WORST MAN
**Got the ring safely ?" "The ring? Oh. Wait a minute. Ring. Here it is. No. Confound it. Where is it? Could have sworn it was in this pocket."
"You will find it nestling coyly in the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket."
"Oh yes. Of course. So it is. Ha! Ha! Funny if I lost it. Yes. I say- let's go over this business once more. Now what do I do when...
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My dear Peter, look at your tie. Pull yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not you."
“Oh. Are you ?. I mean yes - of course. Fact is, old boy, I'm in rather weak state. That celet.
tion of yours last night. Oh my poor head. I'm sure I won't be able to squeeze it into that wretched topper."
*
If you'd only taken my advice last night and stuck to gin and Rose's..."
"Roses ? Oh yes. For the brides- maids. I thought you said they were to be carnations."
"Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead! Prevents hangovers. Therapeutic action. I wish I'd ramined a quart of it down your silly throat. Next time I get married, Peter. remember you stick to gin and Rose's the night before." "Oh yes. Thanks for the tip, I will. I say
- Charles — where did I put that ring? I could have
sworn...
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NEW AMERICAN
BATTLESHIPS A
TRIUMPH
THREE-POWER
:
AMERICA'S TWO FIRST super dread-naughts PARLEY ON FAR slid down the ways in June: streamlined, stepped-up
challenges to anything that might approach Ameri- EAST PROPOSED
can shores, writes an American correspondent in Washington.
It'll be a year or more before they get their top- side turrets, big guns, and are ready to do battle, but Uncle Sam has planned 'em to be as good as any man o' war that sails the seven seas.
They hold no secret magic for|| naval science. But they're geared up higher than anything we have now in battleships They will be longer, heavier and faster. They'll each carry one more of the heavy 16-inch guns.
They'll be called the Washing- ton and North Carolina.
FIRST OF SIX
They're the first of six battle-
ACUTE OIL
SHORTAGE
IN EUROPE
ships coming up rapidly: morę An article in the "Pe- rapidly even than first planned, troleum Press Service" in because the navy recently stepped up work at the navy yards.
London yesterday pointed
Shortly, congress is expected to out that the blockade is appropriate money for two more
battleships, which will bring our likely to
cause an acute
total of new ones to eight. Each oil scarcity in continental will cost in the neighbourhood of $70,000,000 complete.
Europe.
of
tons
The June launchings broke a The gap between normal re- battleship building truce of more quirements 18 million than 18 years, We launched our (plus four million bunkers) and last one on Nov. 17, 1921, at the potential supplies of 10,260,000 end of the world war building tons is unbridgeable, once stocks
accumulated and seized are de-1 programme,
pleted.
A suggestion that Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia should hold a mutual conference to discuss Japan's "New Order in East Asia" was voiced by a So- viet spokesman
in
Moscow yesterday.
Russia would wel- come such a confer- ence, he said. China, as one of the most interested
parties, should be represent- ed.-Havas.
WASHINGTON CALLED ON
TO WATCH
NEW FEATURES
The German output, including| Then we agreed
Poland to sea power Austria,
and Czecho- limitation with other major pow-slovakia, taking into full account ers; even scrapped 11 capital all methods of expansion but
MR. HALLET ABEND, "NEW ships in the works. Nearest com-ignoring the devastation caused YORK TIMES" CORRESPON- pletion then was another ship to by R.A.F. raids, is 5 million; the DENT, AND OTHER AMERICAN be called the Washington. She Russian exportable surplus is NEWSPAPER MEN WHO ARE was made a test case, taken to the 500,000; Italian output, including ON THE BLACK. LIST OF THE Virginia Capes and subjected tó Albania is 370,000; France, Es- NANKING REGIN, HAVE AD- KOMMMMMM heavy fire from air bombs, tor-tonla, Belgium and Holland 390,- DRESSED A MESSAGE TO PRE- pedoes and shells. She told our 000, and the total comes to SIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKING navy men some valuable secrets 10,260,000.
THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT before she sank. That knowledge] Normal pre-war requirements INFORM JAPAN SHE. WILL BE went into new designs.
of Germany and Italy were HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE These new dreadnaughts will millions; France, Belgium, Hol-SAFETY OF AMERICANS IN differ from battleships in many land, Denmark and Norway. 71⁄2 CHINA BECAUSE THE NAN- ways: They will be 2,000 tons millions; Sweden, Switzerland, KING REGIME IS UNDER HER heavier (35,000 tons). They will Greece, Finland, the Baltic CONTROL.
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be 150 feet longer (750 feet). They States, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria They also ask that the U.S. Gov- will have nine 16-inch guns the 25 millions, the total being, 19 ernment adopt retaliatory mea- heaviest known for battleships. millions.
sures against Japanese newspaper We have three ships with eight Economising on consumption correspondents in the United "improved subdivisions and better wagons have. nine each. These guns can fire 2,100-pound shells about 20 land miles.
The new ships will mount some 20 secondary guns amidships; five, are anti-aircraft.
in the occupied territories States if American journalists in impossible beyond a certain Shanghai-are mistreated. point without rendering In- It is reported that as a precau- dustries incapable of contrl- tionary. measure, the Shanghai buting to the war effort.
Municipal Council is supplying The position is most serious in bodyguards to all threatened lubricating oils which are most American newspaper correspon- difficult to economise.-Reuter. dents, including Mr. Haliett,
HEAVY ARMOUR Armour amidships will be 16-
Abend, who, was attacked by two inch, the heaviest now in use. It
masked Japanese on Saturday will cover vital parts of the sides. Quarantine restrictions 'imposed night, while the American Marines Despite this increase in weight, by the Chinese Maritime Cus-have reinforced patrols in the boats are expected to toms at Tientsin against arrivals American defence sector in the
International make 28 knots an hour: nine fast-from Hong Kong, on account of Shanghai
Settle-
the new
er than any we now have. That's smallpox have been removed. ment. Central News. more than 30 land miles an hour.
The navy says also they have! "improved subdivisions and better fire control." But just how and why is the navy's business. The first provision is to make them,
' FALCO-PERFECTA' stand up better after they've been
FUEL-OIL
COOKING RANGES
CRANE'
BOILERS, RADIATORS,
'TURNALL'
ACCESSORIES
hit. The second will make. them more deadly shots.
These two ships have actually been in the works all the long years since the armament truce. The navy had from 50 to 70 de-
COMPENSATION FOR AIR RAID DAMAGE
IF YOUR furniture or clothing is damaged by
signers working most of that time. an air raid or by invasion, tell one of the Assistance They turned out 140 separate de- Board officials exactly what you have lost, what it signs. Many designs were turned into models and tested. Finally, will cost to replace, and what your income is, writes some of the innovations were built a London reporter.
into existing ships.
EIGHT BUILDING
Your post office will tell you where to find an
We have 15 battleships in the Assistance Board official, and he will have power to fleet now? Three are overage. advance you up to £50 for furniture, providing the
There's 464,000 toris in our whole
feet. The present building will total income of your household does not exceed £400 almost double that, adding 390,- a year. PRODUCTS 000 tons.
For clothing he can make maxi-days, the district valuer will give Here's what's in the works now: mum advances of from £10 to you reasonable grace.
It is for consideration of such SHEETS, 8 battleships, two aircraft car- £30 according to the number of
riers, six light cruisers, 14 sub- dependants.
claims that the Chancellor of the marines, 29 destroyers, two des- Income limits for such claims Exchequer has just announced a PIPES, troyer tenders, two mine-sweep-are £250 a year if there are no Compensation Board, who will
ers, one repair ship, one submarine tender, one fleet tug, six seaplane dependents and £400 if there are consider claims from anywhere in Great Britain and Northern ETC. tenders, and one mine-layer.
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A brilliant dinner party was In that case, and if your income given in Shanghai last night to exceeds the limits given above, Miss Mary Lee, the Hong Kong and so makes you ineligible for movie star, who recently arrived an advancej-do-this-
For purposes of claim you may include real and personal property, but not money valu able securities, jewellery,
or works of art which are not in- ** cured ́againat tire, burglary of
theft.
Apart-from-assistance towards
In the northern port to appear in Apply at your town hall or repair of "essential property," two plctures for the Yi Hwa Mo- other office of the local authority compensation in these cases will tion Picture Co. Miss Lee stated for a claim form. The form, must not be rude until the war is over. she was returning to Hong Kong be completed and sent in within The scales on which payment will In two months as soon as the 80 days of loss or damage. If it is then be paid will depend on what plctures are completed.
not possible to do so in the 30 the country can afford.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24, 1940
DEBATE IN LORDS ON EVACUATION
OF CHILDREN NIGHT RAIDS
THE QUESTION of the overseas evacua-
SHUT RUHR
tion of British children was raised in the FACTORIES FOR
-
House of Lords yesterday by Lord Marley.
Replying, Lord Snell said there was no dis- A WEEK
crimination in the Government's scheme
which would result in the children of well-to- Information reaching do parents getting to the Dominions and the the Air Ministry from United States while the children of poorer par- German sources reveals ents had no such advantages.
that, in some industrial Some children had been sent away by their par-ing raids have stopped districts, the R.A.F: bomb- ents under arrangements made at their own risks, mostly before the Government scheme was on foot.
Government was not responsible for that, nor did it make any pro- vision for the journey.
Unless it was contended Gov-
MACHINES
ernment should have prohibited IN FACTORY
such an arrangement there was no case against Government on this point..
production for a week.
Constant air raid alarms have! interfered with the night shifts, it was stated, and in the Ruhr they have had a marked effect on morale, particularly so because the German workers had always been told that it could never hap- pen to them.
The information. also confirms Pointing out that both women|R.A.F. pilots' reports of damage Government could not fore: victims in last year's factory ac- caused at explosives factories, SCC' when the scheme wa cidents were killed as the result dumps, oil refineries, and launched that it would appeal of machines being unfenced, Mr. shalling yards. to so large a proportion of par D. W. Phillips, Assistant Inspec-
ents.
tor of the Factories and Works, The situation had been altered;
summoned
the the manager of by the unexpected number of ap-Nam Tai Umbrella Wire Factory. plicants.
of Lung
Kong Road,. Kowloon
City, for falling to fence four ma-
chines on June 21, before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon this morning.
mar-
Another result of the raids is that the Germans are being forced to use night fighter patrols. That they are having to divert fighters from other purposes is regarded in London 190,000 Applications
as a positive, military gain. POTSDAM AND HAMBURG So far there had been applica-
At 2 a.m. Potsdam and western tions in respect of 175,000 children. in state-aided schools and 16,580
The Inspector said he visited the outer suburbs of Berlin had their children outside those schools.
premises at 11 a.m. on June 21 second raid alarm within a week. These figures proved how lit-when he found four machines open People were in their cellars and shelters for an hour. The German tle substance there was in theland dangerous to the workers.
Official News Agency reported suggestion that there was some, A fine of $150 was imposed. that bombs dropped in the Ham-
Mr. Phillips also prosecuted the burg area damaged property. manager of the Kwong Lung The German radio (says Reu- Postponement of the scheme was Chan Green Peas Company, of ter) announced that British planes a matter of the deepest disap- Nam Chang Street, for allowing had bombed Bueckeburg, near pointment.
eight children-between 9 and 11 Hamelin (town of the Pied Piper). Government could not
spare years to be working on the pre- naval vessels and were determin-mises on June 25. ed not to risk sending the chil- Pleading guilty, the manager
kind of social discrimination in the Government's scheme,
dren without convoys.
The situation might change and every opportunity would watched. Reuter.
American Discussion
was fined $50.
METAL WIRE THEFT
For operating an unregistered METAL
be factory at No. 8, Tung Choi Street
Mr. Bloom, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, caid yesterday --in connection with the proposed amendment to the United States Neutrality Bill which would allow British children to cross the At-| lantic in American ships--that he| believes the proposal will have the approval of the State Depart- ment.
on June 27, the manager of the Before Mr. R. Edwards this Chan Au Knitting Factory
was morning, Wong On-hing, 24, was fined $25.
charged with larceny of three drums of metal wire from a ship In harbour, the property of the Jardine Engineering Corporation.
Defendant was employed as an electrician's coolie on board the ship. On July 19, he was seen removing a drum of wire. When enquiries were made, three drums of wire were missing. Defendant admitted the theft.
INDIA'S
GROWING
STRENGTH
He was not sure whether or not it was advisable for the United THOUSANDS OF RECRUITS States to take the risk, but if ARE ENROLLING IN INDIA AS Germany and Italy would gua- THE ADVANCE GUARD OF rantce a safe passage to ships car-THE FIRST HUNDRED THOU- rying only refugee children, their SAND" WHO, AS THE COM- guardians and mothers, the Unit-MANDER-IN-CHIEF, GENERAL ed States might be willing to take SIR ROBERT CASSELS, a chance. Reuter.
DROPPED 8,000 FT., SWAM 3 HOURS
Flying Officer Robert New, on patrol during the Dunkirk evacua- tion of the B.E.F, was attackéd by superior enemy forces.
A shell shattered the control Shrapnel wires of his machine.
hit him in the thigh.
So he baled out, floated 8,000 feet to the sea with his parachute. For three hours he swam
- about.
SECURITY.
AN-
Sentence of two months' hard labour was imposed.
COLONY'S SECRET DOCUMENTS
[NOUNCED LAST MAY, REPRE- "Secret documents arising out |SENT THE RESPONSE OF IN-
of the war" are accumulating| DIA TO THE GROWING TOTA- LITARIAN MENACE TO HER rapidly, according to a minute in the Finance Committee Message for, to-morrow's Council meeting. New formations comprise mo- The Special Branch of the Po- torised and armoured units, in-lice has been re-organised and its fantry, artillery and specialised own registry created, and Ave troops besides the quadrupling of steel fling cabinets for the safe Indian aviation.
custody of secret documents are Actual increase is only the ini- now to be purchased. tial step but it is noted in Simla that it represents an addition of several new divisións to the fleld army, besides an increase in other formations.---Reuter.
FRAUD CAPTURED
Cheung Siu-ylu, 31, was charg-
ed before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C.,
Then a minesweeper appeared. this morning, with attempting to
LOCKS TAKEN FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL
Two brass locks were stolen from the front gate of the Mental; Hospital, in High Street, Bonham Road, yesterday.
CATHOLIC BISHOP
DEAD
News has reached Dublin of the
Before he could be taken on obtain money by false pretences. death in Port of Spain, Trinidad, board a German plane began to Det. Sergeant V. Morrison said of the Most Rev. Dr. John Pius
· bomb the ship.
defendant went to the Wing Lee Dowling, Catholic Archbishop of A rope was thrown to the Wireless Company, with a receipt Fort of Spain. wounded pilot and he was taken purporting to be from the Hong
in tow.
Kong Dollar Directory, ‚'for an A 50-year-old woman, Ll Chún, "To evade the attack the mine-advertisement. Complainant who was taken to the Kowloon Hos- sweeper moved off, dragging: mofalready had an official receipt from pital for injuries received when behind it," ho said when he land-the Hong Kong Dollar Directory, she was knocked down by car No. red in England.
had defendant arrested.
5057 in Castle Peak Rond yester- hard day. The car was driven by. Mr,
J. C. Kurll,
: Pilot Offer New is 25 and а Sentence of`six months' former Cardiff High School boy..[labour' was imposed.