1938-12-12 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1938

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WAR OF THE

THE FUTURE TO BE WON IN WORKSHOP Sir Auckland Geddes'. Picture Of British Problem

Industrial Concentration

For Victory

ARAB EXILES IMATRON OF GOING TO BEIRUT S'HAI HOSPITAL

Jerusalem, To-day. KILLED IN FALL

Members of the Arab High Com-}

been

that relatives in Jerusalem

they

London, To-day. mittee deported to the Seychelles, “Any war in the future will be won or lost in the but whose banishment has

workshops and factories,” declared Sr Auck-terminated, have telegraphed to land Geddes, who was Minister for National Service during the Great War, in an interview with the “Observer.”

In the interview, Sir Auckland describes some of the problems of national service confronting himself and Sir John. Anderson, the Lord Privy Seal, whom he has volunteered to help. Sir Auckland referred to the difference in the strategic position to-day compared with twen- ty years ago.

"I do not believe 'in conscription,"

he said. "By that I mean compul- sory service in an overseas army. Inevitably it would diminish our

U.S. MOBILISATION PLANS

Washington, To-day,

Shanghai, To-day.

Miss Jean McLean Martin, the British matron of the Shanghai

leave the Seychelles on December Police Hospital, was killed yester- day morning as the result of a fall 18, and intend to proceed to Beirut to confer with the Grand Mufti.

The British Commander-in-Chief from the roof of the hospital as announced in building, which adjoins Ward Road. has, however, Jerusalem on Sunday night, been

Miss Martin, a native of Scot- fic Palestine coast deperident permission from the British au- land, was formerly on the staff, of the Municipal Isolation Hospital, and had lived in Shanghai for a thorities. Trans-Ocean.

number of years.

empowered to make passenger traf-

VETERANS OF SPANISH WAR

Paris, To-day.

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gaol.

She met her death about 10 o'clock. The body was taken from the pavement where it had fallen and taken to the General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Miss Martin is the second mem- ber of the Police Hospital nursing naval and air effort, besides creat- The United States army and

Further members of the Interna-staff to die within three days. ing a sharp division in public navy authorities are simplifying tional Brigade have arrived in Per- On Friday last, Miss Amelia Zita opinion and weakening national the speeding up scheme to mopignan.

Davies, the assistant matron, died morale.

bilise the entire nation in time There were altogether 104 French-in the Country Hospital.-Reuter. "Sending a vast conscript force of war, according to competent men, 113 Poles, 99 Italians, 24 to the Continent would consider-officials.

Germana and a small number

Mr. T. Nakamura, who has been ably reduce our available strength It is stated the new plan will be Greeks, Belgians, Danes, Czechs and replaced as Consul-General in Hong "In the event of another 'contin- less complex than the existing de- other persons without nationality. Kong for Japan by Mr. A. Tajiri, tailed proposal for highly centralis- Some 27 of these combatants, left by the Japanese gunboat "Saga”

con-for Canton at 7 a.m. to-day. ental war, I hope the R.A.F. will be

ed control of national economy in whose sojourn in France is used predominantly with

Mr. Nakamura will spend a short small

wartime, and would aim partly at sidered undesirable, were sent back 28 highly-trained ground forces

na-period in Canton, and, after his time required to to Spain immediately. Their shortening the auxiliaries.

tionality could not be ascertained.-return to Hong Kong, will proceed. put such a plan into operation.

Trans-Ocean.

to Japan. Reuter.

in other directions.

REGISTER OR CHAOS "With a National Register organ- ised on a regional basis, Britain| would be ready in wartime to pro- vide food, man A.R.P. services and anti-aircraft defences, make” muni- tions and aeroplanes and care for the sick and wounded.

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"Without an adequate Register

we should have chaos.

in

"Our industrial requirements the event of war will be much grea- Great ter than they were in the

War. Every effort will have to be made in this direction.

HUGE ORGANISATION

over

"I expect we shall have to have at home behind the Navy 1,000,000 men working in dockyards, shipyards, engineering shops and so on, to keep the Navy fully efficient in repair, and to build the

C ships required.

new

"There will probably be as many men needed to back the Air Force and keep it in the air, and behind the Army-where emphasis will rest on mechanised high fire. power divisions-there must also be a colossal industrial effort.

the

"These tasks are far more im- portant to the nation than raising of vast conscript armies."

PEACE NOT A PLASTER Sir Auckland concluded that it was dangerous to think of peaco as a plaster which could be stuck to the face of Europe..'

He urged all who sought peace to prepare for war, mentally, mor ally, physically and materially. Only thus could we defend ourselves against any aggressors.-Router."

Kwan Wu, aged, 22, who was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, with a fractured skull, after jump- ing from the third floor of No. 578 Shanghai Street, died at about 10.15. p.m. last night.

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