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Ships, Cars, Conurbations, & Churchill Crosses the Floor
In 1904 the Japanese and Russians went to war over Manchuria and Korea. France had a treaty with Russia, Britain with Japan (1902). The French and British met and agreed to stay out of the war. The Russians experienced huge losses and had to send for reinforcements. These ships became fog bound off Dogger Bank and in panic the Russians fired at British fishermen. The Russians claimed that Japanese torpedo boats were hiding amongst the British fishermen. In 1904 Admiral Fisher became the First Sea Lord. He oversaw the design of the new era of giant battleships, the Dreadnought class.
Nevertheless, even in the poorer districts, there exist schools of a type above the lowest, which shows a marked upward improving tendency, physically and educationally - thought the rate of improvement would be capable of considerable acceleration under suitable measures ... while there are, unfortunately, very abundant signs of physical defect traceable to neglect, poverty, and ignorance, it is not possible to obtain any satisfactory or conclusive evidence of hereditary physical deterioration ... there is every reason to anticipate rapid amelioration of physique so soon as improvement occurs in external conditions, particularly as regards food, clothing, overcrowding, cleanliness, drunkenness, and the spread of common practical knowledge of home management."  
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