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The Review ot Reviews. 



^^ovemuer I, 1906. 



The "Montague" on the Rocks. 



tenant Dathan, he has been severely reprimanded 

 and dismissed his ship. As the ship is now a rusty 

 wreck in the Bristol Channel, these officers may be 

 said to have effectively dismissed themselves. But 

 the verdict of the Court shows how very different 

 is the temper of the Navy from that of the Army. 

 Half the generals whom we sent out to South Africa 

 would have been dismissed the service if the Army 

 had been imbued with the same high sense of dis- 

 cipline and efficiency which is the salvation of the 

 Navy. Captain Adair will in time get another ship, 

 when it is to be hoped his zeal as a scientist in 

 studx'ing wireless telegraphy will not again lead him 

 to neglect the elementary duty of taking soundings 

 when his ship steams through a fog in the Bristol 

 Channel. 



of the New York capitalist press, is a notable land- 

 mark in the progress of the New World towards the 

 State Socialist ideals of Europe. If Mr. Bryan and 

 Mr. Hearst intend to fight the next Presidential 

 campaign on the platform of State and municipal 

 ownership of the great natural monopolies of gas, 

 water, electricity and transport, they will force the 

 pace of collectivism all round the world. 



The most brilliant captain in the 

 British Navy, who was destined 

 to command the " Dreadnought ' ' — 

 Captain Adair, of the " Montague '' 

 — has been tried by court-martial for losing his ship 

 in a fog on Lundy Island. Together with Lieu- 



The Loss 



of 

 the " Montague." 



Women 



and 



the Franchise. 



British women. 



An International Woman's Fran- 

 chise Congress has been held at 

 Copenhagen, which was attended 

 by influential representatives of 

 It is evident that whatever may be 

 the loss of faint-hearted and false friends which 

 the cause has had to suffer on account of the adop- 

 tion of a more active policy, the conduct of Miss 

 Kenney, the Pankhursts, and others has given a 

 stimulus to the movement all round the world. The 

 Finnish women are going to nominate one of their 

 number for a seat in the Diet that is about to be 

 elected. When asked how it was they had secured 

 so great a victorv. the Finnish delegates at Copen- 



The Rival Crews from Cambridge and Harvard Preparing for the Race of September 8th. 



These photographs were taken from Hammersmith BriclKe while tlie I'reivs were practising over the whole course. 

 They are interesting as showmii the diflerent positions occupieil hy the Camhridge men (on the left) and the Har- 

 vard men (in the right-hand picture). 



