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THE HONOKONG TELEGRAPU, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938.

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The War Memorial Hospital, on the 17th February, 1938, to Arline (Nee Bancroft of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA) wife of J. Sanderson Smith, a son, (Jackie).

The

YES, ME EDITOR, YOUR CARTOONIST IS LATE AGAIN. WHY NOT LET ME ON THE CARTOON,

FOR A

CHANGE! HE'S ALWAYS TRYING TO

MAKE

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THE NEW GERMAN CRISIS WILL BE THE

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"THE FOREIGN EDITOR

SENT ME UP WITH THIS NEW ITALIAN

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THERE'S

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CALL IT A DAY

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EDITOR

Strube in the Daily Express

Must We Build Bigger Warships?

S the day of the bigger: battleship approach- ing?

From Tokyo come persis-

Hongkong Telegraph.tent reports that the

to

Japanese navy is laying down battleships of over 40,000 tons.

In Washington the House

..

ready mentioned could at a pinch contribute eight ships. The

THE "VERY IDEA"-

JUST AN OLD-TIME PIRATE,

THAT'S US!

By Cap'n Eddło Kelly, Kidd

OUR

rent has just been raised by $20 a month so to-day we have decided to write about pirates.

When we were a pirate, hav- ing served our time with tho electric light and gas companies, we were the soul of courtesy.

་ ། ྃ

For a start, wo nevor pirated women or young girls-using the word "pirato" in the literal sense, of course.

We soon found that this knightly cringing courtesy, didn't pay. The male passengers used to pass their valuables over to their wives.

We had an idea one day when we were sitting by the campfire in our lalr at Blas Bay with our gang stand- ing to attention in the background.

PTO

the boatsl" we cried. We used to cry

flerco in those days. something

A funny thing happened to us a few moments ago. A chap came in and said he was the shroff from the Hongkong Hotel. We know he was lying because the shroff from the Hongkong Hotel gave up com- Ing to see us months age,

*

Eh? Oh, pirates! Yes,

course.

of

Wo first started out on a life of crime when we were deported from our home to a nearby school. We became the head of our class in no time. Here we want to pny tri- bute to the studious chup with the long legs and glasses who sat next to us in the class-room, We ran neck and neck for top marks, when he went and died of chicken-pox, and

By Commander Americans, on the other hand, we immediately fall back to the

Russell Grenfell

could probably send the whole of their fifteen battleships. The British force in European waters would serve also, as in the last war, to cover the United States against possible naval aggression from the eastward,

bottom

*

class.

.*

That chap te stiil mooning around the office, with a bundle of chile. in his hands. It's touching, really, the way these people want to press their attentions OTL we famous people.

minute.

*

Having been expelled from. school with honours the choice of a career was our first thought. Whether to work in Ice House Street, become a banker, a dispensing chemist, a land- Jord or

or a compradore, that was the question.

We decided to combine the lot; and become a pirate.

Our most celebrated exploit was the holding up of the Empress of

She wasn't a bad sort of an Emn- Dress as Royalty goes, but the Em-. peror got to hear about le and there was a dickens of a row,

It was broad daylight when she rounded Lyemoon Point, and we can the face of the captain as we left our see to this day the look of terror on ambush and sold in loud; ringing tones, "WHOA!" We were sorry we back we could never find it left our ambush, because when we again, It was a nice ambush, too, we always wore it in the winter, and

warm.

**

k

ita fur-lining used to keep our throat

** We were talking about pirates, weren't we?

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938.

The British and American Don't get impatient. We're GERMAN ACTION

of Representatives has just

fleets together would, in fact, becoming back to the pirate part any MAY HAVE WIDE

passed Roosevelt's new 000 tons. Numbers they hold amply strong enough. But have REPERCUSSIONS

£110,000,000 bill for new can more than compensate for they bases from which they size, in view of the fact that a could operate effectively against Hitler, by all accounts, has naval construction.

The recently completed base atruck another blow for German THE principal naval Powers, battleship can only are at one the Japanese navy?

including Japan, bound them- opponent at a time.

Whichever is the accurate view at Singapore is available for the prestige and power in Central selves by the Washington Treaty Europe. According des-of 1922 not to build battleships it is clear that an increase in the British fleet.

The Americans are even bet- than 35,000 more

tons. size of Japanese battleships will patches he has completely broken of the resistance of Austria to Nazi Britain, France and the United have to be countered by one ter off. The Philippines are un- Influence, and in one series of States renewed this undertak method or the other if a Far usually well provided with possi- Russia in 1835.

ing in 1936, but Japan refused Eastern nuval conflict is con- ble bases. Manila harbour, in particular, could accommodate swift manoeuvres, backed by a

sidered a possibility. to participate. display of German might, has

Now London and Washington Some people may regard it as all the flects in the world and is bent Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg-If not Paris-are considering beyond the range of possibility, covered by powerful batteries.

The most promising courses of to his will,

whether they can be any longer Japan, they may say, does in bound by the Treaty limits. fact command the Western Pa- action for the two flects would be -There will be no denial of the

If Japan were to build ships eific today. All things consi- either for the American fleet to daring of the German action, of over 40,000, tons while we re dered we are unlikely to be able-go-to-the Philippines and the though as strategy it lacks tained the 35,000 tons limit, ship to wrest it from her if we would. British to Singapore; or for the What therefore is the good of British fleet to join the Ameri- finesse. It is reminiscent of a for ship, her new battleships victory bought by the massing would be superior to ours. building battleships against a can at the Philippines.

The disadvantage of the form- Given competent construction, contingency that for geographi- of troops against a thinly-held the power of a ship varies with cal and strategical reasons is un- er course is that the two fleets would be over a thousand miles line of enemy soldiers, and liter-her size. The bigger the ship likely to arise?

apart. ally by weight crushing the the larger or more numerous the That argument is not based on

Under the latter course, both defence. Austria, never in a guns you can put into her, or the the facts or on all the facts.

a thicker the armour or the higher It is true that, in the present fleets would be sharing the same xxxcccccc position to seriously resist

state of the world, it is unlikely burden and the combined fleet threat of German violence since the speed.

That being so it is no use build that Britain could send to the would be so powerful as to be the Great War, had no alter-

unchallengeable. Singapore and native but surrender. Vienna ing a ship of 35,000 tons in reply Far East 4 fleet detachment other British and Imperial terri

to one of 40,000 tons. Some large enough to challenge the tories to the southward would be dared not call the German move thing as large or larger would be Japanese main fleet in its own

covered 88 effectively from a bluff.

There's a mad streak in us that necessary..

chosen ground of operations.

Manila as from further south.

makes us say things like that. Mind Nevertheless, ships of over The point is how far her own

The great merit of an Anglo-you, we're sorry for it after- Italy's reaction is not yet 40,000 tons, or even of 35,000. ground extends. The smaller

wards, but we just can't help our- selves. clear. It may be that this tons, are very large and very the British ficet, the further American meeting at Manila would be the very important manoeuvre was known to Rome costly things, so costly that a from her own strictly home area even before the Budapest con- nation can only afford a few of Japan can hope to operate with moral effect that would almost certainly be produced, partly by out fear of interference. ferences; and it is also possible them.

For this reason there is a That is why we cannot look the junction of the two fleets that von Schuschnigg himself

into one overwhelming force, of Japanese but even more by the evidence was aware of the German inton-school of thought that holds upon an increase Ition. It may have been worked that battleship size has reached battleship strength with indif- before the whole world of the It is the name of a small handbag its effective limit and that the forence, even if we cannot now complete identification of the carried by ladies in the 80's in the out by the leaders of the Rome-right reply to a foreign ship of expect to carry out successful aims and interests of the two pre-lipstick era, and it had a smal Berlin axis and the collaboration 40,000 tons Is, two of about 26,- operations in, say, the Yellow great nations thus acting in

close accord, of Vienna obtained. There - to (significance in the fact that

To-day the requirements of - The presence of American Italy has not attempted to res- unwise. Until the exact reae-home defence prevent us sending cruisers at the official opening of train Hitler as she did not so tions of the powers can be any more than eight capital ships the Singapore base on Monday certained it will be impossible to the East. The Japanese, was a happy omen for this co- long ago when Germany to make accurate predictions. however, have nine capital ships. operation. threatened to put the Nazis into But it is not improbable that At the best, therefore, our own power in Vienna. The Italians Jugo-Slavian and Czecho-Slova force would be inferior. marched to the frontier, then.kian Icaders will hasten to con- And the significance of the Ger-fer with a view to meeting the

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I have seen it suggested that!

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All right! All right! There was the Empress, with its terrifed pas- sengers cowering In their cabins,

while smoke drifted lazily from its funnels into the frosty morning air.

(That's not a bad bit)

The captain said: "What's the meaning of this outrage?"

"Oh, you shut up!" we said, in our wild, hot-tempered way,

boat deck with their hands up while we went through their pockets and reticules, (We bet It's a long time since you heard that word.) dare say there's a lot of you girls who don't know what a reticule is!

The passengers lined up on the

mirror in it and powder puff and rouge box, a comb, and a postage stamp, handkerchief reeking of scent, and a pencil off a dance programme. Anyway, we're fed up telling you about pirates. Come - up and let us demonstrate sometime. "Skoal!" (Norwegian for something or the other).

"Father," sald Pat, will you be there 7" "Yes, Patrick." "And will: all of us Cathalles be there too?" "Yes, Patrick, all of us." "Dut, father, what about the Orangement" "The Orangemen," replied the priest

"will also be there.' quil they. bedad!"

shouted Pat "Then it's little business will be done the first day, I'm thinkin'."

An Irish padre, was trying to get some money to repair a hole on the

of

man display of military strength possibility of further German we might advantageously dia- IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR on the Austrian frontier may expansion and a general uphen patch an inferior force, even one

of no more than five battleships, "COME here, Mick Maloney, yo obisinate spalpeen, and put yer not have been directed against val in Central Europe.

As for France and Britain, it to the East; a force which,

cap on," said an Irish mother. von Schuschnigg, but against the is obvious that they will not be though standing on the defen- "Shure en' ye're that contrary that particularly pleased. And thoir ive, would by its mere presence if yo hadn't got wan ye'd always be response to what may be inter-in Far Eastern waters act as a awencin' of ut."

Pat had fallen into the hands of: against For Reservations please 'phone 27775

There, on the face of it, preted as a challenge in one of powerful deterrent

lawyers, and was lamenting to sym little to be gained by Gormany one of Japanese aggression.

pathetic friends about the excessive Whenever this policy has been bill which he had had to pay. |resorted to in the past It - has

"Lawyers, did ye say? It's thieves THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD,in lifting Austrian Nazis into diplomacy of Moscow, will have

power, except, of course, the a bearing on future develop failed. If force has to be used they are an' all on all. Put well a thim an uninhabited in strengthening of the anti-Com-inents.

"Ach, your Rivirence," said Pit, munist bloc. It is probable Of course, this may be just at all, the greatest infatake that land, an he'd be sticken als hands for acontechurch, and asked Pat that Austria will now swing nother move in a game already can be made is not to have suffici- in the pockets of the poor naked

savages on robbin' thim of what's sorra a penny piece of money

1.have, but it's pleased they nivir have had!!!

proud 1'11 Into line with those allies who thought out to its conclusion; have made anti-communism their or it may be designed to distract Let us therefore rule out any An Irish father boasted that he common policy. But to say that attention of the Mediterranean, Idea that Britain should endea had seven sons, and never raised his

defence, p tals development has been acor.Spain, or China. Who knows. your, single-handed, to dominate hand to one of them save in, self complished without shaking po. In any event the repercussions the Far Eastern situation. But litical Europe more deeply than will bo widely felt, and no-one the British and American navies any mere anti-Soviet recruit- yet darca say what may be their acting together would be a very {different matter.' Britain an al ment would have done, would be outcome. Jaka

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No Teplied Pat, "but next Bun- day if it rainin' it'y meself will bo willing to ait on the hôtel"