NAVAL BASES IN MEDITERRANEAN
ITALIAN OFFICER'S
ANALYSIS
VALUE OF GREECE AS
AN ALLY
By HECTOR C. BYWATER
London, July 1.
Outspoken comments on the pre- sent-day strategical situation in the Mediterranean aro made by an Italian naval officer, Signor Flora- vanzo, in a newly published book on the world's naval bases.
In his view France occupies a com- manding position in the western basin of the Mediterranean.
Britain stands sentry
over the western and eastern gateways Gibraltar and Suez-Half-but her position in the central Mediterranean In jeopardized by the insecurity of Malta.
in
The picturesque denler liquorice-water formerly a feature Ile considers Raly to be the et Brussels Streets is appearing again strongest factor in the central basin, during heat-wave days selling his besides being more
powerful than{cold drinks from the reservoir he
carries on his back.
France or Britain in the eastern sec. tor. Moreover, thanks to her Sar- dinian bases, she could exert strong pressure in the western area.
He adds:
Italy possessed supremacy she would be mistress of the entire Mediterranean.
Of Spain the authur writer: "From the naval and strategie paint of view this country occupies a key position. An alliance with Spain which gave her alles Spanish bases would be of supreme Importance to any one of the three Powers."
the use of
AEGEAN ISLANDS
Prevention
Of Disease Discovery
Toronto,
Since 1932 experts have been work-
THE most oustanding contri- bution to the history, of Turning to Greece he finds that silicosis research" is the descrip- hier bases at Salamis and Salonika, tion given by the Academy of together with the numerous anchor-Medicine to the preliminary re- nges and hiding places among the Aegean Islands, constitute a strategie port on the discovery of the use network of great value for all opern- of metallic aluminium for pre- tlons in the eastern Mediterranean. vention of the disease.
"An Italo-Grecian alliance would be advantageous to Italy in the defensive sense. On the other hand, any grouping of Powers which gave Britain and France the use of the Grecian bases would mean the corn plete strangulation of Italy."
Signor Fioravanzo considers Indian Ocean to
to be "a purely British dominated by Simonstown, South
Afrien,
Karachi, Aden, pore and the Australian bases,
"Tie
in under the direction of Sir F
Banting.
the July issue of the Canadian A full report will be published in Medical Journal,
but doctors are airendy highly 'optimistic, the
Instead of the wearing of masks and respirators the new method promises prevention by pathological means,
Singa-
holds the Italian bases of Mussawa and Assab to be relatively unimportant and not directly in the as they are situated in the Red Indian Ocean.
Ho concludes his study as follows: "As the Mediterranean is the only sea which unites three continents, it is the theatre of countless conflicting interests. As such it may become the setting for the last act of a final settlement."
CRAVEN
The mixing of metalile aluminium dust with sillea dust in mines will prevent, It is hoped, the dread effect of sillea dust on the tunes of miners. No tests have yet been made on Ruman beings, but experiments have been made with rabbits,
Chemical experiments have shown that the presence of metalle alumi nlum in dust reduces the solubility of sillen and halts the development of fibrosis in the lungs of animals in the first stages of silicosis.
VIRGINIA CIGARETTES
MADE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937.
FOUR DEAD, 30 HURT IN EXPRESS SMASH
Soldiers Killed When Gun Overturns
TWO men
others
were killed, two seriously injured (when a Royal Artillery tractor drawing a 10-ton anti-aircraft gun overturned and caught fire-
at Holford, Somerset, last month.
The men killed were:
R.A.
Lance-Bomb.
Southern Train Hits Siding
2 COACHES TELESCOPED
AT 50 M.P.H.
London, July 1.
At least four people-three women and one man-
Lance-Bomb. James Mackenzie were killed and 30 injured when a Southern Railway Smith, 3rd Baltery 8th A.A. Brigade,Į express from Ashford, Kent, to Victoria, ran into a Robert McConnel dead-end siding at Swanley Junction at 11.20 last night. The first two coaches of the train, which was travelling at 50 m.p.h. were telescoped and the lines were strewn with wreckage.
12th A. A. Brigade, R.A.
The lorry was going from Black- down Camp, Aldershot, to the anti-
aircraft camp at Watchet. It contain
ed eight soldiers.
Apparently it stewed round and
the
turned over broadside, Lance-Bomb. Mackenzie, driver, could not be extricated, until
the Bre had been extinguished.
The train carried 300 passengers, many of whom were hikers or members of picnic and holidaymaking
Hedges on the road were set alight parties.
and the tarred rond surface mellis,
CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN
NIGHT FLIGHT OVER LONDON WITH LORD SEMPILL
London, June 21.
Swanley police sent out an urgent call for assistance. Ambulances were despatched from Dartford, five miles away, and Farningham, two miles away. Fire engines were summoned and breakdown gangs sent from London,
Prince Chichibu, Crown Prince
Early this morning it was stated that eight of the of Japan, flew over London on injured had been taken to the County Hospital, Dartford, Monday night and dipped his all with serious injuries. 'plane in salute over Buckingham Palace, where he lunched with the King yesterday.
The Prince was taken up by Lard Sempill, an old friend, accompanied by Mr. J. Wentworth Day, the writer, and for 40 minutes the Prince piloted the 'plane himself.
Uninjured passengers were brought to London by special train and by 'buses from the Swanley garage. Drivers and conductors were roused from their beds to drive them.
Up to an early hour this morning it had been flown by night, and he thoroughly impossible to identify the bodies of the victims.
It way the first time the Prince had
enjoyed the experience.
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRUSHED
Swanley,
Three persons were
The fight took place from Han- worth Aerodrome in a 'plane of the type usca
used by Lord Sempit in his
standing on attempted light to Australin in 1936. With a crash which awakened" re- | platform at time of accident-Mr. D. Lord Sempli was responsible for the sidents over a wide area, the 9.39 Murphy and Mr. P. Muir, of Pimlico, complete reorganisation of the Japan- p.m. express from Ashford, Kent, to and Mr. E. Humphreys. The latter ese Naval Air Service in 1021, and Victorin, crashed into a siding here sald: took Prince Chichibu on the latter's at 11.20 last night. fest flight 10 years ago,
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LADERI KONDON BY CARRERAS LTD::180 Vers' Ruputation for Quelley, GA,204,
The first two conches of the train
were telescoped. Wreckage was strewn over a wide area.
"The train passed through the station at between 50 and 60 miles an hour. Then it stopped abruptly. There was flash, but surprisingly
tle noise. The front part of the train reared up into the air, then collapsed."
The train, which, was erowded with passengers, many of whom had been spending the day hiking and plenick-
In front of the stop-block was a ing in the country, should have passed loaded coal truck. The engine und through Swanley. Owing to some tender crashed through this and the mishap, at present unexplained, it be-buffers and damaged an electrical came diverted to the siding.
transformer standing in a railed-off
The engine crashed at a speed of enclosure.
40 miles an hour into the stop- The station staff at Swanley Junc- block at the end of the siding. Thetion who are not normally on duty so two following coaches were tele-late on a Sunday night were quickly scoped, crushing men, women and summoned, and the parcels office was children.
turned Into a causualty station. The dend are still lying in the parcels office and will be taken to the local mortuary late in the morning.
Dr. Dawson Crawford and his son, who practise in Swanley, were among the first at the scene. Assisted by the firemen and platelayers from station, they hacked their way through the sides and roofs of the telescoped carriages to reach the dead and injured.
All were searched for evidence of Identification, but none was found, and they had not been identified at 3 a.m.
The train connects with the South
Mr. Robert Daniels, who also lives Coast return express, and many of near the scene, said that in the the passengers were excursionists who coach immediately behind the two had spent the day at Folkestone and that were telescoped a baby girl was other South Coast resorts. found, playing and laughing in the confusion all around her.
In response to an urgent SOS from the Swanley police umbulances were
Although the engine was smashed and the tender crushed, the driver and the fireinan escuped with minor injuries.
The boller of the engine was broken sent from Dartford, five miles away and bolling water and steam burst and Farningham, two miles away. forth, senlding the driver on the arms Early this morning more than 12 and body.
seriously injured had been removed.
The fireman was on the footplate
Others, with minor injuries, were near the side of the train which struck treated on the spot.
Firemen from local stations assisted in the rescue work.
the bank. Just before the impact be threw himself out of the cab and landed in the bushes.
Passengers from the undamaged The electricity supply was imme- coaches alighted. Many of them were diately cut off by oficials, and trafile taken to their homes in specially char was temporarily disorganised, but us tered 'buses.. Drivers and conductors the accident occurred on a siding the attached
to the Swanley Lundon main line was affected only for a very Transport garage were wakened to short while.
them.
Southern Railway officials came The bodies of the dead-three from London early this morning to women and one man--were recovered survey the accident and took state- from the leading coach. All had been ments from the guard, driver and fire- killed Instantly. They were taken to man.
Swanley
mortuary.
Breakdown gangs were sent from
London with
thoxy-acetylene metal-
RAIL 'ACCIDENTS OF LAST 9 YEARS
COLLISION VICTIMS
cutters, lights and other equipment to
saist in the
rescue work and the clearing of the line. A Southern Rail- way offcial stated that there would be no interference with traffic.
The last big railway smash in Bri- The wreckage presented in spectacle tain, also on the Southern Railway, of the utmost confusion. The engine took place an April 2 of this year. was embedded in the high bank of the Ten people died and 18 were in siding. The tender had been reduced jured as a result of an electric train to scrap metal. The roof of the first running Into the rear of a stationary coach cut into the second coach and train on a viaduct a mile south of both were reduced to
to splintered wood Victoria Station. and twisted metal.
Other rallway accidents of the last
It is believed that the train was nine years Include the following: carrying some 300 passengers, of whom Jane 27, 1028-Excursion train in about 60 were in the two shattered conches,
In the first coach were a party of four women And two children. Three of the women were killed, but the fourth and the two children who were saleep at the time of the crish, had remarkable cacades. One child was sleeping on the side. | farthest from the engine. When tho crash came it was flung to the other aldo into the lap of a woman who was subsequently found dead with! head injuries and both lege broken.
collision af Darlington 20 killed, 60 injured.
Sept. 6, 1934.-Head on collision be- tween two passenger trains on the L.M.S. Railway at Glasgow; D killed, 34 injured. Sept. 23, 1934.—Euston-Preston ex- press and local train collide near
Warrington, Lancs; 11 killed, 30 injured.
Feb. 15. 1937-York-Lowestoft ex- press derailed near Sleaford, Lincs; plate-layers killed, 6 passengers injured.
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