ON JOB
IN EGYPT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER
INTERNATIONAL UNREST MEANS
BIGGER R. A. F.
Anti-British riols in Caire make Sir Miles Lampson's post a dißcult one. He is British High Commissioner of Egypt. and was formerly Minister fo
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
Unless international affairs
Last year the South Austra-take a more favourable turn, an
Great Britnin is therefore obvious.
The problem thus presented has lian Government decided to tax increase in the strength of Air for BOC time past seriously bookmakers and betting.
Force units overseas on a per-occupied the attention of the Gov- manent basis is essential and jernment and the Air Staff. The Government's attitude is guided by (the rule:
It is not intended that there
Now, at the end of the finan-jurgent. clal year, the tax is found to have produced £130,000 and shall be any weakening of Home actually to have balanced the Defence in order that oversens 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:
"If the programme proves insuf- ficient we will ingrense 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 coun. 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 bring this about, South Australia had 25,000,000 bets.
To the problem presented by This revenue from betting has]
Germany's great preparations by amazed oven the Premier, Mr.
air, 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 least 1,500 aircraft.
France; in other words, to have at four needs, and recent events have compelled the Government already reduction of the tux.
France, indeed, has a total of to take certain measures, and to still more important But although in the current 1,070, including those in North prepare
Afrien, and those can easily be changes. year with its extra turf meet-brought home in an emergency. Whatever mensures 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 avaliable for Homo
about 550 aircraft actually organ-Defence shall not be wenkened, brations, the tax is likely to ised in squadrons, but has built, yield still greater revenue, Mr. and 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,
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Miss Jean Batten, the young New Zealand woman flier, shown with the plane in which she recently flew from Aus- tralia to England and thence across the Atlantic to South America. She was the first woman to have accomplished the feat. Natal, Brazil, was Mílas Batten's objective.
Man In Death Row'
Now, Wipe Away This
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.
con-
When the United States Supreme Court announced tom day that it would give 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
This him in "Death Row in Tren-
ton Prison.
He hopes to find a loophole of escape in those ten volumes a task in which his lawyers have failed.
At last it has happened. The still dress-shirt collar has killed A man. As described on this Bitterly Disappointed
page
Hauptmann spends his whole day last week, Mr. Donald Arthur Barnfield, of Bristol, was most amazing murder trials in his- poring over records of one of the
slowly choked to death as he lay tory, trapped under a capsized motor-lawyers since his arrest thirteen Hauptmann has discharged two
months ago. His relations with his present lawyer are harmonious, but The wonder is that it has not he is bitterly disappointed that they happened before.
were unable to gain him a new trial in his recent appeal,
car.
There is no justification for the "boiled shirt" and collar. They survive only because of
His supreme confidence in himself convinces him that he can do what they failed to do.
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 Д soft shirt of the finest linen fastened in front by two or three small jewelled studs.
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 hoy in the local mater nity hospital.
The one lasuo omitted to print Just one story-the one that fold that her husband had been ar rested for the alleged murder of
a woman.
NEW YORK MAN, AGED 94, BECOMES A FATHER
Parentage Authenticated By N. Y.
Medical
Association
Chicago, Dec. 10.1 farm in North Carolina in 1840.
A man of 94 has been certified Ilo joined the Confederate Army
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by Now York physicians to be at the outbreak of the Civil War,IN
the father of a baby born a few and returned weeks ago, the Journal of the ward. American Medical Association re- ported.
to farming after-.
He married in 1872, his first wife living until 10 years ago and bearing him 16 children, of which six are still living.
Ho
The man is the father of 16 other children and grandfather of 38. The baby which attracted He always has been a man of widespread attention of medical outdoor habits, the report said, has men was born to his second wife, had no operations, accidents or a widow of 27 whom he married hospitalization of any sort. inst year.
chews tobacco, but does not smoke. His name was withheld, but the Until a ay years ago
considerable alcohol." His mother Journal said his parenthood had died at the age of 103, been authenticated by New York phyalclans after exhaustive inves- tigation,
The aged father was born on a
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