THE KARLSRUHE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 6

THE KARLSRUHE

VISIT TO VANCOUVER'

TRAINING OF CAPETS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

VANCOUVER, March 27.

The German cruiser Karlsruhe has just concluded a week's stay in Van^ couver waters. Arriving on the day before Hitler made his dramatic pronouncement about establishing an army of 500,000 men, she attracted widespread notice, and thousands were unable to board her on the 'days she was open to inspection. The Karls-1 ruhe carried 35 officers and 615 ratings,1 including 119 cadets.

The present cruise is the final step in the practical training of the cadets, which precedes a one-year course at the navy school at Kiel. ■ Each cruise occupies eight months, after ■ which the cadets sit for examination it VVigo, Spain for their rating as Ensign. Three and a half years as Ensign, complete training before being commissioned. , The cadets are not privileged. They take their full share of routine work, some being on duty during every watch;! At 6 a.m. they have breakfast, followed by one and a half hours deck swabbing. ' At 9 o'clock they are paraded, and division officers outline the day's work. .Apart from attending lectures, the cadets take a hand in painting the ship, boat drill, rowink and sailing, and the handling of motor-boats. AtgseJvthevVare given an opportunity to assist in plotting the cruiser's course. ' _■ ■' .., According to Captain Leutjens, the Karlsruhe has been well received on her trip, except at San Francisco, where her arrival caused a watersiders' strike, in protest at her visit. As a result, she cancelled her calls at Portland and Seattle. From here, she will proceed to Mexico and Panama. At Vigo she will be joined by the Emden. , " > / ~ Mention of the Emden recalls the visit of that cruiser to Pacific -Coast ports seven years ago. She was given a tremendous welcome in American waters. The Hearst Press printed interviews with American naval officers, who declared they had, while in charge of destroyers, chased the original Emden in and out of the ports of the Seven Seas, overlooking the fact that the Emden was sunk by the Australian cruiser' Sydney in the Indian Ocean on November 10, 1914—nearly three years before the American Navy look part in the Great War-