HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-7-22, Page 7IED FISHER WGREATEST
NAVAL GENIUS SINCE NELSON
The British Navy hi its. Modern Form. Was Undoubtedly the
Creation o f the First Sea Lord, W1 o Won an /II -mortal
Place Among the Heroes of the Great War.
Admiral Tohn Arbuthnot Fisher, tegic disposition of the fleet, and,
First Baron of I' tiverstone arid farm- threw no less than 150 warships, from.
er First Lord of the. Ada -twenty passed immense ironelads to light cruisers,'
away on .July 10,. Lard Fisher had into the scrap -heap as obsolete and
been serioesly ill since early in May, out -o1 date.
when he nderwent an operation. Being a reformer by nature, Lord
The Late Lord Fisher. FLeher's attack on the British Naval
Born, 1841; entered British `Tait', Admhdetration in September, 1919,
1854;,: Iic,ztenant, 1860, an which he denounced the expendi-
Served tint Crimean, Chiitesa, and tures being made as ruinous, m.igltt
have been expected, but it caused a
great sensation throughout the Bri-
tish Empire. Later Lord Fisher de-
clared that in the submarine he saw
Egyptian wars, 1855.882. •
Commander of the famous Inliex
rle, 1882.
Director of naval ordnance, 1886-
1891 the future seafighter and that the de-
Controller of the Navy and Lord velopment of aviation had made in-
cf the Admiralty, 1892-1817, vasion of Great Britain impracticable.
Commander-in-chief North Ameri- Greatest Modern Sailor.
can aril West Indies stations, 1897- Lord Fisher was one of the most
1899, uieturesque characters the British
Ccar nander-in-chief, Mediterranean Navy has had since Nelson. He be-
gan without friends or influence, and
t ecot*4 Sea Lcrd of. . Admiralty, by :beer force of intellect and will
1i?02-1:.03. ecly<need to the highest position of
station, 1899-19022.
"PELICAN" ON ANNUAL TRIP
S.S. "Pelican" leaving Mcntreal on its annual Huds
"Pelican" is an old battle,=hip and w as one of the first
in fighting enemy subs.
I3ay trip. The
carry "6" gums.
PROGRESS IN COM-
MERCIAL AVIATION
Shown at Air Exhibition Be-
Caninlandem-in•ehief Ix()rt #noutl3 `ail,the.e.siti whichinspire-
1f,03-1904.
g ' in"
p on le the inspire-
1f'O3-1904. . tion of every officer in the service-
First
ervice,First Sea Lord of;Admiralty,-U04 Pc grew up in a ' h echoal, and
1t+Itt ;and 1914-1915. learned to take and give hard knocks.
Admiralty..
;Ona
•atl em t .�
that he �
Lord �was not an easy
d ofy
Lore] Tither• Megan his naval career! reran to Worle with; but he head ruff-
iss 1S' 4 and while on active ery ce (lent 1*r aim pc,wcr to have little need
tool: pay t in ilia ('rimea,a, (.'hii�ese of collaboration, and some of the meet
rine] Ep' ntian wars. Ile became Lord imraxt int reforms tint he brought
the. a, „_+ ethont were the esu t of struggles into
of t �dMir alty m i 18 rel k
Held iia London..
A despatch from London says: -The I
remarkable progress whiclh Great I3ri-
tam h.., n.
ads during the5 year g,a.tt
commercial aviation was evident at
the opening of the air exhi-
bition at the Olympia, the largest air!
show ever staged. Speakirti of what
strides England has made, Generals
Sykes, controller general of civil avia-
tion, stated that during the last year
there had been 38,95.1 flights covering
nearly 750,000 miles, 70,000 passen-'
gers carried and more than 116,000i
pounds of t
n ceche m=
nd a trans orted
p ,
although only 519 registered planes
were used.
"We have conquered the air, and our
immediate task is to exploit our vic-
tory in the interest of commercial de-
velopment," General . Sykes stated,.
adding that only one plane .tet with
a fatal accident.
The Olympia exhibition, which has
displays by all of the British airplane.
manufacturers, is unique in that it
shows airplanes with sleeping com-
partments, airplane limousines and
air jitneys.
Air travel is becoming so popular
between here and the continent that
it was suggested at the Olympia that
facilities for straphangers would aeon
be available on. the machines flying
from here to Paris and Brussels.
Fat, 1.:,, d c,f the Aal 'salty in Hot; which he entered single handed. The
1„ t It z,e t he Ixelrl for Glx years. a
Admiral "Jacky" Fisher
One, of Britain's most famous "bull-
dogs," who has just passed away. He
was a fearless tighter and naval re-
former and lived to see the subjection
of the power that threatened the su-
premacy of the Mistress of the Seas.
He was one of the few .ten who saw
the menace of Germany in her naval
programme.
dreadnought was Fisher's idea, ro
taus tete battle cruiser. He did not
invent the turbiee engine, but it was
due i to his persistent i,tena � v
ad o,.a
cy that
it was generally adopted in the navy.
i It was :deo his idea to use the water-
!
ater
`turhe boiler; the,; is to say, to have
the fire where the water was, and
the water where the fire wen, an in:-
praveme .t that made it posy ids to
get up steam in a ship in twenty min-
utes. instead of seven hours. To use
oil as fuel was a:so Fisher's idea.
Did any other naval expert ever
invent or adapt so many important
improvements? Yet they are by no
means all that stand to the credit of
Lord Fisher. He devised the system
of m>_zeleus erewa for warships, where-
by a ship would always have its com-
plement of brains .aboard and could
sent its extra man power wherever
it was needed, or take the -crude, raw
article and fit it into position instant-
ly. But perhaps the greatest stroke
of all, whereby the strength of the
British fleet was kept in the North
Sea. was in carrying out Nelson's old
maxim that your battleground should
be your drill ground, Of course, the
Entente with France was necessary
before this revolutionary change in
naval strategy could be achieved, but
the Entente might have been in exist-
ence and the British fleet scattered all
over the seven seas had the navy
been without a man like Fisher. One
does not like to imagine the Great
War breaking out, the German navy
at Kiel and the British ships station-
ed all over the Mediterranean, the
China Sea, and the Pacific, as had
been the immemorial practice before
Fisher became First Sea Lord. •
Xe emerged from retirement in
October, 1914, to resume his post as
First Sea Lord of the Admiralty and i
direct the naval warfare against Ger-,
many. His vigorous policy caused.
hint to be termed "the Kitchener of
the navy," and chief credit has been
claimed for him in the _bottling up
of the German navy. Cabinet dis-
putes led td* his resignation in. May,
1915, but he continued to serve the
British- Government in various capa-
cities throughout the war, and was
a prominent naval critic.
Lord Fisher was born on the
Island of Ceylon, January 25, 1841,
and was the son of Captain William
Fisher,• of a Highland regiment sta-
tioned in the east at the time, He
entered the navy when but thirteen
years -of age, and was commissioned
n lieutenant in 1860. From this `time
en his' rise in the service was con--
tinuous. He was married in 1866 to
Miss Frances Broughton, who died
in 1918..He is survived by one son
and three daughters.
Britain's Idol.
Lord Fisher was for many years a
popular idol in Great Britain, enjoy-
ing the affection and confidence of
evexy rank of the people. He was
known as the "father of the dread-
nought," 'because he was . the first to
realize the vast power of this type of
warship, During his term as First
Sea Lord of the Admiralty, from
1:904 to 1910,.he virtually revolution-
ized the navy, He entirely changed
the elcl-establisked and worn-out etre
GREEKS ADVANCING
FAR PAST BRUSSA
Enemy Reported Annihilated
and Artillery Captured.
A despatch from Smyrna says: -
An official communique issued from
Army Headquarters on Thursday
says that the advanced guard of the
Greek forces has reached a. line 15
kilometres beyond Brussa. •
"We annihilated the enemy en-
trenched in the region of Brussa,
capturing all his artillery," the state-
ment adds.
A despatch from Constantinople
says: -Major Venizelos, •son of the
Greek Premier, commanded the artil-
lery of the 'Greek forces which re-
cently entered Brussa,
As the Greeks approached thecity
the Nationalists waved a white flag;
but treacherously ]tilled a Greek who
was sent to confer with them. There-
upon, Major Venizelos ordered the
artillery to openfire, killing many
Turks and quieting all opposition, so
that the Greek flag was hoisted speed-
ily over the Town Hall of the most
hhistsrle city of the Osmnanlis,
32 CANADIAN
SI-I?PS FINISHED
Out of 63 in Course of Con-
struction For Mercantile -
Marine.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Such satisfactory progress is being
made with the construction of Can-
ada's mercantile marine fleet that it
is believed in Government circles that
the whole fleet of 63 vessels 'will be
in eommission by March 31 next, the
end of the current fiscal year.
Up to the present time 32 vessels
have been finished, and splendid head-
way is being made with the other half
of the fleet. Particularly ,good pro-
gress is being made at the Montreal,
St. • John, Collingwood and Port
Arthur yards.
Several vessels of large tonnage
being built in inland yards will be
utilized in ocean-going services, and
it will be necessary to bring them
through the canals to the St. Law-
rence in sections.
Hood is Largest of
World's Battleships
.A. despatch from Yokosuka, Japan,
says: -The Japanese battleship Mut-
su, recently launched here, is closely
comparable with the newest American
battleship, the Maryland, launched at
Newport News, in March. Both war-
ships, however, are considerably
smaller and less speedy than the great
British battleship cruiser Hood,
launched on tho Clyde, in August,
1918. The Hood, on the other hand,
is armed with 15 -inch guns in her
main battery, while the Mutsu an the
Maryland will have an equal number.
of 16 -inch rifles.
an..
Canada's fisheries have doubled in
value since 1914.
Spa As a Health Resort
Spa has a deubleinterest at present-
o • those v. o ate seeking, health after
the direase of war and for health-
.: eekcrs in the ordinary way, in addi-
tion to tba interest it bolts et the
present i:tonient as the scene of the
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t. i.a
fs
rer.0e,
''Elba � �• •-„
--Within
test kilome�mea of the German
fronts., Spa, invaded on August 4,
1914, was transformed by the Germans
into a huge sanatorium aed eonveles-
vent : iatic,n. In March, 1919, it be-
came the al -,ode of the German G.H.
Q.,. and from thence, on the evening
of "November 9, fled William Iiokien•
zollera* h,.eing signed his abtiieation
at the hotel Britannielue, Frent
Nov-
ember,t}IK,to
July,
1919,the I
te,
-
natiol
Armistice Commi=cion held
its a is M•., at Spa, and it has now.
been .ho:.n for the ,Meetings of the
Supreme Connell Of the Altiv . Spa
did net e•ea ire scot-free. 'She Casino,
oeeupit'.l b the fxni•in na, was de-
stroya,i ! y fire iii 1917, the wonderful
"Etainieeement des Beira" was sack-
ed, and its beautiful apparatus and
fittingwere carried off to Gerxuany;•
the I.ixt:ilous hotels and villas inhab-
ited by the enemy's soldiers Were
mere t rocks. But by dint of hard
work these disasters have been re-
paired, and nothing has been spared
to restore the "Queen of Europe's
watering -places" tp the dignity she
has lone; possessed.
Facts.
The sugar output of Cuba bas risen
by more than a million tons since
1914.
The owl is regarded as a bird of i11
amen by the Maoris of New Zealand.
The Chinese language as spoken is
quite different front the written lang-
uage.
Germany claims to have handed
aver to the Allies a commercial fleet
worth 3425,000,000.
Towards the cost of the British
Army of Occupation on the Rhine, Ger-
many has so far contributed $20,000,-
000,
5,000 guns and 24,500 machine-guns
had been destroyed in Germany under
the terms of the Peace Treaty by the
beginning of May.
Fossilized bones of a huge elephant
recently discovered in France include
a tusk weighing 440 pounds, and a
tooth weighing 17 pounds. Scientists
say that the animal must have stood
over 13 ft. high.
Hon. I. A. Tuschereau
Who 'succeeds Sir LonierGouin as
Prime Minister of Quebec.
Markets of the World
Wholesale Grain.
Toronto, July 20. -Man, wheat -No.
1 Northern, $3.15; No, 2 Northern,
$3.12; No. 3 Northern, $3.08, in store
Fort William,
Manitoba oats --No. 2 CW, $1.14;
No. 3 CW, $1.10; extra No. 1 feed,
$1.00%; No. 1 feed, $1.09; No. 2 feed, 1
$1.053 , in store Fart William,
Manitoba barley :No. 3 CW, $1.72;
No. 4 CW, $1.40; rejected, $1.25; feed,;
$1.35, in store Fort William.
Ameriean corn --No. 3 yellow, $3.30; a
nominal, track, Toronto, prom; t ship-
nient.
Ontario oats --No. 3, white, nominal, i
Ontario wheat -=No. 1 Winter, per!
car lot, $2 to $2.01; No: 2, do, $1.98-1
o $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.93, f.o,
b. shipping points, according to
freights.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, per
car lot, $2.02 to $2.03; No, 2 do, $1.981
b. shipping points, according to,to 82.01; No. 3 do, $1.95 to $2.01, fan
freights.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -Malting, $1.84 to $1.86, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat --No. 2, nominal,
Rye -No. 3220 to $2.25, accosd-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Government stand-
ard, $14.85, Torente.
Ontario four --Government stand-
ard, $12.90, nominal.
:iii:;feed••--Car lots, delivered Mort-
reaI freights, bags included: Brun, per
ton, +5 ,,a2; eh ,., .oft.,
feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00ten. $61; good
Hay --No, 1,per ton. $31; mixed],
perton,, ..7
3 , track.
Straw --Car lots, per tin. $15 to 316,
track, Toror.to.
Country Produce• -Wholesale.
Cheese•--- New, large ,2 to 3 xr;
twins, 32% to 3$? e; triplet's, 28,x_ to
34c; old, 8
large, .,4 to 3uc; do, .twine,,
34% to 35x' e; Stiitens, old, 36 to f
"die; new, 14 to 35e.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
50e; creamery printa 59 to 62.,
Margarine -35 W
29,
.
Eg8c-
-No. 1, 56 to 57e; selects. 58
to 59e.
I5resse.l poultry iprieg hi.ket e.
60e; rooster 30,; fowl, 35e; t'irke+, s,
58 to 60e; dads:ii ns, .,8 tt, We; '"lua1.=. !
doz., 81.50.
Live poultry --Spring ebic'ke,m c, dOt;
roosters, 26e; fowl. 30e; ducklings,
30e.
Beans--( n::,Uan h �1-p kc(', bur..
$5.25; primes, $4 Japans. 5; Lintas,
Madagaseam, S12; Japan. 10 to Ile.
?staple products-3ye-Syrup, per imp.
gal., $3.40 to $3.50; per 5 nap. gals.,
$3.25 to $3,40. Maple sugar, lb., 271
to 30c.
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Provisions -Wholesale.
Smoked meats•-Ifares, med., 45 to
49c; heavy, 40 to 420; cooked. 63 to!
66c; rolls, 34 to 36c; cottage rolls, j
39 to 41c; breakfast bacon, 4e: to i:2e;
barks, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 581
to 64c.
Cured meats -Long cleat bacon, 27
to 280; clear bellies, 26 to 27e.
Lard -Pure tierces, 28 to 28%c;
tubs, 28% to 29e; pail:;, 28% to 29.1;
prints, 29% to 30e. Compound tierces,
25 to 25See; tubs, 26 to 261;;c; pairs,
2614, to 269°; c; prints, 27 to 27 ,5e,.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, July 20. -Oats, Canadian
West., No. 2, 31.38 to $1.40; do, No. 8,
$1.86 to $1.37, Flour, new standard
grade, $14.85 to $15.05. Rolled oats,
bag of 90 lbs., $5.90 to $5.95. Bran,
$54.25. Shorts, $6125. Cheese, finest
eastern, 27%c. Butter, choicest
creamery, 60 to 61c. Eggs, fresh, 60e.
Potatoes, ber bag, ear lots, $5.60.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, July 20. ---Choice heavy
steers, $15.50 to $16; good heavy
steers, $15 to $15,25; butchers' cattle,
choice, $14.50 to $15; do, good, $14
to $14.25; do, need., $11.75 to $12.25;
do, coin., $9 to $10; bulls, choice, $10
to $12.25; do, good, $9.50 to $11; do,
rough, $6 to $8; butchers' Bows, choice,
$11.75 to $12.25; do, good, 311 to
$11.25; do, coin., $6,50 to $7.50 stock
ers, $9 to $11; feeders, $11 to $12.50;
canners and cutters, $5 to $6.25; milk-
ers,�good to choice, $100 to $165; do,•
coin. and med., $65 to $75; lambs,
yearlings, $12 to $13; do, spring,
$16.50 to $18; calves, good to choice,
$16.50 to $18; sheep, $6.50 to $9; hogs,
fed and watered, $20.75; do, weighed
off cars, $21; do, fo.b., $19.75; do, do,
country points, $19.50.
Montreal, July 20. -Butcher: steers,
corn., $8 to $10.50; butcher heifers,
med., 39.50 to $11.50; corn., $6.50 to
$9; butcher cows, choice, $10 to $12;
med., $6 to $9; canners, $3 to $4.50;.
cutters, $4.50 to 35.50; butcher bulls,
coin., $6 to $8. Good veal, $11.50 to
$13.50; med., $6 to $11; grass, $6 to
$8. Ewes, $6 to $9.50; lambs, goad,
$14.50, to $16; corn., $12 to $14. Hogs,
off -car weights, selects, 320.50 to $21;
sows, $16.50 to $17.
Manitoba celebrated her fiftieth
birthday on July 15. She entered the
Confederation in 1870. The anniver-
sary was marked by the formal open-
ing of the completed Provincial Par-
liament Buildings.
TO TRAVEL 2,000 MILES
TO TRY ESKIMO CASE!
Canadian. Government Sends
Judge Into Hudson Bay
Territory.
A .despatch from. Ottawa says;-Aw,
a stop -over on their long journey
back to the land of endless 'ice and f
snow, Sergeant Douglas, of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, and Ouang
wak, an Eskimo murderer from the
regions around the North Pole, arrive
ed in Ottawa recently and were quar-
tered at the "mounties" headquarters
at 120 Victoria street. Ouangwak is
a British subject.
After his long journey from the
Northland to Winnipeg, his rat ee
garments were in a sad state of dis-
repair, so that he comes to Ottawa.
in the raiment of a white man. He
is in the neighborhood of from 20
to 27 years of age, and has been
noticeably failing since he left his
native snows.
The Eskimo is charged with having
murdered a brother native in order to
obtain the latter's wife, wheat he
wanted for leis own, in the region,
around Chesterfield Inlet. Ouangwak
is going back to stand trial in his own
country as a reminder to his brother
natives that the law of the white man'
must be respected.
He will he the first native who has
ever been tried in his own country.
Next year the Department
of justice
e
will send a judge on the long journey
to Chesterfield, and a court will be
held there for the edification of the
Eskimos. This will be the first time
that a judge has ever penetrated into
that part of the. North-west Terri-
tories.
Another murder case has 'hem re-
ported to the police from the same
region. This will be investigated by
Sergi. Douglas during the rontir.,,
winter, and, if po.4sible, th' rerpe-
trator of the =tamed crime wi l stand
trial with the Eslcinio whe is now in
O aewe.
From Ottawa t':e greater pert of
the joureey to Che tcrficld will be on
one of the cilmfortuble Hudson Bay
Co.'s trading steamers, sailing from
liloatreal. Chesterfield, by the seat
retire, is almost 4,000 miles from.
M"ntreal.
DOMINION'S GRAIN
ACREAGE IS LOWER
Bureau of Statistics Report
Shows Slight Decrease
From 1919.
A despatch from Ottawa says; --
The acreage sown to wheat, including
fall wheat, in all Canada, is now esti-
mated at 17186 300 acres, which corn -
pares with 19, 125, 968 acres, the final
estimate tar 1019, and represents a
decrease cd 10 per cent. Spring 'wheat
according to the estimate of the Do-
minion Bureau of 'Statistics, occupies
this year 16,446,000 acres, or 11 per
cent. less than last year, Fall wheatt
acreage this year is 740,800 acres. are
increase of 10 per cent. over last year.
Acreage in oats has inereaased 4 per
cent. from 14, 952,114 to 1.5,655,400
acres. Barley is sown on 2,588,000
acres, or 2' per cent, less than last
year; rye, 729,500 acres, or 3 per cent.
less; -peas, 2,588,000 acres, a decrease
of 3 per cent.;; mixed grains, 909,350•
acres, an increase of 1 per cent hay
and clover, 10,409,150 acres, decrease
2 per cent.; alfalfa, 229,300 acres, in-,
crease 1 per cent. The area in po-
tatoes is 819,000 acres, practically the
same as last year.
The Prairie Provinces have an esti-
mated area sown to wheat of 15,?71,-
000 acres, against 17,750,167 last year,
a decrease of 10 per cent. Manitoba-
has
anitobahas 2,687,000, against 2,880,301 last
year; Saskatchewan, 9,440,000 acres,
against 10,587,363; Alberta, 3,644„000
acres, against 4,282,386 acres last
year.
Ontario Girl Wins Prize
for Poem on Manitoba
A despatch from Winnipeg says: -
Miss Frances Beatrice Taylor of 128
Mill street, London, Ont., has been
awarded first place in a poem compe-
tition held by The Manitoba Free
Press in conneetion with the fiftieth
anniversary of the Province of Mani-
toba. The competitors were required
to deal with the Province's jubilee.
The first prize was $50. Rev. Dean
Coomnbes of Winnipeg won second
`prize, and third money went to A. Ha'
Sutherland of Winnipeg,
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