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LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Inauguration Of New Council Hall

The new Council Hall of the League of Nations was inaugurat-

ADMIRALTY

SHORTAGE

Men Now Asked To- Stay On

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Council's ninety-

And so.. also for the arst time, officers are not being requested to retire as soon as possible, but are being told they had better stay

£6,000,000 ORDER

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Contracts are shortly to be awarded for over 20,000 tons of For the Arst tnd since the armour piate, mainly for the two Great War,

ald down the Admira ty 13 battleships to be a ed on October 2nd with M. Rivas facing possible shortage of January, states the "Daily Tele Vicuna (Chile) pres.ding at opening of the fourth session.

The Council, he said, had for 'seventeen years been a wanderer. It had met in famous pulaces. In the splendour of hotel lounges, in temporary constructions which were, useful but uninap.ring. He hoped that in occupying its per- manent home. It would cease to be spiritually ΟΣ materially stranger in a strange lant

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Notice has just been given to al the Lieutenants and Lieutenant- that work ta in Commanders future likely to be found for them right up to the compulsory retiring aage of 45.

The room which would be the permanent home of the Council he said, was well fitted for the purpose and worthy of the ideal of the League. It was one thing to construct a serviceable Coun- cil chamber, but another to give It beauty. The Counell" chamber was given a special character by the gift of wall paintings of the Spanish Government,

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Only in exceptional circum- stances wil they be allowed to retire under the age of 40. Those betweeri 40 and 13 will be allowed to redre only if it happens to be convenient that is to say. If the Admiralty can't see any particular job for them.

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These will be the largest orders of their kind placed since the war, and the sum involved is believed to exceed. £6.000.000

Most of me armour, will manufactured in the Sheme'd district' It is understood that the battleships are to be the moir heavily plated vessels ever bull: for the Navy.

made

Owing to the complicated pro- cess of manufacture and chemical treatment, modern amove is one of the most expensive items in warship equipment. It is from steel ingots weighing as mu h as. 100 tons, and the forging is done by means of a 12,000-ton hydraulic presa.

Big ordnance contracts are also impending They include a com- ven-p'ete outfit for the new battlestiu:

a change with a

Throughout the past 14 years the Admiralty has been begging lieutenants and Heutenant-com- manders to get out of the Navy, out has been turning them whether they wanted to go or not

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M. Ossorio, y Gallardo; speaking on behalf of Spain, presented the paintings, executed by the famous Spanish artist, Jose Maria "Sert. The masterly composition on the ceiling. he explained, represented the immortal figures of the theolo--and most of them didn't. gtans and jurists of Spain of the sixteenth century.

These paintings, he said, provid- ed a striking proof of the creative genius of the Spanish people, which was as, powerful. to-day as it was in the past, a fact which provided "some solace to the Spa- nish people at this tragie hout of their country's, history."

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Referring to the fresco on ceiling, depicting the school Salamanca, the founders of mó- dern internatiorial law, and the murai frescoes showing how man- kind had overcome both natural and social scourges of slavery. drudgery and disease, the Presid- ent suggested that these would provide noble Inspirations to the Council. In a striking painting, the artist posed the question: Could not mankind conquer the cruellest, scourge of all, namely, war? found

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Nearly 2,000 officers, altogethe: have left the Navy under the Various "are" schemes.

The first and greatest was th

which ended the "Geddes axe." careers of 1,500 officers. There were further schemes in 1926, 1929 and 1931.

which, with spares, will require about 24 14in guns-and 3 rest large number of smaller guns and anti-aircraft weapons for these ships and for new cru'sers.

Woolwich, the Midlands and the North of England will share this Work

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FLEET

The King proposes to visit the Home Fleet at Portland on Novem- ber 12 and 13, it was announced Now there is a shortage. The

by the Admiralty, states a Home Lieutenant-Commanders source. The royal yacht Victoris younger in the Navy to-day were entering and Albert will proceed to Port- as midshipmen after the

land and remain there for hid was being dis- visit. The First Lord and the when everybody couraged from adopting a naval First Sea Lord will be in atten-

dance on the King.

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Bo there are not many officers growing up to take the place of the officers who will shortly be re- tiring.

And the expansion of the Navy has, of course, created a stil mor. urgent need for man-power,

This will be the King's second omdial visit to the navy s'nce his accession. In July he visited Porta- mouth and spent a day inspecting the various training establish- menta. One of the most interest- ing experiences of the day was a short high-speed trip to sea in motor torpedo boat No. 1. the Erst of the new fast motor

were? Was the answer to be the A KING IN SPAIN Dedo bo to be added to the

artist's beller; his work was the Product of faith. and faith was e fundamental force.

THE REFORM OF THE LEAGUE

The speeches in the Assembly of

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The death has occurred at Tien- tsin, China, of Mr. Thomas Bryson. who was the oldest surviving,mia- The sixteenth annual dinner of slonary of the London Missionary" the members of the Royal Welch | Society in China. He was §3 and Fusillers' Officers' Association took had served the society before and place at the Grosvenor Hotel, after his official retirement in Onester, with Lleutenant-General 1912 for 70 years, A native of Sir Charles Dobell (Colonel of the Edinburgh, he sailed for China in regiment) in the Chair. The 1888. making the voyage in a tea guests were Major-General Gelipper in 150 days." He Thorpe (GO.C. 53rd Division) and ❘ stationed first at Wüchang Colonel H. W. D. McCarthy-lacer, in 1884, at Tientsin, where O'Leary

(Commanding 158th he remained after his retirement. R.W. Brigadə, T.A).

He was there in 1900 when the city was besieged by the "Boxers, and his services at that time won him the medal of the Chinese. Field Force

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The band of the 4th Battalion played. The following officers were among those present: ..

Captain P. L Bowers (Adjutant,

His missionary service was mark- 8th Batt). Captain G. E Braithed by good health, devotion to wals (Adjutant. 4th Batt.), de duty, and great evangelistic zeal tenait-Colonel G. Bruner

| Đón · Juan Named Bybert gave the order to "splice the Randall (OC. 1st Batt), Lien. He married Miss Mary Carruthers;

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the League showed as wide varia- tions of opinion on the reform of Count De Mora, alde-de-camp to the League as did the previous ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, said notes sent in by a number of Gov-recently that the ex-Queen and ernments.

There were many proposals for strengthening the League's ma- chinery to prevent war by stating explicitly that the votes of the Parties should not be counted in any measures decided upon under Articles 10 and 11 of the, Coven- ant.

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her friends anticipate that her so Don Juan, Prince of Asturias, wl"!" ascent the throne of Spain "ir some months," states the "Evening Standard”

The ex-Queen arrived in Eng- land trom America,

The situation la mere hopeful than it has been for a long time.' the Count said.

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"We believe they are longing for Prince Juan to become king, and I think it is most likely that he will do so.

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The desire was also expressed by several States to fad Bome "The people of Spain are not means of using the faclifiles pro-fighting for Fascism or Carlisin vided by Article 19 of the Covenant or any other doctrine: they are for discussing and recommending fighting for the life of Spain, changes "In the international save it from Communism. "status quo." Views on the obliga- tion to sever all economic relations with and. if necessary,, to take military action against. a breaker of the peace varied all the way from the proposal to strike, out this, obligation to suggestions for strengthening and clarifying it by interpreting or amending the Co- venant or by separate treaties based on Articles 10 and 16 of the Covenant, Behind this issue again was the question of whether the obligations of the Covenant should be reduced in the hope of attract {ing to the League States that had End. The house will be in Town:

left it, or whether-as M. Litvinov | and not outside."

put it it was better to have a non-universal League with prin- ciples rather than a universal Lea- gue without principies and safe for aggresSORS.

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"Should this happy event take place other members of the royal family will undoubtedly return to to our country.

"I do not know whether ex King Alfonso would do so too.

"For the moment the Queen e looking for a house in London.

"For the past week her friends have been making inquiries. They have looked mainly in the West

since 1931, owing to the work on arma reduction which had been undertaken by the Conference dur- ing the intervening years.

The Assembly decided to set up Committee of twenty-eight

After several meetings devoted members, including all the afteen

to a general discussion of the pre- members of "the Council, to dis

sent position of armaments in the cuss and make proposals about all work, and particularly the rela the various plans and suggestions tion of this question to the exist submitted by Governments. The mg political situation, the Assem- debate as to the nature and tuncply decided, on the recommenda Hons of the Committee was also tion of ite Third Committee, to influenced by the conflict of views pursue and intensify the efforts between those who desired to made to reduce armaments and to await the result of the negotia convoke the Bureau of the.Con- tions between the Locarno Powerference at the most opportune that. It is hoped, will be held this

date, autumn, and those who, in M. Lit- vinov's phrase, objected to the waiting-room policy." It was de elded that the Committee of twenty-eight should meet on De- cember 7.

It requested the Council,to.com- municate to the Governments of the countries represented on the Carmament Conference the Min- utes of its discussions. The Presid- ent of the Council was authorised, after consulting his colleagues, to The Third Committee of the summon the Bureau of the Con- Assembly (Daarnament). was ference as soon as he was able to constituted by the seventeenth As- do so, and in any case before the Bembly, and met' for the first time. End of 1936.-

DISARMAMENT BUREAU,

navy,

Before he left the King, from the royal yacht Victoria and Al-

mainbrace," which meant that every officer and man in the port could have an extra tot of rum, or a teetotal drink if he preferred.

"Adolphe Menjou is being up- proached by both Twentieth Century-Fox and Universal to play in "One in a Million" (with Sonia Henley or **Three Smart Girls.”

who died in 1913 at Tientsin, Six

homes in China.

tenant-Colonel H. Maldwyn Davies, TD. (O.C. 5th Batt.), Brevet of his children have made their Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Davies, i Major A. C. G. Evans (0.0. Depot),

Colonel R. G." Fenwick-Palmer

Pritchard (Adjutant, 5th (0.0, 4th Batt.), Lieutenant-H V. Colonel R E Hindson (late OC. Batt, Lieutenant T. A. G. Prit- 2nd Batt.), Captain P. F. Knightley chard, Lieutenant RC Rose-

Price. (Hon. Sec.), ".

Lieutenant and Quartermaster n. Leonard, Captain J. H. Liscombe Adjutant.. 7th Batt), Captain C

During the evening a telegram was sent to the King, to which a .. gracious reply was received.

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