Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-07
MAKE HELIG0L AND
A BIG FORTRESS
BRITISH NAVAL CIRCLES DEEPLY
STIRRED BY NEWS OF FORTIFI-
CATION OF ISLAND.
LARGE SUMS WILL BE SPENT.
This Is the Reply to Great Britain's
New Departure in Operations
at Rosyth.
HAS A sTRATEGIcAL LOCATION

According to the speeches made inside
and outside of Parliament last session
by responsible members of the govern
ment, it seemed as if cheese pairing
economies were TO be the order of the
day in the British navy The ministers
have evidently learned something during
the recess, and Sir Edward Grey, the
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
speaking on behalf of the government,
mas Just made an important statement
that the country believes it necessary. on
account of the insular position of Great
Britain and the extent of her colonial
empire that she should hold the Suprema-
cy OF the seas. Sir Henry Campbell
Zimmerman has expressed the opinion
tlrat this necessity has not been impaired
but rather increased by the DEVELOPMENT
OF British trade and by the increased
facilities of communication all over the
world. But last session he seemed to be
readily yielding to those members of the
government who do not remember that
IN the past reductions in the navy, by
iessening public confidence. have been the
fruitful causes of the acute scares which
swept the country into an orgy of ex-
travagance on fads which could do moth
ing to the winning of wars.
Says England Should Be Protected
Sir Edward Grey has just said that
England cannot afford to close her eyes
TO the fact that foreign nations are show
ING disposition to increase their navies
and that this makes it quite impossible
to continue the reductions upon the Brit
ish navy. He adds: I'VE have no right
to complain If any foreign country
chooses to spend more money upon it's
navy for its own purposes. But England
"A rO hon
and her empire. When | see the great
programmes of naval expenditure which
are being produced in other countries |
think it right that the attention of Great
Britain should be directed to those pro-
grammes, because if they are carried out
in their entirety it will undoubtedly be-
come necessary for England in the in
terests not only of the empire, but for
the preservation of her independence and
her own safety at home, TO make further
increases in the navy"
ms looks as it the peace-at-any-Drict
section OF the cabinet had been over
thrown by those members of the govern
ment who accept in the fullest and most
complete form the doctrine that it is
necessary for Great Britain to hold the
supremacy of the seas, and that the test
and standard of this supremacy is that
the British fleet should be as strong ms
the combined strength of any two fleets
IN the world. Under the pressure of pub
lie opinion the navy estimates were large
~ increased from 1894. and it is the oDjn-
ion held by the bulk of the British peo-
pie that the extra expenditure saved the
country from a war over the Fashoda
incident and from a coalition during the
darkest period of the South African war
in 1900.
Fish to Kill Malaria.
According to consular report. Count
Bigger MOerner. attached to the Swedish
consular service. has discovered species
of fish called Psendomugil signifer
which subsiSts on the larvae of mosdui-
toes and thrives in shallow water BY
mediation of the Swedish ambassador
he communicated the fact to the Italian
government, which took up the matter
eagerly, and requested the consul to send
a few thousand of these fishes in order
to expose them in the swamps and
marshes infected with malaria. 1t
proved very difficult to find a sufficient
number of fishes. but he succeeded. and
the first lot has been shipped to Naples
The result of the experiment is awaited
with great interest in Italy and other
countries The Psendomugl signifer or
blue eye" as the fish is commonly
called in Australia, belongs to the family
of Athorinides. a small kind of carnivor-
Gus fish. and is frequently found in the
ocean and in rivers of the temperate
and tropic zones. There are fourteen
principal kinds and siXty-five Sub-varie-
ties in different parts of the world They
resemble the family of MugIides. and
are generally seen in shallow water The
blue eye" is very small fish, about
one and one-haf to two inches long.
The name is due to the brilliant blue
color of the iris; the male has yellow and
black striped fins,-Dundee Advertiser