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VICTORIA LADY SACKVILLE
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All communications intended for This winter, it must be frankly publication should be addressed to admitted, Hong Kong weather has the Editor, and be accompanied by not lived up to its reputation, orį the Writer's Name and Address to the glowing picture held out by invalid at the White Lodge, on the not necessarily for insertion, but the Hong Kong Travel Associa-cliffs near Brighton, as a guarantee of good faith.
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ISSUE BETWEEN BRITISH NAVY AND AIR FORCE
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Since for which air
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tion as an inducement to tourists. It has been unusually cold raw, with nothing like its proper proportion of sunshine-or. So it She made an elaborate maze în THE forthcoming Navy needs with the twofold object H.K.536.00
and Estimates are understood of preventing invasion would seem to the ordinary man- the garden. People who entered B.K.$18.00 HK$ 3.00
in-the-street-and the latter half it were encouraged by humorous to show a large increase on securing the free movement of Postage Abroad Extra
of February, and March to date, notices and embellishments hang those for the previous year, and friendly shipping. have bees frankly beastly there by the owner.
may contain an appropriation many reasons, of for the new battleships and power is among the weightiest. Hong Kong. Thursday, Mar. 5, 1936 "dem'd, damp, moist, unpleasant
Beyond the maze was a garden cruisers needed to restore the a military invasion of England weathah." as Mr. Mantalini“ would
pavilion designed for her by Sir Fleet to adequate strength, is now held to be almost impos- put it.
Hong Kong has not been suffer- Edwin Lutyens. This she never
As there appears to be slight (sible, the Navy's principal task ing alone from this unpleasantress saw, for she took to her bed be prospect of an international in future is to keep the sea Snow is reported from the north-fore it was completed.
agreement largely to reduce the reasonably safe for the transit Lern borders of Kwangtung. Inside the house was a valuable dimensions of men-of-war, our of those foodstuffs and other without supplies Opposition to
Govern-with
of temperature 40 collection of coloured glass, most new battleships and cruisers essential
and .Carton ment's proposals to extend the deg. F
has of it housed on shelves in an enor promise to be very expensive, which the nation could not sub- Idefence services is only to be been shivering in the
chilly mous conservatory.
right The former are likely to cost not sist for more than a few weeks. A question repeatedly posed expected. The "Shoot-the-lot" blasts from the North. The tem-coming through the panes turned less than £7,000,000 and the lat Conservatives no less than the persture in Hong Kong has not the rows of bowls,
by the advocates of an all-air and ter from £1,500,000 per ship. vases intellectual Labourites will been quite so low-13.1 deg.- statues to a blaze of glowing It is but natural that the defence policy is this: "What is with equal vehemence denounce it has been on other occasions, but colour.
public, faced with this heavy the use of protecting our food- been felt more the plans envisaged in the has probably
expenditure on naval material, ships, at sea if they are to be White Paper: one faction keenly owing to the accompanying]PAPERED WITH BOOK-COVERS should wish to be assured that destroyed on arrival in home
and their screaming for a largely increas mist or drizzle and the fact that!
it is getting the right thing for waters.
ports of that the we were iven a
The staircase at the Streatham its money. jed programme
destination laid waste, by air day of almost
attack?" foreigner can see that England Summer heat before this cold house, both walls and treads, was
One Particular Question papered with imitation book-covers
To this is may be retorted: intends to stand no nonsense. spell descended upon us.
Sackville. and One question in particular is"What is the use of perfecting and the Labour "intellectuals": Let us hone that there will be devised by Lady
public mind.Jair defence at home if the food- (save the mark!) hollering just a distinct change before the ar-varnished over for, preservation. agitating the as loudly for every sort of ges rival of the Empress of Britain Each made a joke, not always fat-Will the restoration of our ships are to be destroyed at sea ture (including that of still and the big tourist cruise-ships tering, at the expense of some in-naval power proportionately in-before they ever reach home further disarmament) in this that follow her.
crease our security, having re-waters?" The Karlsruhe dividual best of all possible worlds. And and the Lamotte-Picquet both had
Logical Answer During the last four years of gard to the growing influence of air power and the Navy's in between them the plain mana most
The logical answer to unfortunate reception as her life Lady Sackville devised is probably reasonably satisfied far as the weather was concerned; schemes for collecting money for admitted incapacity to ward off questions is that the co-ordina- air attack? Or, to state' the tion of naval.and air defence is that the legitimate defence if the same thing happens again charity.
problem in another form: Will absolutely vital to the safety of needs of the country are at long when the tourists arrive, Hong
From Brighton she wrote long say, 100,000,000 spent on the the realm. The evil which has last being considered once more Kong's reputation will be damag- in relation to the commitments ed irretrievably.
letters to her friends, sometimes Navy yield in defence dividends to be fought and extirpated at in French, on the backs of envelo a return comparable to that reall costs is inter-Service compe- which the British Empire ha!
pes. tradesmen's catalogues, and sulting from an equivalent in-tition for public favour. undertaken. Fortunately, with:
similar scraps of paper.
vestment in air armament?
To the ordinary citizen it four present state of political de-
These questions - contain matters not how the important velopment, the almost inarticu- DISTINGUISHED late voice of the plain man
many implications, and suggest task of securing complete de- la number of conclusions, but fence is to be accomplished. generally prevails in the long! run. Any defence plans what-
"Does she really speak Franca as certain facts stand out clearly His business is to pay the pre- soever would have to be a com-
enough. Except by a minority mium on what he fondly hopes well as she pretends?"
"All the testimony I have on the of extremists, with whom air-is an "all-in” policy against the promise between the two ex-
subject is, I heard her the other day mindedness has become an risks of war. tremes of Right and Left in Among the many passengers on tell her husband to send the shaffer
He leaves it to the experts to politics, since these two factions board the ss. Ranchi bound for to the garridge for the ostermebill. obsession, it is generally con-
ceded that in the scheme of devise the best method of im- could never, in the ordinary ran Japan is Lt. Comdr. Sir Sampson
national and Imperial defence plementing the guarantee im- of things, see even remotely eye Sladen, K.B.E., who was a mem- "Your jaws electricity to eye,
It is perhaps, there-ber of the Royal Commission on when you low Fenerate hity sea power and air power have plicit in their acceptance of his fore, a matter for congratula-Fire Prevention 1921-23.
money. He has, however, a taken their lady friends to expensive become complementary.
Since one is virtually useless right to demand the closest tion that the National Govern- He entered the Navy in 1882 restaurants may have noticed
without the other, the real pro- possible co-ordination of the de- ment has been enabled to pro-and received his commission as charge
blem is how to strike a just fence services, to duce a set of plans which "call Lieutenant in 1892, but resigned
avoid the balance between the two. congratulations the his commission in 1899 on being
over-lapping and duplication of Two club members were discussing
Finction Of Navy
effort which lead to waste and courage with which they have selected for appointment in the a third, who was rumoured to be on drawn their conclusions and London
"By the From time immemorial the inefficiency. Whether that co Fire Brigade. He was the verge of bankruptcy.
exists is for so comprehensive a survey." Chief Officer of the London Fire asked A, "what's his line of function of the Navy has been ordination already
business" "Well," said B, "he was in the words of the Day Erigade from 1909 to 1918.
to establish command in the meat trade up to a few days Telegraph.
Oz volunteering to serve in case ago, but now he's in the soup." areas of sea vital to our national We are not in a position to of war or an emergency his com- offer detailed criticisms of the mission as a lieutenant in individual points of the pro-Royal Navy was restored and he posed plans. But they appear was promoted to a Lt. Comdr. in to strike a legitimate compro-1914.
for
VISITOR
Sir Sampson Sladen
the
in the
the EXPLANATION OF
TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Perfect Driving
N this day of entirely too much!
reckless driving.
an enviable record of safety at the wheel is
mise between the extreme In addition to other things he! views of the diehards and the was technical adviser, Ministry of pacifists. On the question of Munitions, 1919-20, and Transport cruisers, for instance, the ex- Commissioner (London) pansion of the number to 70 Ministry of Transport, 1920-21. will only bring the strength up to what was named as “absolute minimum" by a Royal Commission on Defence some years ago. So far as the front-t line air strength is concerned, 1,750 planes will compare with 2,300 for France, 1,400 for Japan, 1,800 for America and an estimated 1,500 for the U.S.S.R., according to the latest figures available. Germany's figure in the survey from which that of Miss Eva Jordan, age 66, we are quoting was given as who has been driving for 14 years 700, with the remark that
-covered more than 1,000,000)' "military air forces were promiles and never had an
acci- hibited by the treaties of St. Germain, Neuilly, Versailles dent. Miss Jordan buys a new car every year and all the 14 cars she and Trianon," but, of course, has used have been turned in with- since the figure was compiled out a dent or scratch on them. Her Germany has openly resumed work is transporting patients to air armament in a large degree, the University Hospital at Tows and the total is obviously placed City from north eastern Iowa and; far too low. The real point is this: that Great Britain will whether or not she is accompanied once more resume her place as
on her many kong journeys, abe'äl- as carefully as when a Great Power in the air, her ways drives previous figure of 953 first-line patient is her passenger. aircraft hitherto relegating her basest motives will, of course. to fifth place behind the coun-be read into it all from some tries named above.
quarters; that is only to be ex-
In the 18 years since the end pected. But Britain has least of the war Great Britain has cause to fear any doubting of again and again given absolute her bona fides. However much proof that she is not out--for the epithet “perfide Albion" was aggression. Indeed, she has deserved in other days, her re- carried progressive disarma-cord in the last half-century or ment infinitely further than so is as pure as driven snow in anybody else. Any nation, comparison with those of some therefore, that reads into her others that might be named increased armament pro-
gramme anything savouring of An unclaimed telegram Is-lying a menace is barking up the at the Eastern Extension Tele-1 wrong tree at an opossum graph Co., Ltd. for Geddes from which simply isn't there. The Melbourne.
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"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
Eva Jordan
of McGregor, Town
BEGAN DRIVING AT THE AGE OF 52. AND SINCE THEN SHE HAS USED 14 CARS AND COVERED
1,000,000 MILES IN 14-YEARS.
MAHDEEN NEEDHAM
Pol Coleman, Texas
¿SPELLS HERNAME THE SAME
BACKWARD AND FORMARD.
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ACCIDENT
Let
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TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.