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THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936.
[AUSTRALIA
HAS BIG PLANS FOR DEFENCE
COMPULSORY MILITARY
TRAINING
Sydney, Apr. 15. Australia's problems of de- fence will shortly be considered- when the Australian Council of Defence meets in Melbourne to examlae proposals for the ex- penditure of more than £7,000,- 000 during the 1936-37 financial year, beginning on July 1.
That year will be the second year of the three years' expansion pro- gramme, and it la provisionally estimated that expenditure for the following year will bo £6,900,000. This will make the expenditure for the three years about £19.600,000, or about £3 per head of the Aus tralian population.
So buoyant in Federal revenue that it is felt in official circles that there will be no reduction in the provisional expendituro for 1996-37. The amount even may be increased to provide for more rapid expan. slon of the Royal Australian Air Force, duplication of the overeen air mail service, and for a subsidy for aeroplane construction in Aus- tralia.
There will be no provision for an. other new cruiser in the next Bud- xet. It is expected that the cruiser Adelaide, in reserve at Sydney, will be replaced by a new vessel in the second three years' programme, to be begun in 1938-39.
The Council of Defence, at the forthcoming meeting, will be told that there is a limit to the speed at | which ́Australla can rearm, and that the rate of development laid down by the Government cannot be accolerated to any degree.
+
MILITIA
ENLISTMENT
General Goering, Chief of the German Air Staff, recently made n prolonged tour of the freed Rhineland. The picture shows him on board a Rhine steamer with President Terboven and the Regional leaders Simon and Grohe.
BLONDE
SWEETHEART
DEFENDS KREUGER'S MEMORY
Recent speeches and commenta by the Minister for Defence, Mr. }^« Archdale Parkhill, suggesting a weakness in the voluntary militia system, are interpreted in official circles as a hint of early steps to- wards the reintroduction of pulsory training, which waS RUB- pended by the Labour Government of Mr. Scullin in 1930 as a mensure of governmental economy.
ccm-
The peace enlistment of the
| militia has been set down at 35,000, Dit that figure has never been approached in the lust six years, and the intest total is only 26,000. It has been realised for some tirae that the militia units are under
strength, but, with a still limited
allocation for defence, Governments
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ministration did not restore com- pulsion, preferring to devote the amount available to other defence nieasures.
To give the Voluntary milltin system a full tria) before it can be regarded us a fallure, Mr. Packhill has naked the Military Board to formulate a schéme for the ch couragement of recruiting.
One suggestion to make the militia more attractive is that the uniform should be varied from the plai khaki. One militia battalion in Sydney and one in Melbourne) have been equipped as Scottish re- giments, the Sydney Scots being allied with the Black Watch and wearing its uniform. The proposal is to aflate other Australian battalions with British regiments
and to provide them with corres- ponding uniformis. Other sugges- tions are that conditions in camps, drill halls, and social activities should be improved,
BRANDY WARNINGS
BEWARE OF YOUTH
The explosive vigour of youth and the mellow charm of ad- vanced years were never better compared than at the Cognac Tasting organised by the Wine and Food Society in the Vint- ners' Hall, City of London.
Youth in braridy is a terrific ex- perience the awkward nge crammed into a bottle.
"Better not drink this," sald an expert, handing a reporter a glass of 1935 Grande Champagne. "Just sniff." The liquid was colourless as gin. At 2.30, 5.20,
The aroma recalled teargas. The 1:20 & 9.20 p.m.lated spirit, and left a slow-moving, single sip tasted like ignited methy red-hot trail.
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"CARDINAL
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"You see," added the expert, "that in 35
35 or 40 degrees stronger than the brandy you are used to. It is about Ave over proof. ... Don't drink this one, either."
At the next table we went back 10 | years. The three types of cognac, Grande Champagne, Borderles and Fins Bols, born in 1924-25, had lost some of their original ardour.
At the third table they were 20 years old, an age of discretion where the follies of childhood had given place to polse, charm and the rich amber tint more familiar to the
other tables provided such genial dotards as bottled brandics as 1814 and 1705 vintage, and Edwardian brandies from the wood dated 1904, 1908, and 1909.
MONTE CARLO, APR. 10. COUNTESS INGEBORG WACHT- MEISTER. FIANCEE OF IVAR KREUGER, THE SWEDISH FINAN- CIER, WHO ENDED HIS LIFE IN PARIS IN SUCH DRAMATIC CIR- CUMSTANCES FOUR YEARS AGO. IS NOW EARNING HER LIVING AS A "BEAUTY SPECIALIST"" IN MONTE CARLO.
of money had kept faith with him, | Kreuger's name might have gone down in the history of finance as the greatest of all. But certain nations let him down, and that meant his ruin."
Countess Wachtmeister, a tall, blonde woman, in her late twenties, has achieved a success on the Riviera by a beauly invention of hers, the "hormone mask," n contraption which applied to the face is supposed to
"The only girl Kreuger ever loved" sold when interviewed io day: "Kreuger never gave me a penny-1 | rejuvenate it a decade or several, „never äsked him for any money. Nor | according to Individual require-
have 1 accepted any of the numerous 'ments.. offers 1 received just after his death
to write my memoirs.
"Having to work for my living does not minke me unhappy-quite the contrary. Even If he' had remained alive 1 should certainly have insisted on occupying my time in some fashion or other. I hate idleness, and so did Ivar Kreuger.
"So much that has been wrillen about Kreuger hy alleged 'friends' and know-alle strikes me as sheer tommyrot. - Kreuger was essential- ly honest.
"I only some of those nations he financed by lending them húge sums
600-YEAR OLD
KORAN FOUND
AFTER THEFT
Since the Riviera is crowded with women of uncertain age who would like to look younger than they are, Countess Wachtmeister's reception quarters are well filled.
"Often people come to see me whom I met socially in the Kreuger days," Counters Wachtmeister said, "Sometimes they put silly and tactless questions 10 mc. i never answer them, even if it might mean the loss of a patient.""
More Work In
1935 For Many Nations
LESS IN FRANCE AND
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DICK POWELL RUBY KEELER
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Jerusalem, Apr. 10. A PRICELESS 600-year-old volume of the Koran which vanished, in January 1932 from according to the Ministry of the Alaqsa Mosque hero wasLabour Gazette, in an article on recovered to-day in a Cairo employment in the United King- antique shop after unremitting dom and in overseas countries. searches by the Palestine and Egyptian police.
Unemployment decreases were recorded in most countries dur- ing 1935, compared with 1934, with
The principal exceptions were France, the Netherlands, and Poland; The volume was one of three stolen
where. unemployment increased. -from-the-mosque--museum-in-the-Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, with Temple area of Jerusalem. It forsn-reductions in 1934, recorded increases ed part of the Koran contained in in 1938. 20 volumes written by hand on guzelle skin with multi-coloured In all the countries quoted the inks.
average numbers of unemployed in 1935 were higher than in 1929,
The Koran originally belonged to ex-Sultán Abdul Hussein Merini, ruler in Morocco and Spain In 1330gistered at employment exchanges as. The average number of persONS 10-- It is bound luxuriously in yellow leather embossed with gold and unemployed or as applicants for work silver.---Reuter.
were (last 000's omitted):
FOREIGN NAMES IN HARLEY STREET
REFUGEES FROM THE CONTINENT
BRITISH COMPLAINT OF COMPETITION
A complaint that Engilsh medical practitioners are suffering from the competition of refugee doctors from The Continent was made
recently by a Harley-street specialist.
is
United Kingdom Germany Franco Netherlands
Italy, Austria
1934. 1935, 2,221 2,100
2,458 2,117
377 460
333 385
064 700
370 340
05
82
Czechoslovakia
677
C8C
342
382
62
52
37
39
Switzerland
Poland
Hungary
New Zealand......
PERCENTAGES
Sweden last year had the lowest percentage of insured employed work-people or members of Trade- Unions, with 16; Canada was second becoming with 15.4, and Great Britain third with 15,6: Norway" was the highest with 26.3, and the United States was next with 23.
- "This competition widespread," he said. "It is very marked in Hampstead and Golders Green. People are dazzled by the apparatus these foreignern use, though the effect may be negligible,
doctors
Expansion of employment was re- "Sometimes a Harley-street ad corded in 1935 in Great Britain, Ger dress is obtained, simply for the ad- many, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Hun- vertisement il provides.
gary, the United States, Canada, becoming common, also, for util in practice aboard to fly over South Africa, and Japan. There was lo perform operations or to attend ; also a slight increase la employment wealthy foreign women who want in Czechoslovakia, following declines their children barn in London, so In 1933 and 1934. that they may have the protection of British nationality."
the
The writer of a letter in "Lancet""" urges that British medical societies should Investigate applica- itions by foreign students for staff appointments at hospitals. There is an increasing "crop of plates bearing Continental names" in Harley-street, the writer declares,
In France, however, there was a further reduction, and in Switzerland' there was also a decline.
The largest totals for employment in 1935 were Great Britain with 10,- 371,000 and Germany with 15,925,000.
In Great Britain, South Africa and Japan, the average numbers in employ. When this view was put to the ment ware higher in 3035 thus in medical secretary of the British 1920, but in all the other countries Medical Association, Dr. G. C.dealt with employment In 1935 re- Anderson, he stated that the number mained below the level of 1920. of refugees practising in Britain could not be more than 150. "We It should be noted, however, that in have always fell," he added, "that the sons of these countries employment, problem was not big enough for us
In 1029 was at a higher level than in to Interveno,"
Great Britain.
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Mala captures the beautiful native girl in the island raid anquence. of "Last of the Pagans", the onusual romance of native life in the Marquesan Islands,which comer to the King's Theatre on Wednesday,
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