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There is a machine which pro- promises to solve the difficulties of foreign .correspondence.
It is claimed that it can translate nine of the principal languages of the world. It is called metaglota": it is sa simple that a schoolboy can use it.
Details of it are given in a com- mercial newspaper of Ecuador, home of its inventor, Dr. Cordero Palacios.
DEFENCELESS NAVAL BASES IN BRITAIN
INADEQUATE PROTECTION
FROM AIR ATTACK
DELAY IS DANGEROUS
(By Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves,
C.B., C.M.G., D.S.0.).
LTHOUGH it was, officially ad-[have not less than 20 squadrons to mitted in the House of Lords provide reinforcements for heavily recently that there was no hope of raided centres. Dr. Palacios died before his in- reduction of foreign air strength Some experts regard the estimated vention was publicly demonstrated. to the British level, the Air Minis- total of 44 squadrons, which is based He handed the secret of it on to hila ter was unable to declare the Gov-on the present possible scale of at- son-in-law, Dr. Ruben' Cordero ernment's air programme and talked tack from the Continent, as inade- Стевро.
of "the expansion of the R.A.F.-quate. It will serve, however, to' {if necessary.”
give an approximate idea of what is
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There is reason to think that the required and to show how derisory. The appointment of Sir Francia postponement of air expansion is is the actual provision, for wo as High Commissioner in not altogether unconnected with the possess to-day ne more than 14 Canada In succession to Sir William increasing agitation for naval ex-Fighter squadrons. Clark will please Canadians.
pansion. While there la consider. These, be it noted, are not for the It is a practical appointment. there is need to emphasise the far alone, but for the protection of the able justification for the latter, defence of the bases in question, One of the great difficulties in Anglo-Canadian relations is the dif- greater importance and urgency of entire country, including, of course,
air defence. For air parity is not London. ferentiation between British and
Of these 14, three are only the first essential for national stationed on the south coast, the re Canadian costs of production insecurity but the condition precedent mainder inland, most of them in the fixing the Canadian tariffs on Bri-for the efficiency of the Navy itself. vicinity of the capital. tish industrial products,, Sir Francis is one
of Britain's Leading experts on costs of produc
be paralysed at the very outset of Striking Forces Needed a European war by the aerial hom-- tion. He is also an authority on bardment of Its home bases, which part of London's anti-aircraft de- In point of fact, they all form {agriculture.
the Royal Air Force is in no posi-fences; there is no separate provi. He began his career in the Board tion to protect of Agriculture 40 years ago. His
sion whatever for the naval bases, Twice last March Mr. G. Lam-or for any other important centres. only club is the National Farmers', bert, P.C., M.P., the former Civil Further to emphasise the inade- Lord of the Admiralty, raised this quacy of this total of 14 squadrone, issue in Pa liament by asking I would recall that in 1918 the Lon- in a brief respite of re Sir Francis, who is 69, made his whether our naval bases on the don Air Defences comprised 400 cognition.
first public appearance in his new south coast are adequately defended machines, that is, 334 squadrona. Except that they were both position at the Canadian Dominion against aerial attack. On each And these barely sufficed to cone Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1934. soldiers born and bred, with no Day dinner at which the Duke of occasion he received an evasive an- with the pin-prick raids
of that thought of any other ambition York was the guest of honour. swer.
period. there was no point of resemb The actual date of Dominion Day
Before reviewing the facts it la lance between the two men is July 1. It commemorates the perhaps necessary to explain that the country as a whole would be an Admittedly the beat defence for Small and wiry, quick in the up-signing on July 1, 1867, of the Bri-the problem of the air defence of a adequate striking force. taken and in decision, Lord tish North America Act, by which naval base differs in several respects But that does not exist, since we The service at the Union Roberts was of the Celtic and Canada became a Domainion.
from that of a great city such as have but 28 of the 35 squadrons Church yesterday gave Hong not the Saxon or Prussian type
London: Nina!
which, eleven years ago, when Con-. Kong as a community its oppor-The charm of his manner gave tunity of paying tribute to the rise to apocryphal stories such
tinental air power was still in its ideals of loyalty and integrity as one which was enshrined in a
An air fleet hidden by mist or minimum essential for
infancy, were declared to be the which all the world recognises as popular picture showing him mosphere, a young man strode into
Bringing with him an electric at-cloud could bomb London without
national asfety. But even if we possessed having been the inspiration of dandling on his knee a little girl the newspaper office and banged his seeing it. But in order to bit the the long career of the late in a Boer cottage while Staff cane on the editor's desk.
oil supplies, docks, workshops, ships squadrons for local defence--es- an adequate striking force, Fighter "Where's the editor?" he shouted and other small targets in anava pecially for that of the naval bases Reichspresident. Even that Officers were waiting for orders.
angrily. honourable title does not seem to Nothing could have been more "He's her out!" replied the clerk
base the bomber must see them fit him so well as the military false. He was tireless while on nervously.
mentioned-would be indispensable. "What's he done this clearly, which means that he must title of Field Marshal. No mat-duty; and preferred a horse that time?"
show himself. And when he shows
There are many, highly qualified ter how far we may advance to-needed handling. He was a "In that advertisement for my himself he can be assailed by fight to judge both from knowledge and wards a state of peace and fra strict desciplinarian, and his veless motor," stormed the visitar, ing aircraft and anti-aircraft guns, experience, who hold that because of ternity it is not yet possible to court martial sentences were, "he's turned the second into a 'u." Hence these can afford far. greater their positions these bases are imagine that any State will be in contradiction to the popular Poor rich folks! If they spend, they protection to a comparatively small aerially indefensible and, conse- able to dispense with the soldier impression, --more and the soldier ideal. The essen- cases of minor offences then Lord aren't circulating money to help re-senal, or aircraft factory than the Scotland and in the North of Ire- severe in are showing off, if they don't they objective such as a naval base, ar-quently, that they should be moved
to safer positions on the West of.. ¡ce of unquestioning loyalty is Kitchener's. At the end of his covery.
freedom from Party tles, and life he resigned in order to ad- Party is the essential condition [vocate intensive preparation for of free discussion and though the struggle he saw to be im-but alas!"" directed towards political life. pending, but in his case also we The soldiers function is to keep note that he did not know how the ring from disturbance either to impresă politicians or how to by foreign or internal vio- handle a crowd...
In Memoriam.
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Your Daily Smile!
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Not a Forward Pass
"Jack was the goal of my ambition, "What happened, dear?" "Father kicked the goal."
London's Vulnerability
can to an extensive urban area.
A naval base is particularly vul- land.
The Navy, whose great traditions nerable if a raider can approach it from over the sea. For in that are bound up with these historic case there may be no warning; if centres, will not hear of that course. the defending fighters are not al-But in view of the ever-increasing ready in position when the raiders range and striking power of Con- It len't hard to borrow money to arrive, the latter can deliver a sed tinental air forces; It is one, never- den smashing blow and be off out theless, which calls for serious con- ta-seo-before-the-fighters can reach sideration.
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"I say, Brown, have you got that
them.
The extent of the peril to which -- Theoretically Fighter squadrons these bases are already exposed may should not be allocated to specified be gauged from the fact that air- "No. I loaned it to a friend. Are localities. The doctrine, which still craft can secure more than 50 per
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{for defence.
and Portsmouth the because of its far larger explosive
more destructive than a shell. (Continued on Paya 3)
GARDENER'S FOOD POISONED.
lence. That is an essential fac- The two men would have ap-build a house. Just pretend you tor in a prosperous and happy preciated each other, for pro-want it to buy an automobile. State; but it quite obviously fesional esprit de corps has no cannot be the only one. A state racial or geographical boun-
Tale of Umbrella which trains all its citizens to daries. The traditional Chin umbrella I loaned you?" obey orders impartially runs the ese contempt for the military risk of cultivating a uniformity profession prompts one to ask the you wanting it?" which leaves only the man at the question.What is it that these "Not exactly, but the chap who prevails, is that defence should be cent. of hits on a small target, such top free to make decisions, and two men so opposite in tem leaned it to me says the owner wants elaatle and that fighting machines as a ship, from ten thousand feet, ends by making him a thrall to perament and experience had in
should be quickly concentrated at with a larger percentage still in' the purposes and means of attaining common. It is plain on the face
the point or points of attack. power-dive method of attack; and them which are forced upon him of life that the type of lifelong It was late at night; the tari had speed of aircraft, the time available as 4,000lb. each.
Owing to the ever-increasing can carry bombs weighing as much for "reasons of State." Some-soldier, however keenly he may just pulled up by the curb and Ms-for such concentration has decreased By-way of comparison. I would thing of that sort seems to have prepare for any possible war, is Pherson got out and began fumbling happened to the late Marshal. It not the type of man that makes in his pocket.
considerably since, the war.
mention that the largest gun, the At last he handed the driver a coin. may have been his years, or it wars. One war is usually quite I have known gents what gives naval bases-Devonport, Plymouth, more than 8,500lb. And a bomb, For in the case of our historie 18in., fires a projectile weighing, no may have been that Great Head- enough to convince any man that bit over," grumbled the taxi driver. Portland, quarters is no training ground war can never be better than a "Aye," said McPherson. "That's for the clash of adroit managers horrible necessity, not to be why I asked yo to stop under a lamp. time factor "precludes concentration content, is for most purposes much of popular sentiment, but it is either sought, nor avoided. An- certainly a remarkable incident other point is that in peace train-Facts You Did Not Know
Insufficient Plames of history that a man of hisțing or war character will out. -... calibra was unable to hold in There is no such thing possible. A complete radio set in included in Chatham, Sheerness, and Har- check men whose character and as for a commander to conceal a German inventor's plano, the front wich are in much the same position. national standing were not com-defects of will or judgment from of the instrument serving to amplify but they are supposed to be protect- parable with his own.
the men He commands, the judg
ed by the London Air Defence sy- stem-a point to which I shall re was not notable for any of the final as to character, though it spiral sequence on a disk that invert. But, as regards the south old graces of chivalry, there is almost always wrong as to equivalent to 10 feet of standard film Coast bases, the only hope of endor- were a few incidents, which re-policy or strategy. And part with a new camera,
ing local air protection would lie in vealed how readily that spirit of the character must be a
Some of Belgium's railways are re-their vicinity. These would be of Chik
maintaining constant air patrols in would revive at a suitable op willingness to stint luxuries and placing steam traction with motor cars
Wing, the 38-year-old portunity. England's old and share with his men the hard for passenger service at half the cost little use unless they were of sum-vegetable gardener who was ad- honoured Field Marshal Lord ships of daily life.
of operation.
cient strength to disorganise a raid mitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital Roberts, who gave much of his The German political thin
to the extent of preventing acturate late on Monday night suffering early life to India, and kers whose books we read one A new mineral composed chiefly of bombing in view of the scale of from the effects of food poisoning made his name as the comman- and all emphasise the value of a vanadium and iron and that is insolu attack which is now possible, nothinileged to have been administered der of Indian troops in the relief properly respectful and de Colorado and Utah.
able in water has been discovered in ing less than two squadrons would by his wife, Ko Kam-young, and an of Candahar, could not be re-votional attitude to "the State.”
employee named Pun Cho-hung, strained from crossing over to Is there not an excessive vagu- France to see how the Indian ness and generalisation about integrity and devotion to duty As the petrol capacity
died at 3.30 am, to-day,
Ko Karyoung and Fun Chó contingent was faring. The "the State when we are dealing of such a man as the dead Field Fighter is only three hours, and strain and discomforts were too with the peasants and hand Marshal whom we celebrate toquadrons could at most do two hang appeared before Mr. J.B. H.. much for him, and he died with-workers, who make so great
day, forgetful of all the strife of patrols in twenty-four hours, eight Lee at the Kowloon Magistracy In sound of the guns. Thereon part of the community ? After bitter years was of more value squadrons would be
this morning on a charge of ad- German aeroplane came over all, to such a man "the state" in making loyalty than any patrolling, each of
ministering poison with intent to murder, but at Inspector Dorling's and dropped a wreath with very means a local magi
theory or system; and if such other words, a total
request the charge was changed to appropriate and indeed touching tain under whom he has served, men are lacking-a-State cannot would be tribute to the dead soldier, writ, somebody at any rate that he has prosper, cannot probably for very port and
The case was remanded ten as from one army to another personal knowledge':
addition It
seven days) 4he long even endure:
the sounds.
During the Great War, whichment of the man in the ranks is Motion pictures are recorded In
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Wife And Man Face Murder Charge,