Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [‎330v] (663/879)

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The squadron takes its departure for Bantry Bay at eight
o’clock this morning. It will, according to present arrange
ments, engage in manoeuvres off the west Irish coast for
five days from to-day, enter Berehaven on May 8, and
leave on the 11th igage in exercises and steam tactics
from the 12th to e 16th; arrive at Kingstown on the
17th, and remain until the 22nd ; will be in the North Sea
on the 26th and 27th ; and proceed by way of the Kaiser
Wilhelm Canal to Kiel on the 28th.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The gunboat Pigm , just returned from China, was sub-
jected to a steam trial in the North Sea yesterday, when
her engines and boilers worked satisfactorily. She was
afterwards sent to Chatham Dockyard to prepare to pay
off.
The first-class cruiser Amphitrite, which left Sheerness
yesterday for the North Sea for a steam trial before sail
ing for China, was compelled to anchor a few miles below
the Nore to make good a defect, and her trial was deferred.
The temporary wireless telegraphic stations erected for
the Channel Squadron at Berehaven h »ve not proved
quite satisfactory. Tests made by the cruiser Furious
proved that the greatest distance at which intelligible mes
sages could be received was fifteen miles.
The annual contest in six-oared gigs rowed by com
missioned and warrant officers of the ships of the Channel
Squadron for the Fellowes Cup took place on Wednesday
at Berehaven. The flagship’s gig won a capital race,
the Pactolus gig being second, and that of the St. George |
third.
The battleship Hood has arrived at Malta from Aranci
Bay.
The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
yesterday :
Staff Capt. W. Tooker, to the Ariadne, for Newfound
land survey, undated.
Commanders—R. M. Harbord, to the Royal Sovereign,
and E. E. Lacey, to the Bulwark, for mooring work at
Gibraltar, undated ; C. E. Hunter, to the Duke of
Wellington, to date May 27, and to the London, to date
June 7 ; and W. A. Cowan, to the Resolution, to date
May 27.
Lieutenants—H. E. Grace, to the Bulwark, for special
duties at Malta ; J. B. Sparks, to the Ariadne, for the
Columbine, in command ; E. R. Jones, to the Ariadne,
for the Columbine ; M. and E. R. Morant, to the Amadme,
for the Quail, in command, undated.
Sub-Lieutenants—E. C. Bunbury, to the Ariadne, for
the Quail, undated ; D. W. O. B. Forsyth, to the
Boscawen, to date April 29 ; H. U. Fletcher, to the
Orion, for the Mallard, to date April 29, and to the
Cygnet, undated.
Chaplain Rev. R. D. Lewis, M.A, to the Empress of
India, to date May 3.
Mid. C. E. Maconochie, to the Bulwark, to date May 1.
Naval Cadet C. M. Lezgatt, to the Mars, to date May 15.
Staff Surg. G. T. Collingwood, to the Sutlej, to date
May 6.
The appointments of Sub-Lieut. D. W. O. B. Forsyth,
to the Orion, for the Cygnet, and Naval Cadet C. M.
Leggatt, to the Sutlej, have been cancelled.
ROYAL INSTITUTION.
The annual meeting of the members of the Royal
Institution was held yesterday afternoon, Sir James
Crichton-Browne presiding. The annual report of the
Committee of Visitors, testifying to the continued prosperity
and efficient management of the institution, was read
and adopted, and the report on the Davy-Faraday Research
Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which accompanied
it, was also read. Forty-four new members were elected in
1901. The following gentlemen were elected as officers for
the ensuing year : President, the Duke of Northumberland;
treasurer, Sir James Crichton-Brown ; secretary, Sir W.
Crookes; managers, Lord Alverstone, Sir James Blyth,
Sir Frederick Bramwell, Dr. Thomas Burrard, Dr. Donald
Hood, Sir Francis Laking, Mr. George Matthey, Dr.
Ludwig Mond, Dr. Hugo Muller, Mr. Edwin Pollock, Sir
Owen Roberts, Sir Felix Semon, Sir James Stirling, Mr.
J. I. Thornycroft, and Mr. J. Wimshurst. Visitors: Dr.
H. E. Armstrong, Dr. Charles Edward Beevor, Mr. John B.
Brown-Morison, Mr. Francis Elgar, Mr. Francis Gaskell,
Dr. Dundas Grant, Lord Greenock, Mr. Maures Horner, Sir
Henry Irving. Mr. Wilson Noble, Mr. W. R. Pidgeon, Mr.
Arthur Rigg, Mr. W. S. Squire, Mr. Harold Swithinbank,
and Mr. Charles Wightman.
THE FLANNELETTE DANGER.
An inquest was held at Haslemere yesterday as to the
death of Miss Muriel Alice Parnell, aged twenty-three,
daughter of Colonel the Hon. Arthur Parnell, a retired
colonel of the Royal Engineers, and a niece of Lord
Congleton. Miss Parnell, who was on a visit to the neigh-
bourhood, had retired to her room, and at the time of the
accident was wearing a flannelette dressing gown, which it
is supposed caught fire from a candle as she was getting
into bed. She was severely burned, and died from shock.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and ex
pressed the opinion that the wearing of flannelette was to
be condemned.
Mr. William H. Moody yesterday entered on his
duties of Secretary for the United States Navy in succes
sion to Mr. Long.
Cardinal Martinelli, the Apo? li Delegate in the
United States, has been recalled to Rome .
According to private advices received in Bulu-
wayo the gravity of the cattle disease in Rhodesia is much
exaggerated. It is unlikely that the disease will spread to
Cape Colony.
The visit of the members of the CatholicAssociation
and their friends to the new Westminster Cathedral
which was to have taken place to-morrow, and for which
over three thousand tickets of admission had been issued,
has been postponed owing to the state of the cement
flooring.
SOLDIERS' Families.—A committee has been
appointed at the War Office to consider the better furnish
ing of the quarters of married non-commissioned officers
and men. The committee includes Colonel C. E. Heath,
Assistant Quartermaster-General; Lieutenant*ColonelC. G.
Jeans, Assistant Director-General of Ordnance ; and Mr.
J. A. Corcoran, of the War Office.
Emigrants to Canada.—Yesterday morning a
party of one hundred and five girls left Paddington for
Liverpool en route to Canada to which they are being emi
grated under the auspices of the National Waifs’ Association
(Dr. Barnardo's Homes). The girls sailed in the afternoon en
, the Dominion. ‘ Including these, the homes have now emi-
j grated in all twelve thousand nine hundred and forty-five
| boys and girls, of whom up to date not one in fifty has
। proved unworthy. Last year the homes similarly sent out
one thousand and thirteen young people, and they have to
1 emigrate at least eleven hundred M 120%/
The industrial ' exhibition comprises five-and
wenty groups, which are enumerated below :
Mining and Salines.
Foundry.
Metal Industry.
Machinery and Electricity.
Means of Transport, 6 • s '
Chemical Industry. -
Food.
Stone, Clay, China, &c.
Wood and Furniture.
Fancy Goods.
Textiles.
Clothing.
Leather, India Rubber & c.
Paper Industry.
Polygraphic Industry.
Scientif Instruments.
Musical, nstruments.
Building and Engineering.
Scaools.
Sanitary and Social Institu-
tions.
Sport.
Horticulture.
Agriculture.
Arts and Crafts.
To these may here be added the affiliated exhibi
tion of German national art and historical art, of
which the president i Professor Fritz Roeher.
The new permanent Art Gallery fulfils the wish of
the Diisseldorf School for a large hall for their
exhibits ; it takes the form of a magnificent palace
with a frontage 396ft. long, on the Rhine, and a
dome 138ft. high.
Attractions.
Pursuing these general features, attention may
here be directed to the attractions which the ex
hibition offers to the pleasure-loving public. It is
the dream of some of us to spend a contemplative
old age, sipping Rhine wine on the Rhine, and if
an industrial exhibition, proclaiming the might of
Germany in peace, is not included in that dream
at least a foretaste of happiness may be derived in
Heine's city this year. For the authorities, with
commendable restraint, have aimed at avoiding
entertainments and attractions of a vulgar type.
Good music, good illuminations, and good food
will be supplied, and the river invites the visitors
to all kinds of aquatic amusement, for which
every facility is provided. For people who
like to talk, and for that rarer breed
which enjoys hearing other people talking,
a considerable number of congresses has arranged
to meet at Dusseldorf this summer. Hither will
come the Cycling Union, and hither in more
serious vein the International Congress on Work
men’s Insurance and the Housing of the Poor.
The German Shipbuilding Society, reinforced by
delegates from our Institute of Naval Architects,
and similar bodies in France and the United
States, may vary their labours by sailing toy-boats
on the Rhine, and of merely German associations
there seems hardly one in the Fatherland which
does not intend to pitch its tent on the Dusseldorf
river bank this year. All this foregathering of
the talents will add to the success of the exhibi
tion, to which every one in Diisseldorf is resolved
to devote all his powers.
First Impressions.
A panorama of the exhibition lies before me and
reveals the purpose of the authorities more clearly
than was manifest through the festive ceremonies
of to-day. The grounds stretch along the Rhine
for the whole of their western frontier, and the total
effect of the bright gardens and imposing palaces is
extremely p'easing to the eye. On the senses,
perhaps,the first impression is one of electricity and
Krupp. Electricity reigns universally. A circular
electric railway, measuring more than three miles,
runs round the grounds. Electric light shines from
a thousand points, and the myriad smile which the
Greek poet discovered in water is literally realised
to-day by the varied colours glittering in every foun-
tain. A greatspacein the machinery hallisoccupied by
the central electric station, with its dynamos up to
three thousand horse-power ; in a word, the pro
gress of this industry is a chief feature of the
exhibition. And next to electricity comes Krupp.
The huge palace of the firm Friedrich Krupp, with
its ironclad towers and its frontage of over
400ft., dominates the eye at entering and
opens the triumphal way of Rhenish-Westphalian
industry. It is rhe poetry of force, the modern
German reading of the latter half of the Bismarckian
legend, “By blood and iron”; for though a
section of German workmen may complain that the |
blood contribution is theirs, there is nothing serious
enough in the economic distress of Germany to
counteract the effect of this exhibition of her vast
industrial resources. I propose to return another
day to the particular features of interest which the
Diisseldorf Exhibition affords. To-night the first
impression of the greatness of German industry is
paramount.
SPEECHES AT THE BANQUET.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAM.]
DUSSELDORF, MAY 1.
Count von Bulow, the Chancellor, in proposing
the health of the Emperor at the banquet at the
exhibition, referred to the interest manifested in
the exhibition by his Majesty from its inception
to its realisation. Count von Billow continued as
follows :
" It is a further mark of the Emperor’s goodwill that the
Crown Prince as the patron of the Exhibition is present
to-day, having broken his journey for this purpose. His
Royal Highness has had opportunities of convincing
himself of the treasures of industry and art that the
exhibition contains, for in the Industrial Hall specimens of
workmanship and industry are exhibited such as are
scarcely to be found even in European universal exhibitions.
(Cheers.) This exhibition has been organised at a time
when our industries, and especially the iron industry. have
policy in foreign affairs which gives us reasonable
grounds for hoping that, though difficult, such a
task is not impossible of accomplishment. The
exigencies of our party system make it impossible
that the direction of the Empire’s foreign relations
shall be entrusted continuously over a lengthened
period to the same man, or even to a succession of
Ministers professing the same opinions on domestic
affairs ; but the disposition among statesmen belong
ing to both the great parties in the State to regard
our foreign relations as outside the sphere of party
controversy has certainly not been weakened by
recent events, and would, we are convinced, be
greatly strengthened if it were possible to believe
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cite instances in which, within quite recent years,
the Government of the day has shown itself to
have been blindly groping where it ought to have
been marching forward with firm and assured
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our failure to have thought out an intelligible
policy is furnished in recent times by the case of
Africa, though there are episodes in the diplomatic
history of the Far Eastern question which would
equally well serve the purpose of illustration. Can
it be imagined for a moment that if the Foreign
Office, in the early stages of the modern partition of
the African Continent,had realised the importance of
the appearance on the scene of Germany and France
as participants in the scramble, and had arrived
at an intelligible idea of what was the object to
which our policy ought to be directed in Africa,
that our West Coast Colonies would now be mere
enclaves An area of land belonging to one country and entirely surrounded by land of just one other country. , cut off from all communication one
with another, and debarred from access to the
interior by a continuous band of French territory ?
But, indeed, no more striking instance could be
asked than is furnished by the recent history
of our relations with Persia. It is but little more
than two years since Persia obtained a loan of
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Russian Government the SHAH had sought to
obtain a loan from Great Britain, but to the dis
may id despair of our local representatives the
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on terms which were acceptable to the Persian
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required that we should make full use of such an ovf
opportunity for extending our influence over Persian
affairs. Had the Foreign Office been able to convince Uges
Sir MICHAEL Hicks-Beach that the loan of a ‘Woo
comparatively trifling sum would subserve the 1 09
legitimate development of a recognised Imperial q,
policy the CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer could not 5317
have successfully opposed the loan, for the Cabinet
would have overridden his opposition had it been 03
pushed to extremities. But the Foreign Office failed J4
to carry its proposal because it did not itself realise ‘D
the importance of the transaction, or in other words
because it had not thought out an intelligible ,
policy, and could not, therefore, appreciate at its u
true value the bearing of this individual trans-)
n4i an onr interests in Persia and the Persian 1