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10. 1939.

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ESTIMATES Death Was

INTRODUCED: £250,000 A DAY

Aircraft Production Shows 400

Cent. Increase

Increase Since 1938

Per Cent.

LONDON, MAR. 9.

INTRODUCING THE AIR ESTIMATES, TOTALLING £205,000,000 IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-DAY, SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, THE AIR Minister, GRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED THE GROWTH OF THE Air Force.

He disclosed that the present figure than in any year from 1929 to 1934, and expenditure on the three defence services 1932-33.

United States

URLAJA

Printe Germany

12nly

JAPA

1

A WORLD IN ARMS

Planes Plane

Нол

was twelve times greater double the aggregate of for the financial year of

Int line Produc-

incl.

Air Pers Naval Standing Army

Tonnage rexrrven) Capacity sonnel

Armies Reserver 1,620,000

175,000 300,000 1,000,000 117,000 130,000 785,000 700,000 6,000,000 3,000,000 165,000 1,006,003 £10,000 300,000 $,500,000 1,120,000 1.250,000 1,000,000

2,000 4,900

3,300

2.200

40,000 K0,000 3,000 60,000 10,000 200,000

7,000 3,200 0.000 120,000 7,800 3,000 50,000

Balace 01 Power

7.700

19.000 120,000 2,253,000

2,500,000

14,500,000

16.000

€,000

4,000

Germany-Italy-Japan

13,000

Democracies

METRÍA

500.0ՐԱ 4,300,000 1,192,000 0,950,000 315,000 1,300,000

150,000

1,000,000

Figures in all countries are able to sudden change, but this table, based on the most reliable data, shows the postdun at beginning of 1939,

Air Force Reserve To Be

Formed

In

Hongkong

This year's increase of '£74,000,000 in the air estimates equals the total defence estimates for 1913. The biggest single item is £93,000,000 for aircraft balloons;

and

Thirty-five R.A.F. companies, and an auxiliary territorial ser vice for Women were being formed.

INCREASED PERSONNEL

It was expected that the air force

would programme

necessitute further 20,000 in personnel this year. It was proposed to increase the total personnel to 102,000,

Greater progress thun anticipated, had been made in the deliveries of air force engines, the construction: ní stations and factories, and extension of the balloon barrage scheme

The appeal. June for 31,600 pilots, observers, airmen and boys during the present Ananelal year hud

passed last week (Cheers),

The quality of the recruits excellent.

HONGKONG CITIZENS are shortly to be asked to been excellent, and the figure was enrol in a Volunteer Reserve of the Royal Air Force.

This reserve will.probably be distinct from the existing Air Arm of the Hongkong Volunteer -Defenec-Corpa.......

Local residents will qualify as volunteer reserves of the Royal Air Force, and, as such, would be called up in times of emergency. Similar reserves are being formed

in Singapore and other Colonies.

It is believed that R.A.F. personnel

the

NATIONAL SERVICE

480,000 Volunteers In Britain

LONDON, Mar. 9. REPLYING to a query in the

and planes in Hongkong will be House of Commons to-day, Mr. adequately strengthened before end of the current year, in conformity Ernest. Brown, with the Air Ministry's decision to Labour, declared that so far

R.A.F. squadrons to 500,

Minister of

RESERVE FORCES

{ into

WDS

The estimates included provision |

Cheated

By Doctors

PHILADELPHIA DOCTORS have cheated Death.

Recently a young, woman, twenty-two years old, was admitted `Philadelphia General Hospital.

Doctors examined her and shook their heads gravely. They found her suffering from one of the most dreaded scourges of humanity-tuberculosis.

In hospital they examined her further, and were alarmed to for reserve flying and auxiliary forces.discover that she was to become.a_mother. Thirty-three-centres had been formed

in urban areas, and it was hoped to

With every resource of modern medical science-they fought to organise 20 more in the coming year. (save her life at least until her baby was born.

It was decided to extend the

They failed.

reserve flying and training organi-

In last desperate effort they performed a post-mortem sation overseas, and he hoped it would be possible to form sections, Caesarean operation four minutes after the tragle mother had for example in Malaya, Hongkong.breathed her last.; and East Africa to enable local

A living chlid was delivered. residents to qualify for the volun-back a life for teer reserve,

a life,

Referring to the balloon defence scheme, the Minister said that the barrage in London operated should the occasion demand.

could now be Boxer Indemnity

bring up the number of overseas 480,000 registrations had been lle hoped that all other barrages

recorded as a

result of the throughout the country would be

completed by the end of the year. voluntary service campaign.

The civil air guard had over 1,400 It is generally commented here that there is quite discrepancy between members possessing flying licences, the figure given by the Minister af and 3.800 undergoing flying training. Labour and that mentioned in a re- The standard of airmanship was cent broadcast speech by the Lord higher than ever before. By April 1. Privy Seal, Sir John Anderson, who the number of frat-line aircraft at declared that of the expected 1,500,-Hame would reach 1.750.

Air Disaster *** Sequel

$200,000 Suit Against

Imperial Airways

NEW YORK, Mar. 9.

000 volunteers, 1,200,000 had already

programme

74

Death had reluctantly given

CONTRACTS FOR BRITISH MATERIAL

LONDON, Mar. 9.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Chinese. Government

swered the call by registering. 3D SQUADRONS OVERSEAS Purchasing Commission was held this afternoon in the Chinese Another question concerning the There were now thirty squadrons Embassy, when the Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Quo Tai-chi present state of evacuation measures established overseas, and seven more for eily children in the event of war were to be formed in accordance with presided in the presence of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Mr. A. R.

of the

to increase the Guinness, Mr. C. A. McEuen, Lord Riverdale, and C. C. was answered by the Minister A SUIT claiming $200,000 for Health, Mr. Walter Elliot, who stated overseas strength to 500 first-line Wang. the loss of her husband in the thu the number of offers received aircraft.

Referring to from the country far exceeded the

new aircraft, Sir Cavalier flying-boat disaster on number of lodgings required for

Kingsley Wood Bald that the January 21 has been filed against children in the

British bomber and fighter forces were the best in the world. Imperial Airways in the Federal-Trans-Ocean. Court by Mrs. Katherine Miller,,

of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Her husband, Donald Walter Miller, one of the passengers on the flying?| bont, was drowned.

Compensation is also demanded by Mrs. Miller, who was rescued, for the loss of baggage valued at $1,100.

Her lawyer declared: "The pur

pose of the sult is to âx responsibility for the accident."--Reuter.

Another Note For the W.P.B.

case of emergency.

Refugees In Prague

They had not abandoned tradition- al reliance on the value of counter- offensive as an essential element of strategy.

A powerful striking force was not only a strong deterrent to attack, but a vital component. In any sound syalem of air defence.

of

The developments Thousands Remain In

Dismembered Country

Prague, Mor, 9.

recent

years had reduced the supremacy,

аца

HINT OF

NEW TAX

Bond Restrictions In England

LONDON, Mar. 9. THE NEWS that official}

taxation..

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LOYALIST PLANES BOMBING MADRID

Rebellion Against Miaja's New Republican Government

·MADRID, Mar. 9.

AIRCRAFT, ACTING under the orders of General Miaja's junta, is constantly bombing the rebels in the city.

Madrid's wireless station announced to-day that motorised units were rapidly advancing on Madrid to quell the Communist disturbances.

The rebela were offering little |

resistance, and were constantly ICHANG HOLOCAUST deserting to the Junta's ranks.

All entrances to Madrid were

in the hands of the National Defence Council's forces, and it was expected that normal condi- tions would be restored with little delay.

It was announced that 1,400 Com-

munist prisoners were taken when the

headquarters surrendered last night. -Reuter.

SEVERE FIGHTING IN CITY

Burgos, Mar. 9.

JAPANESE VERSION

One-Third Of City Lies In Ruins

THE JAPANESE VERSION The Communists, whose uprising of the horrifying air raids which against the National Defence Council yesterday demolished Ichang. appeared on Wednesday evening to the treaty port on the Yangtse have been crushed, took the often-

sive ngain to-day, and by midday River, was released this morning had penetrated into the heart of the in the form of an official com- city.

on

Severe fighting is said to be going

T the neighbourhood of the Ministries and the Hippodrome.

The Communists are sald to have occupled several public buildings, andį it is believed this turn of events is due to the defection of a large part of the Madrid garrison, which, it is stated, has revolted against the |National Defence Council.

munique.

Last night unimpeachable noutrai reports stated that the death roll way in the vicinity of 1,800, with 2,000 other casualties.

about

One-third of the city of 75,000 in- habitants has been totally raze

razed.

The Japanese naval communique states that three successive raids were carried out on the city, the On the other hand. Republican Japanese planes taking advantage of troops in the environs of the capital the return of fine weather to Launch are said to be supporters of General their attacks from the former Chinese Maja.

aerodrome at Wuchang.

"HUGE BOMBS"

The advance of the Communists in Madrid was made simultaneously with the systematic cutting off of the! reads leading from the capital.

In the first rald an unspeclied, The Communists this morning number of bombers-Chinese reports occupied the villages of Vallegas on state that eighteen participated- the road to Valencia, Canillejas, on dropped a considerable number of the road to Guadalajara, and Canilla "huge bombs on the atores _of_muni- and Hortaleza on the road to Burgos, tions outside the East Gate.". thus forming Communist ring! The Jopanese communique odds around Madrid..

that ten large conflagrations were started in the eastern section of the city,

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CARABINIERI DESERT

The second raid was made on

the After the desertion to the Com- munist camp of the main body of centre of the city where, claims the the Carabinieri Corps in Madrid, Japanese communique, the objectives General Minja is said to have issued were the headquarters of the 77th orders for the recall to the capital of Division and Police Headquarters. troops from the Guadalajara sector. The Communists have dug trenches immediately. and erected barricades near Canillejax "With the conclusion of the third in order to intercept these reinforce- rald," adds the communique, "the ments.

Important Chinese military base of

The Bird rald followed alnost

LATEST

Other troops of General Miaja are Ichang was practically reduced to said to be marching on Madrid from ruins." Valencia. Some of the troops are reported to be already in Aring dis- tance of the cupital, and to be bombarding the Communists positions in the immediate, picinity of the city. Another report says that General Franco has decided to hasten his offensive against Madrid in view of there-Trans- the growing choos Occar.

BLOCKADE OF COAST

London, Mur. 9. The British Government's attitude to General Franco's blockade of the Spanish coast, on the Mediterranean

A happy spirit of optimism was outlined to-day by Viscount prevailed at the meeting, and Halifax when replying to the debate

British Ship Runs Blockade

London, Mar. 8. The Spanish Relief Committee re- the Ambassador was warmly on Spain in the House of Lords.

He sold that the text of the note ports that the British ship Stangate, congratulated on the completion announcing the blockade, of which with a cargo of foodstuffs, success- of the currency stabilisation the Government had advised all Bri-fally ran the Franco blockade, and fund.

tish shipping, contained no indication is now unloading in Valencia harbour.

Although the Commission's pur chases in the past year were much curtalled by the war, 74 contracts were placed to the total value of £182,034,

of any action agalust shipping out- side territorial waters, and Government. assumed that action was not contemplated.

It is stated that a British warship the intercepted the voyage, to warn the such Stanzate's caplain of the blockade

Reuter Special.

Ha wished make it plain that if action was taken dutside of terri- torial waters, His Majesty's Govern- ment would be obliged to resist such action as had been done in the past.

SERIOUS MATTER

· He must also make it perfectly

the clear that the Government would re- card as a very serious matter sinking of a. British merchantman even within territorial waters. especially it due warning-had-not been given and adequate stops taken begun for the safety of the crew!

His Majesty's ships had boun in-

Son Back Pago For Further Late : News,

German Reaction To Speech

Berlin, Mai

These were mostly of an interest of the offensive, and had added to notices have been sent to im-ing nature, such as £25,000 worth the strength of the defensive in the sir, but that did not mean that they porters restricting withdrawals of telegraph and telephone equip

ment for development in South-West According to an onnouncement by

could rely for defence ou fighter of ex-bond tea, sugar and tobac-China, and in the latter half of the the official refugees bureau, there are sircraft and ground defences siöneco, is regarded in City circles as vear a £30,000 order was placed for | 150,000 persons registered as refugees

All the eleven factories established in Prague alone.

under the shadow scheme were now a pre-Budget measure, but pro-railway equipment, and negotiations Of these, 10,000 are emigrants from operating.

minent interests are of the opened for rails and material for the

|Burma-Yunnan railway. Str Kingsley Wood announced a opinion that the notices do not other countries, mainlyTM Gennany, and 82,000 of them, or more than new development in the organisation necessarily anticipate increased

DATASTOTAL: £3,265,743 - half, are unemployed.

of aircraft production. Three or

Since the Commission Statistics further reveal that in four firms would be formed into a London, Mar. 9.

Bohemia and Moravin only 50,000 group and orders placed for

On the contrary, possibility of one operations in 1931, its purchases in Asked whether he was aware that refugees are reclving support, and in type of aircraft to be distributed or other of those commodities coming Britain total £5,260,783, Administra-structed to give all necessary protec

An inspired statement all Belush trade in Cheloo and Slovakia there are only 2,000 out of among this group, which facilitated in for increased taxation is in no way tive expenses amounting to 4430, lion to vessels whicit might be the Mr. Here Belisha socks

or 18s. d. for every £100. These objects of auch, attacks and to row Weihaiwel was at a standstill owing a total of 12,000 refugees dependent and wcale planning ce action ruled out possible that the restric- expenses were covered, nearly four tallats even inside territorial waters declared t to the Japanese refusal to permit on the State, cargoes to be exported unless 'fin- Concerning emigration from that might result in n war If one of tion may have been imposed "as a times by Investmunt profits,

against any submarine taking such an terested in the facts of anced through the Yokohama Specie Czecho-Slovakia,

armament; then "ing the indefensible action-Reuter, on official the manufacturers was unable to precautionary measure to safeguard

nn-

--which, apbenre:fdvest Bank Mr. R. A. Butler replied in the nouncement states that 8,000 persons, continue production. It would also consumers against unwarranted At the class of the year the total

TO WRITE MEMOIRS

the spooch. SIZE samutiative.

nearly all Jews, had left the country reduce the number of designs.

occulation in connection with the sum of £78,963 stood to the credit the helle added that

Pet of the Commiarion's current (account Foreign Secret» | sinds' October last.

INCREASED PRODUCTION

San Sebastian, Max. 9.~ tula andomon ary was in communication will y Sir win addition to: 18,000 foreigners

It is held likely that the Chancellor and fixed; depositar

According to a Burgos report, ex Urbators “Hobart Craigie, the British Am-Who should not be allowed to make

Production was NEONA

was proceeding on of the Exchequer, tualising the burs The Commission was instrumental president Blanite Armas mirande bassador, to, Tokyo, with regard to a permanent residence in the coun- rapidly increasing basl. Britain was den of armara mante, and so, far: borne furing the past year in placing, 43]| Lak in-rogaiderable: the, whole question, of trade and ex- try, there were 11,000 waiting for an now spending £250,000, daily on the exclusively, by the higher income Chinesa, ez kilidente dewithg Bruin Schanan, control measures Introduced opportunity to lenva Czecho-Elovakia, production of aircraft alone, and that groups, may, considérő the time) has enginewing ward & shipbuilding & Aims which

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