THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY
10,
1996.
THE
FACT 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, as 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
1936. 193,652
Territorial Army
254,779
· 129,147-
Army Reserve 2.
145,090
109,129
Special Reserve
59,000
Supplementary Reserve
19,525
607,119
451,453
Out of this total of 193,652 Regulars, 57,658 are normally stationed in India. From the remainder Britain has to meet coma- mitments in Egypt, the Colonies, and some of the Protectorates. Her overscas commitments, in fact, just before the present crisis, were absorbing more than half of the Regular Army. Since the ten- Colonel Piollet, whain name wassion in the Mediterranean start- wired round the world in connectioned large bodies of regular troops with the murder of the King in Marseilles, when he struck down have had to be sent abroad. King Alexander's assassin, has been
Reserves honoured for his act. Picture shows the colonel receiving the Cross of Commandour of the Legion of Honcur from General Caniolin.
The Ghost That Walked Too Often
POLICE ARRESTED IT
Paris, Jan. 25. THIS is the story of a "phan-
TC-
of Britain's The state serves is one. of the most seri- ous aspects of the position. The Army reserve, which
tank attack would be ludicrous if it were not so ierious. Tho plain fact is that 'wo have no anti-tank guns, and for the past fifteen years, at manœuvres and other exercises, their place has been taken by wooden dummies and flags.
AIRWAYS
This commonplace scene represents another milestone in man'. conquest over time and space-loading of mail into the Chies Clipper at Alamanda, Cal., for a round-trip flight between the United States and Manila. Another such trans-Pacific mall flight commences to. day.
ONE MAN HOLDS SUPER-PLANE SECRET
Judging by modern standards AGENTS of a dozen foreign Powers are anxious to learn
is 35,961, less than in 1913, and by the equipment. of other.
would be entirely absorbed Armics, Britain's cavalry and infan-
a secret locked in the brain of frail, silver-haired
in bringing the Regular try are using out-of-date and unrell Mr. Barnes Nevill Wallis, structural designer of Vickers. Army up to full strength in able light automatica. The Hotch(Aviation), Ltd.
kies was withdrawn from the
Recent reorganisation schemes involve the production of large quantities of machine-gune, and those are not yet available.
the event of war, and would cavalry many years ago and has still leave a shortage. Neither not been replaced. the Militia nor Special Reserva any longer exists, and therefore there is no source from which the gaps in the Regular Army could be filled, except the Territorial Army. tom" in an ancient castle that walked at midnight once too The Territorial Army often. Instead of vanishing at The only Second Line which the appropriate moment, it was is left in the Territorial Army,
police arrested by the
for which has accepted liability for burglary.
service overscus on general:
In the sphere of anti-aircraft defence betler type of anti-air- jernft gun is considered most desirable, but none has been pro- vided so far. Modern scientific in. struments for use in anti-aircraft defence is lacking. Anti-Aircraft Defences
For many weeks inhabitants of the little town of Blanzac, near Angouleme, had noticed a light flickering in the windows of a centuries-old uninhabited on mobilisation for war there meet it. The responsibility for
mobilisation. But recruiting for
While the "menace from the the Territorial Army is in a bad way, and it is about 38,000 under al" in widely discussed few people strength to-day.
The situation, therefore, is that realise how ill-equipped Britain is to
castle.
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come
the air-defence of London and the would be no trained men from whom to draw to make good the South of England from the ground wastage in the Regular Army until rests entirely with the Territorial
Army. the Territorial Army had been
At present the only arrange. trained and was ready to go overments that have been made are for In modern warfare especially, the defence of Greater London. the first few weeks are apt to beOther great centres are entirely the most critical, so it may be said that the Regular Army; after it had been brought up to strength, would
the seas.
The light seemed to from candle and moved eerily from window to window. Sometimes the silhouette of 21 ghostly monk appeared at windowsi. People began to revive a legend which held that 21 French aristocrat haunted the building.
Se alarming became the stories have no immediato possibility of that the police decided to further-trained reserves.
defenceless.
#t
Judge H. G. Sutton, above, is
• prasiding over the trial of Leo Hall and Mrs. Perry Paulos Port Orchard, Wash., charged with 'the mass murders of six perions near Bremerton in 1934,
SHOULD A
But CELIBATE PAY
BACHELOR TAX?
In the event of an attack on London from the air it is conceiva- ble that no warning will be given. It is obviously much more difcult to ensure the-rapid-manning-of. investigate. With a dozen of the Stores and Equipment posta by Territorials than by Regu- most courageous civillans in the
As far as stores and equipment far troops. Territorials, of course, town, they entered the castle grounds carrying revolvers and are concerned, the position is no are used for this important duty torches and walted for the weird less serious than in the ease of only on grounds of economy.
personnel. As in the case of the these units are below strength; Hght.
Scarcely had midnight struck Navy, the financial stringency of partly on account of the diflculty 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.
As far as the Regular Army is away into the dim recesses of the the supplies which were formerly
considered the minimum prudent concerned provision for anti-air- castle.
craft defence for the protection of In one of the bedrooms was reserve, oven In times of peace,
Last year, for example, the its own troops is at least 60 'per found a young man reclining on a luxurious divan bed. He gave stocks of gun ammunition alono cent. under modern requirements. the name of Daniel Pignon, and had reached such a dangerously confessed that he had broken low point that it was decided to Into the castle towards the end spend over £1,000,000 more than of last year and, finding that in the previous year in replenish- much of the furniture had been ing them. But this figure will not loft by the previous occupants,bo nearly sufficient to make good
the deficiencies. had decided to live there. "Everything worked wonderful- ly well," he said. "When I want ed money I took one of the old pieces of furniture and sold it to local antique dealera
There are grave deficiencies, in all kinds of arms and equipment, but possibly the most serious is the shortage of modern tanks.
All the standard (medium) tanks are entirely worn out and
"I reckoned to sell one piece of obsolete. A new design is ready, furniture or silverware every day but production has not been And every night I returned to the
started. castle to sleep. I used the candle to find my way to bed."
A large quantity of furniture which Pignon la alleged to have stolon has been recovered from antique dealers, and the "ghost" is now awaiting trial.
Dickens'. Centenary
PICKWICKIANS
Special Light Tanks, for ex clusive co-operation with in- fantry, are yet to be provided, and here again the production is nil at the present time.
Coast Defence
As with anti-aircraft defence,
Santiago, Chile, Jan. 24. Should a priest of the Catholic to pay Church be obliged "bachelor taxes" when he has been sworn to celibacy for life? Army Chaplain Bernardino
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 a few months.
Mr. Wallis is the inventor of geodetic airplane construction, the rst oficial details of which were published in the Daily Express last | month. It is an entirely mechanical system.
new
With its old, he has given to Britain
the power to bulld
faster, heavier, longer-tanged
airplanes than any other nation
can bulld.
常
The system has been applied to the Vickers-Wellesley long-range bomber just ordered for the R.A.F.
To-day, professors in Cambridga are striving to work out the reason for the success of the design in terms of mathematics. By 1938 they hope to be able to say Mr. precisely why and how Wallis's airplane has; this. Kuper- performance.
The engineering principles are so involved that Mr. Wallis alone
them understands thoroughly. Airplanes built on the geodetic system-a system of curved inter- lacking spars-seem able to with- stand the greatest strains. The fuselage can be neither snapped nor twisted.
n
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 or struts wires.
·OF
be
mass-
This airplane can produced.
Mr. Wallis Anya: "Give: me the Morris motor-car presses at: Oxford and I can mass-produce these airframes- at speed- almost as fast as the cheap light car of to-day."
The metal used is wafer thin. so with coast defence. Britain's Abarzun has brought suit against Specially twisted into geodetic coastal defences, both at home the Inland Revenue (Direccion tubes it assumes immense and in the Colonies, including General de Impuestos). Department, strength.
obsolescent Hongkong arc and quite unadapted to modern to decide the issue. requirements. So far as per- Abarzua declares that while sonnel is concerned, the man- there is nothing in the law to make cases, it Is ning of the coastal defences in exception In such Britain itself has been relegated logical to suppose that a priest should be exempt from taxes de- the Territorial entirely to Army, and it is obvious that algned to encourage men to marry. there could be no adequate protection against sudden at- tack. General
for What is the reason'
this
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 :
The first airplane type Mr. Wallis produced could fly 8,000. miles nonstop.
HAND THEM OVER TO A NEW LEAGUE OF NATIONS
-Dr. A. Saltor.
London, Jan. 25:
Dr. Alfred Salter, M.P., advocated at Friends' House' on Tues- day the handing over of our colonial possessions to a new League of Nations.
due, of course, to the general Dis- armament Polley which obtained. for so many years, and to the be- lief that there was ho possibility of an early war. Economies were Insistod on, and the military authorities in consequenco were compelled to take grave risks. London, Feb. 8.
Not only was it impossible to effect Pickwickians, both old and young, from all parts of the world the necessary modernisation of the including the United States, will get together here on March 31 Army, but oven essential replace to honour the centenary of the immortal Samuel Pickwick,
ments of such equipment as we had could not bo made.
He was speaking as a member of tremo Socialist and Paciflet. After On that date falls the hundredth luncheon in Rochester,
Dramatized Varsions of Pick- The result is that, compared a group of Christian pacifists. all, however, he does not say much anniversary of the publication of
Mr. Lansbury takes the enmo the first monthly number of wick Papora 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.
while a "Dickens Ball" will be is starved not only of men bat of conference of nations, Unlike the view. "If we were in power we now would say to France, Germany, Under the sponsorship of the hold in the evening..
(weapons and supplies. For many Geneva organisation, the Dickens Fellowship a number of A special celebration dinner years now the sum available for Leaguo would not be fettered to the Japan, America and other coun-
Britain tries Pickwick "fans" will travel by will be held during March, at experimenting with modern equip Treaty of Versailles. stage-coach from Charing Cross, which the Duke of Kent will pro-ment 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 ceeded $1,000,000, a year. And as this body, and at the same time thing we have with everything that the famillar haunts of Pickwick, Memory of Charles Dickens." Poris recently as last year only about should be ready to forego her you have." (Monmouthshire, June
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Winkle, Snodgrass, Sam Woller mouth, birthplace of Charles 4050,000 remained available for strategio hold on the world's com 18, 1935), and the other original Pick Dickens, will celebrate his memory purchasing up-to-date equipnient morcial routes. wickians. The President of the with a luncheon at the Guildhall and ammunition for the field. There would be, continued Dr. Brighton, said: "I would be pro-
army. Sa
Salter, supervision of all inter-pared to say that no individual Dickens Fellowship, Alderman attended by the Lord Mayor.
Events of the past Low months national waterways and fuelling State should have Crown Colonies Finally, various Dickens ex- Sir Stephen Killik, who was Lord Mayor of Londot last year, will hibitions will be staged includ-show that during the time when stations and control of the world's at all-that the French, Italian and pealsed by the Mayor falling a collection of his manuscripts this starvation policy has been in air services. These measures ho British Colonios should be handed Hochéster, w
er. Members of the at 48,-Doughty-street-London, uporation the potential military argued, would loal to total dis over to the Frugte of Nations and administered and controlled by the Dickens Fellowship from all over whare Pickwick Papers wore commitments anu labilities have armament,
Dr. Salter, of course, in an ox Leaguo itself." the world will be entertained at completed in 1837-United Press. boen steadily increasing.
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