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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938.

THESE MEN DARE NOT ALHAMBRA

SAY

Turkey's Naval Needs

What Mission May Order

In Britain

TORPEDO BOATS

A Turkish Naval Mission is visiting England to investigate naval designs and weapons, and their cost with a view to placing orders on behalf of the Turkish Government, says the Daily Tele graph.

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MY WIFE"

Bank Clerks Who

Hide Marriage

Behind the respectable, red-brick walls of suburban villas in London and the large provincial cities lies the tragedy of the hidden wife-the wife of the bank clerk who, because of the stringent regulations of his employ- ment, dare not let it be known that he has married under a certain salary.

The clerk acts his part in the drama while at work. His conversation with his colleagues is limited lest he should mention the fatal words "My wife," and run the risk of losing his position.

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How many of these hidden marriages there are is not known. It is only when financial difficulties lead to trouble, as in two cases revealed this week, that the secret is out,

themselves from any Financial straits caused Douglas absolve

which he may Walter Josling, aged 33, whose mar- financial dificultica ringe, years previously, led to his incur.

"If one considers 25 as a marrying dismissal after 14 years' employment

The projected rehabilitation of the Turkish Navy, and of the defences of the Dardenelles, by British armament manufacturers follows the recent grant of a substantial credit to Tur- key. It was stipulated that of this credit £6,000,000 should be allocated to defence and that contractors for defence measures should he placed in in a bank, to resort to underhand age, the average salary at the age in

methods of obtaining money. The about £180 to £200, and £210 England.

over London,

"We recommended marrying This

sum of £0,000,000 does not Oxted magistrates bound him to be very large when one for two years.

wage at a marrying age, and further nsiders the refortification of thei "FORFEITED, SYMPATHY"

increases for the education Dardanelles and the strengthening of

Recently Alfred Leonard Rick-children, but until we get more mem- the Turkish naval forces. The im- portance of thic Turkish Naval wood, aged 30, of Pinner, Middlesex,bers in the gulk we cannot negotiate. Mission, however, is shown by the who was said to have "forfeited his There are 20,000 members, and 40,000 fact that it is headed by Capt. Salt employers' sympathy when he mar- non-members whom we are Halinan, Turkish Under-Secretary of ried rashly when young," was bound hard to bring in."

the Navy. Ils assistant is Lieut.-over at Wimbledon for n year for Capt. Engineer Riza Yenar.

CLOSE SECRECY

·

Al present the work of the Mission as largely exploratory. Close secrecy is being observed. This seems to show that it has not yet decided how to allocate the credit available.

making false entries in the books of

the

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Westminster Bank at Baynes MERCURY Plai defalcations

amount to £200.

were said to

Ruckwood married when his salary, was between £180 and £200 with out the bank's consent. He got into debt when a child was born. Later he took money and tried to regain it at grey-hound races.

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It is clear that the contract for the Tetortification of the Dardanelles,

Instead of a second fight to New which was wrested from a German

His salary when he finished with York, which the Mercury, the upper Arm through the grant of a credit, must swallow up a great part of the bank was £315, plus an income component of the Mayo Composite

tax allowance,

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"His wife has had to share his dis-made, a demonstration Empire flight Apart from land defences, Turkey

ea dic require

date nor would

anti-grace, but she is standing by him." is being planned.

Nelther the probably Submarine net and boom defences. sald Mr. Lefroy Owen, for the de-

route Mines also would almost certainly fence.

either be toward Indin or to Africa. form part of the defences of the

Carrying 1,000 of freight, the Straits in the event of war.

Mr. T. G. Edwards, general secre- Mercury could fly 3,500 miles in still Apart from the former

German tary of the Bank Officers' Guild, said: air. The launch from the top of the Lattle-cruiser Goeben, now called the "Before we started agitating banks Maia flying-boat will probably take Yavuz, and a few old cruisers and had rules preventing their clerks place at Southampton. gunboats, the Turkish Navy consists from marrying until they were 30 The next Atlantic experimental of four modern destroyers of Italian and their income exceeded design, and five submarines of Ger- man and Italian design.

There are also four submarines under construction, two at Hamburg, and two in Turkey under German aupervision. Among the vessels pro- jeeted are four small minelayers of 1,000 tons and some motor torpedo- boats.

GROWING TRADE

Unless Turkey is prepared to spend more on her defences than £6,000,000 it is difleult to see how this naval strength is to be substantially In- creased. Yet the country has a long const-line and a growing seaborne Irade.

would appear that her greatest naval need at the moment would best be met by the construction of coast-defence vessels and motor torpedo-boats, with possibly some

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1year.

BANK RULES

£200

"These rules have been allowed to slide into the background, and now employees must inform their chlofs of their intention to marry. This amounts to asking permis- alon, for the employer can and will advise against it where the man's Income is below £209. "If the man insists, the employers

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