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The China Mail

Hong Kong Wednesday March 6, 1995

Europe's Hopes Of The

New Plan

In most quarters of Europe, with Russia as an anticipated ex- ception. the Anglo-French state- ment of alma has been received as offering a new hope.

Pros-

pects that it will give security to the nations must ‘obviously turn on the answer that Germany

.

HERE THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

KING OF THE COCOS ISLANDS

Mr. John Sydney Clunies Ross,

of the Cocos Islands, who figured

THE MENACE FROM THE AIR

IF BRITAIN'S PORTS

WERE BOMBED

recently in a super tax claim, BEING PREPARED FOR ANYTHING

the only British subject who can administer the law as and when ho likes

The Cocos Islands, which should

(By Capt. Norman Macmillan)

***London. Everything would be damaged in not be confused with the Costa Athe Arst centre of our sea- their moorings; dock gates burst- FTER London, Liverpool is an instant. Ships would sink at

Rica Cocos Island of treasure hunt fame, are a group of six in a coral borne trade. The livelihood of its open fires break out in oil and. reef in the Indian Ocean.

855,000 inhabitants (shown in the gas tanks, in warehouses along the

On one island there is a small census of 1931) is largely depen-wharves. Every building in the European settlement composed of dent on the trading of the city as a city would rock and stagger as in. officials of the Eastern Extension seaport. Thus Liverpool's activi- an earthquake. Then, the whole Cable Company. Mr. Clunies Ross ties are concentrated in the area formation, turning into line. lives on an island by himself at- about the docks..

abreast, and swift as the messen- tended only by his Malay subjects. The Liver and Cunard buildings ger of death himself, would dis- The place is, of course, lonely, and the Dock Board offices form a appear, and vanish from England: but the climate la excellent. The central group behind the Plor faster than it came. only-sport is sea-fishing, and that Head. Spread like a fan behind Ma Second Attack

is apt to be exciting. The native them are the three main railway Next would come the heavy boats are primitive, and the fish-stations, the Customs House, St. bombers, multi-engined aeroplanes shark, sword-fish and albacore George's Hall, and the Town Hall with one and two-ton bombs. They are, fierce and big.

*

*

FORTUNE FROM COPRA

Potential Target would come in droves, a hundred at

If Liverpool had been planned a time, to seek the special spots by an architect, charged with the destined for destruction. They duty of making it the beat air tar- might descry isolated ships and get possible his work could not docks still incompletely shattered {have been better done.

by the cat attack. Their one-ton

Mr. Clunies Rose is a grandson of the Shetland sailor who colonised the islands over 100 years ago.

Heia-fine-looking man of

By day or night, water is the bombs would fall upon these isolat about 65 and is a firm and. fair clearest landmark from the air, fed targets and demolish them. The ruler. He was a contemporary of and no adjacent target is more entrance to the Mersey Tunnel Sir John Gilmour at Glenalmond. quickly spotted than a string of would not escape:

Over the buildings of the city He speaks Malay like English decks along a river's edge. Amid and has Malay blood in his veins, intermittent light reflected by the dropping delay.action bombs that the shadows of the warehouses the succeeding waves. would pass, His father married a Malay pria- cess of royal Sulu blood,

water-filled" basins betrays the penetrate roofs and ceilings, until His family made its fortune out decks at once to the eyes of any at last they explode on the lowest floor. These bombs would amash of copra.

At one time the Cocos practised airiman. Talands grew the best copra in the Through this magnificent po- up every administrative building,

of policy. All have the one pur-world. pose of a resettlement of Europe

tential target come foodstuffs to if the attackers willed and in the in an atmosphere of tranquillity,

To-day, copra, like most tropical feed the population of these brief space of two hours Liverpool and all breathe the spirit of good products, has suffered from the islands; and manufactured goods would be an English Ypres. will to Germany.

slump..

We Must Prepare

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE

Extradition Sought By Chinese In Shanghai

At the Central Magistracy this

may nake. In the hands of Herr morning, Young Kin-ping (Tang

Your Daily Smile!

"How is everything at your house?" asked the friend of the bridegroom,

"Oh, she's all right," responded the young husband happily,

go out through it to pay for food and other necessaries. Such is No traffic could enter or leave Liverpool's trade with the Amari Liverpool by rail or sea. At one cias, the Mediterranean and the swift stroke one-third of the im- |Levant, India and the Far East.

ported food. supply of Britafa

No Longer Out Of Range - would be cut off. Our natione During the last war Liverpool es- would begin to starve if Liverpool caped because it lay too far to the were bombed. And after Liver- weat of the field of battle. To- pool would come the turn of other The Proposal toge Bie: "You should see the new altar day it is no longer out of range. The seaports. In our church."

She: "Lead me to it."

Her Duty

Jones had occasion to reprimand-

Bater

• increased speed and non-step fight "This tragedy might come upon development of aeroplanes make us suddenly. All things are pos-- Liverpool a vulnerable target to alble, One thing alone is, certain. the air forces of certain Con- No single European nation will Hitler is the power to convert Chich-ping), whose extradition is wife. "I think," he said, soothingtinental nations nations who are dare attack another unless, by pre- the understanding into an effec being sought by the Chinese au-that you ab a' little occasionally stronger in the air than we are. ponderance of bombing aeroplanes,

"Well, I think it's a wife's duty," she tive Instrument of peace and of thorities in Shanghai on a charge

Take one hypothetical example, it can strike so swiftly and... So co-operation in an equal partner- of having embezzled $84,000 from replied.

From North-West Germany to hard that its adversary will sur- "Wife's duty?" ship or to destroy, perhaps final-the National Postal Savings Bank,

"Yes, to speak wall of her husband Liverpool is 420 miles. German render quickly. The nation which ly, the vision of agreement. again appeared before

Mr. W. occasionally."

aeroplanes could rise and head is thus attacked will have no time While no immediate reply can be Schofield.

out west across the sea and, with to prepare an adequate counter- looked for, since Germany will Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At-

out crossing the territory of any stroke-the one sure form of air require to examine the proposals torney-General, appearing for the Hostess of Publie Ball (to lady other nation, strike our coast near

defence. in all their implications as affect- Crown, said that the position was "You would prefer to dance with the later they could be over Liverpool, the air to-day. Our bombers are

wearing great array of jewellery): Grimsby. Less than 40 minutes

Great Britain is sixth Power in ing her future ambitions, the now clearer, but that evidence had detective, I feel auro." early reaction of the German to be obtained before proceedings

just two hours after they rose too slow, too few, in number. If“ Press cannot be regarded as un-could be commenced. It appeared

from their own land. Germany such a blow as I have pictured favourable. There is some rea- that accused bought land 'in

has such aeroplanes to-day.

were to fall upon this country, it soned criticism, but there is no Shanghai at a time when land was carping. "We appreciate the difficult to sell, and received a efforts made to recognise our large sum on commission. The equality," says the "Deutsche land, it was stated, was bought to Allgemeine Zeitung," in acknow-the detriment of the bank. ledging that the London confer- It is understood that Mr. F. C. ence is a step forward so, far as Jenkin, K. C instructed by the German position is concern- Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, will A semi-official statement appear for the accused, Mr . was issued in Berlin recently K. Kemble appeared on behalf that Germany was ready to co-fof the defendant this morning. operate in finding a way to a A further remand of one week real and effective understanding, was granted. and there are good grounds for hoping that she will regard the London proposals as a basis.

cd.

Negotiations, however, must HOUSE-BREAKING IN

range over a wide field before the

SIESTAN SKIPPER IN COURT

Case Dismissed

VERBAL NOTICE OF SHIP'S DEPARTURE

ኑ።

over-

of

UNUSUAL STRIKE

Our Navy could not stop them, would come because we did not nor our Army. Our Air Force, start now, at once, to build up our with its fighting aeroplanes .con-air strength and machine efficiency centrated for the defence of Lon- to a standard at least equivalent to- don, might never have a chance to that of other nations, sight them. Even if it did, the percentage of bombers that would get through would still be Summoned for "being the master whelming. And so, Liverpool- of a ship which required to be one of the great feeders searched, under the Suppression of our hungry population-is open to Piracy Regulation, did commerce a bombardment from the air. voyage at a time not preylously Would London Be First? notified and not approved by the Suppose war came with any Hon. Inspector General of Police," near-by nation stronger than our- Captain Creer, master of the 8.8 selves in air power with faster Seistan, was dismissed by Mr. Waeroplanes than ours. What would this morning,IK

AT AIR SHOW Parachute Jumpers Want Higher Pay Parachute Jumpers staged a uni- ¡que strike at the Miami all--

point is reached at which signa- CONNAUGHT ROAD Schofield at the Central Magistracy happen? Is the supposition that jump from a single plane.ro

50%

Catties Potatoes

Stolen.

American air show by demanding a rise in wages before making a mass London would receive the first Mr. W. A. Mackinlay, of Messrs. blow correct? I am by no means

The jumpers, according to the Deacons, pleaded not guilty on be-gure it is.

show. officials, were brought from half of the defendant. He sub-

other cities on the understanding "I can imagine the first striking mitted that under the circumstances force of seroplanes laden with that they were to receive 10dol. the shipowners did all that they bombs thrown towards Liverpool for them to jump they demanded: (42) each When the time. came could do, and that the Ordinance Imagine, if you dare-and thia did not call for a written notice, need not be held to be an exaggera

25dol (£5) It was stated that the vessel, tion, of the possibilities that lie which was scheduled to sail on the ahead-2,500 aeroplanes droning afternoon of, February 28, did not across the sky with a noise like the

tures can be appended to binding undertakings. It is a definite gain that German opinion should be prepared to entertain them.

Nobody will underrate the diffi- culty that German stateamanship THREE CHINESE GAOLED must feel in entering into pacts for mutual assistance in Eastern Charged with breaking into No. Europe that may cut across cer- 39, Connaught Road Central and tain aspects of her policy, but the stealing 50 cattles of potatoes, gains in good will, in the destruc- Leung Kwat, aged 21, and Ng Hoi, leave port until early next morning. world in torment: a vast formation tion of suspicion and in the open aged 80, were each sentenced to Mr. Mackinlay said that as soon of long, lean-bodied monoplanes recognition of equality in arma- two months' hard labour by Mr. E. se it was made known that the with tapering wings-increasing ments are weighty matters in the 1. Wynne-Jones at the Central ship could not leave her wharf on speed to 250 miles an hour and other scale. Her publicists have Police Court this morning, account of two important and more, to wheel into double line been quick to see that the invi- Admitting a previous conviction, urgent cargoes being loaded before ahead as they near their target. tation to sign a convention for Chan Wing, charged with the same midnight, the Police were given a Terrible Possibilities mutual air defence is a recogni- offence was sentenced to three verbal notice. tion of the right to air arma months hard labour." ments that is denied by the

Mr. Schofield, said that as no and two abreaat, they would fly Spaced a hundred yards apart Treaty of Versailles. There is peared for the prosecution.

Detective Sergeant Guild ap notice was required by the Ordin- from south to north. When the van no reason to stress the fact that the proposed Air Convention stands or falls with the other proposals French opinion is right in the assumption that action against an aggressor from the air may include Use of pills In his posse land and naval forces

be no limited liab

HEROIN HAUL MADE IN- CANTON ROAD

Charged with having: 500 heroin :960

to unprovoked

PHONE: 28607

air agreement;

cannot be regarded

the Kow

apart from the other dee

this morning

ance, he would dismiss the sum- monstra

of the column reached the Glad stone Dock its serpent-tail would stretch to the Herculaneum Dock.

even miles to the south

Simultaneously, át a signal, 5,000. hombs containing 1,250 tons of women, Li Yu, of high explosive would drop along atlon Street first the whole length of Liverpool's ng-Bau-chun, of No: dockland, and burst into a sheet of

were removed to fame, About the furld.

MARRIED WOMEN SUFFER FROM OPIUM POISONING

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