THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
16, 1937.
F. M. S. GIVES TWO SQUADRONS OF
WARPLANES
$2,500,000 Grant For Defence Of Empire
RULERS' GESTURE GETS COUNCIL APPROVAL
Two squadrons of warplanes, costing $2,500,000, are to be presented by the Government of the Federated Malay States to the Imperial Government for use in the defence of Malaya.
The Federal Council recently gave its approval to the suggestion, which was made by the rulers at last week's Klang Durbar, stated the High Commissioner, Sir Shenton Thomas.
His Excellency said that he had ascertained that the strength of the Royal Air Force in Malaya was to be increased and the proposal was in conformity with the policy undertaken by the Imperial Government for the defence of Malaya.
(ŢIEIR 111ghnesses," said Sir
Shenton. "desired to show their recognition of the special effort being made by the Impe- rial Government for the defence of the Empire and wished to What associate themselves with effort.
"
Harking back 2,000 years to the time of the Emperor Augustus, Premier Mussolini opened this Augustan Exhibition in Rome, recently. He believed that was the only age that compared with the nehleve- ments of to-duy's Fascism.
'£2,000 OR DEATH' LETTER CHARGE
Edgar Sydney Hewitt (19), chauffeur, was committed for trial from Canterbury recently, charged with demand- ing £2,000 by menaces and threatening to kill George John Fitt and his wife, Alice Catherine Fitt.
"L.G.'S" ADVICE TO MR. EDEN Stand Up For What You Believe
Carnarvon, Oct. 17. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking to Young Liberals at Caernarvon yesterday, appented to, Mr. Eden, the Foreign Secretary, not to allow him- self to be "bullled by those around him but to stand up for what he belleved.
"Mr. Eden is
first-clas chauffeur," he said. "He is intelll- gent, he knows his job, he is skiltul, he knows where he would like to go, but no chauffeur, however, good he 1s, can drive it there, is an assembly of nervous wrecks behind him, al- waya pulling at his elbow
have been watching the thing, ond I can see he is not having his own way in the matter.
"I am going to offer him a word of advice. He may say it is none of my business, but it is, I am one of the senior Privy Councillors, and it is my duty to give such advice as my experience of affairs prompts me to give.
"My advice is that he should take the course which his conselence die- tates, boldly, fearlessly, dauntlessly, whatever his colleagues may say. He will be amazed at the response he will get from every quarter la the land, unit from every seellon of the land.
"When will Mr. Eden get tired of being bullied by these men around him and stand up for what he really believes? If he does, he will be the biggest man in Great Britain."
Referring to Mr. Eden's speech at Llandudno on Friday, Mr. Lloyd
George said that it expressed senti- he asked two questions with regard to such speeches-"What docz he mean?" and "What does he mean to do?"
ments which were admirable. But
Women Patrol Streets In
* Raid Air "The rulers pointed out that the Federation was no longer debaired by Baancial stringency from making such a gift and asked that the pro-
Nine R.A.F. airplanes swooping posal be put before the council."
low over Brighlen recently, dropped Loud applause greeted Commissioner's announcement and Imaginary bombs on the town for two Colonel Ceci Rae, Senior Unomelabours In the Brst air raid test under-my organisation the trouble and ex- the death of your wife and yourselt.ferred to an expression in the war Member. said that he felt sure that tuken by the local council-and. at least 98 per cent of the unoicial
with the theoretically, righton survived it. community would agree proposal.
the ligh
Mixed with the cheers, how- over, was erkloism voiced by Mr, W. J. Warren Hastings, Selangor Unometal, who all that the Unofficial Members and the public
given not been
consider Bufflelent time to girt
the
Fireworks were exploded to add a touch of realism, and sinoke were lit for outbreaks of fire,
flares
Cat's,
Mr. Fitt, a company director, is 84 and lives at the Marine Hotel, Whitstable. He stated that he received a letter which said:
"Two thousand pounds will save | senger not turning up, will result in
pense of killing first your wife and Your American friends." then you. If you are sensible and pay £2,000 you will have our word you will not be troubled again.
"LETTER FROM BOOK"
"Give them to one of your staff with these instructions. At 12
Fire engines, police patrol
o'clock start walking along North- and ambulances rushed round
thewood Road towards Kingsdown Park Downs carrying "casualties," and on the left side of the road.
"The eighty alrrald wordens in iin helmets
instant that he hears 11 whistle he must drop the package
Sir Shenton Thomas, in reply said and gas masks-four wamen among containing the money and keep walk-
that it was because "we all know
that the country as a whole is solid-
ly behind the motion that it has been
inde.
them-patrolled the streets.
Dummies WITH carried carefully
ing. If he tooks back he will be shot.
"Any attempt to inform either the
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Detective-Sergeant Johnston that Hewitt, when charged at Whit- stable, stated: "Yes, I did write the letter. I was practically word for word with one I saw in a library book."
PULPIT TRIBUTE
TO GIRL
HER "GLORIOUS SACRIFICE" SAVED TWO
Weymouth, Oct. 15.
"It Allee Armour had Hved to an
In spite of the speeches delivered, Mussolint and Hitler had sent over into Spain. 100,000 trained men They had sent aeroplanes, bombers, heavy guns, the most perfect equip ment, and were still doing it,
Mr. Lloyd George laughingly re-
that they were "concentrating to the rear.
"That is exactly the position this Government is enjoying." he said. is driven from one decision to an- "It made no stand anywhere. It other, and is sill concentrating to
the rear."
Non-intervention was a sham-3 cruel, dishonest, lying sham-every- | body knowing it the whole time.
Work by week the Italians
| sending troops to Libya.
"To
were
Libya!" said Mr. Lloyd George. "A great many of them are being sent to Spain."
"I think," he mild, "the the time has come for forming. a. cociety...of vigilance among the nations. I am very glad that a great nution like the United States, which is outside the lengue, has given #1 very cleur indication that it is going to join the vigilantes to enforce international Huw."
CAN GROWTH:
old age I doubt whether she could OF LONDON
have lived more triumphantly than
In the hot of glorious, sacrifice
which saved the lives of my own BE CHECKED?
Mitle children.”
Sir Montague Barlow; presiding at
Royal Commission on the Geographi- cal Distribution of the Industrial Population, asked:
Women sobbed in Easton Methodist the opening meeting in London of the Church, Portland, to-day, when their minister, the Rev. E. Hardwick, paid this tribute to the heroism of the 22-year-old nursemaid, Miss Alice Armour, who fell under the wheels of a lorry after pushing Mr. Hard- wick's two children to safety.
Borstal boys were in the congre- ration.
Miss Armour's home was at Dee Street, Jarrow, and in a breaking volce Mr. Hardwick made a plea for this derelle! town.
"THE TRAGEDY OF JARROW" "So long as there is a Jarrow on the map of England, so long will our namo Lo sullied in the minds of understanding people," he said.
land.
of
"Is it reasonable that so many our workers should havo Lo spend one hour a day or more In travelling to and from their work in crowded buses and tabes? Is that congestion going to cet worse?"
The growth of London in the 10 or 12 years prior to 1933 had been about one and a
quarter millions, almost the same total as the growth of the rest of Great Britain.
Sir Sir Malcolm Stewart, added Montague, in his recent report on the special areas, described the growth of Greater London as ** nailonal menace.”
"Those are very strong words, but London is not by itself in this respect. Every week for more than four The growth of Manchester, Glasgow, years a letter from Miss. Armour's Birmingham, Tyneside and so on has mother came to his house at Port been substantially in excess of the | rate of growth of the whole country." "We shall miss it almost as much The problem was not new, Queen as we miss the girl," he continued. Elizabeth and James Issued edicts and "We read it invariably, for she al-Acts of Parliament were passed for. ways passed It on to us
bidding the citizens of London to build houses outside the City walls. "It was a running commentary of "But these monarchs were just us lite. Never a week went by without incapable of dimming the tide of a tragedy being related, the indes- population as Canute was of control- cribable Tragedy of Jarrow."
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