THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
AUGUST
16,
1935.
•
FAR EASTERN AIRWAYS.
ITALIAN
BID
FOR POWER
UNITED STATES AND
BRITAIN LAGGING FAR BEHIND
Shanghai, Aug. 10. Presentation of a tri- motored Italian aeroplane by Mussolini to Chiang Kai- shek, China's military chief- tain and virtual dictator, was more than a good-will gesture on the part of Duce.
The gift emphasised the supremacy which the Italians have attained in the military aviation market in China, Al-
ready they have eliminated the British from the market and they are rapidly displacing the Americans.
When China first
began
Rebuilding Quake City
The Viceroy of fudio, Lord Willingdon, on his reccut vixit to Quetta after the great earth-
JAKICHKONIN GENOMEN MENTIO
building a modern air force, Parliament
shortly after the northward sweep of the Nationalist armies in 1927. British interests were first in the field and their pro- duct found favour with Chinese military chieftains.
At that time the power of the! National Government was far! from consolidated, and virtually i independent warlords in various provinces had their own military fortes.
As they turned their attention' to the purchase of fighting air-i craft, the business was easily cornered by the old-established: British trading firms which held
for agencies
British made planes.
But the agency plan, which gave the British their early entree in the field, proved a de-) triment in the end, Alert: American manufacturers started sending their own sales repre- sentatives to China, and a num- ber of well-known aces Came here to demonstrate planes and sell them. Among them.. were Major James Doolittle and Cap-| tain Frank Hawks,
Without An
Opposition
Halifax (Nova Scotia),
Aug. 1.
The Liberals have won a hundred per cent. victory in the provincial elections in. Prince Edward Island, the smallest Canadian province and the last stronghold of the Conservatives.
The Conservatives (whose national leader is Mr. R. B. Bennett, Dominions Premier] have lost not only their majority but every seat they held.
quake in June,
LAST REFUGE FOR WHITE RUSSIANS IS
IN BELGRADE
HOW SERBIA REPAID A GREAT WAR ALLY
Vienna, Aug. S.
are WH HITE RUSSIAN exiles everywhere
watching with interest and anxiety the efforts of other members of the Little Entente to get Yugo Slavia to recognise the Soviets.
This anxiety is counter-balanced, however, by the knowledge that Prince Paul. Regent of, Mr. Walter Lea, the trium Yugo Slavia, has been recently conducting an
anti-Soviet policy.
phant Premier-elect, appear- ad nonplussed to-day when he faced the House of Assem- bly in which there was Opposition.
no
He confessed that he could nol say what course he would adopt in carrying out normal British parliamentary pro- cedure.
It has been suggested that be nominates one of his own supporters as a makeshift Opposition-Exchange
WIJNUTROFERRICSUBSREGJERINKS (ELBEESI MARÍ BYLANDADO ZNANIELLOLEZA
The Americans were highly; successful. Not only did they have good products, but the direct factory-to-buyer selling plan enabled them to quote advantageous prices. The Brit- ish middlemen, maintaining only slight contact with the aeronau-fortified defence. There Chinese tical engineers at home, were officers are trained in the use of Italian-made planes and are fast soon out of the running.
acquiring an Italian "stant" on With the National government all tactical and technical prob- consolidating and expanding its lems,
He was educated in the White Russian interest in this, Russia.
corps In St. Petersburg. question is understandable whence that time he loved Russia
it is realised that Belgrade is one and Russians.
of the last havens for exited! Russians. There are many other!
countries where Russian emi-
Salvage Plans In Quetta
16,000 CORPSES
IN CITY OF
THE DEAD
Simla, Aug. 1. HE Government of In-
THE
dia's plans for salvage operations at Quetta are made clear in a communique, issued to-day, together with ja comprehensive report by Col. Russell, Public Health Commissioner.
It has been decided, says the communique, to instruct the authorities in Baluchistan to take immediate steps to imple- ment the following recommenda- tions made by Col. Russell:
"Salvage could begin immediate- ty in certain non-residential and lens damaged areas.
The clearance should be under- taken of the wider thorough- fares, and the experimental sol- rage of a few houses carried out to test the possibility of extend ing the immediately" sulvageable
area;
The evacuation should be car- ried out of railury staffe and families mcing to their congested camp;
4
The refugee camp on the race- courer, which still shelters 5,000 people, should be removed to a batter site near, the brewery. where there is a better water supply available.
Col. Russell states that 12,000
to 16,000 corpses are buried un- der the debris at Quetta în addj- tion to thousands of animal car- jcasses.
It is undesirable, for health reasons, however, fo umlertake exhumation on any extensive scule before next March,
The question of the future re-
construction of Quetta, states decided until full reports from
the communique. cannot be
all the experts, including the military authorities and the geologist, are available.
Powerful Friend Mae West
When he was
raised in the
grants are living well, and others throne by his father, King Peter Has £800-
on June 12, 1914, he knew that
a powerful friend.
where they are living badly, but smail Serbia had in great Russia Belgrade is the only city which has become a real new home for Russian outcasts.
A few days after he had ascend-i ed the throne the world war broke-
Ruskin fought for
King aut.
Only in Belgrade is the old Alexander's snall country. flag of the "Tear of all us!
Serbia becante It great pawer over the still waving KINK**
Tzar'o after the wor and the
beaten army had to leave Ruksia. building of Imperial Russian Russia disappeared. The Tear's legation.
Now, at this moment, King
Every day in Belgrade one can' see an old man walking about the
streets in the full uniform of ani Imperial Russian general. He is
In Jewellery
HOW FILM STAR FORTUNES HAVE DWINDLED
Hollywood, Aug. 1.. Great fortunes of
his gratitude to Tzarist Russia.
the He opened
portals of his dled. Alexander saw a chance to show Hollywood have dwin- Nearly all the country to the Russian refugees.
have just Thousands of soldiers, oflicers and Stars who elvilians jumped at his offer. made out their income. tax assessments for the They found a new fatherland in past year have suffered. Alexander's country. Many officers || John Barrymore's assessed and soldiers were taken over in the valuation is 11,316-of which Yugo Slavian army. Most of the
these restau-igh official situations.
served
influence, it speedily became The importance of Nanchang honoured by Yugo-Slay soldiers practically the only buyer of fighting planes, and its cordiality is emphasised by the history of like a Yugo-Slav general
the Central Aviation School
them a
Withdrawal of the American
Matuska Moskva
There are big „Russian' restau- in Belgrade which were established present not
shikow sham to tourists. In rants meals Are
į
ta
A
grams which
not
New Fatherland
ed hostile.
continge
year.
at
to the American product gave which was established under Americans a virtual monopoly American tutelage. In 1932 an of the Chinese military-aircraft unofficial American aviation mis-rants market.
sion headed by Col. John F. came to China and The Italians, however, went Jewelt
of old Russia civilians got jobs-many of them £11.270 represents his yacht In- fanta. A year ago his gross the Americans one better. Taking negotiated a three-year contract of Chinese
assessment was £19,288. the Italian Boxer Indemnity for instruction
Years have passed. Soviet Rus- Mac West is down for £800 Fund, they devoted it to the players by American instructors by Russian "princesses," but by sin did its utmost to be recognised worth of jewellery. Charlie purchase of alreraft, giving at Hangehow. The school was
Chaplin's assessment-1638,498 financial advantage established and flourished, but true Russiau waiters who learned by the Balkan countries. Soviet against which even the Ameriwhen the contract expired this their profession in different res- Ambassadors went to Bucarest and can torms could not compete. year it was not renewed, and all taurants of old "Matushka Moskva Sofia. Belgrade, however, remain-compares with 610,244 last -Mother Moscow" before the
Gloria's £1,950 the American officer-instructors, Great War. In these restaurants On October 9, 1934, Alexander But Italy went even farther. with one exception, have left the hundreds of Russian emigrants was assassinated. With him the Mary Pickford is listed She sent some of her most fum-school and returned to America, daily eat real Russian cookery, for Russian emigrants lost their most £203,148, compared with £390,154 getting for a few minutes that they powerful protector. They are con last year, and the rolls show only ous flying officers to China, not only to demonstrate planes, but
vinced that Regent Prince Paul will £7,908 for Douglas Fairbanks sen.,
Alexander's negative compared with £213.106. to teach young Chinese officers group from the Hangchow school are not in their fatherland.
Near the King's palace stands policy against the Soviets, But leaves the military wing of Chinese
"Wil" Rogers is assessed at how to fly the new ships and aviation under virtually complete the Russian legation. The tele- they also realise that Soviet Rus- £40,508, compared with £64,684 manipulate their guns and bomb Italian influence.
were exchanged be-
sia has friends in Yugo Slavia, last year. ing apparatus. Italy paid particu- The gift aeroplane; a tri-motored tween this edifice and St. Peters- specially the Oppositional deputy, Gloria Swanson: Dropped from lar attention to this phase Savola Marchetti 72, was Bown burg 21 years ago were decisive for of her new relations with China, here by Col. Silvio Scaroni, one of the fate of the whole world. Now Doctor Drageljub Jovanovitsh, who £6.926 last year to £1,950.
spares no pains to attain the and was able to bring to the Italy's best-known war. pilots, and this building gives accommodation recognition of Soviet Russia by perty outside Los Angeles which is
Captain Angele Tond!, another ace, to the Russian Red Cross Society Yugo Siavin.-Onited Press, work the prestige of newly; Col. Scaroni was formerly air at and to several other Russian in- acquired eminence in world tache at the Italian embassy institutions. Only the old Imperial speed, endurance and altitude Washington, and his errand here! flag still floats over it.
Beatrix Thomson, aktress and play. competitions.
indicated the importance which Il!
wright, has filed a petition in England There are many thousand Rus for divorce against Claude Rains, the Duce places in Chinese relations. This activity culminated in the
slans In Belgrade. There are British flm star, who is in America. Presentation of the plane to Russian beggars and Russian mil- Miss Thomson starred with Claude
The title of Charles Chaplin's establishment at Nanchang of General Chiang Kai-shek was ex-lonies. There are Russians who Rains in New York in 1926 in me now film, which has been in pro- China's "West Point of the Air", pocted to consolidate Italy's pre-hold high official situations. There ains has made a name for himself which, so far, has been referred to
Constant Nymph.”
more than a year, and Since then Claude duction a military aviation school of dominant influence in Chinese are streets in Belgrade where one which the staff of instructors is military aeronautics. This, added can hear the people speaking more that of the leading man in 1. G. nounced. It is "Charlie Chaplin
"Production No. in Hollywood, his first film part— us
G," is of the treaty powers to elevate her Russing than Serbian, where one Wells's "Invisible Man" being a In Modern Times."
Success. Alleging desertion Never before has a star's nume tional capital was temporarily Italians a "flying start on all other
embassy, was expected to give the lan signboards at every step.
It was the fate King Alexander Claude Rains obtained a final decreo and this is the first occasion c removed during the 1932 Sino-nationals.
of divorce from Beatrix Thomson at in cultivating Japanese hostilities at Shanghai friendly relations with the Chinese the Russian emigrants. As
mom who did this act of kindness for Trenton, New Jersey, last April, and which Chaplin has officially identif
4 three days later he married Frances ed himself with the chief character and Nanking, is the most heavily | government.—United Press.
young boy Alexander went to Popper.
of his story.
100 per cent. Italian.
to the fact that Italy was the first
Some of these stars hold pro-
not accounted for in these income tax returne,
CHAPLIN FILM
an-
Nanchang, to which the na-legation in China to the rank of an can see Russian shops with Rus-tut cause in New York in 1928, boen Included in the title of a film,
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