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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, JULY 26, 1937.

NAVY ESTIMATES SYSTEM CRITICISED

A "More Useful" Form Proposed

SELECT COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT

Critcism of the form of Navy and other votes and a comment on the size of the staff at the Passport Office are contained in a second report issued recently by the Select Committee appoin- ted by the House of Commons to suggest the form in which Estimates shall be presented, and to report on any economies which may be effected consistent with the policy implied in the Estimates.

The Committee note that since their last report the School of Equitation and the Remounts and Veterinary services have been reviewed by the Army Council. It is estimated that, the changes to be made will lead to an annual saving of £72,000.

Concerning the Navy Estimates the Committee state that they have come to the conclusion that

a detailed!

examination of Navy Volcs could be undertaken in a future year more usefully than at the present stage in the expansion of the defence services, however, that such

of staff employed has taken place concurrently with a decline in the port work is largely seasonal, and number of issues of passports. Pass- the regular staff is based on the requirements of the slacker periods and

is supplemented by temporary engagements. Thus, while the regular staff in 1939 was 109, the peak number of employees in that year was 302. The peak number The increase of staff in this office employed in 1827 was only 281. attributted to reduction in the weekly hours of attendance, and the Committee consider that the relation of worit should be reviewed. of the staff employed to the volume i

CHILDREN'S RISK IN PADDLING

examination should not be los BOY'S FOOT IS

poned. An opinion is expressed that

the form in which the Navy Totes are drawn up is not in all cases as

full and Informative as it should be,

to ascertain

INJURED

In a number of instances it is not? The Court of Appeal recently possible

from thedeelded that the Fulham Borough Estimates the total or even the aps | Couned had not taken sumcient; proximate cost of important serviet,, | measures to protect children from the expenditure on which is distri-Prisk, when paddling in n pond 'ni buted over different subheads or Bishop's Park. different votes. The Estimates Come

mittee of 1934, it is stated, recog

recognized

with

Tacir lordships dismissed that complete standardization of the wis the Council's appeal from the Estimates of the three defence deard by Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord,

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

BASQUE CHILDREN WOUNDED-Hundreds of children wound- ed in Blibao, Spain, during the heavy bombardment by guns and the rain of death from airplanes, were evacuated from the city prior to the entrance of the victorious Insurgents. Here, a nun, à purse and an aide carry wounded children aboard a steamer tak- ing them away from the stricken Basque capital,

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY WANTS GINGERING UP

getting slack. in the King's Bench Division, of £69

SAY CRITICS

of

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the Davis Cup Challenge Round

CRICKET TEST MATCH

Radio Programme Broadenst by ZBW on Wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's), 31.40 metres (0.52 m.c'a.). 6-8 p.m. European Programine, 0-11 p.m. Chinese Programme. 6 p.m. Relay: The Dance chestra from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel.

PROGRAMME

Or-

5-5.15 p.m. 1, The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes; 2, Mama Don't Allow it; 3, I like Bananas; 4, Where is my heart.

5.13-5.20 p.m. Interval of record- ed music from Z.B.W.

5.20-5.35 6, Bass Drum Dan; 6, I'm nn Old Cowhand; 7, Goodnight my Love; 8. He Ain't Got Rhythm.

5.35-5.40 Interval of recorded music from Z.D.W.

5.40-3.55 9, Blue Skies; 10, River- bout Shuffle: 11. By the Waters of Minetonka; 12, Rose Room.

5.55-0.00

Interval

music from Z.B.W.

of recorded

6.00-8.15 13, Sweetheart Medley; 14, Where are You My Lovet 15. Song of the falands; 16, Our Little Ciltl.

of recorded

0.15-0.20

Interval musle from Z.B.W.

0.20-0.30 17, Alone; 18, Iling Dem Bells; 19, Stompin' The Blues Away; 20, Okay Baby.

6,30

Cinema Organ played by Terence Casey; Fifty Years of Song.

Wedding of

of the Parades: Parade of the Weddings; In a Bird Store.

8.45 p.m. London: Relay of Bl Ben "Empire Exchange.”

7 New Light Symphony Orchestra. Zampa; Jazz Nocturno ("My Silent Love"); Buffoon; Incidental Music to "Mary Rose" Spanish Moszkowsky; Spanish Bizet.

La

Dance- Serenade-

The Home Office Estimate, the re- on the council was to ensure that the ing a tendency to bless Buggest- were also made. After discussion it Fox-Trot May 1 have the Next

of

boy

Lord

was

an

Report and Announcements.

8 Local Time Signal, Weather 8-11 Chinese Programme.

11 p.m. Close Down,

ol

7.30 Closing local Stock Quotations London, June 25. the House of Commons lo-day (Mr. and Hongkong Exchange Market partments was not possible or desir- 63 to Albert Ellis, alue, and his

The Labour Party is suid to be C. R. Attlee presiding) a discussion

Report. able, but the

Mr. E. Shinwell, M. was inaugurated by Mr. Shinwell on the Committee, while not departing from that view, trust that father, of Bowalian-road, Fulham, P. thinks that it wants gingering up the memorandum he had submitted

7.35 Dance Music. the Board of Admiralty and the The boy had stepped on a piece of and thereupon

Waltz Would You. submitted to the to the Leader of the Party. He ex- Treasury will review the form and lass while paddling in the pond and Parliamentary Labour

Fox-Trot All aplained that no personal issues were Fox-Trot Smoke Dreains; Fox-Trot Alone in Vienna: Party detalls of the Navy Estimates with the severed a tenden in his left big toe,

memorandum calling for a more involved, but he had certain sug- There's that look in your Eyes Again; object of presenting the cost of the

It was contended for the council AVERSHA

energetic policy โ opposition. Cestions to increase the effectiveness Rumba services "in a more useful form.”

Cucaracha; Fox-Trol that the boy was not, as the judge Apparently there is nothing revolu- of the work of the party in the llouse Love and Learn; Fox-Trot Check to

and in the memorandum had beld, an "Invitee" but merely a

tionary

Commons. Other

suggestions Cheek; Fox-Trot Goodnight, My "licensee," and that the only duty

that apart from generalities

Love; the National was unanimously agreed to remit the

Romance? port notes, contains provision

pond did not constitute a "trap" or Government, rather than to curse it various suggestions made to a com-

the de- mittee every possible ocrusion,

of the executive and back £4,017,500 for air raid precautionary hidden danger of which they knew.

Lord Justice Slesser and

tulled criticisms are concerned with bench members for services, and £500,000 för fire brigade

consideration matters of machinery services. The Committee suggest Justice MacKinnon both

which could and report, the gave that, in view of the magnitude of the opinion yesterday that it was im-

casily be adjusted without

any

"It is understood that the special

0-11.30 p.m. European Program- expenditure and its dissimilarity from possible to say the

public linen-washing. It is under- stood, for instance, that Mr. Shinwell committee will consist of six mem-me From ZEK; on a Frequency that already borne on the Vote for the "Invitee."

weltbers of the Executive and six,mem-

840 kilocycles. Home Office, provision for these sez-

the Parliamentary bers from the back benches, and it

8.03 Sid MacEwan and Labour Party should set up a series will examine any memoranda that Sweetheart, Let's Grow Old To-

8.03

Kelty vices should be the subject of separate Vote.

of small committeen to specialise on members may care to present. One various subjects as they arise, and Mr. Shinwell's suggestions which Eether-Kitty Masters When the The numbers and cost of the staff

that there should be some kind of a of the Foreign Ofce, the Committee

centrul bureau for the examination

became known was that every Labour The Lark in the Clear Air-Sid Mac- Swallows Nest Again-Kitty Masters; point out, have increased substantially

of questions to make certain

should in recent years. In the main the

memliers in their enthusiasra do not car towards the creation of a cen-

that member

contribute 28 a Ewan; She Moved Thro' the Fair. change is attributable to the increased

blanket each other. It is suggested with the

ested fral information

burcau,

8.16 London: The Second Cricket complexity of foreign relations

but even Test Match. that Labour The

spect of an increased administrative staff of the

members before they

ulary put questions on the Order Foreign Office, Immediately below the

little enthusiasm. Paper for the suggestion. Mr. Permanent Under-Secretary of State,"

burenu in order to prevent over- should hand them in to the central

Shinwell gave the meeting an assurance that lapping and to ensure that

there was no desire to undermine every afternoon Ministers are subjected to

the position of Mr. Attlee as Leader A well organised barrage.

of the Party, and Mr. Attlee grace- fully accepted the "assurance. It is understood Mr. Garro-Jones has also

memorandum on the Our Own Correspondent,

way."

น

It is added, "consists of two Deputy Under-Secretaries of State, instead of one, and five Asalatant Under-Secre farles of State, instead of a normal complement of three. The

number

of Counsellors has, however, been reduced for the time being from 14 to 13. These arrangements are large- ly due to personal considerations, combined in one case with the desir- ability of retaining the officer con- earned in London for a further period; they are explicitly temporary, Your

am

Lord Justice Green: I

not entirely satisfied. This was n very inviting place for children.

"I think that putting up a notlee- board for children of this age is no good at nt" remarked Lord Justice MacKinnon.

Lord Justice Greer expressed the opinion that the notice-board --wns very near to an invitation to children

to paddle.

"A PARCEL OF ADDERS" "Suppose there had been a parcel at adders there?" suggested Lord Justice Slesser.

Mr. N. L. Macaskle, K.C., for the council, Then it would have been our duty to remove them if we know they were there.

Mr. R. F. Levy, K.C., on behalf of commilice do not think it justifiable the boy Ellis, said even if he was

considers tha

The memorandum was considered by the Parliamentary Labour Party which sat on Thursday and who afterwards Issued the following statement:

"At the weekly meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party held in

that additional posts of high grading in succeed in his cat was entitled First Viking Dwellings

should be created in the interest of to claim.

individual officers who, for whatever The child was not there by per- reason, have not been promoted In mission of the council," declared Mr. existing vacancies, and they are glad Levy, "but by right. This is a pond to note that these very exceptional provided out of the rates and his arrangements in the Foreign Omco father is a ratepayer." will shortly terminate."

LESS ACCOUNTING

Discovered In Scotland

The first Viking dwellings

Lord Justice Greer, in giving judgment, said the nollee-board at the pond indicated that the council for children, and recognised treated the pond as a paddling pond ever known on the mainland of there Scotland have been discovered was a real danger to them.

by Dr. A. O. Curle, the

of

WHE

"PEASANT" GENERAL ELEVATED

Another Shake-Up In Red Army

Moscow, July 25. Two more Important changes have the pond raked, but though the rake archaeologist, of Edinburgh, been made in the High Command of

the SCA at Freshwick, the Red Army.

All the council did was to have

near

It is added that the number of staff employed in the Establishment and Finance Department, at present 40, has not been reduced since the immediate post-War period, though dealt adequately with the deeper the immense amount of dimeuit part, it had little or no effect on the Caithness. accounting work required at that part of the pool where the boy cut period has disappeared.

his foot.

observes, an increase is the numbers) Justice MacKinnon, concurred.

In the Passport Office, the report Lord Justice Slesser and Lord

SAVING THE YOUNG FROM PRISON

--

A SURVEY which, it is hoped, will

Hitherto such dwellings had been found only in the Orkney and Shet- Jand Islands, although Callhness was occupied by the Vikings to a greater

extent than any other county.

and

England v, New Zealand; A Com- mentary on the second day's play by P. G. H. Fender from Old Tafford, Manchester.

8.30 London: The Twilight Serenaders.

A fantasy. In music and story with story written and told by Tan Grant. Clarence Wright's Quintet. The Production by F. H. C. Piffard.

8.50 Dance Music.

Waltz-It's a Sin to Tell a Lle. Fox-Trot Nobody's Sweetheart; Fox-Trot Chicago; Fox-Trot Lei's Face the Music and Dance; Fox-Trot But Where Are You; Fox-Trot Sing, Sing: Fox-Trot Did I Remember; Fox-Trot A Star Fell Out of Heaven; Rumba The Lady in Red; Waltz; A Beautiful Lady in Blue.

9.20 London: News and Announce- ments.

9.40 Light Orchestral.

In a Fairy Realm; Bells Across the Meadows; Black Eyes-Russion Impression.

10 London: Lawn Tennis.

The Davis Cup Challenge Round; A commentary by Captain 11. B. T. Wakelum and Colonel R. H. Brand from Wimbledon.

11.30 Close Down.

Rign GSA

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An official announcement says that General Kashirin, commander of Uic of the eight military judges at the Caucasian Military District and one cent trial of Marshal Tukhachevsky seven other Soviet generals who were subsequently executed, "There have been found three or been transferred to an unstated post.

GST Unst has four Viking dwellings in one hollow, He is being replaced in the Caucasian and two dwellings so far have been command by General Timoshenko, excavated," Dr. Curle loial a Prem representative of the new school of representative, "The dwellings all Red Army officers, a man of peasant have the same orientation and are so

origin, who rose from the ranks of close together as to suggest almost the Czarist Army and became

general during the 'civil war. the arrangements of a village.

General Timoshenko helped

11.30 p.m. Big Ben. Ezra Pitt and Ener organise the famous Red Cavalry pm. The Adventures of a Zoologist in

try the English countryside. divisions, which Marshal Rudenny16 Arthur Dulay Quintet.

England.. suggested and developed. Reuter.

years to accomplish, and will prob- prove definitely the valuo of] ably Involve the training And placing offenders on probation rather

appointment of several hundred than sending them to prison is being} amy probation offers. carried out for the new Probation To the 1,000 courts throughout the Department of the Home Office, country there

are at present only 400 At present it is difficult to induce full-time probation officers. Some of of peat having given the occupants local authorities to appoint full-time these are attached to as many as 14 and fully-trained oflcers, because it different courts.

£5 A A YEAR SALARY”

is hard to show avidence of their remedial value,

anything from £5 to 250 a year.

In some districts local authorities The collection of auch evidence, is merely employ part-time and un- not easy, for, except in the police trained officers at nominal salaries of records of the most serious crime, there is no machinery to record the Now the new Probation Training subsequent history of persons placed Board is preparing to turn out on probation,

force of fully-trained officers upon which local authorities will be able Now, at the request of the Home to drate. Detalls of the new and Offee, the clerks of some 20 police Increased scales of salaries

FOLLOWING UP

"In the Brat house," he continued, "there was revealed along the centre the long hearth, characteristic of Viking dwellings. This hearth was covered with peat ash, the burning; both warmth and light. The door- way was in the gable-end. On the left of the entrance was a platform on which, probably, stood the bed.

USED AS BATH HOUSE

"The second house," said Dr. Curle, "has passed through various phones

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Transmission 1

1,05 pm. The News and Announcements.

bourne, Sussex. ·

Greenwich Time Signal at 2 p.m. 2.13 p.m. The BBC Presents the ABC-

Letter 'O.

Transmission 2

10.8.0., 0.8.0., 0.9.1 GAL)

4.45 pm. Big Den. Empire Exchange. 7 Tore of the 1st Battalion,

Border Regiment., From East

boume. Sussex,

p.m. Syneopated Muale

0.15 p.m. The Second Cricket Test Match:

England v. New Zealand,

Transmission

(0.9.0., 0.8.0, 0.9.1, GBJ.)

6.10 p.m. The Twilight Serenaders. served as a bath house. of use, in the second of which ItA. Jardine, who performed the 50 pm A Programme of Gramophone

Records, religious ceremony at the marringe of 0.20 p.m. The News and Announcements. "Relics were few, chiefly consisting lins been postponed because of the

the Duke and Duchess at Windsor, Greenwich Time Signal at 9.30 pm. to be of bone objects which, seemingly, pastor's attack on the Archbishop of 10 p.m. Big Hen. Lawn Tennis: the courts in big provincial towns are paid probation officers aro 10 be Indicated that the occupants of the Canterbury, delivered at Baltimore, collecting data upon which the Pro- published in a few days.

houses had not been wealthy. There Md. bation Department hope

Davis Cup Challenge Round. to reach Since the Home Office a few weeks was tr abundance of shards

11.30 p.m. Bonsta Recital by

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ago invited candidates for the two pollery both Viking hand-made and

Whitehead (Violoncello) and Norman This is one move in the Depart-years course of training, which wheelmade.

The management of the great Enton 12 um. The Become Cricket Test Match:

Tucker (Pianoforts). ment's drive to increase the efficiency carries with it a maintenance grant

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"The date of these dwellings is clergyman

England v. New Zealand, of £180, there have been 850 ap- probably somewhere between the announcet it would not permit him 12.35m. John Reyndres

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