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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1937.

Krupps' Secret Pay-Roll Has 200,000 Names Latest

Bid for Power with Plant Five Times Bigger than in 1914

New War Work

Secrecy

Berlin, Feb. 10.

In a few months' time, Krupps of Esson, the greatest armaments firm the world has ever known, will be em- ploying nearly a quarter of a million men.

Before the war Germany's biggest manufacturers of the machines of war did not employ more than 60,000 workers.

GRAZIANI TO FIGHT 10,000 WARRIORS

Rome, Feb. 10.

MARSHAL GRAZIANI, Halion

MAI

Viceroy of Ethiopia, has moved ·

Even during the war the numbers

of workers in the Krupps, factory wOB under 120,000.

Now Krupps have declared dividend of 12 per cent.-the first for 18 years. But this does not re- present the true position-the cease- less expansion in production and political influence.

To-day, although

the pay-roll

is kept with as much secrecy as the plans for the new big guns which the factory is turning out, the ramifications of the Krupps concern in steadily growing with a world-wide industrial signifi-

cance,

During the past four years experts his headquarters from Addis Ababa have been concentrating un making 10 Irrgaten to take command of new Krapps Ave times bigger than it was military operations which are under in 1914 and modernising the plants, way in the Abyssinian "Lake Dis which now enables the factory to frict" in the south-west, according turn out 12 tlines the amount of war to reports from Addis Ababa, production.

The operations are directed agains! NETWORK OF COMPANIES considerable Abyssininn forces led by

Ras Desta, Commander-in-Chief of

In the farthest parts of the world

the Abyssinian forces on the Southern the company steadily added to their

Ogaden front during the war.

Ras Desta is estimated to

sources of supply copper, tin and

have iron mines. The foreign production

about 10,000 men cast of Lake companies went under the names of Margherita. His second in command bigh - sounding

Spanish, South

is Cabri Mariam. The Italians are American, American, and Asiatic attempting an enveloping movement, concerns. -Reuter.

BULLETS OR SHELLS FOR R.A.F.' 'PLANES

FOREIGN PREFERENCE FOR CANNON

The Royal Air Force fighter aero- planes which are to come into service under the expansion scheme may mount "cannon," or large callbro machine-guns.

In actual fact they belong solely

to Krupps, whose large fleet of ships

has ensured for them independence in sea transport.

In a well-guarded corner of the 50-acre works at Essen is the most mysterious department of Krupps, the "Lesling house," where rarely-scen engineers and technicians work In secret on new Inventions of war.

Many of the actual devices of war produced are made up from differ- ent plants so that no one Individual can possibly be aware of what the completed device is like. SECRET IS OUT

Secret rearmament is now open re- armument. Four years of incessant Whether to go over to those guns or activity have made Essen the greatest to rely on batteries of machine-guns, armamenta centre in the world, Is one of the most vital tactical ques- | making everything from revolvers to tions of the day. It is being debated submarines. vigorously at the Air Ministry.

Provision is being made by the

Prince Edward The Charming

A charming study of the Duchess of Kent and her son, Prince Edward, who now has a little sister.

BARRYMORE HELD

"PRISONER "

Elaine Home With Mother

Hollywood, Feb. 10.

400 SHIPS SOON IN JAPAN'S SEA ARM

9 Battleships, 35 Cruisers Head Fleet Roster in Latest Survey

Tokyo, Feb. 13.

AS world powers enter the first year of un- restricted navy building since 1921, the Japanese Imperial Navy has

384 vessels of all types, accord- ing to latest compilations.

The roster of fighting ships is headed by nine battleships. 12 Ifirst class cruisers and 23 second class cruisers. There are 63 submarines in the fleet, with the remainder of the total force being made up of destroyers, special services ships, torpedo boats, gunboats, tenders and minesweepers.

of Expiration

the Washington naval treaty found the battleship Mulsu, focal point of international attention at the Washington confer- ence 15 years ago, still the pride of the Japanese navy and the flagship of its first line of nuval defense,

The actual expiration of the treaty, which during its life made naval building races impossible, was not considered an event in Japan.

NO LAST MINUTE CHANGES Efforts of the treaty expiration were discounted months ago. The new naval budgets, the formation of the fleet for the next fiscal year and other naval affairs have been pre- pared with the non-treaty period in view,

The total tonnage of the ships in service was last announced as 1,129,- D14.

Certain replacement vessels, all within the treaty stipulations are under construction.

JOHN BARRYMORE, facing his fourth divorce, un The Mutsu was launched In 1920

charged by his young bride of two months with men-and when the scrapping programme was proposed at the Washington tal cruelty and "inhuman conduct," is to-day virtually a conference, a number of uncompleted Foreign countries, almost without to employ nearly 250,000 men.

night and day erection of workshops prisoner at his modest home near the great Metro-battleships were included in the list exception, have adopted the can

During the past week there have Goldwyn-Mayer studios. non, and those who belleve in this

two examples of Krupps Armament in this country hold that,

His trainer, Ken Kelly, is his sole activities abroad. unless it is mounted in some of the

companion, and the house is care- First came the news of German fully guarded, the studio authorities; now machines, these machines will

technicians in the mines of Spanish having given instructions that he is be out of date before they reach

Morocco. Later it was revealed to be allowed no visitors. the squadrons.

The problem is not a simple one, because it entalls the consideration of two different kinds of cannon, one of them mounted in the engine and ol-

been

By

that important German Interests. The other party to this-shortlived backed by Krupps, are setting up romance, Elaine Barrie, has said she an armament factory and smeling would not proceed with her divorce warks near Belgrade.

suit until her husband finishes work! establishing these contacts on his present Alm. most forming on integral part of it, abroad, Germany, through Krupps, He is being given stimulants, as he and the other mounted in the wings. is buying the allegiance of other is recovering from nervous illness.

conducting nations.

"Barrymore is naturally upset, The Alr Ministry is trials with both, the former in French aeroplane bought for that purpose.

· in

oir

The essential value of the cannon consists in increased effective range ordinary Aghting. The machine-gun, is considered to be of 200 yards range, whereas it has been claimed for the motor-cannon that It has double this range. 'And

ai- though it fires more slowly than the machine-gun, it is necessary to obtain only one hit to put the enemy machine out of action.

A COMPARISON

So far ranges equal to those ob- tained with the motor-cannon have not been claimed with the wing- mounted cannon, because this type:

has a lower muzzle velocity.,

An objection to the motor-cannon that engine tremor communicates itself to the gun and spoils its

L

accuracy.

'I Can't Let Judith

Allen

JACK DOYLE'S

Go'

HEART-CRY

WINDSOR, FEB. 10.

ALTHOUGH JUDITH ALLEN HAS FILED A

PETITION FOR DIVORCE, JACK DOYLE IS

DETERMINED NOT TO LOSE HER.

Daily he is besieged with women who are attracted by his When the orders for new RAF looks, his youth, and his charm, His trainer has to use forcible fighters were considered the mount-means to protect Jack Doyle from his women admirers.

ing of the motor-cannon was not

Visualised. The new machines have But despite all the adulation multiple machine-gun

They are mostly designed to mount

armament. Doyle, ex-Guardsman, film star, two guns in the fuselage, firing for has thoughts for only one wo ward in the line of fight through the man-the woman who wishes disc swept by the airscrew, and two, to divorce him.

also

or four, other guns in the wings,

Bring forward but just outside the “Judith is the only woman in my airscrew disc.

life, and I can't let her goy-I won't The motor-cannon is mounted in let her go," he said.

of

V between the two banks cylinders, and it fires through the "I have made up my mind to airscrew shaft, which, being geared, make a come-back in the ring. 19 higher than the crankshaft. At have put the gay world of night present mest variable pitch airscrews clubs and Mayfair behind me for- cannot be used with a motor-cannon, ever. but new designs have been got out to overcome this difficulty.

"I know I have been foolish

in the past. Now I know what I

Basil Rathbone Sees

Friend

Killed

Hollywood, Feb, 10.

HOW he escaped death beneath a car which killed a friend has been described to the Hollywood police by Baill, Rathbone, the English

actor

Mr. Rathbone and John, Miltern (67), another actor, were crossing a street when the headlights of a car loomed up, '*-

Mr. Rathbone shouted, but the car, knocked down Mr. Miltern.! who died. The car went on.

Now the police announce that, pending Inquiry, they have detained Mr. Logon F. Metcalf, a former husband of Madge Bellamy, Mr. Metcalf denled that his car was concerned-United, Press

ought to have known a long time ago that boxing is the greatest thing in my life, after Judith."

And in order to prove his word he

Is throwing himself with almost savage enthusiasm into his training.

"THESE PESTS"

"If Judith really docs divorce me then boxing will be the only thing left in my life" said Jack sadly.

for the scrap heup.

Japan accepted the general scrop- ping programme but refused to in- and is in danger of lapsing again elude the Mutsu. The Japanese people Into the illness that sent him to had watched the progress of its bulld- hospital recently and from which ing and It contained the latest he has hardly had time to re-equipment of that, day, cover," Kelly said.

The other powers anally agreed Elaine, who is now living with her that-Japan-should-keep the Mutsu. mother, declared that reconciliation was impossible.

MUTSU HEADS FIRST SQUADRON "I've done all I can and I don't

To-day, re-equipped with the latest propose to make any retractions," she said. "I know it is a miserable devices the Mutsu is the flagship in business, but I couldn't bear it any feet. With it, and of the sume ton- the first squadron of the combined longer. Divorce

only way lout."

nage but a year older, are the Nagato All the legal formalities have been and the Huyuga, Iaunched in 1917. effected, according to Elaine's law- The Mutsu and Nagalo are of yer. Among the complaints that the 32,700 tons displacement and the one-time "Ariel" makes against her

Huyuga

20,990

tons. 64-year-old "Caliban” is that he As announced by the

navy, the struck her at a New Year's Eve new fleet formation will represent party and threatened to "kill or some combinations of squadrons and seriously malm her," called her the principal vessels will be re- "terrible names," and was jealous assigned.

the

of her intention to make a name for Some of the important vessels are herself on the stage.

not mentioned in the formation an The 21-year-old bride declares nouncement but later announcements that she does not want "permanent are expected. alimony," but would like a share in Assignments of vessels to the com- her husband's estate, and "reason-bined feet as snnounced are as able alimony."

FOR INSECT BITES AND STINGS.

follows:

COMBINED FLEET

First Fleet

A. First Squadron-Nagato, Mutsu and Huyuga.

B. Third Squadron-Haruna and Kirishima.

C. Eighth Squadron-Kinu, Nateri

and Yuri.

D. First Torpedo Squadron-Koh- chi, Ninth Destroyer Flotilla, and

Destroyer Flotillo.

21st

E. First Submarine Squadron-- Isuzu, and Seventh and Eighth Sub- marine Flotillas.

F. First Air Squadron-Hosha, Ryujo, and 30th Destroyer Flotillo. Second Flect

G. Fourth Squadron-Takno and Mayo.

H. Fifth Squadron-Nach!, Haguro- and Ashigara.

I. Second Torpedo Squadron Jinteu, Seventh, Eighth and 19th Destroyer Flotillas.

J. Second Submarine Squadron

marine Flotilla.

"The way these other women in

Bites and stings are irritating in their furs and big cars pester me the extreme and the temptation to makes one savage. I hate them all, acratch often outweighs better judg-Jingel, Twelfth, 20th and 30th Sub-

"I wish that they were men and I ment. could use my flats on them. For But it is courting trouble to do K. Second Air Squadron-Kagií, me there is only one woman in the this, for dirt may easily get into the and 22nd Destroyer Flotilla. world-Judith.”

place and blood-poisoning result.

L. Twelfth Squadron Okijima, Better by for to treat the trouble Kamut, and 28th Destroyer Flotilla. wisely by applying She-ko. This antiseptic, fragrant ointment, com-

Third Fleet alents, soothes, cools and quickly Tenryu and Tatsuto.

Tenth Squadron Izumo, heals

N. Eleventh Squadron Ataka, Keep a tin of She-ko handy in the Tobe, Seta, Katada, Hira, Hozu, home. She-ko la equally good for Engagement of Lord Ashley, son cuts,

scratches, abrasions, burns, Ataml, Futam!, Kurl, Toga, Hasu.

O. Fifth and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury, scalds, and for skin complaints such

Torpedo Squadron -

10th "Destroyer to Mile, Francelso Souller, is officially as eczema, ringworm, wet and dry Yubari, 13th nd announced to-day.

sores, boils, pimples, and for external Flotilas.

Training Squadron Lord Ashley is aged thirty-six. His piles. Chemists everywhere

Yakumo and Iwate... former wife is now Mrs. Douglas supply

Lord Ashley Toposed of a blend of curative ingre

Fairbanks:

Wed

Mile, Soulier, twenty-six years old,

is the daughter of one of the wealthiest Industrialists in France.

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can

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