On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 16 October 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

VIS2T TO NAVAL BASES.

FEMALE LABOR EMPLOYED.

LATEST THING IN CRUISERS.

Ptoss Association—Copyright

United Service

London, October 15

The Admiralty arranged for a party of Dominion pressmen to visit the naval bases of the Giand Fleet. The trip commenced on Saturday a visit being made to a southern base, where there are extensively-conduct-ed dockyards and workshops, intense activity being noticeable in naval and commercial shipbuilding, and where all manner of wonderful defensive and offensive craft are to he seen. Many women are employed at the lathes and other lighter machinery, showing that the Admiralty is fully using female labour where they could not be imagined before the, war. The party were also shown a leviathan battle cruiser, the latest thing in naval science, giving an overwhelming impression of strength and power, combined with the greatest speed and monster guns.

1 One of the visitors wrote: "Wo found the officers and men in the navy keen and alert. Whatever the Huns may have achieved at Kiel and ißromerhaven in construction, they 'could never produce seamen equal to I these."

GERMAN AND NORWAY.

WAR BAIT REFUSED. NORWEGIANS JOIN BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, October 15. A newly-arrived Norwegian, on being interviewed in London, .stated that a Nonveigian statesman of the first rank recently told him that Germany was trying to force Norway into the war, and would like any excuse to seize a Norwegian base, but Norway would not play Germany"s game. The traveller added that many Norwegians whose ships have been sunk had signed on on British merchantmen.