THE
HONGKONG、 TELEGRAPH.
FEBRUARY FRIDAY,
11,
1038.
Defence Japanese Soldier Is First-Class Fighting
Will Cost £350,000,000 This Year
The defence force estimates! for 1938 have now been com- plated.
They provide for an expenditure
of £330,000,000--the highest figure on record in peace time.
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of this £100,000,000 will be de- frayed out of the Defence Loan.
Sums that the various Defence De- partinents will take are:
Navy
Air Force
Army
£125,000,000 £113,000,000 £102,000,000 £10,000,000
Home Oẞice ....
The Home Office £10,000,000 will) be for the first instalment of the nir-raid precautions plans.
For the Navy 40 new ships will be
bullt, in addition to the 100 now building, including three new battle- ships.
BIGGEST NAVY
new
BUT EQUIPMENT MAKES
HIM
UNTIDY, SLOVENLY
By H. O. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
Tientsin, Jan. 1.
The Japanese soldior at the front is one of the world's best equipped fighting men,
There is nothing cheap or shoddy, or in any way resembling the flimsier Japanese gadgets sold abroad, in what the Japanese soldier has at his disposal in actual combat. The Japanese at home has dainty, under-sized possessions. Everything is on the small side as befits a small people.
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Not so in battle. The Japanese soldiers have German knap- sacks, French trench-coats, rifles resembling the American type, bayonets like those of the British-in short, they have used the best points of each army in the world.
only 2
Rated Man
This man is not conuniting sul-
merely elde, but he's
21 novie cameraman getting a new angle on the latest safety device Introduced by the Great Western Railway in
driver
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The uniforms are ill fitting, ones we were eating were Several thousand
RAF The Japanese does not have the years old. planes are also to be built, But the
ALWAYS BOIL WATER Air Ministry Insists that the exact same sense of military trimness! number must be kept secret,
that other army men possess. Water is a problem in China and In addition 40 more aerodromes are Officers, except where individual the rule of health here is always to England, enabling the to be Inid out.
In the Army estimates provision personality makes itself felt, boll water and never to eat anyibing "hear" his way along the track. will be made for an extra 50,000 are not of the dashing variety. raw which grows close to the ground: Nene alf caution signals in a ramp The Japanese were extremely careful which can be electrically energised Territorials and an extra 30,000 men Their trousers are baggy, their about water. They sank deep wells, by the signsiman, If the line
boots are too big for them, their then altered and disinfected the
bell rings at the driver's side; tunics bulge at the back, they water. Where no wells were avall clear
should the signal be at "caution" a able water was boiled. Food gathered be use the choker collar and shun from the countryside were always siren sounds and the brakes are
the smart Sam Brown belt.
cooked and soldiers were told not to automatically applied throughout the eat anything raw. The danger is train. By means of this new safely dysentery, which caused such havor device, trains will be able to keep among Southern soldiers in the Civil their normal speeds even in fog, War in America.
In the Regular Army.
Sixty regiments are io have machine-guns instead of rifles.
Also unti-tank unlis ure 10 established,
By the end of the year the British Défences as a whole will be the most ellelent in the world. Our Navy and Air Force will be the biggest in the
world..
Britons' Heads
Are Getting Bigger
Englishmen's heads are
OFFICERS WELL EQUIPPED
front the men have what t
But Un cold morning at the takes to carry on cfciently. The officer who seemed to sloppy on the streets of Tlentin a few days ago is a differ- fur-lined ent man now. He has sleeveless garment which leaves his arins free, or a fur-lined jacket pistol, dispatch case, field glasses, ammunition and canteen are trimly attached to his belt or slung over a shoulder.
worm
His
There is FRENCH EXILE
courajte. the
The fighting qualities of the Japun-
army are debatable. question of individual here is ample evidence that Japanese soldier is as couragous any living man. Perhaps he is courageous, for he is prone to make the issue an individual one, like the
Japanese warriors samurai or feudal times, instead of relying on couts, team work and organization.
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315
MAY END FOR
ABD-EL-KRIM
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The
The soldiers have part camel-hair wool, hooded to
It is said that the Japanese are getting keep off rain or snow. They button not good aviators. It is true there Jarger, but they are carrying less back in front so that the knees are
not impeded in heavy going. Their many accidents among Blers in
conditions weight on them.
Japan. Weather This is disclosed in statisties com-comfort kits, weapons, emergency
may bc partly responsible, piled by Mr. L. C. Fincher, a Londontations are securely stowed on them. contended by Japanese offietals.
The soldiers are small but husky, with aviators did a nest bit of bombing Since the war the average bat sold strong leg muscles and shoulders around Tientsin, picking off objec- ilves cleanly. But most of that in London has grown by two sizes, broad for their height, while the average weight has dropped
The artillery and supply trains bombing was done at about 300 yards, from nearly oz. to 4 02,
Very popular are sports. felt hats are on the European model. They and the bombing abilities at high
stood the test of North China's altitudes were not teated, weighing only 2 oz.
hut experi..
atrocious ronds in splendid shape. *GUNNERY RECORDS SECRET These contrast, with the door sule The horses were a problem. Thou- |
of heavy bowlers weighing 734 "sands were brought over from Japan: The artillerymen are said to be the heaviest hat made recently.
Part of the increase in size is due but the strain of hauling heavy un poor marksmen, although that would
mud and cargoes through a foot of be a question of personal opinion to the habit, a relic of tin-hatted war was killing. In some places a false dependini OF just how much days, of wearing headgear further step plunged a horse up to its belly experience one had had with it. The down on the head, but Mr. Pincher in mire.
Japanese do not publicise their still regards the growth of heads us
gunnery records. remarkable.
opera hats,
SWAM 105,000 MILES
them
ARMY RATIONS GOOD
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Moroccan Warrior Called Staunchly Pro-French Now In Report
Paria, Jan. 28. During the recent meeting of the North African Coordination the Committee in Paris, in course of which former Premier Albert Sarraut, president of the committee laid down the general outlines of wide-scale reforms which are to be carried out in Morocco, Algeria and Tunis, the question of the eventual return of Abd-el-Krim to his mother- land was discussed.
Sales of top hats, probably due to
Excitability, inherent in the race, The question was bronched by M. The Jonese soldier is better fed the Coronation, rose-lightly-inst year, while out of every hundred hats than in former wars. In the first-is-a-drawback.-Japanese-crowds Lucien Gasparin-member-of-Parlia sold in fashionable shops three are Sino-Japanese conflict 50 per cent of stampede easily. The Japanese have ment for Reunion Island where Abd- hud beri-bert, a dangerous and so.few defeats in battle that they el-Krim has been in exile during the disesse, caused by a diet deficiency, have come to think of themselves as past 11 years. M. Gasparin picaded n dangerous eloquently in favour of Abd-el-Krim. which cripples the muscles. In the invincible, admittedly Russo-Japanese war 85.000 Japanese attitude when coupled with the ten- He read a letter from Major Verines, former commander of the Reunion soldiers suffered from it. Offlelals deney toward individualism and ex-
gendarmeric, In whose charge Abd- ay there has been none in the pre-cited actions in emergencles.
Lack of imagination is un ussell-Krim was placed. Major" Verines sent North China campaign,
The Japanese soldier is not Inclined states in his letter that he "could sub-to grumble about hardships or work personally guarantee that the senti- stituted for the polished kind and himself into a state of nerves overments of the Moroccan chlef were now Skipper IV, a grey nurse shark at other items have been added to the the deprivations even the horrors very pro-French." the Sydney aquarium has just mude dirt. On my visits to the front of war. a world record by completing four late sokliers raltons and found them The infantrymen work up a holy years in captivity.
palatable and nourishing. There was zeal. In their rushes. It makes them He has never been known to stop canned beef, canned fish, bean soup, hard to withstand. What the Japan
ese call "bushido." or code for military swimming round, and is estimated tories and vegetables. have covered 105,120 miles, says For emergency ralions the men conduct, regards each soldier
Unpolished rice has been
ns
AID TO FRANCE SEEN Verines continued by pointing out that in his present state of mind the return of Abd-el-Krim to Morocco "could not fall to be of the greatest French propaganda which is now being carried on in Morocco."
Austral News. His djet Is four carried, in cheese-cloth bags, hard-human bullet." His life is not use to us in fighting certale anti- pounds of smaller fish a day. tack biscuits in which essential food important as the mission to which he blended. Supply is dedicated. A soldier killed in The previous record for a shark in values had been captivity was three years and ten officers told me the biscuits would re-action is delfled. There is no more
main edible for 10 years but that the honourable death. months, also at Sydney.
ABOUNDING
in Loveliness
Kayser Mir-O-Kleer hose are so lithe and light, they're like nothing at all. Yot they mould shapely legs into a smooth silken sheath of loveliness! There's an aura of glamour about both sheer and servico weights. "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser."
And don't fall to sos Kayser's
neo underwa
KAYSER
In further defence of Abd-cl- Krim's francophile sentiments it was mentioned that his five sons all have received a truly French education In the Reunion college and that the eldest is soon to join the French urmy.
Replying 10 these orguments, Sarraut said that he would give the question a thorough examination and that, if n return to Morocco---which has already been discussed several times-should not be possible, I will nevertheless study the possibility of Abd-el-Krim's taking up residence in France.".
PROPAGANDA FIGHT, DECLARED In conjunction with this discussion the members of the North African Coodination committee examined the Increasing anti-French propaganda which is being carried on in Morocco. Sarraut said he was determined to fight propaganda being carried on "by foreign powers." He said a plan for intensified counter propaganda by radlo was being put into effect and that French authorities would not hesitate to carry out wholesale ex- pulsions of the troublemakers,
He promised that would be done to better te lot of the native, both Rocially and economically, but the government, he aald was determined to put down uny subversive movement, from whatever political party it might come, with a firm hand.
GIRLS WEAR SOUVENIR GARTERS
Durban, South Africa. Many South African girls are wearing souvenirs of the British navy In the form of garters bearing names of units of the fleet. A sailor nboard the Amphion, which recently vialted Durban, is responsible for the new fad... Ils made the garters out of-taliny,sibbons and sold them to Chie maten, who gave them to giris
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