1938-03-28 — Page 3

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MARCH

1938

General Goering Discloses Secret Air Force

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"Invincible Airmen Are Ready To Carry Out The Fuehrer's Demands"

Charlie

Chaplin Idyll Ended?

Hollywood.

Paulette Goddard will no longer be Charlie Chaplin's leading lady. She has signed a long-term contract with another producer, David Selznick, to star in his film of the novel "Gone with the Wind."

And the film world is asking to-night:

"Is Charlie Chaplin's romance over?"

Chaplin is said to have done all he could to prevent her tak- ing the part. Only he knows whether Paulette has gone with wind--and he isn't talk-

the

ing....

The part will be Paulette's

word.

but

OFF TO GET HIS EYE IN

1-17:0

UNBORN INFANT

IN COURT CASE

M.

Chicago, Ill.

when

Mrs.

I JAUNANG TEREZATUSA

MAKING EARLY START TO SEASON.~~. W. Austin and his actress wife, Phyllis Konstam, leaving London for the Riviera. Britain's No. 1 lawn tenula star will play in tournaments at Monte Carlo and Beaulieu.

Fighting Spirit "Irrepressible"

Berlin.

A FRANK account of the secrecy with which

Germany's new`Air Force, forbidden under the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, was built up after Herr Hitler came to power was given this morning in a broadcast speech by Field-Marshal Goering, the Air Minister,

This was combined with a velled threat to Czecho-Slovakia, and other countries with German minorities, and a proud declaration of the "lavinolbility" of the German Air Force. Field-Marshal Cloering's words rang with the true spirit of Prussian militarism. The speech was delivered before been presented to him in the morn-

audience of generals and high ing by Herr Hitler. officials in the Hall of Honour of the Air Ministry. It was part of the celebration of Germany's "Air Force Day."

an

For the first time Field-Marshal Goering carried his baton. It had

Writer Denies Rumour of Secret Japanese Canal

By Carroll Kenworthy

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON.

first leading role, apart from A court ruling that an un- "Modern Times" with Chaplin, born baby is not an individual in which she did not speak has led attorneys for Mrs. Theresa Smith to file an appeal She was chosen for her "Gone against the ruling of Judge with the Wind" role-Scarlett O'Hara--not from screen tests Harry

Fisher. Judge rehearsals attended by Fisher's ruling was based on a Director George Cukor, Film precedent set 51 years ago by. THE LONG-RUMOURED JAPANESE PLAN TO BUILD A Adapter Sidney Howard, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. STRATEGIC CANAL ACROSS SIAM TO CIRCUMVENT THE Smith ned suit against Drs. Albert BRITISH NAVAL Base at singaporE IS DISCOUNTED HERE

Trostler, specialists, charging they incorrectly AS A "FABLE" BY THE WRITER JOHN L. CHRISTIAN, WHO diagnosed her pregnancy in Febru- ary, 1924, as an abdominal tumour HAS LIVED FOR MANY YEARS IN THAT REGION. and gave her Ove X-Ray treatments, cach lasting 45 minutes. Five months later a baby giri was born. unborn child to such an extent that it was an imbecile from birth and never passed the mental age of two years. The child died last October 25-United Press.

Mr. Selznick, ENGLISH COACH

She leaves at once for Florida, where she will be coached by the English actress Constance Col- lier.

Paulette's friends say she has been and Chaplin's, falfure to write an-

very unhappy owing to lack of work

other part for her.

On the other hand, many are wondering if I will result in Selznick linking up with Chap-

It is known Selznick would like to purchase the Pickford-Fairbanks-! Chaplin shares in United Artists now their deal with Korda and Goldwyn has fallen through.

When Chaplin first met Paulette she was a chorus girl in Eddie Can- tor's "Kid from Spain."

Many people say Chaplin married her in 1934; but this has never been confirmed.

The problem arose

Luckhardt and

S. 真

She charged the X-Ray injured the

$10 Fine Was In Stomach

Shirley Temple" stomach.

The canal is impracticable from the commercial viewpoint and hazardous from the strategic viewpoint, acccording to Christian. Political conditions, moreover, make its construction extremely unlikely, he believes.

Under the title "The Kra Canal Fable" he discussed the engineering, trade and military aspects of such a canal in the last issue of the new magazine-Amerasia.

"NO PEACE-TIME WEAPON" "Everybody must realise," he de- clared, "that it is no peace

Lime in the German Air Force. It is the parade weapon that has been created sharpest weapon of war that were able to develop."

We

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His next words seemed to be in- tended as an indication of one of the uses to which the new Force might be put, if Germany's demands were disregarded.

"In his Reichstag speech." he said, "the Fuehrer proudly proclaimed that we would no longer tolerate the oppression of 10,000,000 Germans beyond our of the Air Force know that, K need be, you must stake support of the

Fuehr lives is inspired by irrepressible fighting spirit blazing certainty of though we, as Germans. have શ

our frontiers. You soldiers

"Our

service

in

words.

01

and a Even as men,

passionate desire for peace,

we are ready at any time, as soldiers of the youngest service, to tell the

Fuehrer and the people that his Alr Force is invincible in the face of, sill

opponents."

COWARDLY PACIFISM Field-Marshal Goering had begun by describing the destruction of the German forces under the "shameful pepce of Versailles." Worse, even than this, he declared, was the spirit of pacifism" that reigned in Germany at that time.

"But,"

he

added, "In spite of every- it was impossible completely

"cowardly

thing,

He contends that construction to make it worth while for shipping of a nanal across the Isthmus to avoid the Straits of Singapore to wipe out the spirit that had in- of Siam at the narrow neck particularly as vessels on the Europe-spired the whole German

People where Kra is located would be China route would have to pass when, for four and a half years in technically practicable, provided around Ceylon and thereby lose 300 a single wall of smoko and steel, of Pittsburgh.

it was dug at sea level. That miles on one side and 200 on the gas and destruction, it had guarded John Hudzicki was jailed re-would he necessary, he said, be- other to nvold shoal waters and against a world in arms. From the tho frontiers of the Fatherland cently because the $50 that

cause there is not sufficient Islands off Cambodia. Moreover, first day this Inspiration worked would have paid his fine for water during the dry season in they would all miss the lucrative the evil spirit which meant "I'll Wait For bitting his wife was where he the Pak-chan River which flows trade of Singapore which is among Germany's, down foll

couldn't get it. His wife had into the Indian Ocean nor in the the richest in the Orient, he said.

"In the air, however Germany C- mained $40 and a $10 bill was in his Tayoung River on the Siamese

shackled. Br expending The only shipping which would every effort and using every loophole side to supply locks.

profit would be that between Japan one single refuge was created in His wife, Mary, sent him to get The distance between deep water and India, he said, but diminishing Germany, where aviation could still New York. $50 on an insurance policy. John in both oceans across the Isthmus at returns are in prospect for the route ve. This was the German Luft- When the Earl of Warwick, who returned with the $50, but handed Kra is 65 miles, he reported. The view of the growing industriailsa-hansa Airways Co.

atlon of India and the restrictions

GOAL FOR CENTURIES wife recently, arrived in New York grabbed for the $10 and John put it than the Panama Canal, which is 40

"There, energetic men gathered on his way back to Hollywood, he in his mouth. She tried to get it nautical miles. The land is about raw and finished cotton. denied reports that he was planning. from his mouth and he bit her 250 feet above the sea for as much

the guise of civil activities, of keep- to remarry.

In the excitement he swal-as 18 miles of the 05, Mountains the alleged strategie dangers of the turies has led men towards the goal "Mention of Japan brings us to ing allve the spirit which for cen fingers. "I'm going to wait until Shirley owed the bill.

between

en 2,000 and 4,000, feet high proposed Temple hus grown up." he said

canal, The magistrate offered John a risc for much of the other distance "Japan is pointed out as the ogre

he continued. of Olght. Jokingly. [Shirley is eight.] choice between a $50 fine or 60 days of the Isthmus, making Kra the only that desires to make a flank attack

Lord Warwick said he received a fall. John looked appealingly at practicable point for the canal. number of fim offers from Holly-his wife. She shook her head.

at that bottle neck. This, we are Singapore to-break Britain's power wood, and he hoped "to make a suc-patted his stomach and went to jall.

told, will be achieved best by the -United Press,

construction of an alternate Into the Indian Ocean via Kra roule Again I ask you to look at a detailed map of the Kra area.

obtained a deeree nisi against his over only $40 to Mrs. ludzlęki. She canal therefore, would be longer upon trade of the two nations in together with the object, even under

cess this time,"

He

Kro is 700 miles north of Singa- pore, according to Christian. That distance, he contends is not suffelent

сп

BRITISH TERRITORY

the National-Socialist party assumed "That was the state of affairs when

dry hod introduced the new era in power. As soon as our glorious vic- Germany, and the swastika banner chance had waved from every

pinnacle, the German fighting forces.

come to build up the "In the case of the slater services, the Army and Navy, the task was

casier. The comparatively

cadres

"The last 40 miles of the northern were already there and an increase bank of the proposed Canal would and extension could lle in British territory (Burma). almost unnoticed,

take place Directly across the mouth of the "With the Air Force it was more) Pak-chan estuary 21⁄2 miles wide, difficult. The Army and Navy alone lles a British island. Victoria Point, could not guard our frontiers if the casily fortified and already possess-air were left unprotected. A new fing an airdrome and an eristency Air Force had, thus, to be created-

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"Germany was still too weak.

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POTENTIAL CIBRALTÁR

"I still remember how, a few days "St. Matthews Island. 18 miles Fuehrer, who had called on me

after we had assumed power, the long and

dominated by heights create order in Prussia, told me that Visible 35 miles out to sea, is a it was a much more Important task British outpost a short distance, from to give the German "eople a new the Pak-chan. Thus potential Gib-Air Force. The first thing that has raltors and Maltas occupied

already are to be done was to build an air feet ready the Empire. Numerous other islands the protection of which the whole for fortification by that would face all risks and under guard the approaches to Kra. The Japanese are

rearmament programme perfectly aware of the old naval

a practical people, carried through,"

could be maxim illustrated at Gallipoli; only fools fight forts. England still holds the aces in southern Asia."

Regarding political conditions, he contends that Stan would have to construct the canal for the Japonese but that it is not to Slam's Interest to do so. He said that Sism already

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to allow assapanche air line from accepted yet. Formosa to Bangkok. [*t^),

"The Siamças datutely distinguish to

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They offered me a king's ransom

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