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MONDAY, NOVEMBER

22, 1937.

ERADIO

GUNS OF BRITAIN'S

NEWEST BATTLESHIPS

Admiralty's Choice of 14-inch Armament a

Bid for Supreme Efficiency

B# HECTOR C. BYWATER,

"Daily Telegraph, and Morning Post" Naval Correspondent

●RITISH naval rearmament is pro-¡ possess qualities of range, accuracy B

ceeding on a scale never before and penetration sufficient for all Moreover. requirements. approached in this or any other rational country in time of peace. At the the 14in gun has a slightly higher close of the current flauncial year rate of Are. there will be under construction and in varying stages of completion 140 vessels of all types, and substantial additions to this vast programme ure expected to be made under the Navy Estimates for 1038.

the King 1, ss is anticipated, George V. mounts more than nine heavy guns-which would be the oul- ulde number of 10in possible on the displacement-the total weight of metal she could discharge in a given period would be not greatly inferior to that of a 18 gun ship.

Those who are conversant with the salient features of the design are. con- V. will dent that the King George prove on completion to be the most efficient battleship of her day. Some foreign ships may be slightly faster, and others muy carry bigger guns; but in none, it is believed will so Just a balance between power, pro- tection and mobility be achieved.

The date unofficially specified for the completion of the nava} rearma- ment plan, as present envisaged, we should in 1942. In that year possess 25 capital ships, Including 10 of the largest and most powerful type: 40 modern 10 over-nge cruisers; nine large aircraft carriers with a collective capacity of 520 nero- planes; 150 modern destroyers, with a large reserve of older vessels, ami 05 to 70 modern submarines. This establishment may be accepted as the Irreducible minimum, for any mud-probably to be fail down. next year, fention that may be made is Bkely to be in an upward direction.

BASIS FOR CRITICISM

NEED OF PROTECTION

in the next group of battleships, the pressure of public opinion rather than the desire of the Navy itself may impel the Admirally to adopt the 10in. gun. Heferences have been heard to the moral effect on the

per-

of protection in all new capital ships as is consistent with adequate armi-

The necessity for making this presentel of knowing that their ships digious effort to restore our arned mount the biggest guns. The Navy, power al aga has been explained t however, has not forgotten the les

I have length in successive White Papersists of the lest war, and on Defence, all of which emphasise

found in its ranks an overwhelming measure "the overwhelming importance of

preference for as strong a the Navy in preserving our en coms munleations and thus ensuring to this country the supplies of seabonement-ndequate signifying necuracy food and raw materials on which its In spite of the existence depends." extraordinary development of avia tion since the Great War, nothing to Indicate that has yet occurred strategient control of the sea roulen could be secured by air power, either now or within the foreseeable future.

But if the nation as a whole is satisfied that the rebuilding of the Navy

at all practical ranges and projectiles capable of piercing thick armour in every circumsunce likely to be en- countered in action. Both conditions, It is claimed, are fulfilled by the 14in.

.

The Navy still regards the gun as the decisive arm in sea warfare, and therefore desires its new capital ships to be designed primarily as well-pro- inescapable necessity.Leeted platforms for heavy artillery. however formidable the cost, Admir-This, however, does not mean that alty policy is still being subjected to sharp criticism on important points of detall.

In particular, the construction of battleships up to the Treaty displace ment limit of 35,000 tons is con- demned by certain naval critics, who advocate ships of much smaller dimensions and more of them.

the air menace is being ignored.

When detalls of the King George V. class are released it will probably le found that these ships are not only as well protected against alr- craft bombs as they are against gun- fire, but that their powers of counter- attacking aircraft are immeasurably superior to those of our existing battleships. They promise, Indeed, to be angularly uninviting targets for aircraft.

That a reduction in the tonnage, and therefore in the first cost and maintenance charges, of all types of 35

CRUISERS AND AIRCRAFT warships is eminently desirable generally acknowledged, and would nowhere be welcomed more warmly

Turning to cruisers, the 20 now ownert than at the Admirully. For at least under construction fall into three groups: The Southampton class, 15 years the British naval authorities have been doing everything possible 0,000 to 10,000 tons, with 12 Bin. to effect such a reduction on an inter-guns; the Fiji class, 8,000 tons, with, national basis, but without much it is understood, nine ein. guns: and success. Since the principal mari-the Dido class, 6,300 tons, the arma- time Powers have agreed on certain ment of which is not yet known. maxima of tonnage and armunent. The Southampton and Fiji types are and in most cases are actually build-ocean cruisers whose main function it would surely be in war would be the policing of the ing, up to

trude routes. They could, I neces- folly for Britain, of all nations, to adopt inferior standards and buildsary, be formed into "flying squads" ships which could not thee their for- to hunt down enemy, ralders. The ciga contemporaries on equal terms. Dido units are intended to operate with the battle fleet as leaders of Such, at least, is the consensus of

destroyer folllins. opinion in the serving Navy.

'MUST REMAIN AFLOATTM

Air

Killed By A Dream

Keene, New Hampshire. Dreaming that a goat was butting him, Mr. John Mulligan, aged sixty- four, of Keent, jumped from his bed- room window and was fatally Injured,

The police who attended him after the accident ny Mulligan told them he remembered dreaming a goat was butting him and It must have "butted" him through the window. He died later in hospital.

During a heavy storm thousands of pilchards were recently washed fs believed

up on the beach at Seaford, near Adelaide, Australin, It the fish were chased inshore by a shoal of Yellowtails. They, had to be shavelled up with spades.

GREECE "LIKE

Α

NAZI

TORTURE CELL

Greece, 14 months after General Metaxas set up dictatorship, has become a great toiture chamber German-inspired Fascism.

of

HENRY COTTON Anglespike

BROADCAST GOLF SHOES

Selection of New Variety And Dance · Records LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Wavelengths of 355 metres 31:40 (045 k.c.'s.),

metres (9.52 m.e.'s).

HKT.

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral,

12.30 BBC. Wireless Millitary Band.

The Jolly Robbers - Overture Mulzeard Sword (Suppe); Kirkby Dunce-Folk Dance (arr. Cecil Sharp): Silver Jubilee March (R. Letts); The Crusader March (13, W. O'Donnell).

12.48 Cinema Organ.

'Chorus Gentlemen, Please' Reginald Dixon (The Famous Black- pool Organist); Cinema Memories... Quentin M. Maclean.

1.0 Time and Weather.

1.03 London Palladiun Orchestra. The Rose (Selection of English Melodies arr. Myddleton); Aisha (Lindsay); Wedded Whinisica (Humo rous Fantasy--arr. Alford): The Maid Of The Mountains-Selection (Fra- ser-Simson).

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Wea- ther and Announcements,

1.40 Selection of New Variety and Dance Records,

Fox-trots-Cat And Mouse; Quick- Its silver. Herbert Kuster & Plano Orchestra. Comedy Sketch- Sandy Wins The Football Pool ... Sandy Powell & Company.

Fox-Trois-Runnin' Wild; Chicken Reel.....Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots in Drumnnsties'. Vocal Duet

You Dancing Into Heaven With (Schroder Beckmann).. Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch, 'inno Crazy Days-Selection: Crest Of The Wave-Selection. Patricia Ross- They're

borough. Fox-Trots-Oh, Tough, Mighty Tough In The West; Ten Pretty Girls. Nat Gonella & His Georgians.

2.15 Cluse down.

3.05-11.0 Chinese Programme.

3. clay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.

1, Swinganola; 2, Moon Glow; 3, Poor Little Angeline; 4. In

Hula Heaven.

5.15 Interval.of recorded music music from ZDW.

Hittle

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5.20 5, Basin Street Blues; G, Take another Guess; 7. A Sallboat in the Moonlight; 8, Rockin' in Rhythm.

5.35 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

10,

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5.55 Interval of

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0.00 13, All the way from Ireland;

14, You Needn't have Kept it a

Secret: 15, Merry Widow.

H.K.T.

4.15 interval of recorded

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dance

0.20 16, These Foolish Things; 17, Boo-oo; 18, The Sheik of Araby;

10, I Can't believe it that you're in Love.

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6.30 Children's Records. Medley Of Songs. From Shirley Temple Pictures Mae Questa! (Vocal) and Victor Young & His Orchestra: More Very Young Songs (Poems by A.. A. Milne, Musle by Fraser-Simson).

(0) In the dark; (b) Us Two; his.(c) Knights and Ladies; (d) Binker: (e) Shoes and Stockings; (1) For- George Baker (Baritone). 6.45 London Relay-Music-Hall. Including Will Fyffe (Famous Scots given

Comedian) with The BBC Variety conducted by Charles Orchestra Shadwell.

This is the conviction borne in on the dictatorship. And here is what me after a visit to "Hitler's latest General Metaxas is doing with his colony," writes a correspondent to the Daily Herald.

German officers are serving in the Greek War Office. The police have been reorganised, on the lines of the Gestapo, by German experts.

And here are some examples of

The simultaneous building of five great aircraft carriers, 22,000 to 23,- But while our Ove new battleships 100 tons each, is a sufficient answer are to be, vessels of 35,000 tons, their to the charge that the Admiralty is main armament is to consist of 14in not airminded. At the Fleet guns instead of 16in, although the Arm expands, the Navy's long cher- the kind of treatment meted out to larger calibre is permissible underished plan of full tactical and strate-liberty-loving Greeks who resist the

leal co-operation between ships and Nazi domination. aircraft will be put into practice.

the London Treaty.

At first sight the selection at the lighter gun may seem a retrograde step, and it has been condemned as

GIRL'S ORDEAL

powers.

Germany supplies Greece with war material and uses her as an inter-

Franco, mediary base in sending supplies to

At one time the country's entire military stores were suddenly emp- tied, and £1,000,000 worth of mate- Greek merchant ships...; rial was sent to the Spanish rebels in

While it is more than likely that

1. Chryssa Papadopoulos, 24-year- powerful air arm will simplify pro-- ald weaver, well-known for her anti-material. auch in Parliament and elsewhere.blems of trade protection, there Fascist activilles, was taken from What, then, were the reasons prompt-appear to be no grounds for the as

the Athens Municipal Hospital to the police station. Ing the Admirnity's decision?

In the first place, the present Board --whose professional head, Adml. of the Fleet Lord Chatfleld, knows more about big ship tactles than any other man now alive-appears to have accepted the dictum of the late Adml. Tirpitz that "the first requirement of a fighting ship is that i shoukt re- main afloat."

Before the war we built capital ships with a very heavy armament combined with great speed, but in- Jutland protected. At differently

sumption ul the aircraft carrier is Intended to supersede the cruiser os the cardinal factor in trade defence.

As

There will shortly be under con- struction 40 destroyers, with an aver age displacement of 1,730 tons. the 70 cartier destroyers built since the war averaged 1,350 tons, it will be observed that a rauch more power- ful standard has recently been adopt- e for this class.

WEAKNESS OF SLOOPS The truth is that the current ship three of these ships blew up after building programme clearly reflecis the vigorous and enterprising spirit receiving only moderately severe punishment. Following that painful that now animates British naval experience the Navy "went protec-policy. The new fleet under tionist," in the sense that it demand-struction will be in all essential re- ed adequate armour detence in its spects a first-class fighting machine. capital chips, even if this meant every component of which is designed sacrificing some weight of broadside to function with full efficiency. and few knots of speed.

con-

This is not to say that the pro- MERITS OF THE 14-INCH gramme is wholly proof against criticism. Many naval officers ques- When the timo come to design the tion the wisdom of building huge air five ships of the King George V, type, craft carriers which in the nature of now building, the Admirally had to things must be exceptionally vulner keep strictly within the 35,000-tonable, and they look askance at the Imil Had a 16in armament. been multitude of feebly-armed sloops chooch, the weight available for pro- which are being built in place of the tection might have been cut by as robust, well-gunned escort vessels muchips 4,000 tons, or, alternatively, for convoy work which might with the engine power would have had to advantage have replaced these small ba drastically reduced, making the fry. ships Very much slower than their foreign "opposite numbers."

In the malt, however, the current programme commands among navpl Since exceptionally strong protec men, both netive and retired, a men- tion and adequate speel were deem-sure of approval not accorded to any was in previous building plan within my ex- ed essential, the decision favour of the now. Idin gun, which, perience of 35 years, Certainly, so although discharging a projectile per- far as the nayal side of rearmament hape 500lb to 000lb lighter than that a concerned, the taxpayer seems to of the 16in, has proved itself to be getting full value for his me jey.

Greece's olive and tobacco crops have been made over to Germany for in exchange for Wor two years

COUNTRY CHEATED This war material is sold at an outrageous price, and is such that She was made to undress, hung General Dracos, aent, by the Greek by her feet to the roof, whipped War Ministry to inspect it, found It with a knotted rope ill she fainted. | dated back to the Great War, and and then criminally assaulted. She is now about to become a mother.

2. My Informant went to ask for details about Mile. Papadopoulos in the New Spagia suburb in Athens.

When he opened the door of n little house owned by people he knew. he found three persons lying on the floor, groaning in ugony.

BEATEN FOR CHEER One had no akin to his forehead, another no nails to his fingers, and the third his leg broken by a pollee-

man..

3.-M. Pluklous, law student. nephew of the Liberal Venizelist M.P. for, Sparta, demonstrated at the

Zaj.

French the arrival of M. Minister of Education.

refused to accept it.

He was relegated to a position of obscurity in consequence.

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Germany has also been given, a monopoly for establishing broadcast- ing stations in Greece, coustal fortifications from Eleusis to Kavala constructed' under tho have been supervision of the German Colonel Harbleh, now. an influential mem- ber of the War Ministry.

BRIDE FAILED

TO SAY "YES,? HUSBAND SUES

Vienna.

It was beaten by the police. A bride who did not say "Yes" with a crowbar till his leg was

at the altar may lose her husband broken, taken to prison and left

as a result. three days without bread or water. and last dangerously fil.

Michael Koves, a young peasant living near Graz, is now. seeking 4-Castor oil is administered to divorce on the grounds that the

such political prisoners in

hugo priest who performed the wedding quantities that their digestion is ceremony falled to get an answer permanently impaired.

to his question whether the bride Sometimes the bottles of all have accepted Michael as her husband. been pushed so hard into the mouths

Several witnesses who attended the of those who resisted that wounds wedding: declared that they had have been caused to the larynx.

noticed the omission of the bride's More than 13,000 Greeks have been "Yor," but altributed it to the aliy sent into exile for their opposition to news of the young girl.

1.45 New Dance Records.

Like A Fox-Trots-I'm Fellin' Million (film 'Broadway Melody of 1038) Caravan... Nat Gonella & His Georginn.s. Sunset In Vienna (from Alm); You're Looking For Romance I'm Looking For Love... Brian Lawrence & His Lansdowne Orchestra. One In A Million (trom ils film) .. Brian Lawrance Lansdowne Orchestral.

8.0 Time. Weather and Announce- ments.

Programme--Relay 8,05 Chinese from the Po Hing Theatre.

11.0 Close down,

8.05-11.0 p.m. European Program- me from ZEK On a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.

8.05 Mendelssohn-Trio In D Minor, Op.40.

Played by Coriol, Thibaud and Casals,

8.37 Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano). Der Einsame, Op.41

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