THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.
CAR FIRMS TURN TO 'PLANES
SEVEN ARE TO LORD.
WORK AS TEAM BEATTY
LEAVES
TWO motor-car companies-Austin and Rootes-have
concluded an agreement with the Air Ministry to £174,000 erect a factory for the manufacture of airplane frames,
fie, was certain that a Minister of
engines.
Seven companies--Messrs.ppointment of a new Minister would DIVIDED BETWEEN delay reorganisation which is be-f Austin, Rootes, Daimler.ing carried out now,
HIS TWO SONS Standard, Rover, Singer, Supply would not have secured DMIRAL OF THE -FLEET and Wolseley-have agreed quicker results than those which he
anniticed for speeding up the pro-EARL BEATTY, who died. to work as a team" in the duction
and on March 11. has left £174.902 of airplane, frames
(net personalty £120,634). production of airplane en- The best brains of the enuntry Lord Beatty, was Commander have decided it," he said of the frames of the Grand Fleet 1916-1919, ginės.
factory, These announcements; of pro- The lay-out is complete; plans for Admiral of the Flect in 1919, and When gress in the Government's re-putting out the specifications for ten-First Sea Lord 1919-27.
ders are ready. armanient programme were made in the House of Commons of railway sidings, and diversion of
"The plans for plant, requirements he died he was 65.
He left Brooksby, Hall, Leices recently by Sir Thomas Inskip, ronds to make an airdrome have been tershire, to his son David, an
annuity of £100 to his valet| He is the Co-ordinating Minister completed.
"The whole project la tow ready William Woodley, an annuity of of Defence, but prominent Con-
for erection of buildings, Installation] £100 to his butler Panerazio! servatives arged that the job of plant, and production of frames," Angostina, an annuity of £75 to ton lig for one maa.
WILL INSURE OUTPUT.
his groom, Russell, and the residue i Sir Edward: Gong, Sir Robert
Other firms are expected to make Horne, and Mr. Churchill brought similar contracts. into public the private dheusslors As to the seven firms combining on defence which they conducted at on airplane engines, Sir Thomas Lord Winterton's house party re- maid: cently.
one
The party seems to have broken up in diagreement, because Wanted a Minhder of Supply, an-j other wanfejl to ale him com- pulsory powers, and a third sald he should only be given powers of persuasion.
Sir Edward Gring said our friends)
in Europe were alarmed, and less) peaceful, nations were
chcouraged!
eminence I
of the property as to two-thirds to his son David and one third to his son Peter.
KILLED IN ABYSSINIA
EXIT. J.H.T.
"These firms of acknowledged Major Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, į
making internal, of Corfe Coffure, Taunton, Somer-i Mr. d. H. Thomas on his way to combustion engines have agreed to set, who was killed by a bomb from Buckingham Patare, to hand a form themselves Into com- an Italing airplane while serving his seal of offer and to take bade "They will work us a team to in Abyssinia in a Red Cross unit,f the King on relinquishing his post
mitter.
alterate among themselves the production of airplane engines.
They will put forward a cul- and-dried scheme to secure the mtput required.
hear
by the disclosure made a week ago; It might be said, he concluded, that when Sir Thomas Inskip admitted, the Government should have mide that it would be four or five months these plans earlier, "Bear, before there were sufficient gauges) interjected Lord Winterton. and machine tools to operate the re- armament programme.
He wanted the appointment of a special Minister to concentrate manufacture of war materials.
"PLAIN DUTY"
a
"So for as I personally am con- cerned," Sir Thomas Inslip sald, "I should be the first person to welcome"]
foresta.
These cheers leave me gumoved,' Isald Sir Theantes.
“And you are leaving England are defended.“ sumprod Lord Winterton,
Sir Thomas furned round and with a great air of dignity said:
"That
is not worthy of the huble tord. He must do me justier.”
"I say your plans are all in arrears
fins loft 12:12.
as Colonial Secretary.
NAZI TRIBUNAL
BEGINS MORALITY TRIAL OF MONKS
Coblenz Ghineland), June 10,
tent of a Minister of all of them without exception," said Supply to take some of the heavy Mr. Churchill. responsibility off my shoulders--15 T All through 1 next vighteen thought it was in the country's in-mouths, when the preparations were stowly being made, there would be "It the flovernment think the increasing anxiety. Mr. Churchill time has come to clothe a Minister; raid, an enormous vista of anxiety. gainst mdrality, and their trial js; empulsory anxiety growin week by week the first of a long series of telais powers it is their plain duty to, throughout the nation veritable of 267 Prauciscan monks and lay-
A BROWN-ROHED, white-girdled Franciscan munk, his tonsure covered with a skull enp, bis fact with sandals, shuffled into the dock before a special tribunal in Coblenz in-tiny. Three brother. Franciscans followed him.
uf Munitions
take that decision whatever effect Valley of the Shadow.
may have an the industrial
of the nation.
"What I do," he went on, "is to keep abreast of the performance of the different departments in hele programme, to help them not to get! In each other's way, to stimulate them by sering the industrialistsi
All four are gerused of offences
mea from the Rhineland on simi-
On tais grave note the House ad- lar charges. Jarned,
Australia's
who are responsible for producing) Desert Water
materials.
"These are the duties which 杂 Minister of Supply would perform. Are these dufles too, much for my; shoulders? That is the whole ques- tion,"
Baldwin. Pointing to Mr.
Sie Thomas' said they would consider the question together, but in his view the
Not Practicable to
Take Death Out Of Gas
THE general
consensus
Reserves Drop
Sixty-one
other monks. also wanted by the police, escaped by arranging for
their transfer to
Franciscan munusturies abroad,
Long before to-day's trial begun
Dialling Ships At Sea
women, girls and men fought to gain TELEPHONY entrance to the court. They were disappointed.
They heard the presiding judge ask the first prisoner, Bernhardt Stein- hoff: "You canfessed to the crimes of which you are accused. Do you uphold that confession?"
GOVT. PERTURBED
They heard Steinheil murable "Ja" Adelaide, S. Aust,, June 18. Then the Julge ordered the court Disquieting reports concerning room to be cleared. "Owing to the underground water supplies in nature of the evidence to be enlied
he-said, the proceedings will be held. some of the more arid parts of in camern." Australia have been received by the Minister of Water Supply, Herbert S. Hudd, from government) experts. These show" that the volume is decreasing and that the || future of pastoral-and shep
Mary's Lamb
of producing country must eventually Has Rival
opinion in the gas industry be affected.
Mr. Hurld received details of the is that it is not at present prae-
condition tienble to take death out of gas-northern areas.
of 45 bores in De for
In no case has the For some time now experiments low increased, and it can be accept- have been made to render gas ed that generally, the tendency is used in-homes harmless to human toward eliminishing supplies. The He, and the Research Executive various artesian basins of Australia Committee of the British Comproximately one third of the total cecuply 850,000 square mile-ap- mereial Ĝas Association havo been carefully watching the German of the Commonwealth. process, for taking poison out of
Has.
ARTESIAN WELLS
Over a large section of this basin, artesion water is the only water nvailable. Advices from Queenslan
In Australia
INVENTION
UNDER TEST
New York, June 23. The possibility that telephone subscribers may, in the future, be able to "dial" the numbers of ships at sea, and speak direct to them without human inter- vention is raised by an invention which is now being given practical trial here.
The immediate proposal is that the dialling should be carried out by the operators at radio tran- smitting stations handling maritime trallic. Hitherto, there has been no means other than the use of a call sign, for singling out one ship from others receiving the same waves length.
Apparatus, ay so dur developvel, Mary's little lamb has a rival provides for the allocation of three figure numiters for ships. With the in "Cocky, a galah, parrot system used this permits of some which every day escorts the 60 different code signs being used, Russell children to school from but it is understood that this figure their farmstead home at War could be considerably increased with- wick; New South
out difficulty. Wales. Having seen them safely in the school gates he flies home again.
Hamelin, the city of the Pied state that some of the bores in that Piper, has laid down a plant country have been minst prolifle, nne which, it is claimed, will supply running at the rate of 2,300,000 gal- its householders with non-poison-lous a day. oua as for lighting and cooking. In many instances, however, there
In his presidential address read to is now only a dribble from the borea. escorts an older boy, Stan, to the the British Commercial Gas Associo- The Federal Minister in Charge station to catch his train to his
First of all, however, Cocky
CARD -PARTY LOSSES
Colonel's "Standard
Of Honour"
Judgment was given for plain- tiff for £1,000 in the King's Dench Division, London, recent-
ly
in the action brought by Captain Robert Street. Mayfair, 10 recover from Colonel Frede rick John Roberts, of Ladbroke Square, London, £1,035 which he said, he tent hin. Of the total amount claimed, £1,000 was in ro speet of the Colonel's losses at game of chemin de fer at Captain' Gibson's flat, and £35 is the balance due on previous loans.
0
The Colonel's defence on the main issue the claim for £1,000 was denial that the money was lent as stated and that it was in respect of j a gambling loss.
Mr. Beyfus, K.C., for the plaint!?, slated that Capt. Gibson tool:
part in the game In question and plaintiff, in the witness box, pave corroborative evidence. Ile further stated that of the £1,000 claimed in respict of the game, be gave defendant £536 in cash, and a cheque for £404.
In reply to Mr. B. M. Cloutmin.
K.C. 1115 counsel, Col. Roberts
told how, from time to time during
1934, he received Invitations to gard purties from Capt. Gibson. "In the early days." he said, "they were held regularly
why very fortnight/
Mr. Cloutman-When was the last party you attended?—April 11, 1934, Mr. Cloutnan-At the close of.the play you were £1,000 out?—Yes,
It has been said that the game lasted about an hour and a half?--it must have gone on for four or five hours. The game broke up about | four o'clock in the morning: R mount have started about half-past eleven. SIGNED A CHEQUE
"A1 the close of play," sald Colorl Roberts," said to Gibson, How much have you got me down for He replied, One, themand pounds," Then I gald, 'On, yes-let me have a cheque.
They keep prepared blank sheets," explattic
who
added, "Purcell provided fountain pen and I signed the cheque and then. when I left, I said, 'Don't you pay that in until I tell you to do go."
witness,
Mr. Choutun-1 is said that some of the money was paid to you in cash by Gi
Gibson? That 15 absolute mis- taku, Gibson has never paid me a penny of cash over the table- certain- ly not during 1931.
It is paid that he gave you a cheque for £464, as well as £630 cash-f say that that is another definite mis- statement.
Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, K.C. (cross- examining)-You are a Colonel?-1 am Mr. Roberts. I was a Colonel at one time.
Bir Beyfus-You put yourself for- ward us an honourable man 7-Yes.
Did you prompt your counsel with regard to whether Mr. Gibson was the Central Criminal charged at mentioned it, and I did not know it. Court-Must decidedly not.
ATTENDED SEVERAL PARTIES
I never
"Witness" said that he frequented
Mr. Gibson's parties from. time to
time.
Mr. Beyfus-And parties given by persons other than Mr. Gibson?.
Only one other party-It was a party for a charity.
You did not regard yourself as a frequented criminal because you then?--Never.
Was Mr. Gibson a criminal because) he gave such parties?--Nu.
You were gambling for heavy sums at Mr. Gibson's parties?—Well, yes.
Hundreds of pounds?-it may be that.
And it may be £1,000-No, only)
on one occasion.
Were you winning or losing?--- Loving.
And up to April 11 you had always paid?-1 always paid.
When the code number of any ship Were you in a position at that time dialled, a boil will ring in the radio to gamble in hundreds of pounds?- cabin of the ship, but not in any Obviously, or I could not have paid | others,
tho although
receiving up.
And there was no reason why you equipment may in each case be tuned
should not gamble?-Na. to the same wave-length.
The code transmission consists of A bankruptcy of, my client was three series tone quises, each of brought out Were you ever a bank-
ndardised length, the number of rupt?--Yes. pulses in each series correspondiug in 1025? Yes.
And did you get an order of dis-i Moncrieff Carr, engineer, general Lachlan, in a repert which the South trip to school. Whenever a car code number. In the system, us at manager and clerk of the Stretford Australian Government has received,
In January, February and Marchi, and District Gng Board, stated that states he is not aware if a marked approaches he perches on the present developed, the three figures
an undischarged of the code number always add up 1934, you were the German process hnd also come shortage has been noticed in shoulder of one of the children in to 17, but this appears to be merely bankrupt? Yes.
the under the review of the Council of the fartesian bores in the southern partia protecting attitude.
a matter of working convenience.
How much did you owe to your International Gas Union.
of Northern Australia. But he had
creditors in your bankruptcy?—I Cocky is "boss" of the animals
ENSURING ACCURACY The general consensus of opinion been informed oficially that in por-
should think £10,000 or perhaps appeared to be that it was not at tions of the Northern Territory there and birds in the neighbourhood, At the receiving end fl ratchet £14,000. present practicable, under normal had been considerable slackening in and permits no impertinence from wheel le so arranged as to
Did you really regard your credi- manufacturing conditions, to ren-underground supplies which were
tors ag persons to be completely for- bell when it has turned through der Has completely non-toxic, and serious for pastoral, mining and other dog, cat, or fowl. None, in fact, an electrical relay, which ringe a has the courage to approach his distance corresponding to 17 notches
Botten? -No. AVY RAINS
How much did they get In the beating wings or his beak. He of the wheel.
pound? I couldn't tell you. The South Australian Government has never been trained, and his The real ingenuity of the system, It was recently stated that the gas experts report that for the past 10 wings have never been clipped, however, Hes in a mechanical device industry in Great Britain does not years condiilors have been very dry says Austral Newn. He is permit the effect, of which is that the wheel consider that if carbon monoxide were in central Austraila. Indeed, there ted to come and go in the Russell in the radio cabin of a particular eliminated, this step would reduce the are creeks which have not run, for household just as he pleases, and total number of suicides even. by one. 17 or 18 years.
he makes himself quite at home.
tion in London recently, Colonel W. of Development, Senator James Mc-job. Then he returns for his with the separate integers of the charge?-Yes, in October, 1934.
that even if it were so, there were developmental industries reasons which rendered such. prae- † tice undesirable.
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Did they get 10s. In the pound?-I did not know that they got anything. left for South America after my bankruptcy.
"STANDARD OF HONOUR" QUESTION
.
ship will only be turned through the necessary 17 divisions if the three separate impules, adding up to this figure, are each of the right number and received in the right order.
You had suclent of this world's Otherwise it springs back to Its goods to gamble in hundreds of original position.
pounds? Yes. I saw no reason why if I won hundreds of pounds at one game I should not lose, it at another. That was your standard of honour? ---I don't see how that enters into the matter.
Thus the relay on one ship may be operated by impulses represented by the successive code figuren 684 (ndd- ing up to 17), but not by any other combination of. figures giving that total.
enlla
to in-
Were you a member of a firm of An official of the General Post bookmakers?-Never in my life. Offico. explained that
Have you been attacked in the dividual ships were at present put mining ventures? There is a case Press with regard to some of your through on a time-scheduled basis. pending. Urgent calls depended on the call-
Witness said that a writ had been sign for the ship required being issued last year in a libel action. duly picked up by that ship although
Mr. Beyfus You don't pose here na the transmission was outside its. a callow youth? You are a man of scheduled period.
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