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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937,

My Father-Ten Times Better Fighter "He Lived Like a King in His Own Dominions" Noah II. (With New Ark)

Ready For the Next Flood

Battleships

Of The

Future

35,000-Ton or 48,000-Ton ? DECISION WITHIN

SIX WEEKS

By a Naval Correspondent During the next few days it will be decided whether the battleship of the future is to be a ship of 35,000 tons with 14- inch guns and costing £8,000,000, or a ship of 48,000 tons mount ing guns of 16 inches or larger, and costing at least £12,000,000.

Under the terms of the Lon- don Naval Treaty of March last year the maximum gun calibre for capital ships is fixed at 14

that inches, provided

Japan agreca to this limit before April 1, 1937,

to

The Treaty, which was signed by the British Empire, the United States, and France, after Japan had with- drawn from the conference, was submitted to Jupun for her signature Inst year. Japan was unable 10 sign, as

as she would have "lost face" had she agreed to an Instrument which had been drawn up afte she had withdrawn from the conference on a major issue. There is, however, | every hope that come arrangement which

will secure Jupun's operation will be come to before the end of next month,

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NEW GUN'S EFFICIENCY At present Great Britain has two battleships building, and three more are to be laid down in the future. The first two of these ships are definitely to mount guns of 14- inch calibre. It is understood that in cach ship twelve such gung will probably be carried, mounted in four. three-gun turrets.

The 14-inch guns is a new weapon in the British Novy. It is a develop-i ment of the 13.5-inch gun which was used in the Iron Duke and a number of other battleships designed shortly before the Great War. The 13.5-inch gun was an excellent weapon, and; was very popular among gunnery

Meers in the Fleet.

"IT'S GOING

TO BE A PROPER ONE"

M

ORE than 30,000,000 Americans and Canadians are going to die in a -colossal flood that will sweep from the Pacific seaboard to the Rocky Mountains and from the Mexican border to Alaska at the end of 1938.

Yes, sir-that's what's comin' to all those guys if they won't repent their evil ways.

Mr. Bill ("Noah the Second") Greenwood, of "The Ark." Olympia, State of Washington, U.S.A., bawled this prophecy down the Transatlantic- trans-Continental telephone to a London reporter.

President Roosevelt may sack nine old men and hand a New Deal to Uncle Sam's children, but unless he chases the Devil out of America as well they're going to get the rawest deal a nation ever had, whether they like it or not,

"got it all figured out," said old "Nosh" Greenwood,

HE MOVED IN

"Fifteen years ago I went to bed one night and Ij dreamed I saw a great battle of the forces of good and evil, and a voice told me that the people didn't repent their wickedness a great flood would cover America at the end of 1030

"Well, sir, I started right in and built me an ark. I meant that to be a symbol and a warning of what was coming.

"I didn't just hope to save my own life, because the Lord will take care of that or he won't just as he likes Well, I moved in and took as much furniture and com- forts I needed.

That was 15 years ago when the warning came to me. People laughed and went on as usta. They thought I was a crank same as you might think I'm a crank, but they thought Noah was a crank, too, didn't they?

"Yes, sir, but who'd you say was cranky now an who'd do you think's goin' look very foolish when the deluge comes next year?

A WARNING

"For 15 years they've gone their evil ways. Now they've got a warning direct.

"The big foods that have been causin' so much dis- trees in these lust weeks are terrible, but they're only al alight indication of the way things are goin'--they're just a little preliminary of the destruction that's surely comin".

"If the country don't return to the ways of the Lord there's goin' to be a food from the West Coast-to-the- Rockies and from Mexico to Alaska." "Won't anything be saved?" I asked him.

"Not much," replied Bill, "not much.

No, sir, it's goin' to be a pro- per food."

When the telephone line went weak his neighbour, Mr. Harold Eastman, of vigorous voice, came to the phone to speak for Bill.

"Are expected

During the last few years an im-

of research mense amount

and experimental work has been carried out in the gunnery field. As a result of this work the 14-inch gun has been produced, and it is that this weapon will be far more efficient, as regards range, hitting and rate of fre, than any power, heavy gun previously used in the British Navy.

The 14-inch gun is not of the wire- wound type. It is built up of tubes shrunk on to one another. It will fire a shell weighing more than 1,500 pounds.

HIGH RATE OF FIRE

A battleship mounting twelve of these guns will be able to maintain a much higher rate of fire than can the Nelson and Rodney, which mount; nine 14-inch guns. The develop- ments in the 14-inch gun have been such that there should be little or no difference in the effective range the 14-inch and 16-inch weapons, and the much higher rate of fire given with a greater number of 14-inch guns will. It is considered, more than make up for the fact that the projectiles are lighter.

of

Since the Nelson and Rodney were completed in 1927, developments in weapons, and particularly air power, have dictated that the battleship of the future must carry heavier deck armour and a larger number of anti- aircraft weapons. For this reason It is now considered impossible to build a battleship carrying adequate number of 16-inch guns on a displacement of 35,000 tons.

an

If the limit of 14 inches for guns of capital ships is not established, the displacement of future battleships will greatly exceed 33,000 tons. It is estimated that an efficient capital ship mounting an adequate number of 10-inch guns. would require displacement of approximately 49,000 tons. The "improved Hood" type, which were building at the time of the "armistice and “which were

scrapped on the stocks under the

terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, were of approximately this tonnage.

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you going in the ark when the flood comes?" I asked him.

"No," said Mr. Eastman, "I don't hold with his views about this flood business. But Bill's a good neigh bour and he spends his time doing kindly acts."

But just supposing he's right?" I said,

"AM" remarked thoughtfully.

Mr.

Eastman

Your Brain

The Duke's

HERE

New Arms

is 1 Dally Press artist's forecast of the Duke of Windsor's new coat of arms.

The imperial crown la re- placed by a ducal coronet. Across tlio, shield is a label bearing the Prince of Wales's feathers and two crosses of St. George, patron saint of the Order of the Garter and of Windsor. The Duke may use the rosal supporters-the-llen-and- unicorn.

With the new reign. a now Koll of Peers is being drawn up.

The Duke will rank as the fifth. Peer of the Realm. This is the order of precedencc;—

Lord Chancellor. Duke of Gloucester Duke of Kent

Duko

of Connaught Duke of Windsor Duke of

After the

Windsor rank the Trimate and the Duke of Norfolk,

-J. B. PRIESTLEY

The

Found

Secret Of Living

HOW to be contented and live happily on

a modest income, how to get the best out of life and give the best of yourself- that is the essence and the lesson in a word picture of his father by J. B. Priestley, the novelist.

His account of Jonathan Priestley, a good Yorkshireman and a good citizen, is a great tribute from a son to his father.

"He was a schoolmaster, and very good one, with an almost ludicrous passion for nequir- ing and imparting knowledge," he says.

"He was not a born scholar, but he was o born teacher.

"Outside his school, he did a great deal of useful public service-speaking, helping to or

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ganise, working on committees, and so on-not SPRING COATS,

because he was a busybody or socially ambitious, but he was essentually public-spirited.

"But there was nothing of the smooth committee humbug about him. He was very brisk, humorous, stout-hearted, not to be patronised or bullied.

"I am commonly supposed to be pugnacious, but he was at heart ten times more pugnacious than I am, and if you went one step too far with him, his ruddy face turned scarlet, his eyes wère electric blue, and he came roaring at you like a little lion."

HOW HE LIVED

་་

Mr. Priestley says that he thinks himself fortunate that he inherited from his Inther the only sensible way of dealing with money.

Ile explains that this is to reatise as soon as possivin what kind of life you can lead with the money at your disposal and then, within that circle, to live at your ease, never worrying about money,

"He deliberately shut out one sort of life-the more expensive life of hotels, restaurants, cabs, theatre stalls, Havana cigars, liqueuer brandies-and then lived like a king in the dominions Icft to him," he says.

To think hard and realistically about money, then to forget it, that is what neither spendthrifts nor misers can do, and It is the only way to be nierry and and wisc.

"He was not a romantic figure, did not pretend to be. His world lacked glitter and glamour. I never remem- ber seeing him either in ecstasies nor yet defeated by despair.

J. H. Thomas's Jokes

With George V.

THE errand boy who became

Queen Victoria, when she turned to

George, when I am dead they

the close friend of a King me and said: tells his life in "My Story," J. H. Thomas's autobiography.

will say all manner of wicked things about your father. I want you to deny

them..

I want you to let it be known

King George V. "loved +

good story" a visit by Mr. Thomas dur- in his liness left "the royal invalid in every possible way what a good rocking with laughter like a school- | son he was, and how I did not, until

owe talked as friends, and he re-

the lapse of many years, appreciate his real value! ** lated stories of the Royal Houachold with a freedom which fascinated be- cause of its homellness."

One of them was: "Many years ago I was sitting on this very seat with my grandmother.

Keeps On A Queen's Growing

UNLIKE the body, the mentally

human brain keeps on growing for at least 50 years, and possibly longer.

in

Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, an American anthropologist, who livea Washington, has come to this conclusion on the basis of med- surements of the head sizes of adults.

He found that skull measure-~ ments of middle-aged people showed slight increases over a period of years.

Since previous investigations show

there was no reason to believe that either the scalp or the bones thicken with age, the only explanation he could' ad- vance was that the brain grows until senility begins.

'SILENCE, SILENCE,

SHOUTS BAILIFF;

SILENCE IS ABSENT

London, Mar, 20. "Silencel" shouted a constable at Tottenham Police Court.

Silence there was. *Silence" thundered the constable again, and people in the public gallery surred gunenally.

Then the officer turned to the magistrate

"Silence has failed to appear," he sald, and the next case was called,

Marble Bath Fetches £16

Paris, Mar. 15.

Mr. Thomas has chapters on "My Beginning." "The First Labour Government," "War Memories," "My Views on Sport" ("I fasist that I never once went to the races when

STUCK TO DUTY

"But he never falled a duty, left the world better than he found 1, was loved by his friends and respect- ed by his army of acquaintances, and had a lot of fun.

"If I were picking a team to

go and colonise another planet, I would choose his

Arst. kind Years ago, when my Grst scribblings were achieving print, he was proud of me; and now, too, long after we exchanged our. last words, think I am prouder

still of hit

wrestling

"Because he did not want too much himself and hated to see others have now has something better to offer too little, because he knew that life than a universal all-in match for money, because he knew that there were more and more peo- ple like himself coming into the world, people who could be trusted by the public that them.....he believed not. only in government for the people by the peopic, but also in produc- tlon by the people for the people, and 50 was a Soeläijst.

Parilament was sitting"), and con to do their duty tributes a gallery of sketches of poli-employed them.. ilcians of to-day and yesterday.

Ho dedicates his book to "a true wife, a loving mother, and a pal. In the darkest hour of my life there were no reproaches: boldly, publicly and vallantly she stood by my side".

"Extras" Paid to Eat in

New Film.

If there's a shortage of food, par

A QUEEN'S bath, made of ticularly the picnic type, in Holly- white marble, with silver wood, then it's the fault of motion taps and attings, was knocked picture company. down to-day for £16 to a Paris”.... For the "Man of the People" com- second-hand furniture dealer. pany had a plenie-at, the Metro- The bath, which is big enough to Goldwyn-Mayer studios that lasted swim in, came from the specially Hollywood extras were paid to eat.

for a week, and

one thousand constructed. Paris, hotel suite of Queen Isabella of Spain, grand- mother of ex-King Alfonso.

An official valuer suggested that it could be used as a tank for breed ing trout Magan

Japan Volcano

Erupts, Spreads

Ash Snowfall

Machashi, Japan, Mar, 13. Like a glant Brecracker exploding, Mount: Sama. erupted to-day, rumbl Ing and belching forth Bre and ashes which fell upon Nikko, 100, miles distant.

The falling gray ashes-from the crater gave the picturesque temples. hereabouts a snow-covered effect. The populace used gus masks and influenza mouthplces.........to protect their throats and nostrils. Many carried umbrellas...

There were. no casualties—Asso- ciated Press,

'from morning undil night.

Practically all of the available "hot dogs," buns, pickles and other picnic delicacies in town were pur chased for the week's feast, and additional rush orders had to be put through to keep up with the eating tempo of the crowd.

At the end of the week, the pro- duction manager's report appeared as follows:

Hamburgers Hot

dogs Pickles Loaves of

10,000

4,000

1,000

bread

000

Gallons of milk Gallons of mustard- Doughnuts

500

40

1,500

750

Hame

די.

200 Many smaller items were included as coffee, sugar, on the list, auch

and outs. Candy

popcorn The scene was a setting for the neting of Joseph, Callein, Florence Rico, and Thomas Mitchell under the direction of Ewdin E Marin, Lucien Hubbard was the producer.)

memory

"And he remains in my as the ideal Socialist citizen.

"O such could be made the best kingdom yet on this earth,"

Freddie Bartholomew's Escape

Hollywood, Mar. 1. CRAWLING along the main.

yard of a "ship" during the shooting of the final scenes of the screen version of Kipling's "Captains Courageous," Freddie Bartholomew fell; and narrowly escaped being crushed between two moving sections of the deck. Studio pasistants and technicians rushed to pick him up.

He protested: "I'm not hurt, please leave me alone," but was rushed off to the studio hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed he had suffered

no major injuries, pe

To-day, though limping

he

insisted

益 attending the studio school

The final days of work on the film

have been marked by several ununi! incidents, among them the refusal of Mr. Mr. Spencer Tracy to plunge into the water for the filming of rescue scenes. William Grady, the studio casting director, who endeavoured to per- suade Mr. Tracy to reconsider his altitude, left the employ of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer suddenly on Satur

day.

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