THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
18, MONDAY, APRIL
54 "FLYING FORTRESSES" ORDERED BY
U.S. NAVY:
NAVY: DEADLIEST AIR WEAPONS Battleships of the Sky Will Outclass Any Other Warplane
8,000 Mile Range Is Possibility Of Near Future
NAVAL
By Otto Janssen
United Press Staff Correspindent
WASHINGTON.
'AL AVIATION ENGINEERS ARE STUDYING PLANS FOR A NEW FLYING FORTRESS, MOUNTING DEADLY GUNS CAPABLE OF FIRING 200 TWO-INCH SHELLS. A MINUTE, A HIGH NAVY SPOKESMAN DISCLOSED RECENTLY.
It was revealed also that the navy has placed orders with two commercial airplane companies for 54 fighting flying boats to be the most effective of their type in the world.
Although the Aeronautics Bureau is keeping details secret, it is understood they will be similar to the huge, four motored Sikorsky flying dreadnaught now under- going secret tests.
If these tests prove successful, it was learned, the navy will order a fleet of these ships, to be followed later by the larger, more formidable "battleships of the air."
EMPIRE NEWS
These ships would be heavily armed and would assume the same position,of superiority in the air that the battleships holds in the sea, officials said.
being The rapid-fire guns now
about studled would be
twice as lurge an uny weapon mounted at ASSISTED TICKETS TO present on United States fighting
addition, the aircraft. In
planes would be equipped with regular machine guns in the bow, rear and would carry centre turrets, and Sydney. The Federal Cabinet decided 16-bents of 2,000 pounds or more. day to resume immediately the sys tem of assisted immigration from Britain by nomination, which has been dormant since the period of depression set in in 1930.
The
group or
AUSTRALIA
plan provides for either
it
Omeints indicated the cruising range of the new ships probably would be increased considerably over that of fighting planes now in use. experimental The army has one plane which is said to be capable of or individual nomination by flying 5,000 miles non-stop, and the Government, and lack of prac was pointed out that the range of almost 1,000 tical co-operation by the States Gov-plants hus increased ernments is not regarded as a serious miles a year over the past few years. obstacle. It is pointed
out that
Fighting planes with a range of three-quarters of the immigrants 7,000 to 8,000 mites are "distinct
1928 between 1918 and
were possibility," one official said. nominated by this fairly einstle 535- to nominate friends or relatives for tem, enabling residents in Australia
A
UFS
A-HUNTING WENT GOERING-A bag of 40 bears. abx lynxes, two foxes and one wolf was secured by German Field Marshal Hermann Goering's party when he went hunting in the forest near Bialowicza, Poland, with Polish President Ignacy Moselcki. Above. Goerlit, left, and President Moscicki return from the bunt. Goering got eight boars, but no coveted lynx.
Called
Divorce Judge
Husband A "Liar"
1998.
FURTHER CHINESE GAINS REPORTED
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Hsuchow, Apr. 17.
The Chinese forces have captured Hsiangchen, north-east of Yihsien and south-east of Tsaochwang.
Before its fall, Japanese planes dropped foodstuffs, medical supplies and arms to their beleaguered comrades in Hsiangchen, but most of them were picked up by the Chinese forces. The machine-gun cartridges also fitted the Hitchliss and Browning and were used against the
enemy.
Except for three soldiers who managed to slip through the cordon, the entire garrison of 500 men were annihilated.-International,
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MAKES ROOSEVELT
HISTORY · AGAIN
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an
JAPANESE RETIRE TO FEICHENG
Tasohalen, April 17.
with the After
encounter Chinese, the Japanese troops in Sin- cheu and Shungil, south of Feicheng in Shantung, have withdrawn into the walled city of Feicheng. During the encounter, ono Japanese Junior officer and scores of soldiers were killed-Central News.
CHANGING TACTICS
Hankow, Apr. 17. The Chinese command on the Tien-
by
the
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7.33 Closing local Stock Quota- tions.
7.35 Studio-A Reelial by Senorita Luz Guarina (Soprano) accompanied by A. T. Lay (Flauo).
1. Sapphlsche Ode (Brahms); 2. Lullaby (Gretchaninow); 3. Pinno Solo-Scriabin, Preludo in G Fint Song (Curran); 5. Major; 4. Bird Las Mayas.
Weather 6.0 Local Time Signal, Report and Announcements.
8.03 Chinese Programme--Nelay from Ko Shing Theatre.
11.0 Close Down.
eyeles
Radio Programme Broadcast by Zck on a Frequency af G10 Kilo- 8.03 Glazounow-Scenes De Ballet, Op. 52.
Played by the New Symphony Orchestra
Goossens.
equlucted by
8.28 Band Of Ir. M.
Bogene
Coldstream
Chinese command has decided 10 3 Overture (Herold, arr.
the side of the "common man," as we in America like to refer to the under-privileged. That man believes that Mr. Roosevelt is his champion and, believing it, that sin-Puitow Railway front is chant- man is Mr. Roosevelt's friend. ing its tactles, according to Chinese
Chinese
011 Essault They will be divorced only if it reports. The
bulted becomes apparent that the Presi-Yiisien is stated to have been
in order to avoid unnecessary losses dent has surrendered to the up- which are Inevitably entailed
storming operations. Instead, per classes. Defiance
smaller forces to surround the Japan- ese forces at Ylholen, Toochwang and Godfrey); Selection of Wilfred Sun- MR. ROOSEVELT hasiachen and starve them out. At derson's Songs.
time the main body of 8.45 London Relay-Empire Ex- not been spared de- the same
change'. feat in. Congress, regardless of Chinese forces has been shifted for He operations in an undisclosed area.---- his great popular support. had his way through the early Congressional sessions of his
Slan, Apr. 17. Administration, but he encount- Divisions of Chinese troops cred resistance that he could not avoiding the Pinghan Railway and
Reuter.
REINFORCEMENTS EXPECTED
are
Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonies.
9,0 Variety.
Orchestra
Light Cavalry-Over- ture
Light New (Suppe),
Vocal-The Symphony Orchestra, Night Is
Too Old To Dream to block the "The Night Is Young'),....
Vocal
overcome in the one which ad- I making northward across the Yellow Wheng (From the Film):
journed last August.
are
(From
Fier..
Japanese reinforcements being rush- This defcht prompted A
ed from Shanst to the Tsingpu Evelyn Laye (Soprano);
Len Bermon (Carson Robison)..... characteristic move on the part Railway front. Generals Sun Lien- Medley; Leave The Pretty Girls Alone of Mr. Roosevelt. Instead of hung and Tan En-po are ballering Orchestra; Orchestru. What's Next? (A Fatpourri of popular tunes Yihsien where, it is claimed, 10,000 timely accepting the Congres-
Japanese are certain to be
of the Jast half Century). **** sional verdict, he made a tour of
Chinese commanders
man Finck and His Orchestra. the American continent, assured by the Japanese unwillingness to
9.30 London Relay-The News.
Kullman himself that he had lost no send reinforcements from Japan, and
9.50 Songs by Charles clalm tint It be ascribed to fear
(Tenor). of
Aida-Holde Aida (Verdi). .... aggravating financial complications.
Japanese are still attacking The
with artillery, and pas Tungiwan sengers in trains going past lie down. in the aisles.-United, Press.
cun
ground with the people at large, Russian and German corpuliman; The Forec Of Destiny-In
then issued a call for a special besides session of Congress.
This call was a gesture of pure deflance. It was notice that Mr. Roosevelt had just begun to pre-fight.
Honour Of Two Women Vindicated
London, Mar. 17. A husband who wrote to the King's Proctor and The wingspan of the projected creased considerably, measuring pos described as "an energetic and industrious liar" by Mr. is a relentless, yes, dreadnaughts probably would be invented his wife's decree nisi being made absolute was
Justice Langton in the Divorce Court.
sibly as much as 150 to 200 feet.
the
assisted passages, not depending on
The number of motors probably State land and settlement schemes.
No mention is made of the number would not be increased, but of immigrants contemplated, but it horsepower would have to be in- ocial is understood that it is hoped that creased considerably.
out said. thousands will come several
undergoing Sikorsky The yearly. The British and Common-
will share the tests has four twin engines each of
now
one
On mous communication to the In making this comment
Proctor." Harry Oldschool, of Cres- Mr. ham Gardens, Golders Green, the Judge added:
"He is industrious because he has
WOMEN CLEARED
In October, 1980, Mrs. Eva
King's
of contention
Heiliger Stunde. ... Kullman with Walther Grossmann,
10.0 London Relay-In Town To- Night'.
Heinz
10.30 Dance Music. Fox-Trots-Anything Your Little ATTACKS UNSUCCESSFUL
Heart Desires; I Could Be In Heaven. Hsuchow, April 17. The fact is, as we long ago
The Chinese Military Command is
.... Joe Sanders and His Orchestra: discovered, President Roosevelt
Y-On A Little Dream Ranch; Was It a ruthless dispatching reinforcements to
hsien to make a determined attempt Rain? (From The Hit Parade'), ........ fighter.
to recapture the town, which has Jay Wilbur and His Band; Tangos- San Fernando (Codevilla); Punto I do not believe that in his been the chief point
(Codevilla). heart the President wishes a on the north Tientsin-Pukow Roll- Arenas
TrotsHere's Love In Your Eye In the There is no vital change third term, The prospect, I am way front in the inst couple of days. Huppertz and His Orchestra; Fox- convinced, is repellent to him on lines of both sides, though sporadic (From The Big Broadcast of 1937'); Ted Flo Old-several grounds, most of them fighting is still going on in the hills Night In Manhattan (From 'The Big
Broadcast of 1937'). of Lordship Park, Stoke personal and implicit in the in the suburban districts.
Intensive fighting has been pro-Rito and His Orchestra; Froat Pago costs of immigration
mendacity. and Newington, .. was granted a decree and tear on the body, mind, ceeding at Tienchushan and Change News: Waltz-Close To Me....... with the old TON
agreement. This pro- of seven men, and is equipped with and conceal his
frequently nisi for divorce by Mr. Justine Buck-WE workshop, energetic of a third of the vided for payment
complete mechanics' a third by atley costs by the migrant.
and
quarters. Her exercises his talents in this direction. nill in an undefended suit, but the fan oul of whoever may occupy shan, two of the suburban hills, Sydney Lipton and His Grosvenor
"I have no difficulty in resolving King's Proctor intervened after the Presidency in time of stress. since April 13. Bath sides suffered House Band.
in the struggle considerable losses Australiu and a third by Britain.
ratio equipment is said to be "eam-
The this problem by finding that Mr. Old-ceiving an anonymous letter,
Against this, however,
Colonel NEW ZEALAND
parable to that of a destroyer."
school wrote or inspired the anony-cribed by Mr. Justice Langton
Commander of the ship is completely sound-jirooted.
"carefully disguised in manuscript have to bear in mind the mani- for these strategie points. it has been print."
fest determination on the part 34th en-liangi,
Two
young women had been ated of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be ed, by the Chinese field headquar
ters, was killed on April 13 when in Mrs. Oldschool's petition, and they
come THE Roosevelt of history. he led his troops in an onslaught. witnesses for were called as
To doubt that is to be ignorant King's Proctor.
wealth Goverments in accordance | 1,050 horsepower. It carries a crew been at great pains to manufacture | school,
STATE STEEL WORKS
Auckland.
A Government bill has been intro- duced authorising the borrowing of £5,000,000 to establish a State steel production plant, According to
reports by H. A. Brassert and Co., consulting iran and steel works engineers of London, an 85,000 tons of of annual output
inished steel may be expected. The Dominion, it is estimated, would then require 70,000 to 75,000 tons from Great Britain annually. SOUTH AFRICA
CONTROL OF C.T.C. BAZAARS
crews
CHICAGO
because
FIRE BABIES FIRE
67 YEARS AFTER
TN Old Chicago
What memories will be conjured up by four witnesses of the great Chicago fire of 1871 when, for the first time, they will meet at the premiere of Darryl Zanuck's £400,000 film of that name.
All four-three of them mere infants at the time of the fire-will be guests of honour at the Tivoli in London. Listen to their own versions of that great thrill of 67 years Cape Town, C.T.C. Bazaars, South Africa, Ltd.,
age, as told to the London News Chronicle.
msies the lift hi platelaying 500 Was to-day placed provisionally
Mr. Harry Wing, a carriage malter ! under Judicial management by the Supreme Court, acting on urgent ap-atat carpenter of Redhill, Surres, away in Trenton, Michigan, when the was nine years old. ills father was nevar fame and rethed Cleage in plication.
one of the foreman in a steel rolling mill in the second werk. These biggest concerns operating in Cape North Chicago. Town and Johannesburg,
bazar's are
de
Miss
1
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Chu
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Chinese "tare-to-dle" corps sev eral times reached the elty gates of Cited as Ellen Ruse Merrit and of the man and his background. Lilian Washbourne, they were
Through the whole of his pub. Ylhsien on April 15 and Apell 18. many barbed wire Ellen Rosina Merritt, of Colne Street,
They destroyed Plaistow, F., and Miss Lily Elizabethic career the President has been barricades erected by the Japanese Owing to Warwick Square, jeered at and sneered at by the troops outside the city.
artillery and Japanese Wash borre, of S.W.
Republican branch of his family. Intensive They denied an allegation that they the branch that has glorified the machine-gun fire they were compel- led to withdraw each time to avold committed adultery with Mr. Old-
Vic-public service and the personality unnecessary losses. Central News. conal at St. Lenards Street.
of Theodore Roosevelt. toria, S.W., in August, 1935,
CHARACTER CLEARED
It is true that the achieve.
VILLAGE CAPTURED
Hachow, April 17.
east of Tsaochwang
slaying
ments of the present President Chinese forces under General Tang Mr. Justice Langton found that Miss Merritt, had never committed have furnished ample answer to En-po broke into Hslargebeng, about adultery with Mr. Oldschool or any-the detractions of his unfriendly 40 kilometres
(>11 the night
of April 13, one else, and she stands completely family relatives. He has gained about 203 Japanese soldiers who re- clear of kind of reflection on her und wielded greater
power by any
sisted their advance. two victories at the polls than
Occupying a black of houses, the The Judge said Miss Merritt hnd character," he said. performed a public service by cun- anything in the record of the remnant Jennese unbering more than 40 men, offered further resist- senting to medical examination. other Roosevelt.
He tound also that Miss Wash-
The weakness of Mr. Roose-ance inside the city. Before dawn they were practically wiped out. committed adultery velt's regime is that bourne
he has only three of them escaped-Central ubvious, she had been treated very raised up no heir-apparent to the
New Deal. seurvily."
He leaves his office not later The King's Proctor's case was that
He is an individual who has than 6.30 in the evening. He Oldschool dit! not commit
tolerated understudy, no dresses and dines at 7.30, and adultery with Miss Meritt and Miss
petition equal, no legatee. One often from the time his desk is closed four Hawaiian natives landed to-day was not served on Miss Merritt, who thinks of Cordell Hull, Secretary until bedtime he is probably the
America's "expeditionary force" of Wushbourne, and that the
of State, as such a legatee. But most care-free man in Washing- Referring to Mr. Oldschool's treat-Mr. Huli, although a loyal ad-
ton. on the small South Sea Island of had never met Mr. Oldschool. Canton, in the Phoenix group. The
said: "It is only by accident that he
posal to introduce daylight saving occupied by refunces, and for weeks U. S. Party On with Mr. Olschool "by whom, it was
Summer Time The into the Union has been rejected by the Government according to a reply sent by Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, Minister Associated the 10 of the Interior Chambers of Commerce of South Africa. Summer time comes into force in Great Britain on April 10.
Reuter. INDIA
CONGRESS M.P.S WALK OUT
"No boy could have bad a greater adventure."
"he said. "My school was was free to wander among the tents that sprang up in the prairie,
saved by
"Our home was elange in the wind, and the only thing we suffered from was hunger. We were nearly a week without supplies."
Captain R. M. Hill, a retired Arny may, was an infant at the time.
MADE A FREEMAN Nothing remained of their new a engineer, home, and his father, New Delhi.
[allowed.
Disputed Isle
Washington,
Mr.
|occupation at the neghbouring islandment of Miss Washbourne, the Judge viser, is not essentially a New
ed.
11.0 Close Down,
CRITICISMS WANTED
The S.P.C. is a servant of the public. For this reason we genuinely want SUGGES- TIONS AND CRITICISMS of
our work, and should be most grateful to anyone who will write to us on the subject.
Remember, big suggestions will need big funds.
There was a further development died in the typhoid epidemie which wishes to annex both islands, though ecause Ruch action happens to eninhas disqualified men for presi-with the abandon of a schoolboy HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE.
He particularly likes films, of Enderbury is also officially confirm has now made her the tardy amends Dealer. Besides, he has reach-and the worse they are the bet- of helping to clear her good numeed the age-66--which usually ter he likes them. He laughs The Unked States Government |
The with his overwhelming deter-
injure idential consideration. Mr. Roose-when comedies are shown at the British jurisdiction over them has mination to spite and
velt is only 55.
White House. He loves to have He saw no reason to doubt Mrs. On his mother's return to Eng-ulready been claimed by Orders in father-in-law." of the Budget procedure dispute in
people round him, cheerful peo- A Bit Greyer Oldschool's integrity. The Legislative Assembly when the
ple, and if he had his way he Council of State sat for general, dis-
George's Bay and taken off in
Mr. Justice Langton said that Interior in Washington state that the
ON the physical side, would have a party every night. private detective was responsible for baskets. cussion of the measure this after-
of Miss noon, ending in all the members of the Congress and Left parties walk- Mr. G. F. G. Day, an ex-journalist Canton Island "force" has sent
and father of Frances Day, the net wireless message describing the land- the wrong identification
Merritt.
The detective did not make any ing out,
The Congress party had announcedress, was celebrating his eleventh ing as "auccessful."
1 intention of
·Tand they were shipwrecked In Counch of the Department of
boycotting the Budget discussions because of the
the lantern that started the fire. decision, based on the Government
of India Act, that appropriations for
a vole, of the Assembly,
"The sound of the flames was like
the
in-
are
Mr. Roosevelt RECIB He does not rise until after 10 to have borne the burdens of his in the morning. Two hours This message did not say whether birthday at flooley's Theatre the night Airs. O'Leary's cow kicked over, he Hawallans were well received by attempt to escape blame for the office, heavy as they have been, earlier his most pressing muil
the six members of a New Zealand error, which had proved a costly and without loss of vitality. It is and the day's newspapers radio
post who have occupied the
be-tressing mistake to a perfectly each week at his Press confor-spends an hour reading, then defence could not be the subject of the roar of a thousand angry llons," island since, the dispute last year beerious one, and a peculiarly dis-my privilege to see him twico brought to him, in bed. He receives one or two, or all three, tween rival eclipse expeditions from nocent young woman. the mid, "and I saw whole sides of New Zealand and the United States. The intervention of the King's ences.
I see no material change in jof his private secretaries and Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of Proctor was allowed, Mr. Oldschool houses and whole timber yards sell into the air. A week later the dis-State, questioned here to-day, avoided being ordered to pay the costs. him in these five years. His maps out the day's work, all this trict was as flat as a school yard." the taple of the New Zealanders' The decree riisi was rescinded, and hair is a bit thinner and groyer, before dressing for his office. ÇOLLEGE GIRLS STUDY
of Mius numes the Judge ordered the
He lunches as a rule" at his WEATHER
that Britain and the Merritt and Miss Washbourne to be The lines in his face are a little New York. Something is being done about the The light of adventure still comes United States are both fully aware of struck out of Mrs. Oldschool's poti deeper. All of which perhaps desk, and very often has one or College Girls to the lively blue eyes of Mr. James the claims to sovereignty involved; tion, which would remain on the file. would have come to a man of his more members of his Cabinet to weather at Hunter
Mrs. Oldschool was given: légve *to are studying it in order to make 4 Frayn, 89-year-old Edmonton rail but he said he would not présume, to
age for themselves in, the field of wayman, when he recalls the great say that the matter could be con reconstitute the petition in such age in five years, whether in or lunch with him in this informal
sidered settled.
manner og she might be advised. ther forecasting, and avlation.
TO SEE IT AGAIN ?
Inilitude.
He -ndeed
out of office,
manner..
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