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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1938.
GERMANY'S KEY INDUSTRIES
VULNERABLE
Baron Alexander von Falken- hausen, German militury adviser to the Chinese army, ordered by Berlin 10 return home. Chinese officials are loath to release him and his uides from their con- tracts, which is pleasing to the Baron
“NEUTRAL” STATES CANNOT ESCAPE
ARMS RACE
Geneva
The so-called "neutral" states that have so for managed to remain alost! from the arms race are warned, in the Maret issue of the faternational Labour Review published by the ILO, that I will be impussable for them to escape its aftermath The warning is contained in the conclu ing article by British economist A. J. S. Daster, on the economie effects of rearmament.
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HERE'S HOW TO KEEP
FROM THE AIR
Big Problem In Military
Preparations
The problem of how to protect from aerial bombard- ment one of the largest and most important of German factories, the Leuna Ammonia Works, covering four [square miles, is being seriously studied by the authorities.
First erected in 1916 to produce synthetic nitrogen out of the air by the Haber-Bosch process, the Leuna Works have now expanded to one of the largest chemical plants in the world, using the resources of soft coal in the Saale River basin.
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Like every chemical factory, the Louna Works are a maze of open- eir pipe-tines, distilleries and factory buildings quite impossible camouflage. A primary reason for choosing in 1910 the present site of the factory was its distance from the frontier, writes the Sunday Times Berlin correspondent.
DEFENCE OF LEUNA
Now matters have changed. The Lrunn Works can be reached by mextern
from Czechoslovakia border within twenty
bombers
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Risked Life
To Hang A Dummy
Undergraduates who looked minutes, Since Leuna is the heart out of their windows at Keblo | of Germany's
newly created College, Oxford, were abocked to synibelle products industry, the pro- see what appeared to be a body bam of defending the works is un Important chapter Germany's hanging by about soven feet of nditary preparations.
rope from a gargoyle on a lofty tower above the quadrangle.
Questioned on what plons had
been made to defend the Leun fac- tories in case of war, the directors of the plants stated.
"All we can do is to bulló our plants in such a way that, if bonta should fall on any part of thein, the damaged department can be taken out of production and
substitute can increase is output. so that production to other parts of the plant will not be held up. The main Job, of course, is up to the Air Force, whose duty it is to see that enemy planes never reach the factory.**
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The direciona matsted that anti-pirerait guns were in position) near the plant, but they admitted economi that they would he rushed to the
neighbour friend
WIL break
"The trend towards gerator na tional self-sufficiency" he says, "and the greater Flakiness of relations characteristic of a rearming world may
suggest that, as inter-
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obliged, arrbatments race will estape the efferts of it, and that if and when the boom collapses only the country immediately concerned will suffer.
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On investigation It was found that the "body" was a dummy. Some unknown climber had achieved dangerous feat In which one false step would have ted to real tragedy.
There have been other climbing supades at Keble, and the college has been put to great expense repair- ng damage done by early-morning, "mountaineers,
Godiva A Doubtful Starter
There may, after all, be on W which, under Die Treaty of Versailles enter the
was forbidden heavy artillery, pre- Lady Godiva in "nude" flesh- the guns they hoped to own peed wellcamouflaged hide-outs torings, mounted on
write day.
charger, when Teddington, Mid- have addlesex, carnival takes place next
month.
I must be assumed that since those days preparations
Blaster says Bat though there may vanerd.
some evidence
to support this view, it
it is doubtful whether even in the present restricted state of inter-
It is true, Germar experia de clare, that Germany is still short of but Leipzig is ments, national isolation from bom one of the main centres of the Ger- and slumps is very secure anywhere. man motorised army, and the Euras
Pessunistic views about the conne-
econy-Works, with
numerous plants
national unde and capital mave divisional artillery:
On the eve of choosing the girl to the role from the 18 applicants, the Pete Committee is discussing ! whether, after all, stach a figure is
quite nice."
mle future will pass national front-) established in the neighbourhoor. Last-minute qualms have bern Ines unchecked, to influence business would tehily be protected with roused by storm of protest by
More ati-aircraft gúns a lew hours after residents, men's decisions on both sides. unportant, over-investment in
mobilisation.
People who have helped with the)
fused to help this year unless Lary
KUYS!
A new picture of President Edward Benes, troubled Presi dent of Czechoslovakia,
He re- cently told 40,000 school children who called to congratulate him, In Prague, on his forthcoming 54th birthday, that “every eltizen of this country may be sure of his
and constitutional rights
all nationalities are called to CO- operate, su they can enjoy full freedom."
Gets £250 A Week
Blind, struggling to over- come his handicap, a young Cardiff boy has made himself a national hero in America. Alee Templeton, brilliant planist, was one of the two blind celebrities consulted recently when a Chicago baby was offered the choice of life or sight,
The other was Helen Keller, whose nchlovements In nvercoming the handicaps of a blind-dent mute made her internationally famous.
TAUGHT HIMSELF
Ales. Templeton, now 25. was "ound" three years ago by Mrs. Jack Hylon. She persuaded her husband to give him a chance.
Jack Hylton took young "Tem- pleton to America, where the plantst achieved great success. Born biind, Templeton taught him- self to play by listening to recitals, broadcasts, and gramophone
records. Once he heard a tune he could sit down and play it immediately.
Alee Templeton now has contracts until 1040. He is earning £256 a week.
TRAMP WHO MET CZAR
PUSHES A BARROW
Of "The
Strange Career Of
Vagabond "
There lives in Newbury a man whose story must be one
of the strangest in the world-Mr. William Brockway, of Kennet Road, 6ft. Gin. giant, who likes to be called "The Vagabond."
Britain Builds Liner In Record Period
Birkenhead.
For thirty years he has wandered through Europe, the most educated tramp who ever walked the roads by day and night.
Now he is married and settled. To-day you can see him wheeling a barrow through Newbury streets. Yet this man speaks nearly all the languages of Europe, is a specialist in antiques and precious stones, has been miner, soldier, smuggler, artists' model, translator and author.
SECRET MESSAGE
lle once acted as a secret service agent for the Czar Nicolas of Russin, to whom ho delivered a secret mes- sage at Kiel when the Czar went there to attend a regattu.
He sut for eight months for Dame Laura Knight. He has posed for Augustus John, and the Hon. John Collier.
member of the secret
What is believed to be a record in shipbuilding will be established on July 28 when the Cunard White Star liner Mauretania, 33,000 tons gross, constructed for the London-New York ser- the vice, is launched from Cammell Laird yard here. writes Hector C. Bywater in the Daily Telegraph.
of the world's economic system
This vessel, the largest in- He is SALTPETRE AND ALCOHOL carnival in previous years have re-termediate liner so far built in underworld of trumps in Germany. will cause the other parts to breame adapted to it, so
so long as there is any
The plant is realy a combinationCutiva is withdrawn from the pro- this country and the greatest France, Belgium, liolland, and Bri international trade at all. It is easy of several factories. Hs to pro- cession.
ship ever constructed in Eng-tain. He is respected by apaches in to see for instance, that the Ameri- tucs are synthetic soltpetre,
steel industry may be over-
over Synthetle petrol and lubricating oils. Mr. Ernest Green, retired business land, was laid down on May 24,
from built in consequence of orders on coul, taken from the pits in Central tou, has written in protest: nected directly or indirectly
In Earopean
Germany
addition,
Since then about 17,000 tons of arufelel www.fertilisers are produced. They are f
memorial hospital and steel have been worked into may be less obvious enses of other derived from the synthetic saltpetre health centre to be thus used for structure. industries whose Increased exports
The hull, with its seven to Europe set free resources there for the production of which the fac debasing the young womanhood and decks, is complete, and the plating
built.
manhood of Teddington under the of the upper part of the liner, com- tory was originally
In 1916, when Germany was in des- Huise of charity?"
prising the promenade, sun and perate need of sultpeire fur 11771-
sports decks, is well advanced. munitions, Fritz Haber asci Bosch discovered a method of
Cart
pro-
enti
They are made
with there
rearmament:
but
fur armaments making. Thus ex pansion and contractions in international trading countries are linked, whatever the exchange sys tem. Jolation from the international repercussions of rearmament or dis- armament is an illusion."
ARMAMENTS TRUCE NEEDED The chief danger ahead, Baster thinks, is that of a top-heavy struc- ture of production in which the dis- tribution of tlu stream read resources between the vapital goods nods industries and the consumption goods industries will falt to correspond
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bituminous man, of Commught Road, Tedding- 1937,
"18 our
ducing
Then, when salpetro was nu longer needed for the manufacture of explosives, chemists turned it into artificial fertilisers, which play an important part in Germany's fight for self-sufficiency",
the Leuna Works started producing synthetic alcohols, which are used chiefly in internal combus-
ton engines.
nitrogen und salpetre from BIG GOLD RUSH
In 1923
To-day they produce 370,000 tons to the distribution of the stream of petrol annually, which, udded to income between saving and the benzine produced in other Ger-
Though in
than plants, provides Germany with cases be indefinitely total of 1,000,000 tons annually, or postponed, most counteles will have about half of her present needs.
ment may
sume
to deal with the inevitable recession when it comes.
Baster continues, "The most hope- ful beginning and the most hopeful guarantee for the success of a re- covery policy, anywhere would be an effective armaments truce
or
urmaments convention containing
economic clauses embodying inter- national agreement." The agreement would aim at three main results: firstly, the liberation and expansion
of International trade in order to facilitate the diversion of war plant
to peace-time production, secondly, a plain statement of national policy by
economic countries;
the principal change of information
thirdly, an exch
between them.
In
her
To bring a ship of this size to the launching stage in 14 months is an astonishing feat, the more so as Cammel Laird is simul-
about taneously building
15 other the
including vessels,
the 35,000-ton battleship Prince of Wales.
What prospectors describe as a rich guld strike has been made Franklin River area in the west of Vancouver island.
There has been a rush of engineers When ready for sea next spring the and prospectors to the spot, cables Mauretania will displace about 37,000 the
Sunday Dispatchi Vancouver
will correspondent.
tons. Her
Fair.
maiden voyage
Paris.
His amazing life really began when, at the age of sixteen, he was left penniless and alone in Germany, Brockway has sinuggled indigo and saffron from Luxemburg into Holland and France. With a friend he made
£000 in three weeks running tipster racing stunt.
He has found and sold valuable antiques.
One night, many years ago, he met Lowenstein the financier, who later leaped to death from his airplane in mid-Channel, Lowenstein give him a packet of cigarettes: Inside was n
£5 note and two sovereigns.
In an hotel in Epping Forest one day Brockway resented Д word spoken by a negro. Ite felled the
Johnson, the boxer, once heavyweight champion of the world.
The Dominion Government report coincide with the New York World negro with one blow. It was Jack describes the area as possessing "n remarkable mineralised muss, just|- fying thorough prospecting."
Assays give high values of gold and silver.
Boy Of Seventeen Jumps 6,000 Ft,
Seventeen-year-old Albert Gourd, of Eastern-street, Bristol, had always wanted to do a parachute drop.
So he did it, from 6,000ft, over the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol.
E landed on the roof of a house which we have to wear and went "The alternatives" he concludes H in Woodland-road, Bristol, and over the side head first." "to an armaments truce and some international economic understanding there remained hanging until rescued such as is here suggested are plain by means of a ladder, Either
rearmament will have ta
natural consequence in a world war
Gourd, who is a member of the
precipitated perlings by the economie R.A.F. Reserve at Filton, said he had breakdown of one of the competitors, only been up once before, and had
Gourd, whose only apparent injury was a skinned shin, sald, "But I have an awful headache."
er the burden of armaments expendi- told his friends that he would do a Grounds For Spanking ture will become so intolerable in jump.
the poorer countr
countries
Ds to produce
.
"Thoy kept chipping me," he said,
widespread hardship with incalculable
political consequences. It is certain "do I did it. I asked the R.A.F. if I that the economic
problems would be rafeed by a return to that could jump, but they refused.
national common sense in this mat- "I went up this evening as an air ter aro not insoluble, given the very gunner, The pilot did not know modest degree of co-operation which what I intended to de.
would be assured by an armaments truce itself.-United ProsN,
u just took the parachute from the rack, attached it to the harness
VISALIA, Cal. Chief of Pollen Unroid Hicks proved himself a super G-man when frightened citizen rushed in with "or a postul cord demanding 348O else." After an intensive study of the card he asked the man if by ony chance he had a young son who read detective stories. He had.
Normally the ship will sail from the King George V. Dock, North Woolwich, but whenever the Queen Mary or the Queen Elizabeth is laid up for overhaul she will fill the gap on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route.
Everything about the Mauro- tanla is on the imposing scale. The main gear-wheels interposed between the turbines and the twin-propellar shafts are the largest ever built for a liner, measuring 40-ft in circumfer- ence and weighing 85 tons each.
now The propellers, which are being cast in London, weigh 25 tona each and are equal in size to those of the 81,000-ton Queen Mary..
Lenin crossed his path in the old forlifications of Metz, where hunted men from all parts of the world used to hide in safety.
Lenin was accompanied by a young man named Sipiao, who fired a bullet at King Edward VII. (then Prince of Wales) in Brussels,
VALUABLE SCRAPBOOK Brockway the Vagabond has crudely kept scrap-book, the pages of which are crammed with the letters and photographs of half the great publle figures of Europe during the last thirty years.
Its value as an autograph book must be considerable for in it are So forward is the work in the ship the signatures of Cabinet Ministers, that she is already receiving her sportsmen, Royalty and detectives. launching coat of paint.
Quite recently "The Vagabond"
In view of the important Admiral- | found three Henry VIII period win- ty work now proceeding in the yard, dow frames thrown on to a rubbish Ii is probable that when the ship is heup. Ho bought from a hoop-la launched naval Vessels will be stali in Sallsbury for sixpence each off by scaffolding and about six dozen genuine Weoldon
mugs, and sold them for 10s, each.
screened canvas.
Three Lipsticks Jailed Him
Toronto.
Seventeen-year-old Russell. Burdick, who held up Miss Ruth Cary, at the point of a revolver and stole her purse, has been sentenced to ten": Isshes and twelve months" "Imprison. ment at Lindsay, Ontario.
His "hau" Three lipsticks.
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