CANADA'S NAVY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 4

CANADA'S NAVY.

(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) •Received March 11, at 3.20- p.m. OTTAWA, March 10. Lord JeHicoe's report on the prospective Canadian Navy suggests as the Jirst of four schemes "a fieet unit .of one battle-cruiser, two bght criusers, fix destroyers, four submarines, and other auxiliary vessels and aircraft, i The fourth scheme will be merely one_ for coastal protection, including three bght cruisers, one-flotilla leader, twelve torpedo craft, and eight submarines. 'The cost of the first scheme is two millions sterling annually until 1927, and «the cost of the fourth, one million sterling. The first scheme provides for the de-' fence of the Pacific; the others do not. FOOTBALL FRENZY. (Times Service.) Received March 12. at 12.10 a.m. There were record crowds _ at the fourth round of the Football Cup Ties. Sixtv thousand saw Chelsea defeat Bradford by I goals to 1 : and 50JOOO witnessed Aston Villa's defeat of Tottenham Hotspur by 1 to nil. j POLES DEFEAT BOLSHEVISTS. I (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received ilarch 11. at 12.10 a.m. WARSAW. March 10. The Polish Army inflicted a smashing blow on the' Ifolsheviks on the Lithuanian front, compelling the Reds to retreat in panic. The staff of the 4/ th Red Division were among the thousand prisoners captured. The important strategical railway from Morvrz to Kalenkowitz was severed. The achievement has stirred public enthusiasm as ;i triumph of first importance to the political fortunes of Polaudaki Makitghim, virtually the absolute dictator of Poland. IRISH OUTRAGES. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 11, at 2.40 p.m. LONDON, March i. Four masked and armed men entered the hospital at Cork, held up the staff and divested them of watches and jewels, saving: are from Ixindon and have come to Ireland to make money." REINDEER FARMS IN THE ARCTIC (Times Service.) Received March 11. at 2.40 p.m. TORONTO, March 6. Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, addressing the members of outlined a scheme for breeding reindeer in North Canada with a view to 3dding to the meat supplies. He proposed the assignment of 5000 square miles of territory for ten years without taxation or expectation of revenue as a breeding area. He stated that meat produced at » total cost of two » pound could be sold in New lork at sixty. It is believed the Government will adopt the scheme. ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

- (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ' Received March 12. at 9 a.m. NEW YORK. March 10. 1 Viscount Grev of Falloden has cabled ? to the New York Times as follows: * "Mv letter was written on my own 1 initiative. It was given the Editor of ' the Ixmdon Times to publish when he ' thought desirable. The letter was mfeitded primarily for British readers, but- I assumed that other people, including Americans, would print it if they thought it nsefnl. lam glad any of them should have done so.' AMERICAN NAVAL SCANDAL. ? (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) > Received March 12, at 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, March 10. Admiral Sims states that the Navy ■> Department's conduct of the war prot longed the struggle unnecessarily 1-y t months, through its not co-operating ? with the Allies properly, and through - petty jealousies and other friction in

- the first year. Afterwards there was *n » improvement. * AMERICA AND THE TREATY. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) a Received March 12, at 9 a.m. . WASHINGTON, March 10. Senator Lodge, debating in the Senate Mr Wilson's letter to Mr Hitchcock. e»aid it was unfortunate that Mr ■ Wilson declared that the French mili--1 taristic element was defeated at the Peace Conference, but that now it had ' regained control. The reference to the Presidential distrust of diplomats as capable of working for the world s ; salvation wai» equally unhappy.. while his allusions to Italy as a country merely seeking its own self-protection were similarly unappropriate. The Senate re-adopted by 3< to is) the reservation providing for equality of voting power in the Leaguo of Nations

Received March 12. at 9.20 a.m. NEW YORK. March 11: The Times' Washington correspondent says that the work of drafting -n compromise to Article X is not propressing favorably, and many discouraged Senators hav<? expressed a hopelessness of reaching a compromise which will fce acceptable to the whole Senate. It is felt that the Republicans as well as a small number of Democrats who are dissatisfied with Mr Wilson's attitude, are now attempting to fasten the rejection of tho Treaty npon Mr "Wilson. LABOR AMALGAMATION. (Atis. Mid N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 12. at 9.20 a.m. LONDON. March 11. Negotiations are in progress for making tni: Triple Labor Alliance quadruples by the adhesion of the engineers; also for the amalgamation of all railwaymen's organisations by a federation of the Uailwaymen's Union and the Drivers' and Firemen's Society. EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES. (Imperial News Service.) Received March 12, at 10.40 a.m. LONDON, March P. In the of Commons Colonel Amery. speaking on tho Colonial Offi-.e. vote, described the work of tho Overseas Settlement Office here, and i>articutarfy emphasised the assistance given to ex-servicemen. So far ten thousand applications, totalling 18,000. persons, have been received- The overseas governments have passed *fwo thousand persons, some of whom have already sailed. The total expenditure on the scheme might reach one million sterling for 1920-1921. Colonel Am cry mentioned that ho would shortly introduce a Bill under which the dominions governments would be enabled to enforce payments from men who deserted their families in Great Britain. Tlio payments would be transmitted to the boards of guardians maintaining the families*. He referred to the formation of a federation embracing all immigration societies. Canada was interested in the settlement of women, and the Canadian Government's substantial assistance to the whole scheme was cnly the beginning of one of the most, important Empire movements. Colonci Antrry dwelt on the desirableness of catvful selection of men wishing to proceed overseas. Nobody suggested that Gri-at Britain could support all _ the people who had gone to the dominions; on the contrary if there bad not been great emigration during the last century. and rip dominions with' which to trade, we could not support ourselves I to-day He emphasised the desirable- , | ncss of encouraging men to emigrate to ' ! parts of the Empire instead of io foreign lands. Those who stored under the flag were a strength and an asset to the Empire in peace or war. but of quite a different character were those who went to other countries. It could be reckoned safely that one Englishman who went to the dominions was from the standpoint of the safety of the Empire. worth twenty times as much as one who went even to so friendly a - country outside the Empire as the Fnited States. JAPAN AND THE* SOVIET. (Aas. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Mjich 12, at 9.30 a.m. HONdLTJLTT, March 9.. ' According to a dispatch from Tofcio, . the Japanese Foreign Office has in- /s timatedifiatjan earlv resumption is tiiely of i frynintridf relations with the to » fornal re- -