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comers at the decisive point, and that they should 

 guard and patrol all the rest of the British Empire." 



The New Zealand Government offered their battle- 

 cruiser for service in home waters, which, while much 

 appreciated and temporarily accepted, does not fit in 

 to the big idea of Mr. Churchill's. Australia " have 

 cheerfully undertaken to defend their country by sea 

 and land, and are prepared to make all personal or 

 other sacrifices necessary thereto." Canada, if we can 

 believe the Toronto News, is going further, with a 

 very clear idea of the value of what her action means. 

 She is going to make a considerable corftribution in 

 cash or Dreadnoughts. " If Canada now leads the way 

 in a big way, the War Lords of Germany may see that 

 they cannot build battleships against five prosperous 

 British nations growing every day more powerful. By 

 doing the right thing now the Ottawa Government 

 may actually check Germany in her mad ambition." 



AN EX.Min.E AND A DETERMINATION. 



And so we become stronger and more able to fulfil 



our mission of peace. But we must not let aid from our 

 colonies or fair words from the new German Ambas- 

 sador lull us into slumber ; we must always be working 

 and thinking how to make England strong. What an 

 example we have in Sweden, where, in a hundred days, 

 a population of five and a half million souls voluntarily 

 taxed themselves to the value of a new battleship for 

 their navy ! A voluntary tax of less than is. per head 

 in this country would add a battle-cruiser to the ijritish 

 Fleet. Still more readily it could be done by half a 

 dozen of our great industria.1 magnates. Whether we 

 imitate Sweden or not, we must never forget that all the 

 pacifists of the world are looking towards us, hoping for 

 our strength, and relying on the Policeman of Peace to 

 prevent war. The British Empire floats on the British 

 Fleet, and the Peace of the World depends upon the 

 British Empire ! And from now on amongst the most 

 persistent of those who are determined that England 

 shall be strong will be the pacifists transformed into 

 new pacifists. 



CeiUxU I\\7'js.\ 



H.M.S. " Hibernia " Hoisting on Board the First Naval Hydroplane. 



H.M.S. Ilihriiia occupies llic proud posilion of hcinj tlic first lirltisli w.irsliip to have hoisted on board a nav.al Iiydro- 

 plane— one of the weapons of tlie new arm. 'I'hc hydroplane is here seen swinging from a boom liy a cable which spreads 

 out just aliovo the wings, so that four cables actually take the wciglit of the machine. There seems no immediate prospect 

 of flyins; machines being able to alight on a warship. They will start from a specially prepared way, but will have to 

 alight on the water under cover of the baUlcjhip and be raised as shown in this picture. 



