1935-08-16 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, .1935.

FAR EASTERN AIRWAYS.

ITALIAN

BID

FOR POWER

UNITED STATES AND,

BRITAIN LAGGING

FAR BEHIND

Shanghai, Aug. 10.

Presentation of a

tri-i

motored Italian aeroplane by Mussolini to Chiang Kai- shek, China's military chief- tain and virtual dictator, was more than a good-will gesture on the part of I Duce.

the

The gift emphasised supremacy which the Italians have attained in the military aviation market in China. Al- ready they have eliminated the British from the market and they are rapidly displacing the Americans.

When China first hegan building a modern air force, shortly after the northward sweep of the Nationalist armies i in 1927. British interests were first in the field and their pro-i duct found favour with Chinese military chieftains,

At that time the power of the National Government was far from consolidated, and virtually independent warlords in various provinces had their own military forces.

As they turned their attention · to the purchase of fighting air- craft, the business was easily cornered by the old-established British Trading firms which held agencies

for British made planes,

But the agency plan, which gave the British their early entree in the field, proved a de-i triment in the end. Alert American manufacturers started) sending their own sales repre- sentatives to Chinn, and #num- ber of well-known aces came here to demonstrate planes and. sell them. Ainong them were. Major James Doolittle and Cap- tain Frank Hawks.

were

Rebuilding Quake City

The Viceroy of India, I, ord Willingdon, nu kie recent visit to Quetta after the great earth-

PEENRANTANEOBUJE INNENWARE] LESNIKA 299 £2

Parliament

Without An

Opposition

Halifax (Nova Scotia).

Aug. 1.

The Liberals have won a hundred per cent, victory in the provincial elections in Prince Edward Island, the smallest Canadian province and the last stronghold of the Conservatives.

The Conservatives (whose national leader is Mr. R. B. Bennett, Dominions Premier] have lost not only their majority but every seat they held.

Mr. Walter Lea, the trium- phant Premier-elect, appear- ed nonplussed to-day when he faced the House of Asscm- bly in which there was no Opposition.

He confessed that he could not say what course he would adopt in carrying out normal British parliamentary pro- cedure.

It has been suggested that he nominates one of his own supporters да A makeshift Opposition!-Exchanye

BRIANNETUNNAREZAARUNEIRAONICASONORA CƏZARA).

qunke in June.

LAST REFUGE FOR WHITE RUSSIANS IS

IN BELGRADE

HOW SERBIA REPAID A GREAT WAR ALLY

WHITE

Vienna, Aug. 8. RUSSIAN exiles everywhere are watching with interest and anxiety the efforts of other members of the Little Entente to get Yugo Slavia to recognise the Soviets.

Salvage Plans In Quetta

16,000 CORPSES

IN CITY OF

THE DEAD

Simla, Aug.. 1. THE Government of In-

THE

dia's plans for salvage operations at Quetta are made clear in a communique, issued to-day, together with

a comprehensive report by Col. Russell, Public Health Commissioner.

It has been decided, says the [communique, to instruct the Authorities in Baluchistan to take immediate steps to imple- ment the following recommenda tions made by Col. Russeli:

Satrage could begin immediate- ly in certain non-residential and less damaged areas,

The clearance should be under- inken of the wider thorough- jares, and the experimental sal- rape of a few houses carried unt to test the possibility of extends ing the immediately salvageable

Brew;

The evacuation should be car- ried out of railway staffs and familien owing to their congested camp:

The refugee enmp as the race- entorse, which still shelters 5,000 propte, should be removed to a better site weny the bowery whers there is a better water supply available.

Col. Russell states that 12,000 Ito 10,000 corpses are buried un- der the debris at Quetta in addi- ion to thousands of animal ear-

jcasses.

It is undesirable, for health rensong, however, to undertake exhumation on nny extensive senie before next March.

This anxiety is counter-balanced, "however, by the knowledge that Prince Paul. Regent of construction of Quetta, states Yugo Slavia, has been recently conducting an anti-Soviet policy.

White Russian interest in this Russia. He was educated in the question is understandable when ¡Pare corps in St. Petersburg, Since that time he loved Russin

it is realised that Belgrade is one and Russians.

Powerful Friend

the

of the last havens for exiled Russians. There are many other! ¡countries where Russian emi- When he was raised to

grants are living well, and others throne by his father, King Peter, Jon June 12, 1914, he knew that where they are living badly, but small Serbia had in great Russia Belgrade is the only city which a powerful friend. has become a real new home for

¦ Russian outeusts.

!

The question of the future re-

the communique. cannol be decided until full reports from all the experts, including the geologist, are available. military authorities

Mae West Has £800 In Jewellery

A few days after he had ascend-!- ed the throne the work war broke Tout Russia fought for King

Alexander's small country..

Only in Belgrafe is the old lag of the "Fzar of all Rus siane" st waving over thei building of Imperial Russian legation.

Every day in Belgrade one enn

see an old man walking about the

a great

Serbin betaine

power: after the war and the Tzar'a Russia disappeared. The Tzar's benten army had to leave Russia.

his gratitude to Tsarist Russia.

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Like Mony

Women, Jane

Loved A Man

Who Did

Not Exist

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Private World

VATE WORLDS

with

CHARLES BOYER JOAN BENNETT HELEN VINSON JOEL MCCREA SUNDAY AT KING'S

the

Come to

The Americans were highly successful. Not only did they have good products. but the direct factory-to-buyer selling :

HOW FILM STAR plan enabled them to quote, advantageous, prices. The Brit-.

FORTUNES HAVE ish middlemen, maintaining only

DWINDLED slight contact with the aeronau-fortified defence. There Chinese " tical engineers at home.

Loflicers are trained in the use of

Hollywood, Aug. 1. soon out of the running.

Balian-made planes and are fast-

Now, at this moment. King

Great fortunes of acquiring an Italian "slaut" on With the National government all tactical and technical prob-

Alexander saw a chance to show Hollywood have dwin- consolidating and expanding its lems..

streets in the full uniform of an

He opened the portals of his idled. Nearly all the Imperial Russian general. Be is comtry to the Russian refugees. influence, it speedily became practically the only buyer of The importance of Nanchang honoured by Yugo-Slay soldiers Thousands of soldiers, otheers and stars who have just fighting planes, and its cordiality is emphasised by the history of like a Yugo-Slav general..

civilians jumped at his. offer. made out their income to the American product gave

the Central Aviation School

Matuska Moskva

New Fatherland

tax assessments for the Americans a virtual monopoly Which was established under of the Chinese military-aircraft American tutelage. In 1932 an

There are big Russian restau They found a new fatherland in past year have suffered. market.

junofficial American aviation mis-rants in Belgrade which were Alexander's country. Many officers |

headed by Col. John Pot Įsion

John Barrymore's assessed and sokliers were taken over in the established

present The Italians, however, went Jewett, came to China and

Yogo Slavian army. Most of the

valuation is £11,315-of which 'shatte shadow Et old! Russia the Americans one better. Taking negotiated a three-year contract;

rivilians got jobs-many of them 11.270 represents his yacht In- tourists, To The

funta. the Italian

restau-righ official situations. Boxer Indemnity for instruction

A year ago his gross Fund, they devoted it to the players by American instructors by Russian "princesses," but by sia did its utmost to be recognised worth of jewellery.

Chinese

Berved not

· assessment was £19,288, Years have passed. Soviet Rus. Mac West is down for £800 purchase of aircraft, giving at Hangchow. The school waste Russian waiters who learned by the Balkan countries. Soviet Chaplin's assessment-1538,498 Charlie them a financial advantage established and flourished, but

res- Ambassadors went to Bucarest and against which even the Ameri-when the contract expired this their profession in different can terms could not compete." year it was not renewed, and all taurants of old "Malushka Moskva Sollo. Belgrade, however, remain-compares with £610,244 Inst

the American officer-instructors,Great War. In these restaurants

--Mother Moscow" before theed hostile.

year. But Italy went even farther. with one exception, have left the hundreds of Itussin emigrants was assassinated. With him the

Cloria's £1,950 On October 9, 1934. Alexander She sent some of her most fam school and returned to America. daily eat rend Russian cookery, for- Russian etnigrants lost their most £283.1-18, compared with £300,154 Mary Pickford ia listed at ous flying officers to China, not

getting for a few minutes that they powerful protector. They are con- last year, and the rolls show only only to demonstrate planes, but

Withdrawal of the American are not in their fatherland.

vinced that Regent Prince Paul will £7,908 for Douglas Fairbanks sen.. to teach young Chinese officers group from the Hangelow school leaves the military wing of Chinese how to fly the new ships and vintion under virtually complete the Russian legation. The tele. policy against the Soviets. But

Near the King's palace stands continue Alexander's negative compared with £213,106. manipulate their guns and bomb-Italian influence,

"W" Rogers is assessed grams which were exchanged be they also realise that Soviet Rus- £40,508, compared with

has friends in Yugo. Slavia, last year, In

ing apparatus. Italy paid particu-

world

of

jrants Bivals

ut £64,584

not accounted for in these Income tax returns,

CHAPLIN FILM

The title of Charles Chaplin's

more than a year, and

tional capital was temporarily Italians a "Aying start on all other

embassy, was expected to give the slan signboards at every step.

The gift aeroplane, a tri-motored tween this edifice and St. Peters- lar attention to

this phase Savoia Marchetti 72, was flown burg 21 years ago were decisive for papecially the Oppositionul deputy, Gloria Swanson: Dropped from of her new relations with Chinn, here by Col, Silvio Scaroni, one of the fate of the whole world. Now Doctor Drageljub Jovanovitsh, who £6,926 last year to £1,950, and was able to bring to the Italy's best-known war plots, and this building gives accommodation PICS no pains to attain the Some of these stars hold pro- work the prestige of newly. Captain Angelo Tondi, another ace, to the Russian Red Cross Society recognition of Soviet Russin by perty outside Los Angeles which in acquired' eminence in

Col. Scaroni was formerly air at- and to several other Russlan in-

Yugo Slavin--United Press, speed, endurance and altitude Washington, and his errand here flag still donts over it.

tache at the Italian embassy institutions. Only the old Imperial competitions.

indicated the Importance which 111

Beatrix Thomson, actress and play. This activity culminated in the Duce places in Chinese relations.

There are many thousand Rus- for divorce against Claude Rains, the wright, has filed a petition in England Presentation of the plane to Russian buggars and Russian mil-Miss Thomson starred with Claude siana in Belgrade. There are British Alm star, who is in America establishment at Nanchang of General Chiang Kai-shek was ex-lonaires. There are Russians who Rains in New York in 1926 in "The new film, which bas been in pro- China's "West Point of the Air". pected to consolidate Italy's pre-hold high official situations. There Constant Nymph" Since then Claudeduction a`military aviation school of dominant influence in Chinese which the staff of instructors is military aeronautica. This, added are streets in Belgrade where one Rains has made a name for himself which, so far, has been referred to to the fact that-Italy was the first can hear the people speaking more that of the leading man in 11. G. nounced. It is "Charlie Chaplin 100 per cent. Italian.

in Hollywood, his first film part as "Production No. 5," is an of the treaty powers to elevate her in than Serbian, where one Wells's "Invisible Man"-being a in Modern Times." Nanchang, to which the nu-legation in China to the rank of an can 800 Russian shops with Rus-

striking success. Alleging desertion without cause in New York in 1928, isen included in the title of a film, Never before has a star's nama removed during the 1932 Sino- nationals In

It was the late King Alexander Claude Rains obtained a final decree and this is the first occasion on Japanese hostilities at Shanghai friendly relations with the Chinese the Russian emigrants. As three daya later he married Frances ed himself with the chief character

cultivating

more who did this act of kindness for Trenton, New Jersey, last April, and which Chaplin has officially identifi-

of divorce from Beatrix Thomson at and Nanking, is, the most heavily government.-United Press.

young boy Alexander went to Popper.

of his story,

THE

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