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THE FLYING NAVY
In these times, when nations are looking their defences, it is per- haps natural that British people should feel a little sorry that Great 1 Itain can no longer boast of enormous superiority on the sen. Yet unval supremacy is no longer the safeguard that it was ainee aviation has developed to a point where to amount of warships can guarantee to defend a coast against the attack of flying armada. It becomes increasingly important to be prepared to meet any possible Aerial. menace with adequate com- bat aeroplanes. That must be a self-evident truth. What Great Britain is doing in that direction cannot but find favour with the majority of British citizens; for though the menace is remote, the necessity of preparedness Is un- deniable. It was recently suggest ed, however, that Great.
Britain could do much to increase the efficiency of her Fleet by adding to it certain air units which would be, invaluable for patrol work and, should the need arise; for battle. It was pointed out that, at the moment, the County Class cruisers We are fully equipped for any carry one platie, Sinte, in the nature of service.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935.
THE DANZIG ELECTIONS
The elections to the Danzig
2111
APRIL
1935.
Our King
ana
Queen
on their Silver Jubilee
The Very Idea!
A DISTRESSING CHOICE By H. BOGG, KID MILLIONS
THERE appears every
prospect of very keen- rivalry between local banka as to the possession of the biggest and strongest vault in the Colony.
That is all very well as showing a commendable de- sire to keep abreast with the times, but it has put us in a very distressing position by having to decide between two, choices.
Anytime now we expect to receive the following communica- tions:
From the Court of Directors of— ———. the Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation:-"Dear Mr. Bogg-
| Our vandt with its 93-ton door being now ready for the reception of valuables, may'wo solicit the favour of your distinguished patronage? With the ultra-safe custody, afford- ed by this burglar-proof strong- room, your valuables will have a repository worthy of their extens and your mind relieved of the weight with which it must kavė been pressed down by your mil tions."
event of war, these ships would be. called upon to patrol immense areng and guard thousands of miles of coast-line, it is suggested that they should carry as many neroplanes as possible. In action they would be anything but an encumbrance, for they could be entapulted into the air and mightily assist in engagement. It was even argued, by one authority that a fast pur- sult plane, with a few hundred pounds of bombs, was very nearly match for a modern light cruiser. Certainly some naval experts bc- Heve in the destructive efficacy of aircraft. When the U.S.S. An- gusta visited Hongkong recently her four fast seaplanes, lylug In their cradles antidships, attracted much attention and some comment. Would these four aircraft give the TN the year 1868, Disraeli, the bis elder brother, Prince Albert placed us in a position where wo American type of light cruiser an immiense advantage over one of the
man who said of life: Victor, and when he was four cularly to those who desire to place can offer to our customers, partí British light cruiser clasa, with Youth is a blunder, maturity a years old he was allowed to go their bullion with us, ample facili
only one aircraft aboard?
That
The King-to-be as a youthful sailor.
Prime him.
was the question naked by a corres-struggle, old 'nge a regret," suc- to "school" at Sandringham with pondent. We do not pretend to know. Ship for ship, Jane's Fight-cceded Lord Derby as ing Ships seems to favour the
School for the royal British cruiser. The light crui- Minister of the United Kingdom. Princes consisted of the tutelage ser's purposes, generally speaking, may be for patrol, but they ought
From the Board of Directors of the Bank of East Asia.-"Dear Mr. Bugg, May we earnestly draw pour attention to the fact that the completion of our new Bank pre- mises with its unique vandt, has
sible guarantees of protection? ties backed by the strongcal pos-
Though we anticipate these facili of your being interested, neverthe ties to be fully taxed in the event
feas, we are confident of meating your every requirement.
Your
In the same year, the second of John Neal Dalton, the curate to be able to meet on equal terme son of Edward, Prince of Wales, of Sandringham, and later Pro-millions in any event, should be ships of their own. dimensions. More than that, it would seem that
carry
*
These are indeed assurances, but
speaking for ourselves, we cannot
be too careful. Apart from the fear of being robbed, or kidnapped And ransomed, and of other dangers by which a rich an's Ife is now being made a burden. for him, there is one other im- portant consideration which has receive such applications, always occurred to us whenever we
which befell us years ago before walls were invented for vaults. reinforced concrete floors and stee!
We are thinking of an experience
The facts connected with that
incident however are so unique they may still be recalled by many. We remember having then en- trusted our bullion with the World Banking Company, whose protoc-
aircraft carried by such ships would and Princess Alexandra, was fessor Drew of King's College, safe with us.” ~ Volkstag, or Diet, have resulted
serve a useful purpose in other three years old and a mis-London, who often expressed his in a further accession of Nazi directions. than fighting.. They strength, but the hoped-for two would broaden very considerably chicvous child.
the vision of a consort ship and
admiration for Prince George's thirds majority of members of
cover a threatened coast line or that body has not been attained. (sca lane, in conjunction with the
Little Prince George, who is ability and his regret that the Such a majority would be neces-parent cruiser, very rapidly. The shown above at the age of three, Prince was unable to continue sary for any party seeking to auggestion that British cruisers attired in a nalty sailor suit (he his university career.
more of these auxiliarles change the Constitution of the seems an excellent one for these was destined to wear a sailor's State by vote of the Diet. reasons,
The childhood of the two Formerly German, and compris-
uniform for many years of his Princes was an uneventful one, ing well over seven hundred WASTED MONEY
life) was allowed much greater ao carefully were they watched S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD square miles of territory, the The money which China spends
port of Danzig and surrounding on internal warfare, could it be freedom than was lifs older and trained by their mother and region provided one of the most saved, would probably remove the brother, Prince Albert Victor father and by the Queen. But, difficult problems facing the
present financial embarrassment from the shoulders of the Nanking (Duke of Clarence). Albert wna since Prince Albert Victor was Peace Conference in 1919. Government. Or even ***ÈNCSESSERINESSON Geographically as well as his other way was found of spending being groomed for a kingship, being groomed for the throne,
if some torically, it was claimed by the millions wasted in war, in re Poland, but the question of its lieving the poverty and misery and and the royal household was Prince George grew up more nationality being arguable, the hunger of thousands. In developing under the stern rule of the aging freely and the natural mis- Conference decided that it should agriculture, in stimulating the ben Free City under the League venting the terrible toll of floods, it Queen Victoria.
manufacturing industry, in pre- of Nations. It is a sovereign would be a magnificent thing for and independent city and State, the country. With rumours of and is under the protection of the League of Nations, which to be made by nations sympathetic guarantees the Constitution with China's endeavours to put her which was proclaimed in its house in order, and with good final form in 1922. The Polish and the United States will lend reason to believe that Great Britain- Republic has no sovereign rights some financial assistance in the Free City, and the rela- Nanking Government, it might be to the tions between the two States are timely for foreign Governments Lo determined by threp treaties. Investigate the civil wars and their Under the Versailles Treaty, causes. I would be interesting to Poland is charged with the con- I know, for instance, where the Com- duct of the foreign affairs of munist armies obtain their guns the Free City; the two States carry on this struggle. There are and ammunition and the funds to have also formed, by treaty, a certain obvious sources, common Cuatoma and economic one wonders whether or not much union under the Polish law, but of the materials of war Uni the administration of the Cus- against the Nanking Government toms within the territory of the have not their origin in countries Free State is performed by which may be prepared to extend Danzig authority. The manage-authorities. It is surely the desire a helping hand to the Nanking ment of the railways, save in of every nation to seo the Com purely local arrangements, has munist
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chievous traits of boys was not
All during the early years of entirely suppressed in the King-tive devices for their customers
big, international loan in the air, his life, Prince George idolized to-be.
and
yet
also been undertaken by Poland, China: Even without the apar to and is conducted by a special wards intervention which the much adininistration in which a Danzig too frequent murders of foreigners delegate represents the city's must create, it would seem that requirements. The League of ciate the immediate necessity of foreign Governments must appre- Nations maintains a High Com- bringing peace to China. If, they missioner in Danzig, who on would exert themselves to prevent a appeal, decides all disputes supply of munitions reaching the which may arise between the Red forces, how great a step it State and Poland owing to would be towards a solution of the their neighbourly relations or at war, sold the old philosophers, problem. Progress, for a nation economic connections. The elecmust wait upon victory. tion which has just taken place did not directly affect the future
status of the territory, inasmuch' Constitution of the State, and as no provision was made under had the Nazi poll been sufficient the Versailles Treaty, as in the to secure such a vote, Germany case of other bertain formier would have been able to argue; German possessions, for a plebis that the marked preponderance cite to determine its ultimate of German sentiment called for destination. However, a two- a reconsideration of the status thirds vote of the Diet, at a of the State created by the Var sitting at which two-thirds of sailles Treaty. As matters are, the members were present, Danzig remains Indisputably un- would permit of a change in the der League of Nations control.
Now. Pomember to make some remark that will give mo
an opportunity to use my French,
wore many and ingenious.
Alas, they failed to take Into account one factor in our case. They had not made provision for the exceptional weight' and stress. which our millions exerted on the vault. Our millions simply rank Into the ground by their shcor weight, and vanished. Digging- operations which were then resort ed-to-were of no avail.
Litigation which followed the loss, culminated in the judicial de.. cision that it was a case of force majcure.
Property Market Note
"The sort of person," said the auctioneer,and estate-agent bitter-
ly of his madcap son, "who would. sell his birthright for a spot of messuage."
"Mr.
Frigidity, Eh?
La description of the intense cold of that region sent chilly waves down my back, though I sat by a roaring fire"-Reviewgr. Even then, It wasn't absolute cold: a coldness, I mean, beyond" which further cold Is Impossible; the Absolute Zero. If I wanted to summon up the sensation of that terrible coldness, I should imagino a first-class County (amateur) cricketer proposing to a mannequin on an ice-floo in mid-Arotic, at a temperature of about 250 dog.. Centigrade below zero. As their lips micot, 65 Polar bears on the mainland, flop down dead, frozen stiff, the mercury falls 20 deg., and the fey stars splinter and crack in space.
"Bit chilly," anys the cricketer
at length, clearing his throat
"Roshllah?"