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RACING AND DIPLOMACY

Mr. Evelyn Donaldson Rawlins, who has been appointed Commer cial Counsellor to the British Am-, baseador in Berlin, speaks 14 lan- guages, Including Hungarian and Esperanto.

He learns them while ahaving. His vocabulary is limited to the most useful words,, but his accent

BRITAIN'S WEAKNESS IN THE AIR

ONLY SIXTH AMONG

AIR POWERS

LITTLE INCREASE THIS YEAR

(By Major C. C. Turner.)

London, due to retire, but obviously such Baldwin recently made anja course would be a makeshift, announcement In Parlia- and in any case very few squad- stating the Government's roné could thus be formed.. able to "Hell" Hitler with the best plans for strengthening the Royal The aircraftman's training has Bavarian Intonation.

Air Force.

to be up-to-date. Very few of the

la a thing of beauty. He will be ment

He is a first-rate "mixer," and is An increase of about 8fty mechanics who left the Service be- at home in every European capital squadrons is intended, bringing fore 1980 would be ready, without.

new training, to He has another asset which is the present strength of ninety-two a great deal of rare among commercial diplomate: squadrons (including the Fleet resume their place in squadrons He has private means. Not the Air. Arm and the additions bud-to-day. True, fewer per squadron least reason for his popularity in geted for this year) to about 142 are needed than in the days of wood construction, but metal con- squadrena, Budapest was the fact that he ran a racing-stable.

Even after the expansion has struction has called into being an He was educated at Eton. Pre-been effected. Great Britain will entirely new branch of skilled

Etonians will remember his still be numerically weak by com- artificers. uncle as a house-master and, later, the cost in any

There is a good reserve of Air parison with other Powers, but as Lower Master.

one year will Force officers, but with few ex obviously be much greater if the ceptions these are men engaged in Increase In fighting strength is to civil. oceuptione. They, too, would be effected quickly.

need much retraining for the active Nothing has yet been done. It list. Hurried defence measures A Sunday School teacher had ex-is true that land has recently been are inevitably costly, and the re- pressed his readiness to explain any acquired for aerodromes and difficulties, whereupon a

asult comparatively inefficient.

war

Your Daily Smile!

youngster

asked him"When the children of large contract has been given for Some of us can recall the terrible Iarsel were wandering in the wilder- aeroplane sheds, but these steps training casualties, and the wild ness, where were their fathers and refer solely to the small addition waste of material during the war. mothers"

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England's national debt is now 240 years old. That beats us, but timej will cure that.

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to the Air Force that was provid-Every week of delay now incurred

ed for in this year's estimates. will impose upon the country an

That increase, it may be recall-extra burden of cost.

rate, in face of the big losses that An economist is a man who knows the additions will only bring the Cost would be spread over the next

be.

ed, comprises two new Home De- Spreading Cost Over Years fence squadrons, two squadrons The immediate adoption of a May marriages in New York exceed- now in skeleton form which are to plan for expansion would not in- ed those in May, 1983, Is that the be made effective, one new flying volve any great expenditure in the work of the Blue Eagle or Dan Capld? boat squadron, and the equivalent present year, for little more than of vast sums that have been lost by financing industries which in The salesman who is bragging up

of & now Fleet Air Arm squadron. preparation for an increase of per- the face of all the facts insist on the roominess of his car might make Since one of the Home Defence sonnel and for the purchase of Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 1, 1934maintaining a nominal gold bigger hit in some instances if he squadrons is at Singapore, and land and erection, of buildings standard when gold has become emphasized the distance from the back thirty-nine (including the two i

zeat to the front.

could be undertaken. The total too dear to be bought. At any*****

"skeletons") are in this country,}

Ave or ten years, as the case may, have been incurred, and the re-wbat to do with another man's money strength up to forty-one effective peated refusals to adopt a change if he has any,

squadrons. This is eleven squad-

Fifty new squadrons would mean of policy, the new arrangement

rons short of what was laid down

Jan inercase of some 850 officers Herr Goebels in his capacity to facilitate the payment of ac Facts You Did Not Know in 1928 as the minimum of safety and 5,000 other ranks. Upon the as spokesman of the present counts in an order of seniority

Britain's Low Place In List German Government and Minis

particular scheme adopted depends ter for Propaganda, and inciden- from a controlled account makes Water is chilled in a

Great Britain has fallen to sixth the proportion of these numbers tally as Censor of the Press, any accusation of ill will absurd. endler by a jacket of porous paper place in the list of Air Powers, to be signed on this year. The

During his wonderfully suc- that surrounds à bottle, which acts and other countries are expanding equipment of the tion of the difference between/cessful oratorical campaign Herr a wick to draw water up from till further in the present year cannot yet be ordered; but very new squadrons shows singularly little recogni

receptacle and evaporate it.

In the following table the Agure few of them would be ready for it the sort of propaganda that will Hitler on many occasions gave it recept

as his policy that all foreign An airplane service that has been for Great Britain's first-line air for another three or four years. serve within his own country and debts, should be repudiated; and established in Colombia makes it pos- craft includes this year's added the meantime the whole pro- what those who live where the that the payment of interest sible to Ay from Barranquilla te tions, although these will not be Press fa free can be expected to should be ended because it was Bogots in a day as against a nine day complete before March next: believe. The recent agreement

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new Iceless

Total Extd, MUA In total in Reserves, 1985.

as to trade debts, which is to merely interest-slavery. Surely host and train journey.. come into force on the 20th of is natural that in London and

Experiments at Pennsylvania State New York it should be supposed College have shown that Alms of oil Britain this month is of great importance that the recent announcement of only two ten thousandths of an inch France...

terest as showing a complete ab-

1,434 1,500

Emisia ... 1,700

to merchants, but it is also of in-intended, repudiation should be thick can support weights, of 500 U.S.A. 3,000 3,020 sence of any wish to encircle taken as a beginning of that po- pounds to the square inch. Germany within a wall of trade licy? If not, how is anyone out-

side of Germany to know what DRISCOLL hostility or political exclusion declarations are to be taken What are the facts?

seriously? - Or in Germany, for There is abundant proof that the matter of that, va without a contented Germany it

*MEMORIAL

SERVICE

At Kowloon Union Church Saturday.

hiem of air defence, and of air co- operation with fleet and army, in due for review. Now ideas that First-line. are now current regarding air 910 fighting will lead possibly to im- 1,650

portant decisions affecting types of 1,100

machines and also tactica. The 1,380-1,500

... 2,351 2660 Japan... 1,989 2,100 1,385 * development and employment of Italy

1,640 ..... 1,590

1,500"

the flying boat should be enormous- *Including Reserves.

jy helped by a decision to use Even if fifty squadrone could be this class in numbers worthy of a added to her Air Force next year, great maritime power. Great Britain would have a total

of only 1500 Bret-line machines,

First Measure Of Expansion

The question is only made is impossible for Europe to set- more difficult by all that comes tle down; and so far as England to hand about the former col-

1.0, fewer than France. Yet, Fifty squadrons, or thereabouts, is concerned the German trade is leagues who are now dead.

France is to a large extent remust only be regarded as a con- severely missed: There is every Some sort of explanation was

organising the equipment of her ventent first measure of expansion motive of sane self-interest in ane to the public but the only

Force this year preparatory to for the Air Staff to work upon.

Careful organisation, and favour of getting the old inter-statements that have been vouch WREATH LAYING AT CONOTAPH later be 1942, or 1940 at the ning, will be called for training.

expansion:

plan- change of goods started once safed have reference to conduct

again; and in the present state or opinions that must have been A Memorial Service of the Late earliest, however, before the pro- centres which have been closed of feeling self-interest is the known to everyone long before Colonel D. P. Driscoll, C.M.G.. posed increased in the R.A.F. must be re-opened, and new ones only motive that a cynical and the executions; in several cases D.S.D., Commandant General can be made good, and by must be established. disillusioned world is likely to the alleged conspirators had been Legion of Frontiersmen who that time the Air Forces of other Big demands will be made upon consider. The international consistent for years. General raised and Commanded Driscoll's countries also will have been the present staff and the instruc loans which were the subject of von Schleicher, for example gave Scouts in the South African War, greatly strengthened. It is extors of all kinds. The latter in the recent negotiations were an interview oighteen months and Commanded the Legion of tremely difficult to make up lost the establishments at Cranwell and made without any security ex-ago, which Herr Goebels has re- Frontiersmen in the Great War, time. Squadrons of the RAF Halton include many civilians. cept a specially binding engage cently said would alone have will be held at 3.00 p.m..on cannot be made in a few months, What of the Auxiliary Squa

*** drons?. They are economical in ment that the payment of the in-justified his execution.You Saturday at the Union Church, any more than can a battleship. terest should be a claim ranking know he said to his inter Kowlootst

The country ought to realise first coats and in maintenance, and before any private obligation, or viewer, "what my position was The Rev. H. C. Davies M.C., G.F. that the small additions to the Air if they do not bear too great a pro- any public debt incurred at a have stated it in public. I am will offelste and South African Force provided for this year will portion to the Regulars they do not later date. The loan was made not a capitalist, nor am I an anti- veterans and other ex-service man use up all the normally available impair efficiency in the least. It in cash to enable the German capital. But I realised that are cordially invited."

trained personnel and accommoda-should, however, be observed that manufacturers to purchase raw there was as something foully rot At 1 pm. on the same day re-tion. The annual output of train the Auxiliary Squadrons, like the materials and get the economic ten in our economic system, and presentatives of the Local Legion ed aircraftmen from Halton, and Special Reserve Squadrons, use up machine going once more and my heart of hearts I was, and of Frontiersmen will lay a wreath of trained cadets from Cranwell is the amount of interest payable still am, convinced that Socialism in memory of their leader at the just suficient to keep up durrent was quite small, and covered is coming in our time. My task Centosph.

kaple wooding atrength; for every year! numbers several times over by funds held was to tee to it that when it No ceremony will be held at the of officers and aircraftmen com- in London and being used for does come it should come as de- Cenotaph, but there may be some other purposes.How can any corously, as possible, and be B8 who might care to be present one be surprised if the announce-divilised a kind of Socialism as ment of intended default by Dr. possible. My aim was to found Schacht gave a severe shock to the Social Reich, with a govern the creditor

or countries? It is in ment based on the masses, for the deed dificult to understand the benefit of the masses. Such a

بعده

JARDINE SKIPPER FINED $10.

ace of trade with Kogland sup above all things it must be

for the favourable tie-government must be strong, and No

largest amount of cash honest Are we really to be

Of Sulphuric Acid.

Red Flag For Cargo

plete their service and return to civil life. *******Training Fresh Personnel

If any new plan of expansion is

to be fulfilled there must-Im-} ** mediately. be greatly increased en- tries to Cranwell and Helton. Pér-

(Continued on Page 11).

SOLDIER CATCHES LOITERER.

Lame Excuse Entered As Defence,

"You can't go wandering into pri-

sonnel entered now would not vate houses looking for your complete training before the end brother, said Mr. Wynne-Jones at of 1987, Past experience shows the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- that if the training be hurried the ing, when Chan Tak-hing, a 58-year-

chase of cot lleve that such a declaration, the other ma-even backed by some criticism of For falling to fy a red flag when result cannot be so good old employed who was charged ch German the Chancellor, was held to be a carrying a cargo of 50 jars of Halton and Cranwell establish loitering in a dwelling place, pleaded ingDr. capital offence?

sulphuric acid aboard his ship at ments were cut @when the that he was looking for his younger egotiate

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W. A. Balch, master of the Indo- stopped four China B.N vessels.s. Chak Sang, there is aced red, was fined $10 by Mr. E, D, Wynne than

Jones at the Kowloon“ Magistracy (and

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was brother, who was a cook

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