Dr. Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany in 1921-22, a volun- tary exile in Paris for the last six years, he arrived in Now York. recently. He
.to CAMO Americu to make A personal study of American government, but as a private citizen ho pre- ferred to avoid political discus- sions.
Navy's Growing Strength
Supplemning the encouraging ac count of the British Fleet recently Alven by the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in the House of Com- mons, Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, told members of the
Constitutional Club recently tha
that the
Ficet was both efficient and sufficient
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 17, 1939.
NAVY CAN FACE GROUP OF FOES. Little To Fear From Submarines
THE great and growing might of the British Navy and the confidence of the Admiralty that, in its modern- ised form, it had little to fear from submarines or aero- plancs, raised the spirits of the House of Commons recently when the Navy Estimates of £149,000,000 were discussed.
The depression of the day before gave place to pride, in the supremacy of the Navy.
Even Mr. Churchill consented to be happy and found little to criticise. He said
to be submerged In certain Mediterranean. After the announcement no case of piracy occurred. He left members to draw their own deductions.
"It is refreshing fór us in there found timer to take an evening off from arens, In the black care and dwell on the great and growing strength of our Navy, and feel confident that the new inventions in the air and under As for air attack, our modern ships the water, properly countered as could produce a volume of defensive they have been and are being, do fire that would drive aircraft ⋅ to]
such a
a height that the accuracy of not in decisive degree deprive
any us of the measureless resources of their attack would be seriously im- sea power, with all that has so paired. often followed in its train."
the
Latest picture of the former Princess Fawzin, 17, of Egypt and her husband, Crown Prince Mohammed Riza Shaper of Iran. They signed their marriage, contract last month, in Cairo, and had real wedding in Teheran later.
Paris Offers You..
Dress Design Done By Boy Of Seven
If anyone asked whether he would The House as a whole-though rather go bombing a battleship in Mr. Alexander, former Labour First sa aircraft or be bombed by an atr Lord of the Admiralty, was anxious craft in a battleship, his choice
German and
remain in the battle- Italian sub would be to
time. murines
every
(Cheers about
Mediterranean-ship in
and Inughter.) seemed to agree.
Improved systems of under-water SINGLE-HANDED EVEN
been worked The Kubmarine menace?"We protection hat also have got the measure of the sub-out to prevent the torpedo er mine A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Chinese boy artist and France's foremost surrealist poet have made the leading designs for some of the Churchill, from inflicting a vital blow or caus- marine," who knew what it meant when he ing such damage that a capital ship new Paris dress materials was at the Admirnity during the could not stay in action. Great War.
declared Mr.
Command of the Mediterranean?—
Defensively armed merchant ships
There should be no difficulty," he equipped with anti-alrerat diplomat,, held a London ort
snid
with equal
PARIS.
used for an evening Ploto X. Chan, son of n Chinese design, was
show "earl," gown and headdress; another be escorted by escort vessels
He has designed three showed colourful little men and don- keys, and a third, used for an after- in armament. confidence,
Close co-operation with last year. the R.A.F. would be essential as striking materials.
One in soft pink, with a flower noon frock, had little angel children
and teddy bears. securing this, even if we were en- guged single-handed. Although the such convoys approached our consts. - The Flect afr arm was making great new fleets that are being con-
Czechs Ordered To Hail' Also
land."
ROWS OF FACES
were
for the work it might be called upon to do whatever that. work mikht be. Lord Stanhope pointed out that warships last year 43
joined the Fleet.. This
year a further 80 would join the Flect, and in the financial year 1939-40, which we were about to enter, no fewer than 200 warships would be in some stage of construc-
The more sophisticated M. Coc- tion in the private and Royal dock-structed are not yet ready, we have good progress. By 1942 the person
Costa were country,
an umple superiority of sea power nel should have increased to 10,000 yards of this co
teau, whose latest play shocked Paris be of the aircraft would
total
elty councillors so much that they higher, largely because the lessons available not only to secure but to and the
forbade the continuance of its pro- Jearnt at Jutland were now being hold the command of the Mediter- latest type, comparable in
strength to the R.A.F. of ten years
municipal theatre, de- ranean." put into operation.
In every war in which we had been The developments, he added, in ago,
In future, the Czech greeting (by duction in a measures, anti-air-
WHY SCRAP THEM?
of lovely women's Inces and a silk engaged we had always regretted that anti-submarine
and gunnery,
All that seemed seriously to worry order) will be the lifting of the right signed a striped material with rows structural we did not have more small ships. craft
was the Admiralty's arm and the phrase "Hall Father-th comets whose Bery tails
carried out in jewellery, Approval had been obtained for two alterations to ships were such that Mr. Churchil
we might reasonably expect that decision to scrap old battleships of
Other gay new designs had cheru- new flotillas of destroyers and in
This was one of the pronounce- addition 20 new fast escort vessels. our great preponderance of surface the Royal Sovereign class armed That жая
a real increase in the craft would make itself felt as ef- with 15-inch guns. He thought they ments mado recently by the Czech bims and cupids, foot-high squirrels strength and hitting capacity of the fectively in the future as it had in would be very useful for protecting Committee of National Community and green trees, angels perched on merchant ships on the (the Nazis' new puppet "Parlia- clouds and St. Peter's keys embrol-
tered in beads. Fleet. The new tribal and L classes the past-preponderance that would convoys of
iter I the British and French bread seas. He pressed the Govern- be greater
Jewellery of destroyers would be of 1,020 tons.
and trimmings have Beets almost small cruisers. They were
were combined, as no doubt ment to keep them.
They further decreed that women, Major Gwilym Lloyd George
and gold this week-end. There are font, they had a
wns not quite except those of the German minority worked up to a grand finale of glitter fine armament, they would be. Yery
He was no more confident than (Lib., Pembroke)
should take no part in polities. they were good sea boats and were
Wog about submarines. It the Admiralty, happy the spokesman for
The Commitice announced a mea-choker neckinces of gold tinsel, rib-
bon, leaves and flowers. very handy. The escort vessels,
Shakespeare (Parllu- disquieting, he said, to find that, in
EVENING PUTTEE small ships of 900 tons, again hadir. Geoffrey
„Every citiain will have high speed and were armed for both mentary Secretary, Admiralty), who spite of our anti-submarine devices sure of forced labour general la-
Ribbon dog collars have long_pen- and the success of the convoy system, bour adty.".E said: anti-aircraft
anti-submarine
all to do a number of days' work-with "We believe that our fleet is so countries that ought to know
The unemployed will be hered in cont beads and gold chains. There work; they hoped to produce them
strong to-day that it can con-about submarine warfare were still
labour camps, as in Germany, and no is even a headdress whose dangling very rapidly and have them at sca
Adently accept a direct challenge going un building submarines. probably next year.
He pressed on the Government the workers are to be allowed to migrate gold and enamel flowers hang over in battle by any probable com- MERCHANT SHIP PROTECTION
advantages of Pembroke as un Ad- to Germany, where there is labour the forehead almost to the tip of the bination of foes."
Tiny evening bootees are still very In addition they were doing a
Members who had sut silent and miralty base.
fashionable and under a long skirt tremendous work in the dockyards in glum the day before cheered hourti-
allt to the ince ́one house is showing a contrasting chiffon "puttee" wound round one leg and tied with a huge bow at the ankle.
and
the modernization of ships and in the lynere 'were more cheers when Mr.
Shakespeare gave figures to show the fleet that, even to-day, could accept suci a challenge was to be strengthened. This year our yards would be engaged in building some 200 vessels, including:
Battleships Aircraft-carriers Cruisers
Destroyers
8
25
25
43
10
to menaces
action of
ment.")
shortage.
Famine Reported in Abyssinia: Tribesmen Still Fighting On
Jibull (French Somaliland). Italy is discovering that the hope Ethiopia she cherished before the
FOOD COLUMNS WAYLAID
He has a nondescript army of about
concentrated in
Submarines He discussed, only to dismiss, the war of transforming Abyssinia into 10,000 men,
potential
p three
a productive part of the Itailan Em-Fitze zone, about fifty miles our pire cannot easily be fulfilled.
an
rose.
No Divorce For
Insane Man's Wife
Can an Insane husband be guilty
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strengthening of the decks of ships of the mercantile marine so that they could take anti-submarine and even how tually anti-aircraft guns. They had to wait, unul these ships came into port to undertake the work, which could be done only when the owners could spare them from their ordinary duties, but by the end of the year they hoped that 1.000 of these ships
the would have been converted.
of desertion? This was a question from Thic
of the men
involved in a. Divorce Court decision were Navy magnificent figures-greal, deep-
Addis Ababa.
recently. attacks Italian 30 linj pan
He constantly
Mr. Justice Langton dismissed the Economically,
Is slipping Abyssinia Is
motorised columns conveying food strength, as alive and keen as mus supremacy-direct
petition
Dorothy of Mr. Jane
of Williams, tord. That was not surprising. Last enemy Heet: submarines; air attack. steadily from bad to worse.
Wallasey, Moreton, "DEST IN THE WORLD"
Trade is stagnant: Italian overlord- and ammunition into Addis Ababa. year they took in as recruits an ad-
Captured lorries are looted and Cheshire, who sought dissolution of -ditional 18,000 officers and men. They As for the Arst,
we could con-ship, except in the chief towns, iz had no fewer than 70,000 applicants fidently accept battle from any pro-shaky: a resentful native population destroyed, drivers and soldiers are her marriage to Thomas Herbert for the constantly harry the Italians com- killed, officers are held as hostages Williams, who was certified in 1934 to fill these vacancies. If anyone bable combination. As
The Abyssinian "rebels," however, wanted to see what this nation could second, he could not reveal the na-mercially and in the field.
It was contended that verson who These are the considered conclu- are at present unable to do great on the grounds on deserton, produce let them go somewhere in ture and extent of our progress in
anti-submarine warfare,sions of a responsible neutral investi- harm because of lack of cohesion and was, insane and under physical re-i the neighbourhood of the three great scientine
the absence of a strong leader.
It is generally believed that the straint so that he could not return it naval ports. They would see that so but he believed our methods of de- gator.
and killing sub- He was able to obtain confidential tecting, hunting, for as the naval population was con-
could not be said to have deserted
From Hanal to Kunming exterminating ceed in
them progres- cerned we were not a C3 nation, but marines were more advanced than information about the true situation Italian military authorities will sue he wishedas Mr. Williams was
prevailing in Abyssinia.
his wife for the three years imme- Every Thu. & Sat.
Every Sun, Wad, & Fri. from Kunming to Chungking Al plus.
any other in the world.
There are, despite vigorous Italian sively. He had taken part in a hunt for
But the impression was gained by diately preceding her potition. NEED OF ARTIFICERS
PRISON COMPARISON · whose post-repressive measures, according to this
Every Wed. & Fil..... from Chungking to Chôngtu and return thany Abyssinian the investigator that
receive regu- The judge said it was true They were at the moment short of submerged submarines .artificers. In four or five years that tion was unknown, and in nine cases informant, still
the exact position was chieftains who refuse to submit to tribesmen need only to overdon Williams was restrained, much as a Every Mon., Wed. & Frl. from Chungking to Kunming
Italian rule.
lar supplies of food
man in prison was restrained, but Every Wed. & Fri..... from Kunming to Hanci deficiency would end because they out of ten,
A former police chief is declared to to become dangerous.
the man in prison could were training boys to become arti- located.
Members might recall, he said,]
This will not come about, however, whereus
given, ex- ficers: They were in touch with all
except in the event of a European have formed, and oven the great englacering firms to try to that in January, 1038, we announced be the principal chieftain still in "re-
sink any submarine volt" and the best organised.
war, when anti-Italian nations might pression to a change of mind and Every Thu, & Sat. from Kunming to Lanchow via Chongru C. Sian be tempted to farm and feed the tri- heart towards his wife, Mr. Wo Evory Sun. & Fri. from Lanchaw to Kunming via Sian & Chongtu besmen in the hope of creating a was quite incapable of any mental er
moral activity. diversion.
This distinction o
appears to me," the judge, sall, to touch the core of the present case and to determine it in favour of the husband.
get some of their apprentices into the that we would Fleet to complete their training The
British Navy in these days deserved
not only the support and sympathy of the country, for that they had al- ways hud, but the warm, expressed of this country proval
of the people that they were satisfied that the Fleet Was both efficient and sufficient for the work. It might be called upon to do whatever
war that work might be.
Mr. R. B. Bennett said that the
Vowed To Be Doctor, Began Study At 70
SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Mr.
great change he had seen in the Robert Battersby, second-year medi-
morale of the people of this country cat student at University College,
due to sit for his first medical pro-
was apparencent advance huw
to be accounted for fessional examination in June, and he
made
claims to be the oldest medical stud- of
by the magnifice the development of the powers
the Novy. No man could deny that ent in the world.
the British Fleet had policed the
Mr. Battersby, who was Town
world for a century. It ind been Clerk of Hereford unill he retired in
119
He
1920, studies in ideal circumstances.
FATHER AND SON BEHEADED
BERLIN, father and son were beheaded. here for betraying military secrets to a foreign Power.
the guardian of human liberty, even
Johannes Mikolajevsky (45) and island has maintained It is just a hobby," he said. "If I
find the course too hard I can give his 22-year-old son Frits, were
found guilty of passing informa tion which Fritz oblained while the dekree
Mr. Battersby is studying for the on military service-to the agent.
of M.R.C.S. and M.R.C.r.
freedom k Honnon: M.P., said that up studying. but I would like to take
Slr
the one consolation we had in these
troublous days was that the Fleet degrees was a boy my father gave |
was in the condition it was to-day. If there were one single thought that animated the minds of dictators if added. "He told me I could enter was the fear of the British Flect the Church, study medicine or the upon the seas of the world.
.
the.
PESTILENCE:NE
"rebel"
that Mr.
The informant sald the Abyssinian natives were disgusted by Italian rule and terrorised by the treatment allez- ed to have been: Inflicted on them.
Food is terribly scarce. There have been several serious outbreaks of within the lapse of a short time she pestilence in the chief towns, notab-
"The regret which I feel at being obliged to refuse a decree to the wife is tempered by the consideration that
ly Diredava. Recently 100 to 150 have another remedy open to her. The peltion however, must be deaths were occurring there daily dismissed.
It is computed that several thous ands have died from disease In recent meaths in the Diredawa-zone, where
many villages have been completely £69,000 To Science,
|wiped out,
maintain- The Italians to-day are ing approximately between 80,000 and 10,000 troops in Abyssinio, Soma- Wand and Eritrea. More than one half of these are coloured troops.
Birds, Insects
The preservation of British birds and insects and the advancement of selence are the main objecia of big legacles made in. the £101,037. will
Poland. They lived at K. Peer's Daughter Willcom Seiten, Güllen, of The
Kustrin,
the
near the Toila frontier, at me a choice of three careers," he
Ime of the offence.
This brings the total of execu tions In Germany this year to 40, nearly all of them for alleged espionage.
low.
HIS VOW
Run A Theatre
Bocking, Essex,
Mr. Gilles, who was formerly managing chemist at Courtauld's Silk Factory, Bocking, left £20,000 to re- The Hon. Ruth Lever, 26-years-old latives, and £2,000 each to
Geoffrey Harrison and doughter of Lord Leverhuime, has friends, taken a 13-weeks lease of the Arthur D. Constabler After outer Hoyalty. Theatre,
to run a gifts, his directed that the residue repertory theatre Chester
should be divided betwor of it
Clothworkers' Company, thmily know nothing· that I fo
all the sake out non running the establishment Research
in science cine. I vowed that if over I had the for studying medicine, and Professorat
Research: Fund
··Fund" the me and the money I would qualify Kirk of this college told me that there entirely by myself. I shall collect Fellowships
was not. Ife rafeed no objection to actors from all over the country and
Society Society: shown less than 3 per cent vacancy is a doctored I had a rest for allowing the to enter provided 1 could but on modern art 'classic' pluri) 20
when
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A survey of this elty of 300,000 has
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"Soon nferwards I found myself Juv student, and it was then, after I had paid my premium and my fees,
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two or three years, but attended pass my preliminary examination My producer will be Dr. Stephan
medical lectures now and again.
win a year. I did so and became, Hock, an Austrian, who had Bergner
losga pupil, metal pe "I asked If there was an age limit student here in October, 1937.
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