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Two Systems

POLITICAL absorvers will not

fail to claim that the war in Europe is in some senses a continua- tion of the World War.

THE GERMAN NAVY.—Ä conspectus of the Fleet with which the Nazis hope against hope to match the powerful British Navy through U-Boat and aircraft sinkings of British warships. The article below tells how impossible is the German task.

-Drawing from "Illustrated London News."

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

The Navy's Task

Á NÁVAL EXPERT WEIGHS OUR

SEA-POWER AGAINST GERMANY'S

Battleships and Battle Cruisers Aircraft Carriers Cruisors

The rea-going fleets of Britain and Germany are as follows:

BRITAIN

15

GERMANY

7 (2 old)

7

60 (24 old)

6

180 182 old)

33 (5 old)

54 (10 old) 38

43

&

Destroyers Submarines

Escort Vessels

Britain also has a large,-equipping suitable merchant ships number of minor

They will show that a fundamen- tal clash between Britain and Ger- many for dominance in Europe is involved. They can find plenty of arguments to support a claim that vessels-minesweepers and

it is primarily a economic struggle.

as trade-route raiders; she showed war proficiency in this form of warfare

in 1914-10.

has

Jald

Against attacks from all surface political and minelayers, patrol boats, raiders, warships and armed mer

chantment, the Admiralty motor torpedo-boats and its plans. It is not possible to enter Into the detail of those plans, but we they will prove These observers will point to other craft-all of which may be sure that

effective.

British democrncy's effort to make are of great value for their

a pact with Communist Russia and

Germany has no aircraft-carriers in

attacks on merchant ships in the North Sen neur Germany, our ship iping is unlikely to be bothered from

National Socialist Germany's actual varied functions in narrow commission, and, apart from possible conclusion of such a paet as proof waters. that Ideologies are only shields for, imperialism. Now all this must bo considered by those who wish to understand the causes of war and to see a just peace made. It is true!

Immeasurable improvements have been effected in the methods of hunt-

way which have in any

disclosed

From the relative strengths the air. of the two fleets (and for the present disregarding fleets of ing and destroying hostile submarines others nations whose actiona ure their presence.. not-immediately predictable)_it |--This-is-not-to-my-that we shall that the last war did not end wat will be a source of confidence to have no further losses at seo.

plan, however, skilfully sid nad know that at sea, at all events,emciently and courageously carried the Royal Navy will be able to casualties when face to face with a of the avoidance out, cum ensure guard the nation and its friends hostile fleet mainly designed for the But any purpose of attacking trade. against all assaults, whether by fosses which we do sustain will be more than counterbalanced by new the atoppage of our food supplies ships enraing into service.

and that more than war is required

to make the world safe for demo-

cracy,

Yet when all that is said it will

No

very

"Now that summer's about over, we'll have to think of a new schome to keep the bill collectors away!"

MAN'S AMAZING POWER HOUSE

THE body is a power station, the impression that the whole heart workshop, and chemical labora- is there.

The Lion Heart tory combined. Though it is n

complicated piece of Sometimes there are actual mis- The appendix, which is mechanism, it can stand up to facements, enormous demands when neces.cn the right side in the normal way. a been found on the left, and the

flinching.

be dincovered that much more is involved in this struggle than a clash between national interests, or by invasion.

And if we have to face with re- Because of the great disparity solution the occasional loss of mer- There has been steadily growing an aspiration for world order, a re-between the opposing fleets (and chant ships and their gallant crews, Germany will need much greater re- vulsion against international law-again presupposing the non-solution in facing her total severance reaness. It has in some degree | participation of ffects at present from sea-borne trade except, possibly Bary and do overtime without heart itself has been found to be out been felt among the people of all nations. It has found expression in neutral) no spectaculor fleetj all kinds of agreements and instinctions are likely. tutions designed to settle disputes! Merchant Ships As Raiders by pronou means-urbitration treaties, the League of Nations, the. Kellogg Pact, etc.

in the Balue.

It is true that the potency of a blockade has been reduced to some extent by Germany's recent diplo- nutie successes in the East and South East of Europe.

But no modern State, in peace and endure Jode- tess in war, can nitely the severance of trade with: other continents-particularly in the ense of troplenl products.

It will remain Germany's aim to safeguard her communications in the Baltic and, by every mens in her Now these aspirations have been power, to harass otr sea communi- denled by reversion to narrow cations,

The opening phase of a war be nationalism, exclusive economic

For this purpose, on the surface, she tween Britain and Germany, in the policies, racial obsessions, hateful has two formidable battle cruisers, maritime sphere, is thus almost ex- clusively a question of cargoes-the propaganda, ruthless treaty-break-Scharnhorst and Gneisena, of 20,000 steady, maintenance and, if possible. increase those safely ranching our ing and aggressive attacks on tons each, mounting 11-inch gans; shores, the those of our friends; and|

"pockel baile-the neighbours. Even the neutrals know the three so-called

complete stoppage of cargoes where the balance of wrong lies.jships" of 10,000 tons also mounting reaching Germany,

In this connection we may be sure They sense the chief cause of un-11-inch guns, and six new cutsers

that our weakness is delaying a Ught mounting B-Inch guns.

blockade of Germany in the late war rest and rearmament and war.

In addition to these warships, it is a delay which so greatly protracted Above all arguments, from na-

best to assume that Cermany is al- the length, and increased the count- ties and cost of the blockade--will tional interests thoro risen this ready-if she has not already done so not be repented. larger question of whether there is to be any Inw in the world. And

of position. Richard Coeur de Lion's heart, which was buried in Rouen The body contains 520 muscles, 130 Cathedral, was cnid to be on the right of which are used in controlling the side of his body; and there is a story apine; but a certain number of must the effect that a ducilist of the cles have no utility value nowadays, seventeenth century survived a sword We possess about sixty organs which thrust through the body owing to his ata of no use to us. They are relles heart being out of position, telt behind in the course of ovalution, No man's body is perfectly aym- and amongst them are the muscles metrical. In most people the right for moving the cars.

side is better developed throughout The muscle. Obre la about 1-500th than the left. Right hands and right of an inch in thickness, and each feet are often larger than the left. muscle is made up of a great many and both sides of the face are very fibres. The bicepa, for instance, rarely exactly the same, contain about 500,000 bres, which are of great tensile strength. A set of muscles weighing as little as 12 ounces enn exercise a force of 200 11.3. A Fast Shutter

In spite of the work a heart has to to, it believes in a nine-hour day. This does not menn, of course, that it over actually stops beating during life; but it resis after each beat, and these rests total fifteen hours in every twenty-four.

Some part of the body can move The body contains about nine at very high speed. The "twinkling pints of blood, and normally the of an eyelid is calculated to take heart pumps about Ave Plats a about 1-800th of a second. Impres minute; but a trained athlete's heart. sions are transmitted along the

can deal with, as much as seventeen nerven at a speed of 112 feet per gallons a minute for a limited time. econd or 70 miles an hour, and In a single drop of blood there are when a boxer hits an opponent his about 5,000,000 red cells and between fst travels at about 360 m.p.h.

twenty and thirty thousand white. The hardest working organ in the The red cells are not really red, but Confident And Calm

body is the heart, the mainspring or yellow, and Utey look red only when An the situation develops, the calls central power station of the whole massed together in millions. Laid as between static force, insisting their own ideas of what govern-

tween 60 and 78. times a minute, and would cover three-quarters of an on peaceful adjustments of disputes ment has turned back toward bar upon our sea power, reinforced by organisation. Most hearts beat beat, the red cells of an average man

the splendid feet and sailors

a considerablo variation from this acre, and placed end to end they and lawless violonce numitting no bariam internally and externally. France, will certainly increase und

rufe is impossible without sign of would stretch eight times round the Il-health, though there have been world at the equator. This means" necessity except national expansion They understand what Mr. Nevllie become more compileated.

These tasks may include the car cases of abnormal rates in individual that the red cells of the human race en Chamberlain meant when he said: for personal ambition, the

riage oversens of troops, an operation cases, Napoleon's heart, for instance, would cover the surface of the entire It is evil things that we shall be which makes considerable demanda is said to have had a beat of only globe... lightened thought of mankind will

Amongst le many ablilties the Gghting_agalust-brute force, bad on shipping and warships: Amphibean 40 per minute.

The average man is exhausted if operations can nover be excluded

ly has have no trouble in choosing.

grent power of beating. Fall Injustice, oppression and from the possibilities of a war whosej, a climbs 2000 feel in an hour; but For example, on a cold morning. the heart dues sufficient work every when one is breathing air at freezing persecution, and against them I am! extent and ramifications cannot be

forecast.

hour to raise Itself to three times oint, the waste air is exhaled from certain that right will prevail. Aj But of this the country can be well its height, and in a lifetime of seventy the lungs, by way of the nose at a situation in which no word given assured. Our ships, our officers and years does enough work. to throw temperature 40 degrees higher,,{"

The skin of the average adult; con- by Germany's ruler could be our men in the Navy, the Merchant. Itself 2,000,000 miles, preg

Marine, the Fishing Fleets and the The heart is not, as is generally taina 3,000,000, pores it only one- trusted and no people or country Royal Naval, Volunteer. Reserve are believed, on the left side of the body. third of these are destroyed death.

When a Persian dancer: could endure has become intolera- not only ready to meet any call made. As far as aren goes, there is the same ensues, ble. Now we have resolved to upon them, but so far as the human amount of heart on one side as on painind her body with gold she died

element is concerned, are confident the other, but the fact that the heart in a few hours. and calm nnish it..

bent is felt on the left side gived!!**

The manner in which this war started, and the whole history of broken promisan and military 'ag. gression leave no doubts with those who hope that the recent resurgence of a false nationalism will prove the prelude to a better world. With out hatred for any nation they have

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