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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.

COUPLE SEEK PARADISE SEVEN YEARS,

Italy Is Taking No Risks

MILLION SOLDIERS

UNDER ARMS

Rome, Aug. 10. THERE is only about one

chance in ten of an European war within the next two years, according to responsible Italian officials.

re-

Italy, however, is proceeding! with its military preparations as though the odds were versed and war might be ex pected to-morrow.

Italy today stiff bna almost one: billion soldiers under arma in Italy and Ethiopia and is turning out air- planen, bombs, munitions and big guns at virtually a war-time pace.

If there is an European war (and Mussolini Kinzerely hopes there won't be teenuse he has his hands full with Ethiopia), Italy expecty to be, an in 1915, ол

on the winning side.

Wit Italy fight with Germany in the next war?

or against

Nobody knows, not even Mussolini, becnums European polities are in such a state of flux it is impossible to any who will fight whom.

Italy is preparing for enemica in every direction. The Brenner pans, looking toward Austrin and Germany Italo- 1x heavily fortified. Tho Jugoslav frontier bristles with "pill boxes", Lrenches and emplacements.

Honda leading through the passes into France and Switzerland are covered by imposing camps of Italy'n picked Alpine trenja.

PORTS STRENGTHENED

REBELS

IN CHARGE

FIND IT. SAIL TO-DAY

CADIZ, which la reported to have been bombarded by the Govern- ment cruiser, Cervantes,"

·

Delegates of Lunatic Fringe" Threaten To Lynch Hecklers

New York, August 12.

"THIS lunatic fringe is going to take over the

Every Italian port, since the menacoj 667 of war between England and Italy, has been strengthened with anti-air- craft artillery, mine Inyera and a flotilla of submarinus.

In the past year a dozen new mili- tary airports have been established in Italy, ecially in the southern two, Sicily and Sardinin, and airbeds,

throughout the peninsula have been Amproved and enlarged.

"Before the end of the year Italy plans to have 1,000 new airplane mostly high-speed bombers, in service giving her almost 1,000 first-line machines. Fifteen-hundred new student pilots were recently enrolled and aro now being trained.

SOCIALISM

Key Industries have been "nation- alized" and are working for the

Climate:

PERFECT

Income Tax:

Rates:

6d. IN £

3d. IN £

A MAN and woman have sailed from London bound for Paradise. on Earth..

It took Captain John Fleming Vibart, C.B.E., late of the Royal Indian Navy, and his wife seven years to find Paradise-in South-east Rhodesia,

They travelled the entre civilised world. Their trunks and suitcases are plastered with inbols of the world's rail, ship and air services.

Papeete, Lotus Land of the South Seas . New York, modern wonder city.... Peace- ful, mugic isle of Madagascar. China, Japan, India.

They searched them all, but train, ship or 'plane carried them

on

NATIONAL DAY IN FRANCE

Our picture shows a litle Marianne from Northern France who parti- cipated in the great shows celebrated recently throughout the country.

"BATTALION ON ITS

to other lands-dissatisfied. HONOUR"

Back in Loniou they tried to set-; te, but the desire for the perfect home gave them no rest. They bought a secondhand car and drove away.

word

VIEWS OF OFFICERS AND CLERGY

"NO COMPULSION"

Keen interest has been aroused

LONG SEARCH Months later they landed at Cape- American Government!" roared American's "Rabble-town with it, not turned north into in the case of the Commanding rouser No. 1," the Rev. Gerald Smith, electrifying 11,000 the vast hinterland of the land of the Officer of a Reriment at Home, whe delegates, meeting in Cleveland as the National Convenantu. Several sets of tyres were as stated in the "Telegraph" re- out on macadam roads and cently, dispensed with the custom tion of the Townsend movement.

veldt and jungle racks,

of a full dress parade of his hat- talion a long time before the hour The Townsend recovery plan-to which Father Cough- Through Bechuanaland, tuled by lin, the powerful "radio priest," pledged his support to-day Fields are is plentiful as pebbles "put them on their honour" to cont Chief Tahekedir Namaqualand, where for church on Sundays, and who threatens to split the Democratie vote in the Novemberon a beach: along the Witwaters on parade properly dresed just in election and may thus lead to the defeat of President Rob-rand, most prosperous spot on earth; time for church.

ever north, beyond Lake Nyaan, . . . Many opinions have been expressed sevelt.

Still searching they headed south by military officers and lenders of the Spokesman of the "Share Our again

and entered Southern Itho-hurch. Among them are the follow.

ing: Wealth" clube organised by desin. They came to the Umvem Bishop Welldon.---A soldier should Senator Huey ("Kingfish") ชนาก! River and for several miles

bowled along beside rushing streams not be compelled to attend Divine Long, the assassinated Dictator almost hidden by tropical vegetation. Service if he conscientiously objects. of Louisiana, the Rev. Gerald Birds coloured like rainbows flitted If there is a Church parade it should Smith began his speech by ane

from tree to tree. Troops of baboons be as brief na possible, scrambled to safety into the 2.000 ft. nouncing that he had just heard hills os either side. Startled buck of a plot against him.

watched the passage of the searchers. This is how Capt. Vibart describes the first glimpse of their perfect home, Umlali:-

Professor Probes

Cosmic Ray Stereln

government. The army is proculing LONE VIGIL

with a vast programme of mechaniza tion.

Mobility of attack and rapidity of the two guiding mobilization are principles which motivate Italy's pre- paration for the next war.

-As-a-reault af his experiences in the Ethiopian war, Bussolini believes he can throw the entire Italian nation into a way overnight. The two "test mobilizations" of the Italian popula tion during the African war were primarily designed to perfect the organization for immediate mobiliza- tion in case of an emergency.

Mussolini feels, according to per sons close to him, that Italy's ability any war at a moment's notice to enter is his greatest diplomatic strength. He believes this constant prepared-

IN 'GHOST'

TUBE STATION

N the darkened platform of a disused London tube station,

a professor is at work in a makes shift laboratory, probing secrets of cosmic rays.

Professor 1. M. Blackett, of He may be a powerful factor in the Birkbeck "College, London, inaposing peare on Europe because has what is surely one of the neither France nor Germany would strangest laboratories in the like to have one of their fronts ex-world-a disused cabin 120ft, posed to Italy's modern legions. Res- pect for Italian military, prowess, below the wheels of the city's under Faucism's reforms, is increns- roaring trafic. ing in Europe, Italians belleve and this may be an important factor in preserving peace.

WAR DANGER ENDED Mussolini's many speeches during and after the East African war all revealed a great preoccupation for the peace of Europe. Meunced by Britain and Franco in their attempts to halt his colonial adventure, Mussolini felt then that peace hung on a slender thread.

To-day, now the Ethiopian affair ls being liquidated, Mussolini feels tha dangers of an immediate war in Europe are vanishing. But he doesn't Intond to relax his preparations until there has been general settlement of the problems which are. disturbing Europe,

The Italians feal they rendered_a service to pence by sponsoring the signaturo of the Vienna pact ending. the bitter quarrel between Germany and Austria.

Italiana,

At least, reason most Europe will not go to war over the question of Austria. This pact, they bellore, removed one of the thorns in the side of Italo-German relations and should decrease the anxietics of France and Czechoslovakia regarding the futuro Austria,

There are three questions in the opinion of Italians which still might bring war in Europe within two years, These aras

1. England's apocial Mediterranean accords with Jugoslavia, Turkey and Grooco whsch Italians feel are directed against Italy; 2-The Locarno question: if Franco, Britain and Belgium try to draft

a new Locarno treaty without and against Germany, Itallars bellove war will be inevitable in Farope;

3. Donalg: Italians are inclined to

Here the Professor; who is Britain's leading authority on cosmic raya, is studying the penetration power of these strange rays.

Surrounded by shining coils, batteries and wires, he works with great electro-magnet, studying the power of the rays. And

us he works trains thunder through the deserted station... but they never stop.

"ghost" trains flas past, but the pro- The windows light up as these fessor works on.

TRACKS PHOTOGRAPHED

"HANG THE HECKLERS" "Eight hundred men," he declared, "were going to enter this hall provent-ne-from-making i-redbioad-i ed fghting speech.

to

"How many of you will promise to hang anybody who interrupts me?"

Eleven thousand hands shot up in answer.

Mr. Smith then launched into his tirade against the Roosevelt Nowe Deal.

With a Bible in one hand he played upon his vast audience with all day arts of the super-evangelist, raising the delegates to the highest pitch of political frenzy.

"BRAIN TRUST BREAD"

"I refuse to drink this Tammany milk or cat this brain trust bread thaked in Moscow!" he bellowed,

General Sir Ian Hamilton--If the des underlying a Church Parade is that the men should go to Heaven, then, in so far, it is futile: uni is more likely to result in a march towards the infernal regions. If the parade is bell for any other reason, "Then we caine to Christmas į such as smartness and discipline, that Pans. We stopped to fill-our radia-is-for the military authorities, tor. We looked down into the yal-

COMPULSORY RELIGION ley it was the place of our dreams..

Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. W. R. Mnithows) quoted the story of the Church dignitary who was asked if there werd, any distinction between

NO CROWDS

They bought two and a half acres of land, ordered a house to be built, compulsory religion and no religion. sold their car for £30 less than they "The distinction," replied the digni

"is too subtle for me to per- paid for it, and returned to Englundary, to say good-bye for ever.

For other paradiso seekers here aro

some facts about Umtali:

crive."

The Hishap of Hereford (Dr. C. L. Carr) The idea of putting a hat. talion on its honour is excellent. European population, 2,000. When I was vicar of Yarmouth dur- Rates 3d. in the £ for propertying the War I took a Church Parado and td. for buildings, with 16 per Service every Sunday, and found that cent. rebate for prompt payment, most of the men resented the lengthy

It has a £4,000 uwimming bath | geremonial beforehand. —there's fishing, shooting, golf, ten- nis-and income tax is Gd. in the £ over £800 a year.

The Bishop of Truro (Dr. Runkin) -I heartily agree with anything that would make the service more helpful "Eighty-out of every 100 farms are under mortgage to the Government Climate's as

Captain Vibart says dreamily: for the men. The culling down of near perfection as tiring ceremonial before church would That means Government ownership of land. That's Communism!"

possible. There's 110 snobbishnesa, be very beneficial.

door. and everywhere is the open This spectacular

Convention is Living's cheap, and when I say y actually that of a triple alliance ing I don't mean existing People which will fight the Presidential who like the smell of a crowd hnd election as a Third Party opposed

better stop away."

That was the farewell of the

an

to both Democrats and Republicans, and wenuin who had found their The alliance combines the Town- | Paradise. send Planners, pledged to restore prosperity by £40-n-month old age

the Long and

The Denn of Bristol (Very Rev. H. W. Blackburne, Chaplain to the Forces during the War).--The idea of putting men on their honour to parado la splendid. I appear properly dressed at church

I have

edinclimes thought the preliminary parade

has been a cause of dissatisfaction. At the same time there is great value in the compulsory church parude, an

Father Coughlin's National Union Girl of 17 Marries there are probably numbers of men for Social Justice.

Together these three "unatic

movements will back the

"Counie rays are always bombord ing the earth," he said. "Where they come from is still a mystery."

Professor Blackett has succeeded ¦ fringo" in photographing the tracks the rays Union Party candidate, Reprezenta- make when passing through

ative William Lemke, of North Dakota. machine.

Soon he hopes to fly into the stratosphere and study the there.

raya

"We know," he continued, "but the higher one goes the more intense these rays become.

We now con- template flights to an altitude of ten miles."

LORD AUSTIN

The College of Heralds has con- armed the title chosen by Sir Herbert Austin

ON the conferment of д barony in the King's Birthday honours list.

He will be known as Lord Austin

Cosmic rays with an energy rench- ing 20,000 million volts have alrendy been studied. suspects that there are rays with an energy of nearly a billion volts.

Professor Blackett of Longbridge.

Britain to decide whether they consider such netion a reason for war or not. Italy thinks not, Although Italians are comident war is not a imminent possibility in Europe, they believe the odds against war cannot be reduced or eliminated entirely until the diplomatic negotia Lions under way are concluded."

Whatever happens, say Italians. "we are prepared mutorially to fight

Onger if Germany marches into nuleido for Europe, Nothing will belleva Poland will not ralss a but spiritually we think it would be Dantig after the Olympic games, communism

come of the war but anarchy and ira Europa". United making it dificult for France and Press.

Man of 100

In spite of the opposition of her parents, a girl of 17 has married a man of 100, reports the Exchange from Belgrade, Yugo-Slavia.

The bride is the pretty daughter of a farmer, and the couple have been engaged for

a year.

During that time the girl repeatedly expressed her deler. mination

to marry her aged

fiance.

Producer-Preacher

Tells

Boyhood Romance

who would not go to church other- wise.

Refugees' Hopes Dashed

Twenty thousand Assyrians te homeless again as a result of the League Council's decision to abandon its plan to settle the

Of refugees in French Syria.

MR. RALPH READER, musical comedy producer, stood in the Wesleyan church pulpit recently at Crewkerne, Somerset, where he spent his boyhood.

the

Mr. Eden, Foreign Secretary, fold Commons that the French Government had Inforingck to teaguo Committee concerned thai owing to political developments in Syria Cit would, in its viów, be unwhy to pro- ceed with the project,

The Council had instructed its com-

"As a boy I sat in a pew in this church and fell in love with amittee to continue its efforts to ind girl in the choir who was always dressed in pink. I never thought

of what the minister said in his sermon, my thoughts were with this girl, and when not with her I was thinking of how I should play my football."

a permanent solution of the Assyrian

problem

The Assyrian refugees are sur- vivors of the massacres that took place in Iraq in 1933...

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