1939-06-12 — Page 3

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 12, 1939.

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 Mill- 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 are to practise co-ordinatingt

defence agulusi tank attacks and at- Do you put on

tacks from the air.

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

the mobility and relfa' 'lity of equip- ment and for The Communication

PHONE AND RADIO

Divisional headquarters nowadays have complete up-to-date telephone exchanges which can be Hoked up

wireless services, with

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 feals performed by Russian air-transparted troops, he cannot fail to be impressed by the efficiency of the British Army or the abundance and reliability of the equipment.

Jail Preferred To Italy

Cleveland, O.

your

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When you

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were a baby.

according to Dr. Doris Odlum in

London address recently,

Dr. Odlum, who is hon, secre- tary of the National Counell for Mental Hygiene, said that all our little hablis of tits kind are part of a ritual started by our mothers In early training.

He Asks Two Divorces

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This photograph W38 Sweet stall,

taken In Kowloon recently after car 359 · lind smashed into a Chinese

Farmer Shoots Lioness

Through

Window

TAGHMON (Co. Wexford),

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

"I waited a lew

1

seconds, and Taghmon and the district around were warned before midnight that then fired. I shot her in the head. the Honess had escaped from a tra- She dropped with a roar, and then velling circus.

charged at us again.

his farmhouse,

Then there was some delay in Mr. Winters locked the doors. shuttered the downstairs windows of gellingt another cartridge for my gun, so I got hold of an iron bar, and as she came at me I brought Outalde, In the farmyard, was it down with my power. She col- the lioness-and Mr. Winters Inpsed, dying, then." could hear her killing a calf that)

a shed, was lethered in

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

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Japanese Intention

London.

Sir Gifford Fox asked for a defini- tion of Japanese Intentions_towards

foreigners in the House of Commons recently as follows; -

Fox

asked the

Prime

Sir G. Minister whether, in view of the onstant acts of aggression on British interests in the Far East, he will intere consider Asking the Japanese cons Government for a clear definition of their Intentions towards foreigners and their trade in China?

Mr. 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

point which he

Oil Boom Ends sight

Bloom

ure

raised.

of the

SKILL WITHOUT SIGHT WON

has

EXETER, N, H.

Fred G. Carver had never handled

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

Bloomingdale, Mich., My wife and I kept moving trom window to window staring into the An oil boom has about eliminated

"bloom' darkness to try to see the lioness. the

Bloomingdale. from Garden enthusiasts And they "Then ny wife saw her standing unable to cultivate spring flowers a tool previous to becoming totally about ten yards away. I took my

because all and gas fumes from blind, but he is now so expert with gun again and fired.

nearby oil wells kill the plants. the hammer, knife, chisel and saw "I could see the lloness flop More than 70 drilling permits have that dealers keep him busy Bliing down. As she did so she gave been issued in the past few months. orders for his fine work.

another terrifying roar. I nut another cartridge In the gun and Kol ready to fre again, but in those few seconds she disappeared."

LAST SPRING

.

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

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Cleveland, O. Calvin Martin, 28-year-old steel Louis Gallo, 43, who said he pre- ferred prison in this country to free-worker, has filed two separate peli- dom in Italy, has been sentenced to tions for divorce. The first charged 16 months in the penitentiary on an gross neglect against his first wife, old liquor low violution charge. Clara, 26. The second asked legal Gallo jumped $4,000 bond in 1937 severance from Thelman, 27. s "When we saw the lioness she was A MAN whose eyes, look insane with terror is dragged, shriek- and fled to Italy. But he didn't like petition said he married her when about 120 yards away," Redmond ing, to the electric chair. "Oh, God! Let me live," he cries life there, and returned to the United he thought he was-divorced-from-said. "The moment-she-any-us-sheus guards strap him in the chair and a sad faced priest raises the"

rose and sprang.

States to face trial.

Clara, but wasn't.

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crucifix to his lips.

Burma-China Road

London.

A statement was made in Parlin- inent regarding the Burma-Chino Rond:

Bir Arnold Wilson asked the Un- der-Secretary of Stale for Burma

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

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

A crowd watching the scene be- comes hysterical with horror. Wa-- men faint and children cry, "Take me out, Daddy!"

This is not a real execution, but

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Peak Depot,

(1) what sums have been expended just an attraction at the New York | #1 in Burma upon the construction of World's Fair.

the Burma-China road; and what The mock execution is preceded by

contribution to the cost has been

made from the British Treasury or an exhibition of ghastly photographs from other sources in view of the of dead gangsters, of guns, bombs, fact that it is at present being used murder Implements and Killer Dil- solely by Chinese Government- linger's £3,000 bullet-proof car.

owned or controlled forrles for the transport of military stores con- signed to that Government and not

for general merchandise;

(2) whether the recent construc- tion of a motor-road connecting:

Nearby is Merrie England, where Queen Victoria sits on the villare green with the Prince Consort. John Brown and Disraeli to watch ballet dancing and to wisecrack.

Burma with China through the fer=| “SEE ENGLANDI"___

ritory of the Shan States Was

undertaken with the priok consent of When Brown' mentions legs. Vic- the Shan chiefs; and whether such torla admonishes him with, "You construction is consistent with the mean limbs, Brown."

"Sce

general tenour of our engagements) Outside a showman shouts:

with those States?

England as it really is. Say 'Hello' Liert-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 co where the striptease

sensation, Ro-

tribution towards this expenditure site, dances with live doves. has been made from any source out- side Burma. Except for the 11 or dience goes wild with patriotism as

In Billy Rose's aquacade the au 12 miles nearest Chinn the road.. before a huge American flag bathing not new construction but is a well- beauties together with Eleanor established fair-weather road, the

improvement of which to an all-Holm, in a shimmering bathing suit weather standard is in line with the costing £40, and Johnny Weissmul- general policy of road improvement ler, in silver shorts, sing:

"Yankee Doodle's gonna go to approved by the chiefs of the Feder-

ated Shan States. Though the trame town again, Uncle Sam is gonna hit LRY has med the Improved roud up that-line-again."

to the present may be mainly, as described by my hon. and gallant

Friend, it is open to all classes, of traffle.

Sir A Wilson: Will the hon. and galiant Gentleman bear in mind, that

the economie, and biological conso-

CITY FLAGPOLE

CHOPPED DOWN

CLEVELAND, O, ?

-Paul Schmacher, 20, admitted to quences of this rond, after the pre-police that he had chopped down a sent emergency is over, are likely nagpole la a metropolitan playground.

to be serious, and would he give

serious consideration to the defence The pole was on our baseball dia- of Burma against unauthorised im- mood," he said, "an I just chopped migration from China?

Lieut-Colonel Moirticad: I would. say that the permanent consequences will be serious but they, are res cognised as being important

it down."

Licül-Colonel, Muirhead: The Hon. Member must not ask me to explain Mr. Sorensent What is meant by my hon, and gallant Friend's ques their biological consequences" of this | tión. road?:

Bir A. Wilson: Mixed marriages.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 17th, 1939

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