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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1986.

BATTLESHIPS ARE "JUST EXPENSIVE

WANTS GUN

FREEDOM

Powder, parties and parental con- duct, all are mixed in the petition of Mary Choria Perry, 18, who seeks to have a girl friend unimed guar- dian supplanung her parents. The girl charged she never was flowed to go with a buy nut attend parties and was threatened with disfigure- ment by her father if she used lip- stick and powder.

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"HIS ARTICLE ON THE AEROPLANE V. BATTLESHIP REPORT IS FROM AIR COMMODORE L. E. O. CHARLTON, C.B., C.M.G., D.5.0., FORMER CHIEF STAFF OFFICER OF THE R.A.F. IN IRAQ.

As long ago as 1920 he saw the German Dreadnought Ostfries- land sunk by bombs dropped by aircraft of the United States Navy, though she had survived mines and repeated hits during the battle of jutland.

Last month a book of his shocked the nation. -----It-was-half-history--of the Zeppelin-and-Gotha-raids—and half a convincing novel, describing how nearly half the Royal Air Force was shattered with a few minutes of the outbreak of

War.

By Air-Commodore L. E. O. CHARLTON ISOM

QUME remarkable arguments and admissions on the question of battleship v. air attack appear in the report of the sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence issued last week.

The report decided that the day of the battleship is not over, yet it was plain that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible from the air.

surrender.

The committee's composition | battleships and are building more. can alone be called into question,It also argues that a hostile fleet may for on it sat both the Chief of put itself athwart our trade routes in Naval Staff and the Chief of Air mid-ocean and starve Britain into Staff; the one concerned to sink or swim as an advocate of the "blue water" school; the other, as of right,; to impress the claims of air power,

This, considering the issues at stake, is a clear case of the plaintiff

The former argument is part of the old

Many game of "it for tai," people think that the complacent way in which Germany entered inta the recent naval treaty amounted to the skliful throwing of naval dust in

For the fourth time, Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, early day motion picture producer, is altar bound. His bride will be Mrs. Evangeline Russell do Rippeteau The couple is shown above as they Bled notice of intention to wed in Los Angeles.

MR. KIRKPATRICK'S

PLANS

By A Correspondent

London, Nov. 28.

Mr. W. M. Kirkpatrick, the new Export Credits Representa- tive in Chine, will, I understand, leave England on December 11th on the "Rawalpindi," accompanied by his wife.

I gather that Mr. Kirk-

and defendant allting in at their own our eyes, Germany knows it already patrick's general idea is to spend NEW “CRIMES” IN

trial.

They should, surely, have been special witnesses instead, and thus enabled Bic court to reap the full benefit of their experiness.

In any case the verdict was foregone conclusion, for the two new battleships had been laid down on paper before even the committee here met.

Cambridge, Nov. 30.

SCIENTISTS working

If battleships, as admitted, are de-

have discovered that by In- serting a pinch of phosphate instructible by ale bombardment, rely- the water in which it is boiled, meat can be cooked three times as quickly.

The toughness is broken down by the phosphate, and a harmless form of gelatin takes its place.

ing only on their own local dels what are they in effect but floating gun-platforms of a hugely expensive kind?.

for protection, then In a last-analysis

"TIT FOR TAT*

plications of air power, as

а

a powerful air force,

about eight months of each year

There is also the possibility that in China and then come home pocket-battleships may have the for the remaining four. He range of a Nelson or Repulse, in contemplates at present making which case the wide expause of ocean can be their playground in

GERMANY

Shanghai his headquarters, GAOL FOR DIGGING-UP * game of "tag" at which the though of course ho will visit alower ships will be forever at a Canton and certainly Nanking,

disadvantage.

STRETCHING A POINT

should have envisaged these ocean It is curious that the Committee going tactics on the part of hostile flects

Ong wonders to whom they refer Perhaps the Committee have here stretched a point in argument in order to sharpen the point of their foregone conclusion.

And is there enough magazine Phosphates are essential to the space of the necessary kind for human body, and help to build up storage of anti-aircraft shell, ex- the teeth and hones, and act as a pendable at a furious rate in aetion, their main difficulty would be to get As for other potential enemies, sedative to the nerves,

in addition to that required for 16 sen at all from the inland seas and -"This—discovery-opplies--more | normal nivo)"necus? ------ **

land-locked waters which form the particularly to beat and mutton,” The report uses as a main conten-riding-grounds of their deets. said an official,

tion that other countries passess

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In the meantime, he has placed UNPLEASANT TRUTHS himself in touch with the chief the Ambassador downwards, and Chinese in this country, from

is also studying the incidence of trade between Great Britain and China, ao at least to ensure that while we are endeavouring to stimulate our export trade with

for Chinese export trade to this hina, a fair deal is also secured country:

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Berlin, Nov. 25. Many new "crimes" are forbidden to Germans in the draft of the long- awaited new Penal Code which is published In summery to-day. Offences which will be punishable under this code include the follow- ing:

Inciting a person to commit suleide. Preparing to commit a murder whether the murder is curried out or not.

Publicly ridiculing marriage or

Merle Oberon Says motherhood.

Contract Has No Marriage Ban

New York. Nov, 24.

Public incitement to birth control. Provocative attacks on the willing- ness of the nation to work. Attacks on the labour

service. Strikes and lock-outs. Betrayal of Industrial secrets. Malicious ercation of a shortage of

that point of view the Mediterranean

may just well, be considered dry ground for all the use ita water lame wil be to us in time of war unless the pos- session of an all-powerful Air Force on our part prevents aggres- MERLE Oberon, the film actress, vital commodities.

denied to-day that there is a _quito-believable-that-the clause in her new contract with Mr with

Aspecially severe

against German_honour. possessions of Spain and Alexander Korda and Mr. Samuel for verbal attacks

punishment certain countries which have lately ing without permission. helped the former, may become air-

history will be punished regardless Asked whether it had been omitted of whether the statements are true craft and submarine bases, mutually at her insistence, she replied, "No. Ior not. supporting. This would cause our did, not insist. The clause simply merchantment to make so wide an did

not go in However, I de the oming, bunker space permitting, that not expect to be married in the near the intter part of their voyage would future and that's all I am sure of partake of an Atlantic crossing. now,"

on Herr Hitler.

under arrangement with Goldwyn preventing her from marry-Offensive matter dug up from part

APPALLING.

It is difficult to see how capital ships in this eventuality could avail to safeguard trade routes, unless the Fleet is greatly dispersed.

seeds

Disparagement of the heroism of

German deaths of its soldiers,

Army or the heroic

Disparagement of venerable man and women of the German past, such At the office of United Artists, how-ns Hindenburg and Horst Wessel. ever, it was stated that the clause was included, and that permission of both Mr. Korda and Mr. Goldwyn would be necessary if Miss Oberon wished to marry.

hard Inbour. Nazi experts have been Such offences to be punished by working on this new Penal Code since 1833, The introduction states that it has been drawn up because the Gov On Tuesday Miss Oberon confirmed ernment is convinced that the new reports that she is engaged to Mr.Penal Code should be permented by David Niven. the British actor. Socialist ideology."

The Committee's recommendation that the Air Force and Navy should maintain closer contact strange and unnecessary, not beenuse It is unwise, but for the reason that it is appalling to think they have 661 not done so always

BRITANNIA STATUE

BOULOGNE MEMORIAL CANNOT BE CAST-

Paris, Nov. 24.. The original design

for the mammoth bronze statue of "Britan- nia, which was to have been erected

-of-the

"NO NEED FOR JAPAN TO SEEK BRITISH FRIENDSHIP” Military Leaders in Tokyo Now Reported to Have Abandoned Idea of Entente ··

THAT there is no necessity for imports all through her Empire;

-Tokyo-Nov-20. “Great Britain is blocking Japanese

at the entrance to Boulogne harbour Japan to work positively for a thus, so far as trade is concerned, to commemorate-the-landing- first British troops in August, 1914, readjustment of Anglo-Japanese restate of belligerency already exists.. Itaa been abandoned owing to lations is the final conclusion of dimculties

"And, in spite of this, Great Bri- over the casting. The Japanese diplomatists after serious tain wants statue was to have been 30ft. high study, says the Right, Wing news- guarantee British Interests in China."

Japan unilaterally

to and a stone pedestal would have paper Kokumin Shimbun. raised it to a total height of soft.

The Kolcumin says that the

military In an outspoken article to-day the leaders, in the Government persuaded making it visible far out to sea, newspaper emphasised the establish the Japanese diplomatists to realise ment of a "new epoch-making na- the unfairness of this proposal and to the tional policy for. Japan."

abandon the idea of working with The Kokumin, which apparently Great Britain. voices military opinion, recalls how The diplomatists, says the Koku- the question ΟΙ positive co-opera-min, were further impressed by the tion, even of an alliance, between naval "authorities" déclaration that,

The pedestal, which contains blocks of granite contributed by Dominions, has already been erected on the

the jetty wall

At a meeting of the committee to day it was decided to open a com- petition for fresh designa. it is not

Great Britain and Japan was revived In spite of the abrogation of the yet certain whether the bronze bought when Mr. Yoshida was sent to naval treaties, the Japanese navý for the old design will be used again London as Ambassador in succession can fully be responsible for the ne

flon's defence, based solely on its "But," the Kokumin continues, own strength-Reuter.

or whether the statue will now be of to Mr. Matsudaira, stone.

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