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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER

1936.

BATTLESHIPS ARE JUST EXPENSIVE

WANTS GUN

FREEDOM

Powder, 'parties and purentai con- duct, all are mixed in the petition of Mary Gloria Perry, 18, who soeka to have a girl friend named guar- dien supplanting ber parents. The girl charged she never was lowed to go with a boy nor attend parites and was threatened with disfigure- ment by her father li she used up- alick and powder.

Scientists'

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F

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Cambridge, Nov. 30. SCIENTISTS working here

PLATFORMS”

AT MERCY OF AIR

THIS

ATTACKERS

"HIS ARTICLE ON THE AEROPLANE V. BATTLESHIP REPORT IS FROM AIR COMMODORE L. E. O. CHARLTON, C.B., C.M.G.. D.S.Q., 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 bow nearly half the Royal Air Force was shattered with a few minutes of the outbreak of

war.

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

are building more.

It also argues that a hostile feet may put itself athwart our trade routes ini mid-ocean and starve Britain into surrender.

The report decided that the day of the battleship is not lover, yet it was plain that capital ships cannot be

constructed so as to be indestructible from the air.

The committee's composition | battleships and can alone be called into question, for on it sat both the Chief of Navat Stoff and the Chief of Air Staff; the one concerned to sink or swim

ns an advocate of the "blue water" school; the other, as of right, to impress the claims of air power. This, considering the Issues stake, is clear cose of the plaintif and defendant altting in at their own

trial.

at

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

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

met.

A

have discovered that by in- If battleships, as admitted, are de serting a pinch of phosphate instructible by nir bombardment, rely- ing only on their own local defences the water in which it is boiled, for protection, then in a last analysis meat can be cooked three times what are they in effect but floating as quickly.

The toughness is broken down by Platforms of a hugely expensive |

the phosphate, and a harmicas form of gelatin takes its place.

Phosphates are essential to the boman body, and help to build up the teeth and bones, and act as a

redsilve to the nerves. "This discovery applies more particularly to beef and mutton." fold an official,

"TIT FOR TAT”.

For the fourth line, Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, early day motion picture producer, is altar bound. His bride will be Mra.. Evangeline Russell de Rippeteau The couple is shown above as they filed 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 China, will, I understand, leave England on December 11th on the "Rawalpindi," accompanied by his wife.

The former argament is part ori the old game of "it for lat. Many people think that the complacent way in which Germany entered into the recent naval treaty amounted to the skilful throwing of naval dust in our eyes, Ge

Germany knowing the im- plications of

of air power, as

already has n

a powerful air force. There is also the possibilty that in China and then come home Docket-battleships may have the for the remaining four. He range of a Nelson or Repulse, in contemplates at present making

I gather that Mr. Kirk- patrick's general idea is to spend

about eight months of each year NEW “CRIMES” IN

which case the wide expanse of ocean can be their playground in Shanghai

of "L"

GERMANY

his headquarters, GAOL FOR DIGGING-UP at which the though of course he will visit slower ships will be forever at a Canton and certainly Nanking.

2 are

disadvantage.

STRETCHING A POINT

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

One wonders to whom they refer Perhaps the Commillee have here stretched

point

in argument in order to sharpen the point of their

And is there enough magazine space of the necessary kind for foregone conclusion.

px- anti-aircraft shell, storage of pendable at a furious rate in action, In addition to that required normal naval needs?

OLD HISTORY

BANNED

Berlin. Nov. 25. Many new "crimes" are forbidden to Germans in the draft of the long- awaited new Penal Code which is published

to-day: offences which will be punishable under this code include the follow-

In summary

In the meantime, he has placed UNPLEASANT TRUTHS himself in touch with the chief Chinese in this country, from the Ambassador downwards, and is also studying the incidence of trade between Great Britain and China, so at least to ensure that while we are endeavouring to stimulate our export trade with

hina, a fair deal is also secured Ing As for other potential enemies, their main dificulty would be to get for Chinese export trade to this furto sea at all from the inland seas and country.

land-locked waters which form the The report uses as a main conten-riding-grounds of their feels. on that other countries possess

country on occan-borne sup- plies. From that point of view the Mediterrancan may junt AN well be considered dry ground for all the use its water lano will be to us in time of war unless the pos session of an all-powerful Air Force on our part prevents aggres-

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Merle Oberon Says Contract Has No Marriage Ban

•

New York, Nov, 24.

Inciting a person to commit suicide, Preparing to commit a murder, whether the murder is carried out of NOL.

Publicly rkliculing marriage or motherhood

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

Inbour service.

Strikes and lock-outs. Betrayal of industrial secrets, Malicious creatiori of a shortage of vital commodities.

Assaults against Germon honour, with especially severe punishment

MERLE Oberon, the film actress, denied to-day that there is a . It is quite believable that the clause in her new contract with Mr. Island possessions of Spain and Alexander Korda and Mr. Samuel for verbal attacks on Herr Hitler. Portugal,under arrangement with Goldwyn preventing her from murry-Offensive matter dug up from pust certain countries which have totélying without permission.

history will be punished regardless helped the former, may become air- Asked whether it had been omitted of whether the statements are true. craft and submarine bases, mutually at her insistence, she replied, "No, I or-not supporting. This would cause our did not nulst, The clause simply Disparagement of the heroism of merchantment to make so wide an did not go in. However, I do the German

Army

or the herole offing, bunker space permitting, that not expect to be married in the near deaths of its soldiers. the Intter part of their voyage would future and that's all

am sure of

Disparagement of venerable man partake of on Atlantic crossing.

and women of the German past, such APPALLING

At the ofce of United Artists, how-us Hindenburg and Horst Wessel. ever. It was stated that the clause was included, and that permission of both r. Korda and Mr. Goldwyn would be necessary if Mias Oberon wished to marry.

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

The Committee's recommendation)

now."

I

that the Air Force and Navy should maintain closer contact scems strange and unnecessary, not because David Niven: the British actor. it is unwise, but for the reason that

reports that she is engaged to Mr. On Tuesday Miss Oberon confirmed

it is uppolling to think they have 661

not done so always.

BRITANNIA STATUE

BOULOGNE MEMORIAL CANNOT BE CAST

"NO NEED

THAT

Such offences to be punished by hard labour. Nazi experts have been working on this new Penal Code since 1033. The introduction states that it has been drawn up because the Gov- Penal Code should be permeated by ernment "is convinced that the new

Socialist ideology."

FOR JAPAN TO

SEEK BRITISH FRIENDSHIP" Military Leaders in Tokyo Now Reported Paris, Nov. 24.

to Have Abandoned Idea of Entente The original design for the mammoth bronze statue of "Britan-

Tokyo, Nov. 20. "Great Britain is blocking Japanese nia," which was to have been erected at the entrance to Boulogne harbour AT there is no necessity for imports all through her Empire:

Japan to work positively for a thus, so far as trade is to commemorate the landing of the

concerned, a first British troops in August, 1914, readjustment of Anglo-Japanese re- slate of belligerency already exists.

been abandoned

tolations is the final conclusion · af "And, in spite of this, Great Bri Owing to difficulties over the casting. The Japanese diplomatista after serious toin wants Japan unilaterally statue was to have been 301t, high study, says the Right Wing news guarantee British Interests in China.

The Kokumin says that the military and a stone pedestal would have paper Kokumin Shimbun. raised it to a total height of 80ft. 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 abandon the idea-of wörking-with tional policy for Japan."

The Kokumis, which apparently Great Britain. voices military opinion, recalls how The diplomatists, says the Koku- of positive co-opera-min, were further impressed by the at a meeting of the committee to the question

It was decided to open a com- tion, even of an alliance, between naval authorities declaration that, spite of the abrogation of the petition for fresh designs, It is not Great Briinin and Japan was revived in

Was sent to naval treaties, the Japanese · navy yet certain whether the bronze bought when Mr. Yoshida

of

The pedestal, which contains blocks

contributed by granite Dominions, has

the

on the jetty walleady been erected

At

for the old design will be used again London as Ambassador in succession can fully be responsible for the na

tion's defence, based solely on its or whether the statue will now be of to Mr. Matsudaira.

Kokumis continues, own strength-Reuter.

stone.

"But," the

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