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THE HONGKONG

MONDAY, TELEGRAPH,

APRIL 18, 1938.

U.S.MUST HAVE SECOND-TO-NONE NAVY

Sponsor of Roosevelt's Naval Expansion Bill Tells Why

Promoting Peace By Mailed Fist

Editor's Note: In the following dispatch written for the United Press, Representative Carl Vinson, chair- man of the House Naval Affairs Committee, stoutly do- fends President Roosevelt's billion dollar naval expansion programme, saying it is necessary for the preservation of peace. Vinson, who is sponsoring the programme in Congress, is co-author of the original Vinson-Tramme! Act which authorised, the United States to build its fleet to a 5-5-3 ratio with Great Britain and Japan,

WILL SCARE ENEMIES

By Representative Carl Vinson

Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee Copyright, 1938, by United Press

WASHINGTON.

THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES IS MAINTAINED FOR ONE IS THE PREVENTION OF WAR. TWO GENERAL REASONS. THE OTHER IS READINESS TO WAGE WAR EFFECTIVELY SO THAT IF IT IS FORCED UPON US, IT MAY BE BROUGHT TO A -CLOSE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITH A MINIMUM LOSS OF

MEN AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES,

The peace which the American people so devoutly hope will continue to be their heritage must be insured and guaranteed by adequate defence measures.

THEY'RE ALL INTERES TED IN THE SCORES

COMPETITORS AT THE BISLEY MEETING watching the scores for the final of the Governor's Prize being posted on the scoreboard.-Staf Photographer.

The building programme provided for in the Naval | 661 Expansion Bill will continue to promote peace for it is as true to-day as in Biblical times that "a strong man armed keeps his palace in order,”

To be fully prepared for eventualities in this peaceloving

nation does not create the danger of war.

The measure of adequacy of

our defence must necessarily be

"Reckless And Ruthless German Airmen”

Berlin.

the force which in this troubled Virtue Wilts In Dance "GERMANY'S new Air Force is not only a peace parade instru-

world can be brought against us by a single nation. That and that alone is the yard stick to determine the strength of our navy.

Had the Washington and London treatles continued, there would have: been no justification for this expan-j sion bill, but with the strapping of the treaties in 1930, other nations began to build far beyond the original limitations and by doing so jeopardised the peace and security are forced ht this nation. We therefore, to undertake programme to maintain which in turn will insure peace and security,

of

building the ratio,

will

This building programme permit

the ratio to continue to exist between Great Britain, Japan and the United States.

our policy of "no In view

commit- entangling alignment

which policy is approved by ments" every American citizen, it makes

for us to have a strong imperative navy, a navy second to none, so we can be in position to paddle our own canoc in these "troublesome "times and defend the country without de pending for assistance upon any other power.

Recent politicul developments in Europe forelbly impress upon us the wisdom a policy of "no alignments or entangling commitments," but at time the world political

the same situation should drive home to us the absolute necessity of having a to protect this country strong navy standing alone.

The refusal of Japan to put her cards on the table by making known her building programme and the recent happenings in Europe should

convince even be sufficient to

n

"Doubting Thomas" the justification for this 20 per cent. Increase of our naval strength.

Poverty at £400

Halls," Says Bishop

Dr. McNance, Roman Catholle Bishop of Ardagh and Clem- maruose (Ireland), in a Lenten to the youth of his diocese, says this of dance halls and night clubs:

message

"Ton often does the fair flower of virtue wilt and wither In the languorous atmosphere of these ultra-modern ballrooms, "When, in addition to

the Rights, the music. the sublle spell of the dance, the late hours and the general artse of free-

from restraini, there dom super-added for both men and women the elation induced by spirituous liquors, the result is, for many, a dangerous weaken- Ing of self-respect and self- control,"

This was read in churches of his diocese.

created."

ment-it is the sharpest weapon of war that has been These words were used by Field-Marshal Goring in a specch

thei in the Hall of Honour of the Air Ministry here to-day, on third anniversary of the official admission that Germany had created an air arm, despite the ban imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.

"The Air Force," he declared, ever it is ordered into action.

SOVIET'S

BAD WOMEN ARE BEST

By Reynolds Packard United Press Corresponden!

"will be a terrible weapon if

"Then we will be the terror then assailants; of онг nothing will hold us back from ruthlessness and reck- lessness.

"The Air Force will furm aj guarantee of German peace,

"As individuals we are peace- loving, but as a section of the armed forces we are burning to prove to the futchrer that his Air Force is invincible."

When

Geneva. REPORT by the Lea-

Herr Hitler, in his recent A

gue's Advisory Com-Reichstag speech, declared that Ger- many would no longer tolerate that Germons living outside mittee just issued here de- 10,000,000 clares that fallen women find it easier to mend their ways in Soviet Russia than CAREER OF in any other country.

BRILLIANT

PROFESSOR

William Lawrence Braga, forty-seven-year-old "conjuring scientizi," and rusy-checked father of four Jolly children, has Just got Britain's most coveted scientific Job.

He

late is tu succeed the Rutherford as Cavendish Professor

of Physics in the University of Chin-

bridge and direct the work Cavendish Laboratory, the most famous scientiße institution,

Lord Rutherford

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and near her frontiers should be treated unjustly, the Air Force knew at, if necessary; they had to do their duty to the last.

Only men of iron determination

He disclosed that a few days after!

It was then decided that the force "under at Arst be created must camouflage," but when it became too large to conceal, its existence was officially admitted.

VON CRAMM'S ARREST

BARON

VON GOTTFRIED CRAMM. Germany's tennis acc.

cousin and distant

of Prince Juliana's husband, Prince Bern- hard. arrested in Germany on a charge of suspicion of "moral delinquency." Arrest was on return from Italy, after a world tour which included Hongkong. His wife divorces him before his recrut visit to the United States.

Gordon Harker

To Wed Soon

Mr. Gordon Harker has be come engaged to Miss Christine Barry, one of our most promising young actresses.

Mr. Harker is 52 and Miss Barry 26.

were wanted in the force. It was a Reviewing its enquiries into young weapon, and he hoped it governmental measures through. would remain so. for only thus could it accomplish those almost impossi- out the world to rehabilitate ble tasks with which flyer was women of easy virtue, the Com-faced" mittee finds that prostitution! tends to disappear automatically Herr Hitler assumed power in 1933 the Fuehrer had told that the creation in a Communist state. It also of an Air Force was more important

Soviet then all domestic affairs, emphasizes that the

carefully "WORK OVERTIME" PLEA government has planned and comprehensive sys- Lord tem for this rehabilitation.

SUCCESS OF SOCIAL WORK

of this

"Me marry?" he said. "Well per- In stressing the success of the social work in Russin, however, the

haps your question is a bit prema- Since then It had acted ox 1 ture." Then, just as his cue arrived, report points out that it is doubtful world's

guardian during the rearming of Mr. Harker added: "Oh, well, I may if the same system could be used

the other two branches of defence. where there are not the same special

as well say Yes. I'm going to marry Field-Marshal Goring called on economic conditions as in the U.S.S.R. The report estimates that before the manufacturers to use the best aero-Christine Barry-but no date is fixed Zealander, Bragg is an Australlan. war there were 20,000 prostitutes in plane materials, and urged workers

"HADN'T TIME" When Rutherford went to Cambridge Moscow as compared to 400 in 1934 not to mind working overtime, for cre "helping to forge the Ger- they were

When I saw Miss Barry, blonde and "South Africans ennnot afford to from Manchester University Bragg and a negligible number

to-day.

dat Inst Rutherford died The work of the prophylactoriaman Sword."

blue-eyed, at her Chelsea buy adequate food for their familles," got his job, Lord

characteristics Before making his speech Field-night she said: declares Dr. Elate Chubb, the medi- last year, Bragg succeeds him again. brings to light two

Hitler's cal inspector of schools, says a Cape-

Cavendish which differentiate the Soviet me- Marshal Goring went to Herr Cambridge pays her

the report palace to receive from him his Field- from any other," town report.

airs professor £1,400 a year. £200 a year states. The first in the existence in Marshal's staff one of the most "This unfortunate state of affairs more than any other professor in the Russin of a single, carefully planned costly ever made. It is of solid gold, is not due

to ignorance," university. mainly

and the butts are encrusted with dia for re-and and comprehensive system added Dr. Chubb, who had been ask-

Willlore Bragg's career has been habilitation. From the ed to comment on a recent official

to solve

The golden shaft is covered with in England statement tenching of home

management about. His father is kindly, domed the problem. It has evolved this blue velvet, powdered with crosses headed Sir William Bragg, a scientist system as one of its weapons, with and eagles on swastikas, of exquisite would improve the nation's health.

"My experience hus shown me of equal fame, at seventy-five still the result that the usual combination workmanship in pure gold.

homes, reformatories, that the South African child is not director of London's Royal Institu- of hospitals,

charitable societies is replaced by a The tion. #3 a rule.

series of institutions ran on the same Father and son worked together lines and under the control of one that only when the That gave William Lawrence a flying

authority.

Per Annum

nourished

was 01

New

thods

that better one which young scientists dream is the state which has finning, it monds

Valing memorandum for the!

proved the point of £400 to start.

income reache

£425

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the intake of did calcium in the diet reach the safely point. Below that earning power: the family man cannut properly feed his family, no matter how clever his wife may be.

of 2,000)

"We take an average calories for a man as against 3,100 needed in England. Where money is scarce, is the fuel-producing| food which is bought Arst, becouse: it is filling, and also because it comes from the lowest-priced foodstuffs.

"It is poor consolation for a mother to know how to buy proper food when she cannot afford to do 11"

yet."

сп

"Gordon and I have been raged aboul two months, you know. We have been intending to get married for ages, but as wo were both working we hadn't time.

"I shouldn't think we shall be married now until the autumn, but we shall make it as soon as we can.

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"We have many things in common

in -walking

the country, for example. Gordon has a little cottage in the country near Andover, Hamp shire, which I adore. We shall spend

In

a lot of time there, I hope.

"We shall both carry on with our! work after our marriage."

who

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