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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 14, 1939.

Ümary, Suppers Court

Duke Of Kent's Tour In West Yorks

MRS. MARY SUTTON, wearing mud-caked wellingtons, an old felt hat and a drab coat, met the Duke of Kent touring workless mon's smallholdings at Snaith, West Yorks, recently, He asked her how she liked the life. And sho drew up her short figure and answered:

"Not at all.".

Embarrassed, fingering the lapel of his jacket, the

AIRMEN FOR Duke turned to buxom Mrs.

THE NAVY

Edna Purdy, a neighbour.

She blushed, and stammered: There is nothing but hard work.

of the air stations taken over re- and poverty here. We can stand cently by the Navy trom the Air. Force, the chief is that at Lee-on-the hard work, but not the the-Solent, where Press representa- poverty. tives were entertained. Lee is the | headquarters of Rear-Admiral Bell Her husband, Robert Purdy, wear- Davies, V.C., who is in general com- Ing open-necked shirt and corduroyя, mand of all the naval air stations. changed the subject. He Altook

"We are leaving."

It is also the monning depot for all hands with the Duke, told him he specialist ratings of the Fleet Air had been to Australla, and wished Arm-pilots, observers, air gunners, the Duke happiness there in his post atr articers, air Atlers, and riggers as Governor-General. ln which they return between The Duke passed an. periods of service afont, abroad, or Mrs. Sutton. Uged

thirty-nine,

at other shore air stations, and from whose husband took a anallholding which their administration and draft-under the Land Settlement Associn- ing are carried out. It houses No. 2ton after losing his job as a litter, Observers' School-Nu. 1 is at Ford, said: Sussex-and two squadrons, Nos, 753

"I didn't want to bother the Duke,

and 754, of landpinnes, amphibians, but when he asked me I had to tell and floatplanes, which are employed him or burst. on training; It also provides accom-i modation when required for various squadrons or alteraft belonging to aircraft-carriers, battleships,

and cruisers-chlefly when the ships are under refit or in harbour for any sub- stantial period, ·

The observers' school is working at high pressure. Some years ago the normal number of observers "under training rarely exceeded 10; to-day,

IT WON'T PAY' "It's not the work on the hand we crumble at but things like this:- bage the other week. We got

"We sold 520lb. of spring cab-

A pleture evidencing the progress of the Queen Elizabeth in the fitting-out basin at Messrs. John Brown's Clydebank yard, where she is belog prepared for sea, The Queen Elizabeth will make her maiden voyage sometime in 1940, and she is fully expected to better the fast times of her sister ship as a number of recent improvements in design have been theorporated. As in the Queen Mary, the main riachinery we geared ricam turbinen developing a service horse power of 158.000 and driving four propellers, but she will have only two funnels as against the three of the Queen Mary.

A.R.P. Is Blamed For

Crime Increase

CRIME has increased in Manchester because A.RP

work takes up too much of the police force's time, according to Mr. John Maxwell, the Chief Constable.

In his report for 1933, issued recently, Mr. Maxwell "That meant we sold the cab-states: "It has not always been possible to maintain the bages at 181b, a penny. We can't full strength of the crime-prevention branch of the police

for them, with 4d. off for the crate, and 1s. 4d, for the association.

make it pay." Mrs. Purdy, who is twenty-eight, In order to make provision for the said:

"Last month we had 318. 4d.service. great increase in the Fleet Air Arm to draw for my husband, myself, and which is in progress, there are 140, two children.

of whom 50 are at Lee. There arej "Now any husband has to work various categories of olivers among three days a week as a farm labourer, them; naval officers on the ordinary leaving me to struggle with the small- lls, specializing in air wark, sub-holding. It is elther that or going Bleutenants and midshipmen of the on relief."

new (A) Branch, who serve in the Mrs. Purdy and Mrs. Sutton both Navy for seven years, and midship-sald they might stay if they had men of the Air Branch of the grown-up sons to help. R.N.V.R., who do 18 months' continu-

'GLAD TO WORK'

eus training and then return to elvi Mr. G. T. Nicholson, chief eierk of life, forming the Fleet Air Arm's re- the Land Settlement Association at serve. These young men on entry de Snaith, said: "Most of the thirty- month's preliminary navel training five settlers are happy and conten- in one of the cruisers in the Reserve ted, earning between £10 and £12 Fleet, tenrning what naval discipline a month.

and life on board ship are Be; they "A settler has a three-bedroomert then do courses in the tactical, anal, cottage for 75. 6d. a week while train- and gunnery schools before joining, a greenhouse, a piggery, 150 head

of poultry, and five acres,

"After fifteen months' training e]

the observers' school.

INTENSIVE TRAINING

jug.

"The call upon the police to provide personnel for other essen- tial services has been heavy-notably for work in connection with Air Raid Precautions,

degree the increase in the number of indictable crimes of a more "To this diversion of the personnel I attribute in no small serious nature."

Sir Roger Keyes Says: "Meet Japanese Bluff"

Big

Honours List

Of Royal Tour

Honours conferred by the

world were announced in the King during his tour of the New "London known at the time

Gazette"

recently. Some had already been made that they

were conferred.

Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., C.H., Governor General of Canada, has been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order from June 15.

The following promotion in, and other oppointments to, the Order are contained in the 1st. The dates are those on which the honours were con- ferred.

KNIGHTS COMMANDERS

Vice Adml, George Frederick Basset Edward Collins, C.B., C.V.O.; June 17. Commander the Empress of Australia's escort on Royal voyage to Canada, aged 65:

ADMIRAL OF THE Fleet Sir Roger Keyes told an Mr. Arthur Shuldham Redfern: June audience of 3,000 A.R.P. workers at Hornsey, N., recently.

15. Secretary to Lord Tweed- smuir.

COMMANDERS

R.N.; June 17. Commander of escorting cruiser Clasgow.

Mr. Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, C.M.G., O.B.E.; June 9. Consul- General, New York.

Capt. Francis William Hugh Jeans,

is invited to become a tenant if he "Events at Tientsin, with the support given to the In order to be completed in the times, a month for his home and hold-claration of war against the British Empire, and it is a

Their training has to be intensives sulted to the work. Then he pays Japanese by Germany and Italy, really amount to a de-C, Cyril George Bucknil! Collart, available. They must reach a high)

"Nearly all of them are glad to be challenge which must be met." standard in navigation, and few of them had any knowledge of that urt back at work after five or six years' before they joined up a few months idleness, ago; they must be proficient in are The day Mr. Sutton Hot 5s, for control, when they had never seen 2016. of spring cabbage may have a gun fired at sea or the splash gutted.

been a day when the market was When that happens the a projectile; they must be able to sand and receive Morse nt not less total proit is split equally among the than 20 words a minute: they must settlers. It seems the fairest way." know of naval signals, the tactics of ships and the formations of feets. “There” was”no”mistaking the ̃ ̃entliúsi siasm of the young officers at Lee,

despite the Intensity of their work.

The station is dual. There is the stip-way running down to the Solent with the seaplane sheds behind t

California Ends

Poker Bluff

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Efforts of California poker players of the game and on the landward side of them to elevate the status

Is the aerodrome. The former oper-have failed. The supreme court has ates the Senfox floatplanes and the ruled that draw poker, even under Walrus amphibians; the latter the the guise of a "game of skill," is stili Walruses and also the Shark three-illegal.

seater landplanes. Besides the train-

ing of observers, that of pilots in sea-stray Miles Hawk civilian machine planes and in night flying is also ear-dropped in to pay a call; and an ried on. Rating pitols are trained Ansun from a neighbouring RAF here in the later stages of their train- station was to be scen walling its ing carecr

orders to be off about its business. A squadron of Skus dive-bombers, Nothing could be

more inspiriting disembarked from the feet, was than the air of enthusiastic activity standing on the aerodrome when the which pervaded the whole establish- Press parly arrived. Soun after-ment.

wards they took off and gave an ex- The buildings and accommodation hibition of their powers, making are of the usual standard of Royal dummy dive-bombing and low bomb- Air Force stations, and the comfort ing attacks. The whole time Wal- of both officers and men is well pro- | *ruses, Sharks, and Seafoxes were tak-] vided for. Sluce Lee in the future is ing off and lunding, in the course of to be chlefly devoted to training, and their ordinary day's work; machines will have a large number of young of the R.A.F. Communications Flight, ratings always there, special facilities temporarily accommodated in the for recreation are to be provided in station, were coming to and fro; of the near future.

He said he was convinced that if we were firm and showed the whole-world that Great Britain struggle, making full use

was ready to enter the of her wealth, her industry, and her man-power, we could win this war without the clash of arms.

"It we

hesitate, humiliation is and I can assure you that they are) certain to follow, and war will be satisfactory." almost inevitable," he added. [Str Mr. Anthony Eden, at Birmingham: Roger. who served for some years "Faced-as-we-are-with-the ruthless on the China station in command or ness and lawlessness of the modern a destroyer won promotion for the world, the strength of our national capture of four Chinese destroyers at service may be the determining factor Taku in 1900.]

in the preservation of peace."

Field Marshal Lord Mine, at Chel- sea: "I would like to see Territorial headgitarters become the centres of great movement where our youth will be able to assemble as in a club. Str Reginald Dorman-Smith. Min-benevolent Government might provide A ister of Agriculture, ni Rochford: gymnasin, baths, and even squash There will be no starvation In time courts-anything, in fact, that they to play. It will play it, and plans of the country together to train them of war. Agriculture has a vital part can possibly do to bring the youth have been made. I have seen them in the dulles of citizenship."

"NO STARVATION"

Here are points from other recent speeches:

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All-Electric Church: Gramophone and Radio

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, Walton, Aylesbury, is to be con-

verted into an all-electric church, the only one in the country. cracked, with eight electrically operated tubular bells," said the| "We are replacing our present three bells, two of which are Vienr, the Rev. Brian Hession.

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"They will have a range of mlies, and it will be possible to play hymn tunes and other melodies.

"For lastance when there is a wed- ding the bride can enter the church to the chimes of the Bridal March': and leave to the 'Wedding March,'

"Dy means of an electrically- operated gramophone in the church we con press a button and select {appropriate music for the service."

The bells can be controlled by a

switch in Mr. Hession's study at the

vicarage 50 yards away.

The church is also to be equipped with an electric clock...,

"Next month," and Mr. Hession, "the church will be open every morn- lug and the morning broadenst ser- vice will be radiated there."

Missouri Pacific Buys Rails

ST. LOUIS. The Missouri Pacific system has ardered approximately $1,800,000 worth of rails for improvement of lia trackuge this year. The order called for 31,110 tons of rails, 2,250 tons to be used on the Gulf Coast Line, and the rest by the Missouri Pacifle call- rond.

R.N.; June 17. Former Deputy- Director, Naval Ordnance, Admir- uity.

Lt. Col. Eric Dighton Mackenzie, C.M.G., D.S.O.: June 15. Comp- troller to Lord Tweedsmuir.

Mr. Victor Alexander Louis Mallet

C.M.G.; June 9. Charge d'Affaires, Washington.

Surgeon-Capt, Joseph Archibald Max- well, O.B.E, M.D., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.. R.N.; June 22, of HMS, Repulse, transferred for the tour. Capt. Archibald Robert Melkle, R.N.R. (red.): May 16. Comman- der of the Empress of Australla. Col. Richard Valentine Read, D.S.O., M.C.; Junt ; Military Attache, Washington.

Paymaster Capt. Lewis Anselm

da

Costa Ricel, R.N.: June 22; paymas ter in the Royal yacht, transferred for the tour.

Capt, Charles Howard Sapsworth; June 22; commander of the Empress of Britain, in which return voyage was made. Capi Clinrles

Maxwelt Richard Schwerdt, R.N. (reld.); June 17; private secretary to Sir Hugh Walwyn, Governor of Newfound- innd.

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MEMBERS OF FOURTH CLASS Mr. Eric Arthur Cleugh; June Li-Cmdr. Peter Dawnny, R.N.; June

Consul, New York.

22; a member of the Royni party. Mr. Benjamin William Alan Plunket;

June 9.

Mr. John Campbell Thomson, M.B.E.;

June 9.

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