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Honour For

L.B. Boyack

· S'HAI PUBLIC OFFICIAL

MANY YEARS

THE HONGKONG". TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY

GERMANY PILING

UP GUNS

TANKS AND COASTAL

DEFENCE WORKS

HAMBURG'S PROTECTION

ERMANY'S artillery to-day is others, one of these works north of

far and away more powerful Brunsbüttel. Ihan that he possessed during the war, when her Big Bertha fred shells upon Paris from a range of nearly 75 miles.

"In this way the mouth of the Elbe, the entrance to the Kiel This is the assertion of the Canal, and the port of Hamburg: Paris Journal, continuing its

re- are protected. vetations of German rearmament

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two magnificent sub- and denting particularly with the marines of the latest type in the development of German artillery. course of a rapid visit to the great

Hanacatic port.

It says:

OF SERVICE The only Shanghal name in this year's New Year honours list is that of Mr. L. B. Boyack, head shipping clerk at the British Consulate here, who has been awarded the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. Ils Ma- jesty's decision to make thia award to Mr. Boyack on New "The perfecting and transform- "The German fortifications are Year's Day was conveyed to the ing of Germany's artillery in be- not confined exclusively to her coast- Iatter in the following telegraming carried out at so quick a paceline. On the Polish frontier there from Sir Alexander Cadogan, is that it can be taken for grantedre many works, dugouts, and the that the anti-tank gun shown to like, which the ten-years' truce re- Majesty's Minister to China: foreign military attaches at the cently concluded between Ilerr "Peiping. The King has gracious-recent manoeuvres at Magdeburg Hitler and the Polish Republic ly approved that you be awarded already is long obsolete.

would appear to make unnecessary." the medal, of the Order of the

"Germany is arming with arm- "The arsenal of Spandau, which British Empire (Civil Division) oured cars, The Bussing

and was transformed in 1919 into an in- Daimler works in Berlin and offensive furniture factory, is now others in Breslau havo turned out turning out gun tubes and muni- fast tanks, very similar to the tions under the very eyes of the British whippets.

foreign, military alluches.

Mr. B. Boyack.

for meritorious services. Formai

n

"The Krupp works at present nre. studying veritable land of most up-to-date type and of B power nol yet rivalled.

"The only industry which is really working in Germany is the war industry. All of the railway conch works are building tanks or spare parts for tanks.

"It is easy to understand there-

"The same thing applies to the fore that Germany is not going to motor-car factories, which In addi- be satisfied with the artillery tion to motor-cars are turning out This is parti- allowed her under the terms of military alreraft. the Treaty of Versailles.

cularly the case with Adler, at Frankfort-on-Main, and Brennera- "The development of her artill-bor, at Brandenburg. ery, that is to say her mobile artillery. Is duplicated by the similar activity in her fortifica- tlons.

COAST DEFENCE WORK

"The Hitler regime is organig ing the defence of Germany's coastline with particular rare, and the defensive works demolished after the war on the orders of the

Inter-Allied Commission of · Con- tro have been reconstructed and reinforced.

"Any attack on the German toast by air or by sea would en- counter to-day a chain of powerful notification is being sent by postfortresses admirably disguised. from England. should like to

add my personal congratulations on this well-merited recognition of your long and loyal services to H.M. Government, Cadogan"

author of the Journal revelations "rt fer, for instance," says the to the rebuilding of the forts of Swingmund, where each of the ex- traordinary long-range guns por BUKSER IL wide are of Are and where the jetty has been repaired and stuffed with Invisible sliefters filled with machine guns.

"At the extreme point of the island of Rugen (in the Baltic) turrets and shelters arc bring built.

Mr. Boyack arrived in China in 1899 and during the Boxer trouble he served with "R" Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps being awarded the foxer Medal. On March 2, 1906 he joined the British Consular Service and was "Similar activity reigns in the for 14 years stationed in Hankow. fsland of Heligoland, famous for In 1922 he was posted to the ship the services i rendered to Ad- ping office of the Shanghai Con-miral von Scheer's High Sea Flect sulate and is still working there. during the Battle of Jutland.

His duties have naturally brought "All the fortifications condemn. him into touch with a large num-ed by the Treaty of Versailles ber of men, particularly seafar-were destroyed. They are being lng men, and his kind and replaced by fortified works armed with the most powerful artillery sympathetic attitude have made from Krupps, which was recently his name well-known up and down decided upon. the Coast as a most helpful om- { "The realisation of this plan is cial. The news of the honour now so close at hand that the workmen conferred upon him by Illa Malready are busy on it.

"IL would be

easy also to

"I was able to admire, among

AIR TORPEDO WORKS

"Other factories are producing unheard of quantities of carburei- tura for air engines.

Sill others are making aerial torpedoes, bombs for use by air- craft, and submarine forpedoes.

"These are most being provided by the Knorr Bremsen works, which hitherto have been making only

jesty the King has been greeted enumerate the fortified works with great satisfaction by a whole which bristle along the const off- host of friends. Mr. Boyack has German Schleswig, many Interesting reminiscences of the China of the past to tell, eapecially of the time, of the Boxer trouble and the change over from the Monarchy to the Republic,

It is a matter of much regret that Mr. Boyack's state of health necessitatus him taking twelvel months home leave this year for medical treatment and that it is probable that he will not be per- mitted to return to China,

1935.

Meet Mexico's "Grst family.” General Lazaro Cardenas, his wife, Amalia, and san, Cuauhtemos. General Cardenas bas just been inaugurated as President to serve a six-year tarm, during which reconstruction of the country's economic and educational situation will be attempted. He succeeded President Abelardo Rodriguez.

brakes for locomotives and rallwaying secrets. wagona,

"If you travel in Germanq, from "German is not content with east to west or north to south you workshops where the workers are will see gigantic strategic rondá in under military law and subject to course of construction" the report the death penalty in case of reveal concludes.

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Revival of automobile sales is again furnishing freight for the thips of the world. This picture, takes in New York harbour recently, shows a shipment of Chevrolet cars being loaded for transport to Hongkong.

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