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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 25, 1940,
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THIS WAS THE NAVY'S LAST PRINCE OF WALES
Another
Prince of Wales
joins the Navy
A new battleship has been added to the Royal Navy. Old-time tradi- tion has been upheld. There is yet another Prince of Wales In the fighting Fleet. A famous ship's naime is revived.
ears.
The naming of British warships is always a subject of considerable This year, it is estimated, 100 vessels of various classes, rank- ing from batileships to river sloops, will take the water-on averago of about two per week,
Nearly every new ship will have a distinctive name which will carry on the long traditions of the Senior Service.
There slt from time to time in a room in the Admiralty in Whitehall a special committee of unvai offices and experts.
They decide on what names for new ships should be suggested to the First Lord for subsequent sub- mission to the King. For the name, of every ship in the Royal Navy' must be approved by his Majesty.
The new Prince of Wales is the successor to a privateer employed by the exited King Juanes 1., ind captured by the forces of King Wi- lam in 1093,
Calder, who was recalled for not Aghting his forces to a finish in an action with the French off Cope Finisterre.
nover renamed
The following Prince of Wales had her design changed twice, oud was finally built as a screw three- decker in 1860. She was commissioned, and was Britannia and anchored at Dart- mouth as a training ship. The last ship of the name was a 15,000-tons battleship of the Queen class, dat- ing from 1992, and took part in the last war.
A New Lion THE Royal Navy will soon have 3 new battleship called Lion, which will replace in the naval roster the flagship of Lord Beatty at Jutland,
The Lions have a history of more than 400 years, for it was in 1511 that the first Lion is recorded, w small ship of 120 tons, exptured from Scotland.
The seventh of the glant battle- ship now building is the Temernire -- "nume of fair renown" as was recorded when Turner painted his imunortal pleture of the old Fighting Temeralre being towed to the ship- brenkers yard, exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1830.
The first line-of-battle ship to bear the name, however, was not put into service untli 1765, when a vessel of 74 guns was built at Mil- ford-and-named after the future--was Prince Regent, then an infunt of two and a half years.
A contemporary witness describes the scene at the launching: "Tell thousand spectators covered the hills all round, which with several of HM. ships, a great number of sloops, and other vessels made a beautiful appearance......
of
"The decurations and carved wood are light, graceful, and elegant. The head is a bust H... supported on each side by Liberty and Wisdom and appearing with all the dignity of a Prince of the Ancient Britons."
The ship fought at Grenada and was blown up 15 years later, a very short life for a man-of-war in those
days.
The next Prince of Wales was a vessel of a guns which fought at the Glorious First of June and only missed being in line ut Trafalgar owing to the fact that she was ordered to take home Sir Richard
Spotting the Rank
LIEUTENANT
The duties of a Lieutenant generally consist of assisting the Company Commander; In the infantry ho commands a platoon and in the artillery a Lection
of two guns.
Ho is pro:. moted to
Llouton ant from Socond Lieuten ant after throo Yours' sor vico, pro- vided he is fit for such promot I o n. Ho Is re- sponsible to bis Com-
Commander for tho pany officiency, comfort and con- fontmont of the men of the sub unit of which he is in charge.
Pay: £435 a year after throo years; £462 after six years' servico.
PUT BACK THE CLOCK
Budget Speech
1896
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INCOME TAX WAS UP BRITAIN
FACED
HER
8d. (UPROAR); FIRST PEACE-TIME £100,000,000 BILL; THEY WANTED ANOTHER COUPLE OF MILLION FOR
THE NAVY
"WITH reference to the enormous increase in expenditure the great question ought to be considered whether is not now increasing faster than the capacity to bear it."
Wise words, you may think, in days when income tax is 7, 6d, in Land and the country faces a Budget of £2,060,000,000.
Well-and who said them? They were spoken, with dua solemnity, by Sir Michael Hicks Beach ("Black Michael") when he open- ed his Budget in 1890.
It
was a stupendous ocension. For the first time in the peace history of Britain, the Budget had risen to £100,000,000. Income tax (oh, Intolerable burden!) stood at Bd, in the £. It had been 2d, in 1874, had risen to 6d. by 1084, and, afler Buctuations, was 8d. by 1894.
These facts, were noted with eminous head shokings. There were references in the debate to the "unprecedented increase in expenditure, which was mainly on a big scheme of naval expansion,
This cost the taxpayers £2,000,- 000 more than in 1895, and brought The outing on the Navy up to a grand total of £21,843,900, of about one-seventh of the sum we are spending to-day.
Sir Henry Fowler (Wolverhamp- ton) spoke severely about the in- come tax in 1800. "I assume, " he
"thut in the opinion of the
Sernment, Od. in the £ is to be
taken as the normal peace rate of income tax. But in my opinion Ud. is a very fair rate to impose in time of peace." (Cheers.)
The income tax had been first imposed in 1841 (except for a short period during the Napoleonic wars) by Sir Robert Peel to compensate him for the loss of duties after the repeal of the Corn Laws. It was
never been relaxed.
UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE"}
nearly £7,000,000 a day to pay for it. Mr. Gladstone would have been bankrupt in ten days at that rate. But in 1918 there were no shouts of alarm. We had got past alarm after four years of war. In fact, the whole debate was remarkable for the absence of such justifiable adjectives as “gignatle," "colossal," or "unbearable."
A Luxury Tax Then
MR. BONAR LAW was quiet and unemotional. All be permitted himself at the outset was the re- mark that his statement would be on a scale "far exceeding any that has been known at any time or in any country."
Later in his speech he sukid, "Wo really must be moderate in the amount we raise by taxation." He explained that he was asking for aniere £774,000,000 on the exist ing basis of taxation, and he naked the Indu gence of the House for proposals to raise another £114,- 000,000 in new taxes.
He Increased the super-tax from 3s. 6d. to 4s. t; doubled the lax on farmers, on spirits (making s. a bottle), on beer;, put 2d. on tobacco, 1d. on matches, 14d. on sugar: imposed a luxury lax of 2d, In the 1s raised postage from 14.
to 14d.; the stamp on cheques from 1. to 2d.
I
And he increased the income tax from 5s. to Os, in the £.
The reception of that noiva was so remarkable that it is worth quoting:
Mr. Bonar Law: should have been glad to leave it at 5s., but that Is impossible, and I propose to In- 'crease the rute and make it 6s. in
the £,
Hun, members: Hear, hear, and Not enough
Mr. Bonar Law: I hope the ex- clamations I have just heard re- flect the general view of income- tax payers.
There was a bit of grumbling, of course, but George Tobey had a song about it, and people laughed it off. The war was won that year. One other passage in Bonar Law's statement is worth noting. He said the figures were "an amoz-
to the Ing testimony
financial stability of this country."
Britons have, after all, to thank Gladstone and Hleks-Beach and all the others for that. If they hind not looked after the pennies, Sir John Simon could not have been so prodigal with the pounds.
G. M. Murray
Berry, Supreme Court
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Herbert and Bernhard Ruff From the Studio
LONDON, Apr. 24 (Reuter)-It was announced in the House of Com- muns yesterday that we have now Radio Programme Broadcast by more photographs showing the work 2BW on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. of the Royal Navy,
and on Short Wave from 1-3.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 9.62 m.c's. per second
It was also announced that arrange- ments have been made for a number of newsreel cameramen to be attach-
Already a large number of naval
5.45 Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 Closing local Stock Quotations. *~*~*6.47 Eigar-Sonata-in E-Minor, Op.
and
photographs have been taken by some 82. Albert Sammons (Violin)
This was the famous ship which
second-in-Nelson's-no-attemporary mengure"-which-has-ed to units of the fleet. Trafalgar. Her captain saw that the Victory was getting a great deal of enemy fire and manoeuvred his ship to protect her. Nelson immediately signalled that she go astern at once, where she was bad- ly damaged..
But when the end came two ours after, it is related, "The magnificent ship loy with a French 74 on each side of her, both her prizes, one lashed to mainmast
and one to her anchor"
When she was finally scrapped, the occasion was made one of almost national mourning.
A new lustrious is already been commissioned. She is the Navy's latest aircraft-carrier. The orginal Rustrious was with Hood before Toulon in the Revolutionary wars. The second, after taking part in the ill-fated Walcheren expedition in 1000, became a train- Ing ship at Portsmouth.
The last ship was a battleship of 14,000 tons bulit in 1805.
She had a sister ship, Victorious, the same class. There is about to be another Victorious, also an 'aircraft-carrier. The first Vic- torious was a 74-gunner which took part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope.
Prize Captures THE new aircraft-carriers
will also take two more honoured names-Formidable and implacable. The first Formidable was captured from the French. by Lord Hawke at the battle of Qul- beron Bay In 1759. Another was at the rellef of Gibraltar.
Likewise the first Implacable a prize capture from the WHE French, this time in the Napoleonic
.Wars.
the
Everyone will welcome revival of old traditions in the names of many of the new smaller vessels-cruisers, destroyers, sub- marines, and depot ships.
The erulser Bonaventure has already been launched. The name has a history dating back to Henry VIII. Drake made his last voyage in a Bonaventure. A Bonaventure carried the Duke of Cumberland's Ang at the fight with the Armada, Sho flew Drake's fing when that redoubtable anilor "singed the King of Spain's beard” in 1585 on the occasion of the dar ing raid at Cadiz.
There has been a-Bonaventure
in nearly every war of the past
two and a half centuries.
All For £200,000 THERE was a great Budget storm, 100, In 1807, when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach proposed to spend money on increasing the Karrison in South Africa.
The Liberal Opposition at once raised the cry of a "war polley." Sir William Harcourt (how familiar it all sounds) trounced Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and said, "The Oppo- sition will offer a most determined resistance to money being spent on promoting aggressive and warlike policies in South Africa."
Then, after a dramatic pouse, and polning an nceusing Anger, he erlech "You are asking for £200,-
And it was true. No wonder the country was shaken to its finnncial foundations.
As
Cries of “Ruin” have punctuated nearly every Budget speech, far back as 1868, when the country was spending about £65,000,000 à year on everything, Me. Gladstone warned Parliament about the
of the stamen. Some of these pho willlom Murdoch (Plano). tographs have recently appeared in
7.15 Studlo-An appeal on behalf the press.
of ""Too I."
News Photographer In Norway
It was alno stated that an officer with Fleet Street experience as a photographer has been specially brought back from France and is now in Norway.
7.18 Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone).
7.30 London Relay The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
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Four ofciat photographers have been in France since last October.
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8.23 Marek Wober and chestra.
His Or- Marina House.
Another unit will be stationed in
8.45 Jessie Matthews (Soprano), the Middle East within the next fort-nale da Costa (Piano) and Reginald night.
Colony Ships Requisitioned
Fleet Taken Over By Shipping Ministry
The entire Fleet of the Indo- China Steam Navigation Com-
"great, rapid, and menneing ex- pany Ltd., Yangtse River vessels
penditure" which wealthy Victorian excepted, is to be requisitioned England was incurring,
Dixon (Organ).
9.15 London
mary.
Relay-News Sum-
0.30 9.30 London Kelay "Vive France,"
A Light French Programmė, 9.45 10.15 Grieg-Incidental Musta to Peer Gynt.
Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Chorus conducted by Paul Kerby.
hour 10.30 Half an
of Dance Music.
11.0 Close down.
Three Killed In
by the Ministry of Shipping on Durham Explosion
May 1.
Do not imagine that the expen- diture of our grandfathers was as This information was made avál- great as is to-day in comparison table in Hongkong this morning. with their national income.
LONDON, Apr. 24 (Reuter)
It is understood that the Ministry Three men were killed, 19 injured of Shipping will decide rates of and many others slightly hurt as the charter hire Inter.
result of an explosion at the Imperial
When annual Budgets were about £70,000,000 in the 1970's, the nu-
No turther information is at pre-Chemicals Works at Billingham, on tional income
the River Tees, Durham. was more than sent available.
In other £1,000,000,000 a year.
wards they spent about 7 per cent.
of their income. To-day England
Is
spending five times that propor
tion, on defence alone; and for U.S. MANOEUVRES
purposes she is disbursing,more than 42 per cent, of her entire na- tional receipts,
The time they took in those days, tout Why, Mr. Gladstone, once oc- rupled five hours in counting up the ha'pence.
BAN ISSUED
No Foreign Attaches
An official statement by the firm says that damage to buildings and machinery was slight and that seri-- ous interference with production is not anticipated.
Damage Is Slight OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, April 25, (UP)—An ex- plosion in the coal grinding section of the boller house of the Imperial Chemical Industry's plant nt Billing ham-on-Tees killed three people lo- Nineteen others received burns: The damage to the plant la reported
To Attond WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 (Reuter); But when Mr. Bonne Law came The War Department has decided to deal with the all-ilme high in that no foreign attaches will be in-day.
vited to attend manoeuvres, in which British Budgets the recounts of 1018 he got through them in some 70,000 troops will participate. about two hours. And in that time The manoeuvres will be held in to be light and will in no way hamper
Louisiana and Texas in May when production. troops in the "streamlined" divisions
he had disposed of £2,072,000,000,
Never before or alnce, not even in
the figures presented by Sir John-will be operating for the first time in 1
Simon yesterday, have such astron- omical figures been submitted.
peace as a field army.
LONDON, Apr. 24 (Reuler).Tho The exclusion of foreign nitaches is trial of Udham Singh, in connection explained in authorised quarters ns with the murder of Sir Michael Norman Hillson United Kingdom war then spending facilities will be too crowded for at the Old Bailey yesterday until next due to the fact that the availabie O'Dwyer last month, was postponed
them to be looked after properly, 'session.
We were at war, of course. The
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