REAPPEARANCE OF SUBMARINE
Bombshell By Germany
BY SIR ARCHIBALD HURD
(Continued)
WEDDING
MacFarlane-Noble
The wedding of Mt. W...W, Mac Farlane and ass larian 'Noble took place in Judge Milton W. States Consulate-General on Fri day June 14, Shanghai.
Mr. MacFarlane has spent a good deal of time in Shanghai dar- ing the past few years and was until recently connected with the American-Oriental
Cor- poration. He has just joined the Northern Pacific Railroad Com staff of the Seattle branch of the
pany.
Finance
The submarine is longer Lecessarily the smal craft with which the early days of the Great War made us familiar. While de fensive vessels of moderate dis- placement and limited radius et
His bride, who is the daughter of action, are still being built. many Mr. and Mrs. Byron E. Noble of submarines of great tonnage, which Honoluta, arrived in Shanghai for can go for long voyages an the the wedding just over a week ago. trade routes, have been con- For the ceremony she wore a pink structed in the past few years. organdie gown with an accordion There are 18 ships of upwards of pleated net collar and accordion 2,000 tons displacement.
pleated sleeves. On her shoulder submerged, now in service under was pinned a corsage of pink tan the British Ang and four more roses and her wide straw hat ani are now under construction. These cessories were also of pink,
A reception was held afterwards craft are, the British reply to the challenge by foreign naval powers.Hangjao Road. Mr.
at Mr. C. V. Starr's residence on and Mrs FOREIGN PROGRAMME
MacFarlane, are leaving to-morrow The United States as long ago for Hong Kong, en route for a as 1925 ald the keel of the Argo-three months tour of the South Sea hnut of 4.080, which is specially islands. before Mr. MacFarlane equipped for mine-laying, having lakes, up his new work in Seattle. engines of 3.175 horsepower and
when
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1935.
AROUND THE COURTS
FORGED BUS TICKETS
Before Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the, Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. the case against Tsang Cheung, who was charged with (a) embezzle- ment. (b) uttering forged tickets and (c) defrauding the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, was con.
Hastings & Company appeared for tinued. Mr. E S. C. Brooks of
the prosecution, while Mr., D. L Strellett, of Messrs. Hall Bruttoa appeared for the defence..
想
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
15
Q
ACROSS 3.-A large spot, with a servant's
cottage in it (7).
ich
8. This, no doubt, can be obtain-
ed. (3).
7.--Would inconstancy be reform.
Mr. S. T. Louey, Manager of the NOTE-Fgures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the Kowloon Motor Bus Co., produced
words required. a record card of the tickets re- cetved from the Local Printing Press when he was called to the, witness box to be cross examined by Mr. Strellett. Continuing his June 7 at 11.30 am. the defendant evidence witness stated that
together with four other men who were also arrested. returned to the Motor Bus" Co.. to receive thetr wages and it was at this stage that he phoned for the Police.
on
Mr. Louey" also stated that on April 15 a large number of other conductors were arrested
and charged but the defendant did not know of this: After receiving confirmation of his suspicions that the defendant, had been uttering round Pulice Seek Motive: For Crime. forged tickets, he was suspended
1930. are
MURDERED ON FRENCH BUND
Shanghal, June 13.
an armament of two 6 in. guns. besides four tubes for launching torpedoes, and the Nautilus and Narwhal, completed in nearly as large. Japan hus com- pleted in recent years a dozen vessels of 2.100 tons, each mounting a gun of 4.7 in. calibre. France counts among her flotillas Shot by a mysterious assassin, a of 110 craft, upwards of 20 of wealthy young Chinese was killed which are of the ocean-going type
on the French Bund, a short dis- -that is of about 2,000 tons. This
tance from "Avenue Edward VII at displacement is exceeded by Le 6.50 am, yesterday. He had, but a Heros. Le Centaure, Ajax. Persee few minutes before, stepped off the and Le Clorieux, while the Sur-China Navigation Co. s. Hain couf is of 2,880 tons and France Peking, in which he had travelled has nine more ocean-going craft" from Ningpo. now under construction, Italy has been less ambitious, for pone much above 1,000 tons.
GREAT IMPROVEMENT
is
The dead man was identified by the French Police as Mr. Tsu Zlarg Seng, aged 21, a natiye of Zaoching. whose address was 666 Tiendong Road. The son of a native banker who died several years ago, Mr. Tsu led an easy life, in the course of was a wealthy man and apparently which he made frequent trips to Ningpo.
It will be seen that since the Great Waz haval architects and marine engineers have studied the design of submarines to such pur- pose that they can now travel for thousands of miles without re- Police inquiries are now belu fuelling, while the armament they made into the private life of Mr. carry, ranging up to the e in, run, Tsu, of which little is known, in with its 100 lb. shell, is such as order to discover what motive there to offer the merchant ship ifttle might have been for the crime. chance of effective. reply. These Mr. Tsu is belleved to have been developments are all the more re-divorced since 1933: it is also be markable In view of the prohibi- lieved that, seven or eight years tion which was laid on Germany age, he was kidnapped and only after the Great War. A new released on payment of a heavy situation has arisen, which will ransom. have to be considered by the Bri- tish peoples...
GREAT
EXPERIENCE IN THE GREAT
WAR
un-
The crime was committed with a 32 calibre automatié pistol, and detectives subsequently picked up an empty cartridge-case of this size. A rickshaw coolle who was in the vicinity told the Police that he had seen an armed Chinese ride of a bicycle after the fatal shot had been fred.
What is the British position? During the War, this type of craft had far-reaching" effects on the strategical and tactical handling of the Grand Fleet and its restricted attack оп merchant shipping nearly brought about the defeat of the Allies. Upwards of 6.500,000 tons of British merchant ships with 14,000 officers
ESSENTIAL EMPIRE TRADE men, were destroyed during
It would be unwise for the Bri- German campaign.
tish peoples to ignore the possibi- As defensive measures were developed by the
lities which reside in this reap- British Admiralty, the submarine pearance of the submarine, since ocean borne commerce is their
sures.
and the
fever which has now seized the Germans.
fighting
from work for two weeks and was instructed to return on June 7 to collect his pay.
Further evidence was then heard from Yuen Wal, time-keeper em ployed by the Eowloon Motor Bus Co whose duty it is to distributė tickets to the conductors in the morning together with a way-biu which the conductor had to sign. Cross-examined by Mr. Strellett, witness deposed that all conduc- tars did not know before hand what serial numbers of tickets he is likely to be given. After fur- ther evidence. Mr. Brooks called played by Mr. Louey to board, the Chu Ming, one of the men Company's Buses and check on the sale of tickets. testified that Tsang Cheung sold Witness
bim the forged ucket UR3652 and travelled several times on his bus he recognised the accused as he
No. 650, On one occasion accused asked him why he was travelling so often on his bits, to which wit- ments to attend. ness replied that he had engage-
e22-
1: At the conclusion of evidence given by the Interpreter of the Yaumati Police Station, defendant gave his version of the story after which his worship" dismissed the fist and third charges and on the second charge of uttering forged tickets the accused, was sentenced to three months hard labour.
RUMOURS AND FACTS!
Air Craft Company To Benefit
As a result of the British Gov-
"
was effectively mastered and core blood. The maritime nations fewer than 200 German submar-fronting the narrow seas leading. ines were destroyed-a heavy toll. to the British ports possess large The submarines are now greatly cumbers of submarines and of superior in design and operation to those of 1917
destroyers And and 1918, but craft, which are a possible source.
Ught there is good ground for stating of danger. Through these narrowernment's expressed Intention of that the anti-submarine measures since developed by the British Ad- Empire's overseas trade in essen-strength of the Royal Air Force, waters pass the arteries of the miralty are much superior to those tial foodstuffs and raw materials. there has been great activity in increasing" very largely the which in the last year of the war Ir these arteries are severed, ur the shares of the manufacturing gave this country almost complete even temporarily choked, the "Em- concerns most likely to benefit by control of this "assassin seas." The British peoples may ing paralysis. There is a growing time all kinds of rumours have of the pire must be subjected to a creep such expansión, while at the same have confidence that the anxious feeling among those days of the Great War can never studied the problem closely
who have been current "be repeated, if the naval author while the technical ability to keep that, tles are givers a free hand to de-open these channels of trade ex- that negotiations for
It was suggested, for instance, velop adequate defensive mea-
â working ists, the instruments required, in
agreement were taking place be- the form of cruisers, destroyers, tween the Hawker Aircraft Co. INHERENT DANGER
sloops and other small surface and Rolls-Royce Ltd. This was But it is Impossible to ignore craft, are sadly below strength. the inherent danger of the situa-
denied by the latter carcern, who Whether the time has come stated that the aircraft engine tion which is developing. Accord when it is necessary to invoke the policy remains unchanged and ing to the latest official return of "escalator" clause of the London that they have no intention of the British Admiralty there are Naval Treaty, not to increase the entering the aircraft inanufactur- Low Do fewer than 370 efficient British naval forces in any spiriting business, but will continue to submarines already in commission of self-glory, but to bring them work in the closest co-operation that is craft no more than 13 up to the strength necessary to with all aircraft manufacturers years old; and 54 are under con-enable them to perform their an aero engine specialists, struction, making a total of 424. historic task of defending the and many more are "projected." Empire and its ocean borne comnection with the same company Then another rumour in con- The prohibition of the use of merce, is a subject which; it is was circulated to the effect that these craft against merchant ves-understood, is being seriously con- they are so busy with orders for sels, set forth in the Washingtonsidered by the British Admiralty. aero engines that they cannot ac- Treaty of 1921 may or may not be Without the freedom of the Seven cept orders for motor car chassis observed in any future war. That Beas for the passage of commerce, for delivery within a solemn pact is, in any event, due the British Empire carnot exist.
reasonable to expire at an early date and That is a principle which has conference which may be held for been endorsed by, every Imperial the purpose of perpetuating the Conference. It must deed be rumour, was at once issued by policy embodied in it, will be con- apparent to anyone who looks at Rolls-Royce Ltd, who added that, fronted with a new altuation aris- atlas and bears in mind the actually, they are now maculac- ing, from the widespread activity dependence of every part of the turing more car chassis than for which has been exhibited in the Empire on the freedom of the many years and are in a position feverish building of submarines, a oceans of the world.
to accept orders for all models.
period.
A most emphatic denial to this
9.--All English racehorses are descendants of this breed (4).' 10-Brace (4). 11-One who is thoroughly pro-
ficient (5).
14-To sit, and think about one's
troubles (5).
16. In addition to his land, this Scotsman claims the air! (5). 17. The sort of hall we're glad to
get (7). 18-A Scottish bank (4). 19.-This age is one of electric
power (4):
21-From which an escape might
be found, but (7). 23. Should we make use of it? (5). 24-A division of Kent (5). 25.-Is proverbially deaf, so don't
speak to him when he's sum- ming up (5). ." 28.--We may, without dublety, de-
fine it as anxiety (4). 29-A priestly cloak to contend
with (4).
ed by attending to a "cot in a villa"? (anogram) (11),
8A degree in runk (5), ». 12.-A slow-witted fellow (7).
13.-Heathen, and probably irre-
verent (7).
15. To keep one's attention fixed
on a thing (5).
18. The chance of solving this is
seven, anyway. (5).
20-No, this is a bad bargain (5). 22. The groove that holds your
watch-glass (5),
25.-The tone of music in this is
high (3).
25 No time like the present, so
give the answer to this (3). 27-Now the puzzle has this to a
finish!
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:
Across.-1, Dam-ask; 6, Hero-in; 10, Control; 11, School; 12, B-255- 30.-The power that gives one en-et; 13, Patriot; 16, Drive; 17, Extol;
durance (7).
DOWN
18, 8-woo-n; 19, Khaki; 22, Petal: 25, Sprayer; 29, A-verse; 30, 1A kind of silk, cement, moth, Autumn; 31, Unicorn; 32, Leaves:
or cat (5).
33. Net-her, 2.--With tact, we know what to
do (11).
4-One Is proverbially like an
other (3). 5-It takes two of these to make
@ 10 (3).
NOW
ON SALE
Down-1, Dosed; 2, Mahdi; 3, Scope; 4, Kola; 5, Stir; 8, Hób-o; 7. Elate; 8, Onset: 9, Natal; 14, Tow- er: 15. Irony: 19, Kraal; 20, Arena; 21, Issue: 23, Prune; 23, Touch: 24, Liner; 26, Pens; 27; Arch; 28, 'Earn.
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