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BRITISH NAVY ESTIMATES

NEW CRUISERS AND- AIRCRAFT CARRIER

London, Murch, 6. Great Britain's 1984 Naval Building Programme WAB an. nounced to-day.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH

1934.

GAMBLING CHARGE.

IMPORTANT POINT ARGUED

BY COUNSEL

Appearing yesterday before Mr. Balfour In the Central Police Court; Mr. R. C.-H. Lim, instructed by Mr. Losoby of Ruds and Co., appoured on behalf of two Chinese, Li Blu and Tang Lam, who' were charged with keeping a common.

The expenditure required will be £50, 650,000 and will allow foraming house.

Bir. J. A. Fraser, who appeared ans Increase of over 2,000 in the for the Crown, opened his argumen: personnel of the Fleet, as well as by polating out the difference of building

certain terms between Section 8 o!! Three 9,000-ton cruisers, one the Gaming Act, and Section 11 of 5,000-ton cruiser, one aircraft car-the local Ordinance.. He argued rler, nine destroyers and three that Section 11 of the Gambling submarinca are to be constructed. Ordinance was applicable, tothe The expenditure compares with case; that it was not necessary to

a total of £63,670,000 for the cur-prove "suspicion of the place rent year, which is on approximate being kept as n common gaming increase of £3,000,000.

house, the phrase being only des- criptive,

Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, in an ac- Mr. Lim contended that in case of companying memorandum, ex- any doubt the proper proceduro plains that although the building would be for the Magistrate to dis- programme will not be completed chargo the defendant, and quoted until after the end of 1938, never-"Martin v. Benjamin to support theleas the London Treaty allows his submisalon. He niso quoted Britain to lay down only cruisers, two other authorities to show that destroyers and submarines to re-there must be evidence of "pre- luce tonnage becoming obsolete vlous user, that is, the place in up to 1938 and 1939.

question must have been used on These limits have been kept in more than one occasion for the pur- mind in fixing the new propose of playing an unlawful game. added."These decisiona gramme," the memorandum states. He

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It is revealed that the Miting of were given in spite of the existence catapults for the launching of of Section 8 of the Home Act, which neroplanes from capital ships and is in substance the same as Section cruisers "la proceeding steadily."11. In these two cases elted, there Twenty-one capital ships and crui- was no evidence of previous user, and no evidence of the place being sers are alrendy fited.

suspected of being a common gaming house, though there evidence of Implements of gambling being found there. Under the cir cumstances, in both cases, the de- tendents were discharged. Before Section 11 can apply, the Crown must prove two things, first, aus- picion that the place is being kept or used as a common gambling house-In other words a place, used The estimates reveal the total on more than one occasion for the estimate for work at Singapore, is purpose of playing an unlawful Increased £943,000, to £8,098,000, game, and secondly an entry of the of which half is still to be ex-place in question. by warrant. pended:

Smaller Vessels. The estimates for the building programme also include items for Construction of two general ser- vice aloops, two loop mine- sweeporn, two coastal sloops, one net-layer, one surveying ship and various amali craft, compared to a programme for five sloops and various small craft in 1933..

It is not revealed whether the increase is attributable to the de- Cisions of the recent Singapore naval conference-United Preis.

Only when these two requirements are fulfilled, can Section 11 apply; that is, when these two facts are put in ovidence, then the mere find- ing of the implements of gambling can be used to confirm the suspicion to make the place a common gaming house.

Increase Explained.

London, March 6, The Navy. Estimates of £56,550,- OGD rapresent an increase of £2,980,000 compared with last year. This increase, the Admiral-other, he could lay information to ty explains, is accounted for by the fact that $1,427,000 required for normal progress and set con- struction and £1,000,000. 15 due to retardation In-and since the year 1931.

"That suspicion, must be founded on reasonable grounds, otherwise if a man has a grudge, against an- the police of his suspicion, and the police on proving the finding of implements of gambling, got, the man convicted. That surely is not the purpose of the Section.

"Sua piclon" must be given in evidence Of the four new cruisers to be and the defendants must have the built. three are of the Minotaur opportunity of showing that the type and one of the Arethusa alleged suspicion is no suspicion as classification. One destroyer lea-required by the Ordinance." der and eight destroyers, an air- In this case; submitted Mr. Lim, craft carrier, and three submarines there was no evidence of suspicion account for much of the remaliger and therefore Section 11 could not of the expenditure.

Lupply.. The personnel of 92,338 Includes

an increase of 2,038.

Judgment was reserved by the Magistrate.

000.

Air Arm Expenditure. - There is an increase of£249,000 noted in the Fleet Air Arm expen-000, has been extended to £8.699,- diture and an increase of £1,103,- 000 for maintenance of the Fleet, which is chiefly due to the large repairs and modernisation neces sary of certain of the capital ships with a view to prolongation of their lives within the terms of the London Naval Treaty.

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In connection with the construc- tion at Singapore, it was decided that in order to secure the most economical results It portant that there should be no Drunk in the continuity of work necessary to enable the base to function, and provision was made accordingly in these estimates, and will be made in those coming sub-

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eyres Monsell, points out that under the London Treaty Britain is restricted to laying down resequently. placement tonnage for cruisers and submarines becoming over-age be- fore 1939,

Successful experiments have been carried out relating to boilers and equipment, with the object of In a memorandum the First Lord reducing weight and saving space. The employment of fuel oil of the Admiralty declares that the battleship, H.M.S. Barham, is be-derived from coal, the propulsion ing modernised, and H.M.S. Ramil- of small craft by oil-driven electri- lies is undergoing large repairs, cal generators and the development 1.M.S. Mulaya, another of the capl- of high-speed compresion ignition tal ships, is also being modernised, engines, are other spheres of in- The development of catapults to vestigation and progressive re- launch aircraft from aboard ship search. is proceeding steadily and, a new type of turrots has already been Sir Eyres Monsell's memoran- fitted to 21 battleships and eruldum recalls that the 1933 building programme Included four cruisers, but had to be modified subsequent- The previous estimate for thely to provide two cruisers of a new Singapore Naval Base of £7,750,- and larger type. Treaty limita-

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tions necessitated the omission of the fourth cruiser, but the original position was now restored.

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