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BRITAIN'S GREAT DEFENCE LINE

ENORMOUS BURDEN OF

RESPONSIBILITY ·

up.

ARMED POLICE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HUGE BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE

HITS FAST PACE

DURING TESTS-

London.

Britain's most powerful locomo- Live, the "Cock o' the North," which: belongs to the London and North Enstorn Railway Company, Is.now French testing

Gattorna in way

from

By CAPTAIN NORMAN MACMILLAN, M.C., A.F.C. DRITAIN has a great respon- miles or more outside all the lands station at Vitry. The giant loco-

sibility.

we occupy. Enemy air bases can motive made the journey Within our Empire we enfold be destroyed and air flects broken Calais drawing n: 20-ton baggage one third of the population of the

wagon, threo 40-ton tank trucks, world. No Dominion or Colony With air squadrons posted in and two 12-ton -ones. The: three is strong enough to defend Itnolf, sufficient numbers at strategic yet never in the history of our points throughout our Empire the tanks were filled with oil. of the race have the over-sons parts of Minister of Defence could guarantee kind which the locomotive has been our Empire been more imporilled that no enemy could invade or designed to burn. Already the en- by the threat of isolation from oven attack by afr-one single part gine has proved its power on trips the Motherland.

of our territory throughout the which now total nearly 20,000 world.

miles, but the British engineers Our lines of communication, formerly guaranteed by the British

wish to have still further technical Navy, are threatened by the air The naval ships then required tests, and so it has been brought fleets of Intervening countries. would be smaller and faster and to Vitry, which is the best equipped" in the Bombing aircraft cannot be held heavily armed with bombing air-railway testing station In check by mines, guns, fortifien-craft to secure the safety of our world. tions or any combination of the Morcantile Marine from raiding

Here the "Cock of the North" naval and land defences of the surface and air enemies. Merchant past.

ships would mozint catapults will be tried out at full speed on which must be ready in reserve moving track, so arranged that to launch bombers from their decks however fast it may run on the In time of war. For bombs are wheels representing raila, it will infinitoly more efficient than guna. 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 tests. of infantry can be increased (even with reduction in numbers) by equipping each soldier with a machine-gun

increased rifle. If numbers were ever needed, infantry. can be trained more quickly than any other arm. The size of our standing Army in India could he reduced safely by quadrupling our air squadrons there.

The Mediterranean Is a bottle neck that can be closed. The. portion of our Fleet that lies there can be immobilised. Our Home Fleet is not safe 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 wo are prepared we stand to loac far more by air netion in the future. To-day Wo could guarantee to provide safe passage for ships carrying food and other necessities to this country in time

of war.

not

With the 6-5-3 naval ratio of to-day, Britain has no supremacy on the sea at any point in the world. When the Japanese at tacked Shanghai in 1981 the Japanese Grand Fleet sailed into the the Whangpoo and cut off British and Amerlenn ships that lay higher up the river.

So long as we rely on the de- fensive possibilities of our Navy our interests in the Far East can bo Jeopurdlard swiftly before have time to strike back.

We

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 name mistake,

Of approximately £120,000,000 three per annum spent on the Services we give the Navy nearly one half, the Army one third and the Air Force one sixth. Modern fighting weapons no longer justify these proportions. The Air must be our first line 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 It we would survive. Tradition must be swept nside.

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

ONLY ONE WAY

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Only by the creation of Ministry of Imperial Defence can we nchlove security. Co-ordination of all three departments under one head is the one way to obtain adequate defence at home and throughout the Empire. In no other way will admirals Renerals consent to the re-allocation of our defence money to

meet modern conditions.

and

Inder a Minister of Defence air place strategy would necessarily Navy and Army in their true rela- tion na auxiliaries to the Air Force, No naval ship, no expeditionary force, dare Lake the offensive against us if we are supreme in the air. Enemy ships and troops can be attacked and destroyed 600

BOY DIES OF POISONING

ATE ARSENIC TAINTED FOOD

London.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1985.

Warren E. Eston, president of the Soaring Society of America, fall to his death while taking part in an exhibition fight, at Miami, Fla. He toppled from his glider when it tilted in the backwash of the towing plano. · Top photo shows how glidara wers being towed Just before the accident. Eaton being is that at left. Below, the wrecked craft is taken ashora.

BRITISH DISDAIN SEASICKNESS

GENIUS FOR TRAVEL EXPLAINED

London.

effectively.

Yet Dr. Bohes claims that sen- sickness can now be controlled by the doctor who distinguishes one type of sea-sickness from another and sults his therapeutic activities to the varieties of his diagnosis. He states that there are five forms ut sea-sicknesses; hypervagotonic, pathicòtonic, amphoneurotonic, hy-

Mobility of artillery, infantry, tanks and engineers would become of great importance. That means The view that arsenic had jeaked Hight armament. Big guns can be into his clothes and into his tuck replaced by heavy bombs.

The box from a bottle containing this heavy artillery of the futurs must poison, which he had carried about have wings.

with him. war expressed at the It is unreasonable to demand of

resumed inquest at Laneing ON any nation in time of peace that Bernard Taylor, the 14-year old The senior medical officer of the persympathicotonic, and psychic or it shall spend more upon its defence Lancing College boy, who died in liner Ile-de-France, Dr. J. Bohec, mental. He gives belladonna to than it is capable of paying on'an the school sanatorium on Novem-has discovered the secret of the quiet the vague or ergotamine to economic basis. But the citizen

ber

genius of the English for travelling calm the sympathetic system. Ho has the right to demand that the

and calanising, writes the Paris also employa hyoscamine. If he is money he contributes shall provide

Medicni evidence was given that correspondent of the "Lancet." called in too late to prevent sea- him with the most effective defence death was due to arsenical poison- They have refused to recognise sickness, he may reduce the period that can be created.

Ing, and a verdict of death by sea-sickness. That ja all. The of suffering by injecting the drug Britain spends enough to provide į misadventure was returned, the Englishman's attitude is one of hypodermically. "If drug trent-

and

tho ment is ineffective," he iddifference; adequate defence. She fails to get coroner adding that the boy must disdair it because the Navy and the Army have enten something which had Frenchman's is one of scepticism, "either the wrong drug has been

contact with stand traditionally before the Air come into

medicine to combat sen-sicknesses: Volla tout." which is extended to the ability of chosen, or its dosage is inadequate,

3.

arsenic.

Force. To get value for our money There, was no suggestion of blame 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 Foren flies as our about the neck in such a way that Navy sailed before the warto n the contents could easily escape Two Power Standard.

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Dules of Abercorn hands over the mail to Pilat Capt. Anderson at the inauguration of the new English laland strmail service at Abridge nerudtome, Esies. The service is to operate between London, Liverpool and Glasgów.

The Duke of Gloucester is presented with a bouquet of flowers by a schoolgirl at Woomslang, a rural community near Victoria

during his visit to Australia..

Spain is still apt, to be tur, [bulent'at; times and guarde così- tiane on duty around the Partia-

ment Buildings.

For services rundared to the Chinese Government in their official capacities in the Shanghai Municipal Police, the Chinese Ministry. of War hai conferred upon four 5.M.P. Officera Chinese Military, Naval and Air Force medals, for their work in connection with the duppression of communists. From left to right' in; the abova picturétness, Major F. W. Gerrard, Commissioner of Polise,, who receives the let Clasi Modali. Major K. M. Bouras, Deputy Commissioner, (112 Cises Medal), Mr. G. W. Gilbert, Assistant Commissioner, (2nd, Glass-Medal) and Superintendent T. Robertson (2nd Class Madai),

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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..

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & Or Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

" Hồng Kong.

Telephone 20075.