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Two Systems

POLITICAL observers will not

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

They will show that a fundumen- tal clash between Britain and Ger-

THE GERMAN NAVY-A 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 tolis how impossible is the German task.

The Navy's Task

A NAVAL EXpert weighS OUR

SEA-POWER AGAINST GERMANY'S

Battleships and Battle Cruisers.. Aircraft Carriers Cruisers

The soa-going fleets of Britain and Germany ara as follows:

BRITAIN

15

GERMANY

7 (2 old)

7

60 (24 old)

6.

180 (82 old)

33 (5 old)

54 (10 old) 38

43

8

Destroyers

Submarines

Escort Vessels

Britain also has a large, equipping suitable merchant ships Ju trade-route raiders; she showed ¡many" for dominance in Europe is number. of minor warproficiency in this form of warfare

in 1914-18. involved. They can find plenty of

Against attacks from all surface arguments to support a claim that vessels-mincsweepers and it is primarily EL political and minelayers, patrol boats, raiders, warships and armed mer- chantment, the Admiralty has laid)

It is not possible to unter economic struggle.

motor torpedo-boats and its plans.

into the detail of those plans, but we will prove These observers will point to other craft-all of which may be sure that they

effective. British democracy's effort to make are of great value for their

varied functions in narrow

a part with Communist Russia and National Socialist Germany's actual conclusion of such a part as proof waters.

that ideologies are only shields for! From the relative strengths imperialism. Now all this must be of the two fleets (and for the considered by those who wish to

present disregarding icets of -understand. the causes of wor and

others nations whose actions-ar lo sen a just peace made. It is truc

not immediately predictable) it

Germany has no nirernfi-carriers in commission, and, apart from possible attacks on merchant ships in the North Sea near Germany, our ship- ping is unlikely to be bothered from. the air.

immeasurable improvements have been effected in the methods of hunt- Ing and destroying hostile submurines which have in

way any their presence-

This is nut to say that we shall

disclosed

that the last war did not end war will be a source of confidence to have no further losses at sen. No

plan. however, skilfully laid and

[ and That more than war is required know that at sen, at all events,emciently and courageously carried

to make the work safe for deme-

CIRLY.

睿

-Drawing from "Illustrated London News."

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

"Now that summer's about over, we'll have to think of a

new scheme to keep the bill collectors away!"

MAN'S AMAZING

out, ena ensure the avoidance of the Royal Navy will be able to casualties when face to face with a guard the nation and its friends hostile fleet mainly designed for the But any purpose of attacking trade. Yet when all that is said it will

against all assaults, whether by fosses which we do sustain will be more than counterbalanced by new he discovered that much more is

the stoppage of our food supplies shipy coming into service. involved in this struggle than a clash between national Interests.or by invasion.

And if we have to face with re-

very 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- valsion against international law-again presupposing the non-lution in treing her total severance

some degree

from stu-borne trade except, possibly,

lessness. It has in bren felt among the people of all participation of fleets at present neutral) spectacular fleet nations. It has found expression in' all kinds of agreements and insti-actions are likely.

by

no

in the Baitie.

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

But no modern State, in peace and ill less in war, can endure inde- nitely the severance of trade with other continents-particularly in the case of tropical products.

war

be-

POWER HOUSE

is there.

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

The Lion Heart tory combined. Though it is a

of piece

Sometimes there are actual mis- complicated mechanism, it can stand up to placements. The appendix, which is enormous demands when neces-th the right side in the normal way. hus been found on the left, and the sary and do overtime without heart itself has been found to be oul of position. Richard Coeur de Lion's Blinching.

heart, which was buried in Rouen The body contains 523 muscles, 130 Cathedral, was said to be on the right of which are used in controlling the side of his body; and there is a glory the effect that a duellist of the spine; but a certain number of mus- cles have no utility value nowadayseventeenth century survived a sword We possess about sixty organs which thrust through the body owing to his art of no use lo us. They are relies heart being out of position. left behind in the course of evolution,

No man's body is perfectly sym- and amongst them are the muscles metrical. In mest people the right for moving the enre.

side is better developed throughout The musele Abre is about 1-500th than the left. Right hands and right of an inch in thlekneas, and each feet are often farger than the left, muscle is made up of a great many and both sides of the face are very Abres. The bleeps, for instance,

tations designed to settle disputes, Merchant Ships As Raiders

peaceful means-arbitration

It will remain Germany's aim to treaties, the League of Nations, the safeguard her communications in the Kellogg Pact, etc,

Baltic and, by every means In her Now these aspirations have been power, to harass our sea communi- donted by a reversion to narrow cations.

The opening phase of u

in spite of the work a heart has contain about 500,000 abres, which rarely exactly the same. nationalism. exclusive economic

For this purpose, on the surface, she tween Britain and Germany, in the

are of great tensile strength. A set to do. It believes in a nine-hour day, This does not mean, of course, that cf muscles weighing as little as 12 policies, rucial absessions, hateful has two formidable battle cruisers, maritime sphere, is thus almost ex- clusively a question of cargoes-the

ounces can exercise a force of 200 it ever actually stops beating during propaganda, ruthless treaty-break Scharnhorst and Grelsenau, of 20,000 steady, maintenance and, if possible,

Ibs,

lito; but it rests after each beat, and increase of those safely reaching our

these rests total fifteen hours in every ing and aggressive attacks

tons euch, mounting 11-Inch

A Fast Shutter shores, and those of our friends; and

Twenty-four. neighbours. Even the neutrals know the three so-called pocket battle- the complete stoppage of cargoes where the balance of wrong. lien. ships of 10,000 tons also mounting reaching Germany, They sense the chief cause of un-11-inch guns, and six new cruisers

mounting 0-inch guns. rest and rearmantment and war.

on

Above all arguments from na- tional interests there rlees this: larger question of whether there is to be any law in the world. And

guns;

In this connection we may be sure that our weakners is delaying a light blockade of Germany in the late war In addition to these warships, it is deluy watch so greatly protracted test to assume that Germany is al-the length, and increased the casual ties and cost of the blockade--will ready-Il she has not already done so not be repeated.

as between statle force, insisting their own ideas, of what govern

at

*. Confident And Calm As the situation develops, the calls on peaceful adjustments of disputesment has turned back toward bar-upon our sen power, reinforced by

the splendid fleet and sailors and lawless violence admitting no bariem internally and externally-France, will certainly increase and necessity except national expansion They understand what Mr. Neville become more complicated.

These tasks may include the cur- en-Chamberlain meant when he said:

ringe oversens of troops, an operation or, personal ambition, the lightened thought of mankind will It is evil things that we'shall be which makes considerable demands: fighing › against-brute force, tad on shipping and warships. Amphibean have no trouble in choosing.

operations can never be excluded faith. Injustice, oppression and from the possibilities of a wor whost persécution, and against them I am!extent and ramifications cannot be

forecast. certain that, right will provali. A But of this the country can be well altuation in which no word given assured. Our ships, our officers and by Germany's roler bould be our men in the Navy, the Merchant Marine, the Fishing Fleets and the trusted and no people or country Royal Naval Volunteer, Rezerve ara could endure has become intolers-not only ready to meet any call made {upon them, but so far as the human ble. Now, we have resolved to element is concerned, are confident

and enimu.

The manner in which this war started, and the whole history of broken promises and military ag gression loave no doubts with those who hope that the recent resurgence of a false nationallam will prove the With- preiudo to a better world. out hatred for any nation they hava

finish it.

The body contains about nine.

while.

Some part of the body can move at very high speed. The "twinkling of an eyeild" is calculated to take Pints of blood, and normally the heart pumps about five pints a about 1-300th of a second. Impres-minute; but a trained athlete's heart sions are, transmitted along the nerves ut a 'speed of 112 feet per can deal with as much as seventeen cond or 781 miles an hour, and Bullons a minute for a limited time. In a single drop of blood there are when a boxer hits an opponent his about 5,000,000 red cells and between

twenty and thirty thousand Øst travels of about 300 mi.p.3.

The hardest working organ in the The red cells are not really red, but body is the heart, the mainspring or yellow, and they look red only when central power station of the whole massed together in millions. Laid tween 60 and 75 times a minute, and would cover, three-quarters of an organisation, Most hearts beat be- nat, the red cells of an average man a considerable variation from this acre, and placed end to end they rate is impossible without sign of would stretch, eight times round the ill-bealth; though there nave been world at the equator. This means cases of abnormal rates in Individual that the red cells of the human race cases, Napoleon's heart, for instance, would cover the surface of the enure is sald to have had a beat, of only globe.

Amongst its many abilities the 40 per minute,

The average man is exhausted It ty has great power of heating. on a. cold morning, climbs 2000 feet in an hour; but For example, the heart does sufficient work every when one is breathing air at freezing hour to raise itself to three times soint, the waste air is exhaled from its height, and in a lifetime of seventy the lungs by way of the nose at a years does enough work to throw temperature 40 degrees higher,

The skin of the average adult con- Itself 2,000,000 miles.

The heart is not, as is generally faine 2,000,000 pores. It only one- believed, on the left side of the body, third of these are destroyed death When a Peraian dancer, As far as area goes, there is the same eraUUS. amount of heart on one side as on painted her body with gold she died the other, but the fact that the heart in a few hours."

Harry CurwEN. beat is felt on the left side gives