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"BANK HOLIDAY

In Accordance with Govern ment Ordinance, the EX. CHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on WEDNES. DAY, the 11th November, 1936. (Armistice Day).

A S. WATSON

LIMITED.

NOTICE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo thank all who sent wreaths and messages of condolence in their bereave- ment and attended the funeral yesterday,

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19 Queen's Road Central Tel. 30361.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936.

SHANGHAI RACE MEETING

Second Day Results

Shanghai, Nov. 8.

The following are the results of the 2nd Day of the Autumn Mëet- ing of the Shanghai Race Club:- The Hangchow Plate-9 Furlongs 1. Volcanic Morn (F Marshall). 2. Wild Horseman (C. Encarnacao),

42 London Office: 53. Fleet Street 3. Gypsylight (H. J. Hearne).

CO..

On WEDNESDAY, the 11th November, 1936, The Company's Offices and all Departments will' be CLOSED.

The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department,

for dispensing

will be open prescriptions from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

The Kowloon Dispensary will he open for business from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Hong Kong, 10th Nov., 1935.

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THE BRITISH LEGION.

The Hong Kong Branch of the British Legion will be laying a wreath at the Cenotaph on Ar mistice Day. Will those desiring to attend, including old members of the E.A.S.M.A., kindly send their names immediately to the undersigned. A special area has been reserved for those desiring

to attend.

THOMSON & CO.,

Secretaries, THE BRITISH LEGION,

H.K. & China Branch.

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THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Eleventh Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 21st November, 1936 (weather permitting) may be ab. tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Building: the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Eatries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 12th Nov. ember, 1936.

By Order,

S. A. SLEAP,

Actg. Secretary,

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DUKE OF KENT

"Capped'' At St. Andrews

St. cently

E.C, 4

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 10, 1936.

"MODERN" YOUTH

Youth has ever been mo dern, and ever has that chur acteristic been the subject for jaundiced criticistas right down the ages, notably by those who reluctantly have to confess to the fact that they have ceased to be young. Their jealousy is pathe-

tic.

But "modern", moving, mis- chievous youth will always have" its champions even amongst those who have reached the dignity of well advanced age.

Time: 2 minutes 21 seconds.

The Scurry Plate-7 Furlongs 1. White Ramp (A. A, White). 2. Saucylight (R. B. Moller).

3. Reno Morn (F: Marshall).

Time: 1 min. 50-4/5 secs.

The Northern Stakes-4 Mile

1. New Deal Mom (F. Marshall).

2: Don Patricio (L. H. Wade).

BRITAIN REGAIN'S WORLD HEIGHT

RECORD

The Bristol Type 138 Monoplane (Pegasm P.E. VI. S. doubly, supercharged engine) in which Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain has set a new world height record of 48,967 feet (15.230 metres). The aeroplane is shown taking off for a trial flight.

THE BUILDING OF A BATTLESHIP

How £7,000,000 Of The

Public's Money Is Spent

BY LIEUT.-COMMANDER KENNETH EDWARDS RN, (RET.)

("Morning Post" Naval Correspondent)

The modern battleship costs €7,000,000-not a sum to be Ughtly spent, even by a Government.

In normal times the money available for the Navy is strict- ly limited. so that the decision battleship involves

to build

3. Pageant Morn (R. D. Parkin). MILITARY PLANS MANCHU-MONGOL economies in other directions such

Time: 1 min. 29-3/5 secs.

The Mongollan Handicap

"A" Class-1 Mile

1. Pharos (F. Noodt).

2. Evesham G. Neugebauer),

3 Bright Moth (J. C. Bauld). Time: 2 mins. 7 secs.

The Mongolian Handicap "B" Class-1 Mile

1. Gnomenfels (V. V. Needa).

2. Brodick Bay (L. H. Wade). 3. Storm (G. Neugebauer).

Time: 2 mins.. 8-3/5 secs. The Shanghai St. Leger (Classic)-13 Miles

1. Naming Morn (J. Pote-Hunt). 2. Navy Ribbon (L H. Wade). 3. Smokylight (H. J. Hearne).

Time: 3 mins. 43-2/5 Miles The Slecawel Stakes-13 Miles 1. Vivid Morn (F. Marshall).

2. Roehampton (A. F. Clark). 3. Drumalla (J. Pote-Hunt)

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Time: 2 mins. 41-4/5 secs. The Loong-Wha Stakes-11 Miles We have just read with great. Nevada Mom (F. Marshall). interest" what two famous mer

2. Equity (A. N. Dallas). have to say about youth.

Sir Josial Starup, for instance, declares that to his mind modern boys and girls are "magnificent and great fun." Lord Milne, recording the testimony of a young man of 28 that is con- temporaries suffered from des- pair, maintained that though" youth night seem silly, funda

there mentally

was nothing wrong at all. They were, of of different speaking generations. Five years' differ- ence in youth always was a great gulf, and never greater than

course,

HOME.

We have all noticed how world-weary are the old young people, how keen the more youth

ful young.

The first class have succeeded

in persuading some people that are sad, bad, decadent they creatures, such as some of their authors delight to favourite

honour.

But each period has fashious of this sort.

were

Does anyone now believe that the "naughty nineties" really of a furid hue? Sir Josiah Stamp hit off our younger youth exactly when be described, them as passionately scientific and mechanical. Their diversions are gadgets, and, what is more be wildering still, the laws whereby the gadgets work.

Some of us may not find theit highly mechanised conversation

3. Pathfinder (P B. Plordten).

Time: 3 mins. 15-2/5 secs. The Pagoda Handicap-1 Mile 1. Compensation (V. V. Needa). 2. Hwangchow (P. B. Plordten). 3. Wet Morn (L. H. Wade).. Time: % mins: 3-3/5 secs. -Reuter.

LABOUR UNREST IN SHANGHAI

Cotton Mill Workers On Strike

Shanghai, Nov. 9, The city is faced with serious of labour unrest by the strike operatives in various Chinese cot-

ton mille having extended to three important Japanese concerns in the Yangtzepoo district,

The strikers, who are estimated to number about 8,000, and who

include many women demand a wage increase ranging in the case of men up to 15 per cent.

Several nstances of intimidation of workers by strike plekets are reported:

The police are taking precau- tions against disturbances, which are expected if the strike assumes an anti-Japanese complexion.

Japanese marines patrolled the disaffected area early this morni- ing. but were later withdrawn at the request of the mill owners, for fear of provoking trouble.-- Reuter.

"GO SLOW" MOVEMENTS

Shanghai, Nov.. 9. Actually only about 3,000 opera- tives quit work. Others are in- dulging in "go slow movements which have virtually brought mat- ters to a standstill in the mills

affected.- Reuter.

The Duke of Kent received from such great fun as it is to Sir

Andrews University re-

Josiah Stamp, but there is no the honorary degree

He had doubt about the magnificence of Laws Doctor breakfast at Universliy House. their energy and enterprise. REPAIRS

of

the residence of Sir James and Take them by the most practical

Lady Irvine, where he inspected

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1,000,000

IN JAPAN

United Opposition Front

Tokyo, Nov. 9. Rapidly maturing military plans to introduce 11 dictatorship. Is welding

the political parties of Japan into a united opposition front, according to reports.

The Army alms at controlling capital and industry and estab-. lishing a sort of military com- munism.

Mr. Machida. President of the Minseito, the Jargest political party in Japan, and Mr. Ando! the Chief Secretary of the Sélyn- kal. the extreme Right party, both have delivered speeches denouncing Fascism and promis- : ing to uphold Parliamentarianism at all costs.

、ARMY MOVES

Suiyuan Border Skirmishes.

Chahar-

Nanking. Nov. 9. While several slight skirmishes have occurred on the Sulyuan border, the offensive by the Manchukuo' and Mongol armies is expected to be delayed as the concentration of men and supplies has not yet been cam- pleted, according to Information received in Chinese circles here.

The attack will come from the north and east, it is anticipated. with Fallingmiao, Ly northern Sulyan, and Shangtu. In south- west

of operations. Reuter.

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Chahar as

the bases

as the curtolling of cruiser or des- troyer building. To-day the situa- tion is rather different.

Rearmament is the order of the day, and the Government has said that no considerations are to weigh against the rapid attainment of security. But there is still no room for waste. The maximum degree of security must be got out of every penny spent, and skilled men can- not be spared to build a ship which is not to contribute some vital factor to the scheme of defence,

There are people who seem to think that the question of build- ing a battleship is decided simply by a choleric and heavily gold laced adoniral who thumps the table in the Admiralty and de- clares: "There shall be battle- ships." This is a delightful fiction. The decision to buld eved one battleship is taken by the whole Board of Admiralty only after deep and earnest consideration of bar- row-loads of evidence

CHINESE ALERT

EXPECTATION OF PEACE Pelping. Nov. 9.

Much of this evidence not, The military leaders dissavow According to reliable sources.

strictly, Admiralty evidence at all, any intention of seeking a dicta-

Sulyuan provincial troops on the

but concerns carefully, weighed torship" like those in Germany border are Armly entrenched and

Cabinet decisions regarding the and Italy, but declare they desire well equipped, and apparently

state of foreign relations and, the the members of both Houses to

capable of resisting the 'Man- be precluded from holding Cabinet chukuo-Mongol invaders, provid-Justinable expectation of peace, portfolios in order to avoid un- ed the attack by the latter is not reasonable intervention in the stiffened by Japanese troops. administration of affairs.

Hitherto,

only fighting. apart from an exchange of ahots between isolated outposts, was an apparently, bloodless skirmish on Saturday when, a few hundred Mongol irregulars approached Sulyuan's eastern frontier but were easily repulsed.

Powerful capitalist syndicates are apprehensive of the Army's demands, which are at present under the consideration of B Cabinet sub-committee.-- Heuter.

RECORD FOURTH

WICKET STAND

M.C.C. Bowling

Thrashed

LEE-GREGORY

CENTURIES

batsman,

the

Meanwhile, the Manchukuo and

Palinglao, eight months ago have Mongolian forces which occupied been reinforced, which suggests their intention of, attacking the Bulyuan border defences which le facing the frontier 60 milles to the south- Reuter

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Then there are reports from naval attaches and from the Comman- ders-in-Chief of foreign stations concerning the plans of other naval Powers. To-day there is yet another question to be considered. That is whether the great advances made in air power have rendered the battleship obsolete as a weapon of war. This is not a question which is decided by argument. The

formed the opinion that the idear

shall have battleship

certain qualities of speed, armament, fact- ity in manoeuvring, armour pro- tection, and steaming radius.

TECHNICIANS

Than

the techniciana szép in, The gunnery experts will advocate certain ideals of guns and gun mountings. They will say that a certain thickness or armour is re- quired to withstand a certain type of shell. The air bombing experts will lay down requirements tor. deck armour, the torpedo experts will specify underwater protection and sub-division of the hull. The engineers will decide upon the en- gines, boilers, and stowage for fuel and water required.

And the answer to all these ideal requirements is invariably that they run counter to one another in some way or another, notwith- standing the fact that, individual- ly, they are the product of ex- pertence and experiment. And then, when they can be made to fit into one another, a further ad- justment of each one of them is probably necessary before the com- promise will fit into the limits laid down by treaty.

And only when all this has been done and the design been settled can tenders be called for from con- tractors, not only for the build- ing of the hull and the construc-

and tion of the boilers gines and gun mountings, but for all manner of sub-contracts rang- ing from lamp-shades to delicate These tre control Instrumenta tenders have to be compared. And bere again experience has to be taken into account. The lowest tender may not prove to be either the cheapest or the most effefent in the long run.

THE CONTRACT Finally the contract is placed. evidence of large numbers of high- ly technical experiments has to be

The keel is jaid with due ceremony. examined and impartially weigh-

and the great ship begins to take ed. These experiments naturally

shape. Thousands of men are have to be kept secret. It is ob-employed. Not all of these even viously bad policy to broadcast Ins. the benefit of other nations the results of experiments which one believes will enable one to build STEPS TAKEN

a better ship than anybody else Peiping, Nov. 9."

If the sum total of all these Suiyuan troops in the north are

questions points without doubt to reported to be less well prepared the need for the building of bat- than those in the east, but mea-

tleships, the Admiralty will re- sures are being taken to repair comment that battleships shall be the deficiencies in order to frus-built-provided, of course, trate a flanking movement.

HITLER MEETS

OLD COMRADES

Victoria, Nov. 9. A crowd of 6,000 attending in | Reuter. sunny weather with a cool breeze thrown in watched exhilarating to-day when Lee, K cricket

left-hand dimunitive and Gregory paid scant respect to the M.C.C. bowling and establish- ed a record fourth wicket part- nership during which, they added 262 runs. The previous Australian best fourth wicket partnership against the MC.C. including the Tests was between Macdonald and Bannerman in Sydney in 1881-82 when they added 199 runs,

Victoria took the wicket which was in good condition on the third day in this tour-day fixture after the M.C.C. had scored 344 in the first two days during which rain interfered with the play. The home team met disaster at the

a guard of honour of the St. An- test, they are very handy people SQ. YDS. OF STREETS start, the Arst wicket falling for

drews University O.T.C, states a home paper.

The Duke made a short tour of the colleges before the graduation ceremony.

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The Duke was presented by Pro- fessor A Blyth Webster, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, who said he was the fourth member of the Rb-

yal Family to bonour the univer-

alty by accepting its degree. The. Duke, in reply, said he considered

to have about, in an emergency,

YOUNGER

VICE CHANCELLORS

Oxford Wants Them

E Younger Vice-Chancellors are It a great honour and privilege to

at Oxford have now become one of them in likely to be the rule that ancicht university and city University in the future, states the which had contributed so many "Daily Mail."

statesmen, scholars, soldier, sai In Congregation recently a de- lors, and poets not only to Bent-cision was made by 68 votes to 32 land but to the world. The Duke to recommend to the University was entertained by the university Council a break with the tradition- al rotation system in the appoint-

to lunch in the United College Hall, and left afterwards to try to an engagement in the South.

M. Camille Chautemps is to be the guest of honour at the annual dinner of the United Associations or Great Britain and France, which will take place on the 18th of Nov.

menu.

The effect will be to bring suit- able men to the Vice-Chancellor's chair as much as ten years earlier

in lire and will make for a longer term of office.

Of the six Vice-Chancellors since the war, four have been over sixty-five, on assuming office:

Six Months' London Programme

one run, the second for two runs and the third for 27.

The great partnership began at this stage and the score was car- ried to 289 before Lee, was beaten.. Gregory con- his score being 160 tinued to defy the bowling dur-

-Talks On New Germany

Munich, Nov. 8. Apart from a few absolutely be- persons, mad

everybody lieved the Nazi movement would remain in power for ever, declared German Herr Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor, speaking in the fam- ous Beer Cellar bere, where the Nazi movement was nourished in ita infancy, on the anniversary of the ill-fated Munich putsch.

Herr Hitler was uproariously greeted by his old comrades.

The Chancellor said the German army would fight and die for the Third Reich if the

The programme of street works in the London Traffic Area, for the six months from October 1, to March 31 next year, includes ing the remainder of the after-hour should ever come. resurfacing 1,093,000 square yards noon and at the close of lay he of carriageway, embracing portions was unbeaten with 109 to his of Barnet by-pass, Watford by- credit, the close of play score be pass, North Circular-road, Caming 294 for 5. bridge-road (which is to be pro- vided with a new, non-skid surface strokes.

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new

The time would come, he said positively, when the world, would see in Germany a bulwark of red civilisation against the Lee had a small range 01Jewish-Bolshevik food.

chiefly square-cutting. Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of for a mile and a half), Uxbridge- He hit nine boundaries in his in the Interior, to-day ordered all road, Ealing, Rochester-way, Wool-nings of 160 and remained for 226 Germany to participate in the wich, and Prince of Wales-road minutes at the wickets Gregory celebration of the bloody Munich Batters! 1, states the "London hooked the fast ones and his driv-putach and announced that no

of ing to the on-boundary was re-entertainments

บ "frivolous Morning Post."

miniscent of Don Bradman's nature would he permitted pretty strokes. In rcoring 190 not Reuters out he was at the wickets for 204 minutes, hitting nine boundaries and reaching his century in 172 minutes, or sixteen minutes longer which, however, is not considered than Lee took to reach his three serious. At present Voce has

taiced two wickets for 51, figures

Leyland occupied the old post with one more day lett for play tion of third man and picked up the scores are MCC 344, Victoria efficiently. Voce strained a leg 294 for 5

Rester. muscle while bowling, a mishap

Other works to be begun are the construction of subways in Vaux hall Bridge-road and Wilton-road. by Victoria Station, and the re- construction of Wandsworth Bridge and its approaches

Work on Waterloo Bridge and Chelsen Bridge will be continued

together with the reconstruction of a number of Underground stations, including Post Office, Aldgate, "King's Cross, and Finchley-road::

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such a step is not forbidden by ans disarmament treaty, as it has been for the last six years. Then the Cabinet considers the recommen- dation of the Admiralty in the light of many questiáns of foreles policy. If the answer remains that the building of a battleship is ad- visable for security. the building of such a ship will be authorised under the Navy Estimates or a Supplementary Estimate presented to Parliament.

manner of

know that their work is going to forge an instrument of Empire security. It has been said thật 90 per cent, of the cost of any war- ship goes out in wages. This does not mean to the shipbuilders. alone. Men delve for iron ore. Men smelt the iron, convert it into steel. Men work the giant ingots, rolling them into plates or fashioning girders.

It is only after all this is done" that the shipbuilding employees get to work. And, concurrently. with the building of the hull, all manner of other trades are called to assist in the great work. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that three-quarters of the trades of the country are indirectly employed upon material or components for the ship.

ers,

Glass-workers, instrument mak→ lock-smiths, paint-makers, even upholsterers, play their part, It may not be a large part. It pro-· bably is not a conscious part." But...

DIFFERENT FACTORS But there is also the question of what the new battleship is to be like when completed. This decit is nevertheless an importazi. sion can ouly be arrived at by the part. consideration of all

And it is because the vessel is different factors. This considera- the outcome of constant experi tion là always before the Admiral- mentation and careful compromise, and because she is cunt by the ty; not because the Admiralty is always wanting to build battle-carefully blended efforts of British ships, but because, were it not so, craftsmen in all sorts of different much time might elapse after the trades, that she grows into a ves- authorisation of a ship before the

sel worth every penny of her price design could be a great chance of and capable of contributing to the mistakes being made. It is only maximum possible degree to the by keeping designs constantly up security of the Empire and the to date on paper that a truly eff people who made her. cient ship can be built when re- quired.

BARBIE-BERGNER PLAY IN NOVEMBER

First among the factors deter mining the design of a battleship are the limitations, imposed by treaty. At present these are: 35,-

The date is at last announced for 000 tons and 14-inch guns. Within these limits dozens of different Mr. C. B. Cochran's presentation "requirements" have to be juggled of Bir James Barrie's postponed about before it is certain that the Bergner play, "The Boy David.") design will be a compromise giving Elisabeth Bergner and the com- the maximum possible eficiency in pany, which will include Sir John Martin-Harvey as the Prophet every department:

Samuel, began rehearsing on October 18 under the direction of Komisarjevsky. -

The Arst performance will be at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, on November 21, and performances will be given at that theatre until December 5.TA

The requirements are drawn trom many different sources, the first place there are the plans of foreign navies. It is obviously useless to build a ship which will be inferior to those with whom it may have to fight Then there are the Andings deduced from the results of war games and fleet The play will be presented in. exercises carried out From these London, at His Majesty's Theatre, the Commanders-in-chief have on December 14: