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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 12, 1939.

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BRITAIN'S BIGGEST MANOEUVRES

Trial "Mobilisation" Of All Forces

BRITAIN'S Army manoeuvres next August and Sep-

tember will be the largest ever held here.

For the first time since before the Great War, a Rus- sian General is expected to be present-Marshal Voroshilov, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Army, has been specially invited by the War Office.

Also for the first time, the complete Regular and Ter- ritorial Armies will be engaged together. In some quarters the manoeuvres are being regarded as a practice mobilisation.

Marshal Voroshilov will see the Regular Army, Territorial Army and the Royal Air Force combining in the most realistic exercises that can be conceived in peace time (writes a Mili- tary Correspondent). Every type of unit in the Army will be engaged.

The manoeuvres are designed to test the efficiency of the modern mobile army. Every regiment will be completely equip ped with trucks and Bren carriers.

The Royal Tank Corps, cavalry and armoured regiments and Army tank battalions will have their full complement of war vehicles and it is expected that most of the tank equipment will be much in advance of that possessed by other countries.

Among the tanks is the new cruiser tank, which is to re- place the light tank as a defensive weapon against enemy tanks. It is equipped with quick-firing two-pounder anti-tank guns, ma- chine-guns and smoke-screen throwers,

All infantry, artillery and other units ure

to practise co-ordinating defence against lank attacks and at-: incks from the air.

The manoeuvres, which are to take place in the Northern and Aldershot severe tests of areas, will provide

the mobility and reliability of equip ment and for the communication systems.

Phone and RADIO

Divisional headquarters nowadays have complete up-to-date telephone exchanges which can be linked up with wireless services.

Aerial co-operation is to be pro- vided by Army co-operation squad- rons, fighters and bombers,

Although Marshal Voroshilov is accustomed to seeing the large Soviet Army on manoeuvres and to study- ing the spectacular feats performed by Russian air-transported troops, he cannot fall to be impressed by the -efficiency of the British Army or the;

abundance and reliability of equipment,

the

Jail Preferred To Italy

Cleveland, O.

Louls Gallo, 43, who sald he pre-

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according to Dr. Doris Odium in

London address recently.

Dr. Odium, who is hon. secre- tary of the National Council for Mental Hygiene, said that all our little habits of this kind are part of a ritual started by our mothers In early training.

He Asks Two Divorces

This photograph Sweet stall.

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taken in Kowloon recently after car 360

Shoots Lioness Window

Farmer

Through

FROM

TAGHMON (Co. Wexford).

a window of his lonely house at Taghmon recently Farmer James Winters fired a shot-gun twice into the darkness, hoping to kill a lioness which terrified the village all night.

a few

Taghmon and the district around] "I waited

seconds, and were warned before midnight that then Bred. I shot her in the head. the lioness had escaped from a tra- She dropped with a roar, and then veling circus.

charged at us again. the doors, Mr. Winters locked

"Then there was some delay in

for my shuttered the downstairs windows of getting another cartridge his farmhouse.

gun, so I got hold of an iron bar, and as the came at me I brought Outside, in the farmyard, was down with my power. She col- the lioness--and Mr. Winters could hear her killing a call that lapsed, dying, then." was tethered in a slied.

He said: "My wife and I heard two terrifying roars.

"I fired a shot out of an upstairs silence. window. Then there was

Oil Boom Ends

Bloom

My wife and I kept moving from

Bloomingdale, Mich. window to window staring into the An oil boom has about eliminated Bloomingdale. darkness to try to see the lioness. the "bloom" from

"Then my wife saw her standing Garden enthusiasts and they are about ten yards away. I look my gun again and fired.

had smashed into

A Chinese

Japanese Intention

London.

Sir Gifford Fox asked for a defini-

tion of Japanese intentions towards foreigners in the House of Commons recently as follows:-

Sir G. Fox asited the Prime of the Minister whether, in view constant acts of aggression on British the Far East, he will interests in consider asking the Japanese con Government for a clear definition of their intentions towards foreigners and their trade in China?

Ar. Butler: A request for more precise information was contained in the note of 14th January addressed by His Majesty's Government to the Japanese Government. No reply has as yet been received to this note. but my hon. Friend may rest assured that my Noble Friend will not lose sight of the point which-be raised.

has

SKILL WITHOUT SIGHT WON.

EXETER, N. H. Fred G. Carver had never handled unable to cultivate spring flowers a tool previous to becoming totally because oil and gas fumes from blind, but he is now so expert with nearby oll wells kill the plants. the hammer, knife, chisel and saw Honess flop More than 70 drilling permits have that dealers keep tim busy ng could see the down. As she did so she gave been issued in the past few months. orders for his fine work, another terrifying roar.

put another cartridge in the gun and gol ready to fire again, but in those few seconds she disappeared."*

LAST SPRING

"I

Mark Redmond, thirty-eight-year- old employee of Mr. Winters, and) other men followed the trail of the wounded lioness until they found

Cleveland, O. Calvin Martin, 20-year-old steel ferred prison in this country to free-worker, has filed two separate peti- dom in Italy, has been sentenced to tions for divorce. The first charged 10 months in the penitentiary on an gross neglect against his first wife,

The second asked legal her lying in some bushes. charge. Clara, 26. old liquor law violation

from Thelma, 27. HIS Gallo jumped $4,000 bond in 1937 severance and fled to Italy. But he didn't like petition said he married life there, and returned to the United he thought he "States to face trial.

Electric Chair Horror-

U.S. World's Fair Show

NEW YORK.

MAN whose eyes look insane with terror is dragged, shriek- "When we saw the lioness she was A her when about 120 yards away," Redmond ing, to the electric chair. "Oh, God! Let me live," he cries was divorced from said. "The moment she saw us sheas guards strap him in the chair and a sad-faced priest raises the Clara, but wasn't.

crucifix to his lips.

rose and sprong.

KOBAKO

Kobako.. a witty French inter- protation of an exotic Oriental perfume croated by the

Bo-

greatest living perfumor, cause it is spiced with Gallic humor, it helps you to play the part of the mysterious, alluring and compelling.. but with that light touch that gives you

ultimate glamour in modern aycs.

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A statement was made In Parlia ment regarding the Burma-China Road:

Sir Arnold Wilson asked the Un- der-Secretary of State for Burma

The executioner pulls the switch, the mon in the chair making hideous contortions.

A doctor, placing a. stethoscope on the victim's chest, announces that the man is not dead yet and orders the switch to be pulled again.

A crowd watching the scene be- comes hysterical with horror. Wo- men faint and chilldren ery, "Tako me out Daddy!"

This is not a real execution, but

World's Fair.

Kooping Frosh Looking All Day-

is no secret formula:

the answer is to be

found in the frequent

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(1) what sums have been expended just an attraction at the New York A

in Burma upon the construction of

the Burma-China road; and what contribution to the cost has been

The mock execution is preceded by

made from the British Treasury or an exhibition of ghastly photographs from other sources in view of the of dead gangsters, of gans, bombs,

used murder implements ond Killer Di fact that it is at present

by

Chinese Government linger's £3,000 bullet-proof car. solely owned or controlled lorries for the transport of military stores signed to that Government and not for general merchandise;

con-

(2) whether the recent construc- tion of a molor-road connecting Burma with China through the ter- ritory of the Shan States was undertaken with the prior consent of the Shan chiefs; and whether such construction is consistent with the general tenour of our engagements

with those States?

Nearby is Merrie England, where Queen Victoria sits on the village green with the Prince Consort, John Brows and Disraeli to watch balles dancing and to wisecrack.

"SEE ENGLAND!"

When Brown mentions legs, Vic- torla admonishes him with, "You mean limbs, Brown."

Outside a showman shouts: "See

land as it really is. Say 'Hello' Lleut-Colonel Muirhead: Up to to Queen Victoria," 31st March last rather less than 3% A few steps away there is more lakhs of rupees, say £27,700, had uproar as a mob, many armed with been spent on the improvement of cameras, surge towards the stage the Lashio-Kyuhkok road. No con- where the striptease sensation, No- tribution towards this expenditure sita, dances with live doves, has been made from any source out- In Billy Rose's aquacade the nu- side Durmo. Except for the 11, or dience goes wild with patriotism as 12 miles nearest China the road is before a huge American flag bathing not nety construction but is a well-beauties together.

with Eleanor established. falr-weather road, the Holm, in a shimmering bathing sult improvement of which to an all-costing £40, and Johnny Weissmul- weather standard in line with the ler, in silver shorts, sing:-

"Yankee Doodle's gonna go. to town again, Uncle Sam is gonna hit

general policy of road Improvement approved by the chiefs of the Feder- ated Shan States. Though the tram that line again." that has used the improved road up to the present may be mainly as Bescribed by my hon. and gallant Friend, It is open to all classes or

traffic.

CITY FLAGPOLE CHOPPED DOWN

"CLEVELAND; 0; Paul Schmacher, 20, admitted to

Sir A. Wilson: Will the hon. nud gallant Gentleman-bear in mind that the economic and .blological, conse- quences of this road, after the pre- Bent emergency is over, are likely police that he had chopped down a to be serious; and would be give lagpole in a metropolitan playground. serious consideration to the defence "The pole was on our baseball dia- of Burma against unauthorised im-mond," he said, "so I just chopped. migration from 'China?

Lieut-Colonel Muirheads. I would

KAY that the permanent consequences

It down."

will be serious but they are-re--- Lieut-Colonel - Muirheads The hon.+ cognised as being Important.

'Member must not ask me to explain.

Mr. Borensen: What is meant by my hon, and gallant Erlend's ques- the "blofoglent consequences of this tion, rood?

Sir A. Wilson: Mixed marriages,

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