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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

1938.

GERMANY'S KEY INDUSTRIES ARE Blind, He

VULNERABLE FROM THE AIR

Baron Alexander von Falken- hausen, German military adviser to the Chinese army, ordered by Berlin to return home. Chinese offietals are loath to release him and his aides from their tracts, which is pleasing to the Baron.

con-

"NEUTRAL" STATES CANNOT ESCAPE ARMS RACE

Geneva.

The so-called "neutral" states that have so far managed to remain aloof from the arms sure are warned, an the March Issue of the International Labour Renew published by the ILO, that it will be impossible for them to escape its aftermath. The warning is contained in the conclud. ing article by British economist A. J. S. Baster, on the ecomic vilceta of rearmament.

Big Problem In Military Preparations

The problem of how to protect from aerial bombard- ment one of the largest and most important of German factories, the Leuna Ammonia Works, covering four square miles, is being seriously studied by the authorities.

First erected in 1916 to produce synthetic nitrogen out of the air by the Haber-Bosch process, the Leuna Works have now expanded to one of the largest chemical plants in the world, using the resources of soft coal in the Saale River basin.

Like every chemical factory, the Leuna Works are a naze of open- air pipe-lines, distilleries and factory buildings quite impossible

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camouflage. A primary reason for choosing in 1910 the present site of the factory was its distance from the frontier, writes the Sunday Times Berlin correspondent.

DEFENCE OF LEUNA

The

Now matters have changed. Leun Works can be reached by modern bombers from the Czechoslovakia border within twenty minutes. Since Leuna is the heart of Germany's newly created synthette products industry, the pro- blem of defending the works is an important chapter in Gerinnny's milltary preparations.

Questiones 9211 whol plans hud been made to defend the Lean fax- tories in case of war, the directors of the plants slated:

"All we can do is to build our plants in such a way that, If bombs should fall on any part of them,: the damaged department can be taken 'out of prodnation and

Risked Life

To Hang

A Dummy

Undergraduates who looked out of their windows at Keble College, Oxford, were shocked to see what appeared to be a body hanging by about seven feet of rope from a gargoyle on a lofty tower above the quadrangle.

On Investigation it was found that the "body" was a dummy. Some unknown climber had achieved 15 dangerous feat to which one false step would have led to real tragedy.

There have been other climbing

substitute can increase its outpat.capades at Keble, and the college

so that production in other parts been put to great expense repair-

of the plant will not be held up. x damage done by early-suorning The main Job, of course, is un to

the Air Force, whose duty it is to see that enemy planes never reach the factory,"

The

Previors

Printed that 2167

"The trend towards greater #a- anti-veraft guns were In position tional self-sufficiency" he says, "and near the plant, but they admitted the greater riskiness of Geonomie that they would be rushed to the j relations characteristic of a rearing neighbourhood

world may

suggest that, as inter-j oui

capital move- important,

national trade und

ments become

War Frrok

The GOYN before the Nazis usstumed power the German Army,

neutral countries that do not desire, which, under the Treaty of Versailles or are not obliged.

armaments

acc

WHE

enter

EXCLUS

the

"mountaineers,"

A

Godiva

Doubtful Starter

There may, after all, be on was forbildes heavy artillery, pre- Lady Godiva in "nude" flesh- effects of t, and that if and when the gas they hoped to own

pared wellenmontisged hile-outs for ings, mounted on 2 white the buon collapses only

the immediately concerned will suffer day. It must be assumed that since charger, when Teddington, Mid- addlesex, carnival takes place next

month.

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It is true. German

some

de- experts clare, that Germany is still short of divisional artillery; but Leipzig

Is

LUTS

A new plcture ot President Edward Benes, troubled Presi dent of Czechoslovakia. He re- cently told 40,000 school children who called to congratulate him, in Prague, on his forthcoming 54th birthday, that "every citizen of this country may be mire of his constitutional rights and nationalities are called operate, so they can enjoy freedom."

to

all

-03

full

Gets £250 A Week

Blind, struggling to over- come his handicap, a young Cardiff boy has made himself a national hero in America.

Alec Templeton, brilliant plonist, was one of the two blind celebrities consulted recently when a Chiengo baby was offered the choice of life on sight.

The other was Helen Keller, whose achievements In overcoming

the handicaps of a blind-deaf mute made her Internationally famous.

TAUGHT HIMSELF

Alec. Templeton, Now 25. was "found" three years ago by Mrs. Jack Hylton. She persuaded her husband to give him a chance.

sel

HERE'S

HOW TO KEEP

COOL

Have all your Palmbeach, Gabardines,

THE

"Jack Hylton took young Tem- pleton to America. where th planist achieved great success. Born blind, Templeton taught him- Head Office

to play by listening to recitals, broadcasts, and gramophone records. Once he heard a tune he could sit down and play it immediately.

Alec Templeton now has contracts until 1940. He is earning £250 a week.

TRAMP WHO MET CZAR

PUSHES A

BARROW

Strange Career Of "The

Vagabond "

There lives in Newbury a man whose story must be one of the strangest in the world-Mr. William Brockway, of Kennet Rond, 6ft. Gin. giant, who likes to be called "The Vagabond."

Britain Builds Liner In Record Period

Birkenhead.

For thirty years he has wandered through Europe, the most educated tramp who ever walked the roads by day and night.

Now he is married and settled, To-day you can see him wheeling a barrow through Newbury streets. Yet this man speaks nearly all the languages of Europe, is a specialist in antiques and precious stones, s been miner, soldier, smuggler, artists' i model, translator and author.

SECRET MESSAGE

He once acted as a secret service agent for the Czar Nicolns of Russin, to whom he delivered a secret mes- sage at Klei when the Czar went there to attend a regutta.

He sat for eight months for Dame Laura Knight. He has posed for Augustus John, and the Hon. John Collier.

What is believed to be a record in shipbuilding will Baster says that though there may vanred.

those days preparations have

be established on July 28 be some evidener to support this

when the Cunard White Star view, it is doubtful whether even in

On the eve of choosing the girl to liner Mauretania, 33,000 the present restricted state of Inters

the rule from the 18 applicants, national trude and

tons gross, constructed for the Fete Committee is discussing menta, national isolation from booms one of the main centres of the Ger

er whether, after all, such a gure is

the London-New York ser- and

man motorised army, and the Leuna "quite nice.” is very secure anywhere. Works with

vice, is launched from the "Poule views about the econo-1

its mumerous planis

Cammell Laird yard here. mie future will pass national front established in the neighbourhood, Last-minute qualms have been

writes Hector C. Bywater would certainly be protected with roused by a storm of protest by es unchecked, to influence turi anti-aircraft gruns a few hours after residents. men's de

in the Daily Telegraph. on both

sides. More Important, over-investment in any

mobilisation.

People who have helped with the part of the world's economic system

This vessel, the largest in- ennival in previous years have re-termediate liner so fur built in underworld of tramps in Germany, He is a member of the secret will cause the other parts to become

fused to help this year unless Lady adapted to it, so long as there is any The plot is realy a combination Godiva is withdrawn from the pro-this country and the greatest France, Belgium, Holland, and Bri- international trade at all. It is easy

of several factories. Its al pro-

ship ever constructed in Eng-tuin. He is respected by apaches in to see for instance, that the Aineri-

ore synthetic salpetre, steel can

Mistry may be aver synthelle petrol and lubrienting oils.

Mr. Ernest Green, retired business land. was laid down on May 24, bull in consequence of orders con- They are inade from bituminous mon, of Connaught Rand, Tedding- 1937.

His amazing life really began nected directly or

indirectly with coal, taken from the pits in Central tur. has written in protest:

when, at the age of sixteen, he was European rearmanent:

thern Germany buz

In addition,

Since then about 17,000 tons of left penniless and alone in Germany, artificial

"Is Dur memorial hospital ther fertilisers are produced. They are

and steel have been worked into her may be less obvious enses of other;

Brockway has smuggled Indigo and industries whose increased exports:

rts derived from the synthetic saitpetre health centre to be thus used for structure. The bull, with its seven saffron from Luxemburg into Holland to Europe set free resources

for the production of which the far- debusing the young womanhood and decks, is complete, and the plating and France. With a friend he made tory

manhood of Teddington under the of the upper part of the liner, com- £600 was originally built.

three weeks running a armaments making. Thus CX-

prising the promenade, sun and tipster racing stunt. contractions punsions and

In 1016, when Germany was in des- guise of charity?“ international trading countries are Perate need of saltpetre for

sports decks, is well advanced, munition.

He has found and sold valuable Carl anel

antiques.

Ior

in

there

SALTPETRE AND ALCOHOL

ducts

pro

cession

linked, whatever the exchange sys-osch discovered a method of

Fritz Haber tem. Isolation from the International ducing nitrogen and salpetre from BIG GOLD repercussions of rearmament or dis- the air. Then, when salpetre was no hrmament is an illusion."

longer needed for the manufacture chemists turned it into

RUSH

ARMAMENTS TRUCE NEEDED artinetal The chief danger shend, Baster Important part in Germany's aght thinks, is that of top-heavy struc- for self-sufficiency. ture of production in which the dis- In 1923 the Leute Works started real producing synthetic alcohols, which iribution of the stream of resources between the capital goods are used chiefly in Internal combus Industries and the consumption gouds tion engines.

To-day they produce 370,000 tons Industries will fall to correspond in the distribution of the stream of of petrol annually, which added to income between saving and the benzine produced in other Ger- money in

Though In

enses man plants, provides Germany with be Indefinitely a total of 1,000,000 tons annually, or most countries will have about half of her present needs.

of explosives, which play and gold strise has been made

to

ment may

some

with the inevitable recession

when it comes.

ful

Baster continues, "The most hope-

beginning and the most hopeful guarantee for the success of a re- covery policy, anywhere would bej

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armaments truce ог

convention containing embodying inter-

economic clauses

The agreement

national agreement." would alm at three main

after the liberation and expansi

of international trade in order to facilitate the diversion of war plant production, secondly, n

tome national poltey by

plain

the principal economic countries:

Boy

What prospectors describe as a rich in the Franklin River area in the west of Vancouver Island.

the

To bring a ship of this size to the launching stage in 14 montlin is an astonishing feat, the more so as Cammell Laird is simul-

about taneously building

15 other vessels. Including the 35,000-ton battleship Prince of Wales.

There has been a rush of engineers When ready for sea next spring the and prospectors to the spot, cables Mauretania will displace about 37,000 Sunday Dispatch Vancouver tons. Her malden voyage will correspondent.

coincide with the New York World The Dominion Government report Fair. describes the area as possessing "a remarkable mineralised mass, just- fying thorough prospecting." sliver.

Asanys give high võlues of gold and

Of Seventeen

Jumps 6,000 Ft,

Seventeen-year-old Albert Gourd, of Eastern-street, Bristol, had always wanted to do a parachute drop.

So he did it, from 6,000ft. over the Clifton Suspension

an exchange of information Bridge, Bristol.

between t

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The alternatives" be concludes Handied on the root of a house which we have to wear and went

In Woodland-road, Bristol, and over the skle hand first."

an armaments truce

and some

such as is here suggested are plain. by means of a ladder. Either natural consequence in a world war

international economic understanding there remained hanging until rescued

rearmament will have its

cd perhaps by the

Gourd, whose only apparent injury was a skinned shin, said, "But I have Gourd, who is a member of the an awful headache."

of one of the R.A.F.

Reserve at Fillon, sald he had ]

or the burden of

ture

will becom "moments

the poorer countries as to

អ

widespread hardship with them towable/

only been up once before, and had

told his friends that he would do Grounds For Spanking

Jump.

"They kept chipping me,” he said, consequences, It la certain so I did it. I asked the R.A.F. it 1- that the economie problems that could jump, but they refused. would be rulsed by a rolurn to inter-

VISALIA, Co). Chief of Police Harold.... Hicks proved himself a nuper G-man when.

postul card,demanding 3460 elsa,”. Attor, an intensive study of the eard he asked the man if by any chanco bo had a young son who read detective stories. Ho had.

stor

national common sense in this mat- "I went up this ovoning as an airt frightened cllizon rushed in with ter are not insoluble, given the very gunner. The pilot did not know modest degree of co-operation which what I intended to do,

would be assured by an armaments "I just took the parachute from truce itself,-United Press.

the rock, attached it to the harness

Paris.

In

One night, many years ago, he met Lowenstein the Anancier, who later leaped to death from his airplane in mid-Channel. Lowenstein gave him a packet of cigarettes. Inside was u

£5 note and two sovereigns.

In an hotel in Epping Forest one day Brockway

resented * word spoken by a negro. He felled the negro with one blow. It was Jock Johnson, the boxer, once heavyweight champion of the world.

Normally the ship will sell from the King George V. Dock. North Lenin crossed his path in the old Woolwich, but whenever the Queen forlifications of Metz, where hunted Mary or the Queen Elizabeth is laid men from all parts of the world used up for overhaul she will fill the gap to hide in safety, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route.

Everything about the Mauro- tania is on the imposing scale. The main gear-wheels interposed between the türbines and the twin-propellar shafte aro the fargest over built for a liner, measuring 46-ft. In clroumfer- ence and weighing 85 tons each. The propellers, which are now being cast in London, weigh 26 tons each and are equal in size to those of the 81,000-ton Queen Mary.

So forward in the work in the ship that she is already receiving her launching coat of point.

Lenin' was accompanied by a young man named Sipino, who fired a bullet nt King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) in Brussels.

B

VALUABLE SCRAPBOOK Brockway the Vagabond has crudely kept scrap-book, the pages of which are crammed with the letters and photographs of half the great public figures of Europe during the last thirty years.

Its value as an autograph book must be considerable for In it aro the signatures of Cabinet Ministers, sportsmen, Royalty and detectives,

Quite recently. "The Vagabond”

In view of the important Admiral-| found three Henry VIII period win- ty work now proceeding in the yard, dow frames thrown on to a rubbish It is probable that when the ship la heap. He bought from a hoop-la will be stall in Salisbury for sixpence each launched naval vessels screened off by scaffolding and about six dozen genuine Weeldon convda,

|mugs, and sold them for 10s. cach,

Three Lipsticks Jailed Him

Toronto.

Seventeen-year-old Russell Burdick, who held up Miss Ruth Cory at the point of a revolver and stole her purse, has been sentenced to ten fuslics and twelve months' "imprison- ment at Låndsay, Ontario,

His "haul"?. Three lipsticks.

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