The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-29
BRITISH NAVY
READY TO STRIKE
On a War Footing as Result of
Secret Work of Past
Few Months.

! LONDON, November ll.--As result
of Austria Is threats TO prevent Servia
1 from even having little window on
the Adriatic it is now said here that
the admiralty which has been working
secretly for months, has Britain g great
navy on war footing and ready TO
strike. This probably will do more
than anything else to insure European
peace.
Animated by purely patriotic motives
and in obedience to instructions from
the government the British press did
not print line about the strange activ
ity IN the docltyards until ten days ago
when Britain called all her sailors to
the colors. Even then, once more obey.
ing instructions, all the newspapers pub.
lished the diplomatic fiction that the
mobilization of battleships and the
cruiser and destroyer squadrons was
only part of a project to give all see
tions of the service practical sea drill.
Great Britain does not want to fight.
She will exhaust every effort of diplo'
macy to avert n general European war,
but everybody here reads between the
lines of Mr.. Asquth IS speech Saturday
night an expression of firm determine.
ton to prevent Austria from excluding
| oeTNlh irOll Ile AuIldllC anu htI dihSs
from robbing the Balkan states of the
fruits of victories which have cost
them so many thousands of lives on the
battlefield.
Mighty Navy Is Ready.
While Mr.. Asquith Is speech asked for
the use of eommonsense and an appG.
cation of justice in the settlement of
grave issues, personal and territorial,
which have been born of the wonderful
war, Mr. Winston Churchills speech is
looked upon as straightforward deela.
ration that if war is forced by an
unreasonable attitude of Austria and
her allies, Britain mighty navy is
ready with squadrons at strategetic
points where they can speedily deliver
deadly blow.
Austria IS warning to Servia has
worked miracle here, as all the news
;. papers except one this morning, with
: out regard to politics, rally to the sup
n PCT of the government with the decla'
o ration that Servia has won on the bat
4 tlefield the right to port on the
n Adriatic and must have it, and that if
i. Austria puts her fate to the test, to
+. win or lose all, thus involving Russia,
n which must aid the Balkan league, then
France and Britain are in honor bound
n to support St. Petersburg morally and
y materially.
! The firm and apparently unexpected
& attitude of England has worked a mar
a vellous reversion of feeling in Vienna
= for most of the dispatches which came
n from there last night sympathize will
"a Mr.. Asquith IS speech, it having mad,
"a deep impression. Diplomatists arr
e now confident the difficulty with Servif
=, will be satisfactorily adjusted and gen
= eral peace assured. Berlin and Rome
= too, are beginning to sing love song
., instead of war ballads and the outlook
~ despite the utterance of irresponsible
- Chauvinists of press and politics, is tina
though the situation is extremely deli
cate. through being prepared for wa
u England will be able to preserve peace
X Asquith's Great Speech. :.
a; "Upon one thing / believe the gen
n. eral opinion of Europe to be unanimous
1t that the victors are not to be robbed
of the fruits which cost them so dear
Or ly."
re This was the significant statement
at made with reference to the Balkan
Sc situation by Rt. Hon. ii. IL. Asquith
n Saturday evening. The prime ministe
ne was speaking at the banquet in connec
b, ton with the Inauguration of Sir Day
IS, id Burnett, the new lord mayor of Lon
Mt don.
a, Mr.. Asquith referred to the unsuc
Of cessful efforts of the powers to proven
the conflict and to the great change
It. the war had made in the map of Europe
&c He said the fall of Constantinop
I'D might occur at any moment, and added
Id GIN these anxious times it is salts
ce factory to be able to announce tina
the relations of England with the othe
powers, without single exception
were never more friendly and cordial.
u "The map of Europe will have to b
recast,' the premier said, "and no
u whore was there disposition to be
an little the magnitude of the struggle o
" dispute the decisiveness of the result
al Sudden and Startling Changes.
a. Gwen the campaign of Austerlit
H. did not produce such sudden and start
lying changes AZ tue Balkan nation
have wrought in the map of the Nea
East. 1t may be that our preconceI
~ tions and politics will have to be re
IN constructed, or even go by the boar
altogether"
England he said, "has no direc
interest in the exact form which tn
H. political and territorial redistribution
n may take. The special relations o
W the other powers, geographical, ecC
. nomis, ethnicais and historical, with tn
* scene of the conflict are such that the
can not be expected not to claim
voice when the time comes for perma
nent settlement
n. The prime minister RETAINED froI
~, I'd indicating the points that must emery
nd for solution.
an +" For the moment and as long q
m. the state of bellgereney continues, h
he declared, Ills Majesty's governmer
" depreeates the raising aud pressing O
isolated questions, which, If handle
separately and at once may seem likl
~ to lead 10 irreeoneilabie diyergeneie
ho but which may assume a different-pe
~. haps more prartiral-aspeet, If the
are reserved TO be dealt with fran
a. wider point Of view IN the general se