CHINA'S
35,000 TON BATTLESHIP
DILEMMA
GUNS OR ARMOUR
AS CHOICE
A new and unexpected com plication has arisen in big battleship design,
British experts' now state -that recent developments in weapons of offence make it im- possible to design an efficient battleship armed with 16in. guns on a tonnage of 35,000- the largest tonnage permitted Washington Naval by the Treaty of 1922.
Ships of this size are ut present being bullt by Italy and planned by Franco.
British experts state that a battleship mounting 161n, guns can- not to-day bo designed without sacrificing one of the essential re- n battleship-an «quirements of adequate number of guns in order to produce volume of fire and facilitate control; sufficient protec. tion to enable the ship to withstand the most powerful armaments likely to be encountered; and adequate steaming qualities.
Cun Now Superior
The remarkable advances which have taken place in recent years in guns, shells, bombs, torpedoes, and mines are responsible for the fact that a combination of tonnage and armament which was thought Consible in 1922 (and actually allowed a margin in the construc- tion of the Nelson and Rodney five years later) is now considered Im- practicable.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
SEARCHERS Ancient Migrants To The
BRITAIN'S NEW "QUADS".
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Mrs. Miles, the wife of Mr. W. Miles, a lorry driver, gave birth to quadruplets at St. Neot's on November 23. They wore a girl and three boys. Their weights ranged from 8 lb. 12 oz. to 2 b. 13 oz. Sterilised huninn At the time of writing, mother and milk was flown from London for them. 'babies were doing well.
LAUREL MAY MAKE
FILMS IN ENGLAND
Hollywood, Dec. 31. TAN LAUREL, of the famous
duo Laurel and Ilardy, may shortly retire from the screen as an actor, and turn producer.
He may even go to England; his inative land, to make films.
Ife and his screen pat "babe" Stan is in revolt against the film are true till death, but stories Hat Roach. keep picking for them. He says Laurel and Hardy cannot survive many more.
Ever since the coming of the ironclad the story of naval dere lopment has been concerned with the incessant battle between the shelf and the armour. Now, the perfection of the 16-inch gun and the greatly improved design of
Currently they are working on armour piercing she has placed the gun in a position of definite "Bohemian Girl," but the story superiority over armour protection has nothing to do with the famous as at present fitted.
The development of aircraft, too, has played a great part. To-dny, in order to be adequately protected, a ship must carry deck armour of far greater thickness than was necessary a few years ago. More- over, the development of aircraft demands that ships shall be fitted with the very latest forms of anti- aircraft guns. These guns--are heavy and require a large supply of ammunition.
Below water, too, the capital ship of to-day has to be better protected than formerly. Not only are tor- pedoes larger and more powerful, but mines also have increased in both size and efficiency.
The combination of these circum- stances demands a weight of pro- tection which can no longer be In- cluded in the design of a ship built to a tonnage of even 35,000 tons without the sacrifice of some other quality.
Britain's Proposal
week.
This is a development of the very greatest importance in view of the Naval Conference which is to ns- semble in London next Time and again the British Govern. ment have pressed for the reduction of the calibre of the guns carried by warship, either to 11in, or to 12in. Thero la still little prospecti of agreement being reached on 80 drastic a limitation, but it is thought in naval circles that the difficulties of, designing adequate protection may lead to an agree mont embodying some reduction in the maximum calibus of gune. A reduction of the calibre of the guna forming the main armament of capital ships to 14in. Is considered probable in many quarters, -
Prince of Wales' Jubilee.
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INTENTIONS ARE GOOD
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Average temperature the plains of Ethiopia is round about 110degs, in the shade. But...
Kind-hearted women all over the world are still knit- ting woolly sweaters for the poor Ethiopians.
So Rear-Admiral Cary Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, said re- cently,
NEW C. IN. C
Marshal Badoglio, who succeeds General De Bono ns Commander- In-Chief of the Italian Forces in East Africa.
except that it opera piece. happens to be in a gipsy comp.
Next Mr. Roach wants Stah to appear with Hardy in "The Chimes of Normandy" ..but Stan mot. tered ominously.
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FOR
JANUARY
1936.
ALHAMBRA
KING'S ELIXIR
Isles Of The Blest"
ARE RETURNING NOW
AS CONQUERERS
WHAT CLASSICS FORETOLD
Tientsin, Dec. 30.
More than 2,000 years ago, China's first great emperor, Chin Shiu Huang Ti, sent thousands of youths and maidens to "The Isles of the Blest," three golden fairylands in the Eastern Sea, to gather for him a famous fragrant herb from which is brewed an Elixir of Life.
They never returned during Chin Shiu Huang's life- time but they are returning now, equipped with the most modern fighting weapons and proudly calling themselves Japanese
This is the theory of Wu I-ting mystic, philosopher, atudent of the Chinese classics and Confucian lore, and one of the most ardent leaders in the North China autono- my movement. His Initial pearance in the present movement was at Hsiangho (Fragrant River). in Hope Province, where he or ganized and led the first open rovolt ngainst the government.
"We sent thousands of our bravest men and loveliest maidens to Japan in 221 B.C.", he says, "They refused to return to China, but remained in the "Isles of the Blest" and their descendants built up the presont day Japan. Now they are coming back as con- querors. How can we fight them our own people whom we sent away?"
Destiny Foretold
Wu's contention is that China's destiny la foretold in the ancient "The classics and it is impossible to "If he wants Chimes of Normandy let him dealter this fate. it, but not with us. We belong in such stories.
"I
don't want
don'l
to part from Hardy," said Stan, "but we cannot go on making stories like these, make If Mr. Roach wants to Bohemian Girl, why not make it? It isn't Laurel and Hardy stuff, that's all."
No One Need Work
"China as a nation will fall but the Chinese people will go on "We should forever," he assorts. not sacrifice the Chinese people to save a corrupt political regime."
the Occident is electricity which has many uses but which is death for those who contact it. Chinese Bay, "Hel bien chu," meaning "going to the west" when they any they are dying. When all the Orient is unified, Wu saya. it will conquer the world through ferti- Iity and justice.
Japanese Tutelage
Wu, sitting in a poorly-furnished room of an old house in the Japan- Concession, expounded his ese theories of life and government for more than four hours with the United Press correspondent. firmly believes it is his destiny to lead a new China under the tute- lage of Japan for, he says, it is so written in the classics.
"The Classics foretold that in 1911 a great upheaval in China would occur, resulting in completo change in # revised form of government and that in the 25th year after establishment of this now government, a man, 52 years of age, would arise from the masses, bring out the unification of Japan and China, and lead the East to greater glories than all history records."
Silver Jubilee
•
Contact with the Occident spella
He points out that next year is death for China, he believes. The
public and he will then be 52 years and growth while the symbol ofld. He was a peasant boy in his Orient in symbolised by fertility the 25th year of the Chinese Re-
WHEN SCIENCE CAN TAME COSMIC RAYS
Chicago, Dec. 30.
Electric currents ranging from 100 million to 100,000 million volts are possible, if the clusive Cosmic Ray can be captured and tamed, Professor A. H. Compton, world-famed University of Chi- cago physicist and Nobel Prize winner, said to-day.
So important has Cosmic Ray re- perfect a camera to portray it ade- search become, Compton said in quately.
Blologists are deeply interested an exclusive Interview with the United Press, that present know in the Cosmic Ray to discover its ledge of its mysterious qualities effect on life, Cpmpton said. and power hus upset almost all of the theories regarding electro- dynamics.
native Haiangho and he is now in a position to allow destiny to take its course.
Tall and powerfully-built with expressive fuce and hands,. Wu is n' mystic as well as n political altator and revolutionist, He has studied and developed new theories on such varied subjects as numerology, vibrations and astrology. He also, reads mystic Interpretations into the Chinese written characters.
At the age of 19, he passed the Imperial Examinations at Pelping He held with first honouts. numerous offices in the Peking
to
Government and later organised Kuomintang branches many throughout Hopei Province, but he turned against the Kuomintang "Darwin's Theory. of Evolution when he saw its brutality, solish- At held that life was generated by ness and corruption, he says. he was Councillor Even the famed Einstein Theory spontaneous variation. The be- one time of Relativity will have to belief now is held that life was not General Chiang Kai-shek with govern- amended as a result of the Cosmic spontaneous, but may have been offices in Shanghal. He has writ- Ray implications, Compton said, slowly generated by factors, one ten numerous books on
of which might have been the ment, river conservation, Confu- scientists now believed.
Compton cited the voltage of Cosmic Ray. Scientists feel that cian lore and political subjects.— several other familiar phenomena it is probable that the Cosmic Ray United Press. to illustrate the power of the throughout the world's existence Coamic Ray. Light rays, he said: played a great part in influencing generate only two volts, ordinary the development heat one volt, ultra-violet rays istics of life. four or five volts, X-Rays 10,000
volts,
and character- VICTOR McLAGLEN INE
KIPLING FILM
"It can readily be understood
Hollywood, Dec. 31. to 100,000 volts and radium rays, what effect exposure to Cosmic
Victor McLaglen, the British film hitherto believed to be the most Rays would have on the forma of
animal life over star, is to appear as Private Terence powerful, 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 plant and
story adapted') hundreds of thousands of years. Mulvaney in a fim
McLagien was signed up for this "Cosmic Rays originated at the A combination of rays, in which from Kipling's "Soldiers Three." time of the original explosion in the Cosmic Ray may have been one, film by Michael Balcon. production space which created the universe might have been the factor which chief for Gaumont-British, before ho as we know it now," Compton sald. gave mattor its original, anima- left do-night for New York on his
way back to England. "That is the theory now held for tion"-United Press. want of a better explanation of
their origin, yet through the cons Know Queen Victoria's Mother
of time Cosmic Rays have wander-; ed in space, their power diminish- ing but little."
Cosmic Ray research has not solved the secret of their compe-! sition, Compton said.
Although Coamle Ruys have been photographed, and the plates have
COLOURFUL CÊREMONIES AT been of some help in determining
CARNARVON CASTLE
THE Prince of Wales will soon receive the provisional plans for celebrating his silver jubilee next year-the twenty-fifth anni. versary of his investiture at Carnarvon Castle.
He has already approved in principle a colourful ceremonial
tho
at the castle where, as a youth of Boventeen, ho appeared for first time before thousands of cheering Welshmen as their
Prince.
him to visit it; Oxford, where he lived as an undergraduate for two years; "Dartmouth, where he was trained for. the Navy; Richmond, Surrey, where he was born; and Windsor, are among the places that wish to give special recognition to the Jubilee.
When aix weeks' Court mourning CHESTER'S CLAIM
for the death of Princess Victoria, Heralds In their picturesque the King's sister, has expired, the medieval uniforms will again re Cabinet, which has been already ap colve him with a fanfare of pronched by Welsh peers and M.P.8, trumpets from the battlemants, but will take action. there is a strong feeling that It is expected that a statement In the Commona calebrations should not be confined will be made
grogarding the celebrations when reassembles after
to Wales. ANS P21
Cheater, from which the Prince Parliament takos kla necond title, will. Invite Christmas,
the ray content, Compton said escience:stilbuis endeavouring
THE BUTLER
WAS THERE
AS GUEST
New York. Dec. 28. DARK-AVENUE. Now York's Mayfair, learned with alarm to-day that one of the guests at the exclusive coming-out party of Mini Lorraine Graves, daughter of Mr. Killaen Van Rensselaer, was Raymond, the butler to Lic. household.
You
Raymond danced, unknown to the guests, with many debutanten and dowagers.
" naked Raymond to come BadMrs. Van Rensselaer, -"'I cannot see why ho should have been left at home. Raymond: Is a gentleman.”
OLDEST ROYAL SERVANT
DIES IN LONDON
WILLIAM BARKER, aged 91, for many years the oldest Royal
servant and a link with Queen Victoria's mother, died in Lon don last month.
Eighteen months age he was visited and congratulated by the King and Queen on his 90th birthday
He had the distinction of living the death of the Duchess he was a sent to the Royal gardens to be at Windsor Castle for nearly century, being born on the Royal trained.. ostatea in 1844 and ilving there all This life,
1851: EXHIBITION
Ho remembered being taken to the Great Exhibition at Hyde Park in 1851, and being present when Queen Victoria welcomed the troops back from the Crimean War.
VINE-KEEPER.
Later he was appointed vino- keeper at Cumberland Lodge, Wind- bor Great Park, and under his care the famous Royal, Vine yielded more than 1,000 bunches of fine grapes for 20 years.
Queen Victoria on her visits often He was 15 when he entered the congratulated him on the conditions service of the Duchess of Kent. of the vine.
mother of Queen Victoris, and one Later, Mr. Barker returned to of his tasks was to push the aged the Cantlo premises and after Duchess round the grounds castle in an invaild chair:
of, tho
Relying King Edward VII, and King. George he retired on a pension in 1919, at the age of 75: ALANA
A remarkable span of time in covered when it is remembered that the Duchess was born-in-1786. ~---------- The Duchess recommended young Barker to Queen Victoria, and on for the rest of his life.
The King granted him the use of
a cottage. on the estate at Windsor.
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