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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936.
FERRY ACROSS CHANNEL "DEAD" WIFE'S
To Convey Whole Trains
In the harbour at Dover under the white chalk cliffs of England and four-hours steam away to the southeast in Dunkerque Harbour. France, workmen are pressing för- # Ward the construction of locks for
Channel train and car ferry.
The locks, last construction Job in the ferry scheme, will be finish ed in the early summer. It is ex- pected that the trst vessel will carry is burden of rallway wagons. automobiles and passengers in July,
When the work is completed the ferry service will provide a through route for 500 passengers between Pais Nord station and Victoria stá- Lion. London, Passengers will not have to devrain. Considerable time and trouble will be saved since the necessity of loading and unloading trains at the two ports will be elim- inated. For goods
the services ferry will provide a quick service from all parts of Europe,
TYNE-BUILT
FINE ACCOMMODATION
Each ferry steamier is 380 feet long, with a draught to 12 feet & inches, and a speed of 15 'knots. The beam is over 60 feet and passenger accommodation will be provided on the deck above the train deck. On the passenger deck will be found restaurants, lounges and cabins.
Are
On the upper deck of `each ship there is also a garage. This has accommodation for 25 cars, which are driven up on an inclined ramp. Particular attention has been paid to
prevention garage is entirely salated and is constructed of steel throughout. The passenger accommodation is also largely built of steel and is so arranged that separate sections can be isolated,
MODERN EQUIPMENT
RETURN
BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED
JAPAN AND SEA POWER REDS REPORTED
DEFEATED
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Surprise Greeting Improvement Shown Some Reflections Upon Her
For Husband
many
Mr. Frank Williams, of Eccles, Lancashire. had made journeys to Weaste Cemetery to place towers on the grave whlen he balleved to be that of his wife. As he WIS standing in the Market P.ace at Eccles one, Mon- day night he heard a voice say "Hullo, Frank" He turned and found his wife standing beside him.
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as that of his wife. At the in- quest an open verd.ct was return- ed.
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London, May 11.
"Break Away."
(BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL
MANY CAPTURED
Nanking, May
An offca telegram. reporting on the victory of the 25th Central" Government Division under Major- General Kwan Lin-cheng over the "Reds" under Lan Piao, Hsu Hal- tung and Liu Tzu-tan in western Shans has been received by the
General Kwan.'
recently
Most of the principal industries showed a further improvement in employment during the last monin, The exceptions were coal mining. wollen worsted and hosiery. The
The moral effect of Japan's with- Chinese sea power received a blow from which it has never recover- Labour ministry estimates at April drawal from the Naval Conference
ed-perhaps it would be more true has undoubtedly been very con- 27 there were approximately 10.712,000 insured persons in em-siderable-just how considerable it to say from which it has never ser-" ployment in Great Britain 82.000 will take some time to adequately lously tried to recover-while Japan Central Government from Major- more than a month ago and 371,-appreciate. The practical effect I received a very wide awakening to
According to the despatch. the 000 more than a year ago. The do not belleve is likely to prove what sen power meant to her. In-
three bandit. numbers of unemployed persons very disquieting unless influences deed, there was a good deal of "Reds" under the
chieftains totalling 10,000 men, outside the present orientation of quiet concern in this country as Mrs. Williams had disappenred on registers were 1,831,230 com-
concentrated at the in October. Nothing further was prising 1.498,579 wholly unemployed Japanese naval policy defhitely to the possible effect of the Yahu
challenge reaction. A vague, un- victory upon the Japanese. and Pengmen-Changkdayuan-Chientsal-.. and The heard of her until Janitary when 247,272 temporarily laid of
klayuan-Houtsaikiayuan-Tsingaut- her husband was called to Hope 85,379 normally in casual employ-casy feeling prevails that there is much correspondence in the Press
sun lice. west of Bihalen district, Hospital. Salford. There he iden ment. The total was 50.301 less some sinister motive at the back of regarding the influence upon world
in western Shansi Lauriching a tifed the body of a young woman.
than at March 23 and 213.230 less the Japanese break away. The idea politics which must result from the
furious attack against them a is that Japan is fostering ambi-rise of a great naval Power in the recovered from the
The total of River Irwell, thun Apr 15 1935.
Far East.
Changkayuan and. Pengmen at unemployed boys and
girls in tons and designs which may pre-
dawn on Thursday, one brigade' In the years which immediately creased by 12668 between March sently necessitate a more power- 21 and April 27 owing to the re-ul Fleet thar. the Naval Confer- followed the Battle of the Yalu attached to the 25th Government Division penetrated through the left ence could agree to in relation to
was not a mere new-born thirst for gistration of juveniles who.
the other great Powers. Let it be
"Red" defences at Changkiayuan prestige that spurred the Japanese
and desirtayed, the headquarters. admitted quite frankly that the
to such vigorous efforts in the ex-
of Llu” Tzu-tan, who barely escap- course of Japanese diplomacy for
pansion of their Navy. They fore- some time rast has not lacked in
saw very clearly that a connicted, Sanguinary fighting raged up colour for such a suggestion. Man-
with Russia was inevitable unless to noon when the main forces of chukuo, Mongolla, and Northern they were prepared to defer to the
the "Reds" counter-attacked from China combine into an cominous
dominance of that country both Chesalkiayuan and Houtsakla- yuan. By evening, however, they triangle nowadays. But what is not by land and sea.
to were forced
retreat to the clear to the average intelligent
Surkow "Tungchuang Hoson- mind is where the need for equality
only chuang-Tiaoklachuang ine of naval strength with the strong.
to be outflanked by another est sea Power, as demanded by the
portion of the Government troops. Japanese delegation in London,
At the batle, the Government arises out of this localized unrest in a corner of the Asiatic Contin-
troops captured 200 "Reds" besides ki Ling and wounding Russia and China are the
hundred others. two countries directly concerned in
200 r.des, four and two "Red" machine-guns this particular "outlook"; the first named at present occupies a com-
banners were captured.
Mrs. Willams, slightly bullt Each vessel is fully equipped with | woman of 23 stated that after life-saving appliances sufficient" for | Icaving home she had been afraid 550 persons. There are four fe- to return. She stayed at a house boats on each side of the ship. in the Rochdale-road district of carried on gravity davits and in Manchester and obtained employ·
ment in a cotton mil 하 stantly available for use in emer-
The steamers for the service have been built on the Tyne. They havé been called Twickenham Ferry, Hampton Ferry and Shepperton Ferry. They take their names from famous ferries of the Thames,gency. which hatc carried passengers London's river for many across centuries.
Each ferry bout will carry a train of 12 sleeping cars or, alternative- ly. 40 loaded goods waggons. Trains. will be shunted to the shore across 1 drawbridge at the end of the locks in the harbour. A few min- uics after they have left the boat they will be speeding on the way to their destination.
Through first and second-class sleeping cars will be provided, be- tween London and Paris.
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"I was unaware that I had been "buried." she added. got home- sick, came back to Eccles, and after searching the town saw my
standing
Eccles
near
The ships have to make use of locks on account of the Channel tides. As the waters of France and England on either side of the nar-husband row sea have a daily rise and fall Cross," of between 10 and 20 feet, an in- The Salford Coroner, Mr: A. clined slip, such as is used for the Howard Fint,
stated that no reception of many road vehicle exhumation would be necessary. "Mr. Williams will have to appear ferries, was out of the question in this case. The gradient would before me" he said. "and make a have been far too great for railway declaration that his wife is alive. uperation. The locks will enable "That declaration will be for- the vessels to link up to the shorewarded to the Registrar-General. on level terins at any state of the and the death certificate granted in January for the bural of the
tide.
school at Easter.-- British · Wirelera.
MORE RECRUITS JOINING UP
For The Territorial Ariny
London, May 11. During April 5.610 recruits were taken on the strength of the ser- ritorial army compared with 3,735 in March and 3,096 in April 1935.- British Wireless,
woman will have to be altered
will Only then
Mrs. Willams again become legally alive."
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paratively insignifican: position, in the list of world sca Powers, and the latter is virtually negligible in this category. Realizing this, the general assumption is that Japan is looking ahead to a time, when her policy may threaten to bring
several
CONSUMMATION OF JAPAN'S SEA POWER,
Tsushima, the greatest naval victory since Trafalgar, marked the consummation of Japanese sea power.
She attacked Russia full of faith in
the sufficiency and efficiency of her naval strength, and the war abundantly justifed her bellef. The Russian armies, hope- lessly handicapped by their tre-
In recognition of their prowess. mendously long and wretchedly in-
General Yen Hsi-shan, Director of adequate communications,
were the Taiyuan Pacification Head- finally beaten in the three-weeks quarters and concurrently Vice- Battle of Mukden, but this success
President of the Military Affairs was entirely due to Japanese com- Commission, remitted a third cash mand of the sea-or rather of her reward of $5,000 to the victorious
her face to face with the interven-essential sea communications. In troops. The Division was award-
flon of one or more of the great
sea Powers.
JAPAN'S POLICY"
Now if this speculation were cor- rect it must presuppose the inten tion of Japan to develop her Navy
fact, there is no nation in the world ed 85,000 and $5.000 previously.
of to-day which has more occasion Kuo Vin
to realize the value of sea power;
no nation whose history
the past half-century has
during teen
more definitely influenced by sea two nations should clash to such" power, Let us keep this clearly in a degree as to provoke a military
as rapidly as possible to that stau-mind, for it serves to explain a conflict, Russia would not attempt dard of equality of strength with great deal which without such a to stem a tide which is not flow- Great Britain, and the United Sta- background may not be readily ing strongly and directly against tes which, she demanded as a grasped. Looking about her, so tu her; the world's two principal sea treaty right in London. Obviously speak, and appreciating what she Powers might do so. We yet have such a course. would pretty soon has been able to accomplish by viz-
to see whether this new outbura meet with very definite response on tue of her naval strength, Japan of solicitude for a most austere and the part of these two Powers. In projects her vision into the future, indiscriminate neutrality, dedicat- Toklo there can be no illusion and contemplates how much more ed to keeping the country out c whatever upon this point any more she may yet accomplish. Such a all war, will modify the American than there can be want of under-retrospect and such a prospect are view when a great potential market standing as to how impracticable not calculated to induce the Japa- enters into the picture.. Japan would find it to keep pace in nese to accept the estimate of other such a race of armaments should nations as to what sea strength she provoke it. On these grounds
alone it seems incredible that such a clear-sighted, calculating people have any idea of starting upon such a challenge.
they shall have and shall not have when they are in a position to set- tle and materialize this matter for themselves.
all idea of trying to champion The League of Nations gave up
China in the only way which couldTM” have had the least. effect from the very outset of the trouble in Manchuria. I am not prepared to I am not going to deny that this enter upon any discussion as to the Why, then, it may be asked, has presentation of the Japanese point ethics of Japanese policy beyond Japan broken away from an agree- of view holds grounds for uneasi- admitting that it amounts to ex- ment in which she had acquiescedness. It implies that Japan is work-ploitation, Japan realizes that it fo: twelve years? I think the real ing towards an end the attainment amounts to exploitation, and answer is very simple: because she of which may ultimately become a this 15 the real reason why was tired of a condition of self-question of enforcement by sea po- she 13 "resolved to .main- conscious inferiority. She accept wer or the ability to resist inter- tain a free hand in the matter of ed the ratio proposal at the Wash-vention by hostile sea power, which her naval requirements. But be- ington Conference, because she was comes to much the same thing. If fore we condemn exploitation let- receiving compensation in territory we are prepared to "face up to us at least consider motives, and concessions which streng realities," as our pacife--minded the case of Japan in Eastern Asia thened her position' in the Pacific. politicians now rather reluctantly the matter boils down to a ques- she agreed, very reluctantly, to a
we should do, we tion of racial necessity, continuation of the Washington must understand that the Japa-case of Italy in Eastern Africa it ratio for another six years at the
of aggrandisement. nese nation has reached a point at is a matter London Naval Conference of 1930, which either the safety valve must without any other justification. but well before the six years had ft or the boiler will burst. The
CASE OF ITALY. expired she bluntly declared that territorial area of the Japanese
counsel that
In
In the
only 400 white settlers in the whole
she would have no more of it, I archipelago not including For- The "density of population” of do not think it has been sufficient-mosa-is approximately the name Italy per square; mile of the whole ly appreciated that Japan's post-as that of the British Isles. We country is little more than one- tion under the Washington plan think our own country is consider half of the denalty of population of was really a dictated one, and a ably over-crowded with a popula- England alone per square mile, and first-class Power cannot be ex- tion of 45,000,000. Japan has 65,- the bunkum about "need for space pected to take kindly to such a 000,000 (the latest estimate is in the sun" is sufficiently under- principle. When the United States "nearly 69,000,000," but I prefer toned by the fact that there are so emphatically proclaimed her take the more conservative figure), own intention of establishing "par-and for the past two decades the Itp" with British sca power and at the 'same time was equally em phatic that Japan mus "keṭp ner place" the inferiority of the latter country was accentuated. because what happened was that the unit ed States added 150,000 tons to her permissible tonnage and Japan added nothing.
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HISTORY TO BE PROUD OF
average of increase has been three quarters-of-a-million a year,
of Eritrea, omitting the population of the port of Marsawa. However, this is another story, although not Irrelevant. There can be very few THE OPEN DOOR.
things for which the Japanese have The United States, while very less desire than a Pacific conflict. insistent upon the policy of the Therefore, they intend, as far as open door in China, has been possible, that such a conflict shall equally resolute in banging her not be forced upon them through own door against the Japanese. Insuficient strength to effectively Austrália has done the same thing. resist it. In their view the courge So the pent-up safety valve.is be which they have mapped out for The naval history of Japan is a ginning to blow-off across the themselves need offer no provoca- short one for in her centuries of China Sea. Tokio knows perfectly tion to any such conflict. The self-contatoment she had a very well that the strongest opposition. Naval Conference has failed, as to united interest either in the sea to this direction of outlet will come was bound to fall so far as Japan or in sea power. But it is a history from the United States, with Great is concerned but a frank Diploma- tlc Conference in which the in- of which she may well be proud. Britain playing second fiddle-an. At the outbreak of her war with estimate of modern British ac- creasing pressure of Japan's neces- China in the middle '90's of last quiescence in Washington's dictates wities were very fully, expounded century the naval strength of Ja- which, perhaps, is not wholly un- and correctly understood might Dan was little, if at all, superior justified. Russia I do not think achieve most beneficent resulta in on paper to that of her adversary. Japan really regards with much the cause of peace. Ships and guns The Battle of the Yalu was a de-serfous concern. AB but impotent are but a symptom; surely the cisive factor in the war. Actually, by sea, she is strategically bandf-world is now old enough for the Chinese had heavier ships, and capped in a heavy degree for the statesmanship to realize that the and they handled them with equal prosecution of a big war in North- only form of lasting treatment kill the victory should have been East Asia, nor does there arem any must begin by getting down to the theirs. As it was, at the Yalu, real reason why the interests of the disorder.
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