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Balkan Peace

The Balkan peasant, whose num-

has not yet inflamed the fanaticisms

examplé. acted on

There are 80 many demands on record, and so

has

Hopeless Hermann: You guys may laugh, but this new uniform cost me 60 coupons.

ALL KINDS OF CLOTHING-INCLUDING UNDERCLOTHES-ARE NOW STRICTLY RATIONED IN GERMANY.

STALIN WANTS

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USSIA'S increased in- fluence in the Baltic during recent weeks

is obviously related to the ambition of the

Soviet

a

GREAT

A

NAVY

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about six of these ships are completed. They have been in-- fluenced by Italian design, and simllar dimensions, the Tash- a large Russian destroyer of: kend, was completed last year by Italian shipbuilders.

to mention

leaders to make the U.S.S.R. in one they upset the balance of from one or two modern cruisers a great naval Power, which all. It is perhaps for that rea- and two flotillas of destroyers it certainly is not at pre- son that shipbuilding has been built or building, the Soviet sent. This idea of a power- the least successful of the Rus- Flect consists for the most part ful Russian Fleet is as old sian industries since the Revolu- of "museum pieces."

tion. In fact, the total output The capital ships, of which

Three capital ships of 35,000- bers make him the most important as Peter the Great, who, of the Soviet shipyards since there are three, were laid down

are projected, and it is person in that part of the world, poor, however, had certain ad- 1917 has been something less in 1909 and completed in 1915.

normal year's output They have undergone several tons illiterate, tilling his soll In an ancient, Vantages over the existing than a

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lucky that the madness to the north the wisdom to know that the formidable enough in a peaceful known to

These probleme, which are but their general condition is these is to be laid down at Leningrad some time this year, be unsatisfactory, when

manufactured and it is doubtful if they would but in view of the time taken by on which his own rulers have beca first essential in building a Europe, nourished. The cynical might be large fleet entailed not only products essential to shipbuild- be of any fighting value. One the Russian shipbuilders to build surprised that in this most turbulent the acquisition of naval ing and marine engineering can of these vessels, the Pariskaya destroyers-not

years before we see a modern. region acquisitiveness has not yet bases, but also the building be freely imported, may be re- Kummuna, which was formerly cargo ship-it will be many

garded as insuperable to-day the Sevastopol, built in 1911, of ships, and that in turn with three of the greatest Euro- made a voyage to the Black Sen Russian-built capital ship. It many determined refusals, Hungary meant the creation of pean Powers at war.

some nine years ago, and the is indeed doubtful if the battle- Transylvania wanted

reason for her remaining there ships have got further than the from shipbuilding industry.

Four Strategic Positions

design stage, which, to the The Soviet authorities have is said to be her inability to risk Russian mind, often means as Rumania, while Bulgaria asks from With that object in view her the Southern Dobruja, with a Peter went to the Thames to always been reticent with re- the return voyage to the Baltic. much as the completed job.

Two cruisers of about 8,000 piece, perhaps, of Macedonia from study the art and craft of gard to their shipbuilding pro-

Mercantile Marine Yugo-Slavia-and-a-port on the Egan-ship-construction-and-if-to-day-duction, but in view of the tons, carrying 7.1-inch guns,

i recent Another-example-of-the- from Greece. This time of general Stalin were to follow that ex tonnage they have ordered from have been completed in insecurity,

the with

grent Jaw ample by a few months' ship abroad and the many old ships years, and two or three others Russian enigma is the Soviet abiders and the great lawless

building training on, say, the which they have still in service, are reported to be under cons- mercantile marine. There, too, cupied elsewhere, might have seemed Clyde, Belfast, or the North- It is obvious that their own in- truction. These cruisers, a 12, the greatest secrecy has been ideal for the armed pursuit of some East Coast he would go back to dustry is still a long way from 000-ton aircraft carrier (con- observed, but, following years of these aims, which, often enough, Russia with the knowledge that meeting Soviet requirements. verted from a half-built cruiser of the utmost reticence relating are almost affairs of consclence with

more Five-Year Plans than he Numerically, particularly laid down in 1914), a cruiser- to. their merchant navy, the Soviet authorities wont to the those who follow them. One such

will live to вес carried with regard to submarines, the minelayer of 3,500 tons, and attempt would have plunged the whole Balkans into militant chaos. through would be necessary to Soviet Fleet is believed to be few large destroyers are the other extreme a few months ago by publishing a "Register Why has one not yet been made? It reorganise Russia's shipbuilding considerable, but that Fleet has Intest units of the Soviet Fleet.

Eight large destroyers, which of Shipping of the U.S.S.R.," is, of course, possible that even among industry to a standard commen- to protect strategic positions there peoples the effects of modem surate with the sea-power ambi- in the Baltic, the White Sea, the are really light cruisers, each which contains more details and Black Sea, and the Far East. of about 2,700 tons displace- particulares of ships than any war are seen for what they are. But tions of the Soviets.

Submarines alone (to quote ment and fitted with 5.1inch existing shipping register. No there are active elements of stability,

Signor Mussolini) do not make guns, have been under construc- fewer than 20 columns are de- and one of the most powerful

Naval construction and the a great naval Power, and in tion at Leningrad in recent voted to each vessel. According among them is the Influence of Italy. Italy, in her stronger periods, has ship-building industry have been other classes of tonnage, apart years. It is understood that to this register, which is in always looked towards South-eastern more or less neglected by the Europe. In the Middle Ages her first of two Five-Year Plans, rulers allied themselves by marriage although Kalinin, the President to the royal houses of Serbia, of the Supreme Council of the Hungary, and Bulgaria. The mer-U.S.S.R., has been exhorting the chants of Venice held the commerce Soviet shipbuilders to overtake of the Levant in their hands, and the foremost capitalist sen when the Turks swept trito Soulliern Europe they found in this city ene Powers," So far the "Bolshevi of their most obstinate enemies. This sation" of the Navy and the line of history lends Italy quite shipbuilding industry has not]

into the Balkans to-day been helpful. Commissurs and She has now another reason for

the peacefulness of these naval officers do not make a Husslan Communism is team, and is not surprising that attempting to march westwards; discipline should go by the board from Hungary's new frontier with when the political chiefs take Russia ta little more than three hundred miles to the Italian border. priority over the officers trained

It is not only that a Russion ap-in naval strategy.

As for shipbuilding, the prob- pearance in the Balkans brings a second Great Power within striking distance of Italy, but that it would lems which confront the Soviet mean the spread of a doctrine which authorities are obvious. It is Italy, with the Papacy, considers the the greatest of all assembling great modern evil. For Italy the industries, and is therefore the effect of a Russian entry into Bucharest would be little different most difficult to nationalise from that shock which Europe ex-Buccessfully. Innumerable other

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perienced when the Infidel Turks Imocked at the gates of Vienna in 1683. Italy's regard for the Balkans

In a discreet compound of interests

and Ideals. War in the Balkans would mean heavy material losses for her, and she would. naturally seek to restrain its causCE,

Balkan:

Kalinin's Advice

the German troops on her frontier. Every effort Italy makes for peace In the Balkans will strengthen her, for The one hope of the States withstanding that possible if that peace collapses the way is while open to Germany, which, expansion of the war begun to the north, which it is one of Italy's de-Russia is no more than a threat, is the clared objects to avoid, is for their real danger to Balkan Independence. nmicable settlement or postponement of their own clairis on each other. Italy's task and respon

Tho Balkan Elbility are great.

Yugo-Slavis, Entente (Rumania,

Should it Turkey, and Greece), self be a stabilising force, but li has lost most of its strength by Yugo- Slavia's unhappy consciousness of

The British alliance with Turkey and guarantees to Rumania and Geneca themselves form the basis of a system which aims at keeping two ngstressive giants out of that corner of Europe. It is a system with which Italy, whose nim is a Bäikan peace, should sym- pathie and which she could do much to support.

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APT-BS 84

Russian and English, the Soviet merchant fleet comprises some

vessels, compared with..

By Lichtyout 9,000 ships in the British

think maybe l'outa sea a oculist, Otto!1-been seein'

double fataly !!

Empire merchant navy.

are

Many of the Russian ships:

foreign-built, mainly British, including about 100 cargo vessels built in British ahipyards before the Revolution, while tonnage below. 1,000 tons. gross includes some vessels built. in this country over 70 years ago.

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An analysis of this new re-- gister of Soviet shipping was given in the "Shipbuilding and: Shipping Record" of October 12,.. in which it was stated that only. half of the ships on the register can be of use as ocean-going". shipping, the remainder being such as miscellaneous craft barges, coasters, and trawlers.. It was added that of the Russian-built ships of over 1,000 tons entered in the register- most have been built at the Leningrad. Shipbuilding Yard. and the Baltic Shipbuilding and Engineering Works.

The Leningrad yard has built 16 vessels and the Baitle yard; about 20, all below 5,000 tons. Above that figure are some half-- dozen ships of about 6,000 tons, most of which have been built by the Sormova Works, ** ANI thena now ships from the Rus SUM PLEASE Turn To Pas