THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936.
SINGER TWO BATTLESHIP ORDERS PLACED
CLAIMS
LINER
MADE
HER ILL
NASTIA POLIAKOVA,
concert singer, has! filed a suit in the Federal Court for £20,000 damages! against the French Line, Owners of the liner Normandie.
She alleges that the vibration of the ship shook loose a stone i in her left kidney, which led to infection and an operation, and the loss of a fifty pounds a week contract.
"There wa musically excessive, Unseaworthy vibration," she com- plains, "in the nelidbouchéod of ty stateroom during my crossing a geor Ago
"CANNOT PROTECT OUR TRADE ROUTES"
ADMIRAL'S NAVY WEEK COMPLAINT
Navy Werk, Britain's Big Parade of the sea, opened in driving rain at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chat- ham.
Over 23,700 attended, 700 more than last year.
Speaking from Neron's Bagship,
ILMS. Victory, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, declared that this Navy Week would advertise what
was left of it. He said:
"When Lorit Jellicoe salted to fight at Scape he had nearly us many cruisers with him as we have at the moment, and 50 per cent. of ours ure obsolete.
The Navy has been increased, I hope, in the nick of time. but there will be a heavy bill to pay. We are In a different perátion from what we were in 1914.
"Then we were able to protect' our trade routes. Now-to put it bluntly—we cannot.
EMPIRE'S IMPULSE "Trade routes are the pulse of the Empire if that pulse stops beating it will be the end of the Empire.
"Warships take years to build; tramps take years in train. But you may be assured that what is left of the Navy is ns efficient as training and money and good will ean make 11,"
"FOURTH LİNE"
Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of Landon--who is "Adiniral of the Port of London"-went to Chatham by the destroyer Selmitar, which carried him from Tower Pier, London. ing the Week he asked:
In open-
"What is the use of having a good
REBEL-
Work Begins Before Prices Are Fixed
General Tal Ting-kal, former C-in-C of the 19th Roue Army. broadcasting last Tuesday at Nan-
nius.
MEMORIAL OUTRAGE WITH BEER BOTTLES
THE
Rorchester, Aug. 15.
war memorial at West
Lulworth, Dorset, which has
been desecrated by rowdies, is
to be rededicated to-day.
The Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Neville Lovett, decided to take this action when, after a village dance, beer bottles had been placed on the memorial.
One bottle was placed on top of the cross. The Bishop tout the committee of the parish hall in which the dance took place that he was shocked by the occurrence,
The commitleg, who attribisted the rowdyism to campers, have closed the hull for entertainment for a !week.
BILLIARDS MARATHON
Sydney, Aug. 20. Two-billiard-players are training here to push a billiard ball four miles-Bruter,
FIRST LORD CLAIMS COSTS WILL BE WATCHED.
CONTRACTS have been placed by the Admiralty for two battle-
ships, and the keels are to be laid in January next..
Sir Samuel Hoare (First Lord of the Admiralty) Jannounced in the House of Commons recently that Vickers Armstrong would build one ship at Walker-on- Tyne and Cainmell Laird the other ship at Birkenhead.
Complete specifications will not be ready until October, he continued, and the price is to be fixed later.
Challenged by members of the Opposition, Sir Samuel denied thunt to place orders without specifications or tendera was a new departure in policy.
ills claim that prices would be, was probable that the engines for based on three both ships would be built on the Tyne. safeguarded was grounds:
14-INCH GUNS AND
(1) That by the time they were] ased tendera would be in hand for battleships of the 1937 programme and comparison would be inade.
Flets are to allow the (2) Admiralty complete facilities for examination of estimates of east after specifications have been sup- plied. (3)
In cases of disagreement on prices the final decision rests with the First Lord of the Admiralty. NOTHING TO FEAR
FROM PLANES?
Sir Samuel added that he had re- ceived an advance copy of the inquiry into the bomb v. battleship question, and it did not appené that design would
be affected by the recoin- mendations.'
Answering Miss Irene Ward (C., Wallsend-on-Tyne) Sir Samuel said it
SIX FILM STARS ARE WORRYING
Hollywood, Aur. 20. SIX men whose love-making
has quickened the hearts of millions of women in the world's | cinemas were worried,
The reason for their fright is that! their nines
dury appear in a alleged to have been written by Miss Dr. Astor after her divorce from Franklyn Thorpe in April 1935.
They hope that on Monday Judge Goodwin Knight will decide that the diary is inadinissible as evidence.
announce otherwise Should he
| Mr. Joseph Anderson, counsel for Dr. Thorpe, will subpoena those panic- stricken stars.
Hollywood celebrities said by Dr. Thorpe to have stalked through the pages of this diary insisted to-day that they are entirely innocent.
band's charges of immoral conduct. Miss Astor denies her former_bus-
and states that her writings, weMA "unformulated" thoughts.
Mother Accused Of Killing Son's Wife
Paris, Aug. 20..
Navy, Army, and Air Force if we ON a charge of strangling the beautiful wife of her son, Mme. Maury, fifty-year-old wife of a Douni hairdresser, was to-day arrested as she hid behind heaps of rubbish in the cellars of a block of flats af Lille,
have no fourth line of defence? I hope the Government will bring in al Bill to make agriculture our fourth line of defence."
King's Pet For Museum
King Edward has sent to the British Museum a mounted scarlet- breasted parrakeet—a bird which was formerly King George's pet.
Half an hour before neighbours in the Ants had heard twenty-two- year-old Jeanne Maury, wife of Lieutenant Maury, cry "I am being murdered,"
Police found young Mme. Maury dead,`after being apparently strangled with a bootlace.
The police state that considerable friction had existed between the mother and her daughter-in-law, whom the mother reprunched with having brought no money to her marriage.
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PLANE CATAPULTS Nelson and Rottney, the only two battleships built for the Navy since were also ordered from the war, these two shipyards, writes a naval! Correspondent,
Cust Nelson and Rodney
over £7,500,000 each, but it is expected that the present ships will be some- what less expensive,
They will be of approximately 35,000 tons displacement, with 14 in. main armament, in addition gins 65 to smaller weapons such as 8 in., 4 In.. and multiple pom-poms. Catapults and at least three aircraft will form an important part of their equipment.
BRIDE OF FIFTEEN
SHOOTS HERSELF
Kannur City, Aug. 20. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD bride, A who married & mouth age o sixty-pear-old man, has committed suicide here.
She was Mildred Wheeler. She what herself after being repri mauled by her faband,
Але
his
Tom Wheeler, the husband, told the Coroner that he had a slight
wife. iz argument with which he had threatened to restit reformntory be- her to the State ref cause
persisted in running around with pounger men,
The bride then went to her room, u pirce of string to the tripger of small rifle and fired the weapon with her toe.
She died in an umbulance.
tied
Paying-Off Britain's
Saddest Debt
HE Ministry of Pensions THE
hopes to finish paying for its share of the cost of
the Great War by 1955-41 years after its outbreak.
LEADERS
General 11 Chal-tum. former mill- fary chief at Canton, at the intera. phone at Nanning fast Tuesday, when a big military gallering was held,
HUSBAND
ACCUSES MONSTER' Leigh-on-Sea, (Essex), Aug. 20.
YOUNG man who this morn- ing told Scuth-end magis- trates that his wife stole to meet the demands of "a scoundrel and a monster," said to-night: "I am counting the days until she will be free".
Thirty-year-old Mary Smith is in prison-three months for stealing £4 108.. from the till of in Westcliff shop.
Her husband,' stunned by her sentence, sought solace at the home of his parents at Leigh-on-Sea..
He did not seek In vain,
He was sitting, head bowed ou his hands, listralng to words of comfort, when seen to-nlalt.
The husband gold in court: “When I met my wife she was a very un- happy woman, I was sorry for her and I married her. We were very happy.
tore than heing sorry for her.
I begun to love her. Then she met this man again.
"I learned she had lived with him for two or three years before I met hot.
........... COLLAPSE..IN.COURT.
"He said to her: I want some money from you, and if I don't get it I shall tell your husband and his
father that you have been to prison,
and that you were my creature for more than two years.'
when my wife told him she had no money, he advised her to pawn her wedding ring.
"Altogether she has sent to this man, through a post office in London, between £15 and £20.
"I can say nothing more than this Last year the gross expendi--that I will stick to my wife what-
ever happens." ture of the Ministry of Pensions He collapsed and was led from was £43,296,874-for war pen sions and compensation allow ances to 1,006,000 people.
Since 1918 the Ministry han spent 1,135,000,000, and more than £139,000,000 of that sum has been used for food, clothing, and education for war orphans. In 1921, the peak year, the Ministry pald out £60,000,000 in pensions.
At the end of the war there were 67 Ministry-controlled hospitals for disabled soldiers.
Now there are ten and a few clinics for out-patients.
6,000 ARE INSANE
"In a few years' time," ar oficial} at the Ministry said "only £1,000,000
a year should be needed for pensions.
"And it ls estimated
that the
Ministry may finish its work by
1055."
One of the unidest facts in the
#gures
i that over 4,000 officers and
men are certified insane..
More than 10,000 fighting mich are undergoing treatment in hospitals and are not able to leave, although there are still hopes that they will be cured.
In 1921. 17.380 hospital beds were used. To-day only 3,200 beds are needed in hospitals con- trolled by the Ministry.
court.
His wife burst into tears--WAS carried below-fuinting.
When the husband spoke at home he clasped and unclasped his hands despairingly.
"For two years," he said, "we have been unbelievably happy. I never had a thing to complain of,
"I shall wait for her release--for a fresh start with the past forgot- lon,"
TIN SHORTAGE NOW A MENACE
BRITAIN'S supply of tin-
essential to armament manufacturers and nearly every other industry—would. last for only one week if out- side supplies were cut off.
STOCKS DEPLETED About 24,000 tons of. tin áre used every year by British smelters.
toduce less than 700 tons a year.
Once there. were 200,000 war widows receiving pensions. To-day the figure is reduced to 134,415, 120,- 000 of them having re-married..
Film. Artist
Wed
Engineer
Hollywood, Aug, 20. Charlotte Henry, the alm artist, announces that she is 'to marry Mr. George J. Martin, an engineer. The date for the wedding has not yet been sattled-Router.
:
British mines in Cornwall
pro-
The rest comes from Bolivia, the East Indies, and Penang.
A year ago, there were huge "surplus stocks of tin in Britain. *To-day there Is a most serious
shortage.
This shortage," said, a leading tin broker," a menace to our na- tional defence.
"If our culalde supplies were to be suddenly cut off we stiould be without in in a week."
Charlotte Henry is 21." After a brief stage career she went into filmi.“ Her
recent most
ap-
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