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TUESDAY, APRIL 5 1938

Hawaii To Become Gibraltar of Pacific: SONJA HENIE IN 20-Year Plan Adopted

Navy Completes Food Plan

CONVOY SYSTEM AN INTEGRAL PART

. (By HECTOR C. BYWATER) 'It is understood that the Royal Navy has now completed plans for the maintenance of food and other essential supplies in war time. These plans are regarded .as being adequate for every .contingency.

For the past two years the prob- lem hos engaged the attention of the Plans Division of the Admiralty.

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Normally this Division is adminis tered by Director, a Deputy Direc ∙tor and an Assistant Director, but in recent months three further Assistant Directors have been appointed.

Twelve other Naval and Marine officers are on the permanent staff, while certain additional officers have the Division for been attached to special duty.

WAR EXPERT RECALLED Among the latter is Paymaster Rear-Admi. Sir Eldon Martisty, who for the was largely responsible organisation of the convoy system In 1917. Sir Eldon was recalled from retirement more than year ago.

Until recently the Adiniralty was opposed to the adoption of the convoy system immediately war broke out owing to the serious delays in traffic this which are inseparable from system.

Instead they proposed to divert merchant shipping from the ordinary routes in the hope of folling enemy ralders.

It is believed, however, that this! policy has since been somewhat modi- fled, thanks in part to the larger number of cruisers, destroyers and anti-submarine vessels which will Hoon be available.

That ol tankers and ships with particularly valuable cargoes will be convoyed from the first is regarded as probable.

GUNS FOR MERCHANTMEN Defence against enemy aircraft at sea will be provided by escort vessels

of the new Bittern class, armed)

THE SUN

SONJA BIENIE, queen of the lee, courts the sun at the Roney Plaza Cabana Club, Miam!, while waiting for engineers to com- plete an artificial ice rink in the Orange Bowl, for her lee rovuc.

"HONOUR-SLAYING" NOT MURDER

Los Angeles. MANY noted film stars heard a Los Angeles jury

to-day return a verdict of manslaughter in the "honour-slaying” murder trial, which had lasted four

weeks.

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Paul Wright, 38-years-old head of the Los Angeles Airport, entirely with high-angle 4-inch guns, was accused of shooting his wife, Evelyn, and his best friend, and by old cruisers rearmed with 10 John Kimmel, to 12 of these weapons,

Further, all merchant ships above a certain tonnage will be armed with heavy quick-firing

guns, machine- guns and parevanes.

Instruction in the use of this de fensive equipment has already been given to many hundreds of merchant navy officers, and it is estimated that in the near future the greater part of

ULTRA-MODERN EQUIPMENT FOR AMERICAN BASE

By Wendell Burch

United Press Staff Carrespondent

Honolulu, Mar. 15.

The United States army and navy are rapidly com- pleting a twenty-year programme designed to make Hawaii "the Gibraltar of the Pacific."

Assignment of now ultra-modern fighting aircraft and naval forces to the lalands combined with record breaking milltary ap- propriations which totalled $23,000,000 last year indicate that Hawaii is scheduled to become a compact insular arsenal,

At present, authorities are concentrating on air defence. The navy's recent mass flight of twenty planes from San Diego to Honolulu was regarded as a significant test of aerial defence co- operation between Hawaii and the mainland.

Army plans envisage maintenance of 250 planes here. Of these 226 are expected to be provided by the end of 1938. Re cently 18 new bombers arrived from California, bring the total to 42 to date. Twenty-four bombers are expected to arrive be- fore next. winter, many of which will replace obsolete types.

Meanwhile, the army's thirty- first bombing squadron com- [prised of thirteen planes, and air forces are additional scheduled for transfer here.

New airport and fighting base projects under construction in- clude the army's $18,000,000

EMPIRE NEWS

IN INDIA

New Delhi.

Hickham Field. The airport! FRONTIER EIGHTING expectedly will be completed by 1940. Typical of last year's projects was the development of

A raid by a gang of 50 tribes- an underground storage muni- tions depot costing $1,580,000. men, at Spinwam, near Mirali, Major General Andrew Moses, in North Waziristan, is signifi- a poorly-mado Army Commandant, reported cant because the army spent a total of $20,- jfield-gun, of tribal manufacture, 840,000 in Hawaii last year belonging to the Fakir of Ipi, It is evidence of the while Rear Admiral Oring Mur- was used. fin reported the navy spent venomous anti-Government pro- nearly $4,000,000 during the paganda on which this turbulent ments, hence naval expenses in-gaged. same period in district improve-leader of the frontier is still en- jeluding the pay-roll last year Those of the tribes who were en-

The prosecution demanded that His lawyers pleaded temporary in-totalled $13,000,000.

shell-shock in the Press. Wright should be found guilty of sanity, due to "order in some degree." The war, and the "unwritten law." jury's verdict. of manslaughter on two counts, returned after three hours, carries a sentence of from one to ten years' imprisonment on cuch count.

Wright was alleged to have shot the officer personnel of the merchant and killed his wife and friend when navy will have received such train-he found them ing.

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Abolition of Tilles-The United Provinces Assembly to-day unanim- ously passed a resolution "to convey to the authorities concerned the considered opinion of the House that the practice of conferring titles and decorations

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