1938-12-23 — Page 9

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 23, 1938.

Navy's Need For Western Base First View Ask him what he'd like from

UY'S

Eleanor Holm, shown during a vacation at Miami, Fla., will have a 500,000 swimming pool to stur in, at the New York World's When Fair, under a contract with Billy Rose, fumed showman. she finishes the contract, Mr. Rose said, they would be married and both retire from the show business. Rose recently WAH divorced by Fannie Brice.

Value Of Pembroke Dock

THE partial reopening of Rosyth Dockyard, an- nounced recently, is an example of how the urgent requirements of national defence are over- riding considerations of cconomy.

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- bourne tende passes through or neur this area, for which reason i was favourite hunting-ground for enemy U-boats in the last war.

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Of World

For 8 Years

Fred

For eight успга Mr. Walker, ortist and designer, has been a patient in Highgate Hos- pital, keeping hands supple and eye in trim with brush and pencil 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 last saw t

NURSES POSED

There were no Helisha ben- cons and very few traffic lights when I was out and about," he sum-Bald. "All I know of the modern

able to reach Queenstown (Cobh), Here they were patched up clently to return under escort to an English port for repairs.

It is because the Southern Irisli Jurbours may not be accessible as refuges and repair stations in a future emergency that an alternative base as near as possible to the Irish enust is considered by naval strate-

distances

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

DIAMOND IN ROAD AS

NEW WARNING TO DRIVERS

Telling Them There Is a Sign Ahead

The following ure the from Queenstown to British ports:

Pembroke 136 miles, Falmouth 185,"

Cardiff-Newport-Bristol 208 to

228.

Plymouth 225,

Southampton 342,

Liverpool 241,

Belfast 207.

girl's dress and the modern motor- car is what I see in the news- papers."

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

"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 neres have been In occupation by the Air Ministry. Another portion of the yard, known us Carr's Jetty, la leased to u firm As will be seen, Pembroke is 50 of shipbreakers. This jetty can uc- miles nearer to the western ap-commodate ships up 20,000 tons, The former naval repair ships and the case of a badly damaged ship stores depots have been demolished, every mile saved is important.

but store depots facilities remnin Further, it is certain that in time fairly intact. of war all the existing western and

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

Dismissal

DREDGING NECESSARY

The largest dry dock can take ves-

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. Frederick John Tilsley (44), of a new emergency, the congestion sels up to 14,000 tons, but the gates would be intensified by the diver-need replacing. The approaches to

and at Derby sion of a great part of the shipping the yard need dredging. Sale, was sentenced

thia inost expensive Assizes recently to nine months' which normally discharges in London might prove the

and other East Const parts.

item In the reconditioning pro- imprisonment for perjury.

[gramme. His father-in-law. William Arthur Heaparty. of Row Jey, similarly charged, received a like sentence.

Mr. T. N. Winning (prosecuting) Charles Armishaw, water balliff, told the Bakewell Bench that father-in-law's garden and that sub-

THE Earl of Onslow recently suggested that 100 end seen Tilsley fishing from his yards in advance of a warning sign to motor-equently the live men admitted to ists there should be placed on the roadway a green line or diamond sign.

facts.

Because of this, no corroboration was called before the magistrates, but the two men denied the charge. Tilsley stating that he had never

CASE DISMISSED The case was dismissed and the Bench must have believed that Armishaw made up the story. Three uther witnesses had since been se- cured, The Earl of Cottenhamn, originator The general polley seemed to be

On Tilsley's behalf, Mr. G. Small- of the mobile police and the "Cour-based upon prosecution rather than wood said he had feared that the tesy Cops," spoke of the "unhelpful" upon education and the desire to coB.B.C. would dismiss him after the attitude of the traffic department of operate.

fishing cose. the Metropolitan Police,

Asked his opinion about police "The B.B.C. do some rather curi- He said that the scheme had won patrols being in plain clothes, Lord ous things with their employees,' the

approval of a number of chier Cottenham said, "I disapprove very Mr. Smallwood added. constables, and from the reports he strongly indeed. It strikes an almost had received from them the publie fatal blow at the principle of co- appreciated the motives of the prin- operation." ciple of co-operation.

He was giving evidence before the House of Lords shed in his life. 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.

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

He considered the pubile's sian- Flord of driving to be'deplorably and unnecessarily low." and thought that il could be considerably raised in w mparatively short time three, fur or five years.

FLYING SAFER

Continuity of polley in transport

"It is more dangerous to drive a matters was essential, he said, and car to-day than to fly an aeroplane.

should not be at the mercy "of and noboily is allowed to go off the

political comes and

ground without being instructed by a

Within the frame work of this pro-qualified instructor." posed department of the Home Office

Lord Cottenham advocated three

there should be road traffic commit- types of roads. First, the motor road tee, a rail trafle commillee, and a pure and simple; second, the com-

waterway traffic committee.

cach

with a permanent chairman.

The Trofe Department of

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OVERWHELMING CASE

Shortly after the war the Ad- This alone would justify the re-miralty proposed to extend the dock- conditioning of Pembroke us an over-yard westward from Carr's Jetty to flow port, and when the naval argu-Penner Gut, enable battleships of ment is added the case for immediate the largest size to berth alongside uction becomes, it is considered, the wharves. Had this plan been carried out Pembroke, it la claimed,

overwhelming.

It is urged that. Pembroke be pro-would be the only British port in needs of escort vessels and destroyers straight up harbour and be berthed on convoy or patrol duty in the Al-without waiting for the tide. Inntic approaches and the Irish Sea, As the Haven has a depth in most Using Pembroke as their base they places of 15 to 19 fathoms, It should would save 100 miles in proceeding be feasible to mear a floating dock to and returning from their stations. off the yard after dredging. WILD! Pembroke, being 300 miles from ample repair facilities available and the East Coast, is comparatively safe a tieel of powerful salvage tugs at from air attack, which could not in hand to render first aid to vessels any case be delivered without ample damaged in the western approaches, warning.

Pembroke would rank as one of our Milford Haven, in which the old most valuable sea bases. yard is situated, is one of the finest

There is no reason to suppose that harbours in Europe. About 11 miles the cost of reconditioning Pembroke long, und from one to three miles would be very great, In any case wide, It covers about 20 square miles, the expenditure would probably be It can be entered at all states of tide repaid many times over by the sav and In any conditions of wind.

ing of ships and cargoes which, in During the Great War 4,000 men the absence of such a western base. I were employed in the dockyard, might be lost.

vided with facilities for serving the which a large vessel could proceed

Naval Base "Colour Bar" Denied

INDIAN

MRS.

BRIDE SAYS

"IT'S JEALOUSY"

COLOMBO (Ceylon). TRS. BRINDA GORDON, nineteen-year-old Indian Dine!

rond- road of the Ministry type, of comparatively shurt length, bride of Lieutenant David L. Gordon, of the naval the linking up industrial areas and Lon- Home Offer should be free, as the don with seaside resurts; and, third, survey ship Stork, recently described as "arrant nonsense" reports that her husband's career is being affected by the colour question.

Ministry of Transport was not free, good secondary road with foot- from the duty of consulting every paths and cycle tracks, but not with rond-users' association about every dual highways. proposed scheme.

CRITIC OF HENDON

Curiosity Costs Cat's Tail

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. have thought of upsetting us by the colour question.

"My husband and I are extremely happy, and there is 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."

Lord Coltenham said that when he visited the police driving school a Hendon in 1938 at the invitation of

Oakland, Cal. Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner of Police, the whole standard of Tony, an Angora cat whose curiosity teaching there seemed to him to be complex got its tall into close com- munion with the wringer of an elec- trien washing machine, underwent

tuo low.

Solicitor Sent To Gaol At 68

A sixty-eight-year-old sulicitor whose troubles, according to his counsel, were mainly due to the fact that he was not able to put money aside for the leaner years. was sent to prison for 20 months at

the Old Bailey recently.

He was Arthur Edward Francis,

who pleaded

£1.280 of ellently to converting

money,

Mr. L. A. Byrne, prosecuting, sald

Francis was admited a solicitor in

tinue

no

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

Investigation Into the Inundry business, without further Lieutenant Gordon at a bridge party given by his mother, Mrs. F. risk if not to life and Hmb, at least Jervis Gordon, at her home in Chapel-street, Marylebone, W. They to tail.

were married in Colombo in May.

UNEMPLOYMENT UP

Textile Industries Improve

BY 47,000

TOTAL ANALYSED

Included in the fetal of 1,329,103

ÚNEMPLOYMENT in Great Britain, of the weather and the falling off 60,039 normally in casual employ-

14, 0

women,

men, And

CONTINENTAL

were 1,455,608 wholly unemployed, 305,406 temporarily stopped, and ment.. It comprised 1,280,083. 1895, and had practised in Bishops increased by 40,876 between October of export demand.

The Industries which showed im-51,010 boys, 300,300

50,104 girls. gate. In 1937 he was adjudicated 17 and November 14, bringing the bankrupt with a deficiency of £9,721, total to 1,820,103. This was 320,008 provement last month included-

Cotton, wool, and other textile in- of which £3,850 was due to clients, more than a year before. The es-

During his examination he said timated number of insured persons dustries, metal goods manufacture, and cycle, was and the motor-vehicle, 10-64 in employment that since 1028 his practice had de-aged

de-aircraft Industry. clined, and he started borrowing 12,238,000 on November henvily. To retrieve his position Increase of 38,000 on the month and The rise in unemployment affecled 1934-5 he began to

a decrease of 150,000 on the year. cllents UAG

all the Ministry of Labour divisions толеу

The decline in employment was except the Midlands: —

Inc, or doc. Mr. Frank Millon, defending, sold noted in- that for the greater part of his career Building and public works con Francis had conducted his business trneting, agriculture and horticulture, efficiently and honourably. He Had conlmining, 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 distributive trades, and entertainments, ́ sport, et sister 100 n year each.

At the age 00 his clients began &c. to fall away and his position become

hopeless: He had not lived extravas | mining in unusual in November, and

gantly,

Increased unemployment in coal- was evidently due to the mildness

London

on month

+9,776

South-eastern South-western

Midlands

+0,021

++-3,823

3,002

North-eastern

+-4,439

North-western

+4,507

Northern

+1,824

+-8,000 +7,999

Scotland

Welco

STURDY and STRONG

CARLOWITZ a co

4. Queen's Rd. Tel. 31225.

'Head' Gave Beer At School

The

Ross-

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

He was giving evidence for Clifford Frederick Victor Martin, aged 19, a Pembroke College undergraduate, assaulting who was charged with Pollee-Sergeant Ives on the night of 5. The case Was dis- November missed.

Police-Sergeant Ives sald that while on duty near a lamp in Market hill, round which was a large crowd of undergraduates, he felt a klek. He heard a remark, turned, and saw Martin in the net of kicking at his legs

INJURED ANKLE

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

Mr. C. H. 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, Washi Thomas Jacobsen ta cement finisher by trade, but he'd rather, do wood carving. In three yours he carved, from alder, birch and walnut a three and one-half foot high replica of the Rheims cathedral..

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