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THE HONGKONG

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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 supplics in war time. These plans are regarded as being adequate for every contingency.

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

Normally this Division is adminis- tered by a Director, a Deputy Direc- for und 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 been attached to the Division for special duty.

WAR EXPERT RECALLED

the latter in Paymaster Amang Rear-Adm!. Sir Eldon Munisty, whe the was largely responsible for organisation of the convey system in 1917. Sir Eldon was recalled from retirement more than a year ago.

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

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

It is believed, however, that this policy has since been somewhat modi- tled, thanks in part to the larger! number of crubbers, destroyers and

which will! anti-submarine vessels

be available.

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

CUNS FOR MERCHANTMEN Defence against enemy aircraft at sea will be provided by escort vessels of the new

Bittern class,, armed

THE SUN

SONJA HENIE, queen of the ler, courts the sun at the Boury Plaza Cabana Club, Mlaml, while waillor for engineers to cam- plete an articlal ice rink in e Orange Bowl, for her ice revue.

'HONOUR-SLAYING” NOT MURDER

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Los Angeles.

ANY 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.

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 nnage will be armed with.

tonnage heavy quick-Aring guns, machine-| guns and paravanes.

His lawyers pleaded temporary in The prosecution demanded that,

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

CO-EDS SPEAK ONLY FRENCH

Los Angeles.

ULTRA-MODERN EQUIPMENT FOR AMERICAN BASE

By Wendell Burch

United Press Staff Correspondent

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 new ultra-modern fighting aircraft and naval forces to the islands combined with record breaking military ap propriations which totalled $33,000,000 last year indicate that Hawail 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 acrial defence co- operation between Hawaii and the mainland.

Army plans envisage maintenance of 250 planes here. Of these 225 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.

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

New airport and fighting base projects under construction in- lelude

EMPIRE NEWS

FRONTIER FIGHTING IN INDIA

New Delhi.

the army's $18,000,000 Hickham Field. The airport 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-

at Spinwam, near Mirali, tions depot costing $1,680,000. men,

Major General Andrew Moses, in North Waziristan, is signifi- a poorly-made Army

Commandant, reported cant because the army spent a total of $20,-feld-gun, of tribal manufacture, 840,000 in Hawaii last year belonging to the Fakir of Ipi, while Rear Admiral Oring Mur- was used. It is evidence of the fin reported the navy spent venomous anti-Government pro- nearly $4,000,000 during the paganda on which this turbulant ments, hence naval expenses in-gaged. same period in district improve leader of the frontier is still en- cluding the pay-roll last

$13,000,000. totailed Preas.

year United

Those of the tribes who were en- hostilities of last Kaged in the autumn are now mostly, according to custom, grazing their farm stock or working as labourers in the settled districts of the plains.

WORLD AMITY ADVANCED

Berkeley, Cal.

in nine There are still half a dozen of the Instruction in the use of this de-i

Two hundred greetings

sont to Fakir's gang as leaders in the hills. tensive equipment has already been

different languages were given to many hundreds of merchanti

At the Maison Francaise, a girls' students throughout the world at the With the agitation continuing-as navy officers, and it is estimated that!

Wright was alleged to have shot!

campus of the end of 1937, according to E. F. Lovett, shown by this recent action-the in the near future the greater part off the offeer personnel of the merchant and killed his wife and friend when dormitory on the

embracing in his University of California here, the 20 president of the American Fellow-next critical period will be when the

ship. inmales speak only French; navy will have received such train-he found them Ing.

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Nizam and Federation-There is considerable disappointment in some quarters at the continued reticence of the Nizam of Hyderabad on the subject of federation. It was be- lleved

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evaded the point, except to repeat his former vague promise to submit the question to his subjects.

The Aga Khan's Mother-The Lady All Shah, mother of the Agn Khan, has completely recovered from the illness that brought her son to India on Nov, 24. She is leaving for Arabia. The Aga Khan leaves to-

for a tour of the Punjab. bolition of Titles. The United Provinces Assembly to-day unanim- ously passed a resolution "to convey the authorities concerned the considered opinion of the House that the practice of conferring titles and decorations in India Rhould

to

be

abolished." A similar resolution was passed by the Bombay Assembly on Tuesday-Reuter,

British Officer's Death-Capt. A. A. M. Best, of the Political Depart- ment of the Government of India, In- died at Peshawar to-day from Juries received in a riding accident. Capt. Best was beting as city magis-

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