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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

July 14, 1939.

Libary, Supreme Court

Duke of Kent's Tour In West Yorks

MRS. MARY SUTTON, wearing mud-caked wellingtons, an old følt hat and a drab coạt, mot the Duke of Kent touring workloss men'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.

cently by the Navy from the Air

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

Of the air stations taken over remand poverty here. We can stand Force, the chief is that at Lec-on- the hard work, but not the the-Solent, where Press representa- poverty.

tives were entertained. Lee is the "We are leaving." hendquarters of Rear-Admiral Beli

Her husband. Robert Purdy, wear- Davier, V.C., who is in general com-ing open-necked shirt and corduroys,

und of all the naval air stations. changed the subject.

He shook It is also the manning depol for all hands with the Duke, told him he specialist ratings of the Flect Air had been to Australia, and wished Arm-pilots, observers, air gunners, the Duke happiness there in his post air artificers, ale fitters, riggers Governor-General, --lo which they return between The Duke passed on. periods of service afloat, abroad, or Mrs. Sutton, aged

thirty-nine,

al other shore air stations, and from whose husband took a smallholding which their administration and draft-under the Land Settlement Assock- ing are carried out. It houses No. 2tion after losing his job as a fitter,; Observers School--No. 1 is at Ford, said: Sussex-and two squadrons, Noa. 753

"i didn't want to bother the Duke,

"IT WON'T PAY' "'s not the work on the land we grumble at but things like this:

and 754, of Inndplanes, amphibians, but when he asked me I had to tell and oatplanes, which are employed him or burst. on training: it also provides accom- modation when required for various squadrons or aircraft belonging to alrerait-carriers, battleships, and cruisers-chiefly when the ships are under refit or in harbour for any sub- stant period.

"We sold 5201b. of spring cab hage the other weekt. We got 5s. for them, with 4d, off for the crate and is. 4d. for the association.

pay."

A picture evidencing the progress of the Queen, Elizabeth in the fitting-out basin at Menus. John Brown's Clydebank yard, where she is being prepared for sea. The Queen Elizabeth will make her malden vayako nomelime In 1040. and she is fully expected to better the fast times of her sister ship as a number of recent Improvements in design havo been Incorporated. As In the Queen Mary, the main machinery will be geared steam turbines 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.

Crime

Is Blamed For Big

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. 1938, issued recently, Mr. Maxwell The observers' school is working at "That meant we sold the cab-states: "It has not always been possible to maintain the high pressure. Some years ago the normal number of observers under

bakes it a penny. We can't full strength of the crime-prevention branch of the police training rarely exceeded 10; to-day. Mrs. Purdy, who is twenty-eight, in order to make provision for the said: "Last month we had 31s. 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 are

"Now my husband has to work various categories of officers among three days a week as a farm inbourer, them; naval officers on the ordinary leaving me to struggle with the small- lists, specializing in air work, sub holding. It is either that or going tieutenants and midshipmen of the on relief." new (A) Branch, who serve in the Navy for seven years, and midship men of the Air Branch of the R.N.V.R., who do 18 months' continu- ous training and then return to civli! Mr. G. T. Nicholson, chief clerk of Hfe, forming the Fleet Air Arm's re- the Land Settlement Association at serve. These young men on entry do Snaith, sald: "Most of the thirty- a month's preliminary naval training! five seltlers are happy and conten- cruisers in the Reserve led, varning between £10 and £12 Fleet, learning what naval disciplinen month.

in one

Mrs. Purdy and Mrs. Sutton bath said they might stay if they had grown-up sons to help.

'GLAD TO WORK'

and life on board ship are like; they "A settler has a three-bedroomed. then do courses in the tactical, sigual, cottage for 7s. 6d. a week while train-

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

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

Sir

Roger Keyes Says: "Meet Japanese Bluff"

Honours List

Of Royal Tour

Honours conferred by the

World were announced in the King during his tour of the Now

"London Gazette" recently. Some had already been made

known at the time were conferred,

that they

Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., CH. 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 appointments to, the Order are contained in the list. The dates are those on which the honours were con- ferred,

KNIGHTS COMMANDERS Vice-Admi. George Frederick Basset

Edward Collins,

C.B., C.V.O.; June 17. Commander the Empress of Australia's escart on Royal voyage to Canada, aged 55.

ADMIRAL OF THE Fleet Sir Roger Keyes told an Mr. Arthur Shuldham Redfern, June

and gunnery schools before joining, a greenhouse, a piggery, 150 head audience of 3,000 A.R.P. workers at Hornsey, N., recently.

the observers' school.

INTENSIVE TRAINING

of poultry, and five acres.

"After Bficen months' training he

is invited to become a tenant If he

"Events at Tientsin, with the support given to the

Their training us to be intensive is sulted to the work. Then he pays Japanese by Germany and Italy, really amount to a de- in order to be completed in the time 50s. a month for his home and hold-claration of war against the British Empire, and it is a available. They must reach a high Ing standard in navigation, and few of "Nearly all of them are glad to be challenge which must be met." them had any knowledge of that art back at work after five or six years' before they joined up a few months idleness.

control, when they hat

never seen

5201, of spring cabbage may have

is 1.1 Bred at sea or the splash of been a day when the market was projectile; they must be able to utted: When that happens the send and receive Morse nt not less total pront is split equally among the than 20 words a minute; they must seitlers. It seems the fairest way. certain to follow, and war will be satisfactory."

know of naval signals, the tactics of ships and the formations of feels. There was no mistaking the enthu slasm-of-the-young-officers-at. Lee, despite the intensity of their work.

California Ends Poker Bluff

He said he was convinced that if we were firm and showed ago; they must be proficient in Bre "The day Mr. Sutton get is. for the whole world that Great Britain was ready to enter the struggle, making full use of her wealth, her industry, and her man-power, we could win this war without the clash of arms.

"If we hesitate, humiliation is and I can assure you that they are almost inevitable," he added. [Sir Mr. Anthony Eden, at Birmingham: Roger, who served for some years "Faced as we are with the ruthless- on the China stallon in command of ness and lawlessness of the modern -destroyer-won-promotion-for-the world, the strengur of our national capture of four Chinese destroyers at service may be the determining factor Taku in 1000.]

in the preservation of peace."

Field Marshal Lord Mline, at Chel- sea: "I would like to see Territorial Here are points from other recent lieadquarters become the centres of a speeches:

great movement where our youth will be able to assemble as in a club. A Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Min- benevolent Government might provide "There will be no starvation in time courts-anything, in fact, that they of war, Agriculture has a vital part can possibly de to bring the youth to play. It will play it, and plans of the country together to train them have been made. I have seen them in the duties of citizenship."

The station is dual. There Is the slip-way running down to the Solent! with the seaplane sheds behind it;

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Efforts of California poker players

and on the landward side of them to elevate the status

of the game

is the aerodrome. Tise former oper-have falled. The supreme court has ales the Seafox floatplanes and the ruled that drow poker, even under

"NO STARVATION"

Walrus amphiblans; the latter the the guise of a "game of skill," is st#ister of Agriculture, at Rochford: gymnasin, baths, and even squash | Walruses and also the Shark three- illegal. scuter 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 pilots are trained Anson from a neighbouring RA.F. here in the later stages of their train station was to be seen waiting its ing career.

orders to be off about its business.

A squadron of Skua 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 party arrived. Soon after-ment.

wards they took off and gave an ex- The buildings and accommodation hibition of their powers, making ure of the usual standard of Royal dummy dive-bombing and low bomb- Air Force stations, and the comfort ing attacks. The whole time Wel- of both officers and men is well pro- ruses, Sharks, and Sentoxes were tak- vided for. Since Lee in the future is ing off and landing, In the course of to be chlefly devoted to training, and their ordinary day's work; machines will have à large number of young

of the R.A.F. Communications Flight, ratings always there, special ficut temporarily accommodated in the for recreation are to be provided in station, were coming to and fro; a the near future.

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. "We are replacing our present three bells, two of which are cracked, with eight electrically operated tubular bells," said the Vicar, the Rev, Brian Hession.

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"They will have a range of Ave miles, and it will be possible to play bynn tunes and other melodies.

"For instance 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."

"By

means of an electrically- operated gramophone in the church we can press a button and select uppropriate music for the sorvice,"

The bell 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," said Mr. Hesslon, "the church will be open every morn- Ing and 'the' morning broadenst ser- Vice will be radiated there."-

Missouri Pacific Buys Rails

ST. LOUIS. The Missouri Fneife system lis ordered approximately $1,500,000

worth of rails tor. Improvement of its

trackage this year. The order called for 31,110 tons of rails, 2,280 tons to be used on the Gulf Coast Line, and the rest by the Missouri Pacific call- road,

16. Secretary to Lord Tweed- smulr.

COMMANDERS

Capt. Cyril George Buckmill Coliart, R.N.; June 17, Commander of escorting cruiser Glasgow.

Mr. Godfrey Digby Napler Haggard, C.M.G.. O.B.CE.; June 0. Consul- Capt. Francis William Hugh_Jeans.

General, New York.

R.N.; June 17. Former Deputy- Director, Naval Ordnance, Admir- ally. Lt.-Col. Eric Dighton Mackenzie, C.M.G., D.S.O.; June 15. Comp- trolier to Lord Tweedsmuir.

Mr. Victor Alexander Louis Mallel, C.M.G.; June D. Charge d'Affaires, Surgeon-Capt. Joseph Archibald Max-

Washington

well, O.B.E., M.D., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.. R.N.; June 22, of H.M.S. Repulse, transferred for the tour.

Archibald Robert

Melkic. H.N.R. (retd); May 10. Comman- der of the Empress of Australia. Col, Richard Valentine Read, D.S.O., M.C.: June 9; Military Attache, Washington,

Capt.

Paymaster Capt. Lewis Anselm do Costa Ricci, R.N.; June 22; paymus- ter in the Royal yacht, transferred for the tour. Capt. Charles Howard Sapsworth; June 22; commander of the Empress of Britain, which return voyage was made. Capt. Charles Maxwell Richard Schwerdt, R.N, (retd.); June 17; private secretary. Lo Sir Hugh Walwyn, Governor of Newfound- land,

MEMBERS OF FOURTH CLASS Mr. Erie Arthur Cleugh; June 0.

Consul, New York.

trember of the Royal party.

22; a of

Mr. Ben min William Alan Plunket;

Juno 9.

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

June 9.

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