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HERE, THERE
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EVERYWHERE-
Giant Rats
The army of giant black rats
which are reported to have invaded
BRITAIN NEEDS AIR PARITY NOW
PREVAILING MISGIVINGS
INTENSIFIED
South Africa and eaten the opposing AN UNPARALLELED BETRAYAL”
force of cats may have been Indian | [bandicoots."
These animals grow up to 2ft. in
length and have a long tail.
There is also an indigenous Afri-|
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(By Brig.-Gen. P. R. C. Groves.)
London.
air services remains as tangible proof of the Government's efforts to further the cause of disarma-- ment,
In March last year the same ex-
can species, the Gambia rat. It In spite of the promise made in grows to the same-size but is much Parliament, that should the arms lighter in colour.
talks fail steps will be taken to There are recorded instances of make good our immense disparity bandicoots attacking large animals in the air, here is a growing concuse was put forward: and even men when they are hungry.viction in aviation circles that avain
this year nothing will be done, Fewer Opportunities
The prevailing misgiving is in- tensified by the memory of pro- Studiously ignoring Jonn Dilling-mises which have not been full- er, American officials are trying to ed, of statements foreshadowing prove that the New Deal has 'de-action which was never taken, of Icreased crime.
the whole policy of drift and evs- The total number of murders Insion, of sops, makeshifts and ex- New York was a mere 431 in 1933, cuses, which has brought us down, the first year of recovery. This in the course of the past fifteen compared with 478 in 1932.
years, from first to Bixth Air
During the same period there was|Power.
un-
Ja decrease of 50 per cent, in bank It is a sorry tale of lamentable
robberies.
leadership, of political myopia and There is, however, a more obvious (opportunism, resulting in an explanation of the decrease in bank{paralleled betrayal of a vital na- robberies. In 1933 there were '4000{tional interest. fewer banks to rob.
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Muscular Muscovites
The home defence programme of 1932 is held in suspense, a further evidence of the whole- hearted desire of the Government to promote disarmament, This year again the old ́ntory was repeated:
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Pending the results of the DI- carmament Conference the num- ber of new units to be formed in this country is being curtsil-' ed to a minimum, and will, in- fact, do little to bridge the widening gap between the pre- sent strength of the Royal Air Force and the air services ot other Great Powers.
For
Why, It may well be asked, if it Here there is space to give no was desired to give a lead in Di- more than the barest outline of sarmament, was the air arm-the the story, but it will suffice to most vital tour national security. show that there is good reason for the most important from the view- A new development in Russia's the misgivings of those who have point of International guarantees. Second Five-Year Plan is the con- followed the course of our air po- the arm which had already been struction of a sports city.
licy since the Armistice. We were grossly neglected-specially sin It will cover аз агел of 1000 then the leading Air Power in the}gled out for the demonstration?
world, with a total of 185 service Starving The R. A. F. French and German standpoints. It will have a football field, swim-squadrons. But the sledge-ham- The claim that the three Ser- While action towards that end ming-bathe, motor-cycling trucks, mer destruction of our splendid vices have been equally penalised cannot be abandoned, any at- tennis courts and a huge central Air Force which followed left us will not bear examination, Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 5, 1934. tempt to reach hasty decisions is stadium, where 40,000 men and by 1922 with no more than three example, last year a total of £4,- to be deprecated. If France is women can do physical jerks at squadrons for home defence. A8 500,000 was added to the votes for to be moved from her present at once.
a result of a Press campaign in the Navy and Army, while that titude it will not be by scolding The city is to be built on the that year, for which the inte Lord for the Air was reduced by £340,-- or by refusal to see justification outskirts of Moscow. The Russians Northcliffe was mainly respon-000. This year the Defence Esti- for her doubts, but by slow per-claim that it will be the greatest sibie, a policy of parity with themates show an increase of £4,765,- suasion that there is a better sport centre the world
ever strongest Air Power within strik-1000, of which sum the Air receiv-
Ing distance of this country, and aed no more than £185,000, So far it exists only in the home defence programme of 52
These figures typify the diacri- squadrons, was announced in June mination which has all along been 1923 The Prime Minister, Mr. made against the new arm. They, Baldwin, promised at the time that are the more remarkable in view the programme would be carried of the position to which we have
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You Can't Hurry A Pigeon
Unfulfilled Promise
is in believing that peace is best recorded recently shows a con- assured by an Arms Conventiontinuance of the improvement in The pigeon which took four hours out "with as little delar as Dos-tallen: and the fact that only bo- that would put definite limits to trade at home, more especially to carry a message from Lord sible."
tween 15 per cent, and 16 per cent. Germany's re-armament, and because
the bulk of the im-Londonderry in Westminster to Sir
of our defensive outlays is allocat- would see that those limits were provement in importa is in raw Kingsley Wood in Bloomsbury, re- That promise has not yet been led to the Royal Air Force. observed under
international materials and part-manufactured cently, did not provide an auspicious fulfilled. Good progress was made Is there no explanation of these supervision. In the absence of goods. Manufacturers in Bri-reintroduction of the pigeon post with the programme from 1923 to figures and of the attitude which such a Convention nothing ex-tain are buying with more con- Its delay recalled some of the 1925, but in each of the years 1926 they disclose other than that con> cept force will prevent a great fidence, and their purchases pro-difficulties of a quarter of a century to 1929 It was either retarded or stantly repeated-an altruistic de- nation securing the means of de-mise additional activity in the ago, when provincial newspapers arrested.
sire to give a lead in disarmament? factories. All comparisons with depended on pigeons to deliver "ra- The result of this inexcusable Has the vastly greater pull of the fence. Force nobody is prepar-March of last year are affected parts of football and other sporting action came to light in a statement Senior Services, and the fact that ed to apply. In holding, as she by the fact that the Easter holi-events.
made by the Under-Secretary of the Air carries little political appears to do, that there is no days lessened the working days Half a dozen birds would be seat State for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, weight, no bearing upon answer to Germany's increase in this year. Otherwise it is prob- during a football match, but it often on March 7, 1929:
awer? Is not the abject defeatium defensive power but the main-able that all sections of the trade happened that the last to fly off was From being the first Air Pow-which marches under the banner tenance and the probable in-returns would have shown re- the first to arrive,
er in the world we have sunk of pacifism also partly to blame? crease of her own forces, France suits even more strongly
The others, bearing descriptions
to the position of fifth, and that Everyone knows that the Diser- appears to accept a counsel of firmatory of the improvement in of the carlier parts of the game.
in spite of the fact that the ad-mament Conference is as dead as ant outside the loft, beyond the despair, and to overlook the fact foreign trade.
vent of the air weapon has lost the dodo. The sole chance of its that Germany had actually made ed back to 1932 and taken for alike the trail of corn laid to in-
If the comparisons are extend-reach of a clutching hand, ignoring us our age-long security as an success lay in British guarantees substantial offers of limitation the first three months of the veigle them into the trap and an
island nation, and has left the for the security of other States, and and delay.
greatest city in the world more these we were neither willing to year, the real gain in the ten-expectant public. It is true that, with that dency of British trade is mani-
open to the dangers of air at-give, nor, because of our weakness talent for doing the wrong thing fest.
tack than any of the other capi-in the air, in a position to give. Imports for that period!
tals of Europe.
(Continued on Page 5)
con-
at the wrong time that disare £9,620,000 less than in 1932, | tinguishes German policy in re- and exports are higher by lation to her neighbours, Ger- £2,380,000.
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ARMED ROBBERY AT WOOD ROAD.
Unemployed Faces Serious Charge.
Kovotvara
The alteration in Sarah: "They're going to build a descent occurred during Sir Sam
uel Hoare's tenure of office- many provided for heavy in- the balance of trade at which the school for stammerers here."
Dave: "But what fool wants to curious commentary on his de- creases in her Military Budget at National Government aimed has
claration, made in March 1928, the moment when there seemed been brought about. In some as-learn to stammer?”
that "the air defence of this coun- to be a possibility of some hope-pects the latest figures are not
Author: "I should have been a
try is now a very urgent and vital ful outcome of the discussions. so satisfactory. Exports of cot-
problem." Notwithstanding ́that: ton goods, of coal, and of vehi-(chémist." Yet that very fact, rightly con- cles, which include ships, are
statement be did not add Friend: "What makes you think single squadron to the Home De many, free from any restrictive year, but other trades, with
fence Force in that year. Author: "Every book I write be- covenant, will arm again to the woollen manufactures leading, comes a drug on the market.”
And, despite
Further light was thrown on Inst.. the portentous limit of her capacity and may and the metal sections treading
afgnificance of Sir Philip Sassoon's Saturday's armed robbery at No. 8 statement, nothing worthy of Wood Road this morning when Lo bring back to Europe the night-hard on their heels, more than While the
mention was done in the following Hoi-tong, unemployed, was brought mare of war. It surely cannot balance the loss.
"And did you see anything very year. Nor has any appropriate before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the be the last word in statesman-statistics as a whole point to real
Improvement in the position, the terrible at the Chamber of Har-action since been taken; the pro-Central Magistracy, charged with ship to accept that possibility as an inescapable fact, and to meet gain at the moment is too uneven zors?"
in its incidence to enable one to "Yes; my husband coming out after year; the gap between our charged for being in possession of it by increased armaments in other countries. entirely dis-Bay that all difficulties have been with his typist."
surmounted. regarding Germany's offer of limitations for herself.
Plainly no good purpose can be PICK-POCKETS ON served at this critical juncture
by harassing France with fresh
PARADE.
on
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SUBURBAN SILHOUETTE-
"What is your occupation?" "It isn't an occupation, it's a pursuit. I'm a bill collector."
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gramme har been relarded year robbing Lai Hin-man of $1,000, and
jair power and that of other lead-a loaded revolver, 52 rounds of am-
ing nations has continued to in-munition, and two spare rounds; crease.
Wong Tsing, unemployed, and Lo On November 10. 1982, Mr., Bald-Sun-cheung, a fortune-teller, were win made a resounding speech on also charged, In connection with the the air menace. He expressed his case, for being in possession of a Miss Soulful: "You sald you conviction that in the next war loaded revolver, five rounds of am- were giving me as present. Last cities will be bombed, that polson munition and five spare rounds. gas will be used from the air; and Wong Teing and Lo Sun-cheung that aerial warfare la sHll in its were arrested' in Nathan Road":
The case was remanded until infancy, and its potentialities are incalculable and Inconceivable." Thursday for hearing,
Although this speech made a considerable sensation at the time, Pleading gulity for having atolan Reader Why do you call your again nothing was done." Jan fron shacked from the UN.Y.K new novel The Boomerang!"
Our air policy In 1932 was goy-liner ss. Morioko Maru, which ho Author: "Because it doesn't mat-erned by the following statement had unlawfully boarded, Pur Hon, ter which publisher I send it to it by the present. Air Mialiter, Lord 44-year-old coolls, was sentenced to is sure to come back.":
Londonderry, which, echoed one two montha' hard labour,; and fined mada in the previoun, year by his $25, in default one month's hard
jnight I dreamed of diamonds.”“
Mr. Careful: “That helps, me. I'll give you a dream-book, then
proposals. Upon what is believ- Man Who Was Caught ed to be the right line of advance
Before He Tried. she has for the moment closed the door, and time must be al- lowed for some change in psycho- A fine of $10, In default 14 days' you'll know what it meant."
imposed Imprisonment,' was logical conditions. It is still pos- Cheung Cheuk-yuen, unemployed, by sible that events may bring r. Q. A. A, MacFadyen at the Cen- France to see that the British trat Police Court this morning for proposals do provide a guarantee loltering with intent to commit for the peace of Europe and for felony the security of France that can Sergeant Goodwin stated that ac be attained in' no, other way-ensed was arrested yesterday in Italy, too, as concerned as Bri-Jackson Road, while peering into the tain to avod any final deadlock in pockets of people who were watching my feet the efforts to reconcile the the parade.
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She: "I've had a dozen men at predecessor, Lord Amuirse: Page labour, respectively, by Mr. J. H. B.."
The serious" disparity between Lee at the Kowloon Magistracy this." the Royal Air Force and foreign morning.
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