10%
RISE IN NAVY ESTIMATES
£9.880,000 MORE
Acceleration Of Building
London, March 5. The Navy Estimates for 1938. Issued yesterday, amount to £89 930600 an increase of £9.880,000 aver the Estimates presented "a. year ago. All the votes show an increase, but the largest increase in proportion is that for the Fleet Air Arm, which has risen from £1,873,000 to £3,068,000, or over 63 per cent. This increase is required mainly for the re-equipment and maintenance of the existing flights of the Fleet Air Arm
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
AIR BASES IN THE PACIFIC
And Contract Let For One In Atlantic“
navy is tightening The U.S.A. the nation's air defences on tw sea roasts
TRANSFER FEES
Season Approaching
this time of year. Usually, at
coming there are stories of the "transfer rush." One gets numer- ous reminders that after midnight, March 16. until the season ends, no more transfers of players with the Football League may be made of the the sanction without Management Committee, who wil nos permit in any circumstances a player transferred afterwards to take part in a game where pro- On the West, meanwhile, Rear-motion or relegation is faintly con-
cerned. admiral William H. King, Chlef of Naval Aeronautics, is considering the possibility of establishing air bases in the far Pacific islands...
The construction of a powerful Marine Corps air base in the Vir- gin Islands, athwart the projected Southern Commercial transatlantic ar route, is being hastened
A contract for a hangar, ramps, runaways and a seu wall on Lind- bergh Bay at the north eastern tip of St. Thomas, "one of the Vir gin Islands, has been let.
The point is the farthest United States possession in the North At- lande.
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IN THE PACIFIC
For the rest, the Estimates make provision for the ordinary main- tenance, repairs, and ancillary ser- vices of the Fleet; for expediting construction already authorized; for moderfilzing certain existing capital ships; for repairing de Actencies in the programme re- ferred to in the White Paper of March, 1935; and for certain addi-nounced the 5-5-3 naval ratio tions approved as part of the and walked out
Naval Conference. special measures in connexion with the Italo-Abyssinian dispute.
Air bases and fortifications in the Pacific lands have been un- der consideration since Japan re-
of the
London
This year, the fact that only a fortnight remains has escaped general notice amid the bother over the fight between the League, and the football pools.
ate
well ..Club managements sware of It. There may not be a "rush" of transfers. I do not think there will, as regards impor-
will certainly be a good deal of business done
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936.
PROMOTIONS AND THE AMBULANCE ANOTHER TENNIS
DEMOTIONS
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Jockey Club's Latest Notification
The following alterations and additions to classification lists of the Hong Kong Jockey Club date March 17, 1938 are to hand.
AUSTRALIAN PONTES
Honey
to A Class Racing Heart to B Class
CHINA PONIEŚ
Cyclamen Bay New Star Miracle " Rousseau Festival Eve Limelight
to B Class
to B Class
to C Class
to C Class to D Class to D. Class
the semi-final round of the FA
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CUP SWEEP
Drawing To Take Place To-morrow
By kind permission of the Chair- man and Committee, the drawing of the Ambulance Cup Sweep will take place at the Sports Club on Thursday. April 2, at 5.30 p.m. Ticket holders are invited to be present. The result of the draw will be published in the papers on Friday or Saturday morning.
SATURDAY'S MEETING
In place of the abandoned meet- Ing. three races will be run on. Saturday afternoon, the first race, which starts at 3.30 p.m., being the Ambulance Cup.
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A Ladies Race and the Dowbig tant and costly players. But there Cup we have four clubs-Arsenal, gin Trophy Race for members of the Machine Gun Troop, will com- Grimsby Town, Sheffield United and Fulham. The Arsenal, ad-plete the programme. money on mittedly, have spent building up their team. How much has been spent on the tearns of the other three?"
I should be surprised if the total outlay for the 33 players who re- these taree clubs last presented Saturday exceeded £10,000.
" ON A RISING MARKET Officials of clubs that happen to' be well staffed may justifiably a "rising chuckle. They sell on
pays to market."
How well it
tarefully go to some trouble in In the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which Japan denounced. selecting young players from minor each country agreed to leave un-clubs, and coaching them in the small reserves for two or three seasons, fortified their respective
may be seen from the recent trans- club. fers in which my former Birmingham, have been concern- ed. In recent weeks Calladine, a half-back, has gone to Blackburn
inside Rovers.
No provision is made in these Estimates for any additional ex- penditure arising from the pro- posals in the White Paper on De-lelands in the mid-Pacific region. rence published yesterday; nor is
The Virgin Islands base will any provision made for the 1936
serve a peaceful as well as a mill- Construction programme,tary purpose. пет
best be presented." "which can states the First Lord, "la "con- nection with these further pro- pesal." This extra provision will be made in Supplementary Esti- mates to be presented to Parlia ment at a later date.
Of the £9,880.000 increase, £4,- 645.109 is required in order to make progress with new construction al- ready authorized. This addition is required partly because the pro- gress of the cruisers of the 1933 and 1934 programmes and the des- troyers of the 1935 programme has been accelerated. For the seven additional "Tribal" class destroyers just ordered by contract, £767,175 is voted in the coming year. The number of new ships to be com- pleted during the year. is 30. the same as under the 1935 Estimates, but the number to be advanced 15 35. or five more than in 1935.
INCREASE IN PERSONNEL The Estimates carry a personnel of 99,095, an increase of 4,813 over the numbers voted a year ago, and of 1113 over those approved in the Supplementary Estimate presented last month. Increased numbers of cadets are now being entered in or-" der to meet the requirements, or "the Fleet, particularly the Fleet Air Arm. The wages vote has passed £13.500,000, and is £1,000,000 more than in 1933.
The vote for naval reserves is al- spost the only one which is subs- tantially the same £350,700, a compared with £350,500). There are rather more officers and men in the RNR and R.N.V.R., but in the R.FR. "the numbers both in class A penstoners) and class B (non-pensioners) show reductions. The retrenchment in the active list over a period. of 10 or 12 years has meant a much smaller flow-off on to the Fleet reserve. The votes for victualling and clothing, medical establishments, educational, and scienting services all show more or less automatic increases owing to the additional personnel.
Suratantially larger apprópria tions are made for the new ships in hand Whereas in 1935 the biggest sum voted for any one ship in the dockyards was £471,400, this year £746,970 is taken for the cruiser Birmingham, at Devonport, and £601,091 for the cruiser Auro- ra, at Portsmouth. The vote for naval armaments has risen from under £5,000,000 to over £7,000,- 099, the main Increase being £1,092,900 more for projectiles and ammunition." Fuel for the Fleet ll cost £250,900 more in the coming year. Under the works vote another £450,000 is voted for the Singapore base and £29,000 for anti-aircraft gunnery establishment at Porta-
new the training mouth.
· FLEET ACTIVITIES
In addition to strengthening the Panama Canal defence against alr attack the base will afford an emergency landing and refueling Held on experimental flights of the
Lufthansa German American Airways plan to inau- gurate this year.
and
The first two races are "catch weights" over a country course of the approximately 3 miles, and Dowbiggin Trophy is a handicap race over a similar course.
A system of "Wire" Betting win be conducted for the benefit of anyone wishing to bet.. Under this system, dividends are divided as
1st Pozy 2nd Pony 3rd Pony
A glance at the First Division League table reveals quite plain-follows:- ly that the so-called wealthy clubs with expensive teams are not all clustered round the top, while the lower section gives one food for thought along the same lines. Though money is useful, it only helps. Something more a good deal more- required to win suc-
Grosvenor. ar forward, to Sheffield Wednesday, and Booton, a full back, to Luton Town. All three have given valu-cess in the game. Pan-able service to the Birmingham clue. I may Low reveal that I Secured the three of them for a A reciprocal agreement pledging total outlay of no more than £150 each nation to afford the other At a guess, one would say that Birmingham must have received full facilities on tests of the south-
ern transatlantic route has recent-about £8000 for their total trans-
fer fees. ly been concluded by the Stale Department with an ometai Ger-
man Air Mission.
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"This man broke two glasses in the bar, and I shouted, "You can't do that there 'ere," said a witness in Tower Bridge Police Court, Lon don.
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Mr. Camplon (the magistrate)- Did he agree with you?
Witness--No; he said, "Can't I?' and' smashed up 24 worth of stu before I could stop him.
SCOTLAND'S SOCCER PLAYERS
Match Against England
London, Mar. 30. The following have been selected to represent Scotland in the soccer. match against England at Wembley on April 4:---
Anderson
Dawson (Rangers), (Hearts), Cummings, Massie (Aston Villa), Simpson, Brown (Rangers), Crum (Celtic), Walker (Hearts), McCulloch (Brentford), McPhail (Rangers), Duncan (Derby),-- Reuter
HOME FOOTBALL
London, Mar. 30. Two matches were played in the English football league to-day. In the second division Port Vale visit- ed Southampton and won by the any goal scored, while in the nor- thern section of the third division on their Chesterfield, although own ground, could, only play a goalless draw with Stockport.- Reuter.
in France, Germany, Norway, Bel- glum, and Iceland.
the
There have been extensive in- vestigations, with the co-operation at the RAF, into the best means of controlling close range anti-air- craft guns, and as a result it is
expected that confidently effectiveness of these weapons will bo materially increased. Most valuable experience was obtained The customary "Notes" which during Fleet exercise in 1935 in the accompany the First Lord's State-operation of aircraft in oceanic ment refer to Fleet activities warfare over a prolonged period abroad apart from the temporary The number of pilots taken for detachment of vessels to the Medi- training annually for the Fleet Air terranean and Red Sea. Treaty Arm has been further increased obligations with the Arab sheikhs from 24 to 34, and the number of have been upheld in the Persian capital ships and cruisers fitted Gulf. The usual Anti-slavery with catapults from 26 to 20, with been maintained an increase in the aircraft allocat patrols have there and in the Red Sea. Ined to them from 33 to 37.
When the large repairs to HMS China HM ships have been stafióned throughout the year at Warspite, including re-engining coast and river ports in order to and rebollering, are completed safeguard British interests. Fishery about March, 1937, the Nelson will patrol vessels paid visits to ports be taken in hand for large repairs.
So uigh have transier fees Len ior experienced men that a sum of £10,000 no longer excites al. tention. Phillips, who left Wolver- hampion for Aston Villa, and Do- herty, transferred a fortnight ago to Manchester from Blackpool City, are both reputed to have cost this sum. Quite a number of play- crs have been transferred during the past three months at fees of between £5000 and £9000, and the total amount paid out this sɛason must be stupendous.
SO MUCH A POUND Outside critics of Association football affect to regard this as buying success at so much a pound of footballer, which means in ef- fect that the Arsenal have already brought their way to securing the F.A. Cup-which is, as you and I The transter nonsense. know, system is not an evil, and the an- swer to the critics is that no ev results have ever come to light. Rather does it both re-create in- terest and stimulate fresh interest. League clubs provide new and bet ter players in order to give their supporters--who pay the piper-a better team to support.
This solows the principles of or- dinary entertainment and shop keeping. But only up to a point. The point is arrived at Arstiy by the strict limits of cash available No club in the country. not even the wealthiest, can afford to spend money in large sums for long. Onc doubts if even Aston Villa could repeat their Expenditures of this
season.
PLAYERS WHO MOVE Secqud, it is unwise to shift play- ers continually from club to club, for the simple reason that the sense of club loyalty which is nu tural tofull footballers, amateur professional," must begin to wear thin if a plager. moves frequently. Thus, a mau may be known to be a very fine player, you another club will hesitate to secure him be- cause he may not be quite so en- thusiastic as a younger, less ex perienced, footballers would be
It is a fact that the best club players are those who are brought up and developed in the ate clus. To "uprout" a player who has been with one club for ten years, ha
any other League never known club, and then plant him with an- other at the opposite end of the
country is to run a risk, though
enough in his efforts. the player himself would be honest
For the ambitious young player the system is the finest possible. It enables him to get on. For the old player it is equally good be- canse it makes it possible, by des- cending a grade, for him to con tinue his career a few more years.
That the transfer velem en- ables clubs to buy success is an idea, which, is upset every year. In
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2.
If 3 dividends are payable. 1st Pony
2 Parts 1 Part
2nd Pony
If 2 dividends are payable. 1st Fony
All
If i dividend is payable.
SURPRISE
Lo Brothers Win In Hard Game
CRICKET
K.C.C. v. USR.C.-
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The following have been selected to represent the Kowloon Cricket Club in a friendly match against the USRC at 11:00 am. on the
F. Goodwin (Capt.) N. A. E. Mackay G. Fincher
Eikenz'e
W.
E. A. Broadbridge
Another surprise greeted specta-K.C.C. ground next Sunday. tors at the tennis championships at the Hong Kong Cricket Club yesterday when M K. and M. W. La progressed to the last eight of the doubles by defeating Paul Kong and Lai Kwong-tsun.
Veterans of many tournaments und
the Lo ance runners-up. brothers were not generally ex- pected to win but they came out victorious after a dogged struggle that ran to two deuce sets,
It was an amazing match for after they had won the first set. the Lo brothers were at ratch point with 40-15 and nve games to one in the second. The decid- ing point proved elusive however and they lost the game.
Thereafter they were at match point practically all the time for most of the games went to deuce. With the score at five-all and the match brothers tiring the Lo
three sets looked like going to but the brothers had the luck of the next two games.
the other championship game. Lee Wal-tops and Luk Ding-cheung had a fairly comfort- able win over A. Crawford and S. A. Gray, the scores being 6-2. 6-2.
In
One local enthusiast has aptly summarised this Betting syster in the following words "It gives the Public the thrill of the Win with the certainty of a Place."
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SOUTH CHINA WIN
Postponed Fixture. Against Lyeemoon Barracks
Ini a postponed first division roothair Aktüre at Sookunpoo yes- terday South China "B" defeated Lyeemoon Barracks by hrée goals to two after a poor game marked by rough play and two penalties.
the Yeung Shul-yik opened scoring for South China but short-
ly after the Gunners secured a penalty from which Taylor equalised.
In the second half Yeung Shui- yik and Cheuk Bhek-kam put China further in front, South
coming from Yeung's 'score penalty, but just before the final bell Mackrill, the Gunners' breast- ed the ball into the net.
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