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Battleships Can Fight

Bombs Be Glad If

Harpo Marx Marries Brunetto

Hollywood, Nov. 30. Harpo Marx. the "dumb" comedian, who always chases blondes in Marx Brothers films, has married an ultrabrunette, Miss Susan Fleming, Hollywood actress and former Ziegfeld Follies girl.

This was revealed to-day when Harpo sent the following telegram to President Roosevelt;

"I'm in Ilve for congratulations too, having been married since about September 26, somewhere in California or Nevada.

"I've kept it secret til now because I didn't want to crowd. you off the front page."

London Is Losing Its Population

200,000 IN FOUR YEARS

The population of the County of London declined' by over 200,000! during the four years 1931-35, e- cording to a report issued by the London County Council.

The estimated population in the. middle of 1935 was 4,185,200, com- 4,397,003 at the 1031 pared with

ten census. The decrease in the yeara, 1921-31, however, was only 87,520,

The boroughs with the largest populations l mld-1035 were Wands- worth (343,300), Islington (304,100), and Lambeth (279,000). Those with the smallest populations, apart from the City, were Holborn (35,100),

Stoke Newington (50,210), and

Chelsea (57,320).

The county birth rate in 1935 was 13.3 per 1,000, and the death rate 114 Poplar had the highest birth rate with 15.4, and the City the lowest with 7.4. Chelsea and Fins- bury had the highest death rate with 12.0 and Lewisham the lowest with 9.9.

BRITAIN

'MUST HAVE

BIG CRAFT'

NEED OF SEA AND AIR CONTACT

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By A Naval Correspondent "IT is plain that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible by bombing from the air.”

This lan statement in the re- port of the sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial De- fence appointed to inquire into the vulnerability of capital ships to air attnek.

The report goes on to say that the indestructibility of such ships by bombs is not the ques- tion..

"The real quertion that arises," It is declared is whether their.i design s such as to secure the maximum of immunity from air We are satisfied that nitack. everything is done that experience could suggest, or skill and money could provide,"

"A battleship is built to resist attack both shove and below water from guns, torpedoes and mines," saya the report. PREVENTING "FATAL DAMAGE" "Against air attack rearrangement and improvement of her protection is needed, but the Admiralty think that the capital ship of the future can be so designed as to distribu- ton of her armour on decks and sides and as to interior subdivision, that she will not be subject to fatal damage from the alr.

"The effect of hits by acrial bomba is anglogous to plunging long-range are from guns.

"ibere i no reason why the ship cannot be designed to meet nir attack just as in the past sho has been designed to meet other dangers.

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The net Annual value of the

Those who rely for their critic- ' county. April 6 of this year, wasisms of anti-alrerátt Are merely on

£65,093,211, and the rateable value experience in the Inte war was £60,513,838. The rateable value working on a basis quite unreliable, works but at £14 Bs. per head.

"While, apart from increased Westminster has the highest rate- speed and power of manoeuvre, air- nble value, £10,441,140, and the City craft remain as vulnerable as e- comes next with £8,198,882, giving fore and the target they offer in-

value per head in the City of £840 creases with their size, there have; This is exactly ten times the rateable been great developments in num value per head in Westminster. The bers and calibres. of guns, weight borough with the lowest rateable of shell, necuracy and rapidity of value is Stoke Newington, £427,203. fire,

"NOT LIABLE TO BE SUNK" "Those who hold that the day of the capital ship is doomed by rea-

FILM STAR'S EYE FEARS 50 of its vulnerability to air attack do not carry the argument to its logical conclusion.

Hollywood, Nov. 21, Film actor William Powell has de- veloped serious eye trouble. He is New York-bound to consult special 11. Reuter.

You're A Neurotic

New York, Nov. 30. you area neurolic, you can turn your'nightmares Into money, your day dreams lufo fame, says Dr. Louis E. Blach, paychiatrist author of "Bo Glad You're a Neurolic."

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It would be a duti, stalld world St there were

neurotica, according to Dr. Bisch, Every- thing big is done by men and women neuroiles, who are given An- advantage. over normal humans by their greater nervous energy.

That doesn't ingan

that alt Dr Bald, "Some of the things people do that are short of greatness are also induced by a neuroile state."

Bisa are great men,"

But, he added, every Inventor, statesman, artist, poet or auther who added something to the progress or knowledge of the world-did-80 with neurotic energy and neurotic differences from normal beings.

What is a neurotle? Well he explained, simply a-person whose nervous system makes him react differently from "normal" people.

vulnerable.

"Indeed, it can be said that the capital ship is the one remaining surface craft which. If hill kevere- ly by an air bomb, is not liable to be sunk,

"Yet no partisan of the air has put forward the suggestion that alr forces can and must take over the lasks for which the Navy are now responsfole.

"WOULD LOSE THE EMPIRE" "Yet this is the conclusion which properly flaws from the arguments which they adduced against the capital ship. TO

state the malter In - 130 simplest possible terms. the ad- vocates of the extreme al view would wish this country to build capital ships (other Powers Bill continuing to build them).

"If their theories turn out well founded, we have wasted money; but if ill founded, we would, in putting them to the fest, have lost the Empire."

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It may be that the contract between the Admiralty and the Air Ministry is capable of belug further developed and we trust

that no effort will be spared to do

Though a considerable body of confidential Information has been withheld in the published edition of the report It is made plain that pro- longed and exhaustive experiments have been, and are still being, car- ried out,

The Admiralty and Air Ministry

are working in close collaboration to ensure that no possible aspect of the problem may be left out of ac- The Sub-Committee was presid- by Sir Thomas Inskip, the Co-ordination of

The capital ship is much more count. strongly constructed and much bet- ter equipped with anti-aircraft guna ed over than any other ship. Cruisers and Minister for light craft are necessarily far more Defence.

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A FINAL APPEAL

Christmas is approaching with its numerous calls for generosity, and it seems desirable to close the King George V. Memorial Fund before it becomes one of too many claims on our charity.l therefore propose to close the subscription lists on Saturday, December 19th, and I ask every citizen of Victoria and Kowloon to put to himself the following questions:

(1) Have 1 fully appreciated. "the nature of the Memorial, which is that the thank-offerings of those who prospered under the late reign will be devoted to the recreation of poor people in crowded areas; so that Hongkong's monument to King George will not be a lifeless statue of him but a living and permanent realisation of his desire for the health and happiness of his poorest subjects?

(2) Are the ninety thousand dollars that have already been raised the most that Hongkong can do?

(3) If not, can add to the amount, even though my contribution be small?

(4) Or, having already given, can'! give morò?

A. CALDECOTT,

GOVERNOR.