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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936,

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Chief of Staff United States. Fleet in 1927, the author has had wide execu. tive experience in peace and war and is one of America's leading writers on naval mat- ters. The opinions in this article are his own and must not be construed in any sense as official.

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for England to become the greatest commercial nation in the world.

This Providence now has with- drawn its favours, for air power has made one the islands and the Continent.

The conquest of the BOTS brought colonies under British sovereignty. These responsibili-

ties again demanded control over

Hongkong Telegraph. far-flung lines of communication,

SATURDAY, FEB. 22, 1936.

BUSINESS MEN'S COMPLAINTS

necessitating in turn naval bases in all parts of the world to har- bour her ubiquitous navn! ships. Great Britain, by reason of her appreciation of the value of Sea-Power, lins built a mighty Empire. Her frontiers were the whils of her storm-battered. ships.

merchant

An old question is being re- vived by business men at Home,

Great Britain's who are once again complaining' ships, afloat in every sea, in of the mental equipment of peace and war, flowed in and out young people who apply for, of the English Channel, bringing posts, Increased business

opportunities are being offered

ns the result of British indus- NOTES OF THE DAY

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Dominant Factor

In Sea Power

By

REAR ADMIRAL

YATES STIRLING

U. S. NAVY

This is what might happen over London unless Britain is given umple air protection. A navy is powerless to resist mich an at- tack. But even more serious is the menace of enemy aircraft to British shipping.

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Great Britain traditionally is conservative. Its confidence too long has been reposed in its mighty surface ficots of super- powerful warships,

Conditions have changed slow- ly, but the realisation of the change has come suddenly, al- most, it seems, with lightning- like rapidity.

The acroplane has not only risen to prominence but appears to have become the queen piece on the chessboard of war on the Rens.

AIR CONTROL

For the conquest of the air power of an enemy, a superior air power well loented is ovident. Against a landbased air force. a similarly based air force is mandatory. The air over all the seas must be controlled if the Beas are to be controlled.

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Great Britain, for its eseontial security, should spare no pense in correcting the harm resulting from this tardiness in appreciating the effect of the latest weapon, the neroplane, upon the control of the sens.

In the past Great Britain, in order to retain safe control of the seas for the preservation of the Empire, laid down a policy of maintaining a navy equal to the two largest sea Powers of Europe. A similar policy for her nir fleet may become neces- sary, and there is no time to be lost, for Great Britain's wenk- ness in the air is patent. To retain the sceptre of the seas Great Britain must become the greatest nir Power in Europe.

British doggedness will suc- coed, for that enviable trait has carried England to the very pin- nacle of world eminence.

The British Navy has reason to be gravely concerned. The recent mobilisation in the Medi- terranean appears to have open-. cd eyes that may not have been too widely awake, revealing a vital weakness in a most impor- tant strategic locality through which passed a pivotal line of communication to Great Britain's Eastern Empire. British air- power then was seen to be quite inadequate, much to the morti- fication of British diplomacy.

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out that it is essential that the AIR DEFENCE young people who seek to enter commercial life should be so

If you have not read the article]

This is on the right, read it now. educated as to give promise of the opinion of an American naval promotion in the days ahead, officer, a man of experience and LA one case, it is mentioned sound sense. He is not an alarm- that of some hundred applicants He has what

ist, nor has he any axe to grind. some may think for positions, only eight were jaudneity to tell England engaged, and of these all but rule the seas, but his words carry materials and carrying away pisjetile. It must needs find

how to in needed foodstuffs and now a ship of the air, is actually a BULLS AND INNERS conviction. If Great Britain, has one were later discharged by not appreciated already the points manufactured articles, the pro- sreurity for its take-off and for reason of their inability to spell he has minde, he has a message of duct of the toil of her people, its landing after dropping its for round robins.

It looks like being, a hard winter ordinary words or to under: the most vital importance for our The Royal Navy guaranteed explosives. stand the rudiments of

Empire.

Jalways the safety of these ships. Great Britain and the seas mar,

Whilst this cannot be evident that sea power, ultimately, Is becoming increasingly

surrounding her islands can be held to be a typical instance, it must depend upon air power, he!

Britain's security on-the-sea-Europe, ben! upon destruction,

swept by enemy' air forces from body-to-give-n-lecture--on--Girth- Is, none the less, noteworthy says. If any nation in Europe was predicated not alone on the in a few hours. However, the many other employers were to reach a point in air arma- number of warships, but on problem is not so mystifying as have had the same complaint to ment from which it could challenge the fighting prowess of her sea was that for the defeat and de- make of the present-day pro- Great Britain with impunity, the men. The British doctrine was struction of the submarine, for ducts of schools, Thus the day would be a sad one for this to come to grips with an enemy. the aeroplane can not only be argument is frequently heard Empire. Broken in the alr, No fear was entertained for the seen but heard. that the nation is getting a very adequate air arm, would be at the

Britain's sea fleets, lacking a result. poor return for the vast sums mercy of a great air fleet, supported

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Until the submarine arrived to FLEET IMPOTENT ployment agencies, it is

by a strong naval force. It might confound this fundamental rule

We hear of one lady punter who interest

of not mean the end of British power, of netion, the security of England out of the air by an enemy, its of thirteen. Not round the waist, Should Great Britain be swept has bought forty-two combinations to note, voice the but opinion that since the State carnage, a horrible sacrifice of could not be brought to grips. impotent to prevent the destruc-

it would entail a frightful was assured. The submarine great surface war fleet will be we hasten to add. now does almost everything for lives, before we recovered from our It sank ships without warning, tion of the great merchant flect young people, all incentive to losses. Indeed, an early and com-unseen, and ran away to fight bringing

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foods and vital A reader suggests that ladies sense of responsibility is power at war with Britain might another day. at a premium. This

materials to England. Even the should be allowed to ride at the may, of very well demand the unconditionali course, be

surrender of His Majesty's Govern-1 TERRIBLE MENACE

warships will find themselves in Annual Race Meeting. They might an exaggeration.

mortal danger of annihilation

be too bump-tious, Young people to-day may be as This is not by any means a pre-,

There were many prophets to from the air. well equipped mentally as their diction. At the moment there is Britain through starvation, but capable of keeping the attacking are sure to be found on winning declare the doom of Great fathers or grandfathers were no

Anti-aircraft guns may be at a like age, there is always a nation has designs against Great the convoy system and the depth zeroplanes in the air,, but the tickets-1.2.3.4.6.6.7.8.9.0. natural disposition on the part Britain. It is merely a possibility, charge eventually defeated the stowage of an adequate supply of elderly people to think that And sagacious statesmen guard under-sen, vessels. everything was much better in against any eventuality, no matter their youth than it is to-day. how remote it may appear,

Great Britain now finds her: most difficult problem, for And then there was the old lady There is the further factor to author of the article in the next terrible menace: the aeroplane,

We therefore feel, with

self face to face with a more many rounds are fired to register who thought the be taken into account, of course, column, that the Government would which, metaphorically speaking, magazines in ships are of neces-

a hit and the capacities of was a watchmaker. that much more is nowadays do well to consider exhaustively has dried required of our youth than, say, every argument

sity limited,

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for greater air England and Europe.

An empire such as Great There is a controversy at Home 30, it can hardly be disputed Granted that a naval ship of war lining to this dark cloud, for the earth, would appear to be most fers appear to be carried by power. There exists, however, a silver scattered over the surface of the should carry. In Hongkong, some Britain's, with its integral parts as to how many clube a golfer that, judging by results, inade- takes months longer to build than quate attention is given in the the biggest of aircraft, and that aeroplane majority of schools to the cor- these naval vessels of ours are still grips Great Britain has won every line of communication will

can be brought to vulnerable to air attack. Almost the clubs. rect use of English, whether in Britain's and the Empire's security. always by weight of metal but chant ships near land will be

a necessity for the preservation of hor battles writing or in speech. This But if, as some authorities main-by reason of a doggedness in the most vulnerable.

seas not be in danger of rupture, Mer- should be one of the leading tain, one modern bomber is a match British character that never subjects in the curriculum, but for the average man-o'-war, it be-knows when it is licked. That must be universal; it cannot with actually it seems to be in danger hoves us to have a sufficient num-

British air power therefore of being elbowed out to make ber of aircraft that we match the same doggedness in the end will safety be concentrated in Eng- room for "fancy" subjects, the strength of any potential enemy. Bive victory in the air. utility of which to the majority Our Navy is still strong; our Air

land. Supporting bases for air the

According to The Grown Colonist of boys and girls, when they Force, judged on the same relative this new power of the air has strategical locations are required, population of the Colony. This Many profess to believe that power as well as sea power at Hongkong affect half the British Government salary cuts in come to earn their livelihood, is basis, is weak. Let us take care relegated the old types of war- On the ocean deeps, aircraft would seem to bear out the common much open to doubt. This, dan- of our air armaments; our Navy ship to oblivion.

This is far carriers will be found in convoys, bellef that every other man you is just as pronounced in can take care of itself." Hongkong as it is elsewhere.

from true. The fight for control Every merchant vessel will be meet is a Civil Servant. of the sen yet depends upon hold- carrying at least one aeroplane.

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The issue is not one as between should be properly equipped for Ing the sea with surface war- At the foci of trade, near land, the utilitarian and classical the aspects of education; it hinges Happily, technical education is means

tasks that

head. ships. The aeroplane is but a landing fields are essential. The day longer, would it have bean On Friday night if we'd satur- to an end. All must Mediterranean might not find a recognition of the fact that a very large percentage of attention, in which connection commerce of the world will be fic if Great Britain had had the

being given increasing recognise its limitations. The itself closed to British sea traf- Sunday? pupils are destined to go out we may look for extremely carried always in surface mer foresight to have taken Libya into a workaday world and bonoficial eann their daily living. It is Colony's Trade School, which by warships of the sea.

results from the chant ships and must be guarded for the Empire when it was on their morning dips at Repulse Bay essential, therefore, that they will fill a long-felt need.

The few brave souls who have the counter for sale to the three days are dotermined to go The aeroplane, though: called highest bidder.

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