Zurich Herald, 1916-03-17, Page 5:WARNS AGAINST
THE 17 -INCH GUN
BRITISH NAVAL CRITIC URGES
VIGILANCE,
Wisdom of Preparing to Meet Possible
Menace Strongly
Needed.
"Reason for a long time has whis-
pered in the ears of Englishmen a
sea power for granted. History
teaches us that hungry vigilance is
the price of sea power."
James Douglas, naval critic, in an
article in a London daily paper, dis-
cusses the possibility of the German
fleet being equipped with 17 -inch
guns and in the course of a lengthy
article sounds the warning note
quoted above. He continues:
"I think it will be admitted that we
are putting most of our energy into
the organization of vast armies and
that in consequence our navy is rap-
idly receding into the background.
If this navy were to fail us an army
of ten million could not save us. We
nevertheless assume that the navy is.
not subject to any unforeseen vicis-
situde. That theory may bold good
in a short war. Does it hold good in
a long war?
Did It on Laud,
"The question I desire to raise is
this: If it was possible for the Ger-
mans and Austrians to establish :'
lead in heavy field pieces before the
war and to clo it without the know-
ledge of the present allies, is it not
within the bounds of possibility that
the Germans may establish a lead
in navai guns during the war? It is
not enough to be told that we may
safely trust to our secret intelligence
branch and to our experts. Nations
which have been caught napping once
may be caught napping twice. After
what happened at Liege, Namur,
Warsaw, Kovno, Novo Georgievsk, themerchant ships were to nen
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POTENT HELP TO THE NAVY.
British Mine Sweepers Prevent Many
Ctastrophies.
A racy account of the part the
trawlermen have played in the war
was given in London at His Majesty's
Theatre by Mr. Toni Wing, M.P.,
who formerly represented Grimsby.
Lord l;elborne, president of the
of Agriculture and Fisheries,
who presided, told of one young
trawler skipper who had had two
boats blown up under him while
trawling for mines, and was now in
the hospital for the second time re-
covering from his injuries, "And his
one great hope," added the Minister,
"is to get on to the third and even
better boat which he has had pro-
mised him when he gets well again."
"A most potent auxiliary to the
navy." Lord Selborne described the
trawling fleet. It was almost entirely
due to the trawlers that the fleet and
'able
and elsewhere, common prudence tells to and fro on our seas with so few
us not to trust blindly either to es-
pionage or to experts.
The Shells at Dunkirk.
catastrophies. Ile did not know how
many mines the Germans lied placed
but he was prepared to risk the state-
"Doubtiess it was a very stupid act' ment that there were very ninny thou -
on the part of the Germans to reveal sands.
by the shelling of Dunkirk the exist -1 Mr. Wing said that if at the last
ence of a 17 -inch naval gun, but the j great. naval review at Spitliead there
Germans are constantly doing stupid had been, say, 2,000 trawlers, people
things. It is possible that they used' would have • complained that it was
this gun to persuade us to believe leaking the • spectacle ridiculous. If
that it is a field gun and not a naval at the last army manoeuvres there
gun, At any rate. there is no •doubt; had been a quarter of million min-
as to the existence of at least one' ers, people would have said, `Well, it
German 17 -inch naval gun. We may doesn't add color.' Yet fishermen and
be quite certain that Kru.pps have', miners had proved as essential as
manufactured more than one of these 1 any in the great struggle in which
guns. We may even go as far ' as to t we were engaged. They were the
assume that they have manuactured . men with the real technical knowl-
many of them. It is significant that' edge which had proved indispensable.
the 10 -inch howitzers used by the' The men who manned the trawlers
Central Powers are Austrian guns i had swept the Channel and the North
manufactured at Skoda.- What was Sea practically clear of •minesand
Essen doing while Skoda was turn- submarines, and in the Mediteri'an-
ing out its heavy howitzers? Clearly, can thousands of others had been clo-
the answer to the question is that ° ing the same.
Essen was turning out heavy naval, "His Majesty has had occasion to
guns.. It may be said that 17 -inch realize the size of their hands and
naval guns are useless without bat•• ' the warm grip they can give," said
tleships or battle cruisers in which to Mr, Wing. "One burly fisherman who
mount them. Here, again, we are at , had received a decoration said after -
the mercy of the expert. wait that he could not believe that
What of the Hindenburg? he was °actually in Buckingham Pal -
"It is known that several Gerntaz ace and was to be decorated by the
capital ships were due to be coin- I{ing; he thought it was a dream un-
pleted several months ago. There til the King shook hands with hien.
may have been more. The fog of And when he found the King grip -
war hangs thickly over the German ping his great fist he was so anxious
shipyards. One of the new ships, the to snake sure that it was real that
Hindenburg, has undoubtedly been he took firm hold with his other hand
completed. Has the Hindenburg been also, and really `help up' the King
armed with 17 -inch guns? Have other for the time."
capital ships of the same class been
aimed with 17 -inch guns?. If not, STOPPED SHORT
what was the gun which fired on
Dunkirk made for?
"The expert may declare that it is
impossible to put .17 -inch guns into a
::hip which was not designed to carry
them. Here, again, I say that the
expert is not a safe guide. If you
can pelt ti 15 -inch gun into a moni-
tor, you may be able to put a 17
inch gun into a ship designed for a
15 -inch gun. And there is another
possibility. The Germans may have
out -monitored our monitors. They
may have put their 17 -inch gun into ily," writes a young mother.
inonil'oi•s o1' into some new type of "My friends became alarmed be-
:hip designed to convoy and cover cause 1 grew pale a21c1 thin and could
transports. Have we got an effect- not :eleep nights. . 1 took various
tive answer to the 17 -inch naval gun? tonics, bub their effects wore off
Please forgive my hungry vigilance." shortly after I stopped taking thein,
My :food did not seem to nourish me.
Not au Exacting Girl. "Reading of Gra 1e -Nuts I
1 dieter -
"Your love," he said, "would glue mined to stop the tallies and see what
t1 s the strength to lift mountains," . a change ofdiet would do, I ate
"Dearest, " she murmured.;"it will Grape -Nuts four tinges a day with
• e:it1y be neeesaary for you to raise the ,creani, and drank !Wilk also, went to
• 011 ." bed early after a dish of Grape -Nuts.
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Both. Surprised, int; setindly. In a short time gained
I„•.ill trccotrilirAiig farmer se.l'varlt. weight and felt like a il'' e2'ent vvb-
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—Weill 1'on in prison, Henry? Well,hrgiii. C;rttpe-Nut'S incl :1°i'esh air were
tun surprised), the only agents used to .accomplish t
So was I, nla'nm, or I shouldn't be the happy' results. Ther e e a Rees- n
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Xlver read the above letter.? ,A new
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Taking Tonies, and Built up on
Right Food.
The ariistal e is frequently macre of
trying to build up a worn-out nervous
system on so-called tonics.
New material from which to re-
build used up tissue cells is what
should be supplied, and this can be
obtained only from proper food.
"I found. myself on the verge of a
nervous collapse, due to overwork
and study, and to illness in the ;fam-
WAR HIS PLATFORM,
Some Characteristic Utterances of Six
George Reid,
Right Hon, Sir George Reid, the
late High Commissioner for Australia,
who has been elected unopposed to the
British House of Commons, for St.
George's, Hanover Square, London,
will be a distinct acquisition to the
House, and is already' being referred
to as the "Member for.Anzac.” His
first speech as M.P. was characterise
tic of the man. "I have only three
planks in my political platform," he
said, with his usual bluntness. "The
first plank is bhe war; the second
plank is the whole war; the third
plank is nothing but the war."
Here are two characteristic utter-
ances which 'have fallen from Sir
George, Nearly a year ago, explain-
ing the secret of his unabated vigor
on his seventieth birthday, he de-
clared, "I have aimed at health ` and
happiness, and when confronted by
a formidable obstacle I have. just
tried to knock it over; failing this, to
get round it, if not, then under it;
and if all these manoeuvres failed, I
have been content to lie down in its
grateful shade, lauding it as a beau-
tiful blessing in disguise."
The other utterance was the mess-
age he despatched to Australia when
the story of the heroism of Anzac
was known. "The whole world knows
to -day what I always knew: that
Australians ai'e true to the core and
loyal to the backbone."
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Little Pauperism in England.
The record for pauperism for En
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is. the lowest ever reached. Compa
ing 1875 -ith 1915, the ratio shows
decrease from 29.2 to 15.3 per tho
and, a falling away of practically 01
heli. Pauperism in London separat
as not declined in the same prop
n, nevertheless the percentage
''this period been cut down fr
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division of England and Wales of
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suffering women's best friend, because iasm by telling them of the ninny
they act directly on the kidneys. They brave deeds performed by our sol -
tone up the kidneys -and put them in diers in France, suddenly espied a big,
condition to do their full work of strongly built man at the back of the
straining all the impurities out of hall. "My men," he cried, "how is it
the blood. Nine -tenths of women's that you are not at the front?"
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DISDAINED HONORS.
It Was the First Time.
The Kaiser 'VTi11 Never Again \tear Jones was a past master of the
a British Uniform, habit of careleesne s. He dropped
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an order bestowed on ole by your afterwards never remembered where
sovereign, the Order of the Red Eagle that place was. One night he ro:;e
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With those sad words Jean Dolling, swallowed his collar button in mis-
Mayor of Mulhausen, the pioneer of take for a coughdrop.
the profit-sharing system for em- "Mary," said he to his wife when
ployees, handed over the keys of that the 'awful truth dawned upon hint. "T
Alsatian city to the Prussian conmran- Have swtilioived my collar button."
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"That's all right," responded wife
A very different spirit urges Wil-
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in a tone of evident satisfaction.
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