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losing money consistently, it is absurd for those employed in it to demand more rémuneration, and in the long-run disastrous for them Lo strike, for the blow may com pletely demoralize and even ruin the bickers upon whom, their Jivell- hood depends. Labour answers, excusing the strike, that If indus Phone: 27778/9.try is losing money shut-down won't hurt it anyway. That is fallacious; and it is short-sighted. Better a little than nothing. at all. Let us consider the American ship- ping and longshoremen's strikes which have been responsible for the tie-up of merchant vessels in the Pacific coast ports for. weeks On end. Already the company operating fast passenger vessels

The

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MONDAY, Oct. 21, 1935.

THE DEPRESSED AREAS

1935.

ENGLAND EXPECTS-

面

"England experin that crery man will do his duty, the most famous signal ever flown by

British warship, hoisted on the "Victory” at Portsmouth.

To-day is the 130th anniversary of the famous Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's last Victory,

which ended for ever Napoleon's dream

of the Conquest of the British Isles.

two different the man; on elements the hour of the French Revolution brought two men, one on land, the other on the sea.

between San Francisco and Paget Sound ports has had to abandon IT is said that the hour brings The extraordinary hunger this service because of the losse strike which has been proceedling entailed by labour disturbances, among South Wales miners; al-That means that scamen, engineers though arising over a dispute regarding the employment of non-unionists, serves to draw at-

and dock workers are going to lose their jobs. It means that those

satisfied to accept what the opera- tors could afford to pay them will also be deprived. The same thing applies to the Dollar Steamship Company, we are told. Mr. Stan- ley Dollar admits the situation goes "from bad to worse," and that the company is suffering seriously. We wonder what it would do without the mail subsidy. and what the seamen's unions will do without ships to safl.

On the French side the necessi- ties of land warfare brought Napoleon; on the British side the needs of war at sea found tite greatest of all seamen, Horatio Nelson.

by

Lt. Cdr. C. H.

ROLLESTON

Nelson

had given England and her Empire a watchword which has lasted now for 130 years, and which will endure un- . tarnished and evor-new till ships

no longer sail the seas.

At ten minutes past noon Col- lingwood's flagship, the Royal Sovereign, passed, through the Franco-Spanish line under the stern of the Santa Ana, and with First Lord of the Admiralty, that her first double-shotted broadside.

combined While Napoleon was studding the

Franco-Spanish dismounted 14 of the Santa Ana's the frontiers of France and the Fleet, now at Cadiz, represented guns and killed or wounded 400 countries beyond with stupendous the bulk of the enemies' naval of her crew. military victories, the Admirals power.

Then the slaughter began, and. England were ringing the waters round France with no less. If that fleet could be brought into slowly and surely during the after- noon British gunnery and British brilliant naval achievements. action and decisively defeated the tenacity sank or captured 11 of But, just as none of Napoleon's remainder were of small account the 16 ships forming the rear half land victories gave him at one and Britain would be Mistress of of the combined fleet. blow the mastery of the Continent, the Seas. Barham sent for Nelson Meantime the Victory had also 80 none of England's sea con- and placed in his hande command come within range and was assault- quests gave her command of the of the now reinforced British ed by every ship in the enemy's seas that wash three sides of that Fleet off Cadiz. With that fleet van that could bring a gun to tear. rested the future of the British But no answering gun came yet

or

Continent.

"world.

who were not satisfied with a little are going to get not more, but tention to one of the worst de-nothing at all; and those who were pressed areas in Great Britain. A recent visitor to this district stated that his tour was like going through the ruins of Pompeii, so grim was the im- pression left by the sight of dilapidated and disused works. It is this state of affairs which has led to a demand that local authorities should have the power to clean up the district and take possession of the land

In both spheres-a-final battle Empire and the destiny of the from Nelson's fingahip. Her sails were pierced, hor sides were hit, had to be fought and that at sea on which these ruins stand, In BRITISH MINERS

had to come first.

That was in September 1805, and 50 of her company lay dead or dy support of this contention it is

Somewhere between the North the whole world realised that the ing, but the Victory stood slowly pointed out that the Government

Cape and the Nile there must be final clash at sea was very near, on till she had drifted under the has not hesitated in guarantee other spheres, British coal miners staged a culminating naval action None understood that better than stern of the Bucentaure, Admiral, Villeneuve's flagship. Then, sho which would dictate whether the Lord Barham, and will probably be reasonable in their ing interest on over forty mil-present dispute with the employers.

final land battle would be fought than he knew that now, if never spoke; she did to the Bucentaure what the Royal Sovereign had al- lions sterling for transport They will avoid a strike

on English soil or on French. before, would the men behind the

ready done to tha Santa In February, 1797, Sir John Jer guns of the Victory, development in London, and general or prolonged, nature hvis broke the back of Spain's naval Sovereign, and their consorts, be ness in the light breeze the re-

Royal Ana.

With maddening slow- that money is equally needed to cause they know the industry can. power at the Battle of St. Vincent. required to put forth efforts sur mainder of Nelson's column came remedy conditions of poverty in not afford to pay them two shillings In Ocober of the same year Dun- pussing even any previous achieve into action and massed against the South Wales. A challenge has, a day more and still keep the mines,

can similarly treated Holland at ments of their own,

enemy's centre. Four of them fled Camperdown. Two years later the One man only on the active list and of the rest four were taken or in fact, been issued to the open. It is and; but it is true.

Dutch Fleet surrendered, but of the Royal Navy could inspire destroyed before the day was over. Government to the effect that if Miners' wages are poor; Indeed

Spain was still a naval force to them to such efforts; his name it will set up a Commissioners' they are less than are required to

be reckoned with.

was Horatio Nelson, the idol of Council with a grant of half the supply a family's bare necessities. sum named, with powers to co- and the employers have been justifiably criticised for not taking ordinate the schemes between advantage of Government-hullt the various Departments, the machinery to settle their differ- problem can be solved. One of

ences with labour. But neither of the chief causes of complaint these causes justifles a strike. It

In view of the lessons taught in

blow is aimed.

of a

Hone better

In 1798 Napoleon's attempt to the English people, and the best- attack. India was frustrated by loved leader of men who had ever Nelson at the Nile and Sidney flown an Admiral's flag in Smith at Acre. In 1801 another British man-of-war, cripple England attempt of Napoleonic subtlety, to by Indirect means, was blocked by the same Nelson at Copenhagen."

enemy

NEL

ȚELSON, a conspicuous figure with one empty sleeve pinned to his breast, was walking the deck with Captain Hardy. He wore all his décorations and medals, · At 1.30 p.m. a musket-ball fired from from close off Cadiz, signalled struck the Commander-in-Chief's

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"Thank God

ON October 19 the Euryalus, the fighting-top of the Redoubtable with regard to the depressed is only in cases where labour has In 1805 the fleets of France and "Enemy coming out of harbour." left epaulet and passed through to arcas is that the Commissioners been obviously and shamefully pied the harbours of Brest, Roche- 50 miles to the westward. On Oc- "They have done for me at last, Spain in separate squadrons occu- Nelson closed in from his station his spine. Nolson fell to the deck. who have been appointed by the exploited that a strike in in any fort, Ferrol, Cadiz, Carlagena, and tober 21 the sky was cloudless, the Hardy," he said, "my backbone is Government have had no co- way excusable, and even then it is Toulon. Oft each of those ports sea surface was glaasy, but there shot through." It was; they car ordinating authority, and that a weapon. which may easily turn ina British Squadron, generally was a heavy swell: the west-nor' ried Nelson below to the cockpit, he they have encountered a deal of the hand of the wielder and do vastly inferior in strength, west wind was merely a zephyr and himself covering his face and de- obstruction from the Treasury him an injury greater than that watched and waited, ready to the Franco-Spanish Fleet crept corations with a handerchief lest

leave along at a speed of perhaps not the men at the guns should know. In some of the areas, seventy inflicted upon him at whom the attack should the

harbour and attempt to

mbine, more than half a knot on a course as he passed them that, the man per cent.. grants have been

At Boulogne was Na leon's roughly parallel to the land.

they reverenced was hurt. Grand Armee waiting to cis the To the west in two columns For three hours he lay in agony." offered, leaving the local authori-

Channel

about a mile apart and with every constantly inquiring how the action ties to find the rest out of rates sary on the land, but that is far

In April, 1805, Admiral Vil- sail set to the light breeze, Nelson was going, and expressing himself which they are quite unable to from the facts, and it is making leneuve, with the French Toulon and Collingwood, with 27 ships as satisfied when told at 2.40 p.m. raise. This cannot be regarded no contribution to the problem Fleet, escaped while Nelson had ist 33, had the wind astern that 14 of the enemy had struck as a satisfactory method of deal of the depressed areas to hold been driven away by fout weather, and made good about one knot their colours. ing with the question, and it is out hopes of a kind which are ships at Cartagena, and made for through the enemy'a five-mile-long I have done my duty!"*

At 4.80 p.m. Nelson died; the last Villeneuve picked up slx Spanish through the water.

Nelson's plan was to pass clean words he spoke were: certainly not helpful that vari- never likely to be realized. the West Indies. Nelson went ous departments of State should. Obviously what is needed is a after him, failed to find him line with his two columns, thus

through being misled by a be differing as to which should big national scheme of re-report, but chased him. back to lingwood, with 16 ships, was then IS.legacy to England and to our

cutting it into three portions. Col- fulac accept responsibility in this organisation in these

areas. Europe. --

to tackle the 16 rear ships of the 11 Empire was twofold-com- matter of admitted national con- The appointment of Commis-

enemy, while Nelson held the re- mand of the sea and the inspiration maining 17 with his 12, attacking contained in the last entry in his cern. There is the further sioners to investigate the prob- TELSON culled at Gibraltar, went particularly those in the centre diary: "May the Great God Whom point that many of the un-lem is of little value unless they ashore for the first time for two before the van could wear round I worship grant to my Country and employed in the depressed areas are given some measure of years, and then proceeded to Eng- to their assistance.

for the benefit of Europe in general have already lost their insurance financial power and their recom-rived off Cape Finisterre, had an und unorthodox; it was the "Nel may no misconduct in anyone Innd. Meantime, Villeneuve Br- This plan was startlingly now a great and glorious victory; and rights, due to their having been mendations acted upon. It is Indecisive brush with Sir Robort son touch."

tarnish it; and may humaníty after out of work for so long a period. impossible to read of the condi- | Calder's fleet, and then, to the

victory be the predominant feature: Mr. Lloyd Georgo has been tions in these districts without consternaton of Napoleon, went.

in the British Floot. south to Cadiz instead of north AT 11.40 am a group of flags claiming, that under his "New feeling that a more vigorous to combine with the French Brest climbed to the masthead of the it my life to Him who made me,

"For myself, individually, I com Deal" plan some 500,000 work-policy is called for. And one of Fleet at the mouth of the English Victory. When their meaning had dud may His blessing light upon ers could be taken from depress- | the first stops necessary in the Channel.

been interpreted the men manning my endeavours for serving my ed Industrial areas and absorbed South Wales area is a complete brought to England by the frigate message with round after round of sign myself and the just causeĘ. News of these movements was the British ships answered, their Country faithfully, To Him I re- by agriculture. The assumption reorganisation of the conlin-Euryalus, and it was at once ap ringing cheers: England expects which is entrusted to me to defend 18 that skilled work is not neces: dustry.

parent to Admiral Lord Barham, that every man will do his duty.”... Anicu. Amen. Amon

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