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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1928.

THE SINGAPORE,

BASE.

A VAST UNDERTAKING.

DOOR OF EAST AND WEST,

(SY NELLIE M. SCANLAN.]

GIRL ARTISTS" TRIUMPH. THE LONDON FIRE-

CHIEF RA. FRIZES WON FROM MEN.

TEN FIRSTS."

Li

MEN'S LOT.

HANDYMEN OF LONDON.

VARIED RESCUE WORK.

LONDON.

LONDON, December 13th. Girl students. the Royal Academy schools have achieved an The Bremen's lot is a very varied overwhelming triumph'in the exami- one, and the members of the nations, the results of which were brigade might dispute with success nunounced yesterday, by winning the title of handymen of London. ten out of seventeen first prizes.

Many are the tasks they undertake The most important prize, thei moments of leisure between .A. Gold Medal and Edward Stott responding to the calls proper to Travelling Studentship (value £200) their avocation, rendering services was won by Miss Marjorie Brooks, unsuspected by the million. Dar- twenty-three-year-old Horuseying the past two months, for exam- ple, the extraneous duties they have undertaken included:

I bave been fortunate enough, on. my way from New Zealand, to be allowed to visit the site of the new naval base at Singapore. There cant letting of the contract for its construction for £9,000,000. transferred the scheme from the renims of possibility to

girl. pro- bability. Wark already has be Miss Brooks, a call, alim girl, gun: it was, in fnot, started is golden haired and extremely couple of years ago, but that re pretty. It is the first time she has presented largely the necessary | competed for the medal, for she has preliminaries to enable the con- taken only two years of the five- tractors more accurately to year courM She was greatly excit Pasimate the cost of this giganticed and surprised at her success. undertaking.

The subject art was a painting of a serne entitled Work,

Most of the students had painted workmen

avvies, builders, and engineers. Miss Brooks' picture of women making.bullet frocks was dainty and Frt expressed the tiring toil and feverish haste of the drab-clothed women,

What comprises a modern naval base! There is to be a dorkyard and a floating dock. The letter is now being built in England, and the remaining sections will shortly be ready to be towed out. There are to be several tank farms for storing oil. Some of these rise above ground, others 'will be under. the surface. They are to have, when complete, a storage capacity of about one and a quarter million

Mother As A Modal.

of Work

“I did not Phoose that expression with any tilen of being original," she said to a press repre- I chose it because I should have had to hire models if I

sentative.

tons of oil-a suficient fuel supply for about six months. Singapore has a naval wireless station but a more powerful one is now to head painted navvies, and I could erreted at the base, that will be not afford them. My mother and

sister were my models." capable of keeping in touch with the Admiralty in London" durug the whole twenty-four hours of the day. As the trend of modern war fare is towards the air, very com-

aviation equipment plete Essential.

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The most valuable prize in the sculpture section, the R.A. Gold Medal and Edward Stott Travelling Studentship (1200),

Rescuing drowning persona from the Thames.

Rescuing persons in danger in and collapsed sewers, cazals, buildings.

Assisting in the capture al criminals and lunatics.

Attempting to reach a cat in a tall tree.

The Inst-named case was unusual even in a force to which the un- usual is a convention. It occurred in

Humber-road. Blackheath Pussy had climbed a very High tree, and for four days its plain- tive mewings had attracted the notice of passersby, but all their efforte to induce it to descend were Attempts to reach unsuccessful. the animal were anavailing, and so, at last, a fire escape was sent for. Firemen were soon up in the branches, but as the rescuers ap- the ent retreated. proached so Finally

an inspector of R.S.P.C.A. had to he summoned to destroy the cat that would not be saved.

the

was won by Since the establishment of the girl, *Mix Lilian

Everilda river station at Blackfriars, the Birch, and Mins Alice Bertha firemen en daty there have answer- Tippin won two, firsts, one for a eu no fewer than 100 calls froin model of a desigElijah Raising persons in difficulty in the river. the Widow's Son," and the other and have been instrumental in for set of three models of a figure | saving many lives, often at the risic of their own Early in October from the life.

two firemen attempted, unsuccess- fully, to rescue young man who had jumped into the water at high tide. The first fireman himself got i into difficultica. The other was an indifferent swimmer, but he went to his comrade's aid in the most. plucky manner, and supported him until a bont approached. A week previously a similar rescue was at typted, and men at the other river stabians have performed similar tasks.

The Island of Singapore is flat, lacking any great elevation for the mounting of defensive guns of long range. The fortifications are on small but lofty islets, which have commanding positione. "Hong Kong, our present base in the East, is not impregnable. It is you can tell a Chinese aampan, or hoped to make Singaporn base junk, cause it has an eye paint proof against any attack New on either side of the bow in Zealand has rathe generously con order that the craft may ære at tributed £1,000,000 towards the ex-night No eye, no see; no can penditure despite the need of see, 110 can go that is the money for her own development; Chinese simple explanation. Australia, though not asking a

Lying out in the roadstend, in direct contribution, is also very the brilliant tropical sunshine, are interested. It was as special cor- xurious passenger ships flying respondent for a big group al New the British Ang: "American round- Zealand and Australian

the-world tourist steamers, with papers that I went to Singapore a peregrinating millionaires of more few weeks ago to learn all I could ar less importance; white Dutch of the Naval base. Through the packets, trim and pent: Japanese courtesy of the Naval Commander ships flying the "Rising Sun"; I was shown all over the ground. German,

parish,Norwegian, being-the-first--Press reprostata Franch still their flags are

Firemen rendered service a Battersea dive, I believe, to enjoy that flying Battered old cargo tramps Bridge, where collapso of privilege.

and nighters from many seas scaffolding led to the loss of several little constal tabs, and smart ferry lives, and as Addison-avenue, Not- boats that do fifteen kunts up to tinghill, where three men Penang: a few yachts: launches, overcome by gas fumes in a high- chugging impatiently among the tension electric inspection chamber. clumsy junks that move elephants, and myriads of sam the collapse of a crane at build- like Firemen were culled in following

vessels ke flies reund'a carcas pans that swarm round the biggering in Upper Holloway, when a all these are here.

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Fourth Largest Empire Port. You could almost kick your bat from Singapore to the Equator. That is how far it is, and you can' imagine the beat! Singapore is

an island at the end of that long fendant of land comprising the States of Malny It is divi check from Jahore by the Straits of Jahore, but * Causeway ΠΟΥ bridges the Straits, and affords direct rond and rail communden tica with the mass and. It is on the Straits of Jahate, between the island and the mainland, that the Naval base is being built.

STAR THEATRE potually calm, except

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"Fleets" of fishing boats, with sails patched and their brown mended and multicoloured. gleam in the setting sun bike autuma black and white, fansels, and the ives. Red funnels, blue funnels,

double furfel of the Dutch boats. No part in the world can show inor varied shipping. It is not

hidden in or

among

Australia's Part.

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Was

Among other calls the Chelsen firemen succoured

+ child whose railings in the King's-road.

pinned between dron men rescued a man pinned under City

an overturned horsed van in West.

were

man was jammed'in a lift at Stam-- ford-street SW," when during the pale a brick wall collapsed at Compton-avenue, Canonbury-park.. Several calls were received from business premises following leakage acid, and methyl chloride. of ammonia, sulphurie neid, nitric

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"STALIN'S BRAIN. LESS POLICY."

Opposition, namely, the demo-

Other tasks which, from time to Lime, the resourceful men of the Except London, Liverpool, and

brigade cheerfully undertook, in Hong Kong, Singapore now the hedged largest part in the Empire. It owharves and stores or "godowas, the roofs of large buildings, and cluded the replenishing of tanks on cupies the key position, being five at lies peacefully at anchor in the pumpinaing days from India on one side, and sea of shimmering. dazzling blur, ments;

out of flooded base

dangerous five days from Hong Kong on the under a blazing tropical sun, and structures or structures on Ligh other. Bornet, Sumatra, .. and

with" scarcely enough breeze other islands of considerable size Butter a

buildings. or in other dangerous Dine Peter. That is positions: the rescue of people. and great natural wealth is close

Singapore.

from sewers. ennals, collapsed at - hånd, and Java, with its

buildings. falen cranes and `36,000,000 inhabitants, under

in closed Dutch rule, is only twenty-four Australia, unlike New Zealand, machinery, shut up hours' journey away.

is not making any direct payment buildings, trapped in dlifts, caught Siogapore is on the busiest ocean highway in to the Singapore Bast. It will be in balustrading, and the removing the world. The sea is almost per remembered, however, that Austra of bodies crushed or mutilated

when a ha was considering a contribution machinery, wedged in lifts, and sumatra blows off the island to this project when the decision fallen from windows.

which have fallen into areas down TROTSKY'S DENUNCIATION. and his clique is destroyed we will · of that name, or some isolated f Mir. Ramany MacDonald's storm whips its blue waters.

Labour Government to abandon steps, or are in other difficult pos Coming into Singapore from the the "scheme led to a change of tiona bave been rescued. In addi.. tion to theac multifarious duties. European side one sees a wonder, plans, The Commonwealth is

the brigade have been called upou fully beautiful

in the early acutely aware of her unprotected picture

to resist the police to capture morning, or when sailing out in position in the Pacific. With an the evening.

There are numbere effective naval base at her back, lunatics-some of them armed-on of jalands with a fringe of forest holding the key to the door beroofs, and in the capture of bur and jungle to the water's edge tween East and West, she would kiars, a task not easily faced in there is ever a ready response when out on the larger islands, the security. Left, as she considered, headquarters of some industry insufficiently defended, she decided the occasion demands. connected with their products to inercase her own naval strength, rubber, oil, tim If you look very and placed an order for several closely you may see the suggestion new cruisers, When the present of big guns mounted among the Baldwin Government revived the forest growth. "What we have project for the hase, Australia we'll hald." they seem to say, found herself committed to her

is

naval expan- a signal station, in the cwn programme

knoll. I have watched with her contribution "to increased amazement the strings of flags that naval eficiency.

TROTTERS West, Bharold many instances, but one to which

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Sat. & Sun., Jan. 14 & 15 "PLEASURELAND”.

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EASTBOURNE SKULL' MYSTERY SOLVED.

BONES HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD..

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CREATOR OF RED ARMY LIVING "UNDER-

GROUND."

BERLIN,

the op

the

cratisation" of the Communist party and the restoration of free- dom to the working class. That s all that matters to us. And until the personal dictatorship of Stalin

not suspend the struggle..

Chicherin's Failure. "Through the spectacles of position Trotsky also foreign position of Bolshevik Rus sia in very dark colours. He said: While Stalin's brainless policy **The dictatorship of the pro-has brought the country to econo kstariat (in Rusia) has degenerat-mi catastrophe, the foreign policy of Chicherin bas suffered a com. ed into the person régime of the plote framed. He has failed to win ruling clique, which" bas, deprived the confidence of the capitalists the working class of freedom of and obtain oredite from them. But the entire new economic policy was speech and amembly and, the pro- to be based on the assistance of fessional defence of its class in foreign expital. Capitalists have proved to be lee naive than our Senesca."

diplomatists. While continually This brief and trenchant descrip raising our hopes with promises of tion of the situation which has credits they have made use of the existed in Russia during the past armistice declared by us to few years is not an extract from strengthen their positions, with the a leading article of a monardist reall that in the end the Soviet

capitaliste country Cot

Government WUJ enomically. paper in a but comes from no less comment isolated. That meant the same old an authority than Leo Trotsky, dilemmaither Socialistic

EASTBOURNE Fears that another tragedy of are being run up and down ali The naval se does not face the the Crumbles had come to light, day long signalling the arrival of open sen. It is on the eastern side following the discovery of a man's ships Often the station looks as of the Causeway that is, the side skull and some bones, have been if. decorated for a festival.

nearest China. There is a dis- tance of six or seven miles betworm. The bones were examined by the Ships Of All Nations.

the naval dock, and base and the Rev. W. Budge, a noted The big, important liners come slipways for the seaplanes and the cheologist who stated that they and was expressed by him in the federation or a capitalistic Europe. up to the wharf to load and disavintion field. A wide river also

were hundreds of years old, dating course of conversation with a cor

colmuitation The promised

han from Saxon times.

proved impracticable, never beeth. They be out in the

clearness of vision that has come

The correspondent states that roads, dozens and dozens of them, to be ridged. All this land which

is now so actively heing transform implements

cesses of the O.G.P.U., has for These ships are loaded and un- with cocoanut palms, swamps in about two feet below the surface, Power and office, he continued:

The Russian workmen who minde

SOM! time past been livinse loaded by Chinese sampans and fested with mosquitoes and forests but as it was dark at the time they

underground." He appears at: junks. The cost of handling cargo of mangroves, growing in foul

were unable to state the exact post- and defended the Revolution on by means of junks and sampas back, slimy mad waist-deep an tion of the body.

the barricades a compelled for meetings of tris adherents, no one much cheaper than paying the edge of

the sea,

where The remnine are to be sent to a miserable pittance to work nine knows whither Although he bàs and ten hours a day. That cannot no home of his own, there are. wharfage and other dues, and crocodiles and snakes were the Bir Arthur Koth, the famous, ar- coloured labour is cheap. Always, only inhabitants besides the oturologist and

surgeon, for be borne any longer and is the hundreds of dwellings where he is reason for the chief demand of the still beyond reach of the D.G.P.U." (Oontimied on next Column.) ubiquitous mosquito.

or weapons.

The

charge, but most of the vessels vides the two sites, but this is me palice searched to try to find pendent of the Itul. With a can place all this know- Mon. & Tues., Jan. 16 & 17 of every shape and nationality, na was a short time ago covered bones. were found by workmen with exclusion from the sweets of Trotasy, fearing the summary pro- ledge and experience at the free disposal of its Clients, ensuring that the money they spend on - Advertising will bring them the best possible return

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