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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.~ ~~THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937.

INSKIP ALLAYS FEARS OF "Our Anti-Aircraft Defences

R.A.F. BUILDING

LAG ADMITTED

AND

DEFENDED

By WILLIAM BARKLEY,

London, Feb. 15.

Can we keep the bomber out in wartime?

The vit douts the House of Commons last *HIS vital question became more interesting in

night than the calculation whether the promised programme of Air Force development is greatly in

arrears.

Mr. Baldwin, in a celebrated statement in Parliament some years ago said: "The bomber will always get through." These words have caused anxiety in the country ever since.

There were many sugges- of these squadrons, Mr. Simmonds calculated that not seventy-one, but tions in last night's speeches (only twenty-six squadrons have been

created, that the success of the enemy bomber is by no means 80 certain.

"We lack forty-five squadrons," he suid. "It has taken us twenty months to get these twenty-six new squad- At the same rate the remain.

rons.

ing forty-five squadrons will inke up approximately three years. If we treble our rate of expansion it will take one year."

It was Mr. O. E. Simmonds, Birmingham Conservative mem- ber, who started the debate by moving a demand for more rapid

Squadron-Leader Wright said he expansion of the Air Force, and hoped the Government would not be contrasting the vast air prepara-panicked into ordering large numbers. tions of Germany with our own.

Bombproof Cellars

When Mr. Simmonds complained that in new buildings constructed in Lundon the opportunity is not being taken to provide bombproof shelters; when he asked whether bombproof cellars will be built under the great extension of Government offices now

In being planned

Whitehall-Sir Thomas Inskip took a different line from Mr. Baldwin.

of obsolescent machines,

ja

"The all-important thing qually, not quantity," he said. "There are too many people In- clined to express alarmist views by merely totalling up numbers. What Wo need

HE overwhelming superiority in bombing machines of high performance and long range.” Sir Thomas Inskip, in his defence, showed that a main reason for the delay is precisely the determination of the Air Ministry to have nothing i but the latest machines.

One-Flight Squadrons

He spoke of the Government's handbook which has been prepared to advise on structural precautions

"The production up to 1934 was against bombs and gas in new build- ings. This advice aims at protecting about 700 machines a year. Those persons against splinters and the like. numbers are a mere fraction of what But I believe," Sir Thomas Inskip is required under present programme. added, "that from twenty to twenty-

that "The present position is of concrete is five feet thickness

eighty-seven squadrons have now necessary to keep out a 5001b, armour piercing bomb.

"It is quite impossible for the Government to erect buildings to protect people on such a scale as that. "The real defence is to have our Air Force so efficient as to prevent the enemy ever being in a poslilon to drop those bombs."

ENEMY BOMBERS The

Very Best"

Gas musk containers being sta cked in the new Government factory opened at Blackburn, Lancashire, by Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Under-Secre tury of Stute for the Home Depart ment. When in ful operation the factory will produce each month ha if a million gas masks for the civilian population, and it is expected that about 30,000,000 will eventually be made and distributed to all partsof the country.

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A scolding Austrian is a the Central Government the

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been formed. Thirteen of them cigarette-smoking sorority girl 5ood Austrian, according Southwestern Aviation Cor- Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

aro still on a one-fight basis. The who "paints her face"

and to Leander, writing

poration is planning to ex-

The opening of four new alr Who abstains from bad lines and the purchase of several new Stinson airplanes are under language, suffers from bad the contemplation of the Cor- digestion or is, at least, poration authorities. receptive for other physical trouble.

normaal squadron has three nights keeps late hours, is not up to Vienna's most serious pand its air services. and one in reserve.] It is anticl- the standard set by the 12 girls semi-official, Reichspost. pated that 100 squadrons will have who founded Pi Beta Phi, first been formed by the end of March, the date by which our programme college, sorority at Monmouth should have brought 123 Into exis-College, Illinois, in 1867, one of the two surviving founders told Sir Thomas Inskip gave the im-

Of these 100 squadrons twenty- United Prces. pression that the Government will two will be on a one-flight basis, that not build shelters to protect against is to say, that they will be in process direct hits. For he repeated that the of developing into fully-equipped and

squadrons. plemented by anti-aircraft defences. ་པ་ am a

tenec,

Air Force was the best defence, GUP" {manned little hesitant In. giving thought of the bare legs and scanty profanity; nevertheless may

"Our anti-alreraft defences," he said, "are the very best from the point of view of guns, searchlights and instruments for detection of

aircraft,

Mrs. Inez Smith--Soule, 91, of Tacoma, shook her head with "ghome for them," as she told what she dates when the other twenty-four clothing of the girls who now attend squadrons will be formed, but if our college. expectations are fulfilled at any rate.

Soule said, "They were

be a

fri

The four projected lines are the Kunming-Chungking line, passing through Chingyuan, Nantan in north In rare cases a person, averse to Kwungsl, Fuchow, Wenshan and Montze in Yunnan and Chaiting in

through Shlukwan, good Austrian, but one can be cer- Szechwan, the Canton-Changsha line, tain that his ancestors have largely passing the Canton-Foochow

Kwangtung, filled the family's quota and left ne, passing through Weichow, "Why, I walked into one chapter

over nothing

for him, twenty of them will be completed by house to find them gambling," Mrs.

reasons Meinsten in Kwanglung

and

Chang July of this year,

chow in Kwangai and the Canton- am not able to say that they will bridge for small stakes, It is true, but

playing Leander.

Nanchang line, passing through Non- "I hope and believe that the skill all be brought up to their full com in my day, girls would never dare tioning superhuman automaton, says Kanchow, and Chion in Kiangsi,

The Austrian is no precisely func-hsiung, Tayi in Kwangtung, and of our scientists and the ability of plements."

thing." our airmen, and the excellence of Mr. Winston Churchill, who has think of doing such

Leander. He would explode but for their training will prevent allacks been foremost in the drive in Parila-

The Corporation is now operating But the spry old lady who keeps the numerous turge and small safety three air lines, the Canton-Lungchow being brought home to this country." ment to rebuild the Air Force, thank-house all by herself and has several

The sense of this passage seemed cd Sir Thomas Inskip for his frank grown sons, datighters, grandchildren valves, provided by a wise govern-line, via Wuchow and Nanning, the to be that the authorities count on statement, and forebore to make a and great grandchildren, hoped that ment which permits itself to be dis- Canton-Pakhel line, via Kiungchow keeping the bomber out.

great occasion of the debate.

the girls of Pi Beta Phi were living paraged by coffeehouse gossip and and the Canton-Nanning line, via But, assuming that the 100 squad-up to the standards set by the Mother small talk elsewhere, although not Mir. Churchill, on this question, rons instead of the 124 which had chapter at Monmouth, Illinois.

Wuchow, Papu, Kwellin and Liu- chow. said: "For my part. I believe that been promised contained twenty-two

in the press, the day will come when the ground

Plans have been formulated to ex- "They are very nice to me," Mrs. As a matter of furt, any visitor to tend the Canton-Lungehow line to will decisively master the air and of one flight only, he calculated that when the raiding airplane will al-nine weeks hence the Royal Air Force Soule said. "They escort me to every beautiful Vienna will notice that Hanoi in French Indo-China ns a most certainly be clawed down will be forty-six short of the total National convention and make much "Rauczen"-grumbling-is an out-joint enterprise with French Inter-

promised-forty-six out of 124. too great a fuss over me. I couldn't

"We have actually had twenty-five go to the lust one because I fell and standing characteristic of the other-ests. However, much preparation or twenty-six new

wise charming Austrian people. squadrons created hurt myself."

from the skies la flaming rula. "But ten years will pass before any such security will come, and in the interval only minor palliatives will be

available."

On the same theme, Squadron- -Leader Wright, the new member for Erdington, said that an enemy would not waste

on bombing resources defenceless cities.

in twenty months," he said. "And we

and negotiation have yet to be done before this international air line con.

are now forty-six short of what we as anything about the modern co-ed where there is much shouting or

What bothered Mrs. Soule as much Meeting an Austrian company, be actually inaugurated. expected to have at the end of March was the reports she had heard that grumbling, don't be, ofrald. the next nine weeks as we did in the the men. This, she felt, was scandal- We shall have to do twice as much in they stand up to a bar and drink with last twenty months."

ous, and she thought the young men would be disgusted with them.

The attack would be made on air- THE SPANISH CROWN

ports because the modern bombing machine requirès so much space to take off that it would be useless if its airport were damaged.

1. The second question of the debate was: "How for is the promised Gov- ernment programme in arrears?"?

Months Or Years? Sir Thomas Inskip was subjected

JEWELS

COUNTESS'S ACTION

New York, Feb. 15,

Soon somebody will step up and pat you on the shoulder:

"Why are you so quiel? Cheer up with us. We are having the time of our lives."--United Press.

BACK TO VICTORIA AGE The matron who has weathered the years with clear eyes and a clear mind, felt that the modern college girl would be better off if she went national, they changed the name to back to the voluminous skirts of the Pi Beta Phl.

The Canton-Nonning line was in- augurated last year after the removal of the Kwangs! provincial capital from Nanning to Kwellin. Since its Inauguration, business on this line has been prosperous, being largely patronized by Kwangtung and Kwangst omftelals who fly back and forth between Nanning, Kwellin and Canton.

Limited by its finance, the Car- poration has now only four planes, Victorian era and stopped painting up "My, how proud we were when we including one sightseeing plane and marched into chapel wearing our three passenger and mail planer.

A motion to appoint a receiver for her face.

Count of Covadonga, the eldest son

it on

the

for alimony alleged to be due by, the Mrs. Soule sald; "was when I was first time," Mrs, Soule recalled. “I ing. Peitu and Tlenian respective the Spanish Crown jewels as security. The only time I wore powder." golden arrows in our hair, for the They are named Changkeng, Chim-' of ex-King Alfonso, has been filled in married, because I thought I should guess i was as much to attract the ion is the only purely Chinese own

Inaugurated in 1934, the Manhattan Supreme Court by onough with fright, so I didn't keep The golden arrow is the insignia concern in the country. Its $300,000

looke white: But I found I was white boys as anything,"

ed and managed commercial flying. to the closest examination. There counsel for the Count's wife. 'was considerable anxiety because this

of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. An amdavit accompanying the pay

is held in the main by the capital is programme is admitted to be behind-action said that the latest instalment Mrs. Soule was very proud of Pl

Provincial Governments of Kwang- Mrs. Soule anld she corresponds re-tung and Kwangsi, thus giving it a of £80 a month-the temporary Beta Phi when she told how it had gularly with the other surviving quasi-official status, After the settle- But whereas Mr. Simmonds calcu-jalimony which the Count was recent-grown from one chapter at Monmouth founder, Mrs. Fanella Whitenack ment of the Liangkwang imbroglio, lated that it is from one to three ly.ordered to pay pending the hearing with 12 girls in 1867 to 112. chapters Libbey, formerly of Seattle, who now it was reorganised under the super- years behind, according to the future of a separation action and suit for with 25,838 members In '1030.

resides with a doughter in Minnesota, | vision of the. Central Government- rate of expansion, Sir Thomas ad- annulment -- remained unpaid. It

-United Press; mitted that it is three or four months also accused the Count of fleeing the The founders of. Pi Beta Phi got

Central News Agency., in arrears, and for very good reasons. Jurisdiction of the Court by going to together partly to aid a poor, respect

-hand,

The essence of his défence was

better, trained..

The

jewels are described in

THIS

COW'S

COMPLAINT

WAS A TENNIS BALL

Cubs.

able couple, who wore unable to care that the expanded Air Force will affidavit as the only property of the who were too proud to take charity. the for themselves because of 'nge, and be qued with much more up- Count and Countess of Covadonga in Then, too, she admitted, the founders to-date machines by reason of the New York State.

imitated the boys who had several delay, and manned by airmen much The Countess of Covadonga, who is fraternities on Monmouth campus at

27.and the daughter of a wealthy the time. Mr. Simmonds recalled that on United States Supreme Court last other's houses. They had no sorority cams concerned, recently, when a large tum appeared on the jaw of one

Cuban mer

merchant, filed papers in the The girls met once a month at each Mr. A. J. Ratter, a farmer of West Wyalong, New South Wales, be- promised seventy-one new squadrons October; to bring an action for house. They nover danced, smoked, of his cows, and showed no signs of going downs never be by March 31 of this year,

separation.

drank or painted." The Count had previously filed a 1999

Suspecting tuberculosis, he decided not to use the cow's milk. Finally, Taking first the Air Force list of sult for the annulment of the mar-At first they called it the "I.C.," my Austral News, he called in a veterinary surgeon to remove the lump. pilots attached to new squadrons and ringe. Neither action has yet been she said. Later when they became The latter, however, discovered that the cow's complaint was a tennis, bali allowing for variations in the strength heard-Reuter,

(Continued on Next Column.) which had become embedded between Its teeth and la'check.

July 10, 1935, the Government

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