The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
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al important offenses DO tried by Jury
In civil court. that small ofrenses be
punished only by stoppage OF wages
temporarily, wholesale reduction OF
/ the powers OF officers and numerous
! other reforms that arc long overdue,
The writer. who spent considera BILE
time together with American blue
Jackets. says he was surprised to hear
how we'll these were fed and treated
on board Uncle Sans men OF war, and
he does not see why Britannia should
not treat her sailors. who form the
sole guarantee OF her national e.>!s-
tence." with equal consideration and
asserts that II this were the case the
admiralty would find no difficulty in
manning all the vessels of the navy.
Openly advocating the formation of
Royal Naval Industrial Union" for
lighting purposes he concludes as
follows;
Let us try to recognize that there
is war between the fore part of the
snip and the after part. Under the
present arrangements we are helpless
and hopeless.
The Board OF Admiralty intend to
keep their sons and relatives. who
occupy the after part of the ship, in
vested with all the privilege and pow
er It is possible to give them; in fact.
at Dartmouth College the cadets are
actually taught TO dcspise the men on
the lower deck. and have It migrated
in their minds from birth that they
are special brand of humanity, and
are born to rule
1t is about time ne had Il change, as
II is obvious. there can be no reform
on the lower deck without in some
way restricting the power of officers
This the admiralty will not do. and
therefore IL is only by organizing every
man in the service, Irrespective of
rating. that we can hope 10 force their
hand
If the admiralty is wise 1t will do
l5tter lightly. The hluejackets have
seen what the brethren on board the
merchant vessels have done to the
big concerns like the Cunard. the White
Star and the Wilson lines. and being
hired men themselves they see no rea
son why they should not he able TO
enforce their own reasonable demands
at a time like the present. when the
whole Tory press asserts that Eng
land may need her navy at any mo-
ment.
Construction. and those working with
him have in contemplation the aban-
donment OF the "Dreadnought" design
for our battleshlps and the adoption of
a totally new type. This will not. of
course, affect the battleshps and
battleship <cruisers now under con-
struction.
Though no details of the new type
of vessel now under considera ton
have been allowed to leak out. it is
possible to state that in point of dis
placement they will approximate to
the Lord Nelson" type rather than to
the super Dreadnouehts now on the
stocks at Davenport. Portsmouth and
elsewhere. That is to say. their dis
placement will probably be somewhere
In the neishborhood of seventeen or
eighteen thousand tons as against the
2'.o0o tons of the Queen Mary" now
building In the Palmer Yard at Lar
row.
1t is proposed that the all big gun
principle shall be abandoned in this
new type of ship. On the other hand.
If apparently we'll authenticated re-
ports may he credited. the primary
armament of these vessels will con-
sist of sin of the now iifteen-i gun
which is under discussion at the mo-
ment. lille they would also carry a
comparatively heavy anti-torpedo arm
ament One great point that is urged
In favor of these new ships is that they
would he relatively cheap to build In
deed. 1t is commended that two OF them
could be built for less than one super
Dreadnought costs. and of course in
much quicker time
1t Is matter of common discussion
among naval men at the present mo-
ment, as TO what the effect would be
If the whole of the ten 13.5-inch guns