THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1939.
ROYAL READY
NAVY TO BE BY AUGUST
CRISIS RUMOURS REVIVED BY ADMIRALTY ORDER
London, To-day.
Summer leave in the Home Fleet, according to an Admiralty communique, is to be granted in July, which is earlier than usual.
MALAY STATES DEFENCE OFFERS
Singapore, To-day. Two more Malayan States have contributed to the cost of Imper- ial Defence.
Brunei has donated 100,000 Straits dollars and Trengganu 50,- 000 Straits dollars.—Reuter.
Reason given in the communique is that the period of leave will be used for necessary repairs and docking of ships, so that they will be completed KING IN LONDON
before the naval manoeuvres scheduled for August.
London, To-day. The decision necessitates cancellation of a number
The King and Queen returned to of visits which were to have been paid by war-Buckingham Palace, yesterday after- ships to numerous sea resorts in July, as well
noon from Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, where they had spent as cancellation of "Navy Week" in the first the weekend-British Wireless. week in August.
The Admiralty's announcement| has caused some stir, and is in- terpreted in some quarters something approaching a mobili- sation measure.
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It will raise the Royal Navy to its highest state of preparedness in the event of a possible Euro- pean crisis in the latter part of the Summer.
ADVICE TO DIPLOMATS
Empire Would Be Reinforced In War By Air
LONDON, TO-DAY. INCREASES IN THE NUMBER OF SQUADRONS PERMANENT- LY STATIONED OVERSEAS WERE AMONG THE PLANS IN CONNECTION WITH THE EMPIRE AIR DEFENCE DIS- CLOSED BY SIR KINGSLEY WOOD TO DELEGATES AT- TENDING THE EMPIRE PRESS UNION MEETING WHICH OPENED IN LONDON YESTERDÁY. -
This view is supported by the Parliamentary rumour that Bri- tish diplomats in European capi- tals were advised a few weeks ago to take their summer vaca. tion if possible at an earlier date. The Secretary for Air said these [ments with the Dominions.-British
Diplomats were told to be at reconnaissance squadrons for the
squadrons would include general Wireless. their posts at the latest in the protection of vital trade interests. second half of August as a pre- caution against a possible dán-pid, development of range
Sir Kingsley argued that the ra- and gerous increase in European ten-speed of modern aircraft might sion. Trans-Ocean.
well in the end revolutionise the problem of Empire defence.
KILLED BY HOLE IN SHOE
ITALIAN WARNING TO RUMANIA
ROME, TO-DAY.
A WARNING TO THE RU- MANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, M. GREGOR GAFENCU, THAT HIS DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES OF THE PAST WEEKS DO NOT MEET WITH ITALIAN APPRO- VAL, IS UTTERED BY THE TURIN PAPER “STAMPA."
"Italian political circles regard M. Gafencu's visits and conferences as a Rumanian attempt to restore the Balkan Entente in its old form and to draw Yugoslavia into the British guarantee system," says the
paper.
M. Gafencu must moderate his activities, it is stated, otherwise he. will "experience an unpleasant sur- prise."
The true interests of Rumania must be regarded from a different viewpoint to that which she has evidently adopted, alleges the paper.
-Trans-Ocean:
AIR BATTLE
CLAIMS: TAKE YOUR CHOICE
London, To-day. Another big air battle on the Outer Mongol frontier is reported from Tokyo and Moscow.
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According to the Soviet account, 25 of 60 Japanese planes which violated the frontier were brought down by 50 Soviet-Mongolian 'planes, of which three are miss- ing.
The Japanese version says that 60 raiding Soviet-Mongolian planes engaged three Japanese aircraft
Both sides claim that the air- craft of the
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
With ranges reckoned in thou- sands of miles and further develop- London, To-day. The Admiralty issued the follow-
ments in speed of aircraft which ing statement last evening: 'It has might still be contemplated, the A hole in her shoe killed Eleanor been decided to advance the normal possibility of reinforcing any part Phyllis Sybil Constable. She drop-which shot down six enemy 'planes of the Empire in the air within a ped an electric iron and it stopped in a half-hour battle and then re- summer leave period of ships of
matter of hours was rapidly becom-working. With a steel knife, she turned safely to their base! the Home Fleet to July to enable dockings and refits to be completed MIGHT BE AN ASSET
Ing a definite possibility.
undid a screw in the plug, cried "Oh," and fell back dead. during that month preparatory to
Such developments, together with carrying out exercises in August.
provision of sources of This decision will necessarily in-production in areas remote
aircraft from volve the cancellation of warship possible attack, suggested that the visits to certain seaside resorts durinvention of the aeroplane, which ing July, and Navy Week, normal- for so long entailed disadvantages ly held in the first, week of to Empire defence, might well in August, will have to be abandoned the end turn out to be an asset. this year."-British Wireless,
NOT ENGLAND WHO STOOD THERE LIKE AN IDIOT
She was electrocuted because the in the another party remaining
hole in her shoe sole robbed it of Reuter its insulating quality.
Miss Constable was the daughter of an hotel proprietress at Alde- burgh, Suffolk.
Mr.
An electrical engineer, Walter Edward Wisbey, stated at Opinions might differ as to the the inquest at Aldeburgh that it possibility of devastating cities by was the first fatality of its kind in nir attack, but there could only be his experience. The power was 230 one view about the possibility of volts, alternating current. devastating an entire Empire.
The Minister also referred to the progress of air defence at home.
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The girl, he said, was wearing canvas shoes with rubber, soles, but there was a hole in one and the other was porous,
The fact that the floor of the kitchen was damp and was tiled In- creased the conductivity.
NEW TYPES Aircraft production was increas- ing every week and had already reached considerable proportions:
New, and improved types would A verdict of Death from an elec. Berlin, To-day.
soon be coming forward and science tric shock through grasping a live denial was issued here last and invention were assisting with conductor while standing on a damp night of reports appearing in other formidable forms of defence, stone floor was recorded foreign newspapers to the effect - Recruitment for the RAF and that the propaganda nister, Doc- tor Goebbels, in his speech at the Nazi Party Regional Congress at Essen, declared that England stands there like an idiot.—Trans-- Ocean.
were driven off.
JAPS. RECRUITING WHITE RUSSIANS
Chungking, To-day. The Japanese authorities in Tien- tsin are expanding the White Bus- sian Volunteer Corps which has its headqua ra in the First Special Adm ive Arba, statesia Tiens tsin me
its are being enlisted
iren
BERLIN VISIT
the Auxiliary Service had been mag- nificent, ande hundreds of young men had come forward from all Silk, valued at $424, was stolen The over the Empire,
from a piece-goods shop at No. 61, M. Kjós were Wellington Street yesterday Aaeveral nge-Yoki, Lee Fron
sported missing. July
arge numbers of pilots also being trained und
Central
Sofis, To-day. Prime Minister,
la. to pay
Berlin early