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London Air-Mail Letter MAROONED SHIP
The Prince's Inherited Taste: Divided Views In Cabinet: Our Defenders: New Peers
Take Their Seats: The Soldier's Bed
(Special Air-Mail Service).
LAWN TENNIS PROFES- SIONALISM
London, March 1 I doubt whether the movement In the United States to have open lawn-tennis tournaments will And A re- much support in Europe.
ferendum of the principal players
in America has shown an over-
whelming majority for abolishing the barriers which at present separate the professionals from the
amateurs,
:
The success of the Vines-Tilden
I heard Admiral Thursfield and General Groves debate this subject at the Empire Crusade Club in Aldford-street last night."
The General contended that now we had sunk to sixth, air power enemy airplanes could not only, des- troy London, but could starve us by bombing merchant ships.
The Admiral argued that bombers could By only at & radius of 500 miles from their base: the Navy would have to protect trade routes outside that area.
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"I quite agroey" said the General, matches, out of which the players but what is the good of convoying are said to have netted the comthe food ships only to have them fortable sum of £5,200 each, not
to mention £2.600 for the promoter of the tour, has no doubt had. Its
influence.
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There is also unrest
the American tennis world owing to the fact that the Davis Cup, with, all its attendant prestige.. has of late years shown a partiality, for Europe. Americans have not for- gotten that they held it from 1920 to 1928.
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On this side of the Atlantic the
experience of tennis stars turned professional 13 that they have thereby lost their hold on the public.
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THE PRINCE'S INHERITED
TASTE
up in port
In the general debate that fol- towed a high standard of speaking was.maintained, and it was agreed that what Britain really needs is a strong Navy and a strong Air Force
NEW PEERS TAKE THEIR SEATS
Two new peers-Lord Eltisley, formerly Sir Douglas Newton, M.P.. and Lord Elton, formerly Mr, Geoffrey Elton-were introduced and took the oath in the House of Lords yesterday. The Bishop of Black- hura (Dr. P. M. Herbert) was also Introduced and took the oath,
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WRECKED CREW
Heroic Attempts At Rescue
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright. )]
Moscow, Mar. 18. Death caused by blizzards and cracking ice at an increasing velo- city against the concentrated res-" cue forces of the Soviet nation who are Aghting for the lives of the ship-wrecked crew the Tehelyuskin marooned for above the Arctic Circle for nearly a month.
of
The last message from the heroic party of castaways was received last Sunday and contained the that a portion of landing news space cleared on the ice pack for the aeroplane rescuers split off be- fore the force of the coming storm.
Further radio communication was smothered beneath the subse- quent blizzard whose strength also prevented the squadron of glant planes ordered from the far east to the rescue workers' base Chavarovsk
at.
The most powerful Russian ice- breaker, the Krassin, hurried out of the repair.dock in Kronstadt in the Bay of Finland, in the hope. that after a two to three weeks Journey round Scandinavia they may possibly be in time to aid in the efforts of rescue.
VOLUNTEERS IN MANCHURIA
In Canton
The Government have now pla- ced: at the disposal of the rescue staff two single motored non-rigid airships of three to five thousand cubic metres capacity' which are Lieutenant Commander R. Lalready proceeding north in special Tufnell, the newly elected Conserva freight trains. They will be utills- The Prince of Wales takes after five member forbridge, was ined only as a last resource as they his grandfather in his delight introduced and Lout his seat in the have so far never been operated new experiences, shown by his House of Commons, yesterday. He under Arctic conditions.-Trans- description of his flight in snow-
was loudly cheered by suppo,ters ocean Kuo Mẫn. storms to Birmingham.
of the Government. King Edward dearly loved the excitement of a fire. Sixty-nine
THE SOLDIER'S BED" years ago he was present at What an unevenly arranged world the disastrous fire, due to a gas it is, to be sare! Ever. while it is explosion, at Saville House, the harsh and unconscionable am- Leicester-square, on the site of bition of the Bishop of Exeter, in which the Empire now stands. the House of Lords, to add com
The Prince (as he then was),pulsory church attendance to accompanied by the Duke of horrors of penal servitude, away in Funds Being Collected Sutherland and Viscount Amberley, the less enlightened regions of the the father of Mr. Bertrand Russell, House of Commons Colonel 1. j« appeared early on the scene. Don- Sandeman Allen intends to ask the ning a fireman's helmet, he viewed War Office whether it "contemplates the furnace from various points, changing the old iron bedsteada and (From Our Special Correspondent) including Stag and Mantle's pre-hard, biscuit mattresses at present
mises next door.
in use in barracks for more modern
Canton, March 18. Curiously enough, he was recog-types." It is true, of course, that Collection of funds for the sup- nised by very few people in the the people at Dartmoor are des-port of the "volunteers in Man- enormous crowds that flocked to perate characters who have done churla has yielded good results their best to lovite what Sydney here, according to a report of the Smith called being "preached to Association for the Relief of Vo- death by wild curates, or any lunteers, which is preparing an I understand that at least one other severity that may be properly account of "the money received member of the Cabinet did not included in the penal code:, it is since March 1. wholly subscribe to the decision to true, also, that in a sense nothing assist the new Cunard-White Star can be too good for the gallant are able to pay $2 a month or Shops having capital of $10,000 Co, to the, extent proposed. defenders of this island realm. But $24 a year. Other shops being MP.s generally welcome the re-what sort of beds are they to have liable for a proportional amount. sumption of work on the Cunarderin barracks? Box-mattresses on As soon as the total sum is When the Government's proposals vans? Inlaid walnut, or art-metal counted, it will be remitted to are submitted for the approval of in the newest style! And can quar-General, Wang Teh Lin, Comman- the House, however, there will be termaster sergeant be trusted to' criticism of the policy of building choose the right shade of bedspreads such huge ships. Objection, will be
or company sergeant majors to also taken to the omission of any see that they are turned down pro- provision for the direct representa- tion of the Treasury on the board perly when they tuck each man in
at "Lights out'? of the new company.
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DIVIDED VIEWS IN CABINET
OUR DEFENDERS
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der-in-Chief of the Volunteer For-
ces in Manchuria.
some
Apparently the authorities here hold the view that with funds remitted to the volunteers, Above all things, should we not be it is possible to put down the running a distinct risk of wide regime of Emperor Henry Pu spread insomnia when the warriors, although Mr. Tang Yu Yin, The rivalry between the British leave barracks? The poor things Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Navy, and the Air Force champions won't be able to sleep a wink when declared in Pelping, yesterday that is a heartening thing. They via they have to arrange themselves on
"there was no way to recover the with each other in their desire" to a palliases stuffed with straw-or
four lost provinces by force or by: become Britain's chief protection. bivouse on the bare ground,
diplomacy.
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