Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08


The ships of the
whole world visit it in normal
times, and there is scarcely a
flag that civilization
knows that is missing in the
Thames in other than war times.
Liverpool has some of the
most modern docks in the world.
Thanking the Mersey River for a
distance Of seven miles, the sixty
docks, having twentysix miles of
quay and covering 42S acres of
ground are equipped with every
aid known to industry for the
rapid handling of the immense
quantities Of merchandise.
Cardiff is far down the list in
the number Of ships arriving, but
ranks third in the total tonnage,
this being due to the heavy coal
business from that port. Cowes
has "a, 600 ships a year: New
castle, $4,000; Portsmouth, '15,-
600, and Glasgow and Belfast
1000 each.
with the opening of the
Clyde, Glasgow has been brought
into direct communication with
oversee lands. Dover, with its
great Admiralty harbor; Chat
ham, with its royal dockyard,
where 1000 workmen are en-
ployed even in normal times;
Middlesborough, with its great
shipbuilding industry; Man.
chester, with its splendid canal
opening up an inland city to world
trade; Belfast, with its famous
shipbuilders; Portsmouth and
Plymouth, on the south coast,
with their extensive port works;
Grimsby, Hull and Aberdeen,
with the largest fishing fleets in
existence; Newlyn and Brixham,
homes of the mackerel fisheries,
and Milford and Fleetwood, the
ports, the hake has made famous,
are all places full of enterprise,
which have been even more active
since the war began than they
ever were before a Submarine
peril was dreamed of.
las has been said, the British
Isles contain no less than 119
ports available for commerce, and
practically all of them have been
developed for effective use.
Even if the Germans have
800 submarines constructed fol
the purpose Of this blockade, as
is claimed, the total makes an
average Of only about four sub.
marines constructed for the pur.
pose Of this blockade, rs is claim
ed, the total makes an average
Of only about four submarines
available for blockading each
port.
Submarines. with even the
largest radius which any of these
: boats possess, are dependent ~
on a convenient base or upon thu
service rendered by a 'mothei
! ship They generally can carr!
= a most limited number of tor
pedoes, without which they ar,
= ineffective, and in addition the!
t are severely handicapped by tn,
} very nature of their operations
British domination of the Sc;
l has not come about by chance
: England's geographic limitation
= have compelled her to keep tn
5 avenues of ocean traffic opel
l through constant readiness t
' render naval protection to he
Y carrying trade; and it is the re
suit of her activities have de
1 veloped on sea and land.
: What nature has always don
i for the children of the wild b
0 rendering them adaptable
e through habit and through equip
I ment, to the environment j
Z. which they are placed, the Eng
e fish people have done Tor them
T. selves, Cribbed, cabined and cor
: fined upon a group of island
limited in area and capable o
= inadequate productiveneSs, eve
: with the most intensive of cultiva
h ton, they were forced, first, {
: command the avenues OF suppl
}. for themselves, and, in order /
e meet the increasing expense q
+ such necessity, secon,, devpIu