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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1937.
Expansion Of British Navy
Certain Continental newspapers appear to be under a misapprehen- sion about the British rearmament programme, particularly in relation to the expansion of the Navy, writes the "Daily Telegraph" naval-corres- pondent.
They suggest that the big pro- gramme of new construction is part- ly a "paper gesture," that it is not really intended to build all the ships- voted, and that, in any case, British industry now lacks the resources pro- necessary to complete such a gramme in full. Finally, they-as- sume that the limit of British naval expansion has now been reached.
Shanghai-Canton In
20 Hours By Rail.
The complete trip by through express train from Shanghai tỏ Canton ... over the Chekiang- Kiangsi, Canton-Hankow and Nanchang Pinghsiang lines. scheduled to be inaugurated on October 10 this year, will re- quire only 20 'hours, it is learned in Shanghai.
It is also reported that a ̈con- tract has been signed between the railway authorities and the Co. International Wagon-Lits for special coaches to be attach- ed to all express trains on the through service. Up-to-date din- ing cars will also be carried.
Meanwhile, the work for link- ing the three lines is being rapidly pushed while the replac- ing of heavier sleepers on the Chekiang-Kiungsi section is ex- pected to be completed shortly.
The facts are very different. With the exception of five cruisers and an aircraft carrier, all the important ships of the 1937 programme have already been ordered, and contracts U for the rest will be placed during the year.
So far from the British shipbuild Show Girl overburdened by the orders now in Extorted
ing and armament industries being
hand, and about to be placed, they could undertake a great deal of ex- tra work, and will, in fact, be called upon to do so as the naval rearma- ment-programme advances.
"Two Hemisphere Fleet"
£340,000'
Louis
Bamberger, millionaire Wall-street broker, alleges that
In addition to the five 35,000-ton Miss Betty Randolph, once a fam- battleships now on other, at least our Follies beauty, extorted money four others could be laid down from him to the tune of £40,000 simultaneously if necessary, since over a period of 17 years. there are not less than nine berths
Miss Randolph has replied with suitable for battleships available. a suit for breach of verbal contract,
Moreover, the temporary shortage declaring that Mr. Bamberger of skilled shipyard labour will dis- agreed in 1916 to give her £20,000 appear when the apprentices
now a year for the rest of her life but being entered in large numbers be stopped paying in 1933. come available.
Mr. Bamberger presented can- Although the British Government celled cheque at the District: At- has not announced the standard of torney's office to show the “enor- naval strength at which it is aiming, mous sums” he had spent on
the the allusion of the First Lord of the
stage beauty. Admiralty (Sir Samuel Hoare),
Miss Randolph says: "If he was when introducing the 1937 Navy paying under extortion why did he Estimates, to a "two hemisphere do it regularly for so long, and why fleet," obviously foreshadows a mea- did he shower me with presents? sure of expansion considerably larwe were on the best of terms un- ger than is represented by the. i til 1988, when he got married. I creases in material and personnel
haven't seen him since.” already voted.
Miss Randolph, four times mar- A further big programme of bat- tleships, cruisers, and other vessels ried,. was once sued for breach of promise by a clergyman who want- may, therefore, be expected next
jed£10,000 “heart-balm." year. It is certain that the person- nel will be increased well above the 112,000 officers and men for whom provision is made this year.
The new British naval policy would appear to aim at the creation of powerful, up-to-date. fleets in home waters and the Mediterranean, and of reserves sufficient for the maintenance of a strong force in the Pacific should that prove expedient. These forces will eventually be sup- ported by about 500 ship-borne first line. aircraft.
may
Shot Ends Life Of
"Old -Timer
**
Sixty-years-old "Professor" John Harrison, one-time broncho-buster and latterly "Theumatism specia- list" down on his luck, was found shot in his basement flat in Guil- ford-street, Bloomsbury.
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A large-calibre pistol, which, he These facts should serve to dispel often told friends he used when he any illusions which
exist wore a sheriff's badge 30 years ago abroad about the reality and scope in California, lay near his side. He
had been shot through the heart.
He had been intensely worried
of British rearmament at sea:
Several visitors to Loch Ness have recently by money matters, a friend recently declared that they have seen said, and a recently financial trans- the black, humped back of- a monster action in which he had been in- in the water.
volved had caused the "police"" "to make certain injuries.
Mr. Harrison, who was born in California in 1877, was a tall; com-
The number of persons relieved on one day in March in the 47 large áreas of Great Britain was 786,873, two per cent. less than in the previous, month and 5.4 per cent. less than in March, manding figure, often the centre of 1986, states the - finistry of Labour an enthralled group of listeners in Gazette.'
Bloomsbury cafes
He came to England in 1911, and The Royal National Lifeboat Institu- became a “rheumatism speciálist,” tion has made an extra, money award)
to the crew of the motor lifeboat at and at one time earned a four-figure Holyhead for the rescue in a gale of income. But males dwindled. Two 59 men and a dog from the steamer days ago he had an order for one Marie Moller, of Shanghai, on March bottle. He was unable to fulfil it.
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