*
*THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.
FRANCE TO CREATE NAVAL BASE AT CAM RANH
TO WELD ANGLO-FRENCH UNITY IN ORIENT
IN LINE WITH HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE
Washington. economie centre as well," the In-
stitute said.
For Eastern experts here foresee the likelihood that France will create a novel buse at Com Rail on the cast coast of Indo-Chinn where it will buttress French interesta and help to weld Anglo-French unlly in the Orient
First reports of such a project were American circulated here by the Council, Institute of Pacifie Relations, which Bald it heard of reports "which - have not been officially denied" the
the French already are drawing up plans for a powerful base at Cam Ranh
The institute pointed out that the location has "the advantage of lying
straight line halfway be alinost on tween Hongkong and Singapore." It also conncels with a strategle network of railways and highways in French Indo-Cibia and therefore might be come as important economic centre as well, the Institute reported.
"Polically this step is said to be related to present attempts to ro ordinate Anglo-French policy in the Pacifc. Actually, Cam Ranh is well located strategically whether or not it is considered in relation to Singa pore and the blocking of a long-rum- oured and constantly denied Japanese canal across Siam's Isthmus of Kra." according to the Institute.
The chief Impediments are the unhealthy climate and the presence of a high mountain clain which cuts off the saction from the hinterland. to the But these handicaps apply whole eastern coast of Annam and the bay of Cam Ranh has the advan- straight tage of lying almost on a line halfway between Hongkong and Singapore." the report concluded.
"Regarding the interesting and im- portant matter of protection against airplane bombs, mities and torpedoes, the North Carolina and Washington will be provided with the most com picte protection that skilful desigu devize," the and engineering Navy Department announced.
Can
"It is expected that these two battleships will be a least the equal of any in the world with respect to this type of protection.
the
"During the past decade all targe naval powers have conducted numer- ous experiments to determine effectiveness of various types of pro- tection against airplane bombs, mines and torpedoes. As a result of such experiments, the larger naval powers are satised that the up-to-date battleship is not more vulnerable to bombs, tines and torpedoes than to modern guns using high explosive charges.
This interesting picture shows His Highness, the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 100,000,000 Mohammedans, and his wife, us they appeared in London, recently, in ceremorial robes. The Begum is the for- mer Andree Carron of France, whom the Aga Khan married In 1929. She often weurs magnideently embroidered saris for im- portant functions.
Empire For
Colonial
Japan?
Splendid Summer
London, Oct. 5. Last Summer-for it is dead and done with-may have been defi- cient in sunshine but the odds are that 29 people out of every hundred would say that it had been a splendid summer. When the sun did come
"The decision of the Navy Depart- ment to proceed with the construe- tion of battleships verifies the ex- pressed opinion of experis of all the farger naval powers that the battle- ship continues to be the backbone of with a great new coastal trunk in naval power, regardless of the advent connecting Salgon will Hanoi and the and improvement of important wea- coastal highway, known as the Man-pons, such as the airplane, bomb, the OCTOPUS HAS EYE out came during the months when
It said Cam Ranh's position is of particular importance in connection
darin Road. The Trans-Indochina mine and the torpedo."
ne was completed in 1930 and is
1,270 kilometers long, it is said, it
Ontstanding deficiencies in the pre-
flect
permits travel from the extreme south sent United States battleship
of Indo-Ching to the northern elty are:
of Hanol and thence into the heart of Obsolele anti-aircraft batteries and Yunnan Province in China proper by insufficient elevation of turret guns way of the Yunnan Railway. The Yunnan Railway is described, in on the New York and Texas. cidentally, as the only rail connection
Obsolete main propelling machinery between southern China and the out-in the Oklahoma, New York and side world.
Texas.
ON CHINA
त
Berkeley, Cal., Japan is trying to build up
Twentieth colonial empire in the Century, when all possibility for such n thing was already exhausted in the Nineteenth Century, according to Dr. Wing Mah, professor of political Call- science of the University of fornia.
by the
cm-
In French Indo-China Itself the The California, Tennessee, Colorado,
According to Dr. Mah necd rallways and highways generally are Maryland and West Virginia developed chiefly on strategic designs, modernization of fire control, pro- close of the nineteenth century all of the report said. In fact, the emphasiselting machinery, increased armour the undeveloped peoples and coun- on their military value often is protection and installation of blisters. tries of the earth had already been great that they run through sparsely However, the battleship division of embraced in the great colonini
pires of England, France, Germany settled or remote hilly country. But the United States feet is said to be they are laid out so that a naval base in better condition than Great Bri- and Belgium. Nothing of colonial material remained for the Twentieth at Cam Ranh would it into their nin's. Beth nations have 15 capital Century. Nevertheless, Japan strategic network, according to the ships, bui of this number Britain has now trying to carve out of China a report.
only four which are under age and
coloniul empire. regarded as modern while the United States has eight. Britain plans to "A powerful Cam Ranh naval base build new capital ships within the would fit well into a strategie net-next few years, to be ready the same work of both roads and railways and time as the North Carolina and Wa- might in time become an important shington-United Press.
STRATEGIC NETWORK
Agricultural Conditions
In Soviet Russia
SSCOPE FOR SCIENTIFIC
SCOPE FOR SCIENTIFIC
A public lecture entitled "From 1 occasion to save, since the State
the Russian steppe to Ararat was given in the Central Library, Man- chester, last month by Sir E. John Russell of the invitation of the Man chester branch of the Geographical Association. Sir John, who has been
looked after him in illness and old
ΠΟ
"Japan is again starting a mod military adventure for a world empire in the Twentieth Century and matter what amount of Japanese quibbling, diplomatic or otherwise, can obliterate that fact," he declares. "China has time and again offered to co-operate with Japan to meet her needs in every possible way in order to preserve peace between the two nations, but the only kind of operation Japan wants is
that in whidi China would play the part of a subjected nation."
-
must people were taking their holl- days, and not as it usually does in Jone or carly July, when the chil- dren are still at school.
Official's
Honour
Wounded
WE PAY YOUR...
SALARY'
Vienna.
"Wounding an official's hon- our" was the offence for which a man and woman appeared in the courts here.
A
Omelal honour is a deliente plant which the State considers requires particular care, whether the ocial be a policeman, tram driver or telephone operator. Many a Vien- nese has paid a 20s fine for enlling one of the latter "silly goose" however well she deserved it.
This time it was a gamekeeper in the State forests whose tender honour had been wounded by a married cou- ple. They had a dispute with him during which they said: "Remember, it is we taxpayers who On t
pay you oficials your salaries."
Dr. Mah insisted that K
as Japan claims she wants to "civilize" China, this
the means
Introduction of ubiquitous
narcotic-dispensing Japanese shops, gambling dens, hauses of prostitution, and pawn- shops as the Japanese have done in Munchuria, Jehol and Hope! wholesale scale.
Japanese have already dominated age, and his wife earned her own Hving. Moreover, his requirements areas in China," declared Dr. Mah, were less and he found it no hardship And China wants nothing more of which took only 6 per cent. of his to live in one room, the rent of income.
existence and for this reason she is "China is now fighting for national Sghting a war to the death, hurling Sir John then deseribed the system her armies ngainst the powerful for twenty-five years a director of the of collective farming, which governed Japanese war machine, Rothamsted Experimental Station at 90 per cent of the cultivated lond,' and
"The manner in which the Chinese kind troops are defending Shanghai In Harpenden, visited the country he the method of payment in
work dicates the spirit of self-defense will described during the summer of this According to the amount of yeur, and his lecture was illustrated done. Agricultural income fluctuated which China hopes to save herself by lantern slides, most of which were good deal, because the black lands, from the Japanese Imperial octopus. though reputedly fertile, were very "It this spirit can be kept up China made from his own photographs.
dependent on a variable climate. will not be conquered. The 47 He explained that as an agricul-Agriculture in Russia differed pro- declared war now raging across the turist he was not concerned with foundly from English farming be-Pacific is full of meaning to the rest towns or politics, and his necount of cause the units of cultivation were of the world.
a moter tour from Klev to Armienia much larger, so that full use could "World peace is not to be had by denit mainly with economic organi-be made of scientific and engineering us by merely advocating it by word sation and social life among country developments, and because produe-of mouth."-United Press, people. Interpreting as far as possi-tion was planned. After the ble the standard of living he encoun- readjustments had been made до
Anal
The magistrate was shocked, "Of course that was an insult,” he said. "Such a remark must never be made to дпу official personage." "Unfortunately, it is true," sald salaries come out of our the accused man, "for all official pockets." Then, with proper Austrian apprecl ation of the enormity of the remark, despite its truth, he added. "But It we must not say so, then please punish us."
The magistrale obliged with a fine of 30s cach.
་
Millions Lost At Paris
tered in terms of the purdinsing deviation from the plan - Vas per-Dinosaur Relics Divided Exhibition
power of British currency, his con-missible, "In Russia there is clusion was thot ordinary Russian room for the dissenter: that is the wages ranged from about 524, to £16 difference between dictatorship and a month, rising to £100 in the ense democracy,"
of the favoured class of popular writers. On the other hand, the Russian had no worries, and no
Job Promiso Kopt 12 Years
Peterborough, Ont.
Kenneth Wyatt, 10, has been given
a job ha applied for 12 years ago.
York Springs, Pa., Slones bearing Imprints of pré- } historic dinosaurs,
discovered near Comparing his experiences tils hers several months ago, have been year with what he had found on divided among representatives from previous visits, he said that in 1930 the Carnegie Institute of Technico- everyone was talking of the world logy, Pittsburgh; National Museum, revolution which Russia was to Washington, D. lead. In 1934 that was all forgotten, State. Muscum-Iorrisburg, and the C.; Pennsylvania and the dominant note was pride in Gellysburg National Military Russian achievements and the sted fee. Arm. Now Moscow was conscious
of her shortcomings and concentrat-
+
Pork
Ing on the works beads to peace Canocists Cross Pacific she had an intense desire for peace
would
for
Cape Town. Two French scientists, Capt. Erie de the Blachop and Joseph Tallbouct, have
At the age of 4. Wyntt "got mad" so that she might settle down to that at his mother and went to the work. She had given up all idea of Western Clock Company to apply regaining lost territory and for a job. The manager told him tolerato much provocation to come back when he was 10. Re-zako of peace, but an actual Invasion arrived here in a 32-foot, 12-ton cat- cently Wyatt celebrated his 10th could only end in a catastrophe llicè amaran, or native canoe, in which birthday and got a job us n tool that which overwhelmed Napoleon in they travelled 15,000 miles from maker apprentice,
1012.
Honolulu.
The Parls Exhibition, which closes on Nov. 25, will, it is believed, show a deflelt of hundreds of millions of pounds. The number of paying entries la estimated at 10,000,000. fewer than at the Exhibition 1900.
of
Cafe concessionaires and booth proprietors have been hit by delay in construction caused by strikes. The Riviera Pavilion was opened only three weeks ago, nlthough the Ex- hibition ing been running since May. A campaign to re-open the Exhibi- flon next year, and retrieve some part of the loss has been launched, but it in doubtful whether foreign countries would agree to foot the
· necessary bills,
Existing contracts call for demoli- as the. Ex- tion to begin'ny soon hibition gates close.
RADIO BROADCAST
Soprano Recital · By" Elvie Yuen
VARIETY PROGRAMME
Radio Programmg Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 350 metres (040 k.c's.) 31.49 metres (9.52 m.cz.).
ILK.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Orchestre Rayınonde and Lucienno Loyer.
and
Indian Mail-Descriptive (Lamo- the); Glow Worm-Intermezzo (Paul Lincke); The Dancing Clock (Ewing); Foupce Valsante (Poldini).....Or chestra; Landerirette (Jamblan and Delettre); Ballade (Jamblan Delettre); Mon Ami Le Vent (Dhurial ...Lucienne Boyer; A and Delettre) Musical Snuit Box (Lladow); Love Is My Life-Waltz (Strauss-Grr. G. Walter); Romantique-Waltz (Lan-
G. Walter)....Orchestra. net-art.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1.03 Georges Thull (Tenor), Fortunlo-La Maison Grise (Mez- sager); Elegie (Massenet); 'L' Atta que Du Moulin'-Adleux a la foret (Bruneau),
Waltz
1.13 Orchestra Mascotte. Idyllo
Passionnelle (Georges Razigade); Evening On The Rhine-Waltz (Richartz); In Dreamy Night Waltz (from The Vagabond -Zichrer); Exultation-Waltz (Lau- Waltz Of The Dolls tenschlager); (Bayer).
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast nad An- nouncements.
1.40 Dance Musto and Varlets. Orchestral--Swing Along-Selec tion....Debroy Somers Bond; Come- dienne-Don't You Ever Fall in Love; Alleen Rags (Flynn and Egan).... Stanley: Plano-Charlie Kunz Plano Medley R. 13....Charlie Kunz; Dance Orchestra-Moonlight Valley-Waltz A Sailboat In The Moonlight Quick-
"His
step.... Victor Silvester and Ballroom Orchestra; Novelty-Un- derneath A Western Sky (film Song of the Saddle'); Riding The Range In Th
The Sky (Carlton)....The H Billes; Massed Bands Jerome Kern Massed Brass Melodies.....Grond Bands at the Leicester Brass Band Festival.
215 Close Down. 4-7 p.m.
Chinese Programme, 7-11 p.m. European Programme. 7.00 Songs by Stuart Robertson (Bass-Baritone),
Watching The Stars; Flying High the Air'); in (Film 'Splinters In Summertime On Bredon (Peel); Sea Fever (Ireland).
7.12 The . B. C. Theatre Or- chestra.
Monckton Melodies (arr. Stanford Robinson).
7.20 Marck Weber and is Or- chestra.
Hall, Vienna-Potpourri (Dostal). 7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
tlona
7,35 Cortot at the Piano.
"The
Children's Corner Suite: (De- bussy); (a) Doctor Gradus.and Par- Lullaby; (c) nessum; (b) Jimbo's Serenade for the Doll; (d) Snow is dancing; (c) The little Shepherd; (f) Golliwog's Calte Walk; Prelude No. B-La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin; Prelude No. 3 Le Vent--Dans-La- Plaine (Debussy),
8.03
7.62 Songs by Gigli (Tenor). 'Paride ed Elena'-O Del Mio Dolce Ardor (Gluck); Carmen'-11 Flor Che Avevi A Me Tu Dato (Bizet).
8.00 Local Time Signal. Weather Report and Announcements.
(50- Yuen Studio Elvie pranc) and Nura Kanis (Plans).
1. Il Sorriso della Madre (Berlen dis); 2. Fede, Speranza e Anorel, (Pagella); 3. Who Goes By? 4. Every where I go (Easthope Martin) Elvie Yuen; 6. Piano Selection Nura Kanis; 0. Venuto e L'Aprile (Donaudy); 7. Cuor mio, Cuer mio non Vedi (Donaudy)....Elvie Yuen. 8.23 Yehudi Menuhin (Violin). Hungarian Dance No. 1 In G Minor; Hungarian Dance No. 17 In F Sharp Minor (Brahms-Joachim); Trontella, Op. 28, No. 2 (Szyma
Des Lo Ronde
Lutins nowski);
Op. 11 (Bazzini); Moto Perpetuo, (Paganini).
EX- 8.42 Gilbert and, Bullivan cerpts.
'Patience'; When I First Put This Uniform On....Darrell Fancourt and Chorus of Dragoons; In - Doleful Train; Now, is Not This Ridiculous.. ..N. Briercliffe, G. Baker, M. Erre and Chorus of Girls and Dragoons; Tolanthe': Love, Unrequited, Robs Me Of My Rest....George Baker (Taritane); My Well-Loved Lord.... Winifred Lawson, Darck Oldham, Darrell Fancourt and Male Chorus
9.00 Studio-Talk on The Actl- villes of the Society of St Vincent do Paul' by the Rev. Thomas F. Rysz
9.10 Light Orchestral and Walter Glynne (Tenor).
Gipsy
Moon (Borganoff); Bird Songs At Eventide (Eric Coates).... Albert Sandler and His Orchestra; I Walt For You; Tralee (alm 'Even- song')....Walter Glynne; Waldteufe) Wallz Potpourri (arr.. Sibermann).. ..Marek Weber and His Orchestra. 9.30 London Relay-The News, 9.50 Sea Shanties.
A Dollar And A Half A Day: The Hog's Eye Man (arr. Terry): One More Day: On The Banks Of Bacro- mento (arr. Harris)....John Goss (Baritone) and Cathedral Male Volca Quartet.
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0.40 a.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 8.4) #70. Fox-Trois-Smile When You Say am. Big Ben. At the Black Dog. Goodbye (from The Show Goes 10 nm. Big Ben Monologues in Melody.* On'); in A Little French Casino....10.13 am. "This Week. Jay Wilbur And His Band: Sweet 10.30 am. Chamber Music.
11,10 am. The News and Announcements. Lallani (from Walik! Wedding'); Greenwich Time Signal at 11.10 am. The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down.. 11.30 am. Hampstead Heath, ..Billy Cotton and His Band; Tango 2 p.m. Big Don The Band of His
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Greenwich Time Signal at 4.30 Pink with His Correct Dance Tempo Or- 14.5 pm. At the Black Dog. chestra; Fox-Trois-Thanks A Mil- llon; I'm Sittin' High On A Hi Top (Alm "Thanks a Million).....Paul Pendarvis and His Orchestra,
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Han Soprano) »
8:49 pm. Big Ben, The 13C Northern
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7,50 p.m. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A
Pure Woman,
0.30 p.m. Dance Musta. Glyn Bamuel and
his Band,
9.15 p.m. Topical Talks for Beamen. A
monthly programma.
9:30 pm. The News and 'Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at Dáð pan. (Continued on Page `1)