THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1937.
U.S.S.R. To Build 2,000-Mile Line
RAF Will Be Second To None'
-U.S. Air Chicf
THEODORE PAUL
WRIGHT, key man in America's aéronautic brain- trust, chief designer for one- fourth of the U.S. Air Force,
· reported “All's well for the R.A.F." on concluding his back-stage tour through 'plane factories in this coun- try, France, Holland, and Germany.
This was his "summing up" in his Savoy Hotel auite:-
"Britain has nothing to worry about, as far as the air is con- corned. The plane strength now being provided will put Britain's air force second to none,"
SAW TEN FACTORIES
Its conclusions are based upon in- spection of ten key 'plone factorles bullding R.A.F. equipment; also upon
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Mrs. William La Varre, wife of the her American explorer, who accompanied
husband at his expedition to South Amerlen, using a llama for a ride in the Peruvian Andes. She is said to be the first white woman to ride one of these'strange animals.
Airplane
comparison with the much-pub- | Sales To
licised rüke for air supremacy on the Continent.
He said:
"French progresa in rapid, but not rapid enough. There is still an obvious lag between 'plane de sign and 'plave production. Not so in Germany. There is
is pecu and efficiency in German factories that asures rapid-fire production. "Amerlen still feels secure by reason of distance, so is not forced into air expansion. Britain is zoom-
ing forward-and with results that will guarantee its equality, if not supremacy, in the air."
Man Takes
Life After
Mad Barber' Broadcast
JAMES MARTIN WOOD-
RUFF, fifty-nine-year- old shipbuilder, of Percy road, Canning Town, E.16, listened in to the broadcast of "Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet-street."
Next morning he was found dead. His throat was cut; by his side was o razor:
Coroner Milner Helme, at the West Ham Inquest said: "That gruesome play was, no doubt, responsible for the means Woodruft chose to end his life."
The verdict was, "Suicide while of unsound mind.”
The coroner added that he could not say if the man meant to take his ife before listening to the play-
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REDS V. PRIESTS IN CHINA
MANY KIDNAPPINGS
Vatican City, Jan. 1. Kidnapping .of native Catholic priests by .Com- munist bandits is becoming alarmingly frequent, accord- ing to a report issued by the Holy Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
According to this report no less than eight Chinese priests have been kidnapped during the past two years by red bandits,
Grave concern In high Vatican quarters has now been caused by the kidnapping of a Chinese priest of Cheng T. The priest was wounded and taken prisoner together with fifteen of the most prominent in- habitants of the town and carried away in the mountains. He was in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Cheng Tu.
The bandits have informed the local missionary station that the priest will be released following the pay- ment of one thousand dollars, No agreement has been renched so far and the priest has not yet been released.
Kidnapping is always accompanied by plundering, according to the re-. port. As a result of these numerous robberies the supply of brevarics is nearly exhausted and it is feured that the local priests will be forced to sub- stitute the recitation of the rosary for the divine office,
Meanwhile the clergy has been ad-
Washington, Dec. 30. Soviet Russia and Japan are buying American air. planes at a fast-growing visid to abandon the presbyteries in pace in preparation for Geruch they dwell near their churches man-Russian-Japanese war.
Russia is outstripping Japan in purchases of these planes at a ratio of nearly two to one. In addition. Soviet factories are turning out hundreds of fight- ing planes under forced produc- tion schedule.
During the past 30 days Soviet air- plane purchases in this country totalled approximately $1,000,000, the United Press was informed. These purchases were said to be merely the, prelude to other orders already placed for future delivery or concerning which bona fide inquiries have been
made of
of American manufacturers.
e same period Japan was to have purchased approx- imately $600,000-worthy of American- airplanes, and has placed orders, for
or made inquiries concerning, addi-
tional ships.
were
Virtually all of the Russian order, said, was turned out by the Marlin Department of Commerce officials factory near Baltimore. The ships used in regular airways transport of big transports similar to those service in this country. While they are listed as not-military, military officials agree
that they could be converted into deadly bombing
Castly planes as powerful, ns any possessed by any European army.
stood, were distributed among several Japanese purchases,it was under- factorles. Ofelats here believe the Japanese. were purchasing these planes mere with a view to using similar planes in Japan than with a them as models for manufacture of view to placing them into Immediate military service.
NEUTRALITY LAW The Soviet and Japan purchases were sald by Department of Com- merce officials to be representative of the interest taken in American air- craft by foreign governments, particu- larly those menaced by the war clouds now gathering over Europe. Inquiries and orders are pouring in upon American manufacturers, It was stated.
of
and following the example missionaries in days gone by, to seek Christians-United Press. refuge in the houses of the poorest
Woman Sues Insull
For Shirt Studs
Chicago, Dec. 21.. SA
AMUEL INSULL,cockney boy who made himself Mid- everything," was sued to-day West Utilities czar and "lost
cash and jewels, including In by Mrs. Helen Coyimzoglu for sull's shirt studs, of total value of £12,000.
A settlement-sold to be for more than £1,000-was reached out of court by lawyers, who said neither side wanted an open court fight.
Mrs, Coyimzogiu telegraphed from New York that she didn't want to leave the dethroned
"emperor" without a shirt or even shirt studs, but that the jewels were really hers, and Insull had admitted this.
The message added:-
"They claim Mrs. Instl won't release the lowellery from her safe deposit box in Parla" hospitality
The basis of the claim was the extended to Insull by Mrs. Coylmzoglu during his Athenian "Odyssey" three years ago,
Ginger Rogers Death Threat
Arrest
"G-men have arrested a sailor narred Hall, at Long Bench, Cali- fornia on a charge of demanding £1,000 from Ginger Rogers," the film star and. famous partner of Fred Astaire, says, United Preza.
One of the obstacles in the way of immediate placing of many of these orders, ofeials said, is the possibility that the American Neutrality law may prevent shipment of the planes, if war should break out in Europe between now and the time the planes are ready for shipment. The law requires the President to proclaim an embargo on shipment of arms, om- munition and implements of war to any and all nations
in wor, engaged immediately if war breaks out.
The noutrality law lists commercial
-coming within the scope of "arms, ammunition and Implements of war," which would be affected by the ox- The letter threatened Miss Rogers port embargo. Even in peace time with death if she did not pay the export licences must be obtained on
on money. all types of planes, as well as upon airplane motors and parts, from the arm control section of the State Department.
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Under a joint policy of the War and Navy. Departments, aircraft manu- facturers may not sell abroad planes: similar in design to those being -manufactured for the American Army, Navy or Marine Corps unill at least one year after delivery of the second plane of this type, to the American Armed Forces, Officials of both the War and Navy Deport-: ments are consulted by the State De- partment before export licences are granted on any milliary airplanes.
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Holi was arrested at the cafe he had named us the place, where the money was to be paid over.
SONJA'S FILM
Sonja Henle has finished her first flm at Hollywood. She is with her partner Tyrone Power shown
arriving at the world premiere of "Lloyds of London", in which she stará.
Roosevelt Anticipating
Private Life
New York, Jan. 1. President Roosevelt is looking forward with keen anticipation to private life and he has no in- tention of seeking a third term, according to an article by George Creel in recent issue of Collier's magazine.
More than any other chief execu- tive, perhaps," the article reads "ho hins loved the presidential years, his bold spirit rejoicing in the challenge of great problems, but the hour of his retirement will be shadowed by no regret. Only re- cently, la conversation with an in- timate, he said, on January 21, 1941, when a now president takes over, I will be in Hyde Park having the time of my life"."
Referring to Mr. Hoosevelt's New York, speech in which the President said he hoped in his second adminis- tration that the forces of "selishness and lust for power", would "meet their master." Creel writes.
"The President fails to see how even partisan prejudice can twist his Any honest reading must show can words into an assertion of individual mastery, a threat of dictatorship.
that mastery of anti-social forces clusively that what he, meant was such as continue to be intractable and irreconcilable, by the hosts of on aroused democracy.
"... Undoubtedly a major effort during the first part of the second term will be the consolidation of galas.....looking ahead, housing is Stums must go, one of the President's major interests.
"Secretary Wallace's crop insurance plan and 'ever normal granary idea has the approval of the administra- tion: likewise, a farm tenancy bill providing federal aid for farm pur- chases.
"Simplification of the federal tax structure is under consideration." United Press.
Siamese Twin
Doctor Lose
DOUBLE
ARMY, TREBLE
AIR ARM
Warsaw, Jan. 1. WHILE Moscow to-night
WHILE
Was celebrating in carnival the end of the eighth All-Union of Soviets Congress and the newly adopted "democratic" Con- stitution, Stalin made known details of the Soviet rearmament programme, which will make the Red Army, Navy and Air Fleet the greatest fighting ma- chine the world has ever known.
Plans for this programme were decided during three days "council of defence" held in- the Kremlin with his five Red war lords, Minister of War Voro- shilov, his deputy Tuchachevsky, Chief of General Staff Yegorov, Commander-in-Chief of Far Eastern Army Bluecher, and Chief of Cavalry Buganny.
50,000 PILOTS A YEAR The plan provides for
.1. A 2,000-mile line of fortresses Plong Russian western and eastern frontiers as a protection against Germany and Japan, similar to the famous French Maginot line along the Franco- German borders.
2. The creation of a 3,000,000-man standing army. double the size of the present Red Army, within two years.
3. The enlarging of the Red Air Fleet to nearly three times its present strength within two years, and the training of 30,000 pilots a year.
new
4. The establishment of a
Ministry of Soviet War Industry, which will be placed under. War Minister Voroshlloy's personal control,
5.. The transference of war indus-
try plant from places vulnerable i to foreign aircraft to the centre of Russia.
Preparatory work on the new "Soviet Maginot Line" will begin within the next fortright. Threej hundred thousand workmen will be employed on the western frontier alone as soon as plans for fortifica- ions are ready.
"council of defence," told Stalin he of the Soviet intelligence service, was not satisfied with the efficiency which, he claimed, was riddled with German spies. Stalin gave him full powers to carry out a purge of the intelligence service within the next few weeks.
Voroshilov, at the end of the
AID AS PROMISED At the final meeting of the Soviet Congress which passed the new constitution Stalin announced an amendment to allow the Cubinet to declare war in fulfilment of inter- national obligations.
It was introduced La mect French criticisms that the original text-proclaiming a siste of war If the U.S.S.R. were attacked-did not cover the event, of German aggression against France. Under the Franco-Sovict each country is to go to the imme- diate defence of the other.
pact
Another amendment protects the right of inheritance of personal property.
[New "Democratic" constitution Free comes into force at once.
Separated Man Dies speech and right of assembly
New York, Dec. 21.
Farm guaranteed.
arc
workers gain
Simplicio Goding, twenty-eight-equal votes with factory workers.]
year-old Stamese twin, has survived his brother Luelo by only twelve days.
When Lucio died of rheumatic fever, surgeons separated Simplicio, He had normal physique, seemed strong and well, began to make plans for a new life, to walk alone,
But freedom was denied him: He died unexpectedly early to-day in a New York hospital from spinal
· meningitis..
***There have been several cases of Siamese twins being separated successfully.
WATSON'S
Kipling Manuscript ⠀
Is Given To France
Paria, Dec. 28. The manuscript of Rudyard Kip- ling's "France at War" published in 1915, has been presented to the French National Library
by his widow.--Heuter.
[The book is both a tribute to France and a memorial to Kipling's son, who was killed in Flanders.)
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