 deaths, Pondicherry inte

oľ foreign men-of complement is 200, more than He- are to be taken, whilst at the same

sequences of which may not reveal 3 cases, Prom-Penh 2 denths, Saigon war. We have, in fact, become pulse, but here again there are two themselves for sone considerable 26 ensen 20 deaths. time experts will concentrate on time, was

Small-pox, liable to land siege or, alterna-extra heavy guna to man in the the deeree abolishing Bombay 3 enses I death, Calcutta 24 tively, doubly able to blockade toalburner. unsolved .problenis. By this Roman Catholicism as the State re-

Cuses 18 deaths, Coeliin 3 cases, by sen. ntethed, we shall be able to keep ligion. The populace thought it deaths, Vizagapatam 3 cases 1 death, steam at slow speed in exercises, whether in battleships, cruisers or Madras 1 death, Rangoon 7 cases 2 Men-of-war. now in pence-time, The boasted speed of oil-burners, abreast of developments, and then, within their province to carry mat- Pondicherry 1 case 1 death, Shanghai and apend little time at sea on destroyers, is mythical, notwith- 1 death, Greater Shanghai 1 case. when a reasonable measure of tors a little further. Grave - Cerebro-Spinal Fever Shanghai 24 account of cost and fuel shorts standing the enormous horsepowers | safety is assured, start afresh with 1azes have occurred, culminating in deaths, Greater Shanghai 16 cases Even in the late war, with few that have fathered the "oll vogue,

burners in the the new data tu guide those in the light of the Cardinal Arch- deaths.

merchant as "Oil News" inadvertently dubbed

it. whose hands the direction of our The events of the past week may be bishop of Toledo. Primate of Spain,

airship policy will lie.

taken as the beginning of a long It was in 1921 that authorisn- dramu. The Church, whick wielded tion was secured for Britain's air- tremendous power for centuries, ship programme, and thence on-will not readily surrender its poal- mortis the best technical kill that tion. By no means in favour of w.s available concentrated on perhave submitted with good grace to the Republic, the Church 'night fecting the new development. The the new regime if left alone. The programme was conceived in a Republicans have attempted pre- strictly scientific spirit. It aimed maturely to disturb them, and this to amass experience in ships of above all things in likely to bring novel construction which would them to grief. The Church will ultimately enable those ships, or bide its time. If we turn to the others built on the experience political gide, President-Elect gained, to zonké long-range

Zamora fuces still further difficul-

The Constituent Assembly to: scheduled flights in all weathers. decide upon the future form of As one export bra stated, experi- Government has yet to be elected. enco, not adventure, war.

the Whatever its 'decision, it will be watchword. The initial stages of no easy task to establish atability the enterprise went according to in the country, and the problems plan: progress was slow but very are likely to Increase with every aure. The first hitch occurred moment of delay. The Artay will when the structure of the R.101 soon be desirous of, information as proved twenty-five tons too heavy. When that time comes, the strength to its proper place in the scheme, From that moment, she was, in of the Republie will be tested.' the best opinion, definitely unsuit- able for inaugurating an airship service to India. Her constructors Observatory returns for April show were thus faced with a dilemma.was 70.9, the highest being 85 and that the avorogo. mean temperature It was impossible to scrap a basket the lowest 50.3. There were only in which so many eggs had boon 78.7 hours of suruhino,, against n placed; the only course was to pro-totalled 8.98 inches and the average "If you want them to keep you company, lady, I'd say these hyacinths ideal one. When the players start-

normal 116.3, whilst the rainfall eocd with such alterations as worg | humidity, was 87. - ·

PH.

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would be easier to got along with."

In view of such facts may we not reasonably exclaim-Coal, where la thy sting; Ol where is thy" victory?—especially when we re- fleet that the cost of oil per ton is little short of four times that of coal, its calorific value being but two-ninths greater!

The Board of Admiralty has in- herited a stinging nettle which it did not plant. To grasp It firmly needs immense courage, and consi- derable administrative trouble for

a few years, but has it not a golden

opportunity of becoming the torical Board which led England out of foreign bondage back into that freedom which was once the pas-. sion, and the hall-marir, of our nativo land?

IF "MAC" PLAYED

MAXTON.

An exclusive, if not wholly veracious, anticipation of Mr. Mac-: Donald's match with Bir. Mation. By its only eyewitness.

| Lossiemouth (date unknown).

The long-looked-forward-to golt": match between the Premier and Mr. Maxton took place on the local Hnks this morning.

The contest, as will appear, was Indecisive. At the same time, It was a not unprofitable, fixture; and agreplay in the near future would not surprise me.

The day was by no means an

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