1938-02-12 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1938.

BRITAIN'S 'SHADOW' R.A.F. Auxiliary Factories Organised And Men Trained

6,000 ITALIAN

BRITAIN SUPREME

TROOPS KILLED IN OUTPUT

Says Ethiopian

Legation

Six Thousand Italians and Askaris (coloured colonial troops) have been killed during renewed

fighting in Abyssinia during the statement issued by the Ethiopian

past two months, according to a

Legation in London.

...

SOVIET WOMAN ENVOY FOR CHINA?

The creation of a “shadow air force” with a number of pilots and planes more than doubling The Shanghai Japanese press the official figures concerning the British air force, gives prominence to a report that is revealed in well-informed circles in London. Mme. Alexandria Kollantai, former

The total amount of first-line planes forming

Soviet minister to Sweden, and the land forces without the planes attached to the

one of the first women to hold a foreign office post with the U.S.S.R. Royal Navy was officially given as 1,750 machines.

government, is on

her way to The number of pilots in training, however, is un- The statement, based upon re-derstood to be about 8,000.

Shanghai. ports received direct from

Mme. Kollantai, it is stated, left Abyssinia, adds the following

Europe only a few days ago aboard claims:

The explanation for this discre- immediately transformed into air-

a Shanghai-bound steamer. The pancy is given in the existence of craft factories. Three battalions of Eritreans "shadow squadrons" of which the

purpose of her visit is not known and a number of Italians have de-pilots are already in training but

20,000 PLANES A YEAR but apparently, Shanghai Japanese. serted to the Abyssinians in the the planes themselves stored away

attach considerable significance to The large Morris Motors plants, the report that the woman is northern region.

on fin an unassembled form.

however, will be used for the con- Despite ceaseless activity by The each first-line squadron are struction

her way to Shanghai. of motor tractors and Italian bombing planes, "which attached one or two of these "sha- tanks, while all other motor car informed Russian circles that Mme. It is considered unlikely in well- continue to use poison gas." Italian dow squadrons" which are ready to concerns will be switched into aero-Kollantai, if she is really on her attempts to recapture lost positions become first line aircraft at anyplane factories in time of war. in the north and north-west have time, thus assuring the immediate met with only temporary success. |replacement of planes shot down in

Forty-three Italian lorries have action in war.. been destroyed. Abyssinians have captured considerable supplies of arms and ammunition,

ROME'S DENIAL

Rome flatly denies these reports; but the official "Forze Armate" de- scribes operations by 113 bombers during the last rainy season (from August to October).

During a fortnight's series of raids between Addis Ababa and

Mechanics and private soldiers are being trained to become flight- officers as soon as hostilities break out.

AUXILIARY FACTORIES

Meanwhile, "shadow factories" are at present training a large num- ber of workers in aircraft construc- tion. These are auxiliary factories attached to existing motor plants. By a rotation system; all workers in

a missión The possibility is also being way to Shanghai, is on considered of attaining, an annual

for the Soviet Government în view peacetime production of 5,000 of her refusal to return to Moscow planes and an annual war-time after she was recalled to that city production of 20,000 machines.

some time ago. Well-informed circles pointed out that no other country could com- pete with Great Britain in this line as their motor factories are not equipped for such a construction.

SAYS SHE WAS

Moggio, it is stated, 6,384 bombs motor concerns are given a period SOLD FOR £30

were dropped on "native bands, of training in aircraft construction which were dispersed.”

in these auxiliary plants.

The paper admits that planes had The motor car factories have al- to be used to rescue 600 men in ready in store all, the necessary "several Italian garrisons surround-tools for the construction of planes,

so that in time of war they can be

ed by armed bands.”

"Pawed-Over Remnant Girls No Man Would Marry"

"Pawed-Over remnants from the

"Frankly, what young bachelor

San Francisco, Jan. 28. A 19-year-Old American girl has just revealed to the police here how she was sold as a white slave for

believe

Russian observers also that it is quite unlikely that she would travel to Shanghai for any other reason than to seek refuge from the Soviet authorities who are apparently anxious for her to re- turn to Moscow. For that reason they say, Shanghai would be a bad place to come to at the present and they are, therefore, inclined doubt the report...

Mme. Kollantai is one of the out- standing women produced since the establishment of the Soviet regime in Russia. She was a collaborator of Lenin and as such, played an important part in the establish- ment of the Soviet. She was made Soviet minister of Sweden about three years ago, being recalled last year at the beginning of the pre- sent purges.

The Shanghai Mainichi is Ch

| £30.

She was kept, she says, in den frequented by Orientals.

Following her revelations, police made 40 arrests in lightning raids on white slave dens in San Fran- cisco and cities round the Bay. Among those arrested were veral policemen, it is stated, names are being withheld.

The story of the 19-year-old girl,

out by another girl, aged only 15. [150 dollars.”

se-

ed with having first printed the port of her departure from Europe but for Shanghai.

pargain basement," was what Mr. wants to go to church and get mar-Jeanne Marjorie Walters, is borne J. A. F. Nolan, twenty-six-year-old ried to a girl when he knows that bachelor and undergraduate of outside are twenty or thirty fel- Liverpool University, called mo- lows who have had affairs with demn good. girls at the Unihor? versities' Conservative Conference "You cannot respect a girl who at Oxford.

has been too lavish-with-her-affec tions.

Blaming them for Britain's slum- ping birth-rate, he declared that young men could not take seriously -as wives and mothers of their children girls who did not come pure to their marriages.

"You cannot respect a girl who with her af- has been too lavish fections.

"I am a confirmed cynic so far as modern young women are concern- ed. I have not always been.

“My cynicism has dated from about three years ago.

"The modern good-time girl makes pleasure her god and the pursuit of pleasure, her religion and is doing a grave disservice to

"But I do not say that I shall mankind," thundered Mr. Nolan. never marry. I am subject to ex-

"You cannot expect a decent perimént.

young bachelor to take much inter- "My ideal woman is a clean liv- est in the pawed-over remnantsing, healthy minded girl with a from the bargain basement.”

knowledge of home life yet compet-

Mr. Nolan was still ablaze with ent to take her place in the world fervour for his cause when a re- porter talked to him later.

"I AM A CYNIC”

“I speak from my experience of young women with whom I have come in contact in business and at the university during the past few years," he “g

of affairs, moderately, attractive, but not necessarily beautiful, with common sense and an overwhelm- ing sense of loyalty.

I have met several women with some of these attributes, but I have never had an opportunity of finding whether they possess all of them"

Hollywood, but her money ran out, to another, she was kept under Film-struck, Jeanne left home for Moved continually from one place

she took a job as a barmaid, and watch all the time until the day was tricked 1 by a man called Mc-when she managed to escape and tell Gregor into white slavery.

her story to the police of agonies "He offered me a job," she de-suffered in the vice dens of China- clared, "but actually he sold me for town.

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