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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936.

KRUPPS SELLS GREAT BRITAIN

MACHINERY FOR ARMS

Doom Is Near

As emotionless as he has been during nearly seven years spent in prison while his case was fought through the courts, Del- bert Green, Ulah triple slayer, posed for this picture 48 hotirs before he was to face » fring stgrad.

Jail Long Empty

In Town Known

For Its Bad Men

Skagway, Alaska, Aug, 15, TO longer is Skagway the city No

Once the arena for Jefferson "Soapy" Smith and his gang of desperades during gold-runh days, the city has not, had a tenant in a jail for more than á year, Deputy Marshal Louis Ranuzzi revealed to-day,

Two at have made their homo in the jail house but they can slip through the bars.- United Press.

DISMAY OVER

REPORT OF

£1,000,000 ORDER

MINISTER'S VAGUE

STATEMENT

THE

HE London News Chronicle, in a recent article, alleges

that British contractors have placed orders with Krupps and other German firms for over £1,000,000 worth of machine tools for the manufacture of armaments,

HOW

In spite of an evasive reply in the House by Sir Thomas! Inskip (Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence), who, however,!

had been placed, it is admitted that "negligible orders" established that orders on a large sente are being executed in Germany at present for Britain and that further orders are in contemplation, says that newspaper.

"A Few Requirements"

Miss Ellen Wilkinson raised the question in the House of Conimons,

Sir Thomas said he was advised by the Service Departraents that no orders for munitions had been placed with Krupps or other German firms, but a few requirements in the form of individual

I machines or other requirements for experimental purposes had

been obtained from Germany.

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Precise figures, were not available, he added, but the amount was negligible.

Miss Wilkinson asked if Sir Thomas was aware

that

ut the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce it was stated that large orders for machine tools had been placed with Krupps.

Sir Thomas: I was not aware! of the statement.

Miss Wilkinson: If the Minister is

not aware of the statement, which is quite understandable, ought he not to be aware of the fact?

the facts.

Sir Thomas; I am quite aware of

General 14 Chung-Jen, Kwangsi military chief, addressing troops' at Nanning last Tuesday in furtherance of, resistance to Nanking

R.A.F. to Glorify

War

VISC

Aces

By A Special Air Correspondent

ISCOUNT SWINTON, Secretary of State for Air, is to revive in the present Air Force the traditions of the war-time R.F.C. and R.A.F..

His statement is a sequel to a campaign which has been These imports, he said, came almost exclusively from Germany.waging for a revival of the war-time esprit de corps of our air arm. "The demand for tools is so great Not long ago I pointed out that while the Germans are doing in Britain that we cannot keep up with it," explained Mr. Leonard everything in their power to use war-time traditions as an in- secretgry of the Machine spiration for the present air fighters, our Air Force chiefs have Weight, Tool Trades Chronicle to

been discouraging continuance of personal traditions which won us aerial supremacy in 1917 and 1918.

"My Ass live last night...

he added, "has The Speaker Intervened when Misano objection to German tools coming Wilkinson suggested the Minister to the country. In fact, more Ger- slotak make further inquiries.

and American tools will have to man and The statement referred to by be imported in future to keep up Miss Wilkinson was made by Profes- with the demand."

this week Mr. Runciman, Earlier sur J. G. Smith, Dean of the Faculty

of Commerce, at Birmingham Uni-President of the Board of Trade, ud- mitted that a substantial number, of versity.

He asserted that the importation ships were being built in German

of machine toots Into this country yards for British owners. The num- during the first six months of this ber, in fact, is 57, with tonnage rang- year was almost double, both in ing from 340 to 20,000: quantity and value, the insports for the corresponding period of last year.

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The News Chronicle Political Correspondent wrote:

£80,000. On Coronation

Broadcasts

AN estimate that £80,000 will

he spent on special pro- grarames during an eight-weeks Coronation season of broadenst- ing next summer is being allow- ed for in the B.B.C.'s budget.

This sum is allowed to cover the

DEEDS RE-CREATED

Now Viscount Swinton states that an Order has been promulgated in- sisting that air squadrons be given numbers corresponding with num- bers carried by famous war squad-

rons.

Young airmen will be provided with documents and reports which re-create the deeds of our air "aces" in the Great War, and In the officers' mess-rooms will

be hung framed reproductions of reports by such famous sky- fighters as Mannerk, McCudden, Ball, and Bishop, Another

feature of the new re- In addition to the armament orders)

to present-day air of over £1,000,000 already placed in expense of engaging the leading starsime will be the issuing of badgen Germany, more are to follow.

An effort is being made of the entertainment world for bind mottoes

squadrons. Consideraule alarm is expresset musical plays, ordinary plays, and to express in heraldry, and symbol In Government circles that erdera da variety programmes-for-per- the traditions of the squadrons that of this kind should be plaerd informing rights and copyright fees for fought so gloriously in the World Germany, the country agamit some of Britain's finest musical and war which Great Billain is now sup- literary works; and for the renting of landlines for the numerous outside posed to be rearming.

The whole affair recalls naturally broadcasts.

the "Merchants M Death" revelations On Coronation Day selected cities to which the News Chronicle gave, and villages in the provinces, will cen- publicity a year ago.

tribute to a special programine in Migs Ellen Willdinson,

M.P., will which relay's from every part of the try to-morrow to secure from the Empire will also be heard. Government an explanation of the new spate of Britishi orders for Ger- man military products.

It will be either immediately after this programme or on one of the succeeding days that the King will broadcast:

The question of televising the Curo- nation cannot be settled yet, but it is of the ceremony film and procession will be made by the

He's Wing Chief certain Unt

Brig. Gen. Delos C, Emmons, Bow in Hawail, has been named com- mander of the First Wing, the U, S. Army's aviation organisa- tion in the Far West.

FIVE MEN MAROONED ON GLACIER ATE GRASS AND SNOW

Bombay, Aug. 16.

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TRIBUTE TO MANNOCK Viscount Swinton added that it is not the policy of the Air Force to slagle out any one fighter for per sonal publicity, as this would be un- fatr to the hundreds of unnamed heroes of the air.

Yel a special exception bas been made for Mannock, the' gliter who brought down more than 70 enemy machines. the greatest leader and trellcian of the war in the air.

BBC. Television Film Unit, under So his photograpli-presented by Majer L. Barbrook, and rushed to his friend, Squadron-Leader J. Ira Alexandra Palace for televising im-Jones, is prominently displayed ut mediately afterwards.

the Andover Staff College.

LORD STRATHSPEY ALWAYS HAS A POTATO IN HIS POCKET He Swops It When It Has Got Hard Through Old Age

Brighton, Aug. 10. it has been used for some weeks; It THERE is still a widely-held becomes soft.

belief in Sussex that the carrying of a potato will render a person immune from rheumat jism

"One might think it-was rotten, but 4t isn't. After that it becomes so hard it is difficult to cut. It's like Iron. Some people keep their potato fonger, but I believe it has lost its healing properties.. I throw it away This theory has supporters both in then, but not before I have got a village and town. One of them here new one from a garden or a frult Is Lord Strathspey. He has been stall or a pantry, wherever I happen carrying a potato about with him to be. I don't like to break the for years, and although he admits that sequence.

"NOT A TWINGE"

the beneficial results may be due to a kind of "optimistic autó-suggestion," he would never be without one.

"I was troubled for a long time When visited at his house at with a knee I injured, but since try- Rottingdean, he took a potato na large ing this remedy, I have not had a as a pullet's egg from his trousers twinge, My wife tried with pocket.

success, too, but she did not keep it "This is about the size I generally up because it is so difficult for a carry," he explained. "It I can only woman, having no pockets, to carry get a big one, I cut it in half. After the potato constantly with her.”

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Snow-blind, frost-bitten, and sick HOW LONG IS A MINUTE?

from eating snow, five Indian mem-

bere of a Survey of India party are

new in hospital at Mussoorie.

The man had to fight for their MR. M. P. PUGII, prosecuting solicitor at Birmingham Police Court recently tested a witness who said he know the duration of a

liven 18,000 feet above sea level onj

the Badrinath Glacier. They were minute. With watch in hand, he timed him. Intense concentration marooned for three days, and two was revealed on the witness's face as mentally he tickled off the nights, and, with all their stores of seconds.

food, water, and firewoud exhausted, “Now!” he exclaimed,

only managed to crawl a few yards

en

hour

blankets,

after throwing away their

That is exactly eight seconds," said Mr. Pugh.

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