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Blockade Threat

The

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from

9.10 Manchuli

ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXCITING RAIL JOURNEY

by Lawrence

:

TWICE a week, at 9.30 of a morning, there pulls out from Manchuli, on the Manchukuo border, one of the

most world's

remarkable trains-the Trans-Siberian express.

I have just travelled home from Peiping to London by this exciting overland route, and my diary of the trip has some strange entries now I come to look back on it. Here's a sample:

We are a motley gathering as we leave Manchukuo. Mostly women, some with children, wives or daughters of men who are remaining in Dairen, Tientsin, Shanghai, or Hongkong, to watch their business interests at this critical time. One or two among us are business men dashing to London, Paris, or Berlin to inform our office headquarters of conditions in the Far East.

We have our baggage turned topsy-turvy by the Manchukuo Customs officials, and now submit to the same critical examination at the hands of the Soviet "comrades,"

What they expect to find in it is hard to imagine, as the items which attract most atten- tion are a book of family snapshots and any form of personal letters, which they endeavour to read with the utmost interest.

Money, of course, is counted. and recounted and entered on an official form signed by both parties. And then we change our sterling at the rate of 12 roubles to the £- 1s. 8d. per rouble at frontier value.

THE REASON for Hongkong apprehension that Britain will not insist that the Japanese blockudes of Canton, Kongmoon, Kulangsu, Tientsin and the Yangtse River ports should not be extended to the treaty ports of Swatow, Foochow and Wen- chow is evident when an examin.to carry a box of chocolates, n ation of the trade figures for

these three centres is made.

Any stoppage of shipping with any of these southern ports will have a serious effect on this

One unfortunate woman has

unguardedly allowed her porters

tennis racket, a bag of oranges, pluß her suit-capes, and protests bitterly at a bill of 12s. for porterage.

We who are wiser festoon our- Colony, not merely from the selves with packages. A police point of view of trade, but by officer from Hongkong strides dozen virtue of the fact that we are manfully along with a now almost entirely relying on bottles of beer in one hand and them as

our sources of food supply of whisky and gin supplies for the abnormal popu-will have the laugh on us later, dangling from the other. He lation we have to support.

when we get to Soviet Russia, whore beor costs 58. 6d. a bottle. and is unbelievably bad at that.

Trade figures for the first six months of 1939 are not available. But an examination of the official figures for 1938 is Bluminating. A Woman Alone The total import and export trade of the three ports last year

WE Hort ourselves into our compartments, and was £5,743,580, comprising £1- 647,962 imports and £4,095,568 fresh complications arise. A exports. Of the exports, Hong-British woman is alone in a kong took over twenty-five per compartment, as also is a British cent., this Colony's total being man. Soviet authority swoops £1,717,932,

down on this waste of space and demands that they share a coupe.

It is an interesting fact that, [during 1938, Hongkong took 95

per cent, of the total exports of The suggestion is bitterly Foochow and Wenchow-food-opposed by the woman. The stuffs-valued at ̈£514;348 ́out of | Soviet reply, "In that case-we-

Impey

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1

-By TRAIN to Manchuli, there to join the Trans- Siberia Railway to the Polish frontier. Total time, Hongkong to London, 16 days. Fare £32 if bought in yen, or £55 if bought in sterling.

2

By SEA liner to England via Suez. Total time 51⁄2

weeks. Fare £115.

By AIR Hongkong to

Bangkok and flying boat to London, Time 7 days Hong- kong to London, Fare £145.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

by Dud Peales Bytčiekio, Bw.

"We may as woll bo practical while teaching Junior

to walk!"

1942

will see this

BALANCE

of Naval POWER

By Lt.-Commander HUGH LONGDEN, R.N., Rold.

THE United States is taking

THE steps to become the Min-

tress of the Seas, and it is suggested thut she is going to form an Atlantic Fleet--which might be an excellent thing for the peace of the world.

We must admit that she is Mistress of the Pacific, but Great Britain is still Mistress of the other Six Scus.

Amerien has just announced offcial- ly that she has ordered three 35,000- tons battleships, and we can assume they will be ready in about three years. In addition to this I learn- though it has not yet been officially stated that she is about to lay down two 45,000-tons balleships, and these will be the biggest in the world.

A Nivy is altesalgs in T present the United States

commission and two almost completed, the North Carolina and the Washing- ton, which are similar in size and armament to the three that have just been ordered.

The United States Navy has no battle cruisers comparable with our own Hood and Renown.

Great Britain hus 12 battleships and three battle cruisers in commission. five battleships building (due to be ready in 1940), and two more authorised and about to be laid down. Thus in two years' time we will clearly be superior to the United States Fleet in capital ships, though they will have caught up with us by 1042.

Starting with the future and work- ing backwards, we have the Lion and Temeraire, the two battleships authorised by the 1933 programme, but not yet ordered.

They will be of 10,000 tons - slightly smaller than the two unborn but projected American ones-and will carry 10in. guns.

THEN last year we laid down the Ove I have mentioned, which are known as the King George V. Lype. They consist of the King George V., the Prince of Wales, Anson, Jellicoe, and Benity, which will be 35,000-tonners, mounted with 14in. guns and 21in. torpedo tubes. and will carry aircraft, It is officially stated

that "their

anti-aircraft armament will be extensive," but cannot yet tell you their speed.

Then we came to the latest batle- ships in commission, the Nelson and Rodney, twins, both just under 34,040 tons.

These are of course," the most powerful battleships is the world, which is not surprising as they each cost £7,500,000 to build, and the an-- nual cost of their maintenance in full conmission is approximately £350,- 000

It is interesting to note that they are the only ships in any Navy with torpedo tubes of more than 21in. The range of their guns is 171⁄2 zea miles, and the cost of firing one tri- ple salvo is £700. (In the event of war, taxpayers please note!)

Next in order of senlòrify we come to our three battle cruisers, the Hood, Renown, and Repulse, of which the latest is the Hood, completed in 1920-- the most powerful battle cruiser tri the world. She was built under the War Emergency Programme at a cost of £0,000,000, or £145 per ton, as she is 42,000 tons.

a total of £520,825 from the may have to put a Russian man and not only caviare but cham- and lorries are to be seen at all former, and valued at £402,480, In your coupe at some stage of pagne is on the menu of three the larger stations. The crops out of a total of £444,188 from the journey; you had better put officers at the next table. Awed are better, there are cattle in the latter,

up with your fellow-country- by this extravagance, we whis- the fields, and peasants are per to each other that they working on the land which was Any Japanese blockade of man."

must get a rebate or a pass, the untilled before,

THE Renown and Repulse these. ports means, therefore, To which the woman, confus- mare so when we discover that

are smaller, 32,000 tons. Much of this is probably ac- that Hongkong has to turn clse-ing the issue, skilfully counters, the champagne costs £3 10s. a counted for by the new Soviet class, the Ramillies, Royal Sovereign, Next are the five Royal Sovereign where for its food supplies. And, "A Frenchman or a German or bottle. with the Japanese net gradually a Russian conceivably, but an

policy of sending divisions out Royal Oak, Revenge, and Resolution, drawing tighter along the China Englishman never. It would quite happy, and at the end of womenfolk, and allotting to old ships of the Queen Elizabeth class

But the three officers seem to the East together with their completed in 1916-17.

And finally we have the five good coast, there is nowhere else to get all round town, and my re- the meal they produce wads of them on arrival certain tracta of Jutland fume-the Queen putation would be ruined for notes and pay up in the normal of land, which they are en Elizabeth, Malaya, Vallant, Barham, The United States, Nether-ever."

manner, which leaves us more couraged to cultivate for their and Warspite. They all carry four lands East Indies, United King-

strerati, with catapults, except Bar- This diplomatic evasion be- bewildered than ever, particu- own benefit. dom, Australia, Canada, Ger-

ham,

which carries one. These ships cost £3,000,000

tox many and France are all inter-wilders the Soviet, who retire larly when we are told that a ested in the import trade of the to consider the matter, and colonel gets only 1,000 roubles Troops Trek to the East build originally, but since then they have been considerably altered and modernised. three treaty ports threatened by finally compromise by producing or so per month, Japan. Last year the United a Russian woman with two chil

turn.

£86,274.

-

dren, all three to occupy the upper bunk.

£16 a Pair of Shoes ..

اسنال

SIX months ago there were said to be at least half

have five carriers million Russines commlasion, Including Ute Ark Royal Kingdom exported goods to the

THE whole way across Eastern Siberia. And to judgo

Anished), value of £308,000 to: Swatow,

and five building, in- the Russia this problem of by our own experience, this ordered). The new ones will be

cluding

Implacable (Just £7,630 to Foochow and £34,108 The train departs well behind to Wenchow. Her imports from time, but nobody seems to care, prices arises to confuse and number has been largely aug-23,000 tons-slightly bigger than the us. Milk at the mented recently. During the Glorious and Courageous and they the three ports amounted to and presently we go along to aggravate

the dining-car. Here we pro- wayside stations costs 1s. 8d. a four days which our train takes will each carry about 50 planes.

The United States Navy has only Next to Hongkong, however, duce food coupons bought out pint, and even bread is about to cross Siberia we pass on the three carriers in commission and the principal country interested side Russia, which entitle us to ... a loaf. Cabbage is sell average three trains an hour three bulding.

ing at 10s. alb., a pair of shoes proceeding eastwards and carry- As for cruisers, we have 15 mount- in the blockade is the United a meal at reduced rates.

cost £16, and no one outside the ing munitions, aeroplano parts, ing din. guns, and 45 mounting din. States, which from Swatow alone

Army wears boots which are fit tanks; lorries, and

well 08 Caylare With Luck

14 building and motor- guns, as imported goods to the value of.

to be seen.

launches fitted with light arma- States has 18 mounting 8in. guns Beven ordered of these. The United £1,132,057.

THERE are even

,. Women's dresses must be ments.

building) and 10 mounting Gld.. categories of tickets ob-, fantastically dear, for we can- To this must be added one guns (two not completed), that Japan is now seeking to tainable, the better grade en not find a single well-dressed cavalry and one infantry divi- building (most of which will be Of destroyers we have 157, and 32 destroy and divert to herself, as titling us to cavlare with our woman-by European standards sion, plus various auxiliary ready late next year), whereas the she has already done in other meal, supposing there is any during the whole of our troops. parts of China.

Today our luck is in, and the It behoves not only Great caviare is forthcoming, enabling Britain but all the interested us to look down our noses at the Fowers to see that the rape of passengers whose tickets do not

entitle them to it. their trado in Canton and the Yangtae Valley is not repeated on the coast..

It is this very important trade

two

典

United States has 210 in commission. journey.

It seems that the Soviet and 35 being bullt. There is, however, a vast im authorities intend Siberia to be Lustly we como to submarines, provement in conditions all a self-contained military aron,

forpedo boats, and submarine along the line-since my last trip for the railway from Manchurin

We have 62, submarines, and 12. : in 1987.

to Omsk is double track, with building America has 91, and 10 Roads are being built, houses tunnels and bridges doubled chasers, and we have 8 M.Ts, and

building. She But, to our astonishment, tho proletarint are up-and-coming, are going up everywhere, cars. PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. 24 bullding.

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