1935-01-22 — Page 3

Honour For

L.B. Boyack

S'HAI PUBLIC OFFICIAL

MANY YEARS OF SERVICE The only Shanghai name in this year's New Year honours 1st is that of Mr. L. B. Boyack, hend shipping clerk at the Britial Consulate here, who has been awarded the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. His Ma- Jesty's decision to make thin award to Mr.

Boyack on New Year's Day was conveyed to the latter in the following telegram from Sir Alexander Cadogan, His Majesty's Minister to Chinn "Polping. The King has gracious- ly approved that you be awarded the medal of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)

Mr. L. B. Boyack.

fox meritorious services. Formal

notification is being ment by post from England. I should like 10. add my personal congratulations on this well-merited recognition of your long and loyal services to 11.M. Government. Cadogan."

Mr. Boyack arrived in China in 1890 and during the Boxer trouble he served with "R" Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, being awarded the Boxer Medal. On March 2, 1906 he joined the British Consular Service and was

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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1985,

GERMANY PILING

UP GUNS

TANKS AND COASTAL

DEFENCE WORKS

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

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

HAMBURG'S PROTECTION

"In this way the mouth of the Elbe, the entrance to the Kiel Canal, and the port of Hamburg Its re- are protected.

Paris Journal, continuing

This is the assertion of the velatious of German rearmament

"'I NOW two magnificent sub- and dening particularly with the marines of the latest typo In the development of German artillery: course of a rapid visit, to the great

Hanseatic port.

It says:

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"The perfecting and transform-

"The German fortifications are Ing of Germany's artillery in be not confined exclusively to her const- ng carried out at so quick a pace fine. On the Polish frontier there at It can be taken for granted are many works, dugouts, and the that the anti-tank gun shown to like, which the ten-years' truce re- foreign military attaches at the cently concluded between Herr recent manoeuvres nt Magdeburg titler and the Polish Republic already is long obsolete,

would appear to make unnecessary." "Germany is arming with arm- "The arsenal of Spandau, which 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 have turned turning out gun tubes and muni- fast tanks, very similar to thelone under the very eyes of the British whippeta.

foreign military attaches.

out

"The Krupp works at present are studying a veritable and of most up-to-date type and of power not yet rivalled..

a

"The only industry which 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 anlated with the artillery tion te motor-cars are turning out allowed her under the terms of military aircraft. This is part- 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 way her mobile artillery. Is duplicnted by the almilar setivity in her fortiora- tions.

COAST DEFENCE WORK

AIR TORPEDO WORKS "Other factories are producing unheard of quantities of carburet tors for nir engines.

Still others are making aerial torpedoes, bombs for use by air-|

Meet Mexico's "Grst family," Ceneral Lazaro Cardenas, his wife,”Amalia, and son, Cuauhtemos. General Cardenne has just baan inaugurated as President to serve a six-year term, 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, wagons.

"If you travel in Germanq from

"The Hitler regime Is organis- ing the defence of Germany's craft, and submarine torpedors. "German is not content with east to west or north to south you coastline with particular cure,.and | "These are most being provided workshops where the workers are will see gigantle strategie runds in the defensive works demolished by the Knorr Bremsen worka, which under military law and subject to course of construction" the report after the war on the orders of the hitherto have been making only the death penalty in case of reveal- concludes. Inter-Allied Commission of

Con-

trol have been reconstructed, and reinforced,

"Any attack an the Berman f const by air or by sea would en- counter to-day a chain of powerful fortresses ailinirably disguised.

"I fer, for instance," saya the

author of the Jurnal revelations to the rebuilding of the forts of Swinemund, where each of the ex- iraordinary long-range guns 'por, i areses a witle

of fire and where the jetty has been repaired and stuffed with invisible shelters filled with ranchine guns.

are

"At the extreme point of the island of Rugen (in, the Baltic). Turrets and shelters are bring built.

"Similar activity reigns in the for 14 years stationed in Ilankow. island of Hellgoland, famous for In 1922 he was posted to the ship- the services rendered to Ad- ping office of the Shanghai Con-miral van Scheer's High Sen Fleet sulate and is still working there, during the Battle of Jutland.

His duties have naturally brought "A the fortifications condemn- Versailles him into touch with a large numed by the Treaty of ber of men, particularly seafur- were destroyed. They are being replaced by fortified works armed โยส men, and hin kind and with the most powerful artillery sympathetle attitude, have made | from Kruppa, which was recently, bin name well-known up and down decided upon.

the Coast as a most helpful off- "The realisation of this plan is cial. The news of the honour now so close at hand that the workmen conferred upon him, by His Malrendy are busy on it.

jesty the King has been greeted with great antisfaction by a whole host of friends. Mr. Boyack has many interesting reminiscences of the China of the past to tell. especially of the time of the Boxer trouble and the change over from the Monarchy to the Republic.

It In a matter of much regret that Mr. Bayack's state of health necessitates 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.

"It would be easy also lo enumerate the fortified works which bristle along the coast of German Schleswig..

"I was able to admire. aniong

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Revival of automobile salas is again-furnishing freight for the ships of the world. This picture, taken in New York harbour recently, shows a shipment of Chevrolet cara being loaded for transport to Hongkong,

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The famous Britch dramatlit and author, George Bernard Shaw, is seen here as he leavós kla residence in London for a vtält?

to kia Hertfordshire home to recuperate from a recent-liness.

Sir Oliver Lodge, world-famous British sciantist, being made up an appearance before a motion picture camera. He spoke on the

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JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.