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1918 - 1259.PDF
NOVEMBER 7, WHATjMr.|Ian Macpherson said at a meeting at Epsomlast week about the " Freedom of the Seas " will for future generations apply equally to the " Freedom of the Air," so faras the Germans and their like are concerned. So it remains for our peace compilers to see to it that the world is as safelyprotected in the air from Hunnish possibilities as it should be on the seas. Mr. Macpherson claimed that' whateverthe views might be about the fourteen points of President Wilson, there was one which he would like to see disputedby us unless it meant what we meant—the freedom of the seas. We are an island (he said) ; our one security is theNavy, which for generations has sailed the seas as gentle- men, and until it is proved that we have sacrificed our honourand polluted the seas by crime, we can never submit to weaken the security of our just pride. If the freedom of the seashad been recognised as international law before the War our nation_ would have been destroyed, and thousands ofAmerican troops would never have reached these shores. m • •• _ THAT "Freedom of the Seas" question, as translated bythe wily Hun, is more vital than any peace point to be fought against. What it maymean in the futurewas also well expressedby Mr. T. Gibson Bowles at a meeting of the Navy League last week. He pointed out that if we agreed to forego thispower, which has just saved civilisation from annihilation by the Blonde Beast, it meant, amongst other troubles,that in war time a German army of a million men must be allowed by us to cross the seas for the purpose of invasion of ourcountry without a hand being lifted against it until it came within three miles of our coast. It meant that Germanvessels, whether oversea or submarine, might traverse the seas and lay mines, even within our waters, without ourbeing permitted to prevent it. It meant abolition of the rights of search and capture, whereby we had maintainedurselves ever since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But what Mr. Gibson Bowles did not say, and what PresidentWilson might well carefully digest, is that it also meant ditto in regard to that German Army going over tojAHiericaand in that Army would be included a vast fleet of aircraft mother-ships, with many thousands of aeroplanes in being;to start, within three miles of the U.S. coast, their "mis- sionary " work in favour of the Huns' kultured mightiness^The Allies' Peace Terms Congress may well think it over as. British Point No. 1, following upon Mr. Wilson's list ofpoints. THE Royal Air Force will figure prominently in the LordMayor's Show on Saturday. Headed by the R.A.F. band their contingent will include lorries carrying aj SopwithDolphin, -a flying boat, a German Albatros, a captured. Pfalz, R.A.F. guns and bombs, model kite-balloon and modelairship. There will also be a trailer containing W.R.A.F. at work at sailmaking and carpentry, while there will be an R.A.F.mobile workshop for repair of engines. In the Women's Section their will also be a display of W.R.A.F. at aeroplanework. Another air feature in the show will be a travelling pigeon loft. Altogether a brave array, GERMAN prisoners of war are up against working side byside with Conchies again. This time it is at a South of England camp, the job being road-making. Their contentiontakes this form : " We have struck work. These men are conscientious objectors, and won't fight for their country/andwe won't work with them ; let them go and fight—the cowards." The promise of punishment for insubordinationhad no effect, so the COs. were withdrawn and the road- making then proceeded. Probably theC.Os. consider they'vegot the best of the bargain again. At least this_, strike deserves more sympathy than the wood-workers' ylitdeUnion job Liverpool way. \ - _ THE Seamen's and Firemen's Union can regardjas a'dis-tinct honour the action last week of the delegates to a special session of the Irish Trades Union Congress and Labour party,expelling the representatives of the S. and F.U. from the- AN APPEAL IN AID OF THE CHEVRONS CLUB FOR PETTY OFFICERS AND N.C.Os.—Scene atthe Mansion House Meeting last week. From left to right: Lieut.-Gen. Sir Francis Lloyd, K.C.B., Maj.-Gen. Sir Godfrey Paine, K.C.B., Sir E. Kemp, General Seeley, the Lord Mayor (standing), andGeneral Fielding. vv'^^fV • • I26o • • ••••=-,.
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