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The Hongkong TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936.

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States Government is busily only £260,000,000. Early in 1984 is golden stores took a And the handsome, distinctive hiding its gold wealth in tremendous lenp. upward, both streamlined appearance of the strong-boxes that will resist devaluation, of the dollar wrote nominally and actually. The new Studebaker truck makes the most desperate efforts of up the country's gold holdings

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HIDING

£2,000,000,000

from £800,000,000 to £1,365,- 800,000. By the beginning of 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... own gold continues to pour in...

side by the impenetrable Ap- which inspires a feeling of press romance. The words have a treasure in safety from home

To preserve this stupentious palachian Mountains.

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We will furnish particulars and terms on application.

All workers carry the metal under the glare of powerful searchlights that flood the areas tige that suggests a price much magic that appeals to all and foreign enemies the Trea-

* It is held impossible for an where the transfer operations higher than its actual cost.

mankind. Ever

children sury, is moving all its gold, ex-army to fight its way through are progressing. The precipus cept the small quantities needed those rugged ranges. Should cargo is carried in steel carri are regaled with

foreign acroplanes attempt aged trains rushing swiftly to fairy for cunfency exchange, from the seaboard cities to Denver,

the seizure of the gold, they their destination. Each carri stories that tell of untold wealth Colorado, and Fort Knox, Ken- will find themselves enmeshed age bristles with revolvers and. hidden in caves or conjured by tucky. "The Denver vaults are in one of the most treacherous genii from the empty air.

eir routes lenpwn to American tracks are carefully surveyed to

machine-guns. The designed for gold from the

.. railway :' The Spanish Main touches the Pacific coast; thosa, being built airmen.

prevent derailment of the at Fort Knox will hold the tren- 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.

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FORTIFICATION OF HONGKONG

Admiral Nagano's statement made in Singapore, whilst on

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

rency it becomes more myster- A

ious than ever.

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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 const cities to Denver. ployed at the Fort Knox home with their precious loads.

The vaults at Fort Knox are, of gold will be responsible to the The gold vaults at Fort Knox THIS year sees America with therefore, designed to hold about Treasury in Washington. The cost the Government £90,000. T£2,023,000,000 of the pre- little gold bars,

£100,000,000

Compared with the immensity worth of the surrounding forces are merely a

protection for use in real of its wealth the main vault is cious metal. This is a quarter

an insignificant affair, no more of all the gold owned by the house will be as strong as human

The Fort Knox treasure emergency.

than 60 by 25 by 11 feet... world's fin richest

Modern methods of protect- make it. It's The plans afout to guard this ingenuity can

walls below ground will be mas- inconceivable treasure would

nations.

have been beyond comprehen- sion in America even twenty years ago.

his way back to Japan from the NOTES OF THE DAY

NEW MONOPLANE

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any indefatigable safe- ing the national treasure con-

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in layers of concrete imper- way into the vaults they would taken to guard the Mint in is to high explosives, aux find the precious metal or Philadelphin in the far-off year. mented with steel plates which is heavy to carry away. A of 1790.

A single watchman. blow-lamp thief in the night would have to was then on duty. give off the fumes of a poison- carry a ton of metal if he stole

When he went to a meal he Lous gas.

£200,000 worth of gold, and left his faithful watch-dog to Naval Conference, that British

members of Conan even £200 worth would

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

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

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

A recent invention by a British as they reach the motal plates so that a "fence" would have a sure-house is isolated from main will merely set off alarm bells vidual to possess gold in bullion, The field chosen for the trea 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. rivalry now breaks out, it will have termed one of the most nota- of concrete. be Japan herself which is chiefly ble advances ever made in aircraft

The Government is pursuing its lask of removing the gold to blame. It is not too much to constructional methods. This is Only by a sudden massert Removal of the golden trea- inland with the utmost secrecy. say, in fact, that nothing could the system of, "geodetic” construc-

attack would it be possible 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 tión, invented by Mr. H. N. Wallis, this vast quantity of gold, protection in 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 the vaults. The sen as the resting-place for the 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 Album No. 245 Arthur Schnabel, Piano, and

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 London Philharmonic Orchestra, the absence of a new pact to and fuselage without any lows in tected by the most lavish use the Assay Office in New York mean-SAFE."

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to go its own way; yet he ex-system was put into production for trances and exits with machine will be able to sweep }] ел- the the first time in the Vickers Welles-guns. Casual visitors, if they Powers should try to avoid do-ley medium bomber monoplane, enter the building, will have ing anything which will compli- machine which has been ordered guns trained on them from all W should not do? This question Christian profession to take part in WHAT aro-the-things a Christian-Is-il 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 7 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 A PART from the vexed qucation of which she was perfectly at "geodetic style falling under this side electric wire connections on on the part of professing Sumlay observance, there are Christiana are not in many respects 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 - liberty to do, she must have been category) is

particularly

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

into operation to defeat their strands of good and evil seem so thousands, of quite decent church- of considerable in attempts to silence alarms. gineers; it

inextricably mixed in human affairs going people who have a bet on the sequences of her act. The other

that it is becoming increasingly dith- races every year, and see nothing signatories to the Treaty have portance from the point of view

But these precautions are cult in certain circumstances to de- wrong in so doing. There, it musi endeavoured to conclude

in speed, range and only a small part of the arma- cide what is wrong for a Christian be admitted, the Church is emphatic an permissible load. For this reasonment surrounding the greatest to

In denouncing betting as one of the understanding which would re-lit is. likely to exercise profound accumulation of wealth ever has witnessed a growing laxity on ing that gambling is the cause of 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 general much poverty and misery, does t

of advance

now

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wrong

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

hore, 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 in an un-Christion "geodetic" States Government's mechanised of our forefathers, and it must

admitted that the Church as a whole not? In this discussion ona nido persistence in plans of which monoplane, in comparison with a cavalry unit. This is equipped has done little more than follow in atoutly 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 Alde

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

there is nothing powered machine-guns

blamed for endeavouring to adapt its morally and tion is that whatever the other superior speed of 371⁄2 miles an radio. The fort has barracks spirit of the age, so long, that is, it be sinful to take part in a lottery, A# occasional example and teaching to the now Butter, and further contends that if nations still consulting in Lon-hour; a greater height attainment for 1,300 soldiers.

as it does not pander for material or in any game of chance in which of 4,200 feet; 4 don may achieve, Japan is left

greater load

Not far away at Langley, in essence, are at variance with gambling in Ice House Street cannot reasons to movements and tendencies money, is to be won, then the daily free to pursue her own policies. capacity of 500 pounds, and it is Field, Virginia, an air force the principles of Christianity. It is this very circumstance times as far. The general princi-quarters. The plot of land on

very well be justified. able to fly nearly two and a half squadron has its new head-

Whore, exactly, one may ask, must the line be drawn that divides right which has necessitated Western ples on which the "geodetic" system which excavations for the trea- HERE

ERE we come to the main point from wrong in this world-prevailing nations having interests in the is based are anid to be comparative-sure-house are now being made that this process of adopting

of the, argament. It is plata game of chance? Pacific looking to their defences, y simple.

and Coming to the drink question, it is The essential feature is less than a mile from the accommodating Christian toaching plain that here also there exists a now that the restrictions im-of the geodetle wing or fuselage is furt's army headquarters. On to modern requirements has brought wide division of opinion, and that, too, posed by the Washington Treaty that there is no internat 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

to do. and as refortification of Hong-interesting possibilities; the inven- of labourers was working in one Presbytary shows, there are still those headway. There are valiant ad- kong was barred by the agreg-tor has suggested that it might be of the daisy fields. A visitor amongst us who' object to dancing voentos of teetotallam who, in face of asked one man: "What are you and other forms of amuzament of 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 gencé 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 abstinence is a Christ- day observance, aling to Old Teata- lan duty. There are others, however, attention should be given to the cabins within the interior of the bed-rock."

ment teaching rather than to that who see no harm in the moderate use of spirits, even finding 'therain defences of the Colony. It is wings.

The labourer was very as- of the New Testament.

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

Powers, but the contingency has plained that the "hole" was to theless exists a sharp division of tion 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.

of recreation are lawful on the first day of the week. For instance, the To sum up, the questions at issue the other Powers to remain in-count in view of Japan's with the world.

drawal from the Naval Con-

question is asked: Is it lawful to may be briefly set down. Is it different to security measures.

ference. Admiral Nagano's PRIMARILY, Fort Knox and indulge in games on Sundays Quite sinful to travel and play games on

a number of rospectable Church If refortification of Hongkong solicitude for the preservation Denver have been chosen members see no harm in playing golf Sunday, to have a bet on & horne becomes nécessary, the step will of peace in the East would for the nation's gold reserves on that day. There are others, how race, te drink a glass of intoxicating have been thrust on Britain as carry more weight if Japan had because of their inaccessibility it golf, why not football, ethers are Christion principles? Or is it only liquor? Are these things sinful in And, themselves and inconsistent with a direct outcome of Japan's herself come into line with the to attack by foreign nations. demanding.

a question of -dogreo-n question as denunciation of the Washington other Powers in an effort to Military experts say that if the

Sunday concerts in which secular to the extent to which those habits agreement. On the question of stabilise the situation: As mat- gold were housed in New York music forms the main part of the are indulged in? And are the limita naval construction, confidence is ters are, the necessity or other it would be possible for an enemy programme are ever becoming inore of the indulgence to be decided by the

wise of Western Powers look-fleet to capture city and popular. The cinema, has taken individual conscience? expressed by Admiral Nagano ing to their defences in this part it long enough while the trea- pince as a popular form of Sundby An authoritative statement that Japan will not engage in of the world is surely a matter sure

was being removed to Sunday travelling, and there is also many..

entertainment. Then there is the those matters would be welcomed by competition with the other which concerns them alone, foreign, ships.

Sunday trading.

I. C. M.

ever, who have their doubts.

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