BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15394, 10 July 1914, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. ARMING WARSHIPS BELOW. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services, Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July S. At the Institute of Naval Architects, Sir John Byles. discussing the submarine menace, said ho had .arrived at a conclusion that justified eerious consideration of the feasibility of applying armour to the bottom of warships. The effect would ha to reduce the speed of a battleship by two knots. It was for naval officers to decide whether the gain in protection would be worth, the loss of speed. VALUE OF CADET TRAINING. AUSTRALIA'S EXAMPLE. Received 5.2.5 p.m., July Otli. Speaking a luncheon to the Australian cadets at Guildhall Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield said the sooner universal cadet training -was adopted in Britain the better it would be for tho national health, industrial wealth and national efficiency. Tho "Tejegraph>'■' commenting on the cadet says tie overseas Dominions are taking a larger View of their duties to the rising generation than tho Motherland. Cadet training has raised unbounded enthusiasm m Australasia while the Motherland's waste of human life is tho greatest tragedy of our time.

HUMAN BODY FOUND; THOUGHT TO BE H. A MEL'S. Received 11.45 p.m., .July 9th. PARIS, July 9. A fisherman has found a man's body off Boulogne, but it is too decomposed to Ijo recognisable. Ho has secured a map of tho south c;f England from the clothing. Other indications point to the body being that of Mr Hamel, the aviator, who was lost some time ago when crossing the Channel. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. FOISTED UPON CANADA. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 11.5 p.m., July 9th. ' OTTAWA, July 8. . Labour bodies throughout tho "Dominion endorse the Government's decision to cleport iinemployed Ukranians who have been less than three years in Canada, owing to the condition of the labour market. Mr Watters, president of the. Dominion Trades Congress, states that dishonest immigration agents and transportation companies induced hundreds of /unsuitable persons to enter Canada, securing bonuses by representing them as agricultural labourers.