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Show FLAGS, PAINT GILDINGS This What Constitutes Bulk of British Navy. LONDON PRESS AUTHORITY Declare That Majority of John Bull's Warships Might as Well Bo Built of Cardboard, ns They Are Dummies, Dum-mies, Too Feeble to Tight and Too Slow to Run Away Bitter Indictment Indict-ment Against tho Admiralty for Overcrowding of Tionsports in Returning Re-turning Soldiers to England. London, Aus K 'Ince foromtlnn das the exodus from Lou ion his been continuous nml the population nf the cits Is now probnl.I) nt tin I iwest water mark of the whole ear The ro$al guests' have neuily nil departed and the American mlgiutlon is mils limited tn the inrrslni; capnclt) of the Atlantic liners A hcncrnl null Is gnlng up fiom the lintels and bonrdlng-houHes width hau. not profited to thi txtnit expelled by th. tomliic of coronation "llors, nil I which are now all 111.10 than half empts qwlng to the bilated ncutlon lush to the counlrs tn the meanwhile King I'd n art! Is holding n Moating mint m board the rmnl satlits Vktmla nnd Albut at Cuwes wheie u iiumbd of dlslln-guMied dlslln-guMied pe.snns dills x IhII Ills Mm Jeitl Two bl reteptlons hale been limned to take plate on brand lhe sn.ht next week In linnni of the Shall nf Persia and Has Mukonrn the Ah) a-sinlnn a-sinlnn general OHi:VT NAVAL I'MlVIii: Tho great naval pirade olT Kplthead Is llllliik columns or th. I ondnn impers Willi Indlttmenls of the ndmlialtv as well as pHiiogsths nr the maKiilllient ntrint Wllllun Lair I ( Inwos the nn il uiilhorlts, and who cannot bo il.sscd as an alumlst wrllei tint while th.re were 11 doyen vers efficient battltshlps orf l.pllhfad and n few cruisers all cnnipirliig fainnblj with those or the best rnnlgn constlllt Hon tb. bulk nr the HiIUhIi lleel In iner.ly an pxhlbltlnn of lings paint and gliding glid-ing and the niajnrlts inlglit as well be built nf cnrdboiid as the) are mere dummies ton rteble to llhht and loo slow to run aw as admihai.ty nttTifisr.n The admiralty Is iiIbh mining In fnr srnlhlng 1 rlllolsm on in 1 mint nf the metoiowdlng nf trnmpm ts lit turning colonial Ironis frnin 1 up. Town on (he s(e uners lliltnnnlc an I Diasinu r.rniiKo gnlng tn Austrnll 1 wi 1 e ,le istnted with mouslts pneuninnli mil plturiss The sloilts nf filthy iiinrli rs and Inmli niiatc m dl, Ine nnd foul rlial nns thing rlinrgtl In connoi Hon with tin fe.r ihlis whl, h nrrlted nt Camp WjkulT, Moiitnuk 1 f lnt Ing Island after lhe wirwlth Spain , nil. lal statements fr m the mlmlrnlti all deny oer-criwdln. oer-criwdln. but thi rait lemnlna that arter lp-irnus 1 rotesti fiom Almlrnll 1 th Irimiort Auranla then on the eta of silling rur tap. T.wn In Tore pro-1 pro-1 llt.rf ibembaikil ,5u oiluers and men thus admitting tint (he ship was o en row tied to this oxti nt CLAMOU mil LMPLOIMKNT Pven more i-erlous from a nntlonnl point of Mew than the trnnspnrt, remount re-mount and rnnimls ar sc uulala Is the Pinblem nf caring r..r tho hnides nf discharged dis-charged soldiers now clamoring for pin-plus pin-plus men! There Is no (mention thnt the various icllef oiganlzatlous accomplished ac-complished a xnit amount nf t,ood thtoughout the wir nnd they are still dnlng so Thes disbursed llierntl) millions mil-lions of pounds sterling In aid of wll-nws wll-nws orphans and Invalids but now the woilchousts of tho United Kingdom are fllk.l with time-expired men and In nil the big towns masses of oIuntecrs and lestrvlsts .ire ulnlv seeking fresh situations In 1 la, 0 of thoNe their employers em-ployers piomls, 1 to hold open until after the war but who dll not do so Hlrangels whlk the cities are glutted with men out of implosment the farm-ers farm-ers ln all sections of the country nre retailed tn be 1 unenllng the dearth of field hands Di:vi:Lori-rs south atihca There Is a dei l.led Inrlc of publlo ln-tetcn ln-tetcn in tho scltkment nnd develop, ment of South Afrlen Tho publication of a numhei of tentative schemes nf-flclal nf-flclal nnd otherwise has not resulted this fnr In nns rush of Immlginnts In fart the Unite 1 Slates embisss seem tn havo mpplleil the i'nre Ign otllce with a largo iinpoitlnn of the applicants for South African passes 111 my Amcitcaiis having leglste, 1 applications None however mull nopirly be clisied ns imtbiunls AN At I'TH I'ltOnr.LM The nlwna nouto problem of working tho mines Is now moro illlllcult than ever Itlssnld that the supply nt workmen work-men Is 200 000 shoi I nf thn di maud 'I I Kufllts like the I lllplnos are strongly disinclined lo settle down In steads woil. after the mmpirntlvel) large lay nml can) lire nr mm) emplnyme nt Tho Ink nf iiRTUiiliiiilHtH Is equally maikid The prn liners at, ijulto gleeful at tho apparent fulllllnu at nr their pre.) hides that the wages 1 r whiles would be lower under the lliltlsh limn under the Iloer regime. |