Patriotic Tourney

Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 March 1917, Page 2

Patriotic Tourney

LEVIN BOWLING CLUB. THE BALANCE-SHEET. Following is the balance-sheet of tho Levin Bowling Club executive for the patriotic' tournament held at 'Levin this month: — EEOEIPTS. £ s. d. Tickets. •• ••• ••• 8 11 0 Gate 15 4 0 Bowling entries 3 7 6 Bowling competition ••• 2 18 6 Stalls : Produce 10 2 3 Sweets ••• ••• 8 6 Ice-cream - 2 11 Surprise packets H 14 6 Competitions: Croquet and guessing ... 6 7 0 Side shows ,1 14 6 Guessing live sheep weight ... 4 10 0 Donations: 11. S. Young (prize money returned) ••• 2 0 0 Borough Council ... ••• 40 0 84 0 8 EXPENDITURE. Printing and advertising 2 16 0 Carting •• ••• 15 0 Piano, hire and insurance ... 18 11 Crockery hire ••• 9 Petty expenses 17 5 Borough Council's account— Gas and Material 4 9 8 .Labour ... ... 7 12 Of •18 8 O Balance • ••• 65 12 8 £84 0 8 To Red Cross Fund . 32 16 4 To Horowhenua Patriotic Association ••• r--- 33 16 4 C. H. P-Y-KIE and W. TBKBISON, Finance Committee. • rSubmarine War 9. ADMIRAL JELLICO'E'S APPEAL TO SHIPYARD WORKERS. "The submarine menace to the merchant service is far greater now than at any period of the war and it required all our energy to combat it/' said Sir John Jullic e, the First Sea Lord, speaking at a luncheon in (London recently after ho had been made a freeman of the Fishmongers! Company. But we-had to make good our inevitable losses, and in order to do this we were dependent upon the' shipbuilding industry. The first essential was the wh"lc-liparted C3-op2ration of the men in the shipbuilding yards and in the engineering workshops. He appealed to these men to put forth their best efforts continuously and ungrudgingly to keep up the strength of our mercantile marine, and to provide those gallant fellows who had gone through innumerable dangers and hardships when their ships had been sunk with new vessels to carry on the transport of the necessary supplies of food and material for the manhood and the industries of the country. Let there be no question of strikes, 110 bad time-keeping, no slacking, and let masters and men remember how great was their responsibility, not only towards the Navy and the nation, hut also towards our Allies.

THE WATCHING FORCE. Submarines and mines compelled the watching force during a blockade to take up their station further and furtlieir away. In spite of this and in spite of the German boast as to the occasions on which German 'Fleet had searched the North Sea for the British Fleet, our enemies had only on one occasion ventured sufficiently far with their main fleet to give us an opportunity to engage them. No vessels, neutral or British, had sighted the High Sea Fleet far from its ports on any other occasion. Raids on the British coast with fast cruisers or battle cruisers had been carried out, hut on each occasion the passage from German waters had been made apparently under cover of the night,, the enemy appearing off our coast at dawn and retiring before comparatively small forces. Such feats were now undertaken probably only in the hope of enticing us into the adoption of a false strategy by breaking up our forces to guard all vulnerable points. He did not criticise the Germans for their strategy or for not running any risks with their fleet. On the other hand, boasts of searching the North Sea for the enemy must be pronounced as without justifiable basis. PRAISE 'FOR. MERiOHANTIUB MARINE. • Sir John stated that the . approximate number of vessels of all classes which comprised the British Navy of to-day was nearly 4000, Ho paid a warm eulogy to our mercantile marine, upon which we had been dependent for the movement for the movement of our troops overseas— over seven millions of men having heen transported together with all the guns munitions and stores required by the army. We had had to draw also upon the personnel of the mercantile marine, not only for the manning of the merchant ships, but also very largely for the manning of the. whole of our patrol and mine-sweeping craft, nearly 2500 skippers being employed as skippers R.N.R. The First Sea Lord also paid a high tribute to the spirits of the officers and men of the fleet, of which lie had' so recently given up the command. The spirit of our forefathers lived on in all its vigour and devotion to King and country in officers and men of to-day, with this added, tnat there was a higher standard of personal worth, of mental alertness, and of moral rectitude. One prominent fact lie could speak to with full confidence born of experience—the nation could depend on the navy ibeing ready, resourceful and reliable.