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NOTES OF THE DAY
THE FLYING NAVY
In those times, when nations aro looking their defences, it is per- haps natural that British people should feel a little sorry that Great Britain can no longer boast of superiority on the sea.
enormous aupremacy is no longer
Yet
the enfeguard that it was since aviation. haa developed to a point
where no amount of warships can guarantee to defend a const against the attack of flying armada. It becomes increasingly important to bo prepared to meet any possible nerial menace with adequate com- bat aeroplanes. That must be a self-evident truth. What Great Britain is doing in that direction cannot but And favour, with the majority of.. Britiah citizens; for though the menace is remote, the necessity of preparedness is un- deniable. It was recently suggest- ed, however, that Great Britain could do much to Increase the ellency of her Flect by adding to it certain air patrol work and. which would be Invaluable for
should the need arise, for battle. It was pointed out that, at the moment, the County Claas cruisers
We are fully equipped for any carry one plane. Since, in the nature of service.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. T. C. Fairburn desires to express his thanks for the many kind expressions of sympathy received in his bereavement and for the #oral tributes and attendance at the funeral.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1955,
THE DANZIG ELECTIONS
|
APRIL 9, 1935.
Our King
and
Queen
on their Silver Jubilee.
event of war, these ships would be called upon to patrol immense arena and guard thousands of miles of const-line, it is suggested that they should carry as many aeroplanes na possible. In netfan they would be anything but an encumbrance, for they could be catapulted into the air and mightily assist in an engagement. It was even argued by one authority that a fast pur- ault plane, with a few hundred pounds of bombs, was very nearly a match for a modern light cruiser. Certainly some naval experts be- lleve In the destructive efficacy aircraft. When the U.S.S. Au- gusta visited Hongkong recently her four fast seaplanes, lying in their, cradles amidships, attracted much attention and some comment. Would these four aircraft give the American type of light cruiser an Immense advantage over one of the
man who said of life: Victor, and when he was British light cruiser class, with Youth is a blunder, maturity a years old he was allowed to go only one aircraft aboard? was the question asked by a corres-struggle, old age a regret," suc- to "school" at Sandringham with pondent. We do not pretend to know. Ship for ship, Jane's Fight-ceeded Lord Derby as Prime him. School for the royal ing Ships seems to favour "the British cruiser. The light crui- Minister of the United Kingdom. Prinses consisted of the tutelage ser's purposes, generally speaking. may be for patrol, but they ought
That
The King-to-be as a youthful smiler.
IN the year 1868, Disraeli, the this elder brother, Prince Albert
four
The Very Idea!
A DISTRESSING CHOICE By H. BOGG, KID 'MILLIONS HERE appears - every
THE
prospect of very keen rivalry between local banka as to the possession of the biggest and strongest vault in the Colony.
That is all very well as showing a commendable de- sire to keep abreast with the times, but it has put us in a very, distressing position by having to decide between two choices.
Anytime now we expect to receive the following communica- tions:
From the Court of Directors of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation-"Dear Mr. Bogg- Our vault with its 33-ton door being now ready for the reception of valuables, may we solicit the favour of your distinguished patronage? With the ultra-safe custody afard- ed by this burglar-proof strong- room, your valuables will have a repository corthy of their extent and your mind relieved of the weight with which it must have been pressed down by your mil- lious,"
From the Board of Directors of: The Bank of Enst Asia.-"Dear Mr. Rogg-lay wa carnestly draw your attention to the fact that the completion of our new, Bank pre- minca with its unique vault, has pinced us in a position where wo can offer to our customers, parti- cularly to those who desire to place. their bullion with us, ample facili tien backed by the strongest pos sibto quarentees of protection! Though we anticipate, these facili ties to be fully tazed in the event of your being interested, neverthe
Your
In the same year, the second of John Neal Dalton, the curate less, we are confident of meeting
your every requirement, to be able to meet on equal terms son of Edward, Prince of Wales, of Sandringham, and later Promillions in any event, shoud de alipe of their own dimensione, More than that, it would seem that and Princess Alexandra, was fessor Drew of King's College, safe with us.” aircraft carried by such ships would serve a useful purpose in other three years old and a mis-London, who often expressed his directions than fighting. They
admiration for Prince George's
sea lane, in conjunction with the
carry more of these auxiliaries
reasons.
WASTED MONEY
The money which Ching spends
Juniform for many years of his Princes was an uneventful one, life) was allowed much greater so carefully were they watched
on internal warfare, could it be freedom than was his older and trained by their mother and saved, would probably remove the brother, Prince Albert Victor, father and by the Queen. But, present financial embarrassment from the shoulders of the Nasking (Duke of Clarence). Albert was since Prince Albert Victor was Government. Or even if some
more
W
These are indeed assurances, but
sponking for ourselves, we cannot
be too careful. Apart from the fear of being robbed, or kidnapped of other and ransomed, and dangers by which a rich man's life is now being made a burden for him, there is one other im- portant consideration which has always occurred to us whenever we receive auch_applications.
We are thinking of an experience
which befell us years ago bofore reinforced concrete floors and steel walls were invented for vaults.
The facts connected with that.. Incident however nro 80 unique they may still be recalled by many. We remember having then en- trusted our bullion with the World Banking Company, whose protec-
were many and ingenious.
The elections to the Danzig Volkstag, or Diet, have resulled in a further accession of. Nazi strength, but the hoped-for two-would broaden very considerably chievous child.
the vision of a consort ship and thirds majority of members of
cover a threatened coast line or Little Prince George, who, is ability and his regret that the that body has not been attained. Such a majority would be neces-parent cruiser, very rapidly. The shown above at the age of three, Prince was unable to continue sary for any party seeking to suggestion that British cruisers attired in a natty sailor suit (he his university career. change the Constitution of the seems un excellent one for these was destined to wear a sailor's The childhood of the two State by vote of the Diet. Formerly German, and compris- ing well over seven hundred square miles of territory, the port of Danzig and surrounding region provided one of the most difficult problems facing the Pence Conference in 1919. Geographically as well as his other way was found of spending being groomed for a kingship, being groomed for the throne, torically, it was claimed by the millions wasted in war, in re- Poland, but the question of its lieving the poverty and misery and and the royal household was Prince George grew up nationality being arguable, thehunger of thousands, in developing Conference decided that it should agriculture, in stimulating. the under the stern rule of the aging freely and the natural mis.
manufacturing industry, to be a Free City under the League venting the terrible toll of floods, it
pre- Queen Victoria,
chievous traits of boys was not of Nations. It is a sovereign would be a magnificent thing for and independent city and State, the country. With rumours of a and is under the protection of big international loan in the air. This life, Prince George idolized to-be. the League of Nations, which to be made by nations sympathetic guarantees the Constitution with China's endeavours to put her which was proclaimed in its house in order, and with good final form in 1922. The Polish reason to believe that Great Britain and the United States will lend Republic has no sovereign rights some financial assistance to the in the Free City, and the reln-Nanking Government, It might be tions between the two States are timely for foreign Governments to determined by three treaties; investigate the civil wars and their Under the Versailles Treaty, causes. I would be interesting to Poland is charged with the con- know, for instance, where the Com- duct of the foreign affairs of munisi armies obtain their sus the Free City; the two States and ammunition and the funds to. carry on this struggle. There are have also formed, by trealy, a certain obvious sources, and yot common Customs and economic one wonders whether or not much union under the Polish law, but of the materials of WHAF used the administration of the Cus-against the Nanking Government toms within the territory of the have not their origiu in countrica Free State is performed by which may be prepared to extend helping hand to the Nanking Danzig authority. The manage authorities. It is surely the desire ment of the railways, save in of every nation to sea the Com- purely local arrangements, has munist menace removed from also been undertaken by Poland, China. Even without the spur to- fand is conducted by a special wards intervention which the much administration in which a Danzigtou frequent murders of foreigners must create, it would seem that delegate represents the city's foreign Governments must appre- requirements. The League of cinto the immediate necessity of Nations maintains a High Com- bringing peace to China. If they missioner in Danzig, who on would exort themselves to prevent a appeal, decides all disputes supply of munitions reaching the which may arise between the Rod forces, how great a step It State and Poland, owing to would be towards a solution of the problem. Progress, for a nation their neighbourly, relations or economic connections. The elect war, said the old philosophers,
must wait upon victory. tion which has just taken place did not directly affect the future status of the territory, inasmuch Constitution of the State, and had the Nazi poll been sufficient
All during the early years of entirely suppressed in the King-tive devices for their customers
as no provision was made under the Versailles Treaty, as in the to secure such a vote, Germany case of other certain former would have been able to argue German possessions, for a plebla that the marked proponderance. cite to determine its ultimate of Germian sentiment called for destination. However, a tivo a reconsideration of the status: thirds vote of the Diet, at a of the State created by the Vor- aitting at which two-thirds of sailies Treaty. As matters are, tho members were present, Danzig remains indisputably un- would permit of a change in the der League of Nations control,
"Now remember to make some remark that will give me
an opportunity to use my French."
Alas, they failed to take into account one factor in our case. They had not made provision for; the exceptional welglit and stress which our millions exerted on the vault. Our millions simply sank into the ground by their sheer weight, and vanished. Digging operations which were then resort- ed to were of no avail.
Litigation which followed the loss, culminated in the judicial de- cision that it was a case of force majeure.
·
Property Market Note
"The sort of person," said the ;auctioneer and estate-agent bitter- ly of his madcap son; "who would sell his birthright for a spot of inesaunge."
Frigidity, Eh?
"Mr.
s description of the intenso cold of that region Beut chilly waves down my back, though I sat by a roaring fire"-Reviewer. Even then, it wasn't absoluta cold; a coldness, I mean, beyond which further cold is impossible;- the Absolute Zero. If I wanted to .summon up the sensation of that terrible coldness, I should imaginé a frat-class County (amateur)) cricketer proposing to a mannequin on an ice-floo in mid-Aretic, at a temperature of about 250 deg. Centigrade below zero. As their Hips meet, 65 Polar bears on the mafoland Rop-down dead, frozen atiff, the mercury falls 20 deg., and: the ley stars splinter and crack, In space.
"Bit chilly," says the cricketer, at length, clearing his throatin
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