ON JOB
IN EGYPT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16,
INTERNATIONAL UNREST MEANS
BIGGER R. A. F.
Anti-British riots in Calro make Sir Miles Lampson's post n difficult one. He is British High Commissioner of Egypt.; and was formerly Minister to
Nanking.
MANY MORE MACHINES FOR EMPIRE DEFENCE
FAR EAST COMPLICATIONS CAUSE
UNEASINESS IN LONDON
There is to be an addition to the R.A.F. expansion pro- gramme already announced of between 200 and 250 more · [aircraft of the first line.
Under the scheme announced in May it was planned to expand the R.A.F. to a total of 1,940 aircraft.
Should the number of additional aircraft to be con- structed.be 250, the total would be 2,190, allocated as. follows:
Home Defence First Line
Fleet Air Arm and Overseas Units
1,500 690
The further increase is mainly designed to meet re quirements overseas. The expansion programme presum- ably is planned to be completed by May, 1937.
The personnel needed for the increase, which will SOUTH AUSTRALIA SHOWS probably be the subject of an official announcement short- ly, will be from 2,500 to 3,000 officers and men, flying and non-flying.
HOW -
BETS BALANCE BUDGET
Last year the South Austra- lian Government decided to tax bookmakers and betting.
Unless international affairs
1935.
DARING ENZED AVIATRIX
PENGLARO-HUSTRALIA
M:14 DAYS 221
ENS SOLD KECORD.
Miss Jean Batten, the young New Zealand woman flier, shown with the plane in which she recently flew from Aug- tralia to England and thence across the Atlantic to South America. She was the first woman to have necomplished the feat. Natal, Brazil, was Misa Balton's objective..
Great Britain is therefore Man In Death Row'
obvious.
The problem thus presented hus-
take a more favourable turn, an increase in the strength of Air for Bome timc past seriously Force units overseas on a per-occupied the attention of the Gur- manent basis is essential and ernment and the Air Staff. The Government's attitude is guided by the rule:
Now, at the end of the finan-urgent. cial year, the tax is found to
It is not intended that there. have produced £130,000 and actually to have balanced the Defence in order that overseas shall be any weakening of Home
State's budget with a surplus of
units
may be strengthened. £36,226. But for the tax, there when the Two-Year expansion would have been another de-programme was announced, the ficit.
[Secretary for Air stated:
To bring this about, South Australia had 25,000,000'bets.
"If the programme proves insuf- ficient we will incrense It, cost what it may in money and effort."
PARITY WITH FRANCE
Be prepared for the possible, hoping the worst will not hap pen, but by preparation coup- teracting and perhaps averting
it.
This rule supersedes the now discarded "Prepare for the best, hoping the worst will not befall."
FAR AND NEAR EAST
To the problem presented by This revenue from betting has
Germany's great preparations by amazed even the Premier, Mr.
fair, sea and land is added the The total of 1,500 for Home complication of affairs in the Near Butler. He is now being be- Defence was arrived at as the figure East and the Far East. There the sieged by requests from the rac-necessary for parity with Germany, normal strength of our Air Force ing clubs who claim a share, and which intends to be equal with has for long past been far short of by the bookmakers who claim a France; in other words, to have at our needs, and recent events have
least 1,500 aircraft.
compelled the Government already reduction of the tax.
France, indeed, has a total of to take certain measures, and to still more important But although in the current 1,670, including those in North (prepare
Africa, and those can easily be changes. year with its extra turf meet-brought home in an emergency. Whatever measures be taken, it ings and its influx of visitors for Germany's present-day strength is the Government's definite resolve South Australia's centenary cele- Is not certainly known. She has that the force available for Home brations, the tax is likely to about 550 alreraft actually organ- Defence shall not be weakened.
ised In squadrons, but has built, yield still greater revenue, Mr.jand is building, at a great rate. Butler is keeping his counsel, says Austral News. He is mak- ing sure of another balanced budget. Austral News.
COW
The progress of the Two-Year expansion scheme is satisfactory, There is no reason to fear that an There is no doubt Germany immediate provision for the fur- will have parity with France ther addition of 200 or 250 aircraft in_the_next few months, and of the First Line would present the necessity imposed upon any insuperable difficulty.
Golden Hours
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Wipe Away This
At last it has happened. The still dress-shirt collar has killed As described on this a man. page last week, Mr. Donald Arthur Barnfield, of Bristol, was slowly choked to death as he lay trapped_under_a_capsized motor-
car.
Is Reading- For His Life
New York, Dec. 10.
BRUNO RICHARD
HAUPTMANN; con- victed murderer and kid- napper of the Lindbergh baby, has taken his life into his own hands.
When the United Statea Supreme Court announced to- day that it would give can- sideration to Hauptmann's last appeal for a new trial, Haupt- mann demanded that the volu- minous reports of his Fleming- ton trial should be brought to him in "Death Row" in Tren- ton Prison.
He hopes to find a loophole of escape in those ten volumes - task in which his lawyers have failed.
Bitterly Disappointed Hauptmand spends his whole day poring over records of one of the most amazing murder trials la his- tory.
Hauptmann has discharged two lawyers since his arrest--thirteen months ago. His relations with his The wonder is that it has not he is bitterly disappointed that they present lawyer are harmonious, but
happened before.
were unable to gain him a new ¤riál in hla recent appeal,
ills supreme confidence in himself
There is no justification for the "boiled shirt" and collir.convinces him that he can do what
they failed to do. They survive only because of
masculine servile conservatism. SPECIAL EDITION
They are unhygienic, for they compress unduly the blood vessels of the neck and the breathing apparatus. They are not beautiful.
Of course, there is a certain look of freshness about the glazed and dazzling white. But this can be presented as well and far more beautifully by soft shirt of the finest linen fastened in front by two or three small jewelled studs.
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OF NEWSPAPER
FOR WOMAN WHO WAS IN HOSPITAL
The Toronto Star newspaper, produced a special edition-one copy only,
It went to the mother of a six- days-old boy in the local mater. nity hospital.
The one issue omitted to print just one story-the one that told that her husband had been ar- rested for the alleged murder of
* WOMEN.
NEW YORK MAN, AGED 94, BECOMES A FATHER
Parentage Authenticated By N. Y.
Medical
Association
Chicago, Dec. 10. farm in North Carolina in 1840.
A man of 94 has been certified He joined the Confederate Army
to farming after-
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by New York physicians to be at the outbreak of the Civil War, IN the father of a baby born a dow and returned weeks ago, the Journal of the ward. American Medical Association re-
ported.
He married in 1872, his first
wife living until 10 years ago and
The man la the father of 16 bearing him 16 children, of which other children and grandfather of six am still living..
38. The baby which attracted He always has been a man of widespread attention of medical men was born to his second wife, a widow of 27 whom he married Inst year.
His name was withheld, but the Journal sald his parenthood had been authenticated by New York physicians after exhaustive inves- tigation.
outdoor habits, the report said, has had no operations, accidents or hospitalization of any sort. Ho chews tobacco, but does not smoke. Until a few years ago considerable alcohol." His mother dled at the age of 103.
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