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OUR SHARPSHOOTERS ADEQUATE DEFENCE.
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Rugby, Yesterday.
ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
Budget Presented To Congress.
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10,000 Miles of Lighted Air-
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Washington, Yesterday. ul Sharpshooters' Company of the The part of President Coolidge's President Coolidge has presented Hong Kong Police Reserves has annual Message to Congress de- the Budget to Congress. It amounts made such excellent progress livered yesterday which attracts to $4,258,793,765. The total appro- since its inception last month most attention in Britain is na-priations approved of by President that the number of eligible men turally the reference to the Coolidge exceed last year's by already enrolled has made it Geneva Naval Conference. 8224,2222,641 and the current year's necessary to appoint an officer to The "Times" saya: "President by $118,649,219. take command of the Company. Coolidge's announcement that any The largest item is for national The post of Company Com- future treaty of limitation will defence, $645,000,000, an increase rander has been given to Mr. call on us for more ships, may of $20,000,000 compared with the E. R. Dovey who will have the seem to rule out any future con- taet Budget mainly due to Naval rank of Sub-Inspector.
ference in advance but it need not building, Army housing, and the It is intended to limit the arouse anxiety or make the continuation of the five years avia- Company to fifty, and in view of slightest difference to the naval tion programme.
increase of
The total estabilshment of the
the good response the scheme has polley of Great Britain. That If Congrese approves of the Bud- met with, it will not be long before policy is based on long experience get the total expenditure available the Company is brought to full of national defence. Its prin- for the Navy. in 1928 will be $347,- Estrength..
no way contrast with 000,000, making an ciples in There are still a few more those which President Coolidge $18,000,000. vacancies to be filled, and those has laid down. It is for the Gov. who wish to be enrolled before ernment and the people of the Army has been placed at 118,750 the quota is reached, would be United States to estimate their enlisted men, which is slightly well advised to make application, maritime requirements. We can larger than at present, plus 12,000 without delay, to Mr. Dovey, only consider our own. What has officers. cither personally or by communi- always been made perfectly clear eating with him care of the Police is that we shall not dream of
Air Services.
Reserve Office at the Central building in competition with the] The appropriations for the mili- Police Station, when full particu- United States. Our needs cannot tary and naval air services give the lars will be supplied.
Navy 696 out of 1,000 aeroplanes be determined by theirs." The Sharpshooters' Company The "Daily Chronicle" says: provided in the five years pro- will be a uniformed unit of the "The question as to what consti-gramme, and the Army 1,800 zero-
tutes adequate defence for planes.
Hong Kong Police Reserves, with
the advantage that its members America is not one with which we Funds will be available in 1928
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will not be required to do any can usefully concern ourselves for 10,000 miles of lighted air The comical experiences of a young millionaire drills or attend any parades. If we had reason to doubt her routes contemplated by the Depart-in slumland- Being an international unit, those peaceful intentions we could ment of Commerce.
to
who join the Company will also not be indifferent to it. Prohibition enforcement will cost not be required to "take the But
we have
thanks до shadow nearly $600,000 less, oath."
of reason for doubting economies in administration. Every facility will, however, them and can therefore accept for
New Warships. be afforded to those members of ourselves the principle laid down Two submarines and eight cruis-| the Company who wish to do for America-that there shall be ore will be under contruction in practice shooting on the range no competition, that we will build 1928 Two of these cruisers will either with rifle or revolver, or both, and everything in connec- tion with auch "shoots" will be supplied without cost to the mem- bers of the Company.
what we need for defence and no more.--British Wireless Service,
be practically completed in 1929.
Money is also recommended for the modernisation of the battle-1 ships "Oklahoma" and "Nevada" and the airship already authorised
Report on Finances.
In his annual report on finances;
Other Comments.
London, Yesterday. While the American Press It is particularly emphasised by Lieut.-Comdr. Hartford, D.S.P scarcely refers to that part of by Congress.
Message (Reserves) that the Sharpshoot-President Coolidge's ers' Company is not confined to dealing with the Navy but con- ex-Officers, but is open
to all centrates on the domestic refer Mr. Mellon emphasises the “un- usual combination of circum- ranks of ex-Service men of the ences and the British Press gen- Navy and Army, and ex-members erally agrees that Britain will not stances," namely, the large volume of the various Volunteer Corps, dream of building warships in of business done simultaneously provided they have the one neces- competition with America, the with declining commodity prices, sary qualification of being good French Presa laments the "in-high wages, and lower costs, result- shots with either rifle or revolver. adequacy" of the French naval ing in sustained purchasing power. and air forces and is urging that The Banks have increased their America's example should prove loans and investments about two a necessity for each nation taking milliard dollars and simultaneously its own measures for national de reduced their dependence on the fence.-Reuter.
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Revised Estimates show that the war coat the United States 36 mil- IN liard dollars. The country's gold atock on October 31, 1927; was $4,548,000,000. compared with |$1,554,000,000 on October 81, 1924, mainly owing to the polley aimed at for the restoration of the gold A question was asked in the standard- world-wide policy
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Rugby, Yesterday. In the House of Commons the Minister of Labour (Sír A. D. Steel Maitland) was asked whe ther now that the Government of the German Reich had ratified the International Labour Conven- House of Commons to-day as to which found expression in the grant- tion on maternity protection he whether in the course of the con- ing of credits to a number of Eure- would expedite its ratification by versations with leading officials of pean issue banks and in the dis- United States prior to and during count and open market plan which the British Government?
The Miniser replied that the gen- the Naval Disarmament Confer- 88 eral reasons which led the British ence at Geneva any statements rate position which would attract far possible had avoided a Government representatives at were made by any British official gold to America Washington in 1919 to abstain from representative which were cal- European money market-Reuter's and strain the voting for the adoption of the Con- culated to convey an assurance as American Service. vention, which the British Govern-to no difficulty being raised. by ment had refused to ratify, were
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ance scheme and other social ser- Mr. Locker-Lampson, Under- vices already in operation in this Secretary of State for Foreign country were in accordance with Affairs, replied that he was not the policy of the Convention and aware of any conversations hav were, no doubt, in some respecta in ing taken place between British | advance of those embodied in the and American official representa Convention. British Wireless Ser-tives prior to the conference on vice.
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Shanghai, Yesterday.
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Inspector Shot At.
Commander Kenworthy naked whether any scheme was in existence to be put forward at the Shanghai, Yesterday.appropriate time flat The strike of employees of the Mr. Locker Lampson replied
CHINESE BABY,
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London, Yesterday. 4.80 p.m.:: Municipal tramways continues, that the next meeting would take Paul K. Ma, whose parents were Gp.m. but negotiations are impending, place early in February, and it married In St. Paul's Church, Hong An inspector (of trams) was would then be time for our repre- Kong, is to be christened In St. fired at by intimidators and he sentatives to bring forward pro- Paul's Cathedral on Sunday. He is was grievously woundedBritish posals. British Wireless Ser the first Chinese baby thus honour Naval Wireless.
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