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The first publicity announce ments of the Olympic Games of 1936 have been issued in Germany,

The official invitations to the nations of the world to take part in the games, which will be held in Berlin, were sent off on December

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934

WARPLANES VERSUS

WARSHIPS

FLYING HAS CHANGED ART OF WARFARE

BRITAIN'S DESPERATE DEFICIENCY

versary.

(By Viscount Rothermere.)

London.

the last war the Grand Fleet found ̈` Great Britain to-day is a fifth-refuge from submarines in Scapa Two and a half years in advance, rate Power. If the war clouds now Flow. In the next war such

were to concentration would soon join the the organising committee have allooming on the horizon ready arranged ́a news service.

break we should be worthless ar an sunken German' vessels that lie at Its first bulletin, written in fault-ally, and insignificant as an ad-the bottom of that famous anchor- less English, includes

are. It could not escape the tor- pathetic reference to the British This, in the price we have to pay pedoes launched by warplanes Empire Games Federation and to for clinging to obsolete armaments. swooping down at ten times the its President, "that well-known and abandoning the pre-eminence speed of submarines. sportsman, the Earl of Derby." Ex-which fifteen years ago was ours in Vulnerable Trade Routes closed is a paste-board matrix, that new weapon, the warplane- The same danger would prevent ready for reproduction, of the the swift and supreme arbiter of the Fleet from fulfilling its other Stadion, which the Nazis are build-future international conflict.

function of escoring our foot-ships ing for the garios.

Other countries have learnt the to the various British ports that are The committee's motto is a belt, vita! lesson that flying, like gun their destination. Great Britain engraved with the German eagle powder, has revolutionised methods is surrounded by landlocked seas and the German text: "I summon of warfare.

through which incoming steamers the youth of the world."

Germany is well aware that the are obliged to pass by routes that Round the device are the Latin suppression of her former arma- admit of little variation. words for "Quicker, higher and ments laid the basla of her futuure These narrow waters would be stronger."

power. " care nothing for in gateways of doom for British ship- fantry, artillery, tanks, or cavalry, ping-

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Give me aircraft and I am con- No food-convoy could ever get The authorities at Monte Carlo tent," said General von Schleicher within a hundred miles of a British have made a great concession to recently. For ten years he was port. Commerce-destroying aero- gamblers by their decision to responsible for the organisation of planes far more deadly than | abolish the cagnotte at chemin de the Reichswehr, which, man

for groping, creeping submarines fer.

man, is the most efficient army in would sink them far out at sea: It is their reply to the French the world. The acute brains of From the moment the aerial siege Government's effort to

draw the German General Staff realise of these islands began, not a sin- Visitors to Nice and Cannes by that in the next war one thing only gle British vessel In home waters legalising roulette in these casines, will count, and that is the power could survive. the essential soundness of those The cognofte was a stiff tax on of instant and decisive action in

Warplanes are equally formid- same foundation-elements which turnover. The old rate was 5 per the afr.

jable by sea or land. Yet, while in have so i served the American cent. It has been calculated that Next to Herr Hitler, the most this respect we rank fifth among the economic edifice. Mr. Roose-if a dozen players sat down with impurtant man in Germany is Great Powers, there are people in Hong Kong. Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1934 velt's whole policy is admittedly a hundred pounds each to play General Goring. Air Minister and our country so short-sighted as to

one of experiment. But things chemin de fer, at the end of eight Prime Minister of Prussia. He urge the expenditure of many wil have gone already so greatly for hours, under the old system, the was one of Germany's most famous lions upon the building of more the better, despite all errors and gnotte would have taken all their war-sirmen, a pilot in the "Richtho- battleships and cruisers. delays, and the national spirit

fen circus." which for a time

Unless supported by a great Air has been so vastly reinvigorated,

dominated the flying front in Force, the Fleet would be as power- that it is no wonder if Congress

France. He has expert knowledgo less in attack as in defence. is prepared to take its orders as

of the possibilities of air-warfare It. could do nothing against und of the immense resources either of the other two first-class A: "Snap out of it. Forget that which his country possesses for the navice that exist in Europe those girl of yours!"

manufacture of the most powerful of France and Italy. Their super- B:"Don't be silly. You knowmachines in the world. Under such forlty in the air would enable them I'm a mentory

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Why Mr. Roosevelt Is Popular.

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It is astonishing, but it is prono carlier Congress ever did. foundly true, that the vital: change that has come over whole national

scene in the course of the past ten months is principally due to the influence

Mr.

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guidance, Germany will take full to reduce the British Fleet to im- advantage of the new era of air polence, and furthermore to cut the of one man's personality.

armaments, in which Britain has communications of the British Em- Rather more than a year ago "Now, remember." said Roosevelt began as a candidate a Coastal Trade

the already sunk to fifth place among pire. Development teacher before the school concert, the nations.

In the almost inconceivable event elected rather by an overwhelm-Council, with Lord Beatty as "If you forget the words, don't The progress of aircraft inven- of a war with either of these coun- ing revulsion against a helpless president. was formed, in Bri-stop. Sing 'tum-tummy-tum," ortion has changed the whole basis tries, French air-squadrons sta- and discredited Administration tain, with the object of awaken-something like that."

Jof national defence. It is hard for tioned in Morrocco would im- than by the appeal of any posling in the commercial and trad-

So little Dians started:-

the people of this country to rea-mediately bomb Gibraltar to ruins, tive policy of his own. He stands ing community an appreciation

She wore a wreath of roNCH lize that. For generations we have and close the Straits to British Round her. to-day a President admired, of the part which could and

lummy-tum-tum put our trust in the Royal Navy, vessels by means of airborne mines, trusted and equipped with dis-should be played in Britain's

THAT'S SO

upon which, according to the Arti- torpedoes, and bombs, cretionary powers as no other in transport system by coastal ship-

jeles of War, "under the good Pro- Were Italy the adversary, aero- the history of his office has ever ping. If the coastal trade is to ance, writes a doctor. In

Sedentary habits lessen endur-vidence of God, the wealth, safety, planes from Sicily, only 60 milss been. The plainest testimony to be developed, however, the bene-words, the more we sit the lean we fly depend.”

other and strength of the Kingdom chle-away, could make Malta untenable within a few hours of the out- the unimpaired strength of his fit should go to British coastal can stand |personal position is to be seen in ships, whereas it is the, foreigner

break of war. Deprived of their the decision of the Republican who is cutting in and getting the Read This to fer

base, our ships would have to leave the Mediterranean. party managers that no official trade to an ever increasing de "Many wives," states a writer, opposition to the Government is gree. There are many remark-"lend double lives." The other one THE KWONG KWUI CO LTD. to be ofered in the session now able instances of the swarms of is their husband's.

in session. Two months ago the foreign coasters now plying be spirit of partisan attack was un-tween British ports carrying What's in a Name mistakably beginning to raise its cargoes for freights which no sented himself at a hospital for costly floating fortresses have had Mediterranean countries could bar A very dilapidated old man pre-of my own sons. But, its huge and navies ever leaving port, these head, as evidence of a set-back in British ship could afford to take dogs and cats and asked the porter their day. They are no longer the our regular, route to India and the the progress of national recovery Recently compiled and strictly to take him in.

first line of our defença. The pro- East, Because we have fallen be bogan to accumulate. It was comparable figures show the im "You can't come in here,” said gress of science has made us vul- hinde the times in air-defence, we Boon realised, however, that, mense disparity between the the porter brusquely. whatever criticism might be costs of two typical counters, a

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That may have been true for three hundred years. It is no longer true to-day,

It would be a simple task for the French or Itailan Air Forces to

Battleships Obsolete I have profound respect for the sink every British steamer entering glorious record of the Royal Navy. or leaving the Suez Canal. By air- It was the career I chose for one power alone, without their

nerable in a new dimension. The are at the mercy of the world.” "Oh, yes, I can," said the old Fleet cannot preserve us from the (Continued on Page 11).

deadly peril of the air,

directed against this or that British and a Dutch. The week fellow, "I'm an old soldier," branch of the Administration, it ly wage bill of the former, with "But that don't make any, dif- would be wise to let the Presi-a crew of nine, is £23 18s 6d, not ference," said the porter, "this is dent alone-and in the United including the master's pay; that veterinary hospital Btates, far more than in any of the Dutchman, with a crew of "That's right," said the old, sol- fother democratic country, the six, is 7 178 éd. The Dutch en- dier serenely. “I'm a veteran.”. President is the Government gineer stokes the boilers. when Mr. Roosevelt is strong enough the fireman is off duty; on

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Facts You Did Not Know.

Hitherto international warfare,

The

been devoted to meeting and beat- ing the organised defensive forces

Flying has changed ́all' thei.

SHEPHERD BOYS KILL WOLVES

Own

a both affeat and sphore, has been waged, between fighting men, pro- fessional' o'r temporary, whole science and art of war has One Animal Strangled

With String its shortcomings English boat he dare not lift a The modern girl often calls her of the enemy. without loss of prestige. What shovel. So the Dutchman gets to see him being made one of the father by his Christian name, Nico

FIGHT ON FOREST EDGE has won for him his extraordin- the trade. What should be done? family!

In future it is civilian popula- tions that will be the object of at- ary position of ascendancy is a The Shipping Policy. Committee

: Belgrade. combination of unshakable cour of the Chamber of Shipping re-

tack. Fast fleets of seroplanes Two boys, Pero Jagatitch, aged age with a total freedom from all ported against "reserving" the

will instantaneously begin to ray 13, and Josip Jarnjevitch, aged 12, the conventional restraints that coastal trade to British coasters,

age the great cities, and destroy the on the edge of a forest to the docks, railways, powerstations, and have fought and killed two wolves are, as a rule, the really effective either in the interests of ship brake upon Presidential energy-¡ping as a whole or even of the

Soviet economists have estimated factories of the adversary nation. on the edge of a farest in the

Before the armies can be mobilis Karlovatz district of Yugo-Slavia, His whole record so far has been coastal trade itself. On the to cover: 2,810,000,000 acres, of

the forested areas of their countryed or the feet concentrated, the The wolves had attacked a flock an unhesitating response to the other hand, they were very era which approximately 780,000,000 next war may already, be decided of sheep which the boys were popular conviction that there phatic as to the need for enfor cres was something - rotten in the cing that equality of treatment moors.

the campaign in which he com- Paro rushed up to one of the state of America. He has not which is flagrantly denied by the

manded the Allied armies would be wolves and stuck his shepherd's merely abused all that is sum-very countries whose coasters Weighing only 20 ounces and the last of its kind. He said: crook so violently into its mouth med up in the name of "Wall are using British ports. Why small enough to be held in the palm "The potentialties of aircraft at that it was killed instantly, THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. Street. He has made a densa- there should any oficial host of a hands, an electrically lighted tack on a large scale are almost-in-The second wolf sprang, at his tional beginning with the task of tation in insisting on reciprocity projector has been invented to show calculable, and it is clear that such hand and bit it. Than little Josip compelling it to set its house in we cannot understand. The pictures, cut from motion picture an attack, owing to ita crushing joined in the fray. He beat the moral effect on a nation, may im- animal senseless with a stick after- order; and he undertakes to car-right was expressly reserved in

films.

press, public opinion to the point of wards strangling it with a place of,” ry that task through, to the ex-1849 in the Act repealing the Na | D tent if necessary as he has de-vigation Laws Britain can-Englan railway contain indicators thus become decisive,

Diesel conchas operated on an disarming the Government, and string.

The two bays took the bodies to ve clared of revolutionary change not hold her own in conditions of that koop passengers informed of What could the Navy do to pro- the nearest town, where they ra Besos. In the relations between public fair play, that is another mat the cars speed; location and names test us against such an onslaught?ceived the reward which is always

authority and private enterprise, ter. But at least fair, play of stations as they are being ap. It would have its work cut out to given to sayons killing a wolf Britain is building recovery upon should be insisted on.

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