CONCRETE SHIPS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 17 May 1918, Page 5

CONCRETE SHIPS

FIRST BRITISH VESSEL COMPLETED. (Australian end N.Z. Cable Association.} {ißec. May IT. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The first large, concrete ship of nine hundred tons displacement and deadweight capacity of five hundred tons has been completed. SUCCESS OF AMERICAN SHIPS.

SAN 5 FRANCISCO', 'May 7

The trial trip of the first concrete steamer Faith around the bay of San Francisco is regarded as having been an unqualified success by expert.. Cheering throngs acclaimed her as tm herald of a vast new industry, supplementing steel and wood ships, and overcoming the submarine sinkings. The port collector said: —"This success means a vast increase in tonnage, without impairing the facilities for producing steel and wooden ships." Tr Faith's captain said that he never'know a ship easier to handle. The -vibration* from the engines were slight. Government officials have arrived to select a site for a concrete ship plant one' of several for which Congress is appropriating £10,000,000. The construction of a concrete boiler for ships will be commenced experimentally at the experts' suggestion in view of the Faith's success. •The San Francisco Chronicle, in an editorial article/ citing the Shippm: Board figures in regard to American shipbuilding; says:— "American *> are how able to show accumulating results by numerous launching and com pleted vessels. Henceforth there will w no complaint of American shipbuilding." *

BONNET ROUGE CASE

THE .SENTENCES.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

BAKES, May v b. In the Bonnet Rouge treason l rial, Ihival was sentenced to death and t.ie other accused to terms ranging from fve to ten years' penal servitude. DETAILS OF SENTENCES. fAustralian and N.Z Cable Association.! (Rec. May 1% &5 ■ a.m.) v [PARIS,. May 16. The sentences in "the Bonnet Rotige case include—Duval's accomplice Marion to ten years' imm-isonmentrOroidsky, eight years; Jougla and Landau, five years; Bercasson, two years. Marion, Landau, and Goldeky were - members-ol of the- Bonnet : Rouge staff and \\ere ohaered with complicity in Almeyreda s and Duval's dealing's withvthe- enemy. Leymarie, head of the HomeJJffice, and political police during M., Malvy. s home secretaryship, was fined a thousand francs. .'

The action taken bv the French authorities in the Bonnet Rouge case has led to the destruction of one of the enemy's strongest sources of help m France. A perusal of the files of that sordid sheet (says The Times) show? that ever since 1915 it had been busied not only directly, in the eneniy interest by the advocacy of peace and through the encouragement of seditions' pessimism, but also indirectly by espousing the cause of the sorrv band of embusques (that is, men "hidden" from the dangers of active service), of fraudulent Army doctors, of men such as Casement, of the liquor trjide. The disguised German was its- special protege, and Great Britain Avas its special enemy. It seems'incredible,-on; reading through the articles ; it published—and 1400 were "obliterated by ' the', .'censprfthat 'the clearance was not effected sbonei'. The Bonnet Rouge, though, it was not one of the leviathans, of , the Paris press, was, nevertheless a Pans evening newspaper to be found on every kiosk of the Boulevard, and, what is perhaps more significant, it acquired its customers in the trenches. Connected with ; it, either through the editorial staff, the management, or by similarity of inspiration, were the Tranchee >Republicaine and Les" Nations, the Primo, »nd the Republicaine news agencies. Through these channels,; and through the milder medium of the Carnet de la Semaine and Le Pays, the philosophy of defeat, or at the least of Sovietism, was preached steadily. Reacting to the spur of M. Clemenceau, the Government took action. They arrested Vigo, alias Almeyreda, editor-in-chief of the Bonnet Rouge, since mysteriously found dead in prison; Duval and Marion, managers of the same newspaper; and an employee of the concern ; and the military "authorities ■ suspended until further orders the publication of the Sonnet Rouge 'and Tranchee Republicaine and Les Nations.' The Minister for the Interior, M. Malvy, whose duty it was to protect the country-and, the Army poison of .the, gang, resigned. Ho could not well do otherwise. He was acquainted with .Vigo, and addresed him in the familiar second person singular. He had, ''moreover, given him moneys from the Secret Ser* vice Fund, and 'of Vigo's life the most definite ; record is that "contained in the Gazette dea* Tribunaux, which '.is ~as" follows ■:^—" Vigo was sentenced ■; to two months' imprisonment in' 1900 for theft'; in 1901 to a year's imprisonment for the manufacture of explosive's, to three years for incitement to : murder; and in 1908 to three Army; arid 'in *I9IO he was arrksted-' for and -convicted of attempted sabotage." Vigo, in all this' German, campaign, was but a puppet. He was entirely without education, and it is more than; doubtful whether he was able to write the articles/he signed. He weut the way of all puppets, and lies in'his grave. The articles:signed by M. Badih were clever; diabolically arid ironically .clever, and very German. M. Badin, at any rate at some moments of his career, had his pen guided by Duval, the manager of -the Bonet Rouge, now sentenced to death.

INDIA. INCREASED ENE.RGY IN WAR WORK. (Australian and N".Z. Cable Association.) DELHI, May 15 Since the Delhi conference remarkable energy has been displayed throughout India in carrying the recommendations regarding development of resources, munitions, and recruiting and in other directions into effect. The special lacilities afforded the peofleHo invest in the new loan have been extensively