1936-02-25 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Tuesday, February 25, 1986.

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1934 Its golden stores took a And the handsome, distinctive hiding its gold wealth in tremendous leap upward, both streamlined appearance of the strong-boxes that will resist nominally and actually. The devaluation of the dollar wrote new Studebaker truck makes the most desperate efforts of up the country's gold holdings from £806,000,000 to £1,365,- bandit

to steal it.

800,000. By the beginning of noss-like lines and powerful, Why? Because "Hidden July 1935 this golden wealth had

At Fort Knox the golden me- and from the Mint in Philadel- risen to £1,821,600,000, and the tal is protected on the Atlantic phia to Fort Knox. Gold" carries its- own gold continues to pour in.

side by the impenetrable Ap- All workers carry the metal To preserve this stupendous palachian Mountains. The words have a treasure in safety from home

undor the glare of powerful It is held impossible for an where the transfer operations searchlights that flood the areas magic that appeals to all and foreign enemies the Trea

sury is moving all its gold, ex-

army to fight its way through are progressing. The precious mankind. Even children copt the small quantities needed

those rugged ranges. Should cargo is carried in steel carri-, regaled

with

exchange. from fairy for currency

foreign acroplanes attempt aged trains rushing swiftly to the seaboard cities to Denver, the seizure of the gold, they their destination. Each carri storics that tell of untold wealth Colorado, and Fort Knox, Ken- will find themselves enmeshed hidden in caves or conjured by tucky. The Denver Vaults are in one of the most treacherous "ge bristles with revolvers and

The machine-guns,

railway genii from the empty air.

air routes known to American tracks are carefully surveyed to designed for gold from the

airmen. The Spanish Main touches the Pacific coast; those being built

prevent derailment of the at Fort Knox will hold the trea- imagination by thoughts of

Nevertheless the protection of trains. Tel. 27778/9, } secret caches of pirate gold, and sure now stored in New York the gold reserves does not de-

and Philadelphia.

volve on the Army or the Air OFFICIALS say that they

fear cranks It remains strictly the LREADY the Treasury has duty of the Treasury to protect gangsters when it comes

removed £600,000,000 from its own property. The men em- matter of wrecking the trains Pacific coast cities to Denver, ployed at the Fort Knox home with their precious loads.

The gold vaults at Fort Knox The vaults at Fort Knox are, of gold will be responsible to the therefore, designed to hold about Treasury in Washington. The cost the Government £90,000. 21.400,000,000 worth of the surrounding forces are merely a Compared with the immensity.

ttle gold bars.

protection for use in real of its wealth the main vault is an insignificant affair, no more The Fort Knox treasure- emergency.

than 60 by 25 by 11 feet. house will be as strong as human make it. Ita ingenuity can

We. will furnish particulars and terms on application.

are

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TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1936,

FORTIFICATION

OF HONGKONG

now that so few of us can handle. the precious metal as daily cur-

rency it becomes more myster- A

ious than ever.

TH

Admiral Nagano's statement years ago. made in Singapore, whilst on

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more than to a

Modern methods of protect-

his way back to Japan from the NOTES OF THE DAY If any members of Conan en 20 worth would have frighten off all intruders,

NEW MONOPLANE

con-

care

HIS year sees America with £2,023,000,000 of the pre- cious metal. This is a quarter of all the gold owned by the world's fifty richest nations. The plans afoot to guard this

walls below ground will be mas-" I any indefatigable safe- ing the national treasure incondeivable treasure would

crackers should mine their trast amusingly with the have been beyond comprehen. sive layers of concrete imper- way into the vaults they would taken to guard the Mint. in sion in America even twenty mented with steel plates which clous" heavy to carry away.

vious to high explosives, find the precious metal "pre. Philadelphia in the far-off year A of 1790. A single watchman give off the fumes of a poison- carry a ton of metal if he stole

a blow-lamp thief in the night would have to was then on duty.

When he went to a meal he £200,000 worth of gold, and left his faithful watch-dog to Naval Conference, that British

Doyle's famous "Red-Headed him weary in a few minutes if Fort Knox is 2,000 miles fortification of Hongkong will

League" should arrive at Fort he were pursued. Moreover, it from the Pacific and 600 miles aggravate the situation in the

Knox and try tummelling they is now illegal for a private indi- from the Atlantic seaboard. Pacific, would appear to rest on

will merely set off alarm bells vidual to possess gold in bullion, The field chosen for the trea- A recent invention by a British a failure to realise that if naval engineer marks what air experts sandwiched between the layers job to dispose of the stolen roads and railways.

as they reach the metal plates so that a "fence would have a sure-house is isolated from main rivalry now breaks out, it will have termed one of the most nota of concrete: be Japan herself which is chledy ufe advances ever made in aircraft

The Government is pursuing its task of removing the gol to blame. It is not too much to constructional methods. This is

Only by a sudden massed Removal of the golden tren- inland' with the utmost secrecy. attack would it be possible, say, in fact, that nothing could the system of "geodetic" construe-

sure demands ironclad prepara- When a Treasury official was for thieves to make off with tions no less stringent than its asked why Fort Knox was cho- be more calculated to aggravate ilon, invented by Mr. B. N. Wallis,

this vast quantity of gold, protection in the vaults. The sen as the resting-place for the the situation in the Far East designer of the successful rigid

But these attackers would transfer of gold from San Fran- greatest single accumulation of than Japanese denunciation of airship R-100. The new system

first have to secure the office cisco to Denver supplies the clue wealth in history, he replied the Washington Treaty. Ad-permits.considerable weight reduc-

building above the hidden to the methods that will be used laconically: "We thought It a miral Nagano admits that, in tions to be made in aeroplane wings

treasure, and this is to be pro- when the bullion is taken from safe place. You know what I the absence of a new pact to

and fuselage without any loss in tected by the most lavish use the Assay Office in New York mean—SAFE."

of modern armament. strength. It also permits the use replace the Washington agree-of wings of increased proportions ment, each Power would be free with greater efficiency. Mr. Wallis' will be able to sweep

Guards in bullet-proof booths

all to go its own way; yet he ex-system was put into production for trances and exits with machine presses the view that the the first time in the Vickers Welles- guns. Casual visitors, if they

en-

hoard.

What May a Christian Not Do? Powers should try to avoid do-ley medium bomber monoplane, enter the bullding, will have should not de? This question Christian profession-to-take-part-In-..

which she

endeavoured

favoured

of advance

Now

by

particularly

approve. Therefore the posi-formance, is estimated to have a scout cars armed with high-same time the Church Cannot be maintains that

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ing anything which will compli-machine which has been ordered guns trained on them from all

are the things a Christian Is it or is it not consistent with the cate the international situation. in considerable numbers for the angles," although they may not is not so easily answered as appears, those things? When Japan decided to de-Royal Air Force.

see the weapons. If anyone is in these days the lines of demarcation nounce the Washington Treaty, The long, narrow wing (the audacious enough to cut the out- In regard to what is allowable and APART from the vexed question of neemly on the part of professing A Sunday observance, there are was perfectly at "geodetic" style failing under this side electric wire connections Christians are not in many respecta other matters as to the lawfulness linked up with the vaults an in- so strictly defined as in the old days, of which professing Christians, dis liberty to do, she must have been category) is

side generating plant will come Life is so complex to-day, and the agree... There are hundreds, probably fully aware of the possible con-

en- neronautical

so thousands, of quite decont church- sequences of her act. The other sincers; it is of considerable im-into operation to defeat their strands of good and evil' seem

attempts to silence alarms. inextricably mixed in human affairs going people who have a bet on the

that it is becoming increasingly diffi- races every year, and see signatories to the Treaty have Portance from the point of view

But these precautions

nothing are cult in certain circumstances to de- wrong in so doing. There, it must In speed, range, and only a small part of the arma- ride what is wrong for a Christian be admitted, the Church is emphatic to conclude an permissible land. For this reasonment surrounding the greatest to do.

in denouncing betting as one of the understanding which would re-it is likely to exercise profound accumulation of wealth ever has witnessed a growing laxity on ing that gambling is the cause

The last generation, as we know, crying evils of our time. But, grant- place the Washington pact, but influence on the development of housed in one place! Fort the part of the community in gendral much poverty and misery, does it here, again, progress has been long distance aircraft, both civil Knox is the home of the United in maintaining the religious scruples necessarily follow that an occasional blocked by Japan, owing to her and military. The

be bet on a horse race is an, un-Christian "geodetic" States Government's mechanised of our forefathers, and it must persistence in plans of which monoplane, in comparison with a cavalry unit. This is equipped admitted that the Church as a whole act? In this discussion one

has done little more than follow in stoutly condemns betting in any the other Powers could not biplane of good ordinary per- with armoured cars and swift the wake of modern opinion. At the shape or form, while the other side there is nothing machine-guns powered

blamed for endeavouring to adapt its morally and

occasional wrong. In an tion is that whatever the other superior speed of 371⁄2 miles an

example and teaching to radio. The fort has

the new flutter, and further contends that if barracks spirit of the age, so long, that is, it be sinful to take part in a lottery, nations still consulting in Lon-hour; it greater height attainment for 1,300 soldiers.

As it dues nut pander for material or in any gaiñe of chance in which of 4,200 feet; L greater load) don may achieve, Japan is lest'

Not far away at Langley reason to movements and tendencies money is to be won, then the daily free to pursue her own policies. able to fly nearly two and a half squadron has its new

capacity of 500 pounds, and it is Field, Virginia, an

that, in essence, are at variance with gambling in lee House Street cannot air force the principles of Christianity. vory well be justified. It is this very circumstance times as far. The general princi-quarters. The plot of land on head-

Whore, exactly, ona may ask, must which has necessitated Western ples on which the "geodetic" system which excavations for the trea- HERE

the line be drawn that divides' right TERE we come to the main point from wrong in this world-prevailing nations having interests in the is based are said to be comparative-laure-house are now being made that this process of adapting

of the argument: It is plain game of chance 7 Pacific looking to their defences,ly simple.

and Coming to the drink question, it is The essential feature is less than a mile from the accommodating Christian teaching plain that here also there exists a now that the restrictions im-of the geodetic wing or fuselage lufort's army headquarters. On to modern requirements has brought wido division of opinion, and that, too, posed by the Washington Treaty that there is no internal bracing, all sides of it bristle the imple- the minds of many thoughtful peo- cause of temperance has made won

about confusion and uncertainty In within the Church itself. While the will be no longer operative.struts, tie rods, compression ribs, ments of war:

ple as to whether certain things are dorful progress during the past Britain is one of those Powers, etc. Such construction, has many Last summer the first relay lawful or otherwise for a Christian twenty years, it cannot be claimed and as refortification of Hong- Interesting possibilitica; the inven- of labourers was working in one presbytery shows, there are still those headway. Thoro

Are valiant ad- kong was barred by the agree tox, hus suggested that it might be of the daisy fields. A visitor amongst us who object to dancing vocates of teetotalism who, in face of asked one man: "What are you and other forms of amusement as the disastrous effects of over-indul- ment previously in force, noth- possible, in very large geodetic digging that hole for?" He re- being incompatible with Christian gence in strong drink, sincerely be ing is more natural than that machines, to construct passenger plied: "To see how far it is to living, and who, in regard to Sun- love that total abstinenca is a Christ- day observance, oling to Old Tenta Inn duty. There are others, howOVET, attention should be given to the cabins within the interior of the bed-rock."

ment teaching rather than to that who see no harmla the moderate defences of the Colony. It is wings.

The labourer was very

as of the New Testament.

use of spirits, even finding therein. tonished when the visitor ex- "advanced" in our views, there never ance from the Church on this ques- Hore, where we are rather more a source of help and comfort. Guld- surely the height of folly for

Powers, but the contingency has plained that the "hole" was to theless exists a sharp division of tlon is, it must be admitted, rather Japan to expect to be given a free hand in the Far East and certainly to be taken into ac- contain the greatest treasure in opinion as to whether certain kinds uncertain. the other Powers to remain in count in view of Japan's with the world.

question is asked: it lawful to Tsum up, the questions at lesue may be briefly set down. Is it different to security measures, drawal from the Naval Con,.

ference, - Admiral If refortification of Hongkong solicitude for the preservation Denver have been chosen members ace no harm in playing golf race, to drink a glass of intoxicating Nagano's PRIMARILY, Fort Knox and a number of respectable Church sinful to travel and play games on a Sunday, to have a bet on a horse becomes necessary, the step will of peace in the East would for the nation's gold reserves on that day. There are others, how quor? Are those things sinful in have been thrust on Britain as carry more weight if Japan had because of their inaccessibility if golf, why not football, others are Christian principles? Or is it only

ovor, who have their doubts. And, themselves and inconsistent a direct outcome of Japan's herself come into line with the to attack by foreign nations, demanding.

a question of degreo-a question as denunciation of the Washington other Powers in an effort to Military experts say that if the agreement. On the question of stabilise the situation. As mat- gold were housed in New York Sunday concerts in which secular to the extent to which those habits music forms the main part of the are indulged in? And are the limits

of the indulgence to be decided by: the- naval construction, confidence ia ters are; the necessity or other-It would be possible for an enemy programinė tro ever, becoming, more individual conscience? NE

wise of Western Powers look-floot to capture the city and hold popular. The cinema, has taken its

An authoritative :statoment/@on expressed by Admiral Nagano ing to their defences in this part it long enough while the trea-place is a popular form of Sunday those matters would be welcomed by

entertainment. Then there is the that Japan will not engage in of the world la surely a matter sure was being removed to sunday travelling, and there is also many. competition with the other which concerns them alone." foreign ships.

Sunday trading.

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to do. As recent action in a northern that total abstinence has made equal.

of recreation are lawful on the first day of the week. For instance, the

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