New Race
For
Sea Power
£1,000,000,000 MAY BE
SPENT IN 1936
Power
London, Sept. 10. Postponement of the Five naval. conference, scheduled to meet this year, is now regarded as highly probable by experts whom the United Press questioned.
Some of the naval specialists interrogated believed that the conference would merely he de- layed until 1936, while others suggested that, even if a later date be proposed, this would served to cover an indefinite delay.
As Britain, the United States. Japan, France and Italy are bound by the Washington and London treaties to assemble in conference before the end of this year, it is expected that Britain as the in- .vlting Power will take the Initiative In the autumn to obtain the other consent for post- Kovernments' ponement. No opposition la antici. pated,
-Naval attaches of the embassies concerned, who were ready to bet! even money this spring that the een- ference would be held before 1936, are now offering three-to-twn odds against the meeting this year.
The continued refusal of France: Lo despatch naval exports to London to exchange five-year fleet-building
programmes with the British is the
immediate cause of the traffic jam, which is blocking further negotia
tions on an international scale. In the background, however, Iurks the j
obstack of formidable Washington's rejection of Japan
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bid for parity.
Unwilling Franco
France's willingness to open negotiations with the British, due to French intignation at the June 18 Anglo-German naval den, is holding up Britain's projected parleys with Italy and Russip, as it had been agreed that these were to commence only after the Anglo- French conversations had been con- ducted exhaustively.
More serious than the mere formality of delaying diploma- tic talks is the fact that, with the Washington and London treaties expiring on December 31, 1936, the five leading naval Powers will have to build 720 new warships to replace anti- quated tonnage, if their fleets are to be maintained, at exist- ing relative strengths. The cost of such replacements has been roughly estimated £1,000,0000,000.
at
All hope of securing renewed limitation of the numbers of fight- Ing craft appears to have been abandoned and the British ̄are ̄now" elinging to the faint prospect of agreement on "qualliative restric tion," by which they mean limiting the size of ships and guns,
To the browbeaten taxpayer of all countries even such a makeshift
agreement, however, would signify
a substantial saving.
Thus, 42 capital ships will fall due for replacement among the Five Powers when the treaties expire in less than a year-and-a-half. If cach builds up to the 35,000-ton limit of the Washington treaty. the 42 vessels would cost £370,000,000.
If capital ships were held to 26,000-tons, however, as the British propose, the saving would amount to £105,000,000. Corresponding econ- omies might be achieved among other types of warships if qualita tive limitation were agreed upon.
The Manchester Guardian hue estimated that the total saving under qualitative limitation would be $30,000,000, if only the five leading navies be considered.
Ready For Scrapheap
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
QUEEN ASTRID'S
ASTRID'S LAST SLEEP
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1935.
The poignant official picture of Queen Astrid lying in state was taken at the request of King Leopold. The distracted King viewed the pleture before it was released for publication. "The beautiful pale lace of the young Queen," writes a special correspondent, "was bandaged with white slik...one saw only the aerens
symmetry of her youthful beauty
350 British Admirals
With Nothing To Do
THEY ARE LIVING IN RETIREMENT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY middle-aged
gentlemen are living in trim houses all over England. They wear trim suits, drive neat motor-cars, garden or play golf every morning,
..
U. S. Crushes
Two Midwest
Bandit Gangs
OUTLAWS' DEPREDA- TIONS IN TWO YEARS PLACED AROUND
$3,000,000
Knasas City, Sept. 18. Federal agents, working quiet- ly and without publicity, have exterminated two of the Middle West's most infamous gangs whose doprodations тап Into millions.
gang
The two gangs obliterated were the Walter (Irish) O'Malley gang and an Ozark "mob" known as the "Six Daring Bandits, Inc." The O'Malley gang had eight members and'the Ozark mob six with an overlap
one ping of the members of gang, into another. In addition to these 14 gangsters five others, some of whom associated at one time or another with those two gangs, were placed behind bars,
After working more than a year
the O'Malley
federal agents started cracking the gang last May On May 24, Dewey Gil- more was arrested in Dallas, Tex. the first of the gang nabbed by J. Edgar Hoover's sleuths. Four Here are answers to the knowledge days later Floyd Henderson was arrested in Joplin, Mo. On May tests printed on page 3.
Matthew Flinders..
30, Russell Cooper was nabbed in “Michelangelo,
Port Smith, Ark. The following day in Kansas City the big catch was made when O'Malley and his chief Heutenant, Dan T. Heady were taken in a surprise raid conducted by E. E. Conroy, fed- eral agent in charge of the Kan- sas City division, and Sheriff Thomas B. Bash of Jackson County,
Were You Right?
Lincoln, in his "Gettysburg
3. Address.
4. To resign a sent in the Ilouse of Commons (by accepting nominally an office under the Crown)
5. Sir Henry Morgan. 6. The
American Declaration of Independence,
7. The reigning furen of Peru.
the 8. A whirlpool on coast of believed suck down and
erint
and present the prizes in a breezy way at their Now, its ships that entered its captured by accident local gymkhanas.
MARRIED
RICHARD TAUBER
famed
Austrian temur gives second wife Diana Napier, English filmsctress, a postnuptial kiss after the ceremony at a London Registry office.
American Stars
For Briton
£1,000,000 TO MAKE KORDA PICTURES
Hollywood's newest and biggest combine, Twen- tieth Century Fox, is to spend £1,000,000 in making pictures in Britain.
Mr. Joseph M. Schenck, chair- mian of the board, announced yes- terday (according to Reuter) Extent of replacements which that ten films will be produced would become necessary in in the studios now being erected treatyless naval world may beat Denham (Bucks) by Alexan- realised when it is recalled that two- thirds of the battleship and battle.der Korda, of London Film Pro- eruiser units of the Powers will be ductions. overage at the end of 1936,
4
The first subject will be Bernard
To turn to another class of Shaw's "Saint Joan," with Elisabeth
They are retired admirads.. Never before in the history al the British Navy have there beon so many of them..
More than three hundred are men in the early and midi fifties. Many of these have taken up commercial appoint- i ments. One is a director of a drapery store, another has financial interests in the City.
But for the most part they fare living pleasant lives of re-
Lirement in southern England.
All of them draw pensions of more than £900 a year. Some of them draw as much as £1,620.
There has been a great in- crease in the cost of pensions during recent years. In 1914 £1,027,116 was spent on retired pay and half-pay. Now we Ispend £2,837,000.
There-are-actually-three-mid- shipmen drawing retired pay at the present time. They cach receive from £45 12s. 6d, a year.
On the active list there are. only seventy-seven flag officers. Thirty-one of them are employed in seagoing and dockyard com- mands and fourteen in shore posts.
Real-life
urrent.
9. (a) The Turkish Empire; (i Persint (e) Tortary; (d) Hlustan.
10. Lavoisier,
16 Myntezuma, the Aztec ruler of Mexico.
SUNDAY BEST
Solomon Island Adonis, all dressed up for a visit to the girl friend.
Tarzan
Captured in Forest
New York, Sept. 1.
A young real-life Tarzan has just been captured
in Salvador, Central America.
He is about nine years old, and apparently he has spent all his life like a wild animal in the jungle nkar Acajutla in Salvador, He is possessed of prodigious strength for his age and size. When the trappers cornered him near his cave he fought wildly, using huge tree clubs and large stones.
They bound him hand and foot when he was captured. He spoke no language and it was apparent that he had not seen human beings before.
ship the destroyer-it is an Bergner in the role created by|SWALLOWS ARE amazing fact that, of 232 Dame Sybil Thurn-
United States destroyers, 227, dike. The other! will be out-of-date and requir..." mino nims are ing replacement when. the planned for com- treaties lapso.
pletion within
the
As zoro hour is approaching, none twelve, months. of the major disagreements among One of the naval Powers has been bridged. "most" experienced Mutual suspicion is rampant, and American produc the naval race is on-although, as tion supervisors, one expert put it, "they are merely Robert T. Kane, warming up for the coming sprint." will come to Lon-
Britain may be expected to Indon and remain in charge of these tensify her efforts to bring about subjects. some preliminary understanding.
-
Elisaboth
Bergner
Hollywood stars and directors will
With the Baldwin government head- j'also arrive to work in the films, unit
ON THE WING
Vienna, Sept. 8. Swallows, despite the continued warm weather, are already be- ginning their annual migration to the south, at lenst a fortnight earlier than in normal years,
According reports from bird watchers In various parts of Austria, the birds are moving southwards in flights of upwards of 1,000 strong, or are now congregat- ing preparatory to flight.
ed for general elections efther this number of British stars will, in It is noticed by the watchers autunm or next spring, it might exchange, be given chanees to work that the majority of the, migrants be open to severe attack from the in Hollywood.
Inbour opposition if no brake were This additional output is apart put on the strident competition in from Mr. Korda's own programme
- naval armaments.
of British films. It will mean employment to hundreds of actors. technicians and British workers of all grades.
But face-saving rather than war-saving devices are expect ed to emerge from any possible compromises-and experts in- "Saint Joan" will be directed by Bergner'a husband, Dr. sist that even such evasive Miss compromises at present seem Paul Czlaner, who has made all her
out of sight-United Press. films.
jure birds which were fledged this year, and it is even stated that the parent birds, remembering, their bitter experience of two years ago when they were caught in a cold snap have passed the information on to their young...
The young birds, adopting the motto "take-no chancoa," making an early move-United Prees...
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The only member of the gang was. Otto Jackson, who went on n drunken spree in Kansas City Aug. 1, and was apprehended by two police- men unaware of the importance of their quarry.
Ozarks Yield Quarry
The climax to the cleanup of the O'Malley gang came several days later when Virgil (Red) Mel- ton and Fred Rense, two of O'Mal- fey's right-hand asistants, were captured in the wooded Ozark arens near Harrison, Ark.
O'Malley. rather than face a multitude of bank robbery charges, pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of August Luer, Alton, I., banker two years ago and was sentenced- to life imprisonment,
The leader of the "Six Daring Bandits, Inc., also closely as50- ciated with the O'Malley gang Was Leonard Short, captured in Galena, Mo., June 10.
O'Malley' biggest coup, one which would have done justice to the Floyd-Birdwell hunk bandit team. was the robbery of two banks at Okemah, Okla., Dec. 23, 1934, when loot from the first National Bank of-Okomah-and-the-Okemah Na-. tional Bank totalled $26,000.
While O'Malley, Cooper, Gil- more, Henderson and Short were robbing the Okemah National, Melton and Roese were staging the First National robbery. Sinco; the robbery of a national burk is n federal offence federal agents took the trail immediately.
All have been captured
bank awalt trial on charges, except O'Malley.
Loot Placed Near $3,000,000
The O'Malley gang in the past two years. Maurice M. Milligan United States District Attorney al Kansas City, Bald after the cap- ture of Melton and Reese, had collected between $2,000,000 und $3,000,000 in bank robberies, pay- roll holdups, abductions and ex- tortion plots.
and robbery
O'Malley, former associate of Alvin Karpis, still America's pub- lic enemy No. 1, was regarded by federal agents as an extremely desperate man.
"Six Daring Bandits, Inc., or- ganized by Leonard Short, Galena, Mo., fight promoter, staged soy- eral small jobs and tried to st tain a national reputation. Ruel Wommack, chief of detectives, Springfield, Mo., and federal agents brought the gang to a quick end.— United Press.
ENGINE SPLUTTERED: DEATH
The aeroplane crash in which two famous Americane-Wiloy Post and Will Rogers were killed: their wrecked machine in an Alaskan, river. The deaths of the two famoys. Americans, who were killed on August 15 in an aeroplane accident in Alaskn, caused.national mourning In the United States, and high honours were paid to their memory.:
APARTMENT FLATS
IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.
SOMETHING NEW IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN HONGKONG.
The
One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached servants' quarters, will be available, at moderate rents, in the new modern 8-storey re-inforced concrete building-known as "DINA HOUSE"-now nearing completion in Duddell Street. furnished flats will be fitted with fumiture of modern type, : A telephone and frigidaire will be provided in each apartment. Automatic lifts (Waygood Otis). These apartments are bright and airy, the majority of them facing towards the Gardens or the harbour. Those who have already booked flats, and persons wishing to view the premises, are informed that lifts have now been installed and that they will be shown over the building if application is made at Messrs. H. Ruttonice & Son's offices next door-No. 7 Duddell Street.
(releasing
Cannibal Chlef victim) "Why didn't you say before that you were from
Cook's? I'm their local Agent. Come along to the Chief Guest's Hut and we'll discuss your local sightseeing. My men vill-look Yes, I cash Cook's Travellers Cheques; after your baggage.
at a good rate too-1000 beads to El."
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for $25,000
in 1935 to continue its work for sick and destitute children.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Bir. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine.
Hong Kong.
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