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England's Man Of Mystery
DEPUTY BOSS
OF NATION
Sir Horace Wilson
Introducing Sir Horace J. Wlison, England's man of mys- tery and the nearest approach ́in English post-war politics to the famed Colonel House of the Woodrow Wilson era.
He is not in the Cabinet. Ee is not a junior minister. He is not even a member of Parliament. He is just a civil servant bearing the somewhat prosaic title of Chief Industrial Advisor to the Govern- ment.
SECRET OF POWERFUL
GENERAL
Britain
GERMAN BOMB SOLVED Retains
U. Stary circles baro heard that Army ordnance ex- perts have solved the secret of a German-made serial bomb which caused frightful destruc- tion a the Spanish "elvil war air raids on Barcelona.
The Army and Navy Journal reported it has been learned that the bomb contaias · no Hiquid oxygen as first believed,... but is charged with ammonium nitrate mixed with powdered charcoal and powdered alum- Inum enclosed In a Urht magnesium alloy shelf,"
Affairs Committee was told of it In January by Maj.-Gen. Henry H Arnold said that a preliminary in- vestigation indicated the 'German bomb. which caused scores of deaths in Barcelona, contained compressed or liquid air.
5 Ships
JF NAZIS SCRAP NAVAL PACT
If
the
Hitler denounces Anglo-German Naval Treaty, Britain will be released from the obligation to scrap Ave
36,000-ton.
fifteen-inch-gun
of the Royal
Gen. Amold said the U. S. War Department has received reports that the missile "was so powerful that it killed every human being. within the range of a quarter of a mile and knocked people uncens clous for a distance of a half mile." The Army and Navy. Journal, semi-official military service per-ed that the Admiralty intend to tedical, says subsequent livestiga- Officials declined comment, button has established the actual ene authority said confidently there composition of the "bomb and led
battleships Sovereign class
Germany has already been noti-
serap two of these battleships."
This has been done in accordance
ment in the Anglo-German Naval with the little-realized arrange-
Treaty by which Britain agreed that the German naval building programme would provide for
La definite reason to believe Army to official conclusions that it was and commercial experts in the over-rated as a weapon. United States are fully abreast of
The bomb is said to have no foreign developments.
penetrating Dover and, corise- First official word tha Ger-quently. to be inefective against In reality, however, he wields many had a mysterious new bomb either well constructed air-mid gradual additions to the Meet up
tremendous power and Influence. Standing always at the elbow of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, The most powerful boss English politics has seen for a quarter of a cea- tury, he is in effect deputy "boss" * of England.
. His advice extends far beyond
Industry. It embraces foreign affairs. It takes in its stride mi- tary strategy. It covers imperial defence, armaments, general Eur pean politics, and world affairs.
B
"OFFICE BOY" "
His enemies call him the "ofice boy" but others do not like the appellation. They insist it is not true description. For Mr.
· Chamberlain la Wilson's devoted adherent. He listens to his opin- ions, agrees with his decisions, uses him to carry out his plans.
The world at large Arst became aware of Sir Horace during the important conversations that pre- ceded the Munich agreement. He went
Mr.
with everywhere- Chamberlain, accompanied him on his famous aerial jaunts to Ger- many, and even became a special messenger for the Prime Minister when it became necessary to con, vey urgent letters to Hitler. Yet Sir Horace has long been reckoned as one of the most powerful men be- hind the scenes in England.
UNOBTRUSIVE
1
man
came when the Senate Milltary shelters or soldiers in trenches.
Japan Has
"Spy Mania"
BRITISH NOTE
MALARIA
to 1942.
The British replacement pro- gramme (which could not begin until 1937 under the Washington Treaty is also to be spread over several years, the last of the new battleships not coming into service
RESEARCH UNIT until 1943.
FOR EAST
BUILT DURING WAR
In return for the promise to scrap the five ships of the Royal
A new phase, in the systematic Sovereign class. Germany agreed attack on malaria is marked by not build two new warships.
Alleged Ill-Treatment research in
In Singapore
Government
The British speak of "spy mania" in Javan In a Note handed to the Jay- anese "Ambassador in London on Mar. 21. The Note laa -reply to allegations of Il-treat- ment of Japanese subjects In *Singapore.
which is
the departure of three members The Royal Sovereign class are of the Medical Research Unit of the Royal Oak. Resolution, Rami- Bouthern. Rhodesia to study, malariales, and Revenge. All were built India.. Ceylon and during the war. Each one has been Malaya.
refitted in the last ten years, the
The unit.
financed total cost being more than £10,- mainly by a grant of £5,000 per 000,000. annam for three years from the State Lottery Trustees, consists of Dr. G. R. Ross, head of the Public anti-aircraft guns, four torpedo Health Laboratory. Salisbury: Dr.tubes, and more than twenty light D. M. Blair, of the Medical Depart guns and multiple machine gut. ment, who will do field work; Mr. Their speed is 23 knots. J. H R. Savory, seconded for three years from the Irrigation Depart
On January 18 the Japanese ment, who will convert the find, Ambassador complained about the jings of the unit into engineering and terms, and Mr. W. D. Alves, of the treatment of his nationals spoke of a series of raids by the Public Health Laboratory. police on Japanese establishments in Singapore.
The British Government reply that the raids were carried out in
accordance with the law and that the results showed that certain Japanese nationals intended, to engage in activities prejudicial to the security of the Colony and calculated to cause a breach of the peace.
4
They carry eight 15-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, eight-4-inch
All are superior to any existing German battleship, in gun-power and armour.
The Royal Sovereigns would not be needed in line of battle in the event of war. They would be the guardians of Britain's food con- voys,
The first three have left for the East. Mr. Alves is making an in-" tensive study of the classificatio:1 "No raiding cruiser," Mr. Winston of mosquitoes at the South African Churchill has said, "would dare to Medical Research Bureau. Tonan- come within range of their 15-inch nesburg.
subs"
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(Continued from Påga 3)
Earl Baldwin Hked hin. and frequently consulted him on many matters other than in- dustrial affairs, When Chamber lain succeeded him. Baldwin re- commended Wilson 25 worth leaning on.
The Note invites comparison be- Sir Horace draws a salary of
tween the measures of protection $15,000 a year. Pale complexioned
taker since the construction of with mild blue eyes. he is clean-
the Singapore base and the mea- shaven · and dark haired. He walks with a stoop, dresses unsures taken by the Japanese Gov- to be granted the local rank of Lt. obtrusively, and altogether perfect lustration of the better pald English civil servant. Usualty he looks his full fifty-six years. -
Married, with one son and two daughters, he made his mark at the Ministry of Labour. where he was Principal Assistant Secretary *"from 1921 until 1930, when he was created Chief Industrial Advisor to the Government.
REMOTE COTTAGE
the
He spends most of his time in London, and when not in White-
Brnment for rortided zones. Singapore
the
COL
spec. empid. under the Home Omee (March 5) Maj. and Bt. Lt. Col. T. H. Massy-Beresford, MC.")
Ride Bde.. to be GS.O. 2nd Grade R Mil. Col. of Canada (March 21); Maj G. H. Oilmore. D.8.D. M.C. Cameronians,
while spec. empla. (March 1): of protection
Capt, local Maj. J. T. Robinson. The situation in M.D., RAM.C., relinquishes the toca favourably rank of Maj..on cessing to be empid. with the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force (Jan. 14) (Substituted for the notifin. in the "Gazette" of Jun. 273; Capt. J. M. Sym. Seaforths. to be. Instr., Small Arms Sch., Iraq Army (Feb. 221; Lt. J.CA. D. Lawson, lith .. grant- ed the local rank of Chot. while empid with the Trans-Jordan Fron- tler Force (Nov. 21, 1938).
compares
with the situation In Japan, says the Note, which refers to Japanese police survelliance and
quotes examoles of "spy mania."
FACING "LAW OF THE JUNGLE”
hall lives in quiet De Vere Car Mr. dens, in the Kensington district of
the capital.
.." Occasionally, at week-ends, he
Eden's Appeal For Unity
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their
ROYAL NAVY
One Minelayer R and W. Haw- thorn, Lealle and Co., Limited Heb burn-on-Tyne.
Two Escort Vessels.--John Brown and Co. Limited, Clydebank. and Co., Limited, Birkenhead.
Two Escort Vessels:-The Parsons
Steam Turbine Marine
Company, Limited. Wallsend-on-Tyne hulls by Vickers-Armstrongs, Limited. Newcas tle-on-Tyne).
Two Escort Vessels.-Cammell Laird
Two Escort Vessels-Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Limited Wallsend-on-Tyne (machinery by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering. Company. Limited).
Two Escort Vessels-Yarrow Co. Limited. Scotstoum.
and
EARLIER THAN USUAL These first orders under the 1939 programme have been placed much earlier than usual-actually as soon
A large increase in the department as the Navy Estimates have been pass-
of the Director of Electrical Engineered by Parliament and before the start
ing at the Admiralty is provided for of the financial year on April 1. No in the new Navy Estimates, chiefly by
names ha
have yet been announced for transfers from other departments. the ships.
The
total at the staff will be 254. The 1939 programme includes 20 compared with 159 last year and 149 fast escort vessels of a new type, with in 1937, and will include 82 posts pre- the same armament as those of ordin-
drives down to a remote cottage Mr. Eden, addressing American viously provided for under the Detry design but much higher speed he owns in the Challey district of | newspaper correspondents, bypartment of Torpedoes and "Mining, and not so great a radius of action.
whom he was enterained at a Savoy numbered 70. Wickham. OBE, re spent during the financial year. This In 1919 the staff of the department Sussex County. The cottage is
On these and two ordinary escort furnished like an office, with ales. Hotel luncheon on Mar. 23" urged
vessels a sum of £3,803.295 is to be Captain, E. desks, and telephones. As 8000 that it was the duty of the peace-tired who has been Assistant Director lump sum gives little guidance to the as he arrives there. Sir Horace beleving nations at Europe to unite. (Electrical) in the Torpedoes and cost of the new type of which the
Mining Department gins bis week-end of relaxation by immediately
since 1929, is displacement has not yet been made defence transferred to the Electrical Engineer-known. sitting down and starting work against further aggression. He said ing
Department ES an Assistant It was stated in Parliament that ⚫ again,
this was a time of ever-increasing 'Director.
they would be completed more rapidly When he finds time, he likes to gravity, and nothing could be! LAUNCHES NEXT MONTH than usual, and it remains to be seen travel It is only natural that his gained by belittling the menace ed at the Woolston shipyard of J.
The destroyer Kashmir was launch-what proportion of their total cost is one club should be the Travellers. confronting Europe.
represented by the sum named an Thornycroft and Co., Limited. an escort vessel of the ordinary type and his sole hobby work.
April 4 A sister ship, the Kimberley, costs some £300,000. For the mine- A great part of Europe now saw is building at the same yard, and with layer the Arst instalment voted is no law prevall but the law of the her launch in May all the destroyers
FORMER CAPTAIN
TO MANAGE ·
FAMOUS
LEAGUE CLUB
ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
རྒྱུས
regramme, will be adout.
On
Apr 18
vers £329,380.
!!
| jungle, where the prey fell to the of the Kelly "type, of the 1937 pro.
The building of 22 escort vessels swiftest and most ruthless stroke.
raise that total of ships of this What was the duty of the peace place of the escort vessel Flamingo at launches will take
class in the Navies of the British Commonwealth from 38 to 60, ex- loving nations of this threatened the Scotstoun yard of Yarrow and elusive of a number of older destroy. continent? He believed that there Co., Limited, and the patrol vessel ers which are being converted for the could be only one answer to unite Shearwater, at the Cowes yard of“ J. purpose.
8. White and Co., Limited. Both ves-
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS Sunderland F. C. directors have immediately, to organize defence sels were provided for in the 1937 pro-
The
following appointments... are gramme. appointed Willam Murray, their against further aggression.
made by the Admiralty -- AUSTRALIAN BOOM. VESKELSE former captain, and, present cap-
Lt.-Cdra.-J. O. Martin, to Viscount, HMAS. Kookaburra has been com- in command (March 241: R. Alexan tain of Bt Mirren, the Scottish
missioned at Sydney for service in the der, to Wrestler, in command," appts. If this policy was to succeed it Royal Australian Navy, She is one of to Stronghold and Tenedos cancelled League club, to the managership of the Sunderland club. He succeeds must be based on the principle of three boomworking vessels laid down (March 20); A. M. McKillop, to Jer Mr. John Cochrane, recently preserving what remained of the at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Bydney: sey, appt. to Wrestler, in command,
last year, with
a displacement of 53 cancelled (April 14). rule of law in Europe, and main-tons, similar to that of the Bayone resigned.
Payt. Lt-Car-R F. Braidwood, to were more than 190 taining those essential standards class in the Royal Navy. Each vessel President for duty inside Admiralty, There applicants, bat Murray was the of international conduct upon will be armed with one 3in. anti-
appt. to Nelson cancelled (March 20): aircraft git.
N. H. Sherburn, unanimous choice of the board. which all progress depended in
appt to Kent can GUNNERT SCHOOL, STAFF order to protect those liberties in
celled. Commander A. P. Campbell, pro- Li-N, Z. G. Roper, to Boreas, in Europe which yet survived. If this moted in the New Year at after two command (March (38);" PAW M. Car country was embarking on that years, as gunnery oncer of the Nel-ter, to Thracian (April 1, course, there were two essenthal on has been appointed to the staff Lta, (F) 8.0 Chatfield, to Here. conditions--we should be whole-succession to Commander M. W
of the Excellent gunnery school, inward (March 24); W. L. G. Porter, to
BtWarspite (undated) an SHANGHAL Apr. 9. (Reuter)-M. hearted in our endeavour and we Up Searle
PROMOTIONS ENGINEER COMMANDER MANN Midi. (A) —— B. Woodford, to rank "Henri Come, the new French should act with speed, for, as.com-
Engineer Commander John Mann of Act. Bub-LE (A), (Beny. Dec. 22. Ambassador to China, was wel-ditions were to-day every hour who has been serving at Chatham 1938); D. D. White, to rank of Act. comed this morning by a large counted.
Naval Barracks since 1983 as assistant Sub-Lt. (A) (seny, Feb. 1); G. P. delegation of French officials
Re-emphasizing his appeal or drafting officer and for general Ritchie, B. G. Hunt, J. A., Allen, 8.2
duties, has been placed in the
rank of "Act, Sub-Lt. (A). (seny. res- CONTRACTS FOR NEW WARSHIP pectively March 79. 11. 18, and 20),
The "Admiralty announce that, sub- katarETIREMENTS. Ject to the settlement of certain dere sa shown for the following vesacs Cd Gunner AV House, placed points, they have decided to place or- Reid." "List
of the 1939 programme; Sony on the Keld: List C15, 201
M. HENRI COSME WELCOMED
diplomatic representatives of vari- | last autumn for a truce in panty list om, attaining the new Hralorman, A., J. Le Temple-West to
ous nationalities, and a large mill politics Mr Edent commented: "It tary and naval guard of honour, seems to me more than ever neces- He has just returned from pre-sary to-day that this nation shouta sent
his credentials at Chung- demonstrate to the world our na
tional unity in purpose and action
king
Ship PN Pladea on the
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