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1936.
GERMANY'S NEW ROADS
MAND
BIG LORRIES BUILT TO WHO
RUN ON THEM
NEVER OWED
CAPABLE OF TRANSPORTING 72,000 LESS THAN
.
SOLDIERS AN HOUR
-French- General's Statement
Paris, Feb. 20.
£5,000,000
BANK CHAIRMAN'S "CONFESSION"
THE development in Germany of great strategic motor roads and of new types of enormous motor lorries to
Banking changes that have oc- run on them, which together would confer an unprecedent-curred in the last century were ed degree of mobility on vast mechanised armies, are recalled at the annual meetings of described in the current issue of the Revue des Deux (the Westminster Bank and the Monres, by General Serrigny, one of France's great Midiand Bank in London. Both military authorities, a former secretary of the Higher banks are celebrating their centen- Council of National Defence, and former deputy-chief of ary. the French General Staff..
To-day, he declares, the motor is monarch in the realm of military transport, and this truth, he adds, has been grasped and exploited to the utmost by the German mili- tary leaders ever since the day on which it was decided that Germany should rearm.
The Hon. Rupert E. Beckett, chairman of the Westminster, spoke of the days when banks were owned by country squires. The banker of that day was more in terested in his farms and horsek
and hountls than in his bank, and he would give himself a substan-
stables.
tial overdraft to keep up his
Whereas three years ago the biggest motor lorries known in Germany had a useful load of eight tons, to-day,
The change over from the pri he states, there are to be seen on German roads 15-tons vate trading firm to the private or lorries, each with a six-wheeled trailer.
public limited company did a great In less than two years,
deal to alter the relations of cus says indicates a clear strategic purtomer and banker. General Serrigny, lorries and pose. First there is a great trailers capable of carrying 50| lateral artery, running from Referring to the bank's jiabilities tons between them will appear. Dusseldorf to Munich, parallel to the publle, Mr. Beckett sold: Orders are being placed with with the Franeo-Belgian frontler, "To me personally it is curious that engine specialists for motors of with four branches running 'up to one of our favourite aphorisms 300 and 100 horse-power.
the frontier itself.
should be directed to the iniquity | Unparalleled Rapidity of owing money, because ever since There is another lateral road I came to man's estate I have never from Stettin to Gleiwitz, parallel owed less than £5,000,000 and now with the Polish frontier, with owe, or rather am responsible for, branches directed towards Danzig no less than £322,000,000 of other and East, Prussia. Gleiwitz, of people's money." course, is not for from the Czecho-Slovakian frontier. Other roads will join these two great lateral highways.
An idea of the extent to which, according to General Sorrigny, heavy mechanical transpo, is being developed in Germany is given by the fact that the sales of heavy lorries rose from 15,000 in 1931 to 40,000 in 1934.
These huge lorries, such as are already in existence and under construction cannot be used to full advantage on existing roads; therefore, the Germans havo undertaken to construct a series of special motor roads of enor mous width and carrying capacity.
150,000 Man At Work-*** These roads have each two car- riage-ways, from 26ft. to 40ft. wide. On each the traffic moves in one direction only. Separating the two carriage-ways is a belt of grass 15ft. wide with a hedge or fence running along it to cut off headlight benms so that drivers may not be blinded by each other's lamps,
These carriage-ways are laid on foundations of concrete 2ft thick. They are connected to the existing main roads.
BANKING DEMOCRATISED
Mr. Reginald McKenna, chairman of the Midland Bank, who presided General Serrigny says that on at the bank's annual meeting, said these great roads lorries, run that 100 years ago it was a mark ning in double file and carrying of social distinction or businces thirty men each at an average distinction to "keep a banker," but speed of 38 miles an hour, could in the course of the century bank- deliver soldiers at the rate of
72,000 an hour to a given point, ing had become democratised: even supposing an equal num- Looking back upon the story of ber of lorries were also on the our own bank," said Mr. McKenna, "we see that the progress in bank. rond carrying material and am- munition.
ing technique has been remarkable.
fact, permait of three lorries run ment in the fact that the turnover The carriage-waya would, in The vast increase in the use of the cheque finds Bome rough measure- ning abreast. Thus there would be space for any lorry which broke of the London. Clearing House in down to drop to one side without whereas last year it was nearly 1840 was less than £1,000,000,000, the road being blocked.
"Mechanised armies," says the 40 times as much.
vastly enlarged population."
general, "will be able to move from "A hundred years ago thero was the left to the right wing, or from only one banking office to roughly In July 1934, says General one theatre of operations to an-15,000 people, whereas the propor Serrigny, 38,600 men were work-other, with a rapidity so far un-tion to-day is one lo 4,000 of the ing on the construction of these known." ronds. In November of the samo yeur more than 70,000 men were engaged, while it is estimated that the number has now risen to 150,- 000.
By the spring of this year nearly 400 miles of these roads will be finished, and more than twice this length will be .com- pleted by the end of the year. According to General Serrigny, the layout of this system of roade
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In Tulsa, Okla., hasbamia keld their are going to reverse the order A wives with one hand, and that's week before the February Loap Year sometimes hard to do) while holding ball the girls are going to hold a the watch is the then to feminine ballottors for selection of ■ ordinanco" went into effect. Wives in bull of the ball." Tulsa who drive their husbandr 10 the office and take more than Joseph Bonnelt, Detroit factory minutes in the farewell clinch are worker, looking for "action" lost guilty of a misdemeanour.
$667 in a game called "I betchn I 27 Buys gilt-edged securities. more Money than You, Bonnet 80 Weeds regarded as a vegetable. * Mr. De Valera stated in the Dall But the quickest move of the week tak police that he and William 31 Continent. last month, that he hoped to be happened in Boston. While being Dennison got playing the game and 32 Blocks in city thoroughfares. able to say definitely son whether held in a torturing grip by Wrestler when ho put $607 on the table, 33 Take down the Christmas de-
Dennison ran away with it. Abo Stein, Wrestler Gene Dubue pro- the British Government are prepar-duced a match from his belt and set captured Dennison, kept the money as ed to grant permission for the re-fire to Stein's trunks. Stein shrieked evidence, and Bonnett hitchhiked to moval of the remains of Sir Roger and leaped to his feet, beating out work. Casement from Pentonville Prison. the flames with his hands while the
An official of the Dominions crowd cheered. The incident must Oddities in the news. You can Office told a London newspaper
Stein's blood boil, too, reduce by staying in bed, the Ameri- representative that nothing was because when the haut was resumed can Medical association Journal re- known there of an application from he quickly finished M. Dubuc. Sorta ports. The average porson weighs the Free State Government; an put him out like a light!
1.3 pounds less when he gets out of bed than when he retires. The University of Missouri Co-eds, of reduction, however, is not permanent. Columbin, (Mo), long-suffering con. Evaporation of water from the skin testants in competition to select the and lungs causes the loss of weight, Queen of This or the Quesa of Thai,' the Journal said.
official of the home Office said that no statement could be made.
Sir Roger Casement was executed for high treason in 1016.
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