There. will be some display in connection permanently weakened, with neither the means nor the desire for fresh enterprises. at all of artillery is aware that maid with the unveiling ceremony, and a guard The Vaterland now dismayed to find of gun was able, at least five years ago, of honour, consisting of fifty rank and file that Great Britain has been to produce energies equal to those at proof the Hongkong regiment together with gaining inthe Band and colours, has been summoned fluence in Yemen (Arabia) where, it says, sent obtained by the French 6.4-in. gun; to be in attendance to receive His Ex-the disturbances are the consequences of And it is only the novice who will accept cellency. persistent British intrigue. The "Vater-in the main the idea with which it was and" quotes from a Munich paper a state-evidently the intention of the First Lord Tue reason for the divergence in the ment a "distinguished authority on to inspire the House of Lords—that the route of the four-fannelled cruiser 3 phitrite before her arrival on this station, n- Raster affairs" He says He says that Great invention was relatively a novel one in britain has se-ured absolute predominance regard to the means of obtaining from says the "Hongkong Daily Press," is to in Asia as well as Africa, and gives the Such ® calibre of rare of gun power tbl power quit make some sort of demonstration in the Persian Gulf. Quite recently there has Yeon a display of Russian naval force in this region, one or two large m cruisers having been sent th the visit of the Amphi as imposing a vessel the Ressian Navy possesses, is intended as a kind of counter-demonstration.
From various recent Indian Papers we extract the following interesting military items:—The reduction which is to be made
ally suggest a corresponding lessening of in the Indian Forces in China would natur-the Staff but it is understood that Geseral Creagh and his present Staff will remain unchanged until the reliefs have been carried out. General Creagh may possibly thereafter proceed on leave, in which case locum tenons will have to be appointed.—In connection with the China reliefs we believe that ithas been decided not_to embark all the troops from Calcutta. The Jelunga and the Uganda of the British India Company have been taken up at Bombay, whence also the R. I. M.S. Clive is to sail with a regiment. Thy transports taken up at Calcutta are the British India steamer Pentakota and the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company's Nurani. All these vessels, it is understood, have been employed on trooping service before and are admirably suited thereto.—The following changes have been made in the sailings of transports conveying the China Reliefs:——Prom Karachi the Uganda will convey the 30th Punjab Infantry; from Bombay the Jelunga is to convey' the 10th Bombay nfantry.—The troops proceeding to China on relief will receive field service concessions urdu the date of leaving India, signalling credit to Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, who, he says, is the coming man. ship really wisheu to adopt the modern Tae Report and accounts of the North weapon, ho would have looked for a 6-in. British and Mercantile Insurance Company gun having a velocity of at least 3,000 {t., for last year shows that the authorised and not to one of only, say, 2,600 {t., capital of the Company is £3,000, subscribe guns are to produce. 'Examples of such which is all the velocity our' new naval fed capital £2,750,000, paid-up capital £687, 500, total fands exceodins £15,700,000, guns might, be quoted of British manu-and total revenue, 1901, £3.308,106.
In facture, and we have only to refer to the the last thirty years the fire premium latest ballistics obtained from the United income of the C"mpany has trebled in States 6-in. gun, in which with a 50-Ib. volume. {t rose from £555,179 in 1870 to shell @ velocity of no less than 3,380 ft. £951, 73 in 1880, to £1,389,158 in 1890, per second was obtained for a pressure of and in the year 1901 to £1,623,814. The 16.43 tons. Such is the value set on high money on Sist December, 1900, ballistics by the United States Government, in the books of the Company at that they are spplying the principle of 000, and the premium reserve at high ballistics ¢0. all guns where euch is £618,741.52. possible. Again, it is out of all reason to compare the difficulties of replacing the THE, following raph appears in existing 6-in, breech-loading guns of low "New York Journal of Commerce" under power, such as are utilised in the Can the date of Philadelphia, 9th June:—class and in ships constructed before that James H. Swank, of the American Tron time with the trouble involved in substi-Steel Association, states that the tide in tuting broeeh-londers for muzzle-lenders our iron and steel export and imports has in the old days. All technical turned against the United States. In the must know how right Lord Wilton was in first four months of 1902 our pig. iron calling the attention of the country to the exports were 12,982 tons, against 29,068, tous for the corresponding' period of 1801, apathy of our Admiralty officials in not at once tackling this question in earnest, The exports of steel billets, igaots, ete. making good existing deficiencies in were 525 tons for the first four months of armament Whilst yet there is time. What, 1902, against 25,749 tons for the like period it may be asked, would be the money con of 1901. The exports of iron and steel sideration for re-arming a ship of, say, rails for the like period was 33.293 tons, the Canopus class with modern 6-in. high-against 126,281, tons. Imports of iron and steel for the first four months of 1902 were porered guns with their mountings, and making the necessary modifications to 52,441 tons of pig iron, against 8,646 tons the magazines. It would not exceed 5 in' the first four months of 1901; 26,105 Per cent. of the total cost of the ship, an tons of steel billets, etc., including structural mount truly insignificant, but all impor-ated, against 2,353 tons for the like period tant to render the ships good fighting ree-in 1901,
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