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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 24, 1939.
THE ARMY WANTS ITS OWN AIR SQUADRONS
Fliers Assisting In Field EMPIRE Operations should be Soldiers
THERE is growing concern among military authorities
about the nature of the air co-operation that is to be supplied to any expeditionary force we may send to the Continent.
Now that the Navy has complete control of its own Air Arm, Army opinion is confident that the argumenta that can be put forward will persuade the Government to provide a corresponding Air Arm for the Army.
The fact that Britain is now committed to sending an ex- peditionary force to assist other countries, the Army claims, makes the settlement of the question all the more urgent.
The Army at present possesses no air squadrons, but during a war will have operational control of Army Co-operation squn- drons and a few fighter and bomber squadrons.
Only half the officers in the Co-operation squadrons are Army officers. None of them has a rank above that of a squndron leader In the Air Force or major in the Army.
It is claimed that the greatly increased nir component that will accompany the Army will have to be controlled by R.A.F. officers of higher ranks because the Air Ministry is blocking the promotion of Army officers.
R.A.F. spokesmen, particularly Lord Trenchard, maintain that as aircraft operate in a separate element, they must neces sarily belong to a different Service, and that as their purpose is mainly strategic (the bombing, of enemy sources of supply and of communications far from the battlefields), their function must bo considered to be entirely dif ferent from those of the other Services.
PURELY MILITARY Although military experts agree that long-distance bonbing and the air defence of Britain ure not tho dutles of an army but of an air force, they say that the squadrons of an expeditionary force will be carrying out purely military duties essential to the conduct of war on the ground and that, therefore, they should be an integral part of the Army, and the personnel should be Army men.
NEWS
1
PREDICTING UNION'S
RAINFALL
CAPE TOWN. The relationship of rainfall and
atmospheries of certain parts of the Union with New Zealand ond South Amerien is proving of great value in predictions for South Africa, working our long-range weather
Dr. T. E. W. Schumann states that investigations from 1000 to 1030 alowed that there was a relationship between the rainfall in the Western
Cape between April and June and
this average atmospheric pressure in New Zealand during June and July of the preceding year.
stlp." says Dr. Schumann, "between the atmospherle pressure of South Amerien and the rainfall of Cape
"There is also a certain relation-
Town.
From this datum it is generally pon- sible to forecast the season's rainfall
with only one failure every tour of AUSTRALIA five years,
CRITICISM OF RADIO JOURNAL PLAN
CANBERRA.
publish
The Australian Broadcasting Com-
ย
misalon's proposal to weekly radio Journal has met much Parliamentary, Press and publie Blood Tests "Noting is outside the Commission's pro- erillelem on the ground that publish-
vince. Yet Infallible"
THE science of blood grouping is not sufficiently advanced to be of use in the law courts.
Hamburg-American liner St. Louis, carrying, 907 Jewish refugees from Germany, escorted out of Havana harbour by police, ntter Cuba refused admission to the refugees.
German Motor Train Does 135 M.P.H.
BERLIN.
A MOTOR train of three couches reached a speed of 135 miles. an hour on the line between Berlin and Hamburg recently.
This is claimed to be a record.
maintained a speed of 125 miles For a long distance the train
an hour.
It is driven by two 600 h.p.
£3.000 Award
motors, and has room for 100 In Divorce Case
recurt.
STEAM V, MOTOR
divorce chse
The Commonwealth Government paints out that the Act under which passengers, and will be put into it power to faste such a publication. the Commission is constituted gives regular service shortly.
A FIVE-DAY Mechanising the Army. The
Until the German claint is con- ended recently with a de- Minister for Defence, Brig. G. A firmed the speed of 125 mph. at cree nisi and £3,000 damages for This was the opinion expressed by is being made in the mechanisation locomotive of July 3 last year re-wife committed adultery with Street, says that substantial progress tained by Lie L.N.B.R.'s Coronation a commercial traveller whose Miss Beatrice Davy, giving evidence of recently on behalf of the National armoured car regiments one in New in the recognised
the Australian Army. Two Council for the Unmarried Mother South Wales, the other in Victoria,
world speed the managing director of the and Committee of the
Her Child before the Select are being formed. Every endeavour,
"I will be noted that the German firm which formerly employed considering Test) Bill
the Bastardy
House of Lords he adds, is being made to make claim," said an official of the Rail- him.
(Blood Australia self-reliant in the supply of
way companies' Association is for: Cross-sults were brought by Mrs. r motor-driven trait whereas Bri-Mabel Beatrice Bell, of Tudor House, Blood tests can determine non- NEW ZEALAND
army equipment.
tain has always made her attempts Hoe Lane, Abridge, Essex, and Mr. Airmen who fought in the Great paternity, but not paternity.
with steam locomotives, to which she Thomas Henry Bell, of Beehive Lane, War, as well as military men, point Lord Dawson of Penn asked Miss INQUIRY INTO NAVAL per fath
Ilford, Essex, out that short-range bombing ma- Davy: Do you think that what Is
"Some time ago a German air- RATES OF PAY chines can be compared with long-good enough to apply to the saving
Mrs Bell charged her husband screw train reached 143 m.ph, but with cruelty and he alleged her adul range arillery, reconnaissance ma- of human life and the treatment of
this was in the nature of a 'freak' tery with Mr. William Arthur Smith,j chloes with armoured scout-ears and disease is not good enough evidento The Government has appointed a
speed
of managing director
a clothing "There light lanks, and artillery co-opera-to_upply to the low?
is no international body manufacturing company at Upton conmitice of inquiry, under Pay-which recognises train speed records, Park, E., against whom he claimed master Cindr. G. L. C. Davis, 10 but on interchange of tion machines with observation posts on hills or church steeples.
investigate rates of pay and condi- results in a general acceptance of
information damages: WINGED MACHINE-GUNNERS
tions of service in the New Zealand. naval forces.
any sucressful record-making tempt."
necessary
The Oghter squadrons for protecting our own slower machines and harassing the enemy's will be virtually machine-gunners with wings.
Those who argue on these lines. try to prove that until the three Ser- vices can be merged into one single defence unit, the weapons should be divided into Serviers not by the cle- ments (fond, sea and air) in which they operate, but by the duties they
Miss Days: The treatment of dis- euse more important than a law court.
She expressed the fear that magis- trates might decide paternity cases on the blood test evidence if the Bill were passed.
AUCKLAND.
This follows demands for increased puy by 700 naval ratings at Devon- port base.
Egg-Salad Germ: 400 Children Poisoned
Princesses', Two Hours In Pets' Corner
at-
PRINCESS ELIZABETH and Princess Margaret Rose spent two happy hours at the
huve to perform and the need any OUR HUNDRED children and four adults were pro- Zgo recently.
Service has for them in carrying out _its_routine_work.........._
HANDING OVER
strated by food poisoning, on Staten Island, borough of New York recently.
Egg-salad, mixed
JURY OUT AN HOUR After a retirement of over an hour the Jury, who included three women, found that Mr. Bell was not guilty of cruelty and that Mrs. Bell and Mr. Smith had committed adultery. Sir Boyd Merriman, the President. granted Mr. Bell a decree nisi and refected the wife's prayer for di- vorce.
He ordered Mr. Smith to pay the damages into court within 21
days and to pay Mr. Bell's costs on the issue of adultery, child, were married at Upton Cross, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, who have one Essex, in April, 1922, Before her They spent most of the time, marriage Mrs. Bell had been Mr. in the care of Dr. Julian Huxley, ferences arose between Mr. and Mrs. {Smith's secretary and, until the dif- in the Children's Zoo where they Bell, the husband was in the employ first saw the young Giant Pan- of Mr. Smith's company.
were shown
Sir Boyd Merriman, summing-up,
If this policy is put into effect the blished, but evidence points to a mixture of egg-salad which was da.
Causes of the poisoning have not yet been officially estu- Air Force, being responsible for the air defences of Britain, would have prepared in the kitchen at an elementary school and distributed to take complete command of the in sandwiches under a scheme,
The Iriendly white goats which said Mrs. Bell had even now not Anti-Aircraft Divisions, but would which provides free meals for located in schools up and down New 200 from the royal herd at Windsor. told about the two visits to the Folke- quickly surrounded them are des- dealt fully in the witness-box with have to hand over to the Navy all children of unemployed,
cendants of goals presented to the the evidence by Mr. Smith when he the flying-boals that are to be used
York, are given out every day to The royal children
stone hotel. fpr
Dr. Samuel Frant, director of children whose parents are in need. the young gnu, one of the pleasant- hayal reconnaissance and co- operation, as well as the squadrons the Bureau of Preventable Dis- tint are equally
In the school est of all Zon youngsters. They chimpanzee, and talked to Jubilee, Army.
necessary to the eases at the Health Department, kitchen at Stapleton, Staten Island, went to see the Shetland ponies and the famous young chimp, which was
thinks a germ got into the food pears to have gone out to about watched some of the young antelopes born in London. Against the military claims, how-in some way which may never dreds must have eaten it without ill-
altogether and hun- being fed from the bottle."
A speein? chimpanzee tea party A ittle bear brought out on a tend staged inside the Children's Zoo for ever, air experts contend that Army be established" despite painstak-effects. Staffs badly misused the R.F.C, and
did not attract them much, but both their and that ing analyses now being con- sandwich home and gave it to her
The fact that one
benefit specially pleased R.A.F. during the war,
sireked Tiny Tim, the visitors. child took a Princesses there is grave danger of the same ducted.
mother, who ate it and became 111 thing happening again If Army men have entre control of Wings and
immediately, was one of the clues Large quantities of free food, pre- the health authorities had to work Groups.
pared by relief workers in kitchens on.
4,000 HAD IT
4,000 children
SUNRIPE
The Quality' CIGARETTES
ly.
Hotel Owners Liable For Guests' Property
NEW YORK.
the
IABILITY of innkeepers for losses by their guests was the sub- Ject of an important judgment in the House of Lords recent-
An appeal was heard to decide whether the owners of a rest- dential hotel in Buckinghamshire were liable for the loss of a woman guest's jewellery stolen from, —— her bedroom during her absence in keys at the office, and no natico re- London.
questing this to be done was placed
Mr. Justice Gronves-Lord had de-anywhere in the hotel. He did not cided that they were able and think Mra, Shacklock was negligent, awarded her £330 with costs, but in these circumstances. In the Court of Appeal set the judg-her bedroom door unlocked. ment aside,
Lord Atkin, Lord
leaving
Thankorton,
Mrs. Frances Ada Shacklock, the Lord Wright and Lord Porter agreed, owner
of the Jewellery, now ap-and the appeal was allowed." with pealed to the House of Lords.'
cosis.
Lord Macmillan, giving judgment,
OWNER'S PROTECTION
in support of his view that the ap- peal should be allowed, said that by: An official of the, Hotels and Res the common law of England an in-taurants Association of Great keeper was responsible to his guests Britain, commenting on the case if any of their goods were lost or Inter, sold hotel proprietors would stolen while in his premises. The Welcome legislation which would Innkeeper's liability existed quite give them more protection in regard apart from any question of negli-to lability for their guests' "lost gence on his part.
property. It did not matter If the guest's, "it an innkeeper displays a notice property was stolen by burglars or in accordance with the Innkeepers by servants of the inn or by other Act of 1803 his liability, may be guests.
limited to the sum of £30, provided
i.
There was no óbilgétion on a guest the loss or damage is not due to the at an ina' to lock his bedroom door wilful set, default or neglect of the and the omission to do so would not, innkeeper or his servant," he added. by itself, relieve the innkeeper fran "To take advantage of that protec- bis ordinary responsibility,
tion a notice has to be displayed in
It was not the practice of muests a conspicuous plaen in the hall or to lock their bedrooms and leave the entrance to the hotel" "
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NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
$250
CASH
PRIZES
$250
(Donated, by "Hongkong Telegraph")
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250.
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London) SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN-NOW- CLOSING DATE & TIME:
29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:
For Story-Telling Pictures.
lat. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, $10,
SECTION TWO:
General Pictorial Section: Landscupes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.
1st, 30. 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10,
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.
ist. $30 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st, 530. Zud. $15. Erd, $10. SECTION FIVE: Sappshots taken by children under fourteen years, 1st, $15. 2nd. 510. 3rd. $5,
RULES
The following tules will govern the Competition:
1The Competition is confined ex- clusively 10. Amateur photo- graphierm
-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographic trodo s permitted to compete. 3-The prizes will be awarded to the compelitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Kreplia in coch Bection. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the, Com- petition, and which
must re
pasted on back of entry. 4.The right to publist: any or all of the entries is reserved to the Flongkong Telegraph.
All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been" uiready entered in qther Compeitions are ineligible. -No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of one of, or damage to extcles.
-All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must
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be mounted. Coloured photo+ graphs are ineligible.
Pictures submitted in opiniones should be accompanied by a smaller.print in black and white, No picture to entered in more than one Section.
10-Mounts to be only white or credit, and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sites;={0X12, ̧ 13x20.
IL-No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- pettion.
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De final.
15-At the conclusion of the Com
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