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London, May 9.
The King's Review
22,1935. 参拜體 日弍廿月伍年伍 佰玖密痪 Price
With the arrival at Portsmouth on Sunday of HMS. Clyde, Com-
London, May 20.. mander "E M Loly, there are now
The King whi review the Royal three submarines of the new Air Force on July 6. The occa- "river" class in the Navy. They alon part of the Jubilee cele are ocean-going vessels of long brations, and the review will take the double form of an inspectlun range and with suficient speed to accompany a battle fleet. Once at Mildenhall Aerodrome of about 350 aircraft and their personnel. before, during the War, a class was bullt to do this but to obtain drawn from forty squadrons, and the necessary speed they had toy-past at Duxford Aerodrome. be fitted with steam engines for The squadrons at Mildenhail wil
constitufe the surface cruising, with
largest number hinged
ever assembled at one aerodrome funnels which were lowered for
in Britain. diving: The Thames, Severn, and Clyde, on the other hand, are the Arst submarines in acy Navy to attala a speed of 22 knots with Diesel engines.
As compared with the class the standard boats for
more
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
Wednesday, May 22. Anniversaries and Holidays.- Small Fullness. (Hsiao-man). Feast of St. Rite of Cascia, W.
Auctions Sale of Crown Lands, District Office, Tal Pò, 11.30 a.m.; Leasehold Property Sale, Messrs. Hughes and Hough's Sales Room, 3 p.m.
Cinemas
King's: "Under Pressure." Queen's: "Jealousy." Central:"Chinese Picture. Oriental:-"I've Got Your Num-
ber.."
World:"Chinese Pleture." Alhambra:"Sunset Pass." Majestic:-"The Count Of Monte
Christo."
1:
Star:-"Lady By Choice."
Meetings.Annual, The Canton Insurance Office "Lid", Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices, noon.
The King, who will wear the uniform of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, w travel to Milden- hall by road from. Newmarket, "accompanied by the Air Minister, Lord Londonderry, and on arrival oversea work when the War be-Lieutenant and Sheriff of Suffolk. will be received by the Lord
san, the displacement has
Miscellaneous.--First Aid » Ex- than doubled from 800 tons to will drive to Duxford, where he sing Detachment, Volunteer Head- After the review, His Majesty amination, Aliated Units, Nur- 1.850. The "E' class were 1811t will join the Queen, who will at- quarters; Nominations for Vacancy long by 2241t. beam: the new ves tend the y-past. Immediately on Sanitary Board caused by Ex- sels are 345ft: long by 2811. It
after the Kint's arrival at 19 well known that to obtain
thepiration of Dr. L1. Shu-fan's term aerodrome. unity from Mildenhall of office. higher speed the power
Union of the
due; Kowloon will fly over in Squadron, forma-Church,Women's Guild, 10 a.m. engines bas to be increased in tion in succession at intervals of greater proportion with ever knot.
· Social. Whist Drive, Seamen's one minute. Later, they will re- Institute, 9 p.m.. Thus while engines of 1.600 horse-form and fly past in wing form. power were sufficient to give the tion in a succession of wings.- "E" boats a surface speed of 15 British Wirelen. knots, and at the end of the War 2.400 horse-power sufficed to give. the "L" boats a surface speed of 171⁄2 knots. in the ""rlver" class the the engines are of 10.000 horse- power for 224 · "knots, On the other hand," the fuel economy has improved, so that in spite of the extra power the new vessels have a very wide radius. The "E" class carried 45 tons of fuel, the "L" Class 76, and the new vessels 210. The Thames, on completion, made a non-step run from Portsmouth to Venice at a speed of over 17 knota.
MUCH BETTER OUTLOOK
In Engineering Trade
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Sports Athletic-Inter-Scholastic Athie-
Meeting, S.CAA Stadium, Caroline Hill, 10 am. (trial heats)."
Bowl Open Singles, G.C. Moss v. G. Perkins. (Kowloon B.G.C.): Open Fairs, TFStainton and J. Watson - "T." Armstrong, and C.
Strange (Hong Kong FC.); HP
Westlake and J. F. McGowan Y. J. B. Hensen and S. A. Bright (Cral- gengower C.C.); J..V. Ramsay and J. McKelvie v. W. K. Way and A. 8. Gomes (Kowloon C. C.); J.,„Fraser London. May 20.
and A. Hyde-Lay vA. A Razack Addressing the Federation of
and W. V. Field (Club de Recreio); Engineering and Shipbuilding
Open Rinks. P. T. Farrell, R. Dun- Trades at Hastings, the President can, J. C. Brown and A, M. Holland of the Federation, Mr. W. West- v. A. H. Eumjahn," A. M. Rumjahni, A. M. Omar, and K. M. Omar (C.S.C,C.),
The armament has also been increased, The "B" class carried one 3in. gun and five 18in. tor- wood, said there was a much bet- pedo tubes, and An additional ter.outlook in the heavy engineer. tube was mounted In the "L'class.ing and ancillary trades, and, in
Tennis.-"B" Division, Kowloon The Thames had originally a some departments of engineering, C.C. v. Indian R.C.; South China 4.7in. gun, and now has a fin, demand was ahead of productive A.A. v. Central British Association; gur like her sisters, and there are capacity, He took an optimistic Chinese R.C. v. Hong Kong C.C in each vessel two smaller guns view also of the shipbuilding Club de Recreio v. Civil Service and six 2iin. torpedo tubes. In trades, and sald
C.C. that although the Porpoise class, by reducing conditions left much to be desir- Moon.-IV Moon, 20th, Day. the surface speed to 15 knots, ed, increased tonnage refected Sunrise.-5.41 a.m. Sunset.-6,59
corresponding saving inconadence in the growing im- machinery weight. it is possible provement in world trade. to get a submarfhe minelayer with the same gun and torpedo arma- ment as the Thames, class, but with accommodation for a large number of mines.
with
p.m.
Tides. High at 1.03 and 11.05. world An- Low at 4.18 and 19.02. of many of up by most
Greater stability in ance and lowering trade barriers set
countries were essential to a full measure of world recovery, but there was no reason to belleve that further progress in interna- tloral commerce was meanwhile Impossible. Full advantage had not yet been taken of the present era of abnormally, cheap money, of which there was aburdance This is available for putting in hand
necessary work,
SUBMARINES FOR CHINA The submarines Rover, Lieu- tenant-Commander E. A. Stocker, Regent, Lieutenaht-Commander II. R.. Conway, and Regulus, Lieu- tenant-Commander. R. C. S. Car- wood, are to leave Malta to-day for the China Station.
under
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Thursday, May 23 Auctions. Sale of Crown Lands, Land Office, Ping Shan, 11,30 am. Cinemas King's: "Under : Pressure," Queen's;—“Jealousy." Central:-"Chinese Picture." Oriental: "Kentucky Kernels." World:"Chinese Pictura " Alhambra Sunset Pass." Majestic: Count Of Monte Chris-
to." Star: Lady By Choice."
Lectures.-Theosophical Society, Hong Kong Club Annex, 6 b.m.
Miscellaneous. Claims against
the Estate of Chuan Nea Ching, late
Club Open Night, 9.p.m.
Social--"Busy Bees" Klondyke Whist Drive Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m.; Civil Service Cricket Club Whist Drive. 8.45 p.m.; Women's Fellowship Games Afternoon, St. Andrew's Hall, 3 pm.
Sports..
in accordance with the regroup- ing of submarines ancounced by Regarding shipbuliding, he re- the First Lord in his memorandum marked that over 800.000 tons of accompanying the Estimates. A British shipping was now number of the submarines now construction, including - 144,000 In commission in China are to tons of new shipping, laid down it. undergo repairs. As a result of the last three months. Laid-up the changes, all the later large ships represented 693,000 tons of Shanghai, due; St. Andrew's patról submarines will be concen- compared with 1,227,000 trated in the 4th Flotilla, China year 980. with consequent simplification, of British Wireleık. organization &.pd economy of maintenance. The Rover, Regent.
EVANS OF THE BROKE and Regulus should arrive at Port The King has approved the sp- Said on May 4, Ismalla the same pointment of Rear Admiral Fran- day, Aden on May 13, Colombo on cis L. Tottenham to be Comman- My 22, Feang on June 1, and Bin-der-m-Chief. Africa Station, în zapore on June 8,
succession to Vice-Admiral Br COMMAND OF THE HARRIER Edward R. G. R. Evans, to date Commander E. G. Abbott, AM July 26. to assume command from the Torpedoes and Mining about September .9. Department, Admiralty, is to take Rear-Admiral Francis L, Totten command to-day of HMS. Har-ham is a gunnery expert. He was rter, one of the new sloops in the at Jutland HMB. Neptune, 1st Minesweeping Flotilla, in suc and later a member of the Aki 1 cession to Commander J. C. Mac- Naval Armistice Commission and lean, who has been appointed to Naval Attaché to the United Russell PE Knight and 7. the torpedo school-ship Defiance States. He has also commanded át Devonport Commander Abbott the Excellent Gunnery School and last served afloat as torpedo the battleship Rodney.): officer of the cruiser Cornwall in Vice-Admiral Sir Edward R. G. China In 1928-30, He served dur-R Evang is famous as Evan of ing the War in the cruiser War- the Broke and as a member of rior and the destroyers Firt, Scott's Antarctic expedition, which Lennox, Lance, and Trenchant, he commanded after Scott's deat. and specialized in torpedo" duties In 1917 he was in command of la 1920, and in the same year was HMB, Broke, which with HMS awarded the Albert Medal for gal- Swift met and defeated six Cler lantry in saving life.
man destroyers.
Bowls, Open Pairs (2nd round), N. M. Hast and N. Petherick v. R. Goodman and R. Lapsley (Kowloon C.C.);A W. Grimmite arid . J.. Jones v. L. F. Xavier and F. N. N. Ribeiro (Kowloon Docks); A E Coates and J. 8. Landolt Y F Cullen and J. J. Whyte (Civil Ber vice CC: A. Macfarlane and J.
Hollage (Hong Kong Electric).
Tennis B, Kowloon Docks Chinese R.G.. South China A.A.Army T.C.; Kowloon CC. v. Club de Recreio: Indian RC. v. Central British Amm; Uni- versity v. Craigengower C.C.
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