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ONE APPEARANCE ONLY
MODERNISED NAVY OF ITALY
PREDOMINANT FACTOR
IN EXPANSION
"Five Pound Note No. 1. which SEA POWER A SPECIAL
Thas just been bequeathed to the Bank of England, is a Methuselah The of butterflies. jin a race
average life of £5 note is very short
OF ITALIAN FAITH
(By Hector C. Bywater)
TENET
The reason, a note expert says,THE inflow of Italian troops efficient weapon was begun is that £5 motes are never re into East Africa, coincid-without delay. Wisely, a start issued. As 3000 as they are paid with the great military was made with the personnel. manoeuvres recently held in The political purge eliminated
of officers into a bank they are returned to Northern Italy, has naturally large numbers the Bank of England and des- created an impression abroad many on the score of age or troyed. Smaller notes go out into that the principles and ambi- incompetence and all the mal the world again with slightly soil-tions of the Fascist State are content seamen fed faces
+
DIFFICULT TO FORGE
water-mark
2
Enthusiastic Youths based fundamentally on land That is why one never sees a power That I venture to sug The gaps thus left were soon five pound note with anything but rest is a delusion.
filled by enthusiastic youths a pale. immaculate appearance. No less an authority than from the naval academies and Signor Mussolini assured me training schools. In 1922 over over a year ago that the 30 per cent of Italian naval destinies of his country would, recruits were illiterate a huge The simplicity of the printing in the long run. be decided by body of men peculiarly recep of a five pound note might sug the strength of her naval tive to Left Wing propa- The Italian people." ganda. This year the percen- gest to the layman an opportunity forces.
he said. "must be composed of tage of illiterates is down to 10. for forgers.
But that is a stare Scorning agriculturists and sailors The and a few years hence this ele intricate colour schemes and en-sea and the Alps are Italy's ment will probably have dis-
appeared altogether. graving, the £5 note relies for its natural defences.”
What impressed me most The Ministry of Marine. ther safety against counterfeiting en tirely on the quality of its parth-during my visit to the Italian Naval Staff, the dockyards and ment paper and its inimitable fleet and naval establishments all other naval establishments reorganised. in the spring of last year, as the were completely The paper for five pound notes guest of the Ministry of Marine. Millions of pounds and an is made by the old firm of Portal's, was the intensive education of immense amount of labour were of which Lord Portal is chairman, public opinion, and particularly expended in this preliminary at Laverstoke, in Hampshire, by a the youth of the country, in the work before the keel of any new ship was laid. The process secret process, from old linen doctrines of sea power.
Cause And Effect of rejuvenation took three- The amount of paper in
One must give full credit to years. and then, in 1925, the each note is worth roughly three The China Mail gives his plans in full, and he shirts
the Duce for his accurate inter-first big scheme of naval con- pretation of history in so far struction was launched.
It found Italian shipbuilders as it deals with the rise and Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1935.quent speeches. There is the farthings.
old "Drang nach Osten" downl through Turkey to Asia Minor,
decline of empires and common- and engineers ready to meet. In The Balance with India as the goal; there is
wealths through warlike action every demand. They produced:
compare with the alliance with Poland. aim
A certain criminal evaded detec-He has not fallen into the com-designs which ing at control of the Ukraine
other His disguise for cause Overseas conquest best types built for The cables have a habit of Against these schemes the only on for many months by disguising mon error of mistaking effect and in some cases surpass the slipping in small items of news principle that could be success was not discovered until Smrt and colonisation is, he is well navies. Great importance was without any emphasis which fully opposed is that annexa-young policeman saw him pass a mil-aware, impossible without such attached to speed, in view of
more enlightening Lions shall not be made at the liner's shop without stopping.
command of the sea as may be the strategical and tactical con- are really than long paragraphs of what will of the aggressor merely
necessary to ensure the safe ditions which must
Italian operations in any cam- may through superior power
transit of military force. some unimportant scribe have said in an article written But these fights of the ima-
"And what," asked the cannibal Italy's present policy in Eastpaign within the foreseeable- to order in a controlled news-gination are more or less the
Big Battleships paper that appears make troubles of the future. Herr Hit chief in his kindest tones, was your Africa is, therefore, the logical future.
business before you were captured by outcome of the naval policy a hard pressed ler's last speech serves to remy_men?*
which was initiated when As a result Italy will soon good copy for Correspondent who is in no bet-mind us that at the first oppor- "I was a newspaper mąż," answer Fascism came into power13 possess 19 cruisers swifter thar ter position to know how things tunity, if the three Powers who ed the captive. are going than anyone else conferred at Stresa are for the Such an item of information moment out of action, he will that the seize the town of Memel Memel was the statement rains in Abyssinia had not yet is the port of the new State of ceased. In Hong Kong we do Lithuania; and it may be said get a fairly solid downfall now at once that its future cannot and then; but in East Africa it be solved by any abstract prin- lis a common experience for a ciples such as President Wi- A model for mothers is the Kansas road to be so completely wash-son's "self-determination" For woman who told the judge that she ed away at the end of the rains 450 years it was under German never struck her children except in that its old course can only be control, and the German-speak- self-defence. recovered with the help of a ing population has higher stan- surveyor. And it is some time dards of life than the aborî- before the water accumulated ginal Lithuanians,
to
who have
Your Daily Smile!
himself as a WOOLEN.
HONOURED
*An editor?"
"Only a sub-editor "Cheer up, young man promotion awaits you. After supper you shall be editor-in-chief"
*
MODEL FOR MOTHERS
VISIT CHINA
Mr. S. R. Hawthorne Arrives From Manila
years ago.
govern
In
any in the world several of It is not for nothing that in them have exceeded 40 kmets-- every Italian school-room there and 55 destroyers with a uni- hangs a large map depicting form speed of 38 knots. the extent of the Roman cluding the 10 which have just Empire at its zenith, with an been authorised, the number of inset showing the relatively Italian submarines will even- restricted area of Italy's tually be 77, the great majori→ ty of which are up-to-date colonial territories today.
construction of up
at
A Navy Rebirt
But the new Ifalian navy is the outstanding One of achievements of Signor Musso not to consist solely of cruisers There lini is the rebuilding of the and "mosquito" craft Italian Navy in little more than will shortly be launched,
When he became Genoa and Trieste respectively, Thead of the in the mountains runs itself off preserved a language more LEADING MASON TO a decade
Government the two largest, "battleships in One may be sure that there will nearly akin to Sanskrit than
The found the Navy in the world-Littorio and Vit be no formal war, with or with- any other European language.
thoroughly unsatisfactory state torio Veneto, each of 35,000 out a declaration, for a couple At Versailles Vilna was allotted
It had few modern vessels tons, to have a speed of 30 knots: of weeks, and in the meantime to Lithuania with the idea that
other than destroyers, and sub and an armament of 16in. or the issue hangs in the balance. it would make a good capital; The final word rests, as we but the Poles seized Vilna, and
versive propaganda was play- 15in guns. Further, four older ing havoc with the morale and Dreadnought-type battleships. have said all along, with the the League had to acquiesce.
discipline of the lower-deck perare being thoroughly modernis- French Premier, M. Laval Ear- The capital was fixed at Kovno,
weed and their speed raised from sonnel. ly in the year, in order to sec-with Memel as a free and self- Grand Master of Masons of the
Indeed, as a fighting force. 22 to 26 knots."
Strong Master jure the support of Italy for her governing port. But the Philippine Islands, with a delega the Italian Navy of 1922 car European policy, France pro- Lithuanians then seized this tion of Philippine Masons, arrived ried very little weight. The When all building and recon- mised to back the Italian little territory. The happiest in the Colony by the ss. President formidable task of converting it struction plans now in train are scheme of colonial expansion, solution would be for Memel to Cleveland in the early hours of into a powerful and highly completed the Italian navy will without consulting England, be on the same basis as Danzig, the morning on a visit to the whose co-operation in Europe is managing its own local affairs. Masonic lodges of China. Other equally necessary if the princi- as it did for a short time. But members of the party included Mr. ples of the League are to be Nazism has created an agita S. Salvador, Mr. H. Santos, and Dr. maintained. The present position for union with Germany in Yamson
Mr. Samuel
R Hawthorne,
CIVIL AVIATION EXPANSION
The Sian-Chengtu Air Line
TRIAL RUN PROCEEDING-
be able to muster the following force: six capital ships, seven {8in gun" "cruisers, 12 6in gun cruisers. 100 destroyers and nearly 80 submarines. With few exceptions this armada wil consist of ships built to the latest designs and endowed with Jarcollective mobility superior to
that of any other fleet
Early this year the person- nel numbered: 51,800, including 3,335 officers To this figure". should be, added 12.500 officers and men who, without holding
trained in naval duties, and trial regular naval, rank, have been Stap-behind these, again, is a large
Shanghai, Nanking, and Chengta.
Shanghai, To-day. The party will continue their
The Junkers 52 of the Eurasia" journey to Shanghai vis the 3.8.
Aviation Corporation has :left| will President Cleveland, which arrive in Shanghai on Friday, to here for Chengto to make a be greeted by the members of the run of newly projected
Chengtu airline Shanghai Amity Lodge. On Sep- The giant plane will return to estimate Italy is in a position
tion is therefore full of diffi- both towns, and instead of The party has left to pay an culty: a razor edge of diplom-mutual forbearance and com-official visit to the Pearl River acy, with the fall on one side promise we find warring sec Lodge in Canton, which is one of of the four Masonic lodges in China into reversion to the former tions accusing each other friction with Italy, and on the treason and sentencing each under the jurisdiction of the other to the dissolution of the other to capital punishment Grand Lodge of the Philippine League as an effective force for These feads at any rate di Islands, the other three being in peace.
**** BY DAT prove the Marxian maxim that What then are the problems men are guided by economic for which France wants to motives. have the support of the League? There is first of all the possibi lity of direct invasion, provid, ed for by the Lacarno Treaty. Second, there is the possibility of Austrian union with Ger-} many which would enable Ger-1 many to control the eastern half of Europe and open the eastern boundary of France to and against this chance France wants Italy not m friend, but a8 21 lowhich she "won
if she were Itant
FORTIFIED ZONES IN JAPAN
Warning To Tourist Photographers
tember 30 the visitors will leave
Nanking on Friday to offer for Nanking, where they will be
rides to prominent local leade guests of the Nanking Lodge A3 The Sian Chengtu air no visit to China is complete with-will be inaugurated at the end of out a view of the West Lakes the present month-
2
ANOTHER SERVICE
Shanghai To-day
motor tour will be arranged from king to Hangchow, The
lodge in Chengtu, unfor- For the purpose of expanding
have to be omitted its business next year, the Chi
Hawthorne's National Aviation
distance has decided to pur
MATERIAL
reserve. Ata conservative-
to mobilise 85.000 men for ser- vice with her fleet short
Side by side with the sion of the navy the coast de Hences of the country have been
strongly reinforced.
ot only on the mainland, but round the coasts of "Sardinia and Sicily,
new bas for
Corpora ase several giant Sirkosky planes
which
Sprung into
have