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BIG BATTLSHIPS DOOMED. BY PROGRESS OF INTERVENTION. , By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, Deo. 3. Admiral Sir Percy Scott, speaking in X.ondon, supported Lord Fisher’s theory that big battleships are doomed. Aeroplanes have future naval warfare, with a speed of 150 miles hourly, compared with 30 miles an hour attained by battleships. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE PRICE OF COAL. LONDON. Dec. 3^ In the House of Commons, Sir Auckland Gecides (President of the Board of Trade) stated that a number of collieries, owing to financial difficulties, were unable to continue to supply household coal at the reduced prices. Steps have been taken to finance them and they have been instructed to resume normal working.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER LADY CANDIDATE. LONDON, Deo. 3. The Ashton Conservative Union has invited Lady Beaverbrook to contest the seat • vacated by Sir Albert Stanley. Lady Beaverbrook is the mother of three children and she says she is unwilling to abandon , the nursery for the House of Commons, but it is expected she will consent to stand.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[Lady Beaverhrook, like her husband, is a Canadian. Lord Beaverbrook, formerly Mr. \V. A. Aitken, is 40 years of age and has had a meteoric career. He was the son of n Scottish minister in Sew Brunswick and, alter education at a public school, entered on a journalistic career. He left Canada for England and in 1911 was elected mcuioor of the House of Commons for Ashlon-under-Lyne. During the war he was for some time “Eye-witness” with the Canadian force and wrote “Canada in Flanders.” Later he was made Minister of Information. Ho became a baronet in 1916 and was made: a peerin 1917. It is generally supposed that ho took a leading part in the campaign against Mr. Asquith, which led to his being ejected from the Premiership.] GERMAN FLAG IN THE THAMES. LONDON, Dec. 3. The German flag has re-appeared on the Thames for the first time since the war. A German merchantman is unloading cargo at a London wharf.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.