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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY

1935.

BRITAIN'S GREAT DEFENCE LINE"

ENORMOUS BURDEN OF

RESPONSIBILITY

By CAPTAIN NORMAN MACMILLAN, M.C., A.F.C.

B

RITAIN has a great respon

sibility.

Within our Empire we enfold one third of the population of the world. No Dominion or Colony is strong enough to defend Itself, pat never in the history of our raco have the over-sens parts of our Empire boon more imperillad by the threat of isolation from the Motherland.

miles or more outside nil the lands

wo occupy, Enemy air bares can

HUGE BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE

HITS FAST PACE DURING TESTS

London.

Britain's most powerful locomo- tive, the "Cock.o' the North,” which: belongs to the London and North Eastern Railway Company, is now.

installed in the station at Vitry. motivo made the

French testing The giant loco- journey from

be destroyed and air fleets broken Catals drawing a 20-ton baggage up.

wagon, three 40-ton tank trucks, With air squadrons posted in and two 12-ton ones. The three sumclent numbers at strategic points throughout our Empire the tanks were filled with all of the Miniator of Defence could guarantee kind which the locomotive has been that no enemy could invade or designed to burn. Already the on- oven attack by alr-one single part gine has proved its power on trips of our territory throughout tha which now total nearly 20,000 world.

milos, but the British engineera wish to have still further technical

ARMED POLICE

the

Our lines of communication, formerly guaranteed by the British Navy, are threatened by the air

Tho naval ships then required tests, and no it has been brought flents of intervening countries. would be smaller and faster and to Vitry, which is the best equipped Bombing aircraft cannot be held heavily armed with bombing air-rallway testing station in. In check by minas, guna, fortica-craft to secure the safety of our world. tions or any combination of the Mercantile Marine from ralding naval and land defences of the past.

The Mediterranean is a bottle neck that can bo

closed. Tho portion of our Float that lies there can be immobilised. Our Home Flent a not Anfe in harbour or

out.of it.

In spite of our naval superiority In the last war we lost nearly 8,000,000 tons of shipping, most. of it by submarine action. Unless we are prepared we stand to lose by air action in the could not

we

far more future. To-day guarantee to provide safe passage for ships carrying food and other necessities to this country in time

of war

With the 5-6-4 naval ratio of to-day, Britain has no supremacy on the sea at any point in the

nt world. When the Japanese tacked Shanghai In 1931 the Japanese Grand Fleet antied into the Whangpoo and cut off the British and American ships that lay higher up the river.

So long ns. We rely on the de fensive possibilities of our Navy our interests in the Far East can be jeopardised swiftly before have time to strike back.

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The Empire of Rome collapsed be- cause it could not maintain contact with its outposts. For the first time in 300 years Great Britain makes the same mistake.

Of approximately £120,000,000 per Annum spent on the three Services we give the Navy nearly one half, the Army one third and the Air Force one sixth. Modern fighting weapons no longer justify. there proportions. The Air must he our firat Bne to-day. We must spend not less than £50,000,000 of our defence outlay upon it..

This means.retrenchment In the Navy and to a lesser degree in the Army. But there is no alternative if we would survive. Tradition niust be swept aside.

Great Britain led the way with the formation of an Air Ministry. Sho must lend again by the creation of one single defence force.

ONLY ONE WAY

Only by the creation of a Ministry of Imperial Defence can we nebleve security. Co-ordination of all three departments under one hend is the one way to obtain mlegunte defence at home and throughout the Empire. In no other way will admirals and generala consent to the re-allpration of our defonco money to most modern conditions.

Under a Maister of Defence air strategy would necessarily place Navy and Army in their true rein- tion as auxiliaries to the Air Force.

No naval ship, no expeditionary force, dare take the offensive against us if we are supreme in the air. Enemy ships and troops can be attacked and destroyed 600

Here the "Cock of the North"

surface and air enemies. Merchant will be tried out at full speed on ships would mount catapults- which must be ready in reserve-a moving track, so arranged that to launch bombers from their decks, however fast it may run on the

time of

war. For bombs are wheels representing rails, it will infinitely more efficient than guns. not change position. It has already- The Army would become an arm-run at 100 miles per hour, but the ed police force, charged with the technicians are confident that the duty of maintaining civil order speed will be considerably exceeded throughout the Empire. The value during the testa. of infantry can be increased (even) with reduction In numbers) by equipping each machine-gun rifle. If increased numbers were ever needed, Infantry can be trained more quickly than any other arm. The size of our! standing Army in India could be reduced safely by quadrupling our air aquadrons there.

soldier with

1

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BOY DIES OF POISONING

ATE ARSENIC TAINTED FOOD

London.

Mobility of artillery, Infantry, tanks and engineers would become of great importance. That means

The view that arsenle hnd lenked light armament, Big guns can be into his clothes and into his tuck replaced by heavy bombs. The liary artillery of the future must box from a bottle containing this poison, which he had carried about have wings,

with him, was expressed at the resumed inquest at Lancing મૅ Bernard Taylor, the 14-year old

It is unreasonable to demand of any nation in time of peace that

it shall spend more upon its defence Lancing College boy, who died in than it is capable of paying on an the school sanatorium on Noven economie basis. But the citizen ber 8.

has the right to demand that the

Warren E. Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, fall to his death while taking part in an exhibition flight, at Miami, Fla. He toppled from his glider when it filled in the backwash of the towing planá. Top photo shows how glidera were being towed just before the accident, Eaton being in that at left. Below, the wrecked craft is taken ashore,

BRITISH DISDAIN effectively.

SEASICKNESS

GENIUS FOR TRAVEL EXPLAINED

Yet Dr. Bohec claims that sea- sickness can now be controlled by the doctor who distinguishes one type of sea-sickness from another and suits his therapeutic activities to the varieties of his diagnosis. He states that there are five forms of sea-sicknesses: hypervagotonic,. London. pathicotonic, amphoneurotonic, hy- The senior medical officer of the persympathicotonic, and psychic or laer Ile-de-France, Dr. J. Bohes, mental. le gives belladonna to has discovered the secret of the quiet the vagus or orgotamine to genius of the English for travelling calm the sympathetic system. Ho and colonising, writes the Paris also employs hyoscamine. If he is money he contributes shall provide Medical eviilence was given that

"Lancet." called in too late to prevent sca. him with the most effective defence death was due to assosiert poison correspondent of the

They have refused to recognise sickness, he may reduce the period ing, and a verdict of dentb by sen-alckncas. That IB all. The of suffering by injecting the drug Britain spends enough to provide misadventure was returned, the Englishman's attitude is one of hypodermically. "If drug treat- adequate defence. She fails to get coroner adding that the boy most disdain and Indifference: the ment is ineffective," he states. It because the Navy and the Army have eaten something which had Frenchman's is one of scepticism, "either the wrong drug has been

contact, with arsenic. and traditionally before the Air come into Force. To get value for our money. There was no suggestion of blame which is extended to the ability of chosen, or its doangu is inadequate.

medicine to combat sen-sickndares | Voila toul." and safety for our people we must attaching to anyone. It was stated make the Air Force our first line that the boy had been specialising of defence. We shall not be safe in science, and a bottle cracked until our Air Force flies as our about the neck in such a way that Navy sailed before the war-lo a the contents could easily escape Two Power Standard.

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HONG KONG. SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Society asks for

$25,000

In 1935 to continue its work for.

sick and destitute children,

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR; C.A..

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Mr. KWOK CHAN,

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