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DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION IN from the War Offco to any that the increase was principally attribut- able to the purchase of land £80,000, new works £52,000; and new 'arma- ments $10,500, á total of £142,500 or approximately about the amount Mr. Tan Cheng-lock, at the of the Increase in the defence con- London, Oct.. 21. The "Daily Mail" announces If Colonel Carmi Thompson's meeting of the Straits Legislative tribution for 1028. Was it not what it describes as "a great qualifications as Governor-Gen-Council on October 31, expressed obvious that every one of those British invention, which will eral of the Philippines are over-himself as strongly opposed to the items must be in connection with make flying safer."

looked by President Coolidge continuance of the 10 per cent. the naval base and not in connec A strange aeroplane was flying when the hour comes to make an contribution to the. Oplum Revenue tion with the garrison, which had. over Cricklewood Aerodrome yes- appointment, Thompson will still Replacement Fund. With regard been here for a great number of Defence Contribution, the years for the defence of the Colony terday and people looked up and be in line for the political prefer to

Colony's average, actual' annual pay-and its coaling base. What did the UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS wondered. After moving at ment in the state of Ohio.

high speed, the machine seemed In fairness to Thompson it may ment for the six years 1921-6 was present garrison want with £80,000 What explanation to come almost to a standstill in be said that he has not taken about four millions, equivalent to worth of land? mid-air, the pilot stalled it, the aggressive attitude in the matter 18 or 14 per cent. of the estimated could the War Office give except

revenue for the same that they were trying to make the NEW SONGS-NEW SKETCHES-- tall drooped and it assumed a of securing the Philippine post, assessable

NEW DANCES position which appeared to be and if he should be chosen it period. For 1927 the approved es- Colony pay for the land required one of dire peril.

would be as the result of the de-timate of their Defence Contribu-for the defence of the naval base?

$8,850,000, which, had Possibly it might be argued that Sanday & Monday, Oct. 13th & 14th The onlookers expected the liberate and well-calculated deci-tion was

at 9.15 p.m. next instant that one of its wings sion of the President that he is been revised and increased to these items would come within the $5,803,211, a difference of $1,658,- strict definition of the cost of the would tilt down and it could get the best man for the position.

the Ordinante, 'as

"HEY! HEY!” into a spin, but it did nothing of

Thompson has received tre-000 odd, while for 1928 they were garrison in

It might Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct. 15th mendous personal publicity as the asked to vote $4,800,000, which was other military charges. the kind.

& 16th, It defied all the previous laws consequence of his visit to the $800,000 above the average for six be within the letter, but he sug governing ordinary acroplanes by Philippines, but in a conversation years previously mentioned. They gested it could never have been the DODWELL & CO.LTD. merely dropping at the nose a with the United Press has assert had grounds for believing that these spirit. Could their predecessors on little and regaining, flying speed. ed that his frequent addresses enormous additions to the contribu- the Council, when they grudgingly concerning the Islands are inspir- tion had been, and would further be, passed that Ordinance in 1899, Curved Surfaces.

ed solely by a sincere desire to largely utilised to meet expenditure when Singapore had a garrison de This wonder 'plane is fitted promote the welfare of the Fili-incurred directly or indirectly in signed to protect its coal supplies with an invention in the shape Pinos through a better common connection with the Naval Base, from raids by enenty cruisers have which was essentially an imperial contemplated that Singapore would of tiny curved surfaces, moving understanding of problems.

Meanwhile, accepting at face affair, whereas their contribution become a second Gibraltar, and that out automatically in front of the

Sunday, Ocober 20th. main planes, which cure the most value his disinclination to serve was specifically to defray the cost we should be called upon to pay a fatal of all air perils the uncon-as Governor of the Philippines, of local defence. If any such ap-large proportion of the cost of con-

HERE AND THERE. trolled spin following the loss of Ohio political friends of Carmi propriation had taken place, it converting that small port into a sec

an utterly indefensible and Gibraltar? He therefore aug- Monday, October 21st. flying speed.

Thompson are laying plans to stituted

**POT POURRI.” The new safety device is the secure for him the Ohio guber-and illegitimate act, agalust, which geated that it was the duty of result of years of research at the natorial nomination next year. the public must have felt gratified Council to endeavour to nip this

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al Physical Laboratory and the the nomination over other poten-face. A levy of 20 per cent. for ated that it would take another ten Royal Aircraft Establishment, tial candidates, chief of whom are defence would be a burden beyond years to complete the naval base; It is the perfection of the first State Attorney General Edward the capacity of the Colony, and was there any reason why the de-

C. Turner and Congressman should be lightened by bringing the fences of the base slotted wings.

percentage down to between 10 per spread over ten years? Might they At the leading edge of the top James T. Begg.

per cent. If the 'not find that not only had they enable the amount to be satisfac- Among Democratic candidates cent. and planes, in a position in front of the rear ailerons, or movable now looming are Governor A. C. Opium Reserve contribution were patriotically given the land for the torily checked. He trusted that no acut out, the amount, together with naval base but that they had also relaxation would take place in balancing planes, is a tiny curved Dahaney, also mentioned as

possibility," Con- the million saved on the military paid for the land required to defend Government's efforts to obtain this miniature plane, which, when not presidential in operation, lies snugly along the gressman A, V. Dohaney, and expenditure would bring the deficit that base in the interest of Im-detailed information, and so permit

Director of Commerce Cyrus on the Budget down to five millions, perial policy?

them to be satisfied that they were front main wing..

which was nothing to cause grest Locher.

paying only what was due. With a Automatic Action.

The nomination of Governor is alarm, seeing that the 1928 estim-

Mr. J. Bagnall said the Defence view to improving the present un- The operation of this "exten- decided in Ohio by a State pri- ates provided for public works to sion plane" is automatic. It does mary, and it will be interesting the value of about four and a half. Contribution showed, a remarkable satisfactory position, he was of the not function in normal flying, but to observe whether Thompson's millions, which should really be a increase and yet, when one looked opinion that they should enter not

numbers, housing and equipment, l'estimates, which sum assuming that the airman stalls political activities concerning the capital charge, and be pald either at the troops stationed here, their more than three millions in the his machine, allowing the planes Philippines will affect his politi-out of surplus or by loans over a one could see nothing to account for upon as about the maximum due for such an increase. It would seem local defence and on this basis pay to become inclined at such a steep cal fortunes at home. angle that they lose their normal Ohio politicians have always

Estimate Too Large.

that the Home Government were out 4 million monthly in accord- lift action, the air-pressure on the been particularly active in Philip-

Mr. Everitt referred at length to debiting the Colony with more than ance with the Ordinance. It would wing when it is in this critical pine political affairs, as President position makes the front exten-William McKinley, upon whom the Colony's Defence Contribution. they were entitled to. According to be time enough to reconsider, the sion 'planes move out automatic- the island destinies first devolved The amount estimated to be spent the Ordinance, the Colony should item when the Imperial Authorities in 1928 for military expenditure, pay the estimated cost of the gar-supplied them with facts to which ally on metal projections.

after the Spanish-American war, he said, amounted to no less that rison, and if the Imperial authori- they were entitled, and to adjust it

Since The result is that the suddenly was an Ohio statesman. increased size of the entire wing then Ohio Congressmen and Sen- $5,200,000, of which $4,800,000 re- ties made up the estimate, they when they were satisfied as to the

presented Defence Contribution. should supply all information to correctness of the charge. That was an estimate. He Was gives it a grip on the air, even ators have been prominent in Con- when the machine is stalled, that gressional insular councils. The otherwise it would be impossible chief of the Senate Committee quite aware that Council had got to on Territories and Insular affaire, vote the cost of the Garrison, but Machines of all types, military Frank Wills, comes from Ohio.he suggested that this estimate was and civil, already, are being fitted Associated Press:

to obtain.

with the device. It is possible! that its application in a fool-proof form will be made com-

number of years.

pulsory. It should be a per- PALESTINE 'QUAKES. 2 provided that a sum equivalent

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a good million too large. Tracing) the origin of the Deforce Contribu- tion Mr. Everitt stated that the Defence Contribution Ordinance was passed in 1899, and Section

to 20 per cent. of the Colonial re- venue should be appropriated yearly to the Imperial Government. What for? Not to defend the naval base; nothing of the sort, but

a con-

Palo Alto, Cal., Nov. 3. tribution to the defence of the Palestine should prepare for Colony. The Colony had to pay further violent earthquakes, de-either 20 per cent. of the Colonial clared Dr. Bailey T. Willis, pro-Revenue or the estimated cost of fessor emeritus of geology of the garrison which was the less. He Stanford University upon his could not tell them what the extent arrival here recently from a trip of the garrison was in 1899 but in 1904 it was larger than the present Los Angeles, Nov. 3. around the world. Martin Jensen, who finished During his journey Prof. Willis garrison by one battalion of infau- second in the recent Dole fight to studied earthquake faults in try. The cost of the garrison was Hawail, and his wife kissed and Palestine, the Philippines, Japan, not defined in the Ordinance but it made up to-day as a sequel to a Greece and other countries and could be gauged from Section 5 08 domestic quarrel. yesterday in planned to assemble his data in including capital expenditure for which Mrs. Jensen hurled a coffee a book for the Carnegie Institute. land and buildings, cost of mainten pot at her husband. Two police-Associated Press.. men acted as mediators.

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ance of military worka and' bülld- inge, lodginga in lieu of barracks, and all other military charges, That was the snag.

The Ordinance came into force in 1899 and it was a matter of some Interest to see that in that year the total revenue of the Colony from all sources was within a few dollars of the exact amount of the milf ary expenditure estimated for 1928. The amount expended in that year. for military expenditure was $945,- 000, approximately 20 per cent. of the revenue. He thoroughly under-i stood that that did not cover the cost of the garrison. An yeara went on without any Increase in the personnel of the garrison the re- venues of the Colony increased, and the position was recently that the Dr. W. W. Campbell, famous The Victim of Your Nerves,

defence contribution amounted to astronomer and president of the

Deplorable indeed is your condi- Univeralty of California recently tion when you become so nerveus 10 or 11 per cent of the revenue. declared that "it is unthinkable to that you start at the shadow of Significance of the Naval Base,

That was the position until re- assume that our world is the only yourself. planet that supports life.”

Lost nerve is not easy to regain: cently, and then for reasons of high ****This * world, he believes, "is The digestive system becomes inert, just an insignificant point in the you become melancholy and lack Imperial polley the Government of Great Britain decided to establish driving power,

the Settlement of a

EXIST.

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universe of countless spheres."

Startled by a Shadow

in Supporting his belief that liv. When your blood has been made naval base part Singapore LAMMERT BROS. EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEET spheres, the noted, astronomer Williams Pink Pilis, your nerves tablishment of the naval base and ING to be held on SATURDAY, 'points out that oxygen and water become strong and steady and life the consequent necessity for defend- 26th November, 1927 (weather are known to be present in other All men and women who suffer ever to believe that this garrison

has a new interesting it was there any reason what permitting) may be obtained at the planets, through astronomical re- from weakness; nervous dyspepsia, would have been increased except in Race Course, Hong Kong Club and search. Where these elements or nervous exhaustion should, with a normal way? In face of this they Causeway Bay Stables,

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