THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936.
SINGER TWO BATTLESHIP ORDERS PLACED
CLAIMS
LINER
MADE
HER ILL
NASTIA POLIAKOVÁ,
concert singer,
has
filed a suit in the Federali Court for £20,000 damages against the French Line, liner of the
owners Normandie.
She alleges that the vibration! of the ship shook loose a stone in her loft kidney, which led to' Infection and an operation, and the loan of a fifty pounds a week. contract.
excessive
"There was, unukamlly unsenworthy vibration." she con← plains. "In the neighbourhood of my stateroom during my crossing a year sign,"
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"CANNOT PROTECT OUR TRADE ROUTES"
ADMIRAL'S NAVY WEEK COMPLAINT
REBEL-
Work Begins Before Prices Are Fixed
General Tsal Ting-kuf, former C.--C, or the 19th Route Army, broadcasting last Tuesday at Nan- I'ning.
MEMORIAL OUTRAGE WITH BEER BOTTLES
Navy Week, Britain's Big Parude of
in driving rain at THE the men, opened Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chat- 'ham,
Over 23,700 attended, 700 1lan last year,
more
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.
Speaking from Nelson's fagship, Neville Lovett, decided to take H.M.S. Victory, Admiral of the Fleet this action when, after a village Sir Reginnki Tyrwhitt, declared that | this Navy Week would advertise what dance, beer bottles had been
placed on the memorial. was left of it. He said:
"When Lord Jelljeor suffed to fight at Scapa he had nearly as many cruisers with him as we have at the moment, and 50 per cent, of ours are obsolete.
"The Navy has been increased, I hope, in the nick of time, but there will be a heavy hill to pay. We are in a different position from what we were in 1914.
"Then we were able to protect sur trade routes. Now--io 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 year to build; troops take years to train. But you may be assured that what is left of the Navy is as efficient as training and money and good will can make
"FOURTH LINE"
Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of London-who is "Adralral of the Port of London"-went to Chatham by the -destroyer Scimitar, which carried him; from Tower Pler, London. In open- ing the Week he asked:
"What is the use of having a good
Navy, Army, and Air Force if we
have no fourth line of defence? I hope the Government will bring in a Bil to make agriculture our fourth line of defence."
the
King's Pet For Museum
King Edward has sent to British Museum mounted scarlet- breasted parrakeel-a bird. which was formerly King George's pet.
One bottle was placed on lop of the cross.
The Bishop told the rommittee of the parish hall in which the dance took place that he was shocked by the occurrence,
The committee, who attributed the rodyism to campers, have einsed the hail for entertainment for week.
BILLIARDS MARATHON
Sydney, Aug. 20. Two bittard players are training here to push a billiard Ball four miles. Reuter.
FIRST LORD CLAIMS COSTS WILL BE WATCHED
CONTRACTS have been placed by the Admiralty for two battle-
ships, and the keels are to be Inid in January next.
Sir Samuel Hoare (First Lord of the Admiralty) announced in the House of Commons recently that Vickers Armstrong would build one ship at Walker-on- Tyne and Cammell Laird the other ship at Birkenhead.
Complete specifications will not be ready until October, hel continued, and the price is to be fixed later.
Challenged by members of the Opposition, Sir Samuel denied that to place orders without specifications or tenders was a new departure in policy.
Ils claim that prices would be, was probable that the engines for safeguarded Was based on three both ships would be bullt on the Tyne. pounds:
(1) That by the time they were 14-INCH GUNS AND fixed tenders would be in hand for battleships of the 1937 programme PLANE CATAPULTS no comparison would be made.
Nelson and Rodney, the only two Kurmu are to allow the battleships built for the Navy since Admiralty complete facilities for the war. were also ordered from examination of estimates of cost these two shipyards, writes a nuvuti after specifications have been sup- Correspondent. pliest.
(3) In cases of disagreement on| prices the final decision rests with the First Lord of the Admiralty.
NOTHING TO FEAR
FROM PLANES?
Nelson and Rodney cost 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 torn displacement, with 14 in. guns as a main armament, in addition
Sir Samuel added that he had re-to smaller weapons such as 0 in., 4 in.. ceived an advance copy of the inquiry and at least three aircraft will forn and multiple pom-poms. Catapulis into the bomb v. battleship question, an important part of their equipment. and i did not appear that design, would be affected by the revon- mendations.
Answering Miss Irene Ward (C.. Wallsend-on-Tyne) Sir Samuel said it
SIX FILM STARS ARE WORRYING
Hollywood, Aug. 20. men whose love-making SIX
has quickened the hearts of millions of women in the world's cinemas are worried.
The renson for their fright is that their names
Mary appear in alleged to have been written by Miss Astor after her divorce from Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in April 1935.
They hope that on Monday Judge i Goodwin Knight will decide that the diary is inadmissible as evidence,
Should
otherwise he announce Mr. Joseph Anderson, counsel for Dr. Thorpe, will subpuna those panie 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.
Miss Astor denies her former hus- band's charges of immoral conduct, and states that her writings "unformulated" thoughts.
Mother Accused Of Killing Son's Wife
Paris, Aug. 20.
were
a charge of strangling the beautiful wife of her son, Mme. Maury, fifty-year-old wife of a Doual hairdresser, was to-day arrested as she hid behind heaps of rubbish in the cellars of a block of flats at Lille.
Holf an hour before neighbours in the flats, had heard twenty-two- year-old Jemne Maury, wife of Lieutenant Maury, cry "I am being inurdered."
Poller found young Mnie. Maury dead, after being apparently strangled with a bootlace.
The police stale that considerable friction had existed between the mother and her daughter-in-law, whom the mother reproached with having brought no money to her marriage.
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General Li Chai-sui, former mill- tary chief at Canton, at the micro- phone at Nanning last Tuesday, when, a big military gathering was held.
HUSBAND ACCUSES
BRIDE OF FIFTEEN‘MONSTER'
SHOOTS HERSELF\,"
Koueas City, Aug. 20,
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD bride,
who married a month nga a zixty-year-old man, han committed micide here
She s Mildred Wheeler. Shr shot herself after being repri- manded byt her husband:
Tom Wheeler, the husband, told the Corouer that he had a night.
wije. argument with
·TH
which he had threatened to send ber to the State reformatory he cause nho persisted in running nawund with younger men,
The bride then went to her room, tivi a piece of string to the trigger of a small rifle and fired." The weapon with her toe.
She died in an dibulance,
Paying-Off Britain's
Saddest
Debt
PHE Ministry of Pensions THE
hopes to finish paying for its share of the cost of
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Leigh-on-Sea, (Essex), Aug, 20.
YOUNG man who this'morn. ing told South-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 sicaling £4 10s. from the till of a 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.
Ile was sitting, head bowed on his hands. Istening to words of comfort, when seen to-night.
The husband said in court: "When I met my wife she was a very hin- happy woman. I was sorry for her and I married her. We were very happy.
"More than being sorry for her,
I began to love her. Then she met this man again.
"I learned.she had lived with-him for two or three years before I met her.
........
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
po money, he advised her to pawn her wedding ring.
the Great War by 1955-41"Altogether she has sent to this man, through a post office in London, between £15 and £20.
years after its outbreak.
"I can say nothing more than this
ever happens.
He collapsed and was led from court.
Last year the gross expendi-that I will stick to my wife what- ture of the Ministry of Pensions was £43,296,874-for war pen sions and compensation allow ances to 1,000,000 people..
Since 1918 the Ministry has spent £1,135,000,000, and more than £130,000,000 of that sum has been used for food, clothing, and education for war erphans. In 1021, the peak year, the Ministry paid out £49,000,000 In pensions.
At the end of the war there were 37 Ministry-controlled hospitals for disabled soldiers,
Now there are ten and a few clinica for out-patients.
"in a
: 6,000 ARE INSANE
few
Ilis wife burst into ienes--was carried below-fainting.
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 hud a thing to complain of,
"I shall walt for her release-for a fresh start with the past forgol- ten."
TIN
years time, an official SHORTAGE
n the Ministry said "only £1,000,000
In year should be needed for pensiuni. "And it is estimated that the Ministry may finish its work by 1055,"
One of the saddest fuels in the figures is that over 0,000 oficers and, men are certified Insane.
More than 10,000 aghting men are undergoing treatment in
hospitals and Tare 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' 1,200 beds are needed in hospitals con- trolled by the Ministry.
Once there were 200,000 wor widows receiving pensions, To-day the figure is reduced to 134,415, 120,~ 000 of them having re-married.
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NOW A MENACE
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BRITAIN'S supply of tin-
armament
essential to 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 are used every year by British amelters.
British mines in
Cornwall pro-
Artist to duce less then 700 tons a year.
Wed Engineer
Hollywood, Aug, 20.
Charlotte Henry, the film artist,
nnnounces that she is to marry Mr.
The rest comes from: Bolivia, the East Indies, and Penang.
A year aro there were huge surplus stocks of tin in Bellain, To-day there is a most serious
shortage,
"This shortage," sald a leading
George J. Martin, an engineer. The tin broker, "la a menace to our na- date for the wedding has not yet
been settled-Router.
Charlotte Henry is 21. After a
- briat· stage careen :sko went into
Her... most
nima
recent ap-
tional defence.
"If our outside supplies were fo be suddenly cut di we should bo without tin in a week."
No "business enn be run without pearances, wora. In "Alice in Won-tin. It is used in the manufacture derland," -"'Laddle," and "The of -neroplanes, **battleships, cars, Hoosier Schoolmaster.
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