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Captain Margesson

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Was now

THE EYES OF OUR BATTLE FLEET QUESTION OF CONTROL OF NAVAL AIR ARM SHOULD

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BE THE BUSINESS OF THE NAVY ALONE

(By Admiral Sir Royer Keyes);

London.

the Navy, was thoroughly capable NDER the Treaty of Versailles of looking after its own air ser

Germany was allowed to re-vice

possessing

seriously concerned. He left, the 85,000-ton battleships to meet those efficiency of the Naval air services Treasury bench, went to the bar, which Italy is building. and asked a doorkeeper. He identi-

fled the man.

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No stranger has ever their watch and wandered into the House. But one night last month, |for some awful minutes, it asɛmed]*

as if the impossible had happened. Seated among the Conservatives who overflow to the Opposition place her old battleships by vessels It is quite true that the Roya side was an unfamiliar figure. He not exceeding 10,000 tons, mount-Flying Corps and the Royal NavaĮ: | Air Service were in competition for was noticed by Captain David Maring guns not exceeding 11in. gessen, the Chief Government With considerable ingenuity, "slie machines and material, but this Whip. He too seems to know every designed the. "pocket battleships," could easily have been adjusted by body..

sufficient speed to machinery similar to that which He could not fix this "stranger." [escape from any battleship, and existed for the production of navaj He asked Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Bald-carrying 11in. guns capable of des-and military ordnance. win shook his head.

troying any cruiser which came However, the Government of the He turned to Sir Victor Warren-

within range.

day decided to amalgamate the,twe der. The mystery remained a my France is building two 25,000-ton Force in 1918.

In answer to this challenge, Services, and formed the Royal Air

battle cruisers, which will be cap. The Navy was deprived of some able of overtaking and destroying of its excellent squadrons, but gene

'pocket battleships" and

erally speaking the amalgamation any cruiser in "the' world, and also, two

did not seriously affect the

Its squadrons remained under naval control for operations until hostilities 'ceased. But after the war friction was inevitable, and i The Chief Whip returned to his Thus naval

construction has the Navy" watched the efficiency of place, and got a reference book. started in Europe, and we cannot its equipment decline, and had to He showed the name to Mr. Bald- ignore it. The Mediterranean and be content with a small Air Service win and Sir Victor Warrender, Suez Canal are vital links in the administered by the Air Ministry with a "believe it or not" gesture. chain of our Imperial communica-which had many other preoccupa

They breathed again. The my-tions. It is folly to be blind to the tions. stery man was a Conservative M.P. fact that if people of one race do

A Case For Inquiry not hesitate to fight amongst them- ply proclaims that he is no

It was Your Daily Smile! longer willing to observe them,

selves as they haye been doing re- and challenges the rest of Europe

cently in Spain, Austria and Greece even established our right to have admiral Hong Kong, Saturday, April 20, 1935-to do their worst. In the circum-Answer To Correspondent -nations with conflicting interests Naval observers. An

may well fight for the things they might be dependent upon some in stances two courses were open.

Temperamental, Henry, Powers could 60 per cent temper and 50 per with impunity. It is suicidal to whole conduct of the Fleet and the want, if they think they can do so experienced young Royal Air Force Jack Boot Diplomacy Either the other

observer for reports, on which the, confess that they had become (cent, mental. willing to waive those clauses.

lay ourselves open to possible at- Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, who which would be quite true; or

tacks by neglecting our own defences. efficiency, of its fire control might in 1914 was opposed to England they could take their stand on taking any part in a war which the sanctity of treaties and lift have seen a ghost that alngs, deals with the necessity for promiralty, the Government appointed A Stockwell resident claims. to "Statement Relating to Defence the urgent demands of the Ad-

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a Committee to inquire into the res fleet and for mercantile barbours lations between the Admiralty and It explains that in the Army Eati-the Air Ministry. The Coramittes

Briand anti-aircraft defences, up-to-of the pilots and all the observers be-mates the increase shown is due to recommended that the Navy should. be allowed to supply 70 per ceat date equipment, transport and war effort to please both sides it satis the provision for improved coast

of the Fleet Air Arm, but in am

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reserves of all kinds, which have fallen far below required stand-

The importance of the defance

It left the Fleet Air Arm unden“,

and

a system of dual control; which;

is made, cannot be exaggerated. men of the two Services, but is full

comradeship of the officera Without a secure base there we of anomalies and could not send a fleet east of Suez. for efficiency. This is so fully recognised by our Dominions and Crown Colonies!

does not make-

The Admiralty had insisted that

Arm should appear in the Navaj have all subscribed generously to its increase and development would its construction.

be the Admiralty's concern. For instance, if the Admiralty were

Air Force's Big Task

Clause 6 lays down that the prin-prepared to surrender a cruiser of

is to provide (with the co-operation carrier and so many squadrons of of ground defences) for the pro-aeroplanes, they would be free to tection of the United Kingdom, and do so.

particularly London, against air at- However, as a safeguard it was tack. It also provides air forces valueless, and there is a strong for general defence purposes in the case for a thorough inquiry into

CANTON FARMERS

"I am sure that Stresa, if its for further adjustment. The Changing Times spirit is preserved, and its deci-one course that was bound to fail sion pursued, will definitely help is the course that was selected says to dispel the cloud and enable for adoption. The very fact of changed the mode of 'people's liv-Straits Settlements and Hong Kong Estimates, and it was thought that. correspondent, "have that Australia, New Zealand, the every penny spent on the Navy Afg the sun to come through. Will declining the challenge reveals to ing." And their mode of dying. it? One cannot help wondering Herr Hitler and to everyone else whether Mr. Macdonald is not that more can be obtained by once again "making pictures"; menace than by argument, which believing what he wants to be was exactly the Bismarckian: lieve. We do not imagine that point of view. To add a public atraight left arm all the way round even Der Fuehrer wants to go to declaration that the observance the course." Says me. "And don't cipal role of the Royal Air Force destroyer flotilla for an aircraft war just now, or is likely to do of treaties is important is mere-bend the right too much so; but with the history of thely to repeat a truiam nobody nineteenth hole,” twentieth century to guide us would deny. And to follow it we are anxious to get back to up with a fatherly lecture on the state when peace is taken failure to do the duty of joining for granted, and war being put the other Powers in their con- right into the background men duct of affairs, which is just Mr. Robert Young, chief accoun- Middle East, India and the Far the present unsatisfactory state of are able to get on with the busi-what Germany objects to, is totant of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., East, as well as for co-operation in affaira. As recently as November ness of their lives with some make the worst of both worlds. (South China), returned to the Co-iconst defence; and in addition, it 28, 1934, Mr. Baldwin declared in confidence that they will be able If one wishes to rebuke a friend long yesterday from a short busi-furnishes specially trained and (Continued, on Page 7). to carry out what plans they without losing his friendship the Bess trip to Manila, by the s.s. equipped aquadrons for co-opera- may make. The spirit of Stresa usual method is to ask to dinner, President Coolidge.

tion with the Army, and a propor does not seem to take us any and after the friendship has

tion of the Fleet Air Arm person- (nearer that goal.

been suitably commemorated to Mr. Walter L, Marshall, of the nel to work with the Navy.

ASSISTED The outlines of the position bring up the grievance as tact-local branch of the Standard- I think it is generally agreed are easy to trace For forty fully as possible.

Vacuum Oil Co., was among the that a very considerable augmenta years Germany followed with The announcement that any passengers who arrived in

Financial Aid From the tion of the Royal Air Force is ab great success what used to be movement of troops into the Colony yesterday by the a.s. Pre-solutely necessary for the safety The Government called "the diplomacy of the demilitarised area on the Western sident Coolidge from Manila. of Great Britain, and for carrying jackboot", which meant simply frontier would be regarded as

out any 'collective system of

Canton, to-day. that instead of any disputed calling for united and active Miss Clars Blandick, the Holly-security. The Air Ministry is thus With a view to relieving the question being discussed on its measures, is merely to introduce wood actress, who is on a round faced with a tremendous task. We economic condition of the sericul- merits, the German case was once again the jackboot spirit. the-world-cruise, was among the sailors feel very strongly that the ture villages, the Bureau for the backed up by references to the There is not the slightest in-passengers who disembarked from moment has arrived when the Navy Improvement of Sericulture' is' con- "malled fist" or the "shining dication that any solution arrived the .. President Jackson yester- should be freed from the dual contemplating the establishment of armour", which meant that alat by such diplomacy will stop day. request or a suggestion was short of, wiping out all the

fed the development of the Navy's Shuntek County. Their function really an ultimatum. It was changes made by the war, and in The Cuban

Minister to the Air Arm ever since the war. will be to receive deposita from, that constant feeling of doubt addition creating at least a Cus-Argentine, Dr. Calixto Whitmarah, Before it was amalgamated with and make loans to, farmery: and anxiety that gradually made toms Union with Austria. and Mrs. Whitmarsh, arrived in the Royal Flying Corps as the In the absence of financial in the idea of war so familiar that It is not at all likely that all the Colony, on a pleasure trip, on Royal Air Force, there was no stitutions in sericulture villages, in the end the guns began to go these things will be demanded the 8.8. President Jackson, yester-more efficient, up-to-date, or better is usually the practice of farme off of themselves. After some or taken at once, but the dis-day.

equipped air unit, then the Royal to borrow money from well-to-do, years, during which it was clear couraging prospect is of a long

Naval Air Service. It had the very persons at a high rate of interest ly not possible to issue ultima series of years during which one tums, and during which one Ger or other will be brought up, and

Mr. N. R. Lynenitche, manager of latest and best machines, and had This means a heavy burden to the man Administration nt any rate. a long series of such years as the

the Cathay Ceramica Co., Hong and Naval flying boats by far the

in the Handley-Page night bombers farmere-Central Press. ·|| that of Herr Stresemann, made last two or three will mean that trip to Shanghai, by the s... Pre-largest and most powerful aircraft

Kong, returned. from a business efforts to shake off the heavy whether the war comes or not ident Jackson, yesterday, terms of peace imposed at Ver the strength of Europe as a sailles with very slight success, whole will be wasted and pover Herr Hitler has reverted to the ty will continue to spread. What Among

(trol, which has so greatly hamper-several loaning and savings offices In

In existence at that time, Post-War Decline

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the passengers who It possessed kite balloons, dirigi Under the auspices of the II. K...... old style of the jackboot. In-ls needed is a large-hearted arrived in Hong Kong yesterday by bles large and small; the Admiralty University Education Society, Min. stead of negotiating for a repeal dealing with the whole list of the a.s. President Jackson, was Mr. had built an airship, which was the W. G. Dyer M. A. will give a lec.. of the Disarmament clauses, controversies, with Germany re: Hin Lan-yung, local manager of the the first aircraft in the world to ture on Education in Tropical. which had proved impossible to presented at the round table; International Insurance Co., Ltd. make a successful passage across Africa' next Thursday at 8.30 am. maintain in face of the refusal otherwise the only appeal is to who has been on a business trip to the Atlantic to America and back. in University Ulón Assembly Hall of other Powers to carry out force, which will some day have Shanghai.

mention these facts to show that All are welcome, their side of the bargain, he sim, to be used: