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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936.

ITALY PREPARED FOR WAR ON BIG SCALE

War-Time Basis But Mussolini Still Not Content

Dilemma

Of The Pacifist

SUICIDE OR GO

TO WAR?

(From a Correspondent)

Suicide in the event of another war is recommended by Dr. C. D. Brond, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge Uni- versity, for pacifists unwilling to live by the efforts of non- pacifists.

He thinks, too, that any conscrip- tion law should impose the denih penalty for refusal to undertake war service. Really conscientious objec- tors, he adds, should welcome it.

These viows are expressed by Prof. Broad in an article in the "Hibbert Journal," on "Ought we lo fight for our country in the next war?" He aneumes that the war is important, In the sense that "there is real un- cortainty as to whether England will win or lose it,” and that its loss would be as disastrous for us as the Great War for the defeated nations.

"If you are to go on living in Eng- land at all during the war, you will hel dependent for your food and proter. Lion on the fact that there is a

MUSSOLINI "The wheel .. vf -destinj

fast

turna

MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER

MILLION MEN UNDER ARMS

AT HOME AND IN AFRICA ́Italy's preparedness for war is superior to-day to any time in the nation's history, a United Press survey compiled from official statistics and information gathered by foreign military observers revealed.

Despite the fact that the country virtually is on a war-time basis, Mussolini desires Italy to become more

France Builds powerful.

Largest Gas Shelter

In World

He has demanded of his Corporative State form of govern ment that there be no flaw in the nation's defence. He has ordered that any military of economic weakness be detected and elimirinted.

"The inevitable prospect of the nation being called to the test of war is the dramatic eventuality which must guide our every action," Duce declared recently. Speaking about the possibility Paris, May 1. of war in the near future he said, What is believed to be the "When? How? Nobody, can say, safest-gus-but the wheel of destiny turns majority of persons of military age largest--and the whose consciences are less sensitive proof, bomb-proof, fire-proof very fast." than yours or work in a different | shelter in the world has just been way," he says.

Plainly there is a prima facie obli- completed at Paris, and is ready gation not to put yourself in this to shelter 8,000 people against situation of one-sided dependence on any future air raid. what you must regard as the wrong actions of people less virtuous or less enlightened than yourself.

ONLY SOLUTION

youths found to be physically fit and possessing other necessary quali fications.

J

The Italian envy, light and extreme ly fast, totals 400,113 tona, with 118, 176 tuns under construction. The navy has been developed chiefly with the idea of fighting à defensive war in the Mediterranean.

Use of submarines and mines be low the surface and airplanes has been highly developed by Italian naval authoritica. aly's navy now han 65 10 70 submarines in opera- tion with another 12 under con- struction.

Comparison of Italy's ormed strength to lay with that existing at the outbreak of the World War shows the extent of military development under Fascism. Coupled with this military progross are gigantle changes in the national economic structure These include placing economic, into agricultural and professional life which have ene or two torpedo tubes

der corporations, giving the

It is the first of a series of shelters which it is planned to make out of these sections of the subways which lend themselves to conversion

Small torpedo craft known as MAS and having only a crew of two or three are also an outstanding feature of the Finlan navy. These boats

"On the whole, suicide is the course sing the last war, Parisians me government full control of credit reach a maximum speed of 55 to 60

1 should recommend to those who đó

kilometres per hour.

small aircraft carrier, since land and

The Fascist navy has only seaplane bases in the Fatherland, Lybin and East Mny

unt think there is an overwhelming chantrally took shelter from bombs and granting the state direct or obligation not to take one's own life, in the subways, but then the danger indirect control of all day industries.

"The next life, if there be one, fron

ጌነገጸ sight. The 110W At the outbreak of the World War. must be bad indert if it is worse shelter is arranged with particular Italy Ind a class of 250,000 to 260,-

000 soldiers under arms. By in case of the

Grent airtight | underground tra

rn doors close its tunnel, anki ma- chines

Africa make it

|

Lindbergh Deep In Science

.

London, May 1. SHUTTING out completely from his mind all thoughts of the doomed Hauptmann, Colonel Lindbergh has devoted himself ever since arrival in England to flying, and to further researches

aimed at perfecting the "robot heart," which he and Dr. Alexis

Carrel have "invented."

It is revealed that under an assumed name, Lindbergh has been carrying out experimenta in keeping visiting a London laboratory an animal organs alive after removal. from the body.

PAINFUL SUBJECT

He has made the visits because he has no laboratory at his country home, a 12th century house on Lord Sackville's estate in Kent.

Lindbergh refuses to discuss any- thing but the mechanical heart even with the few friends who have visit- ed him. These have deliberately avoided discussing the Hauptmann kidnapping, knowing that is a pain- ful subject with him and Mrs. Lindbergh.

Red Plans In Spain

Bela Kun's Civil War Mission

Fronter, May 1..

than this life will be in time of war. attention to gas alarm, the subway 1915, when Italy declared war against possible to sweep every section of the that which you will encounter on the functioning as a roadway for Austria-Hungary, the army had been editerranes. Two battleships of DETAILS of the Soviet's plans

And the gas in your oven is no less. dendly and far more merciful than

trains.

half, thus making

incrensed to £50,000.

650,000 men ander armIN

200

in

the

85,000 tons each are now neuring com- To -day the Fascist Sinte hind pletion.

of Italy's strongest naval One Fatherland and an additional 325,- assets is in mines. Italy holds ti white Italian saldives and majority of the world's patents and militingen in East Afrien, Native Italiana are recognized experts in the

in Knat Africa, chiefly art of mine laying. Askari and Dubats, total approxi- ately 150,000.

battle-Bell är the streets of your own town if should be bombed."

Prof. Brand explain d 1st compress the air in the en night that he was not binding himself clod space to a pressure of an at to saying he would himself commitmosphere and stelde. He was simply pointing out Pssible for those seeking escape to

troops enter through the three small en- that a preifist such as he, had dess | Cnte cribed might. In the next war, Tindrances provided, without danger of himself in such an awkward moral, gas entering with them, for the alr position that suicide was the unly under pressure blows it out. logical solution.

It is for him." he added, "to de- cide whether he should accept the logic of the position. If he thought| suicide ulso

wrong. Henven WILM knows what would happen.

"I would rather not say what my personal view is on this question. I ilo not know what I should do if another war broke out. But I think the conclusion I rench in my article IR one that a man could quite rea- sonably arrive at."

TWIN BROTHERS DIE TOGETHER

In addition to these soldiers there The air in the tonnel is derived are many thousands of youths who from outside, filtered through ma- drill regularly in Italy as members

whose secret is carefully of various youth organizations. chiner guarded, but which are said to provide

Within 24 hours 1,250,000 fully perfect protection against all known trained soldiers, exclusive of those in: gases, which can purify sonte 8,000 Ens! Afrien, could be mobilized, ac

10,000 cuble meters of air per hour. cording to a recent announcement The first shelter, of the Metre made by Under-secretary of War system has been installed at the sin-Federico Baistrocchi,

of

Fascist Party official figures list nation's available manpower be tween ages of 21 and 54 at 7,939,000, Military experts estimate that of this Lota! 5,000,000 could bo used effectively if Italy was at war Europe.

tion of the Place des Fetes, principal- tho

because. is depth-25 meter underground-and its size, both which properties are the result of the station's location in the American Quarrica (Carrieres d'Amerique) quarter, whose long unused galleries provide part of the space for the

way

to

in

*

Italy has natural protection affand- by the Alps to the north and by hind these natural walls the nation the Adriatic and Mediterranean. Be is developing individual and collective protection from

possible aerial raids. Along the French frontier a num ter of

redoubts have leen constructeil, Machine gun nests, gun locations entanglements are other features of and arrangements For barbwire fortifications along this front:

Fortifications along the Jugoslavia frontier

to understood extensive and formidable.

Redoubts and forts have been con structed in a staggered fashion. Bomb and gas proof chambers which will hold sizeable numbers of men are said to have been bullt.

WAR

Arc

for subjecting Spain to Bol- shevism reached here from Barcelona to-night,

con-

Bela Kan, who has until recently occupied a high post in the Com- munist International in Moscow, has arrived in Barcelona to hold Terence with the Bolshevist lenders topics for discussion at the conference trom all parts of Spain. Among the are:

Military preparations for civil war throughout the country.

shock Organisation of

troops, and the intensifying of revolution- ary propaganda in the Army.

To augment the activities of Bela Kun, who is accompanied by an ofll- clal named Sozovski, a group of yo be highly qualified Instructors in the nrt of revolution have been sent from Moscow.

of

TERRORIST CAMPAIGNS

Bela Kun has brought with him The Italian army has undergone a tremendous development in motoriza

Defence of 7,989 kilometers

lengthy instructions to the Com- coastline in Italy proper is left to that it form a second "Military Re munist Party in Spain, demanding There are plenty of other possibilition. This change Includes some 750 Loudon, Apr. 21.1

the airforce, secretly located rapid volution Committee," and defining Link for

scooter tanks which are emely the rubway system. adapt shelters in Studies of the defence possibilities It is not usual for twin brothers have led to the making of 130 sub-anti-aerial guns all

mountain

Aring coast guns, submarines, MAS the ruthless methods to be followed fighting Chemical

torpedo boats and mines. Motorized in directing the fighting planned for units, artillery and who have reached years of maturity

units also would be utilized if Italy the near future. to die together, and it is still more Thirty of them are 12 meters under artillery pieces into position. Addi are motorized. stations for similar treatment. Special mountain tractors haul heavy

was Invaded from the sea. unusual for them to die together ground, about 50 are seven meters tional roads have been

Extensive programmes to educate street fights should be conducted in These instructions emphasise that when separated by hundreds of below the service, and the rest are to provide ample means for. trans. These include elaborate instructions disturbance.

constructed people

defend themselves against accordance with the methods In id enemy al raids are, five meters underground. If when

in progress. down by "experts" in this form of portation. This occurred this week when all these points have been converted

Itoly to-day is. working on

apartracot house owners and Mr. Archibald Marshall and Mr. into shelters, it is felt that there is

a tenants. All industrial plants have Aviation production programme call-a naries of alarm signals which will throughout the still need of more, systems have been James McLean Marshall the former worked out for protecting shallower

ing for construction of 1,500 plaats be sounded in case of attack. Ad- specially devised by Bola Kun living in Surrey and the latter in tunnels and converting them also into

annually. Most of these machines joining shelters or deep cellars are Perthshire died within six hours of refuges against attack from the air.

are trimotored bombers which have one another.

-United Preas.

cruising speed of 350 kilometers hourly.

miles.

England Rules Out 12 P. M.

London, May 1,

It has now been established in England that there is no such time as 12 p.m.

are

At present 1,500 pilots and 4,500 specialized technicians

being trained at 25 aviation schools. A law is being preparol which provides compulsory aerial training for ail

to

being provides rapidly..

A secret group is being constituted to conduct terrorist campaigns country in ways

Every school child undergoes £7,000 REFUSED

practice anti-aerial and gas drills.

All newspructing the

and magazines print articles

populace, These lessons in "self-defence" extend to the radle and motion picture-United Press.

FOR SPEED ACE

THE record speedway racing Transfer fee bas just been

A legal decision to this effect has been made in the English New Zealand Plans Exhibition offered and declined.

courts.

A motorist was charged at Ketter-measurable then 12 am, 12 hours

than hope of success, that 12 pan after the meridian.

mon.

Wellington, N. Z. May 1.

Mr. Bradbury Prutt, managing director of Harringay, has offered services of Max Grosskreutz, the Belle Vue, Manchester, £7,000 for the Australian ace.

10

ing with parking his car on the after the meridian is midnight, too. An international exhibition is to be held at Wellington as the wrong side of the road, beside a sign But if 12 p.m. is the opposite of 12 central attraction in the New Zealand centenary celebrations in which Bald distinctly that there at and 12 s.m. is obviously mid-1940. Commemorative celebrations are to be held in various parta must be no parking "between 10 am. night, then 12 p.m. is midday, But of the Dominion concurrently with this.

The offer has not been considered. and 12 p.m." The defence main since midday is the meridian, it can-

Now Delle Vue is said to be trying fained, appareatly more with humour not be at the same time 12 hours sent conference held in Wellington We should laole to the year 1940 as £2,000, paid by Wembley for Frank

This decision was reached at a re-, serious consideration of the future.

get Vie Huxley from Wimbledon. The record speedway transfer fee is is no time at all, means nothing and It is felt here that at last England of representatives of the four main the year of our national coming- Charles, also of Belle Vuo is not once mentioned in an Act of is coming nearer to understanding cities and several provincial towns, of-age, a year in which we should Parliament.

Therefore, the solicitor why 12 p.m. has been Imown as the presided over by the Minister of In-plan for the future in all the pride football, riders receive 2% por cent. of In spoedway racing, as apart from argoed, the local council had itself "witching hour."

ternational Affairs, W. E. Parry. The and independence of the committed an offence in erecting the

Commonwealth Prime Minister.

grown their transfer fee for each year of aign.

Joseph A. Lyons, met the delegates

service to their track, to a maximum "Our centenary will afford us an of 15.per cont. and gave them on assurance of the opportunity we have not yet had Government's whole-hearted support of creating a national spirit and the maximum percentage.

Grosskreutz would have qualified for covered that according to law 12 A motorist who was summoned at p.m. Just does not exist. One must Chertsey last month was said to have

Planning for Future

guarding it, not in any direction say 12 midnight. For 12 am one been driving for 36 years without,

The Minister of Internal Affairs beneßt of mankind. In social and of aggrandisement but for the must say 12 noon.

trouble, to have averaged 20,000 to 80ld it was high time New Lawyers here have been arguing 40,000 miles a year, and to have landers ceased to say that New been reultedress New Zealand has Lost! 41 Pounds the case out over since. It is pointed owned 80 cars.

Zealand was a young country. out that 13 p., although it sug- The motorist, Laurence A. Wholey, "New Zealand is within four years gests night time, in no time at all, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was fined of its centenary," he told the dele- representing zero, which is not 30a, for exceeding the speed limit, but gates, and the people with their measurable. Or, It is argued, if it is his licence was not endorsed. enterprise and progress are ripe for

This dofence was upheld, Tha fnets were verified and it was die-

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Start of New Chapter "Who knows but that, in accond hundred years, if we nelze the opportunity our centenary will afford us, we may prove our cultural worth to that outer world. With that fine spirit our ploneers bequeathed to us, we should look to 1940 not only as the end of a chapter, but as the beginning of a new one."

A feature of the conference was the absence of any sectional at- titude. It was recognised that Wel- lington was the proper place for`an, international exhlbillon, and a co- mlitee Including the mayors of the tour chief cities was appointed to advance centenary prospects and re-. port within three months.. The Mnoris will co-operate in the cele- brations.

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