\ 4 a AUGUST 30, 1912. "IN EXPERT'S OPINION; AS TO BRITAIN'S NAVAL Post © TION JUST NOW In Case There Should be War Wih Germany--FEven if Britain Move Ships it Has Not the Mew 1 Man Thewd =~ 2 » x The London Daily Fxpress uaval ex pert his the following to say on "When and How the Germans Might Make War!" ' : The prospect of a. Britigh batile "squadron being based upon 'Gibralter or of a squadron of vatile eraiswns be ing sent' 8 "Malta is becoming less and less likely. . : Mr. Churchill stated in hi= speech of July 22nd that the provisions oi the German amendment were still only partially realized in this country. H y judge from the incts of ihe case, they would not appear to be particularly well realized in Whitehall itself. ! In" TOIT Germany will have in "the North Sea twenity-nine battleships per manently manned with full crews. All these whips, and possibly more, would be ready for action at Germany's "se lected mpment." Mr. Churchill js providing for. the maintenance of only twenty-five Brit ish battleships with fall crews in home walters. - At the present moment we have twenty thred battleships in full edm mission" in' home waters, and six of these are in ddckyard hands firet lord himsell has stated that at oir "average moment" from twenty five to thirty per cent. must be de ducted from our nominal strength. Preset Position. Consequently the position Mi Churchill' has devised for us is this: it is admitted that if there is to he "war, Germany will make it. It is admitted that Germany make war when circumstances most favorable th herself--at her Jected moment. dt in admitted that Germany's lected moment" will be a surprise mo- meni for us; otherwise we should be not at our gverage, but at our select strength, The strength of the German battle fleet in the North Bea at Germany's .melected moment will be at east twen ty-nin ships. Our maximum strength in fully wiinned (ships is twenty-five, and a deduction of six must be made from this to give us our average strength: The real comparison in the North Sea in 1911 will, thereiore, be: - Battleships Germany (selected moment) ... 2 Britain laverage moment) 19 "That is, to Say, whenever = she chpones, Germany can be fifty per cent. stronger than we. ' In spite. of this, it is proposed that we shall have a fourth squadron of eight battleships in full commission. and that they shall be based on Gib- Ran, . . : ! On tle first lord's own showing, a fleet XE [FMR on an avoraje four and a half days distant from the North 'Sea. In other words, the ad: miralty is deliberataly giving Ger many a battleship superiority in the North Ses, and, in wpite of much verbiage, eight ships, which might amd vught to have boon, retained -- at home to give us something like an equality at our average moment, are being bundled off to a base from which they will not be able to reach the soene of action tntil the issue has been decided. will are- se " se Protection at Home. i The counify must understand thal we cannot at this moment afford to gwnd eight battleships to Gibraltar The Meditervanwen is important--per" haps vital<but fas transcending soy other need is that for having perman eatly available st home a bettle force DWARDS SOUPS Treat Soups, Mea the same way Acqua Edwards' Soups. out the best qualities of the the like in int them with A $c package ns less time at the Ee ro a. ove, wore he Soups are all ready for the pot Jat S00 Sekter and Bol). f Be. aPickage Gir at Desiccated Soups are 3 Broun, The Brown Had | The that willl always be superior to the best that Germany can bring agains! Re" : : Even with the Gibraltar squadron MW Lin, sb Mea our position would still be pio arious, since a dedue ion of twenty five per cent. from the to wil of thirty-three battleships would leave us with tweniyfive-to Ger many 's iwenly-nine. it has not been and cannot be med that the battle squadron withdrawn: from the Mediterranean because we have mot enough men ta man the ships at home Haus the personnd of the mavy so increased in iwo or three months that the wdmur ally ean now afford to send eight capital slips to Gibraltar in place ol the six brought home from Malta. and further, to send to Malta fom Dreadnought ecmaisers and four armor ed @wuisers 7 : The position is one of infense perl We cannot far the moment heip the fact that during 'the last seven years ow naved policy as regards ~~ hotl shipé and "'mep has been altogether inadéquets 40 our needs. The pu Wnt golerument has provided fer de wis J and completed fourteen armored ship: while Germany, in ~ the corresponding period, has provided for and com tleted twelve. The personnel ol the Gorman fleet how increased at a far more rapid ratefthen. our own, the per centages 1905 being 7.9 for the 55.6 for the Ger- man. since Writich and Tragic Binnders, . , What is done cannot he undone, nor can it he mimedied by a stroke * ol the pen. It would be well for the salete of the pation and the pence of. Furope if the government would admit ita tragic blunders--if/ they would come into the open and con- fess the truth--theé truth that we gre not in a position to maintain a single battleship in full commission outside the immediate - vicinity of these islands, Wo need batileships. in the Mediter ranean and we need more battleships in home waters! "But even if we had the ships we hsve not the men! to man them. Another faot that. is equalli\' as im- portant as those concerning 3 bat- tle fivets is thet we have at this moment sixty-seven destroyers in full commséion in home waters to Ger many 8 sixty-six. © The first lord has himself stated that the Dreadnought standard of sixty per cent, is in ndeguate for torpedo craft Sixty er cent. is inpdequate--and so the admiralty "gives as1.6 per cent. It is forgotten that Japan opened the War against Russia at her "salacted moment," and that the opening took the form of a surprise destrover raid on the ships at Port Arthur-g raid which crippled {he naval power of Russia before the war was well | yun ? Is. § i oe ¢ 8 it for nothing that jer Lam has trebled her instantly ready At rng, th or "Se A years, or that gle Proposes fo increase it another fifty per cent a the near future ? ; 5 : -- SAKE CRACKER IN KINGSTON Telieved That Meberm of Gang Paiq # Visit Here, ght that one of the sale Fri h Who dntéred the offiers of dhe Fron, lumber merchants, in Ri ' iday (night, was in \ingston about two months ago. H 8 probably the ring-leader in the ate PA ak 5 i hl, bough and some he wervred $i in onsh the party pe od Eien in shot at a er oe, watchman tool rect en he ap. : About the time mentioned, a man Crass the border from the . United States, and "honored" the city with a visit_for three or four days. He was jpotiend by several on the street, and his hardened look was conimented upon." The stranger called on a gen Lileman, a former resident of the Unit- d States, and "opened up." He re- lated as much 6f his career as he thought was ndeessary for his purpose, He told the citizen that he had. just been released from Auburn, N.Y., pri- son, after "doing" five or six years for safe-cracking, and hia hunger for another opportunity to repeat this crime was shown up several times, in no disguised way. He asked the citizen to loan him some money. He said the principal would be returned, in a reasonable length of time, with interest. The, ex- convict made the citizen understand ihat the past term _in.prison .was only a slight interfuption in what would *be a successful career--in his light. : However this glowing offer did not make the citizen donate. While in the city, the man was seefi with twé or three '"'suspicious, looking characters." His curiosity being soméwhat arous- ed, the Kingstonian has kept careful tab, through the papen, on the rob beries and safe-cracking that have been executed in this part of the country, and last week's affair in Montreal is the first. of that nature fot some con siderable time. It is thou rackers, pe Sept pan Colebrook Happenings. is Colebrook, Aug. 28.--Richerd - Wil: son and wife left. on a wisit to the northwest country. , F. 8. . man and two children, Hattié and Lorne, have refurned from Saske- toon, Sask., after spending a month wit her daughter, Mrs. Charles 0. Martin, of day, by. A. .U. FRIDAY, . BECORATIVE LMBROIDERY. The panelled upper skirt of this design is embroidered with: cher. ries and leaves in a contrasting shade. and. velvet wrist bands give a chic effect, A narrow black velvet colla AN EDMONTON LETTER | -- THREE GENERATIONS IN FAM. ILY OF HOMESTEADERS, A Minnesota Man, Who Emigrated to Canada Three: Years Ago, Begoming Wealthy « by Loeating Asphaltum on His Homestead. Edmonton, Alta, Aug. 26.-- Three generations are represented in the fumily of Alexandre and Albina (Per reautt) Coauette; of Quebee, twefity four members ot which have come to Edmonton to develop homesteads in the Marinville district, north of here. Their combined ages total more than six hundfed years. The head of the family, his three sons and five grand sons are eligible to settle on govern ment lamds. The Coauettes were truck farmers in the castern provinee, where they worked early and late and saved their earnings. Recently they sold their aoldings, with a view to taking up larger acreage on the prairie and develop it by scientific methods. Louis Cabot was sent to Alberta tof spy out land, and the family followed, ling in a special car from Quebec Edmonton. This is the first time that any member the party has outside the contines of his native pro vinge. Lord Congleton, ardent unionist and tadili réiormer, who is touring Western {'ana ia for the imperial parlinmen tary association, said Fdmonton whére he iz outfitting to hunt bip game in the Rockies, that the House of Lords, of which he 18 a member, will reject the Irish home rule bill at the session the coming fall. The union ists; he added, are planning feat the Asquith government, but he would not reveal the nature of ths coup, saying, however, "i 'should not be surprised if The next prime minister were to be a member of the House of Lords." Lord Congleton predicted that the franchise reform blll and thé bill to disestablish the Welsh church will be defeated, saying also that the unionist party, when returned to pow- er, will, in all probability, repedl the parliament act, following this by an is travel- to of been in to de ber in reducing ' its number of, mem bers. He believes war between Great Britain and Germany is inevitable John J. Hayward, who migrated to central Alberta from M;nnesota, (and a half vears® ago, becoming wealthy as the gesult of locating Wed of asphaltum thigty-eight miles north-east of | Ed monton. He discovered wtufi "while plowing' last spring, bat did not make hisdind known until af ter the government had granted a patent on the land. Following a thor ough examination by W. H. Williams, formerly aw inspector of mines in the United States, a company was or: ganited and incorporated under the laws of the province of Albefta, with a stated capitalization of %1,200.000, to develop the property. The expert says in his report that "fhe land . is underlaid with a considerable thickness of highly impsegnated iar ar depths of from three tf tiventy feet: under the grass roots. Surface . wdications all point to petroleum helds, and it may be proved by: drilling that a valuable natural gas. and oil field will be found th LL > .. is a Official announcement was made, to- Galbraith, superinten- dent of works, that 120 miles of steel on the Hdmonton, unvegan & British Colun railway will be laid this , affording connection with Athabasca Landing, north of here, A track-laying machioe, capable of cov- ering a mile a day, will begin' work shortly 'and continue operations to the Peace river, The completion of this road will millions 'of acres of agricultural lande, besides tapping rich lumber and win ie ry a are 'mow. without railway facilities. Several large sawmills 'will be estab" in 1913 by American firms. The 'between Edmonton and Atha- 3 has been completed. company a site of 142 for terminal purposes in Edmonton, and will use the Union st:dion, to be erecteds ®Y the Uirana Truk. Xaiiway company at a cost of $100,000, for its The { passenger trate, act for the peform of the upper cham-* three |, on his homestead, | the. "'black p Kove heads: the. list 'of sweet things]. I THREE FEATHERS. That in One's Cap, the White Onc and Job's Turkey's Tail: oe A father m frofn "one's &p" is derived Among. the woodeéraft enthusiasts it the custom for the individual first to kill a woedcock 4o pluck out a feathér and place it inhis cap. Ulver Cromwell \ conferred dig- nity upon this expression=when, on' his refusal of the English érown, he rrved, "Royalty is but a feather cap; let children enjoy Seotland was or mn a man 3 their rattle' \ thoroughbred gamecock shows only red and black Feathers, and breed is known by a white tail. Hence 'to show feather' a strong notion cowardice, from one point of view least. Une the "scriptures in vain for any allusion to Job's turkey. I'he expression "'as poor as Job's tur- key' had its origit io the brain of a humorist, Sam Slick. 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