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Thursday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 5, 1939,
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CAPONE TO LEAVE ALCATRAZ America's Number One Gangster To Gain Temporary Freedom
SAILORS FROM H.M.S. KENT marching through the streets yesterday to take part in the March Past
at Happy Valley. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Percy Noble, took the salute.-Kahu Photo.
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5 Years On U.S. 'Devil's Island'
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.
SCARFACE AL CAPONE, America's No. 1 gangster, is to be freed on January 19 after nearly five years in Alcatraz, America's Devil's Island.
For a few hours he will RCO a nation changed sinco he left Chicago City, which he ruled with a gun,
nation that
has given up the bootlegging that made him a fortune and has hunted down gangsters of which he was the pattern.
Then he will go back to prison again in the suburbs of Chicago for one more year.
Beenuse he has behaved himself In prison, Capone's original cleven- year sentence in 1931 for income violation has been cut, but be must serve another year in a Chicago jail for another offence.
When Capone is finally released- and be may never be because of his
arrested.
been
urc- absent
Premier Cuts His Vacation
Unexpected Action Linked With Spain Situation?
LONDON, Jan. 4.
mental condition-he will be Mr. Neville Chamberlain and wealthier than he Was when Viscount Halifax unexpectedly
The syndicate which bas
decided this morning to return running his enterprises-all legal,
to London. except gambling-hove made
Originally the return of the Prime mendous proẞts for their
Minister and Foreign Minister was managing director.
scheduled for the week-end. Breweries, night-clubs, mineral water factoritaning
Ometal quarters are anxious lo macaroni factories, emphasise that the return of the two Arms, have Ministers from the country is due to brought Capone's banking
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of weather conditions. account Worsening Into seven figures,
The Prime Minister's office denied been cleared by the payment of over week, or of a meeting of the inner The way for Capone's release has rumours of a Cabinet meeting this 537,000 towards the $50,000 flac and Cabinet. court costs outstanding against the Despite the official reason given for former gang chieftain.
the return of the Ministers, and de- His advocate, who made the pay-Ispite on authoritative statement that
and
even
LONDON, Jan. 4.
by
1939,
adds
ships,
ment to the district court, did
THE BRITISH NAVY will be increased 100 vessels of various description in according to the "Evening News," which that the increase will affect all types of including 10,000 ton cruisers.
On the other hand, still larger ves-coming year does not include a con-
sels under construction will not be siderable number of auxillary craft, completed until 1940.
such, boom defence vessels, motor torpedo-boats, depot ships and tugs FIFTY 14 IN GUNS
The paper states that the following shilps are now being built, apart from the big 35,000 fon battleships:
Five aircraft-carriers, of which two will be ready this year,
22
of which three of 10,- toos cach will be placed in scr- vice this year.
23 destroyers, of which 20 will be completed during 1030,
to
The first important vessels to go affont will be the battleship Kng George V., which the King is launch on Tyneside 'on Feb, 21. A sister ship, Prince of Wales, wHI take the water at Birkenhead in March, and during the summer and autumn three more vessels of the same class
15 submarines, of which 13 will-Anson, Jelileoe and Beatty will
shortly be re
be ready.
In addition to the above,
indicate when the remaining would be paid-Reuter.
not no Cabinet meeting is conemplated, sum political observers are attaching
Fiance Ran
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For Lonely
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major importance to the unexpected return of Mr. Chamberlain and Vis count Halifax, since the Prime Minister
days ago stated that he would have ample opportunity of meeting the Foreign Secretary be- fore their journey to Rome.
Political circles here, therefore, ore inclined to believe that questions concerning the British attitude to- wards the
the Spanish and Mediter ranean problems, which have assum ed a more concrete form within the tast few days, has Induced the Minis- ters to return at on earlier date.
Increasing attention is being paid be launched at Clydebank, Wallsend-
in London to the Spanish question, three on-Tyne and Govan respectively.
since it is believed These five units, the largest and A MAN who was said to have operations have entered a decisive the military auxillary ships, four minc-loyers. three patrol ships, one submarine de-most strongly armoured battleships ordered a suit for the wed-stage. According to
to all indications, not ship, two river gunboats, and 34 ever bullt in Britain, will reinforce smaller vessels will be put into ser- the gun-power of the Fleet by Boding and worn it at the opening London is revising its Spanish pol
policy Vlee In 193
Various quarters have appented to 1930, while independently of 11in guns of a new and most power- of a Lonely People's Club which Mr. Chamberlain within the c
few val programme for 1930-40, ful type. With a designext speed of he founded, was ordered at days to announce at last the subject seven new cruisers will be ready dur-30 knots, they will be among the Dublin Civil Court recently to of the impending Rome conversa-
world's fastest battleships. ing the present year.
The puper further states that of launched are the Illustrious, Victori-promise.
The three aircraft carriers to be pay £150 damages for breach oftions, and to reveal the attitude ho intends to take towards Mussolini in the five 35,000 ton battleships now being buill, two will be ready in 1940, tons. They are the largest carriers Dublin, was sued by Miss Margaret ous, and Formidable, each of 23.000
the question of the Spanish problem. and the remaining three in 1941. so far built for the
Trans-Ocean. Two other battleships, the construc-The first is building at Barrow-in- Gallagher, of South Circular-rond,
Royal Navy. tion of which has been approved, but Furness, the second on the Tyne, and Dublin. Both are aged 33. not yet commenced, wil, says the the third at Belfast. paper, have a displacement of 40,000
the naval
tons.
The paper estimates that the total number of British warships at present under construction is approximately 150-Trans-Ocean,
RECORD LAUNCHING IN PEACE TIME
NEW TYPE CRUISERS
Francis Behan, of Curzon-street.
Mr. J. Fitzgerald, for Miss Gallag- Premier Gives
her, said that the couple began keep- Ing company in 1929. About 120 afloat are the Fiji, Kenya, Mauritius, CUIDE TO MISGUIDED
The five largo cruisers to be put letters had passed between them. Nigeria, and Trinidad, representing a new type of 8,000 tons and 33 knots speed, armed with 12 in. guns,
The seven smaller cruisers in the People's Club in Dublin and hoped 1830 programme are Dido, Euryalus, to make money out of it.
"He subsequently ran excursions
Of the 11 destroyers eight are of
"For some reason," said Mr. Fitz- Kerald, "Behan started Lonely
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Premier Gives MORRIS-MG-WOLSELEY Cheque Back To Charity
for £30,
DURING 1939 Britain will
launch 45 new warships, and Hermione. They, too, form an and organised dances for misguided as a tribute to his cfforts
Nalad. Phoebe, Sirius, Bonaventure
London, Jan. 4. with a total tonnage of 355,705. entirely new class, 5,150 tons, with lonely people' in the city."
The Prime Minister has received Such a figure has never before speed of 33 knots. The armament
in the In February of this year Behan from the women of Malta consisting
cause of peace, a generous been approached in time of peace by is unique, consisting as it does of 10 handed Miss Gallagher a letter in of a Maltest lace tabircloth, a silver present any country, and is little, if at all, 5.2in guns, a new model credited which he stated he liad met another model of a Maltese boat, and a cheque below the aggregate tonnage launch with a rate of fire of 14 rounds a girl on the previous June and they jed in Britain in any single year of minute.
the Great War.
intended to get married. The vessels due to be launched in the Laforey class, understood to be that Behan used his home as an onlce accepted the silver boat and
Miss Gallagher, in evidence, sald
The Prime Minister has gratefully 1030 ore:
of a very large and powerful type,
Jacc Displacement All the new submarines are big dence.
or Lonely People's Club correspon-Governor of Malta, and organisers of tablecloth, and hon naked the tons ocean-going craft, and most of the 175,000 stoups are escort vessels heavily-
the presentation, to devote the 09.000 armed with anti-aircraft guns.
cheque to charity in Malta. 40,000 Even when the 45 ships enumerat-61
British Wireless. 30,150 cd are in the water,
many others will 20,000 remain on the stocks. These will in- 9,855 clude two 40,000-ton battleships, four 3.700 heavy and three light cruisers, and numerous smaller craft, without 355,705 counting the battleships, cruisers, All the above are combatant ships, destroyers and submarines to be pro- and the total of launchings in the vided for in the 1938 Navy Estimates,
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Battleships
Number
Aircraft carriers.
Large cruisers
Destroyers
Small cruisers
Submarines
Sloops
45
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THE TOTAL CUSTOMS revenue in China during 1938 amounted to $254,670,000 as compared with $342,900,000 for the preceding year.
It shows a decrease of $88,330,000 from the previous year.
"Pull Up Your Socks For The King!"
Renfrew (Ontario).
Nazis Behead A West Front Spy
in
Berlin, Jan. 4. The third execution by beheading --Said Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor this year occurred this morning, General of Canade, to a group of when Rudolf Szories of Leipzig was Children at Renfrew:-
executed. "Chlidren. I have a word for you. September last, the indictment stat-
He was sentenced to death The King is coming, so I hope you ing that he had fled the country to will all brush your hair and pull up, France, and had joined the secret your socks, for the King is especially service to spy on the fortifications on interested in children."
Germany's western frontier--Reuter' The King and Queen are to visit Special. Canada and the United States next May.
Helping Britain's Re-armament
The proceeds include $160, Chinwangbao $4,540,000;
London, Jan. 4. 040,000 Import duties, $16,580, Tientsin 156,440,000 Chefoo visory panel of industrialists, set up
At a meeting yesterday, the ad 000 export duties 356,840,000 $4,020,000; Tsingtao $8,870,000 to help in the co-ordination of in- Inter-port duties, $2,920,000 ton Hankow $8,210,000, Shanghai dustrial effort in connection with the GENERAL MACHIDA DIES nago dues, $9,180,000 relief 000; Amoy: $2,680,000; Swatow Green, Leut-Colo
ro-armament programme, elected as $84,910,000; Foochow $5,410,-
Ils chairman, leut-Colonel J. H. M pukan Tokyo, Jan. Besurtaxes, and $9,170,000 revebud 39,680,000: Canton: $19,550,000; General Kalu Machida, retired,' died surtaxen....
The panel hus bald a number of Kowloon $18,840,000; Wuchowi meetings, starting before Chrisurias, *10:30 o'clock last night at the agetations were as follows:
Earnings at different customs 24,410,000 and Menstre 14- be drawn up for the future.
and a full programme of work. has. 1420,000-589817
King Wirelem;
of an Illienkʼat:21ls, réulilänsen in Tokyo
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TAXI STRIKE ENDS
New York, Jan. 4. Mayor La Guardia has Induced 31,000 taxi-drivers, who went on strike yesterday, to end the strike on Frday on promises of arbitration Reuter.
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