' [40,000 acres, PAGE SIX HE SEA WIL "THE ISSUE OF THE WAR The British People Should Feel the Deepest Gratitude to Their Navy, Says a Neiitral Officer---British Position Stronger Than Ever. A neutral naval officer, writing in the New York Tintes, says that 'for what the English navy has accom plished 'the British = people feel the deepest gratitude," He maintains that the influence of sea power will determine the final fssue on land. in a strictly military sense, for by about June 1st, Gérmany will have exkaustéd her stores of artil lery, ammunition and must rely on the daily output, while the allies will be enabled fo impbrt supplies Contrasting British and Cerman naval strategy, he says: England is compelled (1) to watch With} increasing vigilance, night and day, the two outlet: Sea--many hundreds of mes apart "=the English Channel to the south find the wide stretch of several hun- dred miles. between Scotland and ) Norway to the porth; (2) to main- | "ain a patrol or line of scouts from Denmark to Helland, so as to pre- vent a surprise attack; (3) to stop and examide all merchant shipping passing through those waters; (4) 10 convoy English troops and supply ships to France; (56) to chase and destroy German commerce raiders' (6) to watch all neutral ports in which German merchant ships are flying; (7) to prevent the invasion Of England by Germany by guarding a tremendous length of Knglish coast line wo that the menace to the German fleet, trangports, and supply ships will' be so great that ralds . Will. be few and far between, and #0 that the time spent by the ing fleets will be induffiaient to | troops, artillery and supplies; to prevent - the Belgian ports belfig sed as submarine bases, to assist the extrema left of allies cn the Belgian coast; (9) "to keep several hundred trawlers en gaged in dragging for mines laid by ghips flying a neutral flag, and to lay mines themselves off the Ger- man coast. should and the German. Strategy Simple, The requirements of German naval strategy are very simple, for at the - present time Germany can afford to allow the British to retain control of the sea, as she still- has sufficient supplies on hand to last until about June, 1915. The Ger- mans realize, of course, that eventu- glly their main fleet will have to fight. German strategy consists in remaining under coveriof mines and fortifications, where the English cannot possibly reach them; laying _ nines far and wide, particularly off English ports in channels or locali- ties much used by English men-of- war and large vessels; keeping up the spirits of the German people and spreading panic through fear of Anvasion among the civilians in Eng- Hind by bombardment of unfortified porta; picking off, with submarines one by one, the English battleships ¥inally, when the preponderance of i the Baglish fleet has been reduced, find when Jfgnoran{ meddlers: in parliament have compelled the divi- gion of the English fleet, the plan is to make a softte and concentrated attack on one part of the British fleet with the entire strength of the German navy, with battleships battle cruisers, light crufsers, de- stroyers, mine layers, and, if condi- tions permit, with submarines, Zep- plines, and aeroplames. At the same me, fast cruisers of the Emden ype will slip through the Sea in the prevailing confusion. BARLDOM MAY LAPSE There Is But One Person To Take : 1. - It would seem as though the Barldotn of Scarbrough were doom- od to extinction in the near future. For the present peer has no €off by nig marriage--only a daughter -- --prother.and. next heir "General the Honorable Obert Lum: | I8y, has fust lgat his eldest son, chard, who has fallen in France, ghting as a subaltern of his fath- +8 old regiment, the Eleventh Hus- 'General Lumly has one other hoy, 18 years of age, who was recently to the front, and who is after his father, the only remaining heir left to the family, honors and ostates. 'These latter aire: very valuable, already extending over including valuable in the county of Durbam, e the Earldom will become still more wealthy on the death of Lord Savile. r on Ris demige all the "splendid ufford Abbey estates and , representing some $150,- : Dr, will revert to the Earl- dom of Scarbe . from which * they were formerly alienated. g Sayile is a. familiar of American his- A George Savile, owner of Rufford Abbey 80 prom a part in the 3 in championing 'American colonies, name of way he would have averted, by wise teenth centw Ft afold , . 18 sister, fare to. the fourth ~ Earl of Secar- bo seventh art of that ik was a rion, and a ¢ of: York Min- v v be called » North" to] tien of wu man with his arms bound, {ure that the North | héw, the present 'Lord Savile, paralyze Engligh shipping and cut communicationg.awith, théir France, -- Difliculties Tremendous. difficulties under which. the avy operations are tremend carry out the necezsities of which I have already requires to a . certain ex- ion of their forces. Id h Sea at the present time e only six hours of daylight, fogs and snowstorms pre- £ a large part of the time. emperiture . of the North equently below zero. There t night or day for the men. knows whether or not the may be his last. t in a twinkling or an » dumped into the icy air; supply, and coal- normous fleet is a prob- difficulty, for the forces "ea must never be seriously weak- dept} ing of Xi lem of gre: at ened Tak nto consideration the facts that many eminent officers, including 8ir Percy Scott, the father of mod- ern gunnery, stated before the war that the submarine had made the battleship obsolete; that England is of 'necessity forced to divide her fleet; that ber superiority fo the Ger max dreadnoughts is only "five hat the Germans are able ortie at any moment by day or night in eoncentrated force; that the English fleet is in the posi- mn to three; to make a unable to strike back, hour' of thal eas but feeling vengeance will oon be nigh; England still is mistreas of the and has been able to carry out every part of her programme---all this seems tn prove to me that English naval strategy and efficiency have been of a high order. , Stronger Than Ever, English strategy in time of peace has provided, ( in gpite of the peace Xe : Fever Yin consequence mifleted by - the courts in 'heavy damages, the law- in er lon t 1 Ta ing public interest in th nnect with f e elope MARQUISE DF FONTBNOY "ANE SEARCHTLIGHTS, By Alfred Noyes, [Political morality. differs from individual morality, because there is no power above the State' --Gen. von Bernhardt.} Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight, The lean black cruisers search the sea, tévolve and find no enemy, Only they kuow each leaping wave May hide the lightning and thelr grave; And, in the land they guard so well. Is there no silent watch to keep? An age is dying; and the bell Rings midnight on a vaster deep; But over all its wives once more The searchlights move from shore to shore; And captains that wp thought were dead, And dreamers that were dumb, And voices that fled Arise and call us, and we come; And. '"'Search in thine own soul," they cry, "For there, too, lurks thine enemy." we thought we thought were Search for the foe in thine own soul, The sloth, the intellectual pride, The trivial jest that veils the goal For which our fathers lived and wless dreams, the cynic art, nd thy nobler self apart. Tr, not far into the night hese level swords of light cam pierce; 4 t for her faith does England fight, Her faith in this our universe, Believing Truth and Justice draw From founts of everlasting law. Therefore a Powér above the State, The unconguerable Power, returns, The fire, the fire that made her great, Once more upon her altar burns. Once more reflecmed und healed and whole, She moves to the Eternal Goal. BRITISH TORPEDOES, Nf The Various Sizes Used and the Way 3 They Are Operated. A torpedo fitted with the newest croakers in parliament, such a large shipbuilding programme that Eng- land now occupies a stronger posi tion relative to Germany than at the beginning of the war, in spite of the loss of about 3 per cent, of her total gun power. In the next six months eight superdraudnoughts will be add- ed to the English fleet, four more superdreadnoughts will be finished for the French fleet, and two for Ja- pan. If England desires these ships, | the six Japanese and French ships 'will be turned over to England and manned by her naval forces, an addi-| tion to the English fleet of fourteen vessels of the smost powerful and modern type, .and equivalent in gun power and fighting strength to .the! first eighteen German dreadnoughts, Thés amateur stratagisic in Bogs land who demand that the English should charge madly over mine fields to get at the Germans simply ask England, to commit suicidé as a na- tion, for time works on the side of the allies, The situation of the al- lies does 'not render the taking of chances necessary, but crimingl; a policy of watchful waiting must be! pursued. When a few noncombat-' ants in an unfortified town are killed the English should remember at millions upon millions are suffering in France, Poland, Belgium, and Gal- ivia, and give their fleet the deepest confidence and gratitude, for in the English fleet, I believe every man is dolAE his duty. i Searbrough estatds, which were entail ed upon -the eirldom, but all the Ruf- ford Abbey property, which they were to hold in tum, assuming the name and arms of Savile, on the under: standing that in default of thelr male issue, the property should revert to the Barldom oi Searbrough. One of these sons was raised to the peerage as Lord Savile; "for his -sor- T Sheps | only seventh actual | is a surviving grandéon of the Lord Searbrough, who is the owner of Rufford abbey. He childless' widower. _ With Scarbrough, his principal country seat is Lumley castle, in the county of Durham, a high-turreted structure of yellow * freestone, stagding on the banks of the River Wear, and dating from the time oi King Henry I. Lord Searbrough's family, however, is much older, being descende from Lyulph Lumley, 'whose wife was a grand- daughter of the Anglo-Saxen King Ethelred 11. Another of his ancestors, namely, the seventh Lord Lumley, was one of the peers who sat in judgment on Mary Queen of Scots, condemn- ing her to death. Lady Scarbrough is still a very handsome woman, with magnificent Titian-red har. She has a little daughter, Lady Serena Lumley, by her present marriage, and one 'sur- viving daughter by her former has! band, Robert Ashton, the great | north country ironmaster. This. daughter will inherit most © the Ashton property. 3 + Her only sop by her first mar- riage, Robert Ashton, died a few years ago of consumption, after creating a sensation by running away with the wife of Baron de. Forest. 'He was one of the most 'popular and best looking officers of the Sec- ond Life guards, always in mischief, whence his nickname of The Scamp." * His flight with the baroness, who is a sister of Lord Gerard. created more attention than would other- wite have been the ca Togard to the present Karl of | ! tors, type of gyroscope rudder is more deadly than a shell from the biggest naval gun, for the accuracy with which it glides through the water to its prey is almost uncanny, The gyroscope keeps the rudders exactly as'they are set before the tor- pedo is fired, and only by a. swift, unexpected move can a ship at which a torpedo is aimed escape. The verti- cal rudders steer the torpedo, the horizontal ones keep it at its correct depth under water. : = The torpedoes used in the British navy are of three diameters--four- teen, eighteen and twenty-one inches, and they vary in length from sixteen to eighteen feet, A torpedo is driven by compressed alr, which first passes through the heater, acting through the engines on twin propellers fitted to the tail of the weapon. The. propellers revolve in opposite directions, thus counteracting any tendency to turn right or left on the torpédo's part. The small propeller '"'unscrews'" the safety eatch of the striker while the torpedo is in the water. One of the deadliest types of the British torpedo weighs 1,600 pounds and Is charged with 260 pounds of guncotton, which explodes on im- pact by means of an appliance fitted in' the nose of the torpedo, which is sufficient to blow a hole as large as a haystack in 'the side of a battleship. It has an effective range of about four miles. "The guncotton is kept wet to keep it from exploding until actually struck. Ee h Ap soon as a torpedo hits its mark it explodes autématically, and there are only two methods of defence aginst it, One is to locate and shell the attacking torpedo boat or subma- rine, the other to drop steel wire nets all arouad your ship, These nets are by no mecns an infallible protection, ery torpedo action répre- | sents an expenditure of from $3,000 to $4,000.--Londoa Standard. Famous Special Constables, In view of the fact that Mr. W. G. C. Gladstone, M.P. for, the Kilmar- nock Burghs, has joined the Royal 'Welsh Fusiliers, it is interesting to recall what his illustrious grandfath- er did in 1848. That was a year of revolution a France and unrest in England. On March 13th the Char- tista ie a great meeting, 1 be held on opin nglor ommon. It was then that Mr. & adifine . Bored is services to quel e Char! and' hrofted * himbelf oa pecial constable of the City of Lon- don, Under e date A 10th in his privaté diary be wrote: "On duty from 2 to 3.45 p.m." gt Amongst other illustrious men who sery constables at this time were Stanley (Earl ° as stone's brother John, Trade Benefited e HELO be - There are very few trades in Brit. tin which sre not benef} nels diretly pi berghte, n oodturners, be Am woodtu yd ear Matlock, has received an order for nearly a hundred thousand helves for entrenching tools. Butlon manufac. turers are overwhelmed with orders, bone-workers. are busily engaged in finishing some millions of razer han- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, Geoffrey of Derby), the Duke. of Norfelk, Seine ous Napoleon, and Glad- heat 3 WERELY 'A TROCE. When War Ends Militants Will Again y Take Up Fight For Votes. That. the" militant suffragists 'of England have merely declared a truce and that they haven't the vag- uedt idea of "calling everything off" permanently is emphatically siated by Mre Pankhurst in a recently pub- lished book of which she the auther. "The militancy of men through all the centuries bas drenched the world with blood, ahd 'for these deeds of borror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with is | great songs andswith epics," writes Night long their level shafts of light | Mrs. Pankhurst "The -militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battie of righteousness, Time alone will re- veal what reward will.be allotted to the women. = - ° "This we know, that in the black hour that has just struck Europe the men. are turning to their women and calling on them to take up the work of keeping civilleation alive. Through all the harvest fields, in orchards and vineyards women are keeping open the. shops, fhey are driving trucks and trams and altogether attending to a multitude of business. "When the remeants of the armies return, when the commerce of Europe is resumed by men, will they forget the part the women so nobly played? Will they forget in England how women 'in all ranks of life put aside their own interests and .organized, not only to nurse the wounded, care for the destitute, comfort the sick and lonely, hut actually to maintain the existence of the nation? Thus far, it must be admitted, there aye few' indications that the English Gov- ernment is mindful of the unselfish | devotion manifested by the women, Thus far all Government schemes for overcoming unemployment have been directed towards the unemployment of men. The work of women, mak- ing garments, ete, has in some cases peen taken away. "The struggle for the full enfran- chisement of women has not been abandoned; jt has simply, for the moment, béen placed iu. abeyance. When the'clash of arms ceases, when norwnpeaceful, rational society re- sumes its funetions, the demand will again be made. "If It is not quickly granted, then once more the women will take up the arms they to-day generously lay*flown. There can be no real peace in the world until wo- man, the mother half of the human family, is given liberty in the coun- cils of the world." Confusion of Tongues. The British Tommy Atkins is hard put to it these days to know which are friends and which are foes. Time was when he classed them all as "dirty foreigners," but times have changed and a certain allied courtesy is demanded. It is told of one brave corporal who met a new kind of foreigner on French soil and de~ .manded. his nationality. "Hungarian," 'came the answer. "'Ungarian, are yer? Well, I'm blowed if I know whether ter 'ug yer to me bosom or knock yer bally block off,*' remark: the perplexed defender of the Jack. Many are the stories of the em- barrassing confusion of tongues among the allies--French, Flemish, Russian, "Servian, Indian (three brands) and several species of Eng- lish. For it is rare that a Londoner can understand the Scotch dialeét in its 'unalloyed purity, or the Cornish brogue, while Wales offers many complexities, Canadian slang, too, and the queer mixture of Maori that intrudes itself into Australian Eng- lish, or of Boer Dutch that sicklies o'er the Africander's dialect so-called English a dozen languages. Churchill's Ready Wit) The ready wit of. Mr. nston Churchill has greatly enhanced his popularity on the public platform. And his ability is n in his deal- ing with interrupters, rude and other wise. On one occasion, when ad- dressing a larg$ public meeting, he was frequently disturbed by a man shouting "Liar! Har!" Mr. Churchill bore with him for a time; but even- tually broke off his speech to remark, in the gentlest accents: "If the gentleman at the back of the hall who is so anxious that this audience should know his name will write it down on « slip of paper and hand it to the chairman, instead of bawling it at the top of voice, he will save rimand was too much for the inter rupter, who made a hasty exit, ------------ How Khaki Is Dyed. Khaki is an invention of the Hin- dus. The word means "earth color." It was at first produced by immers- ing the cloth in a bath of manure. Other dyes used in India have been burnt chicory, vatechu and diamines. The modern khaki is produced by dyeing in a mixtare of oxide of iron and oxide of chromium. It can be ob- tained by dipping the stuff into a bath. of ferrous Sulphaté snd spreading out to dry in the air. In practice the process is more complex, solutions of ferrous sulphate, pyrolignite of iron, acetate of chromium and alum being employed in combination. The tis- sue takes up a large quantity of the metallic precipitate, Faith, Hope and Charity, for a definition of faith, The dles, for which, in turn, cloth or] e8se leather-covered cardboard cases have | to 'be sapplied. ay : FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1915. London weekly offered two gui- ||! KITCHENER'S TACTICS AGAIN UNHORSE LORD CURZON, WHO WAS NOT READY For the Offensive Thai the War Min- ister Took--His Plan of Campaign Was Shattered. ~ London, Jan. 8.---Owing to Lord Lansdowne's illness Lord Curzon .is temporarily leading the epposition in the House of Lords, and Curzon fixed the meeting a month ahead of the House of Commons to show the county the superior devotion of the peers to-the public weal. Lord Curzon and his friends had tabled a number of important ques- tions. for the ministers dealing with the war, and the scheme was that Curzon should lead off with a general speech and Lord Kitchener should follow later on with a reply. But Kitchener has not learned tactics for nothing, and, probably not desiring to be catechised by Curzon, he took the offensive without a momen's de- lay and advancing to the table be- gan his statement while Curzon was still fingering his collar, expanding his chest and going' througli other araterial. preliminaries. Kitchener's flanking movement shattered Curzon's plan of campaign at the start and compelled him to take up a new position not at all =o commanding as he had pldnned. More than the suggestion of a smile flickered on the faces of the peers at Kitchener's successful manoeuvre, especially as they recalled the per- sonal antagonism "@ér the two men since they were in India together, and Curzon was unhorsed from the vice-royalty when he attempted to in- terfere with . Kitchener's military plans. » Poles Not In Army Are Prisoners. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Jan. Many Poles, men of military age, and members of the civil militia, who ware exenged for one reason or an other from service with the Russian army, have been sent from lodz in to Germany as prisoners of war, since the German occupation of that city. A Pole who escaped from Lodz and came to Warsaw, said that nineteen of these mien who failed to comply with the German order to report at the military headquarters had been rounded up and shot. This Pole also said that the Germans have confis- cated stores of provisions and' that consequently there was much suffer- ing from hunger among Poles. 8. A Card. All of the leading grocers of King- ston have agreed to sell a package >ontaining five standard 5c. boxes of Silver Tip Silent Matches for 20¢. Quality guaranteed. T. C. Keefer, Sr., 'Manor House, Rockliffe, is very ill with pneu- monia. Mr, Keefer ig in his ninety- fourth year. If you have resolves to resolve pre- pare to resolve them now. TheCoat | House chasers a chance to save money. EMBARGO IS AMENDED. Horses For Special Use in Breeding or Racing Admitted. Ottawa, Jan. 8.~The council passed last November in ree gard to the embargo against horses, cattle, fodder, ete., from the United States, on "account of the footsapd- mouth disease, have been further amended s0 @s to allow of the impor- tation "of horses for special -use in breeding or racing, or under excep tional circumstances, provided a spe- cial permat is obtained from -the veterinary director-general at Ot- tawa. MAY STOP BEEF. Australian Government Urged to Sell Only to Allies. Sydney, Jan. 8.----A serious defic~ iency in the meat supply is being pro. duced here by large exportations 6f beef to the United States. Strong pressure will probably be put on the government to prohibit export of beef except to Great Bri- tain and to her allies. Alternatively the state governments may compul- sorily purchase the whole of the local beef supply. LARGE ORDERS FOR CANADA. $5,000,000 in Six Months in One Line Alone. London, Jan. 8.--Secretary @rif- fiths; of the high commissioner's of- fice, informs us that for one line alone of war necessities, Canadian manufacturers may hope to receive orders from the British government which, spread over the next six months, will approximate a value of five million dollars. DR. A. W, sasrs0 he CATARRH POWDER . he 9 sent direct to the diseased parts by Hl Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers, clears the air passages, stops drop. pings in the throat and permanent. ty cares Catarrh and Hay Fever, dhe. a box ; blower free. 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