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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ↑ JESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937.

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BRITAIN NEEDS 20,000 AEROPLANES Her Defence Position Worse Now Than Two Years Ago

ONLY THE FIFTH

BRITAL

AIR POWER

IN

EUROPE

ITAIN'S UNPREPAREDNESS, IN THE AIR WAS ALARMINGLY EXPOSED BY A RECENT STATE- MENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT THE COUNTRY IS AT LEAST 45 SQUADRONS SHORT OF THE PROGRAMME DESIGNED TO GIVE 1,500 FIRST- LINE MACHINES BY MARCH 31 NEXT.

For two years the National League of Airmen has been urging the need for the nation's complete air defence.

That Britain is still only FIFTH air power in Europe, and needs 20,000 aeroplanes without delay, is here pointed out

By CAPTAIN NORMAN MACMILLAN, President of the National Lengue of Airmen

FOR two years the National League of Airmen has wage its campaign for adequate air de- tence for Great Britain and the British Empire.

that the National League of Airmen

Time and again people have said to was drawing on exaggerated picture.

me: "We cannot believe the position to be as bad as you say it 18.

We have falth in the British Govern- Through the columns of its efficialment, and their spokesmen lead us organ, the Sunday Dispatch, its men to believe that, everything is bers have been kept up to date with right."

true facts of the continually growing Inferiority of Britian air power compared with that of other nations.

the

FOR SAFETY

nil

But "the moving finger writes, and, having welt, moves on."

The debate on the motion tabled by Mr. Oliver Simmonds, M.P., in the House of Commons last Wednesday has wrung from the Government ad- On February 27, 1936 petition

missions which show that the state- signed by thousands of members aments of the National League of Air- supporters Was, submitted to the Prime Minister calling for adequate men were based on the true situa- steps to be taken to secure the safety of the citizens of this country.

This petition was accompanied by a letter calling for an increase in the programme of first-line air- craft to 5,000.

On November 18, 1030 a resolution passed at the National League of Air men meeting at Kensington Town Hall was handed to the Prime Ltinis ter by Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, C.D., M.P., who presided over the meeting.

ADMISSIONS

This reiterated the subject matter contained in the petition and its nc- companying letter.

Daring the past two years it has been the custom for Government spokesmen to minimise the serious ness of the air situation. To some degree this has caused Imagine of the public to members

DEATH BY KNIFE TRACED TO 1797

Duluth, Minn. Feb, 28 Hanging of Gordon Bliss in Port Arthur, Ont., recently for the murder of pretty Mildred Johnson, 18-year- old telephone operator, recalled the earliest recorded formal execution in the Northwest, which took place on the Superior Bay front, a century and a half ago.

The condemned man was a Chip- pewa Indian, Way-say-geshick, who had "casually" murdered a voyageur. according to data in possession of the St. Louis County Historical Associa- tion.

tlun.

To-day Great Britain's relative position is, I believe, even worse than it was two years ago. Let me quote from Sir Thomas

Inskip, Minister for Co-ordination of Defence. He said that 87 squadrons hard now been formed.

THE FACTS

This is a terminological Inexacti- tude is relation to the expansion pro- gramme, for some of these squadrong were already, in existence even before the Great Wur began.

Manufacturers of Coronation mementoes are working at full capacity to meet the demand. The picture

shows a girl putting the finishing touches to a bust of Queen Elizabeth.

SON FOR ROBERT DONAT

A son was born the other day to Mrs. Robert Donat, the film star's wife.

Donat, Ito is thirty-one, kas

already a daughter aged five and a son aged two and a half.

He

The

think commented: "1 child's career has been decided for him already. My wife was playing

Bach fugue two hours before he was born. I was playing a piece by Cesar Franck at the actual moment. He will probably be an organ grin- der."

The number of squadrons actually CONTRACT STOPS

formed since the expansion pro- gramme was authorised is 35, of which 13 ure, Thomas Inskip, on a one-fight basis, necording to Sir

Those 13 lights are equal to four and one-third squadrons. So that we have in actual fact produced, the equivalent of 2015 squadrons in 20

months:

By March 31, according to the

Minister's own statement, the expan- sion will have reached a figure of

the 71 promised by that date, an expansion

33 Squadrons Instead of rate of less than 50 per cent, of the

promised figure.

A RED HERRING'

To introduce into the debate, as was done for the Government, ques- tions of guns and balloons, is to draw

red herring across the facts which have been elicited by Mr. Simmonds's motion.

The truth is that the Air Min Istry has failed in its appointed task to make within the limit al- lowed that provision for the na- ilonal safety that was deemed to be the minimum requirement for the purpose.

I have recently visited both Ger- The crime occurred in 1797 when many and Italy, and in both countries the Northwest Fur Company had a have been privileged to see something trading post on the Superior Bay, of their alr development, which has John Baptiste Cadolte, n mixed been concurrent with blood of obility, was in charge of sion programme. the stockade,

FUR BOYCOTT THREATENED

The murderer fled to his tribe on

Lake Court Orielle, 80 miles from the

What

our own expan-

have seen leads me

to

the inevitable conclusion that Great Britain Is all, after 20 months of effort, the Arth air Power in Europe. base this statement not only on

I

trading post. Cadotte sent word to the quantitative relationship but also

POWELL FROM

SHAVING MOUSTACHE

WILLIAM POWELL wanted to

shave off his famous mous- Lache. It was his own idea and he insisted on it,

But he can't do it without violating n clause in his contract.

The moustache was to be sacrificed by Pawell for his role of the butter in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" at s own request.

3

was

Meira Goldwyn-Mayer officials tried to persuade him not to shear his upper lip. but Powell adamani. Seeking all means to pre- vent it, Powell's contract was studied as a last resort,

And. In Powell's own words was discovered a clause making it n breach of contract if at any time be is to be called upon to banish the moustache.

So the butler in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" will wear 2 moustache after all,

H. A. C. 400 YEARS OLD IN JULY

Celebration Plars

N July the Honourable Artillery quarters. It is a relic signal to the

Company, which claims to be sutters to sell no more liquor. the oldest regiment in continuous For generations the King has been existence, celebrates its four hun. the Captain-General of the Company, dredth anniversary-an event not members. Among them are the Duke and many famous men have been only of London interest, but of of Marlborough and Sir Christopher pride to the whole British Army. Wren.

Preparations are being made

The Hon. Artillery

by a committee who are drawing ane war records of netive service in

up a programme which will South Africa and the Great War. probably last for a week, and From 1911 to 1918 no fewer than | 14,000 men passed through its ranka among guests at the celebrations and more than 4,000 H.A.C. men will be a contingent from the obtained commissions. Ancient und Honourable

Its battle honours include "Ypres,” Artillery Company, of Boston, "Somme," "Arras," "Bullecourt," and U.S., which is an offshoot of the "Passchendaele," as well as Italy. London regiment and has main-Egypt, and Palestine. tained a spirit of kinship over

a long period of years.

The Honourable Artillery Company was incorporated by Henry VII, it

HE MADE

was called up for service by Mary I.: SINGAPORE

it mustered to resist the Spanish Armada, and was reviewed by Quen

Elizabeth at Tilbury, and all through BRITISH the Stuart period and the Common- wealth it did gallant service.

For four centuries it has been re- ONE night in 1819 a slim, un- erited from the best type of London's athletic gentleman of middle youth, and in the early days the young age set sail from Penang with a men who carried the long bow and British flag and a great idea. the cross bow were the gallants of London.

Island In the

He landed on an Malay Archipelago, uninhabited, except for a handful of shermen, hove to his fleet of four ships and hoisted the Union Jack in the grey

"Time Immemorial" is the date fixed by historians for the founding of the H.A.C., and one of its earliest duties was to protect the City from the robbers and bandits who lived in dawn. the forests of Hampstead and High- gate.

9 O'CLOCK GUN

The island was Singapore, now one of the world's greatest seaports, the Every night at 9 o'clock a gun is strategic centre of millions of pounds ared at Armoury House, the head-worth of floating trade, and key

point of British naval power in the Pacific.

WOMAN TELLS

the fuglive's band that it must de-in the qualitative relationship as it JUDGE OF

liver Way-sag-ge-shick, or he would stands to-day.

clan.

refuse to continue fur deals with the The Shadow Factory scheme for

sogines

is self-condemned by Sir The following spring, the

Thomas Inskip's admission that it tribe reluctantly marched to the post will not operate unill January 1938.

And having said that, he then

entire

did

and delivered the accused brave. states that he and the Government Indians from throughout the Superior would be glad to have the assistance region flocked to the stockade to see of anyone who could offer sugges what

would be done-as voyageurs and trappers from many tlons how to speed up output. little outposts.

Cadotte organized a trial with a jury of white men and way-my-go- The fault lies in the failure to shick was convicted and sentenced to appreciate that what was needed was die by the knife--the fashion of the a swift-moving organisation, and not

quickest justice of the times,

RANSOM MOVE FAILED After sentenee was passed, walling relatives of the Indian tried to ran- som the condemnued man with furs

and pelts. They managed to sway Cndotte, but the voyageurs were im- placobic.

THE FAULT

MID-AIR ROMANCE

IN

FAR SIGHTED

The man was Sir Stamford Rafles. then Governor of Java, and a far- sighted Civil Servant,

By the Treaty of Vienna dominant power in the East Indles had been restored to the Dutch, who promptly Bequired or claimed all the islands in the Archipelago.

•

Wiseacres heart in 1931 in a whirlwind tearing a dispute with Holland, cen-

in Versailles, Feb. 21.

Downing Street,

but a low voice Madame courtship in the clouds when he sured Raffles, the Governor- General declined to evacuate the Irene Schmeder, the air-was teaching her to fly.

port, and Raffles obtained + con- woman extradited

"Then began from

an exquisite idyll cession from the native Sulton of which Insted for five years without Johore. England on a charge of a shadow between us," she added.

But on her return from

It was not until five years of con- shooting the well-known abroad laste. Lallemant hestant negotiation had elapsed that French flier, Pierre Lalle-alleged, confessed to an affair with Singapore

became internationally lag of years before its wheels begin mant, when they were in an a pretty typlat.. to revolve. The Do

people of Great Britala must aeropane, told the examin- BEGGED HIM TO RETURN awake from Fethargy, and in their own interests demand a speed-up ing magistrate here to-day while you were away," he said. and

a production of aircraft and the story of her unhappy pilots which will give not less than 5,000 first-line aircraft.

love affair. The pr

a ponderous machine which takes a

At noon the day following the ly be enlarged to build 20,000 alr-Selsey (Sussex) on December trial, the Indian was led in front of craft, of a performance unexcelled by 20. She was slightly injured. the outpost and an appointed execu- those which can be produced by any tioner stabbed him. The blow was other nation within the next three not fatol, however, and an caraged years. voyageur delivered the grace.

programme should immediate- Madame Sclumeder landed at

coup de

Although the Indians witnessing the execution outnumbered the white men, they impassively watched the manner of "pale-face" justice and returned without incident to their villages. After that white men were safe in all Chippewa vilinges,

- CLARK ĠABLE RUMOURS

Hollywood, Feb, 15, Rumours of a

romance between Clark Gable and lovely Carolo Lombard are steadily gaining ground. Clark goes over as often as possible to the Paramount Studio to see Carolo

in scenes for "Swing High, Bwing

Low," her latest picture.:

She related how the hand- some airman Lallemant won her

Wireworkers Still Out on Strike After Over. Two Years

THERE

men

London, Feb. 10. are 650 men in Manchester who have been on strike for nearly two and a half years. On June 30, 1934, the struck in protest against the introduction of a system of speeding up production at the works of a wire manufacturer, and are sull on strike, with no hope of an early settlement of the dispute. The local Wireworkers · Unlon claim that, the spirit of the strikers is unbroken, though the firm in carrying on production with outside labour.

had jobs found for them in other parts of the country and the rest Since the strike was declared nonrly half-the, strikers have

have long, since exhausted; their "unemployment,beneft-

was not in the least bared

"I love Pierre passionately," do- clared: Madam Schmeder, with emotion, “I begged him to return to me. I swore I would fing myself oberboard, from our serb- plane if he left me."

For a time, she continued, Lalle- mant relented, and shortly aftor-

wards sho told him she was to become a mother. She then dis- covered that Lallemant. has renewed his friendship with the typist,

"My news left him absolutely in different," cried Madam Schmeder bitterly. "He was pitiless to me In my grief and despair."

Was it then that you conceived the Idon of killing him?" asked the magistrate..

Bursting into tears, Madam Schmeder protested that she wished only to kill herself.

"It was only on the day of the,

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