1939-07-19 — Page 30

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 198

Stroke of Luck!

DEWAR'S FAMOUS SCOTCH

"White Label

IN HANDY KELASKSZE FALLT SPORTSMEN-

Sole Agents:-A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

The

BABY PIANO WITH

A

"GRAND" TONE!

THE MOUTRIE

"MINIATURE”

Your Children Will Enjoy Music On This Model

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

YORK BUILDING

CHATER ROAD. MAKERS OF THE FINEST PIANOS

NOW ON SALE AT ALL BOOKSELLERS

The 1939 Edition of the

CHINA YEAR BOOK

EDITED by H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E..

The new edition will add another volume to the China Year Book series (dating from 1912), which constitutes the only complete contemporary history of China. It provides

all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.

Among the 25 subjects dealt with by Foreign and Chinese experts are the following-

Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)

Who's Who in China

Japan's Programme of Economic Development in China

Communications during the Hostilitica

Shanghai and Other Foreign Concessions

The Refugee Problem in China,

Foreign Trade in China during 1939

Finance and Currency (Including war measures)

The Kuomintang and the Government

Royal octavo, 688 pages, cloth bound, Shanghai $25 not Postage: in China 30 cents, abroad $1.40

Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers: THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD. P.O. Box 707, Shanghai.

Needed

Urgently

MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S.

CLOTHING

Hongkong Benevolent Society

11, Ice House Street. MONDAY THURSDAY

-

10a.m. to 12 Noon.

THE NEW

VAUXHALL

"10"

No other Ten, irrespective of price, gives you all that we offer in this Vauxhall. All steel, Integral con- struction gives greater rigidity with less weight. Independent springing gives greater stability, better corner- ing and steering and changes riding into gliding. Although the success of the Vauxhall Ten was immediate, Improvements have been introduced which make it even better value, The new Vauxhall gives you 10 h.p. motoring at its beat-and is cheapest in the end,

May we demonstrate or send you a catalogue?

HONGKONG HOTEL

Stubbs Rd.

GARAGE

Phones: 27778-9

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ferreira and Family wish to thank all relatives and friends

kind for their expressions of sympathy, flowers ant attendance at the funeral in their bereavement.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St, Hongkong 'Phone 26615 July 19, 1939

Arms Profits

:

SOME at least of the lessons of

the Great War have not been forgotten. One after another, restrictions then found necessary are returning to a new period of life,

Excessive profit on the making of armaments might have pass- cd without particular notice during normal times, but in the present phase of our existence, when so many millions of money are being absorbed annually by the war god, it is essential that the national necessity should not be exploited unduly for private gain.

of

The equitable taxation armament profits is a very com- pliceted matter, likely to cause much worry to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his collabora- tors, but it seems, from the details given in the White Paper published last week, that the Government is attacking the problem in a reasonable way. The firms directly concerned in the proposed new impost are not likely to show much enthusiasm for it, but their feelings will not weigh much with the general public!

"

Despite the present extent of the expenditure on armaments, even the Government's most unrelenting and ingenious critics have had singularly little to say about the country's not getting value for its money. This, it is to be hoped, justifles the assump- tion that there are no "scandals” such as came to ba associated with armaments expenditure during the Great War. In the stress of that struggle money had to be spent with often inadequate supervision...

In peace time a much more elaborate and effective system of chocks la possible. The Govern- ment is well aware of its duty

APATHY

T

THE STRONGEST PARTY

UN

ABBEY DIVISION NORTH SOUTHWARK ELECTIONS

VOTERS

43.000

AON-VOTERS 71,000

Admirals All!

JHE man

who is to become First Sea Lord in place of Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse has, during the last four years, borne a greater load of res- ponsibility than any other officer of the Royal Navy.

For four years the Mediter- ranean has been the cockpit of Europe, and hardly a month has passed in which a threat of

general European war has not arisen in that arca.

Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the new First Ben Lörd, was due to be- come Commander-in Chief in the Mediterranean in 1935, in succes- sion to Admiral Sir William Fisher. He went out to the Mediterranean to take over the new duties, and then there arose the Eastern Medi- terranean crisis following the Italo-Abyssinian dispute.

In the circumstances a change In Commanders-in-Chief at that moment was thought unwise. 80 Slr Dudley Pound served for several months as Chief of Staff to the man whom he should have relieved.

*

The load of responsibility which was borne by senior naval officers in the Mediterranean at that time was shown by the sudden tragic death of Admiral Sir William Fisher,soon after he had turned over the Mediterranean Command-to-Admiral-Bir-Dudley- Pound and returned home,

It was in March, 1930, that Bir Dudley Found took over command

·

-by Lt.-Commander- KENNETH EDWARDS, R.N.

the distinguished writer on Naval matters.

The

of the Mediterranean Fleet. Eastern Mediterranean crisis was then simmering down, but there was no return to normal peacetime activities for the Mediterranean Fleet.

There was civil war in Palestine, and civil war broke out very aDon

ufterwards in Spain. Ships were bombed from the air. machine-

gunned,

mined, and attacked by "pirate" submarines. In every case the responsibility for inter- preting the Government's policy on the spot rested on Sir Dudley.

The Admiralty does not inter- fere with the Naval Commanders- in-Chief. They are kept informed of the general principles of policy which may be involved, and they are given advice if they ask for it. They are, however, the men on the spot, and the Admiralty trusts them to do the right thing at the right time.

Rather above average height, grey-haired and with a weather- beaten face lit by a pair of pierc ing eyes. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound Is not without his enemies.

From 1032 to 1935 Bir Dudley Pound was Becond Sen Lord and Chief of the Naval Personnel at the Admiralty. This was a berlod during which the full effects of many years of disarmament were

GRIN AND BEAR IT

RESULT USE OUR CLASSIFIED

ADS

kha Dhin ke tokia khatam jendela

By Lichty

Im

" 'Found: Lady's compact on 8th Street; finders keepers, losers woopers'—anything olso, Misa?”

Movie Cat Likes

Mickey

Rifle Tried Out;

Son Shot

1

being felt in the officer ranks of the Royal Navy,

Admiral Pound was responsible for the necessary weeding-out process

and such promotions as there were.

It was cir-

cumstance which made the weeding-out process far larger than the promotions, but a large number

of omcers and their friends blamed Admiral Pound for the fact that their careers were ended unexpectedly.

Such unpopularity as he gained in certain quarters was inevit- able.

Ho was not concerned with the private lives of officers, nor with the question of whether or not an officer was capable of up- holding the honour of the Navy in sport, games, or social activities. He was concerned solely with the fighting efficiency of the Navy-a goal which he pursued energetic- ally and ruthlessly.

Having beent Second Sea Lord. Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, and Director of the Plans Division of the Admiralty, Sir Dudley Pound Whitehall thoroughly. knows Morcover, ho had political experi- nce when he was the Admiralty representative to the League of Nations.

Sir Dudiey Pound as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff will be the professional head of the Admiralty.

The Admiralty really consists of a Board of "Commissionera for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral," under which work six Divisions of the Naval Staff, and a number of departments.

There are ten members of the Board of Admiralty. The political side is represented by the First and the Parliamentary Lord, Financial Secretary, and the Ciril Lord.. who administers the Civil Staff and is responsible' for all works and buildings.

*

The professional side of the Board of Admiralty consists of the First Sen Lord, who is also Chlef of the Naval Staff; the Second Sea Lord, who is Chief of the Naval Lord and Personnel; the Third Sca Controlier; the Fourth Bea Lord. and who is Chief of Supplies Transport; and the Fifth Sea Lord, and Chief of the Naval Air Ser- vices; and the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, who is the First Bea Lord's deputy and is particu→ larly concerned with questions of Intelligence, Plans and Operations. The tenth member of the Board is the Permanent Secretary-a

Holiday Makers See Water Spout

London.

-

Clvli

Admiralty servant, The Secretariat is one of the many paradoxes which are to be found in Whitehall. It is manned by civilians concerned entirely with. naval

Branch

***Ds, yet its oMelal titlo

The Naval Staff has six brancher - -the Naval Intelligence Division, the

Plans Division, the Operations: Division, Training and Staff Duties Division, Naval Air Division, and Tactical Division.

The titles of most of these divi--

of Naval Staff are self- alons explanatory. It is worth noting. however, that the Plans Division 18 not only concerned with war plans, but with plans for the de- fance of maritime trade; both the Tactical and Training of Staff Duties Divisions are concomed with exercises carried out by the Fleet while Operations is сол- cerned with the movements of ships from place to place.

*

There are nearly twonty' other departments in the Admiralty, varying from Education and, Pay to Torpedoes, Mines, and the Pro- duction of Charts. All of these departments come under one or other

of the members of the Board.

Such important departments as that of the Engineer-in-Chief, the Contracts Department and Naval Ordnance and Equipment come. under the Third Bea Lord and Controller, who is really_the_tech-

come

head of the Admiralty, re- sponsible not only for the com- position of Building Programmes, but for the designs of various ships included in those pro- grammes.

It is not the Prime Minister in Cabinet who decides upon the disposition of the British Navy. There is a Committee of Imperial Defence, which is for ever examin- tng the strategical problems in- volved by the following of any particular policy in any particular part of the world.

To-day, the lines of polley are A few yearb fairly well defined. ago, however, when the Admiralty was for ever struggling to obtain того

from the Treasury, it more money was almost a commonplace for the . Admiralty, on being asked to dis-

in pose of its strength to carry out a certain policy, to spread out Its hands and ex- plain regretfully that it had neither the

the ships nor the men, but if the Treasury could be prevalled

upon

order

to supply the deficiencies the Admiralty, on its part, would, be only too glad to further the Government's policy.

Rearmament has banished the can years.

Admiral Sir Dudley Found's task will be the onsler an this account. The world altuation, however, makes the task of the First Bea Lord an unenviable ene fot, behind the scenes, it is upon his advice and Basement of strength that the decision of peaco or war very largely depends.

Labour Shortage In Germany

London.

The continued labour shortago int

по

A waterspout more than 900ft. high, and a whirlwind corkscrewing out of the clouds with a ray like Germany is made evident by the that of on express train, occurred labour exchange figures for May, For 1,744,000 vacan- during a thunderstorm which swept now published. parts of Lancashire recently. Thou- cles in that month there were sands of holiday-makers, who had more than 987,000 applicants 184,000 hurried to shelter saw a dark funnel- fewer than In April. At the end of The May there were stili 752,000 vacatı=" St. Stephen's, N. B.

Cleveland, O like cloud sink to the water, Owners have been known to invlih

William Smith, 40, lent a friend funnel grew longer until it was nearly cles unfiled, 5,000 more than at the to the taxpayer. It is also strange attentions on their pets, and

the shore, old. Helch vacancies undled were this is the case of Minnie, the pot cat $1.50 and took a rifle as security. To twice the height of Blackpool's 480ft. end of the previous month. In the

tower racing towards mindful of how closely. Its of the Queen's hotel. Ever so often try it out, Smith pointed the gun at a crashed on to the promenade near the twice as many as at the end of April. Mienie is taken to the movies. Now packing box and pulled the river. Central Fier and broke up No in Austria, too, vacancies were more handling of this question of and seems to know the start by sight Smith's 2-year-old on Brest, damage was done. In Manchester & interdus than applicants, the armament profits affects its own and has apparently picked out Her crawled out of the box, shot through tram was struck by lightning and former numbering at the end of May favourites Shirley Temple and the band and cheek, but not injured hundreds of telephones were put out 00,000 while there were only 6,000

person looking for posts. prestige.

Mickey Moule,

seriously.

of order.com

Page 30Page 31