THE
FACT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1936,
ABOUT
KILLER OF KING'S BRITAIN'S
ASSASSIN
EXPERTS
ARMY: TELL.
DUMMY ANTI-TANK GUNS
To-day the Regular and Territorial Armies (all ranks) and the Reserves total 451,453, ns against 697,119 in 1913-a reduction in personnel of 245,666; The following table shows the reduc tions in detail:
: 1913.
Regular Army
247,250
Territorial Army
254,779
Army Reserve
145,090
Special Reserva
59,000
Supplementary Reserve
697,119
1936.
193,652
129,147
109,129
19,525
451,453
Out of this total of 193,652 Regulars, 57,658 are normally atationed in India. From the remaindor Britain has to meet com- mitments in Egypt, the Colonies, and some of the Protectorates. Her oversens commitments, in fact, just before the present crisis, were absorbing more than half of the Regular Army. Since the ten- Colonal Fiollet, whose name wasion in the Mediterranean start- wired round the world in connection with the murder of the King ined large bodies of regular troops Marsellies, when he struck down have had to be sent abroad. King Alexander's muenasin, has been honoured for his act. Picture shows | Reserves
the colonel receiving the Cross of Commandeur of the Legion of Honour from General Gamelin.
The Ghost That Walked Too Often
This commonplaca scana represents another milestone in man's conquest over time and space-loading of mall into the China Clipper at Alameda, Cal, for round-trip_flight between the United States and Manila. Another such trans-Pacific mail flight commences to. day.
ONE MAN HOLDS SUPER-PLANE SECRET
AGENTS of a dozen foreign Powers are anxious to learn
tank attack would be ludicrous if it were not so serious. The plain fact is that we have no anti-tank guns, and for the past fifteen years, st The state of Britain's ́re-
manœuvres and other exercises, serves is one of the most seri- their place has been taken by
aspects of the position.
wooden dummies and flags. aus The Army reserve, which
Judging by modern standards is 35,961 Less than
in 1913, and by the equipment of other would be entirely absorbed. Armies, Britain's cavalry and infan- Mr. Barnes Nevill Wallis, structural designer of Vickers a secret locked in the brain of frail, silver-haired in bringing the Regular try are using out-of-date and unreli- Army up to full strength inable light automaties. The Hotch- (Aviation), Ltd. the event of war, and would still leave a shortage. Neither cavalry many years ago and has
not been replaced. the Militia nor Special Reserva any longer exista, and therefore there is no source from which the gaps in the Regular Army could be filled, except the Territorial Army.
POLICE ARRESTED IT
Paris, Jan. 25. THIS is the story of a "phan- tom" in an ancient castle that walked at midnight once too The Territorial Army ofter. Instead of vanishing at the appropriate moment, it was is left
The only Second Line which in the Territorial Army, arrested by the police
for which has accepted liability for burglary.
service oversens 011 general
kiss was withdrawn from the
Recent reorganisation schemes involve the production of large these are not yet available. quantities of machine-guns, and
In the sphere of anti-aircraft defence a better type of anti-air- craft
gun is considered most desirable, but none has been pro- struments for use in anti-aircraft vided so far. Modern solentific in- defence is lacking.
For many weeks inhabitants mobillaation. But recruiting for Anti-Aircraft Defences
the Territorial Army is in a bad
strength to-day.
While the "menace from the
of the little town of Blanzac, near Angouleme, had noticed away, and it is about 38,000 under air is widely discussed few people light flickering in the windows:
The situation, therefore, is that realise how ill-equipped Britain is to of a centuries-old uninhabited on mobilisation for war there meet it. The responsibility for
castle.
Sometimes the silhouette of ghostly monk appeared at windows.
the
деля.
would be no trained men from the nir-defence of London und the The light seemed to come whom to draw to make good the South of England from the ground from a candle and
moved wastage in the Regular Army until resta entirely with the Territorin cerlly from window to window, the Territorial Army had been
Army. trained and was ready to go overments that have been made are for At present the only arrange-
Greater London. In modern warfare especially, the defence of People began to revive a legend the most critical, so it may be said
the first few weeks are apt to be other great centres are entirely
defenceless. which hold
French
In the event of an attack on aristocrat haunted the building.
that the Regular Army, after it had been brought up to strength, would London from the air it is conceiva- So alarming became the stories have no immediate possibility of ple that no warning will be given. that the police decided to
that
further trained reserves.
investigate. With a dozen of the Stores and Equipment
enstle.
Judge H. G. Sutton, above, is presiding over the trial of Lea Hall and Mrs. Peggy Paulos at Part Orchard, Wash., charged with the mass murders of six persons near Bremerton in 1934.
SHOULD A
It is obviously much more difficult to ensure the rapid manning of most courageous civilians in the
posta by Territorials than by Regu- town, they entered the castle
As far as stores and equipment iar troops. Territorials, of course, grounds. carrying revolvers and are concerned, the position is no are used for this important duty torches and waited for the weird less serious than in the case of only on grounds of economy. But CELIBATE PAY light.
personnel. As in the case of the these units are below strength, Scarcely had midnight struck Navy, the financial stringency of partly on account of the difficulty BACHELOR TAX? than it appeared. It was seen at the past few years has compelled of finding men free to assume such four windows, and then faded the authorities to draw heavily on responsibilities. away into the dim recesses of the the supplies which wore formerly As far as the Regular Army is
Santiago, Chile, Jan. 24. considered the minimum prudent concerned provision for anti-air- In one of the bedrooms was reserve, even in times of peace, craft defence for the protection of
Should a priest of the Catholic Last year, for example, the its own troops is at least 50 per Church found a young man reclining on
be obliged to pay a luxurious divan bed. He gave stocks of gun ammunition alono cent. under modern requirements. "bachelor taxes" when he has the name of Daniel Pignon, and had reached such a dangerously
been sworn to celibacy for life? confessed that he had broken low point that it was decided to Coast Defence Into the castle towards the end spend over £1,000,000 more than
Army Chaplaini Bernardino of last year and, finding that the previous year replenish- much of the furniture had been them. But this figure will not left by the previous occupants, be nearly sufficient to, make good, had decided to live there.
the deficiencies. "Everything worked wonderful-
There are grave deficiencies in ly well," he said. "When I want all kinds of arms and equipment,
ed money I took one of the old but possibly the most serious is pieces of furniture and sold it to the shortage of modern tanks. local antique dealera
"I reckoned to sell one piece of furniture, or allverware every day. And every night I returned to the castle to sleep. I used the candle. to find my way to bed."
A large quantity of furniture which Pignon is alleged to have; stolen has been recovered from antique dealers, and the "ghost"
is now awaiting trial.
Dickens' Centenary
All the standard (medium) } tanks are entirely worn out and obsolete. A new design is ready, but production
been has not started.
PICKWICKIANS
If the secret can be kept, bom- ber squadrons dominating in gun and bomb power the world's most formidable air forces can be built for the R.A.F. within 1 few months.
Mr. Wallis is the inventor of geodetic airplane construction, the | first official details of which were published in the Daily Express last month. It is an entirely new mechanical system.
With its aid, he has given to Britain the power to build faster, heavier,' longer-ranged airplanes than any other nation can build.
The system has been applied to the Vickers-Wellesley long-range bomber just ordered for the R.A.F. To-day, professors in Cambridge are striving to work out the reason for the success of the design In terms of mathematica. By 1938 they hope to be able to say precisely why and how Mr. Wallis's airplane has this super- performance.
The engineering principles are so involved that Mr. Wallis alenc understands them thoroughly.
Airplanes built on the geodetic system-a system of curved inter locking spars--seem able to with- atand the greatest strains. The fuselage can be neither snapped nor twisted.
The completed fuselage and wing is a literal tube. I looked from nose to tail of the stripped fuselage, writes # correspon- dent. There were no com. plicated and heavy strengthen- ing bulkheada Dr struta or wires.
As with anti-aircraft defence, so with coast defence. Britain's Abarqua has brought suit against Specially twisted
The metal used. is wafer thin. coastal defences, both at home
Into geodetle (Direccion tubes It assumes immense
the Inland Revenue
This airplane can be mass- produced.
and in the Colonies, including General de Impuestos) Department, strength. Hongkong are obsolescent and quite unadapted to modern to decide the issue. requirements. So far as per- Aburzua declares that while sonnel is concerned, the man- there is nothing in the law to make ning of the coastal defences in excoption in such cases, it is Britain itself has been relegated logical to suppose that a priest should be exempt from taxes' de- entirely to the Territorial Army, and it is obvious that there could be no adequate protection against sudden at tack.
Special Light Tanks, for ex- clusive co-operation with in- Fantry, are yet to be provided, and here again the production General is nil at the present time.
What is the reason for this
signed to encourage men to marry.
The tax office refused to accept the Chaplain's theory and that is why he took the case to the Court of Appeals.—United Press.
Existing provision against state of affairs? Primarily it is Surrender Colonies?
HONOUR
AN ANNIVERSARY
London, Feb. 8.
due, of course, to the general Dis- armament Policy which obtained
Mr. Wallis says: "Give me the Morris motor-car presses at Oxford and I can mass-produce these airframes at speed-- almost as fast 18 the cheap light car of to-day.”
The first airplane type Mr. Wallis, produced could fly 8,000 miles nonstop..
for so many years, and to the be- HAND THEM OVER TO A NEW
lief that there was no possibility of an early war. Economies wore
Insisted on, anx the military
Tự
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
--Dr. A. Saltor
London, Jan. 25,
authorities, in consequence wore compelled to take grave risks. Pickwickians, both old and young, from all parts of the world the necessary modernisation of the Not only was it Impossible to effect
Dr. Alfred Salter, M.P., advocated at Friends' House on "Tucs- including the United States, will get together here on March 31 Army, but oven essential replace day the handing over of our colonial possessions to a new League to honour the centenary of the immortal Samuel Pickwick,
ments of such equipment as we of Nations. On that date falls the hundredth, luncheon in Rochester.
had could not be made.
He was speaking as a member of treme Socialist and Pacifist. Aftor anniversary of the publication of Dramatized versions of "Pick- The result is that, compared a group of Christian pacifists. all, however, he does not say much the first monthly number of wick Papers" will be presented in with the armies of certain other The group, he said, had agreed to more than all the Socialists say. Charles Dickens "Pickwick Pa- London theatres on the same day, countries, the British Army to-day advocate the summoning of a world Mr. Lansbury takes the same pera."
while "Dickens Ball" will be is starved not only of men but of conference of nations. Unlike the view.-"If we were in power wo Under the sponsorship of the held in the ovening
weapons and supplies, For many Genova organisation, tho new would say to France, Germany, Dickens Fellowship a number of A special celebration dinner years now the sum available for League would not be fettered to the Japan, America and other coun- Pickwick "fans" will travel by will be held during March, at experimenting with modern equip Treaty of Versailles. Britain trios: stage-conch from Charing Cross, which the Duke of Kent will pro-mont and applying it has not ex- should hand over her colonies to "We are ready to share every- in London, to Rochester-one of pose the toast of "The Immortal cooded £1,000,000 a year. And as this body and at the same time thing we have with everything that the familiar hatints of Pickwick, Memory of Charles Dickens." Ports- recently as last year only about should be ready to forego her you hayo." (Monmouthshire, Juno Winkle, Snodgrass, Sam Weller mouth, birthplace of Charles £600,000 remained avaliable for strategic hold on the world's com- 18, 1985). and the other original Pick- Dickens, will celebrate his memory purchasing up-to-date equipment mercial routes.
Mr. wickians. The President of the with a luncheon at the Guildhall and ammunition for the field
Herbert Morrison, at There would be, continued Dr. Brighton, said: "I would be pre- Dickens Fellowship, Alderman attended by the Lord Mayor. Drmy. Sir Stephen Kilik, who was Lord
Salter, supervision of all inter-pared to say that no Individual Finally, various Dickens. ex- Events of the past few months national waterways and fuelling State should have Crown Colonies Mayor of London last year, will hibitions will be staged includ-show that during the time when stations and control Bf the world's at all-that the French, Italian and be received by the Mayor of ing a collection of his manuscripts this starvation' polley has been in air services. These measures, he British Colonies should be handed Rochester: Members of the at 48, Doughty-street. London, operation the potential military argued, would lead to total "dis-over to the League of Nations and Dickons Fellowship from all over where "Pickwick Paporn wore commitments and liabilities have armament, the world will be entertained, at completed in 1807-United Press. boen steadily increasing,
administered and controlled by the Dr. Salter, of course, is an ex-Leaguo itself."
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