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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

APRIL 29,

1937.

POTENTIAL CANNON FODDER FOR WARS SOCKS

France, Germany, Italy Race To Step

BABIES SUBSIDISED

BY: STATES TO MAKE MORE SOLDIERS

An important human aspect of Europo's armament raco -stopping up the birth rate — is revealed in this dispatch from Miller Webb Miller, famous United Press War Correspondent. flow from capital to capital on the continent investigating and estimating the strength of the engines of death that are being In this dispatch, Miller shows built up for Europe's next war. how, by propaganda and subsidisation, France is seeking to roar more man to man the armaments her factories are producing.

By WEBB · MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent

Paris, April 15.

The European race for armaments is also a race in the output of human beings-potential cannon fodder in a future war.

Behind the staggering expenditures and tremendous building programmes of such nations as France, Italy and Germany lies a determined effort to step up the birth rate,

In the case of France, the declining birth rate causes acute pre-occupation. The rate of 16 per 1,000 compared to 19 per 1,000 before the world war means, according to statisticians, that France's population in 1980 will be 44,000,000 compared to Ger- many's 80,000,000 If the present ratio continues. It is Germany that France chiefly fears.

By propaganda and numerous methods as subsidisation, France is trying to increase births. Direct state subsidies range

540 child to

francs from 120 francs for the third for the fifth. In addition there are subsidies by departments (political subdivisions), reduction of taxes, reduction of railway fares for large families, allowances in water, electricity and gas rates, insurance, aid for unmarried mothers and their children and measures against abortions and social diseases.

Meanwhile, the building race goes on. The most radical de-France

1

in The armament programme

resulted in the feverish purchase of metals in January and

Copper im-

parture of the French pro- February, nearly doubling that of the gramme is the decision, upon same period last year. expiration of the Washington ports were 2,500 tons, compared to naval treaties at the end of 400 tons last year. December, to construct the third most powerful navy in the world us a reply to the re-birth of the Gorman navy

and the rise of Italy's naval and air power in the Mediterranean.

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France's whole military doctrine is based on defence of her security,

Up Birth Rates For exacting men

CUBA'S STRONG MAN Colonel Batista, Cuba's strong man and dictator, demonstrating for Ameri-

can press photographers that he has a superior in his little son, who is evidently also to be a future strong

man.

MURDERER ORDERS

VICTIM'S TOMBSTONE

And Buys Dominion

all factors, including her system of A

Flowers

!

Berlin, Apr. 21.' MURDERER who sent

Troops To

Be Exiled'

flowers, paid the funeral Be

On that basis, taking into accounti of trained alliances, her reservoir reserves and pool of man power in

empire of "100,000,000" her costs and ordered a tomb- Ther three-year present and rising land, naval and stone for the woman he kill-

gold strength, her Immense

that end, To emergency building programme is air

proposed which will cost 12.900,00, reserves--largest in the world excepted has so puzzled Stuttgart's THE Canadian, New Zea- 000 francs, enabling the construction for the United States-France la at detectives that an appeal has of 250,000 tons and bringing total least as powerful for the time being, tonnage. to 850,000 after vessels are retired.

over-age as any nation on the continent.

The chief features are resumption

of the building of 35,000 tons battle- SOVIET PUSHES

ships after 12 years' neglect; efforts to bring the submarine strength to the largest in the world and con- centration on speedy cruisers and destroyers.

and

RAILS TO EAST

Moscow, April 21. With only approximately 450 FRENCH SUBMARINES miles of track yet to be laid, the France already possesses world's largest submarine, the Sur-Soviet Union expects to complete couf, of 2,800 tons; mounting twe double tracking of the Trans- eight-inch guns. France also has Siberian Railroad during 1937. the world's fastest cruisers

The section yet to be completed destroyers.

The 7,500 ton-cruiser La Galis-extends from Khabarovsk to Voro- soniere holds the world speed record shilov (formerly Nikolsk-Ussurisk) the destroyer paralleling the eastern border of

Manchukuo her class and Terrible holds, the world record of Vladivostok. The tosis of 494 knots.

tracking involved the laying of more than 2,500 miles of rails over a period of four years under difficult condi-

in

southward

toward double

been issued to the public to help to identify the couple.

The body of the woman, believed to be about fifty years of age, was discovered in a ditch near the village of Kirchenkirnberg, ten miles from Stuttgart.

land and South African troops, going to London for the Coronation are going to be disappointed.

Instead of being quartered at Lon-

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Children's Concert From The Studio

TRAVEL TALK Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wave- lengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's). 31.49 metres (9.52 m.e's).

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12.30-2.15 p.m. gramme.

European Pro-

12.30 p.m. A Light Orchestral

don barracks, as they expected, they Concert, are to be sent to Pirbright Camp, twenty-nine miles away.

Except

for leave and organised visits they will be in London for! only two whole daye and three nights from May 10-13. Most of this time will be taken up with duties and parades.

ceremonial

1 p.m. Time and Weather, 1.03 pm A Light Organ Recitai by Marcel Paletti.

1.10 p.m. Vocal Gems.

Reuter and Rugby Press; 1.30 p.m.

Dance Memories. 1.40 p.m. It had been dismembered and all

Weather, Time and Announcements.

2.15 p.m. Close Dow clothing removed. Two days after the police received a letter, written

4.30-8 pm European Programme. in block capitals, in which the writer

4.80 p.m. A Running Commentary By coming early, the Australian

Frank V. Read by

on the Hongkong were confessed to the crime and enclosed and Rhodesian contingents

luckier. They were sent to Welling-Tennis Singles Championship be money for flowers and the funeral.

A week later the Mayor Murr-ton Barracks and enjoyed themselves tween M. Pazh and A. L. Sullivan, bardt, near Kirchenkrabers, re- in the West End. But not for long. from the Stand Court of the Hong- kong Cricket Club. (By courtesy of 'letter. It con- ceived a almiler

RESENTED

the Committee of the Hongkong lained eight pounds in, notes and Instructions for • monumental. On April 15 they, too, were push- Cricket Club); In the capital ship class, the 28.500

mason, with a sketch of the deed off to Pirbright, and, except for sired tombstone. ton Dunquerque was designed as the

Coronation duty, they will spend the. Germany's pocket first. reply to

On it was a heart, with the in- rest of their time in England there. battleships and is claimed to be far

More than 63,000,000 cubic meters superior to them in fighting capacity. Another similar ship, the Stras- of earth had to be excavated, several scription: "Here lies an

The pollee, unable to find that any thousand bridges built, including woman. Rest in Peace." bourgh, is about to be launched.

several hundred yards In Two 35,000-ton battleships, the same

their district, naked all other forces Richelieu and Jean Bart, are under length, the river Zeia dammed and middle-aged woman was missing in construction. The new emergency stations and workshops constructed.

have drawn a blank everywhere." programme envisages two more 35,- The huge amount of supplies required to make investigations. But they 000-ton ships, a 20,000-ton aircraft had to be transported long distances carrier, two first class cruisers, 12 on the existing single line without

three destroyers and interrupting normal traffic. submarines, other units bringing the probable number of ships on the programme to 39, besides two new naval aviation squadrons.

tions.

NEW TRUNKLINE PLANNED With completion of the double tracking, the Soviet Union will have taken a great stride forward in its plans for the industrialisation and defence of the Far East, but will con- sider its transportation system secure only when the thousand mile Baikal- Amur trunkline is in operation.

NAVAL CONSCRIPTS Conscript service in the navy has been increased by six months.

The primary objective of France's navy is to assure freedom of passage

More than a billion rubles has empire north African from her across the western Mediterranean in been appropriated for construction' (f the event of war, to provide access this line in allocation of finances for the reservoir of native man- the second Avo-year plan during power in Tunis, Algeria and Mor- 1932-1937. It is expected to be com- pleted during the third five-year plan.

to

rocco.

Moreover, freedom of the seas

Detailed plans have not been made from North Africa and the Mediter- ranean countries and from abroad public because of the defence im via the Atlantic is vital, because of portance of this line in supplement France's dependence upon the im- ing the Trans-Siberian, which could ports for many of the raw materials more easily, be cut in case of war

with 'Japari, necessary in modern warfare,

Franco posacases in

a. Althouß resources of iron, most

of her coal requirements and is

TO CROSS SIBERIA The Baikal-Amur line, however, is

unknown

Hypnotism Theory In Threat To Film Star

Hollywood, Apr. 21. THE police here are considering the theory that a modern Svengali is responsible for the extortion let- ters demanding £4,000 each from Miss Anna May Wong and Mrs. David Selznick, wife of the film pro- ducer.

They have been told of a school- boy, aged 12, in Los Angeles with psychle powers.

Although the boy's eyes are com-

practically self-supporting in food known to start in the East Siberian pletely scaled he is able under hyp- stuffs, she is wholly lacking in oil Region, probably connecting with the notie influence, it is stated, to dcs- and gasoline, on which the mobility line planned to extend from

the cribe any object produced or to write! Trans-Siberian north of Lake Balkal Intelligent answers to questions in

adult handwriting." teren pr of armies depends.

is that the boy is largely to the Lena River valley. Furthermore, France

Its terminus probably will be the

The suggestion dependent on important metals and

port of Sovietskaya Gavan on

may have bect used:by a "mater mind" to write the extortion let- minerals such as nitrates, copper, the Gulf of Tartary, Another possi-

tin,

Nikolaevak. In either

lers. ble terminal is zinc, manganese, nickel and used in munitions manufacturing case the terminal port will be de- She is greatly inferior to Germany veloped into one of the most Import-

new

Dr. Ceell Reynolds, a British

in the chemical industry, although it ant on the Pacific,, as an alternative psycho-pathist and authority 0 is being expanded by high tariffs generous governmental sub-

and

sidics,

has offered to help the hypnotism, Vindivostok to

Although of great military import-police, and has already made aug- ance, the Balkal-Amur line also will gestions which are being followed.

.a to- Dr. Reynolds is considered develop a vast rich territory before IRON EXPORT BAN

mostly inaccessible to man. Gold, markable man here. He is an ambi- Recently France halted at least timber, coal and fur resources wllitious film actor and has said that he temporarily the export of tron from be developed, and the line itself will has sometimes refused fees of £1,000 Lorraine to Germany, for it was be- make available its own, fuel from the for cerebral operations to play extra

new Bureya, coal fields.

parts in the studios at £1 a day.. ing used for munitions.

Their resentment is keen. For months these men from veldt and bush have been looking forward to coming to London. They want the bright lights and Jellity of the capital, they say, not the dreari- ness of a camp twenty-nine miles

AWAY.

6 p.m. (approx:) A Children's Concert.

6.30 p.m. The London Sym-

Orchestra. phony

"Les Preludes Symphonic Poem (Liszt); Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F (Liszt, arr. Doppler).

6.55 p.m. A Recital by Essie Ackland (Contralto).

The Messiah" (Handel)-He shall feed His Flock; The Great Awaken- ing (Johnstone and Kramer); Sane- tuary

(Hewitt); A Song of Thanks- giving (Allitsen).

7.10 p.m. Variety.

The War Office say that the ar #angements are the best possible.

Our weather, they pointed out, Vocal Gang Show of 1936.... makes a camp in Hyde Park an un- Ralph Reader and Chorus: Orchestra pleasant prospect for very long; all-Round a Gipsy Camp Fire. London barrack accommodation is Mantovani and His Tipica Orchestra;

Song

Selbetion....Lys wanted for regular troops; and Plr- Vocal-A bright, with extensive hut accom- Gauty (in French). modation, can accommodate the 770 Dominion troops easily:

7.30

Stock Quotations and D.m. Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m. Waltzes from Vienna- Retorted the Diggers and Rho-Wallz Medley, played by Jack Hylton desians: "If there is no room in Lon- and His Orchestra. don, why not send us to Edinburgh

7.40 p.m. From the Hook of or even Aldershot for a week or two. Holland to Hongkong by Rail At least there would be something No. 1 A Talk by Professor L to do there."

..

BEER REFUSED

TO A KING

Baste, Apr. 21. ING LEOPOLD OF THE BELGIANS was refused a glass of beer when he arrived at the frontier.town here, incognito, ́on his way to winter sporis in

Switzerland.

fie walked into the slation res- taurant at 6 am. while the engine of the Boulogne express was being changed. He called 'a waltress and asked for beer. The waitress replied, "It's too early." for us to servo beer." The King then asked for a glass of water.

When the train had fifl' the' waitress learned for the first time the name of her customer,

King Leopold is travelling in Switzerland as Count da Heity.

Forster.

8 p.m. Time, Weather and --An«. nouncements.

8.03.p.m. A Relay from the Leo Theatre (Chinese).

Pro-

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