1938-06-01

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

THE KING TO USE NAPOLEON'S DESK

Paris Prepares FIGHT AGAINST

Royal Suites

MARIE ANTOINETTE ROOM FOR QUEEN

Every detail is being considered in refitting and redecorating the Royal apartments in

RHEUMATISM

Lord Horder Praises

British Spas

NON-INTERVENTION

COMMITTEE

MAKES PROGRESS

ཡང་ གནད་ ། ། ཚད་མ་ཉིད་ནས་དར་བ་དན་ས་པ་ན་

But Russia Is Not In Agreement

With New Proposals

London, May 30, The Under-Secrétary, for Foreign Affairs told the House of Com- mans that at a meeting of the

Efforts to maka spa treatment the Qual more widely available to

poor d'Orsay Palace, where the King people were mentioned by Lord and Queen will stay during their Horder in his presidential address State visit to Parts from June 28 at the International Conference on Chairman's Sub-Committes of the Rheumatic Diseases At Bath Non-Intervention Committee last to July 1.

A description of the furniture recently.

and

and tapestries which have now He estimated that there were at been chosen was given recently by least a million sufferers a year M. Guillaume Janneau, Adminis-from some form of rheumatic trator of National Furniture and disease to the extent

the Gobelins

Beauvais being unable for

time National Manufactories, who has to follow their occupations. Or been charged with the decoration the poorer class of sufferer he estimated that the British spas The furniture for the King's treated some 5.000 cases annually. bedroom has been chosen from

the among

Anest pleces made for Napoleon I.. and used by him In the Palace of the Tuileries and the Chateau of St. Cloud.

of the rooms.

It was not possible to calculate how many.. of the well-to-do classes went to the many great hotels and hydroa at the spa centres, but it would be taken as This "Empire" furniture, of one certain that the healing resources of the best French styles, is being of "Bath and other British spas thoroughly overhauled and re-were not employed at anything They polished. One of the desks used by like their full capacity. Napoleon, regarded as the most should be

far more extensively beautiful piece in the collection, utilised. will dominate the King's room.

QUEEN'S COLOURS

Thursday, very considerable pro- gress has bee i made. All Govern- | ments concerned had now accept- | od the British formula, furnishing| definition of the substantial pro- ress in the withdrawal of for- eign volunteers provided for in the British plan of July 14 last.

Three new proposals have been put forward last week by the United Kingdom representative. designed to dispose of the dimeul-

ties which had arisen in connexion with the date for the restoration or observation. Balancing of sea and land observation schemes, and the method of withdrawing volur.-

teers.

These proposals have been at- cepted by all representatives pre- sent with the exception of the

Soviet representative.

GENERAL

MOZAMBIQUE TROOPS

A machine-gun seckion of the Mozambique troops who took part

in the march past in the military parade held in Macao on Saturday.

CHINESE CUSTOMS

REVENUE

Question In Commons

London, May 30.

THREE BRITISH

SAILORS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938.-PAGE ~3 COMFORT IN THE NAVY

Submarine Men's "Home

Sets A New Standard

LIBRARY AND ICE-CREAM BAR

The standard of living in the Navy has been lifted several not- ches by the completion of the new depot ship Maidstone, which I was allowed to visit recently in the design of which many of the ideas for comfort and easier conditions put forward by the men of the lower deck have been incorporated. writes the Manchester Guardian naval correspondent.

The ship has a dual purpose-tofber in any previous warship, and be a floating dockyard for running every one of them is Atted with repairs and refits of submarines running water, a complete innova- and to be a home for the officersion in the Navy. Each will be the and men of the underwater craft particular submarine officer's own between crusies. On the technical ittle home. engineering side the first aspect 13. remarkably interesting and

de-

One amusing feature is that the serves an article to itself. It is the modern pneumatic mattresses are second, a human side, with which of two thicknesses, six inches for I want to deal for the moment, enior officers, four inches for juniors. Irrespective of thetr Never before have the men of the

weights. Navy had such a ship in which to Itve.

I met one junior of some 15 stone When she is in full going order who thought he perhaps bad a BADLY INJUREDthe Maidstone will accommodate legitimate "mean" about that. It 1.100 officers and men, half of them was the only complaint I heard her own complement, the others n. the ship, and it was måde ag the crews of submarines using her a joke. as a home between cruises in their

Madrid, May 31.

Mr. David Adams, Labour Mem-

Three British sailors were badly ber for the Consett Division of

air raid on Durham, asked in the House of injured during an Commons today whether the Prime Valencia when shrapnel struck a own cramped, comfortless craft, information British vessel. One of the injured The object, therefore, has been to showing the extent to which Chin-sallors is not expected to survive. provide every comfort possible.

A French sailor was killed when

bombs. (Reuter Bulletin).

Minister had

any

ese Customs revenue seized by

war against China.

Mr. R. A. Butler. Under-Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs. In replying. presumed that May Adams referred to Customs venue id Tientsin, which was now deposited with the Yokohama. Specie Bank.

JAMAICA STRIKE

SETTLEMENT TERMS

The medical profession he said, Agreement also had been reach- should co-operate in combatingen on nearly all provisions of the the idea,, still widely held among draft resolution apart frem a num-Japan was being employed in the French steamer was fired on by In the alcoves of their Majestics well-to-do classes, that British ber of reservations on the part of rooms will be two 17th century spas could not offer the same the Soviet representative. Gobelina tapestries of Muses by healing advantages as Continental Mr. Butler added that further Charles Lebrun, Beauvals tapestries ( spas...

Sub-Committee meetings of "the of the period of Louis XVI. have

The problem of making spa have been fixed for this week when been chosen for the chairs in the

treatment more widely available he earnestly hoped the progress salon. between the two bedrooms. to the poorer class of sufferers was recorded at the last meeting would The Queen's rooms will contain somewhat diferent. Obviously be consolidated by adherence of the chalcest furniture used by there was the possibility of a the Soviet Government. Marie Antoinette, mostly taken greater extension of the number, Replying to a supplementary from the Chateau of St. Cloud and the British Medical Assocla- question, he said the British Gov- before its destruction In 1871. tion and the British Spas Federa-ernment were attempting to obtain Pale green and cream-beige-the tien had been considering how adherence of the Russian Govern-

ment.-(British Wireless). Queen's favourite, colours-will be this could be best effected. used for the wall satins and curta- ins. These will be partly with tinted decorations and partly in monochrome.

The chief suggestions at present being explored were the provision of hostels and of approved board- ing houses. subjected to a certain degree of medical control, at spa

centres.

THE ROYAL FAMILY

London, May 30, The King and Queen returned to London this afternoon, from San- dringham.

The rarest pieces from the State furniture collections 176 being chosen for the ornamentation. For

Queen Mary attended Royal instance, the Queen's room will be fitted with two small Louis XV. genuine examples of which still Tournament at Olympla today- chandellers, only

few exist.

Д very

(British Wireless).

It was impossible to state to what precise use these sums were being put Reuter).

CZECH AIRMEN

PUNISHED

Kingston, Jamaica, May 31, The terms for settlement of the strike of dock workers, which end- ed yesterday, include an increase of 2d, an hour in wages,

Dock workers will now get 108. an hour on docks and 11d. if work- ing aboard ships.

Double pay will be given for overtime work-Reuter Bulletin).

Prague, May 31. The Chief of the Political Sec- tion of the Czech Foreign Office has informed the German Minister that the military authorities in- certain flying officers had actually quiry in regard to his complaint flown over German territory and that Czech war planes crossed, the had already been severely punish- German frontler, had shown that ed. (Reuter),

There is a large recreation-room, tich has two features startlingly vel to thom secustomed to the drab uniformity of the fittings in warships.

One great necesalty for sub- marine men is space for laundry work. In the Maldstone this has 'cen provided on a generous scale, but since the sailor is not an expert -- undry hand it has been found to Install the old- "dvisable fashioned scrubbing brushes and mangles rather than modern cen- rifugal force washers. There is. however, a fult battery of electric

rons.

The floor-covering is of a bright patterned cork material "such as one associates with the lounges of a cruising liner. The chairs and

COMFORT FOR WORK tables are of modern metal turnt-

The idea of comfort after work ture type with gay-coloured seats

ad backs. The walls are panelled.as been carried as far as possible One side is occupied by shelves con- also into the working quarters of taining a circulating library of,800 the ship. Thus, the workshop in books. There is an ice-cream and which the artificers who deal with soda bar, and the whole room, be- precision work are employed is ing well above the water line, is laced well up on the upper deck, looded with daylight." The petty ar from all dust and fumes and officers' messes are equally well vell provided with windows. In- equipped, and in addition have a deed, much of the space in the supply of cosy fireside chairs.

NINETY CABINS

superstructure which in a liner would be occupied by palm courts and lounges is given over in the Maidstone to workshops for men There are ninety cabins for one with particularly fine or trying cers, an almost unheard of namework to do.

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