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CHINA'S

35,000 TON BATTLESHIP

DILEMMA

GUNS OR ARMOUR

AS CHOICE

A new and unexpected com- plication has arisen in big battleship design.

British experts now state that recent developments in weapons of offence make it im- possible to design an efficient battleship armed with 16in.) guns on a tonnage of 35,000- the largest tonnage permitted) by

Washington the

Naval

Treaty of 1922.

Ships of this size are at present being built by Italy and planned by France,

British experts state that a battleship mounting 18in. guns can→ not to-day be dealgned without sacrificing one of the essential re- quirements of 21 battleship-an adequate number of guns in orderi to produce volume of fire and facilitate control; sufficient protec- tion to enable the ship to withstand the most powerful armaments likely to be encountered; and adequate steaming qualities.

Gun Now Superior

The remarkable advaness which have taken place in recent years in guns, shells; bombs, tarpedors, and mines are responsible for the fact that a combination of tonnage and armament which was thought fensible in 1922 (and actually allowed a margin in the construc- tion of the Nelson and Rodney five years later). Is now considered im- practicable,

Ever since the coming of the ironclad the history of naval deve lopment has been concerned with the incessant battle between the shell and the armour. Now, the perfection of the 16-inch gun and the greatly improved design of armour piercing shell is placed the gun in a position, of definite superiority over armour protection as at present fitted.

WAR

The development of aircraft, too, has played a great part. To-day, in order to be adequately protected, a ship must carry deck armour of far greater thickness than necessary a few years ago. More- over, the development of aircraft demands that ships shall be fitted with the very intest forms of anti- aircraft guns. These guns heavy and require a large supply of ammunition-

are

Below water, too, the capital ship of to-day has to be better protected than formerly. Not only are for- pedoes larger and more powerful, but mines also have increased in both size and efficiency.

The combination of these circum- stances demands a weight of pro- tection which can no longer be in- eluded in the design of a ship built to a tonnage of even 35,000 tons without the saerifiee of some other quality,

Britain's Proposal

This is a development of the very greatest importance in view of the Naval Conference which is to ns- semble in

week. London next Time and again the British Govern- ment have pressed for the reduction of the calibre of the guns carried by warships, either to 11in, or to 12in. There is still little prospect of agreement being reached on so drastic a limitation, but it is thought in naval circles that the dificulties of designing adequate protection may lead to an agroe- inent embodying some reduction in the maximum calibre of guns. A reduction of the calibre of the guns forming the main armament of capital shipa to Idin. le considered probable in many quarters.

Prince Of Wales' Jubileo

HONGKONG THE

·TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1936.

SEARCHERS FOR

Ancient Migrants To The "Isles

BRITAIN'S NEW "QUADS"

Mrs. Miles, the wife of Mr. W. Miles, n lorry driver, gave birth to qundruplets at St. Neot's on November 23. They were a girl and three boys. Their weights ranged from 3 b. 12 oz. to 2 fb. 13 oz. Sterilised human milk was lown from London for then, At the time of writing, mother and bables were doing well.

LAUREL MAY MAKE

FILMS IN ENGLAND

Hollywood, Dec. 31. TAN LAUREL, of the famous chio Laurel and Hardy, may shortly retire from the as an actor, and turn producer.

He may even go to England, his native land, to make films.

screen

He and a screen pal "abc" Stan Is In revolt against the film are true till death, but stories Hal Roach keeps, picking for them. He says Laurei Hardy cannot survive many more.

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arid

Currently they are working on story "Bohemian Girl," but the has nothing to do with the famous

INTENTIONS ARE GOOD BUT---

Average temperature

in

the plains of Ethiopia is round about 110degs. in the shade. But...

all

Kind-hearted women over the world are still knit- ting woolly sweaters for the poor Ethiopians.

So Rear Admiral Cory Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, said re- cently.

NEW C. IN. C

Marshal Badogllo, who succeeds General De Bono Commander- in-Chief of the Italian Forces in Enst Africa.

ELIXIR Blest"

Of The

KING'S

ALHAMBRA

COMMENCING SATURDAY!

G R E

ARE RETURNING NOW GARBO

AS CONQUERERS WHAT CLASSICS FORETOLD

Tientsin, Dec. 30.

More than 2,000 years ago, China's first great emperor, Chin Shiu Huang Ti, sent thousands of youths and maidens to "The Isles of the Blest," three golden fairylands in the Eastern Sea, to gather for him a famous fragrant herb from which is brewed an Elixir of Life.

They never returned during Chin Shiu Huang's life- time-but they are returning now, equipped with the most modern fighting weapons and proudly calling themselves Japanese

the Occident is electricity which has many uses but which is death for those who contact it. Chinese say, "Hsi bien chu," meaning "going to the west" when they any they are dying. When all the Orient is unified; Wu says, it will conquer the world through ferti lity and justice.

Japanczo, Tutelage

This is the theory of Wu 1-ting, mystic, philosopher, student of the Chinese classics and Confucian lore, and one of the most ardent leaders in the North China autono-

Initial iny movement. His

Ap pearance in the present movement was at Haiangho (Fragrant River). in opel Province, where he or ganized and led, the first open revolt against the government.

Wa, aftting in a poorly-furnished sent thousands of our room of an old house in the Jupan "Ve

Concession, expounded his bravest men and loveliest maidens ene to Japan in 221 B.C.", he says. theories of life and government "They refused to return to China, for more than four hours with the He but remained in the "Isles of the United Press correspondent. Blest" and their descendants built firmly helleres it is his destiny to up the present day Japan. Now lead a new China under the tute- they are coming back us con-age of Japan for, he says, it is so

How can we fight them written in the classics querors.

The Classics foretold that in --our own people whom we sent

1911 a great upheaval in Chinn away ?**

would occur, resulting in complete of change in revised form government and that in the 25th *

year after establishment of this "If he wants to make The

new government, a man. 62 years rif nge, would arise frein the Chimes of Normandy, let him do

not with us.

"Ching's nation will fall but masses; bring out the unification It, but

We don't belong in such stories..

the Chiness people will go on of Japan and China, and lead the don't want toy part. from forever," he asserts. "We should East to greater glories than all Hardy," wald Stan. "but we cannot not sacrifice the Chinese people history records."

making stories like those.to save a corrupt political regime." If Mr. Roach wants to make Bohemian Girl,' why not make it? It isn't Laurel and Hardy stuff, that's all."

opera piece. except that it happens to be la n gipsy camp.

Next Mr. Roach wants Stah to appear with Hardy in "The Chimes but Stan mut- of Normandy" tered ominously.

זיי

KO Un

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No One Need Work

Destiny Foretold Wu's contention is that China's destiny is foretold, in the ancient classics and it is impossible to alter this fate.

Contact with the Occident spells death for China, he believes. The Orient is symbolised by fertility and growth while the symbol of

WHEN SCIENCE CAN

TAME COSMIC RAYS

Chicago, Dec. 30.

Electric currents ranging from 100 million to 100,000 million volte are possible if the clusive Cosmic Ray can be captured and tamed, Professor-A.-H.-Compton, world-famed University of Chi- cago physicist and Nobel Prize winner, said to-day.

the

So important has Cosmic Ray re- perfect a camera to portray it ade- search become, Compton said in quntely. an exelusive interview with

Biologists are deeply Interested United Press, that present know in the Cosmic Ray to discover its ledge of its mysterious qualities effect on life, Compton' ɛæld. and power has upset almost all of the theories regarding electro- dynamics.

De

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Silver Jubilee

He points out that next year is the 25th year of the Chinese Re- public and he will then be 52 years old. He was a penannt boy in his native Hsiangho and he is now in A position to allow destiny to take its course.

He

Tall and powerfully-built with expressive face and hands, Wu is a mystic as well as a political Agitator and revolutionist. has studied and developed new theories on such varied subjects as numerology, vibrations and astrology. He also, reads mystic interpretations, int the Chinese written characters,

At the age of 19, he passed the Imperial Examinations at Peiping first honours. He held with numerous offlees in the Peking Iatur organised Government and

Kuomintang brunches many throughout Hopei Province, but he turned against the uomintang "Darwin's Theory of Evolution when he saw its brutality, selfish held that life was generated by ness and corruption, he says. AL he was Councillor to Even the famed Einstein Theory on is held that life was not General Chiang Kai-shick with

spontaneous, variation.' The be- one time of Relativity will have to amended as a result of the Cosmic spontaneous, but may have been cices in Shanghai. He has writ- Ray implications, Compton said, slowly generated by factors, ono ten numerous books on govern; thement, river conservation, Confu- af which might have been scientists now believed.

Compton cited the voltage of Cosmic Ray. Scientists fect that cinn lore and political subjects.- several other familiar phenomena it is probable that the Cosmic Ray United Press. to illustrate the power of Le throughout the world's existence Cosmic Ray. Light rays, he said, played a great part in Influencing

and character VICTOR McLAGLEN IN

KIPLING FILM generate only two volis, ordinary the development

istics of life. heat one volt, ultra-violet глуз four or five volta, X-Rays 10,000 "It can readily be understood

Hollywood, Dec. 31. to 100,000 volts and radium rays, what effect exposure to Cosmic

Victor McLaglen, the British film hitherto belleved to be the most Rays would have on the forms of

And animal life over star, is to appear ne Private Terence powerful, 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 plant

hundreds of thousands of years. Mulvaney in a fim story adapted volts,

"Cosmic Rays originated at the A combination of rays, in which from Kipling's "Soldiers Three.

McLaglen was signed up for this time of the original explosion in the Cosmic Ray may have been one film by Michael Balcon. production space which created the universe might have been the factor which chief for Gaumont-British, before he as we know it now," Compton said. gave matter its original animaleft to-night for New York on his

way back to England. "That is the theory now held for tlon."-United Press. want of a better explanation of

their origin, yet through the cone Knew Queen Victoria's Mother

of time Cosmic Rays have wander ed in apace, their power diminish- ing but little."

Cosmic Ray research hus not solved the secret of their compo-{ sition, Compton said.

Although Cosmic Rays have been

OLDEST ROYAL SERVANT DIES IN LONDON

COLOURFUL CEREMONIES AT photographed, and the plates have WILLIAM BARKER, aged 91, for many years the oldest Royal

CARNARVON CASTLE

THE Prince of Wales will soon receive the provisional plans for celebrating his silver jubilee next year-the twenty-fifth anni- versary of his investiture at Carnarvon Castle.

He has already approved in principle a colourful ceremonial at the castle whore, as a youth of the seventeen, he appeared for first time before thousands of cheering Wolshmen

their Prince..

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CHESTER'S CLAIM

him to visit it; Oxford, where he lived as an undergraduate for two years; Dartmouth, where he wan trained for the Navy; Richmond, Burrey, where he was born; and Windsor, are among the places that wish to give special recognition to the

Jubilee.

When six weeks' Court mourning for the death of Princess Victoria, Heralds in their picturesque the King's slator, has expired, the medieval uniforms will again re- Cabinet, which has been already ap: colve him with a tanfare of broached by Welsh peers and M.P.à, trumpets from the battlements, but will take action.

It la explocted that a statement

there is a strong feeling that calebrations should not be confined will be made in the Commons. to Wales.

regarding the celebrations when. reassembles after Chester, from which the Prince Parliament takes his second title, will invite Christmas,

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servant and a link with Queen Victoria's mother, died in Lon- ray content, Compton said] don last month. science atille endeavouring to

the

THE BUTLER

WAS THERE

—AS GUEST

New York, Dec. 20. DARK-AVENUE, New York's Mayfair, Icarned-wil alarm to-day that one of the guests at the exclusive coming-out party of Miss Lorraine Graves, daughter of Mrs. Kilisen Van Rensselaer. was Raymond, the butler to the household.

Raymond danced, unknown to the guests, with many debutantes and dowagers. 2.

"I asked Raymond to come," said Mr. Van Rensselaer cannot see why he should have g bean left at home... Raymond, isk a gentleman."

Eighteen months ago he was visited and congratulated by the King and Queen on his 90th birthday.

He had the distinction of living | the death of sthe»Bucheza-he-en- at Windsor Castle for nearly a sent to the Royal gardens to be century; being born on the Royal trained. estates in 1844 and living there all his life.

1851 EXHIBITION

He remembered being taken to the Great Exhibition at Hyde Park in 1851 and being present when Queen Victoria welcomed the troops back from the Crimean War.

Ile was 15 when he entered the Bervice of the Duchess of Kent, mather of Queen Victoria, and one of his tanks was to push the aged Duchess round the grounds of the castle is an invalid chair,

VINE-KEEPER

Later he was appointed vine keeper at Cumberland Lodge, Wind- sor Grant Park, and under his care the famous Royal Vine yielded more than 1,000 bunches of fine grapes for 20 years.

Queen Victoria on her visits often congratulated him on the conditions of the vine."

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Later, Mr. Barker returned to the Caatle promises and after serving King Edward VII, and King George he retired on a pension In 1910 at the age of 76, ANH N

The King granted him the use of The Duchons recommended younga cottago on the estate at Windsor Barker to Queen Victoria, and on for the rest of his life.

A remarkable span of Ume In covered when it is remembered that the Duchess was boris In 1780.

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