1937-12-30 — Page 19

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1987.

SINGAPORE BASE PLANNED IN 1909

PACIFIC NAVAL

DEFENCE SCHEME

With news that the Singa- poro Naval Base may be "officially opened" in the near future, it is ecalled that as far back as 1909 the possible use of Singapore as a "great naval centre" was envisaged by an Indian staff officer in a speech to the Central Asian Society on “India in Imperial Defence."

The speaker, a Captain Macaulay suggested that India should "take over the defence of Colombo and Singapore and have the forces there included in the Indian defence system."

The East India and China Squadrons should, he said, be incorporated in one fleet with headquarters in Singapore, and the maintenance of the India and China Fleet units.

Indin should

take

over

World Strategy Upset By

Rise Of Japan

Captain Macaulay's reasons for making India A great sen power were that the "rice of Japan as n great world Power had altered world strategy and had a disturbing effect

on Asin.

The development of Japan, he said, might be regarded as a present day manifestation or, an acute symptom, of the development of the Paeifle, and no part of the British Empire or the world "has a greater interest in the development of the Pacific. than Indla."

Ferdinand

ACTRESS CALLS VISCOUNT

"A SCOUNDREL"

RISING from her seat in the witness box at West-

minster County Court, Miss Adele Royle, actress and mannequin, of Albany Street, Regent's Park, shouted to Viscount Kingsborough:

"You are a scoundrel. You know you are. I will kill you." Miss Royle, who was sued by Maple and Company for £20 12s. 8d., sobbed during her evidence, and twice the Court was adjourned so that she could recover.

Viscount Kingsborough, son and a document in which Miss Royle had heir of the Eari of Kingston, was joined Viscount Kingsborough ns a joined as third party by Misa Royle, third party.

be "Indemnified who claimed to against the whole of plaintiffs claim and costs."

MISS ROYLE TO PAY

Mr. Tudor Jones, for Miss Royle, said that so, for as the amount of the claim was concerned he did not dispute It.

Judge Sir Mordaunt Snagge gave Judgment for Muples with

costs against Miss Royle und judgment for day

Lord Kingsborough with "rengainst Miss Royle.

costs

When Singaporeans of the were avidly discussing these markable suggestions," a quaintly worded ntedlelion appearing in the plaintif Straits Times of Mar. 23, 1907, on the considerable conflict of evidence, but new harbour works proceeding In the nad Singapore was reenlied. It read:

"And it came to pass in the days when John the Son of Andrew, was Governor of the City of the Lion,

that there was much walling and gnashing, of teeth among the people of the Clly of the Lion, forusmuch as Caesar had decided to spend many shekels of silver in improvements of the waterways of the City.

i

the

The Judge said that ns between und defendant there was

accept decided to evidence on behalf of Maples that of Lord no time was the name Kingsborough mentioned.

Regarding the third party lie had

a conclusion reached circumstances the evidence of Lord Kingsborough must be accepted as the more reliable and truthful ne- count.

That In the

"HE LEFT ME" When the ease opened Mr. G. G. Baker, for Messrs. Maple, read from

In it she said:

"From November, 1930, to April, 1930, I lived with Viscount Kinga- borough as his wife at Wyndhant Court, Viscount Kingsborough left About me on April 10, 1936,

June 20, 1930, Viscount Kinga- borough authorised me to instruct the plaintiffs to collect and deliver

from the furniture

Wyndham Court to White House, and engage to make certain renovations at the White House."

tion of Viscount Kingsborough,

He Wished She'd Leg It.

Doyle So Near Yet So Farr---

in

When Tommy Farr, British and Empire heavyweight boxing champion, was formed recently that a syndi- cate was negotiating for a fight between him and Jack Doyle, the Irish singer, ho said:

mo

purse

misk

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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Radio Programme Brondenst by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 k.c's. 19.52 m.c's per second. ·

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12-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral,

12.30 Beethoven-Sonata In A

"Why should Doyle, of all people, have this plum in- British boxing-a title fightMajor For Plano, Op. 110.

Played by Wilhelm Kemp. with

for 2

of

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Awaken Your Heart (lm Heart'a Desire').

contest "If Doyle wants a with me let him first accredit himself with the British boxing public by going through an eliminating series."

Doyle said: "I am a great admirer of what Farr has done, but I think the title is there for the talting if I can get into the ring with him."

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A Little Love, A Little Kiss (Sileau); Because (d'Hardelot); Gipsy. Stug For Me (Melsel); Heart- less (Meisel): I Want Your Heart (Haydn Wood); Masquerade (Loeb); Adoree (West); Love Everlasting (Friml); Tell Me To-night (Spolians- ky)

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Charlle · Kunx (Plano) and Tarner Layton (Vocal and Plano).

EMPIRE o Medley Of Strauss Waltzes

CABLES

...Charlie Kunz, I'm A Fool For Loving You (Lewis and Wendling); Au Revoir (Gilbert); If I Should Lose You (film 'Rose of the Rancho').......... Turner Layton; Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 4....Charlle Kunz,

2 Band Music. Semiramide-Overture (Rossini) ....Creatore's Band; La Source Bal Airlet Care. Winterbottom)....The Band

of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

2.15. Close Down, 8.03-11 Chinese Programme.

Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.

1. Have you got any castles; 2. Moonlight on the Campus; 3. You Hot something; 4. Ole King Cole.

Z.B.W.

Miss Royle's statement added that she informed Maple's representative that she was giving the orders on behalf of Viscount Kingsborough, and the account was to be sent to 102 MORE 'PLANES his rolleitors.

Mr. Baker enld that it was only in

FOR CANADA · September when she was being

Montreal, Dec. 13. pressed for payment that Miss Royle Informed

the Canada Is to provide her Messrs. Mople that work was being done on the instruc-Force with 102 more planes in the

present fiscal year.

Mr. Mackenzie, Minister of De- Miss Royle, in evidence, said she fence, stated: "To fortify our de thought she made it clear to each fence we feel it our duty to make assistant al Messrs. Maple that she changes, and I ask for your support was giving orders on behalf of Lord until the reorganisation is complete. With the idealism of the Empire in Kingsborough.

view, we

we are looking to the future," Mr. Jones: Why did you write]

in the Conndion Air Force 5:15 Interval of recorded dance the letter asking for time to settle On Sept. 1, 1936, the number. of the account?--Because I felt so huwag 185.

5.20 5. I've got my heart set onTM milinted that Lord Kingsborough hnd Social Credit Trial-Mr. J. M. you; 6.

Swing is here to sway; 7. not settled the account.

Unwin, Social Credit member of the Make a

Wishi: 8. Big Apple. Alberta Legislature, was to-day sen-

5.33 Mr. Baker (referring to the cur

Interval of recorded dance from Z.B.W. music respondence with Maple's);

tenced by Mr. Justice Ives to three Fromer

5.45 9. Lull in my life; 10. Wake ftrat to last there is not a ward about months hard labour following his

conviction on two charges of de-up and live; 11. Swell of you; 12, Lord Kingsborough?—No,

will Rima' at the Ritz. Mr. Quintin Hogg (for Lord famatory bel. The sentence

Saskatchewan, C Studio Children's Hour. Kingsborough): When he left be served at Fort

The charges arose out of n Social said he parted from you for ever, Credit pamphlet referring to Sena- The days of the old "come-and- and was never going to have any ships laden with cargoes of wood and in the British Army are no more, more or less. City of the Lion many overseers and ret-lt," "lake-R-or-leave-it" cooking thing more to do with you?Yester Griesbach and eight other Al- berta business men ax "bankers' stone, and workmen skilled in the it one is to believe Intest reports

Loadies." art of building walls to keep back from England. Whether the British borough not only promised to pay Ming Royle sald that Lord Kings-

Judia the sea and in the building of docks."tommies" concur in these views is for the funiture in store, but for the

another matter.

flat in the White House. According to the Aldershot cor- || respondent of the London Times,

Sho agreed that there had been two

cases, other the importance of good cooking Is Mr. Hogg: In the High Court you

"And the people of the City of the Lion thought that no good" would arise by spending so many shekels of sliver, inasmuch as the people-were- not wenitny, and would meteore Le compelled to borrow from the lendera of money.

"And the people of the City of the Lion were very wroth with John the Son of Andrew and his Gounsellors, and they upperled unto Caesar.

"But Caesar listened not unto their prayer, and there came up unto the;

"And after many days there came

to the City of the Lion a Prophet from a far country, and the pepole

communed with him and told him of

these things.

"And the Propliet spake unto the people of the City of the Lion, ye are very foolish! Verily the mind of the multitude is as narrow the eyelids

of the people of far Cathay, and with their eyes they see not.

"Oh people. of the City of Lion! Can ye not see the Signs of the

Times?

They're Real Cooks In The Army Now

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

PLANS

Bombay,

1 Sea Shantles. Storm Along; Down (arr. Harris); Nous Irons A Valparaiso (Pares and van Parys); Seluramuant Sta Lampa (arr. Fav- nra): Blow The Man Down; Tom's Gone To Hilo (arr. Terry)....John Goss (Baritone) and the Cathedral Male Voice

Quartet.

Roll The Wood-Pile

7.10 London Palladium Orchestra. 'London

don Again' Sulle (Eric Coates): unly recognized in the Army of to brought an action fur breach of pro-Imperial Airways is likely to move Place; The Druid's Prayer Waltz It is reported from Karachi that (n) Oxford Street; (b) Longham day, and there has been a noteworthy mise, and on the advice of your its Eastern headquarters from there (Daveon); Deane Pappies (Ancliffe); Dreaming-Wallz (Joyce); auprovement in cookmouse stancarus solicitors you consented to it being to Calcutta, with in recent years.

dismissed with costs?--I agreed to Calcutta the

view to making The Valley termiņus next year A Birthday Serenade (Lincke). The judges at the finals of this withdraw the netion.

7.30 London Relay Bportsmen when machines will be put into ser- year's Army cookery competitions,

vice

Talking': F. G. 11. Fender and Patsy' | held recently at the Army School of

The proposal is still under consi-Hendren. Coolery, were of opinion that the In the second nection Lord Kings-deration. It would entall the re-

7.16 work of the contestants was betterborough brought proceedings.

an ever before. The part-time gave evidence, you were not believed, the traffic department, and possibly You moval of the entire office, except cooks of the Territorial Army, for and you lost?--I lost, but I think the shifting of the whom there was a separate

comped-

they believed tion, showed a similar advance on

Insurance For All-The You hate Lord Kingsborough so ment of Bombay han

"DREADFUL LIES"

the Hosts and the Ships of War of all boilermenall of which trades were dreadfut lles. Nations, so that Times of Peace and '

the leams--can turn represented in Plenty may fall upon the people? Out a well-conited and appetizing

coinrades. "Do not the ships of war of Caesar meal for their

meet in the harbour of the City of

mu.

11

Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and is Boy Friends, Breakin In A Pair Of Shoes (Stept); Sugar Rose (Walter); To- morrow Is Another Day (film A Day at the Races"); A Couple Of April

Time, Weather and Announce-

8.05

Chinese Programme-Studio

workshops.

"Are not the Kings of the Earth fast year's performance and proved much that you would fell any stories selene for insurance against illness Fools (Kennedy and Carr); If You

The Govern- prepared striving after Peace among all Peo- that inen who In daily life are about him?--No. He is the one who and ples. Do they not desire to reduce abourers, miners, hod-carriers,

provision for retirement, old Love Me (Ray 'Noble). will hurt me. He has told the most age and death. It is recognised that

ruch provision might be the best ments. Lord Kingsborough, in evidence, counter-move to the growing spirit dented

Concert. that

he had ever had a tefe of industrial unrest, but commercial

Close Down. phone conversation with Miss Reyle bodies doubt the ability of sume of

8.05-11 p.m. European Programme the Lion once every year? Is not, shot to present the prizes

the young Industries June 20.

to pay what Cross-examined by Mr. Tudor would be necessary.

from Z.E.I. On a Frequency of 640 the Harbour of the City a safe refuge

to Jones, he agreed that he lived with The

Kilocycles. Sugar Wor that the demonstrate for all the ships of war of Caesar,

Convention---It' is Ofice, Miss Royle for even

8.05 Variety. years. He understood that the Government of nay for all the Navies of the World? even to the very top, is alive to the denied Winte

Nad value of the service

Indin intends to ratify the Inter- performed "Does the earth shake in the Cly the school through it. courses of the Lion? Does the sea rise or the compuay cooks, sergeant cooks, and mighty winds blow in the Harbour of instruction for officers and sergeants' advanced training of cooks under the City of the Lion?

messes. Approximately 80 offlec.s

The

Mr.

23, went to

of State for

War.

Alder

niici

by

Authorisation to Miss Itoyle to givel national Sugar Convention, regulattos At The Ballet,

ever given for the orders in dispute to Maple's.

"Is the Harbour of the City of the and 78

700 ollier ranka pass through the Lion like unto the Harbours of Hong-school every year. kong and other cities where the sen

The school is also the experimental rises and the mighty winds blow and centre for Army catering in all its destruction is spread among the Ships aspects, and among the most interest- of Warf

demonstrations which Mr. Hore- Ing Delisha saw were those showing how "Verlly I say unto you, the time the soldier's food is cooked In the will come when the Ships of War field and

active service. The travelling kitchens used

vole

Orchestra; Vocal Is The Day (Schutze- ing the production and marketing of sugar. It will disregard the adverre Buch): Wine Waltz (Gross-Steldi)

Iferbert E. Groh (Tenor);

Come on Sept. 27 of the Legislative dian-Let's All Have A Charabane Assembly on the ground that ratif Ride: I Never Thought That She'd ention will best serve the interesta Do That To Me (Miller)....Max of all.

Miller; Vocal-A Little Co-operation Timber Stealing-Local authorl From You (from 'Going Greek'); ties are concerned at the number of You're Here, You're There (Loeb. raids by aboriginal peasants

on | Kabul)....Judy Shirley, forest produce on the Parasnatli 8.30 Lendon Relay. At The Black Hills in Bihar. The area to patrolled por by the police, but nevertheless con- Mr. Wilkes at home in his own siderable cutting of timber is taking bar-parleur. Presented by Pascoe place. Several arrests have been Thornton.

GERMAN BIRTH RATE FALLS 18,000. Suicides A Year

from the East and Ships of War from

the Great

Berlin. the West will leave the Harbours of War have disappeared, and nowadays Ing 6,514 women, in

There were 18,422 suletdes, includ- | made. the City of Hongkong and other Cities no attempt is made to cook on

Germany In Australia and will gather themselves together march. The apparatus which

1035-370 fewer than the previous has In the Harbour of the City of the replaced them uses petrol sa fuck, yet, but nearly 3,000 more than in QUEENSLAND CRIME

Lion

on

the

stores of most unith of the

petrol being among the normal

1913.

new

Brisbane,

Executions numbered 60, as against

Queensland claims that it has less crime in proportion to its popula tion than any other State in Austra- Divorces in 1030 Increased by 553 1n. The State has six prisons with

"Oh, ye foolish People, leave unto mechanized Army. There are port- 152 in 1934. Caesar the things that are Caesar's able cookers of various sizes to serve for the wisdom of Caesar compared detachments ranging from a handful with the wisdom of the multitude is of nien up to large units, this making to 50,337, and illegitimate biruis by accommodation for 638 prisoners. Af like wine unto water. I havo spoken. event the smallest detachment sell-2,084 to 104,000. Total births

The Pagan."

sufficient..

clined by 00,123 to 1,110,130,

de- the moment there are fewer than

300 in them~~~B. U. P..

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