1938-12-23 — Page 25

Friday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Navy's Need For Western Base

UFS

Eleanor Holm, shown during a vacation al Miani, Fla., will have a $60,000 swimming pool to stor in, at the New York World's Fair, under a contract with Bly Rose, famed showman. she finishes the contract. Mr. Hose suit, they would be married When and both retire from the show business. Hase recently divorced by Fannie Brice.

WHS

Value Of Pembroke Dock

THE partial reopening of Rosyth Dockyard, an- nounced recently, is an example of how the jurgent requirements of national defence are over-

riding considerations of economy.

To cope with the vast programme of warship repair and reconstruction work now in hand the resources of Rosyth are to be made available. In wide circles of the Navy the re-establishment of Pembroke dockyard is held to be even more necessary.

Although Pembroke may be, as the Admiralty has stated, surplus to peace-time requirements, It would immediately become of vital importance in the event of war. This is because it is the nearest British base to the western approaches of the Atlantic.

Approximately half, our total sea-jable to reach Queenstown (Cobh). bourne trade passes through or near Here they were patched up

SUT- this area, for which reason I was clently to return under escort to an a favourite hunting-ground for English port for repairs, enemy U-boats in the last war.

"ATLANTIC GRAVEYARD" Hundreds of merchantmen were | sunk in the approaches, which be- came known as "the Atlastle grave. yard," and scores of others dominged by torpedo or mine would have been lost but for the fact that they were

DIAMOND IN ROAD

NEW WARNING TO DRIVERS

There

Telling Them

Is a Sign Ahead

AS

It

is

December 23, 1938.

First View Ask him what he'd like from

Of World For 8 Years

For eight years Mr. Fred Walker, artist and designer, has. been a patient in Highgate Hos pital, keeping bands supple and eye in trim with brush and penell for the day when he should re- turn to the outside world.

The day is nearly here. Soon after Christmas he is to leave the hospital,

Mr. Walker is prepared to find London very much changed from the day he inst saw it.

NURSES POSED

"There were no Bellsha ben- cons and very few traffe lights when I was out and about," he saldi, "All I know of the modern Ciri's dress and the modern motor- car is what I see in the news-

Mr. Walker has not been short of subjects for his art while in hospital. His fellow-patients and the nurses have been his models.

papers." because Be Southern Irish harbours may not be accessible as refuges and repair stations in a future emergency that an alternative base as near as possible to the Irish coast is considered by naval strate- Kists to be Indispensable.

The following are the distances from Queenstown to British ports:

Pembroke 130 miles, Falmouth 185.

Cardiff Newport-Bristol 208 10

228,

Plymouth 225.

Southampton 342.

Liverpool 241,

Belfast 287.

"The boys make the best sub- Jects, but they just won't sit still," he said.

which has an area of 100 acres. Since 1931 about 20 meres have been in occupation by the Alr Ministry. Another portion of the yard, known as Corr's Jetty, is leased to arm

As will be seen, Pembroke is 50 of shipbreakers. This jelly can ac

miles nearer

B.B.C. Man Feared proaches than any other port, and in

to the western Ap-commodate ships up to 20,000 tons,

Dismissal

The former naval repale ships and

the case of a badly damaged ship stores depots have been demolished, every mile saved is important.

Further, it is certain that in time fairly intnet.

but store depots facilities remain. of war all the existing western and

DREDGING NECESSARY

A B.B.C. musician and mem-south-western ports would be over- ber of the Halle Orchestra, crowded, as they were in 1914-18. The largest dry dock can take ves- Frederick John Tilsley (44), of in a new emergency, the congestion sets up to 14,000 tons, but the gutes would be intensified by the diver-need replacing. The approaches to Sale, was sentenced at Derby slon of a great part of the shipping the yard need dredging, and Assizes recently to nine months' which normally discharges in London might prove the most expensive this imprisonment for perjury.

and other Enst Coast ports.

Item in the His father-in-law. William Arthur

reconditioning pro- OVERWHELMING CASE

gramme. Hemparty. of Rewaley, similarly charged, received a like sentence, This alone would justify the re-miralty proposed to extend the dock- Shortly after the war the Ad- Mr. T. N. Winning (prosecuting) now purt, and when the naval argu- Penner Gut, to enable battleships of conditioning of Pembroke as an over-yard westward from Carr's Jetty to aid Charles Armishaw, n water bailiff, told the Bakewell Bench thatment is added the case for Immediate the largest size to berth alongside HE Earl of Onslow recently suggested that 100 father-in-law's garden and that sub

he had seen Tilsley Ashing from his

becomes, it is considered, the wharves. Had this plan been overwhelming.

carried out Pembroke, it is claimed, yards in advance of a warning sign to motor-quently the two men admitted to vided with facilities for serving the which a large vessel could proceed It is urged that Pembroke be pro-would be the only British port in isis there should be placed on the roadway a green

Because of this, no corroboration needs of escort vessels and destroyers straight up harbour and be berthed line or diamond sign.

was called before the magistrates, antle approaches and the Irish Sen,

on convoy or patrol duty in the At-without waiting for the tide. but the two men dented the charge. Using Pembroke us their base they places of 15 to 19 fathoms, it should As the Haven has a depth in most shed in his life. Tiisley stating that he had never would save 180 miles in proceeding be feasible to moor a floating dock

to and returning from their stations, off the yard after

dredging With

He was giving evidence before the House of Lords committee on the prevention of road accidents.

The suggestion, he said, originated from his experience on the bench when one day ten motorists said that they had not seen a warning notice.

;

The general policy seemed to be

full facts.

CASE DISMISSED

action

Pembroke, being 300 miles from ample repair facilities available and The case was dismissed and the from air attack, which could not in hand to render first aid to vessels the East Coast, is comparatively safe a ficet of powerful salvage tugs at Bench must have believed Armishaw made up the story. Three warning.

that any case be delivered without ample damaged in the western approaches, The Earl of Cottenham, originator |

other witnesses had since been re-

Pembroke would rank as one of our Milford Haven, in which the old most valuable sen bases. of the mobile police and the "Cour-based upon prosecution rather than wood said he had feared that the long, and from one to three miles would be very great. In any case

cured.

On Tilsley's behalf, Mr. G. Smalt-harbours in Europe. About 11 miles the cost of reconditioning Pembroke tesy Cons," spoke of the "unhelpful" upon education and the desire to co-B.B.C. would dismiss him after the wide, it covers about 20 square miles, the expenditure would probably be yard is situated, is one of the finest There is no reason to suppose that attitude of the traffle department of operate. the Metropolitan Pollee.

He said that the, schicine had won patrols being in plain clothes, Lordjous things with

Asked us opinion about police "The B.B.C. do some rather curl-and in any conditions of wind.

shing ease.

It can be entered at all states of tide repaid many times over by the sav the approval of a number of chief Cottenham said, "I disapprove very | Mr. Smallwnod added,

Ing of ships and cargoes which, in constables, and from the reports, heistromaly indeed. It strikes an almost

their employees,"

During the Great War 4,000 men the absence of such a western base, hid received from them the public

were employed in the dockyard, might be lost. appreciated the motives of the prin ciple of co-operation.

fatal blow at the principle of co- operation."

He considered the public's stan- dard of driving to be "deplorably and unnecessarily low," and thought that It could be considerably raised in a operatively short time three, four or five years.

"ABOLISH THE MINISTRY" "I would like to alvocate publicly that the Ministry of Transport, such, should be abolished and should become a technical department of the Home Oillec, under the permanent head," said Lord

FLYING SAFER Cottenham. Continuity of policy in transport "It is more dangerous to drive nutters was essential, he said, and car to-day than to fly an aeroplane- should not be the mercy of and nobody is allowed to go off the political comes and Roes.

ground without being instructed by a

Within the frame work of this pro-qualified instructor." posed department of the Home Office- Lord Cattenham advocated three there should be a road trifle commit-lypes of roads. First, the motor road fee, a rait traffic committee, and a

pure and simple; second, the com waterway trafle committee,

with a

a permanent chairman. Truffle Department

of

type, of comparatively short length, the linking up industrial areas and Lon.

Naval Base "Colour Bar” Denied

INDIAN BRIDE SAYS "IT'S JEALOUSY."

COLOMBO (Ceylon).

sachined road road of the Ministry MRS. BRINDA GORDON, nineteen-year-old Indian The

bride of Lieutenant David L. Gordon, of the naval Home Office should be free, as the don with seaside resorts; and, third, survey ship Stork, recently described as "arrant nonsense" Ministry of Transport was not free, good secondary road with foot- from the duty of consulting every paths mi cycle tracks, but not with reports that her husband's career is being affected by the

colour question.

road-users' association about every dual highways. proposed scheme,

CRITIC OF HENDON

Curiosity Costs Cat's Tail

Dakland, Cal.

Lord Cottenham said that when he Visited the police driving vehoot at Hendon in 1938 at the invitation of Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner! of Police, the whole standard ef teaching there seemed to him to be complex got its tail into close com- too low.

Solicitor Sent To

Gaol At 68

A sixty-eight-year-old

whose troubles, according

solicitor to his

counsel, were mainly due 10 the

fael that he was not able to put

aside for leaner years,

She said: "The matter has never been raised. I have been received aboard the Stork, and at Trincomalee (the naval base) dances the commander-in-chief has specially picked me out as his partner. Only jealous people can Tony, an Angora cat whose curiosity have thought of upsetting us by the colour question. munion with the wringer of an elec-| "My husband and I are extremely happy, and there is trical washing machine, underwent no truth in the suggestion that he is leaving the Navy. a successful operation for the removal It is the last thing I should wish for.": of the damaged caudai appendage.

tinue

itr

Mrs. Gordon is a niece of Lord Sinha, Hindu barrister peer, The cat is now in a condition to con- and daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Dutt, of London. She met

investigation into the laundry business, without further Lieutenant Gordon at a bridge party given by his mother, Mrs. F. riskit not to life and limb, at least Jervis Gordon, at her home in Chapel-street, Marylebone, W. They were married in Colombo in May.

to tall.

money the team to eat in my UNEMPLOYMENT UP BY 47,000

was sent to prison for 20 months at

the Old Balley recently,

He was Arthur Edward Francis,

who pleaded guilty to converting

£1.280 of clients' money.

Mr. L. A. Byrne, prosecuting, sald

Francis was admited

soliclior In

Textile Industries Improve

TOTAL ANALYSED

CONTINENTAL

Included in the total of 1,820,103 were 1,435,608 wholly unemployed, UNEMPLOYMENT in Great Britain, of the weather and the falling off 80,939 normally in casual employ- 305,490 temporarily stopped, and 1088, and had practised in Bishops-incressed by 40,876 between October of export demand. gate. In 1937 he was adjudicated 17 and November 14, bringing the

ment. It comprised 1,300,683 men, The industries which showed Im-51,010 boys, 360,000 bankrupt with a deficierey of £0,721,tal to 1,028,103. This was 328,008 provement last month included-

women, and 50,104 girls. of which £3,050 was due to clients. more than a year before. The es- Cotton, wool, and other textile in- During his examination be soldtimated number of insured persona dustries, metal goods manufacture, that since 1928 his practice had de-aged 16-81 in employment was and the motor-vehicle, clined, and he started

cycle, and borrowing 12,268,000 on November 14, a de-aircraft industry. heavily. To retrieve his position in case of 30,000 on the month and 1934-5 he began to use clients decrease of 150,000 on the year.

The rise in unemployment affected money.

ad the Ministry of Labour divisions Mr. Frank Milton, defending, said noted in

The decline in employment was except the Midlands: that for the greater part of his career Francis had conducted his business tracting, agriculture and horticulture, Building and public works con- efficiently and honourably. He had cosimining, iron and steel manufac- been extraordinarily generous, paying ture, hotel and boarding-house and the widow of a partner and a widow- transport services, the ed, sister £100 a year each.

trades, and

At the age 60 his clients began &c.

to fall away and his position become

distributivo entertainments, sport, Increased unemployment in coal-

hopeless. He had not lived extrava-mining is unusual in November, and

gantly...

was evidently due to the mildness

London

Inc. or dec.

on month

+9,775

South-enzlera South-western) Midlands

+8,621

+3,823

STURDY

Basi

STRONG

--3,092

North-eastern

North-western

-+-4,430

Northern Scotland

+4,607

+1,824

++0.980

++7,099

Woles

CARLOWITZ & Co,

4. Queen's Rd, Tel. 3326.

'Head' Gave Beer At School

Thie

Rev. Alexander Itoss- Wallace, headmaster of a well-known pubile school, told the Cambridge inagistrates recently that he had pro- vided beer at school.

He was giving evidence for Clifford Frederick Victor Martin, aged 19. a Pembroke

Coliege undergraduate, who was charged with assaulting

missed.

Pics-Surgeont Ives on the night of :

5. The cuse was dis-

Pollee-Sergeant lyes suld that while on duty near a lamp in Market- hill, round which was a large crowd of undergraduates, he felt a kick. He heard a remark, turned, and saw Martin in the act of kicking at his legs.

INJURED ANKLE

Martin, denying the allegations, sak that he had injured his ankle and at the time it was strapped up in plaster. It would have hurt him to klek anyone.

Mr. C. L. Parker, prosecuting, re- ferred to a statement by Martin that he had had a glass or two of beer." and asked, "Did he drink beer at school?**

Mr. Ross-Wallace: I provided it, sir.

The Bench allowed the name of Martin's school to be written down and it was not divulged.

Rheims Replica Carved.

Tacoma, Wash. Thomas Jacobsen is a cement Anisher by trade, but he'd rather do wood carving. In three years he carved from alder, birch and walnut a three and one-half foot high replica of the Rheims cathedral,

Ask him early in the

morning he'll probably

wish for some new

pyjamas (from $8.50).

Mackintosh's

GIFTS Thater

Flatter

For Her

First Class DRESS LENGTHS

IN GOLD AND SILVER LAME, LACES, VELVETS, PLAIN & FIGURED TAFFETAS, PLAIN & FANCY CIRE & LACQUER FINISH SATIN CREPES, ETC., ETC.

KAYSER

GENUINE

LEATHER

HOSIERY and

UNDERWEAR

BAGS

EVENING

KJD GLOVES and BELTS

BAGS BROOCHES CLIPS FLOWERS HANDKERCHIEFS, ETC., ETC.

Do Your Xmas Shopping

in one convenient, inexpensive place

-HARIRAM'S

For Him

SOCKS INTERWOVEN,

Plain & Spotted.. In

PHENIX Self-supporting

Black, Navy, Brown SCARVES

Green & Maroon

DRESS WEAR

SHIRTS, COLLARS, BOW TIES, GLOVES, CUFF LINKS & STUD SETS

HICKOK BRACES, BELTS

AND SUSPENDERS DRESSING GOWNS, ShirtS, PYJAMAS, in the latest styles & colours.

HARIRAM'S

51, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Page 25Page 26