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Soviet Policy

M Motta, the representative

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

DEGRADING DANCE

Few displays were better known to the cosmopolitan traveller in the Levant than the danse du ventre, (which has just been banned in

Istanbul,

degrading

This dance, now B spectacle, was debased by the in-

A MOTORISED ARMY IS NEEDED

AN ESSENTIAL AID TO

THE AIR FORCE

IN WAR

TH

MOBILITY FACTOR

(By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller.)

Buence of the Levant. When it is THE belated increase in our airport of three armies-the Regular seen in Its original and truthful] power which the Government Army, the Territorial Army, and form, it becomes one of the most has now agreed upon, and which the Indian Army; of some 427 bat- sacred dances of the East, sym-mainly for financial reasons is to be tallona of infantry and 6 of tanks! bolising the eternal mystery of spread over the Inordinately long What is its object? Nobody really period of five years, creates a far knows; but the governing factor in constitution is India-her oor internal security and the defence of

motherhood.

As the Kemaliste dellberately larger problem than appears on the its chose the bleak and forbidding surface-namely: What is Angora as their capital in place of policy in relation to the defence of the North-West Frontier. alluring Constantinople, s80 now the Empire and the possible out- they are ridding themselves of this break of another world war? vulgar display.

MID-AIR BATTLE

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To-day I maintain that this is altogether wrong, because air power

In 1914 this problem was simple: has altered the whole of our defence we had a Navy and an Army, and problem. When the Navy was our air power barely entered into the first line of defence, the Cardwell question. Then the Navy was System-half the Regular Army at This story of a fight in the air supreme, and all Imperial military home and half over-sess, the first between an eagle and $ python forces were homogeneous in organi-half being no more than depot units comes from the Dutch, East Indies.sation, for mechanisation was vir- for the second-may have been good

Two Dutch airmen about to des-tually unknown.

enough; but to-day, when our Air cend in the harbour of Padang saw Now the whole of this problem Force is our first line of defence, an eagle with a wing span of nearly has changed: Our Air Force has not only is this system obsolete but 10 feet carrying a nine-foot python. Decome our first line of defence, our highty dangerous.

Pythons are heavy reptiles, and Navy is no longer supreme, and our the eagle soon found out it had Army is in a state of complete con- bitten off more than it could chew. fusion and obsolescence.

Your Daily Smile!

Fighting Strength

The Home Forces

If India must have 45 battalions

of British infantry as super-police-

men, then let her Government raise

At

The two airmen circled round. They watched the python thrust its To the strategiat it is obvious them in Great Britain and pay for powerful jawa into the breast of that an increase of power in any them lock, stock, and barrel. the eagle which retaliated with one of the three Services is insuf-once it will be said that if perman- claws and beak.

ficient unless it is related to the ently stationed in India these batta Then for an instant the eagle remaining two. More additions lons will deteriorate. stopped flapping its wings to get are wildly extravagant, for fighting| I do not agree, because as the {into a "glide,"

strength is not the sum but the men will be enlisted for seven years The python took its chance, and product of weapon power.

with the colours new blood will to prophesy whether these will be forthcoming. Mongolia la in coited round the helpless wing of Therefore it would seem obvious always be coming in, and as for the any case a matter for the future; the great bird.

that our first task is one of stack-officers, they will be no worse off and it is to be hoped that Chine Both fell in a tangled mass into taking and our second of correlating than those at present in the Indian herself will in the near future the sea hundreds of feet below.

the powers and limitations of the Army whose entire service is spent have organised & sufficient

Services. Here I will examine the in India. amount of effective power of co-

relationships between our Army and Rid of this incubus, we are left operation to have a big say about

our Air Force..

with 91 battalions, of which 71 are the disposal of her own territory

Straight away it may be said that, stationed at home and 20 over-seas, Brown: "I see Smith's got a motor-

as we inhabit an island, so long as Do we want.71 battalions with their and interests. In any case Rus car. sia as a member of the League Greene: "Yes; rich uncle gave it to we render it safe against attack we proportion of cavalry, artillery, of Switzerland. certainly talked will be more amenable to the in him." Tel. No. 57088.

Brown: "Why, he told me he put all can in another war use it as our engineers, etc., to maintain law and eloquently at the meeting held to fluence of international comity. the money he had into it."

air base. That is to say, these order in these islands? Obviously Greene: "So he did. He bought islands will become, as it were, anot, for we are the most orderly discuss the Soviet invitation to The prospects of a quarrel are to

more from a study four gallons of gas.”

cannon, the shells of which are our nation on earth. join the League; but for us in be inferred

of Japanese Imperialism than

aircraft; consequently our Army Is We are not going to be invaded the Far East the question is anything else..

The Barbers are striving to eliminate chiselers from their trade, and indeed of no great account in war, and it except from the air, and against air whether he talked wisely. "If,”

The objections raised by Bel-it is not pleasant to, call for a shave can well remain as it is a glorified power these 71 battalions are im he said, "Soviet Russia sudden- gium, Holland and Portugal, and get facial sculpture.

police force.

potent. Surely, then, it would be But another war will almost cer-wise to convert the bulk of them ly ceases to insult the League of were as M. Barthou pointed out..

irrelevant. If the League is to

tainly mean another world war, a into something we do want-a Nations, which Lenin defined as

have any force at all, it cannot

war, which may, and probably will, mechanised force which can assist An institution of brigandage, we afford to leave out any of the big

demand our intervention hundreds our aircraft in all over-sens' opera- will read the explanation of this Powers. The collection of facts

and possibly thousands of miles tions. novel attitude in fiery letters in and the discussion of principles Writer says that all autograph hun-away from our home base. In

Our Money's Worth the Far Eastern sky." In sim is in itself a very worthy object, ters are a pest, Especially if the han-which case, unless we establish local Thus far our military authorities pler words that means that he even though the possessors of ter is seeking them on cheques for bills bases for air action, forces that have been incapable of grappling shares the view which is quite big armies may defy the author payable.

cannot operate from our home base with this problem, or unwilling. csinmon in Europe that the re-ity of the Council to enforce its corciliation with the League is decisions. It is very noteworthy

Be just, and fear not. Let all the will become but pawns in the war tank battalions we had in 1918, and a preliminary to an. agressive that at the very start Russia has war against Japan.

had to acknowledge that it is not ends thou afm'st at be thy country's, game of our allies over which our but a sixth of what we should have

thy God's, and truth's

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Personal Pars

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or from Imperial bases over-seas To-day we have but a third of the

can defend itself against enemy sons other than India, and 20 for a

A Mobile Base In the later stages of the World not only in infantry, but in cavalry, War these relationships were most artillery, engineers, and the supply hoticeable. On the Western Front, and administrative services, which

(Continued. on Page 13.) because of a continuous trench line!

EUROPEAN'S PISTOL UNLICENSED

Newcomer Bound Over

Roy Dixon, 23-year-old unemploy

It is no doubt quite true that prepared to accept the same atan- the Soviet administration has dards that are applicable to the bad serious anxiety about States of Western Europe. On Facts You Did Not Know be a British as the home base it that all mechanised units be re- the safety of Vladivostock and the Economic side of ita work

self is; consequently they must be moved from the War Office and be: Its Easternmost territory, and the League acts through the In-

The invention of a process for roll-occupied and defended by British handed over to the Air Ministry, that it is a fairly obvious mea-ternational Labour Organisation, ing platinum into sheets only one two soldiers.

and that the Regular Army be re sure of prudence to secure its That assembly of representatives hundred thousandth of an inch thick What type of Army should hold duced from 186 battalions to appro Western base by cultivating of wage-payers and wage-earners has enabled the metal to be used for them? Obviously an Army which ximately 40; 20 for over-sens garri- the goodwill of its neighbours has done a great deal to formul- several new purposes. “. and the friendship of France. ate a decent standard of Indus

The German government has extend-ground and air attack, and which Gendarmerie at home. Nothing is indicated by that trial conditions, and has had a

These suggestions carry with policy except that the return to great deal of success. only modied until October 15 a requirement that can assist our air operations,

bakeries must mix potato starch Hour!

them an immense saving in cost, realism and prudence which has died by the fact that many of the with all whent and rye flour products been noticeable during the last protocols that have been drafted to assist potato growers, year has become a settled pur- have been signed conditionally pose. That is a weight in the on other competing nations com- scale. on the side of peace, noting in. The League's collection war. The further question has of statistics is very useful and Miss Wentworth, a teacher at the stretching from the Channel to the still to be considered in the light there is a whole library of me Diocesan Girls School, is returning Swits Frontier, our

Air Force of permanent interests, which moranda which show where the from Home leave.

establishments were immune from ground attack.. :-- are the compass by which every shoe pinches in different coun nation guides its policy except tries. The improvement of the Miss Margaret Groundwater will But to-day such immunity no when it happens to be carried worker's lot, under the guise of the married to Mr. John Ovans at longer exists: first, because we have away by some wave of neurotic the "dictatorship of the prolet-the Union Church, Kowloon, on got but a very small Army, and excitement. The permanent in-ariat" is supposed to be the basis October 9. The reception will be secondly, because, since 1918, the terests of Russia in the Far East and justification of the Soviet held at No. 62A, Nathan Road, the development of aircraft has been so are abundantly revealed by system. To a very large extent residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. great that infantry armies with ed, of Phillip's House, Lyemun glance at the map. With Japan the question of the level of D. Traill.

their Immense rear organisations Building, was this morning bound in occupation of Manchuria the real wages is capable of statisti-

are no more than standing targets over on a personal bond of $25 for whole of Eastern Siberia is ex-cal expression in figures dealing

Among the passengers for Hong for air attack; consequently, the a period of six months, by Mr. tremely vulnerable. For Russia with hours worked, health and

Kong by the s.s. Kamo Maru, which larger they grow the more vulner W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy, for being in possession to attack would be sheer mad incapacity through disease, var Iness.

She would have nothing iety and abundance of suitable arrived to-day from Australia and lable will they become. to gain and all to lose. Mongolia food, amount of turnover or pro- porta. were Mr. M. J. Bolger Here mechanisation comes to our of an automatic pistol and five raises more open problems: induct On all these points one (Sydney), Dr. S. Bolls (Sydney), rescue; for it is obvious that a case Japan should extend direct might have expected that the Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Officer (Mel. mechanised army, will form a far license,

ed only for the confiscation of the control over Mongolia it is quite Soviets would have been anxious bourne), and Mr. D. G. Keddie securer and more mobile base for air action than Infantry, cavalry, probable that Russia would in to have an impartial authority to (Melbourne).

ete, Not only does it offer a much arms, and said that defendant ar terfere. The Japanese have prepare comparative statements never shown any prejudice in fa- which, had they shown that the The forthcoming wedding is an-smaller target to air attack and is rived recently in the Colony and vour of the light touch or the communistic plan produced en nounced of Anthony Augusto Gill, invulnerable to infantry attack, but did not know that he had to have a velvet glove in dealing with couraging or even promising reaccounts clerk, of No. 11 Hum. It can beat back hostile mechanised license. Mr. Mottrams

was granted. other peoples; but Russia would sults, would do, more than any phreys Avenue, Kowloon, to Miss forces against which Infantry, are was gra most likely be prepared to allow amount of intrigue and threats Lily Dorothy Kay, of Tai Foo impotent.

The problem is really self-evident. FRANK WESTCOTE LOST AGAIN. quite a lot of commercial and of disturbance to convert the Street, Salwanho.

Because an air force is a fully cultural infiltration in Eastern rest of the industrial world to Mongolia provided she were her- the Soviet theories. M. Litvinoff The forthcoming wedding is an motorised arm. Its base of action Belf not interfered with in the announces that the Russian nonced of Fung Man Leid, head should be fully mechanised; that is European Yesterday Western territory which is al Government will have nothing to master of Chung Ying College, and to say, it should consist of armour- ready under her

do with the I. L. O which means of N. 1 Fung Wong Terrace, Wanted troops which form tions of degree and are that it will not allow any such chat, to Miss Lum Yuet-ngau of treases from which our aircraft can Chau naturally the sphere for tact and enquiries. The inference is ob- No. 24 Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong operate

Kong

What do your land forces consist Dan moderation, and it is impossible vious.

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Detective-Sergeant Mottram ask-

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Frank Westcott, the 21 year-old

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