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The 19th Issue of the
CHINA YEAR BOOK
(1938 Edition)
EDITED BY H. G.. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E. The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the foilowing:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented) Mongolia and Chinese-Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures) Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net.
Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers: THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD. ·
P.O. Box 707, Shanghai
THE CHINA
BRITAIN'S RECOR
Never Before
Approached In
Time Of Peace
During this year Britain will launch 45 new warships, with a total tonnage of 355,705.
Such a figure has never before been approach- ed in time of peace by any country, and is little, if at all, below the aggregate. tonnage launched in Britain in any single year of the Great War.
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The vessels due to be launched in 1939 are:
NEW BUTTER SHORTAGE IN GERMANY
Coblenz, Jan. 8. "For various reasons, chiefly the recent great cold spells, the production of milk was consider- ably reduced in the Rhineland and this resulted in a temporary shortage of butter," the Rhine- land group of food merchants said in a statement to-day.
It told the people that the crisis had already been passed, but asked them to take into account the present situation and "not to demand from merchants what they cannot provide.”—Havas.
'ANTI-CONSCRIPTION LEAGUE' FORMED IN BRITAIN
London, Jan. 7. An "Anti-Conscription League" which will fight the idea of a na- tional register in Britain was formed here yesterday evening.
The League's programme consists in opposing "all measures tending to bring about conscription.”
Displacement
Type Number Battleships
tons
5
175,000
Aircraft carriers 3
69,000
Large cruisers 5
40,000
Small cruisers
7
38,150
Destroyers
11
20,000
Submarines
9
9,855
Sloops
5
3,700
45
355,705
combatant
All the above are
ships, and the total of launchings in the coming year does not include a considerable number of auxiliary 33 knots sp craft, such as boom defence vessels, motor torpedo-boats, depot ships and tugs.
FIFTY 14-IN GUNS
guns.
The seven 1939 progra
Naiad, Phoe
and Hermic entirely new a speed of 3 is unique,
10 6.2in gun with a rate minute.
The first important vessels to go afloat will be the battleship King George V., which the King is to launch on Tyneside on Feb. 21. A sister ship, Prince of Wales, will take the water at Birkenhead in March, and during the summer and Autumn three more vessels of the derstood to same class-Anson, Jellicoe and powerful ty Beatty-will be launched at Clyde-marines are bank, Wallsend-on-Tyne and Govan and most o respectively.
These five units, the largest and most strongly armoured battleships ever built in Britain, will reinforce the gun-power of the Fleet by 50 14- in guns of a new and most power- ful type. With a designed speed of 30 knots, they will be among the world's fastest battleships.
The three aircraft carriers to be launched are the Illustrious, Vic- torious, and Formidable, each of 28,000 tons. They are the largest carriers so far built for the Royal The main supporters are James Navy. The first is building at Bar- Hudson, Secretary of the Pacifist row-in-Furness, the second on the Parliamentary Group, and Fenner Tyne, and third at Belfast. Brockway, Secretary of the Indepen- dent Labour Party.
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NEW TYPE CRUISERS
Of the 11
Wor
econ
The Vauxh 40 m.p.g. trial, over 1, the 10 h.p. S And it ha
Present at the meeting were se- veral representatives of trade un- The five large cruisers to be put ions, the Labour Party, the co- afloat are the Fiji. Kenya, Mauri- operative movement, and the In- tius, Nigeria, and Trinidad, repre- Hydraulic H
chromesh dependent Labour Party.-Havas. senting a new type of 9,000 tons and features.
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