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CANTON'S HOLIDAY ON ANNIVERSARY

Canton, To-day.

Chinese banks, the Customs and other major business concerns in

47 NEW WARSHIPS

THIS YEAR: WORLD'S

THE CHEN MA

GOVERNMENT

TETUES THAMES BARRAGE PLAN

BIGGEST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER on. To-day.

If the present rapid building Three cruisers schedule is maintained, more than 32 destroyers Canton were closed to-day on the fighting ships should be added 11 submarines anniversary of the 72 Martyrs, who to the British Navy this year. The gave their lives in the abortive re following vessels are expected to Total 1 bellion here in March, 1911, which commission before the end of 1933: was the stepping stone

Type throw of the Manchu regime and creation of a united Republic

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One aircraft-carrier

Total 116,690 The aircraft carrier Ark B Tons.is due for completion in July. With 22,600 a speed of nearly 31 knots, hanger space for 70 aircraft, and an arms ment of 16 4.5in anti-aircraft guns, floating aerodrome.

ent will be com-

that the Go pelled to veto the project for con- struction of a Thames barrage at Woolwich, because the Committee of Impenal Defence had reported from the defence aspect such

Two ceremonies were held during "We will always remember their she is, the world's most modern barrage would have very senoj

the early hours of this morning at heroism in the same manner that the 72 Martyrs Monument and Sup history will remember the patrio- Yat-sen's Memorisi Hall, both of tism of the hundreds of thousands which were attended by Governor of Chinese soldiers who in the past Wu Teb-chen.

months have died on battlefields in In the course of his speech, Gov-resisting foreign aggression. " ernor Wu stated.

Reuter

During the year the crnisers consequences. Liverpool, Manchester and Glouces Consequently the Port of Lon- ter will come into service. They are don Authority had decided that sister ships of 9,300 tons, with ano useful service would be served speed of 33 knots, and mount 12 by proceeding with the enquiry

Continued at foot of Next Col

into the propos

SHOULD HUSBANDS AND WIVES HAVE SEPARATE FRIENDS?

Oh Jim, I wish

didn't go out

dem

sayed but in the evenings usually had a dull, Wireless wife

at home.

2 EVENINGS LATER

Sorry I can't be home for dinner darling I've got to attend that Sports Club

Committee tonight. I have a bite

in tow

THEN ANN¬READ IT SAID:

list-

The proposed dap would have been 1,500 feet

have carried read

and would have

for ships. It's

have been to

waterlevel and Reuter.

and-- would

rail tracks

hed sir locks

effect would

Ka constant

prevent floods.

INQUIRY SUSPENDED

The Port of London Authority: has suspended the inquiry recently begun into the construction of a barrage across the Thames within the Port of London for the purpose of the creation of a non-tidal waterway through the centre of the metropolis

The inquiry would serve no use- ful purpose in view of the opinion of the imperial defence committee, communicated by the Transport Minister, that such a barrage would have serious disadvantages.

ish Wirel

6in gas and eight

besides 1

and many lighter pieces,

32 DESTROYERS

-aircraft

Of the 32 destroyers which will probably be ready this year, 16 belong to the large and powerful Tribal class, the heaviest torpedo craft so far built for the British Navy. In pre-war days they would have been – rated as third-class crisers.

They are

1,850 tons.

he arma-

guns

HEA

with a speed of

ment consists of

sbout

in twin tu and

eight smaller guns,

torpedo

type.

certant

super- reign

navies,

The

Com

you always

I and feel

I out and dull,

that's bound to tell or

your looks.

Your houble is Night Stanation

My advice is. Horlicks at bedtone

SO HORLICKS

AND WHAT A

EVERY NIGHT

6 WEEKS LATER

the here

Aan, by the

frreside!

with

and

10 torpedo

MORE

Among

TO BE BUIT

wmen due for

completion

ear are two large

mime-layers,

four

an patrol boats

cenumerated

to

nine

47 NEW Vessels minesweepers,

units

should be mpleted during 1998.

Do you

fired every

morning? Look fired? Feel nervy

HORLIC beda

When all these

mission, the follow

still re-

Five battl

5,000 tons,

$23,000

main under constr

HORLICKS

GUARDS AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION

THE CHINA MAI

The Hon. Balegio Rodriguez, See retary of Commerce and Agriculture of the honour by a group of local businessmen. Mr. Chan Mo Hux, local manager of Mess are shortly to commence sale of stock in the Haussermann Consolidated Investan

GERMANY'S

kaner given in his erening,

RENAISSANCE

Herr Hitler's Plebiscite Speech In Berlin

CZECHS OFFER

NEW STATUTE

FOR MINORITIES

Prague, To-day.

The first official Czecho-Slova-

He Who Wants To

Condemn Shall Write "No"

Berlin, To-day.

kian statement on the interna- Germany is becoming prouder, richer, more beauti-

tional situation since the recent crisis, was made over the radio last night by the Premier, Dr. Hodza.

Dr. Hodza said that Mr. Neville

Chamberlain's House of Commons speech bad shown that the British Prime Minister rightly understood the declaration which he (Dr. Hod- za) had made in the Czech Parlia

ment on March ́4.

The

SINGAPORE'S CONTRIBUTION TO DEFENCE

The Colonial Commons, said Straits Setti

ful and self-confident, declared Herr Hitler in him that a speech to 20,000 people at the Sport Palast here yesterday.

Fuehrer demanded that every German vote in the plebiscite on April 10, adding "He who wants to condemn us shall write his no.

He declared that more National Socialists had been murdered in Austria than in the whole of Ger many.

Furthermore, Berlin had given to understand in a semi-officia: statement that Germany had no in- "They say I am a tyrant, and tention of interfering in the dom-these murderers are supposed to be estic affairs of Czecho Slovakia. democrats.

BRITISH SIGNATURE-

The world praises them, and Mr. Chamberlain had also refer just as in Spain the democratic red to the minority problem hypocrites do not care a hoot, but Czecho-Slovakia, and he wouk they will suddenly wake up when point out that this was based on a Jew in Vienna loses his busi- the Minority Agreement of St. ness Germain, to which Britain had also appended her signature.

Reuter PRES. WILSON

Berlin, To-day.

More than 1,00 more than 40,000

hot, and

All this happened and the still called this democracy,

Legislative Settlements

the payment

ataly

The Ormsby to the Cou

I, on the other hand, allow people to take part again and again wards. in all great historic decisions, and yet they still call me a dictator Trans-Ocean.

A boat, valued

by Boy H-Witty, of the Regiment has

n

He was well aware that part of At the outset of his election from the the population found itself in dis speech Herr Hitler recalled that po by Lieut. Langley. agreement with the results of Fe President Wilson and the Allied bruary 18, but Czecho-Slovakia had Powers themselves proclaimed the adopted a- generons attitude to right to self-determination of all wards the question of minorities, peoples, and that one of President

NEW STATUTE

Wilson's Fourteen Points provided The Czech Government would that freedom should be restored to now go a step further and would various peoples composing the for- draw up a Minority Statute in ormer Hapsburg Empire in accordan- der to prove that Czecho-Slovakiaze with their wishes. was doing everything. possible for its minorities,

In doing so it was acting of its own free will and was not giving way to pressure from outside. Trans-Ocean

FRANCO'S REPLY TO PROTESTS

London, To-day.

Instead of keeping this pro- mise, however, they had separat- ed 10,000,000 Germans from their Fatherland and had incorpor ed them in other states.

It was not surprising, therefore, that with National-Socialist acces- sion to power, these Germans want- ed to return. National Socialisi aim had always beer to reconciliate people and not to set class against class

Austrians

GERMAN IDEAL

mutilation, said, further mission nor

and although collapsed,

wished to join

"I cannot imagine any true Ger- General Franco's reply to the man not being ptivated by British representations on the ideal subject of the recent bombing of After its Barcelona and other open towns, Austria had has been received in London any politic It is reported that Gen. Franco continue emphatically denies that the objecthe Beic tive of the raids was the population, and reiterates cusation that Barcelona

any military objectives unitions factories and Gen. Franco gives the that he will avoid, as

ir raids on open

ich raids will only.

dictated

the call of blood the Reich.

ler Hitler then painted a pic me of what he termed Austrian

AUSTRIAN COMPARISON

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